The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
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The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
7hr ago
They just put people in prison regardless of the cops beating a confession out of them or tossing their place without a warrant or whatever, and no one has a problem with that. (or at least they better not)
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
8hr ago
I think N would be near enough to 100 not to matter. Putting cops in jail for misconduct is very unpopular. Any prosecutor who tries it ends up getting shunned by the cops and losing his career as a result. A few years ago a couple of NYPD cops even beat up a judge and got away with it.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
10hr ago
IMHO a better solution to the "fruit from the poisonous tree" rule would be "the criminal defendant can be in prison when the criminal cop is too". Two crimes get two sentences, not zero. Making one sentence contingent on the other would be sufficient to fix the bad incentives.
The outcome of that would be judges looking the other way to avoid putting cops in jail.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
11hr ago
The government presented evidence that he was in a gang and took advantage of an extremely lenient (towards the government) of review ("not clearly erroneous") to prevent him from challenging it. This actually makes me more disposed to believe he isn't a gang member, since he got procedurally screwed out of challenging the claim.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
16hr ago
I can't read that article, but when I first heard the story it was six zeros.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
16hr ago
Because carrying a weapon is done by an individual -- i.e. those civilization are intended to keep down -- and the police beating up people is done by the authorities -- i.e. representatives of civilization.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
16hr ago
The west has mostly given up on even trying to make life better for citizens.
That is not the aim of Western governments and has not been for some time. At least not "all citizens". The aim in terms of citizens is leveling -- making life better for the worst off and worse for "the rich". Outside of that, governments explicitly prioritize things which traditionally man has struggled against -- predators, "the environment" -- over citizens.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
Although if Jefferson had survived to see the Civil War, he would totally be running around saying "I TOLD YOU SO!"
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
True. Maybe in 10 years she can play the Queen.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
Not coincidentally, most of the institutions you've mentioned are least-penetrated by wokeness. Police, particularly outside cities, are notoriously not woke. Burning down the police in cities gets you the 1980s back again... but so does letting the wokeness continue to spread. Public utilities and agriculture... not woke at all, so far as I know, except perhaps marketing departments. Burning down hospitals and pharmaceuticals gets you a small pile of mostly old skulls at worst. In pharma's case you probably just have to burn down the marketing department anyway.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
If they wanted that they would have used Ana-Taylor Joy. She white enough to glow.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
Apparently, 19th-century Americans could tell mulattos, quadroons and octoroons apart by sight.
Some of them thought they could, but the concept of "passing" goes back at least that far, so in fact most of them could not.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
2d ago
And therein lies their downfall. Because once you eliminate every other factor and blacks are still less likely, you're caught between the claims of double-secret discrimination and HBD. Make HBD anathema, and yep, it's The Man up to his old tricks again.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
2d ago
One thing all the drama teaches me is that a less strict version of the one-drop rule is still very much real in American society.
It's not the "one drop" rule if it isn't strict. That strictness is the defining characteristic of the "one drop" rule. It should not be surprising that percentage ancestry ("blood quantum") matters.
Rachel Zegler, even though she is probably about 3/4ths European genetically, is viewed as a brown woman both by the left and the right.
Mostly because she promotes herself that way. Zegler could have certainly downplayed her Colombian ancestry.
Obama, even though he is 1/2 European genetically, is almost universally viewed as a black man both by the left and the right.
The average African-American is only about 65% sub-Saharan African ancestry, and this figure varies considerably; Obama is not far off at all.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
2d ago
The subfields ob medicine which are controversial -- like gender stuff, or perhaps psychiatry
Or kidney function?
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
2d ago
I'll just point out here that if you don't want to build a mountain of skulls, some of those institutions will need a replacement at least moderately close to ready before you torch them.
How is torching these institutions going to produce a mountain of skulls?
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
3d ago
As far as I can tell no dynamite was used to bring down his house.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
3d ago
In Current Year, defensive of masculine honor is a witch characteristic.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
3d ago
It's not the lack of followers of conservatism or any particular ideological bent. It's the dominance of followers of a particular ideology that is far more dogmatic than most religions, and does not value objective truth or an impartial search for same.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
4d ago
To put it as plainly as I can: whenever you find right-wingers saying "I don't think I can be open about my political beliefs because I'll be ostracized", it's never about fiscal policy or foreign policy or even touchier things like immigration or criminal justice.
It is in fact often about immigration and criminal justice.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
4d ago
So you're suggesting that a culture exemplified by a man who talked about a Hobbes-shaped hole in discourse is somehow so anti-intellectual that Skibboleth is right?
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
4d ago
The near-complete alignment of the tribes with politics is a result of the culture war. The progressive long march through the institutions not only threw conservatives out of the institutions but out of Blue Tribe itself. Much of this is conversion -- your devout Christian who goes to progressive college will likely lose his faith. Some is oppression -- your devout Christian who doesn't lose his faith but remains in the progressive environment will conceal it out of self-preservation, and so be invisible. Some is reverse-conversion -- your political conservative who is driven out of Blue Tribe will adopt at least some of the tribal markers of the tribe that DOES accept his politics.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
5d ago
Reform, on the other hand, might never happen. There needs to be outreach, invitations, scholarships, hard work, propaganda, genuine accounting, and a renewed interest in stewardship. Those could all be indicators of reform. It is a lot more than anyone offers. If people want change to occur as reform, then begin the reform! Start a new department. Aim it at undergrads from Missouri. Cut the Exceptional Black Lesbian Celebration exhibit from the Smithsonian. That one is easy.
This is what Skibboleth rejects, "demanding liberals think conservative thoughts for them". It can't be conservatives doing this, after all, because the conservatives have been successfully removed from the positions where they could do so. OK, rejection noted. Bring on the cannon.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
5d ago
This is a just-so story. It isn't true that conservatives "couldn't be bothered to defend them". It's that they weren't able to. They realized what was happening far too late, and treated the leftists as intellectual opponents at worst, while the left treated the conservatives as enemies to be vanquished or fossils to be re-buried.
Spontaneous confession is in fact an exception to the requirement to read the suspect their rights. The "magic incantation" is only required before custodial interrogation.
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