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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
mutant-aesthetic
mutant-aesthetic

The right’s embarrassing, pointless war against pornography is one of the reasons I desperately hope that the new right will phase out religion almost entirely

the battle against porn isn’t just stupid in that it’s entirely unwinnable, but it accomplishes nothing at all. A society without porn is no different than a society with porn.

mitigatedchaos

I think pornography will be considered to be the alcohol of the 21st century.

Some people can drink it in moderation, but others are alcoholics.  It isn’t required for health, but moderate consumption doesn’t harm health much.  It can interfere with reasoning.  There are ethics issues around its creation.

TBH burning political capital on fighting porn is significantly less dumb than burning political capital on fighting the gays.

Note that I’m not in favor of banning alcohol, but I do like the European idea of introducing it gradually.

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the-grey-tribe
augustinesycamore

white people are racist by default (in the united states as well as other countries). are you white? congrats, you’re racist, and here’s the explanation:

you grew up in a racist society -> you were socialized to be racist thanks to racism being a dominant ideology -> you benefit from racism -> you’re racist no matter how much u think you’re not.

unlearning it is going to be a constant battle and u will never unlearn it fully. accept this. it is ingrained in you as a result of your upbringing and the media you’ve consumed. the sooner you come to terms with your own racism, the sooner u can better yourself. recognize the problem in yourself instead of setting yourself apart from those “other” white people.

bizarrodf

While I fundamentally agree, I feel like this reasoning is what turned my brother into a huge racist so I’m not sure if it’s worth it

mitigatedchaos

The OP post is a mind trap, equivalent to religious sin. The entire purpose is to burden you with a debt that can never be repaid, so they can rope you into their ideology and never let you leave.

Infinite debts are not meant to be repaid.

the-grey-tribe

Still worth it reblogging for that reply by bizzarrodf

mitigatedchaos

I do agree. I just wanted to be a bit more explicit about the infinite debt bizzarodf’s brother either decided to invoke on others or embrace as identity. I still see this stuff from Left/Libs in the US, just one level obscured. This kind of thinking is an exploitable vulnerability.

Source: augustinesycamore politics
the-grey-tribe
augustinesycamore

white people are racist by default (in the united states as well as other countries). are you white? congrats, you’re racist, and here’s the explanation:

you grew up in a racist society -> you were socialized to be racist thanks to racism being a dominant ideology -> you benefit from racism -> you’re racist no matter how much u think you’re not.

unlearning it is going to be a constant battle and u will never unlearn it fully. accept this. it is ingrained in you as a result of your upbringing and the media you’ve consumed. the sooner you come to terms with your own racism, the sooner u can better yourself. recognize the problem in yourself instead of setting yourself apart from those “other” white people.

bizarrodf

While I fundamentally agree, I feel like this reasoning is what turned my brother into a huge racist so I’m not sure if it’s worth it

mitigatedchaos

The OP post is a mind trap, equivalent to religious sin. The entire purpose is to burden you with a debt that can never be repaid, so they can rope you into their ideology and never let you leave.

Infinite debts are not meant to be repaid.

Source: augustinesycamore politics
kissingerandpals-deactivated201
freedomproject.com

Six Baltimore Schools Can’t Produce a Single Student Proficient in English or Math

Despite spending more per pupil than all but two large school districts in America, at least half a dozen government schools in Baltimore were unable to produce one single student who was proficient in either English or math last year.
Dan Kahler
triggeredmedia

They spend the 3rd most in the nation per student and can’t produce a quality student.

MONEY IS NOT WHAT MAKES SCHOOLS GOOD.

It’s family values and communities. Things the left has been trying to destroy for decades. 

ranma-official

I completely agree, they would have been good at math if they’d hated gay people more, you make sense.

mitigatedchaos

Actually, Community and Family don’t require hating gay people (if you aren’t a member of [SUBSET OF RELIGIONS]). It is this blog’s belief that stable and beneficial families can be the new cultural norm without stomping all over the LGBTs.

kissingerandpals

“community and family are important aspects of a child’s development and can be correlated with success in school more often than not, therefore we know already that there are things we can do to improve school achievement without necessarily pouring money into an already failed and broken system”

“Yeah, sure, we need to hate gay people more, that will fix things”

Fuck, I’m so tired of shibboleths and dog whistles predetermining the outcome of any political discussion. How jaded do you even have to be to interpret “family and community” as anti-LGBT?

mitigatedchaos

Truly, the religious right’s long term use of “family” and “community” as dogwhistles for anti-LGBT have damaged this country. Ranma here is foreign, but many in the United States have developed similar responses on those keywords.

The irony is that gay marriage is would be better from this perspective, since it could be used for increased stable family formation and create more potential homes for adopted or foster children. Also while it normalizes gay behavior (which makes the cons upset because religion) it also normalizes gay behavior (which is what makes it useful) as part of the life script, which should reduce promiscuity (and high levels of promiscuity generally aren’t good for people) and encourage integration with the national culture instead of counter-culture waging culture war.

Source: triggeredmedia politics
mutant-aesthetic
cointelpro-amateur

I don’t associate myself with anyone who’s fully political because I wasn’t friends with nerds in high school, the fuck makes you think I’ll be friends with the same fuckwits who fantasize about bacon like they got kicked off EpicMealTime and say uncool shit like ‘you tabbernacking sonoffabitch’.

