Pulpachair
6mo ago
Does the analogy still hold if it’s your son who dynamites the house because he is seeking your approval?
Pulpachair
6mo ago
Thanks for the correction. Updated.
Shooter is in custody. News conference ongoing. Turned in by his dad.
Edit: Antifa, trans furry and Helldiver 2 messages on the bullet casings. Guessing that this moves toward treating Antifa as a domestic terror org.
Pulpachair
6mo ago
Is there a case to be made for canceling in this particular circumstance? Contrast with Brendan Eich who was cancelled for donating to the wrong side of a roughly 50/50 split issue. The cancellation was a flex by the left. The right objected because Eich played by the rules and got cancelled anyway.
Cheering on and excusing political assassinations against peaceful political opponents should not be within the Overton window of a civilization. Enforcing a norm against that seems justifiable, though definitely in danger of being a slippery slope.
Pulpachair
6mo ago
Does supplying certain “less bad” drug cartels with arms and intelligence count? I would think so.
Pulpachair
6mo ago
Just a lot of recording, playback, and tweaks until you get it right.
Pulpachair
9mo ago
Only Nixon could go to China and only Obama could do kids in cages without the left losing their shit.
Pulpachair
9mo ago
“Plausibly” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Biden had a 50 year career in public office and the first time his “stutter” was ever rolled out as an excuse was in the 2020 presidential race to explain away aphasic rambling incoherencies on the campaign trail. Even if he did have a stutter as a child, he did not as an adult.
The Afghanistan withdrawal debacle was in August 2021, barely half a year into his term, and Biden was out of public view during the march on and fall of Kabul for days before making a public appearance. He was showing signs during the 2020 campaign, but this was the moment when I was certain that he was being kept out of public view on his bad days. Trying to say that this only really started in 2023 is stage two of the modified limited hangout, and is a self-serving lie to help protect the political media from the fallout of years of collaborative deception.
Original Sin is a scapegoating effort to deflect blame from the party and media organs that propped up a wheezing husk of a pretty mediocre and sleazy career politico in order for the party to try to hang on to power for a few measly years. That you are buying it tells me that you want to be deceived.
Pulpachair
9mo ago
Billion dollar idea - rent-a-yenta. A service where an overly critical older woman follows around the timid marriageable types and needles them constantly about their relationship status, frequently trying to set them up with their neighbor or cousin’s kid until finally something clicks and they find a suitable match.
Pulpachair
11mo ago
There is also a structural reason for lack of conservative intellectual output. Conservatives like old ideas. There are only so many publishable takes on Aquinas, Hobbes and Kant, or why Shakespeare was pretty dope.
New ideas are the domain of reformers, who are definitionally not conservative. The main issue is that most new ideas are extremely likely to be less practical than old ideas. There are an infinite number of ways to explore why bread is racist, actually.
Minor nit. “Con” as a shortened form of confidence game or man didn’t appear in the vernacular until the late 1800s. Vox is probably wrong about that reading of the spelling.
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