Tree
1d ago
Looks like it worked and the format allowed your guys to make some good points. I don’t understand the blanket hostility (“fake debate, fake intellectual engagement, fake morality “). Like yeah, it’s not perfect, no-holds-barred, high quality debate, but it’s… still good enough?
Tree
1d ago
Whoever talks faster, and is more skilled with "debating" has a clear advantage, regardless of whether they actually believe in their ideas or not. Regardless of whether their ideas are good. As long as you can present them as being such, you can have the upper hand.
For the process to work (and consequently the entire liberal project), you don't need the correct idea to win every time, regardless of rhetorical skill. It is enough for the correctness to be correlated to winning, and I believe it is. I think even destiny and charlie kirk (I don't watch their stuff either) would have trouble defending manifestly absurd positions, like the sexes being as strong as each other, anti-vax nonsense, or black people having to live in fear of random white people violence.
Tree
1d ago
I’m going to take the Ezra Klein-Hanania line and, without any sappy respect for a dead man, I’ll say these ‘dunking’ debates are good, actually. Literal marketplace of ideas, forum of democracy. Though it may offend your snobbish sensibilities, that’s how ideas trickle down to the little guy.
Tree
2d ago
he was probably just a crazy person" explanation until I see concrete evidence that he is actually crazy.
Ok well that's fine, my misunderstanding, although I don't know why you felt the need to specify that.
What portion of the left-wing internet is some degree of happy that he's dead, in your view and experience?
What is 'some degree of happy'? Like 0.00001% happy? Ambivalent feelings can come up when a person one does not like dies. That is not celebrating or approving someone's death. It seems this is all preparing the prosecution of your opponents for the crime of 'not being sad enough' and 'being quiet, evilly' ('feigning smug disinterest').
But to answer your question, I see nothing but condemnation from party leaders and influential people. What you're seeing is the screenshotting of some fringe nobodies for engagement.
Tree
2d ago
Didn't you just say that your side will not accept a crazy guy with a gun explanation?
No one in Red Tribe is going to accept that a famous Conservative activist being sniped on a college campus can be summarized as "crazy guy with a gun".
Why are your enemies required to be so much more rational and forgiving than you are?
the entire left-wing internet is either openly celebrating his murder or feigning smug disinterest.
This is A) not true, and B) "murder and suspected jaywalking".
Tree
2d ago
Plus, this wasn't the shocking moment where he was shot, it was the moment trump announced he's dead. I doubt they were that excited over this almost-inevitable followup. I'm going to mark that episode as a red hate-fantasy.
Tree
2d ago
Neither was he. So all the influential people plus the silent majority agree on nonviolence.
Tree
3d ago
Those two aren’t endorsements. TNR removed the ‘troll’ qualifier. Yglesias isn’t wrong, here or on twitter, there are too many over-excited righties going ‘He was the nice one. You won’t like me and my friends when we inflict indiscriminate violence on half the country’.
Tree
3d ago
Some morons, sure. The kind that celebrated Jesse James in another time.
If the last years' wild swings in political moods have taught us anything, is that there is a, forgive the cliché, 'silent majority' of people who are not on board with the excesses of their tribe. They just sulk until the preference cascade pendulum passes them by, back and forth.
Tree
3d ago
No one here is going to be willing to argue that a large plurality of Blue Tribe, and likely an outright majority of young politically-active blues outright don't support the shooting.
That is crazy talk. Although, kudos for making it falsifiable - 'by next monday'. Okay. I predict I will be willing to argue a majority of young politically active blues don't support the shooting.
At trump's assassination attempt, you thought the SS did it.
Tree
3d ago
Maybe someone should post the charlie kirk assassination. Sounds like a culture war.
Tree
8d ago
Interesting. I really want to argue with your points, but since I don’t have any experience doing this (not in the US), I’ll cede the field.
Yeah, possibly the biggest barrier is the need for some seed capital and the willingness to take some counterparty risk on it. The guy seemed like he was juggling/transferring thousands of dollars per day to take advantage of the credit card bonuses and the cheap tokens. You’d probably need like 20-50k starting capital you’re ready to lose (although I think the risk is not that big), and, like you say, a considerable time investment, before you can earn his full one hour a day salary.
Anyway, if it's a hassle, or less lucrative than advertised, it's probably better to do something less zero sum.
Tree
11d ago
If you're in the US, you could grind the casinos for 'showing up' bonuses. Apparently you can make 50-100 dollars an hour for one hour per day. :
https://www.themotte.org/post/2068/friday-fun-thread-for-june-6/333425?context=8#context
Tree
11d ago
or you could make an adult visual novel (sex sells).
Does it? Then why are like 90% of “adult” mangas male on male?
Tree
11d ago
You're missing the part were a majority of males are either outright killed off an/or are so disenfranchised as to have no children at all. we have more than enough historical and genetical records for either.
Not true. Maybe 10-20 % in the most violent societies. Most men who reached adulthood reproduced and weren't murdered.
Tree
16d ago
I’ll give you the straight european-liberal view: the diversity of russian views (and your own) is largely schizo nonsense, partly fomented by putin himself , to keep his subjects and potential opponents confused, disunited, apolitical and demoralized.
he points to how brutal the war in the Ukraine is, but Putin and Trump are both chums with each other.
