dasfoo
1yr ago
he's been an utter failure. Maybe apart from appointing SCOTUS justices.
And that one notable success was the result of Trump delegating SC nominees to the swampiest establishment Republicans. Trump strengthened the process with his refusal tro cower in the face of outrage, but he succeeded here by essentially doing nothing.
dasfoo
1yr ago
yeah - "exploring mental disability in novel form is never done" is just wrong. Hate this kind of article, but a lot of popular books explore mental disability
I couldn't get into it for this reason, but isn't Faullkner's The Sound and the Fury told partially from the POV of a retarded character? I found those early chapters unreadable.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is also a first-person narrative from the POV of a character with arguably limited mental resources.
dasfoo
4mo ago
And they would be wrong to do so.
Doesn't that depend on the method of reduction?
It would be obviously wrong to murder deaf people to reduce their numbers, but would it be obviously wrong to reduce the deaf population by curing them?
I would agree that it would be wrong to cure deaf people against their will, but what if 30% wanted curing? Would it be wrong to reduce deafness by 30% in that scenario? What if more wanted curing but were pressured by the deaf community to reject the cure?
What if, in a world where deafness was reduced to an even smaller fraction of its current presence, librarians and teachers started encouraging hearing children to explore deafness as a potential identity so that it does not go extinct? Would that be noble and something parents needn't worry about?
dasfoo
6mo ago
Except, of course, that classically it isn't; rather, it the expression of outgroup bias against particular groups.
I think the point is that the outgroup bias follows the ingroup bias: "In order to protect/provide for my ingroup, it is useful to stigmatize the outgroup."
dasfoo
9mo ago
I would not be surprised if the new BlueSky app stays in invite-only mode for precisely this reason. A private Twitter probably has more appeal/value to the blue media class than a public Twitter at this point. Like a super-powered Journolist.
dasfoo
10mo ago
I read something about this to the effect of it is very hard from a Screed Actors Guild point of view to drop an actor once shooting has actually started on a specific movie. I don't know if that is true but I think that is why they stuck with him for the Flash movie.
This didn't save Kevin Spacey from being replaced by Christopher Plummer one month before a film was released:
A smaller part, certainly, but where there's a will there's a way.
dasfoo
1yr ago
Why would a fed at the Jan 6 rally be suggesting people cross state lines to procure weapons/explosives? Your reply makes no sense in this context.
dasfoo
1yr ago
Anxiety, depression, et cetera…the intent is to mitigate them.
I'm not sure exactly what the modes of mitigation are, and if they're applied consistently. I guess I'm reacting more to the "pop psychology" reaction to these issues that you see in the media, and the effusive affirmations that now greet announcements of mental illness.
For anxiety and depression, my assumption is that the treatment for these has at least shifted from a "get over it" approach to a "this is very normal and valid" approach, even if the latter was originally intended as a way to end-run around the obvious objections to "get over it" while still helping them get over it. Now, the mode seems to be helping the patient feel better about their affliction rather than removing the affliction, as if the stigma of a mental health problem is more important than the mental health problem.
I'm wondering if it might also depend on the demographics of the patient. I have a hard time imagining that the treatment approach (across a broad swath of therapists) would be the same for a middle-aged white man who feels paranoid anxiety over romantic issues with women and a young black woman who feels paranoid anxiety over racial discrimination. Is one more likely to be asked to look for internal causes/solutions to their predicament while the other is tasked with better coping skills in the face of injustice? Is a profession that has fallen almost completely in-line with a radically progressive approach to trans issues not going to see that same context start to inform their other treatments?
dasfoo
1yr ago
I guess what I try to do while looking at this is to remove all of the baked-in assumptions, because I'm not sure I trust that they apply.
The first assumption from the moralists, is that this individual banker with direct family connections to Qatari royalty is a proxy for the State of Qatar and is guilty of all their evils. This may be true. I don't know know though why I am required to assume it is true and base all of my reactions on this "truth." It's not uncommon for younger inheritors of archaic systems to be less enamored of the archaic systems and their practices.
