It's unclear to me too what we ought to do in response to this. Not sure what "push back loudly" is supposed to entail exactly. I do expect it will translate to the usual idiocy about gun control and lots of fingers bring pointed at the usual suspects.
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Replying to @danlistensto @PereGrimmer
It's clear that the derangement is still building, perhaps towards critical levels. How many atrocities have to go down before it's clearly time to GTFO? I'm only alive today because my grandparents GTFO of Poland before it was too late.
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He didn't say no cultural context. And in any case there are plenty of mass killings that have no real cultural context beyond some guy being a psycho. As to derangement building, yeah I think it's absurd to compare America today to e.g. Weimar Germany.
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things progress over time, you know? Germany in 1928 vs. Germany in 1933 vs. Germany in 1939. What year is it in America?
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Replying to @danlistensto @PereGrimmer
i feel this but i am skeptical that it's actually true, enough that i cant confidently endorse the idea that any person/community's policy should be influenced by the assumption that it is
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I have been summoned for comment?
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let's see. we don't have a collapsed economy suffering from mass unemployment or hyper-inflation and we don't have a generation of war survivors hungry for revenge. what do we have that matches though? bad government, a very bigoted population, and a palpable sense of decline.
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"bad government" is too vague to be any use re: prediction; you could rightly claim all governments ever have been "bad," but they are not all next-door to Naziism. The population is nowhere near as bigoted -- not at all comparable. The "palpable sense of decline" is illusory.
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was referring to the Weimar Republic government as being dysfunctional, not to post 1933 Nazi government. quantifying bigotry is hard to do precisely, but broadly we have one hell of a historical problem with it. sense of decline is a sense. it's how people feel about it.
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--Yes, the U.S. Gov. is nowhere near as dysfunctional as the Weimar Republic. --Any credible objective quantification you use for bigotry will reveal there is no real comparison. --Re: sense of decline, seems like you're mind-reading, and in any event not sure connected.
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things don't have to be identical in order to rhyme
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'The content is unimportant' when it comes to generalized anxiety -- it will latch onto any vague gestalt.
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