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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
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Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
If New York et al. had said no then the GOP governors would have a point.
NY et al can step up now. Have they?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
I saw the idea floated, possibly here, that they had just repackaged work done on a Dragon Age series.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
The 'public emergency' releases funds to take care of arrivals.
So these sanctuary cities have no existing protocols for dealing with illegal immigrants? Their only response is to tap into funds for natural disasters?
it was done with zero attempts to coordinate with local authorities. Which goes back to my point: Abbott/Desantis are not making a good faith effort to redistribute immigrants. Being as disruptive and disorganized as possible is the point, so they can talk about how owned the hypocritcal libs are.
This is still histrionic. It's not like border states get a coordinated heads-up. Where's the good faith from Bowser, Adams, and MV? Why haven't they been spending their own money to help illegal immigrants get there before now?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
So, less than 48 hours later, and the illegal immigrants have already been deported from Martha's Vineyard. The MA governor has activated the national guard, and sent 125 Guardsmen to escort the 50 immigrants in a purportedly voluntary relocation to somewhere out of sight of the rich progressives.
The level of hypocrisy on this one is just amazing. No one invited anyone into their home. They couldn't even stand the sight of brown people unburdened by lawncare equipment till the weekend. It reminds me of when Mac went pro-life to pick up chicks.
Also, the $12 Million seems to be for the entire relocation program. Given how shameless and stark the results are, this may end up being the best use of money in politics in years.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
Fair enough. It appears to me to be the sort of claim that people are happy to share off the record, in person. I was thinking more about public, on the record claims.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
Shadowrun has so much math and crunch that it effectively gatekeeps the worst of the complainer type. But Shadowrun also confronts that issue directly. Orks aren't just slightly dumber - they give birth in litters of 6-8, physically mature faster, and have shorter lifespans than humans, much less dwarves or elves. They're a Doyalist-designed underclass race, and it sucks and isn't fair, just like the rest of the dystopia. What are you going to do about it, chummer?
It also helps that Shadowrunners are mercenary terrorists who treat corporate security forces like D&D adventurers treat ogres. The average player is probably more likely to get along with the ork street gangers.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
And? By the logic of disparate impact, the residents of Martha's Vineyard (which includes the Obamas) are "openly white supremacist". It's a community founded in, steeped in, and projecting outwards colonial Whiteness. The residents should welcome their town of stolen land being aggressively decolonized by Latinx folx with indigenous ancestry.
Less schadenfreudenly, has anyone ever been happy with the claim of "I'm not racist, just classist"?
Specifically, previous efforts to stir shit by bussing immigrants to major cities on the eastern seaboard failed to draw attention or rile up anti-immigrant sentiment (few noticed and no one cared - little enough surprise, as these are big cities and already have very large immigrant populations, including large numbers of illegal immigrants)
This is completely incorrect.
DC declared a public emergency.
NYC also considers a few hundred immigrants "emergency declaration" worthy.
There are hundreds of articles on this topic, and none of them have the Blue Sanctuary Cities taking a small bump in immigration with grace and aplomb. The freak-outs here are nakedly hypocritical and deserve to be called out as such.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
I have two, just like you, but about 10 years older.
Congratulations!
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
Feeding the very soul of humanity into the endlessly hungering maw of sociopathic capitalism to own the libs art kids.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
I tried to google a bit for it, but without remembering something specific like the name of the author, there are too many search confounders.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
or would the right if it actually gained back power censor in a much more strict and comprehensive way?
Maybe. But the left is already defecting from their own claimed norms of the last century, right now, and show few signs that they wouldn't go much harder if they could.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
Sports usually include an age cutoff. There is a bit of room for finagling there, but usually less than a year, which isn't going to swamp the intra-year variance in size. That said, I literally made this decision for my son, keeping him in preschool an extra year to make him one of the oldest in his grade instead of the youngest, against the outraged squawking of the teacher's on his mother's side, and I am very happy with that decision.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
WPATH Standards of Care
That seems to be from 2012. A lot has changed in this discussion space in 10 years.
