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RegularlyExpressed
4m ago
The most obvious element is that it is very dangerous to stand up in public and discussion Jewish overrepresentation.
Are Jews overrepresented in the UK (which is where I'm assuming our discussion is focused on)? This is a genuine question - I can only think of a small handful of political figures/journalists.
Beyond that, I think that the continued mawkish emphasis of the Holocaust in my country is mostly down to Jewish activism; it was horrible, but it happened hundreds of miles away, in a totally different country with whom we were at war, seventy years ago.
I'd want to see evidence of that. I'm sure Jewish communities appreciate it being remembered but the Holocaust is emphasised far more IMO in order to underline that we in the UK were on the "right side" of the war, against the indescribably terrible Nazis. Compare that to our relationship with WWI, where even though we won the main sentiment towards it is almost one of national regret that our incompetent (in the public imagination) leadership frivolously threw away the lives of so many young men. Could you imagine any media depicting the role of UK in WWII similarly to how it is in Blackadder goes forth?
And yet we are spending 100m of public money in 2024 to pave over a park in Central London so that it can be turned into a Holocaust memorial*, even rewriting our own planning laws because they forbid it, and heavily implying that the only difference between Britain and Nazi Germany is that the anti-semitic fascists happened to turn up there and not here.
I haven't heard about this, so would be interested in learning more. Was this a Jewish initiative? I'd assume this is far more likely to be the brainchild of the sort of public sector worker who put Hadiths on the display board in KX.
Beyond those two points, I have no idea what influence is going on behind the scenes. I hope not too much, but I am not so naive as to think that a group with disproportionate influence is not wielding it at all. Thus my desire for transparency.
Apart from not being able to discuss the influence of British Jews, what is the main influence of British Jews (beyond that they're probably up to something)? It's not like they even affect our relationship with Israel that much, tied as it is to American foreign policy in the region. Most of the media left of the Telegraph is pretty relentlessly hostile to Israel, and it's hard to imagine a group with much influence allowing London to be taken over most weekends by thousands of people chanting genocidal chants towards them. If anything increasing Muslim immigration is likelier to play a far larger role in affecting our geopolitical stances in the future, and Indian immigration has already led to a member of that group being Prime Minister (the Jews, despite having been here much longer, haven't had one since Disraeli). It seems like Jews are one of the least influential groups in the country.
ToaKraka
Dislikes you
11m ago
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self_made_human
Kai su, teknon?
25m ago
Honestly, I'm impressed you manage to be so productive, considering all you mention.
I write the most when I'm drowning in work and responsibilities, it's a pleasant form of procrastination. But in this case, I have a legit fire under my ass, I can't afford to fuck up the one good thing I've got going haha.
I did a while ago, recommended to a friend too. "I'll take a look" - never did, flaky bastard
Why, thank you. If I had a Patreon, I'd bump you up to cameo in novel tier, but since I don't, I'll just hand that to you for free. If you do actually want a character to show up, just let me know and I'll make it happen.
FCfromSSC
Nuclear levels of sour
26m ago
When you are weak it is best to avoid antagonizing your enemy.
Granting for the sake of discussion that Reds are "weak", it seems to me that all Red Tribe victories in living memory have come from actions generally characterized as antagonistic, and no valuable victories have ever been delivered through actions generally characterized as cooperative or conciliatory. Further, given the state of the culture war, it's hard to imagine how this could possibly be otherwise. Many, many Blue Tribe actions, especially in the last decade, seem to me to be strongly antagonistic to the point where a response is fundamentally necessary to retain even a modicum of legitimacy for the existing system.
The worst case scenario is that the bureacracy would just say "no" to Trump's orders, precipitating a constitutional crisis.
What's driving your definition of "worst case", here? Worst case relative to what?
I believe the current system has been engineered by Blues to be incapable of providing redress for Red grievances. It doesn't matter what elections we win, what laws we pass, what norms we follow, what processes we engage with, the output is always failure for our goals and values and victory for those of Blues. If that is the situation, then how would precipitating a constitutional crisis make things "worse"? We've already seen the normalization of organized political violence nationwide, universal violations of fundamental human rights, the partisan weaponization of the security services, and the complete collapse of rule of law. What would a constitutional crisis add to those problems?
