I don’t understand how the woke consensus came to be that explaining repressive norms or policies in terms of religion is taboo and explaining them in terms of culture is acceptable.
simple: blaming Islam would implicate American Muslims, blaming local culture would not.
It’s actually slightly surprising everyone was so willing to jump on the anti-Muslim bandwagon after 9/11 instead of the anti-Arab bandwagon, especially considering that was exactly what Osama bin Laden was attempting to do.
Well let’s be honest here, it wasn’t Arab Atheists that did 9/11.
"Can you believe it?" She asked, incredulously. "She had sex with her own husband!" I nodded with a scandalized look on my face, as I had become accustomed to doing. Inside, I still felt the disconnect. Cuckoldry was Feminism, Feminism was cuckoldry, and favoring your own husband was genetic chauvinism. But when I looked into my child's eyes, I knew I had made the right choice. I hated my Alpha. One day, I would destroy him.
shut up Anon and get the fuck out, I’m gonna fuck up your post now
Sword-swinging mercenaries who admire the hell out of their sister-in-law’s delicate, painstaking embroidery. Mages who find their experience with running a household helps them organize and control their magic. Desperate rebels who know they are absolutely dependent on the women who cook and mend and care for the wounded.
I am so bored of heroines who sneer at ‘womanly’ things and complain of the uselessness of embroidery. Your average medieval kingdom wouldn’t last a week without people doing women’s work.
I wonder, is this artifact where it’s devalued in part due to atomic individualism? Female-coded work is necessary for the maintenance of families and societies, especially in the agregate, but it lacks the star power of the highest-status masculine-coded work.
I feel like probably the language they were speaking was Japanese, since why would you /not/ have them speaking Japanese?
I am clueless and do not speak Japanese.
From what I heard, people were speaking Japanese, but I couldn’t clearly hear the background people in the various scenes. However, I think the movie takes place in something like a Japanese Hong Kong or Japanese Singapore, probably following a world war which shuffled the national boundaries throughout Asia.
Note: “Ghost in the Shell 2017 takes place in Japanese Hong Kong” is speculation on my part. However, some of it was filmed in actual Hong Kong, so it’s not entirely off-base.
It just sounds like the most credible explanation for why “Japan” is suddenly so multiracial, multicultural, and English-speaking that an entire team from its internal security services consists primarily of non-Japanese people who speak English.
liberals in the 90s: Chechens deserve their geographic and political freedom and their unique ethnicity fully recognized liberals during the Boston bombing: Chechens are white liberals in 2017: Chechens are Russians
I feel like probably the language they were speaking was Japanese, since why would you /not/ have them speaking Japanese?
I am clueless and do not speak Japanese.
From what I heard, people were speaking Japanese, but I couldn’t clearly hear the background people in the various scenes. However, I think the movie takes place in something like a Japanese Hong Kong or Japanese Singapore, probably following a world war which shuffled the national boundaries throughout Asia.
Assassins can’t be held responsible for the random consequences of succession. If they had their way there wouldn’t be a succession.
Otherwise why not blame everyone for NOT assassinating someone like Hitler early when they had the chance?
The justification for assassination is almost always going to have to rest on Consequentialist grounds, since it’s literally killing someone without a trial for political reasons. There WILL be a succession, so you can’t credibly claim ignorance of the fact that there would be one, and it doesn’t matter if they assassin doesn’t want one unless they can stop that succession too.. The assassin has made a choice, and they went into it knowing that they wouldn’t know all the consequences.
This is killing a head of state, or former head of state. This isn’t like some small accident resulting in a gas leak explosion you could never have anticipated. It’s going to have big consequences.
Also, there were, in fact, multiple attempts to assassinate Hitler.
I mean look, I like states. I think they’re better than whatever Anarchists will cook up. But states are fundamentally grounded in geopolitical realities based on the threat of force, in a world where multiple actors are willing to use force and you don’t know for sure whether they will. Your information is always imperfect, and if you fuck up, the end result could be global thermonuclear war.
It’s very difficult to walk out of that situation without any blood at all if you’re an ordinary human.
