jkf
1yr ago
It's kind of weird dunk though -- if there actually were witches stealing people's penises in Africa, it seems like the Africans would be entirely correct to panic about it? Witch panics in general are mostly bad when the witches don't exist. For instance, one could argue that the problem with the Red Scare was being bad at identifying the Soviet spies -- they were a real problem!
jkf
2yr ago
To the extent that it’s anti democratic it’s a scene from Hungary
Or Canada -- relatively few cities here have their own police department; it's mostly managed either federally or provincially, but with the weird caveat that provinces and cities using the RCMP have to pay out of their own budget; same goes for cities that rely on the OPP (no, not that OPP) AFAIK.
jkf
5mo ago
I agree, being evil isn't a crime. Neither is funding dangerous research.
When Congress explicitly banned the dangerous research it kind of is?
jkf
8mo ago
He seems kind of on fire lately TBH -- he may not be quite as sharp as 2016, but he's gotten back into the 'generate free advertising by trolling the MSM' groove finally.
I fully expect to be well entertained for the next couple of weeks.
jkf
8mo ago
Every single president before Trump (except maybe Nixon) was allowed unlimited time to go through his documents and decide which ones to give to the archives. Obama probably still isn't done, if anyone cared to look -- hell if you looked in Bush's basement I wouldn't be surprised if you found some shit.
It's the furthest thing from cut & dried; the people breaking norms on this one are definitely not Trump.
jkf
1yr ago
If China dominates all of Asia and Russia dominates all of Europe
Great spot for a laconic 'If' here, but more loquaciously:
If you take this at face value while it proves that Trump's critics have articulated some criticisms, it also proves that they are utterly insane -- in what world could Trump cause Russia to dominate France and China to dominate Japan/India/take your pick?
jkf
1yr ago
Importantly here the BP agents are already in Texas, and are largely Texans who wish that Biden would let them do a better job of stopping the illegal crossings; ie. they mostly support Abbot's side of things.
So it seems unlikely that there will be any sort of direct confrontation between the BP and Texas authorities -- if Biden decides to send somebody more loyal in to cut the razor wire things do get more interesting.
jkf
4mo ago
the problem with that behavior was the lying.
Many people find this to be their main sticking point with the pronoun stuff. Not only is somebody lying, they want everyone else to lie too.
jkf
7mo ago
That seems extremely unlikely -- there are numerous mug-shots, as seen on many news sites (including one linked in this very thread).
What is the licensing issue with a mug-shot?
"Wikipedia editors make up excuses to justify ideological narrative shaping on hot-CW related topics" on the other hand... would not be a big surprise to me.
jkf
10mo ago
Allegedly the program is largely algorithmic in who it selects, and this algorithm is often pretty irrational. This means while it's still possible it was targeted at Gabbard, on balance I'm inclined to say it wasn't.
Tulsi Gabbard is an American-born, female, military veteran, Congresswoman who is in her 40s and has publicly denounced Islam -- you think she was flagged algorithmically as a threat to aviation?
I find it quite unlikely that such an algorithm would be deployed, and if it were true the real story would be that the algorithm could use some serious fixin'.
jkf
1yr ago
"what if the proles hate our guts so much that they ban cultured meat out of spite?"
What if the proles have caught on to the fact that it won't be 'tasty cheap nutritious cultured meat,' it will be 'expensive goo of dubious quality', and used as leverage in support of bans/punitive taxation on regular meat -- the justification being that 'modern alternatives exist, eat shit your beans, proles'.
jkf
1yr ago
The most vocally trans woman I know reports being abused by guys in middle and high school locker rooms specifically due to insufficient masculinity.
