JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
Some times Charlie was in the trees.
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I probably should should write a longer effort-post on the topic at some point but the short version goes something like this...
Starting a family or being in a committed relationship means chosing to be bound to another person and accepting that your interests are no longer solely your own. This is a difficult pill to swallow for someone who's been raised on a cultural diet of "Follow your bliss" and radical emancipation, which is why so many are reluctant to do it.
This difficulty is in turn compounded by the offboarding of agency and responsibility because even if the are able to recognize the pill as something they need, they still need to actually make the choice, and that's not going to happen if they can't accept the choice as theirs to make.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
17d ago
Which "Broken Window Fallacy"? The Rudy Giuliani version or the Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg version?
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
17d ago
I do not disagree with you that this issue is one of "GROUP first and NATIONALITY second" but I would urge you to notice who is promoting that distinction and why.
The scales aren't being tilted "to give them a hand up" as we can see how those that argue that the tilt is necessary react to those who are able to succeed on their own merit. No, the scales are tilted because the left needs that "GROUP first and NATIONALITY second" distinction to be maintained if they want to remain electorally viable.
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. Whether it’s income, murder, life expectancy or whatever else
Is this actually what we see though? About 1/3rd of Georgia's population is black and yet and it's GDP per capita (roughly $82k) is comparable to that of Norway and Switzerland. How do you explain that?
Personally, I suspect pretty much all scholarship on this topic to be an ugly mish-mash of academic bullshit and statistical ignorance.
Specifically i think that liberalism's emphasis on individual emancipation and self-actaualization when coupled with the post-modernist desire to offboard agency and responsibility to impersonal forces results in a worldview that actively incentivizes social atomization while amplifying and exacerbating "cluster-b" personality traits.
I know that I'm beating a dead horse, but if you're going to keep bringing it up, i'm going to keep saying it...
The root problem is that the beliefs and values of modern (ie post-modern) liberalism are not conducive to, and in some respects actively incompatible with, forming healthy and stable relationships. The decline in marriage and birth rates is a direct consequence of this, and I do not believe that this is something that can be solved via legal or economic interventions, you need to change the culture.
I think early America having a substantial French influence is the more likely culprit.
France was one of the Fledgling US's first allies/trading partners and a good portion of the gulf coast and southern Mississippi watershed had been already been settled by French speakers before being incorporated into the Union.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
18d ago
Does nationalism thus contradict liberal principles, as many progressives claim?
Perhaps it does, but I would argue that this more a knock against progressivism than it is against nationalism.
The rush from judgment can easily be read as a reductio-ad-absurdum progressive moralizing. If Muhammed dreams of killing Jews who are we to deny him the opportunity to follow his dreams and live his best life?
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
18d ago
Says who? I don't think anyone out side the usual gaggle of pink-haired harpies would bat an eye if the Prime Minister of Finland declared Finland to be a Finnish state or Denmark a Danish state.
WWII Germany isn't hated for being an explicitly German state, they're hated for aligning themselves against the rest of Western Civilization and engaging in the industrial slaughter of millions.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
18d ago
Blacks remain meaningfully unassimilated after all these years, probably because of the many third world cultural and genetic traits they have.
How are you defining "assimilation" in this context and what sort of evidence would you present to support this claim if asked?
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
24d ago
The line was "If feel like you might need a style guide to avoid sounding like an evil robot, maybe you ought to take a step back and ask, "are we the baddies?"
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
30d ago
I'm not sure about term limits per se but I would support something along the lines of "after 20 years in government you are no longer eligible to run for office"
My admittedly poor understanding is that the party doesn't like Massie because he doesn't always support Trump and has principles;
This is the narrative the mainstream media is running with, and yes it is a weakman.
What this is is a old-fashioned power struggle between the neoliberal/conservative faction and the Populists. With the Cheneys gone, McConnel and his people are basically the last hold-outs of any note and they are desperately trying to hold on to that power. Meanwhile he populists want them out, and all Trump and the wider party seems to care about is maintaining the GOP majority.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
30d ago
Fairly high confidence it's just a work of contrarian performance art moreso than actually occupying any particular part of the political spectrum
If anything that seems like more of a reason to cast him into to the shadow realm rather than less.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
30d ago
I wouldn't say that Kirk's faction has "won" but I do believe they have the momentum
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
30d ago
Even JD Vance isn't immune.
I would think less of him if he weren't at least a bit freaked out by the sectarian killing of a close friend
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
30d ago
So the third option.
I was aware of him as the head of TPUSA and occasional guest on various programs, but ignorant of his popularity and wider body of work.
I remember finding out he had been shot via a text message from a family member, and my immediate reaction after "Oh Fuck" was being surprised that this family member (who has never been particularly political) even knew who he was.
Given that I have spent the last hour or so reading the trial coverage and have also been quite public about how Charlie Kirk's murder, or more accurately some of the reactions I observed on this forum motivated me to spin up this account after over a year of mostly lurking, I suppose I should weigh in.
I didn't know Charlie, but I know people who did, and by all accounts he was a stand up guy if a bit of a dweeb. I suppose being seen as a dweeb is just the price of being earnest in this day and age. I regret to say that i had largely written him off as just another talking head and TPUSA as just another PAC didn't really become aware of how popular he was until after his death
As for the idea that "His legacy is cringe". What does "cringe" even mean in this context? That he's a meme? As @OliveTapenade observes, Charlie spent the better portion of a decade being a meme before he was killed. When people say that "his legacy is cringe" are they saying that they find his legacy overly servile? (Somehow I think that he may have found that amusing) Or are they saying that they find his legacy disgusting, something to be recoiled from, denigrated, and disposed of. If so, I don't care. Thier boos mean nothing to me, because I have seen what makes them cheer.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
1mo ago
she literally worked at his company for 7 years and only left a year before his death
Yes I know, I adressed that in my prior comment.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
1mo ago
If a scorned woman nursing a personal vendetta against the man and his family is your idea of an "ally", you have no standards at all.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
1mo ago
Incredibly cringe. His death is a meme because even his fans and allies (looking especially at those like Tucker Carlson claiming Israel killed him at the funeral, Candace Owens...
This maybe one of the most egregious examples of outgroup homogeneity bias I've seen in a while.
Yes, Candace Owens joined TPUSA claiming to have renounced her woke ways in 2017, but then she attempted a hostile take-over of the organization in 2024, got kicked out as a result, and seems to have been nursing a personal vendetta against Kirk's wife Erika ever since.
Meanwhile, Carlson and Hanania were only ever "allies" of Kirk in the sense that they were all ostensibly Republicans, A a party that both have been working to distance themselves from for some time now.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
1mo ago
Typically there is a heat exchanger on the exterior of the hull with coolant that is circulated between the interior components that need to be cooled and the exchanger. These are the matte white panels you see around the base of the service module on the Apollo and Soyuz capsules. On the Shuttle the heat exchangers were on the inside surface of the cargo bay doors which is why you never see the bay closed while in orbit. Meanwile most satellites as well as the ISS have radiator fins mounted perpendicular to thier solar arrays such that when the solar panels are oriented towards the sun the radiator will either be in shadow or edge-on
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
1mo ago
It's a social media and gaming site ostensibly aimed at kids (think a mix of reddit and steam with Playmobil aesthetics) who's founder has a reputation of being opposed to content moderation.
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