daguerrean
17d 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
20d 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
20d 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
22d ago
The literally biochemical explanation may not be technically true but the general idea seems accurate and is backed up by plenty of Science™️
daguerrean
24d ago
I know absolutely nothing about Ukraine or Russia and I don’t even follow the news about it outside of Motte comments. Through the years though it has been obvious that pro-Russia commentators have generally made fools of themselves. They always adopt this cynical, smart and worldly tone, sneering at the soyfacing West. All I know is that I’ve been hearing them say for like 4 years that Ukraine was on the verge of total collapse and the war only had months left. Or that Germany would totally collapse come winter 2023.
Being ignorant of absolutely everything else, I have heard vastly more false predictions from the pro-Russian side. Given that, I’ll register a prediction based solely on the commentariat's track record: if the war ends in the next year it will come from a diplomatic resolution, there will be no large scale collapse of Ukrainian forces, Russian commenters will keep being wrong about literally everything.
daguerrean
29d ago
3/10. Hideous is strong but unattractive is appropriate.
daguerrean
29d ago
Weirdly I essentially never encounter even the most mildly political comments at work. I work in tech, mostly with asians, and for the most part they seem apolitical. Occasionally there will be a tentative “topical” Trump joke, but I don’t sense any seething anger behind it. Generally asians seem to value seeming composed and professional. I encounter political comments most from white boomers I know through my hobby. The typical tech companies I’ve worked at seem to be good at upholding an unspoken “no politics” norm, even based in SF with a 90% anti-Trump workforce. I haven’t socialized with a person under 40 outside of work in many years though
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.
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