Mantergeistmann
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Mantergeistmann
6hr ago
There's a lot of people online - including some of the official Twitter accounts - that seem to think, as the saying goes, that "the cruelty is the point".
Mantergeistmann
6hr ago
Later, trying to make sense of the incident, I asked Grok about the details of hypothermia and found it was a somewhat less urgent situation than I imagined. The man likely had been outside for 1-2 hours and likely would have been dead in about 3 more.
I think it was still pretty urgent, given frostbite...
Mantergeistmann
7hr ago
There's a reason normies were blasted with the George Floyd footage for weeks, but not the Irina Zaretska video
One of them was also committed by an agent of the state, with many arguing it wasn't the officer's fault, whereas the other... was definitely not in that category.
Mantergeistmann
20hr ago
Point is, it doesn't matter what the bait is. The individual is still responsible for how they respond.
See also: any sports flag for unsportsman like conduct. It's almost always the retaliation the refs notice and flag, not the instigation.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
I mean, it's a shooting by federal agents in his state. Guy is supposed to have some sort of early opinion on it, one way or another.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
That sounds like dialogue straight out of Stranger in a Strange Land, the whole "Fair Witness" bit.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
I remember reading a post about the American diet in the... early 1900s or something? Might have been a rundown of the past 100 or 200 years? Either way, I remember it mentioning how obsessed people were with fiber. I feel the same way about society and protein right now.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
I'll always have a soft spot for a Southern Comfort Collins, ever since my grandfather started me drinking them at weddings since it was the drink of choice at his own.
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
Damn. I think the wife's heard too many horror stories about the wildlife to be willing to pack up and move there.
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
USA clearly wants to steal Greenland too
I'd argue that's Trump, rather than the USA, whereas Taiwan seems to be a popular acquisition with the rank and file (or at least the rank and file Party Members).
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
I generally teach my analysts to pretend the year is today +5 and then write a retrospective on the scenario they are predicting will play out. Where possible try to follow what historians do (allege that history was obviously going to happen that way if people had only thought things through)
Where do you work that you have analysts who do stuff like that, and are you hiring?
Mantergeistmann
6d ago
I probably would, but it seems unreasonable any time I have to be around other people in the near future.
Mantergeistmann
6d ago
See if your job has an "employee assistance program" or anything like that. Sometimes they either give you free online tools, or an hour free consultation with a professional or something.
Mantergeistmann
6d ago
Wait, there's only 2,000 ICE agents? Or just 2,000 in MN?
Mantergeistmann
7d ago
I've seen it said that nobody (or vanishingly few) truly wants a democracy, they simply want a tyrant who's on their side.
Mantergeistmann
7d ago
She went to an openly advertised training session to learn about how to ram ICE agents with her car.
Presumably it was advertised as less escalatory than that, as a fig leaf if nothing else?
Mantergeistmann
7d ago
In a way it strikes me like a form of those "Scream Clubs" you see in leftist cities, just like the dark/evil version of them. I never understood the appeal of those scream clubs to begin with, but they seem very popular among women
I dunno, it reminds me of Rage Yoga, which I feel was more popular with men. And I can certainly understand the appeal of "exercise coupled with getting some good hearty shouting in". Sometimes you just want to be that guy from the Highlander: The One meme, ya know?
Mantergeistmann
7d ago
The left has such open, naked hatred directed specifically at White men it just feels like self-preservation should kick in at some point and supersede the rest of your political preferences.
That, but obviously reversed, is basically what I've heard from a lot of my friends who aren't straight white men. And you could say "well, the difference is I'm right about how the Left feels whereas they're wrong about how the Right feels," or you can say "YesChad.jpg," but I feel like neither addresses the core issue of "everyone feels hated, probably in large part blamable on social media".
Mantergeistmann
8d ago
Nonsense: 2016 is THE FUTURE! Time stopped in 2015, as far as I'm concerned.
Mantergeistmann
9d ago
The only Gundam I've ever watched is G Gundam, so...
Mantergeistmann
12d ago
I feel like that sort of thing is common with car makers... there's a "base model" with basically nothing - no cruise control, no power windows, etc. - and then there's the reasonably priced first trim upgrade that gives you all the things most people expect at a minimum in modern cars.
Mantergeistmann
14d ago
There's plenty of evidence, just usually in the form of "breaking news story about a citizen being detained" or "someone arrested by ICE when their family says everything was in order" or "person deported for 20-year-old bad check that they'd already paid a fine for". You may not be seeing these stories, and wouldn't give them a thought if you did, but they're out there and all over the place.
Mantergeistmann
14d ago
Almost certainly they are frantically looking for a way to blame this shooting on Israel as a way of maintaining unity in their coalition.
I think I'd appreciate a bit of an elaboration here, because this is beyond crazy for the crazies I know.
Mantergeistmann
14d ago
Conversely, if Minneapolis had been ATF "rounding up illegal gun owners" and shot someone in a car with a MAGA bumper sticker, all other facts remaining the same...
Yeah, I have a hunch it's much more about lack of political will than lack of resources.
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