zeke5123
11mo ago
Culture war refresh. Many people are familiar with the Bud Light and Dylan Mulvaney controversy. About a week afterwards people on this website noted there wasn’t a large impact on the stock price of InBev, Bud’s parent company,
Well, InBev is now down about 10% from when the whole Bud Light - Dylan Mulvaney sponsorship. Bud light revenue is still down materially. At the same time, other major alcohol companies appear flat or up materially. Therefore, it seems the boycott has had real negative impact on InBev.
Does this mark the start of the right finding it’s muscle or is this a dead cat bounce?
zeke5123
5mo ago
Why use minor attracted person? First it is three words instead of pedophile. Like all woke language it is ugly. Second, it is often used to try to legitimize something we should keep highly hated.
zeke5123
1yr ago
Civil rights wasn’t just a change in the 14th amendment. It basically was a new constitution. So many items (either explicitly or implicitly) under the CRA blatantly contradict the constitution (eg freedom of association, contract clause, 14th amendment as you note). CRA also dramatically expanded the scope of the executive and heavily reduced the scope of the State’s powers.
I can only think of the NRA and possibly the 17th amendment which committed such violence to the constitutional scheme.
zeke5123
1yr ago
They literally had a hack and dump scenario with Hunter Biden. Isnt that a bit of a smoking gun?
zeke5123
6mo ago
Assessors for tax are notoriously different compared to actually FMV. Look at house sales and compare to assessment.
zeke5123
1yr ago
Nice try to deflect. He is being tried with a state felony that rests on him committing the federal crime. The state needs to prove as a predicate the federal crime so in effect the state needs to prove the federal crime in order to get the state felony conviction.
zeke5123
7mo ago
I don’t know why these people find it tough. It just isn’t. Don’t censor. But someone said something I consider naughty? Who the fuck cares.
zeke5123
3mo ago
One question for vegans is that pretty much any industrial sized farming (needed to support our population) will involve killing a lot of animals in collecting farm products. That is, killing a cow and eating it may involve less animal death compared to eating bread.
This can be solved via two ways: (1) is that animals killed during farm are less advanced and therefore their death is less morally wrong or (2) intent matters.
The problem with (1) is it undermines the entire vegan argument. The problem with (2) is that at a certain level of recklessness the moral consequences are similar.
Therefore, to live means other animals will die. I am on board with not torturing other animals (eg I wont eat veal, I buy pasture raised eggs) as that seems just unnecessary. But at the same time I don’t have qualms with eating meat.
zeke5123
10mo ago
Trump Indictment
Famously, Caesar crossed the rubicon with his army in contradiction to the law and effectively overthrew the republic. What some may not recall is that Caesar was faced with open insurrection by crossing the Rubicon with the XIII legion or likely being tried for treason anyhow. In effect, Caesar had little choice. Win or die. Not playing meant die.
Many democrats believe Trump led an insurrection. Now those same Democrats are bringing indictments again Trump that if successful means he may spend the rest of his natural life largely in jail. Yet Trump is also the likely Republican candidate.
Will Trump have his own rubicon moment? Probably not and probably wouldn’t succeed.
But this is yet another reason why prosecution was imprudent.
zeke5123
7mo ago
Not to defend Chapek, but seems to me most of Disney’s problems were Iger problems.
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Iger did the disastrous Fox deal.
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Iger pushed into the disastrous streaming business.
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Iger forced a fight with DeSantis over culture war issues that have soiled the Disney brand.
I don’t know why an activist investors hasn’t put two and two together that Iger is the one who needs the boot.
zeke5123
10mo ago
I agree the Chinese government is abhorrent but what makes them so much worse compared to the UK government? That is, sure China is worse but the UK government also sucks.
zeke5123
4mo ago
I have some for your reading pleasure.
Biden supported and gave encouragement to BLM riots which among other things included CHAZ.
Biden knew the renter moratorium was unconstitutional. His advisors told him as such. The SCOTUS said this is illegal but since you told us you are ending it we will let you end it in an orderly fashion. He then said “fuck it — I will extend it and hope it will take months or years to overturn what I knew was against the constitutional Order.
Biden conspired with others in the Obama administration to frustrate the peaceful transmission of power to the Trump administration from by trying to sabotage that admin via the bureaucracy including Biden suggesting trying to trap Flynn using the laughable Logan act (has some similarity to Trump — sure in theory he was exercising what is facially a legal authority but the local authority could say that was pretext).
zeke5123
3mo ago
I’ve always been blown away by the obsession with health care. Does the average person spend more than a few days interacting with health care pa?
zeke5123
7mo ago
I think Republicans are making a category error. They think Ukraine and Lewinsky impeachments hurt the impeaching party because Americans don’t like impeachments.
The alternative explanation is Americans don’t like bullshit impeachments. Watergate helped democrats. Indeed, once the evidence mounted if the democrats didn’t do something it would’ve hurt them.
I imagine if the inquiry is able to put together a very strong case (there already is a very large amount of evidence — the inquiry will need to find a bit more hard evidence and put it together) republicans and even some democrats will be forced to vote to impeach.
zeke5123
1yr ago
It isn’t the issuance of the warrant. It is how this dude has apparently done it twice.
That suggests he is either a general kleptomaniac or was targeting the luggage for specific reasons. The woman’s clothing seems the most likely explanation if he was targeting the luggage.
