The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
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The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
21hr ago
Insurance just means that everyone pays a share for all of the robbery (plus a cut to the insurance company), and also that they're required to run their businesses in the way the insurance company (which is itself regulated by the state) demands. It's strictly inferior to stopping the crime.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
The problem is some of the #killallmen posters are serious. And they tend to get power in the movement, and their less-serious counterparts never seem to take them aside, horrified, and explain (to them) how no, this is hyperbole.
Similarly I suspect most of our Naziposters, given a knife and a bunch of tied-up Jews, would chicken out. But there's probably one or two that would happily cut some throats... and the others, while relieved that they didn't have to do it, would neither stop them nor re-examine their own views.
The biggest difference is that people outside the movement are less likely to excuse the Naziposters than the #killallmen group; being a performative Nazi is still a BAD thing to most, while too many people will say the #killallmen group 'have a point'. So the Naziposters are less dangerous through no fault of their own.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
It does irk me that famines in Ireland, British India, Africa, ancient regime France, ancient China, Tsarist Russia and the United States
Outside of the Civil War and its immediate aftermath, there has never been a famine in the United States. No, not even the Dust Bowl.
Irish and British Indian famines often ARE blamed on mass murder.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
George Lucas is capable of making a movie. As in, one. Which he did fifty years ago, and has been coasting on ever since.
He made at least two movies (ANH, ESB). Maybe as many as four (THX-1138, American Grafitti)
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
Strength
Terry Hogan
Health
Hard to demonstrate exceptional health, but I haven't seen a conspicuous lack of health in the Trump administration.
Beauty.
Natalie Winters (and in fact the beauty of a number of MAGA women, at least by DC standards, has been noted elsewhere)
Intelligence.
J.D. Vance, but also Terry Hogan and Tulsi Gabbard and RFK and most of the rest. There are few dummies.
Fertility.
Elon of course. Trump. RFK Jr. MTG.
Truth
Ah, alas, this is politics.
Reason
Vance
Vitality
Trump, Hogan, MTG, Winters, others.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
2d ago
The radio news is actually Audacy, no relation to the New York Times as far as I know.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
2d ago
Wasn't the last Alien movie decent? The one where it was a bunch of teenagers trying to make it off a colony by looting a space station?
So bad I couldn't finish it even when I was just watching it on the bike trainer.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
2d ago
This story made the NYC radio news. One of the examples they have was grok responding to a post calling the girls killed in the Texas floods "Future Fascists of America" with (from memory) "Hitler would know how to handle this sort of anti-white racism". No recognition at all that the original post might have been bad.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
2d ago
Don't confuse what white progressives might say and what black people believe. They may be allied politically but they are very different groups.
Which does not mean that a large number of black people (or at least specifically black descendants of slaves) do not in fact still resent white people, for slavery, for Jim Crow, for various hurts both real and imagined.
If we look at Rittenhouse, of the three people who he shot, none of them were black.
The one he missed (Jump Kick Man) was black. Kenosha is about 10% black.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
2d ago
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
2d ago
Well that's the question isn't it?
It's been answered. After the race riots of the '60 and early '70s, we had the racial detente of the 70s and 80s, but then things got worse; we had the Rodney King Riots and a generation later the more-widespread Floyd riots.
Timescales for nations are measured in centuries.
Not really, no. Nations rise and fall within that time. For all the US gets shit for "200 years is a long time", such staid European nations as Germany and Italy are only a century and a half old, and aren't even really continuous through that time.
And she had lived through Jim Crow in the South before migrating North and believed a white doctor had tried to kill one of her children in the womb.
And her granddaughter's (or great-granddaughters) peers not only believe that, they have scientific studies PROVING that white physicians are killing black babies.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
2d ago
America you will note, managed to not have the union destroyed
It was destroyed, and then put back together by force, going from the original voluntary union to a nation of victors and vanquished. And the mainstream complaint nowadays is the vanquished weren't treated harshly enough, so therefore we should treat their descendants (literal, political, philosophical, or imagined) even worse.
not have a full scale race war
That would not have turned out like Haiti, when whites were willing to take their own side.
