JarJarJedi
Streamlined derailments and counteridea reeducation
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JarJarJedi
1d ago
This attempt to force the executive to (presumably, temporarily) return one particular illegal comes across as political theater and legal chicanery.
You see, you do understand. But that's not the only goal. The other goal is to establish the supremacy of the federal judiciary (where the Left is still enjoying a lot of power) over the actions of the federal executive. The strategy is death by the thousand of TROs. If the admin is forced to ask consent of every leftist federal judge for every action, not a lot of actions can be performed - even if SCOTUS works overtime to shut down all the overreaches (which is in no way guaranteed), it will still take time, and if every action that could take a day takes months instead and costs a lot of paperwork and lawyertime, which is limited even for the feds, then doing things becomes much harder. In the first Trump admin, the Left managed to neutralize a lot of his agenda by putting him under the shadow of suspicion of being the Russian agent. Now this does not exist anymore, so they need another leverage. Making everybody in the admin constantly look over the shoulder for a federal judge to intervene in their actions is a good leverage.
JarJarJedi
1d ago
Second this, and despite them addressing a lot of topics that would be classified as "social justice" and "woke", it does not give off the impression of being a woke product. I have very low tolerance for "agenda" productions, and I quite enjoyed it (I'm Jewish though so there's that). It has an nice setting, masterful execution, and also Tony Shaloub who is, as expected, great, and got an Emmy for this work.
JarJarJedi
2d ago
I applied to major corps (FAANG, MS, etc.) several times over the years, and I knew I am at least qualified enough to get the interview (I think qualified enough to do like 90% of tech jobs they have, but that's just my opinion) but the only time I ever got a call back was when it was a referral through a specific person to a specific team (not that it always worked - I had several referrals that led to nothing at all). I got an offer then, decided not to go for it, no regrets about it - but I am just wondering, how do they actually source? Is that just random luck? Is there a secret code? Is there some criteria I miss? I mean I'd be fine if they talked to me and said no thanks. But there's never even a call back, ever. Not that I really need it - of the FAANG five I probably would only consider Netflix - but I'd like to understand the process.
JarJarJedi
4d ago
Reading this and then seeing how the same corps fire people by the thousand without any fault of theirs, and also knowing if I sent them the resume they'd probably not even notice it (not that I actually want to work at any of them but maybe Netflix, but still), gives me really eerie impression. I'm old enough to be fine with a lot of things in life making no sense. But this involves a lot of obviously very smart people, who control trillions of dollars, and yet it all makes so little sense... Why must it be so wrong?
JarJarJedi
4d ago
because this sounds to me more like a fever dream than any description of reality
This is because you choose to ignore the reality for ideological reasons. People do that all the time, nothing surprising.
I live in a border state and haven’t any kind of “invasion” like you’re describing.
People lived in the Soviet Union and didn't see any lack of freedoms that the lying Western press was talking about. Moreover, I am sure there are a lot of people of North Korea which don't see any totalitarian regime, just the glorious rule of the Beloved Chairman. The key difference is: this has been largely done to them by somebody else, and they'd risk severe consequences if they waked up. You do it to yourself willingly and risk nothing but feeling a little silly. And yet...
In 2015, there was about 300K illegal migrant encounters on the southern border. In 2023, there were over 3.2 million. That doesn't count people being literally brought in the country by the planeload and released in random communities - without any vetting, proper immigration process (I know something about that, being a legal immigrant myself) or sensible oversight. That doesn't account for complete refusal of the collective left to acknowledge there even exists such a thing as immigration law anymore (just listen how Dem politicians spoke about illegal migration some 10-15 years ago - they were proper firebrands, nobody is above the law! Now they only remember this when they need to cook up another investigation against Trump).
But I don’t understand the point you’re making
I think my very first sentence was clear enough? We are already living in the catastrophical environment. The catastrope - at least for those people who are not willingly blind, like you are - has already very evidently happened and very perceivable. All that have been happening for the last decade-and-a-half is not normal. It is not what should be happening in a proper country, regardless of ideological differences.
those are in a separate category from the excesses and extremism coming from the President of the United States.
Nope. To fix the catastrophe, you need to act unlike you'd act in a normal situation. If your neighbor parks their car somewhere that inconveniences you, the right way is to politely ask them to move their car. If your neighbor parks in front of a fire hydrant while your house is on fire, then the firemen would break the car's windows and run the hose through. Impolite, but necessary. Now imagine this neighbor actively impedes the firemen from extinguishing the fire, runs around spilling gasoline and brags about it because you are, in his eyes, an evil person whose house deserves to burn, and also there's nothing bad in a good fire, as long as the right people are getting burned. Would you try to handle this the most polite way possible? Likely not. What has been happening is not normal, and thus we get somebody who is not acting in a usual way to fix it. Because fixing it in normal ways has been tried and failed, many times over. So yes, these "excesses" are very much the same category - it's these excesses, continuing and multiplying for decades, what convinced people (including myself) that what has been done before - nominating and electing polite, smooth talking, consensus-seeking people who would try to solve things in polite, consensual, mutually beneficial ways - is not working, and actually threatening the society's very existence.
