faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
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faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
3hr ago
Well the correct answer to people claiming the use of DU ammo constitutes the use of "nuclear weapons" is to encourage them to speak directly into the microphone, not to try to tailor your own communication to ensure that malicious misinterpretation at that level is not possible.
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
3hr ago
I don't doubt that Trump is uncouth, nor do I have strong opinions about whether Trump is the most uncouth president. The thing I doubt is that being uncouth is all that's going on with Trump.
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
4hr ago
suppose I say I'd change my mind if Trump used nuclear weapons -- that lever will be used to abuse me.
See this is exactly the sort of lever I would really, really hope you expect wouldn't be used to "abuse" you, because you expect Trump wouldn't use nuclear weapons. If you expect Trump to pop a nuke I don't understand why you support him and what he's doing.
Or are you saying that people would claim that using DU ammo is using "nuclear weapons"?
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
5hr ago
I think the most costly progressive belief is something like "we should not punish antisocial behavior if we can tell a story where that antisocial behavior is downstream of prejudice around race, gender, or class". While Trump has obviously been acting like a petulant toddler lately, it's not like handing uncontested power back to the progressive "adults in the room" is likely to go particularly well. Probably less badly but that's not a very high bar to clear.
Ideally, I don't do anything to convince you. Ideally, you will have a mental model of what the actual physical world will look like, and then you will notice what that model predicts about the physical world, and then you will look at the world and at those predictions and see whether they align with each other. The world in which Trump is crashing out and likely to lash out in counterproductive ways looks different from the one in which he's playing six dimensional chess. I am asking you to determine, in advance, what you think each one looks like. What will Trump definitely not do?
You don't even have to write it down. But if you find yourself resistant to making those advance predictions, even in the privacy of your own head, I think you should interrogate that resistance.
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
6hr ago
To me Trump definitely seems more unhinged and less grounded now than he did during his first term or even the start of this term, and I've never particularly been a fan of him.
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
6hr ago
What future observations would change your mind?
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
7hr ago
... that does not make it better.
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