TeknOShEeP
3d ago
only that AFAIK the speech norms are often pretty different
Yes, 4chan is for my literal shitposting (on my employer's time of course), the motte is for when I am waiting on civilized company. One can have different voices tailored to different environments.
TeknOShEeP
3d ago
These people are laboring under the misapprehension that their voice is so desired other people will follow them to wherever. In reality, no one cares, and it makes no sense.
TeknOShEeP
3d ago
Lol, they can of course return to twatter. Twatter (as they loudly decry at every opportunity) has virtually no standards or "safety", it basically follows the bare minimum of US law (so no CP or active calls to violence) with a few extra advertiser-friendly bits thrown in (you need to click on "sensitive" videos instead of autplaying, porn is mostly banned except for the softcore "sub to my OF" type stuff). There's literally a million people talking shit about Elon and Trump all day every day, the only difference is these comments are not being artificially boosted and have no official seal of approval, so they have to stand on their own merits (which they seldom do).
I am greatly enjoying watching BlueSky descend into a ratfuck, because it reveals the true nature of the people who populate it.
TeknOShEeP
4d ago
Yes, but that is all far, far downstream of the media industrial complex's and the DNC's (but I repeat myself) decision to push the idea that immigration law doesnt matter and anyone who enforces it is a evil nazi. What options does ICE have? Attempt to arrest between 10-30 million illegals, give them multiple hearings, provide all legal care and shelter during said hearing period, while being fought tooth and claw by approximately half of the population? Lol, not a fucking chance.
ICE is doing the only thing it can do- demonstrate in a highly visible way that they will enforce the law, and the days of free-riding are over, might as well self-deport doe the thousand bucks and free plane ticket. If this offends the left, well, fuck it, they broke the system first.
TeknOShEeP
4d ago
Its not just not a bad idea, its the only idea that will work. Self-deportations greatly outnumber ICE deportations, and have to do so for anything meaningful to be accomplished.
The legal system in America is simply unable to deal with millions of deportation hearings, you have to set examples pour encourager les autres.
TeknOShEeP
5d ago
Okay, and I'm saying its only "fuck the left" because the left has abandoned any pretense of rule of law and embraced Anarcho-Tyranny. The left could end the controversy tomorrow, if they just said "actually yes, lets enforce immigration law and stop selectively chosing which criminals are good and which are bad. Then we can work on comprehensive reform."
"Fuck ICE fascists!" Is not the own the left thinks its is.
TeknOShEeP
5d ago
"Gotta catch 'em [illegal immigrants] all" has long been a mantra of Trump and his his supporters.
You think its retarded because the media bias in this country has led you to believe Anarcho-Tyranny is an acceptable form of government. That montage was a cute little poke at the fact that its not, and times are a' changin.
TeknOShEeP
5d ago
Lol, Lmao even. Why do you think ICE gets to pick their own optics? Like any federal agency, they get to wear whatever label the media slaps on them today. And the leftoid media industrial complex has decided "nazi storm troopers" is the label ICE gets to wear for the foreseeable future.
Compared to most feds, ICE seems to be undertaking an extremely difficult task, that puts them in quite a lot of personal danger, in a reasonably professional manner. That puts them in the top 5% of efficient agencies as far as I'm concerned. Lefty shitflinging will happen completely independently of how ICE is actually performing, because it mostly works at convincing the average lefty voter their country is turning into the Fourth Reich.
TeknOShEeP
6d ago
"erosion of norms" is just DNC speak for "refusing to play the loveable loser to our obviously more virtuous candidate."
I freely admit I was part of it in my stupid college days, but frankly the DNC has been demonizing conservatives for a lot longer than Trump has been relevant, he was just the first one to fling the shit back in any effective manner.
If you want to point to a specific moment the norms really started to collapse, I would suggest the Johnson administration for the most recent cycle.
TeknOShEeP
9d ago
Right, thats where having the original ruling would be very helpful. But going by:
Green raises the following issues for our review:
- Did the trial court err in overruling the defense’s objection to [Taylor’s] lay opinion about whether [] Green held a genuine firearm in his hand where that opinion was based on improper speculation?
- Was the evidence insufficient for a conviction under [section] 6105 where the object described by the complaining witness could not have been a genuine firearm?
- Should the [section] 6105 charge have been graded as a misdemeanor of the first degree where there was no evidence at trial that [] Green had been convicted of a disqualifying felony?
- Was the evidence insufficient for a conviction for recklessly endangering another person where all evidence showed that [] Green’s purported gun was not loaded?
I read as an established fact by the criminal trial that the defendant pointed something at the witnesses, and now we are just arguing about the technicalities of what it was.
