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Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
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DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
1yr ago
Part of learning chess is learning your opponent’s reactions and how they honestly or deceptively relate to their perception of the board-state. Playing games with other people is a deeply social activity. Having someone walk you through classic games in person would be amazing for cognitive development in all areas.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
1yr ago
I’ll cite that Wikipedia article. There are three basic recorded variations, one ends with “Palestine will be Islamic”, the other says “Palestine will be Arabic”. Only the third one talks about freedom.
Mine was never a strong point to begin with, but it is an important one to give context.
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1yr ago
The sheer rhetorical weight of the “you have been lied to/fooled by people seeking more power” meme should at least give them pause and make them reflect.
It’s famously the first bit of rhetoric in the Bible, when the serpent told Eve that God lied to the progenitor couple to keep them from becoming like Him. It’s a tool for defense lawyers, for the media, for sellers of products. It’s hard to exaggerate just how useful it is when exposing a real lie told to increase power.
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Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
1yr ago
That ambiguity is why it’s necessary to inform kind-minded people that the Arabic translation is “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be Arab.” It rhymes because good propaganda has rhetorical power.
It’s like saying, “From the Rhine to the Oder, Germany will be Aryan” but replacing Aryan with “prosperous” in a language where either of the bordering rivers rhymes with that language’s word for “prosperous”.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
1yr ago
Right/libertarian GenXer here. I never saw the post for the surveys, FYI.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
1yr ago
Don’t forget, the primary decrying was of unwed teenage mothers, “girls who got knocked up” with no intention of “tying the knot”. Teenagers (read: high school minors) shouldn’t be having sex, goes the thinking, but if they do, it should be after a youthful marriage on their honeymoon, or for the conservative liberals of the time, at least in the context of a serious relationship, not just a casual form of recreation.
In pro-life communities, then to abort the proof of extramarital sex would compound the sin with a worse one; have the grandparents raise it as a miracle baby in their old age if the father won’t do the responsible thing. This was an era when divorce was still seen as an epidemic rather than the norm it has become, and a child’s birthday less than nine months from their parents’ wedding was still scandalous. Nowadays, with sex and marriage almost entirely decoupled (pardon the pun), it’s hard to remember the sociopolitical nuances from when they were intimately intwined.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
1yr ago
Good question! I’d contend that, since non-autistic men tend to be physically intuitive (I hesitate to reference the “shape rotators” meme but it fits here), their logic is more “gear-like” and related to the STEM fields than is that of the people who are intuitive in realms of motives, relationships, desires, priorities, and other carriers of emotive meaning.
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Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
1yr ago
a disorder that's often characterized as "extreme maleness"
Autist here. The people describing autism as "extreme maleness" never seem to account for the higher clumsiness, lower social masculinity, avoidance of horseplay and contact/team sports, and other signifiers of lower masculinity. It also relies on a stereotype of men as being much less emotional and much more logical than women.
When I was trying to figure out my place in the world, I discovered an idea I've been calling Triessentialism: that the best way to categorize the world seems to be the Physical, the Logical, and the Emotional. One of the biggest components was that men tend to be physically intuitive, women tend to be emotionally intuitive, and people with autism tend to be logically intuitive. The male:female skew of autism is 4:1, which is the simplest explanation why STEM careers have been filled with men at around that ratio until recently:
The share of women and underrepresented minorities in the STEM workforce increased between 2011 and 2021. Compared with women, men make up the greater share of the STEM workforce. In 2021, about two-thirds (65%) of those employed in STEM occupations were men and about one-third (35%) were women.
I have since postulated that autism is a neurological lessening of instinct, so people with autism have to figure the world out without a set of ready-made priors which harmonize into a sense of being a whole being. Thus the high instance of AGP, thus the seemingly high intelligence of having to exercise one's logical intuition to get through daily life, thus the autist's joy in the intellectual beauty of symbolic logics, simplified sorting mechanisms, and hobbies with built-in ontologies such as trainspotting and Pokemon games.
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Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
1yr ago
Inconsequential? I don’t think I ever implied that. Already a major consequence has happened: a clarification of the Constitution in which the vice president’s role in the presidential election has been reduced in power from the novel political theory that Trump put forward as an attempt to return democracy after a bad election.
But keep in mind the great mass of who Trump appeals to: people who believe in the great myth of America and the rule of law, who hate totalitarians and love democracy, who believe in the founding fathers and the great experiment of what used to be known as liberal America before Commies stole “liberal”, a capitalist democratic republic forever at peace within its borders.
