hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
4hr ago
I feel like something that always gets left out of discussions about apartheid is that afrikaaners are not a Northern European ethnicity. They’re a lot more clannish, tribal, and xenophobic than thé Dutchmen they used to be. The British wrote lengthy screeds about how they were impoverished religious fanatics who married their underaged cousins…. A description generally not used for Northern European ethnicities. The simple lack of British universalizing, civilizing impulse is pretty easy to understand there.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
Cursing somebody you believe yourself to have killed in self defense seconds after the act seems incredibly normal.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
Just curious; what do you think thé German police would have done in that precise situation? Resisting arrest and attempting to flee through a police cordon is suicide by cop.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
This proposal runs into the immediate problem that the constitution says that the state’s representation in the senate is the only part not subject to amendment.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
Driving a car at a cop will result in being shot in any country where the cops have guns. Especially if you’ve already hit one. This woman won a Darwin Award.
That being said, I’m sympathetic to the idea that better policing practices could have saved her life, and the agent in question is almost certainly being advised not to speak to the media. We don’t really know what the result is going to be, but both the ‘ice committing cold blooded murder’ crowd and the admin are behaving irresponsibly in their rhetoric.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
We need more insane centrists. There is a Lyndon LaRouche shaped hole in the USA; schizo cult leaders with beliefs to offend both sides of the political compass need to run for president more often. The Cynthia McKinney/David Duke antisemitism conference(no, not conference on antisemitism, there is a difference) cannot replace it.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
I would guess OP is a troll, actually.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
The answer is that they believe ICE isn't allowed to do anything to US citizens. This is wrong; they can arrest US citizens who interfere with their operations. But they don't really believe this is what they say it is.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
Ok, if we think ICE is going around calculatedly murdering people- why this one? AFAICT she was one protestor among many. There are many like it, this is the one unfortunate enough to drive her car directly at an ICE agent while being yelled at to stop.
Obviously, this partner isn't her wife; she has a husband, who she ditched out of ideologically induced mental illness. But getting mad over terminology is... well not exactly the most concerning part of this story, or even in the top ten.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
Wolf Totem
I'd always heard that Chinese literature, translated in English, was generally pretty bad- stilted, awkward phrasing, often on an infantile reading level, rather mediocre and meandering, like the worst of Dickens imitated by a third grader. But this is not like that; the prose reads like an American wrote it originally in the midcentury.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
A notionally pro-western government in Tehran will almost certainly get large western loans for the purpose of immediate legitimacy-building options, and Iran can pay those loans back with oil if they need to.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
People want the last not-horribly-mismanaged regime, and monarchy seems to work for the middle east in a way democracy doesn't. Monarchies are certainly rather good at avoiding the 'retarded populism' failure mode that, quite frankly, seems extraordinarily unlikely to fix Iran.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Probably not, no. Pro-life activists being arrested for protesting too hard outside abortion clinics is a thing that happens and conservatives often defend FACE violations, but, importantly, not pro-life activists who use actual violent action.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Blacks with more red tribe adjacency(lots of them working in the trades, but bowhunting is the real reliable way to meet them) are real popular with the red tribe, generally. The tribalism in the US is about different kinds of white people hating each other, I don't see a massive difference between the two tribes in terms of actual dislike, and the fact of the matter is that we're too different to be friends easily so some tensions are always going to be there.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The question isn't 'what's more common in world-historical terms'. The question is 'what's more likely in the modern west'. And modern western countries are tightening the noose around dissidents, they're not giving up their monopoly on violence.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Taking GDP per capita as a rough proxy, NK is considerably worse than Haiti.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
How many truly tyrannical, totalitarian states are there in the world? North Korea, obviously. Eritrea, to some extent. After that the lines get a lot more blurred.
Chechnya. Turkmenistan. China is more than capable of doing this in conquered territories, although you're correct they do not do this in Shanghai.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I have a hard time believing that the brains behind these anti-ICE protests aren't in fact counting on something they can use to make ICE look like stormtroopers.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Iranians may not be pro-USA, but the youth disillusionment with the regime is very real. Look at pictures of the IRGC; they're all old.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Aside from the entire gulf, Azerbaijan, Jordan, Egypt, basically the rest of the middle east?
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Yeah, Oklahoma city is culturally part of greater Texas and not a generic flyover city. It's much redder, in the flat, behaves like a smaller city than it actually is, etc. Minneapolis is the opposite.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Minneapolis is unusual for being a non-coastal city that is majority white liberal and has no neighbors fitting the same description. This... causes some tensions with the hinterlands, and woke is optimized for environments where your neighbors don't like it.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
For 2, there's a specific problem- Greenlandic whaling. This is uncontroversial in the Nordics(mainland Danes don't personally do any, but they're more than happy to permit it elsewhere, and the Nordics are the most prolific whalers in the world aside from Japan), but in the USA....
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Amerinds in the modern US love America.
Is anyone asking for sanctity? Is that even a thing being discussed?
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