sarker
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sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
7hr ago
You're morally framing these things. Cooper, as far as I can tell, wants to factually frame them.
I'm not making a value judgement here. I'm looking at the positions that Cooper holds or considers reasonable to hold. Those positions include value judgements.
Jews influence a lot of the media
Jews influence the government
Let's not retreat to the motte here. The original phrasing was "run the media" and "ZOG".
From there you don't need to hate jews. I don't know what Cooper thinks beyond that, but I would just demand they don't act like they are above the common courtesy everyone else has to show eachother...
I don't see why not. You have a list of demands here, but what is really the meaning of it? If one really believes Jews run the media and control the government, can one be satisfied with just nudging their governance a little bit on the margins? Surely if one accepts this world view, the demands should be much greater, to take back control of the government and media and ensure that it can't happen again (despite it apparently happening in "nigh every western" country).
What emotion can a "host" feel for a ruling population but hate, unless those rulers have killed those neurons altogether?
sarker
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7hr ago
Cooper has never said that the Holocaust was a good thing, or anything even close to that.
I included this in my comment in the hopes of heading off this exact misunderstanding.
I am not saying that he necessarily believes all the things in the first list, but he feels that they are at least understandable or positions that a reasonable person may hold.
And he never said that Hitler wasn’t that bad either.
Indeed, for that we'll need to wait for the forthcoming "Hitler was misunderstood" article.
It sounds like your knowledge of Cooper’s opinions comes entirely from Bluesky character assassination tweets.
You overestimate me. My knowledge of Cooper's opinions comes entirely from this thread and one or two other threads about him on this forum.
sarker
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8hr ago
Cooper, in his own words, describes himself and his viewpoint similarly, though at greater length
How much of that is cognitive dissonance?
By "(un)stable equilibrium", what I meant is that if one, like Cooper seems to, admits that the following may be true, or at least are not obviously wrong:
- The Holocaust was a good thing
- Jews run the media (and this is bad)
- Jews run the government (and this is bad)
- Jews have split loyalties (and this is bad)
- Hitler was not that bad
Then I don't see how you can draw the line just there, and go no further to reach the obvious conclusion, which is:
- Jews are bad
- Jews are to be hated
And yet he seems to be in this position. I am not saying that he necessarily believes all the things in the first list, but he feels that they are at least understandable or positions that a reasonable person may hold. However, he feels that a reasonable person may not hold the positions that are a natural consequence of those opinions. This doesn't seem tenable to me.
sarker
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9hr ago
To reply with a one sentence steelman of Cooper: 'Here are historical circumstance, here's why they came to be, here's the horrible outcome, here's what could have gone differently. By the way, don't hate people.'
It's a curious steelman that fully abstracts away all the details of the claims and the facts. Are we talking about the JQ or why a project went over budget?
I mean, I agree, it sure isn't a stable equilibrium for the church to sit idly by as heresy is spread. But I don't see why anyone should be concerned with the church.
And now I've fully lost sight of how this metaphor corresponds to reality at all.
sarker
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10hr ago
The first two are the opinions of people that Cooper doesn't block. Since he is blocking views he finds unacceptable, he must find these acceptable, or at least, not beyond the pale.
The third seems to be Cooper's own view, unless his article on how Hitler was misunderstood turns out to be an article about how Hitler was even worse than people think.
sarker
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10hr ago
Same situation in my workplace. Some time ago TPTB decided to turn some of the gender neutral bathrooms into gendered bathrooms because women were getting the ick from sharing single occupancy rooms with men (we love our PMC women, don't we, folks?), but there was a fairly strong outcry on account of the bathrooms being divided equally between the genders despite there not being anything close to gender parity in the building (it wasn't phrased this way of course) and naturally on account of the trans question. Fortunately this caused management to abandon the plan and I get the great single occupancy experience without the queueing mentioned in other comments. Highly recommend.
I’ve blocked over 15,000 people on X by now, and I would say that 70% of them were due to vulgar antisemitism. I don’t block people for saying Jews run the media, or that we live under a Zionist Occupied Government, or that Jews have split loyalties, so those 15,000 are just the nakedly hateful, the-Holocaust-isn’t-real-but-I-wish-it-was people.
In the comments section, he assured his audience that his ‘Hitler was misunderstood’ take was still very much coming.
I don't get it. Is this just a "narcissism of small differences" situation? "Jews are pernicious, they should have been gassed, and Hitler wasn't such a bad dude, but that doesn't mean that you should hate them" doesn't really seem like a stable equilibrium.
sarker
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2d ago
as a ranked member of the gang.
In a city in which he has never lived?
Also, he got stopped doing what looked rather like human trafficking in 2022, but the Biden FBI told the locals to let him go.
