netstack
Texas is freedom land
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netstack
Texas is freedom land
2mo ago
It’s the only basic, physiological need which has room for variety.
Since the Industrial Revolution, clothing has gotten into that territory, and since the Sexual Revolution…well.
But food has a head start measured in millennia.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2mo ago
Because Twitter encourages sloppy arguments? You could even say they’re not sending their best.
Speaking of which, a folk argument with no authoritative reference sounds like the exact opposite of “catechism.” But I’ll leave it to the Catholics to litigate that one.
Ceteris paribus, I agree that international travel and communication makes it easier to avoid assimilating. How about intranational? The interstate highways have to be more appealing than riding the rails if you want to get to Chicago or California. Immigrant communities don’t have to be as concentrated, and cheap labor can get where it wants with less friction. I would expect this to boost assimilation but also increase immigrant visibility, both cultural and economic.
Fun exercise, but I’m not sure why you’re so dismissive of “amateurs and historians.” Surely they could price in the same factors you’re considering?
A translation of the edict can be found here. You’ll want sections VII, XIX and XX.
I suspect the 12-16d number comes from “women weavers of tunicas,” the only wool worker listed with a daily wage. It’s hard to line up the terminology, but this seems to be a different job than either the linen or wool weavers in the next section.
Wool weavers are paid 15d/lb for the lowest quality fiber. If the weights and times further down the page are remotely accurate, that pound is closer to a week’s work than a day’s. Maybe it doesn’t include spinning? But that raises its own set of questions.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3mo ago
And you’re blaming that for a rash of violence dating back to July, if not last year?
I mean, I guess I think the trend is overstated, too. But it is obviously not due to cancellation.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3mo ago
No and no. The courts have routinely protected far more aggressive speech, as in Brandenburg.
True threats can be legally prohibited, but “mere advocacy” is not enough.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3mo ago
It’s not polite, and it’s not good epistemics; weak men are superweapons. But public discourse is never held to that standard. People insult and insinuate by analogy all the time. Technical usage of the term “bitch” does not prevent me from using it as a shorthand.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3mo ago
Not “turbulent priests.” “This turbulent priest.” It wasn’t ambiguous in the slightest.
And I think you’re overstating the amount of violence on the ground. One murder is too many, but it’s simultaneous not an awful lot. It represents less of an ongoing threat than, say, Summer 2020.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3mo ago
Just because you don’t like something doesn’t make it “fighting words,” and it definitely doesn’t supersede the 1st Amendment.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3mo ago
“Well of course I know him. He’s me!”
For the benefit of our FBI agents: this is a joke. I don’t really post on Reddit anymore.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3mo ago
While I would consider myself an aficionado, I have yet to see any pictures of the gun itself. Just a 5-round stripper clip of FMJ rifle bullets. I figured it was most likely a something like a 1903. But there are certainly Mausers floating around the Midwest.
Hoping we get more details. It’d be incredibly stupid if the media tries to paint this guy as a Wehraboo.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3mo ago
the right can cancel better than the left
Funny, the rest of this thread is insisting that the left still holds all the cards when it comes to cultural power. Where’d you get this idea?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3mo ago
Tangential, but have we gotten any reliable information on the weapon used? From the one picture reposted everywhere, I figured 30-06. Now tabloids are saying 8mm Mauser. Weird either way. After the tacticool Butler gun and Routh’s trap house special, are we going to get a third style? Is the next assassin going to use a spetsnaz knife?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3mo ago
It depends on how much you’re already boozemaxxing. What’s your star sign?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3mo ago
Presumably, it’s the same thing which kept Trump I from sending the FBI after them in 2020, when they were actually doing stuff. While I don’t take Trump as a principled Bill of Rights enthusiast, he doesn’t seem to have thought he could make it stick.
Lone-wolf assassins are a pretty stupid reason to change that legal strategy. Guilt by association requires, you know, association. Our best chance on that front is the July 4 ambush, where at least one of the perpetrators “met someone online” who encouraged them.
If it turns out that Rose City or whoever was funding these psychos, even talking to them—there’s your justification. Throw the book at them. But if not, you’re just making an excuse for something you already wanted to do. That’s unjust.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3mo ago
Re: Gundam, what’s special about two arms? Robits are strong, and I’m not even sure which beam weapons have recoil. If one has more than two arms, how many of them have to be used to qualify as a rifle?
I propose that the deciding factor is whether or not there’s a stock (or brace; ATF be damned) behind the grip. But Gundam variants are worse than Pokémon, so I assume there’s plenty of weird models that violate this scheme.
Unrelated, but “declaring the property blighted” has got to be one of the cooler turns of phrase for city bureaucrats. I’m sure they’re thrilled to break that one out.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3mo ago
This sounds like a @coffee_enjoyer theory.
And while I’m loath to put too much stock in any categorization, just because it’s not presecriptive doesn’t mean it’s not descriptive.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3mo ago
Something tells me the kind of guy taking potshots at ICE isn’t on that sigma grindset.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3mo ago
- “oh god oh fuck they’re turning around I can’t spend life in prison”
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Texas is freedom land
3mo ago
It feels so weird because you’re a reasonable person. Most people who go out and shoot at strangers are not.
You don’t need to appeal to imaginary mind control tech and shadow agencies to explain it.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3mo ago
Yes. I sorted that list in order of descending agreeability. I expect most people would find the first reasonable, which is probably why Democrats are actually doing it. Same for the second, except for the free-speech maximalists.
I probably should have made it a smoother gradient, but the question was genuine. What would “the left” have to do, in your mind, to show good faith?
It might work for the ICE attacks, where we have a clear policy, perpetrators in custody, and alignment with other groups. I’ll say that Democrats could and probably should do that. Make it clear that what the President is doing is legal and will be enforced, even if it’s challenged in Congress and court.
Not so much for the assassins. No surviving perpetrators. No conspirators at all. No comparable groups to discredit, no social networks to ban, no pet issues to excise from the party planks. Maybe not even an appetite for restricting the means.
The shortage of obvious targets is what moves it from table stakes to absurdity. You’ve either got to double down on the most similar cases—Luigi?—or widen your criteria. And widening them enough to punish all of antifa, the Democratic Party, or “the left”…that’s going too far. I understand that it feels natural for an average Republican to make that equivalence, but I believe it’s wrong.
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