Second, that the purpose of buying the sports franchise is somehow an intentional step in some plan to do further evil, rather than something that exists in parallel to the supposed evil.
Third, yes other foreign owners have cheated. I hope they are penalized for it. It doesn't look good right now for Manchester City. Does that mean all foreign owners will cheat? Again, an assumption that requires evidence.
And, this is on me, because I haven't researched it, but I'm assuming neither have the redditors/twitterers who are so strident about it: what exactly are Qatar's worst sins and how common are they? They have a weird migrant labor system and what I think are backwards attitudes toward women and gays. So does most of the world. And it's hard to find specific abuse metrics from any organization that doesn't also consider the USA a horrible white supremacist system guilty of crimes against humanity. I would want to see some kind of data that suggests Qatar is getting worse and not gradually liberalizing like most places do, just on a different slower timetable. In any event, my prior is that isolation of a government is worse for the oppressed people than greater exposure. As long as Qataris own big European soccer clubs, there is going to be attention paid to their malfeasance.
As for the influence of rich foreign owners on EPL clubs, AFAIC, that horse is already out of the barn. The decision now is whether to outlaw it for everyone, or invite more of it for better parity in the league. I can't get too bothered by a team already owned by one set of hated foreigners getting sold to another set of foreigners, especially if the new set of foreigners might turn out to have a more positive approach to running the team. And it's not like there is an array of appealing suitors getting boxed out by a Chad. All of the options suck on some level.
It's hardly a black-and-white scenario and hard to figure out the noise-to-signal ratio. So I default to: Is any of this related to why I watch football? No. As long as the players and coaches are not compromised, whatever.
dasfoo
1yr ago
I'm not sure if Russia torpedoing their own critical infrastructure (and their only major pipeline to the euros that doesn't run through Ukrainian territory) makes much sense.
I have a friend who is very pro-Russia at the moment and often makes this same rhetorical argument. However, he also thinks 9/11 was an inside job and is full of theories for why the U.S. would have inflicted such an attack on its most important city. "Makes sense" seems to me to be a too-loosely employed criteria when it comes to the world of international subterfuge, where "not making sense" can look like a smokescreen to those who see things in smoke or just smoke to anyone who doesn't want to see in anything in the smoke.
dasfoo
1yr ago
Anyway, I'll be curious to see if the study is released more publicly and details what exactly is causing the disparity.
It would be interesting to learn:
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If these audits happen with equal imbalance when the auditee self-prepares their tax return VS. when their return is professionally prepared
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If the professional tax preparations for blacks are handled by accountants with less experience / lower quality education than the professionals hired by less-audited racial groups.
dasfoo
1yr ago
Because the larger government would be ppl who say the right things. and enough ppl would support them. Similar things are happening now.
The trend, though, in the opposite direction, with the pro-1WG crowd consisting of WHO+WEF+EU+UN types who are all vaccine booster boosters. It seems like all of the hesitants lean more toward local/national sovereignty. I don't see an infrastructure in place for anti-elite types to suddenly assume or even drift toward elite status.
dasfoo
1yr ago
I have a completely opposite view of the Reddit /r/jailbait saga. Places like /r/jailbait and /r/coontown did not exist because the Reddit admins at the time secretly liked it, but because they had a legitimate ideological commitment to only ban things that were explicitly illegal.
Good point. Now, unless there are any objections, since we're finally off Reddit, I'll started on this site's Jailbait thread later today....
dasfoo
4mo ago
Bernie couldn’t even beat Hillary in the primary
We'll never know if he could've beaten her, as the Hillary-funded DNC fixed that race.
dasfoo
4mo ago
I have to ask, at this point, why does the West still support Ukraine?
