@badnewsbandit's banner p

badnewsbandit

lol 🦂 lmao

0 followers   follows 0 users  
joined 2022 September 08 20:36:59 UTC 

				
User ID: 1038


				
				
				

			

		

	














	


		


			



	

		

			

			

				

					

						

							
						

						

							
							

								
badnewsbandit


								

								

								
								
								

								
							
					
 
				


				
lol 🦂 lmao

				
				
				

				

					0 followers  

					follows 0 users  

					joined 2022 September 08 20:36:59 UTC
				


				
					

					
No bio...

				

				

				

				

				

					

					

					
					
					

					
User ID: 1038


					
					
					
				

			


					

						
					



		

	

 











			
			

			
			

			




	


		

			
‎

			

				
				

					Hour
					Day
					Week
					Month
					Year
					All
				

			


			
‎

			

	
	

	 Hot Bump Top Bottom Old Controversial Comments
	



		

	






	

		
		

		
		
	

	

  







		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 5, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Jury trials are a challenge in diverse societies. In fact, one notable part of the legal history of the former British Empire is that almost every diverse, non-settler commonwealth country (including Singapore, Malaysia, India and Pakistan) has abolished jury trials in part because members of various groups consistently voted to exonerate their own.




You'd think after their experience governing Scots they'd have already been aware of the issue with local juries.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 5, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Try looking at actual numbers, not just the first graphic from a web search. Active duty numbers are published yearly and it's public information, and if you're not poor statista will compile that into more parse-able charts. There is a noticeable drop from a local peak in 2010 to 2016 but that has halfway recovered since. Keeping in mind that in raw numbers it's a drop on the order of 100,000 members, with a recovery on the order of 40,000 and that in per capita terms that is a continuing decline.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 29, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It's already been happening.


Report: Ron DeSantis Will Formally Announce His 2024 Bid With Elon Musk, Because Apparently David Duke Wasn’t Available (Vanity Fair)


No One Is More Dangerous For The White House Than Ron DeSantis — Including Donald Trump (HuffPo)


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 22, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


The suggestion that "Aussies" in general drink XXXX is as offensive as the idea that "Americans" in general shoot varmints out of the back of moving pickup trucks.




Why do you consider pest control an offensive stereotype? Owning property and maintaining it seems rather positive and aspirational.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 22, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
They've gone further as of today. Not exactly sure if they're cheekily referencing all the talk of shit in the Miller Lite ad that kicked things off.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 22, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
That's part of where the cursed 3.2% comes from as well. 3.2% ABW is roughly 4% ABV.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 22, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


In the US you are either a near-pro dancer, or you look dumb. The drugs and alcohol are required to be willing to look dumb I guess.




At least for omniculture costal urbanite themed types of dancing. A cowboy themed dance hall is basically the same social environment for a very different crowd and line dancing is not very difficult (see also the popularity of the cha cha slide at weddings displacing the chicken dance).


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 15, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Isn't the standard dismissal of that Disney+ subscriber numbers dropping because they no longer bundle HBO in India and dropped one of the major cricket channels?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 15, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Heckler & Koch had a bit of a social media manager oopsie earlier this week piggybacking off of the Miller Lite ad. The since deleted tweets have been replaced by something more on brand for ze German weapons company.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 15, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The Whites and Asians sorting is amusing considering that May is both Jewish American Heritage Month per OP and Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 15, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Your after image shows less streetside parking and the streetcar delete in favor of a bike lane and enlarged tree lined sidewalks (one is near triple width of the before, other is only double width).


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 15, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Edward VIII, abdicated King, Duke of Windsor wasn't a Windsor. Well at least this time your attempt was better so points for that.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 15, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
(A ⇒ B) ⇏ (¬A ⇒ ¬B). Try again.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 15, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


And what's more British than fighting the Nazis, really?




You don't mean to imply that the House of Saxe-Coburg and GothaWindsor isn't British do you?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 15, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


And to be honest, beyond some random wild gestures towards Taiwan, I do not really see how Biden admin is that tough on China. They may be continuing Trump's policy, but I think it's rather due to not having their own than following any particular strategy. At least, I haven't seen this strategy coherently expressed anywhere, have you?




It's probably a reference to messing with China's cutting edge industrial/science infrastructure. The whole US persons working for China restrictions that TPOT/ratsphere/postratsphere types went wild about but barely registered in general CW/politics spheres.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 15, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
That seems accurate. The austere religious scholar meme is a reference to a WaPo obituary for al-Baghdadi of ISIS. That archive link is post edit so unclear how much of the bringing up the ills of ISIS were added after the fact. A screenshot of the original article. You're probably correct on the right-coded dictator modification.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 15, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


But yeah, I doubt you're going to find mainstream hagiographies of any dictator.




Does an obituary of an austere religious scholar focusing on their academic career rather than time spent as dictator of a terrorist state count?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 8, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
That poster messaging is literally an appeal to the audience of "you saw Flash Gordon/Buck Rogers as a kid, this will make you feel like that again". Hence the tag line "it'll make you feel like a kid again" after invoking the earlier two properties.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 8, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It should be noted that even Star Wars started as a clever rework of Hidden Fortress with other plot elements and characters added in rewrites wrapped in nostalgia for Flash Gordon.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 8, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Equestrian sports are already sex integrated




European ones at least. Not so much for Rodeo events where things like Barrel Racing are typically only women while most of the other events are men only.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 8, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					




One thing you never hear about is what the actual women athletes have to say about this.








Of course you don't, they'd be canceled.




Well sometimes they can find a niche and other times they are very physically cancelled.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 8, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
He wasn't stopped by the many other laws he violated. Assuming enforcement of your specific policy will not suffer the same problems as laws related to immigration or deported foreign nationals not being allowed to purchase firearms is special pleading.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 8, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
There is a 3d2a guy working on electronically primed polymer cased ammo. Very much a hobby project on a shoestring budget. One of the NGSW program entries used polymer ammo but the army went with Sig (to go with their Sig pistols and Sig LPVOs), you can buy polycased 308 ammo right now. The other area people go to for impractical is barrel rifling which at this point is mostly solved with electrochemical machining, at least for the lengths of things like the FGC which are designed around zero access to firearms parts regimes.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 8, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Why would Democrats agree to that, especially when all polling indicates that gun control is a winning issue for them?




It's not and historically has been a great way for Democrats to lose elections. Almost all the polling you're talking about is vague preference polling that has things like "should laws be stricter?" along with things like "<current law already on the books> is too far". Same sort of thing with economic policy questions. At least the Gallup poll includes data from the 90s or 50s depending on the question.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 1, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Leadership positions increasingly filled with college educated, peace time service, career-oriented PMC types who are of and interface with DC political culture especially to advance beyond a certain level. Policies and initiatives are downstream from culture.