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CriticalDuty
2yr ago
For future reference, archive.is is better for getting past paywalls.
CriticalDuty
2yr ago
Every time Balsillie got angry in this movie, it was impossible not to see Dennis Reynolds in Howerton's performance. I expected him to start screaming about being a golden god when he was attacking that payphone.
CriticalDuty
2yr ago
The Mexicans staying in Mexico still get very self-righteous about American attitudes regarding immigration - see AMLO's criticisms of DeSantis's immigration policies. Everyone loves talking about migrant rights when it's their in-group that benefits or their out-group that suffers. It's a different story when there are migrants who are driving up your own rent bill.
CriticalDuty
2yr ago
Imagine you're riding home on the train, you're tired, and you need a seat. You spot an empty seat, but there's a guy standing next to it who stops you from claiming the seat. The guy says he's already called dibs on the seat, even though he got up from the seat 40 minutes ago, and has been hanging around for 40 minutes not using the seat, but also not allowing anyone else to have the seat because he might feel like sitting down again. Would you consider this reasonable behavior, or would you call the guy a cunt? What would you call him if you were elderly, or pregnant? How long do you have to wait until it's no longer "his seat"?
I'm familiar with Darrell Owens from rw twitter hatereading his Substack, and his reasonable summary is predictably just an extension of his belief that black people are the protagonists of America, with everyone else existing only to accommodate them. He's from San Francisco, and back when there was a spate of black people assaulting and even murdering Asian women and elders on the streets of SF, he wrote a Substack explaining that Asians need to understand how angry black people are about immigrants gentrifying SF and voting against progressive politics. He's not a serious person. He's a "black intellectual", and like most black intellectuals, his intellectualism takes the form of projecting his own beliefs onto the actions and motivations of low-IQ lumpenproles who are often simply acting out of malice and entitlement rather than any political convictions.
CriticalDuty
2yr ago
On the other hand, consider Charles Brown Jr., a career soldier who not only holds a higher position than Randy George (Chief of Staff of the Air Force), but was just today nominated by Biden to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the highest position in the US armed forces, short of being Commander-in-Chief. Besides being black, Brown came to national attention by releasing a video during the George Floyd riots where he expressed his sympathies for Floyd and displeasure with the law enforcement of the United States, and this video was released while he was a serving, uniformed officer, in flagrant contempt of the military code of conduct that frowns on servicemen weighing in on political conflicts while in uniform. Brown is also deeply concerned by how white the ranks of US military officers are, and intends to champion diversity and inclusion in future hiring and promotions of officers.
I think this is probably closer to what you'd expect to see from Democrats attempting to hollow out the military, and in fact today the Democratic President is proudly putting out press releases for Brown. For the record, I don't think Democrats actually want to hollow out the military or believe that's what they're doing, but I do think that, like many other issues involving race and culture, they are simply so far detached from reality that their intentions do not matter.
CriticalDuty
2yr ago
My outgroup has had years to craft policy around these supposed "useful motivations and genuine concerns", which is how we have arrived at this juncture.
CriticalDuty
2yr ago
The reason you can’t just go to jail for shoplifting is the same reason you can’t have a working criminal justice system - any effective anti-crime policy will be functionally indistinguishable from an anti-black policy. Progressive policymakers and prosecutors have understood and internalized this lesson, and have decided to simply ignore criminal recidivism since the alternative is to throw thousands of black people in jail.
It really isn’t any more complicated than that, and it never has been. Crime wonkery always misses the point - these people aren’t looking for “new paradigms on public safety”; they are specifically doing everything they can to shield a favored demographic from accountability.
CriticalDuty
2yr ago
Questions 1 and 2 have the same answer, which is that America's civic religion is the worship of black people. If he'd walked up to this woman and shot her in the head, the same people who are her detractors today would try to argue that she did something to deserve it, because the underlying premise of all negative interactions between black people and white people is that black people are always in the right, and can never do anything wrong, no matter how sociopathic the behavior in the latest rage video circulating on Twitter may be. As a nation, we've just brainwashed ourselves into accepting that there's always going to be this class of violent lumpenproles wandering the streets of our major cities, doing as they like, and that there's nothing that can or should be done about it.
