Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
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Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
3mo ago
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
3mo ago
The message to ordinary Russians, particularly those in Kursk and adjacent, is that the war can come for them too. It also makes Putin and co. look less secure and in control. It's probably not going to break the camel's back, but if you're in the business of camel-back breaking you take the straws you can get.
It also takes uti possetidis off the table....
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
3mo ago
In IT they call this a 'scream test'.
Unplug stuff, and if you hear screaming, plug it back in.
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
3mo ago
I vaguely remember seeing a spaghetti plot that showed a few tracks leading into the Gulf....
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
3mo ago
I certainly do not condone anti-social behaviour in public, nor the ignoring of it by municipal officials. However, the response to it needs to be one that acknowledges all people, including the least of these, as human beings.
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
3mo ago
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
3mo ago
"It’s not a ‘compromise with sin’, per se, just discarding certain people who happen to be a net loss to us."
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
3mo ago
Any crime [committed] by an immigrant, is a crime which wouldn't have happened had the immigrant been prevented from entering the country. Your general dismissal of "counterfactuals" leads to erasure of immigrant crime.
That is only relevant if one already assumes the ethnonationalist world-view; namely the propositions that countries exist for a select group defined by blood, that moral concern is rightfully extended only to that group, and that anyone else being allowed to exist in their territory is a supererogatory courtesy.
As someone with a more pan-humanist world-view, I don't see 'immigrant crime' as a category that carves reality at its joints; and excluding immigrants does not prevent the crimes a few of them would have committed, but merely moves them to another place; lowering the crime rate in England, while increasing it in Rwanda by the same amount, for no change in the total, at the cost of the stifling of opportunity (and infliction of indignity attendant on any form of discrimination) for countless innocent Rwandans, does not, in my view, seem advisable if one considers an umpteenth-generation Englishman and a Rwandan immigrant (or his son) to be equal in terms of moral worth.
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
3mo ago
It's an improvement.
Next step, expand it to all flights.
Then, roll back the airports to the status quo ante, getting rid of the 'security' that can't find their own tuchus with both hands, a map, a GPS receiver, and a pack of bloodhounds.
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
3mo ago
Aren’t all Jews technically Israeli citizens?
Eligible for Israeli citizenship. That is not the same thing as being an Israeli citizen.
Otherwise, anyone with a quarter-million in the bank would be considered a citizen of St Kitts and Nevis.
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
3mo ago
Israel is a U. S. ally; Iran and the Beijing claimant to China are, if not 'enemies' per se, at least hostile nations.
I think that might make a difference in many Unitedstatesians' assessment.
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
3mo ago
we had mailboxes being hit frequently
adjudicated at the county level
Isn't vandalising mailboxes a federal offence?
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
3mo ago
It’s essentially giving cops discretion to arrest people they believe are up to no good just from their appearance
Is this going to be one of those 'I never thought leopards would eat my face' moments?
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
3mo ago
Here's you know how JD Vance is one of the good guys: all the bad guys ... hate JD Vance.
I guess Tucker Carlson must not be familiar with Maxim No. 29.
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
3mo ago
Also note the lack of agency in the first clause. Did a rocket just wake up one day and launch itself at Israel?
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
3mo ago
England, the home of golf
Scotland is NAE the same place as England!
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
3mo ago
I guarantee there are rules that you break that would have caused pearl clutching in previous generations.
Hwæt. We Gardena in geardagum,
þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon,
hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon.
Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum,
monegum mægþum, meodosetla ofteah,
egsode eorlas.
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
3mo ago
mock rural white Americans for their accents and vocabulary
channeling the [voice] of Shakespeare... from the beyond
Even though the rural Americans sound more like Shaksper Sheakspaer Shakhspere that playwright from Stratford-upon-Avon than a $CURRENTYEAR1 BBC announcer does....
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
3mo ago
people really vote for electors of their state - as in there are lists with people and they can choose 1. The first X people by votes are the states electors.
Or pick 54 random Californians, 40 random Texans, 30 random Floridians, 28 random New Yorkers....
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
4mo ago
Trump did actually take a small loan of a million dollars from his slumlord father and build an international megacorporation with hundreds of the most prime real estate properties on planet earth.
And still, he somehow managed to go bankrupt running a casino.
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
4mo ago
the moderate left can't seem to answer the question "When does the left go too far?"
As a 'reasonableist' leftist, I believe there are plenty of examples of the left, if not 'going too far' per se, at least noticing a real problem but pursuing the wrong methods of solving it.
They can be largely sorted into two major clusters: the hard-green de-growthist Gaians, and the wokists SJWs PJFTMWTIAATUftSSaPCYDs.
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
4mo ago
Does it also include bullets fired by police officers?
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
4mo ago
it's restoring man to the state of nature
Would that be the same state of nature in which there was a 40-50% infant mortality rate?
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
4mo ago
The problem with homelessness is the problem it causes for others, not the problems the homeless are themselves suffering.
The former is bad karma from ignoring the latter. If you solve the former without solving the latter, and continue ignoring the latter, it will somehow end badly for you; I don't know how, exactly, nor how long it will take, but it won't be an outcome you consider satisfactory.
The mills of G-d grind slow, but they grind exceeding small.
Now that's a name I haven't heard in a loooong time.
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