They were fractured for 40 years until one polity just ate the other, and the East had to ideologically sort themselves into the liberal system, but the only thing everyone can truly agree on is what they fear: war, nuclear technology, and non-white people.

<Germany looks around nervously>

Your replying to someone as if they are the embodiment of this forum makes you look like a contrarian asshole. You are in the forum, forumizing. Stop acting like you’re better than anyone else here, or that this is a monolith you’re speaking to instead of a collection of individuals with diverse opinions.

Criticizing a renowned doctor who refused to publicly give a medical diagnosis about someone who isn’t a patient of theirs, and then making that judgement yourself based on youtube hot takes is not professional investigatory work, it’s sloppy and ill-timed.

“It’s not about x, it’s about y” is always suspect, there can be multiple reasons for anything, and in this case the former is racism and the latter is a disease you looked into a little online. Saying “he actually did a lot of harm” is dismissive toward ongoing debates in the academic and black and black academic communities, it’s saying ‘none of that harm was real, but look at this other community I’m also not a part of being harmed’.

To be clear, you are probably right, I mean, it was always an incredible story, I also assumed it was at least slightly bullshit, but I just think investigating whether people are as autistic as they say they are is a bad path to go down. You yourself said that autistic people sometimes feel a need to exaggerate their symptoms in order to get recognition of their disability, and with Arday you might think we have a prime example of that, yet without evidence or credentials, you say he was actually neurotypical, giving us a prime example of why autistic people sometimes do this.

OK, maybe, but I hate that. It’s fucking over the ability for journalists to benefit from scoops, from doing longer and deeper investigations. People who don’t understand the value of asking questions are not exactly on a path of self reflection.

Not really needed here though.

Where is it needed? Where do we need more covert racism and poor reasoning? Which part of the media ecosystem is running low on lies and clickbait?

If my friend sent me a long retelling of a wedding I missed and inside the message there was a weirdly placed hyperlink to a public post, by one of the bridesmaids or whatever, that had more info and pictures and a different interpretation of events, and then I find out my friend never went to the wedding, and actually never met the couple, I would be upset. Is all I’m saying. I don’t see a need for it.

We all say protect journalism, it’s dying… But, fuck these basement dwellers, if you want my respect as a journalist, do some journalism. I know Reason actually does have journalists, they might suck or not I’m not sure, but this here is not a piece of journalism.

It’s very common, not just in forums, but I don’t like when people share things with me without doing the bare minimum of clicking on the hyperlink to the original reporting, the primary source, the first version of history. It’s not that difficult, they obscure it a little sometimes, it might even require an internet search or two. But it puts more attention and focus on the people actually investigating those in power instead of those that just sit on the sidelines and produce hate porn to steal all the air in the room.

It’s easy to blame capitalism and greed, but I think that’s an insufficient explanation. This is genocidal behavior, from the bottom rung to the top. Profit is a cherry on top; these people want power, real physical power to prey on people without consequences.

Tom Kean’s story is believable. He was in the hospital for most of it and informed the speaker early of his exact condition. House members just aren’t as critical, individually, as well. The only thing I’m mad at is how much better healthcare he received than the vast majority of americans.

My personal belief is that there have never been and will never be any crimes committed against pervert-glasses wearers. I’m convinced I will never see one, they don’t exist. In fact, just last night I didn’t see two crimes committed against them, neither in the face nor in the balls.

I think we’re all going about this backwards. The glasses directly out perverts in public, and the same anti-pervert tech our grandparents and great grandparents used are still reliable. Apple is doing half our work for us.

I think you’re confusing an accounting tool, called double entry booking, for services offered by a bank. Every accounting software allows for tracking expenses and incomes in virtual ‘accounts’ that have little to do with the credit offered by banks. For example, ‘dry cleaning’ could be the name of an expense account, despite the dry cleaners not offering you an actual bank account.

Oh yeah, just like what happened in 2021-2025 right? Everyone should vote, it’s the least you could possibly fucking do for your neighbors, it’s literally free, there is no good reason not to fight back politically. From a historical perspective though, that really never works at this point. Trump is a symptom, not a cause. The underlying cause is a decaying empire which is no longer able to extract wealth from the third world to support the core.

Tax breaks, tariffs, stock buybacks, etc are being used to liquidate the economy rather than build anything. They make no sense from a nation building perspective because of the ‘opportunity cost’ associated with them: an equally sized investment rather than a debit would have increased in value over time. The infrastructure, schooling, the entire natural ecosystem, they are all being decimated because the US is being liquidated by billionaires on private islands. Natural disasters and rising unemployment, hunger and poverty will all increase until the us military is defeated.

I absolutely get your point though, and agree, that we shouldn’t just give up. I think understanding the long term outlook is important context though. Despite the larger trends, victories will be had, on the local level, on the state level, maybe even the national level, and those victories are meaningful, they are worth fighting for.

If anything, his death is going to mollify people. This is the height of public outrage, and nothing has happened yet. I don’t foresee any kind of armed resistance until things get way worse materially, maybe 5-10 years.

I’m at the point where it’s like, what does it matter? What would more evidence do? I don’t even see this as a mistake anymore. If the Trumps get the case to the supreme court, they will enrich themselves further, and there’s just no downside to losing, other than more evidence of crimes coming out. Why would they be worried about that though

He definitely has a ranking system. Somebody should print out the top 20 porn categories and have him come up with punishments for each.

Those are his knuckles maybe

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