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It's just like the migration crisis discussion in the other channel.
I know it can't be stopped, but you can very easily identify kids who might resort to violence.
The democrats make it too easy when their entire platform is "oppose whatever Trump says".
Then again, normies probably have never seen a MS-13 murder video. Compared to them ISIS is restrained.
It has to do with the closed nature of the Chinese economy and the difficulty in converting the yuan to foreign currency. Similar problems exist in Canada. Mainland Chinese buy property essentially as a way of avoiding laws against foreign investment.
The big question being, does this just apply to Trump, only to public officials, only to celebrities or public personalities, or does it apply to everyone?
They're convinced they're the smartest people in the room. Convinced to the same degree they're convinced the sky is blue and water is wet.
I wonder if Tim is going to get in trouble for talking about Tommy Robinson. Not that Tim is doing anything wrong, against YT guidelines, or against any laws, but simply because YT seems to be looking for any excuse to target him.
Yeah, it's also highly unlikely that Tim has said anything advocating violence yet he's already in crap for that.
Is this a new things? "Bloke on the Range" wasn't an isolated case?
The context was crystal clear. A reporter said something to the effect of 'rich people want to suppress the media' and Elon replied that the rich people own the media, implying that they don't want to suppress what they own. One would have to be intentionally dishonest to construe Musk's comment as some sort of anti-Semitic dog-whistle.
I mean, the immediately preceding tweet in the chain referred explicitly to the rich.
Well, more precisely "powerful people".
It's absolutely insane that all Musk has to do is point out the fact that the mainstream media is doing a shitty job and that the average citizen knows it, and BOOM he's a crypto-nazi.
I don't think we're going to be able to reason our way out of this mess. The most reasonable people we have are getting smeared as nazis just for speaking up.
There's been a little give & take in the culture war over the past 2-3 years, the battle-lines have moved a little back and forth, but ultimately there has been no significant progress. The hard progressive left still has a complete stranglehold on the media. All forms.
No, even if you discard all context there is nothing about the words he typed which has any anti-Semitic message.
Any anti-Semitic notions about what he said have to be inserted by the reader.
They WANT Elon Musk to be a nazi so they can discard his legitimate criticism.
A big part of this is that Universities only teach deconstructionist approaches to literature and analysis.
And from a deconstructionist approach you can make any text say anything you want so long as it is a) interesting and b) permits you to wield power.
And the sort of people who buy his products are probably the kind of folk who would do that.
Wealthy, environmentally conscious left coasters and institutions.
If he got bought out from Tesla he'd have billions more to sink into SpaceX ๐ค
This Frank Report site seems really, really sketchy
"Are you guys involved in a secret sex slave trafficking cult"
"no"
that's how most of this conspiracy shit plays out
Who fact checks the fact checkers? Eventually you need some sort of leap of faith.
Besides putting illegal migrants into a detention facility, what else would the expectation be? Just throwing up your hands and saying "come on in, laws and borders are for meanies"?
Let children just wander on into the country and vanish into someone's basement?
I assume those who don't like laws and borders make the process as drawn out as possible. Rules for radicals tactics. Use the enemy's rules against them.
4. "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules."
So if there's any appeals process, it gets used in every case.
If there's seven days allowed for a piece of paperwork to be filed, it gets filed at 11PM on the 6th day.
Sentinel, if you like that you should also read (or listen to) 'Explaining Postmodernism'.
The first third of it is kinda dense on jargon, but if you can get past that the rest is really illuminating.
The problem with those 3 things you mentioned blackhawk is that the people don't want you to know who they are or where they came from.
They don't have paperwork and don't talk to you.
That, and many of them are unaccompanied minors who you don't really want to have around the stabby/rapey types in regular jail.
Ultimately though this is a left-wing tactic. Redefine the language to narrow acceptable thought.
Syme explains it very clearly in 1984. Lenin and friends did this sort of thng all the time.
All these euphemisms that have been coined for "political correctness" aren't about protecting someone's feelings. It's about controlling what is and is not acceptable in discourse, and therefore winning political battles by default.
Some folk believe the term was coined by the early national socialist movements in pre-Nazi Europe. Other believe it was coined by Lenin. But everyone agrees that the purpose of politically correct speech is to constrain thought.
Many people now would believe that current politically correct speech is good, while the original application of the concept was bad.
My advice would be to use the most literal wording possible.
A foreign national without legal authorization to be present in the United States.
Francis Fukuyama makes an argument that the reason why South American countries are generally unsuccessful has to do with the differences in the colonizing cultures.
Spain didn't really embrace enlightenment values.
Fukuyama was wrong on a lot of stuff, but he is thought provoking at least.
It's easy to say they should emulate more successful countries. It's hard to actually make that a reality when doing so upsets existing interests.
If I were Elon Musk, I would send my critics little statuettes of middle fingers carved out of Martian stone.
Step 1: More migrants.
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Europe saved!
Always go by the audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. The critic score is political.
The audience score for Deadpool 2 is about the same as the critic score so it can't be that bad.
But you also get things like this:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/death_wish_2018
That makes sense to me.
If every critic agrees it's likely virtue signaling and not actual criticism.
http://archive.is/qTwvU archive link for those who don't want to give gizmodo clicks
i have them blocked in my hosts file to always remind me to use archive.is
One of my main gripes is that Finn has no purpose as a character. He does nothing. Accomplishes nothing.
He's not a hero because he's continually running away.
Even when he fights, he's somehow shown to be wrong for doing so.
I don't get what purpose they think he serves.
At this point he's just a foil and love interest for the mechanic asian that nobody remembers the name of.
Who just kinda showed up and was a mary sue.
I think the two problems are deeply intertwined.
Yeah that's awful
Luke is supposed to be extremely powerful, and it takes him years of training and failure to achieve anything.
"I don't want anyone to find me but i'll leave a map"
Like we expect Poe to be a hero. Someone who breaks the rules and saves the day. The subversion is that the qualities we expect to be present in a hero are in fact bad, and that he is fucking up the plan of the bitch commander. The bad writing is that there's no reason for the bitch commander not to simply inform Poe of what the plan is.
The best way to get people to trust you and have faith in you when you ask them to do something dangerous is to publicly belittle them.
Works every time.
The big bad didn't matter. Came out of nowhere, died for no purpose.
I was kinda expecting Kylo and Rey to be brother and sister. So that was a subversion as well.
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