functor
3mo ago
One presidential candidate got shot.
The other one went AWOL and is tweeting that he is no longer running.
functor
4mo ago
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Kamala is more outgoing and forward than Asian people. The most important trait to reach the political and media elite is to have the personality of a narcissistic car salesmen. Asians are a bit too timid and not outgoing enough.
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Indians like to fight internally but whenever they go abroad they seem to hold together much better. Even Indians and Pakistanis seem to be great friends as soon as they leave their home region. Asians don't have the same level of Asian cohesion.
functor
4mo ago
Probably highly unlikely. I have worked on mission critical software. While it wasn't automotive it was in a similar field. The code I wrote took six months to reach production. At that company we wrote maybe 5% as many lines of code per work week compared to a normal company. There was also extensive testing.
There may be individual events that happen. Mass brickings are unlikely.
functor
4mo ago
While it might not be a good signifier of wealth it does really impact your appearance. Well fitting clothes, better materials and wearing something nicer than a t-shirt can easily add two points on a scale from 1-10. Attractive people are more popular, are perceived as smarter and more moral, have better chances at attracting and retaining a mate and are more financially successful.
functor
4mo ago
The left wins by shutting down the right. It is almost impossible to have right wing demonstrations without riots. People are afraid to attend debates. Doxing makes it far more difficult to recruit to political organisations.
functor
4mo ago
The left wins because they are much more fervent than the right which pushes the tail end of the left into a level of fervent than causes terrorism. Antifa and assassinations are examples of this. I am not necessarily saying assassinations would work for the right but the right needs to become more radicalized in their beliefs and not just want to grill if they want to win.
functor
4mo ago
Is it though, nerds throughout history are nearly all men. Pretty much all major scientific discoveries were made by men. Technology has been dominated by men. Nerdy occupations have some of the highest over-representations of men.
It is a different male archetype than the chad but it is hardly one that isn't male.
functor
4mo ago
If Israel's enemies weren't also the enemies of the West and free civilization more broadly
They aren't. Palestinians are fighting to stay where their great grandparents lived. Assad fights to keep Syria together. Israel fights to cause a mega-refugee crisis on Europe's doorstep. AIPAC and ADL want to open the borders to the west and ban right wingers off twitter. Israel financed jihadists in Syria while bombing the country. Meanwhile, israAID was shipping migrants to Europe.
We heard similar arguments for invading Iraq. The result was a giant refugee crisis, a spike in islamism and a disaster for local christians. Israel is not the anti-islam option, it is the pro Islam option.
functor
4mo ago
It seems like people in the field are more likely to be a bit all over the place. There are more people doing things far out of the mainstream in every direction.
As for the trans thing I find it perplexing as the typical developer especially in the nerdier fields is far from being feminine. Even the ones who are trans aren't very feminine. Stick a transgender haskell developer in with at a Taylor Swift concert and he will really stand out. Much of the femininity is missing from them. They aren't talking with their friends for four hours about nothing, they don't really love kids, they don't really have feminine habits. Developers tend to speak in bullet points rather than the free flowing emotional output that women speak in.
Mathematics/CS is hyper masculine. It is purely logical, incredibly concise, black and white and doesn't care about your feelings. It is for somewhat unempathic types who answer the question "do you like my shirt" honestly. They aren't very girly. I find the autist to trans pipeline to be truly perplexing as autism is linked to high prenatal testosterone and is in many ways a hyper masculinized brain.
My guess is that they don't fit in with the bros and are desperately searching for an identity while needing attention.
functor
4mo ago
A substantial minority of the French threw a far right tantrum in the EU elections and they are going to be punished for it with total government deadlock
Good, don't catch a falling knife. The situation in France can't be fixed with democratic reforms and a society that focuses on feelings. The correct way to vote for right wingers in the west is to vote against the system. The most anti-system vote is voting for gridlocking the system. Vote to get lame duck presidents, impossible coalitions and endless palace intrigue.
The system has several systemic issues to deal with and the best way to fight the behemoth is to ensure that the system is too busy squalling among themselves to solve anything.
functor
4mo ago
Which is why we need to help them return and help the ones who are still there stay.
functor
4mo ago
Why would we support mass ethnic cleansing and a giant refugee crisis next to Europe?
They have every right to stay and it is best for the world if we don't get millions of refugees.
functor
4mo ago
(e.g. in parts of Paterson, NJ)
They managed to live there for over a millenia of muslim rule. A few decades with Jewish rule and they became refugees. Israel has been a disaster for the natural allies of Europeans in the middle east while creating a refugee crisis.
The Moorish Invasion,
Which the jews of Spain happily supported.
Palestinians and Mizrahi Jews.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizrahi_Jews_in_Israel
Abuout 45% of jews in Israel. Another 14% are Hasedic jews who aren't especially similar to Europeans culturally at all.
functor
4mo ago
And where would all the Christians in the holy land be?
Also that means millions of arab refugees a few hundred km from Europe.
functor
4mo ago
Well I can think of a few, the israelis are culturally much closer to the west than the palestinians
A lot of Palestinians are christians. Israelis on the other hand are a middle eastern group that is down right hostile group to European culture. There is no group that has had a more difficult time historically getting along with Europeans than jews and that includes Roma people. Genetically Palestinians and jews are similar. Both speak semetic languages, refuse to eat pork and circumcise boys. Unless they are Christian, in which case they are more similar to us. Jews are more ethnocentric and have a religion that doesn't see others as potential converts.
functor
4mo ago
Israel is the terrorist supporter. Israel has actively backed all sorts of jihadist in Syria as well as giving them air support.
Nor, in fact, the Australian Jewish community, which retains significant public sympathy.
