ABigGuy4U
23hr ago
Please don’t. I had to stuff an entire can of Zyn packs into my mouth just to answer your question.
Israel’s TFR is generally higher than it’s neighbors.
It is not, thoughbeit. The fertility rate of the Palestinian territories is 3.44. Gaza is 3.88. While that’s down from a whopping 7 in 1990 that’s still almost double of Israel’s. Egypt is 2.88. Syria, despite being in the middle of a horrific civil war, is 2.70. Iraq is 3.88. The only country Israel is keeping up with is Lebanon. Unfortunately it seems western culture has a more deleterious effect on fertility rates than several million smart bombs do.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
And if their adversary and neighbor was North Korea that would be pretty good. But they have the misfortune of being in conflict with one of the few remaining fertile groups on the planet.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
I suspect the Signal leak is an intentional limited hangout to cover up the movement of aircraft for a potential strike on Iran.
ABigGuy4U
3d ago
Israel’s fertility is terrible with the exception of the Haredim, who refuse to hold productive jobs or serve in the military.
ABigGuy4U
4d ago
There’s one theory that I think is ridiculous but fun called Tartaria, where people claim that the buildings from the 1892 World’s Fair in Chicago were actually from a super advanced ancient civilization in the Americas
ABigGuy4U
5d ago
If Canada joined the United States each province would probably be a separate state.
They thought that the wind was going to be blowing in this direction permanently, and that they had better get on the Revolution’s good side by joining up early. And to be fair, a lot of people on this site also thought that the Revolution had won and this was the new permanent state of affairs.
ABigGuy4U
5d ago
What's wrong with sight words?
Because you are limited to knowing words you have memorized like they’re hieroglyphs, so when you grow up and you run into new words like “xylocarp” or “gubernatorial” you effectively can’t read or pronounce them. Which caps your reading level at sub-high school and leaves you unable to quickly parse large volumes of difficult text.
ABigGuy4U
5d ago
Also increasingly the illegal immigrants aren’t coming from the same countries and ethnic groups as the Hispanics already in the United States. Most of the people in Mexico who want to be in the United States and have the means to do so already are. There is a pretty big cultural gulf between Mexicans and Puerto Ricans on the one side, and Guatemalans and Venezuelans on the other. And increasingly, while the illegal immigrants are coming across the Mexican border, they aren’t even from the Americas.
ABigGuy4U
6d ago
Trump squandered hard won leverage for nothing in return.
Trump doesn’t have any leverage, because Biden and Zelensky spent the last three years pissing all the leverage away. The Kursk salient just got rolled, probably to the tune of 30,000 Ukrainian casualties. There are multiple Russian breakouts happening on the Pokrovsk, Kupyansk and Zaprozhia axes. Ukraine’s power and transport infrastructure has been destroyed along with much of their air defense. We are probably looking at the complete collapse of eastern Ukraine in the next four months. Belarus is mobilizing for an incursion into Western Ukraine this September. Short of rounding up NATO and sending half a million troops to directly enter the war, what exactly can Trump do here? Putin has zero incentive to agree to any kind of real ceasefire, because he’s about to win the war.
ABigGuy4U
6d ago
But young men in the United States of all races share pretty similar grievances, namely “I can’t get a good job”. Also, while Democrats used to strategically confine their contempt to white men, increasingly they can’t help themselves from going guns-hot against anyone who was born male and didn’t transition. So political platforms that are designed to appeal to white men are increasingly picking up other demographics as well.
It’s the Motte, so of course the topic that really kicks off the fedposting is libraries
I suspect it’s that boomers of all political stripes are more used to actually doing something instead of just making angry posts online.
ABigGuy4U
7d ago
Human sacrifice was mostly just a Mesoamerican thing, and usually just the big regional power players, not the small tribes living under their boot heel. The tribes living in what is now the United States were pretty peaceful internally, but yes, eye-wateringly intense torture of POWs and the rape of women was a common part of inter-tribal warfare. Of course we are talking about over two hundred different tribes, and quite a few of them were genuinely very peaceful to both other tribes and white settlers. Others were very warlike.
ABigGuy4U
7d ago
Also every President since Bush II regardless of party affiliation has been growing more and more frustrated with Europe while also trying to pivot more resources to the Pacific theater. Even Biden probably would have been, had the Ukraine War not gone hot during his term. So I’m not sure President Newsom would be jumping up and down to climb back into that quagmire either.
”you should let in more refugees because Jesus said to be compassionate in the Bible somewhere. No I’m not a Christian and I have nothing but contempt for your backward religious beliefs. So yeah, this argument wouldn’t work on me, but maybe if I use it on you, you’ll do what I want.”
ABigGuy4U
9d ago
Also Ukraine just costs a lot more. America has sent more aid to Ukraine in 2 years than it has sent to Israel in the last 30. Ukraine has gotten as much aid in 2 years as Afghanistan got in two decades. And that’s just from the United States, not counting what Ukraine is getting from Europe.
ABigGuy4U
9d ago
Belgian politicians and social elites were raping and murdering girls for fun. Then they openly murdered dozens of police officers and judges to cover it up. They basically got away with it. And it was all very overt, much more overt than anything to do with the American pizza-gate.
ABigGuy4U
9d ago
It was clear at that point on the strength of the reporting and with the number of victims that had come forward that he wasn’t getting out of jail alive even if he lived a long life.
The guy who ratted out John Gotti received a suspended sentence and probation for nineteen murders, including the murder of a police officer. I’m pretty sure a pimp could get a suspended sentence for ratting out a massive conspiracy to blackmail half the United States government.
ABigGuy4U
11d ago
It won’t end war because the omniscient Chinese AI will be able to omnisciently bullshit the omniscient American AI to the point that there is uncertainty again.
ABigGuy4U
12d ago
The assassination of Caesar was not supported by the majority of Romans. (Citation Needed)
How delightfully pissy of the Wikipedia editors
It is a circular issue. But the ceding of America’s public spaces to the Visigoth marauders is something no municipal administration will ever, ever fix. So when sensible Americans hear “we should abolish cars for walkable cities and public transportation” they correctly hear “please step inside the rape tube”
The fact that you are (justifiably) a fan of Better Rim Kim doesn’t justify your filthy addiction.
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