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Blueberry
19hr ago
The way the Masai tribesmen in What is a Woman? do.
Never saw the documentary, but found the scene on yt:
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
Louisiana's one drop rule never applied that strictly because a large portion of the French speaking white population had a black ancestor somewhere in the family tree, even if you couldn't tell by looking. IIRC the pope identifies as partially creole, which is a catch all term for french-y and not Cajun, but usually is a code word for southern Louisiana black, so it's even more complicated.
But TL;DR is that in 1900 he'd have ridden in the whites section of the train.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
19hr ago
I do simply to save time. It knows my diet and quite a bit about my recent and historical medical results and it's easier not to have to remind it. If I were more cautious about privacy I wouldn't.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
Americans understand the one drop rule makes Meghan Markle black, but not the pope. But race-as-a-spectrum is actually literally arbitrary; there are cultures which see mulattos as not-black. There are cultures which see whiteness as a one drop rule. The same is not true for man and woman.
sockpuppet2
19hr ago
I wouldn't endorse applying this logic to gender, but "I, an outsider, think a person's face-value claim to group affiliation is of ambiguous merit, but a confirmed member of that group endorses their claim, so I will recognize it" isn't per se unreasonable.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
19hr ago
Do you think gay conversion therapy is bad? If so, can we make it not-gay-conversion-therapy by insisting that the opposite sex partner we're trying to hook the gay person up with is actually of the same sex?
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
I know several people who belong to 'christian health sharing ministries' in lieu of insurance because they can't stomach paying for birth control with their premiums.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
'Only a handful' is not accurate. The median social conservative believes people with a position of social trust(eg teachers, cops, clergy) shouldn't be allowed to transition, that the fringes who transition should be required to use same-sex restrooms and not ones matching their gender identity(and that if it is a safety issue for FTM's to use the men's then they shouldn't have transitioned), and that using preferred pronouns is a lie. They would refuse to allow their son to wear dresses or use a female name(tolerance for gender bending the other way is typically higher just because gender roles are loosey-goosier).
More to the point, 'homosexuality among consenting adults should be explicitly illegal and a serious crime' still has just-below-20% support in the American public, and most of them believe it should be punishable by death. We can presume that the 15% or so of people who think homosexuals should be hanged also believe gender transition should be illegal. That is a minority, but not a handful.
sockpuppet2
19hr ago
What else was "humorous maybe" in the past, but ruined by millenials taking it too far?
What does believing the motte cash out to?
Believing a motte shouldn't "cash out to" partisan/tribal goals.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
19hr ago
I thought you said there was a legal argument for it being worse, rather than merely symbolic?
sockpuppet2
19hr ago
Are you saying a fool would never admit they were wrong?
Literally, no. In rhetorical response to you calling someone a fool, yes.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
I notice that for all your discussion of how obvious it is, you did not, yourself, say what a woman is.
sockpuppet2
19hr ago
What is a whale? Or a crab, a tree, a planet, a psychdelic drug, cannibalism, a champagne wine, jazz music, a poem...?
What is "knowing what a woman is?" If Person A shares your conception, but cannot articulate it, while Person B has a different conception and can pass an ideological turing test for many different conceptions of womanhood, who would you recognize as "knowing what a woman is" and why?
Muninn
"Dick Laurent is dead."
19hr ago
Daring (Pax Arcana Book 2), by Elliott James.
@Titanium Butterfly, City was quite thought-provoking! Not at all surprising coming from Simak, and I'm really glad that someone has dedicated themselves to getting his stuff published. I've probably read at least one book that was directly influenced by it--don't remember the exact name of it, maybe Manta's Gift, but it was by Timothy Zahn.
anon_
19hr ago
This isn’t a constitutional issue, before the court does anything, Congress needs to pass a law defining with precision what they are prohibiting.
AlexanderTurok
Alt-MSNBC
20hr ago
Have the police fire on the crowd. That always works, just look at history.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
20hr ago
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
20hr ago
Political violence directly or indirectly, charitably, aimed at the congressional capital where legislators are actively working is quite different than rioting in a random city. Even if the rioters are attacking city hall or police stations, the degree is significantly greater.