That doesn’t excuse Bush, but I think if you became the leader of a nation you’d take some course of action justifying the assassination of you based on your own criteria.
the idea that Trump/Brexit are purely a racism thing disregards the angst about globalisation that is taking place across the globe, not just in Anglo nations.
sure, people are racist, that’s unsurprising, but people are also exposed to economic dislocations without any sugar coating justification or vision of a hopeful future to come, it’s no surprise that they react with fear and anger.
@slartibartfastibast:
Also all that rape. But pointing it out gets you sent to racial sensitivity training. So it must be racist.
@argumate:
jesus like I said you can kick out all the brown folk and the problem will still be there, give it a rest
@slartibartfastibast:
You’re out of your mind. There are potentially a million kids getting trafficked in the UK, specifically by familial Pakistani grooming gangs. Rotherham has a tiny immigrant community that does half the child rape. What the fuck has to happen to make you acknowledge reality?
Argumate man, he’s not going to give it a rest until they actually do something about it. And it isn’t “brown people,” generic. This is a cultural thing tied to a specific ethnic group.
And part of the reason he’s not going to give it a rest until they do something about it is that ignoring the problem in an attempt to preserve the dominant Liberal Globalist ideology is driving the adoption of right-wing philosophies in America and across Europe.
There’s still time to separate it out from race, but to do that, we have to attach it to culture, and give up on the idea that all cultures are equally valuable.
@andhishorse:
Would the same people be the same amount of distressed if all the jobs were going to Western Europe, instead of various parts of Asia? If so, would the dissatisfaction with globalism be so easy to invoke, and its beneficiaries so easy to villainize?
China is a continent-spanning superstate only a few hundred thousand kilometers short of the size of America, and both of them are over nine million kilometers in size. It has three times as many people, and an authoritarian government that arose from a Communist revolution, known to engage in cyberespionage, which has more-or-less deliberately poked its straw into international finance and global capitalism in order to revitalize itself while not even fully liberalizing its economy, much less its government.
China’s government is a major rival to American global political dominance and liberal democracy on Earth.
Making Europe comparable would take a far more serious alternate history exercise than merely turning it into a fast-growing economic powerhouse.
The problem of “militant tactics just turn public opinion against you and galvanize the state” is really just a PR problem as far as I’m concerned. The problem isn’t the militant tactics themselves but the failure of propagandists to adequately explain and justify those tactics to the audience.
Hah, then you have decades of work to do before you fire a single bullet, m8.
Bad tactics aren’t always guaranteed to result in bad results long-term, it’s true, but…
People were warned, for years, that bad tactics would eventually cause bad results. Now we have the Orange Presidency, the antibiotic resistant bacteria that was foretold by those shouted down as themselves racist for advising some restraint. That was part of what made those tactics bad in the first place.
I’ve been feeling schadenfreude since November 9, 2016.
itt: poor people / mentally ill / badly assimilated non-natives wreck communities and this is Problem and pretending it isn't just because ~~Outgroup~~ thinks this too doesn't make the problem go away
not really. like, most of the point of talking about how communities are wrecked is that there should be mechanisms other than price for getting communities that aren’t. rich people can already get functional communities.
My car’s brakes were acting a bit funny, so I took my car to the mechanic. When I came back later, I asked him what the problem was. He said that the brakes were getting old, so he removed them entirely. I asked him “What the fuck? I need those brakes to stop the car!“ He replied “Oh you poor ignorant fool. Don’t you know cars stop on their own? Haven’t you ever heard of friction?“
At that point I had a hunch what was going on. I asked him “You voted for Gary Johnson in the election didn’t you?“ “Darn right“ he said. Shoulda known.
the idea that Trump/Brexit are purely a racism thing disregards the angst about globalisation that is taking place across the globe, not just in Anglo nations.
sure, people are racist, that’s unsurprising, but people are also exposed to economic dislocations without any sugar coating justification or vision of a hopeful future to come, it’s no surprise that they react with fear and anger.
