sun_the_second
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sun_the_second
10mo ago
Your point is "their rules applied unfairly and against them". No one will accept that, and they'll be right.
sun_the_second
10mo ago
Yes, mandatory military/militia service.
How is that deterring the government? One would assume that a government that can force you into military service is the opposite of deterred.
sun_the_second
10mo ago
If you're a guy who got dumped for a 6/6/6, you're now unmarried and free to look for another wife. If you're a wife who got sidelined for a bikini model, you're still married but receive only half (likely much less) of the commitment, and there's now one less woman for the rest of the men in society, statistically leaving one man completely without a match. It does look like the man's fantasy as you described it is the evil one.
sun_the_second
10mo ago
Are pot users criminal because they're antisocial, or are they antisocial because pot is criminalized? Seems pretty intuitive to me that pot in itself isn't the kind of drug that people steal, rob and kill for. Alcohol is vastly more "antisocial" in that regard.
sun_the_second
10mo ago
The legitimacy of the system is derived from people participating in it
So, how low does turnout have to get before the system becomes so illegitimate it can't stay solvent, if not 33%? 20%? 10%? 5%? At which point do you predict the People will throw their hands up and say "you know what, we never voted for any of those guys, time to wreck shit"?
sun_the_second
10mo ago
They cannot articulate how the Constitution would actually be suspended or voided.
In the end, doesn't it come to "the ruling party is united enough behind the desire to change the laws and the Constitution that they just do it"? What would stop them?
If you believe that the republicans all want to enact Handmaid's Tale then it's pretty rational to not expect the procedure to stop them.
sun_the_second
10mo ago
In the end, the question of geopolitical dominance for someone who isn't race essentialist or heavily religious or something like that rests on the economic benefits of being the local hegemon, and the disadvantages of being a fractured gas station. I don't think anyone in the Kremlin who matters really believes physical genocide of Russians is in the cards, so that leaves submission and destitution.
sun_the_second
10mo ago
You seem to be assuming that the most straightforward avenue "to win the war" is also the most viable for Ukraine to take. It reads as "just break the Russians' offensive head-on, bro", but in more words.
My impression is that they, in fact, believe that with the resources available they can't just break the Russians' offensive head-on, or otherwise accomplish straightforward victories that would be legible to you as "trying to win the war", so they're going for headline victories. Which aren't nothing.
sun_the_second
10mo ago
Pretty sure that flair is a direct quote from one of the paranoid leftist-hater people. Could be communicated more clearly, sure.
sun_the_second
10mo ago
What's up with this, by the way? I have also recently discovered that weights cost more than I'd expect. Aren't they just barely-machined iron pancakes, sometimes covered in rubber/some kind of plastic? Is there a gym equipment cartel fixing prices on them?
Anger when they realize they got their country destroyed based on a bunch of fake promises from people who didn’t really care about them at all.
The use of passive voice in "they got their country destroyed" is truly vicious here. You think those people will mysteriously forget who was doing the bombing and invading of their country?
Some people have a really strange sense of geopolitical justice. When USA feeds color revolutions to expand its sphere of influence it's a bad misguided greedy choice of the corrupt hegemon, when Russia rolls the tanks and artillery into their neighbours to expand its sphere of influence it's a purely natural consequence, a forced reaction, just water flowing downhill and not agency.
I don't even like Musk, but he's obviously just done more than almost every single human being alive.
When you're used to discounting building companies because that requires investment of money and/or people being willing to follow you (as opposed to personal physical/mental labor), this is not obvious. The intuitive response to "look at how much Musk built" is "he didn't build all 'at".
sun_the_second
10mo ago
It doesn't, it's an addition.
sun_the_second
10mo ago
I'm not following. Should they not support the incursion? Would that be less pathetic? If not, it sounds like you just don't like the rah-rah propaganda, which is understandable, but I don't see how it's relevant to the current developments.
sun_the_second
10mo ago
What's pathetic? Not attacking where the enemy is strong, and instead attacking where he is weak?
sun_the_second
10mo ago
In any society, democratic or not, it is only the current people, by definition, who get to make such decisions. Not the dead or the unborn (whether the right sort of unborn or not).
sun_the_second
10mo ago
How would you describe the way society worked for millenia before the leftists?
"All organisms are generally trying to survive because muh natural selection, and Suicide Georg is an outlier who does not make a significant impact on the survival of the species and should not be counted (and indeed isn't)" makes enough sense to me. Are you denying the existence of natural selection itself, or just the notion that it applies in 100% of the cases to 100% of organisms?
sun_the_second
10mo ago
Is it really "weird" to be gay or trans now? Is that how the left wants to frame it?
Hae you heard of the word "queer"?
There are isekais (in particular the Russian brand) where the protagonist is a more classic masculine archetype (special forces, talented engineer, talented engineer with special forces background etc). Still, it is peculiar that people today rely on this plot device to such an extent to put the excelling protagonist into a setting that he can dominate. It seems that the modern world has been disillusioned of great men. Both in the moral sense and in the extent people believe a great man can make an impact.
sun_the_second
10mo ago
The answer's generally "because society has been set up so that it works to empower men more than women; that's what 'patriarchy' means". As for why did it happen to be set up like that originally, please ask actual radical feminists, I don't know.
sun_the_second
10mo ago
Also, I laugh a bit at the argument that women are harassed or threatened and THAT is why they won't train in certain sports as much as men... which just implies that women are unable to handle being insulted or verbally abused as well as men can, so they're still 'weaker' in a certain sense.
Well, no. It implies that women are harassed more. "If men were harassed more than women, then men would be the ones intimidated" is well within the realm of that kind of argument.
sun_the_second
10mo ago
Regardless of how evasive IOC is being, I'm not inclined to assign IBA enough trust to move the needle from the zero hypothesis in this case. Not when their Russian pro-Russian CEO has every reason to be pissed that Russia isn't allowed to compete in the Olympics and every reason to stoke Olympic trans athlete controversies.
No, the unequivocally pro-trans rhetoric is "...and if he believes that he's a man". No pro-trans rhetoric currently known to me, whether tucute or truscum, states that someone "should" live as a particular gender because of any kind of traits they have, visible or not - indeed that's what the "assigned male/female at birth" language is striking at.
It applying to just them and not to everyone.
If the Democrats propose gun control for the entire country, then "treating them PRECISELY how they propose treating others" would be... gun control for the entire country. Not just for them.
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