Acting as if they are equivalent is ridiculous and playing games with “political violence.” It’s like saying slapping a politician you don’t like the exact same as murdering them, because it’s “political violence” either way.
IGI-111
God was a dream of good government.
20hr ago
Breaking into Congressional buildings is an extremely different situation than protesting and even rioting.
Why? It's political violence either way.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
How would you explain to an autistic teenage boy the differences between boy people and girl people? In a way that provides useful guidance and doesn't make T seem like a normal thing for any boy who isn't obsessed with sports? In a way that let's them successfully navigate the differences?
The way the Masai tribesmen in What is a Woman? do. Of course progressives can't do that. I never said they could. Just that it is a solved problem. Just like 'strong female characters who actually act like women' was a solved problem... in the BC days(that is, after all, what Hera/Juno is). But woke doesn't want that. Woke is basically progressivism as a totalizing identity.
I think totalizing identity is key here. Scott touches on it a few times, where he talks about what progressive attitudes are identities or not- the post where he said something like 'John and Jane are united by their shared environmentalism, OK, pretty normal, John and Jane are united by their shared support for gun control, pretty weird'. The DR touches on it where it goes on and on about 'hollowing out your religion and wearing it as a skinsuit'. Themotte talks about it with progressivism as a religion. But I think 'gay rites are civil rites' is the most head on treatment. I think back to my childhood- we learned about Elizabeth Ann Seton and Our Lady of Guadalupe, and about how Jesus treated women equally(unlike those saracens America is at war with). In more secular contexts we learned, risibly, that native American religions were proto-Christianity- they believed in 'the great spirit' and lots of them had Jesus analogues(TTBMK, both of those claims are ludicrously false). This very much fit the needs of the church state alliance of 2002. But there is a limit to how much Christianity can accommodate. Woke doesn't have that, or at least it doesn't have to. But obviously there's no woke pope, no woke council of Nicea. There's no woke bible. In analogues to different traditions there's equally no woke Sharia law, no woke imamate, no woke talmud, no woke temples or dalai lama, no woke oracle of delphi. The civil rites religion as a state religion fits the needs of a total state very well. And when you totalize it, some of the prescriptions- like gender equality even if it entails embracing some fictions that are gonna be a rough fit- get taken too far.
People yearn for a totalizing identity. It's comforting for normies to be told what to do, how to think, what each day is for, how to interact with whom. It soothes a certain personality type to have the progressive version of apostolic Christianity instead of mere progressivism; woke has saints and a special calendar and observances of near-liturgical set rules. It has moral theology, but not in the autistic legalism of other Abrahamic religions. It has a special priest class which is made, not born. It prides itself on better treatment of women. It claims to be the one truth, and formal adherence is the lion's share of being a good person(not too long ago, I listened to a homily by an SSPX priest who explained that formally practicing traditional Catholicism was just being a good person- almost identical in mentality to 'it's called just being a decent person'. If I find it on youtube I will copy the link over.).
pusher_robot
PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
20hr ago
Then they can't reasonably complain about deploying the national guard.
As long as the asset is physically within the US, the US can tax it just fine.
Your policy specifically encourages people not to have wealth in the US.
It's not like nobody tried this. François Miterrand famously did in 1981 and pretty much destroyed French industry. With disastrous enough consequences he had to reverse course.
People will move investment away from the US if you do this. All that nice Silicon Valley startup nursery environment will not remain. They will go elsewhere. And if you successfully suffocate your ability to innovate, you'll slowly bleed out like Europe is bleeding out right now.
unfair
Fairness doesn't enter into it. It just doesn't actually work unless you're willing to back your words with arbitrary arrests like the Chinese do. And it's unsustainable in the long term because it destroys your mechanism for innovation. Which is where the neoliberal is of any relevance.
I don't really care that there is or isn't high inequality, I care that my society survives and thrives. Eating the rich doesn't actually do any of that.
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