CunnyFunt
1mo ago
Lenin, Trotsky and Castro were all middle class university graduates that could have had pretty decent careers in the square world if they had wanted to. Same with Mao
Maybe higher education was only meant for the upper class after all. Warrior poets with no fiefdom to take care of (and no peasant revolts to avoid) seem to be hell-bent on reshaping the entire world instead, based on your presented examples.
CunnyFunt
1mo ago
Hah, good point. On the other hand, leaner meat is usually more expensive.
CunnyFunt
1mo ago
Also the Amish only exist at the pleasure of their hosts. It's the affluence of their surrounding nation that allows them to live in their own way, and if that were to change, it would be their final generation-
CunnyFunt
1mo ago
The funniest outcome would be if they drop all charges to keep Palantir's trade secrets.
CunnyFunt
1mo ago
And I thought Wickard was overreach! Thank you for this infuriating bit of knowledge.
CunnyFunt
1mo ago
Lest we forget the argument that he crossed state lines with a firearm! Ignoring the fact that the guy he shot did the same while being a prohibited person.
CunnyFunt
1mo ago
That's perfectly natural, once you accept "eat the ____" as a goal. Anyone richer than you is likely to have higher nutritional value than someone poorer than you (not an endorsement of cannibalism). This particular scenario seems more like a complete lack of self-awareness. Something like "I'm a better than average driver," or "advertising doesn't work on me".
CunnyFunt
1mo ago
FAANG forums may as well be /r/politics as well - it's the water they swim in. See: Damore, Eich, Donglegate, etc.
CunnyFunt
1mo ago
That doesn't fit the profile at all, though - aimlessly contemplating and carrying out multiple murders is more of a school shooter thing, no?
CunnyFunt
1mo ago
But I have interacted with a few adults recently - people who have FAANG jobs or similar and pensions and families and mortgages - who brought up the Mangione case unbidden, and their frame of it was very much, paraphrasing, "This is a canary in the coal mine. People are getting fed up. There's going to be more of this. CEOs better take note."
Liberals get the bullet, too! "I'm one of the good bourgeois" has never saved anyone, and they should perhaps consider the fact that they are much more like the CEO getting shot than they are to the usual suspects that get shot without too much news coverage.
CunnyFunt
1mo ago
Thank you for linking the actual charges! I found it interesting that the first two counts mention interstate activity quite a bit, right down to using "interstate wires" by way of a cell phone, and staying at a hostel that serves interstate customers - is this an attempt to make the case federal?
What does the dog do when it catches the ambulance? Mangione had a reasonable enough plan for fleeing the scene, but does he really strike you as the sort that would be able to abandon his life, leaving the assassination behind him? His motive was personal - back problems that weren't covered by insurance? - and it's not like he had a hideout to run off to and remain in. Consider the scenario where he didn't get caught - would this individual be able live as a fugitive, abandoning being an upper-middle-class 20-something college-educated techie? It seems like he didn't really know what to do after shooting Brian Thompson and evading the police. Luigi Mangione isn't Agent 47, he doesn't have another hit lined up in Milan or Monaco after this one, and there's no patron helping him escape. Compare to Assange or Snowden - Assange had a country provide him asylum for seven years (!!) and Snowden made it two countries over before getting his passport revoked!
Edit to add: I don't see much difference between Luigi Mangione and Tyler Robinson - to a first approximation, they both seemed to have assumed that they would just disappear under the cover of the next news cycle, and instead were both the subjects of nationwide manhunts.
CunnyFunt
8mo ago
Wouldn't it be even better to watch the cyclist running a red get justifiably mowed down by a car taking its rightful green?
CunnyFunt
8mo ago
Between this and the Bateman pasta, the Motte is becoming a real cultural juggernaut!
CunnyFunt
8mo ago
I was torn between that and the bike cuck meme, glad to hear I'm not the only one!
CunnyFunt
8mo ago
This seems rather different from raiding a lost-and-found while pretending to be the rightful owner.
CunnyFunt
8mo ago
I would argue that's slightly different, since there's no centralized place for you to retrieve your lost item, nor has the finder going there specifically to impersonate you to take your item.
CunnyFunt
9mo ago
And everyone clapped and a man came up to me and handed me a crisp hundred dollar bill. That man's name? ChatGPTeinstein.
CunnyFunt
9mo ago
But more importantly, I feel more strongly that the painting of universities as institutions of liberal indoctrination deny entire cohorts of students their own agency in developing political beliefs
It's no secret that students are allowed "agency" to develop a very specific set of beliefs. Believe Women, No Human Is Illegal, ACAB, Black Lives Matter, Trans Women Are Women - funny how this liberalism-afforded agency only extends to things left of center. Additionally, these beliefs are constantly proselytized in an "everything not forbidden is mandatory" fashion.
I would say [the Long March Through Institutions] also qualifies as a conspiracy theory.
I'm not sure how it can be both, so I'll ask for clarification of what you mean. As for the "natural occurrences" of left-liberalism based on incentives - what is the source of those incentives? Did they just change on their own in the 20th century, or, perhaps, it occurred because the composition of the incentive makers was changed by putting a thumb on the scale? Ayers and Kaczynski received wildly different treatments for some reason.
CunnyFunt
9mo ago
I would say The Long March Through Institutions qualifies as a strategy.
Is it because people in those institutions, or that those institutions produce, are generally liberal?
This is just a rephrasing of "reality has a liberal bias", the veracity of which is being tested now. Maybe they wouldn't have produced so many adherents of the regressive left if Ayers and his fellow terrorists received tenure in prison, rather than academia?
Yes, so catereng to them by expanding higher education was mistake.
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