DBDr
1yr ago
The first line though, the first line!
Prosociality is highly corelated with high IQ; and thus picking blue. (Likewise, antisociality is highly corelated with low IQ. Hence the between violent offenders and low IQ.)
DBDr
1yr ago
Give me odds you actually think that and I might take you up on them.
How much do you really believe?
DBDr
1yr ago
Let's reframe it again!
I have a gun. You have a wallet. I do not have a wallet. You do not have a gun.
Would you rather we lived in blue pill world or a red pill world?
That is why people pick blue. Because after everyone selects their pills, they go back to work where other people get 100000 choices a day to pick red or blue for you.
Your solution to this prisoners dilemma is the state of nature.
DBDr
1yr ago
You should look at the correlation between high IQ, liberalism, and pro-socieality at some point.
IE, if you got Einstein, Bohr, Leibnitz, and the whole Nobel price galley together in a room and ran the test the only people who would pick red are the economists; ie the social scientists.
DBDr
1yr ago
Not to pile on to a totally unrelated thread as I do just that; but a conception that allows both views (and which I think is true in most cases) is anti-abortion as a cultural signifier.
Ie, most compelled-birthers (probably) have no real concept of what a fetus is and (probably )do not believe in their hearts that an embryo is alive (which we can observe from the prevalence of abortions among anti-abortionists being only marginally smaller than everyone else of their race and class).
It's not that they are doing it to own the libs, it's that they are doing it because they have to do it to be part of the club, style of thing.
DBDr
1yr ago
Fair enough.
I count their looooooooooong tail of post conflict fuckups as an extension of being assign the stupid mission in the first place; but a truly perfectly successful army would have invaded, set up, tried once, then gone back to the executive and said "Shits fucked bro. It's not gonna happen".
Same problem that comes up in any hierarchical organization I suppose; that failure is worse than success. Shit, pulling out of a bad plan is usually worse than just fading to the back of the room, shutting up, and letting it burn.
DBDr
1yr ago
They completed the military goals with professionalism and aplomb, but the political goals were fucking stupid because Bush Lol.
The Army is a contractor here: they received a dogshit plan for a moronic project, executed it in detail chapter and verse, and then the building fell down because it was stupid to begin with.
The neocon playbook where you shoot people in the mountains/deserts/jungles until they love you just doesn't work.
DBDr
1yr ago
If HBD is true and is used as a signal in society/to the state, the correct and rational response by anyone who has the wrong genes is to start the killing.
Same reason there needs to be some amount of welfare state: if someone has no property to confiscate and a shitty life to live, why shouldn't take some action to take yours?
DBDr
1yr ago
Yup, the dude with the skull logo.
Parts of the argument were iffy, but he did a really good job going source to source and checking every god damn thing.
DBDr
1yr ago
I mean, not specifically.
But signing your name to something you know isn't true or tricking some else into similar is the dictionary definition of fraud.
I'm talking about Trump, although what I said could apply to either really, and speaking clearly takes all the fun out of it!
DBDr
1yr ago
While I don't experience your angst as an autistic shape rotator, I think your writing is pretty neat!
Consider me to have given the usual unasked for advice that works but is unhelpful: "Have you considered just not being sad about stuff? Perhaps simply will yourself into relational confidence?", etc and so forth.
DBDr
1yr ago
Nor is it fraud to sign a piece of paper saying you believe.
It literally is fraud to do that though, is the thing. That's what fraud is.
DBDr
1yr ago
Part of the process of negotiating resource allocation via negotiation within a framework of laws, traditions, and norms.
Why, what do you think it is?
Also: What, should the entire apparatus of the civil state stand there, limp dick in hand, watching norm after law after precedent get dynamited?
The apparatus demands lubrication, and the only substance at hand is blood. It is good and necessary that blood should flow to feed the state. That is what the state is, that is what the state is for. The state is the threat of violence perpetrated against all by consent of all for the benefit of all.
There has been a defector; why should the government even exist if it can't punish one idiot failson of a fallen business empire?
DBDr
1yr ago
Good post, I like the straight Japan perspective.
+1 Tsushima provided false weight to japan (and everyone else kinda) re. decisive battle doctrine.
Some other things weighing in on decisions (IMO): the perpetual and inevitable rise of gearfuckery. Our planes are so pretty, they fly so high and fast, their cannons are so BIG and STRONG and ERRECT! Our ships sail so well, are so beautiful, surely nothing could oppose them!
Helped along by the fact that they were early adopters and actually did lead the world for quite a while in naval aviation (and military aviation in general, arguably). Just not by as much or for as long as they may have thought.
Sean did a very convincing evisceration of the Murray book, but said book was always pop science at best. I was hoping there would be something more boring to really sink my teeth into.
EDIT: Re debate: the debate bros do it all the time, but the only people on the right willing to go on stream generally aren't really in any position to be defending anything. It's all bloodsports and no substance.
DBDr
1yr ago
29 days late to the party, I can't even remember what we were talking about lol.
Quick overview: I find your examples to be bad (in the sense that they are bad things to have happened) but totally irrelevant to the argument and your conclusion to be wrong.
basically: Mutually assured obstructionism is bad but inevitable once republicans proved they can break the rules as much as they want and as long as their donor class doesn't get twitchy it doesn't matter.
DBDr
1yr ago
Found an annotated paper copy of Pacific Crucible in a used book store in SD that was definitely owned by some retired officer; enjoying the read on paper immensely.
I mean, I only whipped out the phrase in question because people here keep calling pro-choice people baby killers, so I thought some nice harmless hyperbole would be fun.
And you can really argue with it either. The woman in question wishes to abort the fetus; anti abortionists wish she would not. She is a baby killer, they want to force her to give birth. It is what it is.
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