JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
Some times Charlie was in the trees.
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For conservatives, the argument that they were all just evil was convenient and would prove to have wider applications.
I do not believe it was an issue of "convenience" so much as a shining example of the moral framework of secular progressivism failing in exactly the manner that classical conservatives from De'Maistre through Kipling had been predicting it would fail.
That is to say that is to say that it is always easier to destroy than to build, and that it is always easier to be cruel or indifferent than it is to care. One of the core conceits of western conservatism is that people will naturally gravitate towards "the easy path", and that it takes conscious effort to avoid it. See also @burkeboi's reply below.
To me the banality of evil and "Nazi empathy" of Jewish academics and Wilsonian progressives in the immediate post-war period reads as an attempt to salvage what they could from the ashes rather concede that their critics had been proven right about where their ideology was likely to lead.
Popping filter bubbles and picking up the Tuna Cans.
None of these stories on their own really warrant a top level post but taken together I feel like they both illustrate a trend and serve as a coda to my January post on "Tuna Cans" and how the Trump administration might be able to more effectively deliver on it's campaign promise to combat Immigration.
Last week the Trump administration announced that it would be rescinding a 2022 rule that prohibited US Customs and Immigration Services from considering an immigrant's use of Medicaid and other public benefits when deciding whether or not to renew their visa or grant them legal resident status. The usual suspects at NBC, CNN, the New York Times, Et Al are trotting out their usual tripe about "women and minorities hardest hit" but to me the most galling thing is that this rule existed in the first place, and that it wasn't quashed a year and a half ago. That said, while the best time to plant a tree (or repeal a bad law) is 20 years ago, doing it now is still something worthy of praise.
In the wake of Nick Shirley's expeditions to Minneapolis and LA, the Department of Health and Human Services has that announced that 199 million dollars a year allocated to the state of Minnesota and 860 million dollars a year allocated to the state of California has been frozen pending those states provide positive evidence that individuals and business originally slated to receive those funds actually exist and are not just a PO-box in a strip mall somewhere.
At the same time Vice President JD Vance and Interim Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling announced a "crack-down" on H1B visa fraud four days after Microsoft announced that it would be laying off 4,800 employees while simultaneously applying for permission to import over 2,000 foreign workers.
Meanwhile Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy continues to quietly do his job, announcing that the audit started back in January has resulted in the revocation of 28,000 commercial drivers licences and that nearly 200,000 drivers more could be effected by the reinstitution of English language proficiency requirements that had been relaxed by Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx under Obama back in 2016. The American Trucking Association is naturally angry about this complaining that the constricting workforce coupled with proposed crack-downs on "chameleon carriers" and rulings like Montgomery v. Caribe Transport is driving up costs for brokers and bulk carriers, but I think I speak for a lot of voters when I say "maybe that's a good thing".
Again I reiterate my position that more often than not it isn't the big headline grabbing stories that have the greatest impact but rather the things that happen quietly behind the scenes and that is why I feel obliged to signal-boost these sorts of stories.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
10d ago
What would you guess the proportion of "fundamentally curious" people is in society at large? My guess is that they're a statistical nullity.
I would hope that we hold people here to a higher standard than randoms off the street, otherwise we may as well rename this space to "theBailey".
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
10d ago
Ever hear the phrase "you get what you pay for"?
Maybe your "AI Sensitivity" is higher than mine because while I did not immediately tag the linked site as AI, my first impulse upon reading the linked article was to investigate the rest of the site at which point I was like "What the fuck is this?". My first impression was to compare it to one of those weird "compassion porn" bits my grandma used to forward me. Except none of the the posted stories seem to close the loop. It's all suffering, suffering, suffering, "posted by Admin" in "Uncategorized" with none of the "...and that's why you should trust in God/Karma" that I would expect at the end. As a result, the whole thing wreaks to me of nihilism and insincerity. Maybe that's the tell tale sign of AI or maybe that's just who @hanikrummihundursvin is, but in either case I don't like it.
I can not speak for Tyler, I never met him, but I know men who live in similar circumstances, and I know that they would not appreciate being used as a prop by someone who holds them in contempt. If anything that may be one of the bitterest of all contentions.
