zeke5123a
1d ago
I think you meant to reply to @FlyOnTheWall but I think the OP was using that example to prove that even though wokes should hate island we know they support it thus saying wokes dislike Indians because Modi is right wing misunderstands woke.
zeke5123a
1d ago
Not just that but we know that researchers were more than willing to lie (see the infamous paper orchestrated by Fauci et al) when they internally came to different views (yes they make claims they internally changed their mind due to new evidence but that new evidence shouldn’t have changed the predictions materially nor did it justify the venom by which they attacked their critics).
So when the experts are both incentivized to be biased and have been caught lying, why would anyone trust the experts? Even when they produce evidence there is a real question of whether they doctored the evidence or that they would ignore evidence to the contrary.
zeke5123a
1d ago
Sure. But generally speaking evidence ought to make you generally assume the evidence was adverse to the spoiler.
zeke5123a
2d ago
No. Most woke people are dumb and ignorant. After all, most people are dumb and ignorant.
zeke5123a
2d ago
95% of western woke people probably don’t know who Modi even is. They also don’t think about much of the caste system.
In the U.S., Indians are brown immigrants and therefore virtuous.
Also, from my experience Indians like meritocracy when competing with non Indians but can be rather tribal when they are able to be so. Woke permits in some ways both.
I happen to live in a predominantly Indian community. They are very upset about immigration restrictions. Perhaps I am over indexing to my local neighbors.
In the end, MAGA seems Lindy in a way woke just isn’t.
zeke5123a
2d ago
I don’t mind claims of bigotry (sometimes it is true). But what I dislike is assuming bigotry is always wrong (or at least irrational) and the inability to recognize the lefts own bigotry.
zeke5123a
2d ago
“Woke isn’t bad.”
I question your motives given that you are Indian. Woke was generally rhetorically at least supportive of brown people who suffered from colonialism (eg Indians)
MAGA has been very skeptically of immigrants especially Indian immigrants.
Therefore, I’m skeptical that you objectively think woke wasn’t bad compared to the status quo post. Instead, I wonder if you think the status quo post is worse for Indians and therefore don’t like it (consciously or subconsciously).
Now of course it would be fair for you to say “you too” but in reverse. I guess the difference is this is still a white country so it seems like the majority ought to be able to say “we want to benefit the majority; not the minority.”
zeke5123a
13d ago
Or would you apply the same rigor to the other question? That is, neither position is proven but which has more evidence. Why are privileging the blank slate hypothesis when it has for less evidence.
zeke5123a
13d ago
Doesn’t Zuck pine for imperial Pax Romana era Rome ( specifically Augustus)?
zeke5123a
14d ago
We are on a place called the motte. I’m not doing the motte and Bailey.
zeke5123a
14d ago
I agree in part. I think it is generally (although not exclusive) appealing to women who hate men (almost always their dad). But if the claims were even close to true, maybe they’d have a reason to hate men!
zeke5123a
14d ago
Yeah I think that’s right. Fascism and socialism are the same thing with different aesthetics. Manosphere and feminism are h to r same thing with different targets of hate.
zeke5123a
14d ago
I hate the framing of all of the anti-manosphere complaints. It treats feminism as inherently good and the neutral belief.
I loathe feminism. I think it is largely based on bad social science, bad economics, and bad evolution. I think it encourages dislike between the sexes. I think it encourages women to pick sub optimal lifestyles. To quote the broken clock, feminism is cancer.
That doesn’t mean the maosphere is right! But these pieces never seem to deal with the fact that feminism is also bullshit.
zeke5123a
20d ago
Frankly this seems like such a non-story.
The only way this is in fact a story is if the U.S. intentionally targeted the school WHILE knowing it was solely a school.
Assuming no one is alleging that, then everything else is window dressing. Mistakes happen all of the time including in war. Having a stupid panel to tut tut post hoc likely has a de minimis impact on an accident (after all why didn’t it prevent the mistake in the Afghan withdrawal). But it is a nice little way for an opponent of the administration to chest thump in a performative way despite the panel almost certainly being useless (bureaucrats love complaining about elimination of useless bureaucracy).
In short, it seems the military is doing just fine under Hegseth. Complaining about one mistake out of hundreds of strikes seems to misunderstand war.
zeke5123a
21d ago
We also had a reputation of being a military that couldn’t in the end accomplish the mission.
The two may not be related but they very well may.
zeke5123a
25d ago
There was an interesting article that in the last 15+ years there was a lot of “mandatory” buying of stock that are invested in by 401ks.
As boomers retire / more people divert savings to current spending there may be less “mandatory” buying of stock.
zeke5123a
27d ago
Seems like the author steals a lot of bases.
As examples:
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Tying fascism to ethnostates. If so, then the vast majority of countries are fascist. That’s seems over inclusive.
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Complaining about Trump exerting authority on law firms etc. The author is fish not realizing it is swimming in water. The federal government has massively inflicted and controlled private industries for sometime. Trump is perhaps doing it more openly and for the first time in some time in a rightward manner. But the scope is actually much less compared to the default. So if he believes Trump is a fascist, then Biden or Obama must be arch fascists.
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Asylum seeking. The author seemingly believes all asylum seekers are actually seeking asylum. In reality, the vast majority are economic migrants. I’m sure the authors believe the same re the SA asylum seekers (or more likely believes others actually are seeking asylum but SA is abusing it) but here the author without evidence is mind reading re Trump.
zeke5123a
28d ago
Add economies of scale (obviously not per se going to move the needle but part of the mosaic)
zeke5123a
1mo ago
Funny enough, Western Europe called for de-escalation but Carney signaled support for the U.S.
zeke5123a
1mo ago
You are likely correct. On the other hand, the Iranian people are a different stock compared to Syria / Iraq / Libya.
To add, SCOTUS clerks aren’t doing menial labor like disclosure. They go straight to appellate practices because contra the main post they now spent a few years writing opinions for some of the best judges and Justices in the world (unless you use the misfortune to clerk for KBJ)
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