SubstackNecron
1yr ago
conclusively demonstrated, numerous times over an extended duration, that they’re unwilling and/or incapable of participating non-parasitically in society
To play devils advocate this would describe the red tribe to people who will very likley end up in charge of the US in the long term.
SubstackNecron
1yr ago
In a scenario where Taiwan goes hot in the near future
China is rapidly building up there arsenal. Taiwan won't go hot until they know they can slag the US as a going concern.
SubstackNecron
1yr ago
"I know my thumb is broken and if I cut my whole arm off that will defiantly fix the problem" type thinking
SubstackNecron
1yr ago
abortion likely ends up codified like in every other industrialized nation
This will happen very quickly after most of the boomers are in the ground as any look into pro-life vs pro-choice by age demographics will tell you.
SubstackNecron
1yr ago
A full exchange of nuclear warheads will end the US as a political entity for at least decades and probably forever. If it reforms it will be much later. The current political situation will cease to matter at all to the survivors. Pretending this is not true is deeply silly.
SubstackNecron
1yr ago
erwgv3g34 what do you think the odds are that the Republicans manage to reduce women to chattel before losing their current political struggle with the Democrats as a %?
SubstackNecron
1yr ago
Indeed but there was a massive effort to hide and obscure it that would never happen today.
SubstackNecron
1yr ago
I guess the question is how many MAGA presidents would have to lose in a row before they gave up?
SubstackNecron
1yr ago
Abbott
Abbott is a cripple and will never seriously be considered for a presidential ticket for that reason alone.
SubstackNecron
1yr ago
Yeah the breakthrough would be ease of use. Even for the rich IVF is a pain in the ass and typically only done if some major issue is expected.
SubstackNecron
1yr ago
180 IQ overnight
The big question is would their population also gain the neurosis, psychological downsides and social limitations that typically come with being that far outside the norm?
SubstackNecron
1yr ago
I would agree thats about how it would play out.
SubstackNecron
1yr ago
objection to the draft
I don't know anyone, regardless of political opinion, who thinks (in the US) that the Draft is even viable. Everyone would ignore it and the president who implemented it would quickly be found on a lamppost.
SubstackNecron
1yr ago
I sense, from personal experience, booze and cocaine were the genesis of this one.
SubstackNecron
1yr ago
yeah but lawfare is a tiresome,public tedious and long running gamble and gives your opponent time to respond and react. A bullet to the head is none of those things.
SubstackNecron
1yr ago
I mean yeah but all those same powerful people would need to do to kill him is shoot him with a gun.(Not them personally obviously but you get the point) That's 10x easier than the trail playing out and can't be undone or reversed by anyone.
SubstackNecron
1yr ago
I think the DUI thing is one of many crimes that people would be down for way much punishment for if put to a direct vote. I believe that if you put it to a national vote that the third or fourth time someone got pulled over and blew drunk they were just shot like a dog in the street it would pass with a majority or come very close to passing. I could be totally wrong about that but its just an impression I got people just seem to hate drunk drivers universally regardless of politics.
SubstackNecron
1yr ago
I see no chance Musk will end up in jail. At the point they would be jailing Musk it would be easier and neater just to liquidate him for a lot of reasons.
SubstackNecron
1yr ago
seems to apply about as well to a country divided politically along age lines as along gender lines.
I mean if that's the case then the age thing applies as much as the gender thing as far as being a proxy for war goes. A 63+ year-old American man is not going to be any more useful in a war than the average woman.
SubstackNecron
1yr ago
Don't you think that would negatively damage ones ability to rally?
I would absolutely agree that might be a contributor or even the main cause but optically from a winning the election POV he needs to write the ship.
SubstackNecron
1yr ago
What I don't understand is, what in the world is the Trump campaign doing?
Trump is visibly breaking down seemingly day by day. His mental state appears to be deteriorating noticeably to the point where even his followers in Twitter are starting to comment on it. Biden dropping out and Harris getting good poll results has apparently broken something inside him
SubstackNecron
1yr ago
This is basically the thread ended right? The imagined scenario doesn't even exist as the gender politics gap hasn't changed and has deceased if anything, age is apparently where the big gap is actually.
SubstackNecron
1yr ago
That all seems very wacky. Its not immediately clear in that wiki why anyone would want to do all of that.
SubstackNecron
1yr ago
I can't imagine a circumstance where the Harris government has it out Elon bad enough to extradite him to the UK for hate speech where it doesn't just kill him. Cleaner and easier that way
True but if once we got to the point where we decided as a society "we should start just liquidating inconvenient people again" it might not be entirely clear where that stopped or who would be designated disposable under that paradigm. I am just as I said playing devils advocate here, I think if we got to the point where we were just executing either thieves or conservatives society would have gone pretty far off the rails albeit in radically different directions in those two cases.
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