hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
2hr ago
Black people with moderate opinions on race, or even 'when we say "kill all white people" we don't really mean "kill all white people"' opinions on race, do not name their children 'Tatishe'. African immigrants use biblically inspired names, Caribbeans use normal Anglo or Hispanic names, and AADOS use distinctive AADOS names which might be weird but which are recognizably not deriving from the Niger-Congo languages.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
Young earth creationists by and large do not jump into discussions of human genetics or the rise of civilization with 'but all humans are descended from the sons of Noah who lived a few thousand years ago' unless complete schizos. It's just not what they do. Most of young earth creationism as an institution is dedicated to epicycles to bridge the findings of archeology, genetics, etc with what the bible says, not to apologetics.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
No it hasn't. Trump has caused market instability, forced Israel and Palestine into a ceasefire, and deported a handful of people against court order. Hardly Sulla's march on Rome.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
I would also push, quite strongly, for 'it's not my job to educate you' to be a bannable offense.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
is that ownership is essentially and definitionally the right to deprive others. That's it. I don't like that.
What's your address? I'm coming over to drink all your beer.
Sorry to be flippant but I don't think you actually 'don't like that'. I think you don't like some people having more than you think they should, maybe a certain category of good that you think should be the commons in all cases. You can make an argument for, eg, right-to-roam laws on privately owned wilderness land without trying to abolish the concept of trespassing entirely.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
Anyone want to brainstorm a viable alternative to "ownership"?
There isn't one. Well, technically, there is- central planning technically 'works' despite being shitty- but for all the effort people- and not dumb people at that- put into finding alternatives to private property they have consistently failed.
It's not that making mistakes with economic policy is bad(although it is). It's that the mistake has already been made and the results were bad.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
Ownership is the right to deprive another of his own property. For example your mother in law has the right to beat you with her cane for pilfering from her garden. She probably won't, but it wouldn't be unjust. A primitive in New Guinea has the right to shoot you with a bow and arrow for trying to eat his pig- again, he probably won't(mostly because you are unlikely to try to eat his pig) but it would be just if he did.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
For context, Texas secession varies from 30% to 66% depending on the recent news, wording of the survey, etc. That makes this sound like the same order of improbability.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
What are the actual odds that Alberta secedes? How likely are Saskatchewan, Manitoba to go with it? Is it even possible for the non-Vancouver parts of BC to go?
hydroacetylene
7hr ago
I agree that there is a possible future democrat who will have strong border controls. But this scenario isn’t very likely; Obama still had a reservoir of moderate-ish(or at least willing to take orders) mid level talent and that’s increasingly difficult for democrats, for one thing, but also polarization just drives the parties farther apart- Trump has stronger border enforcement than Bush ever did(or tried to do). Likewise Biden had border chaos that Obama didn’t even gesture at.
Politics is unpredictable. Democrats could run to the center. But they’re currently refusing to moderate on trans issues, which are even more lose-lose for them.
hydroacetylene
10hr ago
Tatishe Nteta" strongly suggests that the author's race is sub-Saharan African
It also strongly suggests he was raised to be an activist. Normie Africans name their kids things like ‘John’ or ‘Mary’ and normie AADOS use names which are, yes, dumb, but recognizably Anglo.
hydroacetylene
10hr ago
The motte will always appear more socially conservative than the media on some issues because it is willing to look at what actually happened in eg red state maternal mortality cases and not simply hallucinate a scenario. But the motte is not pro-traditional values on the whole.
Care to explain it?
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