Paying for a child's room, board, and a reasonable number of gifts costs something like $12,000 a year.
Picking a state more or less at random, Wisconsin's school board spends $13,500 per pupil.
Like most budgets, we can expect the total [child budget] to be fixed. If someone is unnecessarily doubling total cost per child, you should expect total number of children to be halved.
This is exactly what we see.
The market knows.
Mission successful.
Technically shadowbanned, since the comments remain in moderation hell for days, which means I can retrieve them while remaining lazy. Functionally can't post anything. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'ma say Sailer's been bought by the CIA. Don't worry - Big Sister appreciates your loyalty, SS. Everyone has their price, and for journalists, that price is always affordable. Why presume incompetence when malice is so plausible?
You can tell Unz can't be genuinely threatening to the Regime, because it hasn't received the Gab treatment. Indeed surviving this long is prima facie evidence of Regime sponsorship. Recent behaviour is only a little more than confirmation.
You're allowed to be a little dissident, but not too dissident. Naturally anyone mentioning this in what they believe is a plausible way will also get banned.
BTW the game is to troll without saying anything untrue or misrepresentative. Be completely honest, forthright, on topic, and devastating to the target psyche. Prodding an atheist's sacred cows until they snap is the most amusing. "I don't hold anything sacred." "lol"
It's very obvious that light-side narratives, books TV movies videogames, are utter trash.
Isn't the next obvious step to throw out the trash and start over? They clearly fucked up comprehensively. Distance yourself and re-derive art from first principles, because no matter how badly you execute, you can't be executing as badly as the light-side publishers. They're doing it wrong on purpose. Competing with each other to make the worst product that's still barely saleable.
I thought for sure I wouldn't be the only one trying to figure out how narratives should be told instead of how moderns do it.
Well that was stupid, now wasn't it!
Apparently the obvious thing to do, having realized it's all utter trash, is to watch it anyway and compete to be able to successfully call each others' taste trash.
Re-deriving how [raconteur] should go requires logic and thinking. They don't throw out the fundamentalist anti-intellectualism, so the very few who try to divorce themselves from Official Publishing end up flailing randomly. As you might expect from failing to ditch the anti-intellectualism, they don't reject the underlying culture. If it's not purely incoherent they tend to re-create a branch from the same tree, just a bit lower down.
Looks like DC really, really wants to start a war with Russia.
Can't manage it, though. Too sclerotic. Too incompetent.
There was never any reason to worry about Killary's WWIII. Too female to get 'er done.
https://twitter.com/GPrime85/status/1508835919557709824
Step 1: woman goes into public woman's bathroom.
Step 2: even if they've somehow never been before, "Wait, a woman's been in here. A woman has used this." They know what that means.
Step 3: hover.
I wonder if there's a selection effect. I wonder if most already know the following advice: plan not to use the public restroom. Find a way to avoid it. Result: only the most mindless segment of the population ends up in these places.
Which is why the environmentalists hate them.
To Christians, every fire is hellfire. It's all allegorically inferno. Prometheus is just Satan avante le lettre.
Worse, coal plants are Luciferian. Fire, used to produce light? Used to produce power? Making you more capable? Must be pure evil, right?
Electricity makes it cheaper to be healthy. That's not very Gnostic at all, so every devout Christian hates it. You're supposed to mortify the flesh, not enliven it.
Communism is merely Christianing like you mean it. Clearly a truly dedicated congregation would all crucify themselves. This is unrealistic - the last guy would have to hammer the nails into his own hand - so commies go for starvation instead. In the end, dead is dead.
"Maybe Japan and Chyna should have MORE violent crime. Have you ever considered this?"
https://nitter.unixfox.eu/MasakiJinzaburo/status/1507161069608919040
Pre-script: "Free peoples commit crime all the time." More precisely, free people do things the government doesn't like all the time, but not necessarily battery, fraud, or vandalism. Note that a duel isn't battery, the same way a gift isn't theft.
"Middle class society has always been about banishing danger. The upper
class lives in it and so does the lower. When or if an upper class
doesn't have any danger they start to lose effectiveness."
https://nitter.unixfox.eu/GraniRau/status/1507182546718760960
Re: honour
By losing his cool Smith dishonoured his wife. Rock didn’t make her go bald and saying she’s bald isn’t going to make her more bald. Yes, mentioning it is rude, especially as a joke. “Okay man, I’ma have to hit you now. Why you gotta make me do this?” *whack* “You gonna talk about my wife again?” Just keep hitting him until he agrees to stop.
But that’s all it is: kinda rude. Americans are kinda rude literally all the time. If you start consistently hitting everyone who does it, your hands will fall off before you run out of disrespect.
By getting angry, Smith makes it look like has something to hide. He looks desperate. Would you want to be married to a man desperately trying to hide something?
My first guess is Smith himself is thinking of leaving her for that exact shallow reason, and has to double down on acting committed because he’s afraid someone will notice.
Alt: he’s aware everyone is saying this and also aware he can’t do anything about it, but he can’t accept this military reality. He can’t accept his lack of control and is desperately pretending he has it.
I could narrow it down, but that would mean spending time and giving a shit, and I truly do not.
Note that you can’t just haul off on a guy. It has to be part of a negotiating strategy. You’re trying to reach or uphold an agreement. The point isn’t wanton violence.
Or rather, for Smith, the point is wanton violence. Quite possibly for Rock too, at that, albeit verbal violence.
Also if he openly refuses to shut up you have to kill him or die trying, so there’s that. Smith is dishonourable and his pretense to the contrary is sufficiently repulsive. You can’t stop half-way. “Well, my wife is worth some violence and risk…but not too much. Sorry toots.”
P.S. Some of my previous comments weren't merely held in moderation for three days, but outright deleted at the end of the holding period. Shadowbanning at its finest. Very dishonourable.
Apparently I'm threatening enough to be worth the effort of cherry-picking comments to censor, so that's interesting.