hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
4hr ago
But that's because it's Trump saying it. A comedian calling detroit or baltimore or louisiana a 'dumpster fire' or 'trash' is not controversial.
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
These people did not need to win popular elections.
hydroacetylene
10hr ago
Yes, I will admit this was almost certainly some kind of lefty activist, probably antifa. Still think ‘right wing extremists’ should have been on the list of possibilities, albeit not as the #1, before we knew this.
hydroacetylene
10hr ago
Meh. This isn’t the deal I’d prefer but social conservatives don’t have the numbers to control the country. We need to bide our time when we can’t win, and that means supporting our protectors over our enemies.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
Cherokees.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
It’s timed perfectly to Goose Republican voter turnout, however.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
I’m not sure the Jews have any special enmity towards East Asians.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
married vs unmarried are going to be the relevant demographic criteria of the next few decades, I would predict.
Which of course means that the GOP managing to boost the marriage rate is a matter of political survival, and this is probably doable by tax policies and benefits cliffs they love tinkering with(one wonders how many cohabiting couples- and seriously cohabiting is pretty bad and if we can get these people to marry slightly faster that's a good thing in se- would marry for a payout).
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The GOP is the socially moderate party for social conservatives, which offers them protection for their way of life. The dems are the socially progressive party for people who want to make social conservatism illegal, which offers them realistically just harassment of social conservatives but it could be state discrimination occasionally, and of course both parties have other interest groups in their coalitions.
Seriously- religious freedom/conscience protections, homeschooling protection, parental rights- these are all major focuses of the GOP and they're areas where the GOP has winning records. They are also very important to social conservatives.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I think it's a successor to dominionist, a stance held by an extremely small number of protestant theologians in ultra-fundamentalist churches that thought the law code spelled out in the bible, judicially, for ancient Israel was binding today, but in practice mostly used as a slur for anyone who didn't jump in whatever progressive bandwagon rolled out. The idea that 'American' is a thing with defining characteristics- any of them- pushes leftist berserk buttons like nothing else, the twitter democrats dominate their messaging, and so add it together.
but c'mon people, this is not representative of the mainstream of Christianity in the US, even in the most Christian parts, which are Baptists who come from a long tradition of church-state separators.
Baptists don't like an establishment of religion because of the 'establishment' thing- it's too much of an institutional church. Requiring a religious test is a part of baptist history; in America before the supreme court banned them baptists often supported laws which required elected officials to be protestant. Today I suspect a 'Christian nationalist' law would ban Muslims/Hindus/atheists from office and require assent to the divinity of Jesus and maybe some Christian moral ideas.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The government's not funding any of this. It was allowing outside groups to offer electives and chose to ban a bible class from the list.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Technically the rule doesn’t say uniforms, does it? It says ‘recognizable emblem’.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
There’s definitely an escalating trend of this- and a pattern where hypotheticals and value judgements from progressive groups get trotted out as objective arguments- and it’s not limited to the schools. Fighting about planned parenthood funding and prolife pregnancy centers is a perennial battle. The Trevor project is mostly public funds.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I mean, WaPo as a centrist paper still has to cut costs, so resignations from highly paid editors are probably a nice bonus.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I think it’s organic. Male attention is not hard to spin up and I would predict that the median poster their expects there to be no male attention on that board.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The fake votes would be absentee ballots, obviously, which is probably doable for people who can submit 1500 fake voter registrations.
I doubt the sorts of people who are capable of this seriously think it’ll swing a statewide election, so my guess is- local political machine trying to influence bond elections or something.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The same thing wrong with the entire rest of the world. India is now below replacement too, Sweden is just farther along. Other than Israel no country has figured out how to maintain both A) a national TFR above replacement and B) clean drinking water. There’s plenty of countries that can’t do either and a few that can only do one.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Athens voted by casting tokens in different urns, IIRC- functionally not riggable below a certain scale. Sparta, on the other hand, voted by acclamation- the side which the magistrate thought had more people clamoring for it at a given time(judged by volume) won. This system is pathetically easy to rig and I just thought noting this while we’re on the subject would be an interesting aside.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Something tells me that whoever did this(and I’m not sold of the right wing extremist hypothesis but its categorical exclusion is strange) will not turn out to be a careful planner who gamed out the impacts for maximum political effect.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Have we considered it might be a right wing extremist? It doesn’t seem like their usual MO but it’s definitely possible.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Hahaha. Productive blue collar workers, even without apprenticeships or college, make more than that regularly.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I grow a nice beard. IME most people mildly preferred the beard but the minority that didn’t like it really didn’t like it.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
There’s mentally ill women who seek out getting raped as a form of self harm(the term for these people is ‘crazy’) and there are women who have a fetish for getting raped by men they wanted to have sex with anyways, and we should probably note with this group of fetishists that the median woman doesn’t actually want to have sex outside a relationship so date rape as casual sex is still unwelcome to these women.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
who should go into the trades
While your typical electrician or HVAC tech didn’t do well in school, this was because he either thought school was dumb or wasn’t willing to listen to his teachers. Guys that were genuinely not smart enough to handle the material usually aren’t smart enough to work in a regulated trade.
In practice, anti-Puerto Rican discrimination would get struck down on ethnic grounds.
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