KingOfTheBailey
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KingOfTheBailey
4d 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
5d 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
5d ago
KingOfTheBailey
9d 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
11d 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
16d 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
20d ago
Fair point, that's unfortunately where the escalating cycle of "punch XYZs"/"everyone I disagree with in an XYZ" ends up.
KingOfTheBailey
20d 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
20d 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
21d ago
Do you have the URL or an archive link? Wondering if it's available on wayback or something.
KingOfTheBailey
22d 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
24d 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
24d 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
24d ago
Use an interface that lets you fork the conversation, and explore several branches.
KingOfTheBailey
30d 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
30d ago
KingOfTheBailey
1mo 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
1mo 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.
I did not have direct experience with Katrina, but Bayou Renaissance Man's Katrina Postmortem is a document I've gone back and referred to a few times as part of my natural disaster prep. Lots of great information about social considerations instead of just physical prep, after-action "shell shock", etc.
To me it seems obvious that subjecting kids to religious values is a bad idea.
Until approx. 5 years ago I would have agreed with you, and maybe 8 years ago I would have strongly agreed with you. But it has not escaped my notice that most "normal Christians" I see just seem to have their lives together so much more: they're happier, kinder, started families sooner (or at all), haven't had to rediscover from first principles a reason to get out of bed and do anything, ...
I say this as an atheist who has gone to more masses in the past couple of years than the rest of my life combined, but has not and probably doesn't expect to find faith.
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
Unfortunately the only things I can find arguing that story are still at the "screenshots of chats" level of evidence.
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
It does seem more likely to me that this is underclass behavior than a self-defense video from a rapey migrant. However:
no evidence
It is written in the scriptures that:
Law of No Evidence: Any claim that there is “no evidence” of something is evidence of bullshit.
No evidence should be fully up there with “government denial” or “I didn’t do it, no one saw me do it, there’s no way they can prove anything.” If there was indeed no evidence, there’d be no need to claim there was no evidence, and this is usually a move to categorize the evidence as illegitimate and irrelevant because it doesn’t fit today’s preferred form of scientism.
Now we're not talking about the scientific establishment this time, but a part of the United Kingdom. While this incident is not from Rotherham or Yorkshire, the state and its justice system from have a history of covering up child abuse by immigrants in the name of "community relations", as well as coming down disproportionately heavily on people who object. While you might say there are proportionately fewer migrants in Scotland, external online observers are going to be aware of Scotland's woke politics. There was the Adam Graham Isla Bryson case, where a rapist adopted a transgender identity during the court process, and was sent to a woman's prison. A sibling comment already mentioned the railroading of Count Dankula. There was also the £7bn superinjunction covering up the importing of 18000–19000 Afghans. It is very easy to say "we found no evidence" if "we" choose not to look very hard, and very easy for an external online observer to believe that the police and other systems in Scotland would do just that, given that we know from West Yorkshire that local police have been part of cover-ups in the past.
So I think it is perfectly rational to have suspicious priors if one is familiar with Rotherham and the extent of similar coverups in the UK, only saw a still from the video, and/or only read suspiciously carefully worded articles from mainstream sources. But the perspective of the camera in the video makes it harder to believe. Screaming "pedophile!" is a weapon underclass kids know how to wield; so is the reflexive "phone camera on, start recording" move. If there was a migrant behaving inappropriately I would expect to see him in the shot, as well as the armed girl.
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
@self_made_human's recent posts about the pretty-but-dim model from this week's thread are a sad counterexample. You might get no shortage of men wanting to sleep with you, but it was the social technology of enforced monogamy that made them commit. Identifying who will stick is a prerequisite to choosing a suitor, and seems like a much harder question.
A government that cannot maintain territorial integrity is a government I consider to be "too small".
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