netstack
Texas is freedom land
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netstack
Texas is freedom land
11mo ago
Fractional bans work! I did it once when I accidentally submitted a permanent with reason ”3” instead of a 3 day ban. I caught it after a few hours, and replaced it with a 2.7 hour ban for time served.
So I guess it could be arbitrarily short.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
11mo ago
More effort and evidence than this, please.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
11mo ago
That’s not a Gish gallop.
At worst, jkf is defending a different position than sliders. Call it sanewashing, or maybe distributed motte-and-bailey?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
11mo ago
mass mail-in voting is considered fraud by historic democratic principles
I disagree. At worst, by weakening the secret ballot, it makes more opportunities for fraud. That’s different.
Regardless, to get from there to “Trump wins in a landslide,” you have to have a chain of beliefs.
- MMIV allowed more fraud.
- More fraud gave an advantage to Democrats.
- Such an advantage was needed to overcome Trump’s natural lead.
Sure, #1 seems obviously true. But proponents have consistently failed to bring evidence for #2 or #3. Where are the legions of dead or duplicate voters? The confessions of Democrat strongmen who went door to door coercing Biden votes? The sob stories from would-have-been Trump voters?
If the Democrats successfully weaponized MMIV, there should be more evidence. Same goes for Trump’s hypothetical lead. Polling (then or now) doesn’t suggest that he has massive support. Either there is a powerful conspiracy hiding and weakening the evidence, or it doesn’t really exist.
The average voter hasn’t committed fraud. He also knows that his neighbors and teammates haven’t committed fraud, haven’t talked about the option, haven’t been visited by team officials in the dead of night. He correctly concludes that his team is not benefiting from fraud. He fails to extend this conclusion to everyone else.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
11mo ago
netstack
Texas is freedom land
11mo ago
sweet spot
To me, that implies it’ll get worse from here. How so?
Or did you mean that it’s just now crested the hill of being “worth it”?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
11mo ago
Please refrain from psychoanalyzing other commenters. Or genetically analyzing them.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
11mo ago
Please don’t speak for other posters.
If you think functor is being dishonest, either press him on it directly and politely, or move on. This sort of speculation isn’t helpful.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
11mo ago
What’s your evidence that they aren’t actually trying to solve the homeless problem?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
11mo ago
plenty of opportunities for employment
In an economy with no primary or secondary sector, a customer base selected for instability, and a constant brain drain of anyone who gets their lives together?
Judging by the BLS table, you’d have to throw out something like 75% of U.S. jobs. The resulting community would look much, much worse. Forget coercing the inmates—you’ll have a hell of a time hiring staff for this gulag.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
11mo ago
Yes and no.
seems motivated by a desire to guard your ego
Where does the conversation go from there? It’s immediately dragged down, because in addition to making it personal, this remark is unfalsifiable. BC can say “nuh uh,” and A can double down, but nothing good is likely to come of it.
Responding on the merits is best. Questioning motives is not recommended, but can be done with tact. I have yet to see someone tactfully and respectfully accuse another user of having a fragile ego.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
11mo ago
every Negress prosecutor on the East Coast
This kind of generalization is definitely in the “more heat than light” category.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
11mo ago
Welcome to the motte!
Please use this one-day waiting period to read the rules in our sidebar. Especially those about the rest of the internet and, per your other comment, cheap shots.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
11mo ago
:(
You are correct; let this be your first warning.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
11mo ago
Verification is the difference between journalism and gossip. I think once you play at the former, you should be held to a higher standard than a random stranger. Once her attempt at verification failed, a journalist would have had a duty not to publish. The fact that LoTT did, regardless, is a tidy rebuttal to anyone treating it as hard-hitting investigative journalism.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
11mo ago
Look, I’d be happier with an equilibrium where Twitter shitposters aren’t given any more credence than a tabloid.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
11mo ago
Why are credentialed journalists held to a higher standard? It’s not out of respect for the credential.
LoTT has clearly been assigned more resources and more influence than random shitposters. It’s sensible to expect higher standards for the same reasons.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
11mo ago
Uh…no.
It’s because Twitter journalism is even more decoupled from consequences than regular journalism.
If every single thing she reported was a lie, how would you know?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
11mo ago
Yeah, it would be reasonable for a normal person to check the original sources before believing and broadcasting them.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
11mo ago
I don't know where you're drawing the line.
Her Twitter bio proudly claims to be a "Media/News Company," and the testimonials on her About page includes a glowing review of her journalism by Matt Walsh. Wait, does he count as a journalist?
There are talk show appearances and shout outs from the former President. Chats with other culture war luminaries. Honorary school board appointments (?!). Those aren't normal suburban-mom activities. She is clearly running a brand.
But that's kind of beside the point. I can't believe that one needs credentials or courses to ask "is what I'm about to say true?" I also don't believe for a moment that's the main motive for TW critics. He certainly doesn't get to deploy a similar defense!
netstack
Texas is freedom land
11mo ago
Yes! Yes, and as far as I know, he has met this bar. If someone bothered to hoax him, and he took the bait, I think that would look badly on him. I certainly wouldn't say, "way to go, you hoaxed a shitposter."
Right. Like asking “why are you complaining about John Oliver? He’s just a comedian,” except more extreme, because social media is even less anchored to professional reputations. I’m sure it’s deployed at full scale on left-wing Twitter; we just don’t see as much of that shared here.
The latter is probably correct, too. I think she’s on a better epistemic ground than the Alex Jones types.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
11mo ago
His odds of winning the election just got a lot better.
I want to agree with @johnfabian that (mainstream) Democrats are going to get less strident. There's no angle, no way to try blaming the victim here. Not without a much more radical brand.
God. I was just at the gun store this morning. If this was an AR--and it probably was--the market is going to pucker up again.
Still looks pretty mystified to me.
But perhaps, without the waffle, there would be nothing left at all?
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