ChickenOverlord
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ChickenOverlord
1d ago
Rittenhouse worked in Kenosha, and his father and several extended family members lived there. He lived 30 minutes away from there (which is actually closer than any of the three assholes he shot lived from Kenosha). It absolutely was his community and fell under the same umbrella of responsibility to be protected by its members.
My previous job (before I started telecommuting full time) was a 30 minute commute for me, and my wife's family lived (and still lives) there, and I would absolutely consider it my moral responsibility to drive down with a rifle and patrol with my father-in-law and brothers-in-law if rioters were burning down their neighborhood. And to blast any and all fuckers that threatened death or serious bodily harm against me or my family.
ChickenOverlord
2d ago
I believe that men have a moral responsibility to protect their homes and communities, and they also have a moral responsibility to step in when the state is unable (or unwilling) to do so. The police (and politicians in charge of them) abdicated their responsibility to protect their community (moral responsibility, I know they are not actually legally required to serve and protect anyone) when they refused to stop the riots, so it fell upon the men of the community to step in.
There is no similar moral responsibility for BLM to protest police shootings or for people to volunteer at a shelter if they see a hobo.
ChickenOverlord
2d ago
Axiomatically never believing a claim of legitimate victimhood (this is the "school zero-tolerance, suspend the victim" mentality, which is the distaff counterpart to the "maybe she should have dressed more modestly" line for rape)
School zero tolerance policies are about lawsuit avoidance, not never believing the victim
ChickenOverlord
2d ago
And I could agree with this, except the meaning of "shouldn't" is subtly different. All those things are imprudent, but they are not immoral and they certainly shouldn't be considered somehow "provocation" for legal purposes.
My favorite variation on the meaning of shouldn't, that I haven't been able to use for a while since the trial ended and it has fallen out of popular consciousness somewhat, relates to the Kyle Rittenhouse shooting. Leftists say he shouldn't have been there (implying the immoral sense) and I would respond with "Yes, he shouldn't have been there because the adults (and police etc.) in that community should have been there taking out the trash instead of letting the responsibility fall on the shoulders of a kid."
ChickenOverlord
2d ago
Thanks, I didn't even know that section of the farms existed. I'm not a regular there (don't even have an account) and mostly just go there when drama involving internet personalities hits my radar and I want to get the details unfiltered/uncensored. But now I have another reason to go there, thanks!
ChickenOverlord
4d ago
No idea, but I'd assume so
ChickenOverlord
4d ago
I think they might accept some other forms of ID as well, but the answer is simple: you can't use the app
ChickenOverlord
5d ago
I was under the impression that agricultural use (misuse?) was one of the biggest sources of antibiotic-resistant strains
ChickenOverlord
6d ago
how do they verify that the users are women?
You have to send in a photo of your driver's license, which made the leaks all the most awful/embarrassing/hilarious because of how atrociously ugly a lot of the users were. Here's a competitive ranking site someone made with the leaked photos: https://teaspill.games/
The bottom 50 on the leaderboards are uhhh, something
ChickenOverlord
7d ago
Should a defendant's distrust of the police be held against him in court?
Yes, absolutely. Even if you distrust the police, there is no way to have a stable society where criminals can destroy evidence of a crime (or a suspected crime) with little to no repercussions. My wife and I watch bodycam videos all the time, and I'd say about 70%+ of the time when a suspect flees (on foot or in a car putting other people's lives in danger) the cop will ask why they ran and the answer is "I was scared" or "I don't trust cops" or something to that effect. Law enforcement cannot function, or needs far more officers using far more physical force to function, if people are not required to obey their lawful orders. Being scared is no excuse.
Also the fear of cops killing you or seriously harming you are unreasonable fears not backed by reality. Only about 10 to 20 unarmed black men are killed by cops each year in the US (and being unarmed doesn't necessarily mean it was an unjustified killing, though conversely the fact a suspect was armed doesn't inherently mean the killing is justified).
ChickenOverlord
9d ago
Hey now, he also has to cast the tie breaking vote in the senate once every few months
ChickenOverlord
9d ago
I've long had an idea bouncing around my head of creating a Citizens United quiz full of all kinds of tough questions to try and get people to realize the full implications of what they're asking for when they want it overturned. Some if the questions I've thought of:
Current politician John Smith recently wrote memoirs. Knopf projects that the memoirs will likely be unprofitable to publish, but they think it will help John Smith's reelection chances if they publish it anyway and eat the loss. Is it campaign spending if they choose to publish it? Should they be required to do a profitability analysis before publishing any books about active politicians? I have several variations in mind, like if John Smith is now a retired politician, or he's dead but a current candidate is seen as the bearer of his legacy, or if the book is projected to actually be profitable, or if it's a tell-all by his daughter about he molested her, etc.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is running for governor of California. AMC owns the syndication rights to several of his movies, do they have to stop airing his films within a certain number of days before the election? My favorite variations: If AMC decides to start showingTerminator 2 and Total Recall twice as much as they had before, is that campaign spending in Arnold's favor? If they decide to start showing nothing but Junior and End of Days is that campaign spending against him?
