zeke5123a
1hr ago
I’m not sure it’s a reasonable argument now. If courts shut down probes and other parties couldn’t compel info, why would we expect data six years later to shed light?
One area where an investigation went forward (ie Georgia) significantly increases the likelihood that something fishy happened in Georgia.
zeke5123a
1hr ago
Explain how “I hate western people” isn’t waging the cultural war if my claim that third worlders commit crime at higher rates / police fear to arrest them is waging the culture war?
zeke5123a
2hr ago
Most states have a Romeo and Juliet exception to the age of consent being 18 whereby if the difference in the age of the lovers is a small number the age of consent doesn’t matter. This suggests the Overton window is a bit nuanced.
That is, we don’t want to send high school boyfriends to jail for having sex with their slightly younger high school girlfriends even if ideally we don’t want them having sex.
zeke5123a
3hr ago
I have girls but they are still young. I know fathers of girls who are older. His daughters asked what he wanted for Father’s Day. He asked them to come to church once a month. His reasoning, in part, was that it would be much better to meet a culturally compatible eligible bachelor at church compared to online dating.
So count one datapoint as inconsistent with your claim.
zeke5123a
3hr ago
This is something that’s annoyed me about international competitions lately (eg Olympics). There is a certain level of mercenary happening all of the time that cheapens the national element.
zeke5123a
3hr ago
You recently said something along the lines of “I like the west except its people”
zeke5123a
3hr ago
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Third world people do in fact commit crimes at higher rates compared to natives. Do you disagree?
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Two tier policing in the UK has been noted for awhile. This is yet another example.
Do you disagree?
zeke5123a
13hr ago
I have some sympathy for cops who have to deal with the George Floyds of the world.
But it isn’t unthinking deference. Sometimes the cops fuck up. Moreover, in the UK it seems like the cops are entirely the enemies of the people.
zeke5123a
16hr ago
I think the defense solicitor in front of a jury has a relatively easy job. Here was a guy who was just attacked by a group. He is getting up from that attack and someone rushes him and shoves him into a wall. He instinctively defends himself but stops once when he realizes it was a cop.
zeke5123a
16hr ago
That’s even worse. Sorry we imported a bunch of third world people who commit violence at higher rates. Besides having to live with that, we will arrest you when they attack you because it’s much easier to arrest you who won’t resist too much whereas they might heavily resist.
zeke5123a
16hr ago
So we can add to the meme! Sorry your daughter got raped and your son was subject to attack and then jail as a result of the attack, but that’s the price to win at soccer
zeke5123a
19hr ago
I doubt many want to think about their daughters having sex but I doubt many fathers are upset about their daughters marrying a good man at an appropriate age and building a family.
zeke5123a
20hr ago
Nah the logic of why it is questionable is wrong. The same logic would hold it’s wrong if you add ten years to each (ie a 35 year old and a 28 year old). Yet no one blinks an eye at that (yet he was 18 when she was 11).
I think the concern is that teenagers are quasi adults and actual adults can prey on them easily — much easier than other quasi adults.
So 18 and 17 is fine. 35 and 28 is fine. But 25 and 18 is questionable
zeke5123a
20hr ago
Is there a large cadre of people believing an 18 year old having sex with his 16 year old girlfriend is pedophilia? Sure the girls father hopefully discourages it but doubt many think of it as pedo behavior.
zeke5123a
20hr ago
I somewhat agree. I don’t think anyone including the 16 year olds father believes her 18 year old boyfriend having sex with her is a pedophile. Sure, maybe a cad but not a pedo.
Now if she is 16 and the guy is 25? That’s a lot more questionable (though far from having sex with kids).
I think the problem is we only have this ham fisted language of consent to separate good and bad sex. Once you have that as the only dividing line, you need to tie yourself in pretzels explaining why consent isn’t consent.
Instead, I would say pedos are people having sex with prepubescent kids. Such people should be killed. Grown men havint sex with post pubescent but young ladies should be viewed as bores. Fathers should protect their daughters from such people and society should shun them. But they aren’t rapists.
zeke5123a
20hr ago
The video also evokes Novak where police arrested the murder victim allegedly for racism while the murderer stood right there. The police actions there may have contributed to Novak’s death.
If the only way to have a multi cultural society is for the white native population to be second class citizens then why would you expect whites to want multi cultural societies?
zeke5123a
1d ago
Since we are a Christian country I imagine you don’t mind us having prayer in schools, the prohibition of non Christians from public office, prohibition on gays, elimination of abortion, etc.
zeke5123a
1d ago
Funny enough, one side is using a single number (ie those supporting USAID). That number ignores replacement funding and/or negative effects of USAID. Yet when Nybbler says “who really knows but net effect doesn’t appear large” you call that weak ass while ignoring the original claimants who put forth a single weak ass number that was obvious BS and ignored all of the key analysis.
zeke5123a
1d ago
Georgia shows a lot of the claims with little evidentiary backing over time had some backing. Stated differently, people reasonably believed something was off because weird things were happening. Yes some of the claims were crazy. But the overall weirdness shouldn’t have been ignored.
zeke5123a
1d ago
No everyone was saying “if they are actually good why don’t the critics step up.” This criticism is basically suggesting the critics don’t actually believe what they are saying.
But that is a different criticism compared to “sure USAID funding was cut but the funding didn’t disappear and some of the funding supported bad stuff; need to prove on net whether things have gotten worse as opposed to looking at one part of one side of the ledger.” This is saying maybe the critics are in good faith but they haven’t really considered everything.
zeke5123a
2d ago
What needs to be considered isn’t just the lost good re USAID but the replacement spending (ie thr funding didn’t disappear). That is, Monzer is looking at only one side of the ledger.
Maybe he is right in the end but right now he ideologically is coming to a conclusion that Musk’s actions were on net bad; he hasn’t shown any work whatsoever.
zeke5123a
2d ago
I find this response puzzling.
First, it assumes that USAID spending money was effective on net. Maybe it wasn’t. Maybe the money was spent in other ways that was more effective (ie Bastiat and Broke Window theory).
Second, it assumes a moral responsibility for USAID funding to continue indefinitely when there is zero moral responsibility (ie there is no moral duty to act contra Singer; otherwise, you and pretty much all of humanity are rotten evil people). Or at minimum if there is a duty to act it seems like the people complaining are throwing stones from glass houses.
Third, it assumes because USAID did some good things it was net good. The mafia helped the community (ie did some good things). Doesn’t make it good on net. Perhaps USAID wouldn’t have been targeted if it wasn’t funneling a ton of money into lefties for political reasons instead of focusing its mission on just doing good.
zeke5123a
2d ago
Sure the Obama’s can’t solve everything but they could give away 60m and save so many lives. Why don’t they?
zeke5123a
2d ago
The idea that Trump has done anything right ever, in his life, is a baseless claim put out by his racist idiot supporters.
I think the reality is Trump is pretty mediocre but his supporters exalt him whilst his detractors almost universally degrade him in excess of what they should leading to constant defenses.
Is that less competitive compared to say basketball?
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