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1mo ago
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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1mo ago
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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1mo 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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1mo 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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1mo 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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1mo 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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1mo 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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2mo 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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2mo 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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2mo ago
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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2mo ago
And his alternate universe name was Ricky.
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2mo 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.
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2mo ago
Europe fails to assimilate, yes, but there's also major selection effect due to the Atlantic. Most American Muslims (ie, non-refugees) are heavily selected for wealth, education, and other liberal tendencies.
That said, the first and possibly only Muslim-majority city in the US rather famously banned pride flags on government property. The liberalism of American Muslims may be overstated and contingent.
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2mo ago
creating or funding thinktanks and NGOs across Europe and the US
The Confucius Institutes were an early version of this, but they all closed. They'd have to be more circumspect a second time around.
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2mo ago
What does this mean?
This interview clip from Gwen Walz has been making the rounds, including this weird quote
I could smell the burning tires…I kept the windows open as long as I could because I felt like that was such a touchstone of what was happening.
Back to you-
Which coincidentally are also features of the US flag
The Somali flag complaint is overblown, but the new MN flag is a lot closer to this, this, this, Texas, or Djibouti, than to the stars and stripes.
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2mo ago
C.f. Scott here. A policy that says “just hit them until they are ready to work” is missing all the important bits.
Terrible essay. "If your plan doesn't have every single detail that will cover every single situation, in ways that pie-in-the-sky Bay Arean progressives will find acceptable, stop complaining and accept the status quo" is one of the precursor steps in that adage about "If liberals insist that only fascists will [do something], then voters will hire fascists to do the job liberals refuse to do."
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3mo ago
“Men are more free when the leader of the free world supports access to birth control,” said Buttigieg, a sentiment I read as extending the olive branch toward Barstool listeners.
Would've been too on the nose to have anyone else saying that, wouldn't it?
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3mo ago
there is a greater consensus that Black people have enough shared experiences that their identity should be recognized. As it stands right now, the same cannot be said for white people.
A bit tautological- marking white people as "the group without an identity" does give them an identity and a mass of shared experience. One defined almost wholly in negative ways and a requirement for higher standards of evidence, but still.
Do you have any evidence to suggest they were "trained Marxists"?
That's probably a reference, maybe indirectly, to Patrisse Cullors, the infamous BLM leader that bought 4 houses with the money donated to BLM.
If you're asking if CRT is descended from Marxism, or most PhDs in CRT have also dabbled in Marxism, I feel comfortable saying yes but providing sufficient evidence for that is a sizable project. Short version is CRT is descended from critical theory, which was developed by the Frankfurt School, (broadly) a descendent of Marxist thought attempting a synthesis without the failures of Marxism-Leninism.
If you're asking about the AP style guide specifically, I don't think anyone outside the AP can answer that.
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3mo ago
First, thank you for participating here as a self-identified progressive. Good luck, hope you enjoy your time.
It would appear that this decision made by the AP wasn't just something they decided out-of-the-blue.
It's very easy to rewrite the AP's style decision as incredibly anti-black racist without actually changing its reasoning: "After a period of review, we found that white people are just too diverse to comprehend as a single group. Black people, on the other hand, are basically all the same no matter where they're from or what their culture is. They are defined primarily by their melanin and whether or not white people (an undefined group) have been racist against them."
It's wildly racist against basically everyone, and manages to center white people in the process of of supposedly supporting black people. It's blatantly absurd and narcissistic.
When arguments are made in favor of Black for the group also known as Americans Descendants of Slavery, as a culturally-distinct group from African-Americans being either new immigrants or those with recently immigrated ancestry, that makes sense. On similar grounds White could make sense as a term for us pan-European mutts with no connection to ancestral lands. Personally, I'd prefer both groups just be "American," but the powers that be don't seem too happy with that. But Black as a term that spans from an American whose ancestors were forced here 300 years ago, and somebody like Mswati III? Balderdash.
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3mo ago
I am a techie, I do software. I've recently thought that well, given my concerns, maybe I should go work in law enforcement. I think that at this point I am probably too old to become a cop, but I could probably provide useful services in other ways.
Probably >90% of police and adjacent agencies in the country are in desperate need of IT and programmers for various projects that may help. The problem is, of course, the pay is absolute dregs compared to what you'll make anywhere else. If you're comfortably wealthy and can treat the pay as a nice bonus that covers your insurance, might be an option?
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3mo ago
Does it reflect an actual acceptance of identitarianism? Not so much.
There are very few groups more accepting of identitarianism than white progressives, and all the others are shunned from nearly all mainstream spaces (the remainder, like Banania, should be but are not, because the universe is fickle). They primarily approve of it for others, but they definitely approve of it.
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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