The murder of Charlie Kirk
Can we all admit that the majority of extremism is coming from the left over the last handful of years?
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It’s always interesting watching a bunch of men I consider to objectively be intellectually inferior to me debate how women need gender quotas and DEI when I am absolutely confident I would outperform 95% of you in the real world. Dunyain, I’m especially looking at you. You are so abjectly stupid that you don’t even have the cognitive ability to recognize it. And yes I mean this to be mean.
Flagrant gutter racism aside (i.e., "content"), does Kelhus think that Affirmative Action applies to 6th-graders?
Well, the educational status quo is to push everyone through public school regardless of whether they master the material. And the result of this at the demographic level is exactly what an honest person would intuitively expect.
Whether you elect to call this "affirmative action" or not is a matter of personal philosophy and how strict you are with labeling.
Like how gross are some of you to be speaking the way you are about women and minorities.
MANY of you white men are truly below average in every way and don’t realize it. It’s not that difficult to compete with you, you just like to think it is.
law schools, especially high end law schools, are increasingly permitting enrollees who never even took the LSAT. I presume this is to make it easier to meet desired racial/gender quotas.
This is hugely misleading. Most of the schools you are talking about simply give applicants the option of submitting a GRE score in lieu of an LSAT score.
The correlation between LSAT scores and GRE scores surely is very high.
But folks who love each other often have idiosyncratic 'terms of endearment.'
The phrase itself might seem prima facie 'weird', but in context it's just an endearing term they use for each other.
None of what I said on the subject contradicts this. In fact, I'd say I was in total agreement.
Like how gross are some of you to be speaking the way you are about women and minorities.
MANY of you white men are truly below average in every way and don’t realize it. It’s not that difficult to compete with you, you just like to think it is.
It's especially weird when people insist they are correct even as to people like KBJ who excelled overwhelmingly in the academic environments to which they were admitted.
KBJ graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School and made law review. I don't know exactly what that means at HLS, but top 10% is a good guess. And that's in an environment where grading was entirely blind. She graduated magna from Harvard undergrad, which probably means top 1-2%. It's nonsensical and wildly counterfactual to presume that she was out of her depth academically because she is a black woman.
So that's another lie, but leaving that aside you haven't addressed my concern that you don't know what "affirmative action" means.
I do not have the time or inclination to get into a semantic debate. I am confident we understand each other, regardless of whether I am using specific words correctly in your opinion.
Anyway i know you disagree but i don't think we can list many moments in the past where things were actually better, even in the recent past.
I take some of your points, but i also think you are conflating the state of the world with the quality and functionality of government. The world often improves in spite of dysfunctional, incompetent, or unethical government.
It's especially weird when people insist they are correct even as to people like KBJ who excelled overwhelmingly in the academic environments to which they were admitted.KBJ graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School and made law review. I don't know exactly what that means at HLS, but top 10% is a good guess. And that's in an environment where grading was entirely blind. Sh
That is what happens when you engage in blatant racial profiling and discrimination, and then fight tooth and nail to hide it. I dont make the rules of the game.
That being said, you make your generalizations based on available information; and then as more information comes out you refine them.
Just because I dont assume a lawyer/judge is going to be proficient at mathematical concepts just because they are a lawyer/judge. If any individual has demonstrated either directly or indirectly they are proficient, I am not going to deny the evidence.
It’s always interesting watching a bunch of men I consider to objectively be intellectually inferior to me debate how women need gender quotas and DEI when I am absolutely confident I would outperform 95% of you in the real world. Dunyain, I’m especially looking at you. You are so abjectly stupid that you don’t even have the cognitive ability to recognize it.
You have given enough personal information for me to deduce you are from a demographic they make up quotas to keep them out of higher education, not let them in. I suspect you are intelligent enough if you were of a more desirable demographic you would literally have gotten into any college/major you wanted.
Maybe you did anyways, and are living the life you always wanted. I dont know.
On top of an increasing number of lower level judges who were never lawyers; law schools, especially high end law schools, are increasingly permitting enrollees who never even took the LSAT. I presume this is to make it easier to meet desired racial/gender quotas.
What is your evidence that the percentage of judges without law degrees is increasing?
This is true, but what is your point?
People seem to be insinuating that there are Article 3 judges without law degrees. That is not the case.
If you are simply highlighting another norm that theoretically be abused by people who don't care about competence, the rule of law, or good government, then fair enough, I suppose.
Afaik not even trump nominated anyone for an article 3 judicial spot who wasn't a lawyer .
