miras_chinotto
certified low iq
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miras_chinotto
certified low iq
3d ago
Thanks I was really confused why it was linking to a deleted reddit comment or whatever.
miras_chinotto
certified low iq
5d ago
Can you double check your link?
miras_chinotto
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11d ago
If terrorism is your objective, a guaranteed kill isn't really necessary. A drone can probably carry enough of a highly flammable liquid or powder and cause severe burns or death and in many ways that's the stronger signal. It would however result in a lot less of a folk hero image though.
miras_chinotto
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1mo ago
Qatar kicks out Hamas leaders
This point isn't accurate. It's based on anonymous US state department officials and has been denied by Qatar. Qatar has said that they think both parties are negotiating in bad faith and that they are no longer willing to be mediators for that kind of dialogue. What that actually means for Hamas' polticial office in Qatar is unclear, but it certainly isn't "Qatar is in awe of Trump so they're kicking Hamas out."
Can someone put together an actual timeline of events here? It is proving very difficult to determine from the articles I've read. Those critical of the maccabi depend on them doing genocidal chants, vandalism, and low level violence prior to the game. Those staunchly on the other side are relying heavily on this being "preplanned" but the only pre planned attack evidence seems to be some messages on social media that they were sent the same day as the attacks? So presumably after the prior maccabi provocation? It's not clear to me.
Obviously mob violence is not justified by chants and vandalism, but if you fly into some other city and stir things up, it's not a pogrom or fitting with a "Europe has an antisemitism problem" when psycho locals escalate. This story seems hopelessly distorted in the news coverage.
miras_chinotto
certified low iq
1mo ago
Asking mid-low functioning people to plot to do bad thing and then arresting them for it is absolutely the FBI MO (see also kidnapping Whitmer). I wouldn't be surprised especially since we don't have much information about this guy that would explain why he's the go-to guy for the IRGC (he seems low level, arrested for robbery at one point even).
miras_chinotto
certified low iq
1mo ago
The truth is in the middle here. There doesn't actually appear to be any real plot or attempt to kill Trump (the IRGC asked some guy to come up with one, he got two other dudes on board, but apparently never actually came up with a plan) and the FBI has made it abundantly clear they are willing to manipulate Americans to achieve policy aims so the explosiveness and timing and strong push on social media to escalate certainly does appear to be intended to manipulate public sentiment IMHO. But Iran certainly does have incentive to do so after Trump made the wildly escalatory move of having Soleimani killed, so it's not like it's unexpected to anyone that they would try and that people seem to have forgotten this shows how insulated and arrogant many Americans are when it comes to IR.
Absolutely agreed on the power of the sticker. And it's awesome how local businesses are getting into it and giving freebies and discounts for people wearing one. It's like a remaining vestige of civic pride and community involvement.
miras_chinotto
certified low iq
2mo ago
Wow. He seems more aged/old than he comes across elsewhere but also somehow sharper and in better physical condition than I expected. A 50 minute Trump Biden golf trip video (alluding to their golf banter) would have actually been very cool and hunanzing for everyone I think.
miras_chinotto
certified low iq
2mo ago
Cities can spill over into multiple counties and judicial districts can be quite small. A ballot for Townsville city council district 123 but also justice of the peace for place XYZ and school board members for ABCISD and a county road maintenance bond for a county that only 10% of the city crosses into can be a very, very small intersection of people. But otherwise I do agree with you, the actual ballot is secret which is largely good enough and really it wouldn't take much effort otherwise to guess which way a given voter voted based on precinct counts, demographics, and party registration/donation.
Well yeah, but if I were a longshoreman, I would rather my Amazon order be $5 more than have no job. Minimizing costs for businesses is not an end on an of itself. From the perspective of the longshoreman, trying to automate away their jobs is defecting and its obvious they would want to punish this behavior.
miras_chinotto
certified low iq
2mo ago
I mean, good for them. We should all be so fortunate. When software engineers are begging for scraps on the streets, the longshoremen will truly be kings among men. When the social contract (referring to pro-social business norms) cannot keep your family fed, people will resort to other means.
miras_chinotto
certified low iq
2mo ago
An additional reason is that wokism and such has to this point "won" the culture war. Marxists are not the only ideologs who seek to take credit for social justice as a successor movement to liberalism, you see this with Christians (particularly in some denominations such as Methodists), capitalists (there's decades of writing about how responsible capitalism requires this sort of thing culminating in ESG), and especially neoliberals. It's natural that older, more dysfunctional intellectual traditions would try to extend claims over their successor movements.
miras_chinotto
certified low iq
3mo ago
That would be pretty much the entire hourly construction workforce actually. In that industry, abundant overtime hours is a selling point.
miras_chinotto
certified low iq
3mo ago
The value of such experiences that are tied deep into our biology shouldn't be flippantly discarded.
This describes an attitude that comes up in the conversations well. It's like an anti-naturalistic fallacy. Just because it is in our nature to pair bond and such doesn't mean those bonds are any less real or meaningful.
miras_chinotto
certified low iq
3mo ago
Can you elaborate on what friction there is to voting where you are? I am in Texas and I find it ridiculously easy and painless to vote here.
miras_chinotto
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3mo ago
They are absolutely angling for an "I'm speaking" moment. Same thing with Biden's "will you be quiet" moment that received extensive and fawning media repetition.
miras_chinotto
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4mo ago
Maybe the spectacle was the point. By tapping out in such a manner (i.e. one that allows an easily disseminated 10 second gif) it draws so much more attention. Consider that this might be strategic by a woman who has skin in the game both literally and in the sense that a man is probably going to medal in a woman's sport. Or maybe she straight up simply feared for her own safety.
Taking this and maligning women athletes is uncharitable and silly.
miras_chinotto
certified low iq
4mo ago
Too extreme an assumption. It could simply be "don't have sex unless probability of a child is acceptable to you."
miras_chinotto
certified low iq
4mo ago
This matches my impression. Where is all this JD Vance criticism coming from? The neocon types and the Democrats. Why exactly is this a drag on Trump when these are the people who would be criticizing virtually anyone he had picked?
miras_chinotto
certified low iq
4mo ago
I don't think I am cynical enough to think Israel would false-flag themselves, but I may be cynical enough to think they would false-flag some non-Jewish civilians in an occupied territory who refuse Israeli citizenship and still consider Syria their authority.
miras_chinotto
certified low iq
4mo ago
Surely they aren't literally exploding?
miras_chinotto
certified low iq
4mo ago
Scrutiny of this kind is probably best left as a local matter rather than coopted as a national political strategy.
miras_chinotto
certified low iq
4mo ago
I hope he responds with a really off the wall interpretation like how the schisms among high IQ subsets of Europeans over theological quibbles turned into bloodshed resulting in a eugenic selection for intellectual disagreeableness.
It would be very exciting and cool for this to be ayys, but each of the videos I've seen ends up looking either like a regular drone, a commercial airliner, or something else that happens to have FAA red-green lighting (which wouldn't make sense for a military stealth drone experiment or for alien aircraft).
So yes, I think you're right. We are seeing mass hysteria possibly coupled with people just not having taken the time before to notice just how many flying objects are actually in your typical American night sky. And really, I can relate to this (at the risk of typical minding I suppose) because over the last year, my toddler has become obsessed with planes and seeing them at night so I didn't have any idea myself how active and busy aircraft are at night until we started watching them all the time.
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