Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
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Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo 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.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo 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.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo 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."
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo 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.
1mo 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.
1mo 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.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo 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.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo 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.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo 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.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
2mo 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.
Iconochasm
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2mo 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.
Iconochasm
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2mo 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.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
2mo 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.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
2mo 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.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
2mo 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.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
2mo 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.
Iconochasm
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2mo 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.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
2mo ago
Sure enough, she did try killing herself.
No she didn't. She's a nurse who made some cat scratches across the road and then threw herself out of a second floor window. Very obviously a fake attempt to provide cover for her triple homicide. The only thing she didn't plan was actually hurting herself in the fall.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
2mo ago
The closest actual character I can think of is Benny from The Mummy, who was explicitly not Jewish, IIRC.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
2mo ago
Hanania has "sketchy merchant who betrays the protagonist because the villain offered him a child bride" physiognomy. I am surprised and kind of appalled to learn that he is married with children. I assume a mail order or green card are involved.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
2mo ago
Another round of justifying it by exaggerating the outgroup's policies and claiming "we're only spending in retaliation for how much spending THOSE guys did!!!"
Please cite a link where you made similar complaints about the trillions in cash giveaways Biden did.
Another round of everyone looking around for where the money went, while conveniently forgetting about Social Security and Medicare.
Please go on the record and state that you'd like to see old people kicked out of nursing homes to live on the street.
Iconochasm
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2mo ago
Seriously, bro? An AP article about (N=40) agents who posted their hiring publicly, where most of the (4) "problems" are that a few of them had declared bankruptcy before? And then a single one where the problem was that one time he was sued by a woman who sounds like a Karen, with no meaningful details?
I think that just buttresses my point. "Deeply motivated investigation by top-level journalist outlet managed to find a single time where a guy was accused once of possibly making a bad arrest."
Which was dismissed with prejudice. Feel free to sign up for the 14 day free trial to read the full details.
In comparison, ICE has arrested 170 citizens in the course of some 582k arrests, which is a 0.0029% bad arrest rate. Compare that to things like the overall rate of false arrests, accidental IRS audits (10%), and wrongful executions. And that number is still an exagerration, because the cases that got enough attention to derive news articles were actually pretty reasonable, like the DISABLED VETERAN CITIZEN who was detained for three days by ICE for, er, working security at a drug farm that was using mass illegal labor include the purported use of migrant children as child slaves.
Or the kid who was technically born in the US, then taken back to Mexico as an infant to be raised in a village so remote he didn't even speak Spanish. When he came back to the US, he had no papers and hopped the border with his other illegal friends. When they were all arrested, it took an entire weekend for ICE to find a translator for the Aztec language he spoke to get his shit straightened out.
Just outrageous.
I never said they didn't go to other states, it's that Minnesota was particularly targeted as defacto retaliation for displeasing Trump.
Doing the same thing they're doing in all the other states, but it's "targeted" because "political experts say", even as they admit that the state is a hotbed for immigrant fraud.
So part of this is potentially understandable (send agents where there's less cooperation)
This is just a surge. They've talked about this as a tactic, and done it in 20+ cities. Minneapolis is just the only one that had Walz staffers and government employees actively coordinating activist harassment and likely using internal government tracking data such as license plate readers to help the activists impede and harass agents.
You are just making up the "trigger happy" accusation.
Iconochasm
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2mo ago
Maybe to a tiny handful but it's not useful to collapse strategy down to the what the most hysterical Blues would think. The majority of normies want immigration laws "enforced" in some nebulous way, they just don't like seeing it done.
Every vaguely politically aware Blue was being bombarded with agitprop about the MN ICE surge. I had random strangers histrionically rant at me about it from nothing. It was protrayed as the Trump Gestapo kicking in doors to kidnaps, exile or just disappear anyone who was brown.
It was an accident because the ICE agent was trigger happy.
I'd really like to see how well you keep your cool when dozens of people are given free reign to be as stress-inducing as possible while continually flirting with and threatening violence against you. Or how well you can distinguish "I've got his gun!" from "He has a gun!" after I spend an hour blowing an alarm whistle in your face.
Aggressive, rapid hiring for ICE that let jumpy agents in.
Absolute nonsense. Pure, empty, bad faith talking point. Available data suggests that ICE is probably our best federal agency in terms of not making overzealous fuckups. You're about a hundred times more likely to have a "jumpy" IRS agent accidentally audit you.
Targeting Minnesota in the first place, which did not have an unusual number of illegals relative to its population, and which had an unfriendly state government.
MN was not a unique target, they went to tons of states. The difference is that most of those other states had some level of cooperation, even if it was quiet so as not to enrage the Blues. What made MN special was Tim Walz and Keith Ellison doing their best George Wallace impersonation, which is exactly why Trump made some comments to drive the point home.
States don't actually get to openly flaut black-letter federal law. This is well established precedent.
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2mo ago
I would be willing to offer a reasonable asylum hearing to Europeans being threatened by their governments for proscribed speech.
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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