But yes it's yet another norm which should be amended to remove the option for people to abuse it (and in the far past some weird people have sit in SCOTUS)
Like how gross are some of you to be speaking the way you are about women and minorities.
MANY of you white men are truly below average in every way and don’t realize it. It’s not that difficult to compete with you, you just like to think it is.
that's not what Jackson believes, see her take on the need for massive affirmative action. Take it to her, it's people like her who insist minorities and women deserve a ton of systemic help to compete
Just because I dont assume a lawyer/judge is going to be proficient at mathematical concepts just because they are a lawyer/judge. If any individual has demonstrated either directly or indirectly they are proficient, I am not going to deny the evidence.
Maybe some of this is just ignorance on your part. If I meet a successful commercial litigator who works on complex matters, I am going to assume that the person has a functional level of math literacy, regardless of whether the person has purple skin, four vaginas, or a penis growing out of his forehead. Why? Because I know that person in all likelihood has experience deposing and cross-examining experts about sampling methodology, regression analyses, DCF models, confidence intervals, detailed accounting issues, etc. It isn't possible to do that effectively without a functional level of math literacy.
What world are you living in? Answer me honestly. Deep down you know you are smarter than Obama, don't you? If you both sat down to take the same IQ test, and he beat you, which sure as I am typing this he would, you would think he got lucky. And you would think this if he beat you by multiple standard deviations 20 times in a row.Racist stereotypes are very much ingrained and
https://a.co/d/b7F6rd4 Read this book by Athur Ashe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Ash... his own biography on how he overcame racism in sport and was one of the first sport figure to fight to end South Africa apartheid. Yet in one of chapter he specifically give out clear reason on why he is against affirmation actions even though it benefit black people.
But maybe you guys don't like to read books. so here a short version
Also I use to have the thought experience that since other people couldn't afford pio solver or since I got lucky to play on a soft site there was no way they would be able to climb up from micro stake poker and get out of the rake trap. I would feel sorry for these people if only they have the same resource. Later after solvers got cheaper and a lot of resource got posted out there, I egg a bunch of poker guys to get it and study. I even offer free coaching. Yet they would take up one or two lesson and give up. Ask yourself why can't you beat micro stake online poker when there so many resource out there? I came to realize that maybe certain people are natural good at certain things because they are motivated to achieve it. You can give out all sort of cheap/free stuff and these people just aren't going to be interested.
Afaik not even trump nominated anyone for an article 3 judicial spot who wasn't a lawyer .
But yes it's yet another norm which should be amended to remove the option for people to abuse it (and in the far past some weird people have sit in SCOTUS)
I would be shocked if there has been a federal judge in my lifetime who did not have a law degree. But sure. We live in strange times. And for that reason, I would support an explicit requirement that federal judges have law degrees.
Maybe some of this is just ignorance on your part. If I meet a successful commercial litigator who works on complex matters, I am going to assume that the person has a functional level of math literacy, regardless of whether the person has purple skin, four vaginas, or a penis growing out of his forehead. Why? Because I know that person in all likelihood has experience depos
It is possible I am discounting the cognitive requirements of being a lawyer.
I have a lot of doctors in my family/circle, but not lawyers. And based on personal experience I would definitely not say being a doctor means one should assume an understanding of mathematical concepts.
It is possible I am discounting the cognitive requirements of being a lawyer.
I have a lot of doctors in my family/circle, but not lawyers. And based on personal experience I would definitely not say being a doctor means one should assume an understanding of mathematical concepts.
I have seen family law lawyers in Italy use calculators to come up with 1/4 of a round number when calculating inheritances (like needing a calculator to do 120k / 4) , and it was basically only people who wanted to have a decent job but hated numbers that went to study law among my high school colleagues and acquaintances. but i understand it's different here (we don't have the law school thing after a different undergraduate program here: we have law the same as economics or everything else, you start it at year 1 of your university).
In fact skilled fiscal lawyers are extremely rare and they earn a ton more than basically all other lawyers around here. 90-95% of what someone would think a fiscal lawyer should do is done by accountants here (who study more law than in other countries, like 7-8 law exams in their university courses), but they have 0 skills if it ever goes to trial.
So being a fiscal lawyer able to go to trial to defend a company against our IRS equivalent demands is basically printing gold here.
This is like when people falsely compare others to Nazis. Antifa is obviously a group of violent dirt bags. Good for the President taking action against these thugs. Transgenders have taken part in violent acts of late but these are just loan wolf events. Some would argue that there are mental/chemical issues at work here. Antifa is an organized group formed to terrorize.
