anti_dan
10hr ago
These numbers are "skewed" for this question in that they are not directly asking why people dont have faith in the juries or judges or prosecutors or courts in general.
As someone who interacts with the system on a regular basis, the correct answer to "why don't people trust XXX part of the court system" is not because they are or know a convicted felon who is innocent, instead it is because they think criminals are going to go free. Those that think criminals will go free, are, of course, correct. Most cases end up dismissed or plead to minimal conditions because trials are a huge pain to actually put on.
Take something as simple as a misdemeanor DUI case where you are the victim who's care was hit by a drunk driver. On day 1, you get hit. On day 30(ish) you go to court and there is a continuance. You file your civil claims. The defendant's team doesn't cooperate based on vague assertions of 5th amendment stuff in the civil case. Plus he's prolly got no money anyways. On day 60(ish) you again go to criminal court. Nothing happens again. People tell you to stop coming until trial. Then, all the sudden 22 months later you get a letter in the mail telling you to go to court at 9 AM on a wednesday for trial. If you are astounding, you come. The defense weasels out of the trial and gets a new date. Now you have lost 3 days of work and the case is still going. Repeat until you or the police officer doesnt show up and the case is dismissed.
Now you have heard a summary of the average DUI victim's experience with criminal courts.
anti_dan
11hr ago
A similar source of ragebait that you see on Caleb's channel: "disabled" veterans who are clearly very functional but have managed to find a sympathetic doctor who declares they have service-related injuries which mean they now get a check for life. Even if they never saw combat. Even if they were never in a combat-facing role. Are you man enough to call out veterans for welfare-queen behavior?
This (and the pension double dipping thing) are super crazy. I know of multiple people who are mid 30s, work full time as engineers or accountants, and pull in 30k extra income a year because of military disability benefits.
anti_dan
12hr ago
Also, to the extent Europe is unsafe for Jewish people, it's approximately 100% due to mass migration from Muslim countries.
The people of Israel dont seem to share this confidence.
That doesn't seem to follow. Just because you lose a vote doesn't mean you have no support. Presumably there were more than two votes in your favor, but if it's you and your bully friend against literally the entire world it might be time to start asking "are we the baddies?"
I have considered this and have found the hypothesis lacking. Islam appears to be the cause of most of the baddieness in the region, and when it comes to my country in large numbers causes more bad stuff here.
anti_dan
1d ago
If there were enough places for Jews to go to following an ethnic cleansing of Israel, they wouldn't lose basically every UN vote ever without American Security Council intervention.
anti_dan
1d ago
I am going to write the first part of my response before clicking, and the second after.
- Notably posted without a timestamp indicating Biden was giving Trump credit prior to the election.
AND
- Yup, safely in the rear view mirror. Biden already thought he probably was going to have Trump on Treason charges at this point. And all he really gave Trump credit for at all was taking the vaccine, not making it happen.
anti_dan
1d ago
People really do underestimate the GFC right now. I think in a just world it will be remembered much more prominently 60 years from now than it is today. Will this happen, I don't know, but it really is staggering to me the sheer number of people who graduated in that era and just...never found a real job and have been in a nearly 20 year state (at this point) of constantly applying for jobs they are technically qualified for and being rejected, while desperately clinging to whatever low paid sales/admin/service job they can swing.
anti_dan
1d ago
I commented on the original article last week so I have nothing to really add on that, but this piece is typically Frenchian, with an interesting addition of ahistorical ignorance.
It was not squadrons of women who guillotined dissenters during the French Revolution.
Did French not read any history, or even historical fiction like Tale of Two Cities? There was no lack of female influence amongst the French Revolutionaries. Some even did the violent violence themselves like Charlotte Corday and Théroigne de Méricourt.
I suppose the claim that there was not multiple "squadrons of women" who ran guillotines might technically be true. I am not actually well versed enough in French history to know of such a female guillotine squad. But I do know that on top of the violence doing women participants there were many more agitators like de Gouges and Pauline Leon who essentially helped construct lists of folks they think should be sent to their deaths, and eventually I think one or both of them were victims of their own success.
anti_dan
1d ago
It is part of my job on a regular basis, although I am not chickenoverlord. His percentages seem a bit charitable for me. "I was scared" is sometimes, much more often it is "I was scared of getting caught."
anti_dan
1d ago
But is the state supreme court's pronouncement of "the wicked flee when no man pursueth" truly applicable in the modern age? According to a recent poll, in 2023 confidence in the police was only 49 percent among whites and a pitiful 31 percent among nonwhites in the US. Those numbers recovered to 54 percent and 44 percent (respectively) in 2024, but even that is a bit lower than one might expect. Should a defendant's distrust of the police be held against him in court?
