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greyenlightenment
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2yr ago
yup time for America's annual mass shooting
school restrictions going to get much worse . Thank god I went to school when this was not such a big problem or fear as it is today
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2yr ago
I think his point was that if the races were reversed, no one would care.
WEF
The WEF and these leaders are overblown and their power is greatly overestimated by the twitter-punditry. The Covid restrictions as far as the US was concerned were enacted voluntarily by businesses and local/state governments, and enforced by police, not one-world elites.
Per pound, beef, chicken are cheaper than bugs anyway. As japan shows, people voluntarily choose to live in small accommodations, almost pod like, for the convenience. There are cheaper and more spacious alternatives elsewhere but father from jobs and less stuff to do. You don't need a police state for what is often choice.
Drug dealers and users, if anything, want minimal violence. There is nothing worse for business than drawing unnecessary attention from law enforcement.
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2yr ago
He says Hershel Walker is dumb. He's as dumb as the average American, at least going by his academic credentials. It's like there is a reason elites exist even if they are a convenient scapegoat for everything wrong with society. Things we take for granted from political leaders, like being articulate, are not that common.
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2yr ago
Unbanning the account would be a major symbolic gesture. Trump does not have to use it.
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2yr ago
Entering technically made it a crime , which is pretty lame but that is the law . Apparently almost 1000 people entered . The FBI outsourced some of the investigation to outsiders to compile footage.
A judgment like this tries to protect society from that chaos. It acknowledges that what Jones had done is beyond the pale, but mollifies the homicidal rage of the wronged.
Sounds like extortion. Give us obscene amounts of money or we may go on a homicidal rage.
We live in a society where we resolve things with court cases and laws and such.
within reason. Is a billion or more dollars reasonable, especially we're talking an individual who doesn't even have anywhere close to that much money? Probably not.
A judgment like this tries to protect society from that chaos.
Isn't that the point of laws and police. Rule of law can be upheld without acceding to unreasonable demands.
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2yr ago
This is why mediocre national test scores are not that big of a deal. What matters is the top .01% or so of talent, and that is where the US seems to excel in terms of absolute and total talent. America's schools and universities attract the best talent from all over the world even if most students are unexceptional, or wokeness not withstanding.
Ideologically and in other respects, conservatism is broad/diverse and seems to be always evolving whereas liberalism is more like something being stretched, in which the original shape is still the same.
I'll tell you who they are. They are the Rush Limbaugh crowd. Or wherever they are now. I grew up with them, they are my people. I listened to Rush in his final year, and listened to his callers, and the vibe of his following (which was massive) was the same as I remember it.
Rush was a morbidly obese ideologue who had his heyday in the '90s and 2000s, especially during the Obama era, but since 2016 and especially since 2020 during Covid, his type of conservatism has been in decline online , imho, replaced by the likes of Rogan, Peterson, etc. who have more of an emphasis on self-improvement and salubrity (being healthy, working out, intellectual curiosity, etc.) while still opposing the far-left. Since 2021 I have also observed the rise of a sort of civic nationalism conservatism which combines 'Trumpism' with 'Roganism'. In keeping with the civic aspect of it, it's not necessarily opposed to diversity or immigration as long as said diversity holds anti-woke values. I think this is a tad overoptimistic given the tendency of second and third generation immigrants to vote left. I think this new brand of conservativism is very powerful and has considerable online support, and stands good shot at beating Biden.
It's hard to say what Trump is/was. He's not alt-right yet much more nationalistic than the typical conservative. His push for tax cuts early on is consistent with the mainstream GOP platform though.
In one of my blog posts I describe how the GOP has evolved and its likely direction:
'80s up until 2008-2013 Reaganomics, supply side
2008-2013 split or weakening cracks on the foundation of immigration and globalization
2014-2015: rise and fall gamergate, precursor to the IDW and trump-right
2016-2020 Trump and split between 'the base' vs 'the establishment', rise of civic nationalism
2016-2018 rise and fall of alt-right
2018-: rise of the IDW , which is related to the anti-idpol left
2020-: hybridization/amalgamation of civic nationalism ,self-improvement, and anti-woke populism
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3mo ago
The dems offer a lot: student loan forgiveness, healthcare reform, housing reform, etc. It's just the handouts are not as effective at winning votes.
What's interesting about Trump is that he can't turn this off either. He can't code switch between the two different ways of communicating, and it continually suprises him when he is misinterpreted.
I'm sure he's more articulate in business or private. also he's probably not as sharp as he was , so he's more forgetful and like Biden has trouble finding the right word or names. Being misinterpreted easily is not always a bad thing as a public figure when communicating to the public. It makes it harder to attacks to stick. With trump you never know if he's being serious or hyperbole, so it keeps everyone guessing. To his supporters, they decode his language. To everyone else they are either offended or confused, which was the point.
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8mo ago
This was an example of an unforced error, albeit a tiny one in the grand schemes of things. It makes me wonder why anyone would book a comedian at all. Politics is very much scripted; comedians by trade are not.
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1yr ago
Odds are your political movement, on either the far-left or far-right, is overrepresented by Jews, especially in the highest positions of power and influence of said movement. Who do you think is writing all that material: Jews score really high in verbal IQ, even more lopsided than other IQ-subtests. Gentiles I have found prefer video or audio. But jews are the ones cranking out those huge word counts. Similar to how 16% of men over 7 feet play professional basketball, which in statistical terms is extraordinarily high odds ratio relative to merely above-average-height men playing in the NBA, an abnormally high percentage of Jews are involved in writing and or politics.
