Seriously thinking of joining "no object level takes" gang
While whatever the take is *about* is probably a real thing, caring about it is 100% fake every single time
Everything is calvinball, caring about it at all is to buy a kayfabe
Pretty much the same story as everywhere else, pimps and panderers systematically corrupting the political process via the "two levers". Worth remembering that if it weren't these ethnoreligious gangs, it would have been someone else; the incentives here corrupt anyone.
Rollo nails it here. So many things are clarified by "If it wasn't X, it would be something else". Always have to look deeper at the incentives behind substitute good consumption, as they determine aggregate outcomes.
@eigenrobot > force young men to sit in chairs and be quiet for hours on end for 12 years straight during formative years
> Why is nobody having sex???
They don't need sex ed, they need to drop the mandatory discouragement classes.
@MostlyMonkey Just two lovers on the federal payroll (FBI). Both the white nationalist movement and SPLC have long been riddled with informants if not full agents.
Community Relations Services seem to be a cornerstone of the modern western state. tabloid running an article britains version, which unsurprisingly seems to be running amok
trump probably cant actually kill off the US CRS incidentally, bless him for trying
Everyone they conquered were also those things, but with more onerous tax policy too. It's why the caliphate in the expansion phase is generally seen as a positive force by historians. Beat the alternative in the ways that mattered.
@tr0g So much idiocy like this from the left. You could clap every american in chains, confiscate all wealth and still fail to pay the national debt & ongoing expenses. At least the right pretends the problem doesn't exist and happily fiddles while Rome burns.
people get that bureaucracies are fucking with them, and when they give up it's not just cuz compliance would be To Tedious And Bean Countery, it's because they get that compliance doesn't guarantee results because the rules aren't real
I’m hearing vague, unsourced reports of a preliminary meeting to prepare a draft of a memorandum of understanding regarding the initiation of early negotiations with Iran. This is being described as a “tentative potential breakthrough” in diplomatic relations.
> A study of 677 gifted children found that by age 50, only 12.3 percent had reached a level of “eminence,”
This is the sort of unintentionally humiliating harrumphing you get when you let an English major pretend to understand basic statistics.
"Only" 12% became *eminent*? Well, okay, that's a hundred times higher than the population at large, but I'm sure it doesn't mean anything! 🤦🏽♀️
Seeing a lot of discourse around election fraud still. If that's still the thing then the electorate has learned nothing. Public opinion influences federal policy in no way shape or form. Maybe on the local level you get something good, but thats it.