Templexious
Stuck in time
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Templexious
11mo ago
Assuming that instead of trans advocates losing ground, it's shadow-speak, or fingers crossed in the background.
Seems like a particularly miserable way of viewing the world. It's a victory for your team. Take the W.
Templexious
11mo ago
Intriguing!
I admit to being skeptical of the persistent "the establishment is always after me!" cries that seem to be more and more frequent.
While I see and understand the throughline of her appeal to the Gribbler faction, I don't see or understand what earns her crank-hood.
Templexious
11mo ago
Sorry, that was a joke!
I phrased it in such a way that I expected most to recognize.
Templexious
11mo ago
I've been reading up more on Tulsi Gabbard. Honestly, she has an incredible and distinguished track record- from being a medic in Iraq, to her Hawaiian heritage.
If she really does get the DNI position in the Trump cabinet, there is strong chance that she will attempt a bid for President immediately after.
This could cause competition for the Thelians hoping for more JD Vance after Trump leaves office. But I'm not here to wargame 2028 campaign hypotheticals when Trump isn't even sworn in yet.
It seems she and her husband converted to hinduism.
My immediate take is that her presence and native pacific islander background means you know she ascended, and worked for the positions she had. Her brief stint as a Democrat is a bit odd, but otherwise she looks like she has a pretty pristine track record that's really hard to shit on.
Her being anti-lgbt, with a track record of policies that would otherwise be fairly progressive, she seems like a standard, good pick for almost any position in ... any president's cabinet?
From reading the wiki page, I'm having a hard time figuring out why anyone would mouth-froth over the idea of her having any position of power.
Dear Mottizens, what is your view on her? Any information I've missed?
Templexious
11mo ago
sure, if you want to retreat to that particular bailey.
Templexious
11mo ago
I'll take the other end of that bet. In 4 years, Musk will be fine and about as rich as he is now.
Templexious
1yr ago
"supplant", possibly. Increase the supply of workers and the mid-to-high iq whites are forced to move to lower crime and higher-pay, yet lower birth-rate cultural and physical zones.
Templexious
1yr ago
If it came with a total nuke of common core, most americans would consider the swap of the guard a success.
Templexious
1yr ago
Optimizing for defection by caving to the demands of defectors is bad.
Templexious
1yr ago
This got a good chuckle. Well played.
Templexious
1yr ago
American unemployment is at something like 4%
Only due to the way we collect these statistics, which is suspect at best in order to make the party in power look good. Working Amazon or gig economy is often considered "employed", but it's not really living, either. Might as well be a slave.
Templexious
1yr ago
Outside of the current Overton Window:
Crush zoning laws. We take it as a given that everyone will commute, but these are largely from zoning laws. Housing should have close access to groceries and cheap local services - ie, within walking or bike distance. If you have a pseudo-communal housing area, the community can hire maids to come clean houses and assist in the most labor-intense aspects of kids without significantly increasing the cost of living. Additionally, if fathers live less than 20 minutes from their places of work, then women will be more likely to discount the cost of having kids because their partners will be nearby in the event of emergency, et cetera.
Templexious
1yr ago
Sounds like you're strung up on is/ought.
The Supreme Court is an inherently political institution, therefore it is good to ensure that we cycle through members of our highest tiers of government on a regular basis to prevent too much power creep.
Templexious
1yr ago
The severability section at the end amuses me greatly.
Templexious
1yr ago
That is, in fact, the premise of both democracy and republicanism. Until some other form of governance appears, it is what the USA operates under.
Templexious
1yr ago
Catastrophizing over a long-ass shot like this is unwarranted. This SCOTUS reform bullshit is less likely to happen than Trump being elected for a second term. Additionally, this catastrophozing has the exact same crunch as the people who cried over Jan 6th, calling the participants traitors.
Therefore, until we have a text that actually states how it would work, there is really no point in debating exactly what would happen.
Additionally, if I was so concerned about this, the solution would simply be to make sure to win and get justices in that will give rulings I want on a consistent basis. That would necessarily require making sure my party continues to get elected.
Similar to how the "fix" to project 2025 for Democrats, should it succeed, is to make sure you win the follow-up elections.
Templexious
1yr ago
Mild aside: whenever it's discussed if Google is censoring things, an old litmus test was to search for the documentary Demographic Winter.
It's a pretty banal HBD documentary all in all. They even stay out of discussing IQ! However, for a while there the entire thing had gone down the "we're definitely not censoring anything" memoryhole. It's only been un-search-holed in the last year or so.
Templexious
1yr ago
There was a similar pro-abortion style of ad that was run back during the McCain v Obama era, so at the very least, it's not a new style of Ad.
Templexious
1yr ago
Does it matter?
Trump flops on all the hard questions in a way that asks whether or not there is anything deeper in there than making the liberals cry. Of course there is, and of course he understands but he and every supporter of his don't actually care about that.
Getting dragged into the harder questions is a sign of weakness.
Templexious
1yr ago
fabricating
Not having read your article, and in isolation of whether or not this is actually a "problem", per se, this seems like a bad-faith article. If you go back and read old lesswrong articles and their comments, you will find now-known neoreactionaries like hanson posting on lesswrong, including roko.
Additionally, breitbart in 2016: https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/03/29/an-establishment-conservatives-guide-to-the-alt-right/
In your defense, even lesswrong somewhat disagreed
Templexious
1yr ago
It's usually not very strict, otherwise you would hear about things like subway's breads being classified as cake from the US instead of just the EU.
Templexious
1yr ago
I have nothing but applause for your constitution in being able to endure everything between those polar points.
Templexious
1yr ago
I've yet to see the mods knock an actually-good two-to-three paragraph post, so I'm dubious this is a report on the reality of the moderation's behaviors.
Seems self-evident that it's more difficult to moderate six+ paragraphs with five sentences each on each comment.
How well has smearing Rogan worked? Not well at all, it seems. Singers tend not to be taken as seriously as Rogan, but she is best ignored.
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