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2yr ago
This is only tangential, but I recently stumbled upon The 1815 Diary of a Nova Scotia Farm Girl: Louisa Collins, of Colin Grove, Dartmouth. It’s a hyperlinked text-imported diary of — well, it’s in the title. You see how much labor was expected of the eldest children. The diary is written by the 2nd eldest daughter and much of her time is spent on farm work and spinning. It’s a peek inside a lost world, with a young girl quoting various poets in her diary, talking about neighborly visitations and the occasional mention of current events, like rumors of Napoleon’s demise (greatly exaggerated).
I found this serendipitously. Coincidentally, I was reading a blogger specializing in Napoleon, who mentioned that Napoleon loved to badly sing the works of Rousseau to his friends. Yes, the philosopher Rousseau wrote music, and some of it is good. Napoleon’s favorite work was Le devin du village, and I concluded that what he loved to sing was certainly “Dans ma cabane obscure”, as he related to the figure of Colin singing with love about his wife. Anyway, the figure of Colin is a European symbol of the pastoralist hero in pastoral works, introduced by Edmund Spenser. It’s likely that “Colin’s Grove”, the home of this farm girl, was named in the same pastoralist tradition. And so while this young girl wrote about Napoleon in her diary in Colin’s Grove, Napoleon was singing a song of the pastoral hero Colin. I love the intricate connections of Western Europe you come across from burrowing into history!
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2yr ago
Would any reasonable person interpret it this way in different contexts? For instance, when Biden said veterans are the backbone of the country, is he telling us that wife-beaters and murderers are the backbone of the country? If AOC says she is committed to protecting POC, does this mean she intends to protect serial killers and terrorists?
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2yr ago
"voted for him" and "terrorists" (referring to the Jan 6th rioters) are not mutually exclusive. I'd expect that sort of interpretation from a Trump supporter looking to deny
In colloquial English, when a person is referring to a large group of people who are defined by a single property, they are not making any claim about some infinitesimal small fraction of that group. When Obama spoke about how great Muslim Americans are, he’s referring to the normative case, not any who have murdered or beheaded. When Pelosi or whoever says Mexican Americans are our friends and neighbors, she’s not referring to the traffickers and rapists. When I say “I stand with Boston” after the bombing, I’m not referring to the worst possible cohort of Bostonians. This is just how it works for everyday English.
It’s clear Trump is referring to the normative member of a class of people defined by their having voted for Trump. It is ridiculous to assert that the non-normative 0.000005% cohort of rioters or whatever is being referred to in any sense. But, an argument can be made that this is coded language where the colloquial meaning means one thing but the intended meaning hints at another.
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2yr ago
It was coffee because I like coffee, before that it was MediumIsMessage because I like Neil Postman and McLuhan. Now it’s cafe because it rhymes with y2k and i’ve been enjoying some rare 1998-2005 aesthetics lately
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2yr ago
Love seeing pigeons when I go to the city.
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2yr ago
Already a quarter of people from El Salvador moved to the US, iirc
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2yr ago
As someone who really cared about this issue in 2016, I have given up on the idea that the region of land known as America will have secure borders and am investing my hope in the idea that Westerners form a kind of Hasidic or ultra-Mormon power structure.
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2yr ago
I do think it’s possible. I doubt they would care about men pair-bonding. The issues would arise because of disease risk, and the effect on families which require an heir to have children.
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2yr ago
I hear some very loud boos but it doesn’t sound like most of the audience is booing.
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2yr ago
I think it’s a male child accidentally socializing as a female identity, due to sheer accident or the way the women in their life treat them, or a repugnance to their father figure. This explains why homosexuals take on so much of female behavior and interests while still retaining the typical male kernel of hyper-sexuality and aggression. To study this you would need to look at the prevalence of homosexuality among single father households and all male schools.
There are other forms of homosexuality, one of which is when culture heavily discourages promiscuous sex with women, and then you have men fucking men’s bottoms just because they’re super horny and can’t access women. You see this in prisons. This then can become a fetish itself, maybe what we saw in Sparta and maybe with some aspects of Afghani grooming culture. This is not “identity” homosexuality though, and typically these men do not have the behaviors you find in Western homosexuals. The ancient prohibitions on homosexuality likely assume that all men fell into this category and were engaging in homosexual sex just because they were super horny and approximating a woman (same with beastiality).
