2rafa
17hr ago
Apparently a progressive in general terms, albeit not a radical one by the standards of the church.
2rafa
18hr ago
What happened in Rotherham occurred and occurs in every single Western country that experienced mass immigration. The only difference is that the peculiar ownership dynamics of the British tabloid press meant it achieved a degree of media attention it didn’t elsewhere, except to a much lesser extent in the Low Countries.
2rafa
18hr ago
She is receiving the money as reparations for an unjust system of oppression
Does it count as reparations if the donors are almost certainly all white?
got them out of the state
Not to be trite, but America has to get very, very, almost unfathomably bad for someone to move back to Somalia.
2rafa
1d ago
No, because that kind of critic actually believes that Tolkien truly on purpose wrote a secret gay romance that he had to conceal because of the sensibilities of the age. Most of these takes don’t actually believe that a bunch of Hollywood progressive writers covertly stuffed dissident right themes into a kids movie, it’s just a funny creative writing exercise.
2rafa
1d ago
I’ve seen limited real-world reporting of either this or the Karmelo case. The articles are there, but they’re not headline news at least for me in the usual places I read news online. I think that’s a good thing.
In general, I abhor rudeness. If I ran a country, I’d have the policy of this subreddit’s moderation; say what you want, but say it politely, and with some respect for who you’re saying it to.
The thing about this grift is that it solves itself. There are not enough identitarians on either side for more than a handful of people to raise this kind of money. Now, it’s a novelty, but it wouldn’t be and perhaps won’t be for very long.
2rafa
1d ago
I agree, but the popularity and particularly rote nature of this specific category of criticism is a feature of the post-2014 internet.
2rafa
1d ago
The problem with Kashmir is that India drags out the conflict in a deeply unsympathetic way.
The vast majority of the population is Muslim. Muslims have no real place in a Hindu nationalist project of the kind you and other serious Hindutva activists propose. Some accommodation can probably be made with the Sikhs (who can be domestically pacified) and the other domestic minorities like the Christians and Buddhists don’t really matter.
Either
- India should hand Muslim-dominated but India-controlled Kashmir to Pakistan, created as a Muslim state. No doubt major concessions in other areas could be won in exchange for such a generous move.
Or
- India should resettle large number of Hindus in J&K etc such that these become Hindu-majority land, the same way that China did in Xinjiang or Russia did when it settled the far east with Europeans.
The current status quo is untenable.
2rafa
1d ago
About ten years ago, a new form of cultural criticism emerged on places as diverse as 4Chan’s /tv/, Twitter and Slate Star Codex’s Culture War Roundup thread.
The general message was always the same. An ostensibly mainstream or even outwardly progressive Hollywood movie was secretly Based™️, sometimes supposedly intentionally on the part of a secretly redpilled director or writer, mostly unintentionally by someone who didn’t realize what the implicit narrative of what they were creating actually was.
I’ve written comments like this, I’ve enjoyed comments like this. But you can’t be too serious about them, and in fact you could write a similar narrative about almost any movie or TV show you can think of.
2rafa
4d ago
I took the DC subway ~5 times a few months ago and it seemed fine around the center.
2rafa
4d ago
That’s because most people outside of the progressive left are in strong agreement that African-Americans have a strong ethnic identity and that widespread low to medium intensity ethnic resentment toward whites is common in that demographic group. Nothing about this case is really interesting, it’s been 30 years since this happened on a much greater scale with the OJ Simpson case.
It is reasonable to say that the motivations of donors in both cases is likely ethnic hostility and that that is what is being discussed, not the actual acts the recipients of the funds (a largely secondary matter) did.
I don’t see many people claiming they’re equivalent, just that this has clearly turned into a game for online racial activists where they’ve each taken a ‘side’.
The black activists don’t actually care about the kid (countless young black men are arrested every year for violent assault of white people, and almost none of them draw any widespread attention in the black community), just like the white activists don’t actually care about this woman (single mother, tattoos, possibly an addict according to some online gossip, exactly the kind of white woman these guys typically clown on). It’s just a competition now.
Why doesn’t the military, which is substantially upper caste men, just overthrow democracy? The Dalits have no army. The problem with the Indian caste system is that even Hindus don’t really believe in it. Modi is literally from an ‘other backwards caste’; even the Hindu nationalists do not care to elect someone from a higher caste to represent them. Modi said the occasional few words of anti-reservation, but then never did anything once in power. He can’t.
