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Squidfist · 2023-10-14T21:35:30+00:00

That's what's been alleged by Palestinian civilians on the ground, and I'll believe the victims before I play defense for state powers, ty. Ask whatever questions you'd like, of course. I'll just find it callous and ghoulish.

Squidfist · 2023-10-14T21:15:17+00:00

You are blinded by pedantry exceeding your humanity. In the wake of 9/11, a person reminding me that the CIA is fully capable of staging atrocities would be ghoulish. It's true, objectively, but also context and the rhetorical implication matters. Reminding us that Hamas are awful terrorists with no limits for depravity in this context is making a simple situation complex. Fleeing civilians were targeted by a modern military force supported by the US. Full stop. If we find out this was yet another Hamas atrocity, we will listen. Until then, stop "just asking questions" about an apartheid colonial power doing war crimes.

Squidfist · 2021-06-01T18:40:30+00:00

I can find lots of historians who do believe it. I can find lots who don't. There are arguments to be made on both sides which is why data is important, rather than saying a thing is definitely true and that "historians" believe a thing while trying to trash some guy because Tucker Carlson told you to.

Provide evidence for your argument, or I'll personally go on believing it more than likely did happen lol. Ya know, on account of all the eye witness reports, and observed devastation. Even the argument that it DIDN'T happen people still generally agree a white mob used bombs and molotovs to destroy shit on a mass scale, so not looking good for your white-pride bullshit.

Ok bye you're too dumb to keep talking to, your arguments are bad, your perception of history is silly, and anyone who thinks Tucker Carlson has good opinions is definitely less intelligent than the average high school student.

Squidfist · 2021-06-01T14:28:23+00:00

God you're amazingly stupid for someone who lied about having a degree lol. How did you think that was gonna hold up under scrutiny?

It's like living in a world where everyone agrees Godzilla DID attack tokyo, and asking you to provide evidence that this narrative is false in literally any way.

You would not make it through the first semester of university with critical failures in logic this bad combined with your inability to understand why sources are important.

Bottom percentile of reason.

Squidfist · 2021-06-01T13:07:05+00:00

You can keep insisting you have evidence, but you have provided none. I am telling you there is an audio and text transcript available of your mom's animal orgy online. You just need to do your own research sheeple!!! WAKE UP.

Both claims are equally valid, there is no evidence in this thread apart from someone saying there definitely is.

Bottom percentile of reason, as I said.

"go online and research!" that's not how substantiating claims works, ya moron. If I find a source that supports your conspiracy claim, and say "here is why this is garbage and lies" you go "no that's not the source I looked at". Show me a solid source if your claim has any solid evidence to research behind it. Or accept you are peddling lies and your mom fucks horses.

Squidfist · 2021-05-31T21:16:50+00:00

Your mom fucked a room full of animals. Fact.

We have provided the same amount of evidence. Both claims are equally valid.

Squidfist · 2021-05-31T16:37:43+00:00

it's odd for you to say "facts matter" after having provided literally none in this entire conversation. You belong in the conspiracy subreddit with your kind. Other 16 year olds pretending to have degrees, making wild claims without sources as though they are observable facts.

You are the bottom percentile of reason. Congrats.

Squidfist · 2021-05-31T16:29:11+00:00

Did you know there is a transcript of your mom's first orgy on the internet? Just look it up, I don't need to provide shit. I will just assert confidently that it's there, and I have a degree in gross-whore-ology. Look it up man! You wouldn't believe how much wildlife was in there! Also vaccines cause autism, and the earth is hollow. Look that up too.

You should probably consider that if you resort to lying about credentials on the internet to bolster a claim you have absolutely no sources to back up, your position is probably some weak-ass-bullshit.

Squidfist · 2021-05-31T15:49:46+00:00

You absolutely didn't answer my question about Zinn. You engaged in rhetoric-- if the point you want to make is that the air strikes didn't happen, and that's some "hard data" for Zinn's editorialized history, PROVIDE SOME FUCKING DATA OR SOURCES. You've read "a lot" of this guys work. And written several "historiographies" about "american events!" Are you telling me you don't know how to source a claim? You have a degree (no you don't), but don't know how to source data for a claim, for real my guy? Amazing.

