Divemedic

A Fisking

So I REALLY don’t want this to be a page that slams on the black race. I wasn’t going to post anything about black crime for awhile, but Cassandra came into comments and decided to show his ass.

In no particular order, I will address his claims. First, his claim that I am a hypocrite for prohibiting ad hominem attacks while engaging in them. Since he apparently doesn’t know what ad hominem means, we can start with a definition:

Ad hominem is a Latin word that means “against the man.” As the name suggests, it is a literary term that involves commenting on or against an opponent, to undermine him instead of his arguments.

Literarydevices.net, retrieved 10/14/2022

So now that we know what an ad hominem is, let’s look at what I said and see if it was an ad hominem. What I said was this:

But hey, Cassandra, these two just happen to be two more of what you call “a small subset of violent black males that disproportionately commit violent crimes.”

Cassandra in comments claims that this is a small subset of blacks, yet has not yet provided one shred of evidence to support that claim. I wouldn’t call one third being a “small subset.” He might as well claim that there is one black male committing every crime, for all of the evidence he has provided. That man’s name is Sum Dood.

Nope. Neither one of those quotes were attacking you, they were attacking your claims that most black men don’t commit crimes and pointing out that you were making unsupported claims. Had I been engaging in ad hominem attacks, I would have said that you are an ignorant little troll with delusions of adequacy, but I didn’t do that. I hope you can see the difference.

You also accused me of editing the title of my post, but not the content. You apparently missed the part where the post said:

Because of an attack in comments, I am adding the following:

I have never, not once, altered the content of a post on this site without making the changes transparent.

Now that we have passed the attacks on my character and integrity, let’s get to your weak argument. You spent the first part of your comment claiming that my sources weren’t sufficient to your exacting standards, so let’s look at what the US Department of Justice has to say. I will quote directly from their study on the topic: Lifetime Likelihood of Going to State or Federal Prison (Retrieved 10/14/2022) (pdf alert)

Blacks in the U.S. resident population (16.2%), regardless of their sex, are nearly twice as likely as Hispanics (9.4%) and 6 times more likely than whites (2.5%) to be admitted to prison during their lives.
Among men, more than 1 in 4 blacks and 1 in 6 Hispanics, compared to 1 in 23 whites, will enter prison at least once if current incarceration rates do not change. An estimated 28.5% of black men, 16.0% of Hispanic men, and 4.4% of white men are expected to serve a State or Federal prison sentence.

You do quote the Washington Post in claiming that the 1 in 3 chance of black men being incarcerated is a ‘stale statistic’ which is actually a pretty good argument, the only one you actually made. Sadly, it is incorrect, doesn’t attack the original premise (see below) and completely overshadowed by your juvenile attempts at character assassination.

Then you spend the rest of your comment setting up a strawman argument that you then tear down- attacking a statement that I never made.

Accounting for the 37% decrease in imprisonment rate for black men, and that about half are jailed for violent crimes, the lifetime likelihood for black men to be jailed for violent crimes is much closer to 10% than the 1/3 you incorrectly claimed. Yes, that’s still too high, and far higher than the rate for white men, but it refutes your 1 in 3 claim conclusively. I guess “Sum Dood” hasn’t been as busy as you thought he was.

Nowhere did I make the claim that one in three blacks were in prison for being violent. The claim that I made, one that you still have not addressed, still stands:

Isn’t it time that we admit that blacks are largely a race of criminals who have a pathological inability to live in civilized society? It’s well documented that more than half of all homicides and nearly half of all violent crimes, are committed by blacks.

The one in three statement that you latched onto was this:

The Sentencing Project estimated in 2001 that the likelihood of a Black man spending time behind bars in their lifetime was 1 in 3.

You still are not providing any evidence to support your own position. You are merely attempting to attack me by calling me a hypocrite, and are attacking selected strawman arguments where you have taken a statement that I have made, twisted into something else, and then attacked that. Your attempts at discussion are sadly poor, and lacking in any real substance. I have given failing grades to better papers than yours, and seen better arguments from 14 year old children.

I have spent enough of my limited time on your childish attempts to argue a position without a bit of evidence.

And before you engage in any more accusations of me being a hypocrite, let me spell out the rule of this blog:

This is my blog. It is a website paid for by me, on a server leased and paid for by me. I invite argument and disagreement, and actually welcome healthy debate. What I am not going to do is permit ad hominem attacks against the person who pays the bills here, namely me. It’s the same as being in my house- you can disagree with me while you are a guest within my walls, and we can have a healthy discussion. What I won’t allow or tolerate is for a guest on my property to insult or attack me personally. I also don’t allow people on here to attack each other. You have been repeatedly told this. This is your last warning. If you don’t like that, you are free to use your own funds and start your own blog. Heck, I will even rent you the server space with which to do it. The rate is $25 per month.

Until then, I decide. One more personal attack, and I will drop the ban hammer on your ass. In the nearly two years this blog has been here, I have banned only four people. Don’t become the fifth.

By Divemedic, ago

Real Goal of the Alex Jones Judgement

Alex Jones has to pay $1 billion. He says he will fight, delay, and appeal for years. In any case, he is likely done. Still, the reason for what was done to him is apparent to anyone paying attention. Just look at this article from the Guardian: Only proper online regulation can stop poisonous conspiracists like Alex Jones and by Alex Jones, they mean anyone on the right, including and especially Donald Trump. I quote:

Jones, like QAnon, Donald Trump and others, can navigate fake news sites and social media to reach millions…No one seriously believes free speech is an absolute right. The British government is now making desperate attempts to define such concepts as “causing offence” and “legal but harmful”. More ruthless efforts at control are emerging from authoritarian regimes in Russia, China, Iran and Saudi Arabia. The EU, too, is pondering regulation. But this realm of government is patently in its infancy.

