hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
32m ago
Obviously, a black woman claiming asylum in Texas from a gay muslim couple demanding an unwanted abortion is a culture war issue.
Now, if this woman were truly consistently pro-life from the outset, she wouldn't have been a surrogate. But fair enough, some people see the reality and have a moral awakening. Generally speaking if they won't take the child it's unclear why they care; it's unlikely she's going to get child support from them anyways. But they have the kid, don't they?
hydroacetylene
35m ago
Don't prenups get thrown out the second they're called into question anyways?
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
How did she land is the bigger variable, I think.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
Yes, usually individuals with extensive contact with the criminal justice system don't get picked for juries.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
Political appointees preferring to talk to friendly media is nothing unusual.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
The Saudis just don't have a very good military- they need to invest in scouting, artillery, regular ground pounder infantry that can go on patrol, etc. They were trying to defeat the Houthis by carpet bombing with F-16's, for crying out loud.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Being bad at math isn’t a conspiracy theory.
Some good examples of left-aligned conspiracy theories would be Russiagate, thé project 2025 freak out, or a good chunk of the trans genocide claims.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
For a more macabre example, consider that Germany was able to successfully conceal the Holocaust from most of its people- largely by the government telling transparent lies.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Uh, thats not true. ‘Epstein class’ ideas are pretty bipartisan proleslop, antisemitic conspiracy theories are now widespread on the left, project 2025 conspiracy theories were everywhere, etc.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I’ll agree that Hanania looks weird, but it’s not that bad.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The real historical figure who most resembles Trump is Demetrius Poliorketes, incidentally. But to keep on the Roman theme Marius is more topical.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
??? It’s true that there’s not a lot of ‘nanothermite insider trading with ties to the bush family’ style trutherism these days but ‘Israël did it’ is more mainstream than ever, and that was always a big chunk of trutherism.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Im referring to Demetrius poliorketes’s behavior in Athens, specifically, as the savior god.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Trump is Marius. He’s pissing off the elite, he’s violating all sorts of unwritten rules, he’s engaging in poliorketic egotistical excess, but he’s not actually breaking the organs of the republic.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
America’s social spending is not an outlier compared to European countries:
hydroacetylene
2d ago
There are also abundant conspiracy theories about 9/11 and the Kennedy assassination. Stuff like this just brings the crazies out of the woodwork.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
He did pass out shit to the Republican base. Faith based charities, tax cuts that favor breadwinner families, Medicare part D… all favors thé Republican base.
It may include things that there are good reasons to do, but they do favor individual republicans.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I think you’re significantly overrating thé knowledgeability of low information voters. To them, thé President can totally helicopter out cash.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Robot welding has been used for a while in detroit, hasn’t it? It’s clearly a mature technology that they just hadn’t figured out how to deploy to this particular application.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
To be completely fair, Bush redirected a lot of federal domestic spending towards republican supporters.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I remember trump bux during Covid- this is nothing new. Government helicopter money does not go back into the helicopter, ever. Trump specifically trying to bribe voters is also nothing new.
I mean I’m going to take my $5k. My act of resistance won’t stop inflation. I’ll probably put it in silver.
We get it, you don’t like what the Republican Party has become. That’s fair, they’re not what I would pick. But we’re stuck with two rising tides of fiscal irresponsibility, one of which wants multiple new spending programs on the scale of social security, and the other one wants to chum the water with stimmy checks to win elections. We will never have a balanced budget again, not unless we manage to outgrow government spending.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
For middle class people this is true. But if you qualify for this program you also qualified for government funded childcare.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Convincing blacks to marry instead of living in sin would do wonders for reducing what we spend on their dysfunction. It's a win-win. Yeah, some of the somalis will get the money, but they already were through daycare fraud, this is just a slightly different set of paperwork for them to fill out when they defraud the government out of the same amount of money.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Poor but physically fit 20somethings who are often the only men with full time incomes in their social class and place, and who get spiffy uniforms and come with a house to live in where your parents don't...
The US has the highest incarceration rate among first world countries and democracies, as separate subsets? But the USA isn't an outlier in low crime rates. There's obviously another variable.
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