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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
What, exactly, would you have considered the appropriate response?
Pool some of the massive amount of wealth available. Put them up in hotels for a week. Give them (and the MA authorities) an actual chance to figure out a real plan for them moving forward.
Honestly, I can even imagine a version of that article that didn't offend me so much. But the actual article reeked of poverty/suffering porn and self-satisfied fart-huffing over what is objectively extremely minor amounts of aid.
So "Republican governors" can organize a plan to ship them cross-country. And red states can pay tax dollars for the travel. And DeSantis can bluster and make political hay and otherwise ensure that it gets massive news coverage...and you're blaming the residents?
I'm obviously talking about the incredibly dangerous hike of 4000 perilous miles, not the last thousand traversed in a commercial, first world airplane. I am positing that people who support lax (or non-existent) border security bear some moral responsibility for the suffering endured, and the 2/3s who died along the way. Every "In this house" sign is a marginal incentive for people to risk their lives.
The calculus changes if your roommate calls your friends, coworkers, and pastor and hints that you're going to lose your shit. Might you feel a little...constrained? A little incentivized to prove him wrong in front of your social circles?
I would probably let him stay for more than 44 hours, in that case. And the calculus changes yet again if I've been openly championing "Unhoused Persons Rights", and supporting my city accepting homeless people from other areas. If the best I could do to "prove him wrong" was a single night before I had the homeless guy escorted out by the police, while I wailed for the reporters about how deeply I was moved by the experience, I would fully expect to be slammed for being a huge hypocrite.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
What exactly would the crime be? And why wouldn't it apply to every NGO, congressional staffer and lawyer doing similar things to get people to and over the border in the first place?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
'They enriched us.' Migrants' 44-hour visit leaves indelible mark on Martha's Vineyard
I encourage people to read the article before reading my impressions.
Incidentally, this article made me really wish for the Bare Links Repository back.
There is so much about this article that is just amazing to me. I don't know how to describe it. Maybe "witlessly mask off"?
First, I want to note the tic where every time the author notes an age, he specifies that the migrant in question looks younger. It's just so artlessly manipulative.
Second, the people patting themselves on the back for the casual, mild, one-off generosity. Wow, a Martha's Vineyard homeowner reached into his wallet and gave a migrant a $100 bill. Then there's the guy who spent $100 on candy for the kids, which is extra Wholesome 100 because he lives in his car because the rent is too damn high. It's like Ray Sanchez crammed an entire scathing allegory about life and housing in the blue zones into a sentence and didn't even notice.
Third, I'd really like to see the argument for how offering people a plane ride to a rich resort town is a human rights violation.
But the thing that really gets me is the detailed, yet uselessly vague, descriptions of the incredible dangers the migrants had to overcome to get to the US. Murderous mud and murderous cartels, and floods and cliffs. Coming from Venezuela, it's 2,684 miles by plane. Map software can't even calculate a route by land, I'm guessing it's something more like 4,000 miles, going through at least seven other countries. The article quotes the migrants clearly describing themselves as economic migrants, but repeatedly calls them asylum seekers. No one seems to notice that these people trekked, apparently on foot, halfway across the hemisphere, losing something like 2/3rds of their number to the assorted lethal dangers for exactly the storied rewards they want these people to get, quoting the article, "access to services including legal, health care, food, hygiene kits, and crisis counseling" along with housing.
The MV people celebrating themselves in this article seem to bear a large portion of moral blame for creating the exact incentive for people to take these risks and find themselves in these situations. Imagine if some billionaire was offering people a large sum of money to take their children and hike across a deadly desert. I think there would be mass outcry at how incredibly fucked up that was. And the few people who reached the other end are instead greeted with a king size Snickers bar and a crisp Benjamin to fuck off. Do you want people dying to get to you or not?! How many dead kids is worth a few hours of cultural enrichment?
I'm at a loss for how to categorize this, but it all just strikes me as appalling. This is the most cruelly champagne socialist shit I've ever read, and it's being presenting as flattery by CNN!
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
Journalists think of their audience like a grandmother who doesn’t trust that the grandkids will understand that the flying monkeys and Wicked Witch are the villains. They have absolutely zero respect for your ability to understand anything, so they have to dumb it down into the simplest good/bad dichotomy and drill it into your idiot head by rote repetition.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
11% of the country, which is 37 million people, were living below poverty in 2020
Key qualifier there being "on paper", which often involves income off the books to maintain access to transfer programs. That also glosses over what poverty means in America - a place to live, often a car, amenities like AC and modern appliances, a new-ish smart phone and far too many calories. Poverty in an objective, global sense is non-existent outside extreme addiction and/or mental illness.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
I love the swamp. So freaking dangerous at first. The first time I found it was a disaster. Got caught in a little bay on a sand bar between a pack of skeletons and a troll, died and lost the boat, too. Then I came in much more carefully, slipped gently in, and the first mob I encountered was a 2 star draugur archer. That was a spicy corpse run. All that to explore a Chile-shaped swamp that did not have a single crypt.
Second run through, co-op with my son, I went nuts and built walking platforms in the sky through the entire swamp we cleared.
Third run through, going as slow and carefully as I want, I have just been using to hoe to flatten it all out. Just got back with my first karve full of iron, and have not died once so far.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3yr ago
Abbott has been asking for help for years, and instead he gets furors over false allegations of horsemen whipping Haitians.
It’s my understanding that they moved them to a place they could be housed, because MV is just a little island and doesn’t have facilities to host a bunch of families who have no shelter.
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 seemed to react kindly to the people, I didn’t really see anything of this “couldnt stand to see brown people” stuff.
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?
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.
I don't think this line works because the age effect is a meritocratic difference. The kid who is 8 months older than their peer isn't the beneficiary of unfair favoritism, or subtle preference effects. They actually are bigger, stronger. They actually have had more time to develop their coordination. Their brain actually is more developed, and was for the entire process of schooling.
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