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7hr ago
· Edited 7hr ago
Yes, but that wasn't an assassination. That was a guy shooting up a bank because he was tripping on magic sunglasses. Also, it wasn't real.
EDIT: Though, to be fair, this guy did seem to want to kill a lot of people, not just Trump.
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7hr ago
The amount of celebration there seems pretty minimal. Huge amount of false-flag accusations and jokes, but not much celebration.
(This makes sense, even from a maximally-uncharitable view. They might be deluded enough to think that Trump getting shot dead would be good for them, but it's obvious that a failed assassination attempt wouldn't benefit their cause.)
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10hr ago
In theory, yes, but the amount needed to kill everyone exceeds the amount of nukes that have ever been built.
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10hr ago
Haven't seen that.
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21hr ago
Who is "she"? I don't see any women mentioned in this chain.
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22hr ago
It's not that hard to survive a nuclear war, though location's rather important. I'd expect a number of us to survive, particularly me.
That said, you'd expect EMP to sever communications and power grids, so it would indeed not be up for long.
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22hr ago
Nah. Religion might be especially good at eliciting it, but at the very least there's plenty of the "my life's not worth anything anyway" crowd on that side of the tracks.
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1d ago
Do men like that even exist?
Yes, although if I'm any indication they're at high risk for gender dysphoria.
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1d ago
Yeah, it also gets complicated when your same-sex parent has been married multiple times, as the implicit terms are "with nothing else for the rest of your life" even if your same-sex parent did in fact have other romances at other points in his life.
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1d ago
Watch out for reverse causation there; a bun in the oven is frequently a trigger for people to actually tie the knot.
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1d ago
I assume the "total nuclear war" exception extends to anything that's an imminent and significant emergency warning for theMotte or a large fraction of its members? "Carrington-class flare incoming, unplug all your electronics ASAP", that sort of thing?
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1d ago
But then, if you're rushing to The Motte to write a post after total nuclear war starts, you might want to reconsider your competence at making decisions.
Depends on how much prep you already have done. Most of the relevant stuff can be done either well in advance or when the crisis starts.
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1d ago
"Choad".
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1d ago
If you want the hard-boiled, fuck-your-sensitivity argument against using it to describe the condition that used to be called "mental retardation": because "retarded" is a euphemism (at least originally) that's not accurate. Developmental retardation is "slowing"; things develop later. (Autistics' motor co-ordination is retarded; it usually shows up in full, but it does so at a later age. I was practically unable to catch a ball until midway through high school.) But low-IQ people will never develop their mental faculties to normal adult levels. "Idiot"/"imbecile"/"moron" don't have this problem (neither does "intellectually disabled", though).
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2d ago
There's no "killing" in debates,
Eh, there kind of is. The cancellation movement inflicted RL punishments for people's Internet speech (including, outside the US, some people being jailed), and even in the literal sense it's not usually impossible to track down someone from the Internet and murder him (though there are a few on theMotte in particular who have taken massive precautions against that).
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2d ago
The harm from Jim Crow was largely not from the suppression of Black talent, but in the message it sent to the Black man - that even after he was freed, he was still the White man's strict social inferior.
I feel I should note that I could switch some words around in this sentence ("suppression of male talent", "the woman's social inferior") and then draw a line between DIE and "quiet quitting".
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3d ago
Marxbro might have been one, but I'm not sure, and I think he was gone before the site move.
Other than that, I don't think so. There's at least one socialist here (me), but AIUI "tankies" refers pretty specifically to the Leninist/Stalinist authoritarian revolutionary socialists, and I'm not one of those. (Stalin was one of history's great villains; the post-Stalin USSR gets perhaps a worse rap than it deserves but was still pretty mediocre.)
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3d ago
I'd estimate the proportion of the population who has bloodthirst relating to some category of people, in the West, at over 10%. Might even be a majority; I dunno.
