Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
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Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
5d ago
They mix blanks in with the real ones. I'd always heard there was only one actual bullet, but trying to read up on it, that may be a myth. Funnily, the reason I was checking was because my daughter thought it was 10 guys just mag dumping into some prisoner with automatics, which is a darkly hilarious mental image.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
5d ago
In the Western scenario, the villain wouldn't have been saved by prompt medical treatment to survive as a cripple in the first place.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
5d ago
As Foucault points out, this will make people sympathetic to the condemned.
Foucault? The pedophile? I suppose it's understandable why he would feel sympathy for the vile. For the normies, it's a perfect opportunity to ruin their overdeveloped sense of sympathy. Preface and accompany the execution with a ruthless description of the harm he caused. The man murdered a pregnant woman while she was begging for the life of her baby.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
7d ago
I suppose the point could be considered the best kind of correct. The lack of permanence seems to be to be such a critical differentiator that the comparison to America loses any use.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
7d ago
Is it even theoretically possible to falsify a claim like that? I am unaware of any other circumstances in which memory of an event gets better over time.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
8d ago
Sorry, I might be mixing them up with some other ME state, but is Dubai the one where people are admitted to labor under borderline slavery conditions with no rights, no benefits, and no possible path to permanent residence? I can see why Caplan might find that admirable. I doubt many Americans would.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
8d ago
The only mention of Singapore in the Wiki article on Open Borders:
"Many countries, including Canada and Singapore, will admit wealthy immigrants who can demonstrate an intention and capacity to invest in the country."
Dubai does not appear at all, and the AI summaries suggest they have unremarkable border control policies.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
8d ago
Sure. MeToo was about rich men raping women in dark offices after hours. They're not Harvey Weinstein. Do colleges no longer have a freshman orientation about "Consent and Accepting Trans People"? Followed by an invitation to an MLM sex-toy event?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
8d ago
Well, kudos on the bare minimal acknowledgement of trade-offs and second order consequences as a concept.
But why do you think you know which is easy, and which is right? Not enforcing a border is easy. Tolerating infinite welfare fraud is easy. Printing more money to fund infinite welfare fraud so it can be sent abroad to fund extremist and terrorist groups is easy. Caving to every pity-party and crying liberal woman and naked, bad faith emotional manipulation is easy.
That doesn't mean it's right.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
8d ago
Speaking as someone who called himself a libertarian for 20 years, the logic was always:
- Open Borders
- Welfare State
- Functional Economy.
Pick two. Option number 2 is essentially non-negotiable at this point, and absolutely no one has even the faintest glimmer of a fantasy of a plan to actually address it, which means adding option 1 necessarily closes off option 3. Any libertarian failing to grasp this, at this point, is just a retard or engaged in enemy action.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
8d ago
This does sound like most progressives to me. It also sounds like most everyone else to me. Do you think progressives are unique in this?
Uniquely blatant. Most people do that to some degree or other, but most people also feel some discomfort when they do it. There's an unease, a vague awareness that they're doing something wrong, that they're actually losing. To the extent that I think I'm pretty good about that sort of thing, it's because that feeling of unease hits hard, and makes me feel nervous and paranoid, like I've forgotten a project due tomorrow. I suspect something similar affects many of the people who end up on The Motte.
A lot of progressives/leftists seem to just not give a fuck. I think it's partially downstream from the Primacy of Consciousness that fills so much leftist/progressive epistemology. What is reality anyway, man? Reality is in the eye of the beholder, it's all in your head and words anyway, so why not reject your words and assert my own? The more charitable angle is a kind of faith in institutions. Sure, I might not have an answer to your facts, but some professor somewhere does, for sure, and they'll prove me right.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
9d ago
Also, didn't the old stuff end up rotting after a few years? You don't need to build athletic shoes to last forever when they're going to be worn out in 6 months or a year. But you can't keep the interest of a collector community when the collections literally falls to pieces in half a decade.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
9d ago
Traditionalists say the basic unit of "society" is the family; "hippies" say the tribe; no one says the individual.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
9d ago
Sorry. I didn't save anything and I don't know how to slip past search enslopification anymore. If I stumble across it again, I'll share.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
9d ago
Based on September polling. Which, last cycle in some of those important states, undershot Republican performance by 6-12%.
But who knows. Maybe this will finally be the election where the polling was accurate and not a targeted psyop to demoralize GOP voters understandably and accidentally mistaken all the time in the exact same direction.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
9d ago
There are purportedly videos of her, now that her name and socials have leaked, showing that she looked pretty jacked for a woman. One of the fun speculations I've heard is that she was on T supplements for athletic/training reasons, and that's why she had a sex drive to fuck multiple frat boys into dry-heaving catatonia.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
9d ago
Foreseeable to you, the adult, worldly motte-poster. To a 20 year old raised in an environment of sex-positive, "sex is just about feeling good and nothing else" consent feminism? The girl herself seems to have thought she was doing something brave and good.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
9d ago
But after that, they started texting each other about "free pussy."
Was there more than just the one guy saying that in one text?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
10d ago
If we're doing pure physiognomy, Talarico looks like the physical vessel of an evil spirit. Something about the eyes.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
10d ago
AIUI, she went to the police 2-3 weeks later. In between, she purportedly texted with some of the guys involved, planning the next threesome and saying that the people slut-shaming her were just jealous, that this was just what modern liberated women were like and it was going to become more normalized.
Then the frat president (I think the same guy who tried to shut down the events the night in question) told her she wasn't allowed to come to the Halloween party and then she went to the police to claim rape.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
11d ago
It's more the "10 shrimp matter more than a human toddler because pretend math".
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
11d ago
Sex pests: they have weird sexuality but seem to respect consent and don’t seem to bother people outside broadcasting themselves, so I don’t see how they’d be “pests”
Being very charitable, this may be a "suffering from success" situation. Those circles seem to take sex pest issues very seriously. Alternatively phrased, they seem frequently riven with bloodbath infighting over sex pest scandals. It is possible that, like the Boy Scouts, their sincere and well above average efforts to tackle the Sex Pest Problem means the issue appears vastly more salient than among other comparable subcultures.
Being very charitable, of course. Being more realistic, autistic sex-positive dorks are going to attract sociopaths like flies to shit.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
11d ago
Yeah, people know it's a joke. It's generally seen as an incredibly poor taste joke though or at the very least one that fails to read the room.
It's particularly dumb because there's plausible reason to think Vance at least had read Scott back in the day. I feel like 2014 Scott would have noticed the opportunity, and taken advantage of the audience to make a reasoned, decently-targeted pitch. But modern Scott would lose his polycule if he published "An Open Letter to Whichever of You Fuckers Is JD Vance", so, alas.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
11d ago
Yeah. The only reason I got to MT as a bear was because my IRL friends and I founded a guild, and I earned the trust doing heroic 5 mans in TBC with them before we got to the raids. It helped that among the double-handed lot of them there was like 1.5 healers and then a whole mess of mages, warlocks and hunters, so there was no real competition for the slot.
In the very funny fanfic Seventh Horcrux there's a recurring bit where characters reference Voldemort's horrifying agenda of blood and terror "... except for the Werewolf Rights Act, that was very progressive, and...
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