anti_dan
1yr ago
The problem with your hypothetical is this:
My optimal response as the footballer kissed by a gay man is I deliver a severe beating to this queer. If I had done that, I'd be the one being cancelled. OTOH, our girl probably wishes she had delivered a strong slap to the face of him, she just was too shocked. But if she had succeeded she would be cheered, and probably everyone would be in a better situation today.
So, again, we are learning bad lessons: 1) You gain from your own inability to react appropriately to mild aggression; 2) You are punished much harder than is warranted if your opponent is less competent than the average.
anti_dan
2yr ago
Is this about the cake thing (shopping around for a bakery that wont make a gay wedding cake, just to bring them to court)? Sure, I disagree with what happened there but isn't that painting with a rather large brush? I would also say holding all religious people to the actions of a crazy church would be wrong too.
The cake guy is merely one of many. He's the one who can afford to litigate. Most people merely are forced into compliance.
Do you really think this happens a lot?
Happens a lot is a subjective call. It happening once is enough for everyone to be afraid and walk on eggshellls.
I don't understand this point. Can't we say being gay is fine but maps are bad? Or must we adhere to a slippery slope?
We can try. But the gays don't want that. And its not really clear that there is any line between gays and MAPS that is principled as they all appear to have an interest in lowering every standard.
So a small percentage of people are crazy, therefore everything is bad. Is that really your argument?
I wish the percentage was small. The LGBT mindvirus controls a significant number of public school teachers now.
anti_dan
2yr ago
The conflation of pedos and gays is deeply evil.
Its done primarily by pedos and gays and trans advocates themselves. It would be simple to tone back the gay pederasty and "hatching eggs" (and of course the pedos themselves have always tried, largely successfully) to incorporate themselves into the gay community. One of the sales pitches of gay marriage was this would normalize gays and create a schism between these communities, instead the opposite happened.
anti_dan
2yr ago
My priors, like with other red state election security measures, is that it will spend some amount of money to accomplish precisely nothing,
It will accomplish exactly as much as courts allow it to. Anecdotally, I've never cast an in-person vote in a blue city wherein voting procedures were followed. This is 3 major cities in the midwest, east, and southeast. What this amounts to is that, if judges follow the law, pretty much every vote coming out of Dem cities can be thrown out.
What will actually happen is left to the readers' imagination.
anti_dan
2yr ago
This is a bad idea, and I will explain why its a bad idea even if you think marijuana should be legal:
None of these people are actually in prison because they had weed on them. They are hardened criminals, who also happened to have weed on them and that was the easiest thing to prove, so that is what the AG who wanted to preserve his 100% conviction rate went with.
anti_dan
1yr ago
ALl of your post is basically incoherent. Israel is in control of all of the terms of engagement going forward. They never have to put a single troop into Gaza and yet could shell almost all of its landmass without committing a single warcrime, as almost all of Gaza is a military target. They also can do the same to the North and the East, as those are also legitimate military targets. The Arabs' only weapon is pity. If the international community is not idiotic dupes, Israel will win easily and everyone will be neutral/happy. If they are dupes, then Israel will have to put on lots of stupid trials demonstrating that, yes, Hamas/Hezbolla was housing rockets in an elementary school.
Of course, the "international community" is stupid, at best. Realistically, it is antisemetic and full of Israel haters. So they will have a mild uphill battle until Biden goes mask off and embraces Iran fully (as he wants to, but probably cannot realistically do). If that is the case the game will be very hard for Israel, but also its true enemy (American leftists) will be exposed and perhaps deposed.
anti_dan
1yr ago
Nyberg appears to be some small-time individual who got 15 minutes of fame and has moved on to doing whatever she does now
Rarely a good defense of a movement. Worse so because Nyberg appears to have gotten that 15 mins (more like a few years). This is a classic example of pedo/LGBTQ overlap, and attempts to downplay the interaction are, IMO extreme bad faith.
anti_dan
1yr ago
But why stop there and leave out the fact that the next twenty years saw a massive belligerent overcorrection and self-destructive wars abroad? Wars that nobody, even conservatives who presumably voted for Bush twice and raked Obama over the goals for being soft on terror/homeland security, will currently defend? It's all too easy to see a future where Israel will regret the actions it takes over the next few months as the entire nation is baying for Palestinian blood.