I was confused as to why a 6-month pregnant woman is even still working as a nurse, since I imagine that involves a lot of standing and walking around for long hours, but maybe I'm wrong. As to question 4, sure, on some level I do feel sorry for her, but I'm absolutely sure that if this had happened to someone else she'd default to the mindset I described for questions 1 and 2, since she likely falls into that demographic of white liberals who are simply incapable of crafting a mental model for people who are just malevolent and antisocial by nature.
CriticalDuty
2yr ago
I have lived in Manhattan for close to ten years now, taken the subway some unknown thousands of times, and I see this quite regularly. Just a couple of weeks ago I was in a 2 train that was packed like sardines, and I was standing near a couple of women who were doing their best to ignore the drunk hissing in their ears right behind them (this guy actually had a bottle of something and was taking swigs from it). I've never been assaulted myself, but that's probably because I'm a man. I know women who have been assaulted or harassed on the subway - one of my paralegals was stalked by a random vagrant, and had to get out before her stop and run from the station.
Aesthetically what bothers me isn't just the smell, it's the fact that an astonishing number of these people often have open, suppurating wounds that they don't even seem perturbed by. I vividly recall this morbidly obese woman sprawling herself out over a whole set of seats on the train to Astoria one day, and her leg was hideously swollen and visibly rotting. She was too stoned to care.
CriticalDuty
2yr ago
I figured there was virtually no chance that Bragg wouldn't prosecute this guy. He's essentially the Sherman McCoy to Bragg's Abe Weiss - the Great White Defendant that every liberal prosecutor salivates over. If Mike Nifong was willing to commit malpractice for the chance to jail three preppy white boys over a she-said/they-weren't-even-there, why would a prosecutor like Alvin Bragg, a black man to boot, miss the chance to get this guy over an encounter that was caught on tape?
Politics aside, part of me thinks there's a sort of pseudo-theological aspect to all of this, in that American society revolves around the worship of men like Jordan Neely. They can never fail, they can only be failed; they are owed all they can reach merely by their existence; and a certain degree of impunity is simply understood to be attached to their actions, a degree that would never be tolerated of any other citizen. The black criminal is essentially America's God, and the blacker and more criminal he is, the greater his divinity. Killing Jordan Neely was worse than lèse-majesté- it was essentially deicide.
CriticalDuty
2yr ago
Questionable. Every ASOIAF government that doesn't feature a central power with its boot firmly on the throats of its constituents, barring a few fringe polities that aren't explored at all, immediately dissolves into cycles of bloodshed, revolution and genocide. The Targaryens' death warrant was written the day they lost their dragons; it just took some time to execute the warrant. The Baratheon dynasty likewise falls apart once its founder, who stamped out rebellions with his own hammer, died and left no one of parallel martial ability to reign after him. Daenerys replaces the authoritarian slaveocracy of Astapor with a proto-communist government of the people, which rapidly disintegrates into civil war and a near-total genocide of the entire city. Arguably the only successful governments in ASOIAF, measured by the ability to stay in power for more than a couple of generations at the least, are those governments which make it clear that they rule by the sword.
CriticalDuty
2yr ago
Again, Antwon Rose was fleeing from a police stop of his car that had been used 10 minutes prior for a drive-by-shooting. Under those circumstances, the cops had every reason to believe the inhabitants of the car posed a significant threat to the lives of others - they had been shooting at people just 10 minutes ago! You have absolutely no experiences that are even remotely similar to this! Why keep up this "There but for the grace of God go I" act?
