ChickenOverlord
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ChickenOverlord
7d ago
At least in Australia currently there's an attempt to ban social media for your under 16. Not super up to date on Australian politics but this effort appears to be coming from Labor which is supposedly the center left party
ChickenOverlord
8d ago
No one thought of using airliners as weapons until Al-Qaeda did it.
Tom Clancy did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt_of_Honor
Edit: roystgnr beat me to it, that's what I get for not reading downthread first.
ChickenOverlord
13d ago
Does anyone else relate to this conflicted feeling?
Every damn day. I have an uncomfortable blend of paleoconservativism and libertarianism in my blood, and I've already resigned myself to the reality that I'll never be able to resolve the conflicts between the two. The best way I can cope with the conflict is to follow my gut moral intuition when I approach an issue where they conflict.
ChickenOverlord
13d ago
I definitely wasn't as young as OP, but I remember getting into a debate with a female substitute teacher in 7th or 8th grade about abortion (and in retrospect it was a wildly inappropriate topic for a substitute teacher to bring up). I had pretty strong convictions early on, though I attribute that to my religious upbringing, my parents, and an interest in history, ethics, and other topics from a fairly young age.
I was dumb enough to not despise neocons until I was in college though.
ChickenOverlord
13d ago
I have to admit I always thought the anti-fluoride people were like weird anti-science hippies.
There are "The government uses fluoride for mind control" types that get the most attention in the movement.
ChickenOverlord
20d ago
The only dystopic part of Clockwork Orange is that they even bothered trying to rehabilitate ultra violent criminals instead of summary execution.
ChickenOverlord
20d ago
and as it stands, purchasing a reasonably priced Toyota Hilux is about as likely as winning the lottery by this point...
Play your cards right and the CIA will provide you and your friends an entire fleet of Hiluxes for free, with bed-mounted full-auto 50 BMGs included.
ChickenOverlord
21d ago
The most frustrating part for me personally with Ukraine is all of the Europeans who spent the last 20 years complaining about America being the world police immediately expected us to bear the brunt of financing and supplying Ukraine. I'd say "you can't have it both ways" but apparently they can just neglect their military funding for decades and we'll happily pick up the slack. Literally this meme in reality: https://i.redd.it/9fo82deg74p81.png
ChickenOverlord
23d ago
Or just get rid of registration drives entirely and let those who care enough to register to vote actually vote
ChickenOverlord
23d ago
Not the Riddler being 100% sane and rational until the director/writers realized he was too sympathetic and had him start indiscriminately target civilians with a flood?
ChickenOverlord
24d ago
Yeah but she only ended up marrying and having sex with the vampire, not the werewolf. As someone once described it, the series is "A young woman's struggle to choose between necrophilia and beastiality."
This is everyone's reminder that George Orwell, writing in 1944 before we even finished defeating the Nazis, argued that there was no clear definition of the term fascist and that the term had been used so widely and to describe so many fundamentally different things that it had already lost any real meaning; https://www.orwell.ru/library/articles/As_I_Please/english/efasc
ChickenOverlord
26d ago
And we had JournoList a decade ago (or whenever), it's naive to imagine that similar mailing lists haven't continued to proliferate.
ChickenOverlord
26d ago
Springfield, OH is one of the more obvious ones. Rotherham in the UK is another. The process is still ongoing in both of those locations though.
ChickenOverlord
26d ago
If anyone thinks that it was ethnic cleansing on the basis that the Irish were forced out of the most desirable locations in favour of the Britons (so it was... ethnically cleansing the best parts of Ireland only?)
Most of the ethnic cleansing in the Balkans after the breakup of Yugoslavia was similarly just forced relocations (deaths were in the tens of thousands vs. over a million forcibly relocated).
I guess that's fair, but this is a premise that is also not present in the US immigration case - there is no forcing of the current population to relocate to less desirable areas, and in fact the new immigrants tend to cluster in the least desirable ones.
State-subsidized relocations into areas drive housing prices up and wages down (along with all sorts of other first and second order effects) and the state subsidized part makes it literally impossible for the native population to compete. Coupled with refusals to enforce the law against the new population, and an overbearing willingness to enforce it against the native population if they try to fight against the resettlements, makes it very much done under the threat of violence and actual violence from the state and the migrants.
ChickenOverlord
26d ago
Also essentially what happened in the Rhineland Massacres. Yeah, sure, the Church and local nobility said it was bad for the crusaders to kill a bunch of Jews on their way to the holy land, but they didn't do anything to stop it (and the call to join the crusade is what created the conditions for the massacres in the first place).
ChickenOverlord
27d ago
The Plantation of Ulster
ChickenOverlord
27d ago
If the Plantation of Ulster (where my ancestors on my Dad's side were sent to settle North Ireland to displace my ancestors on my mother's side) is widely considered ethnic cleansing then this sure as hell is. Unless you think the Paddies were just being a bunch of whiny babies.
ChickenOverlord
28d ago
and it probably involves distinguishing sex from gender
Except that's been used as a trojan horse for eliminating biological sex entirely (or rather pretending it doesn't exist). See bathroom access arguments (bathrooms are sex segregated) or the use of phrases like "assigned male at birth."
ChickenOverlord
1mo ago
It was revealed to me in a dream
ChickenOverlord
1mo ago
such as trying to pull out of NATO
He never did any such thing though. He said we should pull out if it's not restructured in such a way that other members don't start pulling their own weight instead of just leaving everything to the US. And he was absolutely right to do so, around that same time we had embarrassments from our allies like Germany only being able to field ~10 mission ready fighter jets and ZERO submarines:
https://www.dw.com/en/only-4-of-germanys-128-eurofighter-jets-combat-ready-report/a-43611873
ChickenOverlord
1mo ago
"That depends on which cartel is currently most powerful"
ChickenOverlord
1mo ago
You're assuming the people gambling on elections are using it as an investment vehicle or hedge and not just, y'know, gambling. Most people betting on prediction markets are idiots trying to get rich, not people making rational choices.
ChickenOverlord
1mo ago
It's not like wars are always fought on open desert
Even open desert has more logistical issues than you'd expect. Just ask Erwin Rommel or Archie Wavell. Or the crusaders at Hattin.
Where do people like me (religious, anti-abortion, but also opposed to nonsense like Griggs) fit into your perception of political alignments?
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