Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
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Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
26d ago
It is bad faith at least by the SCOTUS judges that continued to follow it. Other politicians share responsibility because they appoint those judges, and disagreeing with Wickard would take you out of the running.
And the amendment Im talking about it is not to reverse it, but to bring the text in line with current practice, for example by saying everything not forbidden is allowed instead of having enumerated powers. I dont think any amendments were made for reasons like that, because as per above, youre "in too deep" very quickly.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
27d ago
Yes, but not the commerce clause. That bad faith interpretation has been used the entire time, with the approval of basically every politico and judge, because it was more important for them to be able to unconvincingly claim it didnt change than to fix that, and at this point, "We have walked this path for too long, and everything else has faded away. We have to continue in wicked deeds [...] or we would have to deny ourselves.".
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
27d ago
The rules of baseball have notably failed to punish the NBA for failing to enforce the foreign substance rule. Theyre not supposed to, of course, because the association is the authority which dispenses punishment on others. But the "constitutional rules" dont want anyone like that.
There is a certain theory of the separation of powers, where the constituition is supposed to act as a sort of trap-equilibrium, that would force all the people in it to go along via some complicated conditional punishment instructions to everyone, without anyone uncontrolled "above". This is a pipedream, and hasnt really been attempted, but neither did they just say "well the buck ends here, whatever those guys do is correct". They just told them what to do. Do you have a reason why this specific constitutional provision should carry punishment, thats not just "they should in general"?
Im not necessarily surprised either, but it would imply that trauma is something very different than people generally think.
People think that negative experiences somehow damage your mind and make it work worse. But while physical pain is a sign that your getting damaged, an experience cannot just damage you. How your mind reacts to things is generally up to your evolutionary optimiser with no real constraint besides complexity, and there is absolutely no reason to just work worse in reaction to something that happens to basically everyone. It might be an unfortunate sideeffect of a positive adaptation thats triggerd only rarely, or an "out of sample" type error, but it shouldnt be standard.
So on the conventional theory, healing/avoiding trauma is good because less damage is better, and getting less traumatised today is a lot like better nutrition today - but as per above, thats wrong. "Untraumatised" is instead an engineered mental state, like literacy, allowed for but not planned by human nature. This implies some very different things in how we should think about its benefits, potential downsides, and how to maintain it!
But when they decided that this sort of thing wasnt good, they didnt roll back that result, nor change the letter of the constitution to match the practice. So, on the plain meaning of what you said, no, we have been doing an interpretation thats this bad-faith the entire time.
There are ways to address this, by setting up a construct of what you mean by "the constitution" where it is true (like, that the New Deal counts as changing the constitution even if it didnt really do that but come on, you know what I mean). I think its reasonable to do this, and to think its relevant to our current situation. But its important to remember that what youre talking about there is a very different kind of thing than people usually believe "the constitution" is (even while they also in practice do the same thing), and not to be too surprised if they dont see it the way you do.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
27d ago
The party host is usually a peer of the people (and women) who attend. Why do you think s/he cant adjudicate this?
Much as I dislike our regulatory frenzy, if those companies truely felt parasitised they could just not enter this market. With certain regulations, if the companies follow them, theres arguably some sense in which non-EU customers are being parasitised, but if they pay its literally just a tarrif.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
27d ago
Then again, this level of bad-faith interpretation was completely taboo, Before Trump.
What is your take on Wickard v. Filburn?
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
27d ago
even just being on watch for the base can mess with your head because of the stress it causes to be hyper-alert like that.
This seems to imply large fractions of human history where everyone was psychiatrically disabled.
in actual combat you don't have time to put in ear plugs so you have to experience it beforehand in a controlled situation)
I dont think thats true. I forgot my ears the first time duck hunting, and I didnt even notice until it was time to reload.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
27d ago
Somehow the people who say that "X doesnt matter, dont be distracted from our great overlords" are never willing to give in on X to get the overlords. It always only doesnt matter in the way where you should do what I want.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
27d ago
long nowhere for their own honour and home, nowhere for a fatherland
Seemingly the great improvements in this matter havent been to your taste.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
27d ago
When we talk about social welfare programs, what we're really talking about is insurance.
I truely thought this line was dead. Ive already seen socialists use the fact that everyone knows this isnt true to make fun of their opponents. "Take your government hands of my medicare, lmao trumpies really have no idea how the world works. They totally didnt just believe the lie our predecessors sold them, no, this is totally evidence that we are the ones you should listen to". But I guess theres always someone. How do you exist at a TheMotte-level of political awareness into the present day?
