Quantumfreakonomics
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Quantumfreakonomics
2hr ago
I agree that it doesn't need a megathread, but Minneapolis is incredibly important. The left has their mojo back. This is the moment the pendulem swings back and we end up with an immigration policy based on, "14 heartbreaking photos that will make you say fuck having borders and law and shit."
Quantumfreakonomics
23hr ago
Why doesn't Iran have more democracy than the UAE and Saudi Arabia? Iran has national elections with universal sufferage that actually affect some things.
Quantumfreakonomics
23hr ago
No. There are lots of good scenes where The Joker is mentioned or alluded to.
Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
The first indication that DOGE was going off the rails was when Elon proudly tweeted that he had shut down the IRS Direct File program. That might be the most out-of-touch thing I have ever seen him do.
Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
Demographically Minnesota is a Midwestern state with a 75% white population. In theory it should be winnable by Republicans. The right deciding to fight back in Minneapolis specifically is the kind of high-variance strategy that could flip the state red. If Minnesota white people become as racist demographically aware as white people in Ohio, then Democrats are screwed.
Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
Is real Chinese food as good as the MSG slop they serve at Chinese restaurants in the US? I love that shit.
Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
The Dark Knight. It’s not particularly close.
Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
What's the best evidence that Renee Good's vehicle actually made contact with Jonathan Ross?
In one video you see Ross lean forward, then the car drives forward, then he suddenly moves backwards. Biomechanically, a person can’t step back that fast from that position. Some other object must have provided the backwards force.
Also, listening closely to the cellphone video, you hear four pops, but only three shots were fired. The additional pop is the impact.
Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
It looks to me like she wanted to do an intimidating bad ass peel out like you'd see in a movie.
I couldn't quite put my finger on what was happening, but I think this is it. No idea about the Lesbian stuff, but you can practically see her think, "This is gonna be so fucking sick. I hope somebody is filming."
Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
I don't think it's a good idea to publicly question the authenticity of people who post opinions that appear to be quite common. It drives me absolutely insane that mods on Reddit accuse me of being inauthentic or "trolling" for posting opinions held by the median Republican. Don't fall into the same trap.
Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
Fiery but mostly peaceful protests in Iran.
I don't quite want to take the position that the current unrest in Iran is bad, but I do want to consider it. There is a lot of discussion downthread about the insidious effects of pervasive and assertive civil disobedience on the legitimate exersize of state power, and I wonder why that same logic doesn't apply here. It's common in the American conciousness to assume that Iran = bad, but I get the impression that a lot of Iran's badness is exaggerated by Western media. Is the current government of Iran illegitimate? If so, why? Is it because Iran isn't a full democracy? The United States props up lots of countries that are less democratic than Iran. Is democracy in Middle Eastern countries even desirable? It doesn't quite feel right to categorically rule-out theocracy as a legitimate form of governance, even if most of us would find living under one alienating.
The elephant in the room is geopolitics. Iran is aligned with Russia and opposed to many US allies. It would be good for US geopolitical intrests for the current regime to fall. Does this somehow make angry mobs torching government buildings okay, another form of spooky moral action at a distance?
I am not an expert on Iran, so feel free to tell me if the Khamenei Regime is actually the second coming of the Khmer Rouge or Third Reich.
Quantumfreakonomics
2d ago
The central problem with Jan6th is that the Capital Police consistently failed to do their job, and those failures were the cause that escalated the protest into a riot
I had thought that riots are caused by the rioters rioting. I can kind-of see one making the argument that undercover agents incited the crowd, but I can't see how the police failing to prevent people from entering a building is what causes people to enter a building, as if this particular crowd of people is just a force of nature with no agency or responsibility.
Quantumfreakonomics
2d ago
Yes. The Ashley Babbitt shooting was justified. Waco was justified. Arguably Kent State was justified. It is okay to use force against people resisting law-enforcement activity.
Quantumfreakonomics
3d ago
I have read that her wife was outside the car when this all happened. Presumably the wife was there for the protests.
I suppose it’s possible that Renee was coming to pick her wife up, which would explain why she might stop in a weird spot in the middle of the action.
Quantumfreakonomics
3d ago
That was my first thought too, but I think now that it means “person observing the legality (or lack thereof) of the officers.”
Quantumfreakonomics
3d ago
Props to Tenobrus on Twitter for admitting the crux.
”idk man. still just kinda feel sick. i think for whatever reason this is my final lib out moment. i don't really care if there was an agent kind of in front of her car. they shouldn't have fucking been there. they shouldn't fucking exist. deport every goddamn ice agent”
A lot of people don’t consider ICE a legitimate law-enforcement agency. They don’t consider arresting and deporting illegal immigrants who are not otherwise criminal to be a legitimate government policy. They think that random citizens should be able to block public roadways in order to obstruct federal agents, then run away and go “NA NA NA I’M NOT TOUCHING YOU” the moment the agents try to do anything about it. That it is actually ICE who is breaching the social contract here. If anything, citizens should be able to shoot ICE agents who get in their way.
Quantumfreakonomics
3d ago
NO! People will actually turn out to LOVE Somalians because of this. They will be taking money from the socialized commons (which includes substantial federal funds by the way) and bringing it to the specific places where Somali fraudsters live. I would bet that the local Cadillac dealerships in Minneapolis can’t get enough of the Somalis.
Quantumfreakonomics
3d ago
[NormanRockwellFreedomOfSpeech.jpg] I think it is okay for law enforcement officers to shoot people who are willing to run them over.
Quantumfreakonomics
3d ago
When you turn the wheel and press the accelerator at the same time, the car doesn't go in a straight line.
Quantumfreakonomics
3d ago
She backs-up with the wheels turned to the left, stops, turns the wheels to the right, and then accelerates forward. The officer is in front of the car, so via the intermediate value theorem, there is indeed a point where the wheels are pointed directly at the cop.
This doesn't really mean much, because she keeps turning the wheels, and this is also exactly the technique one would use to execute a two-point turn.
If Tim Walz uses the Minnesota National Guard to remove federal agents then Trump will have full legal and ethical justification to invoke the Insurrection Act and send in literal tanks.
EDIT: I am watching the clips where people say that Tim Walz is threatening to use the National Guard against federal agents. He does not seem to be actually saying that.
Quantumfreakonomics
4d ago
30 years is a bit much. Are there any websites from 30 years ago still active? I think there's a good chance we're still here in 10 though.
Quantumfreakonomics
4d ago
What percentage of federal workers with a clearance are actually underpaid these days?
The people responsible for the successful execution of the Maduro capture added at least $100 billion in value to the US Equity market. There is no way they are being fairly compensated.
They could put troops in Nuuk and a few other Inuit towns, but the US would just ignore it. The navy can just show up to any spot on the hundreds of miles of uninhabited coastline and start building whatever facilities they want. I suspect that this is the agreement that will eventually be reached. The inhabitants of Greenland will continue to be under the dominion of Denmark, but the United States will have free reign over all currently uninhabited territory.
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