TIRM
23hr ago
And the classic issue of news headlines when a Republican does something bad are "Republican Does Bad Thing". When a Democrat does it the headlines are "Republicans Outraged at Democrat". As though the emotional state of Republicans is the most relevant fact regarding bad behavior by Democrats.
TIRM
1d ago
Very well. May Canada and the US never join. That's a nightmare scenario. Quibbling over the number of Senators would be the least of our problems in that existential crisis.
In a hypothetical US-Canadian union, Canada has shown itself to be incapable of independent self governance and needs to be kept away from influencing American federal politics. Some moderate amount of local control would be tolerated but absolutely no say in Federal matters. Otherwise they would drag us down to their level.
What insanity could cause Americans to chain themselves to that anchor? Canada is a sad lesson in the possible governmental failure modes America could suffer from. The wounds were self-inflicted through poor governance. I'm a father; I can't force that bleak Canadian future onto my kids. They can't be allowed to harm American politics like this.
The truly baffling thing here is Canadians thinking they are somehow privileged and above Puerto Ricans. Puerto Ricans have been US citizens for over a century. Canadians have been (understandably) oppositional to Americans since 1812. I get it, but they are truly last in line for getting electoral votes. I'd grant the Philippines statehood and Senators before Canada.
I didn't see your comment before I wrote mine. Yes I just commented saying I'd prefer them to be a territory. Like Puerto Rico. I think the US would be ruined if Canadians get dozens of electoral college votes.
It would be a second California for Federal elections. I mean that in the worst sense possible.
Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Marianas islands. The residents of these places are not slave races. They are not lower than me in terms of dignity. They don't get senators. Their Congressional representatives can't vote. They don't vote for president. That's fine. That's about right for Canada.
TIRM
2d ago
That would irreversibly destroy the American Republic. 22 Canadian Senator and that many votes in the electoral college would ruin us. I'd rather the dissolution of the US compared to being chained to that anchor.
In fact I'd go the other way and make them a territory. They can have non-voting Congressional representatives and nothing more. Cold Puerto Rico.
TIRM
2d ago
She said in interviews that she is playing a persona and that's not her true self. Which is impressive since she's seemed so genuine.
I have never been forced to look at a drag show without my consent. I'm in my 40s.
I agree they are modern minstrel shows caricaturing women. They are not in good taste. And that's fine and should be legal. I would support court challenges against a law limiting drag shows to strip clubs outside of town.
TIRM
4d ago
It's not the «community's» business as to what to do with her.
Quite the contrarian take for criminal justice regarding multiple homicides.
TIRM
4d ago
Broken reddit link, as usual. I've done that myself. Reddit somehow breaks image links. I suspect due to their great technical incompetence.
"ethnically British", whatever that means
You realize can't puzzle out what that might mean? This is your honest best effort (lack of) understanding?
TIRM
7d ago
I dispute the efficacy of "please don't rape children" pamphlets. I don't think you can actually "socialize" would-be child rapists with mandatory HR training.
TIRM
7d ago
not having potable water is seen as existential
I take your point that people are scared about this. I see them commenting on reddit about the insanity of giving all our water to AI.
They're entirely wrong of course. Repeating hysterical false claims with no basis in reality. Pure memetics unbound by truth value or the external physical world.
TIRM
8d ago
what if their home country refuses to take them back?
Third country deportation. Just dump them in a poor African country.
"But this guy isn't African." No worries, he'll learn to fit in.
TIRM
9d ago
LEO is destroyed by Kessler syndrome
Atmospheric drag makes LEO Kessler proof. It is self cleaning.
Does a bunch of debris from an explosion in LEO cause Kessler syndrome? No. It deorbits within weeks thanks to atmospheric drag. Vacuum isn't much of a vacuum in LEO.
TIRM
9d ago
They are something like 20 miles off the coast. Counting from the edge of the city. The mouth of the Thames is a convenient choke point.
TIRM
9d ago
I endorse this proposal. Of course this will be Escape from New York and Escape from LA style in which anyone attempting to get in or out will be machine gunned including coastal defenses.
