socialist with histrionic characteristics WAGTFKY
CA
Joined July 2023
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Banning a kind of business is “fundamentally illegitimate” (whatever that means), man! I should be able to hire hitmen and start a sex trafficking operation! Those aren’t “ontologically evil” (whatever that means), dude! And neither are world destruction factory centers!
Data center bans/moratoriums strike me as fundamentally illegitimate.
It's perfectly fine to pass laws that regulate specific harms. Regulate pollution, noise, etc. Make sure the local infrastructure is in place, sure.
But to pass a blanket ban on an entire type of business isn't regulating harms, it's just marking that business as ontologically evil. What they're doing is so beyond the pale it's NEVER acceptable. Which is ridiculous for a business as mundane as data centers.
A bunch of people have watched slop videos and now believe that data centers are, in essence, demonic. It's absurd. Again, regulating specific harms is fine. But if a farmer wants to build data centers on the land they own, local busybodies shouldn't be able to just make that illegal.
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New, from me in @TheArgumentMag today: we need to move away from “respect me!” politics on trans rights, and towards an ethic of pluralistic tolerance.
Seeing a lot of the same people who have said “primaries don’t tell you ANYTHING about how the general will go” now raising the alarms over the narrow margin in the MI SEN primary. I’m not goomba-ing, it really is the same people.
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The level of wilful blindness and emotional immaturity when discussing the 9/11 attack -- a full 25 years later -- is stunning.
The US wasn't chosen randomly. OF COURSE decades of US violence and dominance of the region played a significant role in the attack. Forcing people to pretend this isn't true out of some solemn reverence for this attack is repressive and deceitful. It'd be like saying that Israeli violence and repression played no role in the Oct. 7 attacks.
Even the CIA has a doctrine to observe this causal relationship (blowback). Identifying the cause of X is totally unrelated to the question of whether X is justified.
It's good to see that these dumb attacks are losing their potency as the candidate who said it -- Melat Kiros -- basically won a Congressional seat last night in Colorado, defeating a worthless Democratic incumbent pointlessly filling that seat for 30 years.
Colorado Democratic Socialist candidate called 9/11 terror attacks 'inevitable' due to US foreign policy trib.al/b31PcMB
It is really weird behavior to publicly post screenshots of your conversations on dating apps barring the person saying something genuinely disgusting. Yes trans people, including you. Stop!
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The Manhattan Institute actually profiled this guy, presenting him as a superior analyst than mainstream election experts, and then you look at his feed and he thought Talarico would lose to Crockett and also told his audience that Jack Ciattarelli had a good chance of winning in New Jersey (he lost by double digits). These people sure hate DEI but are themselves the beneficiaries of a kind of right-wing version that elevates people not based on political acumen or intelligence but based on whoever offers the most soothing (delusional) takes. Extra points if you dump vitriol on the right groups of people.
I’ve seen at least 10 decent-sized conservative accounts claim that Karmelo Anthony’s verdict would bring about large, destructive riots. I wonder if they’ll retract that when it continues to not happen.
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Kinda wanna go see Backrooms, purely because it could be described as Kane Parson’s Project
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I still think we should stick with Platner despite his concerning (past?) flaws, but I’m not liking some of the responses I’m seeing to this article. Seems a little wild to assume everything Fifield said is a straight-up lie, and I’ve seen multiple people call her a whore.
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Some “leftists” are a little too comfortable using historically female-targeted insults and slurs disproportionately toward women. “Bitch” is acceptable if used toward both genders, “cunt” is a little spicy, but “whore” and “slut” are insane to use.
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Since the libs are already mad at me, I’ll poke the bear and say the anti-public-sector-union takes amount to effectively wishing for an end to the American labor movement—that’s just the reality when private sector unionization is ~6%.
I’m sure I’ll get some “yes” chad face replies and quotes, but be careful what you wish for; liberal democracy under capitalism but without unions has often been pretty politically unstable! People want a democratic say in their economic life; unions offer this. Without unions, allegiance to liberal democracy itself declines, because people feel (reasonably) without resource to have a say in where they spend a third of their lives—at work.
If you’re frustrated with the policy demands of some public sector unions, find compromises. Offer them something else in exchange! Do a little horse trading.
Better yet, reform and expand American labor law through things like sectoral bargaining so unions aren’t so often in zero-sum situations where they feel obligated to cling to existing jobs for existing members, because they don’t have a strong path to organizing new workplaces and finding good new union jobs for workers that would be displaced by, say, automating trains.
