Shitty leaders blame their people for their failures.
nednobbins
joined 2 years ago
People call something a "manifesto" when they want to imply that it's a long rambling text written by a crazy person.
This situation has me pondering 2 hypotheticals.
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How long until people start posting the names of individuals perceived as traitors (eg the McSnitch, the journalists shilling for Thomson, the politicians leading the charge against Mangione, etc)?
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Can he realistically be tried at all? A broad cross section of people are really supportive of Mangione. We're in such a weird timeline that I could potentially imagine groups like Black Block and Proud Boys standing side-by-side on this one.
It's Nature. One of the most respected science journals on the planet.
That’s a reasonable argument. It’s so reasonable that several researchers have tried to come up with better estimates and failed. The highest I could find was that 20% lifetimes rate. If you can find better data please share it. I’d love to see it.
Part of the point of the peer review process is to check for that. This kind of satay would be very hard to fake well enough to pass the scrutiny of a bunch of skeptical scientists. And if it passes that any scientist will be able to do the same. Being able to force an other scientist to retract a Nature paper would be a high prize for any academic.
I just looked this up and found two surprises.
- Prison rape seems to be in the low single digit percentages. The highest estimates seem to be a 20% life time chance. That's still way too high but also a far cry from "all".
- The abnormally large prison population in the US gives it the dubious honor of being the only country in the world where men are raped more than women.
He was charged and immediately released: https://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/nick-fuentes-battery-275931
Presumably is lawyer made it very clear that he is not to say a damn thing under any circumstances. I don't know enough about him to guess if he's smart enough to keep his gob shut for the duration of the trial.
Couldn't you say the same for the Republicans, or any party for that matter? ie, "Join them and if enough people like you join them they'll change."
Realistically, some new political operator isn't going to get any relevant positions. And nobody with the relevant positions will listen to a new political operator.
That may work in theory but it's basically saying to create a new Demcratic party from within.
What would joining consist of?
Register as Democrats? Vote whoever they tell you to vote for?
I'd broaden that to a whole host of "green" and "alternative energy" sectors.
All the panic about Chinese "overproduction" of EVs and similar technologies is just China going whole hog on those industries. It's not an "overproduction" in the traditional sense, where a company produces more than the market will bear and has to sell excess inventory at a loss. China just produces all of this stuff cheaply and at a huge scale.
About 20 years ago the general perception was that EVs were a joke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2HX5wsQVEA Now we have cost effective solar and wind, efficient battery storage, good and cheap EVs and drones, modern heat pumps etc.
I don't even think all the tariffs will matter in the long run. China is currently adopting all that stuff at a breakneck pace. Their production capacity won't just go away once they've saturated the domestic market and the growing number of countries that have trade agreements with China). At that point, Chinese manufacturers will have no choice but to start actually selling below cost, just so they can clear inventory.
And this has a snowball effect too. Energy is often the limiting factor in production. An abundance of cheap energy makes it cheaper to produce more cheap energy production.