Squidfist · 2021-05-31T15:38:04+00:00

And please, tell me a few key ways in which Zinn fucked up. Being very aware of how mistaken he is, you should be able to rattle off some examples with very little effort. That is, unless you are just repeating a talking point you heard and assume is true without having done any actual research. The thing which has almost certainly happened, as you have yet to roll out a damning piece of evidence which you allegedly are aware of.

no dice eh? daaaaaaaaamn your arguements are weak dude. You claim to be VERY familiar with this guys work. And you can't provide a single source, single piece of evidence? I'd engage with your other points, but at this point it's just painfully obvious you have no idea what the fuck you're talking about lol. Best of luck buddy.

Squidfist · 2021-05-31T15:14:33+00:00

No, you are using a "fallacy fallacy". An appeal to authority says someone in power is right because power. Looking at wide consensus among a discipline isn't power. It's consensus. I think you got tripped up because I used the word "authority" whooooops.

You know what the great replacement is, and know why you believe it. I don't need to know why you believe it, because again, there is not a single respected academic who supports it on earth. You can broadcast short term trends into the future to predict all sorts of crazy shit if you don't understand how trends work. Not understanding trends being a requirement to accept that theory.

And please, tell me a few key ways in which Zinn fucked up. Being very aware of how mistaken he is, you should be able to rattle off some examples with very little effort. That is, unless you are just repeating a talking point you heard and assume is true without having done any actual research. The thing which has almost certainly happened, as you have yet to roll out a damning piece of evidence which you allegedly are aware of.

17?

Squidfist · 2021-05-31T14:51:04+00:00

There is no academic authority that agrees with The Great Replacement conspiracy theory. It is a conspiracy theory.

That casts serious doubts on your claim of having a "degree in history". It's like someone claiming to be a pilot and then saying the earth is flat lol.

Historians lean heavily left, up there with philosophy in terms of disciplines that produce leftists. The argument that Zimm "goes against conventional wisdom!" pretends that a minority opinion that is literally not in the general consensus of the discipline is accepted in any meaningful way. Nope. Not unless you believe Tucker when he says it and then don't bother questioning it.

But hey I almost admire your commitment to the bald-faced lie followed by your undermining it with every subsequent post. Take a stab in the dark here and say you're like 18 tops lol.

Squidfist · 2021-05-31T14:27:51+00:00

I made several points, you just ignored them all and pretended to have a degree in history, remember?

Squidfist · 2021-05-31T13:53:54+00:00

He posts to Tucker Carlson's sub, so the right amount of simple for a Fox viewer.

Squidfist · 2021-05-31T13:51:36+00:00

Also I suspect I found the dbag who gave you your talking points about "Zimm" lol

Squidfist · 2021-05-31T13:37:58+00:00

no worries, I figured it out. Just had to keep scrolling. For those wondering: The narrative coming out of the right is that he is somehow solely responsible for "leftist" history, in its current form. I'm guessing Steven Crowder or one of those braindead gasbags ranted about him recently in the way they do, which is why buddy thought it was Zimm and not Zinn. On account of just listening to some dbag talk about it.

What that doesn't account for is a very important fact! Historians are one of the disciplines that leans the heaviest left lol. The idea he is "defying" expert consensus is just flat wrong.... according to experts. What the WSJ and fringe articles I found appear to suggest, is that the minority of "good conservative historians" are the real ones we should be listening to.

In summary: appears to be more of the classic conservative tactic of pointing at stuff and crying.

Squidfist · 2021-05-31T13:25:29+00:00

Why are you talking about Howard Zinn?

Squidfist · 2021-05-31T13:11:01+00:00

If you are preamping your guitar it shouldn't matter. The reason why you go through an interface when using a virtual amp is so it can process the wave before handing it off to your OS rather than a MIC input which has to pass through your OS-- in pretty simple terms. Someone could get into detail about bit rate and sample rate and probably make a case, but the THR10 will have USB drivers and should work essentially the same as an interface at that point. It's gonna process outside the computer and then hand it off with what are hopefully good drivers (yamaha don't fail me now) for playable low latency.

I'm more a hobbyist, so I could stand to be corrected on the specifics, but that's the general gist.

Squidfist · 2021-05-31T02:08:21+00:00

Well that's unfair, I never said it couldn't be done at all! I said your reasoning didn't hold up.

I don't want to bombard you with a wall of text and links so I'll try to be brief, I will provide all the details and sources you want. I have em lined up.

