stuckinbathroom
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stuckinbathroom
9mo ago
Christians are essentially slightly misguided Muslims who Allah will save anyway
I’m intrigued; is this claim endorsed by any prominent mainstream Islamic theologians?
AFAIK, the sole requirement for conversion to Islam is sincerely believing in the Shahada, viz. that there is only one God and Muhammad is his messenger. Do Christians get partial credit for believing the first half? If so, what about Jews?
stuckinbathroom
9mo ago
Ah yeah, I forgot about that guy. Good point; I stand corrected
stuckinbathroom
9mo ago
The Harris campaign let those people exercise veto power over their VP pick
Uh, when has Walz ever openly opposed Kamala on support for Israel? Wasn’t he boldly (some would say falsely) proclaiming his military background/support for the global American empire?
stuckinbathroom
9mo ago
Personally my preferred solution is to repeal the laws against non-citizen voting
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Having a category of residents that don't get to vote is undemocratic
Why do you think so?
I agree that having a class of legal residents who can never earn the right to vote would be undemocratic. However, this sounds like an argument for a faster pathway to citizenship, or perhaps some non-citizen permanent resident status that comes with voting rights, if you like.
But why should persons who have not put down roots in the US, or who have not otherwise meaningfully contributed to the fabric of our society in some way*, have a say in the long-term future of our country?
You may object that there are 18-year-old citizens who vote without having permanently settled anywhere. To this I would say, does our 18-year-old citizen voter have a US citizen parent?
If yes, I would say that my ideal model of US citizenship—which, to be sure, differs from the reality—is that in exchange for the aforementioned “contribution to the fabric of our society”, the social contract grants to each citizen and his descendants in perpetuity a presumptive right to a say in our nation’s future, in the absence of a compelling reason to the contrary (such as a felony conviction or naturalization in another polity).
If no, now you understand the case against birthright citizenship.
*Reasonable people can disagree on this matter, but examples of such might be: military service, or running businesses which gainfully employ individuals in economically deprived areas.
stuckinbathroom
9mo ago
40K damaged, incomplete voter registration forms submitted in Maricopa County
When I read this headline, my first thought was that the registration forms had been corrupted by Chaos.
Anyway, I hope the voting machine spirits are adequately appeased by the ritual sacrifice of ballots, lest we end up with more hanging chads. Praise the Electomnissiah.
stuckinbathroom
9mo ago
definition of evidence is "B s.t. P(B|A)/P(B) > 0".
Wouldn’t the definition of “A is Bayesian evidence of B” be “P(B|A) > P(B)”
stuckinbathroom
9mo ago
A case of Brog assimilation, so to speak
stuckinbathroom
9mo ago
“Barack” sounds suspiciously Middle Eastern.
FWIW prior to Obama’s presidential campaign, probably the best-known “Barack” (by American English pronunciation, not spelling) was Ehud Barak, former prime minister of Israel and Labor Party leader. He is indeed Middle Eastern, but seeing as he’s an Israeli Jew, I would hardly say “suspiciously” so.
stuckinbathroom
9mo ago
IIRC the death penalty still retains majority approval in many countries around the world, even those where it has been abolished. It’s not a case of “the entire world” forgetting, so much as it is the Western ruling classes forgetting. This, I suspect, can be ascribed to the ruling class living in ever more of a low-crime, high-trust bubble as compared to the common rabble.
stuckinbathroom
9mo ago
Precisely. The female equivalent of Reddit, on the other hand, is Pinterest
stuckinbathroom
9mo ago
The grim irony in Israel doing it should not be lost on anyone.
In the grim darkness of the Middle East, there is only war.
(I say this half-jokingly, but only half)
stuckinbathroom
9mo ago
Scary indeed, but for the sake of completeness, let’s wargame the putative fraudster’s next steps.
Plan A: Pick up a bunch of mail-in ballots from the county clerk, fill them in with the details of the “voters” whom you have fraudulently registered, and mail them in/drop them off. This plan hinges on the ability to collect an arbitrary number of blank mail-in ballots: if ballots are (for example) only mailed to the address of registration, this plan is a no-go. Does anyone know if this is the case in PA?
