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George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
2d ago
I'm for the dual-pricing system in Japan-- one for Japanese (or local residents) and a different, higher price for tourists, who are almost always disruptive and are seemingly everywhere in Osaka now. This could be charged to me unless I initiated some negotiating tactic, which would itself be disruptive.
Terracotta
2d ago
certainly not relations on the terms I'd have once looked for (not overweight, not a single mother, not a drug addict, not older than me, not prodigal).
So you haven't had much response from younger women who are 75th+-percentile slender and wholly unencumbered. Out of curiosity, what happened when you reached out to women who were slightly plump, slightly older than you, or divorced/had a kid in tow?
Jiro
2d ago
If they're lower in cognitive ability they aren't similarly situated. And if they have a different major they certainly aren't.
magic9mushroom
If you're going to downvote me, and nobody's already voiced your objection, please reply and tell me
2d ago
Well, I apologise for mischaracterising you on the neo-Nazi point. Guess this must have been on Reddit, and you just haven't bothered to restate it since.
You're also mischaracterising me, though. I'm somewhat anti-Zionist myself, and there are plenty of others on this site that do not draw the accusations you do. The reason you get accusations of wanting to gas the Jews is because you AIUI combine anti-Zionism with having little faith in ability to assimilate Jews and believing Jewish-exploitativity and Ashkenazi-Jewish-intelligence HBD. At that point, there aren't really a lot of options left for solving the problem; I will grudgingly grant that assuming gas chambers is somewhat uncharitable, but the least-horrifying solution I can see with those premises would literally be ghettos. And, well, you're not an idiot and you clearly think about the Jewish Question a great deal, so it would be very strange if you hadn't reasoned that through.
(To boil down my disagreements with those premises, I think Jews are pretty assimilable if you make an effort, I think any form of HBD on Jews is much, much more suspect than HBD on Africans/Austronesians/Everyone Else due to shorter timescales, and given that of the Jews and part-Jews I've notably interacted with (and I am part-Jew myself, though it's a small part) most of them seemed fine (and the one major exception was probably just a case of misplaced righteousness meeting overconfidence in a risky plan) I'm not really feeling the whole "Jews are evil" thing.)
I mean, I suppose I do have to grant that it's possible to hold a bunch of premises that imply a conclusion and then just go "but I refuse to accept this conclusion, fuck logic". Have to, because there are two issues on which I've basically done that and laid down an unprincipled exception for the sake of my sanity. Is this you?
The US claims to have an interest in non-proliferation and international order. If Iran gets one, Saudi Arabia gets one. Israel already has one.
So now, instead of one independent-minded nuclear power, you have three in a region of the world a huge amount of oil and trade passes through. Lots of chances for drama. (Also, harder for the US to threaten a nuclear nation)
Maybe nothing happens. But it'd just be better to not deal with this.
veqq
2d ago
Persians rising up against the Azeri controlled state, is more plausible, since in a purely national lens, Azeris currently control the government as both the current president and supreme leader are Azeri. (I don't think either will happen nor that nationalities are a useful lens here, because there are so many and very few people are "only" "Persian".)
hydroacetylene
2d ago
What are some interesting contrasts on the same issue in your personal policy views?
For me, I think it should be illegal to sell already cold beer for off premises consumption, because people use it to drink and drive- but also that lowering the drinking age would probably be a good idea.
AvocadoPanic
2d ago
Yes that may be a disaster for Israel. How exactly would that be a disaster for the USA?
cae_jones
2d ago
Watching the DR apply the same "America worst" logic formerly typically used by the antiwar left is certainly amusing.
I get the impression that the DR largely is the antiwar left, who got kicked out of the left because reasons.
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
I'm not sure why Iran getting a nuclear weapon is such a disaster.
I suppose it depends on how seriously one takes their maximalist rhetoric against Israel.
BurdensomeCount
—Your em dash is showing...
2d ago
Honestly if Jews really did half of the shit they are accused of doing they'd be the coolest ethnic group on the planet hands down.
MonkeyWithAMachinegun
Dancing to Tom Paine's Bones
2d ago
is patently silly
It is a gentleman's agreement left over from the cold war, to allow nuclear-armed states to fight each other without actually fighting each other. In exchange, both parties can avert the specter of nuclear war. The United States did not declare war on the USSR when Soviet pilots were training the North Vietnamese, and in at least one confirmed instance actively fired upon US pilots, nor when Soviet "advisors" were the ones actually manning and running the North Vietnamese SAM sites, and the Soviets did not declare war on the US after we returned the favor in Afghanistan. The Chinese and the Soviets did not immediately leap to arms against each other during the Sino-Vietnamese War.
It applies even in cases where both parties are not nuclear powers, or only one is a nuclear power and the other is not, and it allows both parties to avert the specter of true total war, which would be so destructive as to not be worth it. Because it creates deniability. Note I did not say plausible deniability, the United States was not fooled for a second by the Chinese People's Volunteer Army in Korea, but the United States did not want to invade China and China did not want the United States to feel as though it had to invade China. A Chinese army, flying the Chinese flag, shooting Americans flying the American flag means war. There is no two ways about it. But a Chinese army flying the Korean flag, or no flag, shooting Americans flying the American flag means that the Chinese can intervene and the United States does not have to declare war. Oh the US could have declared war if the decision-makers really truly wanted to, but the Chinese gave them an opportunity to not declare war, and they took it.
