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TK-421
17hr ago
Corvos is in the right here. We’ve managed to re-derive the desirability of one legitimate bearer of force in society at a time in just a couple posts - excellent work speedrunning the rise of civilization team.
BurdensomeCount
Unable to escape TheMotte's cycle of Samsara...
17hr ago
A lottery would be far better than the BS system the US has at the moment. It would also completely destroy the value of the Ivy League as now the people in Harvard aren't on average much (or at all) better than the people going to UPenn, they're just luckier and so the cultural cachet of a Harvard degree goes away almost entirely.
Name one instance where someone on the right engaged in violence or violent rhetoric and Trump offered nothing but a full-throated, unequivocal condemnation. Name one.
How much research did you do before you made this comment?
Corvos
18hr ago
This was actually my suggested solution for solving faculty disputes in my old university. It would be so, so much simpler and more friendly than the backstabbing and politicking that goes on, and everyone's too scrawny to do any real damage.
Lizzardspawn
18hr ago
All it takes is for a populist upstart to sweep the 2028 Dem primary by steamrolling the wokescolds and pro-Israel donors.
The democrats are doing their darndest to not make that happen. Their progressive wing has dug in and doubles down. I wonder if it will manage to cost them third presidency in a row.
DelendaEst
18hr ago
I will be fine with rearresting all of the Jan 6 people once about 100,000 BLM rioters have been arrested, tried, and sat in jail for as long as the median J6 rioter did before being pardoned. Until then every time someone on the left brings it up all I hear is "rules for thee, but not for me."
And I really do mean it, I will be fine with that. I do not support the J6 people and do want them punished, all rioters should be. But while the feds under Biden spend years making sure every one of them was punished other dems have turned an intentional blind eye to their own thugs, a pattern that persists in DAs refusing to charge lefties who punch pro-lifers on camera. I want rioters punished, but I will not accept ONLY right wing protestors being punished. Pardoning them was wrong, accepting second class status is worse.
So I agree, be the change you want to see. You guys put 10,000 heads on spikes is a good first step.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
18hr ago
Circle of equals! All the legislators form a circle, and the two have to fight it out bare handed until one submits.
Corvos
18hr ago
I'm old fashioned in many ways, but this reasoning seems so weird to me.
A: Threatens to kill B and his family.
B: Right. Tomorrow, at dawn, I'm going to give you the opportunity to kill me.
Very manly, yes, but not very helpful unless you're sure A is an abject coward. Hire somebody who knows how to use a telescopic sight or put a horse's head in his bed or something.
Primaprimaprima
Aliquid stat pro aliquo
18hr ago
This is a verbatim quote from one of the screenshots:
“You were talking about hopping jennifer Gilbert’s children would die”
JAY JONES: “Yes, I’ve told you this before. Only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy”
The meaning could not be more clear. This is all from one screenshot, so these messages were not presented out of order, unless you think the screenshot was fabricated.
gattsuru
18hr ago
Most people are lurkers and not posters to begin with. What exactly is the threat model for a lurker reading some chud website like TheMotte dot org?
Botond173
18hr ago
Anyone care to explain why he switched bin Laden with Pol Pot of all people in his texts from the original?
OracleOutlook
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
18hr ago
I do not believe that they are thinking of a totally impartial judge and jury coming to the conclusion that their opponent has indeed committed the crime they are accusing them of beyond any reasonable doubt.
I have never considered it to be taken any other way? The truth is, the MAGA masses honestly, earnestly believe that these people have committed high crimes and treason, which a fair and unbiased trial would reveal the full details of, resulting in an inevitable and just execution that even the Blue Tribe would agree is just. Are they right? Likely not. But I have never doubted that this is what they earnestly believe.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
18hr ago
These post-ers who pop up again after two years always have me scratching my head. Like what's been on your mind since 2023?
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
18hr ago
Name one instance where someone on the right engaged in violence or violent rhetoric and Trump offered nothing but a full-throated, unequivocal condemnation. Name one.
Looking forward to this, great post.
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
18hr ago
The Internet use patterns that 90% of young men want to keep private involve cooming rather than intellectual heresy.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
18hr ago
Why does everyone keep saying he’d like to murder them?
Even the phone call, which we somehow only got secondhand, says he was hoping her children would die.
Again, awful, but a different vibe.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
18hr ago
First of all, why aren't you at your post?
Second, you're getting reasonable responses to what I'd consider an overgenerous appraisal of Jones, but let me back up a bit and ask about your lady friend who wants to stockpile bombs. What the fuck? Obviously you may have been using hyperbole or making a joke ot whatever, but if you're serious, what gives here? She knows something about bombs, does she?
daguerrean
18hr ago
They will hate you because you tell them the truth. Is this and the recent Kirk reactions an escalation by the Democrats in that it goes further than anything I can name from Republicans? Yes. But that’s how these endless tit-for-tat escalations work. Each new unprecedented devilry becomes justifications for a new hitherto unprecedented norm violation by the other side, and back and forth.
These new escalations are in fact escalations, and should be recognized and denounced as such, but we shouldn’t use them to excuse further norm violations by our side and we should acknowledge our side’s role in the escalation chain
That isn't true at all. You can do granular enough tests if you want, some countries do, and barring that you can have a lottery, which some countries do, mine among them.
The lottery has not really been a meaningful thing here (at the very top level) for about a decade though now since they increased the number of spots at the medical programmes and also made the test slightly more granular.
I don't see why America couldn't do one of those things. I personally think the runaway competition for those university spots is extremely toxic and would bound the competition for like the top 1-2% (for the top bracket) or so and then have a lottery for them. Picking the lucky seems preferable to torturing your children for some zero-sum competition with no societal gain.
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
18hr ago
Reddit =/= Reddit commentators amusingly, given the stats on commenting vs lurking
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
18hr ago
For a Democrat to get the same benefit in a primary election they'd have to also tie it to some issue (anti-capitalism? pro-gun-bans?) where their base is afraid of them selling out
Off the top of my head, medicare for all, releasing the Epstein files, and student loan forgiveness are "traitor" issues to the left. Medicare for all especially, and to this day Jimmy Dore can't let go how much he got smeared by "sell outs" for his force the vote initiative. Epstein files I can't tell how deep or sincere the sentiment goes. Student Loan forgiveness being a traitor issue revolves around this theory that the Biden admin purposely chose the weakest legal theory to argue in favor of it, and lost on purpose in the Supreme Court. Once again, I don't know how widespread or sincere this sentiment is.
That didn't long to find. Kudos for keeping it to the point.
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