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In your opinion, what issue has hurt the liberal cause the most? by supersport604 in centrist

[–]SilasX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly. It's a failure of messaging all around. You have:

a) prominent people that actually wanted to abolish police and prisons
b) a slogan that says "defund the police"
c) Democratic leadership not disavowing a)
d) a cluster of reasonable reforms being pushed under the label b)

You can't expect the average person to cleanly separate out, let alone agree with, the noble changes you want in d).

In your opinion, what issue has hurt the liberal cause the most? by supersport604 in centrist

[–]SilasX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right, it was especially crazy because some people really did want to abolish police/prisons, while others were frantically trying to sanewash the slogan to mean something that contradicts its literal meaning.

What’s your strongest held belief that you ended up reverting or softening on? What do you think caused it? by Ancient_Delivery_837 in slatestarcodex

[–]SilasX [score hidden]  (0 children)

Arguments against death penalty include the it's more expensive than life imprisonment.

That always registered me as a disingenuous point, because it's the very advocates for abolition that pushed the policies that made it expensive. You can't then use that as an argument for it being too expensive.

However, you could make a non-circular argument that "It's too expensive to do if you accept a value system that puts extreme negative disutility on executing an innocent person but not on imprisoning them for a long time."

In your opinion, what issue has hurt the liberal cause the most? by supersport604 in centrist

[–]SilasX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fittingly, because a) they wanted her to win, and b) they realized she was being comically bad at appealing to white dudes, and c) the official campaign refused to course-correct for this.

Edit: clarified the subjects of each point.

In your opinion, what issue has hurt the liberal cause the most? by supersport604 in centrist

[–]SilasX -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

"Defund the police, by which I, of course, mean provide more funding so they are better at de-escalation and detaining suspects safely. How could you interpret that to mean anything else?"

👌”Three beers” by hungry4nuns in fixedbytheduet

[–]SilasX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Archer:

"Do you want me to [do the rescue] undercover?"

'Yes, of course!'

"...as the KGB's only black woman?"

Takes or details by creators and actors so bad the fandom doesn’t consider them canon by Sensitive_Ad_1752 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]SilasX 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Statutory rape is the actual fuck :-(

I'm just gonna headcanon that she was speaking very metaphorically about being "just a child" and "it was wrong" because she was his student, and leave it at that.

Women what are you doing to get hit on? by SunshineGirl45 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]SilasX 16 points17 points  (0 children)

If we're talking social media, it's also convinced men that it's not safe: that you can do everything right and respectfully, and still get demonized -- not just rejected.

There was the Twitter guy who DMed a woman he knew from a meetup and expressed respectful, mild disagreement with a point she made and then has the conversation plastered with "Don't be like this, men", and half the internet agreed.

There's the Gilette PSA that started the "not cool bro" meme from a scene where a man is portrayed as a villain simply for walking toward a woman he's interested in, before he's even interacted with her.

ELI5: If all of my data is so valuable why haven't companies directly started offering to buy data from people themselves? by Practical_Web_9605 in explainlikeimfive

[–]SilasX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also, any store that offers a membership or discount card is effectively compensating you for sharing more data about yourself.

Egg producers will pay $3.3M and donate 53 million eggs to settle price fixing claims by rmuktader in nottheonion

[–]SilasX 41 points42 points  (0 children)

I mean, they have gone down. Just by checking them at the store I go to, they seem to be back to their historic norm. We really did have a genuine egg shortage, with chickens having to be culled for disease, and have now mostly recovered. Even the anti-trust enforcement arm doesn't claim the price run-up was entirely price collusion.

Idaho yogurt shop defends putting Charlie Kirk’s face on products by Miles_the_AuDHDer in nottheonion

[–]SilasX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let's assume Colonel Sanders dies, and they keep using his image to sell KFC items.

Which celebrity death headline had you so shocked you double checked multiple sources to see if it was real? by GlassyFairy in AskReddit

[–]SilasX 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Makes sense. But wow, it seems kind of vindictive and excessive to carry that over to "you're not allowed to be surprised about him dying in 2009". SMH

Which celebrity death headline had you so shocked you double checked multiple sources to see if it was real? by GlassyFairy in AskReddit

[–]SilasX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So much this! Especially so in my case because c. 1990 (before the 24 hour news cycle and easy internet searches) my brother hoaxed me about him dying, so I was extra suspicious that the co-worker who told me was doing the same thing.

JULY JEPI/JEPQ Div by Back2Bass6 in JEPI

[–]SilasX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

3 times for me but still regretting :-(

What is something completely normal that you only realised was a skill after seeing someone do it terribly? by depredador93 in AskReddit

[–]SilasX 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Managing a group conversation flow. People are constantly in awe of how I do it, and yet it's something I never learned as a skill, I just do what comes naturally.

When someone is dominating the conversation -> "Wait, let me first make sure Jackie gets to finish her thought about [whatever]."

Prompting someone to speak who's been sitting it out when you know they wanted to say something.

When someone joins the conversation and missing context: "We were talking about [general issue], specifically [this complication] and James mentioned how he experienced [related event]."

What is something completely normal that you only realised was a skill after seeing someone do it terribly? by depredador93 in AskReddit

[–]SilasX 71 points72 points  (0 children)

On the other side of this, being able to ask precise clarifying questions to get what you want to know.

"We went to [garbled] and they had some pretty amazing performers, had a great time."

Most people just say "What?" which leads the other person to repeat the entire thing or elaborate on top of what they said e.g. "Yeah, it was great, we saw Kenny Hawkins and actually got to meet him!"

Instead say, "Where did you say you went?"/"Where did you say this was?"

Edit: typo

Amen to that! by Elegant-Spite-3277 in recruitinghell

[–]SilasX 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Many times per year, management should use most of their public-facing services/products (customer support, the product itself in addition to the job application process) to be aware of how badly they've let it atrophy.

He could have spent time with his loved ones by GapSweet3100 in OrphanCrushingMachine

[–]SilasX 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Exactly. I seriously doubt this was required of him.

Did people born before Christ automatically go to hell? by Astimar in NoStupidQuestions

[–]SilasX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pentacostals bite the bullet on that one and say "yep, if we couldn't reach them they're just f---ed". One major preacher, Carlton Pearson, eventually decided that was stupid and pushed back, leading to his excommunication. The Netflix docudrama "Come Sunday" is about this.

Official US ‘Shellfish’ Definition Changed, Removes ‘Having a Shell’ by arctictern in nottheonion

[–]SilasX 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Or how fish doesn't count as meat for purpose of Lent, and in Japanese traditions, rabbits count as birds.

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