Recursive_Enlightenment
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Recursive_Enlightenment
2yr ago
Establishment Republicans will want Trump to remain banned, and Musk might want them to do well.
Recursive_Enlightenment
2yr ago
My strategy: Get $5 billion. Get a pliable Haitian frontman. Hire lots of non-white mercenaries who act as the army of my frontman. The mercenaries will know that I pay them. The mercenaries take over increasing amounts of territory. People in my territory get free cheap food. Expand. The frontman says his highest priorities will be whatever earns him the most praise from the New York Times so stuff about the environment, marginalized Haitians, and ending the horrible legacy of Donald Trump's influence on Haiti. Have a second frontman ready to take over if the first ever shows too much independence.
Recursive_Enlightenment
2yr ago
"The fundamental power balance in this war is that Russia could obliterate the entirety of Ukraine in under an hour and still have plenty of nukes left to raze Europe and North America if they intervene." True, but Ukraine could likely kill much of the Russian population. Ukrainian scientists worked alongside Russian scientists in Soviet biological and nuclear weapons programs. Good chance that Ukraine has working nuclear weapons, and it either has or could easier get working biological weapons.
Recursive_Enlightenment
2yr ago
Given the demographics of Hasidic and non-Hasidic American Jews, a percentage that will increase in the future.
Recursive_Enlightenment
2yr ago
Keep in mind that nuclear firepower is likely Russia's second most destructive class of weapons, behind biologicals.
Recursive_Enlightenment
2yr ago
My guess is that the conflict mostly comes down to disrespect, and when the disrespect was called out, the person doing the disrespecting did not sufficiently admit guilt.
Recursive_Enlightenment
2yr ago
So it's "deep-state" by design and without pretense.
Recursive_Enlightenment
2yr ago
Does the EU have an American-like deep state bureaucracy that is going to push for its own identity-politics left-of-center thing regardless of who is elected or appointed to what office? If so, is this bureaucracy in sync with much of the elite media so that going against it gets you labeled as basically evil and stupid?
Recursive_Enlightenment
2yr ago
My guess is that teachers find it much more enjoyable to teach using whole language compared to phonics, and so our non-consumer based public school system mostly uses whole language instruction.
Recursive_Enlightenment
2yr ago
To test for diligence, graduation from the school should require 1 month of extremely difficult and often boring work, 7 days a week 15 hours a day often with students working in teams. To test for emotional resilience, while working students will be insulted and yelled at by the instructors. To get students to go through this, pay the first few graduates $50,000. Eventually, the quality of the past graduates will make graduating from the program a good enough signal so that you don't have to pay students.
Recursive_Enlightenment
2yr ago
Isn't Russia framing the conflict as Russia vs the American Empire?
Recursive_Enlightenment
2yr ago
You lose allies when you suffer strategic losses, not when you succeed in ruthlessly waging war.
Recursive_Enlightenment
2yr ago
Immigration helps Republicans, abortion Democrats. DeSantis increased the amount of time the news media focused on immigration.
Recursive_Enlightenment
2yr ago
Agreed. Until the last episode everything was a bit too simple, but that last episode was fantastic TV.
Recursive_Enlightenment
2yr ago
Most of the time someone uses a gun for self-defense they hold and show their gun to someone who appears threatening. I imagine that if you live in a dangerous neighborhood that chance that you would have cause to use a gun in such a manner over the course of a decade is above 50%.
Recursive_Enlightenment
2yr ago
The purpose of academic feminism is to advance the position of women as defined by leftists elites. As feminists might say, you are implicitly accepting a highly male autistic notion of truth that you think can exist outside of existing power dynamics, and even if we grant that everything you say is "true" this truth is an information hazard (feminists wouldn't use this exact term) whose promoting will do far more harm than good. From my own viewpoint, while yes the last sentence makes feminism look bad to rationalists, the feminists are acting as normal humans do in avoiding promoting beliefs that help their near enemies and cut against their cherished beliefs.
Recursive_Enlightenment
2yr ago
When Microsoft first got big it had a policy of ignoring politics so politicians started threatening Microsoft with antitrust actions, which caused Microsoft to become a massive contributor to politicians.
Recursive_Enlightenment
2yr ago
He can replace the top people at the Department of Justice.
The Department of Justice has enormous power over how to interpret and enforce laws, and the President picks the top people in the Department of Justice. Prosecutors are far more important than judges or juries in the US justice system (outside of cases where one person sues another person) because most cases (over 90%) are settled outside of court. The President picks the top federal prosecutors.
Businesses really don't want to be sued by the federal government for civil rights violations. A DeSantis administration could sue if you have too much woke-stuff, and a Harris administration if you have too little. Antitrust laws are extremely vague. A DeSantis administration could tell Twitter/Facebook/Google that they will be sued for antitrust violations if they ban conservatives, and a Harris administration would tell big tech it gets accused of antitrust violations if it doesn't do a better job of banning hate speech. Financial institutions desperately need to keep in the good graces of the Federal government, and so the feds can coerce credit card companies and banks to financially deplatform selected targets.
Recursive_Enlightenment
2yr ago
The next US presidential election could be key to what happens to woke. If DeSantis wins, the federal government might interpret existing civil rights laws as mostly outlawing woke because it discriminates against white people and creates a hostile work environment for them. If Harris is the next president, we might view the Biden administration as the "before times".
Recursive_Enlightenment
2yr ago
Given that the media will undoubtedly be making significant cost-saving use of AI generated art, it would turn out to be embarrassing to them to condemn it now.
Recursive_Enlightenment
2yr ago
The focus in academia is on preventing new Garrett Joneses from getting tenure rather than reducing the scope of tenure by firing the few openly non-woke professors. Most tenured woke professors are smart enough to understand that if you weaken tenure, changing moral fashions means something they have written in the past could get them targeted, especially by a college administration looking to save money.
Recursive_Enlightenment
2yr ago
Lots of people get jobs through connections. If you think someone is honest you are more likely to recommend them to be hired by your firm.
Recursive_Enlightenment
2yr ago
But I wonder if Mormons benefit in job markets from being considered trustworthy? Better to have people privately discriminating in favor of you than giving you public support.
Revealing the source would reveal my identity. Ukraine was a fully trusted member of the Soviet Union and had lots of smart scientists. Ukraine has currently working nuclear power plants. Ukraine was preparing for a Russian attack. Don't you think it likely that Ukraine has a few nuclear weapons? If nothing else, the Soviets were bad at keeping track of stuff and so probably didn't manage to remove all the nuclear weapons from Ukraine when the Soviet Union broke up.
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