netstack
Texas is freedom land
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netstack
Texas is freedom land
2d ago
Be the change you wish to see in the world, I guess.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2d ago
Please don’t threaten him with a good time.
Also, he’s already banned.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2d ago
I’m still going to say “no.”
Users are allowed to be wrong. That includes misjudging whether something is obvious or controversial. Tolerance for this kind of error depends on the perceived good faith of the user. Since the OP has stuck around to argue his controversial points, he’s earned some benefit of the doubt.
If I’d caught this early, perhaps I’d have issued a warning. But I didn’t, and the rest of the community has already pushed back. Mission accomplished.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2d ago
It's for the best.
If Zorba is L3, and we're L2...what's L1?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
You have to expand a box to see them, but no.
The volunteer janitorial system is completely anonymous, though. For that we just get a final score.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
For what it’s worth, I always get an error when I try and view votes.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
Sliders was pretty clear about 2021 as an inflection point. In my opinion, that’s way too late.
The current backlash is a development of populism which has been brewing (at least) since Obama was in office. Crediting DeSantis and Abbott with reinventing conservative opposition? That’s the same kind of mistake as people insisting Trump is going to abolish democracy. He’s not special. They’re not special. For that matter, Obama wasn’t special, either. The situation circa 2010 was uniquely suited to a libertarian opposition. Since then, that support has been redirected to Trump’s platform.
Describing that as “the right realizing they were in a war” is, uh, cope.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
I don’t know about that.
The American right has plenty of history with speech restrictions, especially around sexual content. DeSantis is not breaking new ground. He’s approaching from a more secular angle, but it’s the same old song and dance of a Moral Majority. Same for Texas jurisprudence.
Nor is the situation uniquely dire for the right! Keep in mind previous acts of defying the Feds have ended with the 101st Airborne deployed to high school. Or at least a good old FBI shootout. Compared to that the cultural and legal battles are tame.
I think what you’re observing is better explained by the libertarian wing receding from its high-water mark during Obama’s presidency. Trump’s branding has polarized the Republican base and it dominates any media coverage.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
It doesn’t appear to be in the queue, at least.
Please don’t speak for us.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
Cute narrative, but demonstrably false.
[Taylor’s lawyer] Varghese continued: “Remember, these are all political appointees, and I don’t see a judge granting him bail pending appeal. So we may try, we may try and pray, but it’s highly unlikely.”
I think you’ll have a very hard time finding right-wingers happy to bend over and take it. What’s more universal than blaming the people in charge?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
Please avoid this kind of snarling at the groups you don’t like.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4d ago
I’m quite fond of my Lee-Enfield and stocked up on ammo for it.
Agreed that it is not the cartridge of choice for most Americans. Much easier to stumble on grandpa’s old boxes of .30-06!
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4d ago
Take away the firearm, and you might have a scissor, but not one that touches the 2A crowd. It’s along the lines of “believe women”: the scenario is underdetermined, so you have to import either the red- or blue-tribe assumptions. Whichever you choose makes the answer obvious.
The blue-tribe assumption regarding firearms is that most uses are illegitimate. At best, mere ownership makes those illegitimate actions more likely. At worst, expressing support for firearms is announcing intent to commit a crime with one.
This is enough to justify near-total gun control. I think that preempts any instinctive opposition to “guns for women only.”
Also, women really don’t care for guns. Ownership rates are like 3x higher for men. Maybe it’s historical, maybe it’s the masculine love for machinery—we’re way more likely to own guns, let alone commit gun violence.
In the frat house case, neither tribe is going to say the girl is justified in brandishing the gun. If you want to cut on the gender angle, you need a different scenario.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4d ago
There’s already a Victorian-approved social gathering which brings men and women together in opportunities for status competition. I should set up a series of such events.
Hock? My balls.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4d ago
So will the average Democrat. I think you’re misjudging the Venn diagram of “people who think rape is common” and “people who hate and fear firearms”.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4d ago
That’s like saying lumberjack thirst traps exist because of latent male disenfranchisement with white-collar work.
Sure, it’s always nice when a mass of strangers turn out to secretly agree with you. Sometimes there’s an easier explanation.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4d ago
I’ve got to ask you to be more specific. Make your case politely and firmly. If you skip to the conclusion, you’re just booing your outgroup.
Agreed. There are two core constituencies to the Motte: culture-war connoisseurs and policy wonks.
The former are interested in understanding the culture war, predicting it, if not outright waging it. Topics are valued accordingly. This group tends to like sweeping theories, too. There is a lot of demand for sensemaking. Here’s how ivermectin got right-coded. Here’s why such-and-such is memetically fit.
On the other hand, wonks put a narrow topic first. Any CW angle is secondary. A lot of our most narrative authors in this category, even if they don’t care about a specific policy, because the style is so different. You get a long narrative about life in Japan or a Civil War battle without any expectation of, I dunno, solving TFR.
Law, especially political law, bridges the gap, so it’s usually good stuff.
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