Because our error was not extracting Afghani blood. There should not be a single tribesman ever associated with the Taliban alive today. The error of the US following 9/11 was caused by the same sort of people who sent out tweets from Biden admin accounts (SOS IIRC) calling for a ceasefire even before the raping in Israeli territory had stopped. Those people robbed us of victory in Afghanistan. The Y chromosome lineage in that country should look like there was a black death that affected only men. Baying for blood is not the problem, the problem is people who think that "civilians" actually exist in a theater where most of Hamas's military operations are based in schools, mosques, and hospitals.
anti_dan
2yr ago
You should take care to think about the consequences of the speech you use. If someone were to be persuaded by your argument, what would that cause them to do?
Well, it would help me to moderate if the meme wasn't so true.
anti_dan
2mo ago
If you think that prison is cruelty, you are just propagandized. Most people housed in that, or US prisons actually, would historically have already have been executed.
anti_dan
3mo ago
This incident strikes me as kind of a perfect banality.
Its one of the most boring "scandals" of all time. What did we learn?
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High level Trump officials use signal instead of, or in addition to regular texts for discussing topics relevant to their job. We already knew they were using something, now we know its signal. Maybe that will change. Maybe it will cause some foia headaches. Overall, big yawn.
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Someone in this circle was incompetent, apparently someone on Waltz's staff. Well, not even really incompetent. He/she basically did a fatfinger and gave the boss the wrong number. Yawn, with an asterisk.
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Vance is less hawkish than the rest of the inner circle relating to defense. Already public info.
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The administration isn't lying in public about thinking Europe is a bunch of weenies. Confirming more public info.
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Jeffery Goldberg is a fabulist that exaggerates. Also already public info.
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Jeffery Goldberg isn't evil enough to leak military information he has until after the OP is done. Honestly, this is new information. Before this story I would have been close to 50/50 on whether he would jeopardize a strike in the middle east for a story.
The only way this story is really A STORY is if 2 is a lie, and this was an op. That is, the staffer is a turncoat, or there was some FBI/CIA/NSA interference that resulted in Goldberg getting added, or something else. So as it is, the story as reported is quite boring. Everyone acknowledged the conversation was real fairly quickly, its contents are basically uncontroversial, and sometimes downright encouraging (I can't imagine Kamala and Lloyd Austin texting about the actual pros/cons of bombing Houthis in a productive and substantial manner). The security flaw, having been identified can now be rectified with either a more secure app, some additional protocols, etc. In the end, the administration got a little lucky, but the great thing about getting lucky is you dont take a loss, and yet you still get to learn LIKE you got a loss. If you are smart. And I think at least a number of people in the Trump admin are smart enough to coach a high school sports team, which is all the smarts you need.
anti_dan
1yr ago
I say, "nah, we're gonna wait till the Soviets and Nazis tire each other out much much more, then sweep over both of them like a puppy running over a carefully arranged house of cards." And then I'd also be like, "whats a civilian? In the future people like me are wise to such silly ideas."
anti_dan
2yr ago
Dont forget: They still want to have sex with "your children" as a group. That some of them dont identify an individual 10 year old they want to bang at 10, 12, 16, or 18 is still only a small defense. If a bunch of heterosexual men started going to girls schools espousing the merits of unprotected sex and then we saw a spike in teenage mothers, few in the media would fail to recognize the connection.
anti_dan
2yr ago
Really? No more piss orgies? No more bathouses? No bullying of Christians into participating into gay weddings? No attempts at child indoctrination?
anti_dan
2yr ago
And I’m left asking, can we predict that? How can we predict how leaders will react under pressure? How can we predict how wars and matters of state will conclude if they hinge on these personal decisions of individual, fallible, men?
