daguerrean
9d ago
This rule is consistently the most confusing one to me. Everything sulla says comes with the implicit qualifier “so thinks sulla.” Why is using “we” so offensive, obviously sulla is referring to those that agree with him. He never said anything like “All of the motte agrees leftists are retarded.”
daguerrean
9d ago
The claim that the victim was trying to run an agent over is not only not true, video footage clearly shows that it isn't. That won't stop DHS from lying (again) and claiming that ICE agents were victims instead of perpetrators (again). It's thoroughly unclear why they were trying to stop this woman in the first place
It appears she had parked her car perpendicularly on a small road, presumably to block or otherwise obstruct ICE activity, this being the cause of their apprehending her, which seems legitimate to me.
I will agree she was most likely not specifically trying to run over ICE agents, but rather to flee. However there was an agent on the hood of her car that she certainly did hit.
daguerrean
9d ago
If you tell people that they are traumatized they will feel traumatized. It is a tempting framework with which to interpret the world because it grants unlimited unverifiable victimhood, which is the most coveted status of all for whatever reason.
I remember once I was talking to two nice, young, Mormon missionaries out of curiosity. I asked them what spiritual experiences they had which convinced them of their religion’s truth. One described to me that in high school she was in danger of failing her physics class right before the final exam. She prayed about it and felt an intuition that she should go to the professor and ask him for any extra prep materials, she interpreted this intuition as the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Upon visiting him he supplied her with some additional practice tests which she credited with helping her pass the class.
What she had was a normal human experience, 1) Not doing well in the class 2) Ask the teacher for additional assistance 3) Do better. An atheist would have this exact same experience without the Holy Spirit factoring in at all. But as they say, when all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail. When you are given an explanatory framework with which to understand the world, unsurprisingly you find confirming experiences everywhere you go.
Years ago at my first job my manager, an Indian woman, came to me and said in hushed tones “You know Daguerrean, this company has a real problem with recognizing women.” She went on to describe a slate of thoroughly normal complaints that every employee can empathize with, feeling underappreciated, her good ideas and hard work unrecognized, ignored in meetings and so forth. I mumbled something in agreement with her but internally I was thinking, “Uh, don’t you know everyone feels this way?” It’s just that White men aren’t given a framework that says every personal or professional setback is a result of an omnipresent and malicious “ism” seeking to destroy your life.
It reminds me of a TikTok trend, now a few years back, where parents would pretend to bump a baby’s head and fawn over it. Unsurprisingly the babies would often react as if they were experiencing real pain, crying and holding their heads. Adults are no different.
I think we aren’t (collectively) asking ourselves enough if the explanatory frameworks we give people are actually good. Is it better for people to believe that anything good that happens to them is the work of the Holy Spirit? Is it good if every professional setback is interpreted as evidence of racism/sexism? Is it good if people are reinterpreting every negative childhood experience as trauma that has scarred them for life?
daguerrean
10d ago
I’m pretty sure SomethingAwful is still active and has been around for at least 20 years, maybe 25
daguerrean
10d ago
How long do you think The Motte will continue? Will we still be here in thirty years?
daguerrean
11d ago
The number one complaint I hear from women about porn is that it gives men a very confused, one-sided view of sex. You could imagine how irritating it is to hear that men spend 30 minutes a day jerking off to porn for decades and then one of them finally gets to fuck you and has no idea how to bring you to orgasm and you leave the experience totally unsatisfied. Consistently!
Women will complain about porn but these reasons are largely post-hoc fictions. They have a gut-level aversion to their partner experiencing lust towards other women that are typically younger and better-looking than them. But because of their vague sex-positive pop feminist beliefs they don’t know how to articulate that and will backfill a reason that sounds less jealous and more socially acceptable.
You would see the same if they found their partner was having sex with dogs. This would greatly upset them but they would state the reason is something to do with animals being unable to consent, which of course is not the real reason.
daguerrean
11d ago
I think Sabrina Carpenter is an interesting case study here. Her music is ridiculously sexually explicit, she performs in lingerie and a core part of her act is miming heterosexual sex positions. That said, I get the sense her audience/fanbase is approximately 0% heterosexual male. It gives me the same vibe as burlesque, which seems to be a major form of entertainment for blue tribe women in major cities yet has zero sexual currency with hetero men. Burlesque performances will include lingerie and actual nudity from women, but I don’t get the sense any straight men are watching burlesque compilations on pornhub.
This is something I’ve been thinking about lately, but I feel burlesque is sort of spiritually akin to male war reenactors. They are both reenacting the past to give themselves gender valdiating experiences, men getting to pretend to experience heroism and self-sacrifice in combat, frumpy feminists getting to experience a reenactment of sexual desirability
daguerrean
11d ago
What percentage of college-educated middle-class women are on dating apps anyway?
