ToZanarkand
Some day the dream will end
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ToZanarkand
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17d ago
That's fair.
ToZanarkand
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18d ago
Is it true that Starmer doesn't like this sort of thing? AFAIK he only started acting tough on the sentencing council once it became an awkward political issue, and on a more abstract level he seems to believe any outcome is sacrosanct as long as it's been determined by a legal body of some description.
ToZanarkand
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18d ago
It baffles me that these tribunals have the power to just dictate what jobs should pay.
I think this is the part of the story that's more important than wokeness or whatever; that ideological judges have such power in determining policy.
ToZanarkand
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20d ago
What if what they're doing is organised crime?
ToZanarkand
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28d ago
I actually think if there's a court order preventing the government from taking the black guy's phone, and the government knowingly grabbed it anyway, then the government should return it back to him. Yes, even if it seems counter-intuitive.
This sort of argument quickly leads to absurd places. Should the government return a kidnap victim to her kidnapper, if she was only found because a racist cop didn't like the look of some black guy who they later found out was hiding stolen children in his basement? Should the government refuse to act on the knowledge that a massive terrorist attack is being planned, if that knowledge was acquired by a racist cop roughing up a shifty-looking Arab?
ToZanarkand
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28d ago
Corbyn's only redeeming feature is being honest about how terrible he is.
Much of what the DR calls ‘based’ is just retarded antisociality rooted in the idea of either machismo or offending as many people as possible.
lol I enjoyed that bit.
ToZanarkand
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1mo ago
There seems to be serious protests going on in Turkey just now, does anyone know much about the particular details of what's going on? What the protesters want, how likely they are to get it, the political situation that led to it etc?
ToZanarkand
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1mo ago
Possibly - but then would a person susceptible to such explanations be likely to become a somewhat esteemed rationalist?
ToZanarkand
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1mo ago
IMO (which is also unprofessional!) it's the opposite. It's the autistic person who shouts out that the emperor has no clothes, after all.
ToZanarkand
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1mo ago
While it's obviously not a good thing for natsec group chats to involve unintended participants, I suspect there's a heavy partisanship element to all this. There wasn't such grave concerns being expressed by allies (or even the domestic US media) when a Biden staffer leaked intelligence to Iran, but it's much more politically acceptable to publicly criticize Trump, so there'll be a lot more grandstanding about worries with sharing intelligence etc.
ToZanarkand
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1mo ago
This gentleman is autistic. I'm sure we have more than our fair share, but that's a condition that predisposes a tendency to take things at face value without considering how much of it is virtue-signalling or social fiction.
I'm skeptical of this as an explanation in this instance, if only because of the fact that if he was predisposed to believe in such nonsensical ideas (whether due to autism or anything else) I don't see how he'd ever have gotten to the state of being taken seriously as a rationalist in the first place. After all, the topic of men vs women in sports won't be only contentious issue he's come across where there's a strong social incentive to take one side over the other.
Also, I know you're the psychiatrist, but wouldn't being autistic make it less likely you'd have the requisite cognitive machinery in place necessary to delude yourself about the state of the world for the purposes of social signalling?
ToZanarkand
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1mo ago
Touché.
Still my sense is that Turkey is substantially more democratic than Russia (I haven't heard of Erdogan's opponents being thrown out of windows). I'm no expert though, so will defer to those who are.
ToZanarkand
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1mo ago
Or even Turkey.
Erdogan was democratically elected.
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1mo ago
Very interesting. I'd have expected China to be way more centralised because it's, well, China. Maybe the much larger population plays a role?
I've not kept up with it so much, but I noticed a few people on /r/conservative commenting on how Putin made Trump look weak by making him wait on their recent phone call. Most Trump voters probably won't care - the MAGA crowd will support anything he does, and Ukraine isn't a priority to most of his other voters - but I wonder if there's a contingent of his followers he feels he's starting to lose face in front of.
ToZanarkand
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1mo ago
Israel's enemies chant "Death to America" because America supports Israel.
That's one of, but far from the only reason much of the Muslim world hates America, and a common talking point among IDS afflicted people who like to claim that if it weren't for Israel then there'd be no conflict in the ME, ever (not that I'm accusing you of this). Arab antipathy towards the west can be seen as far back as the early cold war, such as during the Suez crisis and in the general orientation of the region towards the Soviet Union years before the US began its relationship with Israel. The current Iranian regime's antipathy towards the US is substantially greater than towards Israel, who it opposes largely because of its alliance with the US.
ToZanarkand
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1mo ago
Prompt: what is it that makes Israel worthy of the friendship of the US whereas NATO is worthy of relegation given both would pull it into wars of choice half way around the world of no strategic importance?
Your premise is incorrect: America has no mutual defence clause with Israel, meaning that unlike NATO, it would not be pulled into a war involving Israel (compare Iran launching rockets at Israel to them hypothetically launching rockets at Germany, who would be within their rights to invoke article 5 and draw the US into a direct conflict with Iran).
It also helps that Israel's enemies also have a habit of chanting "Death to America" and have frequently killed American servicemen over the past several decades.
Follow-up: should Israel be the 51st state?
Only if you actually want the US to be directly involved in "wars of choice half way around the world of no strategic importance" given the sudden spike in numbers of new US citizens being fired at by terrorists.
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1mo ago
Two possibilities come to mind:
1/ The global coverage of media. We don't need to name things more descriptively because "we" all know what happened on those dates.
2/ Following the trend established by 9/11 - it was such an unprecedented event that it's not surprising it got named differently to other catastrophes.
ToZanarkand
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1mo ago
I mean, these people literally can't help themselves.
I had a brief look at that article and honestly couldn't help thinking there's something weird about calling a country independent while also implying it's unconditionally entitled to international aid to keep hundreds of thousands of its own citizens dying from AIDS.
ToZanarkand
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1mo ago
Donald Trump is showing himself to be everything his opponents feared, and everything his proponents denied. At this point I think everyone who was ever accused of TDS is owed an apology.
I mean, at the very least he hasn't yet brought about the Handmaid's Tale-style dystopia his presidency was supposedly going to usher in , so I think there's some way to go before declaring all his opponents' fears vindicated.
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1mo ago
I'm definitely an outsider, but surely the whole point with Hanania is that he's not pitching to a red tribe audience?
ToZanarkand
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1mo ago
I thought all mods got one?
ToZanarkand
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1mo ago
Vance is interesting. At times he'll speak thoughtfully and reflectively, and at others he'll sound like a teenage edgelord ("Childless cat ladies"). He's too obviously smart for it to be brainrot IMO, so my best guess is he's trying to gain popularity with the online right who he sees as crucial to his political ambitions.
Quotas can be bad or necessary, is how I would put it.
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