hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
37m ago
Sûre. Thé difference is that old timey tax structures suppressed income inequality, leading to status differences being less money gated.
You see the same phenomenon with boomers in eastern Europe who miss communism. Yeah their standard of living was lower but having a nice lifestyle was a closed club, not something you could strive yourself into.
hydroacetylene
44m ago
Orwell was a socialist, albeit a cynical and disillusioned one, and he had trouble publishing Animal Farm because the only publishers willing to publish anti-communist parables were anti-communist. Might be worth bearing in mind.
hydroacetylene
47m ago
Indeed, communists do do this, in order to define strong anti-communist movements as evil.
hydroacetylene
48m ago
The characteristic of fascist political violence is its organization. There is no MAGA brawler club that he sends to go beat up political enemies.
hydroacetylene
50m ago
San Marino and arguably Spain had a fascist government considerably after WWII, and Baathism is a carbon copy of fascism.
hydroacetylene
55m ago
But Mussolini did not carry out any more mass murders than any other authoritarian regime would have(nor did Franco, or half the axis, or Metaxis…) A few fascist governments did. They openly said they were going to do this; Hitler did not pretend that he loved Jews they just had to follow the rules. He campaigned on antisemitism.
hydroacetylene
58m ago
The author is pointing out, correctly, that the ingredients of fascism mostly exist in Trump’s base(with totalitarianism as a key exception- but one which is nearly the sine qua non of fascism). But of course these ingredients generally are not found in the same people.
I suspect that the cavalcade of ‘yes, this is actual fascism’ are because the situation certainly rhymes with the Roman republic’s transition to empire- with the democrats as optimates. You know, the losers nobody likes. No one wants to cast themselves as the villain, so you back off from that metaphor to concentrate on a different one. The blue tribe trend setters are educated elites who have some familiarity with the history.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
We did begin space exploration as soon as technologically feasible, with bumps and starts, but begun and at the technological frontier nonetheless. Rocketry was developed in WWII, used to launch people less than 20 years later, a moon landing in 1969.
Mars missions genuinely do require tech that, if it exists, is very new.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Why does one assume AGI means everyone dies? I’m genuinely curious. Even if we assume that AI becomes a God Emperor, that doesn’t necessarily make it omnícidal.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Fuck it, build Orión. I want a nuclear warhead fueled torch ship.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Yeah, but that’s five billion years away. Can kicking is reasonable under the circumstances.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Given Iran’s war success thus far, might the insurance actually be profitable, and Lloyd’s is merely paranoid?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Full professors IIRC.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
How many doctors marry CNA’s? I’d imagine ~all of healthcare working male doctor spouses are doctors or RN’s, near the top of the hospital hierarchy, not the legion of phlebotomists and nursing assistants below them.
There is still a very strong correlation between woman’s education and her husband’s income.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Black anti-semitism goes back quite a ways, actually- it’s always been part of black power/black liberation.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The blue tribe has generally been good to Jews, does that need much explaining? Imperial centralizing scholar-bureaucrats usually are.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
It does need to be said- focusing on becoming a normie housewife(after all, you basically cannot be a career oriented woman without college first, which is going to last longer than that) starting at 19, or in the right circles perhaps 16 or 17, has fairly good odds of working out.
But this woman does not want that. They want a ‘high value’(they and I may disagree on the definition/relative importance of terms here) man. That 6’4 doctor is not going to marry a woman without a college degree. If she’d focused on this at 23(I don’t know how she would do this, but assuming she did) rather than on career advancement, sûre, she’d have had better odds of landing the high-powered husband. But wealthy men do not marry waitresses.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
In delicate environments requiring perfect, high maintenance balance or everyone dies, the rules will be very strict and strictly enforced. You won’t have anarcho-tyranny, because the homeless/casually destructive/ne’erdowells will be shoved out an airlock.
Now if we can reach a terraformable planet somehow that might be different, but there’s always the (probably high)possibility that they set up an Australia/Hawaii biosphere with species endangered for their own lack of fitness and enact ridiculous regulations to protect giant pandas as the main herbivore.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
We have several actual intel operatives posting here, do you think that we’re not being monitored to begin with? Dean and Ashlael probably can’t post to a My Little Pony forum without everything being analyzed by palantir.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Quasi-ethnic majoritarian nationalism with strong but unadhered to Christian themes has… not tended to be a good bargain for Jews in the past.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Or the gulf monarchies, very influential in the trump regime, who also hate Iran.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
You are ignoring, of course, that even secular, socially liberal red tribers do not see ‘getting laid’ as worth encouraging in itself. The goal is supposed to be a stable relationship that forms a nuclear family. That does not mean that the red tribe necessarily hates premarital sex; that means that it is not the metric by which romantic success is measured.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
They may be entirely gender segregated hobbies.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Does no good if everyone else is still on their phones.
I’ve met quite a number of multi-millionaires. Generally the spouses don’t have productive waged jobs, lots of unpaid but productive jobs at the local food bank/charitable fundraising aggregator/whatever. Lots of wife stores and that sort of thing. The men tend to be smart, personable, and reasonable, but the women cover the usual spectrum. Typically older, and without the time to take a summer off in Europe- but they all have a condo at a nearby beach, or a lake house, or a country club membership, or all three. Red money is notably nicer to the help than blue money, but that’s partly by the latter making things awkward from being uncomfortable with class differences. Both tend to be capable of being cultured, but they might not prefer eg the symphony to popular music from when they were teenagers(which is usually a while ago).
Rich people’s servants, on the other hand, are uniformly awful to deal with.
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