corman
1mo ago
Americans should care about it because they've been taught that national socialists declaring themselves the master race and committing genocide is bad, actually, and both their personal and political will ought to be bent/pulled forcibly toward the end of preventing such an occurrence. Seems to me that per the national mythos Americans ought to be ferociously outraged about people who believe themselves to be "god's chosen" ethnically cleansing their hated neighbors for Lebensraum.
corman
2mo ago
I'll respond by saying it's unsurprising that one who argues on behalf of science targeted by DOGE is also in the corner of lobbyists.
corman
2mo ago
My objection is obviously that he has skin in the game and as such should not be trusted for analysis of said game.
corman
2mo ago
Saying, “hey, random PhD student, I don’t think your work is that important in the end and thus I’m fine with weakening science in the United States across the board”.. it’s certainly a position one may take, but I’d say it is not at all a smart one regarding human or national advancement.
Ok, so then we fund infinity studies for infinity progress. But that doesn't sound realistic, so we need to draw a line somewhere. The current administration has decided to draw the line closer to you than the old one did. I would sympathize more if I viewed science the way I did 10 years ago, an apolitical search for truth but it turns out science that upsets the boss or the donors gets tossed into the dumpster. And scientists aren't ubermensch immune to political bias; they vote blue as a rule.
corman
2mo ago
Do you have anything more interesting to say when the wording "any bureaucrat" is changed to "anyone"?
corman
2mo ago
I’m in a hard science field with direct applications to societal benefits. I believe that what I’m working on is something many would recognize as important. And I also think there’s a pretty clear link between training people who do this sort of thing (STEM generally) and national wellbeing and competitiveness.
Your entire post hinges on your audience trusting this to be true. I have no reason to believe any bureaucrat in the proximity of the chopping block has any better reason to decry DOGE's mission than "saving my own skin".
corman
2mo ago
You keep referring to Russia as the enemy when the voters who put Trump in power view DC and EU elite with significantly more disdain than they do Putin. No Russian ever called me cishet white male.
corman
5mo ago
corman
5mo ago
Yes, I believe the Deep State tried to have him killed. My first thought after Biden's disastrous debate performance was that they would attempt to do so. Way too much was at stake for them to not even attempt it.
corman
5mo ago
They tried to kill him so obviously they consider him a threat to their power.
corman
5mo ago
100% this. It's social pressure designed to wear you down so you grudgingly accept the woke madness America voted to unshackle itself from. You won and you have a mandate, act like it.
corman
5mo ago
The latter is a good problem to have, even if you're chasing after increasingly marginal edges with each additional dollar.
Only if it's not also in direct conflict with your "get billionaire funding out of politics!" messaging.
corman
5mo ago
And, although she lost, I'm not sure you can say it was badly spent. As stupid as it is that paying Beyonce to fart in your direction can make voters want to vote for you, if you're flush with cash and you think it'll help, why not? What else would the campaign spend it on? Yet more clueless college grads to run social media accounts and spam Reddit with Kamala memes?
This is glossing over the miserable optics of paying (out of touch) celebrities to be your friends. Of course this wasn't known prior to the election results but it's another count amongst many in which the democratic are currently a laughingstock.
corman
6mo ago
Actually, Harris supporters are garbage.
And this is the level of discourse you're inviting here.
corman
8mo ago
The better attack line against Democrats now is that they're just kind of stupid.
I also prefer this line. It's also impossible not to reflect on the state of rhetoric;
ur weird
ur stupid tho
corman
8mo ago
That’s a bad thing, that you shouldn’t accept. If native Americans / Brits don’t participate, either someone else will or your entire nation will suffer. That is my point.
Would you tell this to jews who were offered the choice to collaborate with nazis?
corman
9mo ago
You're a 21st century aristocrat expounding on the idea that you wouldn't get on with 16th century outlaw bikers. This is not the argument you think it is.
corman
9mo ago
Literally who cares what anyone else thinks. If society at large is having a masculinity crisis that likely includes many men who speak on TheMotte. Average testosterone levels have dropped dramatically since the 1980s. Frequent time sitting at computers does us no favors in this regard. Taking up a martial art is one of the best things a man can do to counteract this trend. Learning to be cool-headed in direct physical confrontation goes a long way toward establishing an emotional base for further success.
corman
9mo ago
Because there are fundamentally different optics for the two of them. They're competing for the office of the presidency, a position in which it helps to have a fearsome reputation among your enemies. Trump plowing through women is a sign of strength and vigor, moral arguments notwithstanding. Kamala sucking dick for clout makes her sound incompetent and submissive. These are not Commander In Chief qualities.
corman
9mo ago
And now we get to gleefully hammer home the point that Dems are going to nominate for the position of Commander In Chief a casting couch girl. Any man with an ounce of testosterone will be viscerally repelled by the image of their Executive on her knees under a mahogany desk.
corman
9mo ago
OP is almost certainly not a boomercon and her writing style is a near exact match for rdrama's favorite reddit mod Bardfinn or ex-Mottizen Impassionata.
All of this rhetorical tap-dancing of course boiling down to the idea that SS believes that Zionists ought to be held to account for their vicious criticism of post-Weimar German behavior and their simultaneous total embrace of it while you believe they should never answer to anyone for anything.
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