Niggas used to do graffiti, like; I’m too popular for all of you. I’m a social butterfly of charisma, what are you? You’re reblogging drumpf memes and writing Harambe in ballots or getting your shit pushed in by a whiteboy with a bun wearing all black calling you a nazi in your “Praise Kek, born to Deus Vult” apparel which makes no sense anyway, you were born to “god will it”? Nigga that’s blasphemy, uncool

mutant-aesthetic

can you please rephrase this in actual english

mitigatedchaos

I don’t associate myself with anyone who’s fully political because I wasn’t friends with nerds in high school, 

Full Politicals are all nerds (or were in high school).  I don’t associate with them because they are lame.

the fuck makes you think I’ll be friends with the same fuckwits who fantasize about bacon like they got kicked off EpicMealTime 

Full Politicals are fat.

and say uncool shit like ‘you tabbernacking sonoffabitch’.

Tabbernack is a Quebecois curse word, from tabernacle, a religious term.  Only an uncool person would say it, trying to avoid ordinary regular curse words.

Niggas used to do graffiti, like; I’m too popular for all of you.

OP was popular in high school and participated in activities that require high social status, including violating the law.

I’m a social butterfly of charisma, what are you? You’re reblogging drumpf memes and writing Harambe in ballots

Full Politicals engage in lame, low-status, dork behavior like reblogging low-quality (anti-?)Trump memes.

or getting your shit pushed in by a whiteboy with a bun wearing all black calling you a nazi in your “Praise Kek, born to Deus Vult” apparel

When Full Politicals aren’t posting lame memes, they get beat up by manbun Antifas while wearing lame meme apparel.

which makes no sense anyway, you were born to “god will it”? Nigga that’s blasphemy, uncool

Also, Kek is an Egyptian deity, so putting “Praise Kek” on shirt about reviving the Crusades is blasphemous.

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One Thousand Villages@wirehead-wannabe I recall you talking about wanting a college-campus-like environment with activities and whatnot as a living area, but outside of a college campus. @mailadreapta I recall you talking about the difficulty of...

One Thousand Villages

@wirehead-wannabe I recall you talking about wanting a college-campus-like environment with activities and whatnot as a living area, but outside of a college campus.

@mailadreapta I recall you talking about the difficulty of getting people to go for medium-density housing.

And I guess @bambamramfan I think I’ve mentioned a similar idea already.  (Though it was a low-trust mechanism, I’m of the opinion that high trust is an equilibrium state which can be achieved through various mechanisms.)

There is an idea I’ve been kicking around for a while, which is to borrow an idea from computer science for resolving the challenges of urban areas by recursively reducing the size of problems until they can be adequately resolved.  Thus, the city is reduced to a bunch of villages/towns.

The above render is for a rough sketch design that spans one kilometer and houses a population of around 5,000 or more, assuming an apartment is about 100 sqm (based on the size of an average apartment in the US).  After reviewing it, I can’t help but think it should perhaps be about ¼ the size, but ah well.  Grey is civic buildings, light green is residential, light blue is commercial, and light brown is footpaths.

  • Mixed use development has a lot of advantages, including reductions in commuting, but for various reasons people don’t like it.
  • People seem to find themselves feeling less connected to, and less trusting of, others.
  • Crime continues to be a problem for many cities.
  • Childhood obesity is on the increase, and children most likely need to get outside more.
  • Police violence is a problem in many cities.
  • Greenery is important for human psychological health.
  • High levels of traffic congestion.

My proposal, then, is to create a smaller community within the city with several key elements:

  • Semi-permeable membrane - Outer wall reduces noise.  Security and level of surveillance can be adjusted according to local crime levels.  As crime rises, all visitors can be tracked, or access can even be limited.
  • Quick access to public transportation (orange areas) - the average human walks at 5kph, and is therefore never more than about 700m and ~10 minutes from a public transport stop.
  • Quick access to local shops - reduce unnecessary transport usage and make goods available easily to the locals, also it’s directly next to the transit stop.
  • Community Center - Common facilities for exercise, social clubs, social events, and so on are near the center.  All residents own a share of the Community Development Board (or something) which hires personnel to clean up the neighborhood, maintain the facilities, and puts on community social events on the regular.  This is very local, direct political involvement with a high share of control per person.  
  • Community Support Officers (CSOs) - (I only recently discovered UK has something with the same name.)  Trained not only in police work, but also emergency medical care, fire suppression, and social work.  Part of the idea here is that CSOs will engage almost entirely in foot patrols when not doing other support work.  They will know who is an actual threat, vs who is mentally ill, possibly be able to deflect bad paths before they become permanent, and pick up on crimes using high-context detective work.  The people of the block will be real people to them and they will see their consequences as they happen.
  • Low-velocity roads - Borrowed from Barcelona, encourages and enhances walking, discourages car use, but still lets cargo move in and out.  Safer for children.  
  • Ample foot/bicycle paths, ample green space for exercise, sports, and letting children outside to play.

Probably this needs to be revised a lot more, starting with a reduction to 500m.

I think something like this might have the potential to lower crime and police violence, while reducing the opposition to medium-density living and increasing psychological and physical health.  

But you know, I’m not an expert.  There’s probably something terribly wrong with this.

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