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3d ago
I notice that there's a line on the Contact Us page reading:
"If you can see this line, we haven't been contacted by any law enforcement or governmental organizations in 2023 yet."
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5d ago
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Look at which way the "in doubt" seats are leaning. Labour'll be in the 90s. And 1996's Coalition seats are not by themselves a good measure of how devastating this is, because the crossbench was much smaller then - Labour still won 49 seats in 1996, while the Coalition is currently looking at low 40s. The last left-wing blowout this big was, uh, 1943, and that one was the one that killed the original UAP and birthed the Liberals (the last right-wing blowout this big was 1975, after Whitlam pulled enough shenanigans to earn himself a Monarch Interrupt).
I will note that the ABC people talking about how Dutton lost by focusing on culture wars amounts to basically code/false-consciousness for "we've got a lock on the culture wars in Australia; defy SJ and you lose". I'm not sure that's true, though; the Voice referendum proved that SJ does not have a full lock. The really-nasty part is that Western anti-SJ has a voice, and a face, and a name - Donald Trump - and he's utter poison in the Australian electorate because the Borderer culture that props up Trumpism is alien to Australia and Trump himself is obviously not very good at governance (or very friendly to Australia).
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5d ago
Yeah, the Liberals have been annihilated. And it has almost entirely been the Liberals; the Nationals lost I think one seat compared to last election (specifically, after Andrew Gee defected from the party mid-term and became an independent, they failed to take it back from him). Meanwhile, the Liberals have lost most of their heartland and while they still do have more seats than the Nats, a lot of those seats are ones that are actually significantly rural/regional but just have the Liberals there for some reason (e.g. they're in SA/WA, where the Nationals aren't really a thing).
A lot of this is blowback from Trump, obviously, and thus not really permanent, but in some regards it looks like the most plausible Coalition path back to power involves Sydney/Melbourne/Perth being arbitrarily erased from the cosmic whiteboard.
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6d ago
Of course aislop grifters should be fedposted just like indian call center scammers, but sometimes I can't help but feel like the victims deserved it. But when they bother me waste 5 seconds of my time again, I am right back in fedposting mode.
Dude, just say they should be executed and/or assassinated by crack teams of commandoes. That dodges the "zomg terrorist" problem.
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6d ago
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We're largely missing the Borderers, and so they're culturally alien to us (so are American Descendants of Slaves, but for various reasons including good PR and relative invisibility there's less friction there).
We also have a much-weaker two-party system, so instead of being a faction with some amount of influence in our major right-wing parties, the alt-right has its own party (well, technically two parties, One Nation and the Clive Palmer Party the United Australia Party Trumpet of Patriots, but the latter is a bad joke). There's no cordon sanitaire in Australia (there was one, like 25 years ago, but it fell apart); the Coalition (the neoliberal Liberals and rural-conservative Nationals) put One Nation above anybody besides themselves on their how-to-vote cards and they're willing to work with One Nation when they have to. But because One Nation's primary vote is quite a bit lower than that of the Coalition and they're not unusually-concentrated like the (hippie/SJ) Greens voters, they have no lower-house seats (though they do manage a few Senate seats, as the Senate is pseudo-proportional representation), so the Coalition mostly haven't had to (or have been impotent even with them).
And yeah, as the others have mentioned there's a bit of an issue that Trump wasn't being all that friendly to Australia. Friendly fire isn't, and all that.
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9d ago
I think I agree with 2/5, think 1/5 is the ideal but tricky to actually implement, and actually disagree with 2/5 (though not fully in either case).
The one that's tricky is inquisitors; the problem is setting up a highly-trustworthy and highly-politically-neutral oversight body to make sure that inquisitors don't, y'know, get captured by the party in power and lock up the opposition. The difficulty of this is the motivation for jury trials, although this purpose has been largely vitiated by various schemes on the part of the government and legal apparatus (there's a whole battery of ways that judges and lawyers cut down on nullification, ranging from strikes to barring mentions to jury instructions).
The ones I disagree with are guns (I think it's wired into the male brain to like weapons; I think US gun culture is maybe a step too far, and I think handguns are a worse value proposition than all other small arms and even a lot of higher-end stuff, but I do generally support the ability of random interested people to be able to hunt game or shoot targets for its own sake) and the executions (I'm mostly on board with the Galactic Milieu policy where, upon sufficiently demonstrating that you're irredeemable, you get a choice of life without parole/["death of personality" if available]/execution, as I'm generally on team "prevention and deterrence" rather than "punishment and deterrence"; definitely prefer bullet to the head over lethal injection as method, though).
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9d ago
the headsman's blade
It'd be at least a second or two before the brain deoxygenated enough to cause unconsciousness, surely? I was with you up until that point.
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9d ago
Asides from stupid teenagers, I'd wager that ~everyone who frequents those sites to see anything more graphic than bodycam footage are somehow mentally disturbed.
I will note that in the EEA everyone was basically fine with gore. It's the modern, intermediated society where the vast majority of people don't have to kill animals that is unnatural.
