non_radical_centrist
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non_radical_centrist
1yr ago
I think there's a difference between an executive getting fired because of some tweet he made on his personal account that's pro-trans, and the executive getting fired for a business decision that actually alienated a core demographic. The former would be cancelling, the latter is how things should work.
If an executive of any given company with a large leftist demographic gave a promotional product to Donald Trump, I don't think people on the right would be too outraged about the executive being fired. They might thing think executive doesn't deserve to be fired because they personally like Donald Trump, but it wouldn't cause the same sort of outrage as the executive being fired because he tweeted out "Donald Trump is a swell guy".
non_radical_centrist
10mo ago
My model of Trump is that he's really just a narcissist who refuses to accept that those documents are not his to keep anymore. I don't think he's a 60 IQ mouth breather, I think he's legitimately pretty smart most of the time(albeit dumber than most presidents imo), but he also is not neurotypical.
Like this is the sort of behaviour you'd see on https://old.reddit.com/r/raisedbynarcissists/, someone's parent is keeping their child's possessions after the child moved out and estranged themselves, then insisted on keeping those possessions even after the child gives the parent numerous warnings and advance notice they'll call the police if they have to.
I'm not 100% certain of this of course, I'm not a psychiatrist who can diagnose someone, but it's my best guess
non_radical_centrist
6mo ago
Part of what I think makes Palestine different is that they have hundreds of millions of other Arabs and other muslims supporting them. Once the Tamils were broken, they were broken- they had no path to recovery. But for Palestine, every single member of Hamas could suffer from heart attacks and die tomorrow, and all the weapons could be confiscated, but I don’t think the conflict would be permanently over. Because other groups who want to see Israel ended and Palestine established would work to recreate Hamas or a similar group, providing funding and weapons.
non_radical_centrist
1yr ago
They're said every day by different teachers across the globe, not the same teacher or even the same school repeating it every day.
As an isolated gag, it's funny. Because the teacher I'm sure had 0 actual fear of getting fired for showing his students Michaelengo and was perfectly fine with them showing their parents, and thought that was common knowledge for everyone listening, until he actually was fired.
non_radical_centrist
1yr ago
In my experience, a lot(not all) of autistic people are nearly indistinguishable with neurotypical nerdy people online. Being able to take 5 minutes to think through their response instead of needing to reply in 5 seconds verbally helps a lot.
non_radical_centrist
1yr ago
"Hello, would you like to have sex with me?" is not an appropriate thing to say to a woman unless you are in a relationship with her.
Maybe it should be. Right now, I feel like a lot women are under the impression that most of their male friends do not want to have sex with them. I don't know the exact numbers, and I can't think of a way to find out the exact numbers, but I'm pretty sure a lot of men would be happy to fuck their female friends if given a no-strings-attached opportunity. Especially the single males but even a decent amount of guys in a relationship. But I constantly see stories like this, where a woman finds out a man wants to have sex with her, and she's disgusted. But why is she surprised? I understand that she doesn't want the sexual attention, but that doesn't change the fact that it exists, and women should be aware of just how common it is. Just because being aware of true facts is good. Lots of woman are friends with lots of men who sexually desire them, but the men just keep it a secret- would it be that much of a disaster if it wasn't a secret, if women were aware their friends desired them?
Maybe our current equilibrium is better. Maybe putting immense pressure on men not to let women know that they're sexually desired is good and prevents women from being pressured into sex they don't want. Maybe this equilibrium has to exist otherwise women would only make friends with the portion of men who genuinely don't want to have sex with them, so other men need to fake not having desire to make female friends. But it still just leaves me scratching my head when I see the degree to which women are shocked and disgusted when they learn that they're desired, since it shows that their mental model of the world was pretty damn off.
non_radical_centrist
6mo ago
I don’t think there’s any plausible scenario the leads to Palestine being free from river to sea. They’re an US ally, so presumably even if they did start getting pushed back immensely the US would intervene to stabilize the IDF.
Maybe if Israel commits such atrocities in Gaza that the US feels the need to completely distance themselves from Israel, it compels all the arab neighbours to intervene against Israel, and Israel is unable to fight them off on its own like it has multiple times in the past. But that’s a lot of ifs.
non_radical_centrist
11mo ago
non_radical_centrist
11mo ago
I think this AstralCodexTen can help give some insight:https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/give-up-seventy-percent-of-the-way
The basis is, today, who uses the word "negro"? Two types of people: Extremely clueless old people, and vile racists*. So if you use it, and you don't look like you're at least 95 years old, everyone will assume you're a vile racist. Now think about who used the word "negro" 30 years ago. The answer is a lot more old people, not all of whom are clueless, some just don't want to change the word they always used, and vile racists. But fewer and fewer respectable people used it, because it was associated with vile racists, and there's no reason to use it when "black" worked just as well. So it became more and more associated with vile racists. And so on until the 50s-60s when it was actually just another word, the polite way to refer to a black person that government forms and black people themselves used.
