HalloweenSnarry
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HalloweenSnarry
5mo ago
Most likely not, I guess I just wanted to point out that your ideal world is even further away than you thought (sorry).
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
I am one of those people against the treatment Matt Taylor was given in 2014, and even so, I don't think "reduce obnoxious wokeishness in science" is worth a lazily-indiscriminate defunding campaign.
HalloweenSnarry
5mo ago
What bones did Scott have to pick with authority back in 2017 outside of stuff like "unfuck the FDA somehow"?
HalloweenSnarry
10mo ago
The insistence on neat systemic or material explanations for social phenomena is one of the terribly bad habits we inherited from the Rat community.
Because Scott put it best: society is fixed, biology is mutable. Dump $chemical into the water to improve things? Quite feasible! Contemplate modifying the human genome to improve humans in the womb? This isn't the 90's anymore, this isn't science-fiction! Create the Miracle Pill? Well, nowadays it feels like there's more candidates for the title than there were a decade ago!
Budge society into a healthier memeplex? You might as well ask for the sun to not rise.
HalloweenSnarry
2mo ago
That is not a control on willpower. It's not saying anything about willpower. I've said nothing about willpower. It is not apparent how willpower is supposed to come into anything or what straw man you think you're arguing against.
It's apparent from the pro-CICO arguments here that the usual conclusion is "CICO is obviously right, people just don't have the willpower to follow it." The argument path here is so well-beaten that a 4x4 could drive down it in high-range mode.
HalloweenSnarry
3mo ago
The other parent presumably believes that going without butter will force the first parent to work towards actualizing responsibility instead of whinging when told to do what they need to do.
Do I think this is realistic or practical? Not really, but that is the framing you are fighting.
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
I have to wonder if it only started running out of battery in that clip.
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
Worth also remembering that Zelensky became a Presidential candidate in the first place because he was caught on camera ranting about corrupt politicians, IIRC. His fashion choices are indeed most likely motivated by him wanting to distance himself from the politicians of yore.
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
I'd argue that Japan is already in a pretty good place in most respects. Trapped in a local maximum, perhaps, but it's not the worst local maximum to be in.
The time to not get involved was generations ago, you must realize. There is little will to become uninvolved; therefore, one must either live with the current level of involvement (mild, but still causes issues here at home), or get more involved (painful and intense, but has the potential to end the issue for good).
I would contend that it actually does serve US interests because the status quo keeps causing issues for us. Downstream effects, the flap of a butterfly's wings, and so on. I made a similar point in response to 2rafa about the desire to just ignore Chinese aspirations to hegemony in favor of trying to focus on domestic issues: ignoring the outside world may actually make it harder to fix problems at home. If you let chaos fester far away, it will probably find you at home.
HalloweenSnarry
7mo ago
I don't have the link to it, but I did once read an article detailing just how extensively prison labor is used. I think ConAgra Foods was one of the users of prison labor mentioned in the article.
HalloweenSnarry
2mo ago
I am not a qualified expert on the topic of "trade as a force for peace," but I will say that it sure has seemed like China has always wanted to take Taiwan by hook or by crook, completely orthogonally to their entanglement in global trade. If anything, global trade has seemingly helped China conclude that taking Taiwan is in the possibility space thanks to the benefits they have reaped from it, and now that they are in a position of strength, they can happily abandon the power of trade in the name of taking Taiwan if they need to.
I get to use my taxes to (indirectly) pay for the gun the Camden gangbanger uses, a gun I'm not permitted to have.
What, exactly, is the mechanism by which this happens? I'm genuinely curious as to how this "also my tax dollars somehow" thing works, as you allege.
HalloweenSnarry
3mo ago
Huh.
HalloweenSnarry
5mo ago
Are you referring to the post-WWII expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia?
HalloweenSnarry
5mo ago
HalloweenSnarry
5mo ago
Unfortunately for you, you can still absolutely wring a "compentency crisis" headline from this, assuming the plane in question was a Boeing.
HalloweenSnarry
2mo ago
I dunno, I think both left and right have been directionally-correct in that the economy is not the end-all-be-all of civilization. Plenty of societies in the past didn't give as much consideration to economic growth, yes, but they seemingly didn't really need it.
The way you wrote this post, I genuinely cannot tell if you are being sincere, because, at risk of mod intervention, it sounds like an alien value. If anything, I think it's the opposite: there are other values that allow us to have economic power, they are what lead to an economy and not strictly the other way around.
We are at this point, and you are concerned, because some of the very values that enable the economy are themselves weakened and endangered.
HalloweenSnarry
2mo ago
But allowing tariffs destroying economy? That is borderline to treason against the USA.
Is the economy that central to the American nation? I understand that market freedom has been an important component of our political strength, but at the same time, this feels like preparing for the last Cold War right as we are in the midst of a new one.
HalloweenSnarry
3mo ago
Russia has put in tons of work to bypass the sanctions and has constantly made it a major goal of theirs to get them lowered. If ending trade was so useful then we would expect countries to embrace the sanctions on them, a "Haha all you're doing is bolstering our local economy idiots" response, instead of trying to circumvent those restrictions.
If the pro-Russian posters here and the vatniks are to be believed, Russia's economy has in fact been pretty strengthened post-2022. I don't believe them, personally, but that is a claim that is often made.
HalloweenSnarry
3mo ago
If they can not support a semiconductor production chain, they shall not have computers.
We have already produced and imported so many electronics, there is most likely a decent amount of perfectly-good computing power that is just rotting away in landfills right now. If we lost the ability to make more microchips, it would certainly suck, but also, we're probably already drowning in chips that are powerful enough to run Half-Life 2. Your smartphone is powerful enough to run at least 50 copies of Microsoft Excel. It won't be the end of the world.
HalloweenSnarry
5mo ago
Consider also the other side of the coin:
As I've posted before, it may be possible that the Nazi regime could lose those qualities of evil we've assigned to it from history, if political realignments continue as extrapolated. After all, for those pro-Israeli Jews being criticized, one would have to look at what happened in the Gaza War, and perhaps conclude that "this is what 'securing a future for your people' looks like."
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
"Option D: Apologise profusely to Russia and provide them with any support necessary to completely subjugate and annex Ukraine, in return for a promise that they will cooperate in containing China"
Why on earth does anyone think that a Russia hopped-up on revanchism is going to do a 180 and go "okay, bro, no problem, let's do this together" instead of being like "ha, fat chance, as if, Western imbeciles" if this were to come to pass? I don't care how synchronized the people are to the will of Putin or for whatever theory of Kremlinology you subscribe to, this sounds plain retarded spoken aloud, even putting aside how outside the Overton Window it is.
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
If Haiti were French, is that terrible?
But Haiti was French, and Haiti being French is arguably the reason that Haiti is Haiti nowadays. If Haiti were never French (or Spanish either), then Haiti today might not be the Haiti we know. I imagine it's not like France just sheepishly gave up their colony for reasons of un-based-ness or whatever, there was a literal slave revolt. Perhaps the French thought they were slavedriving for the best interests of themselves and their slaves, but the Haitians/Taino clearly didn't see it that way.
Thing is, the problem with this view is that "trans women are not women" is not a universally-accepted truth--if anything, it is a matter of fundamental values conflict. To you, it is truth, but to trans women, it is the opposite. The only thing that points to objective reality is a trans person's birth identity--but the entire point of being transgender is to leave said identity behind as thoroughly and quickly as possible. You're not going to be able to do more than keep referring to The Artist Formerly Known As Prince as just "Prince."
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