Oceans Yet to Burn

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[asocratesgonemad]

“The people in this city looked hollow, like shitlibs. They’d broken their backs lifting Moloch up to heaven, and now they were down here in the gutter, fornicating dysgenically. The whole town stank of high time preference.”
– No Enemies to the Right (an Alexei Codeski novel)

[lambdaphagy]

She walked hypergamously into my office.  Tall, blonde and Nordic subtype.  On average, the best ones always are.

I looked up and took a hard pull from my flask.  It was filled with contraband gin, held up in the FDA approval process for years by demotic regulators.  It burned like the core of a chronically mis-managed city in my bold, truth-telling throat.

“I need a PI” she said, sizing me up for long-term investment potential.

“A predictive index for what?” I asked, passing her shit-test with ease.  “Don’t you know that noticing is illegal nowadays?  I don’t do that kind of stuff any more.”  I tossed my dog-eared copy of The Bell Curve into the wastebasket with a sigh and set it on fire.

“No, silly, a private investigator.  I have a case.”  The hamster was spinning furiously.

“I know.  I was just ironically voicing outrageous opinions to ward off the uninitiated.”

She smiled in-groupically.  “I like a man who can countersignal competence.”

[argumate]

this needs like a million more chapters

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[the-grey-tribe]

It’s not obvious if you should have MORE affirmative action or LESS affirmative action depending on Charles Murray’s hypothesis form The Bell Curve and Coming Apart of an emerging cognitive elite.

Won’t merit-plus-class-based affirmative action increase social stratification in the long run?

The solution is clearly to create some kind of rich kid quota for menial jobs.

[mitigatedchaos]

> not choosing a government voucher for genetic engineering and selection technologies

Get with the times, brah.  Those IQ points aren’t going to enhance themselves.  Directly, anyway.

[Oceans Yet to Burn]

For my part, I note that the Rightful Caliph of our community pointed out that American non-gun homicides are almost as high as total homicides in Western European countries, before you even add in the gun crime.

We have a lot of work to do in this country.  I have some ideas, which some of you know if you’ve been reading this blog.

Guns laws themselves often seem relatively uncorrelated with crime.

And, over time, I’ve been shifting in favor of the second amendment, whereas in the past I wasn’t so sure about it.

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[mitigatedchaos]

@ranma-official

The reason the conservatives do not support a gun registry, which would otherwise be an entirely sane idea, is that it’s the first step in “round up all the guns.”

There is no “round up all the guns” without first knowing their locations.  Going house to house doing a deep search is prohibitively expensive.

They’ll just hide them.  There are so many guns in this country, the round-up won’t even get half of them.

Any event dramatic enough to make the current crop of conservatives agree to round up all the guns isn’t going to be small, either, and most of them would involve said conservatives not wanting to give up their guns.

Mass shootings?  Mass shootings by Muslims?  Not enough.  The response has been to want guns even more in order to shoot back.

You’d need something bordering on an ethnic armed insurrection, at which point many of them would want guns to fight against the ethnic armed insurrection.

[mitigatedchaos]

It’s true that this hasn’t always been the case in the past, that previous gun control laws were deliberately racist.

However, the clock ticks Democrat, Republican, Democrat, Republican.  Do the GOPpers trust that the following Democratic President will have their best interests in mind once the guns are gone?  I’m guessing no.

So the kind of event we’re talking about, the one that convinces the current conservatives in this country to yield their firearms (and not bury them in boxes in their back yards) is likely one where Leftists start talking about how they need guns…

[Oceans Yet to Burn]

I rather doubt we’ve exhausted the limits for improving the abilities of the poor of our nation when it comes to lead removal, and poverty in this country is not evenly distributed.

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@ranma-official

The reason the conservatives do not support a gun registry, which would otherwise be an entirely sane idea, is that it’s the first step in “round up all the guns.”

There is no “round up all the guns” without first knowing their locations.  Going house to house doing a deep search is prohibitively expensive.

They’ll just hide them.  There are so many guns in this country, the round-up won’t even get half of them.

Any event dramatic enough to make the current crop of conservatives agree to round up all the guns isn’t going to be small, either, and most of them would involve said conservatives not wanting to give up their guns.

Mass shootings?  Mass shootings by Muslims?  Not enough.  The response has been to want guns even more in order to shoot back.

You’d need something bordering on an ethnic armed insurrection, at which point many of them would want guns to fight against the ethnic armed insurrection.

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[argumate]

even BLM discourse typically strays into ethnic nationalism, either by advocating to supplant the white minority, or by black separatist nationalism.

[mitigatedchaos]

Legit: I think the Liberal plan is implicitly “you can’t have oppression by an ethnic majority if you don’t have an ethnic majority,” but I don’t think they realize just how badly that can backfire.

[Oceans Yet to Burn]

The sad part is, once that little ideology-huffing guy leaves my image like the Anon asked, it will one day end up as part of a boomerpost on Twitter, where the ideology label is replaced with “DEMOCRAT PROPAGNDA”.

Its true use as a memetic ordnance does intend the first panel as a key part of the payload, but it lacks the full subtext without the rest of it:

The idea that Liberal Democracy is the natural moral order of the universe enables the very imperialism that people complain about, fucks up the countries that could have been made into real liberal democracies by that very imperialism, and gets people killed.

Against truth, we spread this idea of liberal democracy and human rights as the end of history, the final triumph of the Enlightenment ideals that reshaped our civilizations, out of fear that to do otherwise would result in a war of all against all.  But this, too, had its consequences.

The Iraq War has dispelled this, for some.

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[kontextmaschine]

Eventually vape pens that look like briar (or corncob) pipes will be a thing, I’m surprised not yet

[mitigatedchaos]

If he were a Millenial, would Douglas McArthur vape from a corncob pipe?

[mitigatedchaos]

The real question is, would he ever stop?

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[mitigatedchaos]

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