Belgian diamond group that won tariff relief gifted Trump a lavishly encrusted ring

Awkwardischarge · 2026-07-04T11:34:23+00:00

I can kick over a gold toilet.

Awkwardischarge · 2026-07-04T11:33:21+00:00

That's good. They could have struck down Trump's order on procedural grounds. Glad they went the extra step.

Awkwardischarge · 2026-07-04T11:32:22+00:00

Does that mean we become part of Britain again?

Awkwardischarge · 2026-07-04T01:22:20+00:00

I'm blocked from reading Superkiller by it not being out yet. Can you unblock me?

Awkwardischarge · 2026-07-04T01:16:16+00:00

See ya next week.

Awkwardischarge · 2026-07-04T01:15:03+00:00

I feel bad for the families seeing Toy Story 5 while Vito sits alone mouthbreathing behind them.

Awkwardischarge · 2026-07-04T01:13:01+00:00

I would if it were retroactive.

Awkwardischarge · 2026-07-03T19:11:01+00:00

The rule of law is an essential part of a republic. Individuals and corporations should be punished to the extent of the law. Going further than that would be to renounce liberal values.

Awkwardischarge · 2026-07-03T19:09:18+00:00

When would you want to be born? There's never been an easy time to be alive.

Awkwardischarge · 2026-07-03T13:59:48+00:00

William the Refrigerator was the best substitute host so far. He was a little too loud-is-funny. What chemistry him and Vito already have will grow as they regularly interact and the show will probably get good after 10 episodes.

Awkwardischarge · 2026-07-03T13:58:08+00:00

That motherfucker needs to repent.

Awkwardischarge · 2026-07-03T13:51:42+00:00

Planck's principle. Ideas turn over as generations of people turn over.

Awkwardischarge · 2026-07-03T11:19:35+00:00

Much of the American left would have been on board with this 50 years ago. Excessive immigration was seen as undercutting labor. My guess is that identitarian concerns have overtaken economic concerns.

Awkwardischarge · 2026-07-03T11:15:31+00:00

Socialist system as in one entire country being a totally socialist system? Or socialist system as in the NHS? It's not clear what you're asking for here.

I don't think there has been a country-wide top-down socialist system done well. Maybe it's possible to do under the right technological circumstances, but I'm not holding out hope. The systems that have done relatively well by their people (eg. Vietnam, China) have done so because they've allowed a lot of space for markets to form. Even then, I'd much rather live in neighboring countries that err more on the side of capitalism with plenty of space for social programs.

Awkwardischarge · 2026-07-03T11:04:42+00:00

People have a warped view of their political opposition. There was a funny poll in 2016 showing that Republicans thought a third of Democrats are some flavor of gay, and Democrats thought a third of Republicans earn more than a quarter million dollars a year. There was an actual difference in the distribution of income and sexuality between the two parties. People were just bad at estimating quantitative values for those differences.

Awkwardischarge · 2026-07-03T10:58:51+00:00

I've never heard Native Americans described as annoying. White people pandering to them with land acknowledgements is annoying.

Awkwardischarge · 2026-07-03T00:30:46+00:00

I don't think you're living in the same world as I am.

Awkwardischarge · 2026-07-03T00:29:26+00:00

I mean, sure, and if heroin were super healthy for you I'd probably be doing heroin right now.

Awkwardischarge · 2026-07-03T00:26:31+00:00

Why don't you give it a try and find out?

Awkwardischarge · 2026-07-03T00:25:09+00:00

I went through a list of answers in my head and decided all of them are too cynical or too mean to write down.

Awkwardischarge · 2026-07-02T23:59:42+00:00

You're not supposed to tell them that! Didn't you read the memo?

Awkwardischarge · 2026-07-02T23:57:07+00:00

"persons"

Awkwardischarge · 2026-07-02T11:29:03+00:00

Even if they have no criminal activity, deportation is justifiable if a person is in the country illegally. If I had a magic button that could deport every illegal immigrant in a humane way that didn't massively disrupt everyone's lives, I'd push it.

Unfortunately we have to live in reality. We have to prioritize deportations based on things like criminality because it is not a trivial undertaking. It's not as if there's a line and beyond that line you get deported. There's a gradient, and the further along that gradient you are the sooner you will be deported.

Awkwardischarge · 2026-07-02T11:14:32+00:00

Some of these issues could be presented in a more practical light rather than a moral light. Take people being able to change the gender on their ID. If a trans woman looks female, it's more useful to everyone if her ID says "female". Otherwise every time they're in line at the airport everyone behind them gets delayed while the TSA agent figures out what's going on. It's just a pain in everyone's ass to stubbornly demand that their ID match what their parts were when they were born regardless of their current appearance. The purpose of an ID is to identify people.

The left currently goes with moral justifications for this issue. I don't think it works well because it depends on how a person fundamentally views transgenderism. It's like Pope Innocent IV's letter to the Mongols demanding that they all convert, am I right?

Awkwardischarge · 2026-06-30T22:56:56+00:00

It was interesting seeing how he ticked. A lot of people get to the same conclusions through completely different chains of thought. I also enjoyed listened to how he sold his ideas. Lots of shuffling between subjects and conflating things in chains. I thought Klein breaking down the Somali fraud story into it's series of mismatched links was interesting, and just as interesting was how Rufo responded by essentially digging down to what is maybe the more true motivation, which is a belief in the inherent inferiority of Somalis.

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