hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
12hr ago
Liberty had racial restrictions? Are you perhaps confusing them for one of the small and actually-fundamentalist Christian colleges out there?
hydroacetylene
12hr ago
You are correct that status is more than one axis.
You are simply wrong about the nature of those multiple axes. People are high or low status in particular communities, and not just as a fact floating around in the air. Kim Kardashian is high status among her fans- but her non-fans think she's a worthless whore. I intentionally chose a somewhat less culture warsy example.
Now it's possible to be high status in multiple communities. Mother Theresa was high status among many communities at once. But religious christians admired her as a living saint while most others admired her for charitable works- either as recipients, in India, or as a feel-good story. Donald Trump is high status among the communities that support him- but for different reasons. The tsar who will look out for their interests, or the president who will make America great again.
hydroacetylene
15hr ago
Wokeness is basically just retrofitting everything the far left already believed into a coherent ideology and blackmailing the center with it; so yes, the connection is anti-colonialism but it’s retrofitted.
hydroacetylene
16hr ago
I have upvoted all three of his posts to help him get out of the hole faster. Is a monthly ‘introduce yourself, the mods will pay attention to approving these posts, regulars will drop by to upvote’ thread something the mods would be willing to do?
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
Thé motte wants a different kind of conservatism than BYU has.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
It is at the very least less harmful to broader society than grievance studies.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
No doubt Saudi Arabia would see this as ‘just what happens. FAFO’. But the Latin American elites do not differ in worldview(or complexion) from Anglosphere and Western European elites, and there’s a butload of unstable countries with serious crime problems that really don’t want to set that precedent.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I mean, isn’t wokeness at least partially responsible for the dems turn away from Israel?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
No. The Journal of Creation already exists, you can read it right now if you’d like to.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
And the backlash against woke is a non-trivial amount of the democrat’s being fairly likely to lose an off year election in New Jersey.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
But no one likes them. Trump has no reason to favor dissident right science. Their supporters are a negligible group of people who aren’t enthusiastic about him. They are incredibly unpopular with the general public.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Carrying a gun for snakes isn’t totally unknown.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The U.S. didn’t technically lose Vietnam, it also didn’t technically give up. The U.S. withdrew in exchange for a promise that north Vietnam wouldn’t invade the south. It broke that promise, obviously, but the first time it did so- south Vietnam actually won. The second post US-withdrawal invasion thé south Vietnamese defenses fell apart due to political factors leading to a change in leadership.
Vietnam was a failure of intelligence, not a failure of tactics.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
It won’t be Q people. There’s a reservoir of right wingers trying to do science already- creationism(and climate change skeptics). You would have to make universities hire people like Ken ham and give them tenure.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Ok, but getting right wing faculty is… difficult, and in practice would look like making universities hire creation scientists and give them tenure.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Conservative Catholics are a lolhuge percentage of the right wing PMC. That’s who staffs thé trump admin right now(well, and Orthodox Jews).
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I mean TBF there’s third party processing companies that do it now. Like Shop- make an account with them is mandatory to check out at some of the retailers I use that stock not available on Amazon products.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
No, most people will not accept grocery bags full of cash for tens of thousands of dollar purchases. That comes with reporting and the like.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Indeed, prewar thé standard military dress code required a moustache.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Iirc they had a member with severe allergies and included thé ‘no brown M&Ms’ rider so they could no if someone read all the way through the document- if there were brown M&Ms then he couldn’t eat the food in the green room.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Eh, most universities do not have Harvard or UT level endowments. Those universities have crazy tuition costs because they can get away with it, but they don’t need to charge high tuition.
In contrast most universities do not have much of an endowment, and they need to charge high tuition, which they then justify with ever better accommodations, which in turn jacks tuition up further.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Meh, it’s practically impossible to run a right wing authoritarian regime in thé US without support from my community, in particular, we’re not the only one, I’d suggest you join one.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Dingos and saltwater crocs are technically dangerous to people, are they not? No bears, snakes and monitor lizards avoid people, no big cats. I suppose guns are pretty useless against saltwater crocodiles in general but still.
You’re not going to get attacked by a grizzly in a suburb either, you’d have to be way off the beaten track.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I don't know, French, Spanish, German, Polish, Italian, and Greek food all seems pretty well regarded.
You have, correctly, arrived at a single similarity between the two ideologies- the idea that genetic differences between races(and for creationists sometimes species) are too minimal to explain differences in behavior.
I have yet to see demonstration of others. I mean, yeah, there's not-creationist woo with lots of similarities(ancient aliens theory is quite often literally just creation science with a search and replace function). But woke isn't among them.
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