The freedom of speech which to John Milton was “above all liberties” is not that simple today.

You get that? They consider censorship like Russia, China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the EU, and the UK are preferable to the freedom to say what you think. That is the lesson of Alex Jones: shut up, peasant. Silencing the opposition, it’s what every communist revolution needs to do.

By Divemedic, ago

My Thoughts on the Parkland Shooter

In the interest of full disclosure, I will start this post by saying that I am opposed to the death penalty. Not in principle, mind you. After all, there is only one way that is 100% certain to make sure that a killer doesn’t repeat his crime. No, I am opposed to the death penalty because I don’t trust the government officials in charge of the criminal “justice” system. Ask the Duke Lacrosse players, or any of the thousands of people exonerated by the Innocence Project. To put even one person to death who didn’t deserve it is a travesty of justice that makes all of us culpable in that innocent death.

Now that we have that out of the way, I will also say that if there ever was anyone who deserves the death penalty is the guy who carried out that shooting. He was upset because no girl wanted a piece of him, so he admitted that he planned the shooting for Valentine’s Day so none of the students would ever celebrate that holiday again. He admitted to planning out his attack for five years. He simply waited until he was old enough to buy guns with which to carry out his massacre. He is an evil son of a bitch who deserves to fry in Florida’s chair, but the jury decided that they will give him life in prison, instead.

Sharing in his guilt are all of the people along the way who knew that this monster was unhinged, yet failed to take action. The FBI, who received numerous calls to their “see something, say something, we do nothing” line. The school counselors who failed to report his statements and behavior. His foster parents who were scared enough to lock up his guns, but not call the cops.

Most of all? The voters of Broward county. They reliably vote for this shit, they vote Democrat, the reelect coward public officials, they tolerate this. They are getting the government that they vote for. It’s just too bad that their mental issues have an effect on the rest of us in this state.

By Divemedic, ago

We Always Knew They Were Going Here

Virginia Democrats introduce legislation that would criminally prosecute parents who don’t affirm their child’s “gender identity.” The bill expands the state’s definition of child abuse and neglect to include parents who do not affirm their child’s gender identity or sexual orientation.

This would require people mandated by virtue of their jobs to report the parents to authorities if a child tells them that the parent doesn’t support or affirm the child’s decision to be a tranny. So nurses, teachers, paramedics, and police would be required to report you for refusing to buy your son a dress when he tells you that he wants to be a girl now.

Depending on how the law gets written, it could be a felony to not use a child’s chosen pronouns, and it may not be just parents who are susceptible to the new law. Some bearded 17 year old fruitcake in a dress demands that you use ‘zir’ or ‘zem’ could report you and have you arrested for child abuse when you laugh at his crazy ass.

You could be the next person getting pepper sprayed and being chucked in jail.

To those who claim this violates your religious freedom, Democrats have this to say:

“The Bible says to accept everyone for who they are. So that’s what I tell them when they asked me that question, and that’s what I will continue to tell people. You know, we all have a commitment to God And for those believers out there, we know that there’s life after life, and there is going to be a conversation between that person and God and that’s what we’re after — to go by what the Bible says. It is not my job to judge anyone. It is my job to help people.”

Now Democrat government officials, who constantly bleat about separating church and state, feel qualified to interpret the Bible for you and tell you what you are supposed to believe.

By Divemedic, ago

Fines

Remember the 2008 Financial crisis? The one where banks made loans to people who couldn’t afford them so those people could buy homes they couldn’t afford at inflated prices that far exceeded the actual value of the property, then bundled those loans into securities and had ratings agencies vastly overstate the value of those securities, all so they could make billions in profits? They then got bailed out at the expense of the taxpayers they just ripped off, all because they were too big to fail? Then they used the bailout money to pay huge bonuses to bank executives? Those actions crashed the economy of the entire world, destroying trillions in retirement savings that vanished virtually overnight? The banking regulators that were in charge of making sure stuff like that didn’t happen? They retired from government service, and all were offered high paying jobs with the same banks they were supposed to be watching and never even have to go to work. Isn’t that odd? They made a great movie about it, called The Big Short.

No one went to jail. Not one person. The largest fine paid by a banking executive was $67.5 million. For committing fraud on such a large scale that it was the largest transfer of wealth in human history to that point.

Ghislaine Maxwell trafficked in children for decades. She made money by providing children to be used as sex toys for no one, apparently. Not one person has been named as being one of her customers.

Why do I bring that up? Because today, Alex Jones was ordered to pay $1 billion in damages because he is an asshole and said mean things. Don’t get me wrong, he *is* an asshole. What he did and said hurt the victims of Sandy Hook and their families. I often wondered if he wasn’t a government disinformation campaign designed to make the right look like a bunch of nutjobs. That however, doesn’t come close to being in the same league with what the banks, their executives, and government regulators did.

I guess he wasn’t big enough for a bailout. I wonder, if one were to draw a Venn diagram of banking executives, government officials, and Ghislaine Maxwell’s clients, how much of those three circles would overlap? Now compare that to a Venn diagram of Alex Jones fans. Perhaps that is the real reason why he is paying out a billion bucks. He is being crushed as an example to all of the others: don’t you DARE question us.

By Divemedic, ago