anti_dan
34m ago
That is why I don't think a correct autopsy would ever be drafted or released
anti_dan
35m ago
I am intrigued why you think Democrat voters think it would be valuable as a tool revealing the soul of the and dnc to voters as opposed to just confirming their priors.
anti_dan
13hr ago
This is the perspective that I see commonly but disagree with vehemently. As a Kamala voter who wants the Democratic Party to have success in the future, the most dignified thing to do here would be not only to release the autopsy but to point highlights at the dirtiest of the laundry that gets aired out in the process.
The issue I see with the autopsy is its unlikely to be helpful. There are a few ways it could go. It could be like the RNC Mitt Romney autopsy, which was nonsense corporate donor catering. Embrace immigration, lower taxes, reform entitlements, etc. The Trump campaign rejected basically every recommendation and won.
So what ways did the DNC actually take the autopsy? I only think there are a few ways they'd actually take it:
- Racist-Sexist America rejected Kamala because racism and sexism.
- Kamala was too moderate. Joe was too moderate. We need Mahndami.
I don't think either direction would actually be a good evaluation of what happened, and would not help Democrats improve their chances.
anti_dan
13hr ago
Not that any leftist/progressive was expecting good takes from Pod Save America, but listening to that makes it clear the DNC fully intends to repeat their mistakes of 2024.
What do you think the mistakes of 2024 were? Personally I'd go with:
- The Biden administration's record 2021-24 being far to the left of his campaign.
- Biden trying to run.
- Picking Harris, as she is from California and far to the left of the American electorate.
anti_dan
15hr ago
Maybe I am dumb, so these people are on SNAP or something and they're poor so it's automatically assumed they are leeches on society and must be shun?
Why wouldn't you come to that conclusion. Not only are they objectively leeches on society, their move when being poor was not to build a social network that would help support them, instead they went and got other people's money through forcible taxation so they can buy chips and soda.
anti_dan
1d ago
It is certainly not endemic, or at least was not until recently. I went to a majority white, mostly middle class, some high some low, high school with a sizeable Mexican minority population. The activities you describe would never have occurred in any of the classes amongst the white students. And since our school was intellectually segregated, it was also functionally racially segregated, so I don't know what the Mexicans were doing. I did experience some "cheating culture" as I got to engineering school and the racial makeup included more Asians. Cheating culture is bad, but is different from scam culture. None of the engineering students were ever shoplifting with abandon. Perhaps from time to time someone games the food court by bringing a laptop and working there from 9am to 10pm only swiping in once, thats like the biggest scam.
And going back to my hometown, if you were caught by a neighbor using EBT you'd be socially ostracized, the rare section 8 housing person would not be invited to block parties. There were no Learing centers. If you did that you'd be charged with felonies. Heck, the police spent like 6 months investigating a "meth ring" where their seizure was 5 grams hidden under a table at a bar. Where I currently live, 5 grams is barely considered chargeable unless the fellow was picked up doing something else WORSE and the meth charge is just a kicker to get a plea deal.
And the opposite is true in the full on scam culture. These people make facebook videos and tutorials on scamming. The Learing centers all follow a business model propagated from some grey market scam culture NGOs. People sell EBT cards for booze. Its all very different from the normal world of 2000, and scam culture (unlike cheating culture) isn't new. It goes way back to before I was borne. Welfare queens wasn't Reagan slander, it was real life.
Hell, I just was in court. As I was waiting for my order from the clerk the next case was called. Child support case. Male, 20, convicted felon, on pretrial release for domestic violence, somehow drives a Tesla despite no documented employment. On EBT and S8. Female, 19, mother of one (alleged father is the male), currently pregnant (allegedly also his). No documented employment. Lives in a neighborhood where average rents are 3k a month with just herself and the baby. Then I get to leave before things finish. But still. Scam culture is its whole own level.
anti_dan
1d ago
Anti-black racism is sui generis in the United States, especially in the South. Racism, xenophobia, and other forms of bigotry generally push minorities left, but this is, for the most part, garden variety discrimination that you find everywhere to some degree.
Disagree. It appears that the only group capable of being robustly non-leftist over time, worldwide, is American whites. Everything else is just fluff. American whites, particularly married ones, are a super unique set of individuals that keep the country, and thereby the world from descending into leftist decline.
anti_dan
1d ago
Have you ever seen anyone, of any race or class, say “I guess I’m low human capital, time to get on the dole”? Okay, maybe angsty channers. But it’s really not the normal mindset.
No! The best part about black scam culture is they think they are geniuses and we are all the idiots for working regular jobs while they can lie and scheme and the only real consequences ever are a low credit score or a felony conviction here or there. And they don't even really internalize thinking about the felony, "oh that was uncle Thad, I'm smarter than him and wont get caught."
anti_dan
2d ago
Thankfully the people interested in doing this kind of stuff are generally idiots but that doesn't save us from sufficiently motivated state actors should that become relevant.