These are people who believe that babies are being murdered in most heinous fashion every day, yet refuse to storm the clinics and kill the doctors. These are people who are descended from World War II vets who fought literal Nazis. These are people who despise the quarantine camps of Australia and the government-sanctioned euthanasia of Canada. They can be enticed into riotously entering the Capitol, but absurdly walk peacefully though Statuary Hall. These are people who watch police procedurals on CBS and cheer when the wrongly suspected are confirmed innocent.
The red tribe won’t start a war to end America, nor willingly make it a state more totalitarian than already it is at this point, unless the Commies or the Jihadis do something so stupid and terrible as to make it necessary.
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1yr ago
Were the federal government to fall, I’d expect the Rio Grande/the Rockies to split New Mexico between the Republic of Texas on the east and Calivada on the west, with Salt Lake taking Wyoming, Colorado, and a V-shaped chunk containing Santa Fe/Taos/Albuquerque.
The official map of The Hunger Games is pretty much how it would shake out.
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1yr ago
Sounds like the BHP was radically successful in comparison:
The putsch brought Hitler to the attention of the German nation for the first time and generated front-page headlines in newspapers around the world. His arrest was followed by a 24-day trial, which was widely publicised and gave him a platform to express his nationalist sentiments to the nation.
By comparison, on J6, the sitting President’s social media accounts were suspended or deleted, and he wasn’t publicly seen in the media for months afterward.
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1yr ago
From the Trump side, we did see an attempt to overthrow democracy, and it was successful: the Biden coup.
- Tallies were reached in a variety of ways which one side found alarmingly suspicious, but court cases alleging fraud were not adjudicated with “discovery”.
- Believing that an attempt to overthrow democracy was under way, that side gathered in the nation’s Capitol to protest.
- Hundreds of thousands of Trump fans gathered peacefully, hundreds of militiamen joined the protests without firearms. All of them could have abided by a clean loss, but not a dirty theft.
- Events happened which cannot be agreed upon for tribal reasons, and the media took one side’s descriptions as the absolute historic truth while prosecutions took the the other side to jail.
If 2020’s election season and J6 were indeed a Biden coup, it was portrayed to those in the know as a way to pre-empt a seemingly inevitable Trump coup, complete with Nancy Pelosi’s daughter capturing events for a documentary intended to portray events as a 9/11-style attack.
If it was a Trump attempt at seizing power, it was the most ridiculously convoluted and ineffective plot in political history, with an impromptu army of hundreds of thousands just giving up without firing a shot.
If it was all just a series of bad game theory moves which gave each side's actions the illusion of malfeasance through tribal lenses, it is a tragedy of democracy all around.
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1yr ago
children born to fathers who were 45 years or older were at higher risk for developing autism than those born to fathers who were 25 years or younger.
Source: an observational study of five million children in five countries; an article which cites it also notes the issues with the study’s methodology.
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1yr ago
According to webMD, these foods have BCAAs:
Whey, milk, and soy proteins. Corn. Beef, chicken, fish, and eggs. Baked beans and lima beans. Chickpeas. Lentils. Whole wheat. Brown rice.
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1yr ago
People who don’t believe in any religious cosmology want religions to have the legibility of apartments: each religion has identical features even if they’re decorated differently.
(To be fair, when I was growing up Christian, I heard all non-Abrahamic religions legibly classed as “pagan”.)
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1yr ago
I have had two roommates whose excrement is the radius of the average cheap water bottle. Neither was obese. I, on the other hand, am obese, but mine is closer to the radius of the plunger handle I got to know all too well when they lived with me.
All three of us are Americans of mixed British Isles and Swiss/German extraction.
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1yr ago
Same; a relative is a huge fan of herbal remedies, so we always had tinctures of echinacea etc. around for colds. I have thus always associated the taste and smell of alcohol with medicines and cleaning supplies.
That said, I could probably get used to soda mixes or half-water wine like the Romans drank. I just haven’t had a social/economic need, and given that I know the struggles of people in AA and Al-Anon, I figure it’s best not to even try at this point.
DuplexFields
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1yr ago
There’s a principle here of never letting a liar define the terms, and never letting a bad guy have an inch of ground lest he take a mile. There’s a heavily tribal “scissor statement” embedded in attempting to describe the situation, and Joyful’s question may be a disgust response to the concept of transgenderism-as-divisive-social-lie as much as to transgenderism-as-ugly-behavior.
