HaroldWilson
2yr ago
Contrasting this anti-white conspiracy with last years report that China was "luring" UK pilots to train its pilots, what exactly does a white person owe a state that actively discriminates against them?
This is completely pathetic. A pilot feels, perhaps not unreasonably, disadvantaged by this one policy, so that's grounds on which to throw your toys out of the pram and work for a state which, for most RAF pilots one imagines, behaves in a manner completely antithetical to your values?
HaroldWilson
2yr ago
but actual dislike and disgust toward whites and specifically white males
This is so terminally online. Are you British? I have literally no idea where you have picked this idea up.
HaroldWilson
2yr ago
This seems a very bizarre conception of decorum. Ok, they hadn't technically rented it and she in theory was able to, but recognising that good manners require you to refrain from doing things you are 'entitled' to do is the most basic and foundational rule of social grace.
HaroldWilson
8mo ago
May 12 2022
Do you just take any post as an opportunity to unload all your grievances about Democrats/the left?
How is it not manifestly obvious these are policies of hate and destruction?
If you just want to fantasise about how much Democrats hate you, just go and watch OAN or something with all the other morons.
HaroldWilson
2yr ago
If you have returned something it's not yours it's available to anyone again. If you want to keep it the app has a simple method to do so, you just have to pay for it. He had returned the bike making it available to all and was wrong to prevent someone else from using it.
People keep saying this but what these rules are is completely irrelevant to the discussion of whether it was good form to take the bike anyway. I know it was available to everyone when they docked it, but that has no bearing on questions of manners.
HaroldWilson
2yr ago
her life ruined
They shouldn't have posted the video, but let's not exaggerate. In a week this falls out of the news cycle, no-one hears about it ever again and she goes back to nursing.
HaroldWilson
2yr ago
Because people who are not petty children don't stoop to that level. They were misbehaving in gaming the system, maybe, but that doesn't make it a mature response to try to take it after they have clearly indicate that they are about to use it again. Much as in a library, if someone was keeping out longer by returning and loaning it again, and if you asked that person whether the book they had placed on the table was going to be taken out and they said yes, it would still be an absurd and unbecoming response to snatch it up and take it to loan it yourself to forestall them.
HaroldWilson
2mo ago
TDS
Can this die now? TDS has largely been vindicated over the past four and half years, and especially the past 100 days.
HaroldWilson
1yr ago
"shall not be infringed"
Well there are other words in the amendment. Words like 'bear arms', the meaning of which is pretty clearly up for debate even if you come down on the side of a broad interpretation.
HaroldWilson
3mo ago
and the inability to write definitions of ‘woman’ that are both meaningful and trans-inclusive is the reason why.
This is itself a position. When I said 'scheme' I didn't mean a literal definition of woman, I mean a more expansive view of language as a series of context-dependent games. 'Female' and 'adult' themselves have context dependent clusters of meanings, and are not 0/1 binaries. Efforts to nail it down are always doomed.
HaroldWilson
2yr ago
you don't really get to "call dibs" on a bike you are not currently renting
Don't you? I don't live in New York, but if someone was doing this I would think extremely bad form to try and take one they were obviously just about to take out, especially if you've already asked and they've said no. Indeed, the very fact that she asked surely implies she recognises they do have some sort of 'dibs' on it.
HaroldWilson
2yr ago
I suggest you become a little less sensitive if a razor advert constitutes an 'attack' on you. An ad executive ploy should not be able to bother you to that extent
HaroldWilson
3mo ago
The problem though, especially on a forum as partisan as this one, is that things descend very quickly into Bulverism, and more time is spent psychoanalysing your opponents than engaging with them.
