HorthyMiklosKatonaja
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HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1d ago
Yes. A "Culmore man" is a white man. If he is a foreigner, it needs to be phrased as "A Salvadoran (or whatever) living in Culmore."
Doubt this change will ever make it to the AP Stylebook though.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1d ago
Folks on Reddit are openly calling for the murder of ICE agents, and for a leftist coup.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
5d ago
A foreign country doing a random hit on American citizens does not sound very likely, things would go south quickly for them if they got caught.
Not if the shooter was a long-term sleeper agent who couldn't be connected to them, a la The Americans.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
8d ago
When I see "Andor", I always think of the Wheel of Time before I think, "oh, that's a Star Wars name too."
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
15d ago
The broader issue is that many parts of the country appear to not want to be subject to immigration law and are in open defiance against it.
I've heard of restaurants refusing service to ICE agents too.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
17d ago
I think lots of left-leaning folks want to imagine themselves as brave civil-rights protesters, standing up against the KKK and Bull Connor.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
22d ago
No country with a Bentley dealership can be socialist.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
22d ago
I recommend checking out "The Million Pound Deposit" by E. Phillips Oppenheim, a long-forgotten but prolific author. A fun tale of corporate espionage and stock manipulation.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
25d ago
Is something wrong with archive.is right now? None of the links are loading, nor does archive.ph work.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
30d ago
... I have a thought.
I'm not on X and refuse to join (because I believe social media is a major net negative for the culture). So I don't know what I'm supposed to be looking at.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1mo ago
So Trump can't deploy the National Guard because ... he hasn't declared that he couldn't enforce the immigration laws using the National Guard?? Seems to me that's contradictory.
Unless Kavanaugh means the regular Army which is expressly forbidden to be deployed within the US barring major insurrection.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1mo ago
The X link is dead, and the Wayback Machine doesn't have it.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1mo ago
Chinese restaurants were pretty widespread in the fifties, even in smaller cities (where else could Jews eat out on Christmas Day?). Of course it was thoroughly Americanized Chinese food.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1mo ago
I don't know, I have fond memories of the foot-long hot dogs at Bob's Big Boy in 1974-75.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1mo ago
I fervently refuse to use DoorDash, UberEats, Hungry Panda or any other kind of food courier service
Count me in too. Why should I pay $30 for a Big Mac that will be cold when it arrives, which might not be for an hour?
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1mo ago
As far as I can recall, McDonalds was takeout only in 1959, they didn't have tables inside the restaurant. And they didn't have pickles or onions for your burger.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1mo ago
I'd much rather live in a time (past or future) where there's no shortage of safe, affordable, walkable all-White urban neighborhoods.
Nowadays it's "pick two".
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1mo ago
And if you burn poison ivy, that's a mistake you won't forget.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
2mo ago
World War 1+2 in a single package, a grinding forever war that ran for decades and killed over a billion people?
That reminded me a lot of the civilization-altering (and sometimes civilization-ending) mega-wars in Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men and Darkness and Light.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
2mo ago
It was a thing in the fifties too. The Organization Man, the Man in the Gray Flannel Suit.
For about 15-20 years after the war there was this feeling in the US zeitgeist that the individual was being, I don't know, deprecated? Pushed out? and replaced with the conformist "mass-man."
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlem_Royal_Hospital#Public_visiting
It was a big thing during the early- and mid-eighteenth century.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
2mo ago
I recall a line from a Jonathan Edwards sermon to the effect that one of the greatest pleasures saved souls enjoy in Heaven is watching the sufferings of the damned in Hell.
This was the same era when a popular middle-class pastime was going to the insane asylum to laugh at the antics of the lunatics.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
2mo ago
And would it be okay to name a starship the USS Corpus Christi?
Heh.
You could always do "A Negro living in . . . "
And you have to know where I'm coming from. I grew up in the seventies, when the Washington DC area had hardly any non-European immigrants. Things were a lot simpler back in my formative years; neighborhoods were either white or black (and nearly all the blacks lived in remote areas I never visited).
Had I lived in LA or El Paso as a kid, I might feel differently, but I will always feel in my heart that third-world immigrants remain foreigners no matter how long they've lived here.
Additionally, my post was partly a reaction to a new mortal sin among the left: mentioning someone's ethnicity if they're anything other than "generic white" except in a very few special cases, most of which involve denouncement of "white supremacy". The specific Reddit post that reminded me of this was basically: a woman met another woman in a coffee shop or something, first woman thinks she made a new friend, but second woman was just out to recruit for Amway.
The natural assumption was that both were white, but late in the post, it was mentioned #2 had recently immigrated from Nigeria.
I guarantee you that if this had happened in 1990, the account would have started, "So I met this black woman with a foreign accent, and . . . "
Ethnicity is important! It's vital for getting a proper mental picture of the situation, and I don't like having important details deliberately concealed.
Just my two cents.
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