anti_dan
20d ago
I am team: "This is different, and is still kinda bad."
My opinion is all these folks should exit public service, if they are in it, for 5 years or so, to mature. There are plenty of jobs at advertising agencies for Coca Cola, and THOSE companies should vigorously recruit these fellows because that is what they would do in a free market based on their comedic stylings and ability to understand the dark comedy of the modern youth.
Then in 5 years these bad jokes should be forgiven and they can do whatever.
This is, of course, a very high standard in comparison to the left, but it is what I prefer. Unfortunately, it also requires leftish cooperation because most ad places are run by the exact sort of people fake-outraged by this. So they kinda have to give up something to be reasonable.
anti_dan
20d ago
I do, at the end of the day the individual actors are responsible for themselves. The average non Nazi conservative is not a Nazi because some other conservatives who are not them are Nazis. Many conservatives have actively condemned the growing nazi problem even, I linked some in the post!
Have any of these people even been credibly accused of being Nazis as opposed to making jokes that offend people who are always on the lookout for Nazis? Its not a joke for me to assert that I have been hearing warning about the "growing influence of Nazism on the right" since I was in 4th grade, and likely the only reason I dont remember hearing about it before then is because I was not listening. To quote the personality who helped found this forum in his better days, "You are still crying wolf"
This also isn't, by contrast, people openly calling for Nazism, nor is it high level politicians calling for political violence, or materially supporting it. It is basically an assortment of group chats by low level people. So we are trying to match like for like, when in reality we are matching pawns with queens.
anti_dan
20d ago
Aziz Ansari was always a confusing pelt on the MeToo wall. Firstly, is he even good? I haven't been entertained by him in a long time, if ever. His Parks and Rec character was easily one of the blandest and most boring on a decent but not great show. What else is even his claim to fame? Next his creepy thing was just kinda odd IIRC, but I never really dove into it, him being quite irrelevant to me at the time.
Perhaps someone who was once an Ansari fan can enlighten us as to what we have lost without him for a few years?
anti_dan
22d ago
But there's no reliable evidence this guy wants peaceful coexistence, last time he was out he engaged in violent attacks. He "reformed" in prison so dupes at the UN would get behind his cause of release.
anti_dan
23d ago
*Alive
And Israeli leadership does not coordinate direct attacks on civilians. There was enough direct evidence to tie this particular fellow to 5 deaths directly.
If you are me, you think he is a terrorist because he and his minions are consistently too cowardly to wear uniforms.
Others might call his operations war activities. Sure, wear uniforms or you are just committing war crimes, again, with intentionality imputed to leadership.
If you think international law is a fiction, then he's just a loser who lost.
anti_dan
23d ago
So? Maybe Turkey gets excited. Maybe the US gets taken over by lefties and imposes a blockade.
anti_dan
23d ago
I mean, its an easy heuristic to read Wikipedia and realize that it represents the most far left case that can be plausibly levied under their rules.
Even so I was alone during 2nd intifada, it was a terrorist campaign supported by all the relevant Palestinian parties in government, so that necessarily includes him and Arafat. If you have a lexis media account you can probably make a better assessment using only transcripts from the trial and contemporaneous media accounts, although even then they were generally Palestinian -leaning, as we see with Arafat winning man of the year
anti_dan
24d ago
A brief googling indicates that he is clearly a terrorist and he is popular because of that plus the martyr status of being imprisoned.
If he was released and was a five in Gaza he's quickly be on a pike.
anti_dan
24d ago
Western countries will intervene of 1 appears to be happening. They will not of 2 appears to be happening.
anti_dan
27d ago
Well the question is whether the court will indeed slap them down right now.
My point is that if you adopt the medical board framing, you basically give away the cow to anyone who wants it.
anti_dan
27d ago
Its not absurd. This profession is people talking in a room. The state, under the guise of medicine, is regulating the content of those words.
anti_dan
28d ago
You have to call back to the original post. One of the questions that the Supreme Court is wrestling with in the case is "what is medicine". /u/cjet79 proposed the definition of:
Is it licensed and regulated by a state or federal level medical board? If yes then it's medicine, if not then it's just speech.
What this implies, is that a state could give itself the legal power to suppress any form of speech by merely making whatever form of speech is in question require a medical license from the state medical board.
anti_dan
28d ago
Okay, but what if the state wants to regulate radio transmissions and gives the board the ability to impose sanctions on rogue radio broadcasters? Is the radio now a medical treatment?
anti_dan
28d ago
And if the state delegates the power to a medical board because they think the 1st Amendment is icky then???
anti_dan
28d ago
Cops, federal or other, dont decide whether your license is fake. They run it through a system, typically known as LEADS. If you pop on the system and are an American citizen without an arrest warrant issued for you, you are in the minority, maybe 0.1% probably less. And in most of those cases it is because you had your identity stolen at one point.
Everything gets checked. Sometimes frustratingly slowly. But the slowness is because of the things that prevent people from being hanged the morning after arrest, not things working in the other direction in 99.99% of cases.
anti_dan
28d ago
The ICE are wearing masks because if they dont they rationally think their children will be killed. That is it. If you think ATF agents have sustained prolonged sieges of major ATF buildings you want to compare these to, please do.
anti_dan
28d ago
Invisible fences exist and are common. They also are easy for the dog to understand. They are clearly defined boundaries with geographic markers at all times. You train the dog on them at what we think is mild discomfort levels of pain so they stay in the yard and dont get hit by a dump truck. But also they get to be in the freaking yard! Which toddlers (who are smarter than said dogs) dont get to do unsupervised.
anti_dan
28d ago
Shock collars are used to keep your dog from running into the street by underground fencing your yard.
anti_dan
28d ago
A large part of the disconnect you are seeing is that clearly this dog is not properly trained. Its fully grown. If it knew its job was to lay there he wouldn't have a shock mechanism to keep it there. Perhaps from time to time he would have to remind the dog to get back to its position. Dogs that are well trained are very obedient.
Instead he chose a different path with physical pain that still appears to be ineffective due to his own negligent training.
anti_dan
28d ago
I dont know this specific story, but dogs, as part of their nature, love running. If their running was naturally transformed into human worth they dont give a crap.
Dogs dont naturally love being shocked.
anti_dan
28d ago
Given the amount of time he has had this dog, and the delay in his response, the dog has no real understanding that it has a job or occupation, unlike properly trained occupational dogs, which, it is important to note, we fail out most potential candidates for even to this day. That means, most dogs are not capable of being occupational dogs, unless the occupation is something like ratting or foxhunting for the appropriate breeds. Sitting still for a several hour podcast is not an occupation any dog breed has been bred for.
There is no real defense of this video I saw other than dogs having zero moral valence or some bizarre long running joke on this program that needs to be explained.
anti_dan
28d ago
I got a chuckle out of this. On one hand, is a cell phone enough to win a criminal case? No. But when it is stacked up with the rest of the evidence, often yes. I recently got sent one from my friends at the state police where 2 guys, wearing the same disguises, robbed 3 places in about 4 hours. Both with cell phones in the pocket placing them at every site. Then they got caught with the car a few days later (which was stolen). Good work fellas.
What's wrong with the Raj actor?
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