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2yr ago
No, he actually doesn’t have to explain why they were in concentration camps, because the claim of the holocaust is not that Germans kept Jews in camps like the Americans did the Japanese. The claim of the holocaust is the intentional killing of millions of Jews in these camps.
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2yr ago
Posting in the small questions thread because I need independent confirmation on this. Are search engines manipulating results and discussions on Rings of Power? I know I’m late on this.
I was searching for reviews online and was surprised that on YouTube, almost every major entertainment reviewer and LOTR enthusiast shat on the series, whereas on Reddit, many of the top comments in posts said the series was great.
On closer inspection, though, search engines appear to only want to show me certain review content. First by googling “rings of power review” it takes me to two positive posts that don’t even have review in the title (???). Same with if I search “rings of power bad”, with no quotes, it shows me posts with positive top comments in threads that don’t have “bad” or any synonym in the title.
More importantly, when I search Rings of Power on Reddit search and sort by top, or if I search “lord rings of power” and sort by top, or even “LOTR rings of power”, it refuses to show me the top narrowed results. It literally refuses to search for it. Instead I see the top Reddit posts total (no narrowing to search query). To make sure this wasn’t a mistake I tried various searches queries, some for illegal drugs like fentanyl, all of which took me to the requested top searches.
And lastly, in many of the threads I enter, it default sorts to “Best” in the most wild way, where 30 or 200 upvote comments consistently appear before 1.5k or 2k comments in a way that was clearly tailored specifically to show positives comments. Usually Best and Top are pretty similar, in this case they were the opposite.
Has anyone noticed similar? Or can independently verify one of these for me?
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2yr ago
Yes I thanked the commenter for the correction. Were Bradley to flee to Russia that would count as additional evidence for; that he didn’t, doesn’t dissolve the other evidence for. By “flee from identity” I mean that Bradley had an urge to escape or avoid their identity. By flee I don’t mean literally running away. This flight is psychological, based on an avoidant coping strategy for the person’s inability to accept their true nature and its accompanying emotional baggage. But I do think it’s also possible that instead of avoiding their identity, the desire is a transgression. So in that sense yes I have updated my theory.
I’m ignoring Bradley’s own testimony because I don’t trust it. The transgender military officer wax’d poetic about loving America; yet he still did what he did, demonstrating a total disregard for America. I don’t exactly trust the outwardly presented motives here when my very theory is based on conflict between identity and transgression/avoidance.
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2yr ago
I hadn’t read that but if true it would poke a hole in my theory
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2yr ago
You’re not accounting for the full information available.
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He specifically wants to steal suitcases.
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He leaves the suitcases he steals in his hotel room.
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Knowing that he is being extra scrutinized, he still chooses to steal suitcases at an airport rather than a thrift store or somewhere less risky.
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There is evidence he does not steal random objects routinely (his gainful employment), yet that packed suitcases specifically are irresistible.
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He loves to dress like a woman which is pretty good evidence for a motive, and humans commit crimes for motives. He is obsessed with this identity. There is no financial or acquisitive motive (left suitcase in room).
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2yr ago
Two stolen suitcases is “beyond reasonable doubt” that he has a fetish that he can’t control, probably related to the idea of stealing the identity of a woman and/or her clothes (imo). If he merely liked to steal, he is smart enough to realize that he shouldn’t steal at an airport again. Instead, he has a fixation on stealing women’s luggage from the airport specifically. He would not have been able to make it this far in his career if he simply couldn’t control himself with stealing any random object. This perfectly mirrors his identity as a man that likes to dress and appear as a woman, and who likes to receive attention based on the strangeness of his doing so (his interviews, manner of speaking demonstrate this).
The danger of such a person in government is that he could decide to steal secrets for attention. If he gets off at transgressing his identity, then he may get off as transgressing his identity as an American government employee.
This happened just recently, when an MTF transgender military officer — the first in history — tried to give private medical information to a Russian spy. This transgressed his identity as a military officer, Then there’s Bradley Manning, who leaked information to WikiLeaks, transgressing his identity as an intelligence officer.
The base rate of transgenders in these sorts of positions is… half a percent total makeup? Probably much less? So if you imagine 200x more of these crimes, surely that’s an overrepresentation.
