JTarrou
2d ago
By preaching race-hate, the elites paper over the class switch they're making in those elite positions. It's not poor black american kids getting DEI positions, at least not at the elite level. It's mostly rich, elite african and caribbean kids from extreme privilege who then pretend to be oppressed because they had to go to Brown instead of Yale. The elites are betting that black americans will be happy just to see people who share their skin color in elite positions. And so on with all the other minorities.
The issues that are pushed by the elites are intended to fail. They are not reasonable requests. The minority grievance will be channeled into the stupidest possible lane to ensure that nothing really changes, but everyone can claim it's because they weren't radical enough. Abolish police? Men in women's sports? Chemically castrating gay kids? No borders? Generation after generation of the scions of wealth and power posing in commie gear and talking about tearing down the system.
The whole revolutionary pose is nothing more than a threadbare blanket over the rankest conservatism. So fearful of change they must stymie every advance by making it stupidly radical.
JTarrou
3d ago
The indigenous are just the most recent intellectual cat's paw to be used by the actual native elites to keep the restive natives at bay by humiliating and shaming them for imagined crimes against more historical natives.
Whether it's the poor, the disabled, the gay, the communist, the catholics or the blacks or the jews or the palestinians or the ukrainians, it's just the cudgel of the day. It's how rich mostly-white people who went to the best colleges convince themselves they are chosen by god to lead their countries. The "revolutionary" stance of Ivy league grads and rich kids. It's just a hatred of their own working class, and fear of their electoral power. Only with constant state-funded propaganda, educational brainwashing and public religious ceremonies can the nation be cleansed of its (historical and minor by comparison) sins. And of course, a lot of public money flushed down the toilet of middle-class bureaucrats siphoning off all the cash being spent on the problems they claim to want to alleviate.
JTarrou
3d ago
The list is extensive
Stalin was a Georgian, Napoleon a Corsican, Hitler an Austrian, Churchill half American etc. to demonstrate sometimes these extreme partisans rise to leadership as well. Sometimes the signal is seen as authentic.
JTarrou
3d ago
Where does this end?
It ends with women importing a patriarchy willing to force their fertility in accordance with tradition. Handmaid's Tale is a utopian fantasy, and only one religion fits the bill currently.
JTarrou
3d ago
One of the phenomena I've noticed is that marginal members of groups often position themselves as radical partisans of that group. Colin Kaepernick is a half-black kid raised by a white couple. So of course he has a giant afro and a black-supremacist girlfriend.
Fuentes is a gay little mexican, so of course he's a "white nationalist" or whatever.
Those stuck inbetween groups may feel the need to loudly signal their loyalty through signals that may or may not be seen as authentic by more central members of the group.
JTarrou
3d ago
Offhand, successful sniper assassins are fucking rare. There's a few, but the vast majority of firearm assassinations are done a couple of ways. There's the concealed handgun at gut range, and the classic Three Guys in a Van With AKs Riddle Your Ride.
At teh ranges to be expected in even a large indoor venue, a shotgun isn't an obviously crazy choice, unless you're considering SS body armor. But, of course, the weapon choice was the least of his tactical errors.
JTarrou
3d ago
The extent of my running experience is the two mile in high school, plus a platoon sergeant with a fetish. But this is one of those big things that humanity has been pushing for a long time. The limits of human physical capability. Always cool to see a milestone fall.
JTarrou
5d ago
This. Women define the term expansively to cover as much behavior as possible, men do basically the opposite.
I've never struck a woman outside a training gym. But I've been struck by dozens, stabbed by one. And had a fork thrown at me which by sheer bad luck stuck in my leg by another. By my count that's one count of DV, unreported. If I were a chick, that would be two decades of abuse and it's all society's fault for the misandry that encouraged that sort of female behavior. I call it dating latinas and art hoes.
Note for the boys still in the game, one or the other, not both. That's how you get stabbed.
JTarrou
5d ago
The safety people are concerned about is usually downstream of their political paranoias and conspiracy theories.
Middle class fratboys are "rape culture", but afghan hill people are "diversity of consent". etc
The left-wing focus on guns is mostly a dodge to redirect public anger over black crime and liberal judges throwing violent criminals into the population at law-abiding Republicans who own guns. If only Billy Bob couldn't buy an AR, DeQuarious wouldn't be shooting LaShontrakayze with a Kel Tec.
JTarrou
5d ago
In practice it's only "men who self consciously see themselves as men in terms of political class".
But yes, it's generally a bad idea in any democracy to gain a reputation for hating half the country.
JTarrou
5d ago
Camus' "The Fall" is basically about this. He calls it the "Judge Penitent", the man who confesses his degeneracy and uses that as moral cachet to criticize the failings of others.
JTarrou
6d ago
The answer is simple. It's not about making women safe, it's about dragging men as a political class. There's never much trouble finding a member of a group to be the public face of opposing it. Mearsheimer, Candace Owens, Milo etc.
This is not a public service announcement to reduce female risk of victimization, this is a political blood libel aimed at shoring up the paranoia of the sort of bigots who think all men are racist patriarchal scum (but not the good Mr. Peglow).
JTarrou
6d ago
Link back to the first post and my response to it here.
Excerpted:
The whole point of a prediction market is that people with inside knowledge will exploit it, thus leading to shifts in the odds line, thus leading to that insider information being communicated to all of us, anonymously through the price signal.
Yes.
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