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1mo ago
And the notion that because he's gay, he doesn't care about anything is ridiculous
The better argument IMO is that psychedelic use (which he's admitted to, perhaps multiple times?) can absolutely fry certain important parts of your brain, including things like risk aversion. Especially if he started with a less-than-healthy amount of risk aversion.
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1mo ago
Absence of evidence is, in fact, evidence of absence.
Absence of evidence is evidence of absence when qualified, competent people make good-faith efforts and are met with good-faith assistance. It may be too cynical but I think any investigation into the 2020 election fails every qualifier: the investigators were not competent nor good-faith, and they would be met with resistance at every possible step anyways.
To be slightly conspiratorial, I'll throat-clear saying the 2020 election was not stolen (though whatever propagandist came up with "most secure election ever" should've been fired and sent to Siberia), but I think there is an awareness that it is not really in anyone's best interest to find that evidence even if it exists (which it almost certainly doesn't). As much as Trace has come to be a disappointment, he's not wrong that right-wing media is even more disappointing and doesn't really care to find evidence (that in this case doesn't exist) so much as grift from the idea of it.
I also don’t think Democrats are categorically against security measures.
Is there any good reason ballot harvesting shouldn't be banned and treated as a grave offense against the private ballot and the democratic process?
For a few additional comments, a now-deleted account that reported (positively) on performing ballot harvesting in California back at the old abode, a few of my reasons why ballot harvesting is so open to abuse yet wouldn't get reported, and some other guy you might recognize makes offers on what to trade for banning ballot harvesting.
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1mo ago
**An alternative interpretation is that Silver is engaging in Hidden Power Levels, utilizing what is largely ripped from Yarvin or SA, but not acknowledging their influence to avoid being stoned by association with them.
Entirely possible, even likely, but don't underestimate the likelihood that it's a branding exercise. You've got to make the idea your own to sell a book on it. Good artists borrow, great artists steal, as the saying goes.
Yascha Mounk and Wesley Yang come to mind too. The local memory banks, superior in recall to my own, can probably come up with a half or full dozen more.
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1mo ago
Guess I'm still in that 90s mindset where watching anime other than Dragonball Z or Sailor Moon marks you as weird, and reading manga marks you as unacceptably weird and probably not very hygienic. My perception of youth culture has not kept up enough with just how mainstream manga is.
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1mo ago
my local Barnes and Noble (I live in a 65% Biden voting area in a purple metro in a purple state, for what that's worth... very Karen territory)... That entire store at this point gives off serious anti-straight-male vibes
My local B&N is also in a ~65% Biden area, blueish-purple metro in a purple state, at a declining suburban mall with a majority-minority attendance and I tend to be a little surprised at how... normal it is? Like exceedingly well-balanced, here's the rack of Biden books and here's the rack of Trump books, here's the Christian section and here's the astrology section, etc. The staff pick notes lean more Internet Progressive or Karen-y, but less so than some of the libraries. Also the manga section keeps growing. I'm not surprised that American comics seem less popular than ever, but I am a little surprised at the manga growth.
The indie bookstores in the wildly more expensive and whiter neighborhoods, those are the ones that exude "you do not belong here."
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2mo ago
It’s not hard to see where this would go in the absence of constraints.
Nationwide riots and a guy getting burned to death in his shop? A neighborhood declaring itself an independent territory, resulting in several unsolved murders?
My goodness, we can imagine almost anything could happen at all!
Edit: 'Pet discourse' is incredibly stupid. Vagueing about where it might go in the absence of constraints is only somewhat less so, since anything happening requires much more than mere absence of constraints.
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2mo ago
The game isn't fair and the points are made up. When you have to be twice as good to get half as far, a lot hinges on that "twice as good" bit.
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2mo ago
I don't see any concerted push by conservatives to bring back Prohibition, but yet when it comes to cannabis legalization, they immediately push back.
Non-overlapping social spheres contributes to this IMO. Functional weed users may be more common than they used to be, but I would be many perhaps most conservatives have never met a truly functional weed user of the sort that's going to be somewhat overrepresented among rationalists. The people they know that use weed are the grungy ones that stink to high heaven even at the grocery store or the neighbor's failson, nice kid but never really grew up and can't keep a job.
On the alcohol side, they know functional alcohol users because they are functional alcohol users, and most civilizations have been alcohol-civilizations for thousands of years.
Also the common trait that users on both sides underrate the risks and overestimate the benefits of their preferred intoxicants, same as any policy or preference.
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2mo ago
So goes the Trace of today; the Trace of yesteryear that we appreciated has been lost to the sands of time.
