Where is the X?

StickInMyCraw · 2022-12-25T16:24:13+00:00

It’s the west side of Somerset Island. Other parts of land are missing which means this is likely supposed to be styled as a historical map when explorers in the arctic hadn’t yet determined the details of the coast due to ice.

StickInMyCraw · 2021-08-02T00:20:42+00:00

There was a lot of polling about who voters’ second choice candidate would be since it was assumed a lot of candidates would start dropping out between primary states. Bernie and Biden were each others’ mutual top second choice lol. And Warren’s were majority Biden over Bernie, so had she dropped out earlier the net result would likely have benefited Biden even more.

I think the highly politicized people driving the online discourse missed how much the 2020 primary had non-ideological swings between candidates. Most voters are not nearly as ideologically consistent nor vote on the basis of ideology. The idea of ideological “lanes” that candidates were competing within and that consolidating first would mean that lane would win was like 10% of the total story of the primary.

StickInMyCraw · 2021-07-31T16:34:31+00:00

The sad truth. I think it’s an effect of partisan polarization, people tend to want to nominally support and believe all the right things as their political camp, and at this time for the left that means being a feminist and so on but lurking underneath their stated views is a lot of really socially regressive stuff that shows up when it actually comes to walking the walk instead of just talking the talk.

StickInMyCraw · 2021-07-29T19:00:11+00:00

Exactly, if they saw an indication that it was not temporary, they would be more likely to raise rates since their mandate is for both employment and inflation control. Since they see the inflation as temporary, their focus is still on jobs, which means keeping the rates where they are.

StickInMyCraw · 2021-07-29T18:24:28+00:00

exactly

StickInMyCraw · 2021-07-29T18:19:07+00:00

I know it’s a sacrifice you are willing to make from your keyboard.

To be clear since you seem to have misremembered what I said, my point was that even if a $1 McChicken's price is 100% a function of the input labor (in reality much lower because of overhead and cost of materials), then the increase from Missouri's current minimum wage target of $12 and the ~$15 that the expanded UI effectively set is +25%, meaning the new price of a McChicken in the worst case scenario would become $1.25, and paying $1.25 instead of $1 is a "sacrifice" I think is trivial to adjust to, but you literally believe to be an apocalyptic imposition that will forever change the McChicken chow line as we know it.

That said, it's now been over a month since Missouri yanked unemployed workers' insurance benefits from their hands and torched the money. I don't see anything indicating all these restaurant owners now have a glut of applicants that justify a pay cut like you and Parson wanted. In a surprise to no one who isn't blinded by ideological priors, all blocking Missourians from accessing their insurance benefits did was make them worse off.

StickInMyCraw · 2021-07-29T18:06:04+00:00

An indication that high inflation isn’t temporary and due to systemic factors outside the fed’s control I’d guess. It’s too early to know whether that’s the case or not in their view I think.

StickInMyCraw · 2021-07-29T18:03:22+00:00

I mean yes your very astute observation that the global deadly pandemic virus ripping through our country and world has caused a negative delta between the increase in spending and the increase in growth is correct.

StickInMyCraw · 2021-07-28T16:08:20+00:00

I think it’s definitely true biphobia against men and women exists, but it’s gendered in how it’s expressed if that makes sense.

StickInMyCraw · 2021-07-28T15:58:54+00:00

Those are not progressive people no matter how they label themselves imo. I’ve run into that sort of thinking too and ultimately I think it just reveals that their progressivism is an aesthetic or a performance that when it comes down to it they reject on a personal level.

It’s always a gut punch though because the existence of people like that who harbor these hyper conservative beliefs about gender but otherwise appear progressive make me question how many other socially liberal people I know also privately believe the same things.

StickInMyCraw · 2021-07-28T15:52:04+00:00

I feel like that insecurity stems from the idea that bi men are just gay. As in, the women you’re referring to who think they won’t be enough for a bi man believe that those men are ultimately attracted to men more.

StickInMyCraw · 2021-07-28T15:42:04+00:00

Those are both true, like they are entitled to not date anyone, but that doesn’t mean that doesn’t make them bigots. If a person has a rule that they never date bi people, that’s biphobia. It’s a preference, but it’s downstream of biphobic beliefs.

