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.
4d 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.
4d ago
So they claim. But the king is unlikely to be willing to trade places with the peasant, so it seems this is an uneven bargain.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
4d ago
Japan imports a massive amount of food. This would be pretty dumb for the US to do, considering the massive amount of farmland we have.
(I believe the US is a net food importer by dollars, but not by calories)
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
4d ago
Americans should mow their own lawns
Eh, f--- that, I've got hay fever.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
4d ago
I don’t think farming is grunt work
It is, whether you think so or not, which is why historically when people got the chance they fled the farms for horrible factory jobs.
I don't see any reason it would be "innoble" or "beneath human dignity", but it's backbreaking.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
4d ago
AOC at least used to have a large group she spoke for, but if AOC and Nancy Pelosi disagreed, you certainly couldn't say AOC spoke for the left as a whole.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
4d ago
If Trump announced some kind of amnesty for farm workers, that would be MAGA.
No, in fact, MAGA got upset when it seemed he might and Trump backed off. Also note that MAGA was COVID-vaccine-skeptical and Trump was the opposite. That MAGA won't immediately dump Trump if he deviates from what they want doesn't mean MAGA is what Trump says it is.
But the "dissident right" just isn't MAGA in the first place.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
4d ago
I feel like this discussion is the missing ingredient to lots of the topics du jour. Let's take the leftward drift of young women- well social conservatism today seems to have, uh, not discussed what other people owe to them, only what they owe to other people.
Eh, I see this discussion a lot. One common line is that what other people (specifically, men, specifically, husbands) owed them -- mostly financial support and physical protection -- is something that they can now either provide for themselves or will be provided by the state, so they no longer need to offer anything.
But in general social conservatism is hierarchical, not reciprocal. Duties are owed to those higher up; parents, church, community. Even those things owed to another person of similar rank or lower down are not owed to them per se, but owed to them because it is ones duty to society to provide it. This is one of the reasons social conservatism is so stifling, especially to the young (who are low in the hierarchy).
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
4d ago
I'm OK with "racialist right" or the euphemistic "dissident right", but "woke right" is just a snarl, an attempt to force an equivalence with the woke left. Further, these people mostly aren't the MAGA right, and the Trump Administration cannot be said to speak for them.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
4d ago
Not only would Liz Cheney not agree, Elon Musk wouldn't either, so I don't believe this.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
4d ago
A cabinet secretary does in fact speak for the administration within their area of responsibility. They do not speak for the "woke right" (which itself is just a snarl term). That's like saying something Eric Adams says should be attributed to the progressive left (or to the Democratic Socialists of America, for a concrete group).
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
4d ago
What is your excuse for why China is able to do it while having a one standard deviation higher median IQ over America?
They likely don't; all those rural laborers don't show up in the IQ stats because they don't take the tests.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
4d 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.
4d ago
chinese lettering down the spine of a non-chinese-speaker
Which probably says "Translation server failed".
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
5d ago
I think it's pretty easy to figure your way out of a right-wing false-flag attempt aimed to implicate antifa or the left generally: Two trans people included. This wouldn't rule out third-party shit-stirring (Chinese or Russian?) false flags, but I think your reasoning does this. Also just using AR-15s isn't really enough to implicate the right except in the minds of the New York Times.
There's one false flag that I think you haven't ruled out, though, and that's the possibility that this was yet another FBI sting gone wrong. The FBI would have recruited Song under false pretenses, provided him with the guns and some plans, and planned to arrest the bunch at some point, but the group jumped the gun and actually did it. That's probably not what happened here, but it does fit their M.O.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
5d ago
Insurance just means that everyone pays a share for all of the robbery (plus a cut to the insurance company), and also that they're required to run their businesses in the way the insurance company (which is itself regulated by the state) demands. It's strictly inferior to stopping the crime.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
6d 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.
6d 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
George Lucas is capable of making a movie. As in, one. Which he did fifty years ago, and has been coasting on ever since.
He made at least two movies (ANH, ESB). Maybe as many as four (THX-1138, American Grafitti)
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
6d 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.
7d ago
The radio news is actually Audacy, no relation to the New York Times as far as I know.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
7d 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.
7d 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.
7d ago
Don't confuse what white progressives might say and what black people believe. They may be allied politically but they are very different groups.
Which does not mean that a large number of black people (or at least specifically black descendants of slaves) do not in fact still resent white people, for slavery, for Jim Crow, for various hurts both real and imagined.
If we look at Rittenhouse, of the three people who he shot, none of them were black.
The one he missed (Jump Kick Man) was black. Kenosha is about 10% black.
Child support payments are part of modernity, not social conservatism. Anyway, if people are discussing them they are discussing obligations owed to (in practice) women; the usual complaint here seems to be the obligation is one sided. (Which it is; the child support payments are owed even if the money is not used for the child or if visitation and/or joint custody rights are denied)
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