hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
51m ago
The punishment for not voting is a $10 fine next time you renew a government document. But still, mandatory voting means ‘turnout’ isn’t the main factor.
hydroacetylene
54m ago
Mexico uses the marine corps as ordinary police quite regularly- in fairness mostly because they take fewer bribes.
hydroacetylene
59m ago
Ish it depends. Teachers usually reflect the average educated and slightly nerdy introvert with a female peer group in their area- and that’s going to be much bluer than the general population.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Spain was still a great power at the time.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Yeah, but it’s politically doable.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
I think a big part of it is that disturbed, weird loners just dropped out of school and lived live as relatively poor people- when their urges surfaced, school wasn’t at the top of their mind.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
No it isn’t, thé teachers won’t carry.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
Everyone in the US does routinely speed.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
It's not actually clear Chavez was a dictator. Democracies can have terrible economic policies, and he was legitimately elected over and over again. Maduro, on the other hand...
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
I think the steelman is that lula has been bad but he simply hasn't had time to really wreck the macroeconomic environment(even Chavez took a while).
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
Brazil has mandatory voting. These aren't 'turnout' elections.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
America's protections for the accused are far more comprehensive than in Europe and that is why criminals get away with it for so much longer here.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
Counterpoint- Mexico, Brazil, and in fact most new world societies, have very high murder rates and very strict gun laws simultaneously.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
Gave a firearm as a gift to a special needs child
I suspect that 'special needs' runs in the family.
In any case, there are countries that ban or restrict pump action shotguns. The standard European line, as I understand it, is that double barrelled shotguns are available to basically any citizen willing to fill out paperwork and pass a background check first while pump action shotguns are much more difficult to get. It's not clear that gun control would do work in any way in the modern US, which is situated in an entire hemisphere where gun control by and large doesn't work.
Along similar lines to the last bullet point: I assume the teacher that threw the phone and tackled the shooter was probably a male. Confirmed female by one of the CNN articles, but I still hold this point because a man could have done it better. We could probably use more male teachers. If men go for careers and you can't make a career out of being a teacher, maybe we really should have paid teachers more?
Not a surprise; women can be mama bears. Uvalde had a female teacher charge the shooter and then die. Concealed carrying teachers is a solution for the exurbs, not cities in blue states with terrible schools for ideological reasons.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
You can still drive on shitty dirt roads. It’s unpleasant and hard on the car, but you can, millions of third worlders do it, and vehicles which can handle it on a budget are big business.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The Nazis did eventually bow to pressure, although later than the British did, but American schoolboy history is, IIRC, wrong about women in the factories- American conscription targeted rural areas very heavily to minimize industrial impact and most conscripted industrial workers were replaced with blacks(who were drafted at lower rates), not women.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Atlanta Falcons fans, thé braves are a different sport.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Shortly after assuming the presidency, George W Bush wished Americans would come together after a contentious election…
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The south of Brazil doesn’t want to leave. They both think they’re just ‘Brazil’.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Maybe he’s just generally soft on crime, and race Marxism isn’t an exception to that?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Brazil has mandatory voting, though, so manipulating turnout seems like an unoptimal strategy.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The current squabbles over voter suppression have to do with the role of ethnic machine politics. They date back to before Trump, after all.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
What can Flavio Bolsonaro actually do about it though? Like ‘not accepting the election’ won’t do nothing.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
In the rare cases where a man gets sole custody, child support is not an unusual outcome.
Franco’s government was a compromise party including basically the entire right wing of Spain and which spent its later years run as a de facto catholic theocracy.
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