hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
1hr ago
I know this is a late response, but I want to point out that non-democratic high income countries with fairly robust civil freedoms exist and, more importantly, are not China. Singapore, the UAE, Liechtenstein, are not democracies and are much freer than China. Note that these are not based utopias, either- they're real countries. And they don't aspire to global power. In these places getting arrested for anti-government activities takes being incredibly annoying, not merely irritating. But they're also small countries that know their place in the global order. They have cooperative outside backers, guys. They don't aspire to be superpowers, which necessitates some internal stabilization mechanisms. The record of these in non-democracies is not good.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I have no reason to disbelieve that Trump had sex with the odd 16 or 17 year old. He was a famous libertine in an era when that was much more acceptable. There's no reason to believe he specifically looked for that, of course, and the majority of his mistresses were probably old enough to get plastic surgery on their own.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
the saner approach would be some sort of legalization
Yes, it would, and h2b’s already exist(you can basically get as many workers at regulated wages as you want if you provide housing). The reasons it isn’t a replacement for illegals probably have a lot of blame to go around.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Well Trump’s not an ideologue, though. Thats the whole thing. He wants power for himself, ‘greatness’ for America, etc. He doesn’t have firm opinions on a lot of those things.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
X to doubt.
The pro-life movement’s protest tactics got lots of people arrested, but generally not imprisoned, for behavior that successfully reduced the number of abortion clinics. Antifa members get arrested but not imprisoned all the time too.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
In practice, even in very liberal jurisdictions, church invasions over the Dobbs decision were routinely met with violence and police had little interest in whether that violence was legal- theres a few videos from LA around then.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Or unlawful arrest. But those are all state charges.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
There are laws against this stuff, they were written to go after pro-life civil disobedience and in a few cases against desegregationists. I believe Don lemon is being charged under the KKK act, and the freedom of access to clinics act was considered for him as well.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Conventionally attractive males getting teen girl fanclubs despite being terrible people is… not a new phenomenon; Dzhokar Tsarnaev did, and nobody thinks the Boston marathon bombing was right.
This is more a datapoint in extended adolescence among leftist women than anything else. I suspect that if Dylan Roof had been employed as an underwear model you might have seen some of the same thing in the opposite direction.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
And the hardcore conspiracy theorists are a non-negligible percent, although ‘microchips in thé vaccine’ may not be 100% literal all the time.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Maybe Vance will take the throne by assassination after the mid terms. It would, if nothing else, be very interesting.
It’s unlikely, but we live in interesting times.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Trump has had… lots of appointees that didn't agree with him much. RFK wasn’t someone I would’ve expected to be on the Trump train.
Perhaps Warsh is expected to be more susceptible to political influence?
hydroacetylene
2d ago
If it’s comforting, thé historical pattern in hegemony holding democracies is very clear- real or imagined security threats drive deviations from normal business, which drives polarization that turns inwards(we are here), butchers a good chunk of the political class on both sides, and results in a decidedly not democratic center right government that does a lot of corruption but doesn’t really hold grudges and keeps the economy going. In the long run, we’ll be OK.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Yeah, I deliberately steered clear of ‘as seen on H2’ conspiracy theories.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Following that definition, would it be fair to say that you think a woman whose lifestyle involves walking around in the bad part of town at night in a miniskirt without male company deserves to be raped?
We call these women ‘prostitutes’ and getting raped is an occupational hazard of streetside prostitution.
Now that doesn’t mean they deserve it, but as the vice squad will tell you, they should get normal jobs to avoid it. Their lifestyle is, well, having sex with people who hire shady illegal prostitutes, a much larger percentage of whom are rapists than is normal for sexually active males in any culture.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Pistols are really loud, like ‘agent is now temporarily deaf and probably has permanent hearing damage’ loud. Looking elsewhere doesn’t seem likely.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Hahaha. They can just get paid cash; it’s common enough in restaurants and construction even for citizens, and rent rooms in cash from landlords that don’t give a shit, and drive cautiously as beater #90000 that’s probably not going to pay his ticket so why bother stopping him.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Just one, I believe Dean is a US operative, not Australian. I wouldn’t be shocked if we had one from another country but if so he hasn’t made it obvious.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Soccer hooliganism is very illegal in Europe, actually, and these clubs are well coordinated. There’s a book about it, I can’t remember the name.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Eh, there’s a good chance Amazon literally couldn’t staff itself at current levels without illegals, whereas they can pass tariffs onto the customer pretty easily. Amazon already offers a better compensation package than is normal in blue collar labor markets and their dominance relies on fast turnaround times that require big workforces. I haven’t seen internal numbers, but they’re probably way more scared of a potential labor shortage than of cost increases.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
It’s possible to be both, right? I’m not a mental health expert, but ‘suicidal ideation’ ‘delusions of grandeur’ and ‘group persecution complex’ are frequently co-occurring.
I interact with lots of minorities, but not ones selected for being woke. I’ve spoken to black small business owners who say ‘yeah, thé police kill unarmed black people all the time, but they’re thugs who have it coming even if they didn’t deserve it in that moment’. I’ve talked to people who became Republican for RFK’s health crusade- conspiracy theories about fast food controlling the population and stuff. I’ve talked to people who believe smoking is good for you and it’s being covered up by big pharma. I’ve talked to people who believe the flu shot is a conspiracy to spread the virus so the healthcare system can sell tamaflu. I’ve talked to people who think Amazon is manipulating the price of concrete as a 3d chess move to drive competitors out of business. There’s people out there claiming jet fuel is fake, so therefore 9/11 is too, that the US military runs a human experimentation program that’s already developed gene editing technology, that the government is secretly controlled by the British, It just goes on and on and on. And lots of dumb, crazy beliefs get results. The military human experimentation guy correctly predicted everything that went down with the border in Biden’s term.
Almost everyone believes a wide variety of stupid things all the time. When these are uncoordinated stupid things it doesn’t cause much problem. But a coordination mechanism for stupid things people believe, now those are dangerous. It could be used for good, sometimes. There’s a decent case civilization arose by coordinating stupid ideas around taboos into construction projects. But it can be used for evil, as well. That’s what woke is, and it’s why every society has a state ideology and represses, however softly, alternatives.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
IDK man, last time I got jury duty I noticed the defense lawyer in pinstripes and it made him seem super shady.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
So your point is that it'll give an intelligent investor plenty of time to sell before the market crashes? Because people who have the money to invest in asteroid mining and people who aren't willing to wait years to see a return are, I suspect, non overlapping circles.
My financial advisor is routinely shocked that my personally managed stock portfolio outperforms all the managed funds. It consists mostly of commodities, tobacco, blue chips, and mining(which I buy and sell to try to get ahead of metals price changes).
But 5x in two years? That's ambitious.
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