JarJarJedi
Streamlined derailments and counteridea reeducation
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JarJarJedi
6hr ago
Annexing Canada would be a disaster for US politics. We'd get a large influx of left-leaning population who are already culturally desensitized to the right's worst nightmares (no weapons, no free speech, rampant multiculturalism, full DEI, nationalized medicine, etc.), which would essentially make it California-but-Cold and ensure permanent domination of Democrats in both House and Senate, and probably enough to also ensure Presidency goes to Democrats permanently. I don't think getting a dozen or so of heroic truckers and whoever else on the right side that is in Canada is going to change that. So I don't think anybody entertains this as a serious possibility. If we're talking about piecemeal arrangement, it might be less of a disaster but I don't think it's possible to pull it off in 3 years.
JarJarJedi
7hr ago
"I just declared 10000 years of humans are all dumbasses and couldn't see obvious problems that I could see in ten minutes. Who is with me to spend the next ten minutes figuring out how to manage the affairs of humankind correctly? It can't be that hard..."
Sorry, not my cup of tea. Feel free though.
JarJarJedi
8hr ago
So question to people who know Canadian politics better: how much Trump's "51 state" shenanigans mattered? In my opinion - which, me not being a Canadian, together with $5 gives you a cup of coffee - Trudeau was a disaster. It looks like Canadians, however, want more of the same. Is it because they really like what Canada is becoming under Trudeau? Would like to hear opinions from people with good background in Canadian politics, especially Canadians themselves.
JarJarJedi
8hr ago
not long after 25 your brain starts un-developing
I think treating it as any kind of unary scalar variable is just wrong. Yes, young brains may be more agile, but that's not the only metric that matters. E.g. kids are awesome at learning new stuff, especially stuff like languages, but their brains are a disaster (from adult's perspective) in many other regards. I don't think there is also an objective metric for this possible - it is rooted very deep in the culture. You can't just treat an outcome of several layers of cultural trends as a free parameter that you could move around at will, this will get you a lot of angry people who would (somewhat deservedly) think you're messing with the basic foundations of their world view just out of pure satanic contrarianism.
JarJarJedi
1d ago
But is it untrue? We are seeing people who, outside of illegal migration context, are considered lowest of the low - child molesters, drug dealers, domestic abusers, violent gangsters, robbers, rapists, etc. - are protected and defended by the establishment figures as soon as the removal is concerned. Up to personally obstructing immigration officials, sometimes. Where is the bar where they'd say "no, that's enough, we agree this person needs to be removed from our country"? I don't know, but certainly it is so low that at least anybody who is not engaged in active combat against the Americans at this particular moment seems to be easily clearing it.
JarJarJedi
3d ago
Pakistan's best friend (China)
Why is China Pakistan's best friend? They oppress their own Muslims quite brutally, and generally have zero tolerance to any ideology that can compete with the Party. Do they just think they own Pakistan as a counterweight to India and a stepping stone to dominating Asia, and Pakistan is happy to be owned?
JarJarJedi
5d ago
Karmelo is suspected of stabbing a young white boy to death
And by "suspected" you mean he definitely did it, it is known he did it, he himself admitted he did it and there's absolutely no doubt possible that he did it. So the donors can't say "we thought he's innocent" - they know perfectly well he did it, and they donate explicitly because he did it.
JarJarJedi
5d ago
Looks like it didn't because people kept smoking anyway and the ban for smoking in church led to people going in and out of the service to smoke, which caused much more disruption so the church gave in. A number of popes preferred sniffing to smoking though.
JarJarJedi
7d ago
If that's your goal, you need to last just two weeks to beat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Urban_VII - he ruled for 13 days, dying of malaria before he could even be officially crowned. He did manage to ban smoking in his short reign, try to achieve something of similar magnitude if you want to get ahead.
