hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
2hr ago
Technically speaking, the USA did win in Vietnam- it withdrew in exchange for a promise by north Vietnam to respect the south's independence(our actual war goal). The first time it reneged on this promise the ARVN repelled them. The second time the ARVN collapsed in a fit of coup-proofing paranoia at around the same time and commie tanks took Saigon.
Pinkos like LBJ and Nixon were unwilling to invade the north after the liberal Eisenhower overthrew the Ngo family's regime and that made the US position impossible in the long run, but we achieved our actual war goal before withdrawing.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
American professional soccer actually plays better than South American pro soccer these days- the Argentine team that made it to the finals was made up mostly of players whose day jobs are playing for big five European league teams, but were originally from Argentina. MLS could go toe to toe with top teams from Brazil and Argentina, never mind the cub league.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
I mean it is technically true that elements within Germany betrayed the German army. Germany was not winning and these elements included things like 'other parts of the German military', but the German revolution really happened.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
Well, that's not Lauren's DSA. Her DSA just wants the obvious, basic things; free healthcare, free education, a living wage! Like, hello, why are we evening talking about this in 2026? Lol!
That shit already free, nigga.
People who cannot get a living wage in 2026 America are mostly people who are deeply unsympathetic, or have very high expectations. We have clunky expensive universal healthcare that people who can't afford it just don't pay for, and the system works fine.
Because soccer is left coded but it's also a sport and sports mean hot guys might be around
Not quite. Soccer in America has a left-coded fanbase, yes, because 'soccer fan' in America is implied to be a premiere league fan, and liking English stuff as better than American is a weird blue tribe tick, MLS or Liga mx fandom isn't nearly so political. Internationally soccer is not a left coded sport, at all, and FIFA is real cuddly with Trump, Qatar, etc, and clearly making a play to get the American red tribe into soccer.
hydroacetylene
7hr ago
Yes, they ate fewer calories of lower quality food, a higher portion of it carbs.
hydroacetylene
7hr ago
The typical single person before the war boarded rather than renting an apartment, and boarders were fed as part of their rent.
hydroacetylene
7hr ago
In practice this woman's goal was probably to find an American husband to switch her au pair visa into a greed card, but she got caught before she could seal the deal.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
It sucked and the portion sizes were a lot smaller, and their plates had a bigger portion of carbs. They are pasta, potatoes, bread, rice, casserole etc in huge portions, compared to today’s preference for mostly meat diets.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Men also have much dirtier homes. This isn't just about food.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
You ate steak for a single meal a week for fifteen years? Totally disproves my point that expectations have risen in the general public.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
To be fair, you do live in San Francisco.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Dysgenics works far more by suppressing high IQ female fertility. Perhaps we should send the girlbosses home so they have to get married, instead.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Are whole cows available in the bay area? You might be better off buying a whole/half a cow directly from a rancher and getting it processed to eat over time.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
While overwrought, it is entirely possible to have a perfectly functional society with much more modest tax burdens.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Housing, healthcare, and education costs are real things to complain about. For Catholic k-12 education specifically prices have risen because bishops no longer wish to subsidize it, despite the many downstream effects of not doing so, but higher education, healthcare, and housing are all multivariate problems which are expensive because no one in positions of influence really cares about keeping costs down. That's reasonable to complain about and seek policy changes over.
Rising food costs are not real, however. Grocery inflation is much slower than wage growth. What drives rising food costs is poor spending discipline- doordash is certainly the most visible example, but ordinary families didn't use to eat steak very often and Americans now think it's unhealthy to eat carbs.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Yeah, according to my parents and grandparents, when in the seventies nobody thought about running to a local restaurant for food because you didn't want to cook. You ate a sandwich or you cooked, and that was that.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The answer for normie middle class families having the woman of the house out for whatever reason in the 60's and 70's was not 'and we go to a restaurant'. It was 'dad handles food'. That food might have been bologna sandwiches(and everyone in midcentury america ate bologna sandwiches and thought that was an ok and normal thing to sometimes have for a meal), but, like, just talk to older people- men were expected to feed themselves rather than starve or eat out.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
In 1920 most single men lived in accommodations that did not include a kitchen. We are now a wealthy enough society that bachelor pads have kitchens.
Single men in places with kitchens were generally expected to cook for themselves, albeit with less complexity(but we shouldn't overstate that; old timey housewives were not making elaborate 5 course meals like tiktok tradwives today), unless they were rich enough to have a housekeeper. The real shift in gender roles around cooking is that it's no longer seen as an insult to the woman of the house for a middle class family to go to a restaurant- which it would have been in 1920(the upper class in the days of having servants did not cook for themselves, regardless of gender).
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Sure- that's generally true of societies with rising wealth. You see the same exact thing in Mexico, China, Japan, etc. US per capita protein consumption is perhaps rising because Americans believe they need to way overconsume(Americans ate far more balance meals with a lot more carbs in them in the nineties) protein while minimizing carbs(which are cheap). But rising food budgets in America specifically are probably much more driven by eating more expensive cuts rather than more meat per se; steak was considered a treat by most people when I was growing up, not something you ate every day.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
There was never a program to subsidize beef or housing for all or nearly all American consumers, however- although red meat subsidies have been a thing in Argentina.
There simply wasn’t a single policy choice that drove up housing costs in major metros, or healthcare costs more broadly, or education costs everywhere. The Catholic church’s decision to stop subsidizing the education of its members is a single cause problem, unlike these things.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
My prediction is short barreled rifles get legalized because nobody really cares about them, any other weapon gets legalized, but short barreled shotguns and high caliber rifles have some BS made up to restrict them.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Yes, boiling vegetables tend to reduce the nutritive content unless you drink the water with it. But not necessarily by enough to worry about.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Blue collar workers have gotten some pretty big raises recently, but not enough to keep up with housing.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
DFW is a surprisingly expensive fast(or fast-casual) food market nationally.
MLS and Saudi pro are generally the top non European leagues because they have the ability to make athletes very comfortable playing for them.
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