TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
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TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
13hr ago
DemsRRealRacist
It is true that there is a set of people in the United States who believe in inate differences between races and want to see those differences reflected in policy. It is also true that the overlap between that set and the set of people who regularly vote Republican is minimal at best.
As a pedantic private pilot, Jet-A burns between 900 and 1500 degrees Celsius depending on the ratio of fuel to oxygen.
As an amateur blacksmith, mild structural steel (ie the sort I-beams are made of) may not be a liquid at 1100 degrees Celsius, but it is very "bendy".
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
2d ago
Higer education may result in lower rates of cumming inside, but that doesn't matter if what you are measuring is is the rate of conception vs rate of cumming inside when doing so could be expected to result in conception.
In @hydroacetylene's defense the OP has been pretty open (both on the motte and elsewhere) about their belief in the significant "eugenic benefits" of maximizing access to abortion in states with large populations of negroes and/or Trump voters even if they have never clearly stated what those benefits are supposed to be.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
3d ago
MAGA is/was strongly opposed to sending troops to Iran, and is broadly in favor of how things actually played out. There is no contradiction there.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
3d ago
DeSantis' problem was a combination of timing (he would have been giving up his governorship if elected POTUS) and the fact that no one wants the diet option when they can have the real thing.
You can take solace in the fact that he's still under 50 and well positioned to run again in 2028 or '32 depending on how things shake out.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
3d ago
Presumably because she is being "low-class"
This is a meme that goes all the way back to the 17th century.
I think it was Cervantes who quipped about how "In her eagerness, a new wife may accomplish in 6 months what would ordinarily take a woman 9" 😉
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
3d ago
using a less-effective, lower-class method
...aaand the penny drops. That's what this is actually about isn't it? Class. You see the sexually liberated, zero responcibilty, girlbosses as exemplified by Gossip Girls and Sex and the City as aspirational and high class, and it's bothering you that others disagree.
There are other reasons to be skeptical of mRNA vaccines. Reasons that happen to be particularly relevant given the subject of the OP.
Because heritability keeps coming up "missing".
People obeserve the world around them and see fucked up kids coming from successful parents, successful people with fucked up parents, and siblings (even twins) who's attitudes and outcomes diverge wildly from eachother. Observations that would all appear to contradict the strict hereditarian model.
Finally people observe that academia appears to be hopelessly culturally compromised, see the Marxist (and deeply anti-Western) origins of Id-Pol/CRT, and @FCfromSSC's comments on materialism.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
4d ago
Any number of things, thats the point. Social status, economic status, family dynamics, cultural affiliation, level of interest, environmental factors (hot/cold, wet/dry, average exposure to sunlight).
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
4d ago
It matters because if "spooky undetectable woo" or even "ordinary detectable woo" such as cultural affiliation, economics, or social status can be demonstrated to have an effect, it will (at a bare minimum) weaken the genetic hypothesis, and if the effec sizes are large enough wreck it outright.
Niether of those manage to refute anything ive said. Again i feel like you are mixing neccesary with sufficient and trying to control the conversation by controlling the null hypothesis. Asserting that because i have not shown x i must accept y but i am under no such obligation.
I have yet to encounter a serious IQ hereditarian who believes that the environment plays no role.
Then you must be new here (that or The Motte doesn't meet your criteria for "serious") because i have had precisely that argument multiple times here in the last 6 months, including with at least one user active in this very thread.
It is required if there are numerous potential varieties/mechanisms of heritability other than genetic.
I feel like you are conflating neccesary and sufficient conditions. A non-materialist model of the universe can readily accommodate physical elements. But a materialist model can not readily accommodate the non-physical.
The strong arguments for heritability being purely genetic are premised on the assumption of a deterministic universe. The existence of non-material causes would cast doubt upon this premise, and by extension the conclusion.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
4d ago
The fundemental problem the hereditarians face is that thier entire edifice rests on an assumption that biology, psychology, and anthropology are not only rigourous and mechanisistic, but sufficiently understood that outcomes can be manipulated in a near deterministic manner. This is manifestly not the case.
Sure biology may be more rigorous than psychology which is in turn more rigourous than anthropology, but none of them are even in the same zip code (much less the same ballpark) as electrical engineering.
The former is a foundational axiom of the latter. People latch on to genetic determinism as "obvious" and "true" because they reject the validity of non-material/non-quantifiable explanations.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
4d ago
Regarding 1: i think a missing bit of historical context of both Progressivism and Rationalism's origins as rejection of/reaction against traditional western moral philosophy which due to 2,000+ years of history is inextricably entwined with Christianity. The affinity for Islam and and Orietalism amongst the chattering class is a combination of the natural human attraction to novelty and a naive assumption that the enemy of my enemy must be a friend.
OnlyFans stars for Mohammed (PBH) is just a redressed Queers for Palestine.
Along similar lines to what @WhiningCoil and @TIRM have said i think context and distribution also matter a great deal. As an example, I live in a mid-size American city that has a significantly above average crime rate on paper, but said crime is largely restricted to certain nieghborhoods and classes of people (IE Shitbirds). Respectable citizens know that nothing good happens north of a certain avenue after sundown, while the city PD maintains a visible presence in public spaces and transit (which discourages pan-handlers and loitering ner-do-wells) and actively persues property crimes. As a result the day to day perception and experience of most residents and visitors is mostly that of clean and safe '1' streets despite the ostensibly high rate of criminality.
- 1: from crime at least, our drivers and cyclists are another matter.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
5d ago
I'll take that bet.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
5d ago
I'm reminded of something someone said here a week or two ago: Joe Rogan was the Democrats' Joe Rogan, they drove him and people like him away.
Was it this one?
https://www.themotte.org/post/2015/culture-war-roundup-for-the-week/333055?context=8#context
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
6d ago
The obvious GOP front-runners for 2028 and 2032 are Vance, Rubio, DeSantis, and Hegseth in roughly that order. All of them are currently under 55 and much closer culturally to what @FCfromSSC is describing than anything you have.
Im starting to wonder if "Fortifying the election" might ultimately go down in history as the choice that brought down the DNC as a viable national party. All it seems to have accomplished is undermine thier own credibility while giving Trump four years to build a viable post-Trump MAGA coalition. Vance is the obvious hier apperant, but Rubio, Hegseth, and DeSantis are all relatively young (Rubio is the oldest at 54) and well positioned to be candidates in 2032 and 2036.
It hasn't "failed" so much as been undermined and attacked at every turn by our so-called elites and the rise of MAGA is in large part a reaction against this. If you aren't down with making America great you can get the fuck out.
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