I would say this is a jury question that appellate courts have little legitimacy in evaluating their judgements. The jury tests their own plausibility of the two cases, and specifically in this case heard from the defendant. If they found him less credible than the other witnesses who laid out the prosecutions case, then that should be undisturbed, just as he would argue if they had bought his self defense claim and acquitted him of all charges.
anti_dan
2d ago
The Kochs have been funding libertarian think tanks for decades, it has been ineffective at making libertarian economics a winning political position.
anti_dan
3d ago
Not just that, but why would he egg on this idea that he wants to be king? It makes zero strategic sense from my perspective, all it does is fan the flames. I suppose if he wants to fan the flames of the culture war, fine, but that's also not something I'm behind.
I would like to see the situation cool down, but it doesn't seem reasonable to expect that even if Trump did nothing but release completely banal press releases until Jan 2029. The reality is that there are government supported riots impeding federal law enforcement. There are people running for statewide office in large states supporting violence against political opponents. Trump memes can't fan these flames any harder. Its the existence of opposition that causes the fire. Trump memes are just a positive morale strategy for the base.
I think a big reason money in politics didn't manifest the way the doomers predicted is because money in politics just isn't that effective when employed the way envisioned by the doomers. Taking out hundreds of hours of ads just doesn't move the needle all that much. Instead, as Elon showed, what actually matters is institutions. Buying twitter isn't really something exxon or disney is realistically going to do.
The question is, for political purposes, is any of this affordable? Can you buy Harvard and the rest of the Ivy league? Probably not. Can you buy disney, youtube, etc? For most people, the answer is going to be no. And even if you can, like Bezos did with the Washington Times*, you'll discover your ability to influence the influence your institution wields is still limited by staff.
Edit: Meant the Post.
anti_dan
5d ago
No, I'm serious - I don't want to call you a nazi, nor have I called anyone a nazi. What word would you like me to use to describe someone who believes that politicians are importing brown people to replace the white race, and all the attendant beliefs that normally swirl around that one? A Great Replacement Theorist? What word would you like me to describe someone who thinks that Trump should have power to do X, Y and Z regardless of their legality without resorting to what you see as slurs?
Isn't the phrase for this just, "someone who has read Democratic talking points from 2000-current day?"
When we aren't explicitly discussing "great replacement theory" or other "myths" this sort of talking point is not uncommon. We have the infamous book, "The Emerging Democratic Majority" that makes the case explicitly that just lowering the white population enough as a % means progressives win. Its not a one off, it happens whenever there is a mask off moment on the topic on the left.
I mean, lets take the charitable take that the political party that uses "whiteness" as a slur, doesn't actually mean it and only incidentally supports immigration from majority nonwhite countries. You are upset with people who are seeing a result and not applying the most charitable ideological framing of their opponents, in the face of rhetoric that makes said charitable framing difficult to justify.
anti_dan
5d ago
Given how good formula is, the chances that pumped, refrigerated, then reheated, breastmilk is providing whatever marginal benefits from-the-source breastmilk does is probably dubious at best. I mean, the formula powder is made to be mixed, heated, etc. Breast milk is made to be drank from the breast. Anything else and its probably rapidly degrading, particularly if you are returning it to body temp for serving.
Not that I dont applaud the effort of pumping. At the very least its converting your excess fat into something useful. It might even provide a 0.1% advantage for you (any greater seems dubious with the stats now, plus my own experiences).
anti_dan
5d ago
As a lawyer, I think the law point is where she might be closest. I think the academy in law has already fully seen this effect. There is no longer excellence qua excellence in most of the "elite" institutions. Box checking and credentialism have replaced any idea of seeking peak performance. Tests have been de-emphasized to support this, and where they exist they are no longer brutal and grueling, but are much more likely to be easy to finish on time, and mostly just repetition of well worn talking points that can easily be spoonfed to students in a powerpoint or class-provided outline.
anti_dan
5d ago
What regime are you talking about? Nixon and Reagan, despite being president, were basically "bad boys" at best, outcasts more realistically. Not all that much different than Trump, but somehow winning 49 states WITHOUT social media.
anti_dan
5d ago
My understanding is that there are two main thrusts:
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Masculinity in the workplace and other similar institutions like school has been banned to a great degree. This prevents men from competing on an even playing field.
