anti_dan
1yr ago
Because there is plenty of intellectual opposition to it aside from revulsion, such as genuine fear for the children that appear to be being abused.
anti_dan
1yr ago
It seems obvious to me that “gender” is a useful term, even if not in the way that some trans activists would prefer. Start by treating “male” and “female” as strictly biological terms defined in the obvious way, ignoring all edge cases. Some activities are clearly aligned with one these categories. Males are more likely to do testosterone-fueled activities like lifting heavy things and fighting.
Break down for me why you think gender is a useful term. To me it appears almost entirely useless at best, and intentionally misleading in practice. It was more or less invented by activists and saw no real use until the last few decades. And, of course, the guy most credited with inventing it drove a child to suicide with his "treatments".
anti_dan
1yr ago
The laws are written with extremely unintelligent people in mind as the clients. Writing them in a way to exclude some of these communities would be the same as eliminating them.
anti_dan
1yr ago
From my perspective, Israel is simply the most reliable country in a strategically important area. The rest are loonies like Iran, unstable, like Egypt and Syria, or simply children (Palestine). Overall it would be nice to be able to disengage from the Middle East a bit more, but until we magic up batteries that can store 60 days of electricity use for a trivial price, they are going to remain important.
anti_dan
1yr ago
Well it really depends. It would be hard to become twitter if, from the beginning, you banned feminist posts. Just as twitter did not become twitter by being a censorious leftist platform. Its formation is more of a bait and switch. Start off as nearly a maximalist free speech platform to hoover up as many users as possible, then when you achieve that, you leverage that for political ends. Almost every major tech platform that is currently censoring the right, had, at its founding, right wing power users that drove huge percentages of their current users to the platform.
anti_dan
1yr ago
Its not neutral, or good, its bad, because it is world-breaking. Sure, if you are writing a story set in the fantasy equivalent of Constantinople, a bustling trade hub for merchants and people of all places, and the capitol of a diverse empire, go ham with diversity. If your setting is a remote Finnish town, or a insular group of hunter gatherers that seem to have shunned all outsiders for hundreds of generations, then diversity is just idiotic and results in confusion.
anti_dan
1yr ago
Right wing censorship seems vastly exaggerated from people on the left and grey tribes wherever I see it discussed. The NYT has been covering for communists since WWI.
anti_dan
1yr ago
The Christian right might have been trying, but they accomplished nothing. Even at the time. It wasn't just a long term loss, they lost all the short term battles as well. The major media outlets all ignored them and kept pushing left wing ideas the entire time.
anti_dan
1yr ago
The movement literally is full of Ph.Ds and law degrees who get tripped up over the question "what is a woman?"
anti_dan
1yr ago
Desantis could get most illegal immigrants to leave Florida if he really wanted to. Illegal immigrants generally need to work. If an area made it so they could not find work, most illegal immigrants would leave that area. You can make it hard to find work for illegal immigrants by passing severe and immediate penalties for employers that employ illegal immigrants, and boosting the agencies investigating such crimes.
This is not possible. Arizona tried a form of it during the Obama administration and lost in court.
anti_dan
1yr ago
I suppose my point is that haven't we been doing that
Why do you think this? There has been billions spent in aid to those countries over the years. We engage with free trade with them which would result in rapid QOL improvements to any nation, if they would just stop voting for socialists and engaging in crime.
anti_dan
1yr ago
And how should I react in a way that would satisfy them? Donate money or time to organizations that provide aid to illegal immigrants?
House them in your apartment to start. Immediately advocate for their deportation once their asylum claim is shown to be nonsense.
anti_dan
1yr ago
Segregated cities that used to contain the exact red tribe folks that fled due to unregulated minority violence.
anti_dan
1yr ago
I think under Arizona v. US (2012) any attempt to muscularly enforce such provisions would result in a DOJ lawsuit and injunction.
E-verify is different than a separate system because it is actually intended as a Federal-State-Business cooperative at the outset.
anti_dan
1yr ago
I don't really believe in diminishing marginal utility in its strong form. I also don't think the modern welfare state does much to eliminate the real sufferings of poverty, its more akin to a heroine drip for addicts. And on top of that, the taxation for a welfare state reduces economic dynamism (as does the welfare state itself, by disincentivizing work for some populations).
Overall, I find the welfare state an overwhelmingly unredeemable invention that only justifies itself with morally monstrous arguments along the lines of "think of the children."
anti_dan
1yr ago
What are the "real sufferings of poverty", then?
In America, and most industrialized nations, its the fact that the person remains nonfunctional.
anti_dan
1yr ago
3'' is tiny though. I have a bigger "knife" in my briefcase as a white collar worker. That being a letter opener.
anti_dan
1yr ago
It seems that the "XXX control" movements share a near pathological need to ignore the criminals and focus on the implement they happen to be using at that time. I don't know how to fix this, but mocking knife control is at least as productive as taking it seriously.
anti_dan
1yr ago
You don’t even need to ignore the criminals to get this behavior. Look at airport security—it targets the perpetrators pretty hard with no-fly lists, criminal penalties and so on. But the far more visible policy is the one that messes with everyone’s stuff.
Yes, and the TSA is generally retarded and ineffectual. Just like anti-knife policies.
Knife control isn’t inherently any stupider than lots of laws.
No, it is, because in practice it targets people ignorant of the law or outside the scope of the problem actually being addressed.
Revoking a license for drunk driving is really inconveniencing the (former) driver, and it can’t stop him from getting in a car...just make it really unappealing and costly.
This argument would make sense if we never punished drunk drivers who hit people, but always punished drunk drivers who don't hit people, which is how most "XXX control" laws work.
The U.K. is pretty light on guns, and it’s not impossible they could impose similar barriers for knives. If so, for what it’s worth, it probably would reduce the number of football-hooligan-hate-crime-knifings. Whether that is a number worth the cost...well, I’ll leave that to the Brits to decide.
Reducing the number of football hooligan stabbings from zero to super zero doesn't seem like all that good of a goal for me. At best its trading 100 false arrests for one pre-emptive hooligan stabber. The opposite of a rational and fair justice system.
anti_dan
1yr ago
Sources are now saying not only were there possibly multiple women, but also one is the wife of someone in the ownership group.
anti_dan
1yr ago
How should we punish comparatively minor offenses? I think we should come down hard on crimes that don't produce a body like thievery and armed robbery since they lower trust and make people feel unsafe, even if the objective harm they have is minor compared to some white-collar crimes.
None of those are minor crimes. Indeed, white collar crimes are the type that have the least intuitive reason for actually jailing them, because sullying their reputation is enough to prevent their repeat. Theft is a serious crime prone to repeating, which is why incapacitation via jailing is appropriate.
I would 100% be on board with increasing certainty, but I question the severity argument. The problem with it is what we've seen recently with the decarceration movement. There are lots of career criminals and repeat offenders. If they get an early parole (say 5 years) the critical component of prisons (seperating them from us) is lost, and they just go out and rape another person, and often they escalate from battery to kidnapping to murder-rape.
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