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2mo ago
A lot different but a husband would probably still have some explaining to to if a conservative wife fully understood what Aella is. Even more so if the first exposure was one of Alele's thirst posts. You're not getting a divorce over it but it's not going to be a fun conversation.
I just started playing around with Gemini... I would encourage others too and take screen shots. Looks like they did tweak it since last night and I was able to get a white guy first try when asking for a mid-evil knight without a helmet (I also got a topless Native American with a broadsword) and all white Vikings.
I was trying to generate a space marine and it started throwing a fit when I asked for more of the helmeted marine, not the one with pink hair. Apparently this was exclusionary language and not allowed.
Haven't been able to get an image of the First Thanksgiving.
Asked for an image of a pre-Colombian tribe, no racial diversity there but it did give a bunch of morbidly obese Indians.
Asking for images of people eating fired chicken sets off alarm bells but I did get it to create one and it did even have a black guy eating chicken among a racially and sexually diverse group.
To the point where it was either the KKK who were assigned to boost AA
"Aspects & Assumptions of Whiteness & White Culture in the United States" put out by the National Museum of African American History. An info graphic sandwiched between the the following two paragraphs:
Direct and violent forms of racism that promote white supremacy have been on the rise in recent years. These acts are more directly linked to white nationalism.
White supremacy is an ideology where white people are believed to be superior to nonwhite people. This fallacy is rooted in the same scientific racism and pseudo-science used to justify slavery, imperialism, colonialism, and genocide at various times in throughout history. White supremacist ideologies and their followers continue to perpetuate the myth of white racial superiority.
Some hallmarks of Whiteness & White Culture:
*Self-Reliance
*Emphasis on the Scientific Method
*Objective linear thinking
*Adherence to rigid time schedules
*Plan for future
*Delayed gratification
*Decision-Making
Note: These ideas have been around since at least 1990. [PDF]
I think it was on /r/stupidpol where someone said "Since I don't get to decide which side of the race war I'm on, I'm glad I'm on the side the plans for the future."
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2mo ago
This was my cynical conspiracy take. Need to hide the genetics from the graves of the tribes they committed genocide against.
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3mo ago
It also seems (admittedly I have no firsthand experience) that a lot of those southern megachurches have a big fixation on fundraising for Africa, African famines and so on, and about Haiti.
It's bang for your buck. Africa is a big place and you'll see the focus is on "Christian" sub-Saharan Africa because the countries are pretty open to interventions. Same with Papua New Guinea as apposed to Western New Guinea. Also map interventions that were former British Colonies because then you need less language skills. Haiti does speak French but it's also rather close.
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3mo ago
For comparison’s sake, Leonid Brezhnev died in office as General Secretary of the USSR Communist Party at age 75. His successor, Yuri Andropov, died at age 69. He was followed in the 1980s by Constantin Chernenko who died in office at age 73.
How many of these guys where alcoholics/smokers?
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3mo ago
In the US, how many people are open-borders advocates?
To take a term already used in this thread de facto vs de jour. Vast majority would not say that they are for "open-borders" but opinion change when there's any kind of filmable enforcement action. "I'm not for open borders but don't do that." Similar to cutting spending, many maybe most want to "cut" federal spending then you give them a list of programs to cut or expand and people in effect want more spending.
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3mo ago
Probably should have made it clearer. It's a different train of thought. Wife has gotten over the baby expensive things, but unfortunately is shifting to future expensive things.
My wife initially fell victim to tons of the baby gear marketing, but once you realize that your baby is equally happy in the $50 generic amazon swing as he is in the $300 fancy swing, you kind of apply that lesson to child rearing writ large.
It's probably more important for his happiness to make sure he breathes through his nose
Are we the same person?
But after the neighbor boy showed up wearing a LGBTQ pin my wife has gone from a a huge fan of how diverse our local public elementary school (look at all those refugee kids in the playground) to saying we need to gear up to get the kid in the hyper conservative evangelical private school twenty miles away.
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3mo ago
It's been official doctrine in the social sciences that authoritarianism is exclusively a right wing phenomenon for decades:
The Experts Somehow Overlooked Authoritarians on the Left - The Atlantic
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4mo ago
Left-wing conspiracy theories—or at least this one—have been polished by the mainstream media and intelligentsia. If you engage in a deep discussion disagreeing with this conspiracy theory, you could lose friends, family members, or even your job. It's what you are told to believe and incentivized to believe, so, of course, many are going to accept it. Also, what's so bad about the belief? At worst, you're just sacrificing to help out people who were harmed; your standard of living might drop a little, but it's worth it to alleviate the incredible suffering of others. That there are people who are genocidal towards whites is just a conspiracy theory...