Having said that, I’m personally fine with the OP having described this Sarah Nyberg pedophile consistently with the child-luster’s pronouns of identification. I don’t need to know the “deadname” of the kid-unsafe transwoman or be constantly reminded of fundamental lies via the narrator’s pronoun choice. The post is all about the tribal lines and about one side protecting a dress which hides an erection for little girls; I don’t need to see a humiliation ritual of that dress being verbally ripped off in every sentence.
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1yr ago
For me, self love / recovery from bad self talk began with identifying whose voice those words reminded me of, and in what circumstances. The fourth step of the Twelve Steps is a valid therapeutic method for this; there are many variations on the worksheets, and the iOS/Android fourth step app (99¢ for maintenance/development) is a great interactive tool.
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1yr ago
Cosmology matters.
My fellow churchgoers will be my literal brothers and sisters for eternity, while my cousins, countrymen, and conversational partners might only be in my life for a meager century.
I don’t have to worry about being forced into a moral quandary, because my Lord has assured me that if I act from love, He will work it out; after all, He’s not only outside of time and knows the ends from their beginnings, He also knows literally everything and can figure out a better method for accomplishing our goals than anything I can come up with.
I’m a libertarian Republican, yet I have a Master and a King.
Cosmology matters.
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1yr ago
It’s likely a request from their insurance company, a request sent out in response to rising claim payouts.
Bigwigs ignore politics, but listen to insurance underwriters.
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1yr ago
I was specifically thinking of the gold standard in cape flicks, the big Iron Man/Thor/Captain America fight in Avengers, although the fights in Iron Man 2 choreographed by Genndy Tartakovsky are tremendous. I could pick through a half-dozen good Marvel fights with high stakes and high emotions with good choreography.
The first fight in The Marvels had a lot of spectacle, but like Black Panther 2’s big fight, it just became too over-choreographed, dance-like, and blatantly stuntperson-reliant, and the cameras were zoom-and-pan messes. The second fight was CG-heavy and bounced between several sites, and with better direction could have been a classic Marvel fight.
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1yr ago
I’ve seen it. The first half felt, I kid you not, just like watching the local college women’s basketball team.
My family loves the Lobos of the University of New Mexico. I’ve gone to many games at The Pit, our basketball arena, and watched both men and women play. With the men, it’s about the almost martial precision as they dribble, shoot, pass, and execute plays. With the women, it’s about watching them put in the effort and the emotion, feeling their drama as they play.
The Marvels is a superheroine movie, a different beast than its spear counterparts. The emotions are more important than the scenarios; issues of identity, status, duty, wants and fears are what matter. Kamala is a teenager worried about her family, Carol is an unaging guilt-ridden mess, and Monica is an orphaned grownup working through her grief. Their punches and zaps don’t hit as hard, though that may be the directors’ fault. They want to convince, not to fight, but their appeals aren’t to logic, they’re pleas of emotion.
They’re, quite simply, beta Avengers in a made-for-TV movie trying to be postmodern and flailing back into modernity for money shots.
It’s worth sitting through the first half to get to the second half. Ironically, it’s when they get to the Bollywood planet that things come together. Once that fight finishes, however, the movie seems to delight in swapping them into other scenarios where their swift action is necessary, making the point that women’s lives are all about multitasking. Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury stuck in Earth orbit but available by ear comms makes the whole thing Charlie’s Avengers.
(Culture war angle: the villain looks uncannily like VP Kamala Harris.)
All in all, I watched it for the Marvel continuity, and enjoyed it, but I was moved more by the movie I watched directly afterward: Five Nights At Freddy’s.
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1yr ago
I don’t see why a verbal referral, possibly made sarcastically to a “squeaky wheel”, would have been recorded.
This is one of the reasons American conservatives don’t trust a large, central, bureaucratic government: “The part of the government which oversees the government states they couldn’t find anything in the files of the part of the government which works with citizens who served the government in fighting another government to indicate there was a referral to the part of the government which kills its own citizens to prevent them using excess government resources which could be used for more productive citizens.”
What types of philosophy are you interested in? Ontologies which list what categories of things exist and how they interact? Epistemologies which describe how we know things? Ethics philosophies which discover what’s right or wrong?
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