jkf
10mo 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.
jkf
1yr 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
3mo ago
I wouldn't be shocked if Epps indeed conspired with members of his militia to commit some crime or other, but I haven't seen any evidence of that, and evidence is necessary for a conviction.
That's just it -- these 'militias' are riddled with for-sure feds, if they wanted to go after basically anyone involved for conspiracy there's plenty of evidence to be had -- given that Jan6 itself is being treated as a criminal act.
Have you read the Revolver articles on Epps? It's been a while, but as I recall while they are focussed on the idea that Epps is a fed, they've gathered enough publically available information to make a pretty good conspiracy case -- never mind all of the evidence that the actual feds have from all the other prosecutions.
jkf
4mo ago
To be fair, it called "Question Period" for a reason -- nobody ever said there would be answers...
jkf
7mo ago
The whole ruling has a very casual, Reddity tone to it that puts me off quite a bit. I'm not necessarily the biggest fan of heavy legalese, but are Groundhog Day references and phrasings like "We are way beyond the point of 'sophisticated counsel should have known better'..." really where judicial writing is at these days?
I also notice that I'm confused -- is the judge really ordering the dissolution of multiple billion-ish dollar LLCs as a pre-trial judgement? This seems like jumping the gun a bit, no?
Yeah it doesn't add up -- I am in about the least queer environment possible, and do have a close colleague going through this with his kid. Also one other little stepkid of a fairly close old friend. This is just the teens (younger in one case actually) I know that are being sucked into this -- there are plenty of adults I'm aware of in this orbit -- I don't know one damn kid that's died in a car accident anymore. (there were a couple at my high school, but driving seems a lot safer now.)
The damnable thing is the celebration of it -- if a kid dies in a car accident people cry and hug you and say how tragic it is. If your kid transitions, it's stunning and brave and you will bloody well like it or else. Fuck this gay earth.
jkf
1yr ago
It would be pretty funny if naraburns had been running a "feisty Irish lady" alt all this time I guess.
jkf
1yr ago
Not to promote this view necessarily, but I believe that the WEF-conspiracist POV on this is that it's not even important which issues are chosen -- the WEF solution to any issue is globalist techno-totalitarianism; the consolidation of power is the point, not the issues themselves.
jkf
1yr ago
I'm not quite sure if I trust Berenson's summarization of the medical research being that natural immunity is better than vaccination.
While you do see medical research occasionally indicating the obverse, it's usually pretty bad and/or conducted by actors with pretty obvious motivations in the 'pushing vaccines' department. (looking at you, CDC)
He's almost certainly correct though:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(22)00287-7/fulltext
No vax booster has ever been able to explain to me what the proposed mechanism is for exposure by blood to a small subunit of the virus providing better immunity than exposure by mucous membranes to the whole actual thing; this makes no sense whatsoever when you think about it. Of course there could still be reasons why the vaccine is preferable, in the event that it actually prevented infection -- but to me the fact that hardly anyone was officially prepared to draw this distinction is evidence in the direction of general intellectual dishonesty in the (mostly North American I guess) public health community.
jkf
1d 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'.
It says "Moms for Liberty" right on the tin -- I do think that the confusion is related to a misapplication of the (artificial) Red/Blue team dichotomy. If it were "Moms for Jesus" or something I could buy some hypocrisy-based attack, but she seems to be living well within her moral framework here?
First of all, your mask is slipping - your original claim...
Dunno who you think I am, but this is the first comment I've made in the thread and I don't do masks.
you were worried
I'm not worried about any of it -- I'm a man and don't care who goes in the men's room. I do know IRL women who are worried about who goes in the women's room though.
about cis men pretending to be trans in order to access women's spaces
My guess would be that a given Peeping Tom or piss perv is extremely likely to be a non-transgender heterosexual man? Who (in the case of the Peeping Toms) are known to go through schemes much more elaborate than "walk into a washroom and claim to be trans if challenged" in the course of their fetish.
you have immediately moved your rhetoric to 'women putting up with trans people'
You're the one bringing up Buck Angel -- it's a different failure mode, but still pretty valid. Not all women want to 'put up with' sharing a bathroom with trans males, is this under dispute?
Buck Angel and people who look like him go to the men's room
If the bathrooms are gender neutral, Buck Angel can go in whichever one he chooses, no?
