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hydroacetylene
1d ago
I think Trump would happily go to a wine tasting with other powerful people, even if he wouldn’t personally drink.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
1d ago
A nitpick, perhaps, but I really don't think that's a fair description. Refusing to step on a trap isn't incompetence.
Sure, except that explanation has much bigger implications about the state of meritocracy among the progressives. Not knowing what a woman is would be an individual failing, putting enough people with weird ideas in positions of influence like academia, so that giving a straightforward answer to such a basic question becomes a trap, is a collective failing of massive proportions.
OracleOutlook
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
1d ago
It was my understanding that Republicans wanted any legal immigrants to be super woohoo about America, so it feels weird to see Vance say effectively the opposite.
He says, "And I happen to think that it’s absurd, and the modern left seems dedicated to doing this, to saying, you don’t belong in America unless you agree with progressive liberalism in 2025."
My understanding is that people who agree with progressive liberalism are not people who are "Woohoo" about America. One of Progressive Liberalism's main points is that America was conceived with the original sin of racism and needs to be born again.
It is my understanding that Conservatives would prefer that every immigrant be the kind who loves America, 4th of July, the Federalist Papers, George Washington, Apple Pie, Hamburgers, and basically be a Weeaboo but for America. Basically support the prior civil religion. Immigrants who support the current civil religion are disfavored which seems to be exactly what JD Vance is saying here.
After some thought, and spending time with kids, I have come to the opinion that my own transition to adulthood is probably best delineated by when I stopped being bored: the world is an interesting place and there is far more stuff I want to do and skills I want to acquire than time to do them all. I won't say I don't procrastinate ever, but I am never sitting around wondering what to do. Kids aren't very good at this, in my experience.
To consider a hare-brained thought, The Internet is a (questionably ethical) form of Gom Jabbar. "What's in the box?" "Slop. Endless slop. And also the collective knowledge and creative works of mankind."
The test is whether you fall for any of the well-trod failure modes of The Internet, or actually drive to and engage in self-actualization as Maslow intended.
4bpp
Now I am become a Helpful, Honest and Harmless Assistant, the destroyer of jobs
1d ago
One standard argument for a Milo on Campus is that this is necessary because otherwise the evolutionary psychologist will be the extremist outlier who is under constant pressure to "moderate" his views.
Societies get pulled towards their centre of mass, and if the only one whose right to be in campus is never questioned is the "kill all white men" anti-Milo, this centre will only ever move closer to them.
faceh
1d ago
I do work from the assumption that having a ton of power probably feels a bit pointless if you aren't able to flex said power to flout the rules that bind us mere mortals, and there are so very few strong taboos left these days.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
There were far more desperate people in nineteenth and early twentieth century America.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1d ago
can't even say what a woman is
A nitpick, perhaps, but I really don't think that's a fair description. Refusing to step on a trap isn't incompetence.
That's not to say Jackson handled it well. Maybe there was some response that turned it around, suggesting the question was ill-formed? But that's something I'd frame as a failing of charisma more than intelligence.
gattsuru
1d ago
[caveat: I'm not an academic, and more on the 'evacuate Harvard' side of the debate.]
The message is always that there is a problem, but it's mostly isolated to the "usual suspect" departments: anthropology, sociology, literature, and The Studies.
This may reflect more of what you're hearing than what's going on. The Usual Suspects tend to be more aggressively biased and more directly activist, but academia has aggressively pushed any sort of outspoken social conservative out from pretty much every other field as well. Charts like this make it seem like there's one or two fields that are either majority-conservative or at least parity, but if you look closer at the original data [pg 38] you find that the writers were papering over the actual skew by a) not reporting those who identified as "far-left" (11.5% of total) and b) not noticing the extent that identify as right-wing or far-right (a combined 12.1%).
Other studies trying to compare conservative-liberal presentation in academia have to use log scale graphs (yes, literally), and still find a 3:1 ratio of dems:reps in economics by party registration, and 17:1 by donors.
For those conservatives that remain, the overwhelming majority are closeted. Some of that's the more subtle common knowledge that anyone who does speak out will be blackballed and blacklisted, but a lot of it's overt, and has been for a literal decade. The Middlebury riot was 2017. I wrote this in 2021.
That's not to defend the Invite A Milo (or TPUSA bake sale kits). But it's to reject any hope that these environments can be fixed from inside academia, if only someone Had The Opportunity and/or Were Brave Enough. It won't be allowed, it wouldn't be accepted, and it doesn't even have the people necessary to make the full argument to start with.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
Yes, reporters lie all the time. It's not hard to find doctors who are rather biased also. As do members of independent charities, including about whether they're actually independent.
My news isn't curated, unless by that you mean "someone turns on the radio set to the national broadcaster station at work".
Someone at that national broadcaster is curating it.
Rov_Scam
1d ago
If you know anything about Alan Dershowitz, you know that he does not require any blackmail to be outspoken on Israel. Unless it's your contention, of course, that the man has been blackmailed since the 1970s, because Mossad really thinks that getting Dersh to be outspoken on Israel will move the needle among the public even though absolutely no one at the time would have their views on the matter changed because of fucking Alan Dershowitz.
