Celestial-body-NOS
...nervous as a Christian Scientist with appendicitis.
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Celestial-body-NOS
...nervous as a Christian Scientist with appendicitis.
1d ago
Who would you rather babysit your kid for a week—a randomly selected ICE agent or a randomly selected Somali migrant?
I'd have a lot more recourse if the migrant tried any funny business.... (This reasoning was also given by some women who chose the bear.)
Celestial-body-NOS
...nervous as a Christian Scientist with appendicitis.
1d ago
...this home surveillance...lacks pixels....
Is that...Bigfoot?
Celestial-body-NOS
...nervous as a Christian Scientist with appendicitis.
1d ago
...because the administration doesn't want to play or discard cards in their hand....
Which is exactly what has people so alarmed! They believe that the reason we're not currently rebuilding from World War Five right now is because, for the last eighty years, there has been a rule that military intervention for territorial gain should not be considered as an option.
That's why so many people support Ukraine, why the world came to the defence of Kuwait in 1990, and why anyone besides a few anti-Semites gives a rat's tuchus about the West Bank settlements.
Celestial-body-NOS
...nervous as a Christian Scientist with appendicitis.
2d ago
If a country is a home and all citizens are roommates
Which is precisely the point on which the left disagrees! Not everyone believes that a country is analogous to a household!
Celestial-body-NOS
...nervous as a Christian Scientist with appendicitis.
2d ago
If you think one was an innocent martyr and the other got what she deserved, I would really like to hear the arguments for that.
The left's argument, as I understand it, can be summarised/paraphrased as follows:
"1. The belief that humans outside Our Tribe matter, just as much as those within, is Good.
"2. The belief that members of Our Tribe matter more than outsiders, thus weighing one of Us being robbed by an outsider worse than a myriad outsiders being tortured to death, is Evil.
"3. Renee Good, in opposing mass deportations, was advancing the cause of universal benevolence; therefore her actions were Good.
"4. Ashli Babbit, in attempting to forcibly overturn Mr Biden's election on behalf of Mr Trump, was advancing the cause of tribal chauvinism; therefore her actions were Evil.
"5. Actions done in the service of Good ought to receive more latitude than the same actions done in service of Evil."
I am less sure of the right-wing counterpart, but I suspect it would involve switching the alignment labels in 1-4, and possibly renaming the causes they were advancing.
And in Inuktitut it also has a dual form, Inuuk (one Inuk, two Inuuk, many Inuit); Greenlandic, also known as Kalaallisut, is the only member of the Inuit-Yup'ik-Aleut family not to have the dual form.
Celestial-body-NOS
...nervous as a Christian Scientist with appendicitis.
6d ago
The exact same shelf, immediately adjacent to the smut books, were three different editions of the Bible.
I wonder which book they were most often opened to....
Celestial-body-NOS
...nervous as a Christian Scientist with appendicitis.
6d ago
It wasn't until years later that I saw that map again and did a double-take at the place names...
Celestial-body-NOS
...nervous as a Christian Scientist with appendicitis.
11d ago
the Soviet greengrocer who puts a sign in his window saying "workers of the world unite."
*Czechoslovakian greengrocer
Celestial-body-NOS
...nervous as a Christian Scientist with appendicitis.
11d ago
But ultimately consciousness and subjective experience don't matter.
They're the only thing that matters! In the absence of subjective experience, there is no way to define 'better'!
Outcomes matter.
Because they affect the subjective experience of consciousnesses.
Celestial-body-NOS
...nervous as a Christian Scientist with appendicitis.
27d ago
Every so often, someone rediscovers the original position.
Celestial-body-NOS
...nervous as a Christian Scientist with appendicitis.
1mo ago
Celestial-body-NOS
...nervous as a Christian Scientist with appendicitis.
1mo ago
It's not a defect, unless you consider him to be a means to an end rather than an end in himself.
Celestial-body-NOS
...nervous as a Christian Scientist with appendicitis.
1mo ago
It can't be that there was a giant [J]ewish academic movement centered around deconstructing biological distinctions between humans.
I'm not sure I'd blame them if there were, given how obvious it had become that the Nations couldn't be trusted with such distinctions.
Celestial-body-NOS
...nervous as a Christian Scientist with appendicitis.
1mo ago
Or a more American solution, shoot the more annoying ones.
Should they be drug out into the street first?
Celestial-body-NOS
...nervous as a Christian Scientist with appendicitis.
1mo ago
My headcannnon is that Han is slightly force-sensitive; he technically shot first, but perceived that Greedo was intending to shoot.
Thus, the original version is what it would have looked like to a by-stander; the Special Edition is what it looked like from Han's perspective.
Celestial-body-NOS
...nervous as a Christian Scientist with appendicitis.
1mo ago
what's with this ten-year gap in your resume
"I presume you are familiar with the Official Secrets Act?"
Celestial-body-NOS
...nervous as a Christian Scientist with appendicitis.
1mo ago
Better to give a bit of behind the scenes sneak peak instead.
They rewrote the plot to include a sly, crafty mountain?
Celestial-body-NOS
...nervous as a Christian Scientist with appendicitis.
1mo ago
I can still scare one of them by saying the words "rigorous proofs" in a Russian accent.
Or "Analytic and Algebraic Topology of Locally Euclidean Metrisation of Infinitely Differentiable Riemannian Manifold". (Боже мой!)
Prussia was on Washington's side in the first one of those; the British allies were Hessian.
Celestial-body-NOS
...nervous as a Christian Scientist with appendicitis.
1mo ago
Celestial-body-NOS
...nervous as a Christian Scientist with appendicitis.
1mo ago
when the harmful consequences don't fall on yourself.
That does not apply to that to which I was referring.
If Alice calls for 'redistribute Bob's wealth; do not redistribute Alice's wealth', your argument might be valid; however, I am referring to when Alice calls for 'redistribute a fraction of both Alice's wealth and Bob's wealth' and Bob counter-proposes 'redistribute Alice's wealth; do not redistribute Bob's wealth'.
Celestial-body-NOS
...nervous as a Christian Scientist with appendicitis.
1mo ago
...much in the same way as, when someone advocates redistribution of wealth, they are met with calls to redistribute their wealth specifically while not redistributing the wealth of their richer, less compassionate neighbours.
I thought it was brilliant.
Maybe if Uncle Mark didn't want his niece to talk to him like a toddler, he oughtn't have thrown his toys out of the pram when he was told to be polite to people with whom he disagrees.
(Yes, even if he thinks they're delusional. Family dinners are not the time or place to practise amateur psychiatry; if we invited Richard Dawkins, we would expect him to refrain from referring to Cousin Sarah's church as 'fairy-tale club'. Not dead-naming or mis-pronouning Cousin Alice, or bringing up the genitals with which she was born, is the same principle.)
Some of those protesters may be operating under an 'ingroup good outgroup bad' mindset, but there is an ethically consistent schema fitting both of their beliefs.
The following exchange occurred regarding the recent ... unpleasantness ... in Venezuela:
Anonymous:
argumate:
The same could be applied to 'ICE out of our neighborhood' protests; "They are welcome to live here, visit here, buy from shops here, apply for jobs here, but not come in and haul away our neighbours who were minding their own business."
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