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ThisIsSin
Liberty has an anti-privilege bias
9m ago
the most egregious motte-and-bailey that is currently widely accepted
No, the most egregious motte-and-bailey is "consent".
Note that this statement:
Call someone a 'pedophile' because they express attraction towards someone just barely under the age of majority, and uninformed onlookers might very well imagine that they're a predator who stalks 10 year olds with designs on kidnapping and molesting them.
is a specific version of the more general form, which is:
Call someone a
'pedophile'rapist because they express attraction towardssomeone just barely under the age of majoritya woman who isn't interested, and uninformed onlookers might very well imagine that they're a predator who stalks 10 year olds with designs on kidnapping and molesting them.
and the popular definition of "pedophile" is fundamentally just the most defensible/best Think Of The Children extension of that core idea. (Because no, that definition only includes man on girl; we pretend it includes man on boy when it's politically convenient to do so, but we don't treat the two equally.)
Stellula
11m ago
Can I prove that my dog is a dog? Can you prove that Robert Maxwell was an Israeli intelligence asset?
Listen to the podcast I linked. It’s a 6 hour long answer to your question.
AvocadoPanic
13m ago
Lost and overwhelmed.
My wife (20 years) and and have been having marital difficulties, I believe she's depressed and has become involved in some online extremist communities. Her online 'persona' had been bleeding through in real life more and more.
Yesterday being the netadmin for my own network I undertook a block of many of the apps and sites.
Today while she was collecting our 4 children from vacation bible school, I saw she had left her laptop open. She'd been very secretive with it recently. I snooped.
She's been sending bitcoin to someone in control of an @aol.com address apparently believing she's arranging an in person meeting with Elon Musk, who she says in her email she has been in contact with for a while. They're expecting 10k for a meeting with Elon.
She's refusing to see a therapist alone or with me, she's refused to see a psychiatrist.
Anyone encountered anything like this?
Any suggestions?
jake
13m ago
If you're looking for another person for editing, feel free to message me. I can provide a sample from my own writing if you'd want to see my bona fides.
token_progressive
maybe not the only progressive here
16m ago
While I agree that it's out of the Overton Window of what I expect to appear in the pages of the Huff Post or NYT, "Bill Clinton is a rapist" is something that is commonly stated on /r/politics (in the context of the right countering claims against Trump by bringing up Bill Clinton), and I'd be astonished if any millennial or younger person I knew would disagree.
thejdizzler
19m ago
At least at Hopkins (where I am), it's woke all the way down.
anti_dan
21m ago
Full blockade of all supplies. Bombing of any building with credible intelligence that a fighter or weaponry is in. Creeping artillery barrages of the entire territory. Things like that
Throwaway05
22m ago
but it's mostly isolated to the "usual suspect" departments: anthropology, sociology, literature, and The Studies.
Medicine is a much "harder" field than the social sciences but is pretty much just as woke captured, with all the bells and whistles you see along with that and extremely problematic results such as lots of people on this forum not believing that COVID actually happened.
You'd have to completely redo a million things to get anything resembling more politically balanced medicine and with the way our licenses can be attacked nobody has any interest in stepping up without a ton of protection.
roystgnr
24m ago
If the "ping" in "ping-ponging" is ethnic cleansing, would the "pong" be "ethnic dirtying"? Getting someone out of an area permanently because you want to settle there would be ethnic cleansing, but getting someone out temporarily because it's an active war zone and then bringing them back when it's safe is just good manners, not ethnic cleansing.
There may be ethnic cleansing to come later, because the Israelis can't possibly have failed to notice that "thread the West Back back and forth with settlers" turned out to be a surprisingly secure situation relative to "leave Gaza entirely and hope that leads to peace and then watch your civilians get massacred", but if you want to retain the trust and moral standing to oppose ethnic cleansing when it happens, don't go all boy-who-cried-wolf in the meantime.
the Israeli's would be even happier to push them into Egypt, but they can't.
There are Israelis who would be happy to push the Gazans into Egypt; there are other Israelis who were happy to bring Gazans to Israel en masse for medical care, even ones who really didn't deserve it (poor link, original is paywalled).
Were the latter just suckers, to take such risks only to have critics ignore their existence? On a moral level, they seem exemplary: you do good for its own sake, not to prevent people from slandering you as evil. But on a practical level, the incentives created by these indiscriminate libels are reminiscent of another old and tragic story. What's the penalty for being unable to end a war without collateral damage? Genocide accusations. What's the penalty for outright expelling the nation who started the war? Genocide accusations. Well, there's no such thing as a war without collateral damage...
hydroacetylene
24m ago
But Epstein stuff is not hurting Trump Much with his actual base. It’s the twitterati resistance libs making a stink about it once more, as they have over a thousand other things, and Trump digging in his heels because that’s always worked for him before.
Throwaway05
25m ago
Epstein was an Israeli intelligence asset. This should be as obvious as saying that the four legged furry animal that barks at the mailman, chase tennis balls, that lives in my house, and had two parents who were both dogs, is, in fact, a dog.
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.
hydroacetylene
27m 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
29m 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
31m 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.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
33m ago
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 ride to and engage in self-actualization as Maslow intended.
4bpp
Now I am become a Helpful, Honest and Harmless Assistant, the destroyer of jobs
33m 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
35m 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
35m ago
There were far more desperate people in nineteenth and early twentieth century America.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
39m 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
40m 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.
41m 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
42m 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
59m 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
1hr 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
This, as with any law, will be pursued with litigation and deliberation to work out details. The entire application of law is not based on a single sentence with no rational determination applying to it. The above, along with Additional Protocol I, Article 54, “ Protection of objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population”, which states “Starvation of civilians as a method of warfare is prohibited”, leads one to think that Israel is committing war crimes. In addition,
is a crime, and regarding said relief, if
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