Reading every tweet, replying and quote tweeting multiple times, but outsourcing the actual act of thinking and developing an argument to grom is essentially mentally cucking yourself.
"grok win this argument for me. Make no mistakes."
@grok explain to Absurdus that whether someone gets away with something has nothing to do with who does the arguing. Explain middle voice (as opposed to active or passive voice) as it relates to this.
Imagine if your whole persona was being a tough guy who loves to argue and your response to the mildest possible challenge was "grok explain how a teacher being mean to me when I was 11 traumatized me for life."
I mean she was unreasonable I guess but if you still remember it 20 years later maybe you need to get a little harder.
This was my Picard/3 lights moment
5th grade the teacher gave us this question
Everyone except me got it wrong, including her
She got the whole class to "explain" it to me
Math is just logic, there is no ambiguity, I could not see their answer
Then she assigned a girl to take me aside and lecture me
Most Soviet experience of my life, including my north Korea trip
At parent/teacher conference she told my folks that she thought about it later that night and realized I was right
Never said anything to me or apologized in front of the class
In a free society she would have been put against the wall for doing what she did to a kid
Something that doesn't get talked about enough is that it's morally highly questionable to publicly accuse someone of something without sufficient evidence, even if you personally know it to be true.
There is an idea that medicine "keeps you healthy." It doesn't. Medicine is for when things go catastrophically wrong. A guy who exercises and eats well but never goes to the doctor will do better than a guy who does none of that but sees his doctor every month.
Send this to any neothomists you know who like to talk about "intrinsic evils."
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54 organizations. Only 16 are student or youth groups. So who's really driving the unrest in France?
A Fox News Digital investigation identifies a sprawling network of communist organizations, socialist political movements, labor unions and international activists helping organize, support and amplify protests that began over school conditions.
The demonstrations have grown into a nationwide confrontation, with riots, looting and attacks on public buildings. Now, an international coalition is mobilizing young people for another wave of protests across Europe.
And the connections extend well beyond France. See who's involved and how the network operates: foxnews.com/world/whos-who-i…
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Guys they're both wrong. She was being pushy to make herself seem important, he accurately read this but then responded in a disrespectful way that basically guaranteed he'd get in trouble. It's not that complicated.
It's true that many things being called for, if taken literally, are politically impossible. But people commonly mistakenly think that if you can't punish everyone then punishment won't work. That's wrong. Visible, harsh, targeted action has an outsized effect on everyone else.
A lot of people are responding to this by saying that the French government should just use force to put down the riots, but I don't think it's realistic and I want to explain why.
Before you get angry at me and accuse me of being a pussy, you should know that I personally think a building such as Limoges's town hall is worth more than most human beings and certainly more than the brainless thugs who burnt it down, but it doesn't matter what I think.
We have let things rot for so long that, at this point, relying primarily on force to restore order would require a degree of violence far greater than what people realize and what is politically feasible.
It's possible to contain a riot using only moderate force when the number of police officers is high relative to the number of rioters, but when riots are so widespread and involve so many people because you have allowed this kind of things to happen for so long, that's just not possible and you have to use extreme violence to make up for the lack of manpower.
I know people on the Internet will say that it doesn't matter and that we should just do it, but the reality is that most of the people in charge are not prepared to use that kind of force and neither would most ordinary people if they saw videos of 16-year-old kids having their brains blown out by cops.
I doubt even Le Pen would do that and, if she tried, she would quickly backtrack because of the backlash it would inevitably generate.
When you start shooting rioters after years or even decades of letting them run amok with impunity, it will initially result in even more violence, because repression is no longer credible and they will assume that you will cave in the face of the outrage.
So it's not enough to shoot people once, you have to keep doing it until your credibility is restored and nobody will even want to test your resolve anymore, which in turn means that you have to kill a lot of people.
And you have to be confident that, as you do that, your subordinates and political allies won't get cold feet and desert you because they anticipate that you'll lose and will not want to be on the losing side, giving rise to a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I'm sorry but that's just not going to happen. The Soviet hardliners didn't have the stomach for this kind of carnage in 1991, which is why the August coup failed almost immediately, so frankly the idea that French elites in 2027 will is just delusional. As I say below, there are things we can and should do, but we have our work cut out for us and it will take a long time.
If this guy knew anything about education in America he'd know that no one getting a 3.8 at a bad school would be getting a 3.9 at a good school.
If the message of Jesus Christ was "be kind to everyone" then we must surely condemn the figure in the gospels who said the most unkind things, Jesus Christ.
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