MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
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MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
3d ago
Realize that if they don’t agree with this that they’re on the wrong side, and then switch sides. Like most of the post / ex liberals who are now MAGA, including Donald Trump himself.
Americans are not going to hug this one out, this ends when one side defeats the other.
There are a million ways that can be done, including multiple ways with minimal necessary violence, but that’s basically it.
This is not me waging the culture war, this is me seeing very clearly the nature of the thing.
None of this was inevitable or predestined, and yet here we are.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
3d ago
Putting aside any partisan feelings, I think she’s probably the clear front runner for the dumbest presidential candidate of my entire lifetime.
I don’t think it’s recency bias either, I’ve been wracking my brain for a while trying to think of a counter example and I’m coming up empty.
I understand why people voted for her even though I staunchly disagree, but she’s like the real life version of Veep with about a standard deviation less IQ. Whenever I hear her talk I think about that H.L. Mencken quote.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
5d ago
Or from 1921 - 1965 which saw America rocket forth in global dominance during a time of heavily restricted immigration.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
6d ago
Yeah I’m literally watching a high quality two hour documentary on the conquest of Greece by Rome while working out, right now. On YouTube. For free.
I think the lament says more about the OP than reality; long form and high quality content is broadly available it’s just increasingly not produced by the typical blue tribe producers.
If you’re deeply embedded in that cultural narrative, yeah sure it might feel like we are declining culturally. Lots of cultural institutions output have been horrific for the last 10-15 years.
But my access to high quality information and educational entertainment has never been better.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
6d ago
Because shitty employers access to a virtually unlimited pool of willing foreign serfs enables much of the shitty behavior in the first place, and it’s a much simpler and direct way to put upward pressure on employment conditions by siloing off the pool of potential ‘employees’ that would accept them in the first place.
Cutting the Gordian knot is always preferable to some theoretical future action that is so complicated and conditional its chance of success is slim.
The perfect being the enemy of the good and whatnot.
I’ll state again; the H1B program and its consequences are uniquely unpopular with the Trump base and broadly unpopular in the American voting public, therefore this attack on it seems very politic and straightforward. Is there some special reason you’re defending it?
As an American, I’m puzzled as to why I should emulate European employment practices that have resulted in such a weak economy and society rather than seek to return to the health and dynamism of the American past? Or construct a uniquely American future based on our own values?
I have, where I live has a very large Desi population and in my line of work I have to deal with a lot of relatively lower class Indians.
The negative effects on the social fabric are distinct from large scale Latino immigration but notable. There’s a clustering effect that I can see happening in real time.
Where I live they’re neck and neck with El Salvador as the major origin point of migrants, and now that El Salvador isn’t a violent hellhole but rather a stable and prosperous country, the flow of people from there to here is slowing down.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
6d ago
Why would Trump’s constituents, and the wider voting public, want this when they can just opt for the simpler solution and turn off the tap?
Why would you prefer a total overhaul of American labor law and work culture instead of restricting a program that’s very unpopular with the American public?
I think increasingly, day by day, it’s becoming rather easy to state the preferences of the Trump base and the American voter more broadly in polite society, and it’s increasingly difficult for the people who oppose it who vocalize their opposition without revealing hidden preferences.
Minority Report:
Target is left-wing: Shooter has a chance of being even more left wing than target.
Unusual, but I can’t see a counter example where right wing target was killed for not being sufficiently right wing, at least not in the last 50 years.
Understanding this asymmetry is key; it explains the power dynamics and is a source of massive projection.
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