JarJarJedi
8d ago
So it could also be a C (cannibas), or P (pot), or W (weed), or even L (leaf), or any number of other things
I'd assume you would need to use Spanish for that. I also have been told by reliable sources that using the word "marijuana" is racist, so not sure it can be even mentioned by a proper expert.
you need to find a qualified expert to testify that these are actually MS-33 gang tattoos,
I would assume the guys who made the photo that Trump showed around would be called "experts" at least by the current administration and would gladly testify that these signs mean MS-13 (I assume 33 is a typo here). After all, they told so to the president, if they aren't sure that's what it is they would be majorly screwed. The problem is the other side could claim those people know nothing and they are lying and they have got their own experts that are ready to testify that these tattoos actually mean "universal peace and love" and has absolutely no relationship to any gangs and anybody who is not a racist fascist knows that. I'm not sure where in our days it is still possible to find experts that haven't been claimed by any sides are would be universally acceptable.
For me personally, absence of alternative explanations and the fact that his wife insists on hiding the tattoos on all photos explains enough, but I'm not an expert, just a random dude on the internet.
JarJarJedi
10d ago
This attempt to force the executive to (presumably, temporarily) return one particular illegal comes across as political theater and legal chicanery.
You see, you do understand. But that's not the only goal. The other goal is to establish the supremacy of the federal judiciary (where the Left is still enjoying a lot of power) over the actions of the federal executive. The strategy is death by the thousand of TROs. If the admin is forced to ask consent of every leftist federal judge for every action, not a lot of actions can be performed - even if SCOTUS works overtime to shut down all the overreaches (which is in no way guaranteed), it will still take time, and if every action that could take a day takes months instead and costs a lot of paperwork and lawyertime, which is limited even for the feds, then doing things becomes much harder. In the first Trump admin, the Left managed to neutralize a lot of his agenda by putting him under the shadow of suspicion of being the Russian agent. Now this does not exist anymore, so they need another leverage. Making everybody in the admin constantly look over the shoulder for a federal judge to intervene in their actions is a good leverage.
JarJarJedi
10d ago
Second this, and despite them addressing a lot of topics that would be classified as "social justice" and "woke", it does not give off the impression of being a woke product. I have very low tolerance for "agenda" productions, and I quite enjoyed it (I'm Jewish though so there's that). It has an nice setting, masterful execution, and also Tony Shaloub who is, as expected, great, and got an Emmy for this work.
JarJarJedi
11d ago
I applied to major corps (FAANG, MS, etc.) several times over the years, and I knew I am at least qualified enough to get the interview (I think qualified enough to do like 90% of tech jobs they have, but that's just my opinion) but the only time I ever got a call back was when it was a referral through a specific person to a specific team (not that it always worked - I had several referrals that led to nothing at all). I got an offer then, decided not to go for it, no regrets about it - but I am just wondering, how do they actually source? Is that just random luck? Is there a secret code? Is there some criteria I miss? I mean I'd be fine if they talked to me and said no thanks. But there's never even a call back, ever. Not that I really need it - of the FAANG five I probably would only consider Netflix - but I'd like to understand the process.
JarJarJedi
12d ago
Reading this and then seeing how the same corps fire people by the thousand without any fault of theirs, and also knowing if I sent them the resume they'd probably not even notice it (not that I actually want to work at any of them but maybe Netflix, but still), gives me really eerie impression. I'm old enough to be fine with a lot of things in life making no sense. But this involves a lot of obviously very smart people, who control trillions of dollars, and yet it all makes so little sense... Why must it be so wrong?
JarJarJedi
12d ago
because this sounds to me more like a fever dream than any description of reality
This is because you choose to ignore the reality for ideological reasons. People do that all the time, nothing surprising.
I live in a border state and haven’t any kind of “invasion” like you’re describing.
People lived in the Soviet Union and didn't see any lack of freedoms that the lying Western press was talking about. Moreover, I am sure there are a lot of people of North Korea which don't see any totalitarian regime, just the glorious rule of the Beloved Chairman. The key difference is: this has been largely done to them by somebody else, and they'd risk severe consequences if they waked up. You do it to yourself willingly and risk nothing but feeling a little silly. And yet...
In 2015, there was about 300K illegal migrant encounters on the southern border. In 2023, there were over 3.2 million. That doesn't count people being literally brought in the country by the planeload and released in random communities - without any vetting, proper immigration process (I know something about that, being a legal immigrant myself) or sensible oversight. That doesn't account for complete refusal of the collective left to acknowledge there even exists such a thing as immigration law anymore (just listen how Dem politicians spoke about illegal migration some 10-15 years ago - they were proper firebrands, nobody is above the law! Now they only remember this when they need to cook up another investigation against Trump).
