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EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
2hr ago
So, what are you reading?
Still on the Iliad, Dialectic of Enligthenment and McLuhan's Classical Trivium. Dipping into the Metalogicon.
Gaashk
2hr ago
The purpose of the beatings is to get the child to behave well, for the parents' values of what constitutes well behaved, without having to constantly fight and renegotiate. In GKGW that's defined by instant, unthinking obedience without negative repercussions rebounding on the trainer. The program is to only do one beating if they get the proper level of deference, so the winning strategy is to go with that (and it sounds like Aella did most of the time, and also relates that to her unusual tastes in drugs).
Inconveniently, that doesn't work all that well on people, or at least the children of the sort of people who defy social norms to homeschool their kids in a weird cult in a time and place where that isn't really done. Also it's bad. There may be people it does work on, though one of the several misjudgments of the program is that unthinking obedience, once achieved, isn't actually valued all that highly in the civilization these kids belong to, anyway. It doesn't even seem to be all that highly valued by the Biblical God (c.f. Jacob wrestling with the angel/God, Abraham bargaining with the angels/God, Jesus sweating blood in the garden, etc), so even from a traditional strict Christian perspective, they're very fringe in not just their methods, but also their aims.
ulyssessword
3hr ago
flatly unwelcome at our various employers' pride networking corporate events.
Is that your moral barometer? I've heard of people using the Church's approval as a proxy for moral behaviour, but this might be the first time I've seen someone use corporations in that role.
ABigGuy4U
3hr ago
In the last few hours there has been a massive drone attack on Russia’s strategic bomber fleet. Apparently drone swarms were smuggled into Russia in cargo trucks and released a short distance from the airfields. Some of the bases attacks are more than 4,500 kilometers away from the Ukrainian border. The Ukrainian MOD claims that 34 percent of Russias’s strategic air force has been destroyed. This is an unconfirmed number, but there are multiple videos of groups of 4-7 TU-95 bombers burning on their airfields.
It's not religion, it's politics.
Bureaucrats are friends of the left and enemies of the right. Which at once decides their loyalties and who wants to lower or increase their numbers and power. There's little else to it.
Religion is probably inescapable too, but what you're looking at here is merely the friend enemy distinction.
If you want to get political ends, such as actually building enough dwellings to lower the price thereof, you need to get enough people who actually hold the levers of that stuff on one coalition against the remainder. This is how anything is decided in human society.
Now lefties are not going to get any of that stuff done because there is a rift in their coalition on this issue, where some people want cheap housing and others want things that make this impossible (and they have more power). So the only way for the coalition to remain and people to save face is for everyone to pretend this is the work of some real or imagined enemy and look to something else they agree on. Therefore, it's all because of wreckers.
Right wingers do this too of course, much easier to pretend the dissolution of morals isn't aided and abetted by capital or that that the army isn't weak because of procurement being rife with embezzlement if we can all agree that it's the fault of degenerates and perverts.
The real dark truth here is admitting that this mechanism is necessary, because without this nonsense you can't actually maintain a coalition to do anything, let alone what has to be done.
FistfullOfCrows
3hr ago
Before he was caught I was leaning 50/50 on contract kill job(for nefarious cyberpunk tier corpo wars stuff) and avenging aggrieved guy. After he was "caught" in the manner that he was i'm leaning even harder on him being scapegoated. (Unless he decided to martyr hymself, but that seems unlikely to me)
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
3hr ago
His interview with Tucker Carlson, arguably.
FairestWorld
3hr ago
Yeah, not to mention the Hulk being afraid to um... Hulk out.
Probably because the action scenes / choreography would've been much harder to do with Hulk rampaging around.
Plus, Thanos had the space stone, so he could've just spammed teleport, grab Strange and go to wherever. While Strange also has teleport, his is much more time intensive, so Thanos had the edge.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
Autistic legalism is a popular solution for running ideologically based-groups, for a simple reason- it works.
Now you’d have to convince people that your rules are fair, applies fairly, and important enough to merit shunning violators. But there is a reason it’s the historically tested solution.
Tree
4hr ago
It’s completely fine. I agree with the rationalist critique that people should be quicker to change their mind and habits, when they find a seemingly good idea, which is what she did. It’s absurd to accuse her of conformism (“vulnerable to suggestion”) .
'The most valuable things about me are my tits'?
She didn’t say that, and there’s nothing wrong with being valued for your tits, or your abs, or your yellow hair.
