netstack
Texas is freedom land
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netstack
Texas is freedom land
11d ago
You're getting too inflammatory here. Accusations of bad faith require a more careful, substantive argument.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
11d ago
What the hell?
I guess I should tap the evidence, specific groups and maybe speak plainly signs. Somehow, I don't feel like that's sufficient. This is not a place to vent about how much you hate "those fuckers."
netstack
Texas is freedom land
12d ago
Nah. When I was looking for information about your Civil War suggestion, there were a surprising number following the style. I think it’s a fad.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
12d ago
If I had to draw the lines such that independence wars were separate, I’d look for something like participation in government—“no taxation without representation,” right? Confederates had served in the same military, sent Congressmen to the same assemblies, and otherwise participated in American institutions.
Honestly, I’m willing to class independence wars as civil wars. The American Revolution apparently counts.
I don’t know enough about Korea to speak with confidence. Did either government claim continuity with a previous controlling government? I see one source claiming that the initial border skirmishes counted as civil war. What makes you say that it “doesn’t feel strange”?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
12d ago
Calling it “European” is an understatement, but at least it describes a useful subset of the theaters.
“Civil War,” on the other hand, is completely off base. The opponents weren’t a unified state before, during or after the war. I can’t tell if you’re joking or just being contrarian.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
12d ago
First there’s the Dagobah cave. It’s the payoff for a scene where Yoda explains the Dark Side: it’s the quick and easy route to power, and it’s born of haste and emotion. We immediately get a demonstration as Luke encounters a vision of Vader. He lashes out in response to fear. Since this isn’t the Jedi way, he harms only himself.
The first real temptation is Vader’s trap. Should Luke keep training or rush to the rescue? He takes the bait because he’s still not a Jedi. It’s not enough to want the right thing. You can’t be ruled by fear and anger.
Then we get the payoff. “Join me, and together we can rule the galaxy as father and son.” How’s that for a recruitment pitch? The offer of power is universal. The offer of belonging is personalized to Luke, who spent his youth dreaming of a destiny in the stars. Vader holds all the cards. We’ve seen Luke give in to his feelings before. That makes it all the sweeter when he defies Vader.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
12d ago
Accordingly, we ask that you do not use this thread for waging the Culture War. Examples of waging the Culture War:
- Shaming.
- Attempting to 'build consensus' or enforce ideological conformity.
- Making sweeping generalizations to vilify a group you dislike.
- Recruiting for a cause.
- Posting links that could be summarized as 'Boo outgroup!'
Using statements by Musk and his team to draw a line is good. Extrapolating that line to a general “them” is less good. You could fix that by more narrowly tailoring your claims about just who is losing credibility.
The biggest issue is framing your conclusions as our conclusions. We need to investigate. We should discard him. No. This is a discussion, not a petition. Please don’t speak for everyone.
Also, the CW threads roll over on Mondays. Should you revise this, it’ll probably get more traction in this week’s thread.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
13d ago
I have this on my shelf for after I finish Absolution Gap. Thank you for the review! It sounds like something I’ll really enjoy.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
15d ago
For a while I was toying with ideas for a logistics RTS where the player was supposed to juggle pipelines and replacement parts more than controlling units. It was inspired by the carriers in Stellaris, which are just glorified battleships rather than the force projection monsters they should be.
Then I discovered Foxhole and Hearts of Iron in relatively quick succession. Between the two of them, they satisfied most of my demand for allocating equipment to operations.
Allocating the mail, though…
netstack
Texas is freedom land
15d ago
More substance than this, please. A bare link is not enough to start a good discussion.
Since your history here consists entirely of one-line snips, I would like to remind you that this is not Twitter.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
15d ago
We prefer that top-level posts have a little more substance.
How is it a boon? What’s the history here? How are they actually challenging it? Do you expect the court to be sympathetic, and for what reasons?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
16d ago
What are you suggesting about Murray’s book, exactly?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
16d ago
Maybe, but I wouldn’t call it a “profound rethinking of policy.”
netstack
Texas is freedom land
16d ago
Educational policy shouldn’t be set by “anti-racist” activists who don’t tolerate any dissent.
If that was posted completely in a vacuum, I guess it’d be a violation. In response to a post about Evergreen? I want to say it’s okay, because I don’t know how else he’d refer to the category.
Maybe anti-racist & activist & dissent-quashing is a really small set, maybe it’s even empty, but I don’t think reasoning about it is wrong.
I suppose I’m struggling to figure out how Alex could have been more specific about the group he was condemning.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
16d ago
It’s a good comic, especially for someone starting college. Fun, funny, and thematically cohesive. I highly recommend it.
It’s also not a rom-com.
