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You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
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desolation
You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
3d ago
On the other hand, how did she set trigger ICE in the first place?
"Canada sent you back, did we miss something?" seems like a straightforward trigger for additional scrutiny.
Or maybe the border agent had just read that story about the UN judge getting convicted of slavery in the UK and was exceptionally paranoid about what "chores" might mean.
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You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
8d ago
I've read this article a couple times trying to figure it out, and the answer is "somewhere between 10% and 95%." I'm only sort of joking; part of the problem is that the government doesn't report attendance, it reports completions:
“The government … does not report immigrants’ appearance rate,” Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, policy counsel for the American Immigration Council, wrote in a July 2019 Wall Street Journal opinion piece. “Instead it reports a related figure called the ‘in absentia rate’ — the percentage of ‘completed’ cases closed each year because the person missed court. Because the penalty for missing court is an automatic deportation order, these cases are completed rapidly. As a result, that figure overemphasizes rapid deportations for missing court and leaves out the much larger number of cases that remain pending as the immigrant diligently appears for every hearing.”
He used the following example to illustrate his point: “To simplify, imagine 10 people are scheduled to appear in court one day and nine show up. The judge issues a deportation order for the person who missed court, then deals with the remaining cases, finishing one and ordering the other eight to return for another hearing. The appearance rate for that day is 90%. The in absentia rate is a mere 50% — one deportation order divided by two completed cases.”
But also the numbers overall seem bizarre and don't really explain much. Like for 2023, 30K approvals, 30K denials, and 130K "Other"? Which a footnote says "Other" was deactivated in 2019, so why is still so common? Lots of missing information here.
Edit: formatting
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You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
8d ago
being discriminatory towards religion wasn't in the progressive handbook.
I don't like using humor as a reference, but it was a common enough thing to be treated as a joke on Silicon Valley that coming out as Christian would be disastrous for one's business associations.
One should be cautious of gerrymandering definitions to the point of uselessness, or buying into the propaganda. In my experience progressives claim to hate racism, but for some reason that only applies when it targets certain races. Always another layer of rationalization for why that is.
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You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
8d ago
Obviously Scardina
Being a troll (and using Satanist imagery as part of trolling) does not seem particularly compatible with
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
I've met a lot of Christians that fail to live up to those things! Myself included, for all have sinned and fall short. But by goodness I find it a tough pill to swallow that you've met so many progressives who aren't impatient, hateful, envious, boastful, prideful, self-seeking, angered at the slightest whim of disagreement, who don't seek to get people fired and depersoned for decades-old offenses, and who don't treat the truth as little more than a tool to be disposed of when it's not in their favor.
Scardina called on Phillips to be truthful when he said he would serve LGBT customers, and Phillip was caught in his lie, which is also un-Christian.
Should artists be required to paint anything that someone asks in commission?
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You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
10d ago
The ending made me roll my eyes so hard I was tempted to regret reading it, but the worldbuilding was too fun for that.
desolation
You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
10d ago
Right! I'll give Worth the Candle a shot next.
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You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
10d ago
Will do!
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You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
10d ago
Thank you!
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You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
10d ago
LOL gotta say not something I expected, but that makes it more fun! I've been enjoying some isekai anime so it would be a good change of pace to read some instead.
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You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
10d ago
Yep, definitely a good one! Enjoyable take. Worked better than his Ra, imo, which had a few stumbles (or maybe references that went over my head).
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You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
13d ago
Fiction Recommendation Request! And then a related question.
As I recall internet serials and similar megafiction were pretty popular around here, and I'm looking for new recommendations.
To help triangulate: Not a fan of Worm, Twig had really interesting worldbuilding but stumbled hard towards the end for me with the increasingly unreliable narrator arc. I've enjoyed The Wandering Inn, really like the fantasy elements and the interweaving of various mythologies, but probably won't keep going with it once the current arc finally wraps up. Mother of Learning was enjoyable but not truly catching in the same way. Millennial Mage is pleasantly 'cozy' but not the best prose. Just started This Used To Be About Dungeons.
For more traditional or classic fiction, I will always love the works of Ray Bradbury, John Bellairs, and Diane Duane. If there's anybody new with a voice like Bradbury's, let me know!
Now, the question- in TWI, Practical Guide to Evil, and Millennial Mage, gnomes come up. Not really as characters except in limited circumstances, but they're described as outrageously powerful and skilled as technologists. I don't recall that being any past myth regarding gnomes, so is that a D&D thing or derived from elsewhere?
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You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
16d ago
If we get the pro wrestling scene involved, Trump might endorse it.
Sell tickets! Auction off spots to fight! We'll balance that budget by the end of the year. It's about time Zuck v. Musk happened.
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You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
16d ago
I'd go for any examples that aren't from hard sciences.
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You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
30d ago
then a few months later someone came out with a new AI-devised wonderdrug that can cure all addictions with a single pill.
As long as we're proposing fantasies, let's counter with a similarly-absurd nightmare: all the heroin addicts on their umpteenth narcan turn into 28 Days Later rage zombies, and you could've avoided the apocalypse if you'd just let them die of their previous overdoses instead. Embarrassing!