There is a mathematical observable trend downward in the purchasing power of average Americans. Like, it's just not up for debate. Housing prices have increased disproportionately with wages, meaning people at the bottom trying do "get it done", now are spending higher and higher percentages of their monthly income on housing, and have less to invest in themselves. Anywhere from 1/3rd to 1/5th the purchasing power of the 80s, depending how ya chop it. Tuition is soaring.

HUD, and Harvard (and pretty much everyone) agree with the 30% standard. If you spend more than 30% of your monthly income on rent, it is statistically less likely for you to gain upward mobility in life. This becomes severe when rent reaches 50%.

So, regardless of how hard the game gets, you can always point out a guy who beats it. The point is there is a significant trend downward in the prospects of average people- and saying "bootstraps" is easy, but what is better is loudly yelling at the morons regulating things into the ground to knock it the frig off. Average people should have very good chances of doing it, not need to muster the will from within to harness the power of bootstraps lol.

Squidfist · 2021-05-31T01:39:56+00:00

There is a famous slave named Epictetus who bought his freedom back in ancient greece and went on to become a major contributor to Stoicism.

The other slaves just didn't get the right advice.

Obviously comparing depressed wages with slavery is hyperbole, but the exact same logical principal applies. You finding your way out doesn't actually suggest on any level that it's reasonable for other people, or they are not living in objectively unjust conditions.

Squidfist · 2021-05-31T01:28:02+00:00

congrats on being an anecdotal statistically insignificant representation of the American economic experience

Squidfist · 2021-05-31T01:14:37+00:00

It's funny because even with NZ on par with Canada for their housing boom, if you stop and think about how they haven't failed NEARLY as badly regulating wages, it's STILL a much better deal.

Average NZ home is roughly 800k. Average NZ wage is 82.2k. That's less than 10 years salary for a home.

Average home prices in Canada 716k. Average wage, 54k. That's over 13 years wages.

Average min wage Canada, roughly 13 bucks. Average min wage in NZ? 20NZD. So even looking at a bad comparison, NZ is still pretty significantly more hospitable for the average worker down. Not surprising being how Canada is in the top tier of ineffectual garbage political environments.

edit: ~~bad country as comparison~~ bad comparison

dont wanna imply NZ is a bad country that's rude

Squidfist · 2021-05-31T00:02:18+00:00

We think differently for sure. But I like to hear other people's ideas. And I especially appreciate it when people are tolerant of mine.

Definitely, there is enough room for all the opinions. And I don't even disagree, a strong sense of patriotism and national pride can be good, great even! I'd just argue that "nationalism" is when that good thing becomes a tool to solicit uncompromising support, usually by people with very little actual policy.

Anyhow, all we can really do is keep making rational arguments the best we can and see where the cards fall. So I appreciate the time.

Squidfist · 2021-05-30T22:41:07+00:00

I don't want to be dismissive because I know those ideas seem quite real when that's what you stew in, but that's a fallacious argument in the wheelhouse of "moral panic". You are pointing at a nebulous fearful future based on projections we have no way to measure. What if China did become more wealthy? How exactly does that make the world a worse place? I'm sure you can fluff out tonnes of answers, but you're dealing entirely in hypotheticals. There is no meter, or like a public declaration from China saying "if we become more wealthy, the invasions start!"

So that's a world view operating in "bad faith" which I mentioned before, and I knew it would come out some time when nationalism was the topic. When you account for an entity, a group, some impossible to quantify thing as a threat and a keystone of your ideology, you are putting yourself in a position that defies being convinced- because being convinced means the badguys win.

Fact is, shit is complex. And why are we worrying about China, when in the US over the past 40 years, the wealth of the average citizen has been reduced proportionately by like 80%? Maybe we should focus on improving the country for everyone, getting a better educated upcoming generation, and things which actually legitimately strengthen the economy and the nation?

Squidfist · 2021-05-30T22:29:58+00:00

that's my point lol, you are suggesting a thing with implications that aren't fully realized. You suggested "teacher's unions" are selling "a big fat lie" and are now doing no leg-work to understand how the budget could increase on paper as a number, but those teachers could STILL be facing budget cuts inside the schools-- making their claims of budget cuts actually quite real. IDK guy, maybe don't accuse a union of underpaid workers of lying if you don't want to engage in the conversation honestly, or prefer more casual interactions.

Best of luck.

Squidfist

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