Plan B: On Election Day (or during the ~2 weeks prior, if early voting is a thing), hit up a bunch of different polling stations and vote multiple times, posing as a different fraudulently-registered voter each time. Obviously this is much easier in the absence of mandatory voter ID. Also, if the voter you are impersonating actually registers and votes (perhaps on the same day, in places where that is allowed—again, PA?), you risk blowing the whole operation.
I don’t mean to suggest that the potential failure modes of such a scheme mean that potential voter fraud is no big deal—it absolutely is. But simply fraudulently registering voters is only one piece of the overall theft of an election. Vigilance at other stages of the process can, in theory, head off obvious cases of fraud.
Then again, the fact that these false registrations were so sophisticated and were only caught so late in the game should perhaps be Bayesian evidence of just how much “vigilance” actually exists in practice.
stuckinbathroom
9mo ago
I used to joke with my wife
Why did you stop? (Alternatively, hey Mitch, didn’t expect to run into you here!)
stuckinbathroom
9mo ago
the Queen's English
I’ve got some bad news for ya bud…
(Well I suppose you didn’t specify the Queen Regnant’s English so…)
stuckinbathroom
10mo ago
I wonder if Rohan has agreed to interview Trump
“Gandalf says I am not fit to be King of Gondor but is fine with Broken-Toe Aragorn. Truth is Dopey Gandalf is just a Second-Rate wizard who couldn’t even defeat a Balrog! Should lay off the Longbottom Leaf. SAD!”
stuckinbathroom
10mo ago
What if we literally just removed it?
Presumably there would be much wailing and gnashing of teeth at the sudden loss of ~billions of dollars in grants, student loans, and subsidies handed out by the Department of Education to schools and individuals. Having said that, if the Department were phased out gradually and/or its money spigots moved into other arms of the federal government, I don’t think anyone would notice much difference. As it is, control over K-12 education is almost entirely at the state and local level in the US.
For what it’s worth, Canada has never had a federal Department of Education, but seems to have done just fine given its heritage and demographics.
stuckinbathroom
10mo ago
But on the plus side, Biden seems to hate Kamala
Source?
stuckinbathroom
10mo ago
See also: “to see the mote in your brother’s eye while ignoring the beam in your own”
stuckinbathroom
10mo ago
(Not OP)
innawoods = 4chan (?) slang for rural living away from big city degeneracy
living off the fatta the land = the dream of George and Lenny in Of Mice and Men
stuckinbathroom
11mo ago
The student meant that this is our rallying cry. Think of all the good that has come out of this noble lie. Imagine a world where gays across America didn't believe Matthew Shepard, their avatar, was brutally murdered for being gay. We might not even have gay marriage! We might not have all these vigils and community and influence. Stop asking questions. Let us have it.
I’m sure I’m preaching to the choir here, but one problem with this approach is that it requires ever more sordid lies to be concocted in order to generate the same level of activist outrage…nominative determinism strikes again?
stuckinbathroom
11mo ago
I used to think stacking int and str was what got you far in life
See that’s your problem right there: you have to cast the int to a str before concatenating them, or else you’ll get a ValueError
stuckinbathroom
11mo ago
Many Australian districts have so-called "one punch" laws,
When are we getting “chainsaw” laws? “Death note” laws?
stuckinbathroom
11mo ago
Gen Z is speedrunning the history of written language, starting from hieroglyphics
stuckinbathroom
11mo ago
IMO, you can make any normiecon suffer a brain lock by starting to wax poetic about how much more excellence would America have had the dastardly democrats not allowed the blacks to abort that much.
Perhaps you and I have different definitions of “normiecon”, but IMO an important facet of normieconservatism is quasi-religious devotion to 90s-era “content of their character” colorblindness, perhaps coupled with a dose of “Democrats are the real racists”/“soft bigotry of low expectations”-ism as mentioned below. So the fact of racial disparities is, in the normiecon’s eyes, either irrelevant or further evidence of Democrat villainy.
See also: Danegeld, negotiating with terrorists
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