Pongalh
22hr ago
second best option: extract America from this eternal nonsense as much as possible.
Actually that's the first best option
Pongalh
1d ago
Right. So, rather the Americans should be telling Israelis to move to some corner of Montana and have at it. Because what's happening is not tenable by modern ethical standards, either lording it over a population in that way or having a state charter built on the lord.
Pongalh
3d ago
Interesting because it's been much, much harder for me to hold on to fake email jobs than my jobs delivering pizza and flowers. I left all the latter, the former left me (save for one).
Pongalh
3d ago
"Jurors." Interesting choice. Hm, is this literally true or is it meant to signify anti-sprawl boomer liberals who value civic participation or something? (Or possibly unsuccessful albeit decent, basic people with nothing better to do with their time? But even those folks mostly have cars.)
Pongalh
3d ago
Some writers have begun intentionally introducing mistakes into their writing in order to not be thought of as using LLMs. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sarah-waller-1b967671_i-recently-read-an-article-where-the-writer-activity-7381594464328359936-6dNO?rcm=ACoAAAIRfjcBLt5fKoXIZEwnmoXzpmaEixqxsJ8
Pongalh
4d ago
The death penalty is extremely right-coded. Even back when opposition came from Christians it was considered progressive.
Yep. I recall the 1995 film Dead Man Walking featuring Susan Sarandon as a nun iirc, whose heart bled for convict Sean Penn
Pongalh
5d ago
I actually wrote about this a bit ago: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/magazine/3337822/pennies-trump-target-second-term/
Pongalh
5d ago
You say 99% on their side, and yet his discussion of trans issues is way more than 1% of his output. IOW if you don't talk much about the other 99% of your issue positions how much do you really hold them?
Pongalh
5d ago
Indeed there was an infograph recently of most popular social media worldwide and Finland stuck out as being the only one where Threads reigns supreme
Pongalh
6d ago
being qualified to carry a gun selects against "bottom feeders," a term I feel is more appropriate for say, fentanyl addicts. but it probably does select for people who are not well into the arts, i.e. philistines. That's a kind of bottom feeder for many.
Pongalh
7d ago
What sucks is when the hot fashionable women are the ones saying these things and the frumpy ones are not, and even defend men.
Given men's nature, it's hard to know which way to cut.
Pongalh
7d ago
Wasn't long ago that conservatives were lambasting the notion of stochastic terrorism. Do they buy it now?
Pongalh
8d ago
The more important point to me is the privacy part. How many of us would really come out unscathed if all our private convos were unearthed? (In general too many people want to chalk up to extra horrible malice what is better explained by the new information environment.)
Pongalh
8d ago
That Brooklyn lefty campaigner guy who was killed on CCTV with his girlfriend nearby, conservatives were very much "welp, hoisted by his own..." as in this is the result of his own views on crime. A smug schadenfreude was palpable, but I didn't see overt celebration myself.
Pongalh
11d ago
This is getting into the weeds of an interpersonal form of "cancel culture" that doesn't seem a good fit for mass society questions regarding the same. It's too untenable as well, tabooing simply disengaging from people who've said things that rub you wrong the way. (And in any case, I think more often you disengage because they've outright lied about you (fraud) or actually treated you badly (harm like not paying you back) not expressed something abstract about the world. Those that do the latter are almost to a T progs, if you're like me living in a blue culture.)
Pongalh
11d ago
"people are swapping stories about popping in old DVDs so that they can escape the ads and the subscription fatigue."
Funny you say that. I bought a DVD of an HBO series from over a decade ago called Family Tree. Anytime I play it I have to sit through a nearly 5 minute long ad promotional for HBO, featuring series from the time (Girls, Game of Thrones, some cancelled one about New Orleans). I can't skip. Nice time capsule at first but awful over and over
Pongalh
13d ago
Once in a while The Motte ditches culture war and sounds admirably left populist...
Pongalh
13d ago
I have gone months without checking my bank account when I was depressive.
Interesting. Depressive but able to maintain a steady stream of income from a reliable job? I've only been very depressed when unemployed of massively underemployed. I envy the six figures, whew.
Pongalh
14d ago
As a civilian my impression of the military is that it is made up of mostly literal cuckolds, 4’10” fat latinas and idiots that had absolutely zero job prospects outside of what amounts to a government make-work program.
Far preferable to being a gooning NEET who don't even the hustle to take advantage of government make-work. Also they still have to submit themselves to a level of discipline and physical rigor at least initially in a way I want nothing to do with. No one's interfering with my waking up at 10am and doing remote work.
Pongalh
17d ago
Robinson had a partner but threw his life away anyway. I mean, technically. Presumably they were intimate.
Pongalh
19d ago
There are still too many right wingers (mostly boomers, but also some enlightened center-rightists) who think we can rollback the clock to 1990 and will thus aid and abet the left by chiding and policing their own side.
This criticism of these boomers is also a form of "chiding and policing their own side." It's just called intra-conservative dialogue.
"outside American feelings."
As an American, that matters most. As much as extracting yourself from a brawl that will go on brawling with or without you. At least your hands are clean.
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