Carthaged

DezNats is an incredible term id never heard before

Im pretty skeptical the west goes back to pro immigration like it did in the Neo lib era regardless of Trump/short term thermostatic poling. It was so obviously fake in the 2019/2021 period, no real popular movement behind it but ostensibly popular because of the great thermostat

This is very close to how I understand what’s happening, with the main cleavage between us who understand some of how modernity works and those who exist in but have no interest in why it works

I’m not saying it would be ideal!

Or what if we didn’t have a Supreme Court? Let the 11 territorial circuits develop into independent realms, albeit the scheme awkwardly separates ny and nj and unites us with Vermont but that’s ok

I like the word sigmoid, it took me a second to figure out what it was but now I’m a fan

Guys is it biased to favor a shared sense of objective reality

People who are bad at reading don’t read, and the written word is still where we hide most of the good information. Do your own research means something very different to me from someone who hates reading. I’m going to access multiple annoying sources until I understand it, they’ll watch a video.

I couldn’t have put it as succinctly, but I had a similar realization and it made me appreciate the humans we have on here more

Street View image of property

Archaeological Site of Carthage (Tunisia)

I was pretty happy to be right that Eric Adams would reach operatic levels of corruption, and selling out the city to Trump to avoid consequences for a previous corruption scandal counts.

I don’t disagree it’s skill issue, and I hope it’s clear that I’m opposed to sex reparations.

But this makes incels feel worse, not better. It’s not just that you don’t have a girlfriend, even if you do, it’s that someone else has a sex obsessed girlfriend who wants to have sex all the time and you don’t. I didn’t hate the article

I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to suggest all southerners were racist or all red staters. There are racists everywhere, Long Island is full of places that were/are 2nd Klan towns.

I struggle with the concept inherent evil, and wasn’t going quite that far. I’m deeply uncomfortable about expressing judgment about people’s life choices - I think that was part of the zeitgeist in the 2010s, but you still see it with the reflex to post “some people can’t afford to leave the south”

I wonder sometimes how much of that attitude is downstream of insisting that no one inherently is bad. For a decade, we tried hard to believe no one was evil or bad, simply misguided or perhaps mentally ill. Every choice a person could make was rationalized and declared a product of circumstances

How could an adult be surprised to discover the human factor exists? They couldn’t really be, so that’s a strange affect. Is that the nativity?

I’ve never knowingly given my phone number to a politician campaign, but somehow I am asked for money by the Colin Allred campaign in July of an off year. The party only knows how to ask for money.

He gonna flee to Saudi with the bitcoin

Thoughts and prayers, for real

Can you say more about it? I’d never heard of it, what do they need lawyer volunteers for?

Something Awful, 4chan, and GameFAQs are to 2015-2025’s internet what the Mexican-American War was to the American Civil War and the Spanish Civil War was to World War II.

I like that she picked a brand that’s been unambiguously famous since babe ruth

Yes but some of us here do understand things, and it’s nice to be in a place with any reasonable people at all (given the alternatives)

I think they could try to send it back to the states seeing as it “worked so well” for Dobbs, Trump convinced enough people he wouldn’t do a national ban that I think it made a difference.

Super awkward moment when you forget you have a pocket knife in your backpack and you arrive at federal court. They made me throw it away

Same, people give me book recommendations sometimes here it’s the best

So weird how the white racists who say they couldn’t be racists because they claim that East Asians are better at math tests than white people managed that

Haven’t read him in a minute so not sure if this tracks the theory, but I can imagine the next phase as the children of hyperelites that are unable to attend the ivies because of sheer number of good applicants declaring even more forcefully that they are the elect anyway because genes

I did not know that sad post script, damn Javaris Crittenden.