@politicalmath@AshRust This shit is why I can’t take modern conservatives seriously. They dont believe in anything. Already making excuses for the inevitable pardons and lack of accountability. They don’t believe in law and order one ounce. Chuds through and through
@tracewoodgrains Personally I appreciated that he let us know how disgusted he is instead of writing in a faux neutral tone. He still makes the arguments clearly so what’s the problem
@mbateman@bubbling_creek@tracewoodgrains Person A: I assert sweeping dismissal of thesis of incredible moral importance, and if you disagree you’re evil and stupid
Person B: Wtf, it’s incredibly morally important to get it right and the stupid/evil accusation is demonstrably wrong
@SarahTheHaider Pinker has not even bothered to understand the arguments of the people he confidently “refutes” and mocks. Frankly the scorn against him is well justified
@SarahTheHaider Its a humorous way to describe his distaste at Pinker’s low quality contributions to the discourse. Should I judge you as an unclear thinker because you’re reacting this way to Scott’s joke?
@anagenxyz@cavepaleo Have you done any study on combination with microneedling. As in- is it possible to do ie min+microneedling without also causing the topical duta to go systemic?
@jon_stokes Why do you assume a hypothetical model that can exfiltrate itself can never break and spoof the metering it runs on. It doesn’t have to “cost” anything. Obviously it takes energy and hardware, but you can hide a whole lot of it under false monitoring and negligence
@Urlandlord74011@bryan_caplan no, this is the post hoc rationalization. the bill was expected to pass until trump killed it. the bill didn't allow 5k/day (not 10k), it added a tripwire to automatically shut it down completely once 5k/day encounters (not crossings) were reached. the previous limit was infinity
@serenityposting@atlanticesque@tracewoodgrains I don’t like mass migration but negative is also bad, and having ICE as an extrajudicial paramilitary is especially bad. But again even if I agreed with you, it’s not worth losing the empire, our allies, rule of law, and gaining cronyism, corruption, war in Iran, increased prices
@serenityposting@atlanticesque@tracewoodgrains Trump scuttled the immigration bill that would’ve solved it so he could run on it, so he’s part of the problem. He still hasn’t passed any laws to fix it despite holding every branch of gov.
But yes, I’m smart enough to be able to prioritize
@atlanticesque@tracewoodgrains Yes, putting the moron, fraudulent elector plotting, institution destroying, utterly corrupt, criminal, Donald Trump, who has predictably fucked us on the global stage, in office, was a huge overreaction.
I knew these numbers but I had my head on straight and voted for Kamala
@NateSilver538 You’ve got the causality flipped. It’s not democrats trying to make a big deal about the reflecting pool, it’s the reflecting pool striking a chord with voters so it gets talked a lot about. One of the few tractable issues that serves as a synecdoche for Trumps utter dysfunction
@SarahTheHaider afaict doge proved that there isn’t much fraud, waste and abuse anywhere outside the entitlement programs they were too scared to touch