I am perfectly willing to see Trump die in jail. Trump is by no means irreplicable, and his value as a martyr could easily exceed his value as a President. It seems obviously worse to me to see the numerous catastrophic abuses committed by Blue Tribe be cemented into durable norms, as was done with their abuses in previous generations. Playing nice for fear of the consequences of conflict is exactly how we arrived in our current predicament. It is past time to fight fire with fire.
non_radical_centrist
32m ago
I'll delete and reupload then
It mostly didn't work, but settling with Defense Distributed (and giving a not-trivial amount of cash in the settlement offer) is the sort of lawfare I'd expect from a coldblooded conservative, if small-scale by the standards of that sort of cy pres-like lawfare. And then there's the obvious guesswho stuff that didn't work entirely.
I agree that a Count of Monte Cristo-style planned revenge isn't really Trump's strong point, though.
EDIT: that said, I do think it's the sort of thing Paxton would a) have the temperament and skills for, and b) absolutely do it for both political ends and to make an impulsive boss happy.
Lost_Geometer
39m ago
athletic / athleisure brands no longer use scenes of competitive dominance in their marketing.
Neat observation. I see there's a preponderance of ads not showing competition. Did they ever market victory though? For essentially their entire market, competitive dominance is kayfabe. Sure, you might have a collection of medals or team victories, but that's only because of the competition structure that allows you to compare yourself to a pool of people that are similarly mediocre. If the elite show up you'd quickly see that you barely play the same sport. Worse, for things like long distance running in a populous area, actually winning any event is a 1 in 1000 thing. At best, you're fighting to beat the fucker 10 feet in front of you.
self_made_human
Kai su, teknon?
41m ago
I believe the cool kids are primarily on Snapchat, but insta hasn't turned into an old age home quite yet.
A large bit of it is that women love snooping on profiles. It helps them get a lay of the land, though it's not like guys don't do that, but that's for altogether different terrain.
Does the guy know how to dress? Has some semblance of a social life? Does he have anything interesting going on that isn't just drinking beer, playing football on a PS4 and so on? Useful things to know. While the utter absence of a social media presence isn't necessarily a deal breaker, it's a big deal to the kind of women who haunt dating apps. And what am I, if not obliging? And what are my two dogs, if not incredibly photogenic? All I have to do is stick my face in the frame and they'll do the heavy lifting.
I've already said that you were incredibly lucky to be using dating apps before they were turned into glorified gacha games, and that too, meeting someone you could spend the rest of your life with there. Well, it's been long enough since that was the case that the two of you must be having a nice, comfortable old time. Don't mind me, not jealous in the least.
ThisIsSin
Tomboys: transgender or transcendental?
45m ago
What happens in X years when they shut the servers down that it wants to connect to?
Or when they decide that actually, heated seats should be a subscription, and force-disables that feature remotely.
Or you get a software update to Autopilot, and then the weird intersection you've been driving through just fine for years all of a sudden stops being recognized, and now it tries to drive you into the barriers at 70 mph.
Tesla is not a [tech] company that prides itself on actually serving the customer.
WhiningCoil
46m ago
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Reddit strikes again. A shame you didn't just cut and paste it here.
I was never a covid warrior, but all the scuffed and faded "stand 6ft away at all times," "social distancing is mandatory" signs everywhere always bothered me.
The other day I noticed that in under a week all the local ones have vanished. All of a sudden, after four God damn years.
Is this just coincidence? Local businessmen talking about it at a meetup? Has it happened anywhere else?
The British government also just came out and said it was time to remove it all. Why now?
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
52m ago
The_Nybbler
Does not have a yacht
53m ago
Biden is being forced to defend the black vote, and it's going badly.
Yeah but that's Israel rather than any style issue. He can't go full Hamas without losing a rather important segment of Democratic elites (and anyway I'm pretty sure it's not personally his desire to do so), but that hurts him with blacks.
Well, yeah. Isn’t that what asscreed is all about?
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