anti_dan
19hr ago
Please specify what you mean by trans women and why you think their existence in male prisons increases the risk of rape.
anti_dan
1d ago
Those relationships exist, but they generally are outside the legal system.
anti_dan
1d ago
What are you envisioning here? Are police going to refuse to make arrests for crimes? What crimes? Prosecutors refuse to file charges? Judges going to toss cases? Are you under the impression all parts of the justice system today think every law they enforce is just? I am very skeptical that is the case.
The thing about the legal system is that it is always susceptible to cascades in any direction.
Lets say the new trend is that drug cases are not big deals. Police stop charging them, prosecutors dismiss the cases pending, judges find not guilty in the cases they try. But, if drugs become a big deal, police charge them, prosecutors prosecute them, and judges find guilty. The guilty pipeline is more fraught with obstacles, but is not uncommon.
Once the police forces of a place make a choice, only the males of that place can rebel realistically in a way that would be confrontation-ally successful. So the theory does hold. M-W polarization is not sustainable, as approximately 90% of philosophers have suggested over the last 2000 years.
anti_dan
1d ago
The French Option is the one I would summarise as "just win the argument". The gospel truth is mighty and will prevail. All you need to do is get out there, present the gospel, and let the Spirit do the rest. Virtue and moral character are important, but they cannot be compelled or produced by any coercive institution - they come from local practices and must be nurtured in local, congregational contexts, attentive to the word of God. Liberalism and viewpoint neutrality are not problems to be solved, but rather are themselves the opportunities to grow the church and create disciples.
I would question how many Evangelicals in America who know about David French (not many I expect) agree with this characterization of him. I am not an evangelical, but I do know a lot of French's work, and I'd summarize it as "just lose the argument". David has done many things over the last decade, attempting to win an argument from a conservative or Christian point of view is not one of them.
anti_dan
2d ago
So make the case. What part of expelling Somalis or killing SNAP means we should pogrom the Shapiros?
anti_dan
2d ago
Yes all male prisons also currently suck for the residents as a result of the efforts of the same people (or their forefathers intellectually) who are trying to expand that problem to female prisons. That does not appear to me to be a good argument.
anti_dan
2d ago
The motte and bailey seem to me to be the same. Males in female prisons significantly increase the risk of sexual assault in prisons.
I find your solution overly complicated and silly. Granted, my solution is that prisons should be reserved for thieves and embezzlers, and rapists, murderers, hijackers, etc should be executed within 6 months of arrest via a speedy trial would make prisons a much safer environment for everyone, and a more safe world for everyone. But that doesn't seem like a solution you would be inclined towards.
anti_dan
2d ago
The Bell Labs etc. failed because corporations stopped funding them. There's a debate as to why. Some simply gesture at "grrr greedy capitalists" which has never been a satisfying answer for me
I am not as knowledgeable about the other labs, but clearly Bell Labs was a particular cultural entity that was of its time, and the answer as to its decline is simply formalization of education and hiring and workplace employee rules means that the kind of lightning they caught in a bottle at Bell can't be caught anymore. Shockley would be run out of a modern day Bell; Bardeen would never have been admitted to Harvard/Princeton and so never would have done his important grad work and been hired by Bell; Brattain's academics would not have gotten him hired; the kind of bouncing around between government and industry that Shannon did is now very difficult to do; Jewett is probably the person with a backround most likely to actually be in the position he was at Bell in the modern day, but his protege/successor Kelly would never have even gotten an interview now.
anti_dan
2d ago
I consistently see people talking about Matt Walsh like he's some turbo bigot who's openly making insinuations, but upon inspection of any of these claims they always seem to just...fall apart? Like today he kinda went viral with a list of things he thinks Republicans need to pass. And it was like all sorts of reasonable things like dismantling SNAP entirely, banning people from holding public office if they have a citizenship from another country that hasn't been renounced, requiring English literacy to run for office, banning immigrants from countries where >10% of immigrants from said country are receiving public benefits.