“Munoz repeatedly makes reference to established procedures: “Our employees followed established procedures for dealing with situations like this.” Here we have what seems to be a nice use of the active voice: We have actors (“our employees”) and they are doing something specific. But the figures responsible for establishing procedure are nowhere to be found. Whenever possible, bureaucratic style will shift responsibility to immutable rules and directives that appear spontaneously from the ether.”
it’s funny because if employees did violate established procedures then they could take the blame, but if established procedures are responsible then really you want to chase responsibility up the chain of command until it reaches the CEO if necessary: who established the procedure, who reviewed it, who approved it, who is responsible for reviewing it, who set the overall corporate direction that led to it, etc.
What if that guy is dead?
Then they are not the officer currently in charge, unless it was the incident under review that killed them.
What if they’ve died and become a godhead that communicates through prophetic hallucination?
My office has methods for dealing with that. You don’t hear about it much because this sort of situation has only come up twice in corporate malpractice.
How can Labour supporters take a word out of Tony Blair’s mouth seriously?
Every time he appears the only question I have is “why the fuck aren’t you in front of The Hague or better yet a firing squad?”
a distributed divestment system that could be used to punish everyone who associates with warmongers would be neat.
That’s a pretty nauseatingly rationalist-ancap solution to imperialist war criminals. Just fucking shoot the bastards. What is the moral quandary there? Sic semper tyrannis.
Lots of people voted for, say, Bush. If you go out killing Bush and the others, it won’t be taken as “killing war criminals” because they don’t think Bush and the others are a war criminals. This will then be used to justify political violence by their side that they will consider retaliatory.
Or else they may start applying that calculus to other issues you don’t want them to. Some of us have seen the image of the aftermath of that truck attack in Sweden. They could start going after open borders advocates, more prominent Muslims, NGOs, and so on. Not that low-level individual violence doesn’t already occur, but it would increase.
Our time is already more fetishistic than the past. It wouldn’t be surprising for the future to be more fetishistic than the present, especially given a reduction in morphological restraints under either Transhumanism or heavy Virtual Reality.
Future-shocking readers that way, however, will actually shock them now, even though androids, ray guns, and starships operating on impossible physics don’t shock them at all.
HoneyBites, the subject of the OP is literally denying people the right to vote based on their race and sex. If you don’t think that would increase resentment, and that resentment increase racism, for whites, but you think doing the same to blacks would increase resentment by blacks, then you don’t think whites are human.
You heard it here first, everyone. Be nice to the racists, and they won’t be racist anymore. Oh wait. This is the trillionth time this tired and wrong argument has been made. ¡Felicitaciones!
Actually, a black man did manage to demobilize like 30 members of the KKK by doing exactly that. But I’ll set that aside because while admirable that is a lot of fucking work and one doesn’t actually have to go that far.
What you have to realize is that racism isn’t uniform. There are some racists that will never quit being racist. This is implied by my “background level of racism” comment, and you should be smart enough to have realized that. There will always be a background level of racism because the background level is caused by old memes and misfiring human pattern-scanning. And Richard Spencer isn’t likely to just quit being racist even if he was argued with for a decade about it.
However, your comment implies that racism is a binary, that you’re either racist or you’re not, but instead it’s more of a continuum one can move along. There are people that can be shifted, marginal racists, the swing voters of racism.
They aren’t Spencer, they lack a dogmatic commitment to racism, it isn’t part of their identity. Now the best thing would be to shift them less racist and actively drain the WN movement to its minimum possible size sustainable by background racism levels. The next best thing is to avoid shifting them further into racism, with the WN at least not growing. The second worst plan is to propose highly racist or racialist policies like “disenfranchise all white men” which will make people very, very aware of their whiteness and maleness and brand everyone else as their outgroup. The worst plan, which would result in the formation of a white ethnostate, would be to actually attempt this.
Richard Spencer needs to sell his plan to the swing racists. That’s harder to do the less true claims of white disenfranchisement and similar things are. It’s easier to do the more true such claims are.