Characters comment on how the age gap makes Scott kind of creepy from the beginning. This is not moralist condemnation, because this is a comedy. Scott is being set up as goofy and likable but also pathetic and self-absorbed. From this springs the entire plot.
Likewise, Ramona is supposed to be fun and hot and a walking red flag. Yes, that includes the hair (which you might be misremembering). If you don’t think her look would be catnip to the Scotts of the world, you’re delusional.
There’s a particularly good bit near the end which may or may not have made it into the movie. Scott, during his dark-night-of-the-soul, hits Knives up knowing she used to have a thing for him. “Would you care for some…CASUAL SEX?” It’s awful. Pathetic. Naturally, she’s long over him, and he has to actually figure out what he wants to do with his life rather than paper over it with hedonism.
And that runs directly into the finale—people actually expressing agency. Scott doesn’t pick Ramona over Knives. Knives was never a real option. Once he knows what he wants he actually has to work for it rather than remain in a stasis of rebounds and second choices. Extended adolescence. That’s how Scott completes his arc from a loser to a functional adult. It’s not a rom-com, but a coming of age story.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
16d ago
Whoops. You’re right.
Kind of confuses the original “progressive passive voice” argument, though.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
17d ago
Ban evasion.
Maybe also propagandizing to a larger audience, but mostly ban evasion.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
17d ago
Aren’t the first two of those reversed headlines still passive? The active versions would be “Republicans vandalize Tesla vehicles” and “Far-right protestors shoot/bomb dealerships.”
Active voice is the default. Sometimes editors get uncomfortable blaming a person or group and switch to passive. In this case, I think it’s just the vagueness of the target. Look how Fox is handling it.
Tesla vehicles, charging stations as protestors denounce DOGE, Elon Musk
“A dealership was targeted.” “A man was arrested.”
If this was on MSNBC it would look like they’re covering for the “violent radicals targeting Tesla dealers.” That’s actually the phrase Fox uses in its video—they clearly considered it. But the web headline is relatively tame, because big media companies like to hedge.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
17d ago
Seconding FC.
You are making it very hard to believe that you’re acting in good faith.
But, since another deletion was somewhat predictable:
Is Matt Walsh going to leave The Daily Wire?
For most of his career as a public figure, Matt Walsh was the embodiment of Con Inc.: self-styled "anti-woke", socially conservative (but not in a way that instantly triggered accusations of bigotry), and most importantly, color blind. For him, "America [was] a set of ideas".
Well, something has changed, because Walsh has been steadily creeping rightward over the last several months and the end product of that transformation appears to be here (and here). The impetus for that video was this interaction between Sam Seder and a right wing zoomer.
We're seeing the right splinter in real time among racial lines in a way that it hasn't in many decades. Which side will win out in the end?
For whatever my opinion is worth, I'd like to register that both Seder and the young woman didn't come out looking well. Seder couldn't articulate a response in real time, but his opponent is likewise regurgitating right wing talking points that she doesn't appear to have put a lot of thought into.
Unrelated, but I thought I'd bring it up just because I was going through his Twitter:
Can you imagine if even one Bud Light warehouse was firebombed or even one Bud Light drinker was assaulted during the Bud Light boycott? There would be mass media hysteria and FBI investigations. Yet Tesla facilities and Tesla drivers are being attacked all across the country by leftist militants and the media ignore it entirely. I've noticed this phenomenon among the right (necessary disclaimer: I completely acknowledge that this is true of the left as well, but they're not in power now so it's not as fun to scrutinize them) to boldly assert the truth of easily falsifiable claims. The "media ignore it entirely" is such a claim: CNN, CBS, ABC, and my favorite, an ominous report from the Washington Post. This story is obviously being covered - maybe more than it deserves to be - so why type something out you know to be a lie or something that 5 seconds of research would falsify? As someone who might otherwise be open to Walsh's ideas, I can't help but take him less seriously now.
Charitably, Walsh must be communicating something other than the plain meaning of his words. In this case, he must mean "I don't think the media is covering this enough", or "the media isn't being adequately sympathetic to Tesla".
netstack
Texas is freedom land
18d ago
I…wouldn’t bet on it.
I’ve written about how my 2012 self thought the GOP would handle Obama’s reelection. Could he have caused the Republicans to rethink policy? Maybe sideline the social conservatives in favor of the Tea Partiers?
When stressed, establishment Republicans lost ground to their upstart populist wing. What would that look like for Democrats? The blue-collar base is either hollowed out or firmly aboard the Trump Train. White-collar workers want the kind of safety net that makes free college look like a bargain. I don’t know what left-populists could do other than throw helicopter money.
It’s a humorous reference to Elden Ring.
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