Years ago I read an article claiming that individual buildings in London have more revenue than the entire UK fishing fleet. I don't want to mangle a statistic, but supposedly for some narrow inclusion of what ships to count and by some economic measure this is true. I'd very much like to see these London buildings thrive with no imported out-of-town fish. I wonder if they make anything you can eat.
TIRM
10d ago
That was a fictional woman from the OT representing Jerusalem, not the Whore of Babylon from Revelation.
Ezekiel 23:
1 The word of the Lord came to me:
2 “Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother.
3 They became prostitutes in Egypt, engaging in prostitution from their youth. In that land their breasts were fondled and their virgin bosoms caressed.
4 The older was named Oholah, and her sister was Oholibah. They were mine and gave birth to sons and daughters. Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.
5 “Oholah engaged in prostitution while she was still mine; and she lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians—warriors.
6 clothed in blue, governors and commanders, all of them handsome young men, and mounted horsemen.
7 She gave herself as a prostitute to all the elite of the Assyrians and defiled herself with all the idols of everyone she lusted after.
8 She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt, when during her youth men slept with her, caressed her virgin bosom and poured out their lust on her.
9 “Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, the Assyrians, for whom she lusted.
10 They stripped her naked, took away her sons and daughters and killed her with the sword. She became a byword among women, and punishment was inflicted on her.
11 “Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet in her lust and prostitution she was more depraved than her sister.
12 She too lusted after the Assyrians—governors and commanders, warriors in full dress, mounted horsemen, all handsome young men.
13 I saw that she too defiled herself; both of them went the same way.
14 “But she carried her prostitution still further. She saw men portrayed on a wall, figures of Chaldeans portrayed in red,
15 with belts around their waists and flowing turbans on their heads; all of them looked like Babylonian chariot officers, natives of Chaldea.
16 As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.
17 Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. After she had been defiled by them, she turned away from them in disgust.
18 When she carried on her prostitution openly and exposed her naked body, I turned away from her in disgust, just as I had turned away from her sister.
19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt.
20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.
21 So you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when in Egypt your bosom was caressed and your young breasts fondled.
TIRM
13d ago
with the (sort of hilarious) quirk that the nation's self-conception is largely defined around not being the US
Yes, and this is the fault of the War of 1812. The US's invasion of Canada had the perverse outcome of solidifying a Canadian identity as specifically not-American.
lol lmao the people on the ground don't give a shit where the water pump or the antiretrovirals come from, if they even know
I skimmed a few articles about asking USAID recipients where they think the aid is from. A vast supermajority have no idea.
TIRM
13d ago
that was the decisive argument against suffrage: half the women arguing in favor of it seemed to be utterly daft.
Agreed and let's also strip men of the vote for the same reason.
I think most voters are operating on vibes and social approval rather than policy. Policy based arguments are so orthogonal to their views that they can't be influenced by them.
TIRM
13d ago
One is here, then one is gone
Epicurus said something like this in his letter to Menoeceus: "Where I am, death is not; where death is, I am not."
TIRM
13d ago
Hunter did crack in the white house while hooking up with Obama's daughter.
If anyone could please deliver the receipts for this I would be very appreciative.
TIRM
13d ago
you are ashamed of your use of AI and trying to lie to your reader
People are trying to coordinate a shaming campaign and I do not like such things. I am not ashamed but would-be-shamers deserve to be frustrated and confused in any way feasible. I advocate stripping off the watermarks or adding them to human generated text to make clear understanding practically impossible.
That document was an internal RCMP risk estimation for the near future. It was obtained using the Canadian equivalent of the freedom of information act. They heavily censored it before releasing it resulting in those blanked out sections. They left in one relevant part:
This is a direct result of Canadian federal policy. For every three Canadians, import one immigrant. But don't build a new housing unit for every three existing units, so the number of units per resident decreases over time and the costs increase.
The young are screwed in Canada. To the point it is a law enforcement cause for concern regarding social stability.
I don't want my country made similar to their's by them swinging every presidential election in their direction. I get their natural resources are valuable. Their economy already is an extension of ours with something like 80% of their trade being with us and 90% of their population being within 100 miles of the border. There's much to be attracted to for a closer economic relationship. I'm not objecting to their lumber and car parts. But the rot in their politics would be a fatal disease.
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