So take this not so much as “be nice to racists”, but “be nice to people who are vulnerable to being swayed towards racism”. Had this advice been taken and something been done about US rurals as the rural white death rate climbed, Trump might have been avoided, since the white death rate by county forms a line correlating with % Trump vote. It wouldn’t have even been ideologically inconsistent to do something since many of them are working class.
If white men no longer had the vote, the progressive cause would be strengthened. It would not be necessary to deny white men indefinitely – the denial of the vote to white men for 20 years (just less than a generation) would go some way to seeing a decline in the influence of reactionary and neo-liberal ideology in the world. The influence of reckless white males were one of the primary reasons that led to the Great Recession which began in 2008. This would also strike a blow against toxic white masculinity, one that is long needed.
At the same time, a denial of the franchise to white men, could see a redistribution of global assets to their rightful owners. After all, white men have used the imposition of Western legal systems around the world to reinforce modern capitalism. A period of twenty years without white men in the world’s parliaments and voting booths will allow legislation to be passed which could see the world’s wealth far more equitably shared. The violence of white male wealth and income inequality will be a thing of the past.
Inverse the races in this and you’ll be on stormfront.
The sooner the legacy media starts proudly and openly showing their anti-white convictions, the quicker and harder the backlash will be.
“#Anti-white racism”
😂
*People of color and women are denied the right to vote for literally hundreds of years in the United States alone.*
White supremacists: *celebrate* *actively try to return to this today* *pass voter ID laws that marginalize people of color* *close offices in majority Black areas where voter ID can be obtained* *have fewer voting booths in majority POC neighborhoods* *throw people off the voter rolls if they have a name that doesn’t sound white* *strip the Voting Rights Act*
Someone: The denial of the vote to white men for 20 years would go some way to seeing a decline in the influence of reactionary and neo-liberal ideology around the world.
White supremacists: That’s racist! Can you imagine for a moment if this were the other way around?! What outrage there would be in this totally hypothetical situation that has never happened in real life! Hashtag anti-white racism!
Is this REALLY the hill you want to die on?
Yes. I’m making my way up Mount Calling Out the Hypocrisy of Racist Ideology right now. I will set up base camp here and continue in the morn’.
Stop and think about this for a moment. Right now White Supremacists are still only a small part of the population. They’re growing because throwing your borders open has consequences that can’t be ignored, but they are still small and are likely to stay relatively small for the forseeable future.
…unless, of course, you do something like this. There is a background level of racism much like there is a background level of radiation. Insomuch as it is true that the Left isn’t racist, this truth can be used to keep the racism level closer to the background level.
Insomuch as it is true that the Left is racist, that it is willing to engage in ethnonationalism or disenfranchisement, while actively seeking to replace demographics, while covering it with excuses about how this is “antiracist”, the Richard Spencers of the world will be able to point at this and up their recruitment, then fill them with false information because they no longer trust the intolerant tolerants.
I cannot imagine a faster path towards an outright race war and the formation of white ethnostates than the mass disenfranchisement of all white men, one of the more heavily-armed demographics in the world.
Right now the Left is “joking” about white disenfranchisement to “make a point”. This contributes to radicalization in an environment already prone to it since the WNs can sell their narrative of “they hate you, so you can’t trust them”. And the kinds of people engaging in this “ironic racism” are like those engaging in “ironic misandry” - they just don’t have the credibility to seem as if their “joke” isn’t meant, and they would not accept “ironic misogyny” in turn.
Right now most whites don’t actually think they’re doing ethnonationalism. They’re reacting to Rotherham, they’re reacting to truck attacks, and so on. If they openly regain racial consciousness the results could be a disaster. So campaign to punish police for racist behavior because that’s correlated with truth, but for the love of America do not publish articles like this.
Edit: And as to “yeah but what about” - as a Nationalist I think slavery was the single greatest mistake the country ever made, Jim Crow laws were terrible, etc. I was faceplaming at that redistricting in NC that was so racist it went to court - and lost. I supported cop cams too, for a reason. But none of that makes this even a remotely good idea.
