JarJarJedi
Streamlined derailments and counteridea reeducation
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JarJarJedi
12d ago
The progressive project is anti-hierarchy and believes in equality of all humans, that no person or demographic should have power over another.
What you described is called "anarchists", not "progressives", and no progressive actually believes that. Sure, anarchists exist, and some of them (like antifa) are in tactical alliance with progressives, but "no person should have power over another" is definitely not something that defines anything called "progressive" in US politics. Even libertarians - who are close to that - do not actually believer it, they are minarchists, not anarchists.
if all demographics are truly equal then their visible Representation should be equal
That is of course nonsense. That implies there are no other factors that define success except political oppression. There are no cultures, preferences, abilities, inclinations, trends, fashions, even random fluctuations, nothing like that - if there is a demographical difference, that can only be a sign of oppression. Of course, it is a complete nonsense - but it is a useful nonsense, as it allows the progressives claim they would fight oppression, and gain power under that guise. Since there's no oppression to fight, there's no possibility of winning that fight - which is just fine with them, because the goal is not winning, the goal is holding the power.
JarJarJedi
13d ago
Never heard about affirmative action for males in areas where female representation was more than male, for example, in academia: https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=72. One would expect that if equality really held any value.
JarJarJedi
13d ago
Taken is so much more of a movie than CV is. It's like a painting by a professional 19th century painter compared to a Reddit meme.
JarJarJedi
13d ago
CV is porn. Not a sex porn, a revenge porn, but the idea is the same. Showing on screen something that some part of us feels good about imagining doing (even if higher brain functions tell us we are not going to do it and likely no people in real life do anything like that anyway). Or maybe not - a lot of porn looks disgusting to people that don't like that kind of porn. The message here is in the fact that this kind of porn appears to be in demand, and why. And, of course, in observing who and for what reason tries to ban it. By itself its of very low cultural value, but as an indicator of where the winds blow it is quite interesting.
JarJarJedi
13d ago
nor do I agree with the claim that "Taken does not code against foreigners".
Weren't the bad guys there Albanian mafia or something? That's pretty foreigner coded as far as I can see.
JarJarJedi
13d ago
and ratings on these things are like eBay seller ratings in which anything less than 4.8/5 is considered a red flag
There's a simple reason for that. Imagine you come to a store and there's 50 brands of candy. And you just learned one particular brand has a 0.1% chance of giving you horrible diarrhea. Would you buy this brand? Of course not - there are 49 other brands, why take even a tiny risk? Even if you realize that one bad review out of 100 is probably complete bullshit - there's no incentive to take the chance.
JarJarJedi
13d ago
That's why a dating app should be made by the government with tax dollars.
That makes sense. Why make an app which appeals only to a tiny circle of nerds, if we can make an app that appeals to literally nobody and actually has no incentive whatsoever to appeal to anybody?
JarJarJedi
13d ago
and every indication that the dishes I'd want would need cooking
Yeah that's how Korean BBQ works. I love Korean food, but I don't usually go to such kind of places because I am lazy and prefer more traditional form of restaurant, but it can be fun as a family activity. The supplies are usually optimized for being cooked this way, so it comes out ok, but it's for people that like that kind of setup.
JarJarJedi
13d ago
Nobody really thinks like that. It's just how it works - if you want to say there's nothing in Spanish, you say "no hay nada", because that's how you say it in Spanish. Nobody analyses it and builds philosophical foundations under it - neither native Spanish speaker nor newly learned one - people just learn how it's done in a particular language and do it. Language is not ruled by mathematical logic, it is ruled by pattern recognition. That's why people say "I could care less" - the pattern looks similar enough to the original "I couldn't care less" and they know this pattern means "I do not care", so they use it.
JarJarJedi
14d ago
The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.
JarJarJedi
14d ago
It's not only the GOP as such. Any person who would be lauded as "representing" if he toed the party line, instantly loses the shine if they veer off the message. The Representation is only good when it serves the real goal - which is increasing the power of the Party. Be it political power, cultural power, financial power or any other power - but never diminishing any of it.
JarJarJedi
14d ago
Is Representation a primary goal of the progressive project?
No, it's the means to an end. The goal is power, by means of eroding and destroying the current structure of society and replacing it with one that has them (who are "them" is debatable, though each individual participant naturally sees oneself as part of "them", nobody goes to a gulag voluntarily) on top. For the more cynical, this is the ultimate goal. For the more romantically minded, this is an intermediate goal, in the quest to establish a more just, more moral and more optimal (by whatever criteria) society - which is, obviously, impossible when the wrong people have the levers of power in the wrongly structured society.
By itself, more diverse workforce is not bad. Sometimes it is good, sometimes it is neutral. But the progressive project has nothing to do with it - DEI, which they promote as a vehicle to achieve representation, is not aimed at that, it's aimed at capturing power and rerouting it to progressive goals. If you want evidence for that, count how much the progressives celebrate minority representatives that do not subscribe to progressive views. Does US left love Clarence Thomas? Did they support Vivek Ramaswamy? Is Tim Scott their darling? Do they see Rubio, Cruz, DeSantis, Raul Labrador and others like them as role models and trailblazers? Do we see any pattern here going all across backgrounds and jobs?
JarJarJedi
14d ago
That's probably for Europeans to decide. How much do they want the access to US technology? Lately, they are big on "digital sovereignty", just as the Russians are, so maybe eventually they'd decide to wall themselves off, like Russians (and Chinese before) are doing. I guess it may be concerning for those US companies who want to sell services to Europe. For others, I don't see a reason to care.