Source?
sarker
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2d ago
I visited Utah once and drove three miles per hour over the speed limit on the freeway and got pulled over (no ticket though).
sarker
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2d ago
Also, the Chinese nationals are totally spies for the PRC. It’s fine if you’re not a China hawk (I’m not either), but it’s obviously happening.
This guy is not Chinese though, so this is a total non-sequitur for this case.
sarker
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2d ago
You can get blocks of it at Asian stores for about $2.
sarker
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2d ago
Tofu is absolutely a good source of protein. Super-firm tofu is 14g tofu and 2g carbs per 90g. Sure, it's not meat, but if you're better off eating tofu rather than a few bowls of pasta if you're trying to hit a protein target without blowing out your calories.
sarker
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3d ago
Fyi, you can file early and pay at a later date.
sarker
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5d ago
It's really more like saying "the way to get poor is to spend more and earn less".
sarker
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5d ago
Some people's absorption rate might be dysfunctional such that they lose any middle ground between "obesity" and "starvation".
I'd be interested to see a controlled medical case study of such a person. So far in many hours of conversation about this, none has been produced. I am not confident that such people exist.
sarker
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5d ago
The executive branch deported this guy despite the fact that the executive branch said the guy can't be deported, which according to the law passed by the legislative branch, should have prevented him from being deported.
The entire function of the judiciary is to redress grievances of this kind.
sarker
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5d ago
If the police accidentally arrest you, they are supposed to let you out. If they accidentally kill you, they may have to pay out a settlement if they lose a court case. If you get deported when you shouldn't have been, apparently there's no takebacks and no remedy of any kind and none are even possible in theory.
If the police were allowed to shoot anyone they wanted with zero consequences, that would be bad.
sarker
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5d ago
Even if absorption rates vary, the thing is that you cannot absorb more energy than there is in the food you eat. So sufficiently restricting calories necessarily results in reduction of mass.
sarker
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6d ago
The second season generally seems to be pretty aimless. People do stuff without any obvious motive, there's so much secrecy and mystery but I get the feeling that it's a kind of potemkin village of a plot where there's nothing actually behind any of those secrets.
sarker
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7d ago
Some Bs have As. Not all of them however, have As. So this does not follow.
They do, of course, as you admit yourself. It's merely a "no true Scotsman" of what constitutes a border.
Beyond formalities however, what my argument is at core that a government that does not control who it administers ceases to be one properly speaking because it is easily gamed by outside actors. And therefore decays into some administrative or economic denomination of the larger structure that puppets it.
It's not clear to me why this is true except that you feel strongly about this particular issue. Like if you were a leftist telling me about how governments that don't control inequality cease to be a government "properly speaking" because , I'm not impressed.
The current immigration regime is not unprecedented. There was much more freedom of movement before the latter part of the 20th century than there has been since. In the late 19th and early 20th century, the foreign born share of the population was comparable to what it is today. Was the USA not a government, properly speaking, but merely an economic zone? I don't think so, but if it was, it seems being an economic zone doesn't really mean much for the future trajectory of your country.
sarker
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7d ago
Again with the absurdity through inappropriate narrowing of scope.
How can you tell when your scope is appropriately widened? Okay, the purpose of the bus system isn't to emit CO2. Is the purpose to do that and drive vehicles on NYC streets? Is the purpose to do that and pay out bennies to bus drivers? Is it to do that and move paying customers around? Is it to do that and also house a few homeless people? Is it to do that and reduce traffic overall?
And we can't look at the bus system in isolation, right? It's part of the city government, which itself is embedded in layers of government and society. Why is it not inappropriate to even attempt to analyze the purpose of the NYC bus system in isolation of the entire world?
At least I agree that we can limit our scope to planet earth, since there doesn't seem to be any agency being exercised by anyone outside of it. The question is where to set the scope in between busses emitting CO2 and everything that goes on on earth.
sarker
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7d ago
Cool, but the point is that Bs have As, so if something doesn't have an A, it's not a B.
sarker
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7d ago
I was primed to look, but it was the scripture references that first made me think something was up. At first, knowing nothing about the director (or Korean culture really) I ignorantly thought it was an esl type thing - the foreign director wants to reference Christianity somehow, saw a passage mentioning ghosts and went with it (sort of like how Osgood Perkins jammed T. Rex into longlegs). But it is referenced again later in the film by the girl in white and by that point in the film I had seen too much self-awareness to accept my original assumption about the use of scripture, I'd already started beating myself up for it. It was too on the nose, I just couldn't accept that this apparently clever film was now going to make the girl in white a christ figure by having her actually quote Jesus.
You've confused this - it's actually the Japanese man who references the intro quote, as he transforms into a devil and shows the deacon his stigmata.
Quality movie. I'm not sure what I think happened yet, but my first instinct is that all the three major players are evil, possibly competing to harvest the village's psychic energy via bloody murder or something like that.
You're right, I misread him on this point. I edited my original post.
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