The problem with intolerance of intolerance in the case of Richard Spencer is that he’s just a symptom. Most of this increase in white nationalism is a symptom. The virus has been integrated with the host DNA, but the immune system would keep it almost unnoticeable under normal conditions. But the immune system has been compromised and so has the health of the host.
You can’t praise ethnonationalism for some groups without removing the antibodies against it for all groups - people will notice your hypocrisy. You can’t treat all religions and cultures as the same.
This causes unignorable Rotherhams which will slip past your media net.
And deciding assimilation is evil precommits you to defending the worst cultures that can make it to your shores.
Do you think we're headed toward an inevitable increase in authoritarianism with the advent of the panopticon + better data processing + better weapons for urban warfare and tracking and following individual people wherever they go?
Yes.
The world is becoming ever more tractable to power and it’s hard to see that trend reversing. It’s possible that some unanticipated technological development – unbreakable encryption or something – will turn everything on its head, but I don’t think we have a shot at reversing current trends short of getting lucky like that.
I have no idea how much worse the world will actually be in this future though. Probably our current world isn’t as good as we might like to think, relative to some ideal, and probably our future won’t be as dire as some fear.
I’m still puzzled by those on the Left who don’t understand the rise in White Nationalism.
What exactly did they expect when they were cheering on “demographic destiny”? When their ideology required them to excuse terror attacks and look away from mass sex crimes? When the rurals were thrown under the bus in favor of corporations and globalization? When governing in the national interests went from an unspoken assumption to ‘chauvinism’? When the woman accompanying Charles Murray went to the hospital after the no-platforming to check on her injuries? When a foreign ideology hostile to LGBTs was excused from all criticism because of the race of who practiced it?
Will it be any mystery if Asians leave the coalition over getting smacked by Affirmative Action? Will it be any mystery if Blacks leave the coalition because tighter immigration restrictions make it easier for them to get jobs, and school vouchers make it possible to send their children to schools with problem students filtered out? Will it be any mystery if those who immigrated legally leave the coalition because it undermines what they managed to do? If centrists leave because of the support for open borders?
There is one movement that will never make white men its enemy and will never attempt to replace them. And they’re flowing towards it and its potential for ultraviolence, while it’s being cheered on by people who should know better.
The potential for damage, including to people who had no part in this, is catastrophic. How can they be demobilized by people that have nothing to offer them? Who are themselves hypocritical sexists and racists? Who excuse the same actions they condemn them for?
I liked pretending the cracks in Liberalism didn’t exist, but, collectively, that might have allowed the situation to get this far.
the government has not given each person the regulations to look at and sign
That’s not an argument about the complexity of the regulations, just their imposition by force.
Which, you know, some things the state makes us do and support are genuinely cruel and stupid. But other things are like… don’t murder. No I never willingly signed away my right to murder, other people chose that for me. I don’t really blame them.
Plus, you know, good luck getting internet, traveling via plane or a car you bought, or getting healthcare without signing ridiculously complex contracts and EULA’s. So you can’t travel, can’t connect to the mass of humanity, and will get sick and die, unless you accede to things that you haven’t are difficult to read. This isn’t that different from “choosing” to be in jail.
You should have a position on the question of “are byzantine technical details understandable by the average citizen, and should we expect the citizens to know them?” That position should be consistent whether they are byzantine details brought by the government or by companies you do business with. Otherwise you’re just making up any clever argument you can for the side you favor, which yes is very possible to do you are very smart, but is pointless and you’ll never learn anything or convince anyone.
autumn is deepening with a familiar chill settling over Melbourne and driving people back into their monochromatic shells of jeans and hoodies and puffy jackets they bought last year back when uniqlo was new and exciting.
except for the girls in pink tennis skirts of course, who come from another dimension and have +2 resistance to frost damage, as we explained earlier.
nuclearspaceheater said: Resistance to “Frost damage” protects against extremely rapid cooling sufficient to cause trauma or frostbite, not low ambient temperatures. You’re thinking of Temperature Tolerance or system equivalent.
resistance to nerd damage
Nah in D&D 3.5 at least the damage resistances do actually shift the range of feasible temperatures, not just the damage.
