Dan Hall

@ArthurKolchak They feel closer to God and closer to other believers by taking an almost ecstatic relationship to imagined life, while often ignoring the real people about them that need help (but not always.)

Honest question: is there a third option for understanding pro-lifer motivations that isn’t “they believe abortion is murder” or “they secretly want to control women”? Those are the only two that seem to have any prominence in the discourse, and I’m not certain either is completely adequate.

@MackLatimerTX Let the free market build them where they won't antagonise communities.

The data center fight really shows how our politics too often misses the point. We have the pro data center side that wants to use government power (eminent domain, subsidy, and tax abatements) to build as many data centers as possible. Then we have the anti data center side that wants to use government power (bans, zoning, and ordinances) to stop data center construction at all costs. Both of these sides are wrong. They miss the beauty of the free market. The free market assigns resources more efficiently and effectively than any other system we have seen. And even more importantly, it doesn't violate people's rights. Let people sell their land. Let people build. Let people innovate. Never let people take your rights. What am I missing?

@elvenmaidinn Unfortunately it has become more and more prominent.

@ActusAffectus Low effort answer, without any argument, probably written by AI.

The biggest Enemies of Art and Artists are AI Haters. Unfortunately it has become more and more prominent. And the reason why is a very simple, huge chunk (not all, so we are clear), are raging not because they care about Art and Artists, but because they wish to score social points. Sad but true.

@MatthewTortora_ Fanciful daydreaming Just build the data centres away feom people

It’s beyond frustrating that the anti-ai crowd use electricity concerns (both grid pressure, and emissions) to try and argue against data center construction, when both issues are easily solved via fission power, which we lack because of people with the same degrowth mindset 40 years ago

@MatthewTortora_ Has AI been trained on stolen and copyrighted material where the original artists and writers will never be compensated?

You literally cannot reason with AI luddites It’s not an ideological or political disagreement, it’s a social contagion that’s aligned against innovation. It’s never been about water, or electricity, but the triumph of innovation and humanity. It’s psyops in existential warfare

@KaeleyT Should he be approaching sex as something his wife is entitled to find enjoying? This weird prohibition on his entitlements cancels the other out too.

Dear men, As a general rule, if you make sex enjoyable for your wife, she will want more of it. There are exceptions to the rule, (trauma histories, medical issues, intimacy breakdowns, etc), but broadly speaking, this is a good place to start. If she knows you’re approaching sex as something to which you are entitled as opposed to an opportunity to bless, it’s probably not going to inspire feelings of romance.

@Seanfrank Data centres contain machines that become old and redundant far faster than nuclear plants' own technology.

I don’t know why data centers have become this generations nuclear power. Unlike nuclear power, there is a 0% chance that a data center can lead to any sort of disaster scenario. This project in Utah is: - in an uninhabited area - bought and repurposed water already in use - is bringing its own power, so it won’t cost citizens anything It’s like being against building a nuclear power plant in the middle of Nevada, except there is no radioactive waste. No fall out. No risk of anything. It’s a big computer in the middle of nowhere, that is self sufficient in all resources. There are a million real problems in America. Data centers just aren’t one.

@KaeleyT Who is society? Women harass women, women set unrealistic standards for women.

A man can go to work faithfully every day as an architect and bring home money to provide for his family. Society will praise him as a healthy role model, an invested father, an ideal husband. His ambition is righteous. A woman can go to work faithfully at that same job, and society will respond differently. They’ll accuse her of trying to be a boss babe. They’ll ask her why she’s outsourcing her parenting to strangers. They’ll insist she’s unqualified, a DEI hire that’s dragging down efficiency. Her ambition is selfish. It’s fascinating how quickly “providing for your family” stops being noble the moment a woman does it.

@JessPected Ha, the obvious problem for you is all these men are happy to choose a less intelligent, and less demanding partner than you. Having demands for men only makes you compete with highly intelligent and capable women. The men are playing this game right.

Yes, women see men as actual people so they want a peer, not livestock to extract labor from. They want someone they find interesting, not a fawning, empty prop to soothe their insecurities about their inadequacies. That's the difference.

@FischerKing64 It is a fantasy that there is a coherent philosophy behind it...

Court-packing is a completely mainstream view on the political left now. They see it as entirely justified because they are unhappy with recent decisions. They're not interested in the "judicial philosophies" behind the opinions - they just want their way. They're refreshingly honest about this.

