netstack
Texas is freedom land
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netstack
Texas is freedom land
6hr ago
If such a shooting happens, that flip-flop is basically guaranteed. So is the corresponding flop-flip.
I don’t see why either would contradict Goodguy’s statement about prevalence.
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Texas is freedom land
7hr ago
Hey, I thought the point of ice bullets was that they didn’t leave evidence!
Maybe I shouldn’t joke about this. It’s tragic, and disturbing, and speaks to an increased temperature in the lunatic fringe. Nothing good can come of it. As such, I’m not going to make excuses for the fucker.
Instead, I want to ask y’all what “the left” should be doing. What constitutes a “serious attempt to resolve” this situation? Does it involve public disavowals by the leadership? Cancelling any streamer stupid enough to say something edgy? The DNC taking responsibility for a terrorist act like it’s al-Qaeda? Maybe some time in the stockades, or a few televised executions? What would it take for you to feel like “the left” was making a good-faith effort?
Because this isn’t it. Whatever detente you have in mind, I cannot imagine that it involves writing bitter essays about the inhumanity of conservative scum, their unwillingness to admit that there is a problem, the inevitability of consequences when they continue to overstep. That wouldn’t be healthy. It wouldn’t feel like you were winning at all.
You are eager to treat “the left” as one organism, one will, a mouth speaking platitudes while its hand fumbles for the knife. How dare they create this situation? How could they normalize the idea that their political opponents were isomorphic to subhuman monsters?
Don’t you see the symmetry?
You recognize that “the right” is barely a coherent category, but you fail to apply that knowledge to the outgroup. How does this double standard possibly improve the situation? How can you equivocate between the normies who disagree with you and the psychopath who pulls a trigger?
If—when—the roles are reversed, “the left” is going to write pieces just like yours. They’ll try to hold you responsible for whatever fuckwit decided to bomb a clinic or shoot a Democrat. You’ll rightly protest that you never had any control over the kind of person who would snap like that. And we’ll move one step closer to chaos.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
12hr ago
My apologies, then.
I think if you’re rounding off Metoo’s most visible examples in favor of the modal supporter, the same standard should apply today. There just aren’t enough trans people to move the needle.
More broadly, I don’t believe you can gloss something as a class interest group just because its biggest support comes from that class. The demographics of soccer fans aren’t enough to make it a Hispanic interest group. They’re showing up for something else. College-educated women are disproportionately likely to be feminists because they’re wealthier, more independent, and better-informed. That doesn’t prevent them from having a broader interest. Feminism has a long history of backing women in different conditions. I don’t believe that’s changed.
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13hr ago
Dude made it through COVID better than a lot of people in his weight class, too. Everybody talks about Butler as a timeline-branching point, but the world in which he died to COVID is even stranger.
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23hr ago
Oh, come on. This is a pretty lazy sneer, and it's barely even coherent. Do you think #MeToo was about college?
And I could have sworn I'd seen you arguing trans violence stats were fake. It's not happening, but they're fixated on it anyway?
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Texas is freedom land
1d ago
I’m no fan of Trump, but I’d caution against generalizing from one data point. I know he was looking sharp as of a couple months ago.
Any schadenfreude from watching our userbase try to forget two years of anti-Biden rants would probably be outweighed by the potential damage. Trump is erratic enough when he’s healthy. I hope he stays that way through his term.
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1d ago
You’re telling me that the right response to a nothingburger is to take it as evidence in favor of the next big reveal?
If RFK had better evidence, he’d have jumped on it. He’s already got the FDA, he’s got Trump in his corner. Building a “Trojan horse,” however that works, doesn’t buy him anything.
File this one with the UAP disclosures, the Epstein files, and the Second Coming. I predict you’re going to be disappointed.
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1d ago
You could go with the pre-2013 definition for classic autism. That’s the year in which it was merged with Asperger’s and some other developmental disorders. I don’t know that the establishment was wrong to combine them into a “spectrum disorder,” but it certainly changed the calculus for self-diagnosis.
It’s worth mentioning that the uptick in diagnoses was not, AFAICT, limited to photogenic “nerd++” autism. It also includes the 25-30% of cases which were classed as intellectually disabled. I find it much less likely that growth in this category is driven by self-diagnosis.
Imagine if we let people self-diagnose
I mean, we kind of do? At least to the same degree as ASD. No one can actually stop you from citing “anger issues” any more than they can gatekeep “depression” or “anxiety.” They have to rely on social cues to warn you if you’re about to be cringe.
Consider whether one particular cluster of personality traits might be less likely to take those hints.
netstack
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1d ago
Has that happened for literally any other protest fad?
If “trigger confidence” wasn’t enough to show up in mortality rates, this isn’t going to be any worse.
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1d ago
See also: “do you know who you’re dealing with?” and “am I being detained?”
Lots of people will do unreasonable things when they sense a dominance game.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1d ago
I expected so, but I didn’t have data.
