dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
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dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
18hr ago
If you want my "Schelling point" for when we are actually staring down the barrel of civil war, it's that you will be able to make six figures enlisting to fight for one side or the other. The reader can judge whether that's fair and exactly where our politics are in relation, but that's how I see it.
Interesting. Can you say more about this?
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
2d ago
I can appreciate being on the edge of killing the guy and giving him one last chance to redeem himself (in the killer's mind). Or alternatively, putting an exclamation mark on something he thought was especially shitty.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
2d ago
Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?", and instead of replying "I don't know", Kirk replies with the deflective and maximally-inflammatory "Too many." The shot came a few seconds later, but I think this was when the shooter decided to aim carefully and fire. Kirk demonstrated he had no interest in discussing actual numbers that might fail to make transpeople look bad, he just wanted to play rhetorical judo and try to find his dunk.
Political assassination is bad and I don't condone it, of course, but even in condemning the killer, as a Mottizen I appreciate the artistry involved in waiting for Kirk to resort to paltering before killing him. Un bacione, addio!
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
2d ago
Yeah. I simultaneously believe it is disrespectful and gross to talk ill of the dead, especially over mere political differences, but that it's outrageous to fire someone or try to marginalize them from society for doing so. I recognize these are somewhat contradictory. I am American AMA.
If Ilhan Omar died in a car accident and people were being fired for voicing disrespectful opinions about her, would you feel similarly?
What if she was killed by a confused person for a non-politically articulable reason?
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
3d ago
The evidence AFAICT is that groypers began ironically using the term "bella ciao" at some point, which was written on one of the killer's cartridges.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
3d ago
Where does anti-Nazism in Russia come from? Is it the same flavor and degree at all?
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
5d ago
I have a friend who is a Ketamine addict that I feel pretty sorry for but also can't let myself get too close to because he can say pretty hurtful stuff he doesn't even remember from the depths of his ketamine stupors and I can't always tell when he's in what state.
He didn't start out this way. He was selling weed for a bit on the darkweb in the early days and picked up some Bitcoin but then forgot about selling. Several years later his Bitcoin blew up into hundreds of thousands of dollars. He met a girl, bought a house, settled down and they tried to have kids. He would be house husband and she'd work in healthcare.
She miscarried four times in a row. They gave up trying. He started drinking and doing drugs because and couldn't find a job. She eventually divorced him. He just lives alone now and picks up odd jobs but gets fired because he keeps relapsing. A few months ago he ended up in the ER because he was doing Ketamine and cocaine and he stopped breathing and his junkie friend called 911.
I don't really know what to tell this guy in his 40s with no career prospects and rapidly depleting Bitcoin and a Ketamine addiction. To make matters worse he went on this Facebook tirade where he said he is actually kind of happy Trump won and 95% of his friends in this blue town disowned him.
I check on him once in awhile and offer a bit of advice and try to act like a sane voice of reason but I'm expecting to hear that he OD'd any month now.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
5d ago
I like your vibe in general but what consequences of his actions? Annoying speeches?
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
5d ago
Now, naturally, I've bought several more for no apparent reason.
What do you mean no apparent reason? You need one with a short barrel for close quarters defense and another set up for long-range precision with a scope. Also one in camo pattern for hunting. Oh yeah, also a spare, in case a friend is visiting when the social fabric collapses and they need to borrow it. Or in case you have one down for maintenance.
I'm pro-2A and own guns myself but there's a certain irony to outspoken 2A defenders being assassinated that's hard not to notice.
"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational. Nobody talks like this. They live in a complete alternate universe."
I do wonder if his last thoughts were "shit. still worth it, though". You can count on conservatives to be ethically consistent when it comes to gun rights. I don't expect anyone on the right to talk about banning the rifle used to kill him.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
5d ago
I actually haven't. I don't know if the Trump birthday letter to Epstein is real or not, for example. My hunch is that it is, but I'm not sure.
