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ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
1d ago
As for the "political dynasty" stuff, what makes Trumpism so unique is the cultism
At this point this can only be called projection. Half of his base had their fingers on the trigger in case he listened to the neoccons, and went to war with Iran.
Compare and contrast to refusing to answer basic questions like "what is a woman?" for fear of how the rest of the cult will react.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
Because it is not, in fact, true. In New Jersey (and perhaps other states) if you check yourself into a mental hospital you are disqualified from buying a gun. If you're involuntarily committed you can remove the disqualification by getting your record expunged, but I do not believe there is an expungement process for voluntary committement.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
It’s interesting to note when reading through the New Testament how much of the Pauline epistles is about being good husbands/wives- and we know from Roman moralists that Roman men(the feelings of women were not recorded) often felt this way, that marriage just kinda sucked. The church fathers also go on about the same topic- being a good husband or wife.
solowingpixy
the resident car guy
1d ago
In my experience paper towels work best for windows. If you want to be fancy or have window tint that doesn't mix with ammonia get the glass cleaner that comes in a can. It smells nice!
Wheels are tedious but not that hard.
I used too many words to just say "YouTube certified mechanic" instead of "ASE certified mechanic" (aka a real mechanic). I'm not a real mechanic, but I was a delivery driver for a long time and between keeping my own car on the road and working on cars for coworkers or friends (At the delivery company I used to work at I was the unofficial company mechanic.) I've learned a few things along the way. You can find a video showing how to do most jobs (and lots on auto detailing) on common cars on YouTube, and it's a quick way to preview a job and decide whether I want to do it or farm it out to a shop.
For example, changing a CV axle on an 8th generation Honda Civic (2006-2011) is fairly easy so long as you have an impact wrench (A battery powered impact wrench is the best tool I've ever bought.), a pry bar, and a big enough hammer. Changing the starter on those same cars if it's the Si model with the bigger engine is NOT a fun job (ditto for an AC compressor; an alternator swap isn't hard though), so I would pay a shop to do that unless I absolutely had to save the money on labor.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
He likely avoids these women.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Because they’re not really our equals in the sense of ability(although they are in dignity). That’s a lie society tells.
Exotic_cetacean
Aesthetics over ethics
1d ago
I won't comment on whether or not he ignored compatibilism, but it sure deserves to be ignored no matter the context. Insisting on materialism yet weaseling out of biting the bullet on lack of free will is just sad.
Don’t like the conclusion of your premises? Just molest the definition of some key terms until it goes away.
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Hadad
1d ago
Yes, the government's total inability to meaningfully make life better anymore has cratered faith in every institution across the board. Too many neutral bodies captured by one tribe, too much bad faith, too much accumulated ill will.
Same reason everyone wants fighters now, and why any political compromise is a death sentence to one's popularity. Everyone is collectively sick of the problems being compromised on, and the solutions never coming.
Because heritability keeps coming up "missing".
People obeserve the world around them and see fucked up kids coming from successful parents, successful people with fucked up parents, and siblings (even twins) who's attitudes and outcomes diverge wildly from eachother. Observations that would all appear to contradict the strict hereditarian model.
Finally people observe that academia appears to be hopelessly culturally compromised, see the Marxist (and deeply anti-Western) origins of Id-Pol/CRT, and @FCfromSSC's comments on materialism.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
"a significant portion of women who undergo abortions do it as a result of pressure from their male partner
AFAI remember, this statistic is basically true- roughly a third of women seeking abortions will list as the reason they want one ‘my boyfriend/husband wants me to do it’. This is a significant portion and more or less pressure from a male partner.
She’s probably not citing sources because the sources are unlikely to be progressive-feminist approved.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
1d ago
I think it’s the decline of social trust coupled with the decline of religion. People no longer have the sort of bedrock idea that things are “true and right”. They think that society is full of cheats and liars, that everyone is lying to them, that the political class either doesn’t care about them or hates them, that there’s no person or group out there that actually cares about the country, and that essentially you can’t fully trust anyone or any institution. You also don’t have religion in an organized sense. You might vaguely believe, but it’s not a bulwark of truth where you can trust that you have it right.
