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12d ago
“There aren’t really right-wing racists billionaires”
Have you heard of Elon Musks? Likely Peter Thiel but I don’t think he’s tweeted as explicitly as Musks.
If the right pulls in Jewish votes it’s likely because Jews begin to embrace racism and begin to see the third world/first world political dynamic. And this is a Jewish trait. Israeli Jews do have a lot of ethnonationalism and “Jewish blood” beliefs.
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12d ago
How much of the groyper problem can be alleviated if Jews were primarily right-wingers? Did things like had a right-wing ADL etc? I think the right has very good reasons to dislike the Jews and it’s because historically Jews have mostly been bad to the right.
Current leftist politics especially the third-worldists are at their core anti-Jew because the Jews are not third-worldists people. I don’t think the right has a similar ideological issue with Jewish interests and the big issue is most Jewish political resources played for the other team.
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12d ago
Democrats no longer hating Jews would require a complete ideological shift in Democrats. If I think of the last 10 years of progressivism the core principle seems to be oppressor-oppressed lens of the world. Jews are far too rich to find their way back to the “oppressed” side of the equation.
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12d ago
Wealth inequality and declining marriage means there are far more Peter Pan boys who are older. And in my experience most 20 something girls don’t have major issues dating as high as 50 especially since men are aging slower than ever due to fitness culture etc. Wealth inequality my gut says is increasing available male to female ratios far more than population pyramids.
I would still argue that less sex is more due to fewer relationships + lower social skills.
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12d ago
You are making a self-defense style claim, but the other guy needs to be pointing the gun at you for it to work. In this case the state perhaps has a gun but it’s still holstered and you pre-emptively shot which is murder.
I can’t predict if the state would have brought charges if she didn’t yell at the kid and tell them not to call 911, but I do think once she did that it is child endangerment etc. and interfering with your child getting necessary medical care is bad.
For this case it looks like she did the bad thing.
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12d ago
This article has been falsified. The child fell and from what I can tell legitimately needed to go to the hospital. The police called the mother with the children present. The mother yelled at the children for calling 911.
This is 100% child abuse. Yes if your 14 should call 911 if while babysitting one of the kids get a serious head injury.
I haven’t looked into it enough to verify that the head injury was this serious but I’m also fine with a 14 year old immediately calling 911 in that situation because it could be serious. I think there were head lacerations so serious enough for a 14 year old to immediately seek medical attention.
This article is bait like all the “murdered for walking as black”. There was in fact abuse in this case.
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13d ago
I’ve been noticing a lot more people just don’t work in the upper class and it’s stretchy now. It’s like all our tech companies need Indian CEO’s because all the white guys retired at 25 whose dads would have been captains of industry.
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13d ago
Ignoring severity perhaps a categorization works like this:
- Enjoys harming others
- Indifferent for bad reasons
- Indifferent for good reasons
- Incapable of a theory of mind/harm (mostly low IQ)
- Some sort of trolley problem of balancing competing interests
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13d ago
I was spitballing a quick framework so it can be improved. I might still keep Madoff in tier 1 because he was already post-economic before the ponzi and I give low moral benefit to changing your circumstances from more money than you can spend to billionaire. So I think he was doing it because he simply enjoyed doing it versus indifference. And I probably should have a severity of what you do matters (murder worse than fraud).
I think in the traditional western version of good/evil that IQ correlates very little with IQ. The example I would use would be dogs. Dogs can be very kind and pleasant and can seem to have legitimate care for us humans. But obviously not high IQ. And within the dog kingdom pitbulls would seem to be a more evil breed that can do violence we don’t like. Though 99% of the time very nice like other dogs.
In humans we can use urban violence which nowadays is less connected to the drug trade and more over stupid beefs. This feels inline with pitbull violence where it’s tough for me to come up with a theory of mind of killing another person over some slight that would be forgotten in 2 weeks.
Madoff style crime feels different because his theory of mind should include understanding that he’s hurting a lot of other people. This seems like a worse version of evil. Madoff I would actually list as more evil than Hitler because his personal wealth benefits are so trivial (nw 100m not much different than 4b). Hitler atleast truly believed Jews were a threat to German society. And I’d put the communists (good of revolution worth it) or someone I admire like Pinochet (getting rid of communists worth it) in the same category.
If I had to list a quick ranking of evil from most to least:
- Did evil because they liked it (Madoff, Serial Killers, Gregor Clegane)
- Did evil because the ends justified it (Hitler, Stalin)
- Did evil but doesn’t understand their actions (urban crime, pitbulls)
And then there are some questionable zones where we think their intentions were good/situation) - like George Bush (Yay Democracy), El Chapo/Michael Corleone (family business/better than competitors)
- some reason Gregor hit me as top tier, but it’s for raping before killing. The killing had a legitimate war purpose and IMO can be reasoned thru as necessary to prevent future rebellions/war
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13d ago
The simple correct answer is evolution.
Nature has always been at war with itself to evolve. Culture war is no different than any other kind of war. Those who win war get more resources for their offspring to ensure they survive and replicate themselves.
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13d ago
White men do not lose wars when they decide to fight. So yes blow up the stupid neoliberalism Washington consensus of the last 50 years and just let might make right. I’m not afraid of dictatorship being against me.