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1yr ago
Billionaires have never been fans of wokeness ,as they know if wokeness is carried out to its eventual end, they will be among the first to be shaken down. I think Ackman has voiced sentiment that many others share but afraid to voice. Zuckerberg is not a big fan of the woke either.
The trans issue is not as controversial or divisive as he's making it out to be. I don't think the opposition is as strong as he imagines it to be or that people are anti-trans in his comments. He gets way more pushback about Zionism and Israel than he does about trans. If he made a post advocating for a wealth tax or higher income taxes, again i'm sure he'd get way more pushback than the trans issues. The trans issue comes down to sports and if children can consent to irreversible medical procedures. Otherwise, most people do not care that much, including even conservatives and rightists. His argument about trans people taking hormones being similar or analogous to men who take steroids to attain some idealization of masculinity, is actually shared by libertarians and some on the right . I don't even see where the disagreement is that some people do not feel like their sex matches with their gender or wish to have certain reasonable provisions made.
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1yr ago
An idea I have been contemplating:
Despite how incidents of unrest and incivility, such as shoplifting, go viral on Twitter and the perceived widespread decline and decay of American society and the breakdown of law and order, Americans a , in large, better-behaved than any other society, and are better behaved now than in the past, compared to even in the Middle East under Islamic law, compared to much of Europe. Western Europe seems to have constant protests and riots, whereas in the US it was limited to 2020 after George Floyd's death, but more contained and ended abruptly.
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2yr ago
Weird Malthusian degrowth policies will rule the day. Every year our quality of life will be worse than the last for some nebulous greater good. Despite this, I see no end to the forever wars either. Forever wars pair too well with degrowth anyways.
The Middle East wars ended though. This narrative sounds appealing and then I look at someone like Ron DeSantis going on about woke, and Biden who is too feeble to do much. I think too many people are forming their opinions based on fiction, like TV or history. Real-life leaders , especially in modern America, are way more impotent, ineffective, and unenthusiastic than their fictional depictions.
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2yr ago
that's what I was thinking too. I assume 'restraining someone safely' would be covered in basic training , especially when the assailant is not armed and does not seem particularly strong
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2yr ago
First off, safety: it's true that nuclear has a much better safety record so far, but nuclear seems to have the potential for black swan disasters in a way that coal is not. Is this true?
Western Europe's track record on nuclear power is very safe. But America's obsession with diversity and overall failing infrastructure makes me hesitant to embrace the idea full-on. DEI is not a risk to society if your business is involved with tech widgets, but a nuclear reactor? Maybe not. Perhaps Elon Musk would pull it off if he were in charge.
The same thing happened with /r/antiwork. These communities are nothing like they let on to be.
Further, I would bet my bottom dollar that this cohort are all college educated. I'd throw in a combined five M.A.s.
Not really. Let's assume that an IQ of 110 is needed to finished college, or about 40% of the general population. Even if these people are in the top 10% of the population by IQ and have a 90% chance of finishing college, to have all 9 finish college would still only be 38%. To get a degree you need your life together. Even if you are smart, illness or other factors can derail that. These people do not come off as being exceptionally stable.
Agree. 4900 is more than i would have guessed for a seemingly harmless twitter joke...that is more than enough to move the needle for swing states. Had someone did this but targeting trump voters and had trump lost, we'd be hearing to no end by the same guys on Twitter about how it's not a joke and how it's evidence of fraud, and so on. One way around this is to charge him to set legal precedent , but sentence him lightly. To add, I personally don't think he should have been charged and someone who fall for such a joke is too ill-informed to have a say, but I can see the rationale for charging him. The 1st amendment protects a lot, but I can see a line being drawn if it involves elections. Let's assume someone like Nayib Bukele had charged some people for making a similar joke that interfered with his election. Would the same people supporting him now be defending those people for making a joke on the grounds of the 1st amendment? The failure of people to apply their principles evenly/consistently is one of the problems I have with online-right.
2020 stolen election time! There's been some rather big developments with my favorite cute little hobby horse. I haven't had the time to make a deep-dive write-up, but it's has already been extensively reported on elsewhere (e.g. this post by Jacob Sullum). To summarize, Dominion voting systems sued Fox News (and Newsmax, and OAN) for defamation. Dominion has been past the discovery stage for more than a year now but their filings only recently became public and, no way to say this lightly, it's been extremely humiliating for Fox. Tons of text messages from the big names (Carlson, Hannity, etc.) either talking shit about how crazy Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani are, or (especially for Lou Dobbs and Maria Bartiromo) credulously accepting and repeating the stolen election theories.
It's ironic or bittersweet how Dominion, a private company, is now Fox's greatest adversary, not the Biden administration. Usually government is framed as being tyrannical or overreaching, compared to the private sector as the 'little guy' or victim, but it's flipped.
The Dominion lawsuit demonstrates the problem behind audience capture; Fox pundits and reporters had to deal with a credible financial pressure to cater to the crazy fringes of their audience for fear of losing them to their less scrupulous competitors.
It shows that free speech does not apply to libel. Unlike governments and bureaucrats, private companies and individuals can fight back. being targeted by a private entity is worse than being targeted by a government, unless it's something really bad like terrorism or Jan 6th. There are many people who have years of back taxes and the IRS waits years or longer, if ever, to do anything, except sometimes arresting celebrities to make examples. Private lawsuits are slow only because the courts are slow, not out apathy of the plaintiff.
That is clever and astute.
In Utah I am guessing most of those women are married and voting the same as their husbands?
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