ArmedTooHeavily
Whatever happened? A breach in the very unity of life, a biological paradox, an abomination, an absurdity, an exaggeration of disastrous nature. Life had overshot its target, blowing itself apart. A species had been armed too heavily – by spirit made almighty without, but equally a menace to its own well-being. Its weapon was like a sword without hilt or plate, a two-edged blade cleaving everything; but he who is to wield it must grasp the blade and turn the one edge toward himself.
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ArmedTooHeavily
17d ago
I think that the progressive prosecutors who release violent criminals (a constant problem in the deep blue city i live in; its very common to see news stories about a violent attack by a perpetrator with 10+ arrests for other violent crimes in the last couple of years) would not say that the goal of their policies is increasing violent crime, but that increasing violent crime is an unfortunate but acceptable side effect of their pursuit of criminal justice reform. So deliberate not in the sense of being the primary goal, but deliberate in the sense that they know it will happen and forge ahead anyway.
ArmedTooHeavily
20d ago
Very interesting idea. Whats the male version of this "disarmament treaty" you feel we have lost?
ArmedTooHeavily
24d ago
The steelman: cars are dangerous heavy machinery and neglect of maintenance causes a significant amount of death and destruction. Public safety is substantially served by requiring cars be kept in good order. Just like how it's reasonable that cars be required to have working head and tail lights, its reasonable to require they have working brakes and suspension, and checking those requires a mechanical inspection.
ArmedTooHeavily
24d ago
Incentivizing stable families would make a massive difference, I'd bet.
ArmedTooHeavily
28d ago
Most of the dysfunction in this country is due to neglecting very, very basic truths, and the people in charge clearly aren't capable of acknowledging them, let alone dealing with them.
As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.
ArmedTooHeavily
29d ago
Does the vast number of illegally owned machined guns (glocks with "switches", mostly) matter at all here?
ArmedTooHeavily
1mo ago
This is an excellent and underappreciated point. Oregon legalized cannabis to basically no ill effect whatsoever (actually the worst outcome has been that credit card processors won't do business with pot shops, so the pot shops only deal in cash, so they get robbed a lot). Oregon legalized all drugs and it has been an absolute disaster because "all drugs" included meth and opiates.
ArmedTooHeavily
1mo ago
Good stuff, thanks.
ArmedTooHeavily
1mo ago
Can you link to any news or discussion about this?
ArmedTooHeavily
1mo ago
For god's sake, don't harass away every leftist who comments here, this place could use some more ideological diversity.
ArmedTooHeavily
1mo ago
Welcome, we are glad to have you and appreciate your contributions to the discussion.
ArmedTooHeavily
1mo ago
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ArmedTooHeavily
1mo ago
Close enough to count, imo, and I say that despite being sympathetic to his point of view.
ArmedTooHeavily
1mo ago
Seconding this opinion. This is an escalation in the shift in power from governmental to extra-governmental corporate/billionaire power. I consider it an obvious step to our inevitable dystopian cyberpunk future.
ArmedTooHeavily
1mo ago
Personally, I am in favor of any candidate who would decline to build a nine digit pile of skulls.
ArmedTooHeavily
1mo ago
I propose an alternative theory: the euphemism treadmill is not an attempt to destigmatize bad things via language. There's a little of that, sure, and I would imagine that's often the source of new euphemisms. But the primary purpose of the euphemism treadmill, the reason that new phrases successfully memetically propagate, is signalling tribal allegiance.
ArmedTooHeavily
1mo ago
Clothes do not protect you from boiling water; they actually aggravate scalding injuries by holding the water next to skin.
ArmedTooHeavily
1mo ago
All US military, police, and firefighter physical fitness standards are lower for women than for men. That, if nothing else, is the lowering of the standards. They're supposed to be doing the same job so the standards should be the same, but women can't do the physical parts of the job as well because of biology. So, like so many other things in our society, the standards are lowered for women so that the outcomes are "equitable".
ArmedTooHeavily
1mo ago
That indicates to me that to you, the problem is not that the things you allege jews are doing are "hostile, subversive, and self serving," as you put it. If that was the issue, you wouldn't want gentile whites doing those things either. It seems clear that your issue is the who/whom, not any principled objection.
ArmedTooHeavily
1mo ago
If you simply dropped all the Jews in government and media, i.e. replaced Biden's virtually-entirely Jewish cabinet with Indians, and replaced Israeli Nationalist influence with Indian Nationalist influence, replaced the "I" in AIPAC with India, and replaced the Holocaust narrative with some Indian-derived foundational myth of twentieth century morality, I would have the same problem with it.
If you did the same thing, but instead of jews or indians it was gentile whites, would you have the same problem with it?
ArmedTooHeavily
1mo ago
No, but it's a pretty good sign they aren't actually your enemy either.
ArmedTooHeavily
1mo ago
So basically (if you can forgive what might be a slightly crude summary) it's that they're successfully engaged in ethnic organization and politics, and you see that political action as being detrimental to your own ethnic block?
Is your objection that the jews are doing these things at the detriment to your ingroup, or is your objection to doing these things at all? Would you feel the same way about gentile whites organizing to their own benefit?
ArmedTooHeavily
1mo ago
Evolutionary HBDIQ science does not lead to NSDAP politics, it leads to old time Swedish social democratic politics.
Can you explain more about this?
ArmedTooHeavily
1mo ago
to get to full Nazi you need to be an anti-Zionist and a particular flavour of HBDer
This might be naive, but I don't understand how HBD would lead someone to be anti-jewish. I'd expect the total opposite, in fact.
I think "my child has been murdered and I want all of the cruel, idiotic culture warring about his/her murder to end" is more than sufficient to explain the parents trying to block the release of the manifesto/diary. Perhaps not actually the tactically correct move to achieve that goal, but eminently understandable.
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