netstack
Texas is freedom land
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netstack
Texas is freedom land
5mo ago
Use your words, please.
Even saying "I think this is a ridiculous hyperbole" would save us from playing a game of charades. Bonus points if you also explain why.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
5mo ago
Why not?
From over here on the "nothing ever happens" team, it looks like the simplest explanation.
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Texas is freedom land
5mo ago
Testing a feature here:
AI Art Mind-bendingly beautiful prose.netstack
Texas is freedom land
5mo ago
I have some impression that glaives and halberds are much more common in Chinese fantasy. No idea if that’s true, or if so, why.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
5mo ago
Their arrows also have remarkable penetration.
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Texas is freedom land
5mo ago
I seem to remember Chivalry having terrifying polearms. Or maybe I was just bad. But I suppose the dragging shenanigans made everything look pretty goofy.
The coolest crossbows are handgun-style, like Dishonored.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
5mo ago
Greatsword.
Also, you forgot the big + small combo. Or maybe it’s small + tiny? Rapier + parrying dagger, katana + wakizashi, saw cleaver + pistol. Fromsoft knows what’s up.
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Texas is freedom land
5mo ago
No, they were quite clear.
Also very upset about some other goings-on, but still. It surprised me.
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Texas is freedom land
5mo ago
The MAGA platform is bog-standard populism: pro-government-intervention for their side of social issues. That’s not centrist. Especially not given the OP’s argument that the mainstream left can’t be centrist because it gives too much time to the extremists!
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Texas is freedom land
5mo ago
I heard that one yesterday from someone who is a pretty devout pacifist. “Giving him the photo op was pretty much the worst option.” No, I’m pretty sure murder on live TV would have been worse.
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Texas is freedom land
5mo ago
Exactly!
There’s no shortage of Republicans willing to defund the D.Ed or whatever. Get them to propose a short, straightforward bill whenever courts block one of the DOGE cuts.
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5mo ago
Only works if you’ve got an iterated process, though. If done one department at a time, that’d deploy the fear of God.
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Texas is freedom land
5mo ago
It sounds like it’s the combination of the deadline with the ongoing litigation. Can’t force a decision while the outcome is still up in the air.
Plus, I’m guessing neither unions nor employer wants to deal with an employee who accepted the offer if the courts walk it back.
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Texas is freedom land
5mo ago
That’s a death knell? How many people were even going to take it, anyway? It doesn’t make a difference if Musk can keep refusing to disburse apportioned funds.
I won’t feel comfortable until I see enforcement of the Impoundment Act. Are there any suits bringing that forward?
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Texas is freedom land
5mo ago
In this case, I searched for “author:netstack Southern”. Be careful not to capitalize “author”. There are a few other search keywords like that; I think “flair” is one? Not sure if it’s documented anywhere.
Anyway, I was able to search for that because I knew I’d reminded someone that the Southern Strategy existed. I wasn’t sure if it was OP until I thumbed through.
What exactly were you looking for vis a vis “unselfish antinomianism”? I think that’s still a fair reading of Socrates’ lines, given the emphasis on liberty as an abstract good.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
5mo ago
Again, I don’t know. My intuition isn’t exactly calibrated for this.
Katrina obviously counts. I’d have said Sandy counted, and this was probably on par, so sure. Major disaster it is.
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Texas is freedom land
5mo ago
Same here, with the exception of some brief exposures in college sports.
We were boiling water on our natural gas stove for the chance to feel a little warm. It was awful and I don’t mean to downplay that. I couldn’t tell if @sockpuppet2 was upset that I was understating it or was setting me up for some sort of gotcha.
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Texas is freedom land
5mo ago
Shrug. I have no idea how much money and time was lost to the storm.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
5mo ago
Oh, dang, I missed the Plato discussion. This is a shame because I think you’re misreading a crucial part of it. Specifically here; the last time I made this argument (to @MaiqTheTrue) is here.
In short, I think aging philosophers have been complaining about libertine, shiftless youth for literal millennia, but the predictions rarely come true. Athens was perfectly able to go to war, elect new leaders, corral its livestock, etc. up until they got subjugated by an outside tyrant. Though if you’ve made a case for the decline of virtue in Classical Athens, I’d be interested in seeing it.
More importantly, the argument proves way too much. I could go down your tyrant checklist and fish for ways to make the prophecy fit Donald Trump, a textbook oligarch waving the flag of populism. Would that really be useful?
Accusing bureaucrats of being “accursed oligarchs” is a time-honored tradition in American politics. So is “commend[ing] and honor[ing] in public and private rulers who resemble subjects and subjects who are like rulers.” The humble, wise Everyman is one of our stock characters for an ideal statesman. That makes it kind of pointless to draw your enemies as the soyjak.
I wanted to discuss Plato because I think that post was a lot more interesting than this one. You are not the first person to write an essay about how your opponents are Literally Hitler. This isn’t even your first time playing the lazy DRRR game. (Though I see you made the same mistake as me with regards to Byrd. The man turned it around in the 80s and became a hugely influential civil rights supporter.) The Democrat agenda had thoroughly shifted by the Reagan years, and pretending otherwise is a cheap rhetorical trick.
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Texas is freedom land
5mo ago
Comparable information for Texas can probably be found here. Not something I can really explore on my phone, though.
We’ve got an interesting case for two reasons. First, the infamous Texas Interconnection. Our link to the rest of the country is highly limited, which keeps us away from certain federal regulations. Second, we had a moderate disaster back in 2021 when that infrastructure groaned under winter weather. Over 200 people died, making Texans much more aware of our grid than the average American.
Here’s Senator Ted Cruz leaving his constituency for a spur-of-the-moment vacation to Cancun. Naturally, this was completely forgiven by the time he faced reelection.
Texas did pass bills subsidizing on-demand generation, though I do believe one of them was actually regulating a different initiative out of existence. This is probably a good thing, and we’ll probably be ready for whatever natural disaster hits next. Either way, Republicans will see no electoral consequences whatsoever.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
5mo ago
That proof is incomplete. What if “evenly matched” is a really wide band? What if there’s uncertainty? You could be stuck waiting for “other causes” indefinitely. Liberalism is about extracting the most value from those stalemates.
I think our world favors stalemates. “God made Men; Sam Colt made them equal.” That lets me honestly say that it doesn’t have to end in stomping. We can make it too expensive to purge the heretics just like we made it too expensive to invade Germany.
Reddit’s gonna Reddit whether or not the NYT posts that kind of article. I think this is because they have the same incentives pushing them into a particular line on any given CW topic. Maybe this is the prospiracy vs conspiracy model?
The point is that my model makes similar predictions, so I assume they were being genuine. If Steve doesn’t, why?
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