Throwaway05
12hr ago
Copy that.
Throwaway05
15hr ago
Nothing about Trump running again is credible. He has none of the institutional support required to take such a big step, he's already old as hell and would be considerably older by the time it is relevant.
Such a sweeping thing for the most widely criticized president of all time would require things like the military being on board and they simply are not and there is no credible path for them to become so.
It makes no sense.
Thinking it is likely (regardless of his interest or lack) is a sign that he's broken your brain and you need to take a step back and think about actual motivations, priors, and so on.
Throwaway05
15hr ago
This is a problem entirely of the lefts making.
You want to have a good argument for why they shouldn't have masks? Don't be evil.
Harassment, stalking, doxxing, and violence are the tools of evil - and the left feels that way when it happens to those they support.
The need and desire for masks are caused by the actions of the same bad actors demanding that they don't have masks.
You don't like it? Fair - but fix the actual problem first.
Throwaway05
21hr ago
He's literally just trolling. One time he was meeting with Dem congressional leadership and offered them the hats.
Throwaway05
21hr ago
- No Masks – Prohibit ICE and immigration enforcement agents from wearing face coverings.
This is what suggests to me that the situation is pure power politics. The reason for the face coverings is targeted harassment, doxing, stalking, and even violence.
Demands on this front aren't credible given the environment.
It's complaining about a problem that they caused.
Would love to see someone (with awareness of the circumstances!!) steel man the request.
Throwaway05
3d ago
Really? Do you have a link that's crazy it got (more or less) confirmed.
Throwaway05
3d ago
hat I don't understand is why people with this personality -- which is often skeptical, critical, capable of immense analysis of technological and engineering tradeoffs
As someone who is old enough to remember how tech people used to be (and is more or less one of them), this change makes zero sense to me.
Throwaway05
3d ago
I would seriously guess not anymore.
A lot of Blue's had their brain break in the last few weeks - it's even being reported by mainstream media (Mark Halperin)
Throwaway05
4d ago
can hardly name another two (Mother of Learning, and Reverend Insanity).
Have you read The Perfect Run?
Much more humor focused, but still pretty great.
Throwaway05
4d ago
It was completely and disappointingly unhinged, every stereotype of disgruntled leftists, 0-100, etc.
Throwaway05
4d ago
left causes a small but significant fraction of their institutionally embedded partisans to lose control and let their masks slip.
Just as an example, Technology Connections (calm, nice, midwest technology YouTuber) just went absolutely brain numbingly ballistic after an incredible video on renewables, nullifying all the work.
I can totally imagine a pro fossil fuel person watching the video, changing their mind, watching the coda about politics, and then doubling down...
I wish supposedly objective people would stop doing this.
Throwaway05
5d ago
Proving your point, it's "pore" not "pour" (blame autocorrect?)
My grammar is ass. Any time it is not ass, know that I spent far too much time on writing it.
Am I capable of correct grammar? Possibly.
Do I want to? No.
Is this the perk of seniority (at least at work)? Yes.
Does this hopefully further my point given that I ideally have established myself as a reasonably educated and intelligent person in ten years posting here and at our predecessors? Dunno.
Throwaway05
5d ago
15 years ago this would have triggered me, now on the other side? bhahaahahaha
Throwaway05
5d ago
Absolutely common in medicine, finance, tech. Less so government but for some people, well look at Trump posting.
When you are at the top of the heap you don't need to angst about making sure you used good grammar and avoided typos, you just vomit out something for everyone else to translate.
Good managers understand their impact on the staff but most people aren't good managers, casual(ish) communication is a thing, and the absolute apex types aren't really interested in being good managers most of the time even if they can be.
It's a meme in medicine because of attendings vomiting out word salad instruction (especially for research) that students pour over like they need the Rosetta Stone.
I do this at work all the time. We have an hour marked for teaching? I'll slowly, calmly, and didactically teach you the pathophys associated with what we got up to today.
Send me an email at 11pm saying you won't be at the hospital tomorrow because of a curricular responsibility? I'm responding with "Sur" at 5am.
Throwaway05
5d ago
We've done at least one since then, the anti-Trump media industrial complex has other things to focus on at this moment so they are doing that.
Throwaway05
6d ago
Related: I had an intensely black pilling moment during Trump's loss. I have family members in politics who (before and after) would be willing to admit that they would do things, including illegal things, to prevent Trump from getting reelected. Including tampering with the election.
No engagement with how anti-democratic that is, how concerning. Everything was justified to oppose Trump. Everything.
Throwaway05
6d ago
I can tell you I've seen a bunch of testimonials, public statements, and mainstream media coverage all acknowledge this effect.
You don't need to experience it but many, many people did.
No value judgement on that.
Throwaway05
6d ago
Late to this conversation but I want to reinforce that a large part of what Charlie Kirk was, was a person who put voice and face to the disenfranchised and oppressed group on college campuses.
The mistreatment of the right in blue environments is severe and real and he was giving people a safe space to not feel that way.
For that reason his death is radicalizing in multiple ways.
Throwaway05
6d ago
low level of charity in this thread,
Ugh, sorry about that. :(
Throwaway05
6d ago
You know I've never had any issue with treating patients who are rapists, murderers, and pedophiles (and rarely even worse).
But my now my friends and colleagues are starting to remind me of those people...
Throwaway05
7d ago
we are a nation of civilized people governed by rules and laws.
One of the growing conclusions that the anti-woke are coming to is that the left doesn't believe in rules and laws and is tired of having that used against them.
Noem calls this guy a domestic terrorist and everyone loses their mind. Everyone on their mother on the left call it an assassination or an execution? Silence.
If you play pure power politics don't be surprised if the other side starts doing that to.
I don't like it but you can't cooperative with defect bot.
Throwaway05
7d ago
This is largely what I think. I think the OP is hypocritical - he's discovered a video that makes Pretti look like a horrible person, so he concludes that Pretti 'deserved it'.
The new video doesn't change anything for me.
Nor have I landed on deserve it as you mean.
And - you can absolutely come up with the conclusion that he was a bad person. Just because you think you are right doesn't make you moral or right. Don't fight the police. Don't destroy public property. Those are pretty good standards for social vs. anti-social behavior.
Throwaway05
7d ago
I don't know how many times we have to explain "shooting to wound" isn't a thing and "shoot until the threat is eliminated" is standard practice.
It comes up every time, people don't get the message. That is nobody's fault but yours.
Once the mistake is made nobody is going to be able to abort the situation until afterwards.
Throwaway05
7d ago
Lots of investigation and litigation did little to change any minds in the Rittenhouse case, even though it was immediately obvious it was one of the clearest self defense cases ever.
The Good case requires no investigation - all the necessary information was immediately available, it's obvious the shoot was fine. Further information only provided additional evidence Good was an idiot and may provide some rhetorical flourish.
This case is a tragedy, but again additional information isn't needed, it just might soften the view for some people who don't understand what is going on.
Most of the criticism is coming from people who don't have any understanding of how this works, in the context of a social milieu and lying media that lets this ignorance get passed around long enough to be fact.
Take a look at the Good case - you have a ton of armchair quarterbacking going frame by frame trying to find an excuse to blame Ice. People do not operate at those decision speeds. It's just attempts to retroactively justify outrage.
You can say that my clarity is false and you don't agree on the facts, but then we are just looking at a two screen world - any investigate is meaningless for truth seeking, it's just about rhetoric and propaganda.
That's a completely different thing though.
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