But the strange part is that many of the items in his list undermine the justifications for raised taxes, etc.
If academics and nonprofits don't have a presumption of moral status, how do we justify taking people's money to fund them and using their judgements to rule the people?
If education should be run purely as a service to students and parents, what moral argument is left against school choice?
If "politeness" rules aren't supposed to be a political weapon to stifle debate, how is his preference that "bad left wing ideas should gain power" at the expense of the truth going to be enforced?
It's all self-defeating, and so I suspect a totally performative offering of peace from a position of weakness, with his fingers firmly crossed behind his back.
One saving grace of the supreme court is the amazing advancements in life extension. By 2030 the Fede Gesserit Society will be analyzing the EBV longevity SNPs of high profile lawyers for the immortal scotus justice breeding program.
I'm still expecting to wake up to headlines about "election night miracle as millions of WW1 veterans surge to polls in key swing states: they fought to protect trans kids from Hitler, now they're back to save america from fascism"
SteveKirk
3d ago
I'm following Ken White and some other usual suspects on bluesky. If she does lose they're already prepping that narrative hard. Lots of "the votes of racist misogynists aren't valid expressions of democracy"
SteveKirk
4d ago
Is there a reason, or just enthusiasm? Were the Dems considered more likely to increase taxes and regulation on crypto?
SteveKirk
4d ago
They made out incredibly well for themselves in all the panic spending though. Nobody's ever made a full account of all the trillions that ended up going to left wing orgs. I'm sure that more than made up for general economic damage.
SteveKirk
4d ago
Very saturated now though. Becoming a fresh right wing Twitter personality puts you up against some very stiff competition. Sadly even the constant struggle to stay on top has burned out a lot of good men: 0HPLovecraft is about to hit -10
SteveKirk
4d ago
I'm more interested in what was with the people trying to convince everyone who doubted it that they were crazy. There was a real hard consensus building push there, almost as forced as "weird" was.
Didn't one of those leftist media assassination groups literally hire a group of people to listen to every Joe Rogan episode to find things they could use to get him kicked off Spotify? I definitely remember that being organized within a few days of him getting the deal, as the pressure groups collaborated with traitors in the company.
SteveKirk
4d ago
Sorely wishing I could join the riots just to score a truck load of free plywood, but I bet it's all quarter inch, and half of it looks like fucking osb.
SteveKirk
4d ago
This is exactly what I meant in my prediction post last night. He's already got everyone playing defense trying to prove reality is real to his satisfaction.
SteveKirk
4d ago
Wait, you're telling me Cadence Owens is with the Schizocore Hyperboria video crowd now?
SteveKirk
4d ago
Seems like the big positive is getting dad active again, right? Depending on how he's feeling about the whole thing that might outweigh everything else.
SteveKirk
4d ago
None from the looks of it, but what's the actual ballot return rate? A few of these guys might put down the bong and go find their ballots in the mail pile, or actually go to the polls on their lunch break.
SteveKirk
4d ago
if Republicans want the answers faster they could allow PA to start counting votes earlier
But you're also defending accepting new ballots days after the election anyway, so that's not a real argument for getting it done faster. It's so transparent.
Yeah. You don't get weird new policies added for dog-bites-man stories, even when it might be a good idea. But you get a horngry weasel down your pants one time and suddenly you're in an OSHA brief.
SteveKirk
5d ago
I wouldn't be so sure. Aren't a lot of his viewers low propensity young men who are extremely unlikely to have already done anything to vote early? It might be timed to get them out on election day itself.
I suspect they're expecting riots no matter who wins. They're organized and funded in advance, and you can't tell the people you've bussed in to shut up and go home without blowing off some steam. Like Hines always talks about, blues just consider it a charming youthful game for their tribe, like Spartan kids playing Pillage The Helots.
If Harris wins the riot can be about Dunkin Donuts' complicity with Israel or something.
SteveKirk
5d ago
I read the labels of coconut and almond "milk" recently, and realized they're literally just flavored carb-water. At least soy milk has a bit of protein in it.
I have terrible news for you about the board members of Euthanasia Trough Ltd
SteveKirk
5d ago
In case you didn't mistype that, please please please don't tell me how an animal sanctuary makes money on onlyfans.
I wouldn't take that bet, because these rules are written with coons, rats, bats, sacks of ferrets, angry geese, and other troublemakers in mind. The weird cases are heavily overrepresented in scenarios where you end up saying "today didn't go at all well, we'd better make a department policy about purse-carried mongooses"
Dem win, as I've been predicting since the biden-trump debate.
Literally nothing matters in this country except the institutions, and they are now as dominated by the ruling party as anything in China. And like in China, any apparent loosening of total control is just a slipup caused by intra-party feuding, like the Connecticut voting fraud case where someone got caught dropping off a garbage bag full of ballots for the wrong democrat in the primaries.
The real difference in this election is how little discussion there's been. I haven't felt the need to debate whatsoever, because it's as pointless as arguing with chatgpt. "Issues" don't matter, reality doesn't matter, only framing and who holds the megaphone matters.
Why get caught up playing the game of "that's misinformation! Well, maybe it's true but it's still malinformation! and anyway you're banned for Hate Speech, read the room." You can see all the moves coming 20 steps ahead, being right in retrospect doesn't matter because you still publicly lost the social power game against the guy who demonstrated his power to rig it, and the only winning move is not to play.
A nonexhausitive list of examples: violent crime & shoplifting rates, the state of the economy, inflation, #s of illegal migrants and the very existence of government programs importing them, Biden's senility, assassins' motivations, "woke and CRT doesn't exist it's all in Republicans' imaginations," Biden's nuclear crossdresser stealing women's underwear, there's no censorship on social media you're just banned for being a bad person, we must criminalize residential school mass grave genocide Denial, leftists don't support Hamas at all you're crazy for thinking so, "yeah well you're weird for noticing!". I could go on and on.
The people lying about all of these didn't lose anything by lying. They actually beat you by demonstrating that they can maintain the lie longer than the truth can stay solvent and then bury it in a ditch afterwards.
Like Scott said about arguing with Vox: they can lie endlessly and force you to burn ever more weirdness points correcting them.
The last item is a problem though. There is no recognized 2nd amendment right to murder drones, or even anti-murder-drone-drones or drone-jammers. That last will get you an FCC raid worse than any ATF dog-shoot competition.
If things take longer than a few more years to kick off, the 2nd amendment people will be using "bows and arrows against the lightning." The longer you wait the worse it gets, unless you happen to have a high tech weapons lab and global microelectronics manufacturing chain in your compound.
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