Rather, a small loud and extremely vocal and ethnocentric minority lobbying for their ethnic interest.
brutal and horrifying Palestinian terror attack
Unlike Israels bombing of Gaza?
Israel was engaging in acts of war against Palestine and Hamas were well within their rights to attack military installations. If they are under blockade they are fully within their rights to attack installations imposing that blockade. Israel is engaging in genocide and there is not strong support for Israel in Australia.
functor
4mo ago
is practically designed to mislead. What the poll results say is that 35% say Australia should recognise an independent Palestine, 21% say it shouldn't, and 44% don't know.
So most voters don't care and don't have an interest in the issue. Those who do lean pro Palestine and there are few of their voters that are actually pro Israel. No reason to cause conflict over such an issue.
well, it's what I said just above about details - the question is the way in which that recognition can or should happen. In the SBS piece I linked about the Greens bill in May, the Assistant Foreign Minister says
Israel is a great threat to Palestine and the lack of a Palestinian state is a direct threat to the Palestinians. There is no reason except the donors to value Israel higher than Palestine.
- In the last year I've actually been particularly concerned by what seems like the importing of American-style activism over Israel/Palestine, with disturbing effects.
Israel is diversifying its support from the US and investing a lot more in lobbying in Europe and other places. They don't want to be dependent on one state. Unfortunately that is having an impact in other parts of the world when more politicians are going on paid trips to Israel and more Israeli lobbying money enters politics.
functor
4mo ago
The only reason why labour would be pro Israel is because of the incredible ethnic activism by jews. Historically, Australians have had little reason to care about Israel/Palestine while a rich, influential and rabid minority have been aggressively pushing their ethnic agenda. Israel is a lot less popular with the population at large than with politicians who get free trips to the wailing wall. Causing a conflict over an issue where only 21% of Australians support the parties position is not a smart move. Clearly their voters are more pro Palestine than the politicians swayed by the lobby.
functor
4mo ago
Eisenhower probably had a great deal of personal power over them. It has probably declined since then.
functor
4mo ago
The question is if they have given a dementia patient the nuclear codes. Either they have taken the nukes away from the president which means the president isn't actually in charge or a dementia patient is controlling the nukes. Both are bad options.
functor
4mo ago
The marriage of the woke left and military industrial complex is something few of us would have expected. The "Bush lied, people died", crowed demonstrating against the patriot act got turned into war hawks. Palestine is the one exception however it is exceedingly difficult to pin Hamas on Putin-bots. Assange should be a hero of the left who fought against the actual power structure, the surviellence state and the military industrial complex. Instead, the military industrial complex became the guardians of woke on a moral crusade against evil Putin. If the deepstate is running social media, that is considered good as the military industrial complex ensures that the woke values of the rand corporation.
In 2003 the media allowed for some criticism of the war in Iraq. Bagdad Bob was on TV. Today no journalist beside Tucker would ever interview a Russian. Those who don't support Lockhead Martin financed think tanks are equivalent to MAGA voters and transphobes.
Granted this is somewhat similar to what happened to the right during the Bush years. People who were nominally libertarian became supporters of spending trillions of dollars on wars with no real benefit while supporting measures that expanded state power to unprecedented levels. It will be interesting to see if the left has an equivalent realization to Iraq had no WMD.
functor
4mo ago
In the short term absolutely. The average age of ordination is 33 years old which means that for priests below the age of 47 social conservatism is the norm. The boomer liberals will continue to hold the high offices but these really liberal age groups are now well into their 60s. In 20 years the super conservative generations will be pusing 70 while the liberals will be dead. The next two decades are going to be tumultuous within the church.
functor
4mo ago
https://padreperegrino.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screen-Shot-2023-11-09-at-08.21.43.png
The Catholic church is going to lurch to the right. Well over 70% of Catholic priests ordained in the US during the past 14 years are conservative or very conservative/orthodox. The leftists priests were ordained in an era in which liberalism was accepted while gay men weren't accepted in society at large. Gay men became catholic priests yet weren't that interested in social conservatism. Few young gay men are using the church as their closet today.
The catholic church has a fair number of converts from protestant churches who want something more conservative. Liberals within the catholic church are more likely to leave and go to a faster moving church. The interesting clash is going to be between cultural catholics who are liberals at heart and converts to catholicism who aren't actually into the whole Jesus thing but watch Nick Fuentes and are purity signally their basedness.
functor
4mo ago
Everyone wants to be special and be more trendy than everyone else. Being truly intellectual or inventing something or being elite at sport is hard. It is easier to follow fashion. Just show how woke you are or buy the latest hype-beast merch to signal how superior you are to the normies. Learning the latest pronouns is easier and lower effort than other ways of showing elite status.
The issue is that the normies catch on and then the trend setters have to move to the next thing. When soccer moms like gay marriage the cool kids have to do trans. When the HR-lady at a saw mill is taking about trans the cool kids have to move on to something else. Eventually the trend goes too far. Big butts are nice on instagram so people get a bigger butt. Eventually the butts get too big so going bigger to beat the normies becomes nonsensical. At that point the cool kids have to find a new trend. Talking about LGBT is not a good way to signal how with it you are these days. Pride was pushed far as a new stripe could be added when the old flag was being used on discount crocks at dollar stores. Eventually there are too many stripes and the flag is no longer useful.
Also young people are struggling with dating. Inceldom is exploding and women are not having an easy time either. The sexual revolution did not benifit the masses. The sexual revolution benefited an elite of men and a handful of deviants. The number of incels and women angry at being pumped and dumped far outstrips the number of trans people and men sleeping with hundreds of women. If an ideology benefits a few but hurts the many its popularity will dwindle.
They are literally arming Israel on a massive scale and giving tens of billions in foreign aid to Israel while they are fighting an incredibly brutal war. The level of cucking required to satisfy jewish donors is just next level.
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