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10d ago
And specifically stated as such by the people who coined all these terms.
Mind if I ask your source? I'm certainly well aware of SJ's extraordinary capacity for deliberate meme warfare; I would just appreciate receipts on this particular one.
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10d ago
Somebody who posted "the year is 2025 and we're unironically X" as a one-liner would almost certainly get modded regardless of the political valence of X.
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11d ago
Well, the guards did get caught, just not fully.
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12d ago
Is it "insanely illegal"? Remember that in the suicide hypothesis, sabotaging the monitoring isn't murder conspiracy with its fuckoff-huge sentence. They skated with no time, and even if they'd gotten caught red-handed my wild guess is that they'd have served under 2 years.
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12d ago
Did you read the link?
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12d ago
Furthermore, Epstein committing 'suicide' in the anti-suicide ward while the cameras were conveniently switched off is clear proof of some kind of paedophile-sex ring deeply embedded in the US government. The Q people were directionally correct.
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13d ago
@WhiningCoil this comment is a reply to a mod-hat comment by Amadan giving you a warning. You deserve the opportunity to read it.
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13d ago
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Daniel Kokotajlo and the rest of the AI 2027 team are doing an AMA right now on ACX, in case any of you want to ask something. Ends half an hour from now.
NB: If you just want to yell "you're wrong" I'd recommend saying that at another time; the questions are coming in fast so I'm not sure they'll be able to answer everything.
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13d ago
I wouldn't consider it so. Also, my read on Steve is that he's not even trying to bait a response, just lash out at people he gets mad at. Could you maybe link me some examples of Steve trying to bait people?
@SteveAgain, to be clear, I don't actually hate you. I see too much of myself in you to hate you. With that said, "you must learn control". I'd suggest putting some kind of spacer into your post routine so that you have time to calm down before a post goes live, because it's specifically your angry snarling at people that's causing the problems.
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13d ago
Saya no Uta takes about 3 hours or so to read. Maybe more if you're a slower reader than I am, although probably not by much given the whole "voiced" thing.
I haven't played the versions with the sex scenes stripped out, but I'm not sure if they're fit for purpose; the sex scenes contain a large amount of character development and even a significant amount of the plot. I'd recommend a version with them left in if you're going to play at all. Related to this, it's a horror VN, and it needs a warning for actually being horrifying - I was 20 when I played it and I had a "wake up screaming" nightmare, although it's still #3 or #4 on my list of "best VNs" (I've played slightly over 50).
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14d ago
After all these sorts of comments you make are obvious trolling.
Um, no they're not. Trolling is deceptive posting in order to bait a response; Steve clearly does think that netstack's action was "a joke". I do not get "troll" vibes from him in general; he appears to be a sincere, very angry, very radical rightist.
Steve is a frequent flamer (i.e. someone who insults others). That is itself against the rules, but it's not the same thing as trolling.
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14d ago
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Is that a valid way to test your theory?
1994 is prior to SJ nucleation; I'd expect conservative names.
I do want to specify that SJ progressives are frequently six-foundationers who would prior to the 90s have become conservatives, and that I do think this has a lot to do with why SJ despises paedophiles. But that's innate traits that are largely genetic or from birth order, so this wouldn't go away if actual conservatives ceased to exist.
Also, I'm not sure if you missed my edit earlier, but I'm for the most part an unreconstructed 90s liberal; I actually am mostly on the pro-paedo, AoC-is-too-damned-high side of this issue, and I've been censured for this in SJ spaces.
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14d ago
Ah, now I understand better.
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14d ago
News editing just sucks. I think the idea is that nobody wants to read a news article with a bunch of legal citations, so we end up with headlines like “Elon Musk’s DOGE Delt Legal Blow by Federal Judge”, when the substantive legal issue is that their motion to change venue was denied.
There is an alternative, more cynical explanation, which is that news sites do not link to their sources out of fear that they'd then be competing for their readers with those sources.
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14d ago
Could you elucidate? I'm lost.
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14d ago
They involve teenage girls as well.
Remember that I'm talking about an "ick" from teenage girls, not an "ick" on behalf of teenage girls. It's not like mastectomies are being forced on unwilling teenage girls, after all, just given to willing teenage girls who are plausibly making bad decisions (and who do not themselves believe they are making bad decisions).
Was the pushback against pedo acceptance even driven by leftist normies, or was it a result of conservatives being stronger and better organized?
From my memories of SJ spaces, and from the way SJ works*, I feel extremely confident in saying it's the former.
*One of the most poisonous parts of SJ is that it considers those outside the movement to be hopelessly mired in false consciousness and thus incapable of having anything to contribute; this is exactly why it's so intransigent in the face of external opposition. As such, you don't see conservative ideas getting adopted by SJ; it kinda has to be independently rediscovered within the walled garden in order to be accepted there.
Change is dangerous, but the relevant part of the change has already happened and can't be undone. As Nietzsche said, "God is dead". Now the only choice is how to replace Him.
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