It's not about how silly it is, nor how obvious the culpability is. It is about providing an out. Even if it is a very silly out, even if it is a very obviously artificial out, it is an out. Thus do Moscow and DC remain something other than glowing puddles of radioactive soup.
ZanarkandAbesFan
2d ago
Watching the DR apply the same "America worst" logic formerly typically used by the antiwar left is certainly amusing.
The woke right strikes again.
Iconochasm
2. Bootstrap the rest of the fucking omnipotence.
2d ago
You're looking at it from the perspective of someone that just wants to live a peaceful life and look after their and their family's own interests. Iran getting a nuke and the rest of the ME following suit means no more imperial expansion into what is basically the nemesis of the western empire's fucked up and vulnerable back yard.
Even if there isn't enough public support for a ground war today. It keeps the option open down the road and makes color revolutions and that kind of thing more possible. As it's questionable to regime change a nuclear nation since you don't know what the power vacuum and instability will bring.
Iconochasm
2. Bootstrap the rest of the fucking omnipotence.
2d ago
I was recently at a Faire type event and briefly saw a family I've known for a long time. The mother was a part of my college-aged social circle, and the older daughter is my son's age. They live down the street, and we have little contact for reasons that will be made abundantly clear.
The younger child, chronologically 5, biologically a son, was clad in a full Faire style Faerie Princess regalia, complete with wings. His long hair was plaited, and every article of clothing was not even unisex, but just straight up girl's clothing and sandals. Anyone seeing a picture of the lad would have thought him a girl, and anyone seeing him as I did, in the minute before I made hurried excuses and fled, would have suspected he was a boy by the way he reached insistantly for an ornate foam weapon, like the song in his blood knew his hand was made to grip a sword. He was stymied in his efforts by the gentle chiding of his blue-haired pussy cuck "father" (I use the scare quotes because I'd bet 5:1 odds that the kid is literally not his).
In the time I've known them, in all my observations, I've never seen the boy hold a ball. Pick up a stick. Have a single instant of non-supervised or mildly rambunctious fun.
I feel so bad for that boy, and so angry at his Devouring Mother, who homeschools both children because our Blue State curriculum isn't woke enough. That situation seems at least as bad as gay conversion camp, and I would call it flatly worse if and when it progresses to medical interventions.
And yet.
I'm not going to violently free the poor oppressed child. I'm not even going to call out his mother. I might say something to the daughter's father, a close friend. I feel a deep aversion to so overtly criticizing the way other people raise their kids, even when I find it abhorent. I might try to slip the kid some ball games, and maybe leave a few High Quality Sticks in his yard, but I probably wouldn't even risk a socially awkward conversation for the sake of it.
Where do you all draw the line? At what point would you intervene? When should the State intervene?
self_made_human
C'est la vie
2d ago
I mean, a lot of it hinges on the threshold for what counts as "hair loss". A single strand? Who hasn't lost one of those? It's more to do with what's noticeable to yourself or others.
coffee_enjoyer
☕️
2d ago
If the argument is “Iran is a religious extremist country”, then we should see religious extremist TFR, which coincides wherever there is religious extremism, always. In such diverse places as
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Minnesota, where the Salafi-infused Muslim households have a TFR of 5, and the women wear niqab with more frequency than Iran
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Brooklyn New York, where the Haredim have a TFR of 6
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The rare regions of traditional Catholicism in France
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TLM-attending Catholics throughout America (simply represents the most extremist branch of Catholicism)
If you’re telling me that Iran has a religious extremist problem, and yet they can’t manage to get their women to have more than 2 kids or wear a veil property, I am going to conclude someone has lied to you. Because this is the hallmark, textbook sign of a society filled with Abrahamic conviction. Especially among Muslims, where the particular sphere of women has always been greatly delineated. Religious extremism means “clerics tell me what to do and I obey”, and if not even the women obey then no one cares. So I conclude that there is no extremism, based upon this fact in addition to other facts.
WhateverHappenedToNorman
2d ago
instead finding an equivalent of the trans issue to channel their energy.
The trans issue, but on the other side.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Except Israel's had Nukes for decades.
MonkeyWithAMachinegun
Dancing to Tom Paine's Bones
2d ago
The sport has truly spoiled me, I can't really get into any other league
It really is hard to beat. I mean football kinda comes close with how hard they hit, but at the same time it's not expected, in the same way it is expected in Hockey, that if someone on the ice disrespects your team or your teammates you drop your gloves and just beat the shit out of them (or at least try to) then and there. No other team sport has that same level of physicality. Sure MMA has more blood, but it's not a team sport. You're not watching a group of guys come together to fight for the win, you're watching two dudes whale on each other. I don't just watch for the fights, to be clear, but the fact that fights are an integral part of the sport does elevate it. It makes hockey special.
And then as you mentioned, there's the off-the-ice component. Where you can see the player's personalities shine, and you can see the sheer joy of what they do shine through them.
Lizzardspawn
2d ago
Feel free to make money on polymarket.
No, if Iran with a nuke is dangerous, letting them have it because you don’t want to lose a midterm is short sighted. A nuke detonated anywhere on earth would kill millions. That would certainly be worse than losing a midterm. Especially if that nuke hits an American or allied city, an American military base, or some high value target in the Middle East.
Israel is Israel and they’re frankly not part of my analysis here. If Israel didn’t exist, I think the history of Islamic radicalism would make an Islamic nuke a danger to world stability. A religion that says those who kill for God with a weapon that can obliterate a city is not something that would improve my insomnia.
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