hydroacetylene
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My knowledge of Ukr politics begins and ends at ‘I support whatever the UGCC wants’, so this is an honest question- does Zaluzhny have sufficient internal support to force through a peace agreement over the nationalist’s objections, or to expand the draft until Ukraine is fully staffed again? Could that be the reason?
As for Zelenskyy, making high risk maneuvers is far from unknown when leaders sense a direct threat to their power.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
This was an unusually drama heavy week. I’m going to encourage you to stick around to read the first quality contributions report after your arrival and see what we’re aiming for here.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
If he was granted asylum due to fear of torture by Pinochet, then he was a communist who should have been handed over to operation condor at the time, and was ineligible for asylum under US law. Finding and deporting such cases is a stated priority of the Trump admin.
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
That particular church is 1) pretty normal for popes to visit and 2) has architectural reasons forcing ad orientem.
He’s definitely celebrated mass ad orientem as a bishop where it was optional, though.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
Go ahead and start listing them off.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
No. The pope is on summer vacation and unlikely to have been the decision maker on this one, even if it bears his name.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
Cane sugar tends to generally-but-not-consistently taste better. I'm unconvinced that the health difference isn't just another 'gluten sensitivity'.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
Red beans and rice is actually very good if done properly. Of course I'm guessing this wasn't a specific dish, this was yankees of a certain generation that just didn't care about good food.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
Of course, this is mostly population aging. Old people don't grow the economy.
Do immigrants help? IDK.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
It goes both ways- Lengua and Chicharron have developed a following among Gringos. We still mostly think tripa is gross, and menudo is restricted to being a folk cure.
Gringas mostly still think it's all gross.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
Right, the odd Florida man type story involving an illegal doesn't raise any suspicions, but it also isn't the occasional Florida man type in these stories- it's usually portrayed as some sort of trend. Believable third world behavior is often worth complaining about to people who aren't used to it(FWIW I 100% believe Haitian refugees were poaching ducks in a public park in Ohio, being extremely bad drivers, etc- because that's believable third world behavior).
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
No. Rice and beans are cheap and tasty(although beans are not exactly quick).
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
None of these statements sound like believable or normal behavior for poor unassimilated Hispanic migrant workers. Public urination, drunk driving, catcalling getting a bit younger than gringos would go, bar fights, poaching, cockfighting- all sounds like the sort of thing that might happen(and which is just generally a hazard of importing male-skewed unskilled laborers in large numbers). But these stories never confine themselves to the plausible.
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
I can believe that illegal farm workers are poaching, maybe stealing small stock, but they'd butcher a cow and there wouldn't be a 'carcass' left(Hispanics are actually very fond of animal parts not normally eaten in anglo-american culture; poor unassimilated Hispanics[which farm laborers would be] are actually known for not liking steak very much in comparison). I can believe there were cockfighting and maybe dogfighting rings set up by illegals but the rash of ass stabbin's doesn't sound realistic to me- do you have a news article? Obviously I have no trouble buying a one off floridaman-type serial offender, but you'll forgive me if just this one guy shitting in truck beds doesn't sound like the sort of thing to paint with a broad brush over.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The video of George Floyd just looked really unusually bad, and it came at the right time(the lockdowns when black culture had adapted to social-media scrolling driven video-based victimmongering rather than text based a la facebook or radio), in the right place(a white progressive ruled city). I think that's the reason. Most people killed by the cops are scumbags, even if they don't deserve to die, and so mathematically an unusually bad-looking video at the right place and time will probably have a scumbag in it.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
No dispute on that; but a policy of official actual colourblindness would go a long way towards marginalizing these people. The average Asian doesn't care about Stop Asian Hate one way or the other, an official policy of marginalizing it would not be made up for by popular support.
AADOS oppression olympics racebaiting activists have enough support from the communities that they will continue to exist as notable organizations regardless of official attitude; I don't think this is the case for Asian or Hispanic equivalents.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
If Vance has a chance to take Trump out now, he'll almost certainly get another one after the midterms- and he has to take the presidency after the midterms to be able to serve two full terms. Better to get six months that way than three years this way.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
It seems like the obvious way to square this circle is that Israeli forces are being generally indiscriminate in Gaza and the officer who ordered a potshot at Holy Family Parish did not realize this was a location to be treated with kid gloves(which it does). The Israeli government did not want to destroy the church or they would have presumably done it via artillery fire that 'missed'. They also let cardinal Pizzaballa visit and call more attention to the place.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Vance is smart and utterly ruthless. That scares people.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
IIRC that scene was in the (admittedly heavily embellished)source material- the Vikings(or their Christianized great-grandchildren, whatever) themselves were the ones who lied about it.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I'm not disagreeing with you in broad strokes, but 'protecting young women's sexual purity' is much more of a right wing value. Obviously Epstein is dead and the MAGA base doesn't think he's chilling in Cuba with Tupac, though.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I mean, Vance's incentive is to get Trump to resign as soon after the midterms, but definitely after the midterms, as possible, for constitutional reasons.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Yes, poverty in the native underclass and poverty among non-underclass is different because these people have different folkways.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I think the difference comes down to shopping behavior- either that of men vs women, or that of women shopping for themselves vs their husbands. Anecdotally women want to buy their stuff in person, but feel comfortable just ordering stuff for their husbands online at the best price available.
Not at all implausible, assuming the language is Spanish, to just… go about life not using English in the USA. There’s plenty of Spanish-language services available and immigration services is used to speaking Spanish. It probably means languages aren’t the strong suit here, but not much else.
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