Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
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Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
2d ago
Fun fact: I frequently see low level welfare fraud and manipulation. The only time I've seen a white person do it, he was a "Traveller". Just openly admitted it to me, too.
You said "no", but the following text looks a lot like "yes".
If a racist motive leads to uncovering genuine fraud, should that fraud then be ignored or tolerated so as not to embolden racists?
How many 0's worth of underaged British girls should we tolerate being gang-raped to avoid the appearance of saying that Pakistanis are gang-rapists?
especially when we've already shown a willingness to excuse the exact same behavior when it's done by someone we like.
Have we?
So, I actually read all of that meandering, incoherent, emotionally manipulative PBS article you linked earlier. It has a single mention of Phil Bryant that makes nothing remotely resembling an effort to justify your take on the topic. His wiki article does mention that he was a potential target of investigation, though no charges were filed. It also notes that he purportedly reported the misuse of funds himself. That's just the man's word, but given Wikipedia's general high level of partisanship, I would consider that decent evidence in his favor.
Following the link to the original source (because, contra-Hanania, I actually read), I see that we're talking about the misuse of $77 million, and the Pulitzer-prize winning reporting on the topic. And I see that the indictments were brought by another one of Bryant's appointees.
Which is good, as far as it goes. Bryant's personal culpability over the pharma company looks like he's either an utter idiot or the indictments luckily hit right before he could sign off on real corruption. That behavior is very bad, and also very endemic to our political class in general.
The Minnesota fraud case looks to be something in the ballpark of a hundred times worse.
Are you excusing that behavior because condemning it would hamper people you like and embolden people you dislike?
How would you respond to someone blithely dismissing the entire Mississippi scandal as you just being an irrational bigoted monster who hates the Packers for no reason except that you're evil?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3d ago
Are you less concerned about the fraud then the possibility that people might be racist?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3d ago
As always, Hanania is retarded. Probably 95% of progressive culture is now short form videos, and the exact same dynamic has played out countless times for them as well. No amount of text-based reporting on the countless deaths, rapes, and sex-trafficked children along the border elicited a millionth of the fury as a suggestive image of a Border Patrol agent "whipping" a migrant from horseback. It's been the case since at least Kony 2012.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3d ago
In mine, it was a shaman, and she cucked the old GM with the new GM.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
5d ago
I have never seen a school, preschool or day care in which it was not painfully obvious if there were kids around.
Relatedly, I know for a fact that one of the ones my kids went to had a ton of fraud going on. Employees paid partially under the table to maximize government benefits. There was a system where some of the parents got this card from the state where they were supposed to swipe in to prove they dropped the kid off, but most of them just left it with the employees to bill the government for extra days. Owners were a pair of rich Indian women who bought the place as a net-loss vanity project - and still ran it as a scammy money laundering front.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
5d ago
Sorry, just to clarify, but you mean quashing the whistleblower reports?
I suppose that does "work", for a certain sense of problem resolution.
Sure. In isolation, some few people will be able to grasp the problem. But at some point, if you actually want to change anything, you have to look at cause and effect. And once that happens, I predict that the overwhelming consensus position will be that infinity fraud is preferable to giving Trump an anti-immigration news cycle.
Or, frankly, telling a brown person "no". After all, the progressives in Tim Walz' government have been getting whistleblower reports about this for years and actively quashing them.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
11d ago
I've some sympathy with this view, but it's a broader sort of criticism than "how is the economy doing year over year". If inflation figures are fake now, then they also were 4, 10, 20 and 30 years ago.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
11d ago
Do you think inflation numbers are wrong then?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
12d ago
Majestica - A Christmas Carol.
Best paired with the nightmare acid-trip Jim Carrey version of the movie.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
12d ago
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
12d ago
Are you familiar with Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals? He criticizes Christianity for being a morality for slaves, of sour grapes insisting that being poor, meek, weak and passive was actually good, and that being strong, rich, mighty and proud was bad. The notion certainly rhymes with how woke oppressed/oppressor dynamics and the oppression Olympics plays out.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
13d ago
Is there a contradiction between the typical progressive belief in blank slateism and progressive women's (and some men's) choosiness in who to partner up and have babies with?
It's just standard issue compartmentalization. Most progressives understand that kids are going to take from their parents. They know what genetics is. It's just such an obvious, omnipresent thing that it requires staggering levels of ideological malware to start disputing that white people have white kids, or that smart people have smart kids.
The problem arises when one is offered the opportunity to reason about how that dynamic might play out over large populations and large spans of time. In that case, the typical response is to just turn it off.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
14d ago
Yes, because Bill Clinton is no longer useful, and neither is Hillary. This makes him (and her) easy to sacrifice in a pretend display of principles that costs nothing and therefor means nothing.
Literally no one will ever say "Damn, I was a Clinton supporter, but now I see they're pedo scumbags! As a penance for all the votes I put to the pair of them, I'm going to abstain from my usual D vote next cycle."
No one is ever even going to say "Damn, Our Guy was more into the pedo creep than Their Guy. That's an L for us, dawg."
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
15d ago
I imagine you could throw it away pretty fast on boutique bullshit. $900 Gucci polos, etc.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
18d ago
That sounds like the most amazing conversation I've ever heard. There should be a show that just puts BHI and Q-types in the same room with some snacks and drinks and films the conversation.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
18d ago
Yes but this sort of hate-fueled rhetoric is just inaccurate which turns a ton of people off.
Democrats have been almost pure delusional hate-fueled rhetoric for most of my adult life, intensifying into cancerous ferocity over the last decade, and it doesn't seem to have turned anyone off on general principles.
This loses you the moral high ground, and the fight when it comes to normies.
No, it seems like that's just media dominance and message control. If you refuse to ever tolerate or acknowledge validity of criticism of your own extremists, you apparently can just brazen out the moral high ground.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
22d ago
Which means I almost certainly overprepared.
Well, I'm sure actually knowing the material will materially improve your actual job performance, haha.
Haha.
Ha.
Regardless, congratulations!
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
22d ago
Or if rumors and videos about Fuentes and Destiny are true, the same bathhouse.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
23d ago
Don't listen to them. Turn the thermostat down even lower and search for deranged penny-pincher techniques to tolerate the freeze.
Let the dadness flow through you.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
23d ago
What does Lindy mean? I tried to google it once, and got some odd line dancing technique.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
23d ago
Super common. Every Latina immigrant receives visions of the exact cutoffs for Medicaid and other government benefits while gestating her first child, along with a MLM/cash business starter kit.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
23d ago
There is no such thing as truth, only competing power narratives. Arguments are soldiers. Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
"Midwit" is a title many people can only aspire to.
The problem with this thinking is that it creates a terribly perverse incentive. You can get away with any degree of bad behavior as long as you're willing to bad faith scream "politicized witch hunt".
At the end of the day, the only stable equilibrium is to consider actual evidence, and not overly much give a fuck about witch hunt bitching.
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