JarJarJedi
4d ago
When the catastrophe actually happens
The catastrophe has already happened. Nobody knows how big exactly the Biden cross-border invasion has been, but it probably will have effects for decades down the line. We've got literally violent foreign gangs taking over neighborhoods in the US. We've got tens of thousands of migrants sent to tiny towns where there's no chance they can be properly assimilated. We've got one of the major parties not only completely normalizing ignoring the law and brazenly bragging about "resisting" the law enforcement, but actively working to make the maximum amount of foreign violent criminals and sociopaths to stay on US territory, and willing to destroy any institution in the nation that stands in the way. We've got higher education institutions taken over by people openly advocating genocide, violently rioting without any consequences and physically attacking anybody who looks like a Jew. And that's only a small sample of the political violence we're seeing right now. That sounds a lot like something that I'd call a catastrophe.
JarJarJedi
5d ago
If they hold on to that, and the admin holds too and cuts them off, I think it's a win. I loathe current Harvard dominating ideology, but I support the principle that in a free country, which America still one day may become, people are free to hold any ideology, even extremely loathsome, as long as it does not involve infringing other's rights. Taking my money to do stuff that is loathsome to me comes pretty close, in my opinion, to infringing my rights, but if Harvard stops taking tax money (or at least takes them in no other sense than a cab driver transporting a government official takes the tax money) then I'd be ok with such setup. Secretly, in my heart, I'd desire for them to disappear in the flames of Hell, but I realize that the reality can't be so because everybody has their own desires and they are contradictory and the way to have a society is to have some desires moderated by the existence of others. The tricky part is how to ensure they don't just keep their ideology and resume taking my money once Trump is gone.
I would have loved to see that viewpoint diversity report on an Abstract Algebra class.
In the context of the woke academia, "viewpoint diversity" is largely bullshit. The premise of the wokism is that genetical diversity somehow magically generates viewpoint diversity (as long as there aren't too many people of European descent because somehow they are all defective in this way) and that is supremely beneficial. Of course, nobody even bothers to support this claim because this is an axiom, and nobody even bothers to check there's an actual viewpoint diversity because nobody in fact wants it. This requirement just looks like calling the bluff on it - "ah, you love diversity? OK, let's measure you on that". Of course they'd refuse since neither they can measure it nor they ever wanted to.
JarJarJedi
5d ago
I think that only concerns the flag itself - i.e. a rectangular piece of cloth with specific pattern, used for a specific purpose - not a depiction of the same pattern in different places. I.e. if I have a cup with the Statue of Liberty and American flag depicted, I don't think Flag Code applies to the cup.
JarJarJedi
5d ago
I'm not sure what's the point of it. I mean yeah, there probably may be some legal way to do it, but why? It won't change anything significantly, and the reason why manufacturing is moving out aren't because evil fatcats hate America. It's because it is cheaper, and the reason it is cheaper is because workforce overseas is cheaper due to lower living standards and absence of regulations. I see no major non-niche brands that advertise something like "yeah we cost twice the competition, but we are made in America so it's clear you should buy us!". I mean, there are brands where MiUSA is part of their marketing, but not many that make it the center and rely heavily on it, as far as I can see. Thus, I must conclude, the revealed preference of the US consumers, en masse, is to get cheaper goods, regardless of where they are made. I don't think putting or removing some flags is going to change that. You can say "fuck the weak consumers, the interests of the Nation demand we have domestic manufacturing", then you need something global and non-consensual like tariffs and import bans to take the choice away.
Plus, of course, enforcing this with the consumers largely not caring would be tough. You can't go for the consumers, since punishing consumers for displaying American symbols would get you eaten alive in the media. You can't go for the manufacturers (on case by case basis) because it'd be too costly and they are outside the country, and something like WTO would likely be reluctant to help you. And if you go for the middlemen, it'd be a perpetual game of whack-a-mole, which, given the experience with controlling other goods, you are going to lose.
JarJarJedi
5d ago
As far as I know, yes, there are forensic tools that could do some of what you want. You likely can't get them legally unless you're a LEO or something like that, but probably if you have access to the right darknet places you can get at least some of those (it's just code after all so anybody could use it). I have no personal experience though with this, just stuff that I read about in various places on the internet (which as we all know only contains true and verified information and can be always trusted). Most of the tools would rely on some bugs or logic holes so success of applying them to a particular phone would highly depend on the model, OS version, settings, etc.