TeknOShEeP
9d ago
Reading through the first case, while it is only the appealate court's decision rather than the actual criminal case, it seems to be far less alarming then first glance would have you believe. Unless I am missing something, the defendent seems to have admitted to brandishing a "black semiautomatic (as opposed to a revolver) handgun", and pointing it at the two women (his cousins). This is, broadly speaking, rather antisocial behavior, especially from a felon who is a prohibited person, and frankly seems like grounds for restricting their liberty for a substantial duration. The appeal does not appear to dispute these basic facts, and relies on technicalities such as "the witnesses could not have known it was a real gun" and "a real gun wouldn't click twice [ignoring the obvious issues that a real DA hammer fired gun would in fact click with each trigger pull]".
TeknOShEeP
11d ago
I think that would be a fair assessment. There is certainly a wide gap between being a fairly local politician and trying to run a campaign on a bigger stage, and then actually delivering once you've won the race. In many ways, the skills don't translate, and cabinet secretaries are one of the posts where it can be most obvious (not guaranteed though- regardless of how you feel about the moral and philosophical implications of her actions, it's hard to deny the Clinton got shit done as Sec State, Cruz seems to be doing similarly).
TeknOShEeP
11d ago
Engage maximum cynacism mode! No nukes are needed. In fact, nukes are overrated. Two squadrons of B-52s can drop the equivalent of a Hiroshima bomb via conventional ordnance, except those can all be individually targeted down to an arbitrarily precise degree as smart bombs, and so are actually far more devastating. 80% of Iraq's oil is clustered in the southeast, you just blow any civilization near them off of the map, occupy the oil fields, and declare a 200km buffer zone between your occupation area on top of the oil fields and the rest of Iraq. Anything or anyone that enters the buffer zone will be destroyed without warning.
Literal robbery? Absolutely. But perhaps more humane in the long run that the almost quarter-century clusterfuck we have now.
TeknOShEeP
12d ago
There are rules of engagement that are to ensure a country does not win the tactical battle and thereby lose the propaganda war (see Vietnam, and being currently attempted by Israel in Gaza).
And then there are rules of engagement that are simply ass-covering for the REMFs who ordered the operation to begin with (see Afghanistan, Iraq).
And finally, there are rules of engagement for powers who follow Machiavelli's advice to kings (see all sides of WWII, the Mongols under Ghenghis and Kublai Khan, and Rome at its peak).
War is a terrible thing. The modern ideal is that it is to be "civilized" by more humanitarian rules of engagement, but I'm not sure this is true. What I am sure is true is that the current blend of caregory 1 and 2 RoEs used by the US manages to be about the worst of all possible worlds.
TeknOShEeP
17d ago
Maybe, but he burned a lot of bridges with people who would make very good attack ads. Like 40 year career, apolitical professionals ended up hating his guts and can make a very good case for why he made Americans less safe, and would happily do so on national media outlets. Perhaps I'm underestimating the capabilities of the DNC propaganda arm, but especially with his, erm, demographic disadvantages with certain key voter segments, I dont think he would stand a chance.
Well, without doxing myself too much, its mostly aerospace related matters, specifically involving certification of new aircraft, new rules for airports and air traffic controllers, and how the US would harmonize its regulations with other national and supranational regulators (like EASA... okay mostly EASA). The list of sins is long- it was never clear who was actually making a formal decision (lots of 'here's what i think, but xyz all need input'), despite a formal decision being requested. Some paperwork remained outstanding for 4 years. Certain statutory limits on how long the government has to respond to requests and filings were routinely ignored without apology or explanation, to the point we seriously considered suing the FAA and DoT. It also became obvious that several key administrators were completely AWOL and had delegated their entire function to assistants, and when this was brought up directly to him, we got an out of office (I believe it was his paternity leave stint, which is charming, but as a cabinet secretary the buck stops with you, respectfully you dont get to take months of paternity leave), our concerns about serious government malfeasance were never addressed in even a perfunctory manner.
My experience with the previous two secretaries of transportation, as well as the current one, are nothing at all like that. Night and day difference, and I know there are many other people in similar positions who have similar feelings.
I never met with him personally, but the issues i was involved with were the kind of things that would require his approval, or st least input, and that really never happened. In contrast, i have emailed Secretary Chao before and recieved a personal response about three hours later. Secretary Duffy appears to be much the same.
