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netstack
Texas is freedom land
1m ago
Hey, you take that back. I’ve been working hard to earn that title!
remzem
1m ago
Polling looks incredibly dire for the conservatives. Could this spell an end to the current conservative party and it being replaced by a new party in the UK's two party system?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4m ago
Ohhh, you’re in for a treat. It’s so good. Best justifications for so many superpower tropes. And just viciously violent.
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
7m ago
Sorry, your comment is not right enough. Automatic downvotes!
AvocadoPanic
8m ago
I think Stewart Rhodes was overcharged and over sentenced but I wouldn't describe his actions as civil disobedience either. Is he being prevented from writing letters to newspapers?
Weren't the Oath Keepers infiltrated by informants and under cover agents?
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
10m ago
I mean you do have the extreme folks burning themselves alive still...or have we already forgotten that airforce guy? I agree that a lot of the protests are performative, or not relevant to the culture that the protesters occupy. I disagree that it is an illegitimated form of expression. It has been here from the start and even if it is a poor copy at least they are out there doing it. More than I can say for most of us.
KMC
12m ago
Yes, but I'm not going to feel guilty that my ancestors were conquerors spreading the light of civilization into the wilderness.
I'm also going to remember that when unrelated foreigners show up on our shores, we should be wary of welcoming them, lest they displace us as we displaced those who were here before.
In short, I don't know what point you think you're making, but I know what point I take from your reply.
aqouta
12m ago
Is there really a culprit? A crime? I don't know the tone of the comment over there, maybe it was totally mocking, but I also don't really share the fear that someone might notice us anymore. We're not on reddit, we are free of the gigajanny's tyranny.
w83JeW6Ub
12m ago
Did you not get that I was joking, really? Teaches me to try to do right by a person whose posts I've consistently liked for my years of lurking. If I wanted to cause drama, I could have brought up his previous identity and what forced him to create a new account, not do this weird who-knows-what-this-is that just happened.
Rov_Scam
15m ago
It's irrelevant because no one actually cares about their doctor's academic credentials. Maybe fail rates are higher at UCLA but UCLA is hard to get into to begin with, so I imagine the coursework is harder than at a place like NEOMED. And there are already schools of osteopathy that seem to attract people who couldn't get into MD programs. I'd be willing to bet that if I were to take a random poll few people would be able to tell me where their doctor even went to med school let alone how highly that school is regarded or what their grades were. Like almost everything else, once you get your first job your education is pretty much irrelevant.
ChickenOverlord
16m ago
If you read the article linked in the Twitter post, you'd see that Asian enrollment dropped by about 1/3 and Hispanic enrollment went up about 50%. Black enrollment seems to have mostly held steady.
AvocadoPanic
17m ago
@SSCReader inserted Thoreau, I was agreeing as an example of peaceful civil disobedience. I find him a better example than the mobs blocking traffic. Compared to Gandhi he's a poser, but still a better example of civil disobedience than the BLM rioters / looters / demonstrators.
There's a freebeacon story story today, maybe that was it: "up to half of UCLA medical students now fail basic tests"
(Oh, jeroboam posted about it a few hours ago)
When an admissions officer voiced concern about the candidate, dean of admissions and vice chair of "EDI" Jennifer Lucero exploded in anger. "Did you not know African-American women are dying at s higher rate than everybody else?" The candidate's scores shouldn't matter, she continued, because "we need people like this in the medical school"
How bad do things have to be for UCLA admins to be willing to talk to a conservative paper.
We may never know the demographic profile of this official who has recently developed misgivings about ULCA radicalism, what a Mensch
roystgnr
24m ago
every woman who was friendly to me turned out to still have their high school boyfriend back in their hometown
I had this brought up to me in tones and contexts that (should have) made it clear that this was just another angle of flirting, "look at this social proof of my attractiveness which is nevertheless only nominally an obstacle for you", from women who hadn't yet learned that that doesn't typically work the same way on men as it would have on them.
