professorgerm
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professorgerm
clutching my imitation pearls
4hr ago
BLM was a largely serious reaction
lol it was a scam artist buffet and a free for all for violent morons.
they definitely took themselves too seriously, though.
professorgerm
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4hr ago
The difference is moot to the person (or group, etc) under attack by different members of the coalition, and this argument sets a bar that makes addressing an enemy coalition impossible. It's asymmetric concern.
MitigatedChaos memorably described it as the distributed hypocrisy of von Wokenstein's Monster though acknowledges it can be performed by any ideology.
Policy is not experienced in isolation from other policy made by the ruling coalition. It’s experienced all at once. Different policies combined together have different effects than the same policies in isolation.
So too am I reminded of this chart. Are they literally the same people saying white flight and gentrification are bad, that cultural appropriation and being chauvinistic are bad?
Well, probably, but who wants to waste the time collecting receipts on hateful people? Let's assume for the sake of argument they are separate people in a big-tent coalition.
That they're separate people doesn't matter to me! What matters is that [coalition] has no acceptable state of being for outsiders.
professorgerm
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1d ago
for all of his hard work
the hard work was the problem, here.
professorgerm
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1d ago
But what other levers do they hold?
Sic the CRS on him? Arrange for a boating accident?
Get him a quiet sinecure at some mid-tier university or NGO to disappear under fat stacks of cash?
professorgerm
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1d ago
"I enjoy having a distinct culture of my own" is hardly the same as being the Stepfords or actual aliens! These are not even in the same realm of degrees of uncharitability.
I didn't say it's not conformist, but neither did they! They accused conservatives of being fucking BRAINWASHED AUTOMATONS. Come on. This is absurd.
Also, progressives kick anyone out of their coalition that doesn't agree on like two topics. They are equally if not more conformist, just with funnier hair colors.
professorgerm
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2d ago
But is the problem here democracy?
Democracy as an Ideal Form, no. Democracy as it exists in the real world, yes.
It may be enough to figure out whatever the (democratic) places that manage to be quiet, clean, and safe do.
Not be large cities?
professorgerm
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3d ago
it only happened because Musk put his hands on the scale.
Ehh the honest and harmless parts are also the result of major, major hands on the scale of RLHFing for a very narrow definition of "harmless."
specifically does not extend the same consideration to the Whites.
Correct. Result bias is very strong on this topic.
professorgerm
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3d ago
"I want my neighbors to look and act like me" might mean automatons if you're egregiously uncharitable, but it's more likely to mean "I don't want the tyranny of the bottom decile, and actually I like a quiet neighborhood instead of morons blasting shitty music at 2AM."
People that don't want to walk clean streets in safety are just virtue signaling morons that deserve to be mugged, repeatedly, until they wise up and stop being doormats that make everyone's lives worse.
professorgerm
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3d ago
A big fraction of philanthropy is not concurrent with a big fraction of people complaining about USAID.
Perhaps I'm overindexing on personal encounters, but knowing a lot of Elon sucks, TDS, woo Mamdani types- none of them have changed their behavior beyond posting increasingly stupid instagram stories. I like the look when I ask if they're doing anything for Africa to replace USAID but I also don't want to abuse that; I know I'm a hot potato to be dropped.
professorgerm
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4d ago
Plus a timing issue that bridges between late-Trump 1 and Biden that due to COVID there was reduced focus/capacity for doing things like livestock monitoring, so you had both migrants and cattle herders moving into areas they shouldn't be.
professorgerm
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4d ago
Okay, give Kelsey Piper a pass.
99.99% of people complaining about USAID have not changed their behavior by so much as a single penny.
professorgerm
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4d ago
Some are more equal than others, around here.
professorgerm
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4d ago
As the saying goes, civilization is not a suicide pact.
War is bloody and awful, but it's honest. Letting your better principles be the knife used to bleed you dry is not.
professorgerm
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4d ago
Rawls is right up there near Rousseau on the list of Most Destructive Philosophers of History.
Of course, Rawls being downstream of Rousseau means the frog retains the top rank.
professorgerm
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4d ago
A US citizens who decides to emigrate to the Taliban, Belarus, North Korea, Saudi Arabia is arguably betraying the ideals on which the US is built.
Likewise, DSA candidates should all be convicted of treason.
Anyone loyal to the good ideals of the US can by necessity only be loyal to the US as it exists in reality if the US does a good job of upholding these ideals.
"Men did not love Rome because she was great; Rome was great because men loved her."
professorgerm
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4d ago
Unfortunately The Motte didn't exist back in 1920.
We probably talk about the R1b expansion an unusual amount relative to The Motte not exist 14Kish years ago either, though.
professorgerm
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4d ago
How is this any better, just because it's done behind closed doors?
TBF that is exactly the argument people make about much more important topics like jawboning, corruption versus fraud, etc. If you do it the right way (and let's be honest, with the correct letter behind your name), you can get away with anything.
professorgerm
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4d ago
Fair enough, Hanania is probably right about more than one thing.
professorgerm
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9d ago
there should be mass desire for movement somewhere if we're fucking something up in a significant way and we just don't see it
Where?
If you're already living on the golden goose, you have nowhere else to go. And while the goose is hardy, it is not invincible, and democratic systems are apparently helpless against the influx of ~infinite people that want to live on the goose until it suffocates and gets smeared into what a Pakistani bricklayer considers wealth.
There's gotta be some explanation for why no one can get things right and also be a country that people want to be in.
Easy, liberalism only really works when it believes in itself, and being at least a little bit arrogant about it. You have to retain the ability to say "I'll tolerate your backwards idiocy, but my culture is better."
Once people start to consider racism as a worse crime than rape and murder, because liberalism no longer seems capable of saying "fuck you my culture is better," you're coasting on the works of better men with real souls.
professorgerm
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9d ago
But if that's the case then the response is if you can't bother yourself with gathering real evidence then don't make allegations.
Leftists have never bothered gathering evidence for anything, they just shout people down. Much more effective and conveniently doesn't rely on reality!
But yeah Hanania's right about precisely one thing, and it's that the right is too lazy.
professorgerm
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9d ago
in a contrast to other groups historically, this seems more far more imposed from within the minority than from the majority.
professorgerm
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9d ago
John Alexander Adams
Nice.
That I don't want to suggests I don't really believe the vote is fake.
It is unfortunate the right lacks the left's organized supply of underemployed, politically-obsessed weirdos to do things like trawl through California's voter registration databases and hunt down every homeless person in the state to question them.
professorgerm
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9d ago
If a large fraction do resist and co-opt many natives, how else can they be deported?
Eyeballing the by-country numbers, something like 700K that people would probably want to deport. A bunch of Polish plumbers aren't generally the point of concern.
Except by a powerful and cold-hearted deportation force, which especially after the deportations are over, threatens the rest of Sweden's culture (which unrestricted immigration also threatens, but still, is there no middle solution?).
What of Sweden's culture is threatened by removing people that want to replace Swedish culture?
Approximately no Western country is interested in enforcing assimilation, which is the closest thing to a middle solution.
professorgerm
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10d ago
The gist of it is that right now, the ECHR considers (dubiously, but so it is) refoulment to be akin torture.
Which is an excellent argument in favor of colonialism, if the ECHR actually had principles other than slow suicide.
Just put a picoboot in a gamecube; i've been playing crazy taxi and star fox adventures. good nostalgic times.
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