hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
4hr ago
Conspicuous China hatred is a racially tinged deep red thing to me; it might have religious overtones(persecution of Chinese Christians) and almost certainly has fifties level anti communist paranoia.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
Is there one offering Russia and Iran as possible alternatives instead? I suspect Putin is slightly more popular than democrats among right wingers, the ayatollah in between democrats and xi, and and the CCP last of all.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
They could well be forgiven for suspecting that the American liberal gatekeepers, as a class, despise them much more, and are much keener to socially engineer away their communities, than a similar program administered by the Chinese might be
The core red tribe does not believe this. The Chinese are dirty uncivilized commie barbarians, they’re even worse than democrats.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
On the other hand, does this mean I as a white pefson can legitimately demand I have a white physician because that would make me feel more comfortable? No?
Tons of people pick a doctor on the basis of ‘bedside manner’ or otherwise feeling comfortable with the doctor. It’s everywhere.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
How can people trust with this level of malfeasance? How do we get the trust back? How do we stop people from doing this kind of thing? I just don’t know.
I see you’re starting to understand how me and mine felt during/after the scamdemic overreaction.
Fucked if I know how you get the trust back. It’s gone. We’re just going to have to, as a society, deal with a permanently lower vaccination rate. I don’t have a solution, except to say that defenestrating the people pushing the medical… narratives, not just the Covid one but lots of other blatantly political stuff, would start a slow process of rebuilding trust. Not regaining, rebuilding. The uncritical trust in doctors is dead, and the medical establishment killed it.
I’ve been harping a lot recently on the need to build new, functional, things to replace the old ones going haywire in entirely predictable ways. I don’t really have a ‘solution’ solution in the case of the medical establishment but I’m pretty sure the medical price transparency crowd will be the ones best positioned to come up with one.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
It is probably true that legal concealed carry does little to curb the behavior of psychotic homeless(although it probably does do a little). What it probably does have a major effect on is mugging- muggings are a far smaller percentage of total crime in high crime red areas. These criminals are rational, but dumb.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
I don't know that much about housing regulation in the USA,
It depends. Generally in cities in blue states residential construction is illegal and only happens by special exemption.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
Institutions reducing hostile state capacity is a good thing. In this case the NYPD is, although paid by the state, demonstrating its ability to defy it.
hydroacetylene
12hr ago
What does being an American mean to you?
My great grandfather came here on accident- the royal navy blockaded his home country- and he assimilated into a shotgun wedding and becoming a self made millionaire before the war ended. Was he American? How about the intentional Ellis islanders? A third generation Mexican American who speaks English and Spanish equally poorly?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Would a template for the user viewpoint focus make you more comfortable? Something like a 'two to three paragraph sketch of ideology, answers on a handful of proposed questions, particular areas of interest, any items you feel comfortable doing an AMA on?' That's just a dumb example, obviously.
Kudos on LLMs; I usually but not always minimize those threads because a contraction of white collar labor demand /= the apocalypse.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Just to be clear- is the situation the winner inherits bad politically or bad in other ways? I know France has lost a lot of influence in Africa and has a fairly high debt with some youth unemployment problems, but by the standards of Latin countries I thought it was much better than average economically.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Any interest in bringing back the user viewpoint focus series? I'm willing to get it started but only if there's at least a few other users interested in following on.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The Red Triber thinks black people aren't ultimately as good as white people, even if he makes exceptions for his friends or his favorite athletes or rappers
Eh serious YMMV there. There’s red tribers with white supremacist ideas even if they won’t call it that(and won’t use the term ‘hbd’ either). There’s also a lot who genuinely aren’t racist. Most have a strong belief that the black community is screwed up by liberal social policies and bad culture(to be fair, African American culture is pretty bad), and that they need to move away from this. Most think making fun of blacks shouldn’t be off limits unless it’s seriously offensive or not funny. But whites are better is not a general rule.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Canadian gun laws are almost certainly much better enforced than Russian ones, as in many other differences between the two countries.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
In DFW you have plenty of bums- generally less threatening bums but bums nonetheless- in Dallas county, but in tarrant county(Fort Worth) you have very few. The judges and prosecutors in tarrant county are all republicans; cops know this and make more arrests and are more willing to use force. In Dallas county judges are almost all democrats(and there are fewer bums in the areas under Republican circuits), and so bums are often ignored when they do minor crimes, because city of Dallas police know there’s no point.
The Republican Party runs campaigns on the difference in public safety between the two counties. They’re right next to each other.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
A few years ago a couple of NYPD cops even beat up a judge and got away with it
Based
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I mean are dna tests acceptable evidence for that?
I agree that in practice US citizens are not going to be locked up in an El Salvadoran gulag.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Turkey is much more illiberal than Hungary, which is a bit more illiberal than France and Germany. Hungary doesn’t jail regime critics(although it does threaten their livelihoods).
It also seems worth noting that le Pen committed an actual crime. Not the sort of thing that’s regularly prosecuted but this is a scene out of the US rather than Russia or Turkey.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I got one posted at 9 pm the 31st once. It was teen mental health and parenting, I think.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
‘Black conservatives’ also play into the widely held suspicion that blacks will fix all their problems with Republican-coded lifestyle improvements. The black millionaire business owner with one baby mama that he’s still married to is advertisement that this deal works and black conservative pundits are advertisements that it still exists.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
but if one's politics are based on good living, how far will they actually be willing to go to endure the required amount of hardship...?
In Finland haven’t almost all of these guys actually been in the military before?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
New Orleans and St Louis are extremely dangerous cities with very lax handgun laws. Concealed carry is not a solution to general crime. But it does serve to raise the stakes for homeless psychos; few of them are hassling bodybuilders.
I support concealed carry because the people who carry concealed should be prioritized over the people who attack them. This is clearly accomplished. I agree that the worst handful of homeless are unlikely to be deterred but most of even the psychos make some risk calculations.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Is Bardella really a more likely replacement than Marion Marechal le Pen?
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Cheaper housing does reduce homelessness, but it probably disproportionately gets the individuals who are least problematic off the streets.
The mechanism here is one that tends not to occur to functioning upper-middle class people; poor households are incentivized to get the number of contributing adults into a household which fit in it. The more dear housing is, the stronger the incentive. When you already have a roommate sleeping on the couch your cousin who’s down on his luck cannot just sleep their instead. But in areas with cheaper housing, it’s not worth it to let someone sleep on your couch. So your down on his luck cousin gets it instead.
Does China even want to rule us directly? Like Russia straightforwardly would, yeah, but does China want more than trade and foreign policy concessions?
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