veqq
1mo ago
My own opinion is that they should openly state their position and attempt to modify the laws to fit it (or at least draft laws they would like). I see no reason why they couldn't act at the same time. (Really, what incompetence would limit the entire administration to only doing 1 thing at a time?) If all civilization is truly at stake, I don't see why they should restrict themselves to laws beholden to their enemies. So again, why are they attacking Christians first?
veqq
1mo ago
why is all effort directed towards more pious coreligionists instead of Muslims or Hindus etc.?
Everyone throws oil into the fire and kicks mud around. From one perspective:
- the great majority of entrances are legal (illegal entry is a criminal offense, the first offense a misdemeanor punishable by up to 6 months in prison and/or a fine)
- unlawful presence is only a civil violation (not punishable by jail) (illegal reentry is a felony)
The government is deploying the military because of civil violations. Other types of civil violations involve running a red light, building a deck without a permit, accidentally spilling a small amount of pollutants, filing your taxes late (this is closest), letting your dog roam unleashed. If they are merely enforcing the current law, why in this manner? Does or should the military repel down helicopters to clear entire buildings and check everyone's tax documents on the presumption of guilt? Why is it doing differently here? If the law is wrong, why are they not changing regulations etc.?
From another perspective, sure, mass immigration is a threat against Western civilization and the other side hates patriots. But again, why are they not changing the laws to deal with this more thoroughly and why is all effort directed towards more pious coreligionists instead of Muslims or Hindus or Jews etc.?
From my own perspective, I have little idea what anyone's actually doing. It all seems like incompetence or self-sabotage, randomly flailing around with no coherence. I don't think anyone benefits besides China and goldbugs.
I’ve only heard one side of the story ... obvious ... innocent
You've been had.
the Nisour square incident
- bomb went off by a meeting
- the meeting was called off
- 4 Blackwater trucks got ready to secure an evac route
- they were ordered to standby in the Green Zone
- they disobeyed orders and went to Nisour square
- they disobeyed further orders to return to the Green Zone
- in Nisour square, they were ordered to halt traffic for another team leaving the area
- a civilian car approached
- they shot 40 people in response to 1 car with 2 people inside approaching ... because they freely shot into traffic and at police while driving back to base
- Paul Slough in particular shot most of these people, firing wildly into traffic, ignoring orders to cease fire, until a colleague pulled his gun on him
- this in fact blocked the evac route, so the convoy they were on standby to maybe help, waited 30 minutes, blocked by blown up cars
veqq
1mo ago
only to backpeddle in the most pants-on-head, clown-world fashion once they came into office
It fascinated me to see some here start backpedaling before I heard the admin do so.
modern country
is often a continuation of hair metal: https://youtube.com/watch?v=tB4049jsY7U?si=eJOU4o5nJyC1OvwX but it's not too hard to find stuff truer to form: https://youtube.com/watch?v=9CZ5X-c8Lng?si=cMSqzbs4447DyCfc or https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ew43GEJaj3A?si=GOz3kVfo9eqDDXMa
Already in the 80s, power ballads made this move. Many Skid Row songs sound like bluegrass with distortion https://youtube.com/watch?v=2pkpsxEyi-k?si=C5ANtceRZXBWn1Nm or Poison and Cinderella playing "the blues" https://youtube.com/watch?v=D7wdLAM1yjc?si=7PsmZOLhKvbzShft
veqq
2mo ago
I have 2 hypotheticals:
- Had Sanders won the 2016 primary, could he have beaten Trump?
- Had Sanders won the 2016 election, would woke have carried on the same way or not developed in the same way?
