zeke5123a
1hr ago
You must realize there is a marked difference between being born the heir to the throne and accomplishing what Trump accomplished?
And of course there are other virtues, etc. I’m just saying you don’t get the top of the top by being an idiot.
zeke5123a
1hr ago
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Biden won via the democratic establishment carrying him to victory. Trump engaged in a hostile takeover. They are not the same.
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Biden had no staying power; Trump clearly did.
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Re money talks — yeah it’s exactly a philosophy for human beings. Person A accomplished a lot. Person B hasn’t. Person B tries to tear down A to make themselves seem more important. Well, the proof is in the eating of the pudding.
zeke5123a
10hr ago
It does seem laughable that a 100 IQ boor with generational wealth could basically be the most important person in the world for over a decade. There are tons of idiots born into money and connections. None have leveraged it like Trump. That suggests he isn’t a 100 IQ boob.
And the broader point is that when one person has had that level of success, his detractors better have similar level of success before they call him stupid. It’s like the idiots calling Musk dumb.
zeke5123a
13hr ago
The whole “Trump is an idiot” argument is tired at this point. Someone cannot achieve what he has achieved being an idiot. He might be wrong. He certainly isn’t a rationalist or careful when it comes to what he says. But thinking someone who has accomplished about 1000x whatever your life has accomplished is an idiot is laughable.
zeke5123a
19hr ago
It’s also not the legal standard. We’ve long believed that obscenity is something that can be banned. We don’t need to ban obscenity for those who don’t want to see it; we ban because we believe it is deleterious to those who do want to view it.
zeke5123a
2d ago
It also makes Faramir rejecting the ring meaningful. There can be a worf problem where we are told the ring is seductive but Gandalf, Aragorn, Galadriel, and Faramir all pretty easily reject the ring.
Making it harder for Faramir gives it depth.
zeke5123a
3d ago
Perhaps what you are trying to argue is that all things equal a larger amount of black crime would be interracial compared to white crime?
I agree that would be true as a matter of logic. As a matter of fact, though, all things are not equal.
zeke5123a
3d ago
That suggests that potential victims are equally distributed amongst the population. But if races are somewhat segregated, then it doesn’t follow that rape victims are randomly selected.
zeke5123a
4d ago
Sure but that’s primarily because they are concerned that the lunch mob will “get it wrong.” That is, it is a prudential concern.
zeke5123a
4d ago
You are right! Somehow I had always heard it as rape whereas it seems he was accused of sexual harassment. I also had heard the alleged victim recanted which appears spurious.
I guess at minimum it seems Till’s guilt was uncertain and the punishment didn’t meet the potential crime.
Arday being pushed out of Cambridge for his academic crimes was entirely proportionate AND proven. So again, radically different from Till.
zeke5123a
4d ago
I don’t know if this is too post worthy, but many black activists have called the cancellation of Jason Arday and the resulting suicide a lynching. It makes me believe they don’t understand why many people found lynching to be bad.
The classic case is Emmet Till. He was accused of raping a white woman but didn’t. Less people would be worried about the irregular justice of lynch mobs if they accurately hung rapists and Till wouldn’t be martyr if he actually raped the white woman. It was his innocence that really made the lynching galling.
In the Arday context, no one argues he isn’t guilty of the charges. Instead, they claim accurately castigating Arday repeatedly for his crime is a modern day lynching. So either they believe any criticism of blacks is per se illegitimate and blacks are naturally innocent regardless of their actions or they are trying to use powerful iconography to prevent criticism of blacks. But that’s destroying their seed capital.
zeke5123a
4d ago
No there is still a difference. Boromir repents when the ring has eluded his grasp. Yes he fought valiantly to protect the hobbits but if he had taken the ring I don’t think he gives it back.
Faramir still has the ring basically on his possession yet lets Frodo and the ring go.
zeke5123a
5d ago
Yes and no. There were core elements that were dropped. But many core elements remained. For Hollywood standards, it was a pretty faithful adoption.
I wish they had kept the scouring of the shire and made Aragorn less unsure of himself.
zeke5123a
6d ago
Putting aside the euphemism of asylum seeker, I think your argument is somewhat flawed.
Yes, true refugees probably should have a lower standard relative to an immigrant. But there comes a point where the damage caused by refugees outweighs the moral benefit of taking them in.
I think “they rape so much we need to explain ‘rape is bad’” is the line.
zeke5123a
8d ago
That’s great. Can my private company not hire people because I don’t like their skin color?
zeke5123a
11d ago
First, see the data in the Harvard discrimination case (ie there is no indication it applied for one discipline and not the other / was massive).
Estimates about a 12 point LSAT jump for being black in competitive schools. 12 is very large.
Have you been around toddlers?
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