There is more incentive to exaggerate the extent and significance of the holocaust than any other event in history. At the same time, it is one of the most ideologically influential events of the 21st century. These two reasons are why it should be morally acceptable, and in fact encouraged, to poke holes and relitigate the events of the holocaust. Holocaust denialism is not evidence of any bias whatsoever, because autistic men online will spend thousands of hours examining innumerable less important matters like the best tanks and rifles, who killed JFK, UFO sightings, the battle of agincourt and the policies of FDR.
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2yr ago
Are there studies that look at inter-generational reproduction fitness of behaviors deemed “high time preference”?
I find myself disagreeing with the time preference behavioral psychology model. A common example is a guy who goes into debt to finance a car, that such a behavior shows he overvalues the present. This ignores two huge longterm interests: securing confidence and securing a mate. If going into debt for a purchase increases your status and thus your self-confidence and general social engagement then it has a significant longterm effect on your health, relationships and income. More importantly, the model ignores that women love appearances, and that a primary motive for most men is finding a partner. Going into debt to secure a valuable appearance-status item may be the exact right decision for longterm happiness if it promotes a more attractive mate acquired younger, or a more reinforcing social environment among peers. Many men would choose a hotter wife and more kids with the cost of crippling debt versus less hot wife and fewer kids with a million in the bank, and in any case biologically the former is the correct decision.
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2yr ago
Some of her recent comments had misspellings unusual for a native English speaker iirc
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2yr ago
I’m pretty confident it was her. She even posted about her pet interests (ocean projects), and one of her earliest Reddit comments had to do with how to make bot accounts. The probability of posting almost every day for years and then suddenly stopping for good when she’s arrested is highly significant. I believe her family home was called “Maxwell Hill” or some variant.
I think what happened is that early in Reddit’s rise, they gave individuals connected to the media Reddit accounts, which said individuals handed over to paid employees for manipulation. They were associated with the person but used by employees of organizations of interns. Maxwell would then push up articles that her friends / clients wanted boosted, censor others, etc. She was known for doing things like deleting when a news post didn’t do well, and then re-publishing at a time for greater engagement.
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2yr ago
Anyone have a dream they’d like to be interpreted?
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2yr ago
He is fixated on transgressing the boundaries of convention. This explains his every day behavior of identifying as non-binary and wearing makeup, and explains why he took the risky decision of stealing a woman’s luggage.
My question is, what percent of “non-binary” men fit this profile? Is this a defining feature of the non-binary?
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2yr ago
American Factory was seriously depressing as an American. You’re confronted with the fact that our ill health spells ruin for our future. These American workers simply can’t do what the Chinese can do in terms of productivity, they have been made fat and slow from the American diet poisoning them over decades.
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2yr ago
I think “Jews as a class” is not something that should be criticized in any sense, but I understand where you’re coming from — more accurately the issue is the web of “identitarian” Jewish advocacy groups whose primary purpose is non-religious. There is a truly insane number of these groups, I wouldn’t be surprised if 1% of the Jewish population is specifically employed in the advocacy industry. Once you decide to take the step to actively advocate for your own kin’s interest using divisive propaganda, there’s really no excuse for why you shouldn’t be pointed at and criticized. The “minority” excuse is illogical when one group has 10,000 ethnic advocacy orgs and mine has effectively none.
Google, the most influential and powerful search engine in America, which most Americans use when searching for product information, released a propaganda music video advising everyone to only buy from black people. Buy what, only from black people? Everything. During a specific day as a kind of protest? No, every single day of the year. This follows Google’s decision to artificially boost black-owned businesses on their Maps app, giving these businesses a special eye-catching symbol.
Buying All Black - Ludacris feat. Flo Milli (A Google #BlackOwnedFriday Anthem)
The music video goes on to tell the audience to “buy black” thirty times, while the Google-funded music video showcases individuals searching for black-owned businesses of every variety, from restaurants to salons.
I for one, am less than enthusiastic about the hegemonic consumer search engine producing propaganda advising consumers to never shop at a white-owned business. I’m less concerned with the music video, which received 15 million impressions on YouTube alone (a Google product), than with the underlying sentiment that clearly permeates through the business. I’m afraid of what Google is doing behind the scenes in terms of showing services, and whether they are going to artificially reduce exposure to a business owned by the ancestor of an Irish slave, in favor of a wealthy and privileged Nigerian immigrant whose ancestors owned many slaves.
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