JTarrou
19hr ago
It's a bad precedent, but it isn't Trump's precedent. Turnabout is fair play and so far nothing I've seen from Trump rises to the level of what his enemies have already done to him personally.
JTarrou
19hr ago
Why are structurally advantaged people worried about the opinions of the structurally disadvantaged?
JTarrou
5d ago
As with many marginal religious groups, it was very successful under the original charismatic preacher, and fell to infighting starting immediately after his death (from a perfectly treatable medical issue).
At the least he had the conviction of his beliefs.
JTarrou
5d ago
Funny the behavior we punish in our heroes.
Tangentially, I have come to see hatred of religion as the first and largest red flag that someone has converted to a new one.
JTarrou
5d ago
No real denomination, independent evangelicals. Faith healing cult out of Indiana, google Hobart Freeman.
JTarrou
6d ago
My recollection is that it was very liberal-coded and "complementarian" grading on the curve of evangelical christianity. Very much a normie American christian thing, which my more strict upbringing recognized as "not real christianity".
Must take a ton of work, what with their brains really being female and all. Can you imagine resisting the urge to knit for years on end while you paint miniature fantasy soldiers?
JTarrou
6d ago
I do not believe that "society" treats "ugly" transitioners worse than they treat normal men. A bit worse than society treats women, which only heightens the contradictions we're talking about.
The discrimination in society is against men, and transitioners get less of it the more spectacularly their transition intrudes on the lives of those around them.
JTarrou
6d ago
Being avoided is discrimination?
I need a lot more discrimination in my life.
JTarrou
6d ago
My dad took me to a PK conference in the Silverdome back in the day. Mid-90s PK was booming. Not sure what you mean by "identitarian", but it was a paint-by-numbers evangelical men's movement. I was a very lost cause by then, but PK was as unobjectionable as a religious group that size is capable.
JTarrou
7d ago
Who is doing all this discrimination, and how could it possibly keep them from transitioning? The entire medical field, academic, governmental and NGO complex are foursquare behind them and discriminating against anyone who disagrees with what they imagine trans people want. What's the mechanism here? How does chuds using terms like "troon" on Twitter translate into kids in the Tenderloin dropping out of their polycule?
JTarrou
7d ago
Fantasy discrimination as ego/status preservation for dropping off the trans train?
JTarrou
9d ago
Is there any trust left? None of these organizations are due the slightest of deference or respect, they're all ideologically captured shills. The BBC is a state propaganda organ, and the state propaganda organ of the UK is hostile to the US president. This is neither surprising nor that interesting. "News" exists to create opinion, not inform it.
JTarrou
11d ago
Guy born a hundred years ago had fallen off the fashionable language of the cutting edge of academic groupthink?
Famous scientist also a bit of a crank and believed in various wobbly theories at the edge of respectability in their time?
Got cancelled for political reasons?
We talking about Newton, Galileo, Socrates?
JTarrou
18d ago
As it has always been. Choose.
Also, the level of anarcho-tyranny does vary by state. One of the things you could hypothetically choose is to live in a less tyrannical and less anarchic area.
JTarrou
19d ago
To the degree Fuentes is getting a publicity bump, it's mostly via the left choosing its destructor. By trying to offload one of their pet murderers onto some dank corner of the internet right, they wound up publicizing a relatively niche character. Who has played his moment in the sun pretty well so far.
And they can't even bitch too much about anti-semitism given lefty behavior in the past two years. This has legitimized right-wing JQ'ers in a way few other things could. Jew-hate is now the nobbly end of the horseshoe, the bridge between the left and right at the extreme.
JTarrou
19d ago
We all have choices to make in life. One can, with a bit of effort, be either above or below the law. The law is for those who cannot make their own.
JTarrou
20d ago
Had a bit of fun at work asking people where I go to sign up for a Handmaid after the election. The DMV people looked at me like I was crazy!
JTarrou
20d ago
Obviously no data that nuanced to look at, and it would be a dog's breakfast of definitions if there were.
My guess is roughly 90% degens, 9% assholes, 1% "basically ok guy", but obviously I have a side here.
JTarrou
20d ago
Two years divided by democratic prosecutors and judges is immediate release. There's no point in multiplying laws that won't be enforced and sentences that won't be carried out. We cannot change the laws nor the enforcement, but we can carry a gun.
JTarrou
21d ago
The furor over "stand your ground" remains silly, as it's not really implicated in most of these situations. Bashing SYG is a way of introducing a presumption of flight to every civilian interaction, which is ludicrous.
The fundamental question being asked seems to be if self defense is worth some single-digit number of edge cases per year in a country with more guns than people.
The answer is yes.
The better question is how much better or worse off the country would be with several thousand more "justified homicides" per year. Is not having to uselessly prosecute a lifetime felon for the umpteenth time worth some fractional enabling of a more tragic scenario? What's the optimal ratio?
What they really object to is Trump teaching the Republicans to do politics like Democrats. The Republican Party has its first tiny little riot in a hundred years, and the party of all-day-every-day rioting falls about hyperventilating about "insurrection".
Trump does normal, technically gray area stuff like have classified documents or pay off mistresses and it's a hundred felony counts. James gets grilled about mortgage fraud and it's the end of Democracy.
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