@fleshsimulator I mean look, if the highway junction has a proper amount of class, we'll claim it as our own.
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Mike Lemmer
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Mike Lemmer
@MikeLemmer
Freelance game writer, fan of D&D, Paranoia, CoC, and various computer games.
Katılım Haziran 2009
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A neighborhood you move to “for the schools” vs a highway junction that nobody lives in and does enormous amounts of business?
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@fleshsimulator It's absurdly heartwarming seeing how many vicious factions will accept the people they hate so long as they hate the same people too.
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The antisemite community is fucked up they don’t even care if you’re Jewish as long as you’re antisemitic
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@xwanyex It's natural to care more about something when you have "skin in the game". More importantly, you care about it in a rounded, pragmatic way, rather than slamming hard to the side of whatever ideology you're favoring.
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Either it’s true that people on average become more invested in the future after becoming parents or it isn’t. Nothing hinges on whether you think it’s pathetic.
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As a dad, I've always found it rather pathetic that some people need to get children first before they can properly care about 'the future'.
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@xwanyex Someone can be very pro-social and a jerk, too. It just means they hide their jerkness more. I suspect the voting preferences is less about the "jerk" and more about the "anti-social".
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If nice, good, moral people run on a platform of closing the border, then I will vote for nice, good, moral people. If only antisocial jerks run on closing the border, then I will have no choice but to vote for antisocial jerks.
People who think that electing antisocial jerks is an existential risk should think very long and hard about the fact that many Americans agree with this calculus.
MrGoldBeaver@MrGoldBeaver
@xwanyex Lmao. How we differ, you think this country has lost its soul because it has more Brown people, I think this country has lost its soul because it elected someone who can arguably be called the Antichrist. And by the people who claim to be the most virtuous.
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@eigenrobot They have to rescue the President because the still-in-Office Mayor kidnapped him to demand more federal funding.
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escape from new york and escape from la were both misguided in imagining those cities will become isolated from the outside.
actually, this will be done by the local governments to keep net taxpayers from fleeing
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BREAKING: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani plans to raise NYC’s property taxes for the first time in more than two decades and is looking to raid the city’s reserve funds to fill a roughly $5 billion budget gap, per Bloomberg.
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@wil_da_beast630 ...You want to place bets on how many pro-Islam posts this profile made during the Gaza War?
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Is it.....conservative white women backing Islam and men in the loo?
And, by the way, why "white women?"
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This isn't a bad idea.
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@wil_da_beast630 Gotta love how they interpret "I think we've gone too far" as "I want all progress rolled back thousands of years".
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@wil_da_beast630 I've heard @RodeoProfessor argue beavering was actually -much- more important for the economy, given how much it drove mapping out the frontier & thus paved the way for settling the Wild West.
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"Slavery was no more important for the...economy than (world-leading) brewing or sheep farming, but we do not usually hear the claim that 'Brewing financed the industrial revolution' or 'Farming sheep financed the industrial revolution (Niemietz 2024).'"
*From my notes, it looks like I added "world-leading" based on some metrics from the era, and he's talking mostly if not entirely about the UK - but thoughts on this general point? Whaling, beavering, Native trade, gold and iron, etc could sub here.
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@wil_da_beast630 Is the dark secret that you could do this to basically -any- group, regardless of ethnicity or social status, and that the poor are usually targeted because they're slightly less risky?
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@wil_da_beast630 I know that may sound crazy, but given the amount of straight-up snubbing of detransitioners- many of whom I assume are the same upper middle class types most transgenders come from- I kinda suspect they would've just destroyed anyone who complained regardless of social status.
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The core issue here is social class and the banality of evil.
Look up Tuskeegee Institute, which oversaw the entire "Tuskeegee Experiment" and never blew the whistle once. That's a well-known...top-few-hundred ranked...historically BLACK college founded by Booker T.
WE HAVE NO FRIENDS/BY ANY MEME NECESSARY@CLG98264897
Tuskegee 🧪🥼 study, experiment smh...
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@wil_da_beast630 Wait... he's saying the official census literally created -more- ethnic groups so some of them could get special benefits, and everyone was surprised this caused explosive friction between the two groups? Even the Communists whose entire schtick is inequality causes violence?
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Welcome them all BACK, whites!!!
LITERALLY ALL OF THESE PEOPLE GROUPS, MANY HERE IN 30-40% THE SAME PERCENTAGE, WERE WHITE UNTIL 1970!!!
Like, not my circus, but my banter-among-brothers take on this has never been a lie.
Steve Sailer@Steve_Sailer
@JamesSurowiecki The feds created Hispanic "ethnicity" for the 1970 Census so Hispanics could get affirmative action without having to admit themselves nonwhite. South Asians were cut from the white race in 1980 so they could get low interest SBA loans. Same for MENA in 2030: Flight From White.
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@romanhelmetguy The problem with authority is way too many of us quickly go nuts with any amount of power. Or slack off. Or both.
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@romanhelmetguy The problem with this reasoning is they're causing all the problems NOT because they're the only troublemakers, but because they're the ones with the most power. Topple them and the NEXT 300 will become the top dogs & start causing problems.
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@SwipeWright It'll never stop being darkly hilarious that the UK police are locking people up for hate crimes left & right but refusing to lock up immigrant rapists because it'd be bad press for the government.
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@SwipeWright The worst part of living in a surveillance state is how worthless it seems to be for stopping actual crime.
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This is absolutely wild. The hockey game mass sh**ter in Pawtucket, RI, who sh*t 5 people, kiIIing 2, is a "trans woman" named Robert (aka "Roberta") Dorgan.
Just yesterday he posted twice on X hinting that he might "go fkn BERSERK."
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@wil_da_beast630 That is, of course, assuming you HAVE to out-monster the monster to survive.
"Be slightly evil" could be useful advice here. There's a whole gradient between "naive" and "sociopath".
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Of course killing is better than dying.
This only becomes a question if someone convinces you sheep go to magic pastures, as he says later (my line was better).
Friedrich Nietzsche Notebook@QuoteNietzsche
Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?
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@wil_da_beast630 The minority women will be cowed into compliance after they see what was done to the white women.
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@JacobAShell The fact it wraps around a corner is the brutal part. Unless you're staring at it straight-on, you lose track of which line's the next one so quickly.
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I's indistinguishable from L's and T's. E's indistinguishable from F's. Multiple words get disjointed--not just on one plane but two.
Truly, one of the most headache-inducing reading experiences I've ever had.
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@wil_da_beast630 I have serious questions about the number of places there where one country has a count 3-140x its neighbor.
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This gets into my point about how crime data - yes, awkwardly, including rape and DW - is calculated.
India does now have a lower rate of VAWG than Iowa. Come on.
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