But I don’t understand the point you’re making
I think my very first sentence was clear enough? We are already living in the catastrophical environment. The catastrope - at least for those people who are not willingly blind, like you are - has already very evidently happened and very perceivable. All that have been happening for the last decade-and-a-half is not normal. It is not what should be happening in a proper country, regardless of ideological differences.
those are in a separate category from the excesses and extremism coming from the President of the United States.
Nope. To fix the catastrophe, you need to act unlike you'd act in a normal situation. If your neighbor parks their car somewhere that inconveniences you, the right way is to politely ask them to move their car. If your neighbor parks in front of a fire hydrant while your house is on fire, then the firemen would break the car's windows and run the hose through. Impolite, but necessary. Now imagine this neighbor actively impedes the firemen from extinguishing the fire, runs around spilling gasoline and brags about it because you are, in his eyes, an evil person whose house deserves to burn, and also there's nothing bad in a good fire, as long as the right people are getting burned. Would you try to handle this the most polite way possible? Likely not. What has been happening is not normal, and thus we get somebody who is not acting in a usual way to fix it. Because fixing it in normal ways has been tried and failed, many times over. So yes, these "excesses" are very much the same category - it's these excesses, continuing and multiplying for decades, what convinced people (including myself) that what has been done before - nominating and electing polite, smooth talking, consensus-seeking people who would try to solve things in polite, consensual, mutually beneficial ways - is not working, and actually threatening the society's very existence.
JarJarJedi
13d ago
When the catastrophe actually happens
The catastrophe has already happened. Nobody knows how big exactly the Biden cross-border invasion has been, but it probably will have effects for decades down the line. We've got literally violent foreign gangs taking over neighborhoods in the US. We've got tens of thousands of migrants sent to tiny towns where there's no chance they can be properly assimilated. We've got one of the major parties not only completely normalizing ignoring the law and brazenly bragging about "resisting" the law enforcement, but actively working to make the maximum amount of foreign violent criminals and sociopaths to stay on US territory, and willing to destroy any institution in the nation that stands in the way. We've got higher education institutions taken over by people openly advocating genocide, violently rioting without any consequences and physically attacking anybody who looks like a Jew. And that's only a small sample of the political violence we're seeing right now. That sounds a lot like something that I'd call a catastrophe.
JarJarJedi
14d ago
If they hold on to that, and the admin holds too and cuts them off, I think it's a win. I loathe current Harvard dominating ideology, but I support the principle that in a free country, which America still one day may become, people are free to hold any ideology, even extremely loathsome, as long as it does not involve infringing other's rights. Taking my money to do stuff that is loathsome to me comes pretty close, in my opinion, to infringing my rights, but if Harvard stops taking tax money (or at least takes them in no other sense than a cab driver transporting a government official takes the tax money) then I'd be ok with such setup. Secretly, in my heart, I'd desire for them to disappear in the flames of Hell, but I realize that the reality can't be so because everybody has their own desires and they are contradictory and the way to have a society is to have some desires moderated by the existence of others. The tricky part is how to ensure they don't just keep their ideology and resume taking my money once Trump is gone.
I would have loved to see that viewpoint diversity report on an Abstract Algebra class.
In the context of the woke academia, "viewpoint diversity" is largely bullshit. The premise of the wokism is that genetical diversity somehow magically generates viewpoint diversity (as long as there aren't too many people of European descent because somehow they are all defective in this way) and that is supremely beneficial. Of course, nobody even bothers to support this claim because this is an axiom, and nobody even bothers to check there's an actual viewpoint diversity because nobody in fact wants it. This requirement just looks like calling the bluff on it - "ah, you love diversity? OK, let's measure you on that". Of course they'd refuse since neither they can measure it nor they ever wanted to.
JarJarJedi
14d ago
I think that only concerns the flag itself - i.e. a rectangular piece of cloth with specific pattern, used for a specific purpose - not a depiction of the same pattern in different places. I.e. if I have a cup with the Statue of Liberty and American flag depicted, I don't think Flag Code applies to the cup.