So while my response may be a bit more measured than yours, "FUCK YOU" does accurately capture the sentiment.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
11d ago
Reading the title i assumed that this was going to be a story about Hegseth requiring Service-members over the age of 30 to get tested for testosterone deficiency
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
12d ago
Are you as casually disrespectful and belligerent towards people in person as you are online? If you are I feel like that would explain why you keep having negative interactions with cops
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
12d ago
I Know I probably shouldn't be feeding the troll but to the extent that such a thing as a "Peelian Ideal" exists I feel like this ideal is embodied in the sentiment that...
the police are the public and that the public are the police, the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
...and to that extent I would argue that the US has not "Erred" or "Inverted" that ideal so much as we are the only nation that still takes Peel's Principles seriously.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
12d ago
While my first impulse is to sympathize with the general sentiment of your post i have to disagree with the conclusion. Anthropic's hands were not "tied" nobody forced them to act as the did. They chose the path they did because it was convenient and economical. and that is something they will have to live with because thier souls are in thier keeping alone.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
12d ago
I feel like whether he was trying to be prescient ought to be a seperate question from whether he was being prescient.
I feel like 90% of the discourse surrounding "civility" is liberals expressing casual contempt for normie Americans and then clutching thier pearls when normie Americans reciprocate.
It's not that the GOP doesn't have access to ethno-nationalist elites so much as ethno-nationalist elites despise civic nationalism in general and MAGA in particular and MAGA returns the favor
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
15d ago
Can you find me a SINGLE prominent lefty who denounced the general celebratory reactions to Charlie Kirk's murder? Just one!
To give credit where credit is due, Gavin Newsome and Bill Maher both took a hard line against Kirk's killing. At the same time I feel like the degree of push-back and reputational damage they appear to have incurred for doing so, kind of proves your point.
There is nothing surprising about a weather-vane swinging in the wind, that's what they do.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
16d ago
Easily one of my favorite genres.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
16d ago
It just sounds like many people in fact do not want committed relationships.
That's precisely, my point.
You can be a good liberal who wants all the things a good liberal is supposed to want, or you can be a person who wants to be in a committed relationship. You can not be both because being one ruins you for the other.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
16d ago
The better question is "what's wrong with NYC?" and the answer is a lot.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
16d ago
I do not find the rest of the world being morally and intellectually degenerate to be a compelling reason to adopt their ways.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
16d ago
This is entirely hear-say, but from what I have heard Baszucki and Cassel's sincerely believe that no-body nor no-thing should ever be excluded from their platform and their moderation policies reflect this.
Personally I feel like regardless of whether they're the Quokkaiest Quokkas to ever Quokka, or creepers looking out for fellow creepers is largely irrelevant at this stage, the end result is the same.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
16d ago
See Churchill's commentary from A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.
I guess now that bots are starting to out-post humans by wide margins, this will probably change, and we'll move back to a world where majority opinions are dictated from above rather than from the grass roots.
Like @haroldbkny I also take issue with this statement firstly because I'm skeptical of the degree to which majority opinions were ever "dictated from above". IE was there a genuine consensus or merely the appearance of consensus because all the records we have come from a handful of closely-aligned sources? Secondly because even if it was possible to dictate opinions in the past, I'm not convinced that it is possible now. Back in the 90s and early 2000s people would say "pics or it didn't happen". Nobody says that anymore, because everybody knows how easy pictures are to fake.
I think most people who aren't also weird autists tend to pick up on body language and clothing more so than skin tone.
As you yourself observe, "darker skin = bad" is basically the most minimum-effort low-IQ flavor of racism there is, and I feel like most people with a room temperature IQ or greater are already clear that bar.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
16d ago
Would you prefer we compare Alabama to Germany? In either case I would argue that the point stands.
I'm not saying that wealth gaps don't exist, I'm saying that your claim that...
If you spend enough time on Twitter you begin to realize any time some SES graph shows up by geography they all look identical. And they are all very similar to % black population.
...would appear to be contradicted by the observation that there are multiple states with double-digit black populations whose outcomes are comparable or superior to those of "whiter" nations and states despite their alleged handicap. If the state of Georgia were isekaied into the EU, it wouldn't just be "the wealthiest black community" it would be one of the wealthiest communities in the EU period.
You can dismiss this as just "America being rich" but that just begs the question of "why?" because it sure as hell isn't because of racial purity.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
17d ago
Same! Taking the kids this sunday.
Good eye.
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