I think there is a similar effect with political positions of being against coloured immigration. In 1910, it was perfectly respectable to want your community to be all white. You didn't have to be a vile racist to want to avoid black people in your community, you could just want to have your own separate culture in your neighborhood and have no personal enmity to black people. Although the hateful racists certainly did exist and did push, probably the hardest, against desegregation then too. Then over time, more and more people wanted to strongly signal they weren't hateful racists, and loudly declared they supported immigration. And then eventually being against multiculturalism was position only held by hateful racists. World War 2 accelerated this effect greatly as well, since Hitler was the loudest and most hateful of all racists, and he of course was also a great enemy of the Allies, so people had to try extra hard to make clear they were not a hateful racist like Hitler.
*I'm not exaggerating for effect. Even HBD types or other reactionaries who hold no hate in their heart but just want ethnostates don't use the word 'negro' today. It's only the vile people who want to be purposefully offensive and who hold a lot of hate and cruelty in their hearts who use it.
non_radical_centrist
1yr ago
My guess for Elon's mind state is that he bought into "Twitter would be a better place with free speech and the silent majority want it, it's only a small amount of the crazy censoring left who seem to be running things". And I think that might be true, but what's missing is that making Twitter a better product won't actually make it a more profitable product. And now Elon's realizing that and scrambling as advertisers are pulling out.
non_radical_centrist
1mo ago
I have a formative childhood memory of exactly that sort of thing happening. I was roughhousing with a friend of mine, in the type of way that it was very unlikely either of us would get seriously hurt, but was still very much against the school rules. I remember then a parent volunteer caught us in a way that she didn't didn't directly witness it but it was very obvious to everyone what happened- I don't remember exactly how, but it was probably something like hearing a yelp and then turning the corner to see my friend with a bruise. When she interrogated us, I stayed quiet and my friend insisted he just walked into a pole- despite no poles being nearby. We both got off scott free.
non_radical_centrist
9mo ago
It’s probably fair to say they’re being cheeky but they really do want to indoctrinate you kids into trans ideology.
They do want to turn kids into atheist leftists. I don't think any of them would really deny that. That's what the chant means. The chant does not mean "We want to rape your kids".
non_radical_centrist
11mo ago
I don’t know why gun rights advocates don’t just admit that yes, if all guns were confiscated and a very strict licensing regime was put in place gun homicides would likely drop substantially
What's the point in admitting "hypothetically, if every legal and illegal gun was confiscated, gun crime would drop". As far as I know most gun rights people don't have an objection to the government confiscating illegal guns used by gangs.
non_radical_centrist
1yr ago
thinking of a dude showing up trying to get laid pisses me off
A great deal of things that dudes in their 20s do, consciously or unconsciously, are about getting laid. Whether you want a culture where members of the meet up is acceptable or frowned upon depends on what you're aiming for, but I think there are a number of cases, e.g recruiting more casual members, where you'd want it to be acceptable.
non_radical_centrist
1yr ago
This sounds very plausible to me. This sounds like more of an oversight than a deliberate move to use less than a normal range of skin tone.
non_radical_centrist
1yr ago
I really can't imagine what could've been a better geopolitical victory for America short of Putin reading John Locke and deciding to go all out on pushing democracy and individual rights then retiring.
non_radical_centrist
1yr ago
There are lots of classic books out there, there's no pressing need to ever buy a children's book under ten or even twenty years old. Dr. Seuss and Robert Munch I remember loving as a small child, and their books alone can fill a children's library.
non_radical_centrist
13d ago
It's annoying how expensive substacks are. I wish there are some sort of bulk deal where I could buy all the ones I'm interested in at a significant discount, because as much as I love the writing of the writers I follow, I can't drop a hundred bucks a year on each of them.
non_radical_centrist
11mo ago
This still takes dedicated shopping trips and preparing homemade meals. If someone is just eating frozen meals or going out for fast food, removing meat leaves you limited. I have a pescatarian friend who would be vegan if not for her doctor telling her she wouldn't be getting enough nutrients without fish, and she still struggles, because she lives in a college dorm and doesn't put nearly this much effort into her meals. Even if someone is making their own nice homemade meals, removing meat cuts a lot of nice variety they would have to their meals.
non_radical_centrist
11mo ago
I think the site is a circlejerk, but less than almost any other political space. I think /r/politicalcompasshumour has a wider variety of common beliefs(although the modal belief is probably pretty similar to the modal themotte belief, just with more anti-elite populism), but that's the only space that comes to mind that's less of a circlejerk.
