stuckinbathroom
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stuckinbathroom
1mo ago
What if we literally just removed it?
Presumably there would be much wailing and gnashing of teeth at the sudden loss of ~billions of dollars in grants, student loans, and subsidies handed out by the Department of Education to schools and individuals. Having said that, if the Department were phased out gradually and/or its money spigots moved into other arms of the federal government, I don’t think anyone would notice much difference. As it is, control over K-12 education is almost entirely at the state and local level in the US.
For what it’s worth, Canada has never had a federal Department of Education, but seems to have done just fine given its heritage and demographics.
stuckinbathroom
1mo ago
But on the plus side, Biden seems to hate Kamala
Source?
stuckinbathroom
1mo ago
See also: “to see the mote in your brother’s eye while ignoring the beam in your own”
stuckinbathroom
1mo ago
(Not OP)
innawoods = 4chan (?) slang for rural living away from big city degeneracy
living off the fatta the land = the dream of George and Lenny in Of Mice and Men
stuckinbathroom
2mo ago
The student meant that this is our rallying cry. Think of all the good that has come out of this noble lie. Imagine a world where gays across America didn't believe Matthew Shepard, their avatar, was brutally murdered for being gay. We might not even have gay marriage! We might not have all these vigils and community and influence. Stop asking questions. Let us have it.
I’m sure I’m preaching to the choir here, but one problem with this approach is that it requires ever more sordid lies to be concocted in order to generate the same level of activist outrage…nominative determinism strikes again?
stuckinbathroom
2mo ago
I used to think stacking int and str was what got you far in life
See that’s your problem right there: you have to cast the int to a str before concatenating them, or else you’ll get a ValueError
stuckinbathroom
2mo ago
Many Australian districts have so-called "one punch" laws,
When are we getting “chainsaw” laws? “Death note” laws?
stuckinbathroom
2mo ago
Gen Z is speedrunning the history of written language, starting from hieroglyphics
stuckinbathroom
2mo ago
IMO, you can make any normiecon suffer a brain lock by starting to wax poetic about how much more excellence would America have had the dastardly democrats not allowed the blacks to abort that much.
Perhaps you and I have different definitions of “normiecon”, but IMO an important facet of normieconservatism is quasi-religious devotion to 90s-era “content of their character” colorblindness, perhaps coupled with a dose of “Democrats are the real racists”/“soft bigotry of low expectations”-ism as mentioned below. So the fact of racial disparities is, in the normiecon’s eyes, either irrelevant or further evidence of Democrat villainy.
stuckinbathroom
2mo ago
I think a lot of people would prefer to be a Roman emperor, even if they would miss smartphones and flush toilets.
Depends on the emperor tbh
stuckinbathroom
2mo ago
our policies should also be keeping them at bay too.
Physical removal, so to speak?
stuckinbathroom
2mo ago
I agree with your overall point, but
Japan is a consumerist culture, more so than America
is a bold claim. What’s your evidence for this assertion?
stuckinbathroom
2mo ago
My impression of the CDU is that they’re so weak, they’ll concede practically anything if it allows them to form a government that excludes the AfD
The old quip about the Holy Roman Empire is even more true of the CDU: neither Christian, nor democratic, nor a union
stuckinbathroom
2mo ago
As an exercise, let’s taboo the term “far-right”. What exactly is “far-right” about AfD’s platform? Do they propose:
- More strictly vetting all new asylum claims
- Reviewing successful asylum claims from 2015 to the present day, and deporting those found to have made false statements
- Kicking down doors and summarily executing men, women, and children who are not of 100% Aryan stock
… or something else entirely?
stuckinbathroom
2mo ago
To be maximally charitable, the requirement to request an absentee ballot does make voting harder, and thus constitutes suppression of legitimate (i.e., 18+, living, compos mentis, state-resident, US citizen, voting-once-per-election) voters—at least according to some people’s definition of “suppression”
stuckinbathroom
2mo ago
Not that that case was supposed to set precedent. 🙄
Well, at least it set President (ba dum tss)
stuckinbathroom
2mo ago
I don’t think it’s necessarily antisemitic, again Moldbug comes pretty close to advancing it now and again
I agree that it's not necessarily antisemitic, though I think Moldbug is not the best example to use here. I've always found his disavowal of extra-Overton-window takes (on HBD, liberal democracy, and antisemitism) to be lukewarm at best and performative at worst. My pet theory is that it's a kind of Kolmogorov complicity by proxy: though he's far from the levers of power himself and (genuinely, as far as I can tell) professes no desire to get closer, he doesn't want guilt by association to tarnish the prospects of any politico who openly touts him as an influence.
the most hardcore antisemitic dissident rightists of the MacDonald school usually dispute it
This is news to me; I wasn't aware that the MacDonald school* even knew about this argument, let alone disagreed with it. What's their take?
*Not to be confused with Hamburger University
This is an intriguing take, and one which—ironically—brings to mind a certain argument advanced by antisemites of the European paleoconservative ilk, viz. that the Enlightenment techniques of using reason and logic to question longstanding social norms were at least tolerable in the hands of Christian/Christian-heritage thinkers, who held an almost innate (if unconscious) sense of where to draw the line and stop applying the culture of critique, lest they rend Western society apart entirely. Jews, on the other hand, possessing no such intuitive metis, blew past all Christian guardrails in their blind zeal to make everything rational, scientific, legible—whence the horrors of checks notes communism and the Frankfurt School.
stuckinbathroom
2mo ago
On what grounds did the court decide that this ruling only applies to those two counties?
stuckinbathroom
2mo ago
A newspaper (for example) which regularly published untrue defamation would be equally-regularly corrected by competing newspapers, eager to siphon savvy newsreaders away from a competitor. Then the defamatory paper's paying subscribers would vote with their wallets and switch to other papers with better records of truth-telling.
Or so the theory goes.
stuckinbathroom
2mo ago
(Not OP, but will try and steelman the position as best I can)
Were such norms in place re: speech, defamation would be "priced in", so to speak, i.e., people would have ingrained defenses against believing defamatory remarks to be true, inculcated over a lifetime of experiencing free speech absolutism first-hand.
stuckinbathroom
2mo ago
stuckinbathroom
2mo ago
either George Orwell is a believer in the magic soil hypothesis or didn't realize that mass immigration could ever be a thing.
Orwell died in 1950, a full 18 years before Enoch Powell’s much-maligned “Rivers of Blood” speech. So my money is on the latter.
stuckinbathroom
2mo ago
the two developed countries with the lowest female LFPR are Italy and Japan
... the latter of which, curiously enough, has the highest TFR of any country/territory in developed East Asia.
“Gandalf says I am not fit to be King of Gondor but is fine with Broken-Toe Aragorn. Truth is Dopey Gandalf is just a Second-Rate wizard who couldn’t even defeat a Balrog! Should lay off the Longbottom Leaf. SAD!”
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