DiscourseMagnus
13hr ago
I've come to interpret most tightening of laws after a tragedy as being symbolic. The buyback after Port Arthur probably didn't have much effect, but it was expressive. The point was for the government to communicate, "We care, and we are taking this seriously."
Nope. It's so that anytime they want, the government can with maximum ease send men to your house to tie you up, rape your wife, kids, and pets to death in front of you (if you have any), and drag you off to some blacksite to do medical experiments on you for the rest of your days. That's what "monopoly on force" means.
DiscourseMagnus
15hr ago
It's unfalsifiable, but the obvious course isn't hiding the suicide, it's reporting it but avoiding romanticizing it directly or giving it more coverage than you'd give a tragic accident. Robin Williams is the classic example of the wrong approach on both counts; it was all over the press with loving tributes endorsing his decision to kill himself.
DiscourseMagnus
17hr ago
If you decide that it all traces back to that one forum post, then it makes the chud gamer side looks really bad, which is why the feminist side usually frames it that way.
This is not my impression at all; it seems to me that exactly the opposite of this is true. The feminist side is the one that tries to obfuscate the specifics of the incident and make it a general culture war thing, because the specific incident did look really bad for them, and it pains me to see their opponents buy into that frame.
DiscourseMagnus
21hr ago
I suspect a synthesis where women are having less casual sex than a redpiller believes and more casual sex than a normie conservative man believes.
DiscourseMagnus
2d ago
They're in US territory and I don't think we ought to give them up, so they should assimilate. Ideally we would acquire even more territory and make the people there assimilate too.
DiscourseMagnus
2d ago
Ah, my mistake. Half-remembering the story I thought he got citizenship.
DiscourseMagnus
2d ago
White American monoculture is dead; it's split in half along partisan lines and both halves want the other slaughtered and subjugated. I have nothing in common with Bad Bunny but I hardly have more in common with the average Democrat.
He's a very bad American; "American" is not a value judgment. Hillary Clinton, Jay Jones, and Tyler Robinson are all Americans. Roman Polanski is an American and neither resides here nor was born here. Jeffrey Epstein and Charlie Manson were Americans.
DiscourseMagnus
2d ago
Yeah, I have issues with the (lack of) Puerto Rican assimilation, but casually disrespecting it and treating it as a foreign country looks to me like a clear case of Republicans shooting themselves in the foot. I expect that the next time Democrats get a strong trifecta and are looking for ways to lock it in - this could easily be as soon as 2029 - Puerto Rican statehood will be a high priority, and that could easily be the killshot of the Seventh Party System.
DiscourseMagnus
2d ago
Among your broad groups, I'd add a loose grouping of southern Central America and northern South America - Panama, Colombia, and Venezuela - as a region with a lot of crime and social instability, separate from Mexico, but also a lot of US strategic interest.
DiscourseMagnus
2d ago
The one thing missing from this analysis is that it doesn't need to be a fallacy at all (in the context of the unrealistic hypothetical button); for most values of n, the nth percentile of attractiveness woman is more attractive than the nth percentile of attractiveness man.
DiscourseMagnus
3d ago
Unfortunately, Karens who spend far too much time online possess a sort of heckler's veto, in that it's wise to stay abreast of what summons them so you can avoid doing it needlessly or at least be prepared for them when they show up.
DiscourseMagnus
3d ago
Okay, I like J. K. Rowling, I think she was underrated back in the day by Serious Literary People, but I still feel like bringing her up torpedoes your case about more creative artists going further.
DiscourseMagnus
4d ago
Do we know why he has that alias? I feel like the Occam's Razor solution, in the absence of an official explanation, is that he's from the Soviet Muslim tradition of having an Islamic name and an assimilated one for records. Could also be a convert, though, or some form of con artist.
DiscourseMagnus
5d ago
Olde[r] women viscerally hate it when older men date younger women, which has led to the Left broadly being hostile towards age gap relationships.
I'm also quite cynical about this phenomenon, but for what it's worth, I felt a pretty visceral hatred for those relationships myself when I was a younger man.
DiscourseMagnus
5d ago
As an aside, old people have vastly poorer reaction times. Epstein would be in his 70s; gamers in that age range don’t really play shooters anymore, they play MMOs, RPGs, strategy games.
Although "it's someone other than Epstein playing" does weaken the case for him still being alive, it doesn't directly imply that he's not in control of the account. Who's to say, after all, that he didn't have some Gen Alpha girl playing Fortnite right in front of him?
DiscourseMagnus
7d ago
Yeah, that's what it means to be a servant.
I think the original description of the problem failed because I agree that it's a good and normal thing for Trump to demand loyalty from his subordinates. The thing I find unseemly about the cult of personality around Trump is that it seems to demand loyalty from many who are not supposed to be servants of the President. "My President right or wrong" is no approach to being part of an electorate, even if he is on the right partisan side.
DiscourseMagnus
11d ago
Correct, but the one the message you're responding to referenced is real.
DiscourseMagnus
13d ago
I do not consider Republicans or the right wing to be my outgroup.
DiscourseMagnus
13d ago
And bizarrely the American left types who might have venerated Thomas Matthew Crooks were convinced he was a Republican (?) false flag operation (?), and anyway I guess he radiated "loser teenage boy" energy rather than "big stronk warrior man" energy.
History repeated itself with Kirk's assassin.
DiscourseMagnus
16d ago
I agree that there are many laws that are wrong, should change, and even that it's proper and moral to break and improper and immoral to support or enforce. However, there is no meaningful dispute whether or not the law is in fact being broken. I personally disagree that immigration law is in this morally illegitimate category of law, and I certainly think it's unwise to break regardless of the morality of the matter. Any of these people could have been deported at any time, even if they were statistically less likely to be under a politically different administration. That's the whole reason that evil scumbags like doing business with them, because they've all got a massive blackmail threat hanging over their heads.
DiscourseMagnus
16d ago
unless it's actually fear on the level of "ICE will find me in my house and kill me if they determine that I did not support ICE enough"
This gets at something that's been on my mind lately, which is that I think people need to go back to the drawing board if their defense of the recent ICE shooting would also work as a defense of going down the list of registered Democratic voters and sending hit squads to their houses to kill everyone present.
DiscourseMagnus
16d ago
You can stop a jaywalking in progress by getting the jaywalker out of the street. It seems absurd to me to compare that to an ongoing crime where halting it requires forcing the perpetrator to move their entire residence.
I noticed this too, but it seemed contextually weird enough for it to be ChatGPT to make me wonder if maybe people who spend long enough talking to ChatGPT pick up its voice.
EDIT: Wait, this is just a viral Xitter post? Totally AI.
There are definitely a lot of people who use the preferred pronouns of trans people they like and not mass murderers, it's just not a position with intellectual support on either side of the aisle.
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