ZanarkandAbesFan
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Sucks for the guy in question obviously.
That being said:
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
Lol, lmao even. Imagine replacing "Europe" with "Russia" and trying to use an otherwise identical argument to feign shock about the US sanctioning someone high up in the Russian military.
This is an obvious case of the ICC flying too close to the sun. Whether they like it or not, Israel is considered by the US to be a close ally. Making direct threats against them is obviously going to risk incurring the US's displeasure.
But it's also a little hard to feel sympathetic to people like Weiss who think articles mocking everyone else's idpol are hilarious but don't you dare make light of hers.
Isn't that the position (regarding their own and others idpols) of most users here?
ZanarkandAbesFan
1d ago
Do you not have your own ginger converts in Germany?
ZanarkandAbesFan
1d ago
Now I'm just baffled as to why, knowing this, we're still attempting to import infinity people.
1/ Blind faith in the belief that more immigration = economic growth (see the Boriswave)
2/ Any attempt to do something about it being frustrated by the NGO/Civil service/Human Rights Lawyer complex (see Rwanda)
3/ Any attempt to do something about it leading the people involved to be condemned as racist pariahs in the eyes of the rest of elite society
ZanarkandAbesFan
1d ago
Putting gays in does the same (we go to war with Iran, what would they do with a captured American gay soldier? They kill their own gay citizens).
I agree with most of your post but this point feels weird. Excluding certain demographics from the military just because your enemies really don't like them doesn't seem particularly productive. Would it help the US to get rid of all their black soldiers if they were fighting some white supremacist state?
ZanarkandAbesFan
2d ago
Perhaps the solution is dollars backed by a goat standard?
ZanarkandAbesFan
2d ago
People in third world countries don’t have time for this shit, so they get real logical and strait laced about the correct attitudes much easier when their daily bread and way of life is under threat.
Third world countries tend to be third world countries because the people there have absolutely retarded attitudes about the world and society. There's a happy medium between following the examples of western progressivism and those of societies where people live in caves and use goats as a medium of exchange.
ZanarkandAbesFan
7d ago
Maybe, but IIRC it was mostly focussed on specific spells and academic magic. I think I'd have bought it more if it had been more presented in the way you described.
ZanarkandAbesFan
8d ago
My biggest problem by far with OOTP was having Harry teach a school subject (including to students older than him). That just felt monumentally implausible. I'd have liked it much more if DA had just been a generic club where the students taught each other and/or practiced spells they'd read about in books from the library etc. Maybe Harry leads a single class on the topic of patronuses.
ZanarkandAbesFan
11d ago
Hogwarts to Poudlard is a truly bizarre change.
ZanarkandAbesFan
11d ago
The BBC is a state propaganda organ
It's a propaganda arm of the progressive cultural and social elite in the UK rather than of the state itself. It has such influence on state policy that it's easy to conflate the two, but that's getting cause and effect mixed up.
ZanarkandAbesFan
13d ago
Albus Dumbledore became Albus Silenti, Slytherin became Serpeverde and Professor Snape became Professor Piton
lolwut
ZanarkandAbesFan
13d ago
And to all the cool aunt, "AKshually language evolves" descriptivists, this change entails a loss of possible meanings and is bad. I know "deer" used to mean "any animal" and "corn" used to mean "any grain," etc but when those words changed usage it became possible to express MORE thoughts because the language became more specific. My examples, and the examples that stodgy prescriptivists mostly complain about, all involve a blurring of meanings, which in 99% of cases entails blurring of thought (both as cause and then again as consequence). Do you feel like we have an excess of clear thought out there nowadays? Of course not! Do your part- join the prescriptivists. Make language specific again!
Well aksHually,
I'm someone who tries to get "less" and "fewer" right, and gets frustrated by people using "got" rather than "gotten". But I don't get alarmed about the "we're losing clarity in our language" argument, for two reasons:
1/ Most supposed examples of this happening (such as the ones you gave i.e. "I knew" vs "I had known" and "less" vs "fewer") don't actually involve any extra ambiguity or loss of meaning.
2/ English has lost a tremendous amount of complexity during the time it evolved from Old English (and before that, from Proto-Germanic). If we're worried that further simplifications are bringing about loss in communicative power, then we should logically seek to undo all the other changes that have taken place over the last several thousand years, but no one seriously suggests that.
My examples, and the examples that stodgy prescriptivists mostly complain about, all involve a blurring of meanings, which in 99% of cases entails blurring of thought
I'm really skeptical. Do English speakers, who only have "they" as a third-person plural subject pronoun, have blurrier conceptions of mixed-gender groups of people than i.e. French speakers, with their "ils/elles" distinction? I doubt it.
ZanarkandAbesFan
13d ago
ride motorcycles
Any evidence for this?
ZanarkandAbesFan
13d ago
“Most men in bio are short because they can’t get women, but because you’re tall I know you’re genuinely interested in bio”
I'm struggling to parse this somewhat. Does he mean short men go into biology because they think they'll have an easier time dating in a female-heavy field? (Incidentally, clicking the link for this statement statement directs the user to a "this page doesn’t exist" page on X)
ZanarkandAbesFan
29d ago
I'm going to say that if this guy killed himself because of cheating accusations then he was probably cheating.
Professional chess and the people who follow it is a pretty small world. Being publicly accused like this and having your reputation continuously dragged through the mud with no real way to outright refute the claims (it's impossible to prove that you didn't cheat) is absolutely something that could destroy someone emotionally.
ZanarkandAbesFan
1mo ago
Fair enough, that's pretty bad. He was arrested and sentenced though. I'll amend my original post to specify republicans that went unpunished for making these comments.
Be honest and admit that these kind of "just joking" comments come from all sides.
I think we usually expect more from people running to be elected officials? Do you have evidence of republican politicians going unpunished for saying they'd like to murder their opponents' children?
ZanarkandAbesFan
1mo ago
I didn't really appreciate it at the time, but I think Trump's general style in 2016 was a big part of this, penis size jokes in the primary,
IIRC, his only dick-related joke went something along the lines of "There was also a comment about if my hands are small, something else must be; I assure you, there's no problem" which I actually think was a pretty witty and non-offensive way of addressing that insinuation.
ZanarkandAbesFan
1mo ago
And yet we manage!
ZanarkandAbesFan
1mo ago
Australia and Canada have made it for Centuries without civil warring.
Low population density probably plays a role there as well.
ZanarkandAbesFan
1mo ago
AFAIK it's a pretty minority position among American Jews to consider themselves non-white, and in practice, has largely the same impact as badly-passing trans women: the world continues to view them as men, regardless of how they self-identify.
ZanarkandAbesFan
1mo ago
I've got no idea, I'll take your word for it.
ZanarkandAbesFan
1mo ago
It's basically only on places like the Motte that anyone considers American Jews non-white.
I was very against Brexit at the time. But much of the behaviour of the EU* since then has done a lot to disabuse me of the notion that "European" is a synonym for enlightened/benevolent/compassionate. I'm not sure I'd support rejoining.
*To be fair, it mostly seems to be France.
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