BANNED USER: terrible poster who never improves
sliders1234
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sliders1234
11mo ago
I think in general a debate has a scissor statement in it. Let’s take an example - Barack Obama isn’t black or Joe Biden isn’t Catholic. Let’s say we had an election with one of them and it was becoming a campaign issue.
An equivalent would be writing 5k words on Obama’s genealogy. Doing some DNA analysis, skin testing for melanin, etc. The people that will disagree and you are trying to prove wrong will be entirely concerned with a lack of ADOS and other connections to American blacks. Same for Biden and Catholic where they will just point to his abortion stance and lack of obedience to the Pope. To prove to the other side and defeat the scissor you need to find a check to Pro-life or other similar actions he’s doing to promote that. The scissor statements can be very short. And if you are writing 5k words to defeat the scissor it doesn’t matter how much you write adjacent to the scissor. And I think that is bad writing if the goal of the writing was to win the argument and convince the other side your opinion is better than the existing view.
sliders1234
11mo ago
Interesting that I think a few of those posts are bad or just not special. One of the post is just taking a simple argument and making it 5k words while still ignoring to address the criticisms that are evident in a 200 word synopsis. My definition of very bad writing when you just go for length.
Another I thought was just stringing together a few hot takes. Which I don’t think is generally bad because it can be a starting point for bringing up an issue but I wouldn’t consider for a quality contribution because it lacked specialized or depth of knowledge on the issue.
sliders1234
11mo ago
This is just functionally wrong. Whether dictators are net good is an interesting question.
But they do provide benefits. Internalizing deadweight costs is one thing they do better than Democracies.
The other area they can do better is not all societies have intellectual capabilities to implement a Democracy. You need a certain level of intelligence to succesfully monitor leaders in a Democracy.
sliders1234
11mo ago
I am advocating for peace. I don’t know how many times I need to repeat this.
sliders1234
11mo ago
Why is Russia having a civil war. I am not sure why I have to account for deaths in a war that hasn’t happened.
I support better guns for Ukraine so they can win the war faster with fewer casualties.
sliders1234
11mo ago
Big difference between.
I prosecuted a Democrat for murder.
I prosecuted a Democrat for jaywalking.
This isn’t quite that far but I do think it falls under different.
sliders1234
11mo ago
Intent is a solid reasoning for he’s not guilty. Always tough to prove intent. But by the letter of the law if you can prove intent I guess he’s guilty.
sliders1234
11mo ago
Are you comparing writing down “legal expense” versus “paid mistress” to accepted gold and cash envelops?
sliders1234
11mo ago
They showed up for the negotiations. Then Russia did war.
sliders1234
11mo ago
I started reading your first article. The first two people are for bribery. Much different offense than mislabeling your personal business dealings. 700k and gold bars versus I wrote it down wrong on internal documents.
sliders1234
11mo ago
For your flip around. Even though he’s said he could get away with it.
If he shot a person in Times Square (change to Mar-a-Lago for obvious reasons) I would hope he’s convicted.
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high level Republicans - they are not in NYC. NRA had a bad time there. They are also not the big guy so less worth their time.
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when have Dems gone after Dems for similar violations? Hillary is free. Hunter Biden is free.
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they go after normal people for this. Who? I believe I’m guilty of what Trump did. I do think Trump is guilty.
sliders1234
11mo ago
Real civil liberties I think are no-longer possible in America. If every criminal defendant got Saul Goodman (make him a little less of actual criminal) as their defense attorney and fully taking advantage of civil liberties our entire economy would need to be criminal justice.
If we were like Japan with low crime we could implement the US civil liberties by the letter of the law. Unfortunately, we are not.
I hate it. But who/whom is necessary. And in NYC Donald Trump is the who.
I want the system you want because I am basically honest and try to do right. But lower class and upper class both break aren’t.
