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@micsolana @TheArgumentMag *systematic

@TheArgumentMag haha damn, wild coming out in favor of literal systemic racism, but I appreciate the honesty!

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@OGVlonaldTrutin @ShitpostGate You're taking 145 too literally, but even then you have the marginal benefit of survival time. A baby that can survive longer is more likely to be rescued alive, or for the parent to return in time.

Not to be a dick but that’s not really how evolution works There has to be a marginal benefit for each genetic change (or extreme luck)… since there is no marginal benefit between surviving a 110 degree car and a 120 degree car when the car is 145 degrees, most likely babies will continue to die in cars and never evolve to survive them

@peterboghossian The issue with vigilantism is that, while it's not difficult to think of situations where vigilantism would be warranted, society would need to thread the needle so those instances attract vigilantes, while avoiding an explosion of vigilantism for the mundane.

@peterboghossian The steelman version of this is that rightwing x doesn't want vigilantism, but thinks (most likely, correctly) that once vigilantism reaches critical mass, the justice system will be forced to self correct. The most dubious thing about this is the "reach critical mass" part.

Much of rightwing X is demanding vigilante justice for suspected wrongdoers and suspension of habeas corpus and Miranda rights. It's as if they learned absolutely nothing from far left lunatics who made people's lives hell for the last decade by broadly attempting exactly that.

@JasonLavigneAB Fighting systemic racism with systematic racism.

Too late. In 2017, as part of my license with the Upper Canada Law Society (now the Ontario Law Society), I had to take a DEI based module that told me that my male white privilege needed to be recognized because it is intimidating. I asked fellow classmates, they didn't get the same requirement. I was the only white male in my class. Critical Race Theory, the predecessor to DEI, was started by a Harvard Law professor in the 80s. It claimed to address systemic racism. However, it created the systemic racism we see today. DEI is now amplifying it.

@avidseries Why would "economic and financial power" matter in a purely civilian war? In that situation, if one region can effectively energize their fighting population and blitzkrieg, they win. No one starts with tanks, planes, or any military asset. Just people. Silly hypothetical tbh.

Assuming it was purely a civilian conflict without any US military involvement, 3 would win. It has more economic and financial power, and a smarter population (its mean IQ is somewhere between 5 to 10 IQ points higher than that of 2).

@AustinPND69 That's right. The fact that birthright citizenship is a suicide pact does not mean it's the judiciary's place to reinterpret the law. Congress needs to act. Unfortunately, half of congress is the stupid party, and the other half is the traitor party.

"Chinese anchor babies bombing American military bases is actually what the founders envisioned, chud. Also the President is allowed to grant legal status to millions of illegals with a phone app and his successor isn't allowed to cancel it. It's called originalism, btw."

@brent_bellamy No, you twisted Marxist, the government stealing less of your money is not the same is "subsidizing" something.

For 15 years, Canadians have overwhelmingly purchased large SUV’s and pickup trucks knowing the price of gas will always increase and be volatile. Maybe instead of subsiding that, we invest in public transit so people have the option to not drive everywhere for everything.

@jonatanpallesen Many 2s know it and are just rent seeking/selfishly want state-subsidized labor.

Support for mass immigration to Europe falls in two main categories: 1. Humanitarian - "wir schaffen das" Being kind-hearted to refugees and poor foreigners. The flip side — not being cold-hearted in individual heart-tugging cases — is even stronger. This is further enshrined in things like the refugee convention and the convention on human rights. 2. Economic - "we need workers" As the working-age population shrinks, an influx of workers would be extra valuable. ------ There are many arguments against the mass immigration to Europe. Crime, rape, cost, Islamification, corruption, and so on. But what I see as most important is that the two pro-immigration categories fail *even based on their own values*. The humanitarian argument fails because the current system of mass immigration is an exceedingly ineffective way of actually helping foreigners. The easiest way to see this is the cost. One single Muslim or African immigrant costs more than €500,000 over a lifetime. And then about the same for every one of their children. There are far, far more effective ways of giving humanitarian aid to people around the world who are most in need. The economical argument fails even more easily. Given the huge cost on average per immigrant (which includes those in employment), they constitute a large transfer from taxpayers. This is a large drag on the economy. It is obviously not an economic benefit to have a large drag on your economy. ------ So what is the reason that people keep having these pro-immigration views, even though they are incorrect, *even given their own values and desired goals?* The main reason is that the mainstream press has utterly failed. They have failed to inform the population of the most basic facts in the most important political topic. The degree of failure is extreme. I regularly talk to highly-educated, very well-read people, who are of the impression that immigrants to Europe are an economic benefit. A secondary reason is that there is no focused effort in trying to fix the failings of the mainstream press. Left-wing causes get enormous support. The free market right-wing also gets significant financial support. But immigration restrictionist research and advocacy gets essentially zero financial support.

