Anyhow, I don’t mind abstract art, per se - it can be an exercise in composition and minimalism - but there are other kinds of “art” that are eye-rolling.
why do people constantly want to point out how much they hate abstract art. yes you and the rest of society, it’s a very niche thing, but I actually like looking at a giant painting that is all the color red and I do not appreciate being called a stuck-up jerk for it
They think it’s a scam, and they think the haute couture looks down on them for not going along with the scam. No one likes “multi level marketing” by people on Facebook, either, but imagine the performative hatred if it were considered “sophisticated”.
It’s cool that Alaska and Australia, the geographic extremes of the Anglophone empires, each have flags of the constellations that define their respective poles
New Zealand would like a word
You mean New Tasmania? They can’t disqualify all Australians from the legislature if there is no separate country of New Zealand anymore.
Now, some might say this is extreme, that rectifying the law is a better course of action - but the Mitigated Chaos blog is dedicated to innovative solutions to political problems, that challenge long-held preconceptions, and overturn the stale thinking of the status quo.
Can you truly say, in your heart of hearts, that you never believed that New Zealand was the rightful territory of Australia?
Other possible names include Tasmania II, Newer And More Southern Wales, and Australia Jr.
It’s cool that Alaska and Australia, the geographic extremes of the Anglophone empires, each have flags of the constellations that define their respective poles
New Zealand would like a word
You mean New Tasmania? They can’t disqualify all Australians from the legislature if there is no separate country of New Zealand anymore.
Now, some might say this is extreme, that rectifying the law is a better course of action - but the Mitigated Chaos blog is dedicated to innovative solutions to political problems, that challenge long-held preconceptions, and overturn the stale thinking of the status quo.
Can you truly say, in your heart of hearts, that you never believed that New Zealand was the rightful territory of Australia?
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Stop asking questions like this.
You become a real American the moment you stop worrying about how you’re not a real American, and start worrying about how everybody who disagrees with you isn’t a real American.
I mean honestly, if they’re really thinking about this so much, they’re probably fine.
Just make sure to be familiar with some of the country’s metaphorical (not literal) founding DNA and the principles of how it functions and remains prosperous, and don’t keep only to your own kind. Hang out with others outside your ethnicity, take part in the various shared cultural rituals, use the shared language.
Not insignificant odds that it’s like scrupulosity, but for immigration into a non-ethnonationalist polity.
And this is me saying this. I’m more Nationalist than like 90% of you guys around here.
wirehead-wannabe said: Reading bits and pieces from you and @luminousalicorn and @yudkowsky has more or less convinced me that reading stuff produced by the ingroup will get you a surprisingly comparable level of quality to that of the Big Names with 23852520% more sincerity, if only because Dunbar
Hot Take: Rationalists are actually Good, because they are not celebrities (or are, at best, micro-celebs), and thus don’t compete in the DC, NY, or LA baloney circuits, which deserve infinite scorn.
but even the raddest of radfems would have to concede that women being able to legally marry other women doesn’t bolster the Patriarchy, or so I would have assumed before today.
Welllll, there is an argument to be made about how marriage’s validity as an institution is fortified by every new marriage, no matter between whom, and the institution of marriage is a tool of the patriarchy in many respects. Hence many gay rights activists arguing that the focus on gay marriage as the be-all end-all of gay rights not only distracts from other important issues, but also at this point often just feels like a successful assimilation into the institutions one should be trying to dismantle.
“if you’re so gay, why aren’t you married??”
Yeeesssssss, assimilate all the gays into normal society without them even realizing it…
*various hissing sounds*
anaisnein said: is everyone in this set of threads under the impression that it’s perfectly fine and dandy for *women* not to display the trappings of financial success? that it has no impact at all on their perceived attractiveness? I swear every time i read one of these how gender works conversations I feel like I’m in Bizarro World or a space alien
don’t be silly, there’s no money in trying to sell expensive accessories to women
Expensive accessories might raise the status of women among other women, but do they really help get men?
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Yes, my joke was actually that this case requires an escape character such as \
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I don’t really agree. Once you posit something sufficiently alien for that to make sense, then the space for alternative considerations is wide open.