JarJarJedi
14d ago
I'm not sure what's the point of it. I mean yeah, there probably may be some legal way to do it, but why? It won't change anything significantly, and the reason why manufacturing is moving out aren't because evil fatcats hate America. It's because it is cheaper, and the reason it is cheaper is because workforce overseas is cheaper due to lower living standards and absence of regulations. I see no major non-niche brands that advertise something like "yeah we cost twice the competition, but we are made in America so it's clear you should buy us!". I mean, there are brands where MiUSA is part of their marketing, but not many that make it the center and rely heavily on it, as far as I can see. Thus, I must conclude, the revealed preference of the US consumers, en masse, is to get cheaper goods, regardless of where they are made. I don't think putting or removing some flags is going to change that. You can say "fuck the weak consumers, the interests of the Nation demand we have domestic manufacturing", then you need something global and non-consensual like tariffs and import bans to take the choice away.
Plus, of course, enforcing this with the consumers largely not caring would be tough. You can't go for the consumers, since punishing consumers for displaying American symbols would get you eaten alive in the media. You can't go for the manufacturers (on case by case basis) because it'd be too costly and they are outside the country, and something like WTO would likely be reluctant to help you. And if you go for the middlemen, it'd be a perpetual game of whack-a-mole, which, given the experience with controlling other goods, you are going to lose.
JarJarJedi
14d ago
As far as I know, yes, there are forensic tools that could do some of what you want. You likely can't get them legally unless you're a LEO or something like that, but probably if you have access to the right darknet places you can get at least some of those (it's just code after all so anybody could use it). I have no personal experience though with this, just stuff that I read about in various places on the internet (which as we all know only contains true and verified information and can be always trusted). Most of the tools would rely on some bugs or logic holes so success of applying them to a particular phone would highly depend on the model, OS version, settings, etc.
There was a famous case where the FBI had trouble accessing San Bernadino shooter's iPhone (Apple can be better than random Android in this due to the fact that they can have unified model covering everything) but they were able to successfully break the protection anyway. The people who specialize in it likely have a lot more tricks in their bags, but those are not going to be revealed to a random dude, they a worth quite a lot of money and they won't do it for everybody. If you were an FBI officer, you probably would be able to get them to help you.
JarJarJedi
19d ago
I've been in Vancouver about 10 years ago, and I remember it as a beautiful city with some pretty scary Methland downtown. Looks like nothing much changed since then.
But if they vote for decades for people who are doing this to them, isn't there a point where one should conclude they want it this way, and thus deserve it this way?
JarJarJedi
25d ago
Oh this is precious. Who even thought giving the LCU option is a great idea? I mean, what is the intended use of this option at all?
JarJarJedi
25d ago
Nothing ever is "perpetual", but the situation where there is the ruling elite which admits very little outsiders is pretty common even now, and was the default setting pretty much everywhere for the recorded human history until about 100 years ago or so. The case where a son of peasant could be anybody but peasant, let alone become part of ruling elite, were the stuff of legend, and pretty much never happened in reality. That was the case even in completely racially homogeneous societies, race has very little to do with it.
JarJarJedi
25d ago
I can't honestly sign for it as I'm already a Jew, but if such a deal would be made available to me on the condition that I will have to surrender all my Jew privileges, whatever they might be, excepting ones that concern The World To Come (not willing to bargain on those), in exchange for myself and my family living in the Jew Paradise - I'd sign up. I'd try to sign up for the full Jew deal if possible, I'm not stupid - but if the Goy deal is the only one left, I'd go for that too.
It has been over in Europe for a long time, for the right. True, there's AfD in Germany (shut out of "polite society" but still alive) and LePen (here the establishment succeeded to do the same they failed to do to Trump) but there's no movements comparable to MAGA (or even Tea Party) and no powers comparable to Republicans on the right in Europe. I don't see why America must be any different and why, if the circumstances allow, Republicans couldn't be turned into AfD-like permanent opposition, useful for scaring the voters into compliance but powerless otherwise. Of course, there still be politicians competing, just like there are politicians competing in San Francisco or Chicago, but that would be like watching which Politburo member is elected into the Central Committee - whoever it is, it's still a Politburo member. There's no real alternative.
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