ChickenOverlord
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ChickenOverlord
2d ago
And they can get bets from Nevadans and other people in places where betting is legal while not having to comply with a huge chunk of Nevada's gaming laws
ChickenOverlord
2d ago
Oh I agree it's a legitimate topic for debate with plenty of room for changes in the law outside of "I really want to fuck 15 year olds and you should just let me", and the OP isn't being a blatant troll, but my default assumption when I see a top level post like this is that it's to get responses to share elsewhere about how we're a bunch of evil creeps etc.
ChickenOverlord
2d ago
A top level post about an extremely... divisive topic by an account with only 3 prior posts all made 3 years ago?
On the off chance you're not here to stir up shit, I recommend that you please try to be a more active and positively-contributing member of this community before posting top level comments about topics like this.
ChickenOverlord
3d ago
Sure, but as fun as going "On the Demons and Their Lies by Frieren the Slayer" might be, my side still needs to win elections.
but they start from the unassailable premise that there cannot be legitimate reasons why a meritocratic test would show a racial or gender skew
Only when it's a skew that affects groups they care about.
If we went solely by disparate impact, based on the numbers we would need to assume that cops are several orders of magnitude more sexist (against men) than they are racist (against blacks). But I haven't seen a single DEI proponent arguing that we need to eradicate female privilege in arrests/prison sentencing/etc. The right has no problem with saying that men are inherently more likely to engage in criminal behavior than women, the DEI/blank slatist/etc. camp doesn't really have an answer to this.
Also Native Americans per capita commit more crime than blacks in certain categories, with similarly high arrest/imprisonment rates. And while the DEI crowd will argue that Natives are discriminated against, I don't see it claimed that the discrimination is to a greater extent than that faced by blacks. Discrimination against blacks actually gets almost all of the airtime.
ChickenOverlord
4d ago
It's the reason why French is required to be used everywhere, even in Vancouver, a continent away from Quebec: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Languages_Act_(Canada)
ChickenOverlord
5d ago
Quebecois separatists managed to get some major concessions from Canada to placate them, so I'd consider them at least partially successful. Not really aware of any major concessions to Puerto Rico though.
It reminds me of how the Hollywood studio system had grown stagnant in the 70's and 80's, which allowed up and comers like Spielberg, Lucas, and Cameron to innovate and eventually take over the studio system themselves. Only now, 40 years later, it's still a lot of those same up and comers from the 70's clinging to power and not letting up and comers displace them. I think there are similar trends in politics and activism.
From the more rightwingish side of things, a lot of people from the Nixon era (including Henry Kissinger) were still power players in the Republican party and various GOP administrations all the way up until the 2010s, and even if they hadn't aged out they were effectively forced out by Trump and the MAGA movement.
I have little doubt that there are similar dynamics on the progressive protest everything activist side of things.
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