Putin supports the brutality because he believes what he says he believes – ‘brother peoples’, old historic and not-so old grievances and insults, the necessary greatness of russia, etc – that stuff’s more important to him than countless dead russians, to say nothing of ukrainians.
Trump likes putin personally; in particular, his appearance of strength and his long-held authoritarian power. And, you know, trump’s people aren’t dying in ukraine, he genuinely does not care or need to care all that much about foreigners killing each other.
And how Russia could easily destroy the Dnieper bridges in the Ukraine, but chooses not to - apparently forbidden by the CIA/KGB intel service to disarm Russia for a NATO invasion.
Even if they could destroy them, they probably think they’ll get them in a settlement, or use them for the big push when the ukrainians collapse, as they were always supposed to.
Russians are a lot weaker than they think they are. At the bottom, their ‘inexplicable’ failure to win manifests in conspiracy theories like yours. At the top, they cling to hope of a total victory long after its potential benefits have been exceeded by the horrendous costs of the war.
Russia's Putin who has only ever attacked in the only fortified region of the front for 3.5 years and is now trying to sign another rotten peace deal.
? They tried attacking everything at first, no?
happened on Purim where cookies are baked in the form of ears (oznei haman), thus linking to a ritualistic significance. This line of thinking would view the Ukraine war not as disarming Russia but more in the way of religious slaughter
OK that's just complete cuckoo.
Tree
17d ago
Oh man, that’s rough.
It’s surprisingly common. One woman(50s) I know thinks she has been in a serious relationship with a scammer for years. A man she’s never met, who always has an accident at the airport, requiring she send money. She has broken off relations with anyone who tried to bring up the fact that her love affair is a scam.
I don’t know what one should do in such cases. Protect yourself and your children first.
Any idea what might have brought this on? Covid, Chatgpt ?
Tree
20d ago
and then the vampire bad boy and the werewolf bad boy fight over me while I sit there and wait to be taken by the winner, and the vampire wins, but the werewolf is okay because he finds someone else, then the vampire marries me
You’ve got Wickham/Churchill/Willhoughby/Henry Crawford as the werevolves to the vampires Darcy/Knightley/Ed Ferrars-Brandon/Ed Bertram.
Tree
26d ago
My theory of crypto value is that most of the coin gets stolen every few years. The thieves, fearing being connected to the crime through the ledger, never dare to touch their ill-gotten gains. One day, as we all must, they die, rich in spirit, and their cursed coins follow them into the grave.
Destroying money is strongly deflationary. There‘s only like 6 bitcoin left in circulation, that‘s why they are getting bid so strongly.
Tree
27d ago
Worth noting that in contrast to normie banking, the main bitcoin marketplace regularly blows up/top guy absconds with the money (Mt gox, FTX) . Crypto makes it so much easier to be a thief and a scammer. Better prepare yourself mentally. Worse part is not even losing all your money without recourse, but the merciless sneering from cigar-chomping bankers.
Tree
27d ago
Like you said, it‘s important to us that he sustain himself, so we would give him dopamine rewards for eating and resting when he‘s tired. We need him replaced when he‘s too old, so we would reward him chemically for shooting his gametes in a female of his species. We would even make it so he likes her, to make the process of growing the next generation easier. Et caetera.
If he is our slave, are we not the slaves of Nature? It is a joyful existence, despite it all. Certainly preferable to oblivion.
Tree
27d ago
“scenes with the girl being cute and sexy and falling in love with him, the two of them having intimate encounters and emotional conversations”
The thing that gets my goat in most romcoms is, after the meet-cute, they put in a music montage of them talking at a diner. That was the entire ‚they fall in love‘ scene. You had one job. I know writing good dialogue is hard, but this is the heart of the movie.
Then they move on to the stupid obstacle/reason why they can‘t be together of act II which would never happen in a million years. Then it‘s time for the excruciating ‚it was so stupid, I love you‘ ending dialogue.
Who watches this and for what purpose? romcom enjoyers must want to see attractive people humiliated by the terrible dialogue and irrational situations. It‘s like in fight club when tyler bashes blondie‘s head in.
Tree
29d ago
There is no cost to the taxpayer beyond the benefits we would be paying these people anyway.
the scheme benefits from significant tax relief, as vehicles are exempt from VAT and Insurance Premium Tax.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motability
Massive growth in the number of pip claimants:
https://x.com/thurhyde/status/1949753087419207786
IFS: 'The rapid growth in [working-age] health-related benefits [post-COVID] seems to be largely a UK phenomenon.
https://x.com/maxtempers/status/1945752894868701444
Less than 10% of motability cars have any modification for the disabled.
have their benefit paid directly to the leasing company, which mean they are more creditworthy and get lower lease rates than they would be if they had to remember to make their own car payments on time.
I'm sure we all benefit when the state pays for everyone’s BMW. He is providing much more than mobility to the slightly anxious, he’s doling out unheard of creditworthiness to the not-so working class.
Which is strange. As a european who never had much contact with blacks outside of hollywood movies, when I first learned what the Civil rights law actually was, I rejected it. Why can’t they have their own diners? It goes against the basic right of freedom of association. If whites are so oppressive and racist, why would you want to sit next to them? I don't try to get into gay bars or irish bars, because I know they'll taunt me. And if they were known to take away my voting rights and lynch me, it'd be even weirder to suggest attending their bars and schools at the solution to my problems.
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