It seems real but not like a smoking gun or anything. Trump admitting to being a perv just like Epstein and also winking that Epstein likes girls under 18 is not a great quality but on its own I don't think it means Trump knew Epstein was a massive underage girl sex predator and that he also participated in it.
I think lots of people look the other way on underage dating if it seems like the people involved are mature or aren't being harmed. I had a high school music major friend that was 16 who was dating like a mid-30s something pianist guy. Seemed outrageous at first but she was mature enough and we didn't think too much of it.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
6d ago
Israel lures all of its enemies' leaders to a meeting and blows it up for the 4th time is kind of tired.
More evidence that everyone has already made up their mind about in the Epstein case was released.
Got an interesting take?
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
8d ago
Do we want to live in a country where the government ferociously enforces all laws unconditionally to the letter? Or should the executive have some discretion over how sharply it enforces them?
I can appreciate the argument that if we don't want a law enforced so rigidly we should fix the law, not let the executive be lawless. But I think the failure modes there are probably worse than just allowing the executive some discretion.
Yeah I dunno. I held my nose and voted for Harris. That said, If Trump has any disciplining force against him, it's the judgement of equities markets. We continually rack up all time highs during his terms and he shamelessly chickens out if the markets are spooked even slightly. That's actually incredibly reassuring?
This isn't just a rich people concern. Most Americans are unwitting capitalists, their retirement funds hold public companies and public companies are majority owned by retirement funds. The health of equities markets are the wealth of Americans.
I know markets aren't a complete moral compass but they're also not best friends with tyrants either. The authoritarian framing just doesn't hold up.
Ideally Trump would also be guided by, like, a moral framework but in the grand scheme of things this is still pretty good. It'd be pretty miserable to have a morally upright social justice hero that was completely indifferent to declining markets, for example.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
8d ago
A friend of mine got a Blue Check just for being cool, AFAICT. He wasn't a celebrity or an authority, just some kind of jetsetter guy who knew everyone.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
8d ago
I see. If this was particularly common the project for regime change at Twitter makes a lot more sense.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
9d ago
It could also be officials in the administration leaking this to the NYT now to sabotage Trump's peace efforts.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
9d ago
Why can't one have a zenned out acceptance of their own mortality while still choosing cryonics? Not being able to prevent all causes of death isn't an argument to not try to prevent some causes.
And what would you say about the God-shaped hole if the success rate was credibly discovered to be closer to 50%?
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
9d ago
I'm not sure I follow the conceit math? Choosing the 80% chance an emergency treatment saves your life seems obviously better than asking to be cryopreserved and killed now for the 1% chance you can resurrected later.
Conveniently forgetting, or desperately whitewashing, that Blue Checks were treated as the last word in authoritative sources, regularly cited in arguments, and used as "shut up" debate stoppers when A quoted "well Blue Check Z said..." and that was it.
I honestly was not in any communities where a blue check was considered anything other than an indicator of Twitter prestige. I truly can't remember people citing Blue Check said so-and-so with the same authority as a Wikipedia article on the topic.
To me blue checks had the same valence as CNN covering a bridge collapse and cutting away to, say, a gangster rapper and asking him to react. Entertaining but also worthless. But maybe I wasn't paying enough attention.
Tell me more!
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
10d ago
This is my throwaway comment that isn't an answer to your question, sorry.
I bought an air purifier and an air quality monitor for my house. So much insight! It makes me constantly worry about the air quality in rooms that aren't in my house now.
In the future we'll look back on this time in history and think it's insane that people used to walk into rooms and breathe even though they had no idea what was in the air.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
10d ago
I have what I think is a very good relationship with my parents. They currently live with my wife and I through the working week, and help care for and teach our children. We attend church together. My father and I take walks in the evening where either he listens to me lecture about the news, or I listen to him lecture about theology and church history. It's a really good way to live.
You are truly blessed to have them in your lives like this.
I have to admit that's a pretty solid indicator.
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