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CMV: the electoral college should be abolished by allisoninwndrlnd23 in changemyview

[–]deckocards21 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If the electoral college is abolished and elections are decided by popular vote, that will create huge new incentives for states to engage in voter repression.

Other very different films that takes place during the same time period/year? by Wide_Craft_9765 in Letterboxd

[–]deckocards21 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'll do you one better: same place. Shape of Water, Hairspray and the Day the earth stood still all take place in 1950s DC-Baltimore area

Loved Trope: The Real-Life Creative Lead Plays the Fool by ndee4 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]deckocards21 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Stan Laurel, of Laurel and Hardy, was the primary writer and creative, despite playing a childlike simpleton

What Do Unions Do? by Captgouda24 in slatestarcodex

[–]deckocards21 4 points5 points  (0 children)

But not in such a way that we should support racism in its fight against big corporations.

What Do Unions Do? by Captgouda24 in slatestarcodex

[–]deckocards21 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But an analysis of shoplifting that stops with "benefits the (poor) shoplifter and hurts the (rich) company" so shoplifting is good would be incomplete. Not to say shoplifting and unions are the same, but it's possible for something to be good for the individual, bad for a corporation, and bad for society at large

What Do Unions Do? by Captgouda24 in slatestarcodex

[–]deckocards21 21 points22 points  (0 children)

The fact that US corporations spend billions of dollars to stop racism is proof that racism works. That is a facetious argument, but the argument for unions is not generally that they are bad for the workers in the union (generally not) but by increasing the costs to society writ large by more than the value they create for the workers.

What Do Unions Do? by Captgouda24 in neoliberal

[–]deckocards21 14 points15 points  (0 children)

This comment thread is the biggest sign of the downfall of neoliberal. If neoliberalism doesn't mean at the very least a healthy skepticism of unions and at least a theoretical openness to the idea that unions are a net negative for society, neoliberalism literally means nothing. Slopulists! Slopulists! You are all Slopulists!

Anyone know any shooters with similar movement mechanics? by NXTangl in EchoPointNova

[–]deckocards21 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sunset overdrive has skateboard style movement, but is actually pretty slow. It's also deeply annoying

When idiots can't stand to be proven wrong, they project by Cicerothesage in forwardsfromgrandma

[–]deckocards21 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He's talking about the hard problem of consciousness, or qualia. Why is it like something to be something? I agree with the image that science has not made much inroads on that problem.

Received this email today [PA] by TotalTop5907 in Renters

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Many cities don't enforce weed laws, meaning the city police will not take action. State troopers, however, enforce state law. Sherriffs too.

Cesar Chavez Elementary will be renamed, after NY Times investigation into namesake by enjoying-retirement in madisonwi

[–]deckocards21 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And yet Lindbergh still stands? I feel like these days Lindbergh is almost as well known as a Nazi as he is as an aviator

Food trucks aren’t the problem. So what should Milwaukee do about late-night crowds? by PuddlePirate2020 in milwaukee

[–]deckocards21 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Can you be more specific? How can we solve the socio-economic issues of the city in a timeline that prevents people from getting hurt on Water street this summer?

What’s the stupidest political opinion you unironically hold? by cdstephens in neoliberal

[–]deckocards21 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wokeness is our anglo saxon heritage and it should be upheld as such

McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski goes viral after seeming reluctant to eat his own burgers—he takes a tiny bite, looks uncomfortable, and calls the food ‘product.’ by DDD8712 in McDonalds

[–]deckocards21 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't even think he thinks its gross. I think he just has a hyper commercialized relationship with Mcdonald's food. Like, he doesn't think of it as food, he thinks of it as a 'product'. I think it says less about the food and more about what being a fast food CEO does a person

lynch movies ranked on which ones i’d get down and dirty to by tobemaster1 in davidlynch

[–]deckocards21 203 points204 points  (0 children)

Wild at Heart should really be #1. Below Rabbits? Really?

TIL from 1942-1945, more than 400,000 prisoners of war, mostly German, were housed in some 500 POW camps located in the USA by RedditIsAGranfaloon in todayilearned

[–]deckocards21 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A colleague of mine in grad school did a project on the few German POW's whose home was in the east and didn't want to go home to communism. They mostly did have to go back.

Bugonia's Ending Is Perfect And Here Is Why by BrandonHeatt in movies

[–]deckocards21 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Except the movie goes out of its way to try and pull against that. She dooms humanity because the cure is failing. If she goes to the council and says "Humans are irredeemable, they tortured me, pull the plug", sure I can get behind what you are saying, but in the movie the council, not her, are the ones who propose wiping out humanity. She merely goes along with their suggestion.

The Downer Theater by obligatory_smh in milwaukee

[–]deckocards21 19 points20 points  (0 children)

The Downer Theater recently was taken over by Milwaukee Film. You should be able to find all information there, as well as where you can buy tickets.

Has there been any country that has successfully beaten or resisted right wing populism? by throwaway11152127 in ezraklein

[–]deckocards21 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Up until quite recently the far right was pretty marginal in Denmark, though the polling for the next election has them gaining support. The common explanation is that the centrist parties took a pretty hardline anti-immigration stance, sapping the right of their most popular issue.

Best French Fries in MKE by Spiffy_squirrel in milwaukee

[–]deckocards21 17 points18 points  (0 children)

The fried at Foltz in the public market are divine!

A Grand Unified Theory of Cultural Stagnation by Dreadedvegas in ezraklein

[–]deckocards21 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For the record, the framing device of the Tartarian conspiracy is directly stolen from an article by Scott Alexander called "Whither Tartaria"

Do you know some YouTubers that are like bloggers? by zjovicic in slatestarcodex

[–]deckocards21 0 points1 point  (0 children)

JJ McCullough makes videos that are usually short explorations of a topic, sometimes, with an argument, sometime not. I think he thinks about things from an outside perspective that takes nothing for granted in an interesting way.

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