HaroldWilson
1yr ago
And don't "Jan 6th!" at me, this kind of hysteria was in full flow before ever that happened
His contempt for democracy was already pretty evident before Jan 6th. Pre-Jan 6th anti-Trump feeling wasn't unjustified because Jan 6 hadn't happened yet; Jan 6 was Trump 'hysteria' being proven right! To embrace Godwin's law, this is the equivalent of saying that anti-Hitler sentiment was baseless before 1933 because it was only then that he was able to make any effective attack on democracy. People warned that Trump had no respect for democracy, and they were right. This was 2016;
First of all, it’s rigged and I’m afraid the election is going to be rigged, to be honest
I have had to come to the conclusion that the rage was all over It's Her Turn Now
This is trivially disproved by the number of people who hate Trump who also dislike Clinton, from the Democratic left to the Never Trump Republicans. The former is obvious but it's also true in the case of the latter; McMullin called Hillary 'terrible' in 2016, French wrote a piece in July 2016 harshly critical of Clinton on the emails and saying Comey should charge her etc. etc.
HaroldWilson
2yr ago
Yes. His evidence for a sweeping assertion about British society was one bad email. I think we would need a little more evidence than that to make an assertion as broad as he did.
HaroldWilson
2yr ago
Not really relevant as that's not what the comment said. I agree the kids should have given the bike up (though I think the woman was still in the wrong for her subsequent actions), given that she is pregnant, but not on the grounds that the comment above suggested.
HaroldWilson
2yr ago
, what's the point?"
Concern for your fellow man? Maybe family and friends would be less critical if you looked just a little further than the end of your own nose. Hardly a terrible imposition being asked of you.
HaroldWilson
3mo ago
Sure, but these practical problems are actually utterly irrelevant to the question of who is a woman. Trans women are women but shouldn't be allowed in female changing rooms is a perfectly coherent position. So the teacher or whoever doesn't need to take a position on the nature of womanhood at all.
HaroldWilson
4mo ago
character assassination
Ah, the old 'character assassination' technique of reading what someone wrote six months ago, it's like Stalin's purges this. It is not some 2021-level neurotic woke cancelling. This was a man being an unrepentant racist last summer. If you want to work for the government, don't self-identify as a racist on a public forum.
HaroldWilson
2yr ago
Are we still doing the pretending this isn’t happening bit
Can't speak for anyone else but I sure am.
HaroldWilson
2yr ago
Perhaps there are other norms in the bikes but my first prior as a capitalistic American is the one with the cash is in the right.
I'm not American, but I am in the Anglosphere and this seems entirely alien to me.
And I believe this is one of the benefits of being an adult. Being a kid has a lot of benefits (lack of responsibilities) but the negative is waiting for adults time schedule.
I think this is one reason why it was also rude of the kids not to let a pregnant nurse just have the bike, they are in the wrong too, but if they were breaking a social rule in keeping the bike the answer to that is not break some social rules yourself but to act graciously and move on. You do have an obligation to be, within reason, polite to the impolite.
HaroldWilson
2yr ago
I agree they are defecting against the system, but that still doesn't mean it's a mature response to go very far in trying to stop him. In manners if not in politics, 'they go low, we go high' pretty much always applies.
HaroldWilson
2yr ago
I would agree with this were it not for the fact that, so I am told, such behaviour is a widely accepted part of New York bike culture. If a rule like that (i.e. a 'first come first served' principle where if you get a bike out you can keep redocking as you like until you're finished) has been broadly established among most users, as it seems, conversely, it has not in the place you cite, then it seems perverse to lay blame on anyone conforming to the widely accepted rule. This also doesn't seem nearly as bad as the stuff you cite, since those people are clearly trying to just keep the bike for themselves semi-permanently even when they're not using it, whereas these chaps it seems were just keeping it for the time they were using it, albeit longer that the technical limit.
HaroldWilson
2yr ago
Two things here. Firstly, I am told by New Yorkers that this is common practice, in which case it seems hard to place much blame on the kids in that regard, if it's a widely accepted norm. Secondly, even if they are wrong in that regard, it doesn't exonerate the woman. Her actions were still petty even if one shouldn't try to 'reserve' bikes in that way.
If you believe in this legalistic tripe then the whole edifice of decorum collapses, and I think decorum is good. If someone was standing at a bus stop in the rain, person A asked if they could stand under person B's umbrella would 'if they wanted an umbrella they can pay for their own' be an appropriate response? It's ironic that people complain a lot about low-trust society here but as soon as it's black teens and a white woman it's all 'well technically she paid for the bike so she has zero obligation to act in polite and accommodating manner'.
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