Hyperion
1yr ago
You don't need genetic evidence. Have you seen a Turk from Turkey? They look nothing like a Kazakh or even an Uzbek.
It's not like the Turks' love for assimilation or the fact they didn't kill everyone in the territories they now control is something not in the historical record.
Hyperion
1yr ago
The blog post this is based on draws heavily from David Anthony's The Horse, The Wheel and Language. Horses and wheels, were; if anything, just as important to European colonization of the Americas as guns or steel. The Indo-Europeans also brought metal working to places like Britain that hadn't seen them before.
But Khan's "imagine what the European farmers would have achieved if they wuzn't interrupted" is what I am challenging here.
He never says anything like that. You are tilting at windmills here. Razib thinks the Indo-Europeans were cool, he also thinks they were barbarians par excellence. Both are objectively true.
Hyperion
1yr ago
Richard Garfield, patrilineal descendant of James A. Garfield never expected anyone to buy more than a dozen packs of the cards. So, when they did they had to fix the rules. Magic as Richard Garfield intended, where you can draw 3 cards for one blue mana.
Hyperion
1yr ago
They originally had that as an optional rule in MTG but all the playground fights caused it to die out. There were even ante cards printed; but, they, along with the skill cards are banned even in Vintage.
Hyperion
1yr ago
See that despite the delusions of modern wannabe bronze age keyboard warriors, raw psychopathic "might makes right" attitude was not something believed in ancient times, even by Spartans.
That literally is a raw psychopathic "might makes right" ideology. Invoking the will of the gods doesn't change anything. They thought the will of the gods was whatever happened. It's just "might makes right" with extra steps. They even add as an extra, "and because we fought and conquered those who held it."
I don't see how the invocation of jealous, petty, and partial gods changes anything. It just reinforces how insanely might makes right their ideology was back then.
Hyperion
1yr ago
They are illegal in sanctioned events, which is why sanctioned vintage events are extremely rare. The only real sanctioned vintage is in the online version where the cards are 2 orders of magnitude cheaper.
There are unsanctioned tournaments, but I hear they limit the amount of proxies allowed. No point in showing up with your deck worth more than the per capita GDP if you get smoked by some kid playing a bunch of lands with ancestral recall and black lotus written on them.
Hyperion
1yr ago
This is the same kind of circumlocuted reasoning that Karl Marx used to explain why the obviously in charge bourgeoisie allowed other classes to rule in their place. You can always make up some reason why the supposed rulers of society allowed something to happen instead of allowing for genuine ideological belief that has no material basis or the fact that society is multi-polar.
Hyperion
1yr ago
That McFlurry is doing most of the work. As is the ranch. Fries, burger, and a soda barley reaches 1,500. That's not even enough to satiate a normal weight adult.
Hyperion
1yr ago
How is that one meal? that is two at best. You can't call eating a meal over multiple hours one meal. That is two meals at least.
Hyperion
1yr ago
I'm a short thin man who drinks a lot of alcohol and also has lots of sugary drinks alongside that. I can't subsist off one meal a day. there is no way anyone else can either. What kind of meals are you eating that you can fit 2,200 calories on one plate?
They will then just claim patriarchy is caused by capitalism and capitalism is caused by patriarchy. It's all word games to them. The real world doesn't exist and this has been proven philosophically, so they have no need to deal with empirics, except when it suits them. You can't force them to believe anything, so you can't win if they don't let you.
Hyperion
1yr ago
In Derrida's Deconstructionist school of literary criticism that these kinds of Post-Modernist philosophies are based on, any categorizing or distinction between things is, itself, oppression. The very fact we think men and women are beings worthy of distinction is the root of oppression and we can never have true equality as long as we can think them distinct. So it is the deconstructionist critics job to instead try to paint the supposed inferior party as really superior, using the oppressors own words against them, so as to deconstruct the oppressive structures that have been created. The existence of these structures is again self evident from the fact we are even drawing different categories (people well versed in literary criticism and philosophy would find this obvious and you should as well if you know anything at all /s).
Hyperion
1yr ago
The result was mass starvation. When cannibalism becomes a major concern in cities, getting farmers to produce becomes a legitimate concern.
What are you talking about? The Soviet Union was exporting grain to support the growth of it's heavy industry in the early 1920s which led the USA to withdraw it's massive famine relief efforts. In the early 1930s famine was caused by collectivization and wasn't required to feed the cities. It isn't like collectivization helped productivity in the long run. That they eventually stopped being so insanely oppressive that starving their citizens was a step to far is more due to politics than anything.
Are you deliberately choosing bad examples to make a point?