I ask because Sanders appealed very strongly to many Trump voters, doing great in e.g. West Virginia but lacking e.g. black support (which the democratic primaries overfocus on. Besides Wasserman-Schultz et al.'s machinations.) His approach was not based on identity politics etc. I'm curious how people think his "movement" or time in office would have turned out.
invested in your online persona, ... projecting your consciousness, your soul, out of your body
It happens with any and all identities. As an individual, you cede self-sovereignty to the identities you wear, subconsciously or consciously making decisions based on them and their caricatures. Teenagers' phases embracing one or more identities too strongly is a perfect example. (N.b. this is often explicit and isn't bad, e.g. Christianity trades your fallen self for salvation. Heaven's 2 steps away, on your ego and through the gate.)
veqq
2mo ago
Not at all. 200m is easily attainable your first time shooting. Accounting for wind, 500m's not hard either.
Anacyclosis and most (all?) other cyclical historiosophies hold that generational change leads to degeneration (n.b. almost all see a few generations in each step, not a single one like the "Hard times make..." meme, although nested models also work.) Like science, all human activity "progresses one funeral at a time". But what if you don't believe in progress? Although tyrants, in other situations ossifying at positive states could do wonders, decrease time preference and much more. A virtuous monarch at 150 years doubles his life span but increases the length of his reign far more, ditto for political members of flourishing aristocracies and energetic democracies.
The formula of an authentic anti-egalitarian politics is: "if not me, then somebody". ...
This is but a straw man. The enlightenment's mechanical, universalist worldview saw the zeitgeist/overton window/fates (socioeconomic factors) driving men forward, replaceable, but slaves to history. Thomas Carlyle rejected this and began a century of hero worship when individuals break past, yea rework the gears of fate into greater human vistas (doomed to succumb to the flaws of fallen men).
But to steel-man your straw man, what value's there granting the masses electronics and the last half-century of "progress" when they yearn for the stability of the 50s? Giving the masses guardrails and a golden path to follow into happiness relieves them of the burden and pain of free choice and demonic/capitalistic/other-pejoratives temptation into squalor. Just as a beast may gorge itself to death, so too do the anarchic masses.
veqq
2mo ago
"Master Race" which was never written nor part of popular propaganda
Interesting. Digging I only find stuff like:
Wir müssen deshalb ein Herrenvolk werden, und deshalb müssen wir unser Volk zum Herrenvolk erziehen.
veqq
2mo ago
Cialdini's Influence is about why people don't listen to advice. Hickman on Twitter wrote:
Many times, "advice-giving" has little to do with advice, and more to do with posing thought experiments that expose weakness in men.
The guys with energy, who got "the juice" say OK, you're right, go try it. The low-energy types just get madder than hell, seethe over the advice, say it's "bad advice" but can't say why -- and the guys who don't need the advice are perfectly secure, well-aware they don't need it.
veqq
2mo ago
How do you know of this cousin but not reversed? Why don't you reach out? I have many distant cousins who I've only gotten to know in the last few months, it's a rather nice experience!
veqq
2mo ago
veqq
2mo ago
Fair enough! Not badgering, but curious: At what point would you be comfortable investing additional resources into this as a vanity business? And why do you care about status effects like being published considering the fallen state of these "institutions"? Is this an issue of living a "double" life where you care about public respectedness and signalling though you private disagree with it?
veqq
2mo ago
Why do you worship jackpots?
Build more edge rather than risk more size. Don’t kill yourself chasing the jackpot. Log wealth is what matters. Maximize the 50th percentile outcome. Make your own luck. Avoid drawdowns.
veqq
2mo ago
Self publishing is much more profitable:
My old publisher pays me 10% royalties on net profit of books sold, which ends up being more like 5% of the sale price. Leanpub is paying 80% on sticker price as royalties. One copy of LfP sold nets me about as much as 15 copies of Practical TLA+.
veqq
3mo ago
If the shot at a successful and independent life means that I could also, with equal or even higher probability, end up destitute, i'll take the deal so long as I am in control of myself
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3xjgM7hcNznACRzBi/the-jackpot-age
I don't believe hardworking Christians represent a civilizational threat. So clearly the current administration aren't Christian nationalists like the supporters I know and see. But I don't know what they actually are or what the purpose of such measures are.
I'm also confused by the legalism (caring if they are legal or not) mixed with antilegalism (why bother trying to change the laws).
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