netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
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netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
1d ago
No?
Have you ever seen anyone, of any race or class, say “I guess I’m low human capital, time to get on the dole”? Okay, maybe angsty channers. But it’s really not the normal mindset.
Also, this would predict that poor Appalachian whites should vote Dem, which does not appear to have been true for some time.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
1d ago
Sarcasm is unbecoming. Speak plainly.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
2d ago
Does it import anything other than calling its ranks “belts”?
I certainly didn’t spend the money to get inducted into its higher mysteries.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
3d ago
And why do you think that is?
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
3d ago
If I caught myself describing romance like this I’d go ahead and remove myself from the gene pool.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
3d ago
But not a particularly Christian one.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
3d ago
- That doesn’t say anything about Earthly forgiveness.
- No, it isn’t. Any mapping of modern progressive idpol to Christianity proves way too much. You might as well say that Lean Six Sigma is a secular mirror. Or multi-level marketing. Or the normal criminal justice system.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
3d ago
Man, that might be even more vague than the original framing.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
3d ago
How exactly was it worse? Did the moron ever have a chance of getting line of sight on the President?
Are all our institutions so rotten?
I don’t understand what institutions you think are analogous to the Secret Service.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
3d ago
I just finished Matter the other day.
The Culture is utopian, even though it’s built on two great injustices.
You can’t compete with the Minds. This is a fact of the setting, rather than a societal choice or a zero-sum game, so it doesn’t move the needle into dystopia.
You also can’t manufacture meaning, even from unlimited material wealth. As a consequence, the Culture chooses to mine it from weaker civilizations. Half the books interrogate the morality and practicality of doing so; the other half elaborate on what kind of mythology lets a society justify it. But at no point does this abuse fall upon the citizens. It is an externality.
No downsides for the citizens, no dystopia.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
4d ago
Put me in the same boat as @EverythingIsFine, I guess. John Hinckley Jr. jokes aren’t really what I’d call “celebration.”
Contrast the examples from Scott’s classic:
Then a few years later, Margaret Thatcher died. And on my Facebook wall – made of these same “intelligent, reasoned, and thoughtful” people – the most common response was to quote some portion of the song “Ding Dong, The Witch Is Dead”. Another popular response was to link the videos of British people spontaneously throwing parties in the street, with comments like “I wish I was there so I could join in”. From this exact same group of people, not a single expression of disgust or a “c’mon, guys, we’re all human beings here.”
The bar for telling tasteless, gloating jokes on social media is unbelievably low. Users do it constantly for figures who are much less hated and much less likely to be attacked than the President. Then they’re signal-boosted, because social media sites are for fun and drama, and most people don’t want to read about sober disavowals of antisocial behavior. They can get that in person.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
4d ago
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
4d ago
Sorry, that was flippant of me.
What you’re saying fits my intuition better than WC’s load-bearing model.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
4d ago
Great. Now I’m half expecting a Republican crackdown against Fortnite.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
4d ago
Well, that’s the first time I’ve seen such a theory. I would have said there’s been more support for Trump et. al in the wake of the killing. People like @JeSuisCharlie joining up to talk about how he was the last beacon of hope or whatever.
How could you distinguish “political murders work” from Republicans losing on fundamentals? Say, if they did a bunch of highly-visible police actions and then started a war in the Middle East?
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
4d ago
I’d take that bet even if I hadn’t read his alleged manifesto.
The probability of targeting the Big Guy but starting shooting earlier is higher than the probability of targeting someone else but deciding to go after him at one of the most secure events of the year.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
5d ago
Yeah, I'm gonna tap the sign.
Let's imagine for a second that someone does not agree with you. What the fuck are they supposed to say? "Nuh uh"? At least when people cite crime statistics, they can have an actual argument over whether they're real, representative, whatever. What you've got here is made-up numbers and venting.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
6d ago
Unfortunately, the blocks page is in chronological order. And also might not be generally visible. You might be able to extract the data, though.
Maybe I confused the issue.
I wanted to say that unfairness in the setting doesn’t imply unfairness in the society. It’s unfair and unsettling that humans have to share a universe with superior artificial intelligences, but they’ve managed to construct a utopian society in spite of it.
If the Culture were the only game in town, I would be more inclined to call it dystopian. But leaving/schisming/self-effacing is a large part of their appeal. I think that forgives a lot of the paternalism.
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