miras_chinotto
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miras_chinotto
certified low iq
2yr ago
The report function should have a list of available rules and decorum violations, a spam option, and a troll/gore/garbage option. As it is now, it's just a textbox.
miras_chinotto
certified low iq
2yr ago
I am convinced that having a large cohort of men who simply fail to launch is a very bad outcome, both for them and for society at large.
Couple this with our society's deepening political and ideological polarization, the dwindling reserves of social trust, and reduction in economic opportunity and you have all the ingredients for civil unrest. Hell, maybe we're already seeing the first symptoms in the form of the BLM riots and the Proud Boy/antifa larping. God forbid they stop looking like larpers and start looking like the IRA.
I'm old enough to remember the late 2000s and the countless public intellectuals pointing to polygyny and economic inequality in the Muslim world as the primary drivers of fundamentalist Islamic terrorism.
miras_chinotto
certified low iq
2yr ago
It doesn't fit the tone of the Motte at all, but our own marsey derivative would be weirdly appropriate given the reason for the diaspora and the rdrama roots of the place. I mean, who doesn't like marseyposting?
AmeDamnee
Someone please ping her. I know she had some trouble with the rules, but it's at least worth starting fresh.
Ditto for iprayem3 or whatever his name was. I thought he had great commentary prior to quitting.
miras_chinotto
certified low iq
2yr ago
I agree that this seems like the best usage. Keeping all the activity in one thread also encourages more activity purely by concentration and interaction. Diluting posts and commentary across several threads would result in overall less activity.
It might be cool to have more stickies though, like having the round up, wellness and off topic threads perma-pinned.
miras_chinotto
certified low iq
2yr ago
I do not believe there's a sincere desire in the masses to reconcile, nor do I believe there's a practical way to do so.
I agree and think this is the real mystery in today's culture war - how far will escalation continue?
In a way, civil war is incredibly unlikely for now because of the relative comfort and safety we have. However, I worry that this comfort allows the divisions plaguing us to keep simmering away and implicitly raises the stakes of any eventual conflict or divorce. We defer the conflict resolution at our peril. The evaporative cooling of a small scale civil war or something analogous like secession a decade ago, could have actually allowed a rapprochement.
miras_chinotto
certified low iq
2yr ago
So what is the intended usage pattern here? Are we supposed to keep 99% of the posting in the round up thread or treat it more like a typical reddit sub/forum?
It's weird you just toss this seemingly self-refuting statement in there. His SCOTUS picks yielded a conservative win that they've been working on and spending inestimable resources on for almost 50 years in Dobbs. And there's at least an outside chance that affirmative action could take a hit in the upcoming SCOTUS slate.
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