Other times he has done things like advocating expanding the use of the death penalty, he ran lead on the Tennessee anti-transing of kids legislation, etc. It all seems pretty in-bounds, just a bunch of stuff that can get the pearl clutchers to do said clutching.
anti_dan
2d ago
As far as academia is concerned, patents are fairly important in the engineering side. Good labs and teams can become self-sustaining and get out of the tedious grant-writing game, or at least finance an extra grad student's stipend.
anti_dan
3d ago
I would not really know where to start, or how to make it interesting or relevant. Most of what I do is incredibly mundane. Looking at disclosures, looking at prior art, telling clients my good faith estimate at their chances the disclosure is patentable, writing the spec, writing the claims, on the rare occassion of litigation, writing demands and civil complaints, then pouring through discovery and assigning doc review teams to the overly lengthy discovery, and maybe doing a hearing or so. Never had an actual patent case go to jury trial. And because my practice area is in mechanical devices we don't run into the interesting section 101 stuff basically ever (and if you want my opinion on those things, just read IPWatchdog and whatever the opposite of what Gene is saying is what I think, or at least was when I bothered paying attention).
I suppose I could do something like a, "So you think you are an inventor, whats it like to get your invention patented?" Post if that would interest you, because that is something I could cobble together in a week or so.
anti_dan
3d ago
Tolkien also describes troop mustering and movements in a way that is fairly consistent and just barely superhuman (or super-horse in the case of Rohan's rush to re-enforce Minas Tirith). But that is consistent with his world where a lot of the men/orcs/elves are intended to be superhuman (and obviously the horses of Rohan are the best of the best).
anti_dan
3d ago
Number of patents has become fairly untethered from actual innovation, just speaking as a patent lawyer. Maybe at sometime it was true, or maybe it was always the case that most are basically a minor modification or a dreaded methods patent relating to software.
anti_dan
6d ago
The reason why "respectable" men don't beat up street harassers isn't just because of the legal risk, but because you might very well end up losing. Even if you're in peak physical condition and a trained martial artist, what if the vagrant pulls a knife? What if you win this time, but he comes back with 5 of his buddies? What's the point of risking potentially a life-changing, even fatal injury, because of what, a comment? The risk of escalation is too great compared to just walking on, ignoring the catcall, or just sticking to more middle-class areas.
I mean, I don't engage with street harassers for many reasons, but the chance that I would lose is very low on that totem pole. In a fair fight, I have approximately 0.1% chance of losing a fight to the average street harasser in an objective way. However, even if I win, in modern America, I lose. I am banned from using the proper tools to take care of this fellow, a billy club or a gun, so I would have to fight him hand to hand. That means I am going to, at the very least, get very stinky fighting him. I might also be out some expensive clothing. I mostly am wearing suits when I see street harassers, after all. The legal risk, is of course very high. George Floyd and Ahmad Arbery are good examples of this.
I am a bit confused by your mental model here where you think normal men confronting homeless creepers is not a thing because they fear to lose the fight. Its not a thing for me. Its not a thing for my brother or anyone else who was on the wrestling team at our high school. The fear is the legal shit, and the fact that its not worth it because they smell so bad. And also they prolly give you AIDS or some shit if they successfully bite you.
Thus, the gentleman's billy club is the solution.
anti_dan
6d ago
Its important to note that there is a very real difference between mutual combat and sucker punching or mugging. The former is a thing almost solely practiced by co-ethnics of equal class. The latter is typically engaged in by the underclass, and is often cross-racial and cross-class.
It demonstrates the issue with an over-formalized legal system where common sense is basically banned. Imagine the following argument at an appellate court:
"So on July 9, 2025 two white boys started brawling in Jim's pub and Johnny was winning, then Tommy pulled a gun and shot him. You charged Tommy with Murder. But then outside Jim's Tommy's brother Timmy got punched in the face by Jaron and he shot Jaron right in the heart killing him. And you didn't charge Timmy with nothing?"
"Yes. Those are totally different"
"How."
"Common sense."
