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theunitofcaring

Honestly, being in a community where the consensus was ‘bisexuality is the obvious correct orientation, someday we’ll have the ability to change orientation and when we do I will be bi because then I will be able to date more cool people” was kind of good for me because it meant that there was that zany, offbeat, totally-disconected-from-queer-politics message competing with all the biphobia and lesbophobia and discourse. Like, I know it can be a hurtful message or reenforce other hurtful messages, but competing needs are a thing and ‘an environment that takes for granted that maybe someday we’ll get to pick and that when we do people might happily choose non-straight orientations’ was a need of mine.

wirehead-wannabe

Seriously though why would anyone want to have to deal with Gender Wars Discourse and lopsided gender ratios in hobbies and pregnancy and power imbalances.

mitigatedchaos

Okay, but I don’t want to deal with compulsory bisexuality discourse and pressure that is sure to result. Right now, we have the excuse not to be bi that changing sexuality is difficult if not impossible.

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diarrheaworldstarhiphop

Anonymous asked:

In response to the trans sex thing I don't think I'll ever understand why liberals are so obsessed with having sex with people who don't like them. It comes off as disingenuous and creepy. "You're not entitled to sex but I am"

diarrheaworldstarhiphop answered:

I mean, that’s pretty on the money in a way. Why should you be fixated on making someone have sex with you if they are inherently intolerant of you?

Unless like, you are a teenager and fucking assholes and getting heartbroken and abused by someone you want to disingenuously like you because of your obsession with the shallow trappings of being in a relationship with a cis person of the opposite sex is your thing.

Validation should come from peace with yourself than from the person who fucks you.

it’s like the guaranteed path to depression and chronic self-loathing.

mitigatedchaos

The lesser form is because there are guys that still flip out and kill people over it. If they go away it should trend downwards towards the more normal “you are wrong not to fuck me” stuff like with weight clothing etc.

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diarrheaworldstarhiphop
diarrheaworldstarhiphop:
“ There is a strong correlation between immigration—particularly illegal immigration—and wages. This should be obvious to anyone familiar with the fundamental principle of supply and demand: more supply (workers) means lower...
diarrheaworldstarhiphop

There is a strong correlation between immigration—particularly illegal immigration—and wages.  This should be obvious to anyone familiar with the fundamental principle of supply and demand: more supply (workers) means lower prices (wages), and vice versa.

Despite the fact that this correlation between immigration and wages is well-documented, it is not obvious to many liberal economists, who see immigration as an unfettered economic benefit.  The evidence suggests otherwise, including a new data reported by Fox.

According to the National Association of Home Builders, more than 56% of America’s developers are reporting labor shortages, which is forcing them to increases wages and improve working conditions to attract new talent.

In fact, according to Ted Wilson of Residential Strategies Inc. construction costs have risen by 30% this year—the majority of which is due to higher wages and increased overtime pay.  That is, companies are being forced to hire American workers, and pay wages at fair market value.

Why?

Because President Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration is preventing them from hiring illegal aliens, who undercut the labor market, shortchanging American workers.  The impact of this (while often ignored) is significant.

According to Stan Market, CEO of Texas’ Marek, “half of the workers in construction in Texas are undocumented.”

He goes on to say that many of them are leaving Texas, either to find refuge in sanctuary cities and states, and “many of them are going back to Mexico.”

This is good news for American workers, who have been hammered in recent decades.  In fact, real wages have not risen for the median American worker since 1973, in part because of the deflationary effects of illegal immigration.

And just to be clear, this is not an isolated event—wages will rise in tandem with deportations and other labor restrictions (such as if, and when, the RAISE Act becomes law).

We know this because it’s happening elsewhere already.  For example, the restriction of temporary work visas in Maine earlier this year led to higher wages, better working conditions, and lower unemployment—all good for the average American citizen.

mitigatedchaos

Look, I know you guys all think this is evil.  And it’s probably not preferable to ending jus soli and issuing more legitimate agricultural visas/etc.

But despite all the people on Facebook talking about how the guy is a nightmare monster from the darkest dreams of the Alt Right come to life, I’m telling you right now that he has a non-trivial chance of re-election unless the Democrats get their shit together.

