KingOfTheBailey
No bio...
User ID: 1089
KingOfTheBailey
3d ago
Seems like a cross between The Toxoplasmosa of Rage (Musk is more toxoplasma than man, now), and that quote from The Dark Knight:
Nobody panics when things go "according to plan." Even if the plan is horrifying! If, tomorrow, I tell the press that, like, we'll give Lockheed-Martin another few billion dollars for nothing, or a flight of scientists will be left stranded in orbit by Boeing, nobody panics, because it's all "part of the plan". But when Musk says that his not-so-little rockets will get us to Mars, well then everyone loses their minds.
KingOfTheBailey
22d ago
Dr. Jill Biden, 46th POTUS.
KingOfTheBailey
28d ago
Roses are red
Violets are blue
...wololo...
Now roses are too!
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
Has anyone made a controller yet that accurately mimics the dead zones and response curves of the original N64 one?
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
A government that cannot maintain territorial integrity is a government I consider to be "too small".
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
I'm sure you don't need reminding that the Canadian government weaponized the financial system against domestic dissent during the Freedom Convoy, but it's worth pointing out that's the sort of action that "first-world Western democracies" now consider appropriate (even if the courts eventually disagreed, and even that is still under appeal).
Such governments should not be trusted with the ability to issue national ID cards, and since it's clear that even "liberal democracies" can evolve into this sort of government, they shouldn't be trusted with them either.
@anon_ is correct that the government is a necessary evil, but even before COVID I felt that it should be kept as small as possible. Now I think the argument is even clearer.
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
'toaster fuckers' originated from an old meme (I want to say a 4chan greentext, but I'm actually not certain)
It was indeed a greentext:
Before internet
>i want to fuck toasters
>dont be a fucking retard
>grow upAfter internet
>I want to fuck a toaster
>find a community with 1000+ members about people wanting to fuck toasters
>fuck up your life
Earliest I found was this 2017 pic, and a 2024 repost with slightly different wording.
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
Now my reading palate has expanded and I can see all the flaws with it. But it still holds a special place in my heart.
Based. I feel the same about Feist's Magician, which in hindsight is almost painfully simple. But sometimes you just want simple comfort food.
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
Has anyone been following the Unite The Kingdom/Raise The Colors rallies in the UK? Did they pull big numbers (the protesters have an incentive to inflate their numbers, of course, and the establishment has an incentive to deflate them)? Has there been a noticeable shift in the political discourse around them?
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
https://x.com/ChefGruel/status/1966595667637248388
It seems that the "car chase" was a news broadcast that then had breaking news of Kirk's assassination talking over the top.
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
Fair point, that's unfortunately where the escalating cycle of "punch XYZs"/"everyone I disagree with in an XYZ" ends up.
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
I disagree with the "Charlie was like your Republican Grandpa" argument. He may have had similar political positions, and he definitely should never have been shot, but Charlie was definitely in the political game in a way that gramps wasn't. He founded TPUSA, he organized events, he ran streams, debated people to change the public's mind, and judging by the heartfelt tributes that have come out he was an important node in the institutional right's network.
I think the following propositions are all true:
- Charlie should never have been shot
- Charlie was "in the game" in a way that normie (R)s weren't
- Dealing with potential political violence is a regrettable part of holding political office
- Assassination of people not holding office but in the game, with weapons that require at least some planning and skill to use, is a very worrying erosion of the norms around how the game is to be played
- There are enough people on the left made crazy by the memetic environment that normie (R)s are correct to worry when they see a relatively normal "in the game" guy get assassinated to plenty of cheers, excuses from MSNBC presenters, and milquetoast statements from many politicians. (Some thankfully bright anti-examples: Cenk, Newsom).
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
For the right, this is one of those "my rules > your rules, fairly > your rules, unfairly" situations. As much as I fear that you're correct, I still hope that once we spend enough time at the "your rules, fairly" stop, there can be a discussion about how these rules suck.
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
Do you have the URL or an archive link? Wondering if it's available on wayback or something.
