DelendaEst
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DelendaEst
15d ago
I am not surprised that Americans are 60% of the market, Americans are much richer and OF is a global market without price discrimination. Even if Indians and Africans are willing to spend double the percentage of total resources on OF they will still be much lower as a total amount just because they have so much less.
DelendaEst
15d ago
In the 50s there were comic book companies which had series which only had like 24 issues which they cycled through publishing on the same theory, that boys who discovered comics at 12 would age out into baseball and girls by 14 so there was no point in having more than 2 years worth of material.
DelendaEst
15d ago
I think this is arguable either way. The worst negative effects of weed do seem not as bad as the worst effects of alcohol, but I think fully swapping it would speed overall social degeneration even worse. Weed use is correlated with sitting around at home playing video games, alcohol is correlated with going to bars and clubs which while not amazing value adds are at least social situations where single people can meet each other.
DelendaEst
17d ago
I think that given that at every turn the british response to real problems has been to lie about them until forced to come clean it is understandable that many will not give credence to the official narrative.
Also, that thread of /r/scotland is not all speaking with one voice, there are plenty of people who DO think this was rapey brown guy, they are just downvoted and at the bottom. This could be evidence that those people are crazy and the majority knows it, or it could be exactly what happens on every reddit thread related to the culture war where the left perspective is upvoted and the right perspective is downvoted and the truth of the matter is secondary to this pattern at best. So calling this conclusive opinion of the locals is not convincing to say the least. Frankly, trying to use a reddit thread to establish general consensus around the left wing view makes me less likely to believe that is the case, as if it were it seems like you could find a better source.
And while I totally agree that little girls carrying blades about is not normal, to me this makes the rapey migrant explaination MORE likely. If someone is carrying around multiple hard to conceal weapons it is indeed very odd, and begs the question of WHY. And given the context of the video the most simple explanation is "because she and/or her sister had been harassed before so she chose to arm herself this time."
You may well be correct, but given the full context I don't think it is fair to call the unconvinced "paranoid".
DelendaEst
21d ago
I strongly agree with this, especially for someone with the cultural attitudes of the median motizan. The gatekeepers to the existing paths to success are largely all held by people who are actively looking for NOT YOU and view keeping you out as an active good, and while alternatives such as Baen exist they are but one port and that is just a different tournament model of which of the legions of authors applying to them get picked.
Kindle Unlimited and other self published routes have a bad rap in a lot of places because the lack of gatekeepers means the quality can be pretty low, but there are a lot of people who have been a success who would not have been able to make it otherwise. You probably don't want to do this because it seems low status and sends a signal that your book isn't good enough for traditional publishing, but try to be Larry Correia. He self published his first book, marketing it primarily by sharing it on the gun enthusiast forums he participated it, and now is very successful in the trad publishing world (largely through Baen, but still) on the basis of that success. If you self publish and make a follow up post with the link here I will pre-commit to at least giving it a look.
DelendaEst
23d ago
I think the logic largely goes like this:
- The solution is just to jail the blacks who are committing all the crime and loudly say its a bad thing and then do nothing to the non-criminals
- The left has made clear that is not an option, as long as the levels are disproportionate doing anything about the problem members is not allowed, and loudly decrying them is absolutely verboten.
- Fine then, if the existence of a black population implies a large level of criminality and disfunction which we are not allowed to address then the problem is the existence of the population.
Its the same way that most people are not immigration absolutists but if the left and center refuse to deal with them problem and indeed insist on making it worse then I guess I'll vote for the right, even though they will go much further than I'd prefer. Or if the right insists on full abortion bans then I'll vote for the left and their up to the moment of birth plans, even though I'd prefer reasonable limits.
If the left was open to fixing the actual problem then throwing the baby out with the bathwater would be less popular. Though the fact that in this case the non-problem population is also very loudly offended by the idea of solving the problem makes it worse.
DelendaEst
1mo ago
Asking for a ranked list sounds like a great solution, sometimes it is wrong even when its not being sycophantic (which I don't mind its not magic and the information I am giving as someone with no clue what I am doing is imperfect at best) so that sounds like a two birds one stone kind of fix.
DelendaEst
1mo ago
My last experience with this was having it help me figure out a home repair issue. I am not handy at ALL but I thought I knew what might be wrong with a broken garage door opener, but only in a very general way and I was not sure how to effect the repair. It was able to help me get everything fixed through a mix of describing the issue and supplying plenty of photos, but everytime I gave my current guess of the state of the situation it would affirm me even though I was only right about 2/3 of the time.
DelendaEst
1mo ago
Even with claude I have the issue that if I give it what I think an issue is it will tunnel vision on that. I'd appreciate more pushback when I am wrong when I am trying to work through a problem. Trying to add some uncertainty to the tone of my request can help but is often not enough.
DelendaEst
1mo ago
Poor James never knew how close he came.
According to OP James has a pattern of stealing women from his lovelorn roommate. Such a fellow is lucky to still have all his teeth, and if he continues in that vein will not have them all for long.
DelendaEst
1mo ago
I completely agree. I am conservative while strongly disliking MAGA and as a result pretty much everywhere else I go online it is very clear that I am the outsider and there is nothing I hate more than "as we all agree" style posts. Part of why I like the Motte so much is that it is one of the few places I feel closer to the median, like I actually belong, and one of the things I would like for my space is to not replicate the indignities of enemy territory but with the sign reversed.
DelendaEst
1mo ago
Some of my resentment towards him is certainly jealousy (he has recently been fucking a girl I went on a date with and mildly liked),
Just wanted to say that this is extremely shitty and I'm sorry you are going through that. If you have a friend who is also having a hard time with girls and he gets with a girl you liked that sucks, but you can at least be happy for him. Having that girl instead get used by a guy who is already having an order of magnitude more success than you is just shit all around and makes you lose all respect for both of them. Hang in there.
