Jiro
11mo ago
I'm left wondering just why Peterson is such a rabid philosemite.
Because your standards for being a philosemite are absurdly low such that everyone seems to be defending the Jews too much.
Jiro
3mo ago
This is Bulverism.
I'd give the alternative theory that Musk moved to the right because of his son going trans. It was a socially approved thing and the left never apologized....
Jiro
10mo ago
we can be reasonably confident that the modern 2nd amendment movement centred around a politically-active NRA loosely aligned with movement conservatism was founded by people who thought that gun culture was good because it enabled Jim Crow, not in spite of it.
The NRA was created by Union officials who thought pro-Union forces needed better training. You are describing a Michael Moore-style history which is the opposite of actual history.
Jiro
15d ago
"Do not weakman in order to show how bad a group is."
You literally picked some random person from a group you don't like and told a shaggy dog story about her just so you can have a wall of text whose upshot is that this person and "people like" her are bad.
Jiro
4mo ago
My rules > your rules, fairly > your rules, unfairly
Your rules, unfairly: Public health covers non-health things like gun control and environmental justice but cannot be used to push back against the woke.
Your rules, fairly: Public health covers non-health things, but at least both sides can use it.
My rules: Public health has to do with health.
Jiro
4mo ago
Also, checking a map shows that the islands are about 1200 miles away from Mauritus.
Jiro
10mo ago
Unfortunately the same mechanisms that are used to suppress these things for good reasons are used to suppress them for bad reasons, and it's impossible to tell them apart.
Jiro
11mo ago
Give me a break.
A normie would think "if that's a hoax, that would require a huge, huge, amount of effort. Nobody would go through that much effort to pull a hoax on a random person". That's why she didn't figure out that it was fake.
You can fool anyone by being a weird person from the Internet, if you spend enough time tricking someone who isn't familiar with weird people on the Internet.
Jiro
8mo ago
If you're worried about wokeness, you should honestly be voting Democrat.
If something straightforwardly helps your opponent and harms you, any claims from him about the opposite are concern trolling or motivated reasoning. The straightforward effect of supporting a side that is more woke is to increase wokeness.
Jiro
11d ago
Fuente's obsession with Israel appeared to result in what is perhaps the most accurate prediction of the series of events following Oct. 7th among anyone else.
They're still not accurate. You snuck in there "enables Israel to finally solve the Gaza Question with ethnic cleansing" as a "successful" prediction. It's actually a failed prediction.
"Knowingly" and "will give Israel an excuse to" are not successful predictions either, unless you can read minds.
"Not paid enough" and "doesn't have good working conditions" are in the same category and both can be improved. They could allow talking (especially if they pay by the bushel so talking wasting time won't hurt them), they just didn't.
Also, people think of family businesses too favorably. Family businesses are often inefficient, and their owners vary much more in pettiness than big businesses.
Jiro
3mo ago
Musk was always going to be there only for 130 days. This is all the media speculating that he's going to stay on forever and then being surprised when they stuck to their stated plan.
Jiro
7mo ago
Trump in office will give institutions the excuse they need to clamp down on dissent.
Having a government which supports clamping down on dissent also gives those institutions the excuse they need to clamp down on dissent. And it's a much better excuse.
By your reasoning, voting for Trump is bad for Trump supporters because of the backlash, but also good for Democrats, and you should be recommending to all your Democratic friends that they vote for Trump because voting for Trump helps the Democrats.
Jiro
1mo ago
hay with performative outrage.
Yes, but it would be performative outrage.
Pretty much nobody would actually say and mean "well, I used to be a supporter of that top Democrat, but now that he made a bad joke, I can no longer support him!"
Jiro
4mo ago
The fact that they point in the same direction like this is a sign of motivated reasoning. Karma is not real.
Jiro
4mo ago
I hesitate to accept the term "deplatform" for people whose political beliefs affect how they do their jobs.
Jiro
5mo ago
Once there are plenty of places where one can empty one's excretory organs without spending anything, it will be much more justifiable to take strong measures
If it turns out that political considerations keep you from doing those strong measures, will you give the businesses a refund on their taxes? My guess is no.
"Part one: hurt people by making them do X, part 2: ameloriate the harm from part 1" is a terrible idea because it's easy to say you'll do part 2 without actually doing it. The most charitable scenario is that you're too optimistic, but in the real world sometimes people just lie about part 2 so they can get part 1,
Jiro
11mo ago
No, it is not how every social group works. And you know this because your hoax involved fake school teachings, and school is a kind of social group where the teachers do, in fact, have leverage beyond just getting mad at their charges.
Jiro
2mo ago
The Amish are grandfathered in and you could not create a similarly isolated group from scratch. They don't even pay Social Security taxes--just try doing that with a new group.
Jiro
2mo ago
That occurred to you, not me. I see nothing in what I said that could be reasonably construed that way.
This is why we have a rule about speaking plainly.
The only obvious meaning is to kill them. If you have some other meaning, you haven't said it. Of course people will try figuring out what you mean if you don't tell them! Go ahead, say it. If it isn't killing them (or taking first, and eventually killing them when they refuse), what is it?
Jiro
2mo ago
What have those decades of rot delivered? The most advanced technological society in history, with the deepest understanding of the physical universe to-date?
That's like praising the Mafia for running a lot of great Italian restaurants when nobody else is. The reason that nobody else is running Italian restaurants is that the Mafia won't let them, not that the Mafia is particularly good at running restaurants.
You don't get credit for doing X when your rivals didn't, if the reason your rivals didn't is that you didn't let them do much of anythng at all.
Jiro
7mo ago
New media isn't conventionally left or right, but the most popular versions tend to lean republican.
They do? Social media, except X, is all on the left too.
Certainly themotte didn't leave Reddit because Reddit was censoring Democrats.
Jiro
10mo ago
I am one of the Elect and fully in favor of crushing the white peasants" is not a forbidden opinion
Honestly saying "I am one of the Elect and fully in favor of crushing the white peasants" may be stupid, but it isn't a forbidden opinion.
Dishonestly saying it to deliberately provoke backlash in favor of the white peasants (or to just provoke reactions, period) violates several rules, including the one about speaking plainly.
My response is basically "why can't you take a joke?".
As an anti-Catholic act, posting a picture of yourself as the pope is pretty weaksauce. It isn't even saying anything bad about the pope, except maybe "the Pope is only human", which a lot of people do sincerely believe, and Trump doesn't seem to be a Catholic.
I'm inherently suspicious of "this minor act is why I can't possibly support this politician any more!" Yes, there's such a thing as a last straw, but something like this shouldn't be a last straw unless there are substantial unrelated reasons why you no longer support him. If that picture is the major reason why you don't support him, you're way, way, overreacting.
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