You see how this isn't going to fly when like 8/10 law grads are progressives and have been for decades.
anti_dan
6d ago
These operations long predate Kash and friends. This "investigation" probably does as well. The FBI has for a long time been full of attention seeking climbers that want to get promoted, move to DOJ, run for Congress/Judge, etc. Kash doesn't have to do crap to have these sorts of things to happen. If he was changing things he'd tell agents to pursue more boring cases, like straw purchasers of firearms, or interstate armed robbery gangs. I know of multiple cases in the midwest like this one where the FBI declined to investigate and/or DOJ declined to charge.
anti_dan
6d ago
One would hope, but only the domestics really activate all the right elements most of the time.
anti_dan
7d ago
Oh New Jersey. Nybbler's pager must be going off.
But NJ is not alone. Most gun-unfriendly states have similar provisions in their Order of Protection laws, prohibiting firearms for at least the duration of the OP, and the OP often can be extended indefinitely based on various factors. And I doubt any federal judges have the stomach to reverse any of these because domestic violence is, frankly, incredibly common, and commonly deadly. The fastest way one loses their judicial career is denying a motion in a DV case and have the offender then kill the victim the next time around.
anti_dan
9d ago
In the closing days of the war, the cult suddenly decides, on no evidence whatsoever, that the chancellor is a member of an evil witch coven that hasn’t actually existed in 2000 years. They claim that the only reasonable solution is to send six guys to go assassinate the chancellor without trial.
Six Guys? Did I watch a different movie than you?
anti_dan
9d ago
But when and how do you sound the alarm when a dictator is slowly installing an authoritarian regime over a country?
You make the case persuasively.
Democrats cannot do this because Obama and Biden did their own, more authoritarian, things that are very similar to Trump's power grabs, and they just point to minor differences why this time its different, when it is not. The things often cited by his opponents are just not persuasive. Blowing up drug boats? Presidents have been blowing people up for decades at this point, Obama even added the "even people with American citizenship" flavor to that pie. Prosecutions that appear political? Biden is you #1, and in fact, Trump tried promulgating EOs in his first term that attempted to depoliticize the DOJ, particularly around its controversial methods of "Sue & Settle" wherein they would force people to payoff progressive NGOs in class actions. Biden, of course, reversed that. Tariffs? Nobody knows what they actually do. I dont like it, its most likely kinda bad. Serious people don't hang their hat there when shit like dishonorable discharges and court martials were handed out to soldiers over covid vaccines, killing a pipeline, attempting to cancel student loans, etc.
OTOH, Trump's pseudo-impoundment is much more timid. Firstly, I'm fairly confident that the Impoundment control act is unconstitutional under original meaning. The founders were basically penny pinchers, and they imagined that Congress's power over the executive was impeachment and refusing to fund him, not forcing him to fund things. In fact, the latter is impossible from a logical perspective because the executive cannot spend money that is not in the treasury, and if congress passed a bill in 1805 that said "the president shall give every American $100" that would have been impossible, so obviously he could have refused. Thus, again fairly obviously, all appropriations are discretionary because they cannot be guaranteed to be fulfilled.
And one of the other major complaints relates to ICE and the National Guard. What is the president to do, realistically, when local law enforcement is aiding and abetting persons impeding federal law enforcement. If the Iowa State police prevent FDA inspection of all Iowa corn fields would Barack Obama just give up? If they let rioters around the farms do the same? Obviously not. Trump has been much more measured than ole Barack would have been in such a situation, because in that situation the Governor of Iowa would have been in custody. Gavin Newsom amd Karen Bass are not in custody, thus the light touch of Trump is revealed.
anti_dan
9d ago
If trying to point out they are a hypocrite, perhaps. But that is not what is happening here, or Trump is not Reagan and isn't being a hypocrite.
In addition, the average use of bible quotes against Christians usually just shows a misunderstanding of that text, but that isn't really worth getting into at this time.
What people actually do, if they do anything besides buy what the mainstream media is telling them at face value, is find an entity who's motivations and biases they align with, and then pick that guy's story. Sometimes the establishment consists of flaming hot liberals (Rittenhouse), sometimes it consists of based law enforcement (ICE Twitter). What "establishment" figure gets trusted more depends on whos listening.
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