hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
11hr ago
I would guess OP is a troll, actually.
hydroacetylene
12hr 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
13hr 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
13hr 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
19hr 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
19hr 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
19hr 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
20hr 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
20hr 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
20hr ago
Taking GDP per capita as a rough proxy, NK is considerably worse than Haiti.
hydroacetylene
20hr 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
1d 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
1d 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
1d ago
Aside from the entire gulf, Azerbaijan, Jordan, Egypt, basically the rest of the middle east?
hydroacetylene
1d 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
1d 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.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
How many people are complaining about having Alaska?
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I mean, the island has more square miles than people, and the inhabitants are poor. This is almost the ideal place to refine rare earths and just... have the toxic lakes somewhere they won't hurt anyone.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
As an actual literal statement the political left is committed to violating black letter constitutional civil rights protections that they justify by inventing human rights, yes, that's a very defensible statement. The adults in the room in the Biden admin(and there were some- not Biden and Kamala, but figures like Ron Klain and Merrick Garland were powerful enough on their own to count) were mostly moderate, establishment, center-left types and not crazy radicals and they... just let the country fall apart while they pursued failed attempts at political vengeance and power consolidation. The war on domestic terror was just full of oversteps that make no sense except as retribution against dissidents against state ideology, the novel legal theories, etc. Meanwhile actual competent governance was... not a priority. The null hypothesis for both a Biden admin and a vegetable in the white house is that technocrats from his own party run the country in a not-cartoonish manner with some featherbedding.
Trump talks about some of this stuff. But he doesn't actually do it.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Look, you drive a car directly at a cop while they're yelling at you to stop, you're gonna get shot. The footage doesn't change this. ICE is probably not the shining example of highly professional policing, but there's no police agency that wouldn't have shot her. Yes, she may have been trying to escape rather than kill him, but it doesn't change anything in practice. This woman made a very stupid decision and died for it.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
I would never have sought treatment for same sex attraction if family life hadn't had appeal. Raising children(not babies but kids), for one thing. And you do realize that dishes are, like, part and parcel of the whole 'eating' thing? There isn't a universe where chores just don't get done. If you live alone that just means you don't get to split them.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
I also find this disgusting. Some people are just not meant for the bathhouse life.
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.
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