If including transwomen in a women's sporting division is undesirable to some, then another league that only allows cis-women could exist alongside it
This is literally already the case, and the entire point. Sports have an "open" and a "women's" league, and the TRAs think that sectioning off the women's league for cis-women is intolerable bigotry.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
there's not a lot of career advancement happening there.
No, but there is an awful lot of vicious backstabbing, glorifying in bullying, and petty status games. There was an archive of an article posted over at the Other Place a few months back, detailing how SJ spread like a daemonic taint through the Glee fandom because it was a useful tool for fangirls of one character or ship to attack fangirls of other characters and ships, and rapidly spiraled into a deranged race-to-the-bottom of everyone preemptively trying to brand each other as toxic and problematic for liking certain characters and ship as a First Strike defense against being branded toxic and problematic for liking other ships. SJ is like a Daemon Weapon of Toxic Femininity.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
I believe (haha) beliefs are anticipations,
So, another question would be "Do SJ proponents behave like they expect their purported beliefs to be true?" How do they react to proposals for empirical experiments? Do they welcome tests in the earnest belief that their purported expectations will be met? Or do they play invisible dragon games?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
My point is more that SJ as an ideology is so optimized for conflict theory that it's adherents begging for the protections of mistake theory is somewhere between cute and contemptible. Say what you will about fundamentalist Christianity, but it does still contain memes about loving and forgiving your enemies for they know not what they do. SJ as a meme/ideology, OTOH, is more purely specialized as a weapon, which makes it more valuable to people who want a weapon, either because they just enjoy attacking or they want the weapon to win status games.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
I believe that "the progressive actors are acting with the earnestly held belief that they are making the world a better place" is more true than false, but because of a couple of edge cases I prefer the weaker "the core SJ movement >99.9% believes SJ is good and conservatism is evil".
What is the point of this sort of comparison? I'm sure the religious fanatics who were burning Pokémon cards and Harry Potter Books thought they were making the world a better place. People didn't send their kids to gay conversion camps to make the world worse. The Taliban think they're doing the right thing by forbidden women to learn, the Soviets and Nazis thought they were making the world better with their atrocities.
No one is a villain in their own story. Everyone thinks that their beliefs are good and result in good things. But specifically calling for generosity in regards to SJ on this seems particularly perverse, because as an ideology, SJ emphatically denies that generous goodwill to anyone else.
And it seems double-perverse given how much of SJ appears to be upper-class double-think games, e.g. the numerous times Darwin has expressed annoyed confusion that people keep trying to take SJ ideology literally and seriously, instead of just knowing that it's tribal-signaling mouth-sounds.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
I would just like to note that "entities violently fighting each other for control over an area" is something that doesn't happen in an area ruled by a government, unless you live in a country currently at war.
Yes, that's just called a civil war. The whole point of the comparison is that the organizations we normally recognize as governments are the ones who have a successful monopoly on violence.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
Remind yourself that anything you do is just a first draft, so it's ok if it sucks.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
Reminds me of Irritant's Law from the Practical Guide to Evil.
“Irritant’s Law: inevitable doom is a finite resource, and becomes mere doom when split between multiple heroic bands. Nemeses should never simultaneously engage a single villain.” – Extract from ‘The Axiom Appendix’, multiple contributors
If the world runs on drama and irony, flooding the field to undercut any particular instance and rob it of all power is a viable strategy.
The rules have always been about sincerely assuming the best of your ideological opposites,
This is not an unlimited line of credit, and this community is not new. This is ground we have trod countless times before; of course there are grooves. For a similar example, claims about the 2020 election being stolen don't get unlimited intellectual charity; we had a more-or-less fair hearing and the stronger claims mostly failed to justify themselves.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
It's basic. The whole place reeks of "medium fish in a small pond" syndrome. People who concluded they were brilliant because they could dunk on Uncle Jim on Facebook. Banning debate makes it easier to keep up the pretense and protect the ego.
They have thousands of newly empty summer homes and hotels.com is eager to help me compare the 1026 different hotel options. MV has a population of almost 90k. The idea that they can't settle 50 people is absurd.
They had them escorted off the island by the military within 36 hours. It's easy to put on a smile for a couple hours for a photo shoot. Why not welcome them to settle there and enhance the vibrancy of the community?
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