The current step on the euphemism treadmill is “profound autism.” Here’s a study on its prevalence. Figure 2 shows what looks like a doubling between 2002 and 2010; that’s slightly lower than the non-profound category. More importantly, the total sample of autistic kids was something like 25% profoundly autistic. That’s not a trivial fraction, and it doesn’t appear to have held steady as the weaker forms grew.
Considering risk of bias, I tried other studies. It was hard to find one that was both longitudinal and bothered to distinguish between severity. But according to the latter study, 38% of children with a ASD diagnosis had an intellectual disability. Again, not trivial.
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1d ago
I’m pretty sure that’s post hoc reasoning. It’s popular, probably because it dovetails nicely with the Trump’s general platform, but the timeline is wrong. Where was this argument during the fights over Obamacare? During the early-2000s measles resurgence? Even within Trump I, when people were suddenly deeply concerned with institutional capture, medical research was almost a non-issue.
It’s a referendum on COVID policy, plain and simple. Which really means it’s a referendum on Biden. The outcome was predetermined.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1d ago
With all due respect, that’s fucking ridiculous.
Have you met someone with serious, not-the-photogenic-kind autism?
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Texas is freedom land
2d ago
Trump and RFK blame acetaminophen for childhood autism. I couldn’t find a transcript yet, but the meandering press conference is recorded here. Was this on anyone’s bingo cards?
I’m confused. I vaguely knew that the Trump campaign had decided to fight autism at some point, but I always figured it was appeasement for the antivaxxers. Is there an untapped pool of Tylenol haters out there? Is this a stalking horse for a broader wave of FDA guidelines targeting the usual suspects?
Maybe there’s some sort of political smokescreen going on. We don’t appear to have started any new wars, and domestic hate for Trump looks more or less like it did since last week. If it’s a distraction, it’s not a very efficient one; I had a hard time finding reporting on it, and all the sites that bothered were also eagerly blasting his abuses of the Justice Department and the Supreme Court. That leaves the old-fashioned political motive of throwing meat to the base. Maybe Trump is just checking off campaign promises. But again, it’s so niche.
I suppose there could be some sort of personal beef. If Trump is trying to tank someone’s stock, uh, this is still a pretty weird way to do it.
That’s not even touching the medical case. The administration doesn’t appear to have provided much substance behind their claim. This will dissuade approximately no one. Enjoy your fresh CW battleground.
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2d ago
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2d ago
While you are certainly welcome to be annoying Catholic, you’re still supposed to follow the rules. This comment is combative enough to fall in the “more heat than light” category.
netstack
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2d ago
Creation myths have a pretty terrible track record for scientific scrutiny.
If you’re suggesting that being unverifiable counts as “withstanding scrutiny,” then I have a bridge to sell you.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
Kazuo Ishiguro’s Remains of the Day. A weird little guy goes on a road trip through ‘50s England while reminiscing on his former employer and colleagues.
I don’t think I got it. Delightful prose, vividly drawn characters, and some excellent scenes…but I just don’t understand how it works as a novel. What was the point? Or was it some sort of metafiction where the lack thereof was, itself, the point? It just didn’t land for me. I enjoyed the process but was left unsatisfied and a little embarrassed.
Up next is C J Cherryh’s Merchanter’s Luck for a change of pace. This feels incredibly “genre” in a good way. Pretty impressed with the economy of prose so far, too. Looking forward to it.
netstack
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3d ago
Too combative by half.
Please review the rules on the sidebar.
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Texas is freedom land
5d ago
It’s a world populated almost entirely by bots and scammers, sadly. “dark net pen!s pills d3fw^kg]5” or “Life Hacks for the Mindful Manager.”
On the rare occasion that someone does try to submit their abstract cosmic energy hypothesis, we tend to allow it. This happens less often than I expected.
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6d ago
Trump has made his opinions on pussy pretty clear.
By extension, Trump enthusiasts are more likely to think “bullying a TV channel around” is actually a good thing.
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Texas is freedom land
6d ago
Bold of you to make a statistical argument without any statistics!
Like, I’m not expecting polling or studies. But how much support is a “deluge”? Why can’t 5% of a population generate such a “deluge,” if they’re motivated and/or influential? How many people are you counting when you say “leftists,” anyway?
I think you’re overlooking the selection bias. It’s very hard to make my case if I can’t even tell what you’re claiming.
It might work for the ICE attacks, where we have a clear policy, perpetrators in custody, and alignment with other groups. I’ll say that Democrats could and probably should do that. Make it clear that what the President is doing is legal and will be enforced, even if it’s challenged in Congress and court.
Not so much for the assassins. No surviving perpetrators. No conspirators at all. No comparable groups to discredit, no social networks to ban, no pet issues to excise from the party planks. Maybe not even an appetite for restricting the means.
The shortage of obvious targets is what moves it from table stakes to absurdity. You’ve either got to double down on the most similar cases—Luigi?—or widen your criteria. And widening them enough to punish all of antifa, the Democratic Party, or “the left”…that’s going too far. I understand that it feels natural for an average Republican to make that equivalence, but I believe it’s wrong.
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