Devonshire
1yr ago
Alex deciding to keep on holding onto this issue is fine. Right or wrong, it is A-OK for him to keep going on it.
But Alex demanding Scott's attention -- whether or not Alex is right -- needs to be shut down.
Speaking from the minority position, the duty is on Alex to behave in a fashion that makes people want to engage with him, instead of him constantly giving off danger signs that say "DO NOT TOUCH".
I am sure some goof will say HA HA YOU ADMIT YOU DO NOT CARE ABOUT WHO IS RIGHT, THEREFORE I WIN, and
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you can never make sure you get the last word,
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damn straight, I care much more about not ending up some stalker's new hobby.
Devonshire
1yr ago
Scott's reward for interacting with this guy is that this guy will now not leave him alone.
Devonshire
1yr ago
I guess if you see everyone in two clearly defined camps.
I just see one gang going around town inflicting violence against randos, and then a second gang is showing up, saying "it is bad that the first gang is inflicting violence against randos," and then inflicting violence against some randos themselves while saying stories about how this is all part of some grand plan to reduce total violence in the world.
Or they just like inflicting violence. It is fun, after all.
Devonshire
1yr ago
Half of Broward County’s election precincts reported more ballots cast than the number of voters.
I stopped reading here because I had to look this up.
This is not "there are 4000 voters in this county, but 4100 ballots were cast."
This is "212 people were logged as submitting a vote at this voting center, but 213 ballots were in the machines."
So someone goofed up, or someone stuffed a ballot. This is distributed across 293 precincts, with a total of 885 extra ballots.
'strangely,' Broward and Palm Beach County had no discrepancies or delays in the 2020 election
It sounds like Florida fixed the problems. Which is what is supposed to happen when an auditor shows problems! That is not "strange" at all!
The systems to keep the books aligned have gotten much better. The election I observed in Florida (very boring!) had numbers on each ballot so if one just "showed up" it would be recognized. Was it someone playing games or was it normal human error? Good question. The new system stops both accidentals and purposeful unaccounted ballots, so either way I am happy it is in place.
Oh, and lets not forget that Rick Scott very directly claimed the election was being stolen. He and Stacey Abrams were two years ahead of Trump on applying this tactic.
This is important to remember.
Devonshire
1yr ago
I just pulled up Alex's post-summary page, and of his recent articles 6 are clearly about Ivermectin (maybe the others are too but not obviously from the title or summary).
Five of the six of them mention Scott in the title or summary. What. The. Fuck.
Maybe Alex does not know he is acting like a fucking stalker. Maybe no one has told him.
otherwise you're giving one side a blank check to never address valid criticism
I truly and honestly think it is bad that this issue has gotten so little debate.
But it is not Scott's fault that there is so little debate here. Scott has done much more to make sure Alex has his voice heard than anyone else. And the reward is to get constant articles written about him. No wonder no one else wants to engage with this loser.
Alex is picking on Scott because he can pick on Scott. If Alex attacks CNN, no one cares, there is no chance of CNN admitting they are wrong or even acknowledging Alex's existence. But Scott gave Alex some attention once, and the only possible victory Alex has left is getting Scott to admit that he was somehow unfair to Alex.
(Scott has dozens of old articles with the basic complaint "feminists spend most of their energy attacking men who deign listen to women instead of men who abuse women" and this is basically just that all over again.)
It is bad that Alex is in that situation where he cannot get a fair debate partner. But he needs to stop attacking the one person who showed him a shred of dignity once. Do not be the guy who stalks the girl that said hi to him at a party. It is creepy and it sets up bad incentives for anyone to ever talk to you.
Devonshire
1yr ago
I am more pro-ivermectin than the median or mean.
"why are you still talking about it!"
I can get why it seems that way if someone is only absorbing the pathos.
If I pulled up Alexandros's blog today and saw he was still talking about it, I would say "oh, okay" and move on.
But Alex keeps on trying to drag Scott back into the argument. I get that Alex found someone who is not was not treating him like a freak and that was a relief, just like it was for Ralph Wiggum when he got a pity valentine from Lisa Simpson. And now Alex stalks Scott and demands Scott pay attention to Alex's latest argument.
I did a control-F for "scott" on this blog and got sixty-three matches. It shows up over twice as many times as "ivermectin."
So it is not "why are you still talking about ivermectin" and more "why are you still talking about Scott!"
Republican Commissions to find fraud
The guy I responded to said that Republicans were "unable to perform any investigation into it for 30+ years."
There are absolutely investigations into fraud. Your very sentence implies their existence!
