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2rafa
7m ago
It would not be wholly surprising to see Vance finish out the term but I think he has (very, very) far from a clear path to victory in 2028 even in that scenario.
astrolabia
10m ago
What kinds of people have the power to end Trump? His staff?
FoundViaTwitter
14m ago
beauties like Wind Waker.
Man, the visuals in WW hold up so well.
4doorsmorewhores
17m ago
I don't understand this response. What do spurious degrees, the failed debt forgiveness plan, or "cartel-like" (????) behaviour of HR have to do with the dating market? Are you confusing the real economy and market with the dating market? I don't think this engaged with Prima's question about why women would settle for poor stupid smelly boyfriends
FoundViaTwitter
18m ago
Ok, I'm not trying to make you angry here. I'll stop asking questions.
In fact I wonder why the WSJ didn't leak the actual letter. The WSJ reporter saw the alleged letter and was able to transcribe its entire text, yet they couldn't release an image of the letter? My guess is that it's a shoddy fake and that if the internet got to see the letter itself then the charade would fall apart immediately. But if the WSJ "journalist" puts his head in the sand and turns off his brain, they can legitimately say they had no idea it was fake.
The idea that the WSJ wouldn't have the resources to make a decently convincing letter seems weak though. Some sort of legal strategy or source protection makes sense.
It's also possible that they don't even have a copy of it itself, like if a whistleblower snuck the paper out of the files, showed the journalist, and then snuck it back in and they don't want to leave any hard evidence behind the security violations while still getting the info out. Hell maybe even a journalist got snuck in to see the files directly, but that's unlikely.
hydroacetylene
23m ago
If Vance has a chance to take Trump out now, he'll almost certainly get another one after the midterms- and he has to take the presidency after the midterms to be able to serve two full terms. Better to get six months that way than three years this way.
WhiningCoil
25m ago
This is the thing I don't think people grok.
I DID. They lasted about 4-6 years each. That's how much fucking immigration is happening! Every time I have this argument with people, they act like history started yesterday, and the areas that are full of 3rd worlders always were and you should have known better than to live there if that's not what you wanted, and the areas that are still American always will be and are there for you if that's what you want. And if the naked falsehood of that hasn't been made plain by my abridged life story RE: Immigration, I don't know what else I can do to make you understand.
phailyoor
27m ago
I've never been to one but I've read that the exchange stores on US military bases have good prices and also makes a profit for the government. My understanding is that they are run by the US government directly.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
30m ago
Idk, timing is pretty tough, if you have Trump on the ropes you put him away, you don't let him recover so you can knock him out in the fourth round.
FoundViaTwitter
30m ago
I see. I'm sorry for all this. I hope your life improves.
I'm not trying to be flippant, and of course your circumstances may have been such that you couldn't and still can't move away, but why not go to a majority white area to get away from all the immigrants you despise? Idaho? Montana? Missoula is like 80% white city-wide and 95% white in the suburbs. That's just one example; there are many places in America to go to - plenty of places even in Virginia if you're still here - to live among white people.
Thanks for that. I actually got a dark chuckle out of it.
I was thinking since last night if I wanted to address that comment. Would it be worth my time? Would anyone even read it and contemplate what it's like to have had those experiences repeatedly? Can I even write it without getting worked up and using a no-no word or a turn of phrase that will get me perma banned? I wrote it over and over probably 3 or 4 times, deleting and thinking it's not worth the effort or it's too risky. But when I finally sacked up and had a version of the post I thought would pass, in the back of my mind I wondered if anyone would even read it, or would it just be dismissed out of hand. Fitting that the first comment, so hot on it's heels, is just rank "I don't believe you".
Yes, I know people don't believe me. That's why I'm so angry all the time.
hydroacetylene
37m ago
It seems like the obvious way to square this circle is that Israeli forces are being generally indiscriminate in Gaza and the officer who ordered a potshot at Holy Family Parish did not realize this was a location to be treated with kid gloves(which it does). The Israeli government did not want to destroy the church or they would have presumably done it via artillery fire that 'missed'. They also let cardinal Pizzaballa visit and call more attention to the place.
iprayiam3
42m ago
Sun Fresh market isn't government run and never was...the store owner bailed out, but the city, not wanting to see their strip mall project go bust, gave a nonprofit millions in cash to keep the store afloat.
Yeah I'm not seeing what you're getting at here. Sure, no specific scheme is going to be exactly like the other, but no 'gov owned, staffed by gov employees' grocery store is going to happen, this is the closest thing to it that you will get in America. I think you're splitting hairs.
hydroacetylene
43m ago
Vance is smart and utterly ruthless. That scares people.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
44m ago
It's not uncommon to only indirectly hear about a place, or maybe even visit briefly (as a tourist) and see only the positive side of things. Negatives tend to be more stochastic and harder to evaluate on short time scales. I think plenty of folks have visited the Japan of high-speed public transit and anime, but not seen, say, the sky-high conviction rates of those that raise the ire of prosecutors, or the controversial shrines to WWII troops that committed war crimes. Or the UK, visiting all the Royal tourist spots, never getting harassed by police at odd hours over edgy Twitter posts. Or China, where they advertise clean, modern urban centers, just don't ask about what happened in 1989, or about Tibet or Xinjiang. Or Singapore, as long as you don't bring gum or spray paint.