ChickenOverlord
9d ago
I want my politicians moral, I want them virtuous
And I want a billion dollars and world peace. A single moral and virtuous politician isn't an impossible ask, but trying for more than one is a pretty unreasonable expectation. The entire career selects for fraudsters and sociopaths, and it did so as much back in ancient Rome and Han era China and medieval Baghdad as it does in present day America
ChickenOverlord
9d ago
Even if the norms seem paper thin or hypocritical
That means letting your enemies possess a superweapon
ChickenOverlord
13d ago
Not at all. Is my labor of wearing the panties not equal to the labor of the attractive 18 year old female wearing the panties? If not, why not? That's the part Marxists seem to have a lot of trouble explaining, at least without throwing the labor theory of value out the window.
ChickenOverlord
13d ago
Sure, the labor theory of value in particular, and why my (a pretty average looking guy in his 30's) labor of wearing a pair of panties doesn't seem to generate nearly as much value as an attractive 18 year old doing the same. And especially explain how the higher value given to the attractive 18 year old's panties (for equal labor!) appears to be constant even in non-capitalist economies. Also explain how the 18 year old merely claiming to have worn them seems to create more value than if I actually wear them, which seems to create negative value for most.
ChickenOverlord
14d ago
Darwin came back before and famously crashed out (and refused to respond to a bunch of questions) over J.K. Rowling: https://www.themotte.org/@guesswho
ChickenOverlord
16d ago
In 1944, before the actual, everyone-can-agree-they're-fascist fascist states of Italy and Germany had been defeated, George Orwell wrote an article highlighting how the term had devolved into an insult and lost any useful, shared, descriptive meaning of any actual political system: https://www.orwell.ru/library/articles/As_I_Please/english/efasc
It will be seen that, as used, the word ‘Fascism’ is almost entirely meaningless. In conversation, of course, it is used even more wildly than in print. I have heard it applied to farmers, shopkeepers, Social Credit, corporal punishment, fox-hunting, bull-fighting, the 1922 Committee, the 1941 Committee, Kipling, Gandhi, Chiang Kai-Shek, homosexuality, Priestley's broadcasts, Youth Hostels, astrology, women, dogs and I do not know what else.
Yet underneath all this mess there does lie a kind of buried meaning. To begin with, it is clear that there are very great differences, some of them easy to point out and not easy to explain away, between the régimes called Fascist and those called democratic. Secondly, if ‘Fascist’ means ‘in sympathy with Hitler’, some of the accusations I have listed above are obviously very much more justified than others. Thirdly, even the people who recklessly fling the word ‘Fascist’ in every direction attach at any rate an emotional significance to it. By ‘Fascism’ they mean, roughly speaking, something cruel, unscrupulous, arrogant, obscurantist, anti-liberal and anti-working-class. Except for the relatively small number of Fascist sympathizers, almost any English person would accept ‘bully’ as a synonym for ‘Fascist’. That is about as near to a definition as this much-abused word has come.
But Fascism is also a political and economic system. Why, then, cannot we have a clear and generally accepted definition of it? Alas! we shall not get one — not yet, anyway. To say why would take too long, but basically it is because it is impossible to define Fascism satisfactorily without making admissions which neither the Fascists themselves, nor the Conservatives, nor Socialists of any colour, are willing to make. All one can do for the moment is to use the word with a certain amount of circumspection and not, as is usually done, degrade it to the level of a swearword.
ChickenOverlord
16d ago
Back when SBF was in the news for massive fraud etc. I made some random comment about him having a Jew-fro. My sister was quite offended by this and said it was a rude thing to say, even though I first learned the term from a Jewish friend in high school who rocked a pretty awesome Jew-fro (unlike SBF's nasty greasy rat's nest).
ChickenOverlord
17d ago
9 times out of 10 I assume it is "woman owned" because the owner gave 51% of ownership to his wife specifically for the purpose of gaming such contracts. My brother-in-law works at a factory where the owner did just that, and I have similar plans if I start a business.
ChickenOverlord
17d ago
Some groups are so proud they'll even adopt exonyms their enemies created
4chan has wholeheartedly adopted "chud" and even taken the wojak variation originally designed to mock them and made it their own, it's beautiful to see.
Personally, I don't believe it's possible for one person to produce 1000x the value of another.
I have numerous coworkers that produce negative net value, so it's possible to have one person produce infinitely (or undefined, or NaN, or whatever) more value than another.
But someone like Jim Keller absolutely provides 1000x more revenue to his employers than, say, an offshore code monkey in Mumbai writing JavaScript.
ChickenOverlord
21d ago
airlines are a cutthroat awful industry to be in with 3% net income margins (5% operating) which can be seen by them constantly getting bailed out
One of my favorite jokes:
What's the easiest way to become a millionaire?
Start out as a billionaire and buy an airline
ChickenOverlord
21d ago
I can't speak for the rest of Europe, but when I lived in the Czech Republic their TP felt like sandpaper. American TP, even the cheaper stuff, is consistently nicer. Only the super cheap one ply stuff used in public restrooms in the US is comparable in awfulness to what I experienced of European TP.
My favorite on the ATF's greatest hits:
Defrauding a tobacco co-op out of millions to create an unaccountable slush fund: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/08/us/atf-tobacco-cigarettes.html
Using a literal retard (IQ in the 50's) as a pawn in a sting operation and then pressing charges against him after: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2013/04/07/ATF-sting-nets-mentally-handicapped-man/58531365366967/
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