TheDag
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TheDag
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1d ago
Do you think most of his constituents want him to not engage in this behavior?
TheDag
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1d ago
I do think nuance in pardons was the smart move but... after Biden's last second pardons I kind of don't blame him. The blatant abuse of the pardon that JUST happened a few days ago almost demands a response. It's sad but true.
TheDag
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1d ago
I still don't understand how shame equals more emotions. Shame is generally fear of judgment of others - that tends to lead to far less emotional expression. We may be using the term differently.
I agree that blind positivity tends to deny emotions as well - by shaming anyone who isn't happy and "loving" all the time.
TheDag
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1d ago
I think he actually has a pretty solid legacy, no? I've never heard too many people complain that much about Carter. His main thing is his peanut farm.
TheDag
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1d ago
But shame is a very useful tool for social cohesion - it promotes following the law without involving the law, it strengthens group identity and harmony, it encourages empathy by allowing for a wider range of expressed emotions and most importantly it fosters accountability - so if you are going to say it's unproductive you need a good reason. Just adding it alongside revenge skips right past the reasoning.
Can you explain how shame encourages empathy and a wider range of emotions?
TheDag
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1d ago
Thanks for the link, read the whole thing. Very entertaining.
What surprised me is that Carter was an outsider at the time. A lot of recent politics made me think Trump was one of the first true outsiders. Apparently not the case.
TheDag
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1d ago
The very simple answer to this is that we grandfather all current citizens in. I think you're blowing this way out of proportion.
TheDag
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1d ago
What is needed thoughtful and persuasive think pieces and arguments, as happened when Aziz Ansari went on a famously bad date. We should not be demoting all women to something below adults, but holding them responsible for adulthood. We do them same with men and alcohol and gambling.
I agree with you in general here, liberalism requires us to treat adults as adults. Sadly our society is backsliding towards infantilization via an overdose of compassion.
TheDag
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2d ago
Unless you tethered by your job
What about friends? Family? Your bond to the land?
I can never understand this mindset of just being freely floating without any ties besides where you work...
TheDag
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2d ago
impromptu
Hah yeah, whoever was in charge of the music is (hopefully) getting fired. Super embarrassing for a mistake like that to happen at such an important event.
TheDag
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2d ago
In particular, I think the only viable long term strategy is to create a dependable and trustworthy media ecosystem. That can't be done purely out of anger or spite for the existing media. Otherwise they'll just continue lying.
I don't think this is true. I think the old media will be outcompeted by new independent media, and there will be a rotation. This is already happening in large part.
TheDag
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2d ago
Again I'm not saying that women should be denied rights or anything. I edited my earlier post to clarify. No need to play in a framework that doesn't exist.
I'm really just asking the question of like - what do we do with this? How can we make it more fair, perhaps by changing the culture, or at least make things make more sense?
TheDag
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2d ago
I don't think that society should treat alcoholics or degenerate gamblers as adults... and in fact we don't in many cases, in similar ways.
TheDag
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2d ago
Oh yeah he's an incredible orator. I am so happy to have some good pomp back. Most Congressmen and Senators and even the priests (ugh) were terrible at speaking.
TheDag
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2d ago
It's beautiful hearing the Battle Hymn of the Republic, seeing soldiers march to it. Same with Glory, Glory Hallelujah. I can't imagine how incredible these songs would've been when they were written, back when most people believed deeply in the Republic, and in God.
Definitely moved me.
I'm sure there is bias in the law as practiced, and men and women suffer unfounded disparate impact, but AFAIK the laws theoretically apply equally wherever possible.
Theoretically is doing a lot of work here. There are all sorts of issues with women's vs men's shelters, funding for female programs in schools, affirmative action type things for women in corporate, etc etc etc.
I think that we are disagreeing on the fact that I absolutely do not think that women and men are treated equally right now, even though the laws say they do. In fact I think there's a big difference. Do you agree with that or not?
EDIT: FWIW I'm not actively arguing we take away rights from women, which you seem to be implying. I'm just saying that culturally, there seems to be an issue with having women occupy both the role of equal to men and also getting much more benefit than men socially.
TheDag
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2d ago
People choose to take on too much frivolous debt and destroy their lives. Is the whole lending project dead? Should the media no longer write op-eds about payday loans with a 400% ARP? The average person no longer seems to be convinced that this is just a cultural problem which will go away.
Uhhh this is unironically also a big societal issue. Lots of people have been agitating to nationalize the credit card industry for this exact reason.
That Pavlovich bird does not a summer make. There are global differences in median male and female traits, but I see no reason to treat them differently under the laws of a free society
Ok but the issue is that we do treat men and women differently under the laws of our society...
TheDag
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2d ago
Situations like this are precisely why progressives are skeptical of employee/employer sexual relationships and it sounds like it was worse here because Gaiman and Palmer were also providing Pavlovich housing as part of the deal. If your combination landlord/boss came onto you one day might one go along with it even if they didn't want to? Might the implicit threat of "I could make you unemployed and homeless" convince someone not to resist? I hardly think we can generalize from "a woman might pretend to enjoy sex to keep her job and housing" to "no women anywhere can be treated with as having agency."
So how does this square with the general feminist sex-positive ideology? Are you saying we should restrict all sex at the workplace and in any relationship where power dynamics could be employed?
TheDag
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2d ago
As clean and safe and whatever else it may be, there is no way around the price. It consistently ranks among the most costly sources. And budget being the tightest constraint, I cannot imagine it being an important part of the strategy for energy transition - maybe some minor and localized cases, but not more than that.
As another commenter asked, are you calculating the insane and targeted regulatory burdens as part of this price? Most nuclear plants that have gone up have undergone extreme lawfare designed to put them out of business. Without all of that, do you suppose the cost might go down?
Somehow I think naked soldiers on the front will have pretty bad optics.
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