ulyssessword
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ulyssessword
8mo ago
You don't think that the conditions on reserves are the responsibility of the Federal government, or you don't think that they were bad, or what?
How familiar are you with Canadian history?
ulyssessword
2mo ago
They just don't enjoy the friendly relationship with the media that the progressives do.
That's like saying a business is run amazingly well, but can't make any sales. A friendly relationship with the media (or at least positive coverage in a wide-reaching format) is an essential part of many protests. If you can't do that, then your protest is failing at one of its core goals.
ulyssessword
1yr ago
(FYI, I'm not @netstack)
...using Urban Dictionary's almost unrecognizable definition and describing them as whores, which conflates hypergamy with being sexually loose for money.
Urban Dictionary is a perfectly fine source here, because it reflects the same attitudes and biases as the group we're talking about: they conflate hypergamy with being sexually loose for money because "dissatisfied young men. Maybe incels, maybe RETVRNers" conflate hypergamy with being sexually loose for money.
See The Red Pill Community Forum|What is hypergamy? How to Benefit from Hypergamy & Everything You Need to Know About Hypergamy. for a second example.
If you think their claims are incorrect or confused, then go ahead and argue that. They are making the claims, though.
ulyssessword
4mo ago
Maybe that should be your first priority, then. The fact of the matter is that the government can compel you to work, morals be damned.
ulyssessword
2mo ago
More "rationality competence is systematized winning".
If a protest's goal is to get people to show up and raise the profile of an issue, then your comment only focused on the participants and not on what effect they have on the wider world. I'm not fully convinced that conservatives are worse at effective outreach given the loss of prestige of the mainstream media, but those (alleged) failures can't be dismissed by pointing to the challenges they face.
ulyssessword
6mo ago
How far do you have to walk to touch grass? If it's less than half a block, it's suburban IMO.
ulyssessword
8mo ago
What are you talking about? Do you think that they were hopping in a time machine to get to their "home" in the 1860s when they were attending school in the 1960s?
Of course the conditions improved in a hundred years. You've correctly identified that it's simply ludicrous to deny that, but I'm not sure why you felt it was relevant.
In fact, let's imagine an alternate history: Colonization, settlement, and the Treaties happen like normal, but then the native population gets locked in and experiences zero changes in welfare/wealth/happiness/etc. from the pre-contact baseline. Would you think "Wow, the Federal Government is doing a great job. We haven't worsened their nasty, brutish, and short lives at all!"?
Maintaining the status quo doesn't meet my standards, and neither do the (frankly huge) improvements we have done in reality. This goes double when you cast your eye back a few decades.
ulyssessword
2mo ago
I am going to die in this game-like dimension has one of the most unique worlds I've seen, even if the plot is kind of generic. It was written by a physics teacher, and it has entirely new physics: gravity pulls you to the nearest surface, cold is just as real as heat, your lungs process lavi and oxygen doesn't exist, and my personal favourite: "
Generally, the differences from earthly physics show up in a controlled scenario (such as training), then surprisingly they also show up in real situations working exactly the same way. Like, wall-running past a pit is fine because the nonexistent floor doesn't pull you down, but surely
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ulyssessword
4mo ago
most Americans would be squicked out and there's literally no one pushing for it...Every politician who voted for that would be saying goodbye to their career and personal life.
Why? Every argument I can think of comes down to "because they don't believe sex work is real work", and the same arguments that would convince the Department of Labor and the Department of Justice would convince the Department of Corrections (and/or the voters upstream of those organizations).
I'm aware that the previous paragraph sounds like "without God, Atheists have nothing stopping them from murdering everyone!!!", but I literally don't see the limiting principle (assuming there is one).
ulyssessword
5mo ago
OP mentioned him getting a standing ovation
Oddly, that article (link again) never actually says who was arrested. If you read through word-by-word, all you can say is:
- Petgrave's skate slit the throat of Adam Johnson.
- Johnson suffered a fatal injury to his neck.
- A man has now been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter over Johnson's death
Who could that man possibly be?? Any conclusion you could reach would just be wild speculation and couldn't be attributed to the Sun in any way, shape, or form.
ulyssessword
1yr ago
I looked it up, and it seems to fit. Relevant quotes from the first few links:
What point were you trying to make?
ulyssessword
7d ago
Care to provide counterexamples? Preferably the official policy of a multibillion-dollar system.
ulyssessword
4mo ago
Yes, we call that slavery and are also very actively against it.
As I said downthread, it matters what order you do your goals in. If you succeed in prostitution-is-work before you succeed in prison abolition (etc.) then the scenario I outlined becomes possible.