If this person is over ~35 I'm gonna go ahead and say that (oddly) this was pretty much the universal experience of middle and high-school boy's locker rooms -- somehow even the bullies get bullied. (now they don't even make dudes shower together, so I'm not sure it's the same)
jkf
1yr ago
@ZorbaTHut Have we considered preventing users from deleting top-level posts? I don't remember it being a problem in the past, but it's getting kind of annoying.
jkf
2yr ago
"invitations" is key IMO -- not because Susan was going on dates or wild parties, but because it's code for "social climbing" in the England of the era.
Put your focus on the material world to the exclusion of the spiritual one, and you are no longer welcome in the Kingdom, is what Lewis is saying here.
jkf
2yr ago
I'm sure that's what he means, but note bene that non-zero people were literally imprisoned (like, in prison) for protesting. Here in Canada we have folks still facing charges and living under blatantly unconstitutional court orders restricting them from contact with other dissents among other things:
jkf
2yr ago
Move to America -- there are plenty of areas that aren't afflicted with either of urbanites or crystal meth, just pick one, move there, and get to know your neighbours.
jkf
2yr ago
Conflating "secret, unrealisticly large conspiracy" with "coordination between powerful people to serve their own interests" is the whole trick behind the coinage of "conspiracy theory" as a way of trivializing concerns about the latter.
The WEF is a prime example of an open conspiracy -- this does not make it better, particularly when anyone with concerns about its activities can patted on the head and told "no, silly -- that's just a conspiracy theory".
jkf
7mo ago
neither Mace nor Mike Johnson could tell you how they planned on enforcing such a rule, unless they planned on posting a guard who would check the genitals of anyone who looked suspicious.
Indeed this problem seems almost intractable -- I have an idea though!
What if the government were to issue some sort of document confirming the sex of an individual? A certificate or something. Obviously it wouldn't be practical to check all the time, but at least there'd be some kind of ground truth, and complaints could be quickly and easily resolved without anyone needing to check AOC or Nancy Mace's genitals.
Having government officials observe peoples' genitalia in order to produce this document in the first place, I admit has privacy implications and would be open to abuse -- but hear me out -- babies don't really care about being seen naked, and doctors see naked babies all the time. Maybe the doctor attending a baby's birth could note this information, and provide it to the government? He/she could even note as well the date and location of birth, which could be useful down the road for proving age and/or citizenship.
I think with the proper marketing this idea could really catch on -- thing is I can't think of a catchy name for such a document! Does anyone have any ideas as to what we might call it?
jkf
8mo ago
The request itself was unprecedented; no other presidents were asked to do this.
jkf
8mo ago
Existing mechanisms like poll watchers haven’t caught such fraud.
Funny you would say that, since one of the big 'smoking guns' was poll watchers in battleground states being effectively prevented from watching -- whether under the pretense of anti-covid measures, or counting continuing outside of their presence.
jkf
11mo ago
"We live in a world where Twitter shitposters provide more information about what's really going on with CW issues than credentialed journalists" does not particularly imply to me that it is sensible to expect the shitposters to live up to the standards expected of credentialed journalists -- if they had wanted to be credential journalists they could have done that!
Shitposting is quite fun however.
jkf
1yr ago
We don't really know what their actual intention was, and there isn't a lot to go on.
Scroll on up to pps 42-43 and check out the kind of 'events' and case study photos that the mayor considers appropriate to portray and I'd say there's a fair bit to go on; doesn't really seem like a 60/40 split is what he's going for.
jkf
2yr ago
Nobody living in Georgia is going to face actual legal obstacles to raising his kids as traditional baptists anytime soon.
Is "can't send your kids to high school because they might be transed or otherwise indoctrinated" not obstacle enough for you?
Sure you can (for now) homeschool if you want, but Amerikaner culture is football stars and homecoming queens, not weirdos reading the bible in their basement.
Nonbinary people are still either men or women -- he/her. Asking for ze is asking for a lie.
Yes?
None of the other stuff impacts me in the slightest; it's (aspirationally) a free country. "Demands to be addressed as she" is maybe the least sticky of the demands that are being made IRL, but it's still sticky enough.
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