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Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
11d ago
Or is the goal to get boomers all worked up about dangerous right wing ideologies.
Yes. They still trust whatever the TV tells them. The fact that many have left the reservation because they also trust whatever the TV on their phone tells them means the people still making trad media content feel like they need to triple-down on the propaganda even harder.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
11d ago
I'm more referring to incidents where some gun is left out and a curious infant goes and shoot himself or something else.
Seems to happen approximately 100 times per year for kids up to 5.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
11d ago
Yes, exactly what he said. The law is swift and brutal to you, not to underclass criminals.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
12d ago
A lot of right wingers are saying “this is what LEFTISM is” but it’s not like the Right responded to the excesses of Woke by reaffirming the need for being grounded in reason and facts!
How would she know? Would she admit that even if it were true?
The thing is, I honestly think they did (to a fair degree, with caveats, etc). I couldn't have imagined thinking of myself as any kind of conservative 10 years. But the difference between the right now and the right pre-GamerGate is huge. They really do seem, on average, to be much more sane and reasonable and realistic than they were.
And it's really juxtaposed by the way I think most of the left went completely off the rails and untethered.
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12d ago
Yeah, my post there was definitely a bit muddled. It started with one idea, but I think the last two sentences are probably the important part. Thanks for giving me the chance to clarify my own thinking a bit more.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
12d ago
We are something like hard-wired programs that are hyper optimized for our interactable, feedback-heavy chassis. It's genuinely unclear what it would even mean to upload or copy us to silicon, and that should be obvious to anyone who bothers to notice the differences in their experience of cognition at different hormone levels.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
12d ago
The intransigence that comes with a refusal to tolerate tradeoffs. There's an endless cycle of argument that go (very simplified):
Left: We want Good Thing.
Right: Good Thing costs too much. We have Lesser Good Thing at home.
Left: You just hate Good Thing! You want Bad Thing because you are evil! Good Thing now!
If Left actually accepts the premise that there are real costs and trade-offs to consider and haggle and compromise over, then they're not really Left anymore. They're just a boring Math Liberal. Boring Math Liberal doesn't fire up passion. Boring Math Liberal has to sometimes admit he was wrong. He can't be a romantic revolutionary. He has to stop dehumanizing the outgroup. And dehumanizing the outgroup is a very, very, very powerful technique. It gives a nexus to coordinate and rally around. It creates solidarity.
That solidarity is, imo, the most effective tool. "No enemies to the left" means that attacks from the right just get ignored and shrugged off. It allows expansive motte-and-bailey tactics.
Leftists will fixate on their own intercine squabbles, but they don't accept intrusion into the "family business" from outsiders. Hasan Piker is every bit as much of a rabid, malevolent extremist as any literal National Socialist, but almost no one on the left is going to nod along to right-aligned criticisms, even while the man is wishing for the deaths of his own side's moderate faction.
Policing your extremists takes time, attention, and vulnerability. The left refuses to pay that price, so they're starting to pay a different one as the extremists eat them from the inside.
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12d ago
This is a distinct, vocal faction that everyone happens to kowtow to at the first sign of instigation. It's this kowtowing that needs to stop.
This is the core problem with the left. They have no ideological immune system. There's no way, within the confines of modern leftism, to rebuke or defend against someone who attacks from a more left position. And if they develop such an immune system, such a capacity for psychologically handing trade-offs or accepting that some desirable things are too costly, then they lose their most effective tool against the right.
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15d ago
In Programming it seems to be hot shit because error checking is part of the job and required either way.
In programming, you can just check if something works before deploying, or roll back to a previous version. In medicine, that involves dead bodies.
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19d ago
Thinking about it more, I feel like there's some cultural effect in play, something like the adjective ordering OSASCOMP rule. Just cold opening with "I hate shitty pop music" sounds like a complaint about the category of pop music. The version that refers to a subclass is something that would be said as a clarification in an ongoing discussion. "Don't you hate pop music?" "I hate shitty pop music. This song is great."
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19d ago
I think in the latter case you would italicize the "shitty". Your reading only works if that one word is particularly stressed.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
19d ago
It works fine. The normal English reading of that line is that "shitty" refers to the category of "pop music", rather than creating a subclass.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
20d ago
But yes, the window to the lawn was her way for suicide?
