JarJarJedi
Streamlined derailments and counteridea reeducation
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JarJarJedi
10hr ago
Not equality of number, but equality of power.
Sorry, this still makes no sense. You just said no human can have power over another human. So what other kind of equality you are seeking, but zero power? If that were true, every progressive candidate would call for removing every state and governmental structure, and furthermore for abolishing all property and ownership in general. Not that it would help any. If I am stronger than you or more violent than you, I'd have power over you. In our society, you'd call the police if I threatened you, but police is power of one person over another, so you abolished it. And private security would allow one to exercise power over another, so you can't have any. So how would you prevent somebody stronger from exercising power over somebody weaker?
The answer is simple - you don't. That's exactly what is happening in many progressive-run zones - anarcho-tyranny. Under the pretense of equalization of power, there is absolutely brutal oppression hiding. Oppression that is random, chaotic and total - both law-abiding citizens and criminals are suffering (criminals get robbed and murdered too, of course). Except that since this oppression is condoned by the progressive regime - because if criminals are not punished, there's no oppression, right? - you are not allowed to talk about it anymore. Or, somehow in the society of equal power, you end up in jail.
We're flattening mountains, not flattening individual rocks Harrison Bergeron style.
Yes you will. You are not there yet, because the society is not ready to accept it. But you are getting there. Destroying the gifted education, for example, is classic Bergeron move. There are many other "progressive" moves that are not as blatant as binding dumbbells to people's legs or disfiguring their faces, but are even more detrimental to their lives in prosperity. "Harrison Bergeron style" is literally the only equality you could have, in your model.
(# of people in group1)X(avg power of people in group1)=(# of people in group 2)X(avg power of people in group2)
I am not even sure what this means. So if I am a group of one, and I am compared to a group of a million people, I should have million votes? What does it mean "for every demographic group and subgroup of people"? People can belong to dozens or hundreds of demographic groups. Some groups could be tiny, and some could be enormous. It looks like the more you explain, the more nonsensical it gets.
JarJarJedi
15hr ago
Heh, I didn't read this comment and remembered the same story :)
But I don't think he destroyed himself by that - he lost a lot of money, but he had quite some left as far as I remember. He died still a man of considerable means. But he surely wasn't happy about losing so much money.
JarJarJedi
15hr ago
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.
JarJarJedi
16hr 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
16hr 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
16hr 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
16hr 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
16hr 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
16hr 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
16hr 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
17hr 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
19hr 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
1d ago
The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.
JarJarJedi
2d 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
2d 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
2d 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
6d 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
16d 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
19d 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
28d 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.
Your not trying hard enough, should of tried harder!
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