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And it's been a dead letter for 60 years. Sadly we did not have Switzerland's foresight to allow people to deny citizenship to their literal neighbors.
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I'm quite sure the ole' American assimilation process (which continues largely the same way it always has despite protests to the contrary)
Prior to the last few decades, assimilation resistance came from the minority.
Now it comes from the majority (or whatever we want to call the media blob that approximates the "majority" opinion regardless of what most people actually want), which is why people expect the process to not function like it did prior to Western liberalism's suicidal turn.
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2mo ago
because they're more likely to show up to do the job and not fail a drug test than the righteous pure American's currently living there.
Are you going to campaign on some Mega-Singapore ticket to remove birthright citizenship and deport anyone that fails a drug test? I could be convinced pretty easily.
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2mo ago
In my state getting a hunting/fishing license for $1 is a low-income benefit that's available and seems to be popular, so the idea of people ignoring the middleman because they don't expect any enforcement does not strike me as inherently absurd.
Reminds me of a story from a former coworker, who grew up eating the "free chicken" at the store. It wasn't until she started shopping on her own she realized what was actually happening was her dad picked up a rotisserie chicken, family ate it while shopping, and disposed of the rest before checkout. The store workers were apparently too polite to complain.
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2mo ago
It was front-page news when it was found, and now it's (local, mostly) front-page news again. Suppression ensured there would be at least two front-page events instead of one.
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2mo ago
Grief does not generally lead people to wisdom, definitely not in the short-term, but I think it would be pretty obvious that suppressing the document would ensure that it gained more attention and extending the misery. If they'd just let the stupid thing be released, people would've stopped caring ages ago.
The only way to prevent the "CW jerkoff game" that would be a full media blackout starting at the same time as the shooting. Once you're thrust into the public eye, you no longer have any ability to stop that, and anything you do in public regarding the tragedy ultimately plays to one side or the other.
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2mo ago
this is broadly equivalent to Rachel Maddow or Anderson Cooper giving a softball interview to someone who says that Mao and Stalin were misunderstood heroes.
Looks at current, and several decades of, university protests, and the underlaying foundations thereof
And that would be surprising how? Stalin, Mao, the infamous Che tshirts- they are treated as, if not heroes per se, then respectable among a certain crowd in which Churchill is not. This has long been a source of disgust and confusion for me. I would fully expect either of them to behave much the same way as Tucker has here in that parallel situation.
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2mo ago
Considering there's several ongoing court cases because so many prominent universities did... checks notes... fuck-all about the protests, "crushed" goes beyond exaggeration into outright fiction.
Had they been "crushed," they wouldn't have lasted more than a day, nor would they be resuming like they are at University of Michigan.
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2mo ago
my dad tears up a lot as he's gotten older, actually, and it makes me very uncomfortable
Has he had heart surgery? Don't know if it's been studied but family legend from doctors, nurses, and patients is that heart surgery has significant effects on making people, especially men, more openly emotional. Not just a "brush with death" effect, other surgeries and close calls don't seem to do it.
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2mo ago
I'm hard-pressed to present the question over at The Schism in a way that wouldn't come across as trolling
The bigger question IMO would be is there anyone still there willing and interested to give a useful answer?
For local-culture reasons, the example given at Blocked and Reported's subreddit was that the Title IX injunction did not become a major topic of the DNC. I don't find it a particularly satisfying answer, but that was slightly surprising.
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3mo ago
people don't know what DEI really is or just not believe polling
California of all places voting against affirmative action comes to mind. People like things that sound nice, people do not like the reality behind the mask.
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3mo ago
argument that is explicitly disproven by these incidents - integration is possible
There's also the issue that 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants frequently have worse outcomes and lower integration.
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Not that Axel is an immigrant, of course. He was born on the magic soil of the UK
Reminds me of a tweet to the effect of "He's Welsh, but I'm still on stolen land after hundreds of years? How does that work?"
Anyways, pleasantly surprised the councilor was arrested.
beyond maybe bankrupting a handful of Taylor Swift event ticket scalpers in the near future.
A tinfoil hat large enough to cover Everest take: Extreme guerilla marketing to reduce the popularity of her concerts.
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3mo ago
And his alternate universe name was Ricky.
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3mo ago
both parties internal projections show limiting immigration prevents economic growth
Those projections showing that immigration would benefit economic growth have played out so well, haven't they? I guess economists can still appeal to "but imagine how much worse it would be," but I can't imagine that's a winner either.
Reminds me of a popcorn-scifi novel Nano, by John Marlow in which the greater Bay Area gets vaporized by space lasers to stave off a grey goo apocalypse. Always kinda felt having an excuse to vaporize the Bay was part of the desire behind the plot.
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