@jess_ann_pin Then why do gay men have lower rates of the origin of domestic violence is men?

Lundy Bancroft showed that domestic violence is predicted by ideology. It’s been shown that endorsement of sexual violence is predicted by ideology. Basically all bad male behavior is predicted by ideology. But men* bang on that it’s in their nature and that you’re just a misandrist if you challenge the ideology that predicts their bad behavior. 😂 *Not all men. Obviously men who don’t subscribe to harm-predicting ideology aren’t the problem here.

@Xingqiu50765644 @Ravnnnnnnnnnn @CathyReisenwitz @poe_collector This is a claim.

@Ravnnnnnnnnnn @CathyReisenwitz @poe_collector La pornografía es la forma más extrema de patriarcado.

As porn went online violence against women fell precipitously. Try again.

@deux_ex_max @denimneverdies Women would just raise their sons not to enslave others. My parents did this just fine

It’s not slavery, sorry. These were social norms that women were largely bought into, that they themselves both enforced and earnestly believed. You can ask any elderly ethnic women whether she thought herself a “slave” to her man, she’d say no. Stop trying to project your gay modern consent-obsessed societal norms onto historical women.

Marriage wasn't invented for people to codify a loving relationship, it began as a system of sex slavery, the legal ownership of women. It wasn't so much that same sex marriage was illegal but that the institution until very recently was not designed with partnership in mind

@msmaureen90 @LisaBritton Yes. Because power predicts sexual access for men.

@ActusAffectus @LisaBritton Single men are power hungry too.

I spoke with two senior UN officials in New York City, in town for the UN General Assembly in September, who revealed a troubling reality: the UN’s obsession with one-sided gender equality has morphed into systemic discrimination—against men. Within the organization, hiring and promotion decisions right up to the top are increasingly driven by identity rather than merit. If you're a young man today hoping to secure a job in the UN, there's no doubt that it will be difficult. Gender parity has already been reached and maintained since 2018 (50% women) in senior-level roles, and 60% of field staff are women today. Yet when there’s a selection process, those hiring must indicate that women have received due consideration and, in the case that a man is preferred, 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘺. As a woman myself, I find this infantilizing. It suggests that women need a handicap to compete, undermining the very equality the UN claims to champion. Ignoring men’s issues while mandating justifications for hiring them isn’t equality. That's bias and sexism dressed up in progressive jargon. Read more: eviemagazine.com/post/the-un-is…

@iliosanthropos @ChristianHeiens @EmpireEnjoyer3 The pleasure inherent to a man's prostate is a natural pleasure that is consonant with the normal and natural laws of pleasure. Why it's almost like it was designed that way.

@ChristianHeiens @EmpireEnjoyer3 Naturally, Law is supposed to reflect the virtues of society. In a putrid and consumerist society it is normal that legislation is passed in favor of homosexuals, foreign agents and corporations.

Plato condemns homosexuality in The Laws and points out that no great lawgiver would ever condone it.

@ChristianHeiens A man who experiences pleasure with his prostate cannot be compared to a woman who doesn't even have a prostate. Plato misses the biological distinction that is essential to the pleasure.b

@AntiCommieBecca Is there really such a thing as a wholly bad culture? If it's been passed on generation to generation it's at least good in the way it has the strength to perpetuate itself You need to be able to narrow down to specifics

I really think conservatives need to be better about differentiating between race and culture. This is how liberals pressure conservatives into silence. They make everything a racial thing when it is a cultural thing. And they do this purposely. There is no such thing as a bad race, but there is a such thing as a bad culture. Every time liberals make something about race, conservatives should correct them. Why do liberals assume all people with a given skin color are the same? THAT is racist! How can you assume billions all over the world are exactly the same & are either good or bad? Where is the evidence for that? But smaller cohorts in which individuals can each be judged CAN be determined to be good or bad. See the difference?

@3gpmh It's also very heteronormative Women exclude men who aren't earning access to their living Gay men don't have this barrier

how grotesque is the expression “earn a living”

@2Philosophical_ Why can't it be wrong relative to humans? I don't see anyone writing about the evils of female spiders eating their mates- which is killing+sex+cannibalism... because morality is relative not realist

Simple proof of moral realism: 1. Torturing babies for fun is in-itself wrong. 2 If torturing babies for fun is in-itself wrong, then moral realism is true. So, 3. Moral realism is true. Easy peasy.