HereAndGone
1d ago
After all, few men are so much into MILFs that they would not enjoy a blowjob from a busty 16yo.
Yeah, but the allegations are not "blowjobs from 16 or 17 year olds who would be legal, depending what jurisdiction you were in", it's "Trump and Epstein raped twelve and thirteen year olds".
If it were just "sexy hot 17 year old" nobody would much care. It has to be "frightened coerced beaten thirteen year old" or nothing, because the mud has to be the blackest, dirtiest, stickiest mud to throw.
Politico, back in 2019, did an article on all the assault allegations (as of then) against Trump. While there's plenty of gross, disgusting, and immoral acts (by my sex-negative prudish religious anti-fun judgement), there's only two (unless you go by the updated definition of rape) charges of rape: 'Katie Johnson' with the Epstein allegations, and E. Jean Carroll with her Bergdorf Goodman adventure - which, let me say, I don't believe or at least do not think it proven. Read her account, replace "Trump" with "Biden" and imagine for yourself all the media articles ripping the holes in the story wide open and claiming she was trying to smear a decent man for nefarious reasons, ranging from trying to extort money to being a Republican plant.
The rest are all of the "grab 'em by the pussy" kind: groping, kissing, unwanted touching, invitations to go back to his room. Distinct lack of "I was only twelve and he raped me in the hotel bedroom" accounts:
Sixteen women have come forward with allegations against President Donald Trump, each accusing him of inappropriate conduct. The most recent, from writer and columnist E. Jean Carroll, appeared in NY Magazine on Friday.
The women’s charges range from unwanted touches and aggressive, sudden kissing to the latest accusation against Trump — that he attacked a woman in a dressing room and forced his penis inside her. Donald Trump, his campaign and the Trump White House have insisted all of the stories are fabricated and politically motivated.
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
1d ago
I don't think it's propaganda? I feel like genocide and ethnic cleansing are different ways of slicing the same flavor of activity by severity. I'd define ethnic cleansing as what I said above, and genocide as that + "with the intent to permanently eliminate the group".
Ethnic group: Palestinians
Religion: Muslims
Where are they getting moved: ping-ponging back and forth between the North and South of the strip, the Israeli's would be even happier to push them into Egypt, but they can't.
Israel has an easy time bc Israeli Jews don't live in Gaza, but if they did, they obviously wouldn't be getting shuffled around the strip. I don't think ethnic cleansing requires there to be unaffected people in the geography to contrast against the effected people.
I genuinely have no idea what's true at this point with this conflict but this is pretty on the nose, even for the Levant gang
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
1d ago
In today's "old man yelling at clouds" news, it appears that leftist memes (e.g. on imgur) have taken to calling Trump a pedophile due to his connection with Epstein.
The left finally learned how to meme I guess. Is this the source of the latest round? All I hear is it being spun as "Trump mad that Epstein was stealing underage sex workers teenage employees from his resort" With lots of dark hinting about why Trump would hire teenagers in the first place. Fucking pervert.
And I'm sitting here, feeling the class divide between reporters and everyone else more starkly than ever. I think it was Matt Taibbi who was talking about how reporters used to be a blue collar profession, but they've been increasingly infiltrated and gentrified by ivy league grads. And if this has any validity at all, it comes out here. The people reporting on this are a class of human being with no concept of a highschool summer job. That's what illegals are for. The idea that teenagers are in the service industry is on the face of it suspicious to them. Or that teenage girls (attractive ones to boot) would be in "front of house" positions. I was going to say something like "Has the world really changed that much since I was a teenager?" except all this shit would have happened when I was a teenager so I feel I can speak on it with more authority.
Ah well, I guess you had to be there. A shame these people get to write the first draft of history.
100ProofTollBooth
Dumber than a man, but faster than a dog.
1d ago
That's a pretty good piece of evidence for the hypothesis that Glock saw/sees HK as their primary in-market rival, whereas SIG may have been viewed as a "discount supplier", or just a non-direct competitor. Firms want to win battles they view as being "on their turf." Ford doesn't care if their small car sells less than Toyota or Honda. They absolutely care if the F-150 is losing to Chevy.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
1d ago
Plenty of contemporary commentary, admittedly not all from conservative partisans, used the phrase "taking advantage", which IMO is at least suggestive of the question, but not directly implying non-consent.