How do you propose to make a significant fraction of the population stop being "in your country"? This isn't something that's super-genetic, either; you're talking about killing or exiling members of most families. This idea is civil war bait, no matter how many times you repeat it.
Humans will always have some tendency to think this way. No amount of angry declarations will change that. There exist ways to keep it mostly under control, and every civilisation has made some use of those ways. We should probably be using some of those ways a bit more; serving up Shiri's Scissor to the population was pretty dumb. But your proposed solution is nonsense.
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4d ago
The list you cited is not very good because it looks at percentage points.
It's not ordered by percentage points. The first four are literally in reverse order of percentage-point difference. The list is bad, but not because it uses that measure (which I think is okay) - because it doesn't use any measure and is apparently just an arbitrary order.
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4d ago
To be clear, in my post below I was expressing reservations about the idea of trying to deport everyone who cheers atrocities, not about trying to deport (or kill) people who commit atrocities. Thankfully, most of the fuckwits who cheered October 7 do not go out and try it at home, which means we do actually have options in how to deal with them beyond "to defeat the spree killer, shoot at it until it dies".
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5d ago
From my perspective you are attempting to draw a distinction without a difference.
I think that whether someone hates all Jews or merely Israeli Jews is somewhat significant to risk assessment by countries which are not Israel and contain Jews.
I will also note that, while bloodthirst is certainly distasteful, there are really quite a lot of people with bloodthirst regarding some group, even in the West. I suspect that trying to outright expel all of them would, ironically, end in rivers of blood.
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5d ago
For hating Jews qua Jews? Yes. It's not zero correlation, but one does not have to hate all Jews to hate Israelis.
(For hating Israelis, it is of course sufficient.)
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6d ago
· Edited 6d ago
This is a real phenomenon, anti-Semitism is a real phenomenon, and obviously a lot of anti-Semites are also anti-Israel, but you can want Israel destroyed without hating Jews qua Jews. Using "anti-Semitism" for - even vicious - hatred of Eretz Yisrael alone frankly is mostly a cudgel - it's trying to discredit all anti-Zionists by equating them to Hitler. (Of course, the NSDAP, while of course horrifically anti-Semitic, wasn't actually notably anti-Zionist - in some cases they supported Zionism in order to get Jews to emigrate.)
To give a similar non-Jew example: I'm very leery of Mainland Chinese expats and exports. This problem does not apply to (South) Korean, Japanese or Taiwanese expats and exports. I have no problem with the Han Chinese as an ethnic group (and remember, most present Taiwanese are Han; the refugees from the Chinese Civil War outnumbered the native population), nor with the nearly-racially-indistinguishable Koreans and Japanese. My problem is with the totalitarian state of the People's Republic of China, which brainwashes its youth and may in the near future enact full-scale cyberwarfare against the West; enemy agents and hardware with enemy backdoors are dangerous.
There are legitimate reasons to dislike Israel and Western support of Israel that have nothing to do with the fact that most of its citizen population is Jewish. I don't happen to think that those reasons justify massacre, but some do. To insistently consider such people "anti-Semitic" is to buy into the Zionists' (and, to some degree, the neo-Nazis') preferred frame that Israel speaks for and is supported by all Jews, which it doesn't and isn't.
Are there true anti-Semites, including in the West? Yes, obviously. But your proffered litmus test for them is inaccurate. And while I'm not attributing malice to you personally, the conflation of anti-Zionists and anti-Semites is to a large degree enemy action - and it's difficult to blame people for refusing to concede to that.
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7d ago
Is blond Jesus common? I mean, I can think of one blond Jesus depiction off the top of my head, sure, but it's the painting by Adolf Hitler and one must assume that's a bit unrepresentative.
I mean, "the civil defence sirens went off" would be a bit hard to link but, during a crisis, would be a pretty-good sign that it's not a hoax. (Seeing a mushroom cloud would be an extremely-good sign, but I suppose you could attach a pic.)
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