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zeke5123a
20m ago
I guess it depends on what “most” means. AOC, Crockett, and Omar all effectively excused it.
Yes, AOC initially decried it. But AOC went on the House floor and basically spent most of her time talking about why Kirk was terrible and why the House shouldn’t vote yes on the non binding resolution.
By the way, a majority of house Dems voted not to pass the resolution.
thrownaway24e89172
Death is the inevitable and only true freedom
21m ago
Understandable; most of the anime boorus don't really feature much furry content anyway.
Of course they don't, that'd be too masculine for anime. Angsty potatoes only!
philosoraptor
28m ago
nobody wants her but everyone will take her instead of the other choice
Who would "the other choice" have been at that point? Biden kind of painted himself into a corner there. Michelle Obama might have worked but I don't think she wanted the job.
zeke5123a
30m ago
A father of two was just murdered for his political views. A none insignificant number of leftists cheered his murder. You have members of Congress saying murder bad but “long diatribe about how awful the decedent was” effectively saying “that this murder wasn’t that bad.”
So I don’t have the faith you do.
aqouta
30m ago
To take this to its logical conclusion I advocate you get a one day ban and then make a highlighted post.
Iconochasm
2. Bootstrap the rest of the fucking omnipotence.
41m ago
That guy sounds like a jerk
I can't believe that my post was misconstrued to be protrayed as some sort of definitive statement or personal attack. This is so unfair to me, personally, and no one else.
hydroacetylene
52m ago
Statistically, there are dramatically more women who say they would like to wait for marriage on anonymous surveys than who actually do so. Revealed preferences and all that, but I think the most obvious explanation is that women are far more likely than men to be interested in waiting for sex.
ThisIsSin
PC is for progressive-conservative
53m ago
"porn made me do it"
What, you don't find it strange that the overlap between "porn made me do it" and [some form of] "I've recovered from addiction" [generally using the words 'recovered', 'detoxed', and my personal favorite 'normal and heterosexual'] is functionally total?
I get that there are sometimes specific ideological considerations for using those words but, like, they talk like they're going to relapse any second if not for [insert here]. It's not like sex isn't addictive, and a component of a core biological drive, but I think there's an epistemic gulf between "lol fukken saved" and "this has literally consumed my life".
there was no “rabbit hole”
Understandable; most of the anime boorus don't really feature much furry content anyway.
pigeonburger
1hr ago
Few illegals prefer death to deportation; they expect they can just come back.
They did, but the perception might be different with this administration.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Red tribe trans people- especially FtM's- aren't even that uncommon. They're just low status enough that no one cares about them, like literal trailer trash level. Not so for blue transgenders, who seem to come from higher class backgrounds more often and be a bit more likely to be MtF.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
The new Texas candidate for AG is on news today talking about how ICE invited this attack.
Uh, you know Texas democrats are ridiculous progressive fanatics in a contest to see how expensive losing elections can be, right? Just off priors this guy is too far to the left for his own base and an electoral irrelevancy.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Few illegals prefer death to deportation; they expect they can just come back.
Getting deported is viewed as a serious inconvenience that sometimes happens at random, not a life-ruining one.
Skibboleth
It's never 4D Chess
1hr ago
Can you clarify what you mean by 'differences'? Because I feel like you are eyeing suggestively in the direction of HBD theories, which I find to be non-credible. Obviously, Germans, Japanese, and Indians are different groups of people, but no, I don't think there is some fundamental, underlying difference that makes Germans assimilable in the US and Indians not.
Clearly the shooter is a radical centrist when they're shooting people left and right.
ETA: although given my flair, I should probably explicitly condemn violence.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
No they won't. A bunch of them will probably get fired, a few senior members will get indicted on charges that may or may not make sense. The vast bulk of ICE will not be.
ThisIsSin
PC is for progressive-conservative
1hr ago
slave away
Relative to citizens they are slaves.
