Hyperion
1yr ago
This is the same kind of circumlocuted reasoning that Karl Marx used to explain why the obviously in charge bourgeoisie allowed other classes to rule in their place. You can always make up some reason why the supposed rulers of society allowed something to happen instead of allowing for genuine ideological belief that has no material basis or the fact that society is multi-polar.
Hyperion
11mo ago
Women know the difference between dressing sexy and dressing beautiful and they very deftly choose which kind of signal they want to send all the time. If they didn't they wouldn't be able to accuse other women of dressing like whores or realize when their daughters need to change their clothes before going out.
Only very stupid or very young women wouldn't be able to figure it out. The reactions of other women help them learn even more so then the male reactions.
Hyperion
1yr ago
This will definitely end up erasing a lot of Native American culture from our interpretation of history.
No, the point is to let the Native Americans be the sole interpreters of that history and culture. We don't need pesky archeologists and geneticists telling us about how their tribe only moved into that area a few hundred years ago. We need to rely on indigenous ways of knowing that are much more valid than the colonialist violence of western science.
Hyperion
2yr ago
Memoirs and other historical documents obtained by later researchers seem to generally support Flynn’s accusations by indicating that Roosevelt ordered his diplomats to exert enormous pressure upon both the British and Polish governments to avoid any negotiated settlement with Germany, thereby leading to the outbreak of World War II in 1939.
Wow, Germany was provoked into invading Poland; because, they were not just handed Polish land on a silver platter. What an argument. Just like Russia was provoked into invading Ukraine; because, they were not just handed eastern Ukraine on a silver platter.
Hyperion
1yr ago
I don’t think you could get 1000 bronies in a room together simply because that’s not how bronies work.
Hippies, new atheists, trekkies and bronies have all had conventions that had, at least, an order of magnitude more attendants. Multiple conventions even.
Hyperion
11mo ago
Boys still score higher than girls on standardized tests and other objective measures. They just do worse when you include subjective assessments of their abilities.
Hyperion
1yr ago
His admonishment of other NATO countries for underspending on defense was prophetic. After the Russian invasion of Ukraine they are doing it of their own accord and non-NATO countries around Russia are rushing to join. The media likes to make fun of Trump saying Russia wouldn't have invaded Ukraine if he was president, but if Europe had built up it's armories back then, Russia would have thought twice about attacking and might have been defeated in the early stages of the war.
Hyperion
1yr ago
Why spend all the time and energy in the first place convincing people you were a Nazi!
Why do Satanists spend so much time and energy convincing Christians they literally worship Satan? Because, they know it will strike a nerve.
They could just be garden variety secular atheists, but that doesn't get the same kind of reaction in the post-war world.
Hyperion
1yr ago
I don't think it's just counter-signalling. Freddie really is a dyed in the wool leftist who does have contempt for any remotely rightwing people, even principled liberals and moderates. He hopes he can win those people over to leftism by presenting a more reasonable version, but he knows which side he is on.
Just read this piece from his substack. He hates the anti-woke. Full stop. He hates James Damore and he hates Quillete and he hates Jordan Peterson. He is a leftist. He is 90% woke, he just wants to push for a less insane version.
This isn't a rhetorical tactic, it's what he really believes.
Hyperion
1yr ago
Christians could never accomplish such a feat, because the Meek will Inherit the Earth. Fortunately for Jews, they don't believe that tripe so they get their Menorah on the White House lawn with no Nativity or Cross in sight.
What do you mean? Christians have done this over and over again in every country they have gained power in. They took axes to the sacred groves. They toppled pagan statues. They expelled Muslims from Jerusalem. There are still blasphemy laws in many Christian countries.
Hyperion
1yr ago
his malicious edits started in earnest well before the ant farming really kicked off.
I think this is true of the internet in general. You sometimes hear that Gamergate started it all, but really it was just the moment a certain faction of previously apolitical people realized that progressives were going to politicize the internet and everything.
