Recursive_Enlightenment
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Recursive_Enlightenment
8mo ago
I watched all of it, and the interview was highly inconsistent with the narratives that either Trump is Hitler or Trump is senile. The interview made Trump seem joyful. Funny to think back to the TV show NewsRadio (yes, I'm old) and consider that the actor playing the station mechanic played a key role in an US presidential election by interviewing Donald Trump.
Recursive_Enlightenment
8mo ago
A long time ago I was a congressional intern. The issue that generated the most mail was animal rights. Don't be surprised if this killing has political impact.
Recursive_Enlightenment
6mo ago
After his first presidential victory Trump was deemed illegitimate because he lost the popular vote, colluded with Russia to steal the election and fooled his voters into supporting him. This time everyone who voted for Trump clearly knew what they were voting for and Trump won by enough that it's hard to claim he did so via fraud. Also, it's very likely that the next Republican presidential nominee will be pro-MAGA. Finally claiming that Trump is less morally qualified to be president than Biden isn't plausible given the Hunter pardon.
Recursive_Enlightenment
7mo ago
Lots of leftists basically think Deliverance was a documentary and have a statistically unjustified fear of rural white Republicans. I don't doubt that some FEMA workers really were afraid to knock on the door of homes with Trump signs.
Recursive_Enlightenment
10mo ago
Or the printing press which allows heretics to attack the honor of the holy Catholic Church. Let's pray this doesn't cause schisms and violence.
Recursive_Enlightenment
7mo ago
What's with old people is that if you have had a serious medical issue you lose all sense of embarrassment and shame concerning your naked body because you deal with doctors and nurses looking at it, and you stop caring about how you appear when naked in front of others.
Recursive_Enlightenment
11mo ago
Yes, but whoever Trump picks next will be attacked just as harshly as Vance. Remember what happened to Kavanaugh. All the media needs is one person claiming personal knowledge that the nominee did or said something bad.
Recursive_Enlightenment
6mo ago
I think a key difference with the trans issue and normal culture war issues, is that people have undergone difficult medical procedures in the expectation that the "civilized" parts of society will respect their choice of gender. That expectation would have been reasonable if Harris had won and the government continued to pressure employers and schools to punish anyone who didn't go along. Now, I have to imagine many fear being betrayed, not just by Trump voters, but by the realization that ambitious Democrats might abandon the progressive trans position to help win future elections.
Recursive_Enlightenment
7mo ago
I think you should make an exception for important breaking news where the top post is just something like "what's your opinion on X". I like coming here to see what peoples' immediate takes on such news is.
Recursive_Enlightenment
6mo ago
It's a bad idea unless you have enough evidence to overcome the Bayesian prior.
Recursive_Enlightenment
7mo ago
But they were pretending to explain what happened.
Recursive_Enlightenment
6mo ago
The significant recent rise in obesity suggests we can’t dismiss the possibility that the increase in autism is a genuine effect rather than merely a measurement artifact.
Recursive_Enlightenment
11mo ago
It's my impression that women hate women who use sex to get ahead in the way that Kamala did.
Recursive_Enlightenment
6mo ago
To get to the really important question: Does this mean we should be buying NVIDIA stock?
Recursive_Enlightenment
7mo ago
The Dems probably thought the Republicans were incapable of backtracking on abortion, but Trump pulled it off.
Recursive_Enlightenment
10mo ago
If Kamala Harris gets to appoint two Supreme Court Justices I suspect the 1st Amendment will be found to have a hate speech exception that coincides with what Big Tech censors you for saying.
Recursive_Enlightenment
7mo ago
As best I recall, they did not level any criticism at Harris which I assume meant they were not being honest or forthcoming.
Recursive_Enlightenment
7mo ago
AI. Can relate to how students should be taught to write given AI, and what work will be available when AI gets even better and we get cheap robots.
Recursive_Enlightenment
1yr ago
Prediction: If this passes nice hotels will almost never have vacancies. They will have some rewards program that guarantees there are never vacancies because any empty room will be given to a person in the rewards program or perhaps given to a friend of a hotel employee. Or, you go to the hotel expecting to have one room, and the hotel decides to give you two as a bonus for being such a good customer.
Recursive_Enlightenment
8mo ago
Shows the harm of government regulation.
Recursive_Enlightenment
7mo ago
Not clear that North Koreans will get to move into the vacuum. Could be that South Korea imports lots of young non-Korean immigrants to take care of their elderly and these immigrants end up taking over.
Recursive_Enlightenment
7mo ago
Also, everyone instructed by their school or firm that they must at least pay lip service to the woke line on the trans issue.
Recursive_Enlightenment
11mo ago
I think what happened was: Iran for domestic reasons needed to attack Israel but didn't want a war with the US. The US didn't want a war with Iran. Israel wanted the US to go to war with Iran. Iran and the US figured out a way for Iran to attack and the US to respond without the US going to war with Iran. So Israel kind of lost.
Recursive_Enlightenment
9mo ago
Signaling games. Not wearing a tie to an interview for a job where you know they expect you to wear one signals a lot about you. Suppose 0.1% of people stopped by the police during traffic stops are so dangerous that they lack the ability to appear cooperative and pose a genuine threat to the welfare of the police. Having the police think you're in this 0.1% is very bad for you, so you will avoid giving that impression unless you have no choice or desire a confrontation with the police.
My guess is that some men get so used to the hyperfeminine women the media constantly throws at us that a normal looking older woman looks masculine to them. Kind of like thinking a woman must have a genetic deformity because her eyes are so much smaller than the eyes of anime girls.
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