It had to have been, right? The only other windows are over top of that first floor roof.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
20d ago
Where's the great groundswell of support for the banning of Muslims? Even Europe, which has much more serious problems, probably won't.
You may have heard of this guy named Donald Trump. His anti-immigration ire is only marginally focused on Muslims right now, but your rhetoric would make my "Ginsberg t-shirt and coffee mug" mother want to limit and deport.
Liberalism doesn't really compromise, it just pauses to reload.
Liberalism is the compromise. If you don't care for it, the alternative is Deus Vult and blood eagles and the red ruin of your culture.
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21d ago
I think if the entire electronic banking system went down for weeks that you could probably be late on a rent payment with no particular issues. Same with other bills. If no one can pay their utilities short of mailing cash, then that's an everyone problem and the utility companies will likely just defer the issue. If this is a concern, plan for an amount of cash necessary to pay for out-and-about physical world purchases. Say, a month's worth of food, gas, household goods, etc.
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21d ago
We have our own ideas about justice and that's all there is to it.
This post made me more firmly opposed to Muslim immigration. Sorry, but they're free to have their own ideas about justice in any of the 50 Muslim nations. Here they have to tolerate Piss Mohammad and getting tickets if they park illegally when they hear the call to prayer.
If not, remigration/expulsion are the kind, moderate options.
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21d ago
China is neutral on white vs black skin
Eh, they place themselves at the top. Perhaps it's genre-specific, but the Chinese fantasy novels sometimes randomly drop levels of anti-black racism that would make Nathan Bedford Forrest wince.
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22d ago
Gay representation in media is illegal in China.
It was a problem in the USSR, too. It will probably become a problem in the West if actual leftists ever acquire real power.
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22d ago
They put Uyghurs into camps and prevent them from spreading their culture to the next generation. They are a Han ethnostate that bans nearly all immigration. Speaking on certain topics is forbidden. They execute political prisoners and harvest their organs. Need we go on?
All of which is perfectly within the bounds of the far-left.
India is a patchwork of different tribal, ethnic, and religious groups with a variety of practices that are entirely foreign to westerners including honor killings. Women are generally required to dress modestly but still face harassment when traveling alone (as any woman who has ever been to India can attest). Women are raped as punishment for the transgressions of their kin. Widows are stigmatized. Caste discrimination is rampant. People are murdered for rumored offenses against cows.
India was straight up governed by socialists for something like 70 years post independence. They still have an intense and smothering web of racial carve-outs that would match to "DEI" in the West.
Calling National Ethno-Communists and the most racist socialists in the world "far-right" is terminology that is actively obfuscatory. Either group has far, far more in common with the Western far-left than the Western far-right.
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22d ago
India and China are far-right places.
What? China is a communist nation and India was explicitly ruled by socialists for most of it's modern history.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
22d ago
I do note the lack of a broad propoganda campaign hammering a "What are you talking about, inflation is low?" vibcession line. Republicans do seem to be acknowledging that gas prices did indeed go up, and are having discussions about if it was worth it and the tradeoffs involved.
Just seems worth pointing out to the honesty and standards and perverts for nuance crowd.
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24d ago
That doesn't really matter. If she had easy access to a much higher window and chose the 2nd floor one, then that would be strong evidence of faking it. But you can find her address easily. The house is literally on Zillow. The only second floor windows I see drop onto grass. I literally used to jump out of those for fun when I was a kid.
The point is, that drop is rather implausible as a method of suicide when you could have just turned your knife 90 degrees, like most adults and damn sure every nurse knows.
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25d ago
Obviously the US needs crime reform but in enforcement, changing trials won’t fix the main problem of low-level nuisances because they’re not getting arrested in the first place.
They get arrested quite often. The first level of major breakdown in the system seems to be the "decision to press charges" stage.
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25d ago
Four story fall seems to be the 50% fatality point. Eight story fall is 90%. I would guess that a two story fall has a fatality rate well below 25%. The bigger flag is the wrist-slitting. She used a huge kitchen knife and managed to only give herself minor wounds going the wrong way. You'd think that if a nurse knows anything, it's where the wrist veins are.
Serious question: when was the last leftist group that got entrapped? All the recent ones I can think of involved bullets fired at government agents.
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