HereAndGone
1d ago
The "Trump is a paedophile" stuff is fitting in with the "Trump is a rapist" stuff. People who hate him and are dazzled by the whole "they're going to throw the gays into concentration camps and shoot all the brown and black people and force women to be pregnant every year of their lives" material are just going "well of course he's a rapist, of course he raped thirteen year olds, look at this very credible case of an accuser we should all believe" (I've seen the Jane Doe/Katie Johnson story floating around again recently online years after even the journalists who wanted this humdinger of a story to be true dropped it) because they so desperately want it to be true. Cue relevant C.S. Lewis quote here:
“Suppose one reads a story of filthy atrocities in the paper. Then suppose that something turns up suggesting that the story might not be quite true, or not quite so bad as it was made out. Is one's first feeling, 'Thank God, even they aren't quite so bad as that,' or is it a feeling of disappointment, and even a determination to cling to the first story for the sheer pleasure of thinking your enemies are as bad as possible? If it is the second then it is, I am afraid, the first step in a process which, if followed to the end, will make us into devils. You see, one is beginning to wish that black was a little blacker. If we give that wish its head, later on we shall wish to see grey as black, and then to see white itself as black. Finally we shall insist on seeing everything -- God and our friends and ourselves included -- as bad, and not be able to stop doing it: we shall be fixed for ever in a universe of pure hatred.”
birb_cromble
1d ago
Specifically, the funniest bit of the lawsuits is that HK preemptively filed a lawsuit claiming that the DOD chose Glock without properly considering the other submissions.
After SIG was selected, they quietly withdrew the suit.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1d ago
Which effective measures are we talking about?
SSCReader
1d ago
So overall, great work, but just a couple of comments.
A) I am not sure how well sourced that quote by Staub "Staub described how the BBC's wartime audience — one-third embracing Christianity, one-third neutral, and one-third hostile toward religion" actually is. After all at that time about 90% of the population were some variety of Christian and would seem very odd that they would both be Christian and be either neutral or hostile to religion. Indeed the BBC wouldn't even allow discussion of atheism on air until 1948 or so.
He gets this from Justin Phillips book, which attributes the belief to James Welch. If we seek out where Welch was sourced about this it was in reference to writing a foreword about the Man Born to be King a BBC Radio drama about the life of Christ in 1941. Which indeed did get plenty of pushback... because it was seen as blasphemous and irreverent.
If we read Welch's actual words it turns out he is a) Talking about embracing religious broadcasting not embracing religion in general (and some of the opposition to religious broadcasting was from conservative Christians who though it was blasphemous because it was being translated into common language and idioms, not because they didn't agree with Christianity). b) It's just Welch's feeling. He says "we thought of these three groups (embracing Christian broadcasting, neutral to Christian broadcasting, hostile to Christian broadcasting) as being roughly equal. But there isn't any evidence that they were actually equal in size. All of the other data we have suggests that that he was probably wrong about that. And certainly if we expand it as Staub did to say embracing religion (not just religious broadcasting) it is entirely wrong. The vast majority of listeners would have been Christian believers at the time.
B) Lewis was a Protestant Ulsterman and while born before partition his attitudes towards the non-denominational aspects of Christianity may well have been influenced by the ongoing issues between Catholics and Protestants in Ireland (as well as the role the Catholic Tolkien played in his re-conversion). Indeed we can contrast Lewis and Louis MacNeice (another Belfast born poet and writer for the BBC) both raised Protestant in the Church of Ireland but both falling away from it (also funnily enough my own experience, not sure what that says about the Church of Ireland specifically) but who drew inspiration about that division into his critiques of fascism in 1930's Spain about how different lessons can be learned from similar environments. Though MacNeice supported another poet C. Day-Lewis (father of Daniel Day-Lewis) against C.S. Lewis in an election for Professor of Poetry at Oxford (too many Louis's and Lewis's here clearly!) and was not regarded super well by Lewis for his poetry, they had very similar backgrounds and trajectories. One ending up returning to Christianity, the other as an agnostic.
HereAndGone
1d ago
No, I don't believe what Hamas says, because it's not Hamas saying it. We very much have Israeli government sources saying stuff. We also, since I don't live in America, have voices from other parts of the world saying things.
HereAndGone
1d ago
No, everyone who is in your curated source of news is a lying liar who loves Hamas and wants to obliterate Israel. Or is dumb as dirt and don't realize they're patsies for same.
Reporters. Doctors. Independent charities. People on the ground. All lying shills for Hamas, while the saintly IDF forces are just misunderstood bunnies.
My news isn't curated, unless by that you mean "someone turns on the radio set to the national broadcaster station at work".
I'll say this for present day Israel, they've really successfully ridden the "any breath of criticism is anti-Semitism, are you a Nazi who wants to Holocaust us all over again?" wagon to get people blindly on their side.
roystgnr
1d ago
the US didn't have any more nukes at the time so it would have taken more time and US lives than they may have thought
Groves thought a third bomb would be ready to drop on Japan a week after Nagasaki and could be dropped as soon as weather permitted after that. Even after the surrender, the next bomb was still ready by the end of August. After that things slow up a lot for the next year, from an expected rate of 3 accelerating to 7 bombs per month down to only enough plutonium cores for a bomb every month or two, but I'm not sure if that's because of unexpected difficulties or just because they declined to ramp up production after their expected target finally surrendered.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
1d ago
It might be on the cards! I was very leery when my friend ordered cucumbers in chilli oil, but I was blown away. I'll keep an eye open for the ones you mentioned.
Do you have any evidence to support this? All I've really seen is a bunch of sus shit that could easily be alternatively explained as "person with a lot of connections has a lot of connections" and sensible counter arguments like "the first rule of spy club is don't tell random people you are a spy..."
I don't think it is as clear as you think it is or alternatively - it is very scissorish.
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