You quoted Jefferson. Jefferson also feared "Deep rooted prejudices entertained by the whites" and "ten thousand recollections, by the blacks, of the injuries they have sustained; new provocations; the real distinctions which nature has made ; and many other circumstances"
He was mostly wrong on the first. It turns out those deep-rooted prejudices of whites could be mostly (if bloodily) extirpated. But dead right on the second. And that may well be sufficient for the consequences he feared: "will divide us into parties, and produce convulsions which will probably never end but in the extermination of the one or the other race" I expect not on the extermination part. But the resentments of blacks alone, along with the sympathy for those resentments among one party of whites, will keep those convulsions going indefinitely.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
2d ago
I believe a lot of the lack of institutional pushback was down to the election of Trump, which made plenty of liberals go insane and abandon their principles. There was both this radicalising force and a desire to close ranks.
Ante hoc ergo non propter hoc. That is, all this stuff, without institutional pushback (and often with full-throated institutional support) pre-dates Trump's election. Yes, Trump's election made them go insane, but they weren't pushing back before either.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
2d ago
They actually police fraud much less than low-trust ones, take people at their word and generally assume their good faith.
This is an unstable situation, though, unless fraudsters actually are punished a good bit of the time. If they prosper, your high-trust society days are numbered as the chumps figure out they're chumps and stop trusting and/or turn to fraud themselves.
If we're talking about some less-than-Dunbar's number small community, that's pretty easy, if Aaron Stevenson Stoltzfus invents lying in some small naive Amish community, then even if he doesn't get formally punished (which he likely would be, the Amish not actually being naive), word's going to get around and no one is going to trust him. Anything larger and it's a lot more difficult.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
3d ago
Worried about TikTok promoting harmful behavior? Set up a general framework which video platforms liable (e.g. once they have been notified).
No, this is worse that a ban on TikTok. This gives all platforms incentive to stifle speech, raises barriers to entry to new platforms (because of the liability risk) and enriches insurance companies who will become the mostly-hidden arbiters of speech.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
3d ago
What I'm really arguing (and what I take Davies to be arguing) is that fraud can only take place within a high-trust community.
This isn't so; fraud takes place all the time in low-trust communities.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
3d ago
This is the result of the much-discussed "march through the institutions". By the time social justice began to come out in the open, the institutions -- even religious ones -- had largely already been taken over by progressives.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
3d ago
A world with no fraud would have to be a high-trust society, would it not?
No, it could be a panopticon. No trust at all, but everything is verified.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
4d ago
The Black's response to facing racial discrimination was the civil rights movement, which was way more effective than any attempt to build a black-only community in the US or elsewhere would have been.
The Civil Rights Movement allowed them to build or expand black-only communities in many major northern metropolitan areas (the South, of course, already had them).
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
4d ago
Yeah, tornadoes are bad that way. Even where tornados are common, most of the time tornados hit somewhere else. With floods, it's a bit more predictable, they hit the same exact spots.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
4d ago
RTTL’s logo looks like a swastika
Not really, no. It has some right angles is all.
I expect now that they've been made, the Arkansas government will crush them one way or another.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
4d ago
Note my trade is not at par for QALYs, it's at par for unadjusted LYs.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
4d ago
People would rather spend time attending a safety seminar or working than reduce their lifespan and spend an equal amount of time being dead
I'll trade safety seminars 1:1 for shortened lifespan any day of the week.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
5d ago
A flash of light and a loud bang followed by my phone announcing a thunderstorm warning happens at least several times a summer. Yeah, and no shit...
I think it's pretty easy to figure your way out of a right-wing false-flag attempt aimed to implicate antifa or the left generally: Two trans people included. This wouldn't rule out third-party shit-stirring (Chinese or Russian?) false flags, but I think your reasoning does this. Also just using AR-15s isn't really enough to implicate the right except in the minds of the New York Times.
There's one false flag that I think you haven't ruled out, though, and that's the possibility that this was yet another FBI sting gone wrong. The FBI would have recruited Song under false pretenses, provided him with the guns and some plans, and planned to arrest the bunch at some point, but the group jumped the gun and actually did it. That's probably not what happened here, but it does fit their M.O.
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