Hyperion
1yr ago
It's must less egregious then cases like Turkey or Thailand. At least the Dutch came from Deutschland and the Deutsch are still almost entirely descended from those original people.
Hyperion
1yr ago
There are two contradictory interpretations of the pagan gods and animistic spirits in the Abrahamic religions. One interpretation sees them as inert wood and stone having no real existence. The other sees them as actual demons who have power in this world and have tricked men into worshipping them as gods.
Hyperion
1yr ago
Well I think his post is ridiculous; but, at the very least, armed intervention without Mexico's approval would spark an international crisis. I think the US armed forces with support from the Mexican government could route the cartels in the same way that the Northern Alliance routed the Taliban with only a handful of US special forces and air support. Some cartel members could hide and try to strike back, but these groups don't have any real ideology other than money and power, unlike the Taliban. Once the money runs dry and with no where to run(unlike the Taliban who retreated into backwater mountain valleys and Pakistan), the cartels would just dissolve. The Central American countries just as corrupt and gang infested as Mexico managed it by themselves.
No one would ever say that a policy that lowered crime by say 20% was pointless, because the crime was still committed in any other context. Who cares if they can find a way around it, the optimal amount of drug trafficking isn't zero. Corner solutions are rarely optimal.
Hyperion
1yr ago
Locks also don't stop determined criminals, but I still lock my car and house.
Hyperion
1yr ago
The administrative state was always like this, though. It's nothing new and it doesn't seem to be particularly bad in modern America or the West more generally. You had all these problems and worse in Imperial China or Rome. You had these problems in the supposedly absolutist Bourbon dynasty that had to call on the Estates General to try to get around the recalcitrant regional Parlements.
Hyperion
1yr ago
There’s absolutely nothing in the Jewish Bible that suggests a human sacrifice for sins.
And? He was raised a Pharisees, then has his literal 'Road to Damascus' incident and adopts the Christian belief in Jesus' sacrifice for our sins.
The lambs killed during Passover were not sin offerings.
No, but Jesus' death was in Christian belief. The lamb is just a parallel to Christs' sacrifice. The claim he is like the sacrificial lamb can easily be explained as a parallel coming from them both being sacrifices, not that the lamb was a way to remove sin from people (if it was why would Jesus' sacrifice be needed when we could already sacrifice a lamb?).
Jesus is the sacrifice that creates a new covenant. This parallels the creation of the old covenant in Egypt where lambs were sacrificed. Paul is very explicit that the new covenant parallels the old one that began in Egypt.
I think both religions are jokes, but you are misrepresenting Paul here.
Hyperion
1yr ago
Are Democracies incapable of long term planning? The USA and England did plenty of long term planning in the 19th and early 20th century and emerged as the pre-eminent powers of the later half of the 20th century. The Russian Czars and German Kaisers used all their alleged long term planning abilities to allow their countries to be torn apart in the aftermath of WW1. The dictators Mussolini and Hitler also destroyed their own nations for no gain. They had long term plans that were destined for failure. I guess Stalin made Russia strong enough to defeat Germany; with ample help from the democratic USA, but Mao wrecked his nation and only Deng taking a 180 degree turn has allowed them to come back into prominence.
They claim their labours are to build a heaven yet their heaven is populated with horrors. Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. A clock without a craftsman.
Hyperion
1yr ago
Also, is it even a warzone? I thought the Taliban rule is uncontested?
The non-Pashtun ethnic groups restarted their guerilla war against the Pashtun dominated Taliban government even before Kabul fell. The Tajiks, Uzbeks, and Hazara have no love for the Taliban and stomping their resistance out completely is as impossible as stomping out Taliban resistance in Afghanistan.
Hyperion
1yr ago
In my example it was also having that famous person as your teacher. Your advisor even. I don't see what's absurd about a Pharisee having another Pharisee as a teacher. Some people must have been taught by Gamaliel. Why not Paul?
Hyperion
1yr ago
It would be like some random guy claiming to have learned physics at the feet of Einstein
If he was actually a Pharisee then he would have been taught in Jerusalem by the Rabbi there. It's like accusing someone who went to grad school in the University of Chicago in the 80's for economics of pretending they were taught by Milton Friedman or Robert Lucas. Of course they were taught by them, how could they not be?
And every Muslim can quote verses out of the Koran despite it being a bad rip off of the bible. Every woman under 40 can quote Taylor swift songs despite her being mid level in talent at best. The only reason anyone read the manifesto is because he bombed stuff. The only reason it keeps getting repeated; is, because, of the bombings and that people keep repeating it. It's something that's famous for being famous. Humans work like that. They think stuff that is popular must be good and they really believe it.
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