Problem is, [relative] slavery to Americans is preferable to living in the countries they come from.
Blue tribe technically could make that argument, but because their ur-grievance and founding myth is built with around slave labor, they would never in a million years do that.
They see that the US is very bent on kicking out foreigners, and for them a few weeks of imprisonment between their visa being invalidated and them getting deported would actually matter.
The US is in an anti-slavery mood, and is now more critically examining visas for evidence of slavery. (And sure, one could hold the Korean example of misused B visas up as a standard of "they didn't necessarily know at the time their duties would require them to violate US anti-slavery law"... but that's the textbook definition of human trafficking.)
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Or more helpfully- indiscriminate fire at Trump coded target: left winger. Indiscriminate fire at someone the far-right hates: right winger.
Your belief in the compliance of illegal immigrants with the law is hilariously naive. What makes you think they will not just run away and not show up to their deportation? Saw off their monitor bracelets and go into hiding? What is their incentive to not do so?
I've been very rough on self-proclaimed liberals and leftists on the Motte, but what you are stating here would be, in my view, a mean-spirited parody of what I believe my ideological opponents to believe: a policy proposal so ivory tower that they're pulling it off the elephant as we speak. How could you believe for one moment that this could ever work in real life?
I don't think even a five year old would think it would work, and if you're failing the Evil Overlord test on something you consider to be a good thing you should reconsider your political priors.
ThisIsSin
PC is for progressive-conservative
1hr ago
That is a benefit of having a working legal system
And a failure state of that system is "ceases to function because those who enforce the law are prevented from doing so by the mob". The Mexicans, and residents of other Latin American countries, are very well acquainted with this concept. So are the Italians, the Russians, and other Europeans from countries east of Germany to varying degrees.
But unlike the latter, the ICE goons will not even get debanked.
The anti-ICE faction/mob has already done that for causes far more anodyne than "enforced the law", and this unites that cause far more than factory farmers. (International arms traders are sanctioned by both sides, yellow press journalists and gang members are core Blue tribe constituencies so they'll never be sanctioned, and health insurance executives are too lucrative to debank.)
quiet_NaN
2hr ago
Sorry, I thought that the narrative was that they needed the masks to be safe from all the bloodthirsty antifa lefties, not from violent illegal immigrants.
I agree that arresting illegals who might prefer death to deportation is inherently risky. But I also think that this danger is largely situational. Illegals using facial recognition to figure out the home addresses of ICE agents and then taking revenge for them deporting their buddies looks rather far-fetched.
Yes, thanks, was hoping you'd show back up.
Let me mull on this and get back to you tomorrow; I'm in the air.
In the meantime may I ask your favor that, if you manage to connect some dots about me, you confine your guesses to DM? I'm fairly nervous about how much entropy I'm shredding with each statement though let me be clear that we're operating legally. It's just a small world and my opinions need to remain private, especially as they relate to humans.
I have some experience also with breeding horses, hounds, and pigeons, which may be easier to talk about since those are a lot more common and also I'm not really associated with any of them. Then again those were also more hobbies and passing fancies than anything. But the principles hold across everything I've ever done. Decline in quality from wild-caught to F1 isn't so bad but drops off very rapidly after that even if up to about F4 most of the output is 'good enough for government work.'
Also, as I'm sure you can tell, I'm not trained specifically as a geneticist. I have the same basic education there as the next guy in this world, though over time I've had the occasion and interest to dig deeper. I'm a lot happier speaking from practical experience.
My education had to do with ecology more generally and my work has revolved more around psychology, particularly as it relates to heredity. There isn't actually a ton of academic literature on the subject. A lot of the most important things I know have been pointed out to me by old timers who learned the honest way any number of things that I'd never have been taught in school.
So let me clarify your question:
The general problem with mutation load in small populations is very well and very widely understood, such that I'll be a bit surprised (but happy to help) if you'd just like to know more about it. But that's not the impression I'm getting. What would you like from me, specifically?
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