I do NOT think that, as many Democrats say, that "looking for fraud and not finding any means we can stop looking."
But I also do NOT think that "if we look for fraud and and do not find enough to flip an election, that means we were just not permitted to investigate hard enough."
Devonshire
1yr ago
Esp for the emotional damage part. I don't think people should be entitled to damages because they feel hurt by what you say
IIED is not just "my feelings got hurt." There are four elements and that is just one of them.
Devonshire
1yr ago
He was livid about George Floyds criminal background not getting enough attention, he
Well, I was going to point out the similarity there is to African-American resentment.
The source of your resentment might even be 100% genuine and justified, but it is fucking tiring to listen to.
Devonshire
1yr ago
The pattern of younger-woman with older-man is very common in history, and both parties often prefer it.
But in the modern day it often looks pathetic to be fishing from the kiddie pool, like an adult showing up to a kids' sporting league and winning. Wow, okay.
Devonshire
1yr ago
The government can make you marriage legal, but no one can make other people actually respect you.
Devonshire
1yr ago
I had kind of moved, weakly, towards accident (despite previously saying it was not). But this strongly suggests some deliberate agent did it and they do not want to reveal their monitoring capabilities that shows how.
Devonshire
1yr ago
Putin might think that the West is not going to sanction him any more than it already has. And that the West will not invade/seize control of the nukes/de-nucelarize Russia because that means total war.
What is the appropriate escalation for the West for 1 nuke used against Ukraine? One nuke against Russia?
Devonshire
1yr ago
Cool, but I am not sure why this was a response to me.
Devonshire
1yr ago
was unable to perform any investigation into it for 30+ years.
As much as I am annoyed by the Democrats saying "there is no almost no fraud in the places it is easiest to look and someone would have to have shit for brains to try to commit fraud", it is the same annoyance when Republicans forget their own commissions set up to exactly find fraud and then do not find any.
It is like there is no room for nuance at all and it is all signalling.
Devonshire
1yr ago
I am fine with Alex keeping up his beating of this, er, horse. Right or wrong, go on. I have commented previously about how the media has not been fair at all to the pro-ivermectin viewpoint so someone has to keep that torch alive.
But he keeps on wanting to talk about how Scott has not properly dealt with his argument. He mentions Scott twice as many times as he mentions ivermectin. He even grants Scott the honor of being steelmanned.
Devonshire
1yr ago
You are looking at "how do you get A without B" when I am looking at "given B can we stop A" which is a different thing.
Devonshire
1yr ago
US officials have long hated this pipeline and publicly threatened to terminate it, regardless of what Germany wishes
This is what happens when you are linked to Biden's speech by someone saying "oh he threatened to take out the pipeline no matter what Germany wants" without realizing that he was standing right next to Germany's chancellor answering that question. In the statement "I promise you we'll be able to do it" the "we" includes Germany.
Devonshire
1yr ago
Massively flawed candidates absolutely can get close to winning if they have found ways to use back-channels to force out opposition before elections start.
Devonshire
1yr ago
I kind of like the LVT on economic grounds but every time I listen to the people who want it I feel a great need to go learn how to use a gun.
Devonshire
1yr ago
FIRE has had to turn down donations from people who wanted to spend money just to "own the libs."
And if you look at what happened to the ACLU, which became an "own the cons" organization, that was a really good idea, assuming they care about their core principle and not "their side" of the culture war.
If, for reasons beyond their control, the price of their property increases, they can be financially forced from their homes,
Is the windfall from selling a house + expensive land gone under Georgism? If my land goes from being worth 200K to being worth $5M, I still get to pocket that $4.8M, right? I think so because the check from the buy er has to so somewhere, but maybe LVT breaks this in a way I cannot understand.
Devonshire
1yr ago
I think the refugee framing is fine, and even more it means that the load has to be shared.
Devonshire
1yr ago
If Trace did the deed against LoTT in order to "build up credits" or something, it was a complete loss.
But they really just seem to think that getting a journalist (or person who thinks they are a journalist) to clown themselves is its own reward.
In high school there were people who would rile up the mentally-challenged kids, get them to say "fuck" or go into a physical rage, which would obviously get the mentally-challenged kid in trouble with the bureaucracy. It was very funny to do and if you were bored it was funny to watch. (Some of these kids found it such a cheat code to positive attention that they failed to develop any other personality.)
Disney casting a black person to play the whitest of white characters seems to me just riling up the mentally-challenged people in order to see what they do. Kind of lame for a party who is supposed to be the master of content.
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