@thejolson It's hard to handle woke social issue with complexity without exposing their core illiberal nature. A compelling anti-woke villain would preach equality, meritocracy, and non-discrimination. Can't have that.

Star Trek DS9 was a complex look at issues involving colonialism, racism, war, religion, PTSD, etc. Most people's issues with modern Star Trek is NOT social issues, it's that those social issues are handled with the complexity of a Saturday morning PSA with CW dialogue

@waiodolby @Fun_Viral_Vids Pretty sure the idea is that as length decreases, she's adjusting her position to facilitate deeper penetration.

@Fun_Viral_Vids I feel like these are backwards?

Regarding size Then the size matter!

@MaximeDesr93160 @JeffGraw @kpac_15 There are elements of DEI for Quebecers *and also* elitist gatekeeping in favor of bilingual anglophones.

@JeffGraw @kpac_15 The quebecers thinking they are oppressed and marginalized at every occasion because something wasnt in french is pretty much like DEI.

Under 18% of Canadians are bilingual. Every federal public worker is required to be bilingual, and they want CEO’s of major corporations to be bilingual. All I’m saying is, this is pretty much DEI in a nutshell. 😂

@jonatanpallesen See the big spike at 16 disrupting the normal distribution? A large portion of that is grown ass men lying about their age, for the purposes of: 1) Improving the odds of a successful asylum application. 2) Fatter benefits (+ scholarships) 3) Access to underage girls.

Quick, let's mass import Afghani men specifically. They seem like they are most oppressed and to be who we most want more of in our countries.

@OneIsWorse @SamoBurja t's not about violence so much as making the situation maximally unpleasant for the state and state actors. Violence does that incredibly well, but it's not the only thing that works.

@SamoBurja Elegant, but incomplete. Two-tier justice for women in the west does not come from women violently rioting.

Two-tier justice is explained by the simple political reality that you only jail individuals from communities that do not violently riot in response. If a community will violently riot modern managerial democracies will try to turn a blind eye. Less costly.

@jeremymstamper It's hard to quantify the sheer extent of the narcistic myopia needed to think that just about every human who has ever lived, throughout our entire history as a species, is "no better than the deranged murderer."

@jeremymstamper Assuming you aren't being ironic/farming, then no, you're an idiot. There is no equivalency. I won't repeat the dozens of other posts explaining why, but consider that all of human history up ~5s ago would execute the murderer, and look at you funny for suggesting otherwise.

People keep posting this but nobody has an actual solution to this problem. What are we supposed to do? Execute him?

@SashaGusevPosts Perfect example of how dogmatic leftism ruins science. They'll advance their religion over scientific accuracy, every time. (same would be true of dogmatic rightism, if it hadn't been stamped out of the academy)

Periodic reminder that there is no "crime gene" and, to the extent that criminality is a highly polygenic heritable trait, it cannot be "bred out".

@annwmac @MarcScottEmery I think the idea is that had thewy been white, there's little chance they would get off with no charges. I need to read up on the full story, but it's certainly, at least, directionally true.

@MarcScottEmery What relevance is it that they were sikhs? The drugs are the story. Not the perpetrators’ religion.

I just can’t believe 2 Sikhs were carrying enough fentanyl to kill 4 million Canadians and The Crown lays no charges. Could kill 10% of Canada’s population, the same as a major nuclear bomb. I did 5 years for seeds that had no drug quality. What the fuck is going on?

@GrageDustin Massie being popular, and being especially popularity in certain elite circles (Musk etc.), is 100% the reason Trump is targeting him. Murkowski is almost universally despised and poses no threat to Trump's ego.

It’s dumb that I even have to say this. I disagree pretty heavily with how Thomas Massie has handled a few things, but I’m with him 90+% of the time. Imagine if this same energy to remove him was directed at politicians like Lisa Murkowski, who consistently betray your values.

@AlexNowrasteh @eigenrobot How many times do you think someone should be caught lying on a particular subject before benefit of the doubt is retracted? Even if years from now you arrive at something difficult to assail, it wouldn't matter. Working backwards from conclusions is p-hacking, and worthless.

@eigenrobot It’s from a different paper with an updated time range and newer methods. You wouldn’t know that because you don’t read anything. Now, why don’t you tweet about how you’re really smart 30 or 40 times in a row like you usually do so we can all move on?

hes still posting it its amazing