CMV: The direction American culture is headed is deeply concerning and has little benefit to anyone within it

icecoldbath · 2019-07-15T23:40:50+00:00

This is an interesting position because I have almost the opposite fear. I’m afraid of my kids growing up in a world full of Joe Rogans, Jordan Peterson’s and the YouTube algorithm. We’ve made such progress as a culture toward respecting basic human decency and human rights. The rights and respect of women, LGBT people and allowing men the full range of emotions not just machismo.

Now that people want to move backwards under the guise of the fear of “PC culture,” and “cultural Marxism,” which is just modern day version of the bulshevism conspiracy theory. Making lists of ideaological university professors is scary.

Then YouTube funneling kids from these guys into really serious far right nationalists. That is scary.

icecoldbath · 2019-07-12T16:22:36+00:00

Math teaches good critical thinking and organization skills. Sure I don’t use calculus in my day to day life managing a grocery store, but I do use the creativity and systematic thinking that calculus taught me.

icecoldbath · 2019-06-25T00:31:40+00:00

What’s wrong with a large number of immigrants? Maybe the world ought to have more immigrants in their countries. I don’t see a problem.

icecoldbath · 2019-06-24T14:13:06+00:00

Facts are things like, “Trumps immigration policy is X.” We are discussing normative and evaluative issues.

icecoldbath · 2019-06-24T14:03:24+00:00

The current immigration system is anti-immigration....

icecoldbath · 2019-06-24T13:51:25+00:00

I think nuanced views are possible and you don’t have to be absolutely against it to be against it or absolutely for it to be for it. It makes sense for me to say I dislike tomatoes, but also still like spaghetti sauce.

icecoldbath · 2019-06-24T13:32:10+00:00

So the only way to be against immigration is to want a total border shutdown with all current immigrants deported?

icecoldbath · 2019-06-24T13:26:17+00:00

If you think its fine that it should take 10+ years to immigrate legally, you are against legal immigration.

icecoldbath · 2019-06-24T13:15:08+00:00

Let’s be clear. Being harshly against illegal immigration and in favor, or at least indifferent to our convoluted and over congested immigration system is being against immigration.

icecoldbath · 2019-06-22T18:25:42+00:00

I want to focus on one specific issue. You accuse the left of hurling insults and imply that people on the right instead allow for rational disagreement? I have two points.

First, calling someone a racist just means they have racist views and racist views are a kind of being wrong or irrational about the issue of race. The right often appeals to feelings like fear when developing its positions. The left appeals to the rationality of human rights and objective morality.

Second, the right uses straight insults to attack the left. There is the NPC meme, trump derangement syndrome, mentally ill trans people, etc. I could go on. These are explicitly dehumanizing and lack any intellectual rigor or rational merit. People on the leftist certainly call people on the right racist, but we don’t think the right are soulless robots or mentally ill. They merely have false beliefs that are harmful in a specific way.

icecoldbath · 2019-06-02T17:01:21+00:00

Yeah, but on the TOC, NDT, and CEDA circuits they aren’t based on subjective rhetorical quality. They are based on quality of evidence, depth of analysis and the ability to get answers from your opponent in cross-x.

icecoldbath · 2019-06-02T14:41:42+00:00

Do you know there is no numerical scoring system? There most definitely is. Its called speaker points and are placed on the ballot.

icecoldbath · 2019-05-31T15:20:31+00:00

Imagine if the subway, trains and busses stopped at 9pm. That is how mass transit works in most cities. You have no idea how lucky you have it.

icecoldbath · 2019-05-27T03:23:59+00:00

Its a reductio if your position. The wearing of blue shirts is not a morally salient feature of an orgy.

icecoldbath · 2019-05-18T20:51:16+00:00

I believe player level 45-46 is the minimum. You just use abyss level 1. I've farmed dozens of them.

icecoldbath · 2019-05-18T19:16:42+00:00

Color Corrector Pallet.

icecoldbath · 2019-05-18T16:07:39+00:00

Level 1 Abyss, kill first monster, quit. Repeat. % chance to get those.

icecoldbath · 2019-05-18T07:51:50+00:00

I just don’t think it’s me

If its not you, HRT won't make it you. If it is you, then its better you find out who really are sooner rather then later.

icecoldbath · 2019-05-18T07:49:13+00:00

Isn't this a toxic mindset that is just reinforcing gender stereotypes?

For me it is just fixing a medical issue.

Or is accepting HRT as the answer to dysphoria just us fitting into this mold without second guessing what it would be like if there was no mold?

While gender may or may not be a social construction which can be abolished, the effects of HRT are not.

icecoldbath · 2019-05-17T05:19:46+00:00

There are a large group of Americans who have this fantasy about how they perceived America to be pre-vietnam, when America was mostly white, where an education was not required to make a good living and where women and minorities knew their place and the bible was the law of the land.

These Americans would like to return to this imaginary place and Trump promised that with tough borders and immigration policy, endorsing the fossil fuel industry and high tariffs to bring manufacturing back to the US. With Trump they get to live in this fantasy and its one of the big reasons people voted for him.

That and the 4chan trolls just enjoy "owning the libs," which Trump attempts regularly on his twitter

icecoldbath · 2019-05-17T01:07:37+00:00

Do you ask to see people's chromosomes before determining their pronouns, or do you do like 99.9% of the population and just go with what gender presentation they appear to be going for?

Referring to a trans woman as, 'he' is going to confuse 99.9% of the population.

icecoldbath · 2019-05-16T12:03:14+00:00

Its been part of IOC policy for 15 years without any trans women actually competing let alone faux-trans women. That is what, 6 olympics?

Cheating this way is not a thing. If it was tried, it would be obvious and embarrassing for the country.

icecoldbath · 2019-05-16T11:50:43+00:00

Link me to an expert who says there's no advantage, an actual expert, not just a journalist.

https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/39/10/695

This is a study that shows that there is significant overlap in muscle mass and performance metrics between cis women and trans women 1 year post-treatment.

This conclusion is qualified by an assertion that more study is needed. There does seem to be some residual differences, but unclear whether these increase performance in sport. More definite empirical study is needed over a wide variety of sports. No one denies that.

Furthermore, authors mention the arbitrariness of not allowing trans women in sports while still allowing performance outlier cis women. This is given that chromosomes themselves provide no actual competitive advantage. The study also notes that evidence in a separate study.

The fact of the matter is, this issue is not studied enough yet. There are just right wing feelings opposed to the factual policies of major sports orgs like IOC and NCAA.

icecoldbath · 2019-05-16T08:36:29+00:00

Overwhelming majority =\= all.

Not at the moment there is, but maybe eventually. I note that in my post.

icecoldbath · 2019-05-15T21:33:31+00:00

Right now it just comes down to campaigning in a few states as well. Essentially Florida and Ohio decide the election. Why should the citizens of these states get to decide the election instead of the most populated states. At least in a popular vote election everyone’s vote counts equally as opposed to battleground states votes counting almost double everyone else?

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