jkf
1d ago
Looks like Rufo has found a pretty well validated case of cats on the grill:
https://x.com/realchrisrufo/status/1834926318883852543
Obviously nobody will care about this at all since it's happening in Shelbyville Dayton instead of Springfield, and appears to be a Congolese guy rather than a Haitian!
jkf
2d ago
Too many people would never pass such tests.
Such people should perhaps not be driving then?
jkf
2d ago
Seemingly not; I saw a study in which the death rates/100k were in fact a little higher in rural Sweden than the more urban areas.
Were there many more deaths per 100k in Stockholm as compared to a similar British city?
jkf
4d ago
You mean academic singular. I watched this happen in real time. The extreme right-wing types that desperately wanted to put the cultural marxism myth on to wikipedia were having a hard time with power users and their citation gatekeeping. Eventually someone just went to google scholar and found a book with the title Cultural Marxism from the 80s or 90s from some literal who. Not a single conservative I've seen citing this "proof" has read said book, that I know of. Nor has any serious Marxist. Nor have I. There might be others, I don't know, since culture and marxism are two very popular buzzwords for overproduced academic hacks, but no serious Marxist has ever talked about such things. This might not be obvious to you, but trust me, It's really obvious to me because I am actually somewhat familiar with this ground.
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Whether the Cultural Marxists call themselves Cultural Marxists or not is not relevant to the usefulness of the term; 'Death of the Author' and all that. Deer don't call themselves deer either.
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There definitely do seem to be a subset of >1 academics that do/did call themselves that; here's another: https://scholars.duke.edu/person/jameson. And his book ('Conversations on Cultural Marxism'), which you could buy if you want to read it: https://www.amazon.ca/Jameson-Conversations-Cultural-Marxism/dp/0822341093
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That aside, the class struggle components of regular Marxism are so much in the academic water of post-war humanities studies, it seems implausible that academics would not incorporate them into their studies of culture, even if it were unconscious - which in some cases it maybe is. So why not call a spade a spade?
jkf
5d ago
You don't need to get on a plane to get to New York City either, but it's certainly convenient and effective.
jkf
5d ago
Are there really ~20k new Haitian immigrants in Springfield though? If so, I didn't know this before, and probably neither did you.
So it's not backfiring.
jkf
10d ago
Any Chinese national who has settled abroad and who has been naturalized as a foreign national or has acquired foreign nationality of his own free will shall automatically lose Chinese nationality.
There's probably another exemption for Chinese sleeper agents?
jkf
13d ago
I mean that has certainly been their tendency lately...
So your objection is that people who think it's OK for the EU to intervene but not the US shouldn't say "the 'West' should MYOB"? I think I am in the clear; not sure who is doing that, but I'll keep an eye out.
jkf
14d ago
I mean 20 mph is the typical school zone limit anywhere I've been -- do you live somewhere where you can zoom by schools doing 40 and the cops aren't camped out there all the time running up their numbers?
(This does seem quite slow, but kids are really dumb. Maybe it's a hangover from when kids actually walked/biked to school?)
jkf
14d ago
Instead, they express vague fears that the dropboxes will enable ballot harvesting that is somehow a vector for MASSIVE FRAUD. They might have an argument if the only place to cast these ballots were the dropboxes, but these are mail ballots. Every mailbox in the state is a potential ballot dropbox. If someone is going to ballot harvest they can just put them in a mailbox on the street, or mail them from their house for that matter. I doubt Youngkin is posting monitors at all public mailboxes, let alone monitoring households and businesses.
This sounds like an argument for increasing security around mail-in voting in addition to monitoring dropboxes more closely, not an argument that the dropboxes don't matter?
jkf
14d ago
If Blofeld gets cosmetic surgery to look just like 007, that doesn't mean he is Bond.
If that surgery involved cutting off his arm, it does still put him in the category 'crippled'.
jkf
14d ago
So you are objecting specifically to people who think the European nations shouldn't meddle in each other's affairs? (Assuming 'West' means NA + EU/UK here?)
If so that also seems like a logical position that could be argued, given that the (early 20th century) Serbian unpleasantness was widely considered to have been kind of a bad idea?
jkf
15d ago
The idea of "transitioning" between able-bodied and disabled is not terribly controversial.
No, it's not -- but the analogous transition for cutting your dick off would be 'eunuch', not woman. I'm fine if you'd like some other category ('trans person' or something), but like I say this doesn't seem to me the road you'd like to go down.
jkf
15d ago
More likely impaired driving and/or rolling around with a bunch of guns/drugs -- those ones change the calculus on hit-and-run a lot more than 'oh shit I was checking my messages'. Could be 'suspended license' stuff too.
jkf
15d ago
They are anti-freedom and want to homogenize the cultures of a bunch of countries I care about -- the former is also true of Russia, and enough in and of itself to make me anti-{x}; the latter is strike two and means I'm maybe even a little more anti-EU than anti-Russia?
jkf
15d ago
Plenty of companies use VPN logins as security for remote connections though -- I don't think you can just ban this kind of traffic without a lot of collateral damage.
jkf
15d ago
I think Canada should stay out of foreign wars? Sure -- I do also have opinions on what the US should do since we tend to get dragged along, I think that is legitimate?
I don't care what Europe does, although I have roughly the same sympathy level for the EU as an organization as I do Russia -- this is not because I'm pro-Russia; I am anti-EU.
jkf
16d ago
The vigilante (vagilante?) approach would be to reinstate Tickle's account with a 'YWNBAW' flair and let the TERFs bully him mercilessly until he gets the point -- this is kind of how unofficially segregated spaces have been maintained for ages.
What are the cyber-bullying laws like in Australia?
jkf
16d ago
I've been called that on here I think, but 'isolationist' would be a better word for me. I don't have a strong opinion on Russia per se.
When the only options are 'pro-war' and 'pro-russian' a lot of nuance becomes unavailable.
jkf
16d ago
If someone loses their legs, you don't call them bipedal, though.
You call them 'handicapped', or something else if there's enough of them that a more specific new category would be useful -- you wouldn't call such a person a serpent, though. Are you sure this is the route you'd like to take?
jkf
16d ago
Also plenty of room for a competent cyclist to pass inside the cones -- not to speak ill of the dead, but a lot of the cycling discourse seems to vaccilate between "Bikes are Vehicles; I'm taking the lane if I damn well please" and "Bikes are Fragile -- motorists need to yield to them as though they were pedestrians".
If you are driving your car up to some roadwork and need to merge into the adjacent lane, it's 100% on you to make sure nobody crashes into you -- including drunks and people watching tiktok. If you ride a bike on a city street (which I used to do a lot) you have even more incentive to get good navigating this -- but the moralistic aspect seems to encourage dodging the blame when you fuck it up.
Re: affidavits, it could be some sort of (ineffectual, agreed) attempt to counteract the 'claims with no evidence' tendency in the MSM? Eyewitness claims (of course) are evidence, but take a look at the coverage around Rufo's eyewitness who took a video of some people grilling cats, confirmed that cats were on the grill, etc -- yeah this would certainly be 'evidence' in any court of law, but not if you ask ABC or whatnot.
So maybe they think that putting the thing in writing and getting a notary to stamp it will somehow make their enemies treat it more seriously? One step away from sovereign citizen stuff, but what can you do?
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