I think at least Re: Zelensky, there is a plausible, well worn model: Follow the money. Specifically, Zelensky and many of the people that kept Kiev Ukrainian have patrons in Western Europe, patrons whose interests are not served at all (or mostly not) by a government in exile. Since Euromaiden there has been lots of investment in Ukraine. Investments that would be seized and redistributed to Russian oligarchs if Ukraine falls. There are lots of politicians who have a finger in these investments. Some of the legitimate kind, and many of the Paul Manafort/Hunter Biden grifty kind. Sure, being under Putin would be a bit worse for the average Ukrainian, and some people legitimately believe in spreading Democracy, but its much easier to understand if you realize that there are large interests in maintaining a West-friendly kleptocracy, as well as lots of interests in spending lots of money to make things go boom, and Americans and Europeans have no stomach for their own boys doing this at the moment, so Ukrainian boys making Russian boys go boom with Lockheed supplies is great for business.
anti_dan
4mo ago
These are some pretty ridiculous accusations. It wasn’t enough to say that USAID was a waste for saving third-world lives; now it has to be a laundering scheme? How? Where? Seriously, what percentage of USAID money do you think went to Eastern Europe?
USAID? Probably not much. They are all parallel operations. Biden's son's "business" in Ukraine wasn't USAID funded, but it was a similar operation.
I don’t understand how you connect it to Biden winning, either.
Zelensky could have investigated Biden, and easily convicted his son in abstentia. This would have torpedo'd Biden. Instead he participated in a cover up of Hunter's activities and actively participated in various Putin-based hoaxes aimed at Trump.
I think your third point is a complete mess, too. You shouldn’t write off all of Europe because sometimes they don’t live up to your standards. Also, if you’re talking about Paula Harlow, she’s an American.
I dont really see what standard they are living up to at all. I was actually thinking of Adam Smith-Connor of UK, but I assume there are other grannies. Paula Harlow, is of course, an American tragedy as well. We aren't perfect, but Europeans make us look like angels compared to their Stalinist speech restrictions.
anti_dan
9mo ago
This guy is a huge Dem. He is all in on Ukraine and has lots of posts saying that Kamala should go visit the people who got shot at the Trump rally to one-up him.
anti_dan
10mo ago
Out of favor, Democrats were the party of misfits, the marginalized, and dare I say it, the weird.
This is almost 100% through deception though. They can only keep getting away with it so long as the media keeps up the charade and does so successfully. Some, like nybbler will insist the success will prevail and the fake news will win. And perhaps it will, but I am not 100% on that side. It is plausible that the fact that Kamala wants to trans all the kids and ban private healthcare and discriminate against white males at every step of the meritocracy ladder will stay under wraps for the next 3 months. But it also might not.
The Salier description of the Democrat coalition remains true, they are the coalition of the anti-central-American. The question is whether the vibes can be maintained long enough for her to harvest enough ballots to the contrary.
anti_dan
2yr ago
Then you appear to be an outlier. Because performing stripteases in front of 9 year olds, public BDSM parades, and having secret conversations with children about sex that parents cant know about are core tenants of the movement as a whole right now.
anti_dan
2yr ago
Brexit wasn't a disaster, and almost all of the negative consequences that have flowed from it are the result of the EU not negotiating in good faith.
That latter problem, however, is pretty likely in Texit.
anti_dan
2yr ago
We have the conversion camps still, and camps for troubled youths. They are just run by pedos trying to trans and gay them...
anti_dan
2yr ago
Ideally by cracking down on grooming or grooming-adjacent behaviours so hard that nobody questions that there could be any ulterior motive at play.
Correct, and also discouraging divergent sexuality themselves. If 99.99% of coaches of the boys team have no incentive to diddle the boys, all the mentorship, ass slapping, gum chewing, shower monitoring, etc can happen in a safe, healthy, mentorship arena. I am a happily married man with no plans on ever cheating, but if you made me head coach of the women's volleyball team at a local high school and part of my job was going into the locker room and preventing bullying etc, I think that would be an incredibly uncomfortable situation for everyone involved. AS IT SHOULD BE. I might know the girls are 16 and illegal on some intellectual level but my penis certainly doesn't. Being "Coach Boner" would be the best possible outcome. Which is little comfort. Particularly when the actual job of coaching volleyball does require coaches to make physical contact with players from time to time.
anti_dan
2yr ago
Do wine connoisseurs enjoy The Rings of Power?
