Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
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Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
23hr ago
This is a fringe view. The majority position is that Imam Mahdi will reappear first, and then he will lead the forces of Islam to liberate Palestine and defeat the West.
Unfortunately the fringe happens to be in charge of a country.
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
1d ago
What gain Iran would have from instigating a nuclear war
What they would gain, and what they think they would gain, are two different things.
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
1d ago
stop playing these games against their government, open trade, and slowly worm ourselves into their society through the soft power of prosperity.
We tried that with the Red Chinese. How well has that worked out?
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
1d ago
Neither does the EU occupy the entire world.
But all the countries put together occupy the entire world, whereas all the data centres put together are only a small fraction of it.
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
1d ago
Your response to whom?
Someone who objects to someone else being willing to date a cis-woman but not a trans-woman.
This is isomorphic to someone objecting to someone else being willing to date a white person but not a black person; both 'a lesbian (or a straight man) not being intimate with trans-women (or a gay man or straight woman not being intimate with trans men)' and 'a white person not dating black people' are personal decisions, and neither, in itself, is an act of wrongdoing.
Thus, my response to both "Lesbian!Alice won't date trans women" and "White!Bob won't date Black women" is the Minnesota Golden Rule.
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
2d ago
Because data centres don't collectively occupy the entire world between them.
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
2d ago
So why bother?
Because it's the right thing to do.
Because while some Black people will grow up to be criminals even with well-run schools, and some Black people will educate themselves even if they attend poorly-run schools, there are almost certainly a large number who could go either way.
Because if Black people are systematically denied the tools necessary to support themselves, and they thus turn to crime, the Blue Tribe will be more sympathetic to their sob stories and be that much harder to convince that anything ought to be done about crime committed by Black people.
Because somewhere in the U. S., there are future versions of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson, and they deserve a proper education just as much as white children do.
Because a society which stomps on its ethnic minorities risks seeing karma hand it its own arse.
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
3d ago
· Edited 3d ago
Interesting set of anecdotes. If you are not in favour of desegregation, what alternative would you propose for ensuring that the Black schools are not systematically neglected as they were prior to Brown?
Ironically enough I say that segregation was the Chesterton's fence that was broken.
But in that case, the people tearing down the fence do know why it was put up; that's why they want to tear it down!
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
3d ago
In the specific case of Mrs Levine, the possibility to which I was alluding was that, not being a lesbian (or bisexual, which I probably should have included), she is only interested in a male partner, and defines that not to include transwomen.
In the general case, some lesbians, and some straight men, are attracted to natal-anatomy!women, some to current-anatomy!women, some to appearance/'presentation'!women, and some to identity!women; mutatis mutandis for gay men and straight women and various definitions of men.
The 'cotton-ceilingers' are objecting not to the non-existence of the latter categories but to the existence of the former, and my response to them is the same as to those who object to the existence of people who don't pursue intimate relationships across racial boundaries.
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
3d ago
Because that just brings us back to the question of whether the Admiral is a man or a woman, and whether it is appropriate to consider the biological factors correlated with that question.
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
3d ago
I come in in clothes which I have been wearing for a week which have tomato sauce on them
the sexually deranged catboy wearing programming socks
One of these things is not like the other....
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
3d ago
Strictly speaking the schools weren’t even segregated, the neighborhoods were(and there was no way to fix that easily).
Gerrymander the school districts?
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
3d ago
...whose wife predictably divorced [her] shortly after [her] "coming out", as she had no interest in playing along....
Or she is very much not a lesbian....
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
3d ago
Is it appropriate for a woman in power?
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
4d ago
If anything, I think a calm-worded threat would probably seem more plausible to them.
"There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man." -- Patrick Rothfuss
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
4d ago
Honest, capable, sober people can also cause considerable damage to America, perhaps even more damage. [...] They just have bad values and so all their good qualities are worthless or even negative.
This is part of why Trumpism and similar movements elsewhere came about; the Very Serious People responded to the financial crises of 2008, and subsequent public ire, by putting a seemingly-respectable façade on an ideology that effectively amounted to 'compassion and equality for groups that can be proportionally represented in the C-suites; ruthless social Darwinism for individuals, especially those who are not Members Of An Oppressed Group'.
Re Judge Clark, I'm going to invoke Chesterton's Fence on the American taboo against segregation.
After the end of Reconstruction, many Southern plantationists resented that they could no longer coerce unpaid labour from Black people at whip-point without a fig-leaf of a criminal conviction. Having racially-separated schools allowed them to subject black people to worse conditions than their white counterparts, and 'separate but equal' rarely if ever stayed equal for long. (There was one school district, I think in Texas, that gave the schools in Black areas names at the end of the alphabet, and then implemented improvements such as air-conditioning in alphabetical order!)
That does not mean that any particular method of desegregation is necessarily advisable, and I would be interested to hear any alternative you might have in mind.
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
4d ago
What's wrong with Admiral Levine's aesthetic? The impression I get from her is of an outwardly-stern but decent grandmother.
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
5d ago
nuclear power, with its massive engineering requirements and historic status as bete noire to environmentalists
...and its ability to provide power when we tell it to, rather than when the weather feels like it.
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
7d ago
Apparently we're not doing phrasing anymore...?
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
7d ago
This isn't possible. Specifically the word "ever". An industrial civilization with 1940s tech can make a nuke. "Ever" is a very long time.
Unless by 'they' one means 'the mullahs' regime'.
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
7d ago
"I am a worm and no man" is not what the Strong [...] say of themselves
That might depend on the definition of 'worm'.
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
7d ago
But I expect most people aren't so uncomfortable as to really desire that, and certainly the most rational amongst us realize that the cost of such a step would be insanely high, and the risk of something worse replacing it is real and serious.
That is addressed in the next sentence.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
7d ago
Apparently the bridge in question wasn't quite finished.
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
7d ago
communism is dead
Not that certain capitalists are doing their part to keep it that way.... 🐸☕
That would fall under 'the content of their character'.
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