#slipperyslope — Public Fediverse posts

@Nonilex

"...unless they were able to produce evidence that at least one of their biological parents was a #US #citizen or lawful permanent resident."

So then at what point does #AmyConeyBarrett and the other right-wing #SCOTUS "justices" demand that a #BiologicalParent" was verifiably a biological #Man or a #Woman at birth by their criteria? #SlipperySlope

ah yes good, another “oh, this is actually happening in the real world and not just a bunch of extremely online fringe crackpots yelling on the internet” moment

‘Disturbing’: Experts troubled by Canada’s euthanasia laws

https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-health-toronto-7c631558a457188d2bd2b5cfd360a867

#MAiD #Euthanasia #SlipperySlope #NoWarButClassWar (and we’re losing)

The #slipperyslope is not a #fallacy.

Proof: [gestures vaguely at everything] #QED.

Twilight of the Big Bang

Good evening. Twilight started at 12:00:01 Coordinated Universal Time, yesterday. It's been nice seeing you!

#Civilization #SlipperySlope #Physics #Time

A quotation from Racine

HIPPOLYTUS: Great crimes are never single, they are link’d
   To former faults. He who has once transgress’d
   May violate at last all that men hold
   Most sacred; vice, like virtue, has degrees
   Of progress; innocence was never seen
   To sink at once into the lowest depths
   Of guilt.
 
[HIPPOLYTE: Quelques crimes toujours precedent les grands crimes.
   Quiconque a pu franchir les bornes légitimes
   Peut violer enfin les droits les plus sacrés ;
   Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degrés ;
   Et jamais on n’a vu la timide innocence
   Passer subitement à l’extrême licence.]

Jean Racine (1639-1699) French dramatist
Phèdre [Phædra], Act 4, sc. 2, l. 1094ff (1677-01-01) [tr. Boswell (1897)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/racine-jean/80880/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #racine #phaedra #jeanracine #corruption #crime #degree #depravity #immorality #sinfulness #sins #slipperyslope #vice

Fifteen studies of thousands of people from four countries found that more politically conservative individuals rated slippery-slope arguments as being more logical than did politically liberal individuals.

Summary: https://www.psypost.org/conservatives-are-more-prone-to-slippery-slope-thinking/

Original paper: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01461672251391893

#Science #Psychology #Politics #Argument #SlipperySlope #Ideology #Intuition #Logic

Breaking Precedent, GOP Changes Rules On Nominees

“We are steadily handing away most of the significant constitutional powers of the Senate,” said Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del. “That is very dangerous."

#SlipperySlope #Trump2.0 #BlackMastodon

https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2025/09/12/nation-world-news/breaking-precedent-gop-changes-rules-on-nominees/

20 years ago, it was a scandal that Google started to track which links you clicked on the search-results page:

https://web.archive.org/web/20051119012842/http://mboffin.com/post.aspx?id=1830

#SlipperySlope

@rysiek

Next up, footage from mail delivery trucks. Then, Teslas. Then, individual dash cam footages. #SlipperySlope

As red states in the #UnitedStates slip further down the #SlipperySlope of #fascism in #USpol a recent #prison #escape could produce an #UltraMAGA #Republican challenger to Sarah Huckabee Sanders; Grant Hardin, aka the Devil of the Ozarks!
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ex-police-chief-prison-escape_n_68368b5ae4b06a204c7ec743

@dangillmor do you REALLY believe it’s ONLY to spy on immigrants???

#SlipperySlope

Why people defend extreme positions | @destiny

#GeorgeSantos #NajaHall #SlipperySlope #Progress

Der #SlipperySlope, auch #Dammbruchargument, behauptet, dass eine kleine Veränderung zwangsläufig zu extremen Folgen führt – ohne echte Beweise.
Beispiel:
🚭 „Wenn wir Rauchen in Restaurants verbieten, wird bald ALLES verboten – sogar Fleischessen!“
💰 „Wenn wir höhere Steuern für Reiche fordern, führt das direkt zum Kommunismus!“
Aber nur weil etwas passiert, heißt das nicht, dass das Schlimmste unausweichlich ist.

👉 Tipp: Frage nach Belegen: „Warum genau sollte das passieren?“

Last year, I rediscovered in the attic my incomplete 1990/91 MLB #Topps collection, which I started after a brief visit to the U.S.

Now, some 34 years later, I've finally completed the 1990 set and #Pirates set for good measure.

Next up - finishing 1991 and starting others!?😅 #slipperyslope

#Buccos #MLB #LetsGoBucs

I see that some are advocating for scrambling #web content as a defense against #scrapers. There is a #SlipperySlope here: recently I notice that Zhihu (the Chinese equivalent of Quora) will scramble Chinese characters on pages if it thinks that the #browser is illegitimate, and Cromite (a privacy-focused Chromium fork) is somehow affected by this. I fear that widespread adoption of such, especially by commercial entities, could bar "non-approved" browsers from the web, which is concerning.

@melindrafod

#SlipperySlope 🤬

Rising Seas Wiped Out An Entire US Species For The First Time; Scientists Say It’s A Sign Of Things To Come
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https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/14/climate/florida-cactus-sea-level-rise/index.html <-- shared media article
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https://doi.org/10.17348/jbrit.v18.i1.1350 <-- shared paper
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#water #climatechange #speciesloss #Florida #USA #FloridaKeys #sealevel #sealeverise #SLR #coast #coastal #habitat #ecosystem #bellwether #slipperyslope #tides #stormsurge #saltwater #storms #extremeweather #KeyLargoTreeCactus #cactus #mangroves #dying #humanimpacts #impacts #biodiversity #habitatloss

#Google's call-scanning #AI could dial up #censorship by default, #privacy experts warn
This is essentially #clientsidescanning
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/15/googles-call-scanning-ai-could-dial-up-censorship-by-default-privacy-experts-warn/

Right now #DoNoEvil (kidding) Google is going after #scam calls, but what about in repressive countries or our own?

What happens when they come to find the #dissidents, #BLM, #abortion rights leaders?

#SlipperySlope #surveillance

When asked in his #TIMEMagazine interview what he believes people think about his calls to violate the #Constitution & "#Dictator for a Day", he replied:

"I think the people like it."

And that is the problem. So many of his fans… who screamed "Read the Constitution!" every time #Obama tried to pass healthcare or Bill #Clinton tried to ban assault weapons (refusing to give an inch even on "reasonable" restrictions using the "#SlipperySlope" argument)… are perfectly fine with #OrangeHitler. 😡

@black_intellect
Completely & unquestionably violates the #Constitutional #FirstAmendment right to Assembly. And #Conservatives are like:

"Sure. I'm fine with that as long as the people protesting aren't me." #BLM

But try to impose the SLIGHTEST restriction on the #SecondAmendment, and it's The Apocalypse. You can't give even ONE INCH on your 2A right b/c of the #SlipperySlope argument. 😒

#PersonalStudy #BookOfMormon https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/alma/47

True villainy: Deceit, tricking into a #SlipperySlope, greed, murder, more deceit.

What was going through the minds of the Lamanites who were effected by this power-shift?

Never in U.S. history has there been such a distrust in leadership which allowed aberrants to get into power. Perhaps something similar effected the Lamanites who silently allowed evil to go relatively uncontested to the throne.