AKA, is wearing skin suits actually a virtue?
The question is prompted from the Scott article, as well as the discussion of said article here. Not to call out any user, but I find some of these responses illustrative:
From FiveHourMarathon
But even more on point, to a wine aficionado, saying you don't appreciate good wine is just like saying to me that you would sooner buy a Lay-z-Boy recliner than an Eames lounger. If you don't see the difference, you just aren't one of our sort, which is a small subset of people but it's one to which I belong. I recall an argument here before where an interlocutor (since departed) told me that he saw no difference between consuming LibsOfTikTok and reading Marx's Kapital, I remember thinking this is just such a disconnect there's no way to even explain it.
A more Motte-ish analogy to the different studies Scott cites here: take three authors, Scott Alexander, Stephanie Meyer, and Honoree Jeffers. Scott cites studies where mass consumers are given different wines, if you gave mass book consumers passages from the works of each of those three authors most would prefer Meyer. Scott cites studies in which experts were given wines, if you gave literary experts passages from each they'd pick Jeffers every time. Yet I'd pick Scott every time, and there's a subset of people who would pick Scott who I align with, and to call literary skill "fake" is an absurd (repugnant?) conclusion.
I'd argue that wine is no more fake than literature.
From Paracelsus
I'm with you, and in fact this is the thread that finally got me to stop lurking on the new site and set up an account (under a different name, not that I posted a lot or was well-known on the sub beforehand).
I think what a lot of people here, Scott included, are missing is that wine is not just about the taste. In the same way that literature is not just about the plot. The style of the prose, which gives the book structure, usually matters much more than the story itself. And the background behind the work--the circumstances in which it was written, and when and where and why the author wrote it--also contribute to the importance of a work. Sum up Moby Dick in a sentence or two and it doesn't sound very interesting. But actually reading it is an entirely different experience.
Wine is basically the same way. The taste matters, of course. Nobody wants to drink a bad wine. But for a wine lover, it's just as important to explore WHY it tastes that way... what the winemaker chose to do, how that year's vintage compared to the year before, where the vineyards are, how the climate at the vineyards affects the growing conditions, whether the winery has been around for 30 years or 500.
Not everybody needs to care about these things... there's nothing wrong with buying an $8 wine, or a $30 or $70 big-brand wine without much character to it. There's nothing wrong with reading Dean Koontz or John Grisham or James Patterson novels either! But there's so much more depth out there, for those who are interested, and that transcends far beyond just the actual flavors in the wine.
Both these arguments, to me, seem to argue in favor of The Rings of Power. It does not matter that anyone who watched the show and read the books could identify that they are not related in any way aside from labeling. Labeling, and what it implies is POWERFUL and should affect your experience. Shut up and drink the $2000 wine, its good because the label says it is. Just like ROP is good because it has the LOTR label. We should ignore the actual show, its writing, CGI, etc deficiencies because it has the label, and that label has history and work behind it.
But, from my POV, I find I prefer the opposite. I only wish to give prestigious labels to things I consider prestigious. Marvel studios has lost the right to call its outputs Marvel. Star Wars is not. ROP is not Tolkien. They are all inferior products wearing skin suits of better brands that they happened to have the money for. Why wouldn't wine be the same? Surely I acknowledge that is the truth in my libation of choice: Beer. Goose Island is dead to me as a brand despite being one of my favorites earlier in life. They simply have gone the Rings of Power path. I can taste it. I don't know when it happened, but it has, most of their beers are now gross. Why couldn't the same have happened to a French winery founded in 1273?
Because you need to lock in the abnormal sexuality before it likely begins to fade.
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