Is it brave to have HR waste hours of everyone's time with a degrading struggle session as a preparatory bombardment for your triumphant return? To me that seems like only seeing and valuing other people as your obedient audience...
I don't really know what to say. You're clearly smitten with this guy, but to me the story sounds like a typical case of mid-life crisis autogynophilia from a successful guy who wants to feel inherently valued for something, rather than just for his job skills.
Yes, basically. My life makes me happy, but hatred is an entirely separate category. There's no amount of money you could give me to make me stop hating the things I hate, because I hate them for a reason, not because I'm dissatisfied with my bank account/sex life/penis size/whatever sneer is being used.
The idea that "hateful people are just upset about something else/losers/defective deplorables that belong in camps" is just a scummy leftist tactic to distract from people's real, valid grievances. Bulverism, pathologizing dissent, whatever you want to call it.
I'm sure Trump and Biden (and Musk) are similar. They have a drive for power or status or change that isn't satisfied by living the good life or having lots of stuff.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
I got the glass Amazon basics one, incredibly cheap. They only last a few years at my level of use anyway, so you're not stuck with it forever.
Should this be read as a continuation of sackett(?) v. EPA and the fight over ability to sue federal agencies at all? With the liberals continuing the push for "no, there should be no individual right to challenge agency rulings"?
The remark about dodging judicial review by delaying enforcement could have used a few examples, because iirc it's pretty common for an agency to change a rule but announce a "grace period" in enforcement. That's a pretty good divide and conquer tactic already, but letting them also run out the clock on review is ridiculous.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
The NPF has promised to scrap the pension and immigration reforms passed by the current government, to set up a rescue agency for undocumented migrants and to facilitate visa applications.
It also wants to put caps on basic goods to combat the cost of living crisis and raise the minimum wage.
For all the "Europe surging to the right" scaremongering, it seems like the only outcome is always even more money for illegal migrants and leftists expanding their control over the state
I know, I mean Scott used to do it too. They have very similar temporary failures of their Crimestop brain implants, followed by repentance and attempts to hide the evidence.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
You can see every version captured by IA. Scott used to neuter pieces with edits before removing them entirely, so it's worth checking out the earliest archived version and comparing it to the latest
I find this sort of false equivalency incredibly obnoxious. We have institutions that are 99.5% leftist, run by Democrat apparatchiks, and every leak or FOI document reveals quotes like today's "I don't want to hire white men for sure."
Is there any equivalent evidence from the other side? Any CNN execs caught emailing Trump: "jawol mein fuhrer, I have leaked the debate questions to Biden to throw him off his guard, your victory is assured!"
Or just insane conspiracy theories about how JournoList members conspiring with the DNC were actually Republican triple-agents all along? Literal stalinist levels of frenzied deflection against randomly chosen "wreckers"?
Just the act of labeling leftist zealots "blue maga" shows it's a tactic to hurt your enemies while making excuses for the now-revealed misdeeds of your own side.
The weirdness of qanon boomers is extremely different from the weirdness of the left, and conflating them is just a trick to criticize individual leftists without ever admitting the problems of leftism: "They're bad because they're just like the enemy!", rather than "woah our revolutionary ideology goes absolutely off the wall retarded at the slightest inconvenience, why is that?"
The more I read from deboer the more I dislike him intensely. A pretty intelligent mind capable of truth-seeking that's been deliberately turned to producing demeaning propaganda.
They just paid a bunch of podcasters and votebots to push #DownWithCNN, so they're actively working on what it is certainly possible to describe as a strategy.
It's shocking how badly they perform the first time they have to face a hostile media. Without Voxspainer Graphics they can't get out any kind of coordinated messaging.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
You should have said "hang him while wearing a silly wig", then it would be legal and morally in the clear.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
I might be mixing things up a little, my media consumption in the early 00s was kind of a blur.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
That's why I couldn't find the website! Thanks, for a few hours there I thought I'd gone nuts and imagined the whole thing.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Raising the age of consent to 35, one of the funnier troll ops of the last few years. There is or was a website for it.
The "dear colleague" letter and the subsequent title ix witch hunts alone should dispell that belief. How much of that was Obama vs people he empowered in his administration is debatable, but irrelevant.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
I hope this takes off so they go back and tear through all his 90s work hunting for "problematic" content.
It's a rich vein even putting aside the avant garde kid sex stuff, and it would be a good reminder to artists that the rewards of collaboration are treachery and betrayal the second you're more useful as a punching bag than an "accomplice"
I don't want thousands of dollars of meat to spoil when the power goes out? And also like having Internet. And also it's fun?
This is really in "fiery but mostly no material injury" territory. What is there to even say to it other than we know the material injury is intentional because we can watch them gloat about it? Even just by reading your comment history?
Cheap 1200wh lifepo4 battery charged with a 40a power supply. Can run for a couple of days followed by a few hrs of generator recharging, instead of idling it all the time or letting the freezer half-defrost.
A few hundred watts of solar would keep it charged even in winter, but I'd need to run a long transmission line to my shady clearing. Impractical with a low volt array.
The garden tool motors are those really cheap things with the sparky carbon brushes.
Very low efficiency and huge inrush: I have a ".5hp" pump (375w) that pulls the amp equiv of 3000w at startup. (Not sure how much is real vs apparent power, but to an inverter amps are amps)
Still learning electric engine theory to understand the different types.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
We've been cooperating with the Russians on this one since the Bush era. Unfortunately it took us that long to figure out what the "фронт к врагу" label meant.
This is really cool. A (pretty good brand) 600W inverter can actually run my chest freezer. It could easily run two of them if I could design a simple startup interlock switch (or trust the inverter's auto-restart from fault to handle the occasional simultaneous startup)
People always complain about freezers tripping 1500W inverters, but newer compressor motors don't have nearly as high a starting surge as the old ones.
Pity it can't run my shitty universal motor garden tools as well, or I'd rig up a backpack for it.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
The Japanese "the nail that stands up gets pounded down" works nicely there.
I think it's most likely that Dems just don't have enough people to run every institution they've seized, and the old political office pipelines look unappealing relative to, say, chairing a billion-dollar NGO you can use as a personal slush fund.
See the "embattled" mayor of Oakland and all those others for examples of how poor their pool of low level politicians is; they can't even do the minimum effort to hide their embezzlement enough for Dem prosecutors to ignore it.
Whereas Republicans who didn't go the federalist society judge route are pretty much stuck with starting a political career as mayor of Cowpatsie, Idaho. They don't even get defense contractor work now; it all goes to regime-friendly guys like the motte's Netscape or whatever.
Like, a Democrat Thomas Massie would have gone a very different direction after MIT, and reached a much more profitable office than junior representative in charge of sponsoring DOA livestock bills.
But there's definitely a crab bucket effect too, made stronger by the party's power over the bureaucracy. Much easier to sabotage a potential competitor when you can literally order their subordinates to undermine them.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
At the time people excusing 2020 were saying things like "let the justice system work, all those people will face charges!"
And a few years later they were all dropped except for that one guy who got time off his sentence for burning a man alive because "his heart was in the right place." Andy Ngo has been showing all the same individuals are part of the intifadah riots too, so none of them have been incapacitated or even discouraged.
Meanwhile old ladies who were wandering outside the capitol building are in their 4th year of pretrial detention.
You were spot on when everyone was insisting the response would be principled.
You know there are lots of interviews with them, right? Like why are you trying to deflect the blame here rather than celebrate like they are?
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