I pegged it at 50% earlier, reduced it to 40%, but it isn’t a 10% chance or less.

Source: nationaleconomicseditorial.com trump cw politics predictions
slatestarscratchpad

cromulentenough asked:

how much does bad diet affect IQ? is it just to do with childhood development or can having a bad diet as an adult deteriorate IQ too? which things should you make sure you're not deficient in to prevent/ slow down deterioration?

slatestarscratchpad answered:

I heard that malnourished kids in Third World countries do much better in school if given lots of vitamins, which suggests that it’s not just developmental but can respond to supplementation now.

I’m pretty sure that it’s not a big factor in First World adults, mostly because I feel like I would have heard about it if it was, but I can’t remember seeing any specific proof.

mitigatedchaos

This blog supports subsidy of multivitamins in foreign countries as a form of (potentially state-sponsored) charity.

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deusvulture

If it’s something that was done and there was no mainstream blowback then it wasn’t an unambiguous norm violation. Also, norms aren’t content-neutral.

For anyone who’s nervously wondering how to avoid being aggressively sanctioned in public for their views/writings: Don’t…. be confrontationally nonconformist…. unless you have a sufficiently powerful outside institution backing you up. This is sheerest common sense, and the whole reason that dramatic public censure is public and dramatic is that it’s for things that are virtually impossible to do on accident.

esoteric-hoxhaism

Ah, yes, things that are virtually impossible to do by accident, such as the dongle thing and the shirt thing.

And it is worth remembering that “confrontationally nonconformist” includes things like “you donate money to a campaign for a state ballot proposition that wins the popular vote” and “someone finds out that you do BDSM”.

slartibartfastibast

Tumblr kinda relies on being esoteric and cumbersome enough a platform (e.g. indexing, basic usability, permalinking, etc. are all complete garbage here) to keep the normies away. A large amount of seminal discourse is happening here (ironically, @argumate will probably unironically deny this (or make a joke about the word “seminal” as a dodge)) and subsequently failing to remain easily traceable as the source by the time it becomes a wikipedia citation or a news article (e.g. donglegate-type discourse and the Scott A.s, and @kontextmaschine posting Pepe in 2014, before Pepe was supposed to be a right wing thing).

Classic blogs were kinda like that in the ‘00s, and the same is perhaps true of USENET in the ‘90s.

I think it’s important for obnoxious thinkerpeople to stick their necks out a bit, and that includes reputational risk. If you don’t harvest risky future potential while people are still being civil, things will eventually turn uncivil (e.g. Rotherham and the rest of the UK and the rest of Europe). The actual measurable risks to the openly opinionated contrarian in a genuinely violent society are a lot greater that the ones in a less violent society (duh). It’s not a paradox but a pigeonhole to say that people who would care to avoid a particularly violent future have to take risks now, while things are still generally nonviolent.

mitigatedchaos

Hmn… fair enough.

Though I benefit a lot from the Tumblr format in terms of average length, time-to-feedback, etc.  Most blog entries out there have no comments, and nothing like “likes” to indicate perceived value and uptake, nor reblogs to spread them.

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theunitofcaring

Anonymous asked:

War on North Korea, good idea or bad idea?

theunitofcaring answered:

I would say worst idea but I think I should probably expect even worse ones. 

mitigatedchaos

North Korea gives a nuclear bomb or dirty bomb to Islamic terrorists.

They use it to destroy Manhattan.

Currently improbable, but the possibility increases each day NK is not brought into compliance.

9/11 got us the Iraq War.  As far as I can tell, Islam was mostly just considered a Weird Foreign Religion before then.

I don’t want to see what the nuclear destruction of Trump Tower would do.

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Anonymous asked:

Maybe I'm just biased by having a singular ginger family member, but gingers are really more like being gay than being a race. Maybe we need to raise a distinction between de novo gingers and ethnic gingers (who are more commonly known as the Irish, as I understand it).

The early Twenty-First Century was a time of many unusual ginger-themed political movements, including the Ginger Nationalist Movement, the Principality of Sea-Ginger, and the “One Red Hair” Club.  

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