You were also the one who brought up the idea that Buck being in the ladies room would be some sort of problem under the traditional bathroom management policies -- or that's how I took "If your worry is that seeing male-looking people go into the women's room will make life more dangerous for women" anyways. If not, what did you mean by that?
jkf
6mo ago
"had" I'd say -- it's hard to avoid the feeling that the walls are closing in on various interests (firearms, vaping, lightbulbs, driving cars, freedom of speech -- take your pick) these days.
While any one of these is probably not worth going to war over, every camel has his breaking point.
jkf
7mo ago
Do you think that 'Vice Magazine' is likely to reflect the interests of the CJCLDS in any way?
jkf
7mo ago
Seriously -- if sex-positivity is a thing that needs to be discussed/encouraged with 9 year olds by their teachers, then I think grown women are going to need to learn to handle a dude asking them "how 'bout it?" from time to time.
What's the difference? Are there some sort of Brutalism Police that we need to watch out for here?
And if there are, do they work for wikipedia? Because wikipedia has the following photos in their article on brutalism:
jkf
1yr ago
Data point: it used to be extremely common and is still somewhat traditional in Western Canada to bury one's own garbage/compost in an unused (or garden, in the case of compost) area on one's property. I should think that a residential school would produce a lot of garbage, and this school was operating for a long time in which "town dump" would not have been a thing, and even longer when taking garbage there would have meant a pretty long trip on a wagon.
Make of it what you will.
jkf
1yr ago
ISS - Institutional Shareholder services. They tell a large of big money managers but mostly the etfs how to vote when corporate votes happen. Basically their outsourced fiduciary services.
The first two I got, but I was wondering why the International Space Station was telling ETFs how to vote...
CBC is a Crown corp, I don't think they can borrow -- and it's hard to overstate how much the CBC has turned into a woke organ over the past ten years or so.
I used to have it on more or less 24/7 in the house -- it wasn't always good but it was rarely offensive enough to go turn it off.
Now I will sometimes listen in the car, but have a policy of turning it off whenever somebody starts bitching about the underprivileged -- I rarely last an hour, and I doubt that most non-woke people are so generous. I don't think the CBC will disappear, but I don't think it would cost the Conservatives that much support among those who would ever consider supporting them to pare it back hard and turn it into a strict news network.
jkf
5mo ago
Deontologists still have a hierarchy of values -- Kant may value truth over helping Nazis kill Jews, but most people just say "yeah, lying is bad but helping Nazis is worse" and carry on. This is still a deontological position, and definitely nobody is halting or catching fire over this dilemma.
jkf
6mo ago
I guess you've forgotten it all then, because that one's from Merchant of Venice.
I don't believe this is true. Even if you think fraud has occurred, you can't just appoint electors based on what you think the result would have been. There's a process that has to be followed.
Others disagree -- there was an arguably legal path to this, and it has happened in the past. Obviously much depends on the particulars, but criminalizing the advancement of legal theories which may or may not apply in a given case seems like a bad idea. (not to mention conflicting pretty badly with the first amendment)
I am not then allowed to rob the lottery office to rectify the theft I suffered - even if I am correct that I had the numbers.
But you are allowed to write a letter to the head of the state lotto suggesting that they should give you the money -- you can even go to the press and say that's what they should do!
But my understanding here is that the effort to solicit a public official in a plan to appoint electors who could not be lawfully appointed is straightforwardly illegal.
If this is true, then everyone who issued tweets encouraging faithless electors in 2016 is also straightforwardly guilty.
jkf
8mo ago
Members of the enterprise also corruptly solicited Georgia officials, including the Secretary of State and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, to violate their oaths to the Georgia Constitution and to the United States Constitution by unlawfully changing the outcome of the November 3, 2020, 16 presidential election in Georgia in favor of Donald Trump.
Are you joking or something? There's no way I'm reading a ~100 page indictment, but if that is your idea of a strong charge then the rest of it is probably not worth reading anyways.
Have you listened to the Raffensberger call? It's extremely clear (to me) that Trump is claiming that there are many fraudulent ballots in Georgia (he goes on and on about it, and why he thinks so) -- then asks the people on the call to try to locate some of them. It's right there in the first few minutes.
It may be less clear to you for whatever reasons, but surely this is at least a plausible interpretation of what Trump is trying to say -- and if this were the case, he is definitely not asking anyone to violate their oath. Finding such votes would be required by their oath, surely?
I'm aware that the media has widely reported that Trump was asking R. to fabricate some votes so he could win (probably significantly poisoning the jury pool in the process) but presumably the court will hear the actual call rather than reading Washington Post clippings -- and if you think this interpretation is open-shut I really don't know what to say.
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.
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