After 9/11 airport security was significantly tightened, train security was not. 13 year old me was utterly confused why we weren't facing dozens of train derailments a day because it seemed so easy, destructive, and effective.
Turned out the terrorists aren't interested in those things, they just want flashy. Trains arent flashy so apparently they are safe. Old: Security through obscurity. New: Security through boring.
anti_dan
2d ago
Idiots aren't useful as soldiers in modern warefare. Has been so since at least WWI, but probably even going back to 1776 you mostly could not have low-intelligence soldiers. The risk of them being near firearms or explosives simply outweighs any physical benefit of them carrying stuff around for you.
anti_dan
2d ago
In law school I asked, "what about shoes?" The professors liked it I suppose.
anti_dan
2d ago
Pragmatically the law has never been blind. The criminal justice system has always judged poor dumb kids differently than rich smart kids. The same crime committed by an urban youth versus a Kennedy kid has never been punished the same way. A big reason for this is the court had a reasonable expectations that the Kennedy’s had the resources to deal with the behavior internally and society didn’t need to spend resources to make sure the crime didn’t happen again.
Perhaps historically true, but in modern times it is horribly false. At the outset, modern poor urban youth are now much more lightly policed than suburbanites. Drinking or smoking weed in public is just not payed attention to by urban police forces, same with minor property crime. So they are simply not being arrested for misdemeanors that the suburban kids would be. And as a result they also aren't picking up possessory felony charges for drugs or guns. Then at the court level the prosecutors offices in urban situations have much larger caseloads so they offer much more favorable plea deals. A felon with a gun in the city might get offered 3 years while in a suburb he would be lucky to get 7. This also means that if there is a trial less resources are dedicated to the prosecution than would be in the burbs. In a suburb, good luck with an officer forgetting court for even a misdemeanor DUI. In cities, officers miss court dates for felony burglary and robbery cases because they are responding to a more serious offense, or maybe had a 24 hour shift and dont feel like it. Finally, the judges in urban areas are nowadays progressives that, even after a trial, err towards imposing a sentence near the mandatory minimums. In the burbs, you are looking at a maximum sentence if you lose a trial.
But the general rule that the law is not perfectly blind is very true. The other day a cop was murdered by someone who was released by a judge for Armed Hijacking a few days before that. You know not a single judge was releasing someone who did a gun crime THAT day.
anti_dan
3d ago
Yo maybe those were load bearing norms, maybe we shouldn't have started removing struts to save weight,
Be specific. What norms, dismantled by who and when?
anti_dan
4d ago
That's two out of three Trump assassins who were oddly fixated on Ukraine.
The idea that Trump is Putin's puppet is the longest running and most heavily invested into psyop the left has been conducting about Trump. It literally started in 2015, now over a decade ago. That Trump is betraying Ukraine is just the modern iteration of that joint media-IC operation, so it is a manifestation of a lot of work.
anti_dan
4d ago
Yeah. Most people are bad at aiming and shooting firearms at distance. Double that with the actual adrenaline from doing an assassination, most people are going to miss. The Charlie Kirk thing was an aberration. Also, Charlie Kirk didn't have SS level security.
anti_dan
4d ago
Some people have long guns in their car almost all the time. But they dont have much interaction with the criminal elements we are currently discussing. And you sure as hell don't want to be caught by one of them breaking into said truck.
anti_dan
5d ago
A handgun is a very convenient tool for the casual homicide. You don't have to be smart to use it, and it is a minimal inconvenience to carry it around while you go about your daily business until one day, you decide that someone needs to die (or be stopped from whatever he is doing) and can enact your decision within a few seconds.
Very true. When you work in the criminal justice system you will often have a sort of yo-yo on your positions on gun control as you see more and more gun crime. Initially you will see something like an armed robbery gone wrong and think gun control sounds pretty good. The fact is that most criminals do not have grand criminal plans, everything is basically a crime of opportunity, and disarming people in those situations would be a social good.
But then you realize those people just get guns anyways. Even after they are convicted felons. And you realize the only people who ever actually face consequences for violating gun laws are 45 year old tow truck drivers who use a revolver to stop a 20 year old punk from attacking him because he's towing the car the punk parked in a tow zone.
anti_dan
5d ago
This is pretty much the logical end result of feminism and the progressive left's social project, so I don't see why you find it surprising or refreshing to see it written out.
anti_dan
6d ago
Black culture, despite the bad parts, has some really lovely vitality and openess and warmth that a lot of more standardized western culture lacks.
Huh? Like what? Rap? Scam culture? So confused by this comment.
anti_dan
6d ago
I think Jim Crow is worse than DEI actually
On the books, its possible, in practice DEI actually held back far more people with potential.
I don't see the evidence for a Democrat messaging failure.
Bidens signature moves were his big spending bill, which kept inflation high, and his open border which was incredibly unpopular. He also let Russia invade Ukraine, and didn't fire a single general for the botched Afghanistan pull out, indicating to everyone he intended it to go poorly.
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