I mean, I wasn’t planning on cuckolding every white American man, but they just keep going on about it; I can see some logistical difficulties, but I think I can pull it off if I just manage to stay hydrated.
Quis cucket ipsos cuckers
In which quasi-normalcy discovers they were an American White Man in a mask all along, making this goal logically impossible. Entering into a severe depression, quasi-normalcy takes on a trap tradwife and joins the Alt Right.
I know people who seriously believe all at once that that
genetics as not a real thing that applies to humans
eating GMO food is bad for your health, even if it was grown on an otherwise “organic” farm
sequencing the genome of species or DNA testing of meat and fruit samples is inherently immoral
Can you explain #1? Do they think DNA isn’t a thing for humans?
I guess DNA is a thing, genes are inherited, but traits are not heritable? There is no real consistency there. They just don’t want to think about the stuff too much.
In their own moon logic sense, they only consistently believe that “genes are bad for you“.
“If genes applied to humans, that would be unfair and racist.” - the actual reasoning
Reading some of these recent posts reminds me that when I've seen some of these SJ concepts, my intuitive reaction was often "...wait a minute, that's a trap!" the same way I feel about elements of various religions.
Yes indeed! I think that probably /a lot/ of people felt that way initially…
can’t do it because im bored and nothing is interesting
can’t do it because im overwhelmed and im one slightly dissapointed glance away from crying for the next week
can’t do it because this one thing has had my full entire attention for the past three days and i think ive gotten two hours of sleep in that time and my blood has been replaced with coffee
sometimes it’s all 3
the grand slam
forbidden fourth adhd mood: -can’t do it because AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
the fifth adhd mood, only accessible through a glitch
+ can’t do it because you told me to and now i’ll be so busy beating myself up for being so stupid you had to tell me to do it that i won’t be able to actually do the thing
One thing that pisses me off about the Chechnya camps is that people are so fucking self centered that the first thing they did when they saw what was happening they went "SEE!!! THIS IS WHAT TRUMP IS GONNA DO!!! I HAVE NO CONCERN WHATSOEVER FOR THE MEN BEING ROUNDED UP BUT I GOTTA SHOW THAT PERFORMATIVE OUTRAGE SOMEHOW GAIZ!!1!1!! #FUCKTRUMP" and it's just really bugging me ya feel? Like I'm no fan of Trump either but maybe people could pull their heads out of their americentric asses for once?
Please someone tell me that this anon here isn’t right. Please say that there aren’t people that are so selfish that they’ve used this to attack Trump with, when it has zero to do with him.
I have to believe that you’re making this up. Please.
bpd-anon said: “Slavery is that thing where I have to do things I don’t want to, right?”
slavery is that thing where I’ve made choices but then grumble about them
slavery is that thing where unavoidable compromises result in arrangements that aren’t 100% ethically pure
slavery is that thing where we have to make decisions with limited information and bounded reasoning power
Slavery is that thing where people uses threats of violence (backed by actual violence in case of non-compliance) to make me do work I don’t want to do.
That’s not taxes. Taxes aren’t work. Taxes are theft.
Taxes are rent.
Force is the fundamental nature of property. The State is the real owner.
Suicide? What happened to looking forward to the immortality singularity?
Not possible.
Humans are always on the brink of discovering immortality, which is just beyond the cutting edge of current science. Now, with Big Data, it’s brain uploading. Recently it was the human genome project, earlier still, transplants, pharmaceutics. During the Conquista, with the Fountain of Youth, it was cartography.
100% of people who were born will die on this planet.
*reads description to the side of it* “It says here the artist meant X.”
Alternately: “I think/Perhaps it means X.”
Do you get the same response as if you were bloviating? If so, stage exit left.
It’s hilarious because the cartoon by itself reads as an insult to the woman, who is offering bait and switch conversational tactics. It’s super easy to imagine this exact cartoon being written by some anti-feminist, critiquing the conversational traps men have to deal with.
(Not to mention the heuristic that “if only one person is speaking in a cartoon, they are usually the punchline.”)