I think at some level most places have skepticism of public servants. My typical interaction with (American) police is polite and professional, but I'll believe accounts that they're sometimes not.
WandererintheWilderness
52m ago
Shame on the government for allowing a fentanyl crisis to fester and claim lives, you might equally say.
WhiningCoil
55m ago
You may have had much more negative experiences with immigrants.
To put it bluntly, yes.
I've written about it here and there. I'll try to give a concise summary of my grief and sense of loss. Of late I've been stuck on the "Anger" step, and I question whether I'll ever move beyond it and find "Acceptance".
I was born in the 80's. In the late 90's for reasons that are utterly baffling to me, my Virginia town began to get flooded with illegal immigrants. The first impact this had on my life was when two Mexicans with mustaches were put in my middle school classroom. They beat the shit out of us, were totally uncontrollable, and were there about 2 weeks. It was weird. Very weird. It foreshadowed much of what was to come.
By highschool my town was getting a bit of a reputation. Illegals were renting properties, and then cramming them with insane numbers of people who utterly destroyed them. Lower class white areas became even worse ghettos over the course of a few years. Gang activity increased. A curfew on teenagers was instituted county wide. It became dangerous to drive through town. The most common scenario was some unregistered beater an illegal bought second hand would slam into you going the wrong way down a one way street, or blowing through a red light. A half dozen day laborers would flee the vehicle and vanish into the ether, and your car would be totaled. A buddy of mine had a worse experience, and a gang of illegals tried to pull him out of his vehicle at a stop light. As he tells it, he gouged out one of their eyes and sped through the light as quick as he could. He worked as a bouncer at the time, I can believe it.
At some point my town passed some Arizona style immigration crackdown laws, but the courts denied us them. The decision was basically only the feds can enforce immigration law, and if they wanted my town to become a lawless foreign colony, it would. And it did.
I moved away, I started working. A coworker of mine's family (Brother's wife and daughter) were raped and killed by an illegal immigrant house painter when he was left alone with them. I regularly encountered drunk Mexicans in the middle of the road at night, trying to visit friends or just do some late night shopping. They'd just be stumbling down the middle of the damned road on a blind turn, 45 mph speed zone, trying to make a vehicular manslaughterer out of me.
I moved again. Things were OK for a while. The massive unchecked immigration continued. I found my wife, though we weren't married yet. We started finding bullets along the walking trails, and there were increasing reports of B&E's and shots being fired into random homes for gang initiations. One family found their daughter's bedroom window had been shot through, and her pillow had been hit. Luckily she hadn't been in her bed at the time. At some point there was a hostage situation in the house behind us that ended when the retard lit fire to his own home and then charged the police with a knife.
I moved again. Things were OK for a while. Then they got weird again. The gas station on the corner I always filled up at in the morning started getting robbed with some regularity. People started stopping me in the street, yelling at me for money. The last straw was when someone was shot in my town home parking lot, shooter on the loose, and me with a 3 month old baby at home. I arrived home from work to police positively swarming the block, and my wife terrified.
I moved again. Things are OK so far. But my nation is dead and rotting. I know the rot will follow me again. I don't know what to do or where to go to give my children a future anymore. I went back to my home town for a parade at some point. When you have kids anything to do sounds good. The museum to the accomplishments and hardships of my ancestors had been "renovated". It now celebrated the fictitious diversity my town has always had. The paving stones with names of donors, including my grandfather, had been unceremoniously torn up and sent to the dump. The compact with generations past that they would be remembered sent to the dump along with them. So it goes to be conquered.
phailyoor
59m ago
Thought about this more and wrote a more direct response in a separate comment: https://www.themotte.org/post/2254/culture-war-roundup-for-the-week/348256?context=8#context
urquan
Hold! What you are doing to us is wrong! Why do you do this thing?
1hr ago
Which is why I'm a PC gamer now; I just buy old games for the cheap on Steam.
I've been a PC gamer since I was a kid, I always was ok with mouse and keyboard but I can't use a controller to save my life(s). When PC gaming and system building started to get big I was pretty startled at all the attention the PC was getting, I was just a geek who liked tinkering with systems and suddenly all my male relatives are asking me for PC recommendations!
phailyoor
1hr ago
By saying the name of the organization, you have also said the words in that phrase. By saying those words, you have necessarily incepted the idea represented by that phrase into the mind of yourself and the minds of your readers. Even though the idea may be completely irrelevant to your intended discussion denouncing or even defending the organization, you have necessarily made the idea represented by the phrase a topic of contemplation and discussion, even against your best intention.
You have also contributed to the dissemination of that idea as readers who have not heard that phrase before will be exposed to it now. Especially without an explicit denial of the idea, introducing a new idea to someone carries a small implicit endorsement. This might not be particularly an issue with the phrase that has the same words as the name of that organization, but in general I believe this rule applies.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
IIRC that scene was in the (admittedly heavily embellished)source material- the Vikings(or their Christianized great-grandchildren, whatever) themselves were the ones who lied about it.
teleoplexy
1hr ago
Do you use LLMs when writing? If so, what percentage of your novel has been written by LLMs?
It’s not politics if people aren’t angry. Nothing to apologize for. Feel free to ask away as long as you find value in it.
(Also that’s just WhiningCoil don’t worry about it.)
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