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.
4hr 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.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
2hr ago
I don't think it was done to the Nazis qua being a Nazi, it was done because they materially lied about it during naturalization.
Yes, but if they'd admitted to being a Nazi, they wouldn't have been naturalized. The proposed Hamasnik deportations are for the same reason.
Saying otherwise is invited gaming an already extremely gameable immigration system with the idea that if you perpetuate a fraud, tough luck it's just done.
My preferred solution would be a statute of limitations; maybe 3 years for ordinary stuff, 7 years for really bad stuff.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
2hr ago
But on the topic of patriotism: In so far as each citizen is a cell of the body civic - patriotism is a must-have.
"In so far". But citizens are not cells of the body civic in American political philosophy. That's a characteristic of more communitarian/corporatist philosophies such as Fascism.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
16hr ago
Same here. Do you know why the reorgs happen so often? It's exhausting.
I think it's largely manueverings associated with the corporate game-of-thrones.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
20hr ago
Should Washington state consider revoking other privileged positions? Why should spouse, lawyer and doctor be exempt?
The question for the state is always "why should anyone be exempt"; the state, representing society and thus being morally paramount, surely has a compelling interest in preventing crimes that overrides any mere personal bonds. The limits of this are whether priests, doctors, spouses, and lawyers will spill rather than be held in contempt, and whether the state has the capacity to hold them until they spill. With ever-increasing state capacity, doctor-patient privilege has pretty much been nuked in criminal matters; doctors have gone from privileged to mandatory-report, and of course their own ethics boards cheered along with this. Spousal privilege can in practice be broken when children are involved; the state can move to take the children away and promise to stop if the silent spouse testifies. Lawyer privilege has held better, because lawyers are in a better position to defend it, making up a large part of the system as they do.
Priest privilege has mostly held because Catholic priests are really stubborn about it, as in not-yielding-under-torture stubborn. But with the decline of religion, they may well lose enough public support that routinely tossing old Father McGee in jail forever because he won't testify against Chester the Molestor will be fine, and eventually they'll yield too.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
2d 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.
19hr ago
Giving up on telling the dumb kids they can be doctors is probably a moral good but I'm not sure it opens up efficiency gains?
If we're spending a fortune, futilely, to bring up the low end and we stop doing that with no change in results, that's an efficiency gain.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
17hr ago
Doesn't resurrection entail a new body being created? The old one seems pretty irrelevant.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
You're objecting to a billionaire Wharton grad, a graduate of the London School of Economics who happens to be a scion of a family that has been described in terms similar to royalty, and an entertainer with a long and illustrious career.
I don't think you'd know Elite Human Capital if it leg-dropped you.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
(And that story itself is basically just a modernization of Cain's justification for killing Abel.)
To give the traditionalists their due, Cain WAS the bad guy in that story.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
3d ago
That the US has a "Zionist Occupied Government (ZOG)" is a pretty common conspiracy theory. I think SS and the other local dissident right members could tell you all about it.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
2d ago
There's the difference between HBD as-in "Human genetics drift over time as populations are isolated, let's explore those differences" and HBD as-in "The genetic differences between populations can explain why the world looks like it does today[1]."
This is not the difference between 'nuance' and 'not-nuance', this is the difference between 'crimestop' and science. It is in a way similar to the Catholic Church's acceptance of heliocentrism as a mere 'calculating device'. 'Nuance' does not require that what you are studying have no effect on the real world.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
or even done the George Floyd thing of portraying fentanyl-users as victims of someone other than themselves
There's definitely right-wingers who have jumped on the "it's Pharma/The Sacklers/Purdue's fault" bandwagon, and some who blame China.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
It's an end to affirmative action, not establishing a racial caste system.
Right. The more cynical HBDer will note that the racial caste system establishes itself as a result of HBD... even given heroic efforts to suppress it.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
Israel would not need to nuke Gaza to engage in successful total warfare. Nor would they want to; it's too damned close and anyway an Israel willing to make such total war would want Gaza's land for itself (or at least to lease to Trump for his resort)
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
My core point stands uncontested.
"Uncontested". I do not think that word means what you think it means.
HBD the theory hides behind HBD the science in order to try to gain legitimacy as a "grand-theory of why the world is the way it is" despite every "grand-theory of why the world is the way it is" being half-baked and not capable of standing up to any critical analysis.
Error on top of error. It is not enough to merely declare that every "grand-theory of why the world is the way it is" is half-baked. Nor does it matter that something does not stand up to "critical analysis", if you mean that in the postmodern sense. And certainly it is not a mark against HBD that it tries to explain aspects of the world.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
4d ago
Anyway, socialism seems like a fair response to the complete ineptitude of our political class.
It is a fair response to the complete ineptitude of our political class to put our political class in more complete charge of what is now in the private sphere? This seems utterly quixotic.
That being said, I don't think society is unfixable. I just think that political solutions are pointless. We need what has always been the core of strong societies - a culture that promotes and encourages personal virtue. Without that, you have nothing.
You cannot build or keep a culture that promotes and encourages personal virtue with a political system that does that opposite, like socialism does.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
4d ago
I really wish he will win. And I really wish he succeeds in implementing his program, just so that USA will see first hand the results of those policies.
Doesn't work. First because he'll declare it worked even if it didn't, and the media will back him up. Second, because "the Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire"
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
3d ago
Damn right. They'll be delivered.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
2d ago
Yes I often dismiss whole belief systems, because there are many quite shit belief systems
And yet you hang on to socialism.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
8d ago
So... even though the twin studies can't really be proven, despite two decades of intensive, worldwide research focus and ungodly amounts of funding, he still argues they are "mostly right."
Twin studies are robust and reproducible. What can't be "proven" is the particular genes behind the heritability.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
4d ago
One of the richest men in the world is throwing a scandalous marriage with a classless woman
Bezos was born in Albuquerque (before Breaking Bad, known mainly as the place Bugs Bunny took a wrong turn at), to recently-wed teenaged parents who divorced shortly thereafter. Class? Why would you expect it?
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
4d ago
For most of the last 50 years we haven't been doing "assimilate or GTFO". We did it before that and managed to assimilate large groups.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
3d ago
It's very funny - if these weren't the guys also steering the direction of the global economy and society which affects all the rest of us, and they've got the tastes and inclinations of when they were seventeen and that hot girl in high school didn't even look twice at them. Now Jeff is living the dream of having that hot girl finally on his arm and in his bed.
No. Besides marrying the quite attractive MacKenzie Scott Tuttle at 29, he dated a girl named Ursula Werner at 17. You can sneer at Bezos for embodying revenge-of-the-nerds fantasies, but you'll have no factual backing for it. (Same goes for Musk, BTW)
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.
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