hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
2hr ago
“Shauntai” (what kind of spelling is that?); and the name of the dude who took him out is “Kaylub” (what the fuck?).
Welcome to working class red tribe naming conventions.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
The big tribe is the successful tribe, and the successful tribe is good for its members. The culture war is fundamentally about trying to offset the red tribe fertility advantage.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
Because for twenty years, there has been one stable replacement fertility rate in a developed country- partisan republicans. That's why SEC and pop country became fashionable over the late 2010's, because the percentage of teenagers embracing republican culture started rising precipitously.
So the great replacement is real- the blue tribe is being replaced by the red tribe. But both are, for now, essentially cultural identities. The head of the Texas GOP is a red tribe Indian American- he's a Christian convert who likes to wear cowboy hats and thinks high schoolers should be well-rounded instead of test scores minmaxers. And obviously blue tribe non-whites are a dime a dozen. So blue tribe values need to be imposed as a means of counteracting the demographic advantage, because the blue tribe is close-ish to an elite group. Otherwise the blue tribe will die out; once the teens and young adults are supermajority red(which does not necessarily entail hard right morality) then all the blue offspring will defect, because they want to hang out with their bros, they want peers. Like in premodern societies the culture war is essentially zero sum- the reds are defending their own offspring from blue tribe values being imposed by the government, yes, but the blues are doing this to defend their own offspring from the imposition of red tribe values by their peer environments.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
There are two named characters who are squibs, at least according to my memories. I haven't read it in a while, but I can remember both the neighbor crazy cat lady and the janitor being born to wizard parents and not having powers.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
It's Harry Potter fanfiction. It was never cool. Malfoid is just way too online to matter. It's literally Harry Potter fanfiction. It doesn't mean anything more than My Immortal or HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
I get targeted ads that aren't even in one of the top ten most spoken US languages, in addition to the usual targeted ads for senior citizens and other groups I'm not a part of. The algorithm just hallucinates and misfires all the time.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
When I went I thought it was one floor of interesting spread across six floors, and they needed to have a bigger cafe and movie theater to use up space.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
He made a bunch of alt-right edits of disney songs. Likes the hard right but doesn't like their attitude towards sexual morality.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
Franco’s government was a compromise party including basically the entire right wing of Spain and which spent its later years run as a de facto catholic theocracy.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
The punishment for not voting is a $10 fine next time you renew a government document. But still, mandatory voting means ‘turnout’ isn’t the main factor.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
Mexico uses the marine corps as ordinary police quite regularly- in fairness mostly because they take fewer bribes.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
Ish it depends. Teachers usually reflect the average educated and slightly nerdy introvert with a female peer group in their area- and that’s going to be much bluer than the general population.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
Spain was still a great power at the time.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
Yeah, but it’s politically doable.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
I think a big part of it is that disturbed, weird loners just dropped out of school and lived live as relatively poor people- when their urges surfaced, school wasn’t at the top of their mind.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
No it isn’t, thé teachers won’t carry.
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
Everyone in the US does routinely speed.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
It's not actually clear Chavez was a dictator. Democracies can have terrible economic policies, and he was legitimately elected over and over again. Maduro, on the other hand...
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I think the steelman is that lula has been bad but he simply hasn't had time to really wreck the macroeconomic environment(even Chavez took a while).
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Brazil has mandatory voting. These aren't 'turnout' elections.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
America's protections for the accused are far more comprehensive than in Europe and that is why criminals get away with it for so much longer here.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Counterpoint- Mexico, Brazil, and in fact most new world societies, have very high murder rates and very strict gun laws simultaneously.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Gave a firearm as a gift to a special needs child
I suspect that 'special needs' runs in the family.
In any case, there are countries that ban or restrict pump action shotguns. The standard European line, as I understand it, is that double barrelled shotguns are available to basically any citizen willing to fill out paperwork and pass a background check first while pump action shotguns are much more difficult to get. It's not clear that gun control would do work in any way in the modern US, which is situated in an entire hemisphere where gun control by and large doesn't work.
Along similar lines to the last bullet point: I assume the teacher that threw the phone and tackled the shooter was probably a male. Confirmed female by one of the CNN articles, but I still hold this point because a man could have done it better. We could probably use more male teachers. If men go for careers and you can't make a career out of being a teacher, maybe we really should have paid teachers more?
Not a surprise; women can be mama bears. Uvalde had a female teacher charge the shooter and then die. Concealed carrying teachers is a solution for the exurbs, not cities in blue states with terrible schools for ideological reasons.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
You can still drive on shitty dirt roads. It’s unpleasant and hard on the car, but you can, millions of third worlders do it, and vehicles which can handle it on a budget are big business.
You can just regulate the marine vets and let their journaling remain teenage girl crap.
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