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Zensunni Scientologist
3hr ago
Get a biological woman to go on a date with me with a positive, collaborative attitude and not talk about Gaza.
In any college-educated/mostly Blue Tribe milieu, that last requirement is going to be a killer. A genuine Red Tribe setting (i.e. some churches) might be okay.
Skulldrinker
3hr ago
AoC is very much a wokescold.
gattsuru
3hr ago
Yep. I was gonna go with one of the casual exhibitionists to really nail down (hurr hurr) the disjunction, but most of them are either relatively apolitical or overtly lefties.
Drinniol
3hr ago
Well, one thing the democrats could do to better earn my vote is stop publicizing how they hate me and hold me in utter contempt but will pretend otherwise just long enough to get my vote.
In all these inside baseball articles it's never that dems hate white men that's the issue. The issue is merely that white men (ew) have picked up on it and (ugh) are still allowed to vote (gross). "And anyway, we need to figure out how to lie most effectively to convince those 'people' that we don't hate them."
I mean, even if they went full court press tomorrow, White Boy Fall, do they really think anyone would believe it? No amount of cauc worship will help if I know from your own fucking articles that you're completely disingenuous.
Skulldrinker
3hr ago
I occasionally wonder what exactly Team Blue could ever do to entice me to vote for them in a national election
Get a biological woman to go on a date with me with a positive, collaborative attitude and not talk about Gaza.
Skulldrinker
4hr ago
I still don't understand this past-tense attitude, but in the wild I mostly see young women socializing around gay men and trannies if they're interacting with anyone other than another young woman.
newport
4hr ago
I was over at my dads house today helping with some household chores. He lives in a very rural area of a very red state. At the end of the work we went to one of the nearby country bars. It’s the kind of place that farmers, truckers, legit cowboy boot wearers and the working class go to unwind with a cold one.
Vice President Harris was on the TV and the local gun store owner said to his auto mechanic (friends since high school),
“You know what? She ain’t so bad. The economy is recovering, nobody’s rioting, and we’re standing up on the world stage again. Can’t believe I’m saying this but Ol’ Oakland Kam’s got my vote this year.”
I looked around and all I saw were heads nodding in agreement. I heard a few calls of “Yes sir” and “Damn Straight” from the men around me. Even saw the lonely ball cap wearing farmer in the corner raise his drink with a nod.
Skulldrinker
4hr ago
The compassion is typically abstract and superficial.
magic9mushroom
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4hr ago
He said two bullets, not three (and said he'd assign them Gilbert/Gilbert).
Skulldrinker
4hr ago
The populists ARE the wokescolds. Most of the politically active base of the democrats loathe them for being neo-liberal/not-socialists.
I might be in a horrible filter bubble, but I encounter obnoxious leftists IRL several times a week and they seem pretty "popular"
MathWizard
Good things are good
4hr ago
Seems more like a soft R? Or no R. It's patronizing and disconnected but still offensive in a similar way that going up to a bunch of black guys and calling them "my nigga". Because that's what they call each other, right? Right? Probably maybe? Vote for me my niggas!
Skulldrinker
4hr ago
Talk is cheap. I've seen way more performative fear of men from frumpy women than hot women.
Nostradamus_2
4hr ago
I'm surprised people actually read this here.
The reason why I chose to have the sister not in any danger is that I wanted to show how the AI is so advanced that it models psychological processes that we wouldn't even notice. He's not thinking about how his sister's going through that strait, but it is subconsciously effecting him in an irrational way, and those irrational, subconscious processes are our weakness if there was something smart enough to predict them.
In essence, imagine something so good at manipulating you on such a tiny scale that you couldn't possibly begin to fight back. That's what I was going for.
magic9mushroom
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4hr ago
I added the caveats because, well, you can't do this safely in urban streets, or on a winding cliffside road in heavy fog. It also helps to know how your car actually handles at those speeds; stopping distance for 180 km/h is just a wee bit longer than for 110 km/h, and AIUI you also can't turn as rapidly without skidding. And I mean, I think some cars still exist that generate positive lift?
Tiber727
4hr ago
Is life in prison due to a kangaroo court much better? As that is something Dem actually attempted to do to Trump. And certainly I don't remember if any Dems were vocally against it.
The bolded is your subjective assessment, and rather the pivotal element which changes the situation from fair to unfair. If the Democrats don't think it was a kangaroo court, would you still expect them to be against it?
Skulldrinker
4hr ago
Why would any of them want to be around young politically-active democrats? They'll have to grin through a bunch of "straight white men, amirite?" Comments, every conversation about media will inevitably turn into how queer something is or how problematic it is for being from the wrong era. They'll be asked their pronouns as a social formality. All the women who don't have dicks will be they/thems in an open demi-asexual polycule, and while walking to wherever it is they're volunteering, the female volunteers will notice that a man is walking in the same direction as them and be performatively afraid. And whatever they're volunteering for, it'll be to do with People of Color somehow.
I don't see the appeal. Leftist Activism is a subculture/social scene larping as a political movement, full of utterly insufferable people.
07mk
4hr ago
Intellectuals are more capable than the hoi polloi of elaborate self-deception.
To get on my favorite tangent, even though I have high skepticism of most social science, I do believe that the best evidence right now indicates that this is true. As such, intellectuals have no excuse for being unaware that they themselves are more susceptible to self-deception than the hoi polloi. And if they choose not to take extra steps - more than they expect a typical layman to take - to guard against the possibility of them deceiving themselves, they are admitting that they prioritize their own biases over truth.
Which is all well and good, but I just wish people who did this would be open about it instead of deceiving others about their embrace of self-deception over truth.
birb_cromble
4hr ago
Those hills catch you by surprise. I definitely went into a barely-controlled skid to avoid smacking into a small herd of deer cresting one of those hills once.
Tiber727
4hr ago
There are some interesting parallels here to the run-up to the election, when the common talking point was that the Democrats using the legal system to go after Trump, or removing Trump from the ballot for treason were massive norm violations.
If we were talking jail maybe, but personally I don't see how adding "...by the government, after a trial (in which my desired outcome is the just one)" to "I hope my political opponent is executed" makes it not support of violence.
07mk
5hr ago
There's something special about using a phrase coined for people who are never nude to describe porn advocates.
crushedoranges
Can Marx explain the used panties market?
5hr ago
Intellectuals are more capable than the hoi polloi of elaborate self-deception. I suspect that at least some of us here are immersed in the New York Times reading, granola-eating, NOVA-commuting segment of the American population where things like seeing Kamela Harris as a viable candidate are in vogue.
The word vane comes from the Old English word fana, meaning "flag".
A weather vane points which way the wind blows. It moves to face the wind.
Crucially, the bellwether precedes the flock, while the weather vane follows the wind. Slight differences.
magic9mushroom
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5hr ago
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I've had friends who enjoyed stretches of road like that in New Mexico, but I don't think any of them exist in Virginia.
Yeah, I guess this is where me being Australian starts to show up as relevant to my intuitions about this, because once you get a couple of hundred kilometres inland in eastern Australia (haven't been to the west) the highways start to look like "straight road for 50 kilometres, dead-flat wheat field for 100m on either side, no trees, mostly no large animals".
Why is it considered mandatory to moralize about a cause they only found out about last week on a date? I'm not interested in talking to brainworms. Or in being verbally bludgeoned with emotionally-loaded words.
I don't want to hear about Jesus either.
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