jvandreae

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by jvandreae 4mo ago
> It's amazing how much leftist discourse is just them pretending not to understand things, thus making discourse impossible. > https://x.com/MillennialWoes/status/1893134391322308918
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by jvandreae 4mo ago
> they successfully export the social contradictions of mass production Because the West used to have tons of manufacturing and unusually large amounts of social unrest? Shitholes are gonna shithole. No one is stopping them from being th
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by jvandreae 7mo ago
> At most, they'll last until the end of Trump's presidency Eh, you don't think Vance will keep them going when he wins in 28? I do agree that the uncertainty is an issue.
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by jvandreae 7mo ago
We don't want any more immigrants, and we don't care whether they contribute or not.
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by jvandreae 7mo ago
Ah, yes, the Orwellian newspeak that is the phrase "Department of Defense" is something worth protecting. What next, the Ministry of Truth? I don't really give any weight to what a leftist considers a vice or a virtue.
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by jvandreae 7mo ago
I - and thankfully, it appears, the current administration - don't accept your definition of who is "my countrymen". > losers and crybabies Luckily, for now, at least, it appears to be your side that is losing and crying.
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by jvandreae 7mo ago
Ah, yes, just like he hates Japan and Italy for being run by women.
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by jvandreae 7mo ago
> American men feel entitled to women, as from birth they’re told that they are. Outside of lower-class men (who tend to have more machismo/less to lose) and presumably unusually attractive men (who can get away with it), I have lit
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by jvandreae 7mo ago
IME, women are overwhelmingly more entitled (in a general sense) than men, sorry. Sure, women having to deal with a few "entitled" "predators" sucks and we should do something about that but the vast majority of men have
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by jvandreae 7mo ago
I believe this is touched upon in https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/22/right-is-the-new-left/
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by jvandreae 7mo ago
Female/leftist projection at its finest. There is no single group more entitled than the AWFL.
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by jvandreae 7mo ago
The simple fact is that values are partially heritable, and if you believe your values to be superior (you should!) then having children and encouraging people who share those values to have children is a good way to propagate those values.
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by jvandreae 7mo ago
The past is a foreign country. I do not believe "quality of life" in economic terms is a sufficient explanation. The simple Darwinian fact is that, if your culture did not value reproduction sufficiently, through whatever means, i
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by jvandreae 7mo ago
> unchecked climate change is going to mean for kids born today No amount of climate change today could compare with the threat of war and famine in the past, and yet they still had kids. Louise Perry even goes so far as to hypothesize t
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by jvandreae 7mo ago
> The good part is spawning another entity which has to slog through mindless work and consumption cycle, (experience the misery of aging, wither and die) - just so you can feel good about yourself? The future belongs to those who show u
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by jvandreae 7mo ago
That article seems a bit misleading. While some sweetener packets , such as equal and splenda contain some sugar, I don't believe this is necessarily true when they are used in other products. A quick google implies that, for example,
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by jvandreae 2y ago
The problem with docker is less the containerization and more the half-baked build system.
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by jvandreae 2y ago
"Progress for the tick is not progress for the dog." > These are the same individuals who empower fascists—whether in the US, Germany, Argentina, or Italy Correct, madame.
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by jvandreae 2y ago
Yep, just the age-old trick of creating a problem and then selling an ineffective solution. Unbounded profit!
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by jvandreae 2y ago
They know they're being talked about derisively and don't like it. They want to keep doing what they're doing, but they need you to not talk about it, so they can get away with it, so they attack the term. They know exactly w
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by jvandreae 2y ago
Compare also: 一 / 1 (one stroke vs three) 十 / 10 (two strokes vs four) 万 / 10,000 (three strokes vs seven)
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by jvandreae 2y ago
> Countries are for the people living in them, regardless of where they were born. If the country is composed of people who don't want to give up their culture or ethnic majority to foreign migrants, then shutting down foreign migra
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by jvandreae 2y ago
> countries are only for the people born to them Who are countries for, if not the people, then? The "international community"? America, as the global hegemon[0]? > easy way to deflect blame for your country's problem
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by jvandreae 2y ago
I think all three contribute, not necessarily equally. Anecdotally, I'd probably weight it at 2:1:1, but I imagine it varies a lot by individual and location.
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by jvandreae 2y ago
> Has anyone written on this issue dispassionately? Chris Williamson of the Modern Wisdom podcast has interviewed many public intellectuals from different sides on the subject in a fairly even-handed way. I'm currently reading Mary
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by jvandreae 2y ago
Also covered by Huell Howser, if you are a fan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b645RQuD6lI