But, because of the context (a high profile cosmopolitan yet very bland and conformist magazine), audiences assume it must be criticizing the silent male, and that it is also doing so unfairly. So they both presume the nature of the joke, then criticize it for delivering it badly.
is it really so weird? As e.g. agoodcartoon illustrates, political cartoons can often be read two ways and you need to use information about where it was published to pin down how many layers of irony it was on. If this one was explicitly targetting the woman, presumably (a different subset of) people would still hate it. Either way, it seems the artist is just trolling us.
I did not mean the cartoon was weird, so much as the reaction, which as you say seems to depend on the idea that the cartoon is “trolling” us.
What’s weird is to see a cartoon, and rather than read the message that is there, to do a two step process whereby you assume there is another message (hating men) and complain that it is delivered badly. (And indeed, it does not read as a convincing denunciation of mansplaining at all.)
Had the joke more effectively critiqued mansplaining (”When I said the picture had multiple possible meanings, I wasn’t asking you to tell me which was the right one,”) then their would have been less offense taken, which is really quite ironic.
People who dislike cars and want more public transit:
I sometimes prefer public transit to driving because I hate parking and navigation, and I can multitask on public transit. But I also prefer driving to public transit because public transit is loud, smelly, dirty, crowded, expensive, and slow, with no air conditioning or heating, uncomfortable seats or only standing room, delays and breakdowns, long wait times in general, no availability late at night, tunnels that plug my ears painfully, and other passengers being loud/rude/annoying, blaring music, scamming, panhandling, stealing things, fighting, spitting, urinating, harassing people (transphobia cw), and sometimes being actually threatening or dangerous.
What solutions have people come up with to these problems? (My experiences are mostly with BART, AC Transit, and Caltrain.)
Same question for my own followers.
My experiences of transit have been buses in [Redacted]; the underground in London, New Castle (UK), Frankfurt (Germany), and Washington DC; the Northern Rail (UK);
Berlin’s buses;
the BART and the Caltrain; and buses in Toronto, the Bay Area (USA), and North Bay (Ontario, Canada).
Those are listed from best to worst by my personal experiences of them. They’re mostly Subway > Overground train > Buses, except for [Redacted]’s weird capitalist buses. I’ve also preferred [Redacted] over Europe, and Europe over North America.
What makes some public transit systems better than others? And how would you make something like the BART more like that? And are they really a substitute for being able to insulate yourself and your family in a personal vehicle?
You’re not gonna like this, but…
A number of the problems stem from the culture of the population at large, its level of disorder, and its level of criminality. If you want Japan-tier respectful train passengers, you are going to have to take Japan-tier measures towards, essentially, the entire rest of society, and this will not be very Libertarian.
Which is fine by me since I’m not an atomic individualist and am fairly Statist and even Nationalist, but that isn’t where you are in the political spectrum.
Basically don’t call people “cucks“. Don’t be surprised when people react badly to being called “cucks“. Don’t try to reclaim “cuck“ by telling other people that being cuckolded is a good thing.
That sounds suspiciously like something a cuck would say.
I find it increasingly difficult to justify my own continued existence, really.
There are so many ~~inspirational~~ posts floating around and I’m reading through them thinking “well, that doesn’t apply either, actually”.
Somebody’s not a CEO but they help people save money on airplane tickets, and I am not even useful for that.
“but pets”.
I have a bird.
1) Someone else can take care of him. My mother, for example.
2) Or he’ll starve to death. So? Logically speaking, there are probably millions of budgies. They’re not going extinct or anything. It’d be awful, but I’m one of the sole people in the world who thinks he has any value, so it’s basically a net gain.
“but your blog”
Now you’re just lying.
Well, technically, unfollowing you is as easy as clicking a button, so surely the people saying they like your blog are telling the truth about that, since otherwise who are they signalling to and why didn’t they just unfollow? If you mean it isn’t enough in the grand scheme of things then I suppose I can’t argue that, though I am left to wonder if there isn’t some high-risk activity you could take that you could use to push yourself into what you consider the positive, though perhaps you don’t have enough energy for that.
