JTarrou
7d 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
8d 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
8d 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
9d 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
9d 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
9d 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
9d 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?
JTarrou
11d ago
It already happened in 2015. By the Obama administration, in conjunction with the Clinton campaign, against the Trump campaign.
It just didn't work. If Trump does something like that in the future, he'll be no worse than Obama in terms of "internal security agency coups".
JTarrou
16d ago
Israel has accepted a lot more land settlement deals over the years than the Palestinians have. Further complicating things, Israel has one government, and the Palestinians have somewhere between two and six, depending on which terrorist organizations you count. There is no body of Palestinians that can approve a deal that can command the obedience of all the disparate armed groups. Hamas does not command the PLO, the PLO does not command Hezbollah, Hezbollah does not command IJ.
JTarrou
18d ago
If I read all that right, then the courts have held that a minority must be given their own voting district because they are not the majority. If minority's "preferred candidates" don't win, they must be made to win, because the majority must not be allowed to elect their preferred candidates. We call this "democracy".
JTarrou
21d ago
"Sidney Sweeney's jeans ad is nazism"
"Wtf I love Hitler now"
The saying goes that leftism is basically just pretending not to understand simple concepts, making dialogue untenable.
JTarrou
21d ago
Evil rapacious capitalism less exploitative than the dictatorship of the Kremlin proletariat?
Unpossible.
JTarrou
22d ago
If you don't have a chat the left would cancel you over, you don't have any friends.
JTarrou
22d ago
If this be nazism, make the most of it.
"Nazi" in the current parlance just means "politically sane".
JTarrou
22d ago
It's zero problem. There are no real nazis, there are plenty of anti-semites on both sides. Beating the "muh nazis" dead horse only hastens the day when it reaches negative social connotation. We may have already passed it.
JTarrou
25d ago
It's all right in front of you. This is a belief system that posits "scientific" politics as a substitute for what christians would call "godliness". "Science" is the clerisy that interprets the Moral Arc of History (the Popular Will, or Will of God) and informs the initiated what the correct Just Being A Decent Human Being (politically correct, christian) behavior is. Marx was just the first big one to take off during the religious doldrums of the second half of the nineteenth century, and so it is his name most associated with all the related sects that squabble among us to this day. From the enlightenment until now, this has been the pattern. The first attempt in France to replace Christianity failed miserably, the second in Russia worked, sort of, for a while. The third, in the west has been more successful, largely by free-riding on western military power and religious tolerance. But here too, we see cracks forming.
JTarrou
25d ago
We call by many names the "successor ideology", "wokeness", "PC", "Cultural Marxism" etc. It is all the abstracted christian heretical sect which has no true ideology except opposition to western society and its economic and military success. These are deracinated christian cultists who believe the US is the devil. It really isn't much deeper than that. Any number of political, social or entirely imaginary theories will be propagated to hold up this structure, but it really is just oikophobia at the root.
That this ideology is the ruling ideology of the western empire, which legitimates their expansion of empire, is merely the crowning irony.
JTarrou
1mo ago
The answer is as simple as it is impossible for the current left to even fake.
They have to value real, actual masculinity.
JTarrou
1mo ago
Atrocity math is a bad game to play when you're losing by a landslide. It can drive people into all sorts of intellectual contortions. Squid ink.
JTarrou
1mo ago
You're being obtuse. Nonfatal violence is less serious than fatal violence. It wasn't nonviolent, there were felonies committed, and plenty of people should have gone to jail over it. None of that makes it as bad as six months of terror, murder, secession, looting and arson.
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?
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