hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
4hr 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
6hr 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
6hr ago
Brazil has mandatory voting. These aren't 'turnout' elections.
hydroacetylene
6hr 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
6hr ago
Counterpoint- Mexico, Brazil, and in fact most new world societies, have very high murder rates and very strict gun laws simultaneously.
hydroacetylene
6hr 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
10hr 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.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
The Nazis did eventually bow to pressure, although later than the British did, but American schoolboy history is, IIRC, wrong about women in the factories- American conscription targeted rural areas very heavily to minimize industrial impact and most conscripted industrial workers were replaced with blacks(who were drafted at lower rates), not women.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
Atlanta Falcons fans, thé braves are a different sport.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
Shortly after assuming the presidency, George W Bush wished Americans would come together after a contentious election…
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
The south of Brazil doesn’t want to leave. They both think they’re just ‘Brazil’.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
Maybe he’s just generally soft on crime, and race Marxism isn’t an exception to that?
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
Brazil has mandatory voting, though, so manipulating turnout seems like an unoptimal strategy.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
The current squabbles over voter suppression have to do with the role of ethnic machine politics. They date back to before Trump, after all.
hydroacetylene
12hr ago
What can Flavio Bolsonaro actually do about it though? Like ‘not accepting the election’ won’t do nothing.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
In the rare cases where a man gets sole custody, child support is not an unusual outcome.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Child support orders are not based on who consented or not. They're based on replacing welfare given to the custodial parent.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
If you want to be unsurveilled, might I suggest the redneck method of 'just do things offline'?
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Only true when compared to introverted men.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I don't think feminists are the issue with that one there- the general lowest common denominator public doesn't want to watch it. Even The Big Bang Theory had to soften Penny's character because test audiences didn't like her.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Attractive and extroverted women. Introverts get the short end of the stick all the time, regardless of physical appearance.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
It’s not just taxes- thé southern US is just generally a lot cheaper to live in compared to canada, salaries in the low millions go a lot farther.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Writing female characters seems to be a minefield, ok maybe, but it doesn’t have to be. The OG strong female character is… Inana from the epic of Gilgamesh. Literally.
There is a contingent of people who will complain loudly about any and every flaw in any female character, ever. The solution is to just ignore them; thé ancient Greeks wrote strong female characters all the time and they were patriarchal as all get out. They weren’t necessarily Mary Sues there to show the boys how it’s done.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
Texas’s property tax system is a complicated mess where individual boomer homeowners do not have particularly high burdens- but rent house owners, vacation properties, and commercial property owners do.
As a Texas homeowner my effective tax rate is about 1%(I think last year was 1.2), and the elderly get a bigger exemption. But if I, say, owned a lake house I’d be paying much higher.
Everyone in the US does routinely speed.
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