DiscourseMagnus
2d ago
This is extremely easy to look up; Iran subscribes to some transgender ideology, but it doesn’t manifest in the same way at all because they're very socially illiberal instead of very socially liberal. It's a fluke but not in the sense that it involves very few people or in the sense that it isn’t very well-established policy.
DiscourseMagnus
4d ago
One especially obvious counter here:
some sort of anti-free-speech pro-Palestinian regime on college campuses.
Since when has the left prevented any sort of anti-free-speech regime on college campuses, so long as it's aligned with them?
...this makes sense when you put it like this, and it makes sense of something that had always confused me: why the left expects playing word games with "communism" and "socialism" to work as though the thing with meaningful opposition is the branding and not the idea. The coalition dynamic is obvious in retrospect, but it had always seemed obvious to me at the time that anyone who found the repackaging of communism and socialism under other labels persuasive was either already in the tank for it or had very weak principles. No, their strong principles might just be a different part of the American right wing's package.
DiscourseMagnus
10d ago
Slight takeoff on the premise, but recently it occurred to me that the oracle might have informed JFK that his cause of death would be a collision in an automobile.
DiscourseMagnus
14d ago
DiscourseMagnus
14d ago
Oh, certainly; didn't mean to stand up for any form of "almost all true", just sliding priors around.
DiscourseMagnus
14d ago
I definitely think it's worth separating formal and informal rape accusations here; I expect the BS ones predictably fall off as the standards of evidence rise, producing very different samples.
DiscourseMagnus
15d ago
DiscourseMagnus
15d ago
This is an even dumber stuck prior to have than assuming they're almost all true.
DiscourseMagnus
15d ago
It's asinine to even suggest that they can be separated. Why, pray tell, was Acton living in a tent? Ah, I see.
DiscourseMagnus
15d ago
My contempt for Ramaswamy following this debacle is normally reserved for the other side at its worst; it and the Jay Jones incident from last year are the most FUBAR I have seen our October-surprise-type politics get, and he should lose in a landslide to mitigate the damage to the social fabric. Unfortunately Jones didn't, but I don't mean to change the subject. At least Ramaswamy is polling poorly. May he poll ever worse.
DiscourseMagnus
21d ago
Agreed, but I think it's interesting that he's open to but not committed to things like public executions.
DiscourseMagnus
27d ago
...would Hasan want privacy for his execution?
DiscourseMagnus
1mo ago
I also think it's notable that "lab leak" covers intentional release in China by anyone.
DiscourseMagnus
1mo ago
Interestingly, I saw a lot of suggestions from the right (clearly influenced by the juror interviews) that the main pro-Clancy constituency is older leftist women. If true, I can think of a lot of reasons this might be so: more time since they've been children themselves, sour grapes about not having had children, in the generation most influenced by Ehrlichian antinatalism, uh, "witch archetype"...
DiscourseMagnus
1mo ago
were apprehended with the help of Pakistani security services.
Despite, not with. Much of the trick to catching bin Laden was cutting Pakistan out of the loop on promising leads to his location.
DiscourseMagnus
1mo ago
Basically similar to Jews.
DiscourseMagnus
1mo ago
I have no firm opinion as to whether she intended to survive, but the argument in your comment seems self-contradictory. Surely her medical expertise wasn't worth that much if she failed to foresee that the fall could paralyze her.
It seems likely (though I hope it won't) that this will become a partisan political issue, like everything else of importance. If so, though, it hasn't happened yet.
EDIT: Nevermind, since posting this he's pivoted to the retarded comforting normie "x-risk from AI is a lie to impress investors" narrative.
DiscourseMagnus
2mo ago
While I don't think "unreasonable" is the right word for the existing standard, the resulting dynamic does seem kind of perverse, in that when someone starts one of these threads for a major news item, the responses are blatantly not actually responding to the OP, they're using it as a generic jumping-off point for discussion of the news item. Nor would it be particularly reasonable to expect them to respond to the OP; indeed, the design of these sorts of OPs is clearly optimized to meet some minimum standard for not setting off moderator action while functioning as a generic jumping-off point for discussion of the news item. It feels like a standard intended to discourage (but not prohibit) people from starting threads saying "let's talk about the latest big news item", rendered absurd by the overwhelming demand for such threads.
DiscourseMagnus
2mo ago
You should be glad "woke" didn’t make that their thing; the pattern of the post-woke right suggests that the baby would have been thrown out with the bathwater as everything was made a partisan issue.
DiscourseMagnus
2mo ago
Insofar as this is true, it's another compelling argument against the existence of the insanity defense.
DiscourseMagnus
2mo ago
Again, it's not an issue of nerds vs. popular kids; it's nerds vs. other nerds. The most strident voices against techno-fascism are themselves "nerds" by any definition. Many are autistic, and will say so right in their Tumblr/Bluesky bios. (And when you meet them in person, you can tell it's true.) They have prickly mannerisms and are not exactly "people persons".
I do not find this narrative credible in the slightest. Sure, some of them are self-hating autistic nerds turned into pathetic thralls, but this is not the demographic that leads or defines them. Quite the opposite, in fact; insofar as they're led and defined by neurodivergents with prickly mannerisms, they're hypersocial psychopaths. Sometimes they feign autism as an elaborate gambit, as they feign many other conditions like Tourette's or DID. But this infamously does not look like the actual condition. They constantly engage in elaborate and deceptive social maneuvers to destroy their enemies by petty conspiracy, and they're quite good at it; they sometimes appear incompetent at it only because they're unstable enough to frequently run up against each other. They are the opposite of autistic, and the opposite of nerdy (which never really meant anything aside from being a cruder term for autism).
They're defined by worshiping status in the Hansonian sense, which of course requires perpetually lying about it and pretending it doesn't exist, anti-autistic taqiyya. They hate truth and the idea that anyone would ever believe in truth and not act as part of an evil collectivist hivemind. They salivate over the thought of eugenically eradicating autism, which is to say the propensity to not think and talk in consummate liar.
DiscourseMagnus
2mo ago
I mean, it seems pretty obvious that it's because, despite all the political rhetoric to the contrary, the leftists don't hate them for being rich, they hate them for being nerds. Indeed, the leftists hate the less-rich employees at the companies a lot more than they hate the CEOs, because they're much nerdier than the CEOs. They hate random nerds in their everyday lives who are much poorer than them a lot more than they hate the CEOs, because those are also much nerdier than the CEOs. The existence of somewhat nerdy CEOs is just very flimsy cover.
I think the opposite is true: Talarico is legitimately extremely offputting and a terrible candidate to win Texas as a Democrat, but Republicans were high on their own supply to think that it wasn't a blue enough cycle (and facing a terrible enough Republican candidate) to make him the expected winner. He's just much more tuned to get a committed partisan Democrat to think he appeals to Republican-leaning swing voters than he is to actually appeal to Republican-leaning swing voters, which produces this really distinct dissonance.
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