It’s funny because I know rule breakers. I understand why industries have a thousand regulations where workers spend half their time just being legal and probably still aren’t. SBF is a big example who I think is a proper “who”, but catching him requires a lot of regulations. And now we have a financial system with a thousand rules because at some point someone did something bad and each rule catches one of them. But as a whole it grinds the entire system to a halt.
sliders1234
11mo ago
A lot of this is just trying to create a pre-text for war in advance when you have already decided on going to war.
Dick Cheney did this. He tried to prove in the media that Iraq had WMD. They did not. But Iraq was pretending they had WMD and that is true. For various reasons they really did do that. But the entire argument Russia said they just wanted x,y,z is just them trying to establish a semi-credible justification for war. When they have already decided on war.
sliders1234
11mo ago
The motte seems to agree you can be convicted on any of those.
Perhaps, Trump is actually guilty. I am coming around to this. But in that case a lot of people are guilty.
I am glad I asked this question because I have been wondering for a while what is meant by a business record. And I feel like it’s a key point I haven’t seen people talking about.
sliders1234
11mo ago
There is a lack of evidence that Russia would have agreed to that.
There is evidence that NATO was disarming at the time of December 2021. The bulwark of NATOs war machine was mechanized German units. In 2021 Germany had like 1 tank battalion. At that point in time NATO probably didn’t even have the necessary equipment to invade anyone and especially Europe.
There are serious question that NATO-ex US even have the equipment to deal with Houthis today.
Fantasy football payments would seem to qualify. That is a business - someone makes money. Whoever won probably did not pay taxes so there is the coverup of another crime.
So yes I am a felon.
And for proportionality reasons my $500 fantasy football buy-in is equivalent to Trumps 750k to a hooker.
sliders1234
11mo ago
You do realize Russia invaded Ukraine correct?
The US can’t just call up Russia and make them negotiate.
sliders1234
11mo ago
Who did he defraud?
Ok so I am a felon too like Trump. I’ve sent mislabeled Venmo’s because I did not want Venmo to know what I’m doing.
The Overton window shifted.
Boys use to be allowed to be boys but you did it respectfully.
We live in the social media age. Only fans exists. Sleeping with a porn star isn’t that big of thing (I’ve done it). But besides that grabby them by the pussy and screwing porn stars is normie compared to trannies on the White House lawn and gays banging in bondage in the Senate.
To say the obvious atleast Trump likes girls.
sliders1234
11mo ago
I think they just have ideals but when facts meet reality of having a lot of people who can’t function in society change their views.
I don’t think a white nationalists would have problems running on libertarianism in a society that is all European. This is a big reason why the right doesn’t want immigrants because they can’t function in the society this nation was founded on.
sliders1234
11mo ago
Truthfully I am fed up enough. That I don’t care if Trump cancels the 2028 elections and just appoints himself Emperor. The system feels too rotten to save at this point.
sliders1234
11mo ago
This is a good bit of who/whom.
The truth is our entire system falls apart if jury trials and evidence mattered. It’s very difficult to prove reasonable doubt. Except for very stupid defendants like this guy:
https://twitter.com/richardhanania/status/1795966422826238110?s=46&t=aQ6ajj220jubjU7-o3SuWQ
Who did his zoom court day for a suspended license while driving. He actually seems 100 IQ.
One reason why we use to jail people for a while for being a felon with an illegal gun is because that is a very good proxy for murder when murder is hard to prove.
We could never actually try every case. So this guy is bad and convict him is about the standard we need.
Can some one define business records? I have no idea what they are referring to.
There are different levels of business records. Tax returns? Thing you submitted to investors. Internal things you filled out for accounting of a private enterprise? Bullshit compliance stuff for a corporate job where you just pick something?
Small businesses often have really shitty internal accounting.
Am I a felon because I put some joke on a venmo.
sliders1234
11mo ago
Explain how the west failed to facilitate non-violent negotiations?
I think hive mind actually says average IQ is more important than your geniuses for a country level wealth.
My guess it’s because any country can do catch up growth (mostly), but having low IQ makes politics and institutions too crappy.
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