There was a famous case where the FBI had trouble accessing San Bernadino shooter's iPhone (Apple can be better than random Android in this due to the fact that they can have unified model covering everything) but they were able to successfully break the protection anyway. The people who specialize in it likely have a lot more tricks in their bags, but those are not going to be revealed to a random dude, they a worth quite a lot of money and they won't do it for everybody. If you were an FBI officer, you probably would be able to get them to help you.
JarJarJedi
11d ago
I've been in Vancouver about 10 years ago, and I remember it as a beautiful city with some pretty scary Methland downtown. Looks like nothing much changed since then.
But if they vote for decades for people who are doing this to them, isn't there a point where one should conclude they want it this way, and thus deserve it this way?
JarJarJedi
16d ago
Oh this is precious. Who even thought giving the LCU option is a great idea? I mean, what is the intended use of this option at all?
JarJarJedi
16d ago
Nothing ever is "perpetual", but the situation where there is the ruling elite which admits very little outsiders is pretty common even now, and was the default setting pretty much everywhere for the recorded human history until about 100 years ago or so. The case where a son of peasant could be anybody but peasant, let alone become part of ruling elite, were the stuff of legend, and pretty much never happened in reality. That was the case even in completely racially homogeneous societies, race has very little to do with it.
JarJarJedi
16d ago
I can't honestly sign for it as I'm already a Jew, but if such a deal would be made available to me on the condition that I will have to surrender all my Jew privileges, whatever they might be, excepting ones that concern The World To Come (not willing to bargain on those), in exchange for myself and my family living in the Jew Paradise - I'd sign up. I'd try to sign up for the full Jew deal if possible, I'm not stupid - but if the Goy deal is the only one left, I'd go for that too.
JarJarJedi
16d ago
I think somehow her great contributions to project management
Project management? I.e. work that involves handling (reading, writing, etc.) a lot of documents and talking to a bunch of people? Can totally be done 100% remotely. I mean I get the "social isolation" aspect of the remote work, but it doesn't look like 2hrs commute to the office and sitting all day in a cubicle there (no idea how they do it in Korea but that's what would happen in the US) is improving on that. I imagine there are positions where personal contact and being physically in one room is important. But I don't see how project management - unless it's managing something like construction project where you need to actually observe what is being built on the ground - is one of them.
From what I understood, the matter is (at least that's what the officials say it is) that they used funds allocated to pay one kind of the employee (aides working on EU matters) to pay another kind of the employee (aides working on French local matters). While this may or may not be violation of whatever regulations exist in EU (I certainly claim deep ignorance on the subject, and not sure why you can't have an employee working on both matters), calling it "embezzlement" seems going too far - it's not like Le Pen bought cars, family dinners and Gucci bags with public money. Making it a criminal violation disqualifying a leading opposition candidate from participating in the elections stinks to high heaven, to be honest.
Also, I imagine if US had similar regulations - where you can't use federal funds allocated for Congressional aides to hire a member of your own party - that'd disqualify about every single Congressman in existence, as I don't see many Democrats hiring Republican aides or vice versa. And I am sure a lot of congressional aides deal with day-to-day matters that concern partisan affairs - talking to voters, organizing fundraisers, meeting important allies, that kind of stuff. Are there any regulations for that in the US?
JarJarJedi
22d ago
actual passable (sometimes) routes through the Arctic
That can change if things get warmer though. Also, Greenland is near the Western (US/Canada adjacent) route, though it's the less usable now, but again could change in the future.
JarJarJedi
22d ago
It would be an appropriate comparison if the King, say, had a vote (and regularly used it) in the parliament equalling 2/3 of the sum of the votes of other members, or equivalent amount of power, and everybody would just go "well, we know it's only a relic based on a technicality but that's how it is and we're not changing it". Effectively, abortion in Germany beyond initial 12 weeks is banned, and something that many in the US consider absolutely barbaric, batshit insane, unconstitutional, bible-thumping far-right lunacy - is accepted as the norm. I find it very hard to reconcile with "perceived as harmless" - if anti-abortion movement is so harmless and is merely a decorative relic, why not do the same as the left in the US has been doing for years and roll out free abortions for all to the birth and beyond? The left hasn't ever been shy in implementing their agenda - even with the strong opposition, they often manage to go very far. If the situation is so that there's no opposition to speak of at all, except some decorative relics - why didn't they do that? The most plausible explanation would be that your assessment of the opposition to it being merely a decorative relic is wrong and if the left tried to push the consensus from the current settled point they would encounter a significant pushback, and a lot of people actually think that this compromise point is better than what the left can offer them. For the left to be using this fact as an argument along the lines of "Europe actually loves abortions and long they implemented what we're asking for and they're all fine with it" in this context sounds very misleading.