In that situation a person who promises to fucking fix it is a relief. It’s how humans evolved. And whether or not it works, humans evolved to hand power to a guy who promises he can and will fix it. Even if you don’t agree with him, it’s a relief to finally put down th3 burden of having to worry about costs going up, crime, corruption, housing crisis, and wars. Trump or Obama have it, go back to grilling and watching baseball and living life.
TitaniumButterfly
1d ago
Oh yeah, edited to be clear I meant Obama.
faceh
1d ago
Yeah.
Although I think I'd couch it as "Wait until you're actually committed to each other in truly demonstrable ways, OR wait until marriage."
There was some real idiocy in thinking we could separate out the emotional components of sex from the act itself.
TitaniumButterfly
1d ago
Has more to do with ancestry, not parentage. High-quality parents put out low-quality children from time to time. Degradation actually happens pretty quickly. Much less often, but still sometimes, two low-quality parents whose own parents were higher-quality put out a higher-quality child. Better to evaluate someone's grandparents than his parents if predictive power is what's desired.
BreakerofHorsesandMen
Sweet Sejenus
1d ago
Was it dead center average by modern standards?
I’ve lost the studies and to be honest I don’t remember how they were coming to these conclusions, but I have heard that there is evidence that testosterone levels have been dropping over the last 60 years or more.
So it may be entirely possible that he is dead center average in 2025, and also that he is significantly less “masculine” than a dead center average man in 1950.
Maybe one of the Motte’s more organized posters will see this and can chime in with the statistics.
faceh
1d ago
That song is unironically a banger if all you want is a party jam. Should pair well with Ye's recent hit single "Heil Hitler," although the vibes are very different.
For the purpose of federal law, unless theres' been intervening changes to the law or caselaw, 302s don't count, because they're not adversarial or judicial hearings and often run ex parte. They do count for state law, though.
The mental defective side of the bar has been used very widely, if not consistently. And some places will ingest someone who comes to them voluntarily as if they weren't willing (or even treat a voluntary admission as involuntary without undergoing the normal procedures), though thankfully that's one of the few places that courts have been willing to push back on.
But otherwise, yes; federal regulations require that it be involuntary.
I will caveat that many states have separate rules that trigger on voluntary commitment, or don't even require commitment at all (hey, Hawaii!). New Jersey is one such state; applications for a purchase permit require applicants to complete a consent to mental health record search form. While the statute only specifically prohibits giving permits to people with a voluntary or involuntary current committment (no, I don't know why), both state courts and police generally treat it as a blanket prohibition, along with many inpatient procedures. T.B. here isn't even getting to that point, so he can't challenge it, either.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Hé just said New Jersey did ban people from owning a gun for voluntary interactions with the mental health system?
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
1d ago
The variation could at least be semi-realistic, to be in keeping with the original idea. Longer/no rounds, ground that really sucks to be on, 2v2, etc.
BurdensomeCount
—Your em dash is showing...
1d ago
There is also a constitutional right to a jury trial in the US. However for civil cases I believe you still have to pay a jury fee to request one. The fact that something is a constitutional right doesn't mean the government can't make reasonable requests to the person who wants to exercise that right; in much the same way here, 13 weeks (3 months) of once weekly lessons (2 hours) is just 26 hours of gun practice before letting the person keep their gun at home as they wish. That's not excessive at all.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The average person does not understand this.
Hadad
1d ago
All very likely true, but it remains so that driving isn't a constitutional right.
erwgv3g34
1d ago
It would be, if the constitution was written today. Much of the bill of right was in responses to specific abuses by the British government, e.g. the third amendment exists because of the quartering acts. If the founders had witnessed the way the current government controls people through threatening their driving licenses, which are functionally required to participate in modern society anywhere outside of New York City, they would have surely included an amendment guaranteeing the right to drive.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
Not so. New Jersey makes voluntary admission to an inpatient mental health program cause for denial of a firearm permit. They also ask on their firearms form for ANY interaction with a mental health professional:
"Have you ever been attended, treated, or observed by any doctor or psychiatrist or at any hospital or mental institution on an inpatient or outpatient basis for any mental or psychiatric condition?" If yes, give the name and location of the doctor, psychiatrist, hospital, or institution and the date(s) of such occurrence
They're not asking for your health.
I wouldn't be plugged into the cinephile universe enough to tell you, just enough to have heard the factoid and been amused to find out it was, as ever, more nuanced than that.
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