Only God, my dear,
Could love you for yourself alone
And not your yellow hair.
Ioper
4hr ago
This seems just like partisan politics, nothing religious about it.
Their team bad.
Our team good.
There is an issue? Obviously their team did something bad and we need more funding for our team.
aardvark2
4hr ago
and you're likely to end up with zero women in the end.
in a small village, maybe. In large cities the hypothetical hypothetical would get new ones quickly.
Owlify
4hr ago
Violence was only a factor in deciding mates in inter-tribe conflicts. Within tribes itself, women will have enough social capital and there would be courtship rituals to have a choice in selecting their own mates. Even in cultures where women are considered to be less valuable than men, they still some some amount of social capital, and especially did so historically because a lot more social cohesion was required for human survival and thriving. People would know everyone else in their tribe intimately. Each woman would typically have many siblings (and brothers) and a father and uncles for her protection. Rape was recognized as a crime and morally wrong inside tribes, it was only not recognised as morally bad when done to your outgroup.
benmmurphy
4hr ago
it might hurt greenwald's reach with the normies. whenever someone brings up glen's reporting with normies someone else can point to the sex videos to derail the conversation.
Owlify
4hr ago
This is a false dichotomy. I don't see why someone would never get laid just due to affirmative consent. Also, not getting laid is not a harm, it is at worst missing out on something great.
Owlify
5hr ago
I wouldn't say they are crippled since that implies they have a disability to live their life successfully. They might be missing a fundamentally human experience, but they are missing it in a good manner which will help them live a better life. Avoiding gluttony, wrath and excessive lust is good.
TIRM
5hr ago
CIA's heart attack gun, hard at work.
In case anything thinks I'm joking: that's supposedly a real thing. Air pressure handgun that shoots frozen toxin shards. There were senate hearings about it.
JFKay
Here N There
5hr ago
Do you have any recommentations for sources that analyze current military conflicts in a relatively unbiased way? I know (alas on youtube) William Spaniel, Colonel Riesner (both mostly on Ukraine), and ATE Chuet (in French) on all matters related to aviation (but in French).
Is there any source on other conflicts (such as the Gaza war) with a low propaganda portion?
aqouta
5hr ago
Sounds like you're just talking about rivalrous or zero sum work, which certainly exists but I don't think is usually what people mean when they invoke bullshit jobs. Usually people are trying to bring to mind people digging holes and filling them back in again, not competition.
sun_the_second
6hr ago
I'd wager it's easier to go to the dentist than to subject yourself to beatings precisely because of the ability to reason that pain at the dentist is an unfortunate consequence of getting healthier teeth, not the entire point.
I have lost track of what you're trying to prove, but if it's "being able to voluntarily and without hesitation go get beaten for no good reason other than 'you'll get beaten more' is a reasonable standard for a child", it's going to be a tough sell. I doubt many here would meet that standard as adults, if a bunch of armed men broke into their house right now.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
6hr ago
perhaps you were gesturing at something like the following syllogism: “woke tactics + right-wing views = ‘woke right’; ~every right-winger compares his opponents to Nazis, which is a woke tactic; ergo the entire right is ‘woke right’”
No, I'm gesturing at the exact people who are using the term "woke right" and insisting it's meaningful, using the most hamfisted equivocation between their opponents and Nazis.
I get that you could, in theory, define it in such a way that it actually makes sense, and points at similarities between the woke left and specific factions of the right, but in practice it's just a tactic to avoid discussing ideas liberalism knows it will lose against.
sun_the_second
6hr ago
Having to harshly reject advances every once in a while is less harm than never getting laid, according to my calculation.
HereAndGone
6hr ago
Yeah, it is instinct. But instinct can be harmful, and the outcome there is that being unable to over-ride instinct resulted in her getting eleven beatings instead of two.
It's horrible and the father should have been punched in the face, but it's what having the ability to reason also tells us. "I don't want to go to the dentist, because my jaw hurts afterwards. But if I don't go, then this problem will get worse, and I will end up in much worse pain later than the smaller pain now". She describes it as eventually her brain broke and over-rode instinct and that stopped the beating, but if she had been able to break voluntarily earlier, she would have been out of pain sooner.
I'm not saying it was right! I'm saying she doesn't seem to realise what she's describing, because she is still in that mindset.
I didn't mean zero women in the grand scheme of things, I meant zero women among the 4 or 5 you're trying to simultaneously date.
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