JarJarJedi
23d ago
That's because Europe hasn't had a US style batshit insane anti-abortion movement outside small rare niches.
Ever heard of folks called "catholics"? I am pretty sure they have some positions on abortion. I am not sure "batshit insane" can be considered as argument and not a spit-spraying, but I think it's reasonable to believe at least some of them hold views that abortion needs to be restricted. Moreover, if those people didn't exist, how exactly would Germany end up with laws like "Abortion is banned forever, but we decide to ignore it for the first 12 weeks" instead of "Abortion is allowed as a sacred right and nobody is to restrict it by any stupid terms or conditions" - as it is the official position of the US left and the official interpretation of RvW until recently? I mean if nobody is so batshit insane as to ban abortions, how does it happen abortion is banned? Was there an alien invasion or something? If everybody agrees banning it is batshit insane, why not just come out and say so and enshrine it like California etc. do?
where the nominal prohibition is kept due to a technicality
Kept from what? You just said Europe didn't have anybody wanting to ban abortion, so how do you "keep" something that nobody ever wanted? How did it got there in the first place? Why didn't they remove that "technicality" long ago - what's so hard about it?
as a way to allow conservatives to signal "morally appropriate behavior".
Are those the same conservatives you just called "batshit insane" and claimed they don't exist in Europe? If they don't exist, why they must be made allowances?
I'm sorry, I find your explanation to be a weak sauce.
JarJarJedi
1mo ago
I'm not even sure in "up to birth" part: https://www.nationalreview.com/2008/08/why-obama-really-voted-infanticide-andrew-c-mccarthy/ I'm not sure where's the real line - when the fetus is old enough to vote? Drink? Collect Social Security? Who knows.
JarJarJedi
1mo ago
He registered through the CBP One application in Mexico and was detained in San Diego when
OK so I get why he fled Venezuela. His life was in danger and he fled a dictatorial regime. Good for him. But then there's a bit of a gap. Once he got to Mexico, what exactly he was fleeing so urgently that he needed to get to San Diego without an entry visa? And, in fact, how exactly he ended up in San Diego? I am pretty sure if you just walk to the border and tell the agents "please let me in, I am a soccer coach from Venezuela and thus must get to San Diego urgently!" that's not going to work. When I was not a US citizen, each time I entered the US I had to get a visa and it was checked. I don't hear any mention of any visas in this story. How did it happen?
JarJarJedi
1mo ago
Support for abortion in germany is in excess of 70%
If Wikipedia is to be believed, abortion in Germany is banned except for when it's necessary for saving mother's life and also the ban is not enforced for the first 12 weeks. I think that's something that not only 70% of US population, but the majority of Republicans would be ok to sign up with. It's interestingly how Germany with it's Euro-leftist tendencies and seemingly wide support for abortions, has the laws that if implemented in the US, would be universally called "far-right abortion ban".
JarJarJedi
1mo ago
Again, my point is that the lie wasn't "it's zoonotic". The lie was "it's zoonotic and there's nothing to discuss anymore, and anybody who keeps saying it's possible that it's not zoonotic is a racist idiot". "The truth is X" may be true or false, and we may not know which for a while, but "the consensus is X and there's no good argument for Y" is a proven lie. It still may turn out X is true, but - at that point of time - the claim that there was no good argument against X is what was the lie. And that was definitely a deliberate lie, not a mistake, because people who claimed it knew that there was a good argument against zoonosis - good enough to convince BND. Maybe BND was ultimately duped - it can happen. But it at least established a strong controversy and not a consensus. However this controversy is resolved, the lie had happened.
JarJarJedi
1mo ago
That's my point - if you have a strong presence of the people with non-"standard American" tastes, then you can sustain authentic cuisine. If you're just in a random place without large fresh immigrant population, you probably won't find a lot of authentic.
I'd assume you would need to use Spanish for that. I also have been told by reliable sources that using the word "marijuana" is racist, so not sure it can be even mentioned by a proper expert.
I would assume the guys who made the photo that Trump showed around would be called "experts" at least by the current administration and would gladly testify that these signs mean MS-13 (I assume 33 is a typo here). After all, they told so to the president, if they aren't sure that's what it is they would be majorly screwed. The problem is the other side could claim those people know nothing and they are lying and they have got their own experts that are ready to testify that these tattoos actually mean "universal peace and love" and has absolutely no relationship to any gangs and anybody who is not a racist fascist knows that. I'm not sure where in our days it is still possible to find experts that haven't been claimed by any sides are would be universally acceptable.
For me personally, absence of alternative explanations and the fact that his wife insists on hiding the tattoos on all photos explains enough, but I'm not an expert, just a random dude on the internet.
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