zeke5123a
8hr ago
This is comparing like with unlike. There is a general right for citizens to work; there is no non citizen generalized right to travel to the U.S.
zeke5123a
9hr ago
Stop trying to justify murder. Kirk could be ungracious in talking about trans people. There is a trans problem (and indeed trans is an incoherent absurd belief). But even if you disagree, killing isn’t the way to do it.
I’m sure you’ll protest “but I’m not excusing the murder.” Yet you said you believe Kirk would be alive if he had been more gracious. Quoting for the full paragraph.
“Not convinced? Okay, notice when the shot happened: Tyler specifically waited for Kirk to badmouth transpeople before firing his shot. In fact, I'll go so far as to speculate that if Kirk had been gracious in his response, the Tyler may not have even shot at all.”
zeke5123a
9hr ago
But it wasn’t a random person being killed — it was a person a number of people labeled a fascist. So we are to believe he was using catch phrases that map to his target (per target’s enemies) but that was happenstance and instead he just was crazy?
zeke5123a
10hr ago
How do you explain “catch this fascist” and that he apparently was living (maybe romantically) with a mtf trans person who provided discord info?
zeke5123a
1d ago
Yeah that wasn’t the felony case. Interestingly, if you read the opinions the majority would’ve tossed the Supreme Court (lowest court in NY). However, they couldn’t agree on whether to remand or decide the case. In the interest of moving the case up to court of appeals (highest court in NY) one judge concurred.
zeke5123a
1d ago
Agreed—based on the leftist avowed view they ought to celebrate this murder. Which is why, similar to when Trump was shot, it’s clear that many left leaders don’t truly believe the fascist claims they make. And of course it’s bullshit. Charlie wasn’t a fascist. Trump is at “worst” a very poor man’s Pinochet.
Personally I long for a Salazar (only way to fix our country) but won’t get one.
zeke5123a
1d ago
That seems more likely an explanation after the fact; not one during the moment. If my timeline is right, they didn’t know if Kirk was dead.
These are the same Dems that booed a kid with cancer. Also, the story doesn’t hold—did the republicans block attempts to hold prayer for the Colorado kids? For a fallen member? Why would this hill be the one you want to fight on? My guess is again the Dems realized afterwards how ghoulish it was and they made some shit up.
zeke5123a
1d ago
Again their caucus shouted down an attempt for a moment of prayer. That was their visceral reaction. Sure people like AOC had a more polished answer after the fact (though used it to support apparently complete gun control). But…I think it’s bullshit.
zeke5123a
2d ago
The most obscene version of the heckler veto was exercised and instead of being condemned it was rationalized.
zeke5123a
2d ago
If the left wing equivalent of Charlie Kirk was murdered in a similar fashion, the hypothetical other’s views wouldn’t be described as controversial despite almost certainly being further from the median voter.
zeke5123a
2d ago
I would argue with Trump it went even beyond finding the man — they invented a crime largely out of whole cloth and then jury rigged the law to get a conviction. It will be overturned on appeal.
zeke5123a
2d ago
I want them to jail George Soros. I want them to jail Reid Hoffman. I want them to uncover the funding mechanisms that knowledge supported things like antifa and if (as I suspect it does) lead back to Soros and Hoffman I want them to jailed. That is playing for keeps but within the lines.
zeke5123a
2d ago
You mean the same Dems who tried to shout down an attempt for prayer for Kirk in Congress? Or Ilhan Omar with Medi Hassan? How bout Liz Warren?
zeke5123a
2d ago
It does seem notable that Democrat national politicians seem to be..almost blaming Kirk for being murdered.
zeke5123a
3d ago
Well, when you are investigating yourself, it’s easy not to find the culprit
zeke5123a
5d ago
This just isn’t the norm. As a general rule, PE buys an entity with debt. Banks don’t permit cash to leave the banking group.
The only time is when banks lend money to an existing PE owned business with the express intention of repatriation cash (ie a levered recap). Most liquidity events aren’t levered recaps. Moreover, banks aren’t interested in lending to businesses that will go bankrupt (ie banks don’t want to equitize their debt; they want to get paid back on the debt). So generally leveraged recaps will only occur when the risk of bankruptcy is remote.
None of this means all PE companies survive, but in generally PEs cannot successful generate returns by bankrupting companies.
zeke5123a
7d ago
I think Zelensky is playing just as much as Putin. Neither really wants the war to end.
zeke5123a
7d ago
I would be really annoyed if the people I spend time with were always monitoring my speech etc
zeke5123a
7d ago
Honest question — does the fear you fear make you question whether your near group are the baddies?
zeke5123a
8d ago
That’s one way of describing PE but generally seems like a misunderstanding. Does PE cause some businesses to fail by excess debt? Yes. But to succeed, PE generally needs to in the aggregate sell businesses for more than it purchased them for.
Frequently, PE buys distressed businesses to get a good price, tries to turn them around, and sell at a profit.
Sometimes, PE provides liquidity to founders where the company isn’t to the size that would suggest an IPO makes sense at the time. Having this exit option is great for encouraging building companies.
Other times, PE builds companies by acquiring a bunch of small companies, integrating them, and then selling (ie pay 10x EBITDA, get some cost savings combining and sell at 15x EBITDA since the stream of income is a bit more secure).
Again, PE generally doesnt make money from companies failing (one exception is leveraged recaps). They make money by companies succeeding (in ways described above).
This shows how out of touch your argument is. If someone took up palantir’s offer to skip college and that person kicked ass, I would say their credential (ie palantir’s stamp of approval) is a better credential compared to say Harvard.
Likewise, Charlie had the credential of running what seems to be an effective organization. The fact you only think in terms of degrees as credentials yet slam others for epistemological sloppiness…my god you cite LessWrong. Do you know about Big Yud?
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