The_Nybbler
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The_Nybbler
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3d ago
Everyone remembers that, but forgets the centuries where the lords and nobles had peasants executed for any offense or no offense. It's bad to be on top come the revolution, but good every other time.
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1d ago
The normative "peace protestor" wasn't pledging allegiance to the USSR, but they were doing the Soviet's bidding just the same. Different players, same playbook.
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1d ago
The protests are neither (at least not predominantly) antisemitic nor a resurgence of 20th century antisemitism.
Which is why the protesters wave the flag of Hamas and chant about how Jews should go back to Poland.
The fact that there are foolish Jews who cleave to their enemies does not change this.
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28d ago
I suspect the people who came up with this have no idea anyone would object; they probably don't even know any "Easter Worshippers", aside maybe from their deplorable great-uncle.
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8d ago
A better analogy would be: "If a cop stops you unjustly, don't ignore them or resist, but comply politely and address the issue through the proper channels."
Which is a lie Americans tell themselves. Once you comply politely, if you're not arrested, the issue is over. There are no proper channels to go through that will impose any consequences on the cop.
Furthermore, if you do comply, and you are arrested and charged, and you complain, the courts may find that your compliance made the whole thing voluntary, and therefore you have no grounds for complaint.
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6d ago
As far as I know, BLM always opposed body cams.
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11d ago
Capgains taxes are fine, and even desirable if you want to lower or stabilize the gini coefficient.
And why would you want to cut the top off your economy?
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15d ago
California has outlawed home generators, which means New York will be next, and then the country. So it's darkness for everyone.
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18d ago
I’m pretty sure that Israel will ethnically cleanse Gaza and get away with it
Gaza is already ethnically spotless.
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28d ago
Ah, if you don't like the numbers, just wave them away.
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19d ago
I posit the greatest post-war cultural divide in America is along educational attainment, not race or ethnicity or even politics.
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This is could be related to the so-called 30 point IQ communications gap, but also cultural capital and literal capital.
And yet immigrant groups who had very little literal capital managed to succeed. Interventions based on literal capital fail. When we compare groups in the same neighborhoods, gaps remain. Educational attainment is downstream of something. The case for "cultural capital" is IMO shaky but can be made. The case for literal capital just doesn't hold up.
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28d ago
Maybe it's Seasonal Affective Disorder caused by magic dirt latitude and not anything inheritable?
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5d ago
Maybe, though I have my doubts. Not before that particular bit of pravda become part of it, I'd wager.
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13d ago
Few people in Iran supports the current regime.
Why should I believe that?
And if they do reconstitute - you kill them again. Until they are tired of dying
I'm not sure why I, or the United States, should care so much. If they did anything significant enough to the US I can see killing them until whoever replaces them includes "don't fuck with the Great Satan" among their policies, but other than that, such a policy seems pointless.
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13d ago
Do you know what women don't like? Losers.
I present you the Parable of Henry.
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28d ago
More people means more innovation, production, efficiencies of scale.
Have you met people?
The problem is that people aren't fungible. Some people produce innovation, production, efficiencies of scale. The bulk of people do the ordinary work to keep civilization running and implement (if not originate) those innovations. A good chunk live on welfare, charity, and fraud and contribute far less than they take. And another chunk actively steals and destroys. Most incentives for fertility produce more of the last two groups, and even encourage people to leave the second group for the third.
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11d ago
Bezos's wealth does not cause anyone to be poorer; there's no "strangling" of the bottom of the economy by the top.
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14d ago
Hard to say. Not a lot of movement since 2009, but there's a lot of confounding factors. But we keep getting more and more expensive features added in the name of safety.
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24d ago
The desirability of selective immigration follows from HBD, but the desirability of race-based selective immigration does not. It does mean it's a shortcut that can be beneficial, but that's all; skimming the cream of populations has generally worked for the US.
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27d ago
The US intelligence community is large and contains all sorts of people such as analysts, techies, killers, and, yes, a LOT of bureaucrats.
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28d ago
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1d ago
Which gets thrown into the Christians' faces whenever said Christians complain about the actions of people more pathetic than themselves. And the Christians capitulate.
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13d ago
You only need to summary execute couple of Ayatollah and decimate the revolutionary guard - the people of Iran will do the rest.
Where "the rest" is anoint a few more Ayatollahs and reconstitute the guard, and hate America even more with even better reason?
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7d ago
It turns out that naming the forces and pointing out their actions and advocates does not actually convince anyone. No level of evidence is sufficient for those who would rather sneer.
I can certainly impugn the whole protest movement, since it is a whole.
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