The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
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The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
5d ago
Strength
Terry Hogan
Health
Hard to demonstrate exceptional health, but I haven't seen a conspicuous lack of health in the Trump administration.
Beauty.
Natalie Winters (and in fact the beauty of a number of MAGA women, at least by DC standards, has been noted elsewhere)
Intelligence.
J.D. Vance, but also Terry Hogan and Tulsi Gabbard and RFK and most of the rest. There are few dummies.
Fertility.
Elon of course. Trump. RFK Jr. MTG.
Truth
Ah, alas, this is politics.
Reason
Vance
Vitality
Trump, Hogan, MTG, Winters, others.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
10d ago
Right. No one's willing to make or defend the counter proposal of "You get nothing this time and furthermore we've decided we're taking away what you got last time", so it can only move in one direction.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
11d ago
I didn't like denaturalization well-after-the-fact when they were doing it to superannuated Nazis. Now that they're threatening to do it to Hamasniks (and not nearly as far after the fact!) my attitude is that the precedent is established and now the people and organizations who supported it before ought to suck it up. On a meta level, the reasons for not establishing bad precedent in the first place don't hold if you can ensure said precedents are only used against your enemies, so using such bad precedents against those who supported them is the correct moves for opponents of those supporters.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
5d ago
The problem is some of the #killallmen posters are serious. And they tend to get power in the movement, and their less-serious counterparts never seem to take them aside, horrified, and explain (to them) how no, this is hyperbole.
Similarly I suspect most of our Naziposters, given a knife and a bunch of tied-up Jews, would chicken out. But there's probably one or two that would happily cut some throats... and the others, while relieved that they didn't have to do it, would neither stop them nor re-examine their own views.
The biggest difference is that people outside the movement are less likely to excuse the Naziposters than the #killallmen group; being a performative Nazi is still a BAD thing to most, while too many people will say the #killallmen group 'have a point'. So the Naziposters are less dangerous through no fault of their own.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
7d ago
A world with no fraud would have to be a high-trust society, would it not?
No, it could be a panopticon. No trust at all, but everything is verified.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
5d ago
It does irk me that famines in Ireland, British India, Africa, ancient regime France, ancient China, Tsarist Russia and the United States
Outside of the Civil War and its immediate aftermath, there has never been a famine in the United States. No, not even the Dust Bowl.
Irish and British Indian famines often ARE blamed on mass murder.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
6d ago
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
3d ago
Why do you think MAGA was united against bombing Iran or about Epstein? Aside from the very-online right portion? (Anyway, if there's nothing there with Epstein, Trump can hardly produce it) But if this was true, it would demonstrate the opposite of your point -- that MAGA is NOT what Trump says it is.
Stephen Miller obviously advised Trump against any sort of farmworker amnesty, but Trump had to know he would. The question is why Trump would listen to Miller in this instance. And that could well be because MAGA really was fairly well united against that.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
3d ago
But they definitely indicate a person who is bad news.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
6d ago
I believe a lot of the lack of institutional pushback was down to the election of Trump, which made plenty of liberals go insane and abandon their principles. There was both this radicalising force and a desire to close ranks.
Ante hoc ergo non propter hoc. That is, all this stuff, without institutional pushback (and often with full-throated institutional support) pre-dates Trump's election. Yes, Trump's election made them go insane, but they weren't pushing back before either.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
6d ago
This story made the NYC radio news. One of the examples they have was grok responding to a post calling the girls killed in the Texas floods "Future Fascists of America" with (from memory) "Hitler would know how to handle this sort of anti-white racism". No recognition at all that the original post might have been bad.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
10d ago
The cuts to science funding seem likely to do major damage to American R&D, cause a mass exodus of skilled workers to Europe, and give China the opportunity to get even farther ahead of us in key fields such as battery development.
The damage was done. The science funding was being used for woke first, climate alarmism second, and any useful science well after that. Politico did an article on the "scientific refugees" moving to France; those identified included only a climate historian, a climate scientist and his wife "who studies the intersection of judicial systems and democracies".
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
8d ago
RTTL’s logo looks like a swastika
Not really, no. It has some right angles is all.