DelendaEst
1mo ago
Or allow editing but have a button so users can see the audit trail? I understand the intent of the request, but I'd never want to lose the ability to fix spelling mistakes, and I often see people add [edit: reason] tags due to a response causing them to update on something or clarify a fact in the original post.
DelendaEst
1mo ago
I think even viewing it as "It's okay to be white" is a view you can only take a culture warrior whose Time To Fight bell gets wrung by the word genes.
The most straight forward interpretation is clearly "she is hot and slim and has large natural breasts" and her race is only relevant to the extent that you think white girls are/aren't hot. Moving from "she is personally genetically blessed with beauty" to "she is an aryan princess" is such a culture war brained move that it SHOCKS me how many people seem to think it was intended in any way.
DelendaEst
1mo ago
Ok so you're an employer and you see an employee of yours on the internet in front of millions saying things that you view as disgusting and horrible and that you don't want in your business. Are you only allowed to fire them if they mention your company during it?
It is already illegal to do so for at least some categories of things, ie if an employer finds homosexuality or interracial relationships or conservative islam disgusting they can sit and spin and are not allowed to fire you. I just think that saying "I can fire you for violating my values but you cannot fire me for violating yours" is not a sustainable situation.
DelendaEst
2mo ago
Legit question, how does getting downvoted censor him? The sorting method on here is by newest, not by top rated.
DelendaEst
2mo ago
It does seem to me like there is a whole lot of room between "not when she is injured, or right after a fight, or when you need a bath" and /r/deadbeadrooms. Your examples all seem to assume a pretty high, or at least medium, baseline of sex and then declare that there should be a non-zero number of limits on when a man can assume his marital rights, but what is being discussed is a level which is low to non-existent so your comment seems non-responsive tbh. Real "all debates are bravery debates" energy IMO, where you are saying there must be SOME limits on how often the husband can expect a yes and erwgv3g34 saying there must be SOME limits on how often she can refuse.
DelendaEst
2mo ago
In this case I think "selecting for criminals and actual refugees" is 100% upside.
In the case of criminals, they were coming anyway under a more gentle/permissive structure. Some economic migrants are discouraged, some smaller number of criminals are also discouraged, but no one is being encouraged to come who wasn't coming before. So even if the population of illegals is worse, there is no new damage (new criminal migrants relative to status quo ante).
And a population of illegals which is all cartel members and actual refugees is much easier to police. Without a bunch of bogus asylum claims the legit ones are easier to work through, and without a large population of otherwise unobjectionable illegals for the really bad apples to blend into authorities can more easily find them and will not have as much pushback from liberals worried about the damage to the less objectionable population that no longer exists.
DelendaEst
2mo ago
The arresting of illegal immigrants bothers me not at all. And there is actually a point to making the arrests seem maximally scary, namely than illegal immigrants are not morons and are too numerous to deport all of them. But a scary deportation regime makes the act of illegally immigrating seem like a worse value proposition for those currently not in the US who are considering hopping the border, much as Biden's aggressively pro-immigrant stance made it seem like a good deal. Even if both administrations are actually deporting similar numbers they will have much different rates of new offenders.
All that said, I do not like the idea of the ICE agents being masked, it makes it too easy for bad actors to pretend to be cops. That erodes social trust in a way I find unnecessary and concerning. Their actual actions seem fine though.
DelendaEst
2mo ago
As with many things I think the issue is not that it is a perfect replacement, but rather that it reaches some minimal level. So porn is not as good as sex, but it is easier, and because the gauge is getting filled up just enough it makes the effort needed to get sex feel less worth it.
It takes effort to get good things, but once you have them it is totally worth it. But access to very easy quick, but worse, substitutes crowds out the effort needed to get the good version. So porn substitutes for sex, video games substitute for real accomplishment, social media substitutes for actual community and friendship, etc.
DelendaEst
2mo ago
I have seen 10 times more comments from the left mad that the Trump assassin missed than I have seem from leftists mad he tried in the first place. I think the only reason that guy has not be lionized is that he failed, a few inches to the right and the left would be trying to build statues of him.
DelendaEst
3mo ago
Briefly, I'd say my opinion is Yes to 1 and 2, no to the others, though in practice I only consistently do 1. I do think the speed limit should at least be used as a guide and if you are doing more than 15 over you should seriously rethink that. I can see why you would agree with 5, but that sort of thing seems likely to result in accidents more consistently than the other options. Someone being a dick does not give you the right to behave in dangerous ways, and the correct behavior is to slow down and merge behind them instead, and thinking otherwise frankly strikes me as the behavior of a petulant child.
IMO it was a combo of Bush I tax increases (the ones Clinton attacked him on to get elected), the dot com boom and post cold war growth creating a larger base for those taxes, and gridlock between Clinton and the GOP limiting new spending.
If Bush II would have used the surplus in his first year to pay down the debt instead of doing tax cuts and spent less by not going so hard on the War on Terror the debt would be in a much better place now.
DelendaEst
3mo ago
Even if we accept that this is the case, doesn't it seem like moving from a system where all social media is biased the same way to having at least one site be biased in a different direction is still a net positive?
Those turmoils were in the 60s and 70s, peak USSR cold war era. US and China, while clearly rivals, are more economically and diplomatically interconnected than US and USSR ever were, and children are not doing duck and cover drills because of constant fear of Chinese nukes, nor are we engaged in Vietnam level proxy wars vs China's client states.
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