CriticalDuty
2yr ago
like drinking in woods of indeterminate ownership or stealing pumpkins from farm fields and shit like that, and this would sometimes end with a fat, black cop chasing a bunch of spry kids through fields and woods. I once got away because I crawled under a fence that the guy couldn't fit under. If we took these statements about a duty of compliance to their logical conclusion, the officer had every right to shoot me. After all, I had clearly committed a crime, ignored his orders and fled. And it was clear that he wasn't going to catch me unless he could stop me from a distance.
He did not have every right to shoot you, and odds are he was well aware of that, since using deadly force to subdue a fleeing criminal has been unconstitutional for almost 40 years now and police academies across America teach this to every class. The only instances in which using deadly force to subdue a fleeing criminal is permitted is when the officer has a reasonable belief that the criminal poses a substantial threat to someone's life.
Posts like this exemplify the dishonesty in all discourse surrounding black crime and the consequences imposed upon it. Hardly anyone is shot because they were running away from the cops. Many (most?) cases involve people who were actively attacking the cops, like Michael Brown, or attacking someone else, like Makhia Bryant. Breonna Taylor was shot because her drug dealer boyfriend opened fire on the cops, and they fired back. These are experiences far removed from the lives of the white libs who do this "Aww shucks, who didn't do a little horsing around when they were kids?" routine, and yet there is always this pretense that it could happen to anyone. Have you ever charged a cop and tried to steal his gun? Have you ever picked up a knife and tried to stab someone? Have you ever dealt drugs out of your apartment, or lived with someone who did? If not, why pretend the law and order types aren't in touch with reality?
CriticalDuty
2yr ago
Democracy prevents many effective policies from being adopted for fear of the voters, since it requires the highest saint and the filthiest sinner to have the same amount of say in the direction of society, and the sinners far outnumber the saints. We have many examples in the Arab Gulf of prosperous states that are able to provide a good standard of living while refusing to grant the public a voice in governance. By contrast, my system actually does grant some members of the public a say in things.
CriticalDuty
2yr ago
The reason such people don't vote very much is that it's embarrassing to court them when they only have the same vote value as everyone else anyway. Under your policy, such people would become kingmakers, and every political party would have a strong incentive to pander to their values and shepherd them to the polls. You may not like the values of the propertied white electorate, but you're deluding yourself if you think making Lakeisha the new fulcrum of Western politics is going to lead to clean streets and safe neighborhoods.
CriticalDuty
2yr ago
I think you could accomplish many of the same goals by giving vote multipliers to property owners, or to property owners with children - and in fact, doing so would likely neutralize many of the dysgenic effects of your proposal, since no one should want to surrender public policy to the whims of crackhead welfare moms and the 7 children that survived the abortion clinic.
CriticalDuty
2yr ago
There is already a thriving trade in human smuggling from sub-Saharan Africa to Europe, and they're not crossing an ocean, they're just crossing the Mediterranean to Italy or France. The Arab countries will probably wave them through just to avoid them sticking around in their countries - let them be Europe's problem instead. The real deterrent is the willingness of European governments to ignore NGOs shrieking at them for policing the sea, and so far this deterrent is yet to appear.
CriticalDuty
2yr ago
Because Roe v. Wade wasn't similar. There was no unified post-Roe regime; different states had different abortion standards, and the federal government never threw its weight around on the issue as it did with so many other issues. Governors weren't sending the National Guard to carry women into abortion clinics, the FBI wasn't starting anti-abortion task forces to infiltrate and destroy pro-life groups, or any of the other measures the state used to enforce the racial regime of the Civil Rights Act.
CriticalDuty
2yr ago
Public attitudes are downstream of power. What changed was legislation and court rulings establishing a new ideological regime, and endowing it with the power to enforce its preferences and inflict penalties on violators. The long arm of the law will reach right into your brain, and you won't even know it's there.
CriticalDuty
2yr ago
Donald Sterling is Jewish, he'd probably be the counterexample.
As to the thread, there's an ingrained culture of Western obsequiousness towards Jews, on top of the generally well-organized Jewish lobby in the US and UK, which makes it (still) a headache to criticize them. Black people seem to run into these headaches somewhat often because they're bombarded by messages that they're on top of the progressive stack, until they open their mouths about it. Nick Cannon called white people subhuman and said Jews controlled the banks; he only ever had to apologize for his comments about Jews.
