anti_dan
1mo ago
I understand the sentiment. When he was picked, he was largely marketed as something akin to "Americas Dad" or "Americas Grandpa" of "America's football coach". But every guy who actually has a dad, a grandpa, and played a sport thinks of him "not my dad/grandpa/coach".
Given that all of his children were conceived in some not-IVF but medical procedure it is a plausible thing to say about Tim Walz that he has never had sex with a woman. If JD Vance was in an actual locker room and wanted to win 90%+ of the votes of a football team he would have credibly accused Walz of that. And almost every guy in said locker room would have felt in in their gut that it is true.
Walz is, to use a now out of fashion insult, a fag. That is almost certainly what his high school classmates called him, its what the football players he assistant coached called him in the 90s/2000s. Culture really hasn't evolved a proper insult since the "banning" of "gay" and "fag" as insults for a male who lacks manliness. Perhaps "Walz" can become said new insult, because he does truly embody the essence of those insults from my youth.
anti_dan
1mo ago
The problem of longshormen is fairly specific. They are essentially holding monopoly power over a natural resource, which is the port. Most other "private" unions are far less horrible.
anti_dan
1mo ago
I find your articulation of the situation a bit confusing. Are you saying Israel ethnically cleansed Christians in Lebanon?
anti_dan
1mo ago
Sure. As someone who has prosecuted people who committed sex crimes against children, I assure you we and the police involved in such cases are not so careful with our words. And frankly, all we care about is what you do, not what is in your heart. Its simply like the "you fuck one goat" situation as far as I am concerned.
anti_dan
1mo ago
Just because Gaza is on the brink of famine (allegedly) doesn't mean its due to Israel. More credible sources indicate that all or almost all humanitarian aid is appropriated by Hamas, thus doesn't reach the population. And a blockade of all aid is reasonable under that circumstance (even though food is being let through). That Gaza is too unproductive and poor to afford food for its rabbit-like population of breeders is also of no moment.
anti_dan
1mo ago
Specify the war crimes. I am unaware of any Israeli strikes that were executed without reasonable suspicion of combatants or assets being in the area.
The population of Gaza should obviously stay in Gaza and be annexed by Egypt. This is the common sense solution. The Egyptians will then execute a repression of the population dozens of times harsher, but without people complaining about it in the US/Europe.
All of the middle east, minus Israel has already ethnically cleansed their Christians. I am unaware of credible accusations of such in Israeli territory.
anti_dan
1mo ago
They fought a small town that doesn't have any weapons and still haven't really been able to win in a year. The only thing they manage to do is get weapons as welfare checks and blast large numbers of civilians.
They are barely fighting that war. Again, they have to take into account the opinion of American leftists who view military competency as evil and think hiding rocket launchers in hospitals and preschools are legitimate tactics.
anti_dan
1mo ago
Kamala isn't a reform candidate at all. And she isn't young at 59. Vance is the true harbinger of reform in this election. Trump is at least partially anti-establishment. Kamala is the candidate of the politburo if ever there was one.
anti_dan
1mo ago
Tehran does not have the capabilities to launch a serious war against Israel. They wouldn't get an army to Baghdad, and their airforce would be lucky to get 50% of any attempted strike further than that as well.
Like their proxies Hamas and Hezbollah, their entire goal is to lose spectacularly and hope American and European leftists get extra mad at Israel for being competent at warfare.
anti_dan
1mo ago
Historically attempted murder has often drawn a lower penalty than completed murder, with there being an underlying assumption that failure to complete the act indicates some lack of mens rea to do so, or that cosmically it is wrong to execute a man without another body on the other side of the scale.
Historically both attempted murder and murder were punished by hanging. More recently as criminal justice evolved into a more formalized system attempt murder was considered less serious by, usually, 1 tick. So murder would be a class 1 (or A or whatever based on the state) then attempt murder was class 2, which realistically meant 30 years instead of 40 or something along those lines.
anti_dan
1mo ago
The death penalty might have been more cost effective than lifelong imprisonment in 1800 or 1900, but these days it is not (thanks to the efforts of the anti crowd). Clinging on to it for reasons of tradition only seems weird, like running a coal powered train line through some suburb.
