hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
4hr ago
As opposed to 'Mgubu the witless'?
Aside from the parallelism in 'people of small hats/people of slanted eyes' it doesn't seem offensive in isolation either.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
Do the Anglicans have the cash to give much? My impression is that while, like most established churches in the west, they have substantial real estate holdings, they don't have enough liquidity to even cover expenses and are reliant on generally-earmarked investments to keep the lights on, pay salaries, etc.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
Hapas just look white. 90% of the Cherokee just look white. Most white-hispanic babies look white. White middle easterner crosses too, but in fairness middle easterners are pretty white looking already(although I know a Maronite/Italian couple whose kids look, on average, whiter than either of them). Even the white/black crosses you're probably thinking of look more white than the popular portrayal; America's definition of 'black' just encompasses people of mixed ancestry. There are other countries, like South Africa and much of Latin America, where that's not the case and they're not perceived as looking black.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
I live in a mixed neighborhood. It will, like most such neighborhoods, be clearly Hispanic eventually, but for now thé children playing soccer/basketball in the street are white.
In Texas fireworks go on sale thé day after Christmas, February 25th, April 16, and st John’s eve(or respect life day as a state holiday). They are hard cut off on New Year’s Eve, Texas Independence Day, San Jacinto day, and Fourth of July. This controls thé festivities. Possession or personal use of fireworks out of season is a minor thing- but dealers operating out of season it is not. Hence fireworks run out by, like, today.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
Meh. Where I live there are four days a year when it’s legal to shoot fireworks(two state independence days, fourth, and new years). There will be fireworks shot off the day before and after, of course, but not for months at a time. Not worth worrying about.
Bookmarking for a response later- TLDR is continuity with JPII, encouraging moves for the conservatives, but very mild disappointments for the liberals.
Leo has appointed mostly the bishops that an impartial observer would have expected a replacement level pope to appoint, in a way which points to the return of the influence of the nuncios over pope Francis' progressive cardinal friends. All eyes are on Chicago and New York- both Archdioceses which are highly political appointments and have bishops who've reached retirement age. One, Cardinal Dolan, is generally considered 'conservative' and the other, Cardinal Cupich, is extremely progressive. These, and the prefects of causes of the saints and of the causes of bishops(both cabinet level officials in the Vatican), will likely be the first major political appointments made by the new pope.
In the Vatican Curia(central administration), pope Leo has confirmed the figures in place under pope Francis. This is customary for new popes. He appointed a nun as secretary(#2) of the dicastery for religious life, but as pope Francis had left a nun as prefect to appoint a bishop as her number two would be a scandal on its own. There are no indications as to who will be appointed to fill his old seat as prefect of the dicastery for the causes of bishops, nor who will be appointed to replace the extremely aged Cardinal Semeraro as prefect of the dicastery for the causes of the saints. He has, however, made a schlew of appointments to the boards of dicasteries(cabinet-level departments) in the Vatican, which indicate a desire for a more conservative direction. Specifically worth highlighting are Cardinal Marengo, the youngest cardinal, who was appointed to a position requiring frequent travel to Rome from his apostolic assignment in Ulanbaatar(yes, Mongolia has a cardinal), allowing him to build an influence network before the next conclave(which, given the ages of cardinals and likely lifespan of the pope, would put him as a senior figure); and Archbishop Fischer of Sidney, who was considered sidelined under pope Francis for his conservative views and, appointed to the board overseeing interreligious dialogue, will be able to grow in influence ahead of his likely appointment as a cardinal. Also worth noting is the high percentage of African bishops appointed; these tend to caucus with the furthest-right faction of western bishops and if the trend continues, this forseeably gives traditionalists more power and influence.
His public facing actions are not particularly noteworthy; he is essentially emulating JPII.
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
Is there anything to thé theory that the relatively early shift to love matches over arranged marriages has selected Western Europeans for greater phenotypic attractiveness?
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
I mean, I can envision an America where Asians run black-like racial advocacy. It's just not very plausible.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
I did not find French 'easier' by knowing Latin and Spanish. I suppose they made it easier to learn each other, but French is pretty different from the other Romance languages grammatically and in pronunciation.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
They mostly have not done this. The black and indigenous minorities who are poor performers have tried; the once-oppressed Chinese have been content with their rising standards of living.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
Mgubu isn't smart enough to recognize when he's gotten the better deal. People of small hats mostly are, and for all of chairman Xi's attempts at becoming grand Chinaman of the race, people of slanted eyes are too.
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
In the Tulsa area? Connected to St. Mary’s up in Kansas, I presume?
Clear Creek Monastery(https://infogalactic.com/info/Clear_Creek_Abbey). No official connection; it's a daughterhouse of Fontgombault which isn't technically affiliated with apostolic work.
