JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
Formerly "SandwichWarrior" and "The Upright Man", may or may not be feral, is most certainly quixotic.
User ID: 4009
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
4mo ago
I'm not talking about "contemplating NEETdom". As @JTarrou's parable of the "skint Mexican" aptly illustrates, there are other options. I'm talking about prioritizing things other than personal autonomy and "number go up".
If doing so goes against the liberal striver ethos, that only reinforces my point that the liberal striver ethos is simply not conducive to forming families.
NBC was always "bad", but I feel like it has gotten a lot worse in the last few years.
When Rupert Murdoch was initially trying to get Fox News off the ground his sales pitch was essentially "NBC but for Republicans". That said, NBC used to at least TRY to maintain some pretense of being a news source rather than an editorial outlet. That pretense seems to have been discarded somewhere in all the drama surrounding Covid, the George Floyd riots, January 6th, etc... and it has since become little more than a venue for affluent white liberals to vent their spleens.
I think you may be conflating the trappings of merit with "meritocracy"
The prioritization of "the rat race", of wealth power and privilege over every other consideration is exactly the attitude I'm talking about. You know you can just not do that right?
I would contend that every single person posting on this forum today lives a life of abundance that would've been the envy of anyone from their great grandparents' generation. When a middle class striver posts something on the internet about how they can't afford kids it not because they literally don't have the resources, it is because they have higher priorities.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
4mo ago
Right... I'm sure she's actually a 700 year old warlock or something.
You're missing the point.
If they filled out the paperwork we know who the agent behind the proxy is and we can retaliate against them directly. If they don't fill out the paperwork the agent goes to jail. Either way the agent's ability to act is hampered severely if not ended entirely.
The prepubesant anime girl in thier avatar is something of a give-away.
Furthermore, pretty much all the complainers that I've encountered have fit a very specific profile.
How much of this alleged "moral panic" is just the reasonable skepticisn of normie parents who don't like this "weirdo" leering at thier kids?
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
4mo ago
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
4mo ago
It was well deserved.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
4mo ago
Anecdotally, that advice checks out.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
4mo ago
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
4mo ago
My point is that private associations to develop build and sell nuclear weapons already exist.
I continue to maintain that the "modern" (IE post-modern) liberal-striver ethos is simply not conducive to forming healthy and stable relationships much less families.
I see the all the stuff that @Nerd brings up below about the pursuit of jobs over relationships, and the collapse of socialization, as the downstream effects of people choosing to prioritize "emancipation" and the maximization of one's own material comfort/status over other considerations.
Being in a relationship means being bound to someone else. Having kids means incurring significant costs both material and emotional. It also means accepting that you are no longer the protagonist of your own story. A lot of people are simply not prepared to make that trade.
Phones/Screentime are merely a contributing factor.
I gather that I am a bit older than you and I would point to TARP as a major inflection point.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
4mo ago
Also, if nukes are a constitutional right then obviously forming associations to develop and build and sell them is also constitutionally protected.
General Atomics (GA) and Honeywell International (HON) are both publicly traded companies.
Sean Davis, CEO of the federalist, among many other crazy ideas suggested the dissolution of the union and forced sterilization of all tourists
Link? If your characterization is accurate I would acknowledge that as warranting a sincere "WTF Dude?" but most of the responses that I've been seeing have been more like this one. You can dismiss it as "cope" if you like, but I don't think Pinsker is entirely wrong.
Time will tell.
"Outside normal channels" what does this mean?
For all the wringing of hands about 2nd amendment absolutism, things like background checks and prohibitions on the sale of arms to convicted felons have routinely been upheld as constitutional.
As such "normal channels" means exactly what it says. Is this terror group performing the legally mandated background checks and filling out the legally mandated transfer paperwork/bill of sale? If so they will be easy to track, if not straight to jail.
what if we can't really track it well to begin with?
Sounds like a skill issue.
Under your argument where presumably we should respond to vague traces of government involvement despite layers of deniability, should we have gone after Saudi Arabia too or not?
Under my argument this is something that the President and their Cabinet would have to assess for themselves. If the preponderance of evidence had suggested that the government of Saudi Arabia had been behind (or had prior knowledge of) 9/11 and President Bush decided to have the JDAM fairy pay them a visit, who would you be to judge?
We can spin hypotheticals all we want, but if you're a country that has a military industrial complex, I think that it is reasonable to presume that also have a national security/intelligence bureau, inventories of material etc...
"That material couldn't have come from us because all our material is accounted for" is also a perfectly valid realpolitik response.
Can this be abused by someone with sufficient means and motivation? Yes. But this has been the case since time immemorial and it is the reason things like credibility and having an established history are so important.
The meltdowns in response to the ruling have been pretty incredible, looking at a lot of comments on X would have you believe that the SC just decided to institute birthright citizenship today
Where are you seeing these "meltdowns"? I've seen a lot of grumbling about Roberts being a coward (making this a day ending in 'y') and mockery of Jackson but nobody on the right that I've seen seems to be particularly surprised by this outcome. Pretty much everyone I know was expecting a 7-2 decision with Thomas and Alito in dissent. If anything the fact that we got Kavanaugh and Gorsuch at least nominally on side with the option for future legislation left open feels like a reason for cautious optimism. We may not have scored, but we did move the ball downfield.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
4mo ago
Although Karen Bass is seemingly testing the limits of that premise.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
4mo ago
They could, and the nation being framed would be highly motivated to expose any such act.
I feel like you are being intentionally obtuse.
Material furnished is exactly what it says, if a nation or any other organization gifts or sells that material outside normal channels they are on the hook for how it is used.
I also dont understand your preoccupation with deniability, we're not talking about citizens with consitutional rights, we're talking about sovereign nations. "Drop the act, we know it was you" is a perfectly valid realpolitik response to such behavior.
imagine what damage coordinated rival nations could deal if these nutjobs could have access to major weaponry.
Then this is no longer a legal matter but rather one of foriegn policy.
We make it known that if material furnished by your nation is used in such an attack that attack will be treated as having come from your nation and let the rivals police themselves.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
4mo ago
think that literal interpretations of the Constitution don't work in practice though, because it almost unambiguously says that the government can't stop me from having nuclear weapons
I am going to assume that we are talking about the character in your profile picture, and if that is the case she certainly looks prepubescent.
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