hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
2d ago
UBI, but only for the deeply involved in church or subcultural scenes. UBI, for those who forswear politics and vow to embrace lowest common denominator slop. UBI, for those who pledge to do too many drugs to seek societal change
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Does Germany have mandatory voting?
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Correct me if I’m wrong but these migration background voters are mostly German citizens. That may be a bad idea but the law probably says ‘citizen of Germany’ not ‘person with light enough skin’.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Lots of credentialed women will just stubbornly believe institutions over their own lying eyes.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
It’s worth noting that actual normie black parents are usually the first in line to demand schools bring back paddling. They believe in discipline but have trouble enforcing it without external assistance.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
For the former I have to say that, as a third worlder, I just find it despicable (Susan Wolf didn't have to work hard to convince me sainthood wasn't necessarily an unalloyed good). You send your kid to the best school you can and damn everyone else. I
This scenario just wouldn’t be plausible in countries where misbehaving children are beaten instead of given the run of the place- no matter the parent’s resources, schools in Africa do not have this specific problem. The instructional quality at this school was almost certainly fine to good- this particular girl just couldn’t take advantage of it due to the other students’ behavior.
I suspect this is part of the Mississippi miracle- in the Deep South, disciplining children is broadly popular, including among the black population. The average person thinks schools should use harsher methods, not more empathetic ones, even if there’s a race difference in outcome. One or two particularly bad kids would simply be removed from the class, and everyone else quiets down a bit.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The confederacy fought because they believed the planter class was owed a veto right over federal policy, and they had pre-abolitionist dust ups over this regularly. They seceded after losing control of the senate and then the presidency in quick succession, not in response to any specific policies.
In the 1860’s, this was specifically manifested as slavery. But they’d previously gotten into it with pro-slavery presidents. The non-slavery parts of the CSA constitution are also revealing- all about Plutocracy and the natural rights of large landholders to govern.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The civil war wasn’t really about slavery- I mean sûre, slavery is how I’d explain it to children, it was the proximal issue, so it’s not totally unfair to call it that. The civil war was about whether southern elites should have a veto over US policy on the whole. This is, in the minds of liberals(and perhaps nowhere else), a live issue again. You should just read liberal propaganda and connect the threads.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Youth sports on Sunday morning are considered a shocking and recent intrusion of degeneracy in my area- but Sunday afternoons were never as sacred.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
There’s tons of haircutting places in suburban strip malls. Single men go to them because their wife cant very well give them a hair cut(she, after all, doesn’t exist).
hydroacetylene
3d ago
It's on social media. Everywhere on social media. It's full of meowls and dancing animals. Schizoposters use it to augment their output. It's a thing.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Full sovereignty isn't going to really happen, obviously, but I think you're overrating the possibility of actual incorporation into a larger power. They don't want this.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
The civil war was fought over the political power of the planter class, which expected a veto over the republic's policies before the war. 'Slavery' is a reasonable enough term for that, but that kind of emancipation wouldn't address the real cause.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
The current round isn't technically an 'oversight' fight- the FSSP gets away with everything the SSPX would want to do, in practice.
The SSPX wanted new bishops now, because one of their preexisting bishops has recent health issues and won't be able to take flights soon. The Vatican wanted them to wait until a permanent deal was signed and then discuss the possibility of new bishops- and the permanent deal would have to wait until the SSPX held new elections in 2030, to give their leadership a mandate to negotiate on the wording of the joint doctrinal declaration(the 2018 elections were held in the pope Francis era and elected leadership with a considerably more hardline attitude than the median senior SSPX priest).
hydroacetylene
3d ago
What a fabian strategy actually is is to deny the enemy the ability to field war-winning armies over large portions of the theater by interrupting their logistics- Fabius did this by defeating Hannibal's foraging parties so that he was unable to move his army away from allies, giving Rome a free hand to campaign wherever Hannibal was not.
This... isn't something the south could do. For one thing, the US and Russian armies had far better logistics than most victorian armies did; they were set up to pursue steppe nomads from friendly bases. Due to railroads, depot networks, and conestoga wagons, the union simply had a far longer logistical leash than ancient armies- more than long enough to take war-winning amounts of territory without foraging or advancing their logistical infrastructure into confederate controlled territory. Secondly, the confederacy did try a fabian strategy against general Sherman- it didn't work, he had the manpower to simply eat the casualties, and rice plantations in the tidewater functioned as large supply concentrations enabling more effective foraging. Plantation agriculture is simply not well suited to sustaining guerrilla warfare compared to smallholding.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Ending reconstruction was not losing the peace for the Union. Their war goal was not racial equality in the south, or even really overturning the south's social system. The war goal was to end the southern planter class's veto power over the republic's politics- which they did quite effectively.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Buffalo soldiers after the war performed well- the Indians seemed to generally regard them as extremely capable, the equal of white infantry.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Aside from the high casualty rates, this would not have ended the Union’s ability to fight- the confederate army would probably have needed to reach, like, NYC.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
The #1 most plausible scenario for a confederate victory is not a Fabian strategy- union logistics were too good. A Fabian strategy works by interrupting the opposing army’s logistical chain until they can no longer sustain an army large enough to win against the opposing force- which for the confederacy would have required major offensives to destroy union depots, rail facilities, etc. The U.S. army was designed to crush steppe nomads at the beginning of the war, so it was unusually good at logistics. Without that it’s just an insurgency, and insurgencies typically fail. The South’s economic basis- large, highly visible farms with an unwilling labor force that would run away if given protection for doing so- is uniquely unsuited for a guerrilla campaign.
No, the south was stuck with the strategy they adopted- attempt to win a war-ending victory in their northeastern front. They failed at this, obviously. They could have succeeded, it’s a lot more plausible than them conducting offensives into Union territory at will. But their deadline was pretty harsh- early enough in 1864 for news to reach the country’s voting population. The alternative for the Confederacy was to capture enough Union territory to force a surrender, which they likely couldn’t do- it would probably entail something like occupying all of Pennsylvania and laying siege to New York City.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
That one was gone before 1960.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
The loyal Trumpist position is basically 'we can just pull the plug/flood the datacenters- we don't need to worry about AI alignment because if it stops doing what we tell it to, we'll just hard reboot'. Trumpists going full Alex Jones will target Trump's enemies with ridiculous accusations(because that is what Alex Jones does; this isn't a Why Files type esotericist. He's worried about people), true, but the actual response to Skynet is to turn off the datacenters- the median red triber does not believe a computer can defeat people, for that reason.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
The red can very easily win over decent-enough AI from big tech through a combination of normal corporate bargaining, democrats embracing socialist policies that directly threaten their bottom lines, and of course the stick.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
The Eskimos are alcoholic welfare scroungers, not communists(there are multiple reasons to vote for far left parties, and this is by far the most common), and US investment can pump more than enough money into the country to pay for welfare- without making them follow the Marine Mammal Protection act.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
Canada will just crack up rather than accede to US suzerainty. The US will be dictating the foreign policies of independent Quebec, Nunavut, Prairieland, etc, make no mistake, but 'Canada' the country? Never will it agree to that.
And then get lynched? The gods of copybook heading will return, one way or another.
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