Doesn’t prove anything but increases the probability of the woman’s clothing theory.
zeke5123
1yr ago
Lebron James is upset that he was asked questions about Kyrie James’ potential anti-semitism but was not asked about Jerry Jones potential anti black racism. For those not familiar, Kyrie is a basketball player that posted a video link to a movie that I understand is making the claim the blacks are the real Jews. Kyrie refused to apologize until he eventually did. A photo of Jerry Jones emerged that showed Jones was in the crowd that was attempting to prevent Arkansas from de-segregating schools. It isn’t clear from the picture whether Jones was participating or merely watching a spectacle. Also of note Jones was only 14 and it was about sixty five years ago. Jones is an owner of the Dallas Cowboys, a football team (the real football; not the silly sport being played in Qatar right now).
Below is a link to ESPN.
This seems like Lebron’s attempt to revenged racism as “whites against blacks” instead of the conversation that blacks (eg Kanye, Kyrie, other athletes) have an anti semitism problem. The reason I think so is because the situations couldn’t be very different.
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Kyrie did these actions today; Jones was photographed 65 years ago. People change.
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Kyrie is a grown ass man. Jones was 14.
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It isn’t clear Jones was even being racist.
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It is more natural that Lebron was asked about something happening in the NBA as opposed to something happening in the NFL.
I am curious if this will be successful. The dirty secret is that the black community does have some pretty big racism issues (eg anti antisemitism). It’s also interesting that instead of leading the charge, Lebron wants to redirect. It makes it seem that he doesn’t give a damn about justice but just special pleading for his own race. Now of course I’d believe that because I dislike Lebron. But curious to hear other thoughts.
zeke5123
8mo ago
Which is an argument against universal suffrage. And indeed, most people are against universal suffrage (10 year olds often don’t get to vote).
Of course there are no perfect solutions.
zeke5123
11mo ago
Why? Why would no reasonable person fear for their lives?
It seems pretty clear that Neely was a bad dude with a history of violence. While the people on the train likely didn’t know that, violent weirdos give off an aura.
Second his language certainly indicated he was willing to do extreme things.
Third, people read of crazy people like Neely doing crazy dangerous violent things.
zeke5123
1yr ago
I don’t see how ballot harvesting isn’t a concern. Not in the “fake ballots” but in a “kind of quid pro quo not really secret ballot old times machine” way
zeke5123
3mo ago
It might be dated but Haley seems to have a cliff problem. Second choice of most Trump voters a couple of weeks back was RDS by a large margin.
I’ve met people who have positive things to say about her. With that said, I think she has largely not had any criticism thrown her way (it is starting — only question is (1) will it be effective and (2) will it be effective immediately).
With all of that said, she is supported by people I hate and therefore I will not vote for her.
zeke5123
7mo ago
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You are missing a lot of the data if you think it is only about the laptop.
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Here is the case (ignoring everything else that adds to it).
A. The Biden family got paid (at least) roughly 20m for Hunter’s actions. Note “family.” Kind of weird that Hunter was so generous for his activity.
B. These payments alone generated 72 suspicious activity reports by banks. One or two is well odd. 72 is astounding.
C. We know Joe was aware of what Hunter was doing. Indeed, Joe met in person with a certain Russian oligarch that then paid Hunter 3M. Oddly, that oligarch hasn’t received sanctions like the rest.
D. Beyond just meeting, Joe using an alias emailed Burisma CCing Hunter.
E. Burisma was in trouble. They needed per two witnesses testimony help from DC. Hunter got Joe to talk to them (again with the alias)
F. The State Department internal emails show in the couple of months before Joe’s visit that they were impressed with Shokin and his anti corruption efforts. They were caught off guard when Biden strong armed Ukraine into firing Shokin. Likewise, the European Commission 9 days after Joe’s visit praised Shokin. The idea that it was general US policy to get Shokin fired simply wasn’t true. It appears Joe changed that policy and the only explanation was it benefited Burisma.
G. There was a credible informant who stated Joe was paid millions to make Shokin go away.
You put all of that together and it paints a picture of bribery.
zeke5123
7mo ago
When you say you obviously don’t believe in aliens do you mean you don’t believe aliens exist, that they visited earth, or that Mexico has their remains?
zeke5123
1yr ago
While I suspected for a long time, the Trump fisa documents and the Twitter files laid bare that deep state actors broke norms and in some cases the law to “get Trump.” It is really a stretch to believe the deep state was willing to cross certain lines but not others?
Moreover, it is clear there was an unholy alliance between media, NGOs, and the government to facilitate these transgressions.
So we have a new election scheme supplemented heavily ran by last second NGOs that the media stated was 100% above board.
Then we had some weird shit on election night that still hasn’t been fully explained (eg the water main break that wasn’t).
Is any of this proof? Of course not. Should the election have been overturned? Of course not. But given these facts, how many people would be truly surprised if solid evidence turned up? I wouldn’t.
zeke5123
6mo ago
Yes but sage advice. Just like the sage advice to a young woman is “don’t drink a lot especially around young men you don’t know” or “don’t dress like a slut.” Sure — it is “victim blaming” but the concept makes zero sense. The world isn’t perfect. Telling people “don’t put yourself in a shitty situation” isn’t victim blaming but trying to prevent victims in the first place.
Below, there is a discussion of the civil war due to Robert E Lee statute being torn down. The other main event of the day is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
I would say as a general matter the biggest supporters of Palestine in the US are progressives. Progressives also hate the confederacy.
Question is can you separate them? The south was arguing for their right of self determination? Of course, imbedded within that is they wanted to savagely deny that right to blacks held in chattel slavery. Likewise, the Palestinians claim the right of self determination but their stated intention is to kill the Israelis (from the river to the sea has a meaning).
So in both cases there is a legitimate claim to right of self determination. But that claim is bloodied by what those people would do with such right and at least in the confederacy context that “bad thing” was enough to invalidate their right to self determination.
My question then is whether the right to self determination is properly thought of as as a right? If so, it seems at best it is a contingent right. If it is a contingent right, what contingencies are unimportant enough to “trump” the right?
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