I expect now that they've been made, the Arkansas government will crush them one way or another.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
7d ago
The Black's response to facing racial discrimination was the civil rights movement, which was way more effective than any attempt to build a black-only community in the US or elsewhere would have been.
The Civil Rights Movement allowed them to build or expand black-only communities in many major northern metropolitan areas (the South, of course, already had them).
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
7d ago
Worried about TikTok promoting harmful behavior? Set up a general framework which video platforms liable (e.g. once they have been notified).
No, this is worse that a ban on TikTok. This gives all platforms incentive to stifle speech, raises barriers to entry to new platforms (because of the liability risk) and enriches insurance companies who will become the mostly-hidden arbiters of speech.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
8d ago
A flash of light and a loud bang followed by my phone announcing a thunderstorm warning happens at least several times a summer. Yeah, and no shit...
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
10d ago
Because the conclusions of any given paper are the same "Climate change is worse than we thought in some new way, it's caused more by human activity than we thought, we're all going to die even sooner than we thought, and if there's any chance to avert catastrophe it's in turning over control of all energy usage to boards of people like me who will be stewards for the common good." If this is true, we've already heard and we don't need any more. If it's false, it's even more useless.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
2d ago
A strawberry picker that's slow, isn't actually available and apparently works only on hydroponic berries? I think Juan Enrique still has his job. Maybe another 5-10 years it'll make a dent, assuming the product isn't entirely fake.
Tomatoes are indeed largely automatically harvested. The catch is... well, do you think a tomato you buy in the grocery store could stand up to what that robot is doing? Nope... those are tomatoes for processing, not for eating fresh.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
6d ago
Wasn't the last Alien movie decent? The one where it was a bunch of teenagers trying to make it off a colony by looting a space station?
So bad I couldn't finish it even when I was just watching it on the bike trainer.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
2d ago
· Edited 2d ago
7.77 million tons of rice production annually isn’t trivial
It's about 15% more than US rice production, and Japan's biggest crop by far. Meanwhile, the US with only roughly 3 times the population also produces 8.5 million tons of sorghum, 48 million tons of wheat, 117 million tons of soybeans (which Japan imports a good deal of), and 370 million tons of corn. Of course, these are all cereal grains and all subject to harvesting and processing with automation; Japan no longer has to rely on peasants with sickles and hand flails. That's why nobody talks about rice pickers but rather fruit pickers. Automated fruit harvesting, at least for first quality fruits, is something that hasn't been solved for many fruits.
Green tea is a little more like fruit, in that the top quality stuff is hand picked, but harvesting of lower quality stuff is automated. But 77,000 tons really is trivial.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
13d ago
My understanding is that it's not a hypothesis founded or invoked with nuance, which is what you're trying to insert here.
Oh, no, there are a lot of nuanced HBD people who will talk to you all day about mitochondrial haplotype this and Y-chromosome that. Or there were, anyway, I haven't seen them around in a while; they just got called racists like all the others.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
3d ago
Illegals and ex-cons. Apparently current-cons too; some meatpackers employ people on work programs from prisons, which is as close to slavery as you can get legally.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
2d ago
It's not, the product is still not available. Which makes me suspect "entirely fake".
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
11d ago
There's a lot of hype and bluster but it doesn't appear different in kind than the sort of omnibus bills that have become common. Section 174 is the big win. The SALT deduction cap is a lot of sound and fury signifying little; some house-poors in California and NY/NJ will benefit, but most of those who would benefit from a higher cap will have incomes too high to take advantage of that. I think it ended up being a $40,000 cap up to $500,000 in income, phasing back to $10,000 by $600,000, but the numbers changed a lot and that may not be the final. Reducing the clean energy stuff is all good; getting Tesla (or Tesla buyers, depending on incidence) off the tit is good, cutting off the various scammers is even better.
but also singularly terrified of the massive increase to the ICE budget... It definitely looks like trump is making a military force loyal to him personally because he doesn't trust the loyalty of the existing forces.
This is just TDS, I'm afraid. ICE is not personally loyal to Trump, and getting more money in a budget will not make them so. If they are loyal to Trump as President and other existing forces are not (perhaps having been captured in the march through the institutions), then that's a bad situation and increasing their budget is probably a good thing.
This is pretty much "I mean, say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos." Their "lifestyle" is organized crime, up to and including murder.
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