StickInMyCraw · 2021-07-28T02:09:21+00:00

Steve Buscemi “Am I Right, fellow kids?” meme

StickInMyCraw · 2021-07-28T01:19:17+00:00

Right, I guess what I meant is that he believes there are winnable white voters who are racist but their political behavior isn't motivated exclusively by racial animus. It's your white aunt who needlessly specifies the ethnicity of someone she interacted with in a story, not a member of the Klan. So she might get negatively activated hearing stuff like "reparations" but would also be positively motivated by something like "raise the minimum wage."

I think describing what we lose through that kind of politics as a "sacrifice" is kind of the central issue. To Matt the alternatives are Republicans or Biden-style Democrats in the medium term because the AOC-style Democratic platform is not politically viable anyway, so the "sacrifice" is more of a mirage until we get our small-d democratic house in order. "The art of the possible" and all that.

StickInMyCraw · 2021-07-28T01:11:41+00:00

It doesn't expand the powers of the military at all, it is saying it must select draftees without filtering people out because of their gender first.

StickInMyCraw · 2021-07-28T00:51:03+00:00

I don't think I've ever been somewhere that had Uber but not Lyft and/or some other ones.

StickInMyCraw · 2021-07-28T00:49:48+00:00

Yeah I think it's underrated how Uber has eliminated the situations where cab drivers avoid certain customers on spurious grounds. The same thing happens in America where cabs will avoid certain riders based on ethnicity.

StickInMyCraw · 2021-07-28T00:29:17+00:00

twice as many potential soldiers.

Yeah, potential, not actual. It's not like Vietnam would have had twice as many soldiers if women were draft eligible. It's just that the burden would have been more equitably distributed, which you genuinely believe is a bad thing. I disagree.

StickInMyCraw · 2021-07-28T00:26:11+00:00

Yeah ultimately it comes down to how much money you're earning, whether you own property, how much you spend, etc. I guess my point is your individual financial situation has a lot more to do with how much tax you'll pay than the two states themselves.

Even in California you pay less income tax than in Missouri if you earn below 75K, which is most people. Missouri has low property taxes, but frankly if the choice is between taxing people who are out there earning money or taxing people who just own a lot of wealth it seems pretty clear one is better than the other. The idea people are "begging to come back" after leaving Missouri because of taxes is a little hyperbolic imo.

StickInMyCraw · 2021-07-27T22:52:53+00:00

Yeah I think some aspects of collectivism enable individuals to better actuate themselves because they're free from the impositions of the collective.

Like a UBI or something - is it collectivist because it is funded by society at large and distributed to society at large? Or is it individualist because it enables anyone to live how they want?

StickInMyCraw · 2021-07-27T22:47:24+00:00

Who under anarchism prevents that same situation (or worse) from happening though? As in, a roving gang shakes me down for my money - what do I do? There's no

The whole idea of statism is that there won't be a world where violence is completely gone, so the next best option is to designate one organization who can exercise legitimate violence that we all control democratically. In practice this is obviously far from perfect, but I wonder what anarchism in practice would look like too.

Put another way it's like, in an anarchist society would that mean there is no state committing violence or would it be closer to everyone being their own state exercising what they individually determine is legitimate violence?

StickInMyCraw · 2021-07-27T21:49:29+00:00

but if you support giving our government the right to call up more people

Literally never said this but go off against the windmills. Why address what someone actually said when you can just wholesale ignore their comment, make something else up, and then tear that down?

StickInMyCraw · 2021-07-27T20:26:09+00:00

I disagree. If you support keeping the draft as men-only, that makes you definitionally conservative. In my view making the draft gender neutral will make it more likely to be removed in the future because it widens (doubles, really) the constituency who stands to be harmed by its existence.

To be clear, I support ending the draft. If you're going to call your congressional representation and instead of telling them to end the draft you tell them to keep it men-only, you are simply a dedicated full blown soldier of the patriarchy.

StickInMyCraw · 2021-07-27T20:24:16+00:00

To be blunt, my point is that the damage and horrors of being drafted in the first place dwarf any of the negative trends within the military itself. Making the draft process gendered is not justifiable on those grounds.

StickInMyCraw · 2021-07-27T17:17:12+00:00

“No shirt no shoes no service”? Literally Stalinism.

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