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You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
1mo ago
Do you believe that there’s a legitimate distinction to be made between “gay men” and “men who have sex with men”?
Yes, I find Sin's wording a bit odd regarding the women thing, but I like the are versus do description. There is a legitimate distinction there. Gay men are a particular subset of MSM, and part of defining the subset is the cultural component.
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You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
1mo ago
also, mostly irrelevant
How on earth is this irrelevant given that it was the astronomical promiscuity rate specific to gay men that made them the perfect, ha, breeding ground?
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You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
1mo ago
Grandad's Pride, scroll down to "Reviews with pictures" if you're curious. Or here's an article with a description:
Will Taylor described two particular images in the book: ‘We identified two images of men who are partially naked in leather bondage gear. One has a leather cod-piece moulded tightly around his crotch along with garters running down his thighs. He also has a studded dog collar around his neck and knee-high boots. Both have various leather straps around their bodies and studs/spikes.’
I'm pretty live and let live and not exactly put-off by collars and garters, where appropriate. But I'm baffled by the fact anyone thought this book was a good idea, and anyone that green-lit it should be on a watchlist. I wouldn't complain about- what was it, penguins with two dads that was popular for a while? The line between encouraging acceptance and being porn-brained creep is not thin; there's a great big flashing wall between those, and yet here we are.
If you want to say conservatives abused the "groomer" thing, I'll agree. Unfortunately, there's just enough wackadoos that pull this shit and useful idiots that defend it to provide a good supply of ammunition.
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You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
1mo ago
opposition to feminism
Underdefined.
opposition to pornography, support for abstinence-only sex education
Progressives decided to fight on the hill of children's book about leather daddies, but outside of schools he doesn't seem to care. Vance might.
opposition to LGBT rights
He just appointed a married gay Huguenot to the Secretary of the Treasury. Lumping them all together is what generates the confusion, and contributed to the backlash that got Trump reelected.
support for school vouchers, support for homeschooling
Funny how quickly homeschooling went from left-hippy coded to right-coded.
opposition to gambling,
He owned a casino! Politicians are no stranger to hypocrisy but he doesn't seem opposed to gambling. And given the disaster that is sportsbetting, he probably should be.
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You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
1mo ago
If you harden your hearts towards the suffering of the least fortunate among you, it will come back to bite you in the rear end.
The trans-Sarahan slave trade was at least as large as the trans-Atlantic, but one observes that there's no class of descendants begging for reparations in the Middle East. In large part because they castrated male slaves to prevent that issue.
Hardening your heart does not tend to bite you, if you harden it enough. Being charitable is good, being hard-hearted is advantageous, it is the mushy middle that bites you. History makes many arguments that moral improvement comes with surprisingly high and enduring costs. Europe is steadily learning that lesson.
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You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
1mo ago
Well, it isnt for me.
That's good! A healthier way to approach it. I just can't shake it from the back of my head.
Yeah, it's been a while since I've made the longer comments I tend to make back at the schism, and in a pique I deleted a lot of my first comments here when I went away for a while. I still read here some but don't feel like I fit or have as much to say as I used to.
From what I've read, I think you're much the same here as elsewhere.
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You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
1mo ago
Fair point, edited
I think it is worth testing the standards of outfits that people are relying on for information, if only to make sure the pipeline isn't broken and flawed in some way.
Part of the difference in judgement and the reaction around these parts, or at the blocked and reported subreddit, is how the observer weighs the target.
We all Many of us have extremely low opinions of LoTT's reliability, I'm pretty sure even some "locals" that are mostly sympathetic to her have a low opinion of her, so it's not that interesting to pull one over on her. She's a partisan hack and everyone knew it. Tricking a stooge isn't that fun and tends to backfire (like the infamous "it's okay to be white" and OK sign things from 4chan made the world worse rather than simply revealing how gullible and bigoted a certain kind of progressive is).
Pulling a hoax on the Ivory Tower, that's supposed to be our high-quality repository of knowledge, is different.
Edited in response to fair critique of consensus building language.
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You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
1mo ago
I dont even remember that one
I thought the the hoax with the furry school assignment was pretty memorable. It affected my opinion of Trace, and the degree of outraged response that he'd stoop that low was a big component in him leaving the motte. I also think that's part of the reason he's sympathetic to hanania, despite him being an atrocious ghoul- he's one of not many conservatives that didn't snap at Trace for that stunt.
Good point about the difference in self-presentation (I'm still professorgerm back on reddit). I think another component is, to borrow Trace's phrase, that he's a "live player." Interacting before he became a media personality, he's just some guy in a forum and we're on level playing ground- like with SLHA. Now, it's different.
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You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
1mo ago
Darwin never had a sense of humor, at least she's got that.
I'll respect our difference of opinion if you don't find it funny, but I chuckled.
Our friends are rarely the problem. I've known some good, sweet, well-meaning trans people, and while it would be a weird topic to bring up directly, I always feel bad for them that the public faces of the movement and associated policymakers are so frequently horrible.
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