netstack
Texas is freedom land
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netstack
Texas is freedom land
5hr ago
Join the club, friend.
Though…which three do you have in mind?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
5hr ago
I think you can come up with better commentary than this.
Basically, if your content is 'Can you believe what Those People did this week?' then you should either refrain from posting, or do some very patient work to contextualize and/or steel-man the relevant viewpoint.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
7hr ago
Not just basically. Chickens are straight up dinosaurs, while crocodiles are only archosaurs. Peasants.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
7hr ago
Knowing our audience, I figured this was probably going to trigger the usual flames. Sorry.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1d ago
You can find a guy with XYZ experience anywhere. This one doesn’t even advertise double-Ds!
You can also find Trump hinting at anything and everything. In fact, a lot of the early opposition to him came from people convinced he was hinting at various flavors of racism. This is not strong evidence of his actual motivations.
The U.S. does suffer from these things. Maybe Europe has it worse? But then again, they aren’t actually expending munitions and fuel to putter around outside the Straits. That’s got to make them feel at least a little smug.
I think you have to be really motivated to find reasons to come up with shit like this.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1d ago
It’s fine to ask what people are thinking; the problem comes from assuming that you already know.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1d ago
The official position is that AI usage is allowed, but cannot constitute the substance of one’s comment. If it wouldn’t pass the “low effort” rules without the AI additions, we’re probably going to mod it.
@self_made_human has modded accordingly.
Unfortunately, our best examples of what isn’t allowed tend to stop at the new user filter. You’d be surprised how many psycho-political manifestos we get from first-time posters.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2d ago
Yes, our users are unusually polite, patient, and so on.
Yes, our users are also rather right-wing.
No, correlation is not causation. The underlying politeness is due to our rules. The political slant owes more to our other users.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2d ago
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2d ago
To quote Scott:
How virtuous, how noble I must be! Never stooping to engage in petty tribal conflict like that silly Red Tribe, but always nobly criticizing my own tribe and striving to make it better.
Yeah. Once I’ve written a ten thousand word essay savagely attacking the Blue Tribe, either I’m a very special person or they’re my outgroup. And I’m not that special.
Your QCs are, like, almost entirely criticisms of progressives. That’s basically catnip for this site. It doesn’t mean you aren’t left-leaning, but it does suggest that you aren’t getting the typical experience.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
I don’t think I’ve ever heard Amadan talk about schooling, so that can’t be right…
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
I find that rather wholesome, even if it would be too unrealistic for a TV movie. “That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.”
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
Most of the advice given in this thread seems like a pretty good way to accomplish that.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
You know, I’m not actually sure how to pronounce that.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4d ago
Wait, are you serious? Vinay Gupta did something other than get into fights in the SSC comments?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6d ago
Man. You keep posting the same shit, and it hasn’t started looking any more compelling.
It does kind of make me curious about one thing. What are your opinions on Islam?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6d ago
Do you have to be deranged to make anti-Trump claims? Sometimes the guy makes bad choices.
There was a time when ordering a new war in the Middle East, and hold the exit strategy, was one of those obviously bad decisions. People joked about it. Nothing I’ve seen from this iteration has changed that calculus.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6d ago
Can you see Trump signing on to a strategy like that? Looking ineffective/losing to encourage others to step up? Because I can’t. It’s completely against his brand.
I find it much more likely that he gambled on an in-and-out, five-day adventure. Blow up their assets, decapitate the leadership, get an easy peace deal. Foot in the door.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6d ago
Well, I for one am still glad to see the writeup.
Generally speaking, these are people who one would think would be typically desiring a more expansive understanding of birthright citizenship,
This is a good reminder that politics, especially in the courts, don’t always fall on public-discourse partisan lines. Maybe that’s been less true in the Trump era?
Either way, looking at the Circuit Court’s decision, there’s a conflict between the appellants and the entire Samoan government, which has historically not wanted citizenship. Since that intermediate level is also democratically elected, it gets the allegiance. There’s some analogy to the Native American nations. In this sense, the Biden administration is choosing between the majority and minority positions within American Samoa. I’m not surprised that they declined to jump on that grenade.
I agree that it has no bearing on today’s question. There’s no intermediate layer of government to which illegal immigrants (or their children) owe allegiance. We’re back to Wong Kim Ark: jurisdiction or no?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6d ago
299/320.
Worst category: aesthetic, 42/50.
Fewest attempted: literary, 30/30. I guess I was less willing to guess.
That was fun!
Not that I know. I was trying to figure out what Bondi’s actual experience was.
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