hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
2d ago
You can just stretch the definition of men, this isn't a wealthy industrialized society where you need long job-training for a man to have the economic means to marry. Hamas enlistment is the only game in town and they'll take 13 year old boys.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
retired cops
1%er gangs won't allow members who have ever been in law enforcement or correctional work, at least in theory.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Uh, native students are the ones mostly demanding the better food, fitness facilities, nicer dorms, DEI offices, etc.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Well just due to population size India is the largest example of lots of things.
Argentina is possibly a more cartoonish example of democracy failing. Maybe south africa too.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Canada is a US vassal state. We can totally access intellectual capital by just quartering it there.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
They're state-run, they can lose money.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Being gay also pushes him to the left, and black dems are the most moderate dems.
Fun fact- not particularly germane to the topic but still fun- Pete Buttigieg is E Michael Jones' nextdoor neighbour. I'm sure the national night out over there is fun.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
I mean, have you heard modern country in its heartland? French, Afrikaans, irish, etc country music is truer to form than that.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Yes, thats the way people are.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Do it. Throw more money at the raw milk centers. Have them start offering coffee, and sugar, and beef tallow.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
I mean American red tribe culture is globally very competitive, especially among non-elites, more broadly. BBQ tastes good, guns and pickup trucks are cool, jeans are real practical and comfortable, country music is easy to inculturate and you can dance to it, etc. That comes with the good, thé bad, and the ugly.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Hiring members of a social club who idealize themselves as Christian warriors on a crusade would be low on my list.
Uh, do they actually idealize themselves as Christian warriors?
The red tribe stereotype of biker gangs is that they definitely don’t understand themselves as Christians, they have maybe-not-actually-believed Viking pagan ideas, but may- and often do- have more of a soft spot for Christianity compared to other abrahamaic religions(especially Islam). Theres filter bubble effects dictating this, obviously.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
I mean, the koch brothers switched to Hilary. Stranger things have happened.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
IME the girls were mostly talked into a different lifestyle by a boyfriend. Some of the guys were also talked into a different lifestyle by a boyfriend, as you note, but most of them are just party-hearty and sociable guys that wanted to do drugs and hook up. There seems to be more of the latter.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
My boomer relatives watch reruns of pre-90's sitcoms or make fun of Finding Bigfoot and Ancient Aliens if they stay up late. They might put on a game show(usually a rerun). But I've never heard of them watching The Late Show or Jimmy Kimmel Live or any of those. They're more likely to pull up a more rural-oriented reality show as a last resort- anything from one of the seven zillion Cops knockoffs about game wardens to Swamp People.
Obviously anecdata but still. I'm sure there are Hanania-esque republicans watching these things, but socially conservative boomers have other choices of brainrot.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
I'm not sure what unreliable information and malevolent lies the right has embraced- AFAIK the original narrative 'far left shooter, upset about Charlie's stance on trans' was close enough to government work.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Hold on there's no need to resort to violence. The way to make sure the cowboys lose is to increase the star players' pay. C'mon, listen to the cowboys fans tell jokes about it.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Actually prosecuting these guys for incitement to violence is not how you go after them. You get them demonetized- much simpler.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
I think the first thing to note about Sanders is that while the establishment does not like Trump, they hate Sanders(and other actual socialists) a lot worse. Right-populism is bad for GDP maxxing but unpredictable left-populism is a lot worse.
So, that out of the way, we saw Hillary fail with full elite backing. Sanders with no elite backing? Hmm, that relies on a self-proclaimed socialist being popular enough to overcome that. I doubt that, especially in 2016.
I do think the coalitions would look different. The democrats are to a large extent reliant on upscale movement in their direction. What Sanders managed to win over from the bottom, he loses from the top.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
I suspect a ton of it is genuine over representation- kids from conservative backgrounds becoming progressive are just going to spend a lot of time on the internet.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
A big chunk of the horseshoe theory, in my mind, is just ‘crazy people have certain similarities but their politics isn’t one’.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
How’s Red Eye on fox doing?
hydroacetylene
4d ago
The US executes a low-mid double digits number of people per year, the majority in southern states. We’re regularly beaten out by China(lol huge population totalitarian regime), and some Islamic theocracies. Other states with the death penalty very rarely use it, either due to low crime rates(Japan) or to being small(some of the Caribbean countries), or both(Singapore). Add in the basically-failed states of the world that would execute lots of people if they were able to enforce criminal justice in a meaningful sense(much of sub Saharan Africa), and the US execution numbers don’t tell us much.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
one can only anticipate the prizes that are coming. Destiny and Hasan are obvious trophies that the right would love to claim,
There is a major difference between these people and major pundits employed by tv networks trying to stand on their reputability. The big three have some standards because of who they are.
Uh, yes it is. It's not as common as in, say, Russia, but it's by no means rare.
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