I think themotte would need some sort of "change my mind" contest where a mod presents a topic and people can write effort posts about original opinions to get some new variety. Preferably about new topics, not just about race or transgenders like it feels 90% of threads here are about. Something like "Is violent revolution are a viable solution or a stupid idea? Elaborate" or "Will China overtake the US in the near term?" I think would be interesting and fun.
non_radical_centrist
1yr ago
I don't think holding a passionate hatred of Hitler where just thinking of him makes you angry and raises your blood pressure is healthy. I do think that holding a strong belief that genocidal authoritarians are evil and should never be allowed back in power is healthy. Often people misidentify who's actually likely to become a genocidal authoritarian, and launch inappropriate "literally Hitler!" attacks, but I think the flaw there always lies in some other point in the logic train, not at the original "I hate genocidal authoritarians" part.
non_radical_centrist
4mo ago
Touch grass. I think a fair amount of gender ideology is concerning, but the main risks are a) biological males in women's spaces like prisons and sports leading to danger for biological women, and b) children getting permanent medical decisions made that they will regret.
For you personally, there really aren't any downsides to working with trans people. Sometimes you have coworkers who are lazy or who are assholes, and those are both much worse than a coworker who's trans
non_radical_centrist
6mo ago
Do they really need that dumb level faked audio to convince people they’re innocent if they’re really innocent? I would think it’d just hurt their credibility
non_radical_centrist
11mo ago
The problem is quite frankly there is no perfect formula for asking out a girl. Every girl is different after all. What would flatter one girl would get another to want to call the cops. I can share my experience and what's worked with me though.
First, you should identify what you want and what you're willing to do. Think about whether you want a hook up or whether it'd leave you disgusted with yourself. Whether you're willing to be 50 and single or if you'd happily marry a sub-optimal partner as long as they shared your most important values. You might be wrong about guessing what you really want until you try, but it's better than going in totally blind. In my opinion it's a good thing to go on dates even with women you're not super attracted to, because the cost of one evening and paying for dinner is small compared the experience gained at socializing and the potential opportunity to unexpectedly connect.
The next step is to get on the big dating apps. Tinder, Bumble, and Hinge, and maybe a more niche one like Christian Mingle if you fit the demographic. Make a profile with nice pictures and a bio. I've read the advice "Be unique! Stand out with something silly!" but in my own personal experience making my profile as inoffensive but flattering as possible works best. Like every profile, in my experience it does not actually lower your elo, and takes much less time and energy than trying to determine whether you're attracted to someone who 99% will not match you anyway. When messaging first, comment on something in their profile or pictures. Expect to carry the conversation for the first bit. Ask for their social media at the first good opportunity, or as a casual hail mary if the convo is dying. Ask them to meet up for a movie or dinner or whatever you like to do at the next good opportunity. Don't bother playing games/hard to get. Don't necessarily respond the second they do if they're spacing out their messages, being that available can make people go "oh I kinda want to keep talking to him but I don't want a whole conversation right now, so I best not message because he's going to respond immediately". Waiting 15 minutes to 1 hour is fine. If they ghost you or are really dragging out their messages(24 hours+ between messages) they are not interested and you can stop wasting time on them. Even if they say they're interested, they are not actually.
That approach has gotten me a few dates and less wasted energy, ultimately no one I really liked, but still a big step up from where I was before learning all that.
If you're willing to work out at the gym and get sexy, that's an even bigger advantage, but personally I've always found that difficult.
Some pretty impressive news: YouTuber and author John Green, known for his channel vlogbrothers and for being one of the founders of the educational channel Crash Course, as well his his books such as the Fault in Our Stars, recently made a video advocating that pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson shouldn't extend their patent on the drug bedaquiline that's used to treat tuberculosis. It's used to treat millions, and saves the lives of many. But it is fairly expensive. And his video and call for his fanbase to bombard Johnson & Johnson to stop worked! They did still extend the patent, but they've allowed for the sale of generics in low and middle income countries that would otherwise struggle to afford it. This is quite possibly the single most influential campaign from an internet influencer ever in terms of lives saved.
The original video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=tMhgw5SW0h4
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