It is in fact very easy to tell that there is parasitism here. You just need to compare the "premiums" with the expected pay-out. This could in theory involve complicated statistics, but fortunately government programms dont even pretend to take riskfactors into account (in fact, politicians are often proud that they dont), and the amount you pay is determined almost entirely by your income, which the payouts are often inversely proportional to.
The presence of some insurance effect does not negate redistribution which numerically dwarfs it. The point, though valid in principle, is irrelevant to complaints made about actually existing government budgets.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
1mo ago
See if you can find the right kind of downer? Sure, it might sound like a bad idea, but so does being on stimulants your whole life. I think the ship has sailed on that particular kind if worry.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
3mo ago
I think its more so a matter of charity. The idea is not that youre literally saying this, but that a motivation is shining through. Of course we here, who have reading comprehension or media literacy or whatever it is, know that youre right about everything and only interpret you in that light.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
3mo ago
The angle is "These people are cutting my job - theyre just like the Nazis".
For posterity, grandparent said:
EDIT: and as you can see from the responses below, it seems that some prominent posters here seem to think that this is a good thing? Do you understand now why I would pick the woke?
in response to this.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
3mo ago
As I said, literally just the screenshot, in a context where its understood that youre supposed to "look at this lefty".
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
3mo ago
I think a screenshot of this comment without context would do very well as a LibsOfTikTok-style righty meme. Can you guess why?
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
3mo ago
people are usually more frugal with their own money.
Sure. The pressure you talked about initially sounded more like a hard deadline approaching, but of course money isnt free.
Point taken about the "key enablers", though I couldnt say how important they are. Yemen for example seems to have been more of a problem for the rest of the world, without US involvement it either wouldnt be a problem, or else the US would deal with it for its own reasons.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
3mo ago
The first point of argument is whether these definitions are reasonable and deserve the good connotations that "meritocracy" and "individualism" have.
While formulations similar to yours are often endorsed, theyre not usually understood to work in the absolute way that you use them. For example, imprisoning anyone with a job for reasons unrelated to that job violates your meritocracy, but its generally thought that society has a compelling interest in imprisoning people anyway. Birthright citizenship violates your individualism. In fact, Im not sure there is anything short of granting citizenship to everyone whatsoever, that complies with both individualism and international law against creating stateless people. The absence of a 100% inheritance tax might violate both, depending on whether you consider bestowing inheritance a "judgement", or investment a "position of influence". Clearly, committing to this kind of absolute interpretation puts you into an extreme fringe position. This is especially strange combined with your claimed instrumental justification for these principles - those are usually quite open to compromise.
Now, maybe youll bite those bullets because thats just the true liberalism, but that really changes the conversation. I also dont think throwing your lot in with the wokes is the obvious response there. By those exalted standards, theyre barely different. You would be deciding based on ultra-low probability scenarios where your ideas gain any noticeable influence, and its hard to say where those are better.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
3mo ago
Im not talking about a US thats opposed to Israel. They still give them weapons (and steel/chemicals/whatever), just expecting payment. Im also not necessarily talking about short-term buying, thats why it matters things are signaled in advance, so they can make their own stockpile if thats important.
GDP and dollar figures aren't the right way to look at military production.
The GDP stuff is about the political aspect of the spending. Is there something left from the objection after that? Are NK rockets cheaper to make than youd expect based on quality and local labour costs?
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
3mo ago
I dont think Ive particularly seen that messaging, and Im genuinely asking. Obviously Ukraine isnt like that, but Israel generally seems more diplomatically than materially limited. Looking things up now, Israels military spending was about 5% of GDP in previous years, up to 9% last year. US aid was approximately(second chart) at 1%, increased to 3% last year (and presumably continuing for the current conflict). Probably those numbers dont include everything, but thats far from "obviously impossible" territory. North Korea is quite a bit higher than that, and you can see in the first link that Israel was there previously. For another comparsion, support for the former east german states seems to have been around 5% of west german GDP in the initial years.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
3mo ago
America and to a lesser extent Britain are enabling Israeli strategic incoherence, providing air cover.
If such aid was not given and this was signaled well in advance, do you still think they would need to wrap up quickly, or could they just have spent more on military and gotten the same result?
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
3mo ago
Manner Wafferl are dangerous indeed. Im not sure the average cops waistline can take it.
The reddit front page seemed quite certain that it was a shock collar, so the "sides" here are at least not the typical ones. As per the comments below... are you sure this isnt just Lorenz in paticular making shit up?
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