Also, knocking off one example still leaves my other two, as well as the countless others I skipped over.
Ok, sure? Prostitution licensing seems unnecessary...
That's not wild. What would be wild is defining a Scope of Practice that excludes non-licensed people from undertaking the listed actions, regardless of whether they are paid or not.
EDIT: wrong person. These are talking about Abrams the politician, not Lawrence-Bundy the lawyer.
Let's check:
with the largest amount going to the self-described boutique law firm of the candidate’s campaign chairwoman.
But some outside the group questioned both the level of expenditures devoted to a single, largely unsuccessful legal action and the fact that such a large payout went to the firm of Abrams’ close friend and campaign chair.
“Beyond $10 million would be very shocking, I would say.”
some ethics watchdogs say the closeness of their relationship, combined with Lawrence-Hardy’s leading roles in Abrams’ campaigns, raises questions about a possible conflict of interest.
“It is a very clear conflict of interest because with that kind of close link to the litigation and her friend that provides an opportunity where the friend gets particularly enriched from this litigation,”
Through her campaign, Abrams declined to be interviewed.
Abrams didn’t congratulate Kemp after his narrow victory. Instead, she complained that the electoral system was flawed.
...and I stopped halfway through. I'd say that all of those statements in the Politico article are diminishing her qualifications in some way or another, to varying degrees.
ulyssessword
7d ago
Such as...
ulyssessword
7mo ago
ulyssessword
8mo ago
Why would I engage with the horrors of pre-modern life? Residential schools were only shutting down around the 1960s, so it's appropriate to judge them based on contemporary standards.
ulyssessword
9mo ago
I don't know how, but I immediately pegged that part as a Christian criticism of Christianity. I couldn't see a New Atheist, Marxist, nonbeliever, or follower of some other religion making those points. In fact, it took reading your response (then rereading OP) to notice that an "attack" even existed because I've been hearing the same points from priests (and other faithful) for so long that it sounded like preaching instead.
ulyssessword
9mo ago
The entire split between "words" and "actions" is false, but that doesn't mean people (including me) feel that way. Composing a comment evokes different emotions than clicking a button, even if the results are identical.
ulyssessword
11mo ago
I'm more sympathetic to that argument when we have months of factfinding followed by days of debate on the minutiae of the event, like in a criminal trial. We don't usually have that much detail available, so we have to use something to fill in the blanks the rest of the time.
The flow of information from the "unknown" background to the actor isn't magic, it's just not explained in the text. For a more concrete example of how background characteristics can change the events in a way that aren't reflected in a description, consider:
Alice shot Bob after he approached her in the alleyway behind 1st street. She stated that she feared for her life, as he was carrying knives "in an obvious manner". Bob was a 23 year old male who...
The end. Everything else is background that she couldn't have researched (and even the age would've been a guess). Otherwise it might change your opinion that he:
A) ...had a history of mugging, a rap sheet as long as your arm, etc.
B) ...was a culinary student heading home from class.
I think that variant A was likely justified, and variant B likely wasn't. Do you think that both are, or neither?
ulyssessword
1yr ago
For literally every rich country? I know that there's some amount of conspiracy regulatory coordination that goes on between different countries, but that seems like a weak argument at the world scale.
ulyssessword
1yr ago
If you can do the entire election in a single shift (probably more than 8 hours, but that's a minor problem), then security becomes much simpler. If there is an observer who can vouch for the security of the ballots for the entire time between the first vote and the last report, then it becomes much harder to diffuse responsibility: "one of the dozen pollwatchers in the past 120 hours missed some misconduct" is a lot harder to fight than "Bob Jones missed some misconduct".
(I think it's actually a step back for fairness because a personal emergency is much more likely to last a day than a week.)
ulyssessword
2d ago
You just need to accept that program state and file state do not need to be correlated.
Or I could continue to tilt at windmills.
I just have an odd feeling that, when you're using a What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get style editor, when you see something you should also get it.
ulyssessword
2mo ago
Not sure why it’s not working for me.
Try it while logged out (or in a private window). Reddit's blocking functionality is a bit strange.
The poor conditions in their home communities were also the fault of the Canadian government, so relative rates aren't a very convincing argument.EDIT: Nevermind, I've fallen for the narrative. Death rates at residential schools reached acceptable mortality rates by 1949 (Source Canada’s Residential Schools: Missing Children and Unmarked Burials (PDF), p17, from this website).
(As a sidenote, my thought process was "Why the downvotes? Motteposters are usually smarter than that. I'll show them with FACTS and LOGIC." lol.)
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