hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
3hr ago
It's pointless barely-justified jingoism of the sort that is very common in Latin America. But because the Argentines are white people behaving like Slavs and the counterparty is Britain, it's newsworthy.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
Mamdani needs an out to agree ahead of time not to arrest Netanyahu or this is an uncharacteristic political stumble.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
I know there are societies where opposing surrogacy is more of a feminist thing than a socially conservative thing, but it's rarely more popular on the center right than the center left.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
Mamdani is not Greg Abbott who can line up the troops to deter the federal government into letting him get away with stuff(and even then- only with Joe Biden)- and if he's not savvy enough to know it, well, that's limboing under a very low bar, the sort of which would result in him actually trying to arrest Netanyahu- and probably getting arrested by the NYPD for giving the order. Everything we know about him is that he'll come up with some reason to get out of it ahead of time.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
He's obviously not going to seriously try to do this. He'll go to Florence if he does, and he knows it. Equally obviously, he has lots of supporters who eat this stuff up. This is a political stunt, and he knows better than to try.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
Isn't CDU a not particularly ideological establishment party? I know that they are socially conservative by name, but my impression was that they had a knack for sitting just to the right of the median voter in Germany on social issues, wherever that happens to be.
hydroacetylene
7hr ago
World Cup predictions? I expect Argentina to win off late scoring goals while the first 70 minutes is basically keep away by both teams.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Think tanks are like, step ten of a twenty step plan. First you have to produce cultural conservative EHC, which means getting EHC through university while keeping them culturally conservative. That means 1) stuff about universities and 2) even before that, you need a social stratum which is culturally conservative, high IQ, and interested in being elite human capital, and it has to produce or recruit.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
AIPAC is, in a US context, actually bipartisan. The right is defined by opposing trans women in women's sports, even when no one supports it, and the left is defined by supporting abortion rights, even when no one is opposing them. AIPAC does neither.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Very high verbal IQ, a minimal mercenary quality, and a willingness to accept below market rate salaries are the minima. Oh, and you also have to move around a lot.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
There is phenomenally popular conservative art, though. Like yeah, pop country is never going to attract the appreciation of classical music snobs- but it's the most popular genre in the US, and has been for years. The normies do not have refined tastes.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
It's the faggiest damn thing I've ever seen
-Richard Nixon
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I mean, it is Twitter. Bringing lunch to work is extremely normal in the USA.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
No, only formal wear, and not every time.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Two of your three cost disease categories are basically just the two income trap; healthcare is its own little world.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
To be fair to Scott, he’s opposed to things like thé SPLC list too Im pretty sure.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The problem with the liberal solution is that in its absence, some concept of stochastic terrorism becomes necessary, even if it’s philosophically incoherent. You can’t have political violence and addressing proximal causes is better than addressing neither proximal nor root causes.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Never heard the Trump angle, but it doesn't sound like Trump. Maybe something that someone whispered to him and he then did, but if FIFA could totally change their refereeing in response to Trump they would've done it for the Belgium-USA game. With the amount of money they're making having the US as a host- and the amount of money they stand to make from the USA going to quarters- they'd have already done it if they could.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Messi is 39, Ronaldo is 41- not exactly a gigantic difference there. He's also legitimately the best player in the world, even if it's exaggerated somewhat by celebrity, and had that reputation even before he became FIFA's flagship player to try to sell the beautiful game to the world's few holdouts against it.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
England is still bitter over the 1986 game where Maradona scored a goal off a handball and the ref let it stand, Argentina hates England because of nonsensical posturing over the Malvinas.
It's white people acting like Balkaners all around.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
There have been a lot of fouls in this world cup but Argentina has had, just like previous world cups, a lot of them.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Using doordash is strongly anti-correlated with income, actually.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Women were not pulled out of the home by economics. It was culture- male wages were steadily rising and the US did not experience prolonged unemployment during the period when it shifted from unusual to the default. That cultural shift had knock on economic effects.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
The tradition in apostolic churches is to introduce the Christian teaching on marriage with John Chrysostom for that reason.
I know that Protestants do not do patristics to nearly the same extent. But before saying things like ‘Christian marriage was the norm in ancient Rome’ it’s probably worth looking at what ancient Christian preachers were criticizing in marriages.
Argentina fought in multiple wars, but the Falklands/Malvinas are just the only recent one- they fought in the triple alliance, for example(the South American world war).
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