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4mo ago
What about that time they announced a vaccine to a pandemic the week after the election?
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4mo ago
The Colorado GOP was already threatening to go to a caucus system before this; there's near certainty that they'll try to do so now.
And that's what they have said in response to Vivek:
You won't have to because we will withdraw from the Primary as a Party and convert to a pure caucus system if this is allowed to stand.
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4mo ago
The Republican Party: "The Colorado Supreme court has made their decision, let them enforce it."
Would be amusing, but I doubt they have the gumption.
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5mo ago
I actually agree. It's illegitimate for a group to do something that is not legitimate for an individual but as AshLael notes, that's a rare take.
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5mo ago
hypocrisy with regards to crime.
Hypocrisy in using deadly force for a pure property crime?
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5mo ago
Isn't a hallmark of low level criminals that they're rocking room temperature IQ?
rule that you as a frail and elderly person pretty much only deserve to have a quality of life worth a damn
Outside of individuals who should be sentenced to life in prison, is there anyone not entitled to an upper-middle-class life, regardless of their life choices?
You need to define what "worth a damn" means. I haven't compiled what I usually see from leftists regarding what the elderly are entitled to, but once listed out, I'm guessing it's an upper-middle-class standard if you want to live in flyover country or a wealthy one if you want to live in an Alpha++ city.
For younger people, I see:
- Unlimited world-class healthcare.
- At least 40 hours of childcare per week.
- No more than two children per bedroom, and older children should not have to share a room for as many children as you can have.
- A safe, walkable neighborhood within biking distance of the downtown core.
- A workweek of less than 40 hours, although I observe that this number is constantly decreasing. Let's be honest, jobs are optional because means testing is not allowed.
- If you do want a job, then more than 6 weeks of paid vacation.
- At least 3 months of paid parental leave (I've seen people advocating for a year).
- If you do need a vehicle, it should not be a beater.
- High-speed internet.
- A smartphone.
- Free college (should any education be paid for out of pocket?)
Considering that jobs are optional, it seems that everyone is entitled to the life of a trust fund kid.
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5mo ago
how much of the heightened red tribe support for Israel
Is there heightened red tribe support? If anything it seems a little less with Tucker pulling some to America First. As you note evangelicals have been very pro Israel for decades.
because as progressives, we believe even terrible have the right to vote, and self-government
Unless it's state right of fellow Americans in conservative states. Want to keep a right enshrined in the Bill of Rights? We've got nukes, fascists! Don't want teachers telling kids they should cut their genitals off? Genocide! Arabs literally murder gays... well that's just their culture, self governance and all.
That the IDF released audio of Hamas operatives saying it was from Islamic Jihad, but the audio is clearly faked with bad Palestinian accents and crappy acting. Why do you think the IDF would release obviously doctored audio?
Pure hypothetical, say it is fake. Midwit PCM types? I see this all the time with lawyers, they throw everything including the kitchen sink. "Ok... that makes sense and that makes sense and that's pure bullshit." The court throws out the bullshit, but if it had snuck through instant win or padding the case.
Normal person: "You have established yourself as a liar, so I should toss out everything else you say."
Midwit lawyers/judges: "This is just a debate game, fair play."
Take this thread: https://twitter.com/Nrg8000/status/1714535497958334678
Vast majority is "definitely not Israel". Then... but why did they crop the crater out of the photos? The Crater it seems clearly too small.
https://twitter.com/Nrg8000/status/1714600473104404966
Midwit bureaucrat: "Let's pad just how much our enemies it was."
Perhaps another example is the 40 beheaded babies. Maybe it's 2 babies beheaded a dozen killed but just needed to make the story a bit more tragic.
The sound of the hospital blast is identical to a JDAM missile sound
"JDAM missile" isn't a thing, JDAM is a guidance package attached to a bomb.
Isn't the point that Singapore is the opposite of isolated? It's in one of the most strategic locations on the planet and is a massive shipping hub on the way to very wealthy places. Argentina is on the way to where? Miami is the Latin American finance hub because it's on the way to... in the Estados Unidos.
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