TeknOShEeP
17d ago
So I shared many of your feelings about Buttigeig, and felt that he would have done well at the top of the Democrat ticket, and then I had to deal with his office and him professionally as the secretary of transportation, and now I have to disagree in the strongest possible terms. While he has charm and charisma, as a professional executive head of a functional body, dude is fucking incompetent. In my experience he was totally unable to make an independent decision without 17 layers of ass-covering consultation, totally unable to tell when brown-nosing subordinates might be completely full of shit, and worst from a political perspective, totally unaware of when optics might demand his presence or at least general visibilty, such as when a major transportation disaster has occured, and the Secretary of Transportation might plausibly be expected to have input.
If the DNC wants to lose badly in 2028, I can think of few better ways that having Buttigeig be the nominee.
TeknOShEeP
17d ago
If Trump dies, I do not think there is any obvious candidate to inherit the MAGA kingdom.
Is it not Vance? It seems to me that he is being groomed for the top slot in a way most VPs never are. Also, AFAIK he's in pretty good with the MAGA base.
TeknOShEeP
18d ago
To the extent that genetics (and epigenetic phenomena) express themselves in our behavior, yes.
This is not a condemnation of any individual person, but blank-slateism has been rather conclusively debunked. We are all, to a certain extent, products of our genetics.
TeknOShEeP
19d ago
Thanks for the review, it reminded me of why i got about 200 pages in and never bothered to finish it. Definitely drove home why having a good editor is important.
TeknOShEeP
19d ago
conservatives, i.e. the party of law and order, be a fan of measures which promote public safety?
Define public safey. Because the moment authorities in the US cracked down on anti-lockdown protestors, but then allowed BLM protestors free reign (because "racism is a bigger threat than COVID) it became transparently obvious that either lockdowns had nothing to do with safety, or that those in charge of determining what constituted safety had no idea what they were doing. Or plausibly both. For mild evidence in support of this, I refer you to Sweden which had more mild lockdowns thsk most of the US, and achieved better outcomes.
right in the US, especially in its current MAGA incarnation, is just as gleeful in its authoritarian tendencies
It's fairly obvious that you get your US news from lefty sources, but a few moments of consideration would show that mostly what the MAGA agenda is about is deregulation, sprinkled with some mercantilism. I understand there is a great temptation to slap the evil "authoritarian" label on things you don't like, but getting rid of laws is not authoritarian by any possible stretch of the word. The few genuinely authoritarian actions, like banning red dye 40, have mostly gone unnoticed.
TeknOShEeP
19d ago
No, race realism is also wrong, the actual reason is class/subculture for which you are using skin colour as a proxy, due to the US having a underclass primarily composed of black people. I live in a European country
Respectfully, I have never met a European native who properly groks US white-black race relations, nor the class structure in the US. They both differ in very significant ways from the European experience. Suffice to say, no, its not a class thing, it is a race thing.
there is a social class that behaves in identically disruptive ways on public transport, despite being as white as the rest of the population.
We have those in the US too. They are pretty much universally despised and regarded as being the source of their own problems. The fact that the judgement comes so easily against those with white skin, and yet any level of mental gymnastics will be done to excuse sinilar actions from those with non-white skin... is interesting. (BTW our current Vice President comes from that class, and wrote a very interesting book about his childhood and escaping the destructive cycle. He is quite forthcoming that most of the harms are self-inflicted.)
TeknOShEeP
20d ago
The fact that its a big, amorphous coalition that has differing values just indicates the retaliation has to be stiffer than might otherwise be required, and that appropriate targeting is required.
The problem the left has at the moment is that moderates just don't matter- they are drowned out by the extremist voices, and policy proposals become about pandering to the loudest wing nuts.
Cancel all of the far left nut jobs, and you give space for the center left to actually have a reasonable conversation.
I think its pretty big stretch to say cancel culture actually lost the left any elections. Maybe didnt have as much of an effect as they were hoping, sure. But outside of some cheap "they tried to cancel him! Next they'll cancel you!" propaganda, I dont know what concrete bemefit it actually provided to the right.
TeknOShEeP
20d ago
I think you dismiss justification #3 too easily. Some degree of "Tit-for-Tat" has long been recognized as the Game Theory correct move. If the right just moves on and says "okay, cancel culture is done" then they have let the left have a decade plus of abbhorent, anti-civilizational behavior for free. This shouldn't happen. Hard lessons are the best learned, and a few years getting their noses bent out of joint and prominent leftists fired from media jobs and cancelled off of social media may actually force some self reflection on the left (and about a trillion posts worth of whining about facism, but that will probably happen anyway).
If the right just lets sleeping dogs lie, then the norm becomes "cancel culture is a weapon that only the left gets to use, some of the time." In the long-term interests of free speech, this should not become a norm.
Ah, TIL.
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