Almost certainly just a conflation of the revisionist fascist states of WW2 with ethnostates in general to better discredit the latter. At least, that's always been the purpose this criticism has served when I run into it.
Which is why the murderous and expansionist nature of the Soviets doesn't discredit propositional nations, nor is the theory debunked by the also-common criticism of the empires in WW1.
There's a video of him loading and firing a handgun
I feel like every time I feel sorry for myself the universe sends me a signal that I have no excuse to not be exercising some agency.
I need to get back in the gym man, slight back pain or no.
You misunderstand. I don't care that the Chinese have a different system, I may even admire parts of it. I'm saying that the democratic/American system cannot be blase about this in the same way. Americans are very puritanical about their liberty, if nothing else.
Countries don't do things, people do. The question is whether the American people will tolerate that argument baldly put. I think there's obvious financial incentives in destroying the last guardrails of the old world, but the arguments about freedom that license it find far more purchase than they did in the past and that's because of the people.
It's self-evident to me that Islam Is Right About Women Gambling. But "this is simply a net loss for society and you're fooling yourself if you think we need to run this experiment again - humans are still as weak and stupid as they ever were" probably would have failed on many, many people and that matters.
Xi doesn't have to care. Small d-democrats do.
I don't give a damn whether it's a black cat or a white cat so long as it catches mice.
This position works because the government of the person who said it is not democratic. It actually does matter in America if the masses think the government is right or legitimate in what it does.
Tanista
4d ago
I can't help but think that they're not really giving 'informed consent' to the activity if they can't really grasp the real odds involved (they overestimate their chances of success, nobody dissuades them of this) and the first order harmful effects, much less the second order ones, that can result.
This is perilously close to an argument against liberalism for the general public.
Tanista
4d ago
Afroman is funny but I don't know that anyone thinks of him as a top battle rapper.
On the hip hop side it's inseparable from the song being used (which is why one of the recent Drake-Kendrick songs became vastly more popular than the rest even if it wasn't the best).
On the pure battle rap side it's just inseparable from crowd work and performance - and writing for that particular person. Since battle rappers have an incentive to spend time in the ring (unlike rappers, for whom it becomes a potential danger once they're famous enough to not have something to gain) their styles become much more distinct and you have an incentive to attack them.
This joke about an opponent's style can only land in a public performance, and only if you know your audience.
You also get points for off the cuff freestyles, which obviously don't work online.
Like any roasting session, you need to be saying it in the kid's face in front of the other students on the playground to get the full effect.
But attempting to recreate it via AI is pretty on-brand for TheMotte.
That's a problem too. It allows the more radical element to drive things.
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