hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
3d ago
Aren't Italian Americans generally quite successful outside of organized crime?
hydroacetylene
4d ago
But the indo-Europeans were not a civilized people, they were steppe barbarians, and indo-European-ness doesn’t elsewhere correlate with wealth within Europe- Finland and the Basque Country are both wealthier regions.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
The knights of Columbus are a Fortune 500 company with no reliance on external funding and strong ties to the powers that be, because practicing Catholics are overrepresented in the elites and functionally all male practicing Catholics are members. This makes labeling them a hate group both A) pointless and B) risky.
The $PLC’s ‘radical traditional Catholic’ hate category is indeed full of groups which are not hateful, and those which are not groups, alongside a small number of deranged conspiracy theorists like the dimond brothers’ monastery. But it doesn’t address the knights of Columbus.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
Going back four generations. Probably roughly a third 20’s and younger. Keeping track of exact ages is a woman thing, thats a best guess.
You've never even had a coworker change gender on you?
No? Is this a common experience? I don’t work in big tech, I don’t think I’ve ever had a coworker transition.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
I have a very large family and trans issues are entirely theoretical, just some weirdos that come from other, worse, families. Ditto for my in laws.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
Going to(thé correct)church is strongly recommended and sometimes mandatory in rightist regimes with a religious component- Vatican II happened to blow up a load bearing pillar of Franco’s regime(and South Vietnam’s, but that’s another, longer, less straightforwards, story), but that didn’t mean public irreligion was acceptable.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
The intimidation being delusional is extremely relevant information.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
To note, from what I’ve heard, a substantial part of contraceptive failure- I don’t use the things myself- is that people don’t like them. They discomfit people because they’re unnatural, so people take shortcuts, they cheat, they try to get away from it.
It’s an entirely human reaction to refuse to do the thing right, when you know the thing itself is wrong.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
My understanding is trans panic has been used successfully for lesser charges, but not in a while, and never for murder.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
But there’s two reasons for feeling widespread intimidation- either 1) a large portion of people are out to get you or 2) unjustifed paranoia.
This thread is evidence- albeit not a slam dunk- against the first hypothesis, and we already know transgenders have very poor mental health on average.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
Communism- by which we mean intentional socialism or Marxist-Leninism- is too unworkable to exist without an authoritarian edifice, and so it only exists where dissent is suppressed.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
In practice we kinda do know what religion in schools looks like(and it’s not the handmaid’s tale)Christian schools are a dime a dozen.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
I mean the answer to that news story is ‘we run an employee donation matching service and do not know what NAMBLA is’, because normal people generally don’t.
In any case thé knights of Columbus also runs a ‘hateful charities blacklist’, you could probably borrow theirs that lists Aryan nations but not the family research council.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
As well as a large number of ‘hate groups’ which are not groups, or which haven’t been active in 20 years, etc.
It’s worth noting that this is not new for the $PLC- they listed thé family research council back when gay marriage was not even particularly popular, let alone the law of the land, to say nothing of groups whose positions they couldn’t even point to.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
IIRC thé vast majority of what planned parenthood does is STD treatments, which is uncomplicatedly reproductive healthcare.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
Nonsensical, near AI-written woke novels are not new. They are also rarely best sellers; thé best selling speculative fiction writers are still white men writing books about adventures and fighting, and women churning out ‘young adult’ slop about tomboys having love triangles in a dystopia of large hams.
Paying attention to this is, literally, exactly what they want. In the course of normal human events this novel is read by a dozen activists and the publisher loses money.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
But trad marriages are all about power dynamics, and they were the norm at one point.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
Do you have better numbers? No really, do you? Or do you have fan fiction about how trans faces an elevated murder risk?
Because while those numbers are not perfect, they are a damn sight better than what radical trans activists base their statistics off of.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
Well how exposed to crime are trannies in general? I would expect a large basement dweller percentage which meaningfully reduces population average exposure to crime, as well as strong underrepresentation of things like career criminals and the like that are very exposed to potential murder.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
Apostolic Christianity is meaningfully the same; it's totally fair- but not general practice- to make the claim that low church protestantism isn't. This is because it is recognizably within the same family as Orthodoxy and Catholicism, defined by trinitarianism, baptism, and a shared new testament canon. In contrast, the continuity of old testament Judaism is Samaritanism- which both calls itself, and is called by mainstream rabbinic Judaism, a different religion.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
Agreed that the ending was quite bad. The expedition dragged. It was an acid trip. But most of all, nothing happened, it was merely a framing for philosophical rambling. There could easily have been philosophical dialogue over the problem of governing the city by the post turning point elites, in which something actually happens.
BTW, has anyone read Roadside Picnic?
hydroacetylene
5d ago
You don't think one is worse than the other?
I understand you aren't a big fan of prayer in public schools, and probably not Christianity more generally. But if one is an atheist, then following along politely with the Our Father once per day is not a big ask, not in the way that 'the school can arbitrarily change my child's gender' is.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
Of course we would, there's no constituency for classical liberalism. But ask yourself- do you prefer school prayer, or school secret gender transitions?
hydroacetylene
6d ago
Ok, but what’s to stop thé SPLC from handing it’s list off to some other foundation?
The counterfactual is, of course, Ireland, which saw much higher and longer migration and now has the same wages as the historic colonial overlord.
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