hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
4hr ago
The left believes the US is broke because they pursue PPP minimizing lifestyles(living in NYC, grad school, etc).
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
Very high crime rates and an ongoing insurgency driven by organized crime using terror tactics are one of its many problems, yes. It's still far preferred to other parts of Latin America, going by revealed preferences.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
'Lieber Turk als Papst'.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
In conventional use, second world country refers to an industrialized middle income country.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
The American market will swallow up beef at reasonable prices. Even a mild discount vs the very high US cost of production will enable functionally infinite sales. Soy and wine(the most visible Argentine product to the US market is, far and away, malbec), maybe not, but the limitation on Americans buying steak and brisket is budgetary, not consumption ability.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
To be even more fair, Mexican-Texans who trace their ancestry to pre-Texas independence settlement are a recognizable social group in current day Texas which is politically important and regionally predominant enough to be visible far in proportion to their actual numbers. That's what 'tejano' actually means.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
Europe totally has a red tribe, it's just far more marginalized than the US one.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
When democrats lost big in 2024, the head of the Texas Democrat party tweeted out something to the effect of 'we should be more willing to accept that most Americans do not agree with us on trans issues'. He was pressured into resigning within 24 hours. Gino Hinojosa is somebody that insider dems know about, even if the man on the street does not. Democrats are structurally incapable of moderating their ultra-unpopular positions, and they're structurally incapable of attempting to present them in more delicate ways.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
Tim Walz.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
Canada does not, however, have the people for that, nor does it have the wise and reasoned management to grow their population to such a point.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
With Trump out of the picture there's going to be a brutal factional fight and such factional fights are unpredictable.
Vance has no native support base, but that might be an asset if it helps him present himself as a compromise candidate between different factions. The establishment state level GOP's are mostly lined up behind Abbott, not Rubio. And Rubio himself has the benefit of being able to run as the sane man in the Trump admin- either 'it would go better with me in charge of the same agenda' or 'I did that, brought all those victories'.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
Mexico is not a third world country approaching second world. It's a solid second world country with pockets of both third world conditions and modern, albeit relatively poor, first world societies. The latter are mostly the ones actually bordering the United States; the former are very far away. This isn't way back when; Mexico is a normal middle income country which has its fair share of problems but is not, like, an actual third world shithole.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
More money won't fix it, and it's not like you have money anyway.
You know America has ten times the GDP per capita of Argentina and six times the GDP per capita of Russia, yes? Like there are reasoned and informed criticisms you can make of the USA. 'Doesn't have money' is not one.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
He's Russian, and any idiot can see that if Canada goes through an economic crisis it will stop being a country, so Carney might talk about the Chinese, but he's not going to pivot. Alberta would leave if Trump actually for real takes the gloves all the way off in an economic war with Canada, and then Quebec, and then a country with some giant holes in it would start to shrink.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
Nobody actually believes we’re going to invade Greenland.
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
There is another possibility- that acceptable men are genuinely less common.
Drug, gambling, and video game addictions are vastly more common than they were, for one thing.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I mean, the one recent example of the federal government backing down in conflict with a state was... Texas seizing control of the border from Joe Biden.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Or more realistically, in a real shooting war, the red and blue states slip out of full federal control and militants take refuge in sympathetic states. That's what actual state failure looks like.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Indeed, there was a leftist fad of attacking Catholic churches in the aftermath of Dobbs. Few prosecutions.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
As the two comments above yours outline, it refers to the 'Southeastern Conference' in college athletics- specifically college football, the sport of choice of the red tribe elite(professional football has no cultural or class connotations). It's made up of large public colleges in solidly red states, which- as you may remember from the top level comments on sororities- are used by the red tribe elite to ensure their children marry class and cultural equals.
The SEC couple meme refers to the stereotype that elite red tribe men are fat but their wives aren't. This is... basically accurate.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I doubt this. She can probably get a date, yes, but a lonely but successful techbro is not going to marry his girlfriend on double quick time.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
40% of young men have never approached a woman for a date, right?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
'Establishments react poorly to changes of plan' is totally compatible with conspiracism.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Male sexuality will happily fuck six year olds,
Do you mean 16 year olds? Because preying on teenagers is definitely the dark side of male sexuality in a way actual pedophilia generally isn’t.
There probably isn’t an easy way to do it. I doubt bukelism would work well there, because the cartels are too sophisticated and too entrenched in local power structures(there’s also lots of eg corrupt unions and normal nominally legal companies and the like). It’ll probably get better over time just due to inertia; non-cartel economic opportunities(and the cartels operate a huge grey market economy- everything from pirated movies to groceries) are much more common and much better than they used to be, thanks to US investment, and cartels are starting to realize that random directionless terror violence doesn’t actually benefit them. But they still operate under a logic(often insane troll logic, with stuff like human sacrifices and witchcraft) that rewards violence and terror, thé Mexican army has a 50% desertion rate and corrupt officers who sell equipment to them, and public appetite for a sustained counter insurgency campaign is pretty low due to the casualties involved.
It’s possible that if the U.S. decided to kill every hard drug user in our borders, thé cartels would see a permanent decline in revenue and thus influence. But the cartels also operate like standard organized crime syndicates and control 40% of the country(thats leaving out the parts controlled by auto defensas or folk socialist movements- thé Mexican government prefers the cartels to either but lacks the ability to really stop any of the three). They’re not totally dependent on US drug revenue, and the Mexican police are shitty, incompetent, and corrupt so they aren’t really a replacement for cartel rule.
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