I don’t know if Hinduism can be compatible with democracy. Upper caste Hindus know that as long as lower caste and casteless Hindus think of themselves as lesser they will be drawn to (primarily) Islam. That means that any Hindu political movement that wants to capture the masses of Hindus must ultimately promise to protect the reservation lottery. The only ‘alternative’ is socialism, either in the form of Western socialism as practiced for so many decades by the Congress, or in the form of Islam and its (at least promised) erasure of caste boundaries.
2rafa
9d ago
Hmm, I’m not sure, and I say that as someone who perhaps along with @Rov_Scam interacted with him more than most back then. I searched Crem’s Twitter for 8 or 9 of the most common niche references TPO used to use, most had no results and the ones that did were vague at best. It would be remarkably disciplined. On the other hand, his career under that name did take off at about the same time he stopped posting here. The HBD stuff isn’t telling, many very online posters have that obsession.
The more telling thing would be posting style, but I don’t remember him having any particular quirks. I’d like to think I could recognize a Hlynka or an Ilforte, but not him.
2rafa
11d ago
This is why you have to do mass deportation as fast and as bombastically as possible. It’s like the Gaza thing, it was the trickle of deaths that killed them. If you’re an ‘authoritarian democrat’ in a country that still had freedom of the press and you want to disappear you enemies, do it all on the same day rather than over a couple of months. Shock and awe.
There are some of us, certainly, for whom no amount of these stories will change our opinion. I know that because I am one. But any conservative who thinks enough sob stories won’t affect enough public opinion to make a difference is kidding themselves. A thousand sad deportations over a thousand days is a thousand chances at public sympathy. A thousand sad deportations on the same day is one or two.
2rafa
11d ago
The Epstein stuff was salacious because the people involved were well-known and because the plebs love seeing the high and mighty brought low, love gossiping about the rich and famous. The reality is that while what Epstein was doing (paying teenage girls from poor families for sex; pimping put some of those girls to his friends and business associates) was obviously wicked, and while his early-2000s sentence should have been much longer than it was (and served under less generous terms), far worse happens in working class communities across the West every single day without consequence or penalty.
It’s like the ‘Bullingdon Club’, which captured the British public’s imagination in the 2010s. In truth, its members behaved no worse than countless other drinking clubs, sports teams, fraternities, other social groups of regularly drunk young men. But because they were rich, wore their fancy costumes and counted the prime minister and mayor of London among their alumni, what they did was somehow uniquely awful.
2rafa
11d ago
bring down a huge shitstorm on yourself with a high profile prisoner
None of those guards’ lives were ruined.
2rafa
11d ago
Some victims said Maxwell would make threats like that on the island or at one of their ranches, but compared to the tactics used by even run of the mill pimps they were rudimentary and limited at best.
2rafa
12d ago
Yeah, that’s shady. At least the kind of thing where permission should have been sought in advance.
2rafa
12d ago
That will just lead to a presumption of flight for illegal immigrants in all red states and therefore bail will likely be abolished for them in many cases, making ICE’s job even easier. This kind of heightening the contradictions stuff is good for the right, let there be a thousand headlines about illegals migrants skipping bail.
2rafa
12d ago
a team of lawyers you need need to pay millions to who will preemptively produce tomes of legal documents to prove that, yes, being retarded will in fact reduce job performance on your specific job. Those tomes will of course need to be paid for and recreated for every distinct job title you have.
I have closely followed every major disparate impact case related to cognitive testing in the US over the last decade or so. One thing they all have in common is that the victims were astoundingly stupid in their lack of evidence.
Since g is correlated universally with job performance, you don’t need to spend millions of dollars on lawyers to obtain enough evidence that a Democratic justice department will decide not to bother investigating you. You simply need to be able to produce (BEFORE the investigation) the most basic evidence that smarter people perform better at the job.
2rafa
12d ago
I thought it would be but having looked at the video there’s definitely a heavy filter effect of the kind you see on reality TV shows where the cast have final cut / editing rights (like the Kardashians).
2rafa
12d ago
A lot of news anchors basically wear a latex mask that is then painted to look human.
This definitely isn’t true. The weird latex mask things are memes for Chinese viral bait TikToks.
2rafa
13d ago
In practice the UK is an elected dictatorship of the MPs in the governing party (if there is an absolute majority), but the prime minister’s authority is relatively fragile because that system encourages, by its very nature, MPs to depose unpopular prime ministers quickly and brutishly. An American or French president can be far more unpopular in power than a Westminster system PM, and therefore the former have more latitude to make tough decisions.
Yes, I could have clarified ‘from the Islamic world’, but pretty much every Western country that has experienced mass immigration has experienced it from there too.
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