Do you think any of the concerns you've raised are relevant to why the West supports Ukraine?
dasfoo
5mo ago
I think the tribal thing is overdone with left v right, the problem is the failure of people to think for themselves. I mean your claim that all blue is pro-immigration seems unlikely, or is evidence of some serious group-think. Immigration is a complex, and contextual issue. If half the population has one view on it, that's stupid.
I think the problem is that even though there may be widespread nuance in individual thought on issues like immigration, when it comes to rubber-meets-the-road rhetoric and policy, there's a knee-jerk reversion to the unnuanced view. It doesn't matter if someone or a lot of someones in Party A think some combination of B,C,D & E is true when they will only vote for people who say and pursue E as policy because it's the option that makes the best PR-tested battle cry. This is true of both major parties, who are more scared of losing than figuring out a problem, so instead of threading needles, all the front-line warriors are using sledgehammers. And while the nuanced thinkers sit back threading their needles, they're cheering on the sledgehammers.
dasfoo
7mo ago
it's kind of interesting that we don't see more of this
We will definitely see a lot more of it now that there's been such an effective proof of concept.
dasfoo
9mo ago
women [children] should be free to do what they want without men [pedophiles] sexualizing them for it. Hence Cuties
As one of the few people who actually bothered to watch Cuties, this may be the perception of how that movie fits into the culture, but it's not apt. The movie is extremely critical of sexualized cultures that young girls inherit from their confusing adult influences. Yes, it also leans into an uncomfortably sensationalistic depiction of that sexualization, and I'm sure it will be found on many unsavory hard drives, but that's not its messaging.
dasfoo
1yr ago
I would disagree. The essence of many culture war issues is that our ability to stand up and say "this is fucking stupid" for most of these topics is broken.
YOU think they're stupid, but other people clearly don't. What happens to your community when you're done yelling "You're stupid!" at everyone you don't like? Do they agree and change into smart people? Do they grow to hate you? What has it accomplished? You have broken more than you were trying to fix.
EDIT: Also, I don't know what world you're living in, but the number of people saying "this is fucking stupid" seems to be at an all-time high. Have you seen Twitter? This the Daily Show-ification of public discourse. It makes the person saying "that's stupid" feel smug and makes everyone else hate them. Is it working?
dasfoo
1yr ago
That is, mental illness alone of any severity does not meet the requirements for a risk protection order, which instead must depend on clear and convincing evidence of danger to himself or herself or others, according to the statute.
Isn't the basis of the argument for gender-affirmation that the trans person is an imminent risk to themselves? Affirmation is required to subvert suicidal tendencies; to not affirm is to commit "genocide" because this is all that stands between the trans person and self-harm? And since affirmation relies on the participation of uncooperative third-parties, the stability of the trans person is in constant jeopardy?
I don't know how you square this argument, which is the basis for the current mode of treatment for people with gender dysphoria, with "not a danger to themselves."
dasfoo
1yr ago
Cads who seduced women into sex didn't get let off because they said yes. If you breach behavioral norms, you're in trouble regardless.
Maybe prior to the sexual revolution, when women expected to have their sexual opportunities managed by family gatekeeping and prudish societal mores. When the oppressive nature of that paradigm was rejected and women claimed to want first-hand control over their own sex lives, it became their responsibility. If they feel that they are inadequately equipped to exercise this responsiblity, it's up to them to call for a return to the old model, but they won't, so they must prefer greater vulnerability. Why is any of this the cad's fault now? They are keeping it simple, at least.
dasfoo
1yr ago
All I want to ask the ladies who supposedly regretted C.K. having done what he did is, why didn't you yell "NO!"?
Perhaps uncharitably, in that instant they decided that there might be some advantage to them if they did not say "No!," and in retrospect realized that said advantage never materialized or wasn't worth the price they had paid for it. Seems to me like this is what is called "learning from experience," and calls for self-reflection rather than outward accusation.
If the movie showed that actually happening, yes. But they only speculate that it's happening and fail to follow-up that speculation with confirming evidence, which should've been trivially easy given the amount of video footage they boasted of having.
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