hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
9hr ago
There are not so many women on the motte, after all, and I think most of them would be the beneficiaries of that scenario.
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
People don't want random state assigned teenagers watching their kids(au pairs are a bit more selected than what you describe because they're specifically serving the wealthy). Churches might(and often do) do this, but broader society does not have the social trust.
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
Clancy would not have gone to a normal high security prison- she would have gone to a women's medical prison, which may well have been the same institution as the state mental hospital, and probably if it was any worse would mostly just be rather less nice looking/with security being more visible rather than actually having harsher conditions. She was, after all, paralyzed from the waist down and requiring 24/7 care.
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
Women's shelters exist. You have to put up with a hefty dose of radical feminist ideology, but they're there. Likewise there was probably a local church which would have had members who would take the baby for a few days while she got checked out- although she'd almost certainly need to call more than one.
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
I mean if they'd let her have her baby during the observation period it might have been better, no? Like at least she wouldn't be worrying about the nurses being incapable.
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
Have you ever interacted with a five year old? They don't really notice when adults are weird.
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
She's not guilty of premeditated murder; the lady was clearly too crazy to premeditate anything. That does not mean she should go free, or even just go to a mental hospital until she's free and clear. She should probably be convicted of some manslaughter offense. And the jury should have been sequestered.
The idea that she's a hero is a social media brainrot. This is an unfortunate woman who appears to have been suffering from postpartum psychosis in addition to previous mental illnesses, plus a cocktail of drugs with unpredictable side effects. Not a hero.
hydroacetylene
13hr ago
I remember 2016- I remember the same freak out, and I remember the commentary from experts in actual democratic backsliding, you know, coup’s and civil wars and the like, that Trump Was Not A Good Sign but that he was very unlikely to personally strike much of a blow against democracy. Indeed, that’s largely what we’ve seen- Trump has engaged in lots of poliorketic bloviation and policies that are objectionable to the elites of society, sûre, and his personal behavior is quite bad and there’s legitimate corruption issues(if perhaps overstated), and he’s willing to disregard the mos maiorum. But none of those things are unknown to democracy and none of those things end democracy in themselves. They may not be good signs(and many aren’t). But to the extent they are ill omens for democracy they’re symptoms, not causes. Berlusconi didn’t overthrow democracy in Italy.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
This is just installment #9000 in ‘democracy means thé center-left gets its way on all the important issues and wins most of the elections’. Not far-left, these people backed Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden. But they really tipped their hand after dobbs with stuff like ‘the Supreme Court is now illegitimate’ and ‘abortion rights are the number one correlate of democracy expanding’.
So with that unconventional definition of democracy, of course thé tech types are opposed to it. The center left likes passing tons of regulations that add up to making it impossible to build anything, which is a pretty big threat to their businesses.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
This is the historically normal attitude, of course- people who make something of themselves are suspect, slimy weirdos at best and demons at worst. The historically normal attitude to self made men was the way we see, like, pawnbrokers today. The wealthy who deserve their wealth are the ones who fit existing social structures, mostly by inheritance- or great deeds(athletic feats/battlefield honors/celebrity).
Society is continuing to regress with the decline of Christianity.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
We have mystics and false religions even today. Woo is still a thing.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Pre scientific people were often dumb in believing incorrect things, but they believed these things largely due to the limitations of their methods and observational equipment. Modern beliefs which are incorrect are intentionally so, lots of these beliefs are literally supported by changing the definitions of things when statements about them have been falsified.
Aristotle believed that women naturally had fewer teeth than men because he was unable to check the chemistry of nutrient flows in pregnancy that led to tooth loss. He believed that objects in motion gradually come to a stop because he had no way of measuring air resistance. He believed women’s mental illnesses were caused by their wombs moving out of place because he had no way to check hormone levels. People believing falsified things about gender and sex being meaningfully different can check those things, they know they’re wrong, because they have checked this. They changed the relevant definitions instead of updating their beliefs.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Turkey would be strategically relevant anyways, at least, and the greater caucuses might be unstable but they’d be in the news a lot.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Scott found this earlier, by comparing papers between known pseudoscientific fields and soft sciences.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
In fairness, doesn’t theoretical physics deliver lots of results that require either exotic technology or bajillions of dollars to actually test?
hydroacetylene
4d ago
fired while on paternity leave, just 9 days after the birth of her second child
Based
hydroacetylene
4d ago
To be fair, there are definitely senior churchmen with serious doubts about some load bearing pillar or Roman Catholicism or other- many of the Germans seem to have ideas about the sacramental priesthood/its centrality which would undermine their own position, for example.
Not that they do a very good job trying to hide it.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
Women probably want to be pediatricians at much higher rates- it makes up for the unexceptional-by-doctor-standards pay with 'working with babies a lot'.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
No? There were female thought leaders from societies without feminism.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
You don't need to ban female doctors. You need to end affirmative action programs and then institute new ones that favor conservative leaning men. I know it's hard to imagine exactly what that looks like but, you know, reversing the progressive behavior is how you get the biological solution to work.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
I dunno about that, computer programmers are very male. Including the 'women'.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
This is because society has substantial memetic immunity against self-interested men, for good reason. 'Traditionalism is good for women' is in part because under traditionalism men are supposed to be self-sacrificing to justify their leadership position.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
There is, perhaps, a bit of a rollback in social attitudes. An expansion in the overton window to things that would have been acceptable in the 1980's.
What there is not is a full scale opposition to women's lib. Even hardcore chuds would laugh you out of the room/look on in stunned silence if you started quoting Edward Hammond Clarke. The actual views held by anti-suffragettes were not things that are popular with present day anti-19th amendment believers. The woman's anti-suffrage league today would be seen as frighteningly radical by people who oppose the nineteenth amendment. Female domesticity is something you find advocated by the most extreme religious right republicans, not the populist chuds(who merely don't care who they offend).
hydroacetylene
7d ago
Gary Indiana isn’t controlled by the blue tribe, is it? It’s a majority black city- culturally very different.
That is a major issue but there was a preexisting slide(which this is doing nothing to arrest). One even more subtle issue is that the pro-democracy elites shy away from Trump due to all this 'he's anti democracy' BS and you wind up with more and more people in senior positions who don't care about democracy either way. Meanwhile normal mainstream democrats become more and more willing to give carte blanche to these types who think 'democracy is when the center left gets its way', regardless of the constitutional implications. Merrick Garland seems to have been caught in that trap.
Figures like Brett Devereaux have it backwards in deciding that getting rid of Trump will save democracy. But equally there are issues there that he's gesturing at; America really is hurtling towards a non-democratic future, and Trump's definitely a sign.
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