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14d ago
No I’d prefer a military dictatorship. Different races/tribes of humans are incompatible ruling each other
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14d ago
Yes. I somewhat hate the good/bad financial product distinction. There’s some stuff that probably is dogshit like Grant Cardonas product, but if some broker needs to hand-hold someone to invent in spy and basic stuff he deserves to get paid. And that client is still better off.
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14d ago
This strategy for dealing with healthcare was has been on Twitter for a while. If people here are talking about dropping health insurance then a spiral on Obamacare seems well underway. The only people that should have insurance are already sick and if the risks pool is 4 sick people for every healthy person than obviously the healthy person is paying way more than the benefit they get.
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14d ago
Do hospitals actually have the investigative power to go find your accounts and know if you have money? This sounds highly doubtful since the majority of uninsured probably don’t have money.
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14d ago
Pro-2nd amendment people are generally not buying guns to protect themselves from ghetto beefs. They buy guns to protect themselves from actual crime and tend to not live in the neighborhoods where people shoot each other over a dispute for something like a $10 debt or a guy looked at your girl wrong.
But most murders in America today are over stupid things.
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14d ago
But my group is the only group that’s capable of running a fascists state if we want to do by definition fascism could only be my group.
My opponents would not be happy with fascism by their group if somehow they did it. They would then become migrants. Which is a little like Venezuela.
The plus side of the “other” group doing fascism is then you have a strong indicator that you need to leave.
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15d ago
5.5m though is definitely post-economic unless you decide to live in San Fran or NYC. The main reason to live in those cities is to make money. Once you have money there are plenty of ways to live that avoid the high lifestyle expenses of those cities.
If you want to live even in Palm Beach maybe not in proper Palm you can find options. A friend just showed me a condo for 700k with 1500 sq ft that has a buyout offer at 1.75m from a developer for redevelopment. So far the HOA has said no (need 95% yes). Point is once your out of those cities you can find options in close enough to high IQ places where your home isn’t 5m.
Some reason INTR became my brazillian crack. In around 5 pre-first election out at like 6.7 and keeps going to 7.5.
Now it’s 4.5? Is the difference between Lula and Bolsonaro that Brazillian stocks are either all zeroes or infinity? If I am trading a company with its own fundamentals then falling 7.5 to 4.5 seems like a lot. The stock price moves imply a difference of like Mao and Reagan.
One thing on buying (or selling) after events is it’s almost always better to wait 3 days unless you need to do huge institutional size. I sold my Brazilian shit first day after the first round election because it was up 30% but if I waited 3 days would have gotten 50%. Usually today is not the day to buy.
Nobody in S America could ever convince me that Democracy is better than Fascism. You see huge swaths of Brazil vote on ethnic lines. Brazil at this point probably at a minimum needs to be broken into different countries. I don’t see why White Europeans should be governed by a corrupt commie because a bunch of negros voted for it.
In trading sometimes you are better lucky than good. I bought some Brazilian stuff after prediction markets were good for Bolsonaro but before the first round and I’m quite happy today that I dumped them on the big rip after the first round. Now everything I bought is 10% lower than my first buy and I’m wandering if Brazil is cheap enough to buy even with Lulu.
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15d ago
Is John Snow a cinderella story? I don’t see GOT as him going off to train and grow. It seems like his successes were always because he was in fact elite blood with great traits. He’s more of a Christ figure I think but like Cinderella Christ was always good and just ruler but the world had not figured out that he was Christ. Christ I guess is a Cinderella character.
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15d ago
Like most financial products aimed at retail my quick thought would be they suck and you can do something better easily if you know what you’re doing. They are designed to be sold at scale but with higher fees. It’s for middle class people completely confused with financial markets. Almost everyone here can learn enough about finance to create a better product for themselves. Someone here said they wish they had these with fewer bonds. Honestly I kind of like bonds here, but a better solution that’s not active management for people here is to just do the spy, vti, and Tlt game at lower fees and customize your own ratios.
A financial advisor managing a 45 year old nurse with 300k liquid doesn’t have the time to do everything bespoke and just needs a good-enough product which is far superior than a bank savings account and worse than do it yourself.
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17d ago
Traveling in the nba pops up on feed. This play was not called a traveler but seems like nba has updated and it should have been. A lot of it comes down to the gather step interpretation now which allows a lot of moves that you couldn’t do before. To old school people this just looks weird and new rule town just says you don’t know ball and it’s all legal.
I guess now as long as the ball is still spinning in your hand your dribble hasn’t ended and you can take infinite steps. Usually when leagues change rules it’s to get more offense. But the NBA isn’t soccer….old rules you got 100 pts a game. I like the old product but perhaps I’m just becoming a boomer.
I think a simple adaptation is you can keep the gather step but make it the first step after the ball goes from the ground to initial touch of your hand. That would feel much more into the spirit of basketball where you have to dribble to move. But what do I know?
When the anecdotes and the data disagree usually trust the anecdotes. I don’t know anyone in same-age relationships. My date today I have 20 years on.
My best guess is this has something to do with who gets married today. Probably some kind of k-shaped market. Amish-Mormon-Orthodox Jew have high early marriage rates along with other religious.
Maybe the dating and marriage markets are different.
Either that or Miami is super skewed.
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