JarJarJedi
19d ago
If that were true, in countries with free or near-free higher education and/or with nationalized healthcare the youth would be significantly less leftist than in America. I don't think this is the case though? Are European students much more right-wing than US students?
Also, young people do not have a lot of exposure to the healthcare system, especially the most problematic parts - expensive, long-term, multi-faceted health problems that require dealing with the shitshow bureaucracy in all its glory. They may have heard from someone it's a problem, but they have not experienced the problem by themselves.
JarJarJedi
29d ago
Not all financial companies report to all agencies, though usually big companies do, but if it's a niche card I guess it's possible TU does not know about it. 57 point hit due to one card is a lot though... That sucks, but if the system indeed screwed up and they didn't get the report, I am not sure you can do much about it except keeping paying your bills and the score will go up in time. Usually actively used card is reported to the agencies each month at least, so if was an one-time mess up, it will show up. If it's something deeper, likely nobody allowed to speak to customers knows how to fix it anyway, or cares enough to find how to contact somebody who does, so I'm not sure you have a lot of options here. If it really hurts you, you may try to ask whoever is pulling your credit to use a different agency, depending on how much they want your business they may be more or less flexible on that.
JarJarJedi
1mo ago
I have never heard about any serious application of this rule, at least recently. Maybe it did happen, but if so, it was of little consequence. I can't remember any RF broadcast outlet that would have been on any consequence in the last decades on the political scene, except for NPR, which as always been left-biased without any consequences as far as I remember. So practically this rule seems to be effectively non-existent.
JarJarJedi
1mo ago
I have some small Bitcoin account which I DCA for a while. It's not really a part of my investment strategy, just a FOMO hedge. Staying away from shitcoins since I don't have the time or patience to play it properly.
JarJarJedi
1mo ago
Yes, I agree with that, overdose of propaganda is certainly harmful. But, as many things go, the opposite is bad too - nihilistic rejection of everything only makes one open to believe anything, there's a lot written on this mode of failure. And I think we're finding ourselves right in the midst of it now.
JarJarJedi
1mo ago
Well, in some narrow understanding of "after" it is true, the riot activity, while remaining ongoing in the worst places (like Portland) generally subsided in 2021, owing to the loss for Trump in the presidential election, easing up of COVID restrictions, etc. However, since the trial and the verdict were in the spring of 2021, the major burning of the cities - the "summer of love", etc. - happening in 2020, could not have been influenced by it. One could argue that maybe an opposite verdict could re-ignite the riots, but I kind of doubt that, with Democrats back in the White House, they now needed the picture of "we are building back better", with localized pockets of racist insurrectionists stirring shit up and being justifiably suppressed. By that time, the narrative shifted from "rioting is good and righteous" to "public protest against the government is insurrection and justifies lethal response, including using the military". So I don't think there was even anything to pay for by that time with that sacrifice. But it was made anyway, because there was no other way it could happen.
JarJarJedi
1mo ago
And the worst part is, the cities burned anyway.
JarJarJedi
1mo ago
Almost everything that has a religious exemption to it should just be gone!
Yes, but are you willing to fight for it? I don't necessarily mean e.g. murdering people (though that happens too) but actively and consistently pursue the change as a major life goal that is so important you are willing to put yourself and others in danger to achieve that? Religious exceptions, at least in theory, are born when some people are, and it's more convenient to let them be as they like than fight with them. However, it turns out that virtually nobody in Britain is willing to fight for the right to bear arms. So, they don't get it. Except for Sikhs which apparently did fight for it, one way or another, and got it. But I haven't heard anybody in Britain saying "we also need this right!" - only "they are not good enough to have this right, take it from them!". With this attitude, no wonder they don't have it.
JarJarJedi
1mo ago
I wouldn't say "nothing" - he probably should have noticed the suspect is ODing and modify his behavior accordingly, and then maybe the whole debacle wouldn't happen. But he is certainly not guilty of murder. He was sacrificed because the politics demanded it.
JarJarJedi
1mo ago
And if your government did enforce hatespeech law
If.
The hate speech topic is a massive American cope that lets Americans overlook how tyrannical their government is
Americans are well aware of it. They are also well aware that Europe is given to them as a warning it could get way, way worse if they're not careful.
JarJarJedi
1mo ago
You can, but then they may put you in jail, or ban you from leaving the country and mandate to check in with local police regularly.
How many Anglo-Saxons Germany has? https://x.com/visegrad24/status/2059993196495511575
How about Belgium? https://notthebee.com/article/belgian-court-rules-factually-correct-stats-about-migrant-crime-are-hate-speech-during-sentencing-for-right-wing-activist
12% per year over 12 years is quite good actually, that's how much Madoff pretended to make at the time, coincidentally.
I am horrible with market timing, so I won't say anything about that. Just relay one story that I find fascinating. One of the first bubbles in history was the South Sea Company bubble. And Isaac Newton (yes, that one), who was by then doing quite well, invested in it too. Since he was smart, he knew it's going to go down some day, so he made a reasonable profit (about 100% on investment) and exited. But the stock kept going up. And up. And up. And finally Newton couldn't bear it anymore and got in again. And promptly lost 20K pounds (a real lot of money). Biographers say he was salty about it for the rest of his life.
That's why I don't feel bad about being horrible at timing the markets. If one of the smartest people who ever lived couldn't do it, what chance do I have anyway? I'll stick to indexes.
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