haroldbkny
2mo ago
Please do this, I'd love to read it!
It is worth noting that the liberal elite/centre-left establishment/Deep State/Blob do not have the same kind of hate-on for Reagan that they do for Bush Jr and Trump (and, as far as I am aware, never did - although I was too young to be following US politics when Reagan was in office.) For example, Reagan usually comes slightly above average in historical rankings of Presidents by academics.
That's interesting. I will say that it's hard for me to determine how much the left (in various factions of the left) hate Reagan, and this is probably because I wasn't around then. But fairly often, I hear people positively hating on him in what seems like an irrational way. I may be weighting those cases too heavily.
haroldbkny
2mo ago
takes you away from the rest of the thread to a "you are looking at a single comment's thread" page
Yes, I do find this annoying. I don't mind so much the "(+) 3 more replies", when it actually does work and when it also doesn't direct me away from the page.
haroldbkny
2mo ago
I mean, they don't have a vitriolic hatred for Bush sr.
That could be true. I honestly don't even know enough about him and his term to say one way or the other. I may not know enough about him either because he was just bland and forgettable, or maybe because the left didn't hate him as much. Or maybe the left didn't hate him as much because he was bland and forgettable?
haroldbkny
2mo ago
Ah, yeah, I guess. Sorry! I wasn't really thinking about it on that level, just expressing my thoughts/frustrations.
haroldbkny
2mo ago
You may be right, I'm not certain. Is there an explanation for Reagan?
Also, if you are right, then my next worry is that to get elected as a Republican anymore, you basically actually have to be as erratic as Trump! If that's the case, then I worry about whether things will ever stop moving left as fast as they are today.
haroldbkny
2mo ago
From my position as a moderately liberal griller this sounds like exactly what the right did after Trump lost: whining about stolen elections, utterly and embarrassingly paralyzing Congress, leading half the country into a fact-free conspiracy fantasy land, and so on.
I don't have much comment about how the right is handling this, probably because I live in a very progressive area. If the right whines about things, I don't hear about it, and I don't get bothered by it. Quite frankly, I hold the left to higher standards than the right, and I think that the left should be above such behavior.
?? Biden has been extremely moderate and a bunch of far left cultural elements seem to be coming to heel. What’s going on in the movie you’re watching?
I didn't say anything about Biden, I was talking about how Trump's presidency played out.
That's been covered before on this forum. I think people have said it ended up being a toxoplasmosis thing where people reacted to other people's reactions, resulting in a bit of a flip flop.
For example, we saw a lot of leftists covering covid from the angle of "we need to do something because this illness will hit the most needy of our population the worst, like black people". And for what it's worth, conservatives might have felt that covid wasn't close enough to zombie apocalypse level, because it is such a minor illness compared to even other things like polio. They might have felt it was annoying that the left was overreacting.
haroldbkny
4mo ago
Last year a headline proclaiming “most young men are single. Most young women are not.” went viral. Specifically, GSS data showed that 63% of young men reported themselves as single while only 34% of young women did. This was of course immediately seized upon as proof that a huge proportion of girls are in “chad harems.” Since nobody bothers to read beyond a sensationalist headline, not many dug deep enough to discover that this proportion has been roughly the same for over thirty years, so if the chadopoly is real, it’s been going on for a long time.
Not sure I'm following. If the claim is that the sexual revolution made the chadopoly worse, why does the fact that it's been the same for over 30 years refute this? Examining the period from 1986 does nothing for this, either way you look at it. We'd have to examine the rates over the period from like 1950 through 1990 or something, because that's when the sexual revolution happened, so you'd have a before rate and an after rate.
haroldbkny
5mo ago
I started following Shoeonhead in maybe 2015 or 2016, and I haven't followed her since like 2018, but even back then she seems like she was all about the based takes, mostly ridiculing leftists. When did you know her as a socialist? Was it before I started following her, or after I stopped following her? She started dating Armored Skeptic (whom I'm guessing you're referring to) during the time I was following her and also got engaged to him, but she seemed pretty anti-woke to me before that happened as well.
haroldbkny
6mo ago
I mean obviously ‘they can’t do it, so mandate they do’ won’t fix… anything. But it’s not a mystery why there’s suddenly a lack of nurses in nursing homes.
I'm not following. What's the reason there's suddenly a lack of nurses in nursing homes?
haroldbkny
8mo ago
admit to yourself that you actually have first order principles
Which would be what, exactly?
haroldbkny
11mo ago
Well, I guess if they factored the fact that everyone has to manage their own life into the equation, and devoted some time to that, too. Or at least commuting time. 7 hours of work, 7 hours of recreation, 1 hour commuting, 1 hour dealing with other shit, and 8 hours sleep. Or something.
haroldbkny
1yr ago
Inflation is caused by an increase in the money supply. In this case it's caused by the fact that a number of major governments decided to spend several years printing money like there was no tomorrow, and then tomorrow came.