CriticalDuty
2yr ago
If you think that the people teaching kids that they’re trans are primarily doing so because they’re interested in molesting kids, why are they so overwhelmingly women?
I don't think these are necessarily all the same people. Some of the most prominent figures on TikTok who do this sort of "trans outreach" to children, like Jeffrey Marsh, give off insane pedophile vibes, and I'm not someone who throws that word around lightly. I'm also at a loss to come up with a generous explanation for Dylan Mulvaney play-acting as a 6-year-old girl named Eloise. Certainly a lot of the gay men who dress up and call themselves trans engage in behavior around children that would never be tolerated from any other demographic, because it's such an obvious red flag for predatory intent.
But as for actual women, like schoolteachers and the like, I suspect their great overrepresentation among trans-child advocates is for the same reason the overwhelming majority of Munchausen-by-proxy cases are also women - it plays on similar tendencies towards vicarious attention-seeking in the female race.
CriticalDuty
2yr ago
Netflix definitely did not publish Buck Breaking, lol. That was an independent production by Tariq Nasheed and his supporters. No streaming service would produce or stream that.
CriticalDuty
2yr ago
Of course you can blame them. In 2023, it requires no effort whatsoever to flip open a book and read about west Africa if one chooses, and at some cost you can get a DNA analysis to find out where your ancestors came from.
CriticalDuty
2yr ago
She was a semi-important figure in the history of an empire that was the progenitor of Western civilization, thereby lending her a cultural prestige in the US and Europe that the likes of Nzinga Mbande will never have here. Hoteps have no interest in the culture of their ancestors because the West attaches no esteem to that culture; they latch on to the culture of ancient Egypt and its figures because the West's interest in it brings a chance of reflected glory.
One of the seminal works of critical race theory in the law is a Yale Law Journal article from the 90's by Paul Butler, a black former federal prosecutor and current Georgetown law professor, in which he argued that there are no legitimate reasons for the overrepresentation of black people in American prisons besides racism, and encouraged black jurors to vote in favor of acquittal of black defendants as an act of racial solidarity. Butler prosecuted DC drug crimes and often saw black jurors vote to acquit black defendants even when the evidence was overwhelming, and even in cases where defendants practically admitted their guilt. These jurors told him they simply felt sympathy for the defendants regardless of the evidence, and Butler has spent the decades since framing this attitude as in line with an American tradition of refusing to cooperate with unjust laws, citing the example of John Peter Zenger, who published a newspaper insulting the British colonial authorities, but was acquitted at his libel trial by a patriotic American jury.
Personallly, I think Butler is just typical-minding his lower-class, lower-IQ co-ethnics, dressing up their acts of nullification as a noble struggle against oppression, when they're generally just acting out of base and atavistic tribal impulses or are just easy to manipulate by able and charismatic defendants. I recall the Chicago jury that acquitted R. Kelly of sexually abusing a child even when there was a VHS tape of him urinating on said child, and somehow I don't think this is what Butler had in mind. Or maybe he doesn't care.
Placing your fate in the hands of members of another tribe is always a grim proposition, particularly when these are people who were too stupid to get out of jury duty. But abolishing jury trials isn't always a solution - Scotland is currently doing a test run on abolishing jury trials for rape cases, because the Scottish government is unhappy with the number of jury acquittals for these charges. It's been almost unanimously condemned by Scottish bar associations as a political directive to circumvent pesky matters of civil rights in favor of a predetermined outcome, but the government is going ahead with it anyway, and I have no doubt that they'd make it permanent if they felt they had the political capital to do so. Would anyone accused of rape feel better about their rights under the law if their fate was being adjudicated by a judge who's been told by Lady Dorrian that these conviction rates are rookie numbers, we've git tae pump they numbers up?
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