I’m going to guess the vast majority, this is just how people meet now, it’s how I met my wife ten years ago. And every year women become more conditioned to find cold approaches at markets or bookstores more creepy and less acceptable
daguerrean
11d ago
I prefer Rutters, they just seem a bit nicer imo
daguerrean
11d ago
If I wished to try to insult you, off the top of my head there could have been the low hanging fruit of deploying impolite synonyms for “poor” and “overweight”—or, more softly, those words in themselves—for poor and overweight are descriptions of which you’ve recounted yourself
Just beautiful apophasis. You absolutely cooked em here. HereAndGone is not recovering from this any time soon. I’m in awe of your mastery Sloot
daguerrean
11d ago
Seems extremely high to me. Daycare for our toddler is $90 a day, and that isn’t some ghetto “Learing Center” full of Somalians either, which I expect would be substantially cheaper.
daguerrean
12d ago
I know we all love to fantasize about how this forum is overrun with federal agents and terrorists but come on. Let’s be real here for a minute.
daguerrean
12d ago
I’m going to be honest I don’t understand any of this. Like what does any of this mean, I’m having trouble even parsing it.
I guess I’ve lived in Miami. And there was like obvious situations that you could fix. And I did 30s conversation and fixed it. Then did some racists shit and said white guy fixed it. And no one cared. White guy fixed it and everyone was just happy the issue was solved. I think Venezuela is there.
daguerrean
14d ago
Unbelievable. Just, why? I can’t perceive any way this is more justified than Russia invading Ukraine. As much as I hate the left for being anti-White this may have crossed the line where I would attend an anti-Trump protest it’s so unjustified.
I truly deserve the Fell for it Again Award
daguerrean
17d ago
If Vivek started a new Protestant church tomorrow, who has the authority to say it’s fake?
Someone outside Christianity could criticize Christianity the same way. They could say some hypothetical larper could come along calling himself a Christian despite teaching Jesus never existed, and who would have authority to say he wasn’t a Christian? Would this be an effective own of Christians? No, obviously not. Protestantism is decentralized but so is Christianity itself
daguerrean
22d ago
How’s Christmas for all Motteizens? Get any good presents? Give any good presents? Anybody want a present, like a game on Steam or something?
daguerrean
25d ago
Are we genuinely weighting the continued existence of the Mona Lisa (of which there are many copies, its not some hidden gem) over a human life at that point?
It’s worth a great many human lives by most reasonable measures
daguerrean
29d ago
I stumbled across a twitter thread on the idea that SIDS is a conspiracy and actually just a way of covering up infanticide. I can't say whether I believe it not, but the story was at least internally consistent.
I have always felt this. I wouldn't say infanticide but more like negligence and accident. I think doctors understand that new parents can be tired and stressed and shit happens. You are breastfeeding your baby in bed, you fall asleep, roll over, blankets smother baby. I think a doctor looking at that would say "Why ruin this parent's life with guilt when it was really an understandable mistake?" And so they give them a medical-sounding description that connotes a random medical event, like the baby just mysteriously had a stroke or something (even though the definition of SIDS makes no such claim, it is totally consistent with accidental smothering), mostly to allow them to just move on with their lives and treat it as an act of god.
Testable predictions if my theory is true: SIDS rates will be higher among lower IQ parents and higher among blacks, probably also higher among single mothers.
daguerrean
1mo ago
The precision does not bother me. Trump’s deranged post is typical for him. I will admit however that People Magazine was shockingly quick, in a way I have never seen before, to blame the son. Do you have any theory that explains these peculiarities?
daguerrean
2mo ago
Did even a single, solitary person die from starvation due to the recent SNAP suspension? People just seem to be pissed at the inconvenience of having to go to a pantry that has a worse selection of items.
daguerrean
2mo ago
The party in power is not owed the votes of the minority. That said, minority demands can clearly be unreasonable. Give us full communist revolution or we won’t support your budget. This entire situation comes down to how reasonable you think each side was, and naturally people will just go with their priors on this question. I tend to think, by rejecting the CR, the Democrats were less reasonable. However, they control media and people will generally primarily blame the party in power if anything goes wrong. On the whole I think Democrats won this one. They can spin their surrender as compassion for their state-supported pet classes.
daguerrean
2mo ago
This is basically like if a black guy came here in our days of HBD discussions and posted some 19th Century screed by a KKK Grand Wizard then proceeded to flame out saying we all wanted to put blacks back in chains. Do you think that would be a reasonable reaction?
daguerrean
2mo ago
I would put gait analysis in the same category as bite mark analysis, handwriting analysis and forensic firearm analysis. All pretty much worthless, probably mostly used for parallel construction purposes
daguerrean
2mo ago
The literally biochemical explanation may not be technically true but the general idea seems accurate and is backed up by plenty of Science™️
I think it may be significant this follows so closely on the Somali daycare scandal. Minnesota Democrats have every incentive to blow this up as big as possible to distract from that, so I see major incentives for escalation here.
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