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Do you want me going in on the failures of the Republican Party? Because I can, and they are a lot longer and a lot more consequential than the LP nominating yet another irrelevant nominee that's going to lose. Look, there's a takeover in progress. It isn't smooth sailing, but there have been...

Agreed, he should have. But that's a MC tactical failure, not a sign that the Libertarians want open borders, but that we value ballot access over having the most based candidate possible. Admittedly, part of the responsibility for this failure lies with Dave Smith. He should have run like he...

They wanted ballot access, which Chase Oliver offers and Rectanwald didn't. More, Trump certainly hurt as well. For Chair, they went for the based option instead. Again, it's a reversal of the Republicans in 2020, but with knowledge that those with real power, in this case the party chair, is...

Already posted about that: The LP isn't dead, instead the based side ran a stupid fucking campaign and lost because of it. Also, as a side note: That's the old crowd. This is the LP regressing, not a new corruption. The LP used to be a useless leftist party. Then the Reno Reset. Now it's...

Sure, you could. But that's not what happened here. New facts without evidence were introduced. That's my issue. You can toss a studies evidence, but just adding new evidence without a study backing it, because you think the evidence fits, is bad science (despite scientists doing it a ton). I'm...

You missed my point. You can either toss a study entirely, or you can accept it. What you can't do is look at a study, add your own opinion on what they should have found even though they didn't find it, then claim that as evidence for your position. A study is either done wrongly for whatever...

... Sure, look up what was found in studies, and just ignore the parts you don't like, so it becomes something you do like. Either just ignore the study completely, or at least make an attempt to follow what it says, instead of just inserting your beliefs into it. I know there's bad science, but...

Evolutionarily? Two sons are suboptimal vs the alternative of having a son and a daughter. There's rapidly diminishing marginal returns to additional sons. It's much less valuable than a daughter at that point. You only need one male child to go and spread the genes among many females, so...

No, what was found relating to Fraternal Birth Order wasn't probably not related to testosterone. It was heightened antibodies to some protein. The Fraternal Birth Order effect is separate and stronger than prenatal testosterone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraternal_birth_order_and_male_sexual_orientation It's from the 90s, and people found evidence for it from the 50s, so it's before the worst of the woke stuff, but yes, the later on in birth order a male is compared to his brothers, the more likely they are to be...

You can actually get to "gay behavior is an evolutionary adaptation" pretty easily due to kin selection and lowering competition for mates (this is likely why third sons are more likely to be gay in humans). So an argument that it's natural isn't hard to make. This doesn't extend to trans stuff...

Congress is trying to reenact racial quotas: https://reason.com/volokh/2024/05/15/congress-is-preparing-to-restore-quotas-in-college-admissions/ There's a disparate impact test in the American Privacy Rights Act. As usual, the bills name has little to do with it's content.

But all of that benefited America (or their backers, etc). That's the part of the fact pattern this event isn't hitting. There's no way in which the level of effort here actually helps America. If it was a Putin assassination? Definitely. If it had destroyed a refinery? Probably. But this...

You need to examine reality in context. It isn't too convenient, because the warnings always happen. We know that the warnings happen when there are actual terrorist attacks because Putin publicly thanked Trump for one which averted an attack in St Petersburg a few years ago. The null...

Ah, I couldn't understand that one. As for US intelligence, my first guess would be the same way they usually are: SigInt. There's a chance at HumInt, but that's rarer. There's simply no one better at SigInt than the US though, and IS-K being stupid enough about it would be enough for a...

No. It simply doesn't line up with known facts well enough to disprove the null hypothesis (it was IS-K). There's always been these kinds of terrorist attacks against Russia, before and after the Ukraine stuff. This isn't even the worst one in memory (both the apartment bombings and the airplane...

It's much scarier once you realize that almost all of them genuinely believe they are doing it for your own good. That's not a good thing, btw. That's a black pill right there. Also, the backlash against Harvard is the same as the backlash against illegal immigration in NY or the backlash...

Organization has little to do with it. In fact, the left has been punching above it's weight class because it wasn't actually organized. There was no central control for the most successful operation of the left. All they did was get hired as professors, teach communism, and only hire grad...

See, this is your issue. You think the backlash against RINOs is coming from online people. It isn't. Trump is the grassroots. And now you are complaining that people not accepting RINOs is too far? Well, RINOs don't have another option, so why should they be listened too? They are stuck between...

Oh, they always chose the unions. It happened in wisconsin awhile ago, IIRC.