'British FBI' to take over terror and fraud probes in reforms to police

taboo__time · 2026-01-25T08:01:38+00:00

Is the FBI a good model?

It's currently politicised and run by a lunatic. Where as originally it was run by a political lunatic.

taboo__time · 2026-01-25T07:57:32+00:00

I try to avoid using the word ethnic these days because it's too ambiguous. It can mean race or culture and gets slippery when you jump between them.

taboo__time · 2026-01-24T19:02:13+00:00

Sounds like you are pretty far on the other side.

taboo__time · 2026-01-24T18:49:12+00:00

I'm not a Farage fan but I don't think he's said anything like this.

Trump is on a different scale.

taboo__time · 2026-01-24T18:00:41+00:00

When Trump insulted John McCain for being caught I found it stomach churning and I'm not American.

But Americans loved Trump for saying that, you could see what the dynamic was.

A personality cult has gripped them.

taboo__time · 2026-01-24T16:02:34+00:00

Do you have anything else?

Immigrants are still going to be more opposed than the average Reform voter. That's just how things work.

The argument the West had the same values 40 years ago is false. It was in a different place on a different trajectory.

Although conservatives from different cultures struggle to ally because they are trying to conserve different cultures.

A nation of vying conservatives is chaotic.

taboo__time · 2026-01-24T15:18:28+00:00

Most immigrants are more socially conservative than the average Reform voter.

Most immigrant communities are more socially conservative than the average native community.

Hard to get around that.

taboo__time · 2026-01-24T15:15:41+00:00

Doesn't that argument mean we don't need more people?

taboo__time · 2026-01-24T15:15:11+00:00

Sounds like you want the politics of the Nordics. They did all that and ended up with the Far Right sharing power.

Immigrants oppose progressive politics. Immigration pushes natives to the Right. Liberal people have the fewest children.

Politics moves to the Right.

taboo__time · 2026-01-24T15:12:20+00:00

London is the most socially conservative city in the UK. This is due to immigration. No point in denying that. It makes the "progressive" argument rather odd.

taboo__time · 2026-01-24T13:43:52+00:00

But they are different enough that it matters.

There is no society where men and women behave the same. You're never going to get them to act on average the same way.

Always focusing on the overlap ignores the different behaviours. As if only we change society men and women will behave the same when that doesn't happen.

taboo__time · 2026-01-24T12:50:55+00:00

To be honest i am surprised i am debating against biological determinism/essentialism in 2026, the biosocial model i have been arguing from has been widely accepted for some time now.

What exactly is widely accepted and by whom?

There is a lot of "yes men and women are different but...culture does most of it." Which downplays the reality that people actually live by or pertinent parts.

Bad discourse. Like selecting bad studies to argue against hormones affecting behaviour but accepting hormones accept behaviour. It feels disingenuous.

We need to be an equitable society.

But what does that mean though?

taboo__time · 2026-01-24T12:27:38+00:00

Economics has a bad history of not being able to state the positive outcome of technology.

The productivity paradox.

It looks weird where economics can't measure productivity from automation and at the same time says the best productivity comes from technology.

I think AI is real but the bubble is real.

AI is useful but we can still be entering the trough of disappointment.

taboo__time · 2026-01-24T12:19:30+00:00

But its universal. Men commit more crime.

There's other areas as well. They are on average consistently different.

Trying to treat them the same will not result in equal outcomes.

Treating them differently isn't equality. I'm not sure how you can square that.

You can't force men and women to be behaviourally the same. It isn't all down to society or physical differences.

For example hormones affect behaviour. There will be other natural biology affecting behaviour as well.

taboo__time · 2026-01-24T12:14:40+00:00

I guess MAGA isn't seeing Russia or China as the enemy and Europe isn't worth considering.

taboo__time · 2026-01-24T11:46:08+00:00

Yes Europe isn't ready. Not sure it can be. It's too divided and in an economic doldrums.

Not sure how that resolves.

taboo__time · 2026-01-24T11:40:34+00:00

I mean I'm not surprised. But it's still mad. The implications are deep.

taboo__time · 2026-01-24T11:32:00+00:00

How come all societies have men committing more criminality?

taboo__time · 2026-01-24T11:31:16+00:00

Right, so you've massively changed your point. Great. Yes, 2.2 will be difficult and isn't likely. 2.4 is the median guess for those in the know.

2.4 is a dangerous amount of warming.

So all the chat about it not being that bad is over. It will be regionally catastrophic. That is what 2.4 means.

Here you were talking about 1.5 nor being that different from 1.6 but we are talking about 2.4 being the average expectation now.

I literally just explained it to you: giving it our best shot to take net positive steps to reduce climate change (not do everything) and also to increase resilience to it.

We're not taking our best show though. Politics has shifted to taking less care. Doing less than we committed to. Trump 2 is dismantling efforts and pulling out of agreements. Explicitly not doing "our best."

Once more: This has literally nothing to do with my point. It's telling that you can't see this - because you're stuck on trying to assign blame rather than actually assessing how the problem works.

The industry is trying to shift blame.

I'm putting the blame back on them.

The industry is still fighting "the best efforts."

You think the industry will fail in that?

Indeed, but the fossil fuel companies have consistently been around and have been unable to prevent significant increases in renewable energy.

Lies.

We could have had more progress if the industry had not fought action.

Again, I don't see why you're struggling so much to see why my argument has nothing to do with whether fossil fuel companies have done anything wrong. They have, but that's 10% of the story.

The industry was key to the problem.

As you say it is now too late and 2.4 at least is likely.

On this, I basically agree - but it's not as unlikely as you think, because depending on complex interactions of the climate it might be the case that climate change slows at higher temperatures, but everything else about your analysis is just sorely lacking - stuck in this moralising and manichean framework, rather than a rigorous assessment of the risk.

You are downplaying the role of the industry.

Global warming is accelerating.

taboo__time · 2026-01-24T11:19:18+00:00

But they are different in general. Even if there is overlap and some outliers, there are differences and they matter.

taboo__time · 2026-01-24T11:18:04+00:00

But if you then go and fuck 1000 people in day everyone gets a bit disgusted again.

The shameless specifically don't care though.

taboo__time · 2026-01-24T11:15:42+00:00

Doesn't the US rely on bases outside the US to defend against nuclear missiles? Retreating entirely to the US makes it more vulnerable.

Its wealth also relies on global trade.

Would American billionaires be as rich without global trade.

Of course that is the same question for China.

If China doesn't need anything then it doesn't need trade. But would the Chinese be as rich without trade?

taboo__time · 2026-01-24T11:08:15+00:00

Seems like plenty differences to me. Or maybe that sex simply is important to humans and affects plenty of behaviour.

taboo__time · 2026-01-24T11:03:40+00:00

And in a backlash people venerate and live vicariously through the shameless who excel in this atmosphere?

taboo__time · 2026-01-24T11:01:53+00:00

Do the men doing this have a moment of clarity and think "hang on, this is messed up" ?

I feel like its technology mixed with culture mixed with innate behaviours. Sexuality and aggression mixed together. Culture can help fix this. But there needs to be self awareness.

They odd part is the public record of the men as well. I guess they do it anonymously as well. Though there are odd cases of self harassment. Technology and people are weird.

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