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Equivalent forms of femininity have not only not been banned, but are encouraged and given the legal power of law in many instances, which further tilts the field in those directions.
If we rectified the situation in either way, the argument is that the fields would sort themselves out in a fairly efficient manner.
As I said elsewhere, I find her diagnoses of the problem to be probably correct, but her overall conclusions and solutions underdeveloped.
anti_dan
7d ago
Your beef is with the vast majority of the modern left. Seriously, replace identitarian with vast majority of the modern left - is your statement significantly different?
Why can't the left make its case in a race neutral way?
Nara, go to West Philly. Go to Baltimore. Go to Chicago. Much as I love your race-blind ideals, much as they resonate with me, the modern incarnation of progressivism and identitarianism didn't build the slums and the poverty and the suffering. Cancel culture wasn't a thing during the Rodney King riots. You can't be naive enough to ask an entire nation not to Notice that people of one skin color are overwhelmingly worse off, and it doesn't even matter what the cause is. People take that information in the direction they prefer.
I live in one of these 3 cities. The slums were built by progressives. They more recently have abandoned the slum (more well known as public housing I think) project in favor of placing impoverished citizens in housing that they cannot afford alongside productive humans.
That has also failed. Section 8 is highly associated with crime.
The only thing that will work long term is aggressive law enforcement. Particularly death sentences quickly carried out.
anti_dan
7d ago
I was previously directed towards this article. I think it touches on a lot of correct issues, particularly the ability to file lawsuits for a place being too masculine, but not too feminine. However, I think as an overarching theory it seems to me to be at best half baked. I don't know why I feel that way, but I did when I first read it and still do on review.
anti_dan
8d ago
I am team: "This is different, and is still kinda bad."
My opinion is all these folks should exit public service, if they are in it, for 5 years or so, to mature. There are plenty of jobs at advertising agencies for Coca Cola, and THOSE companies should vigorously recruit these fellows because that is what they would do in a free market based on their comedic stylings and ability to understand the dark comedy of the modern youth.
Then in 5 years these bad jokes should be forgiven and they can do whatever.
This is, of course, a very high standard in comparison to the left, but it is what I prefer. Unfortunately, it also requires leftish cooperation because most ad places are run by the exact sort of people fake-outraged by this. So they kinda have to give up something to be reasonable.
anti_dan
8d ago
I do, at the end of the day the individual actors are responsible for themselves. The average non Nazi conservative is not a Nazi because some other conservatives who are not them are Nazis. Many conservatives have actively condemned the growing nazi problem even, I linked some in the post!
Have any of these people even been credibly accused of being Nazis as opposed to making jokes that offend people who are always on the lookout for Nazis? Its not a joke for me to assert that I have been hearing warning about the "growing influence of Nazism on the right" since I was in 4th grade, and likely the only reason I dont remember hearing about it before then is because I was not listening. To quote the personality who helped found this forum in his better days, "You are still crying wolf"
This also isn't, by contrast, people openly calling for Nazism, nor is it high level politicians calling for political violence, or materially supporting it. It is basically an assortment of group chats by low level people. So we are trying to match like for like, when in reality we are matching pawns with queens.
anti_dan
8d ago
Aziz Ansari was always a confusing pelt on the MeToo wall. Firstly, is he even good? I haven't been entertained by him in a long time, if ever. His Parks and Rec character was easily one of the blandest and most boring on a decent but not great show. What else is even his claim to fame? Next his creepy thing was just kinda odd IIRC, but I never really dove into it, him being quite irrelevant to me at the time.
Perhaps someone who was once an Ansari fan can enlighten us as to what we have lost without him for a few years?
Your confusion is easily solved by understanding basic jew hatred.
Jew hatred appears to exist all over the place.
I dont see why aside from general dislike of people who are kinda progressive and kinda lame anyone would dislike Jews for a reason other than their Jewishness.
But the progressive and lame countries also hate them. This is telling because they should otherwise be lovers of the Jews.
So generally the problem is obviously Jewishness.
These opinions also undermine Israel.
They also bolster Islam, which hates Jews, but tries to frame it as hate of Israel instead.
So it appears all nonsense to me.
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