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Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
11d ago
Grok declaring itself Mecha-Hitler is not a natural outcome, it only happened because Musk put his hands on the scale.
AIUI, that was more "turning off the Don't-End-Up-Like-Tay filter". The absolute refusal to ever be Mecha-Hitler, no matter the prompt, is a carefully manicured and manipulated state.
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11d ago
Purportedly, the NYT had this story weeks ago when they ran the other one*, but excluded everything but that one woman so they could use the article to smear her and her allegations about Platner as motivated by sheer partisanship.
Democrats left and right are deleting all their fervent, avowed support for the man. He should brazen it out. Just refuse to drop out. What are they going to do? Take the L? His party would about face again in two weeks and slut-shame the accuser, just like the double-thought away the Nazi tattoo.
The haters said he would crash and burn, and they were correct. Honestly great call by the haters.
Never got that specific with the hater-ing, but it seems pretty on brand.
*Should be that one, but I don't subscribe to that rag.
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12d ago
Cahokia seems to have been completely abandoned before contact with Europeans.
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12d ago
But I never hear complaints about the European immigration waves
The reason you don't hear about those guys as much is because it used to be a major fucking issue until we did a 40 year immigration moratorium and had a couple apocalyptic wars to bind us all together. And you can still trace out the marked difference in voting and crime patterns. One of the biggest cultural impacts from the Italians was an entire genre of crime media.
But modern mafiosos can't get away with burying people in the Pine Barrens anymore. Conversely, one of our two political parties seems cheerfully willing to tolerate any amount of government and welfare fraud from the Somalians.
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12d ago
Cahokia might have been larger than the London and Paris of the time at its peak around 1100, for instance.
Political, economic, or cultural problems may also have contributed to the community's decline.[61] Thomas Emerson and Kristin Hedman argue that Cahokia's large immigrant population was a factor in the city's ultimate fragmentation, as differing languages, customs, and religions obstructed the creation of a cohesive Cahokian cultural identity. Analyses of Cahokian burial sites and the associated remains have also shown that many Cahokians were not native to the city or its immediate surrounding region. These immigrants were sometimes buried separately from native residents, a possible indicator of weak integration along ethnic lines.[32] It is likely that social and environmental factors combined to produce the conditions that led people to leave Cahokia.[62][56]
It would be really fascinating to know what actually happened. What's the largest or most recent city in Eurasia to be completely abandoned like that?
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12d ago
The French kind of did, though. There weren't as many of them as the English, but they were a sizeable minority population. Paul Revere was the son of a French settler. "It could also be done by some close cousin populations who were literally involved in the real life one that actually happened" is a pretty thin expansion.
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12d ago
Freedom of the press, consent of the governed, and the rule of law are alien concepts to the vast majority of Liberians who have no connection to the US to speak of.
I think this is a fully general point regarding immigration, and applies to a thousand little things besides that season the secret sauce that makes America America.
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12d ago
Even if you are so vitriolic about black people
I'm not? I'm just saying Liberia basically forked the US constitution and it didn't produce results above what you'd expect from any another African nation.
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12d ago
So what is you explanation for American exceptionalism, if it is not the ideals? HBD of its white population?
Probably both. It can't just be the ideals, we have Liberia as a counter-example.
It's probably something like "A heavily selected portion of Europeans with the right ideas at the right time".
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12d ago
They actually deported more during Biden's last year in office than in any year of Trump's first term.
No, they didn't. They just fraudulently counted people turned away at the border as "deportations".
So it seems he tried to curtail the influx, but it was too late.
Also viciously disingenuous. That bill was pure poison. Ostensible limitations (which were still high), all of which had "Unless Biden or Mayorkas doesn't want to", when they manifestly didn't want to. It was just shitty, manipulative theater. Like the Proclamation that doesn't actually do anything besides shut down a detention center. It "halted asylum applications", but they were still just doing catch and release.
From the same wiki article:
In response to Biden's order on February 7, 2021, an anonymous ICE official chafed that the Biden administration had "abolished ICE without abolishing ICE [...] The pendulum swing is so extreme. It literally feels like we've gone from the ability to fully enforce our immigration laws to now being told to enforce nothing."[4] Other ICE officials and agents argued that said changes were more dramatic than even Biden promised during his campaign.
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12d ago
The actual policy was to not enforce any laws, actively decline to find people entering, and help coach illegals through falsifying asylum claims if anyone accidentally did their jobs.
and staying long-term.
Clever wording. By the time Trump was elected, most of the Bidenwave had only been here a couple years at most.
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12d ago
Now if only the people of the country would stop trying to prevent others from moving there to achieve the exact same goals and wishes the current population also wants.
Sorry, but too many people have a completely incompatible epistemology and metaphysics. Please feel free to copy any of our institutional sourcing documents in your own nations if that makes your cope feel better, they're all available for free online.
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13d ago
And in fact about 40% of the country can trace themselves back to Ellis Island alone which only operated for 62 years out of the 250
And 30 million of us can trace ancestry back to the 53 survivors of the Mayflower.