My own thoughts went from "whew, my new friend is establishing clear boundaries quickly so now I don't have to worry about accidentally overstepping them!" at the time to "damn, how did I miss that opportunity!" with a little hindsight to "wow, glad I dodged that bullet!" with a lot of hindsight.
NullHypothesis
25m ago
I haven't but my goodness nearly 1.6 million words? Thanks for the recommendation.
Borzivoj
25m ago
I thought the Polish and Czechoslovak governments-in-exile had been enthusiastic about the expulsion. Even the interwar Polish government sought to induce Germans to emigrate through the same sorts of measures as adopted against the Jews (e.g., selective nationalization of industries dominated by the wrong ethnicities). As far as I know it was only Belarusians and Ukrainians that they considered to be practically assimilable.
Amadan
"I would put a screwdriver through your eyeballs if I could"
30m ago
Objectively false in every particular (except maybe being the worst mod on the site), but sure, dude, carry on.
NullHypothesis
33m ago
This sounds similar to Jordan Peterson's statement on if you were born into Post WW1 Germany you probably would have been a nazi, or at least wouldn't have actively gone against the regime. But I think the circumstances between being a German citizen during WWII and a colonist in the 1770s are different enough that the same line of thinking doesn't apply.
Analysis of the American Revolution suggests 40% of whites were Patriots, 20% Loyalists, and the rest neutral. So just based on probability, one is twice as likely to have been for independence than side with the British government.
It's very likely at the moment of the Boston massacre the percentage of colonists that wanted independence was much lower, but it was exactly events such as the massacre that pushed many colonists to become Patriots.
I think part of what is muddying the discussion is that the people who are using these protest tactics (such as blocking the road) are advocating for the most insane things and it's hard to feel any sympathy for them. People would be more tolerant of these actions such as roadblocks if the protests were about things that mattered to the general population. Instead, these protestors are protesting first-world problems that only a rich, privileged society would have time to support a population that would care about such things. A poor person in Africa doesn't care about climate change, they would be rather happy to burn coal to generate electricity. A starving person doesn't care about animal rights and veganism.
Furthermore, these protest tactics have almost no actual risk to the protestors. Nobody protesting by blocking the streets is actually expecting that there is a chance a car will just plow through them. If they really had the conviction to die for a cause they should strap themselves onto railway tracks, because that would actually get some attention. When they do something dangerous, all the protestors start to panic as if dying wasn't a possibility of their action.
So these protestors masquerade as potential martyrs of what they claim to be the most pressing point of concern in the world, yet in reality they argue for things most people don't care about and pretend to engage in activity that would make them appear as if they are putting something on the line when they aren't by taking advantage of the goodwill of their fellow citizens, so in the end all they do is serve as a public nuisance. And when the state refuses to take action against this type of behavior, people will eventually lose all that goodwill and will be forced to take action by their own hands.
SteveKirk
34m ago
Should be a 'whose' at the end btw (this message will self destruct in 12 hours)
stuckinbathroom
35m ago
Try Yandex?
SteveKirk
36m ago
You just pick people you take a dislike to and twist the rules to go after them. You're the worst mod on the site, and the downvotes on every one of your mod actions proves I'm not the only one who thinks so.
Amadan
"I would put a screwdriver through your eyeballs if I could"
36m ago
And because my comment wasn't yet visible to common users by the time of deletion, the culprit must be one of the motte mods, dun-dun-dun
Really, now?
I doubt very much any mod did that. Here's an alternate hypothesis: given the recent spate of trolls spinning up alts to post flamebait and then deleting all their comments, it is far more likely it was one of them. You know, like a brand new account with a great deal of familiarity with the details of motte posting, whose only two comments here are to helpfully inform us about that now-deleted post.
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
37m ago
Very few Americans, and I am a huge American propagandist and booster, were actual frontiersmen and wilderness explorers. Maybe 1 or 2 percent ever did that and everyone else flowed in after. I've spent more time in the woods than an average person from 1820.
I read the whole thing in about a week, and then had a pretty significant narrative hangover by the end.
The recommendations you're getting are correct. It is an amazingly effective story.
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