My words are chosen carefully and not subject to elaboration.
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
The average daily wage for unskilled labor in the US, even flyover, is higher than a good weekly salary in Mexico, even the DF or Noreste. I don't think you can stop notoriously risk averse unskilled laborers from trying to take advantage of that. You can probably stop them from sticking around though.
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
Illegals don't really have the amounts of property that make that worth it. The processing costs on possessing their cars probably exceed the sales price, because they drive beatermobiles, and they live in shitbox apartments in the ghetto that somebody else owns and will just rent out for below market rates(you ain't gettin' full market rent for that). Is ICE supposed to be making a killing off some Android phones with cracked screens and jeans with holes in them? Heavily used work boots? A half-smoked pack of cigarettes?
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
Observed warming has generally been less than models predict and has not had the disastrous effects that climate 'science'(read- ideologically driven anti-people crusade) says even the smaller amounts of warming we actually see should cause. Instead the extremely well funded and staffed climate alarmism apparatus is stuck pointing to recurring, predictable phenomena which predate warming like the el nino as 'devastating effects of climate change'.
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
Yes, people like impressionism.
My pick of Fra Angelico was more 'random talented old painter' than anything specific to him. I think if shown a cubist painting and a random piece of 15th century religious art, most people would pick the religious art- although I'll agree that people certainly like the cachet of namedropping Picasso. People like well done representation; that's the core definition of 'art'.
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
To add to this, I regularly visit now-technically-Cherokee territory in northeastern Oklahoma(a major rad trad religious site is built there, and the locals- both tribal and white[not that you can really tell the difference]- are totally OK with it). It's just... rural Oklahoma. There's no added racial tensions. There's probably some legal weirdness in the event of a felony but we're not committing those, or dealing with them against us. Not a lot of people really care.
I have relatives living near the only reservation in Louisiana. The locals are grateful for the casino money(there aren't enough working-age Indians left on the reservation to staff it) but the Indians aren't different enough from the locals for anyone to care about. The white/black(and on top of it, the creole black/economic migrant black) distinction dominates the local racial division to the exclusion of all else.
There's a pop culture portrayal of Indians as these brown-skinned sages with long hair, who may or may not be oppressed but probably have special powers. Lol. They look whiter than your average Mexican(who looks whiter than you'd think) and work normal jobs. Some of them have unusual superstitions(when I worked construction I had a Cherokee coworker who wouldn't pick up sharp objects unless he knew who owned them) but they're pretty average.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The real lesson is actually 'if you oppress a group of low performers you must never stop. If you grow tired of oppression then leave no survivors, but only if they are low performers. It's fine to just liberate Chinamen or Ashkenazim because they'll catch up without really needing the help their more unhinged activists demand.'
hydroacetylene
1d ago
These scientists continually produce predictions which turn out to be cartoonishly wrong. When they don't come true they just change the date for extinction of the human race and demand more power. Climate science exists for the purpose of pushing a single environmentalist narrative with a single goal(states of nature as close to pre-European colonization as possible) for which they are willing to sacrifice human achievement. I think this goal is stupid, and I'm sure not willing to entertain people wanting to sacrifice human achievement for it. Australian megacats are really cool and a valuable source of scientific knowledge, not a crisis. And if the earth gets warmer this isn't a crisis, either- maybe it'll suck for penguins and polar bears but it'll open more land for settlement and that's good, and there's plenty of animals that aren't penguins.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
That or they’re employed in one of a variety of non-w2 scenarios.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Because it’s ’the End is nigh! Pay attention to me!’ Doomsday ascetic attention whoring.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I speak Spanish, French, and Latin. It’s just barely plausible that he can understand Spanish spoken deliberately slowly that way but French? Come on.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Counterpoint- while Israël has plenty of crazy people in it, they don’t yet have the critical mass to trade Tel Aviv for the destruction of Iran. And if they ever do get that critical mass, the ‘extermination of Israël’ will not stop them because they believe building high rises in specific patches of desert will change the metaphysical structure of reality so Israël can’t lose.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Ok, Cherokee and Navajo independence are absolutely uncontroversial in the US. The reservations are just uncontroversially sucky places but everyone tolerates them having casinos as a loophole and understands Indians with the means to live elsewhere do so. It’s not very cucked.
Not really, no- indios in Latin America are very heavily the descendants of settled tribes. There's only a few thousand Chichimeca even left and they occupy the same very bottom of the racial hierarchy that Mayans do. Latin American racial snootiness is mostly about being whiter, sometimes with a dose of hybrid-vigor ideas, not about differences between various tribes.
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