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
The fact that Chase Strangio told SCOTUS that "there is no evidence to support the idea that medical transition reduces adolescent suicide rates" during oral arguments as part of Skrmetti should mean that the "dead son or living daughter?" line gets finally put away forever. If there was good evidence that applying these interventions sooner rather than later really helped children, I would have expected Strangio to know about it and deploy it during Skrmetti.
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
I reject pretty much every aspect of this post. I think you present your premises as a false consensus and a false binary choice as your conclusion. The actual policy discussion on the ground is not "we're only gonna do high-skill immigration. How much should we do?" but the beginnings of a "not any more, you're not" response to "we're just not going to bother enforcing immigration law against illegal migrants". Which means there's a lot of low-to-medium-skilled work being done by immigrants. There's no point in my mind to discussing the numbers of truly high-skilled immigrants a country should import when unskilled labor, fast food, taxi driving, food delivery, etc. are all done by immigrants with varying legal status, and chain migration rules allow the high-skilled migrant to bring a family who brings their family (who ...).
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
Old Magic was fun, but I moved to other card games years ago. The newer card designs feel wordier, powercrept and just plain worse to me than what we had back in my day, and the endless tie-ins are ridiculous to me. Netrunner was fun until NISEI (the fan continuation of FFG's reboot of WotC's Netrunner) was skinsuited by the sort of people who run Discord servers and turned into a full-throated progressive organization.
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
Use an interface that lets you fork the conversation, and explore several branches.
KingOfTheBailey
2mo ago
The online battlefield has shifted though. Would Trump 2016 have happened without Reddit and 4chan? Those don't exist in as usable a form these days. Twitter was a huge coup, but that's still "two steps back, one-and-a-half steps forward".
KingOfTheBailey
2mo ago
KingOfTheBailey
2mo ago
There were enough people who still deny the results of the 2004 election that Politico ran a compare-and-contrast with the Trump 2020 deniers. Doubt in the integrity of the election has been around nearly as long as I've been politically aware.
KingOfTheBailey
2mo ago
Let me spruik Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out in his memory, as well. Its broader thesis around establishing a right-counterculture is interesting, but the stuff about the idiot box was an absolute thunderbolt when I read it:
First, as the leftists used to say, “Kill Your Television”. I am not one who generally thinks that machines are inherently evil. Television is an exception. It is no more and no less than a hypnotic mind control device. Don’t believe me? Sit a hyperactive toddler in front of a television and watch what happens. They freeze, turn away from everything they were doing, and stare at the screen. Gavin McInnes once noted that the “on” switch of his television was an “off” switch for his kids, and so it is. Do you think this device does not place ideas in the minds of those who fall into a trance in its presence? And what ideas do you think the Hollywood/New York axis wishes to place there? I recall reading one account of a father who, tired of his two under-10 daughters’ bratty attitudes, limited their television viewing to a DVD box set of Little House on The Prairie. The change in his daughters’ behavior was dramatic – within a couple of weeks, they were referring to him and his wife as “Ma” and “Pa”, and offering to help with chores. The lesson is obvious: people (and especially children) learn their social norms from television, far more even than from the people around them.
This was one of pieces of writing that really made me interested in selecting better media for the relatives around me, because so much childrens' media is agenda-pushing slop these days. Cheap 3D animation that an N64 dev would be embarrassed to ship, all sorts of horrid behavior, and studiously compliant with current-yearism (how exactly did your token wheelchair-bound character make it into the rocky field?).
I hope someone pulls out a ruler and measures the length of your beard.
The absence of specific articles is probably due to the effect documented in The Sixth Meditation on Superweapons. You noticed what was Actually Being Said, not the literal words on the screen.
Here is an eleven-year-old reddit thread that mentions the phenomenon (written by a woman asking why men don't give up), so what you're describing is something that definitely existed at the time you're talking about:
There's also this classic compare-and-contrast of the headlines of Jessica Valenti's opinion pieces.
More options
Context Copy link