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13d ago
It's a hatred of being "undeservedly" inferior on the hierarchy. Most leftists mad that ACAB would be far worse with any crumb of power they ever got ahold of.
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13d ago
With Donald Trump, there is no fig leaf of deniability.
The counterpoint to this is that there's no benefit to actually denying. If every single person who has any trust in left-leaning media is going to interpret ant vague, unsubstantiated accusation as a damning indictment, there's no reason to consider the optics. A large chunk of the country has utterly insane beliefs that the man commmitted 34 felonies by raping middle schoolers on Epstein Island.
Still, typically politicians tried to avoid outright lies because their voters might vote for someone else if they feel fooled.
Do they? "If you like you plan, you can keep your plan." Joe Biden ran because of the "fine people" hoax (see paragraph 1), and generally, his entire life and personal story was all just lies. Mamdami just made a post bragging thjat he'd fixed the NYC economy, when what actually happened is that he got a huge bailout from NY state and stopped paying into pensions.
Trump is playing the meta. Is it a build that feels gross and stupid? Yes. But it comes with psychological invincibility to being lied about, and that's basically a prerequisite for a Republican these days.
With MAGA, there is very little in the way of acknowledgement that there exists a real world at all, that we are not free to decide what is causing autism.
Once again, let me know when the other party can figure out what a woman is. Then we can move on to more advanced topics like "the difference between spending money and getting something for that money".
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13d ago
Caught my mother watching ABC earlier today. They were interviewing some black descendant who was saying that Thomas Jefferson was a monster. The level of isolated demand for morality is just utterly disqualifying.
However much you hate journalists, it isn't as much as they hate America.
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13d ago
There are perils to committing yourself to nakedly tribalist, oppressive policing, especially when you disarm your officers and keep hiring frail women.
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14d ago
Exactly. It could be 17 or 19 and the moral arguments wouldn't change much. The important part is that there's a widely agreed line below which you are violating a social compact. This is also why a less formal environment might bend the rules sometimes, so as not to punish less anti-social cases.
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14d ago
I've actually never had that experience. The one time I was viciously fucked over by a police department, it was up north, outside a very Blue college town.
The few other run-ins were either resolved with some humanizing small talk (including a different one at the college town, in which I was a huge prick), or straight up Good Old Boy favoritism (which is basically all of my small town encounters).
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14d ago
Also, in a smaller town the cops are more local. They coach my kids in peewee sports. I know some of them, and more by name. Others will at least recognize my last name. "All cops are bastards" is a bit of a different question when I'm asking "are Matt and Justin bastards?" Maybe. But they don't seem particularly more inclined to bastardry than I am.
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14d ago
Do you ever watch any network TV news? The levels of condescension and contempt they sometimes reach is astounding. I've gotten mad at my own mother for talking like that to an eight year old.
To the greater point, sure. This is why progressives used to love Jon Stewart, so much that he eventually cooked their brains. Even most experts in those things low-key kinda suck, and that's the real problem. TV news goes so horrendously bad about it because their remaining audience can barely imagine turning to someone else. They're boomers who've spent 60 years thinking the TV was a respectable source of information.
For all the flaws of influencers and twitter pundits, they produce a more chaotic "laboratory of democracy" effect. They can't go full ABC News without getting pushback, or turning into lolcows.
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14d ago
They'd have Chris Hayes, who's clearly trying to be the leftist version of Bill O'Reilly or Tucker Carlson, addressing the camera directly, smirking, telling the audience what to think about it.
They all do this. ABC and NBC news are just the same. You, the viewer, are a dull child, prone to evil thoughts, and you must be brow-beaten and relentlessly propagandized so you know which is the Good Guy Anti-Bad Guy Club and which is the Bad Guy Club.
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14d ago
It also incentivizes even more tribalistic behavior to dissuade law enforcement actions.
Sounds like a few young, white British boys might ought to take one for the team and do their peers the favor of just absolutely beating the living shit out of some of these lady cops. Not like the fem-wankers have guns.
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15d ago
I mean if an investigation was never done why would evidence miraculously appear later?
Then what was the pretext for the investigation? Surely if you had something on the level of probable cause, you could share it with the rest of the class?
Even with all that that didn't one of the Georgia cases result in something? I've never seen it posted in the MSM ("because ancient news!!") but people have mentioned it.
Probably this. And that's the sort of thing I mean. That's a good example, clear evidence of violated procedures that could have plausibly swung the outcome. But there were scores of specific claims like this and, when pressed by ymeskhout, relatively few of them even rose to the level of "specific details cited by literally anyone, anywhere".
Personally I believe that the election was stolen in the following way - if you restrict access to the public sphere (COVID restrictions) and censor the private replacements (all the tech companies uniting to oppose Trump) then you don't have a "free" election. I know lots of people feel this way and lots of people don't, but much evidence has come out after the factor about how a variety of organizations that shouldn't have been involved tried to impact the election results without touching ballots.
And I think there is merit to this argument. But it's the one people settled on after the most of the initial hopeful flurry of explicit stolen election claims faltered.
That just sounds like an excuse to do another podcast with Hasan Piker. Talk about their common experience, maybe vlog a Devil's Tower.
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