I agree that's a likely culprit, and I hated the crazy COVID spending, but is it the only culprit? Prices went up around the Russia war, and everyone said that much of the price rise was due to supply chain problems. Like, because gas was so much pricier, it impacted every good that requires gas to transport. Couldn't that cause massive price increases irrespective of how much money supply there is?
haroldbkny
1yr ago
Well, how do you feel about what I said about comparable things for men? Do you think men should feel comfortable talking about their ejaculations and semen in more public situations? Do you think that men should not feel embarrassed or shameful about having visible erections? Those are just bodily functions.
Also, not everyone is keen on talking/joking about poop. I know I'm not.
haroldbkny
1yr ago
I wouldn't say I'm the most rationalist community person, but I've been around this scene for over a decade, and I've never even heard her mentioned (or maybe I never noticed her being mentioned) before this very thread.
haroldbkny
1yr ago
I mean, I do honestly think that Twitter going out of business could be good for free speech. It could result in a bunch of Twitter copycats trying to all start up and take their place, and it may be a while, or never, before the dust settles and one of them is crowned the new Twitter. It'd be great if everyone didn't have to go to one single company who owns the monopoly on the public discourse, and would likely allow for greater diversity in speech.
haroldbkny
1yr ago
I do think that perhaps there's so much emphasis on reading as being something laudable, when I'm not quite certain all, or even much of it is. Most of my friends read a lot of books, but it's not like they're reading scientific studies, thought-provoking essays, anything that might teach new skills, or even great classic literature. They're reading fantasy and sci-fi novels, and sometimes romance novels. I fail to see why reading such novels should be considered to be such a good use of one's time, and I feel like you can get just as much in terms of thought provoking content out of certain TV programs. Books can be just as much of "junk food for the brain" as TV can be.
haroldbkny
1yr ago
You never once felt feelings of isolation in your entire 8 years at the job? Forget even on a macro-level, what about in specific incidents? I know every now and again there's some sort of heated argument about something, and if I'm one of the people who feels strongly about it, then I can easily feel isolated, like the other person or side doesn't really get it, and then I worry about whether I don't really get it. Same thing can happen in response to even just hanging out with coworkers and feeling like you've gone too far in a joke or something. I just feel like feelings of isolation are everywhere, because social dynamics are everywhere, and at the end of the day you just have to deal with them and talk yourself down, in order to hold down a job.
haroldbkny
1yr ago
Even so, general population needs to be masked when around healthcare workers. That's still mandated, I think, to be masked in hospitals, doctors offices, etc.
haroldbkny
1yr ago
My evidence is that inflation this year has been massive, and has not been reversed, which has resulted in all of our money all being worth less, screwing a lot of people over on their plans and ability to pay their bills, along with the fact that the markets have been tanking resulting in further loss to our savings, and fuel prices are ridiculously high (which also plays into inflation, but is high even considering that).
haroldbkny
2mo ago
I definitely don't disagree that he should not have gone into Iraq, and probably not Afghanistan, too. Uhh, I was responding in the car and maybe I got your post mixed up with another one at a similar time, also about Bush and how he responded to 9/11, when I said it was more academic.
haroldbkny
3mo ago
Oh yeah, you should also check out I am the Walrus and Tomorrow Never Knows. Those would be like if Revolution 9 tried to be a little more like music.
haroldbkny
5mo ago
Hah, I feel the same way, people online with half my YOE who are ostensibly near me are reporting that they getting my salary! But still, from all my experience, your salary seems really low for someone who's not entry level. Location could have to do with it, how big your tech company is could have to do with it, whether or not you're pushing for higher salaries could have to do with it, and also sub-field and specialization could have to do with it.
This seems to me that you're backpedalling. Your original phrasing was
To "amount to" something means:
Therefore, by saying my post had sentiment amounting to "DAE leftists are whiny bitches?" you were not saying that my original post had that tone. You were saying that my original post was entirely equal to "DAE leftists are whiny bitches?". As I said verbatim above, that was "not the sum totality" of my post.
Furthermore, I think that saying things like:
is actually a very gentle way of putting it, and I was attempting to convey my point while still maintaining detachment. If I wanted to be less, detached, I would have phrased it as "they're being crybabies", or if I wanted to be "egregiously" inflammatory I could have even said things that were far worse.
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