mdurak
18d ago
And yet being vindictively cruel feels really good, and our biology is naturally pushing us towards it.
Are you aware of any evopsych theories on why this is? It feels true, but why on earth would sadism be an adaptive trait?
mdurak
18d ago
But please understand - the practice of modern leftism, its modes of operation and expression, its lines of thinking and of everyday argumentation, its symbols and axioms, have also been grown here, in our youth clubs and universities and cultural centers. And then, though I know not how exactly, they made their way back across to America.
Do you have any sources I can read on this boomerang effect of American propaganda? What were the "modes of operation and expression" and whatnot that American propaganda imposed on postwar Germany?
mdurak
18d ago
Unlike every other part of the Empire you actually managed to put reformers in office (and the reaction to that has resulted in at least one hard-Blue government being elected in another nation- one whose Blue-aligned voters have also been cheering this murder).
Ok, I'm a bit lost here. Which country successfully put reformers in office, and which other country elected a hard-Blue government as a result?
mdurak
18d ago
The time for dialogue has been over for some time now
What does that mean in practice? Start prepping for civil war because all remaining hopes for peace are futile at this point?
mdurak
3mo ago
Sure, but it’s not something to celebrate.
Whether or not a freedom should be celebrated is different from whether or not it is a freedom in the first place. The latter is the point that you are trying to deny.
mdurak
3mo ago
Counterpoint: crypto. You have the freedom to be your own bank, meaning you can transact with whoever you want without anyone else (government, financial regulators) getting any say. That naturally comes with the responsibility of being your own bank: securing your own transactions, validating counterparty trustworthiness, etc.
mdurak
9mo ago
How did those other price signals get systematically destroyed? What alternative solutions are there?
mdurak
10mo ago
Fake news as usual, unless you believe the AP or those they interviewed are in on it.
Not that it's super comfortable to do that among people of the same sex, but its worse if they're opposite.
I didn’t realize I’d typical minded others in this way until now. I feel no compunctions about shitting next to someone. The only thing that might give me pause is if I’m shitting loudly next to acquaintances, but it’s okay if they don’t know I’m the one in the stall.
The fact that some people feel discomfort from pooping in a public space certainly changes the political implications of such a move.
mdurak
10mo ago
the same theme in twelve months because it is one of those 'maybe it wasn't true before, but it seems credible now' indefinite narratives that can appear credible no matter how many times it fails to materialize.
Is there a name for this kind of narrative? Because it seems like a common failure mode
Thanks for explaining. That makes a lot more sense.
SteveKirk is clearly talking about a specific policy, right?
He was in the first part of his comment. Then the words “my political identity” made me think he was using the last sentence to generalize to his overall perspective on politics, as opposed to keeping it specific to that one topic. The words “stable” and “valuable” further made me think that the emotional response is a core and cherished foundation from which all his other political beliefs are based on.
The 'threat', is the 'threat' of being aborted.
That’s another reason I interpreted it differently. It doesn’t seem to me like the threat of being aborted is still relevant as an adult, so it didn’t come to my mind at all that “angry threat response” might still refer specifically to the feeling he had as a kid, even after all these years.
Then he says the phrase “friend/enemy distinction” — I mean, who’s the friend or enemy in a discussion like this? I can only assume the enemy is the person he disagrees with politically, because it certainly can’t be the person he agrees with. And that fits with “threat” — the threat presumably comes from this enemy person he’s discussing politics with, because where else would he be feeling the threat from?
In short, I started out parsing “The angry threat response” in a generic rather than a specific sense, and I read the rest of the sentence in that sense as well. So it sounded to me like he had this emotional way of responding to the topic of abortion as a kid, and now as an adult he still not only responds to other political issues in that same emotional way, but he considers it to be a core part of how he approaches politics, to the point where he instantly identifies other political participants as either friends or enemies. Which of course sounds ridiculous, so I had to ask.
I can't even imagine how you are parsing these comments to end up where you did.
Hahaha, does that help?
mdurak
10mo ago
The angry threat response and instant friend/enemy distinction is probably the most stable (and valuable) part of my political identity, come to think of it.
Am I interpreting you right that you instantly identify people with different politics than you as enemies, and see their policies as threats?
mdurak
10mo ago
when asked why a chicken dinner, or a tank of gas, costs twice what it did a year ago they respond with some nonsense about how "vibes" are clouding people's judgment of the "true" economy.
Unless inflation statistics are completely falsified, there's simply no way that's actually true. Perhaps people opted for a different chicken dinner than before because they're easily manipulated.
mdurak
10mo ago
That sounds very interesting. Would you happen to have links to such past discussions?
mdurak
10mo ago
What are the actual values of republican politicians? Are they the same as the actual values of democrat politicians?
mdurak
10mo ago
By all accounts, he’s seething that she stole the nomination from him.
Seething even right up before the election? I’d love to read about that!
mdurak
10mo ago
There just isn’t a way to punish the dems on this when the alternative is “not only get literally nothing you actually want, but lose things you have now.
Trump wins Dearborn amid anger over Gaza and Lebanon
"The Muslim community is united in principle against the Biden Harris administration, especially for the genocide," he said.
Not that I disagree with your logic, but people are willing to punish the Dems regardless. How should we explain this apparent voting against your own preferred outcomes? (I can understand the Muslim voters who believe in tackling domestic problems first, but not the ones who explicitly name Gaza as a reason to vote for Trump.)
mdurak
10mo ago
Or could it have just gotten an unlucky miss with that poll? I don’t understand why people took a single data point like that so seriously
I see, thank you for the detailed summary!
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