One third of Indians in the USA marry outside their race. 95% marry in their caste in India, and that's a historic low. They aren't importing any caste system. Most 2nd or 1.5 generation Indians couldn't tell you their caste if you asked.
Russia was on paper far superior to the Ukrainian forces early in the war. They were shelling Kiev and there was a very real fear it could fall, before Russian logistical and morale problems forced a retreat. No one, not even the Russians themselves, expected such a pathetic showing by the Russian armed forces.
Hyperion
1yr ago
Is there something wrong with this? I mean I doubt the person who said it is some kind of doctrinaire Marxist criticizing profit(or at least, I doubt that they're criticizing Home Depot for profit), so they're criticizing construction as something inherently bad.
Why would you doubt a leftist activist in Berkley could be a doctrinaire Marxist? If they aren't explicitly Marxist they at least believe some adjacent far left ideology that borrows heavily from Marxist theory.
Hyperion
1yr ago
She used a private email server to do government business a practice ubiquitous, but illegal, because it let's you sidestep FOIA requests. Look at the recent fury over Fauci doing the same. Hillary had the misfortune of having her sever hacked, unlike everyone else. But, the fortune of having all the emails deleted by a careless aide before they could be subpoenaed.
Hyperion
1yr ago
Dale Gribble is definitely a positive portrayal of that kind of character. Especially, considering every character is flawed. Just look at the subreddit. They love Dale.
Have you seen these alt right rallies of the last 7 years? Half the people are at least half Hispanic, Asian or Indian. American racial politics is fundamentally blacks vs everyone else. Most of the Asians and Indians who act very woke and talk about white supremacy are just a slightly darker shade of the white progressives they so hope to emulate.
Hyperion
1mo ago
Is it out of the box, or is her box just one filled with low status grifting? Even if I valued out of the box thinking, I wouldn't value the kind of thinking I associate with the underclass or sociopaths.
Hyperion
11mo ago
One our mods is a skilled migrant from India and his posts about his struggle get massive upvotes.
Hyperion
1yr ago
Hanson once wrote that a woman cheating on a man is as bad as (or worse than) a man raping a woman provided he does it in a "gentle, silent" way.
No he said being cuckolded as in literally raising someone else's child as your own would be worse. That's worlds apart from an affair that leads to no children.
Hyperion
1yr ago
So stop with the pretense and give me the real thing. Give me actual agency and consequence. Or commit to your singular vision for the story and write a book instead.
The point of the game is the game. Mario isn't about rescuing princess peach it's about platforming. The story is just window dressing for the mechanics. It's just complaining that the game chess doesn't have a canon ending.
Hyperion
1yr ago
Second, many better tools already exist (standardized tests, colorblind policy, merit based immigration vetting).
Sure, and then when you use those tools and a disparate racial impact is found the courts find you've run afoul of the Civil Rights Act.
Hyperion
2yr ago
People say that a lot here, but honestly illegible systems are better for having to acknowledge that the system is fundamentally wrong. Children who grow up in the system will naturally see it's immorality. Once you commit to the idea that discrimination is good, then you end up like India with riots every year over whether such and such caste or tribe deserves reservation benefits. People in India view the whole thing not as a matter of morality, but just a crass materialist way to get more for you and yours.
Forcing Progressives to say the quiet part loud on affirmative action is a victory in it's own right.
Hyperion
2yr ago
The Tutsis are mostly descended from East African Cushitic pastoralists. They have significant Bantu admixture, though. Hutus are almost all generic Bantus genetically. There has been no formal studies on this as the Rwandan government doesn’t allow it, but Razib Khan privately analyzed some samples he got from Rwanda years ago on his blog.
They use a tactic that's common to leftist thought. Set up an 'essentialist' strawman of a concept that is 100% discrete and definitive and then after knocking down this strawman declare any more nuanced approach just as essentialist and false as the strawman. It doesn't matter if the 'essentialist' idea of race or sex works 99% of the time, you already defeated any notion that discrete races or sexes exist, so any attempt to categorize people by race or sex must be just as false as the strawman(and motivated by racism and sexism).
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