Jesweez
22hr ago
Is it permanently and historically theirs, or do you just mean that sometimes people will say that this is “X group” land historically and then go about their business as normal?
Jesweez
7d ago
This is true, however I’d just point out, uncontacted tribes in the Amazon usually do have contact with other tribes.
The word used in countries where these tribes are typically found is more accurate, people who are in “voluntary isolation”.
Not saying this to make any point one way or another, just because the subject interests me.
Yet his wife is?
Throat cancer, she talks with one of those electric voice boxes you press up to the neck.
She took the vaccine, contracted Covid at the same time, and she’s alive and kicking and living with her children and grandchildren.
Modern cancer treatment is actually surprisingly effective when you catch it early.
Also, the COVID vaccine is objectively effective at preventing deaths.
Jesweez
9d ago
Texas only leads renewables because it’s a profitable use of their land IMO.
Jesweez
9d ago
Disagree, immigrants come and typically work far harder than Americans who are comfortable and lazier. Those are the people with the pioneering spirit, willing to build something new for their families. That’s why immigrant groups outperform Americans economically in so many different fields. Vivek was right.
Jesweez
9d ago
Nobody more so than immigrants in my opinion
Starting a new life in a foreign land
Jesweez
9d ago
Meanwhile it’s my grandma who decided to vaccinate herself who is living with dignity and he unfortunately died without being able to breathe.
In my opinion anyway. Dying that way fucking sucks man. But I can respect that he was ready to face those consequences for his principles.
Jesweez
9d ago
Eh, my grandma had throat cancer (both lived as prolific smokers), she did take the vaccine, got covid at the same time, and is still alive and kicking.
Other side, my other grandpa is 92 and plays tennis every other day. I’ve got some strong longevity genes on both sides, but sadly messing around with stuff like this can cause you to lose out on a decade of life. Guy would’ve definitely enjoyed to take a couple more vacations with his wife before it was all said and done, I know that.
Jesweez
10d ago
But if you have lung cancer and are in your 80s, it can and will kill you. As was his case.
Jesweez
10d ago
Idk.
My ancestors are from northern Europe.
You know what that means?
I come from the people who more than any other group bred with a different freaking species than my own.
If admixture between races offends God than my lineage has already been damned since the last glacial maximum.
Was it Scott Alexander who back in the day wrote an essay about how liberal values are optimized for times of peace and abundance and conservative values are optimized for a zombie apocalypse scenario?
I’ve pretty much incorporated that into a lot of my perception of politics.
The role of conservatives is often to point at something and say that it is dangerous and should be given more due attention.
As a normie lib I often have the reaction of the poster you quote, but also I have to say there have been times that over time I came around to the conservative position that “X represents a danger that we should be more wary of”.
My best example is how I used to be pro-decriminalization of hard drugs in the early 2010s when much of the rhetoric was based around the failure of the war on drugs. I was also pretty liberal about homelessness. But now I’ve come around to the conservative position that we should crack down on those things to preserve the public space for normal people.
Other fronts of the culture war are for example conservatives telling me I should be more afraid of immigration.
But it doesn’t always line up. I think conservatives should be more afraid of climate change, for example. Particularly if you don’t want lots of immigrants coming.
But this does line up with the original essay, being concerned about preserving the environment is something from a peace and abundance mindset, not a survival among dangers mindset. If you’re in a total war for example, the effects your bombs have on the environment don’t fucking matter!
Another one I’m trying to square is COVID. I think the fault line there was through the axis of societal cooperation vs individualism but it’s still interesting to me… for example my very conservative grandfather who had lung cancer refused to take any preventative measures and subsequently died from COVID. Here was a case where as a liberal I was predisposed to point out dangers and recommend caution but as a conservative this was anathema to my grandfathers nature.
Jesweez
10d ago
In what way was it deleterious?
Curious because I’ve never actually heard a serious argument that it was!
Bullshit, I offer a counterpoint:
The JD Vance strategy
Seriously though, admixture is human. Europeans are full of Neanderthal genes, heck my DNA report shows that I have Inuit genes and it's likely because my Viking ancestors stole women from everywhere they went.
It’s in our nature.
Fearing the loss of advanced pattern recognition because some people might hook up with Indians is silly, you’ll just end up with some little mixed Srinivasan Ramanujans running around.
Jesweez
10d ago
Awesome, so it’ll help us address the fertility crisis too
America is so back
Jesweez
10d ago
I think his actions are incredibly based but utterly lacking in 5D chess by not holding it together even until Trump is inaugurated.
Going to go wash my fingers after typing that.
Jesweez
10d ago
And they built one who’s principles y’all now question.
If you wanted a blood and soil type country with deep ethnic roots you can try to move to one. The US is a pretty bad option for those who do like that sort of thing.
Jesweez
10d ago
So now literally nobody is American in America since there aren’t any frontiers left in the country.
Jesweez
10d ago
It still takes something to uproot your life and move to a new country and culture 1000s of miles away from everything you’ve known.
It’s a big part of the reason why immigrants so often outperform native stock of Americans economically. They’re the people who were willing to dive in and risk charting a new course.
Jesweez
10d ago
What do you mean British isles? You literally would let Irish people in? That’d erode the fabric of the nation.
Jesweez
11d ago
Blood is thicker than ideology, you can see Chinese recruitment officers
Meanwhile Russians and Ukrainians spend years in grinding battles against their own extended family members due to their allegiance to a nation state.
Jesweez
11d ago
That’s literally the entire concept of America, we’re a country of people who had the resolve to cross oceans to seek a better life. Every single one of us apart from the Native Americans and those descended from slaves meets that description.
Now we’re suddenly going to rewrite it?
This is also what pro choice people want to happen, interestingly
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