Pynewacket
14d ago
I will be very interested to see what happens when the current crop of fossils leave office and the younger generation step up to it. Between the Free Palestine on the left and the Nationalist MAGA on the right, I would assume the money spigot would dry out.
1.- I never said money is doing most of the work
2.- it's the logical thing to do, you just don't put all your eggs in one basket. And we won't know the truth of the matter because nobody that matters want it to be known.
EDIT.- Just so we are in the same page, my priors are:
a.- majority of politicians are amoral monsters, from Trump all the way to your local representative, passing through AOC and Bernie
b.- there is a VERY small minority of politicians that are upstanding that would be impossible to blackmail.
c.- The government of Israel employed Epstein to obtain blackmail material from politicians, so that it could coerce them for support or to get them to convince dissident politicians.
d.- c is logical for a nation state to do in the position Israel finds itself in, and were I in their shoes would do that and more.
e.- The state of Israel also employs groups as AIPAC to create external pressure on dissident politicians as another venue of attack.
f.- we will never know the truth about the Epstein affair because the people that could uncover it is also people involved in it or someone related to the is.
Pynewacket
15d ago
and if you are a people that historically suffered a great deal at the hands of others, I don't see how morality or legality would play a role in your decisions to use measures to prevent it from happening again. Never again and all that.
Pynewacket
15d ago
my vote would be more for the Teflon industry, scary stuff that.
Pynewacket
15d ago
maybe this is the truth of the matter, but I would assume that with the degraded authority of the institutions and the rise of the more nationalist MAGA that we wouldn't see support for Israel, but it still gets its money last I heard.
Pynewacket
15d ago
If you could wave some Polaroids around and coerce Congress, why would you bother spending all the money?
I would assume to create a narrative. Not every elite is an amoral monster, but enough of them are that internal and external pressure could convince the exceptions to vote their way. Why do you think that is stupid?.
Better yet. Scott gave an example of AIPAC deploying its money to win an election. Can you give me one where they did the same with their magical kid-diddling blackmail?
in my opinion, that they have blackmail and use it, wouldn't prevent them from also using money to create the aforementioned narratives. Why limit yourself to only one method or avenue of attack?
Pynewacket
15d ago
In my own personal opinion I think AIPAC can't be replicated unless you have your own Epstein. Money comes and goes but Blackmail material could very well be more valuable than gold in forcing people to your whims.
Pynewacket
16d ago
that and they have (had) ministries of women in countries like Argentina, and in countries like Mexico they practice DEI even in politics, where "plurinominal" house representatives are selected based on gender (not even based on sex).
Pynewacket
20d ago
I'm assuming he uses alts because it's more effective to troll when you don't have a reputation for doing so. If your interlocutor thinks you are a normal mottizen, he is more liable to offer charity and make several attemps to discuss things with you; where you can try to get a rise out of them and get them banned or at least a warning.
Pynewacket
20d ago
nah fam, this isn't it. He is a pretty good mod that if anything isn't going hard enough on the Darwin alt.
Pynewacket
28d ago
Which is all well and good, but I just wish people who did this would be open about it instead of deceiving others about their embrace of self-deception over truth.
one of their self delusions is that they are unbiased of course. Rationalism isn't about rational thought but rationalizing our own biases.
Pynewacket
28d ago
you know, it doesn't make you less admitting when you fucked up and didn't think things through. Torturing logic like you are doing does.
Pynewacket
1mo ago
No, I want human beings to be as happy and comfortable as humanly possible.
How do you square that with Murderers and Thieves that derive enjoyment from their actions?
because in an ideal world they should be able to stay if they want.
In this hypothetical, your Ideal World is post-scarcity?. If yes and you would be comfortable with open borders for a post-scarcity USA, how important is the local culture to you?
Pynewacket
1mo ago
If anything, anime lovers are closer to Zoophilia, as anime girls are just cats
Pynewacket
1mo ago
for me, it was when they published the Damore memo with all the citations removed and almost nobody in the comment section questioned why (fuck you Jango The Blue Fox)
Pynewacket
1mo ago
"Let there be several Big Bang."
according with recent Webb observations
Pynewacket
1mo ago
Here is the clip where describes the section of Leviticus 18 about stoning men who have sex with men to death as part of "God's perfect law".
what is wrong with what he said in the clip?
Here is the clip where he makes the comments about Ketanji Brown Jackson and others.
Isn't that the justice that doesn't know what a woman is? if I remember correctly she said she couldn't say because she wasn't a biologist, right?
Pynewacket
2mo ago
“I think everyone should be free to do whatever they want.”
“Ok then I’m free to make you my slave.”
“Wait that’s not what I meant.”
"Shut up Slave, that pyramid isn't going to build itself" cracks whip
Pynewacket
2mo ago
ok, I thought I deleted it almost inmediately but apparently it wasn't the case.
Pynewacket
2mo ago
self_made is himself an immigrant in the UK. I would be more surprised if he didn't subtly take the side of the "Authorities"/migrant party in this kind of incident.
Pynewacket
2mo ago
I don't understand why you are just ignoring the question - it wasn't intended as rhetorical.
it's because he is concern trolling the lot of you.
Pynewacket
3mo ago
the once-oppressed Chinese have been content with their rising standards of living.
isn't the US in a fentanyl epidemic?, last I heard it came to the US through Cartels that bought the necessary precursors from the Chinese.
Pynewacket
4mo ago
why should a proven concept be thrown away?
Pynewacket
4mo ago
why are you ignoring the "illegal" part of the argument?
wasn't there a scandal where he came up as a fragile Jew a few months back?
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