The fight is worth it merely to distract that crowd. They aren't the types to stop fighting battles, and if you can have them spending years on end getting death sentences reduced to life in prison, that stops them from shifting the focus to getting pedophiles sentences reduced from life to 3 weeks or whatever cause celeb comes next.
anti_dan
1mo ago
Most critiques about the Cato study is that it is intentionally ignorant about different groups of hispanics. There was a group of, essentially, founding Californians (same with Texas and most border states) that are legitimately what you would call 'hispanic whites' that were culturally indistinguishable from an Okie or 49er that came from Iowa or Nebraska in the 1850s. They were then "supplemented" with non natives from, primarily, Mexico who were completely different and leaned heavily Democrat. Because they were poor and unassimilated.
anti_dan
1mo ago
That is why they are part of anyone intelligent's conversation about letting in the first gen.
anti_dan
2mo ago
There isn't zero actual evidence, there isnt evidence that doesn't have other possible explanations. Which is, unfortunately, how the system will always be by design. You can even catch a bunch of people on camera dropping load after load of ballots into boxes and they say, "well could be legit." You find statistical anomalies, well thats only circumstantial. You have people mishandling boxes in a polling place? Meh. You have proof the governor made illegal "emergency rules" again meh.
To catch fraud the fraudsters have to be incredibly stupid, like following a post truck and stealing mail in the middle of the day.
anti_dan
2mo ago
I think there are some arguments that it was not correct, but on the whole it wasn't solidified nor considered important in any way. They easily could have been absorbed into neighboring countries in 1948.
anti_dan
2mo ago
The radicals are no longer crazies. They see signs. Losing for them is winning because antisemitism is ascendant in the west.
anti_dan
2mo ago
28 years is still little in world history. You might as well argue that Alsace and Lorraine are German.
anti_dan
2mo ago
When was there really a chance for Palestine to have a "viable state" (IMO a weasel word in context). They were self governing in Gaza for a decade and a half, and decided that the best thing to do with that is launch an incursion into Israel to kill a thousand or so civilians.
Pre-1948 the concept of a "Palestinian" didnt even exist. They were just Muslim Arabs that happened to be located in a specific territory, but culturally were indistinguishable from their neighboring states. Post 1948 they were maintained as non-citizens for political calculation in other states. Then we had war in 1967, a defensive war by Israel where they took land to make their borders more defensible (much like the French following WWI, in theory).
In the early 2000s Ehud Barak almost brokered a peace deal that gave Palestinians thrice what any rational actor bargaining from such a weak position could hope for. He was met with, in the end, an intransigent Yassar Arafat and an intifada. In the end Israel turned to Bibi and folks like him because it was obvious that the motto "from the river to the sea Palestine will be free" had an addendum to it: "of Jews". So either they will win out, or be genocided. These are the options until the Arab world reforms.
anti_dan
2mo ago
"Great" is simply too far. He's been horrible from a Reagan or even GWB policy perspective. You have the right to remain silent. Or simply say, "his mediocre administration is an improvement over Trump's, because , which even if he did, it wouldn't be either accurate description of a Trump policy, nor an accurate description Reagan/Bush policy.
anti_dan
2mo ago
I said it yesterday in the video we released from The Lincoln Project: Joe Biden is a good man, a good American, and a great president.
Rick Wilson July 22, 2024
anti_dan
2mo ago
Sure, that's what allying with people you disagree with means. It doesn't mean he has all of a sudden become a Democrat, after 40 some years. I think it's kind of odd that people talk about Trump Derangement Syndrome, but don't seem to want to see that it affected some Republicans too.
If he supports Democrats to win elections and has switched to Democrat positions, how is he not a Democrat?
anti_dan
2mo ago
The union worker is interested in his wages, which are dependent on the health of the company, the quality of his coworkers, and the strength of the union's bargaining position. The union boss's wages are often on a different payscale that rewards expanding his unionbase. He eventually no longer has much interest in any individual company his union operates in, and often was drawn from the ideological subclass interested in union advocacy from the start.
Yeah, but its Walz. An adult man who decided to be a teacher and founded the gay club. Saying he has weak swimmers is probably more true than saying he's never had sex, even with his own wife, but its certainly funnier to say the latter.
To paraphrase Democrats after the 2020 election, there is no evidence that Walz has had sex.
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