anti_dan
5mo ago
At any rate, appeals to "natural law" would also rule out homosexuality
This is increasingly looking like a feature, not a bug. Homosexuality's very low heritability has disturbing implications.
Sure, but what makes you so sure it's not a Chinese cardiologist issue?
Because its like data point 1000, and pedophilia is a natural extension for the LGBT movement.
anti_dan
6mo ago
Somewhat, yes. The West can beat Russia, but it can't be certain that wouldn't have high costs. It could also just let Russia win.
Hamas can't win unless the West turns on Israel fully. Which is why Gazan's dying is literally all they have. It won't work on someone like me who sees the strategy as fully transparent.
anti_dan
6mo ago
George Floyd was a race riot, and was not in response to excessive force used during an active shooter drill. But you do have a point that the same people who were up in arms about Floyd also will hold Israel to an impossible to meet standard, because the childish POV overlaps on the two issues.
anti_dan
7mo ago
but if we have a funding shortfall, who other than the most well off should we be raising taxes on first?
Its always best to tax people who can't avoid the tax. Which means things like VATs, Payroll taxes, and sales taxes. All the most efficient taxes are flat or regressive. Taxing the rich is a waste of time and resources with little actual benefit to the treasury.
anti_dan
7mo ago
real opposition defined by what? the fact that the speaker wasn't vacated?
There has not been a 8 vote defection by democrats on any important vote in the house in a decade at least.
worse, your attempted portrayal of this is Gaetz sided with team Democrat? this isn't supportable
They voted together on one of the most important questions of the 2 year term.
anti_dan
7mo ago
None of those people could have become speaker at all given McCarthy's tiny majority and rebellious faction within it. Just for starters, no Democrat leader has ever faced real opposition intra-party in my lifetime. Second, Boehner and Ryan didn't get much done, even with larger majorities and more favorable overall situations. McCarthy was basically a head football coach at Syracuse going 8-4/7-5, which is amazing.
I also disagree with your idea of what GOP leadership wanted. This "gimping" was done by Trump and the DNC, not anyone McCarthy aligned. First. McCarthy wasn't a shoo in for the speakership. He was a front runner, for sure, but would never have liked such a small majority. The majority is small, basically against his wishes, because a lot of Trump/Gaetz-aligned candidates lost. It is best to think of what just happened in a non-US context. What happened was that there were 3 parties: 1) The Democrat Party; 2 The Republican Party; 3) The Gaetz Party. The Gaetz party chose, in this leadership election, to be team Democrat.
Sure, I agree that McCarthy probably should have anticipated the backstab by Democrats, but that doesn't make it not a backstab. He probably was getting backstabbed by someone this time around no matter what. Either it was Gaetzers or the Romney/Cheneys he was gonna get backstabbed. Such is the problem of running a coalition party without full media hegemony.
anti_dan
7mo ago
The CRA is unconstitutional because there is no clause in the Constitution authorizing it. Simple as that.
anti_dan
7mo ago
Indeed, but this also indicates a total lack of bipartisanship from Democrats. If there are all 12 passed, and 8 Republican holdouts, a good faith few Dems would go with it. Just like this motion to vacate. McCarthy has shown to be a good faith partner, even if he holds to principles. His reward was the Dems giving him zero good faith in return on the motion to vacate.
anti_dan
7mo ago
If any such statement was made in evidence a MSJ is improper because that creates a legitimate question of material fact. The judge is in a tails he loses heads trump wins situation if ever a nonbiased person reviews his order.
anti_dan
7mo ago
Probably the assassination of Lincoln marked the time where they gained a significant edge. They gained said advantage by assassinating a more prudent figure to tip the scales in their direction, then began a consolidation effort.
anti_dan
8mo ago
That is why it would be "my optimal response" not a consensus building attempt at telling others how they should feel.
Regardless. This topic seems one where the heckler's veto is overly privileged if you aren't banning people for reporting things of this nature. IMO.
anti_dan
8mo ago
Not to mention that there'd be nothing for people to do there - no access to jobs or services.
That is kind of a feature of the proposal. It shows the problem isn't housing, its lack of force.
anti_dan
11mo ago
What you are describing should actually be the job of the people making a pay to use AI. AIs should be trained not to lie or invent sources at the source. That Chat GPT lies a lot is a result of its trainers rewarding lying through incompetence or ideology.
anti_dan
1yr ago
but there is a clear Schelling point to Leftists, which is where basically everyone on the Left found it, which is that you shouldn't have sex with young children, because young children can't consent, because there are power dynamics in play and children will be taken advantage of, which is wrong.
All of that should apply to transgender activists being in classrooms and MDs and etc.
and they'll point to all kinds of things like Catholic sex scandals and the like.
Yes, which they intentionally miscategorize, or do so because they were misinformed by other people on the left who intentionally miscagtegorized it as something other than homosexual pederasty and grooming. Which they further warped because guess what is an even bigger pedophilia and pederasty organization that the media mostly ignores to this day? Public schools!
anti_dan
1yr ago
His best picture is a person in heels reading a book that says, "its ok to be different?" Really reaching here.
anti_dan
1yr ago
Traditionally, that would be an option. The little dog continues to exist solely because of historically anomalous forbearance.
anti_dan
1yr ago
There is a massive gulf between the treatment of white supremacists by the white community and the treatment of pedos and pedas by the homosexual community. In the latter they are widely accepted and even celebrated (see, e.g. George Takei and Milo Yiabopolis descriptions of their first sexual acts).
anti_dan
1yr ago
Saddam didn't have a friendly border to slowly fall back to and ultimately cross. Ukraine is much muddier than Iraq, and obviously the Russian military is not the US military. Even assuming exemplary performance by the Russians, a walking person would have stayed ahead of their advances, on average.
anti_dan
18d ago
Jayapal is the chair of the CPC, but doesn't appear to reflect progressive consensus on Ukraine, which is that defeating Russia is super important.
Gaza is its own country though...
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