hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
3hr ago
What makes the AfD far-right? They're pro-democracy, they oppose immigration sure- do they want to change the German constitution? Do they support irredentism or want to revoke civil rights from their opponents?
I don't think the AfD is likely to be good at governing, but that is a separate criticism from far-right, which I haven't seen any evidence for.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
A surprising amount don't, and just have gigantic menus you order off of by number. I've certainly seen them, but 'Chinese' is not the default restaurant meal in large parts of America either(Tex-Mex is), and lots of them are buffets or fast-casual places that don't have menus in that sense, and even sit down Chinese restaurants often skip it.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
Women love those kinds of categorization things and take them way too seriously.
hydroacetylene
7hr ago
What are the actual odds on a BSW/AFD coalition? I presume somewhat higher than the 'everyone except the AFD' coalition needed to keep them out of government, but compared to new elections?
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
Ken Paxton doesn't seem to be accused of any of this stuff- he's receiving perfectly accurate accusations(that he's an adulterer who takes bribes) instead.
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
Minor quibble- Italy's actually governed by the Fratelli d'Italia, FN will probably win the next French elections, and Spain may well have a right-populist government in the near future. And who even knows UK politics.
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
Question because I legitimately don't know- is the AFD likely to have access to the human capital to start doing any of this stuff? That's been a problem for controversial right wing governments in very established, procedurally suffocating countries. Germany's cordon sanitaire has seemed unusually effective until now.
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
Everybody here knows their star sign, but usually not their Chinese animal- although if you're male you probably don't know what it's supposed to mean. Interest in astrology doesn't seem to have ever gone away, either, although admitting to it might have been unfashionable in elite circles. Tarot and psychics and related crap is still for a) hardcore nuts and b) divorced women, though.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
How about Liechtenstein? It’s a strong enough monarchy to override the elected government. Wealthy, developed, not gratuitously oppressive.
The UAE is an oligarchic/aristocratic confederation. It’s far less oppressive than its neighbors and used its oil to build a reasonably diverse economy.
How about Singapore? It’s not really a democracy. It is somewhat more oppressive than other US Allies in developed Asia. But not by that much, and quality of life is similar to other developed Asian countries.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Depends on the funding model- and I want to further state that I expect most LGBT-oriented spending comes from government grants not donations.
But my naive expectation is that genuinely inside the tent funded lgbt NGOs get their funding disproportionately from cis lesbians, not gay men.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Labor costs are much higher in the USA and permitting can get surprisingly high. And energy costs are generally lower, by a lot, plus Trumps tariffs raise panel prices etc.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
You'd also have to compensate for women with children somehow, since being a full-time SAHM naturally limits the amount of tax you can pay, and revoking the right from women who both obviously have a stake in the future/doing what they are supposed to be doing is not likely to be productive.
'Joint filing'
Seriously the GOP gives helicopter money to families embracing traditional gender roles every time it has a trifecta and democrats don't repeal it, they'll get taken care of as well as retirees.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The USA is late in the transition from republic to empire; the prince who was promised will reconcile MAGA and BLM theories to create a more peacekeeping, intergroup governance in the core predicated upon Latin American tribute(in the form of commodities and labor) and international dominance keeping finance onshore to provide the revenue to occasionally bail out the economy from fiscal irresponsibility bombs. This will coincide with transactional, devolved government at the price of reduced public input on the government. You know, pluralism doesn't mean democracy.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
As far as I can tell, these things are mostly either a) high risk activities(like streetwalker whoring etc) or b) serious social norm violations that are cast as the fault of the noticer(using the women's locker room while having a penis etc). Blacks are more willing to escalate to interpersonal violence in disputes, and circus freak genders definitely have a contingent which just gets up in arms at requests to be normal.
Yes. That is called a hate crime. Such crimes are considered particularly heinous because they, in addition to the harm inflicted on the direct victim, also act as a terroristic threat to other members of the targeted group: "Know your place, or this will happen to you!
Hate crimes are prosecuted separately as part of normal imperial peace keeping policies. They are not particularly heinous for intimidation reasons, because many of these groups are entirely capable of defending themselves(blacks certainly are)- but just letting them defend themselves is not keeping the peace. The Romans and the Ottoman empire had separate courts for intergroup conflict. The US is not an exception.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Well I was referring to assaults which wouldn't have happened had the victim been normal. Most black on weirdo crimes are triggered by the weirdo pulling the same shit they always do on someone who expects to be able to use physical violence in response.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I did a deep dive on ADHD previously- the TDLR I came back with is that it probably is a real condition, it shows heredity in the patterns you'd expect for that, but that plenty of foreign countries just tell fidgety kids not to become accountants and it has no ill effects, and that the high diagnosis rate is indeed a problem but is not driven by doctors(it's mostly due to elementary school teachers using it as chemical restraint, which may well be a serious enough problem to justify biting the bullet and telling kids with ADHD 'sorry, become a mechanic').
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Women's shelters will generally allow small children to be brought as dependents, although there's been some controversy in the past over hypothetical battered women unwilling to leave their teenaged sons behind.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I guess she could loudly claim to have dirt on the Clintons and announce 'if I kill myself they whacked me' a la John MacAfee.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
One of our resident lawyers has an effort post somewhere talking about the phenomenon of mental health diagnoses as disability- TLDR, even in the rust belt it usually doesn't work, and the cases where it does are overwhelmingly older workers who will only be drawing disability for a few years before it becomes social security anyways.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
In the case of black hate crimes against the alphabet soup, these are mostly not actual hate crimes- they're interpersonal disputes with annoying people used to using their identities as a shield, one of whom has a culture that glorifies low level personal violence.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Not that it detracts from your point, but Hillary getting upset about Bernie’s racism struck me as a cynical appeal to black voters more than anything real. She has things she’s very committed to, like feminism or US intervention. But I don’t think a particular narrative around race is one of them.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
That is a major issue but there was a preexisting slide(which this is doing nothing to arrest). One even more subtle issue is that the pro-democracy elites shy away from Trump due to all this 'he's anti democracy' BS and you wind up with more and more people in senior positions who don't care about democracy either way. Meanwhile normal mainstream democrats become more and more willing to give carte blanche to these types who think 'democracy is when the center left gets its way', regardless of the constitutional implications. Merrick Garland seems to have been caught in that trap.
Figures like Brett Devereaux have it backwards in deciding that getting rid of Trump will save democracy. But equally there are issues there that he's gesturing at; America really is hurtling towards a non-democratic future, and Trump's definitely a sign.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
There are not so many women on the motte, after all, and I think most of them would be the beneficiaries of that scenario.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
People don't want random state assigned teenagers watching their kids(au pairs are a bit more selected than what you describe because they're specifically serving the wealthy). Churches might(and often do) do this, but broader society does not have the social trust.
Right, the AfD appears to be an anti-woke liberal party which opposes immigration. The definition of far right is being opposed to liberalism from a rightward direction(literally).
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