hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
8d ago
Umm, the percentage of people who are just generally anti vax is not a majority, but it’s much higher than 1%.
hydroacetylene
8d ago
I’m saying no one in my neighborhood would think to call in and report twelve year old boys playing with firecrackers in the street(after all, they appeared to be taking appropriate safety precautions like hiding behind a tree, checking for traffic before going into the road, etc). No doubt in the woodlands and Frisco it is different. But in those places it is so much less common as to be highly unusual. No doubt a man wandering around in a bear suit singing the national anthem would generate a police report, despite not being illegal. Why? Because it’s weird. The solution is to make children playing without direct supervision more normal.
hydroacetylene
8d ago
I live in a suburban area where there is a group of children who run around essentially unsupervised. This past Fourth of July they set off fireworks in the street and hid behind the tree in my front yard(it’s a good tree to hide behind).
This should be the default, but it’s not. I suspect that if all the parents in the city decided to send their kids on mile long walks into main street, something similar would happen, and no one would think about calling in to report it. And that’s the solution, not some words on pieces of paper. Be the counter revolution.
hydroacetylene
8d ago
It doesn’t seem that relevant because Texas courts don’t smile on political-y lawsuits. We’re not at California-level weaponization of the justice system.
hydroacetylene
8d ago
including leftists just being able to straight-up fedpost at people, in a way they’d never want RWers to get away with.
Your description of this poster makes her fed posting sound more humorous than threatening.
hydroacetylene
9d ago
She was effectively a co-founder with Bezos who also had a full time job so he could dedicate himself to the company building IIRC. Figuring out who’s fortune was who’s was less important when they were married but giving her a massive chunk in the divorce is pretty fair.
hydroacetylene
9d ago
That's... basically exactly what the actual standards of care say to do? You start with therapy and just discussing the issue to get a feel for where the kid really is. You don't just drop them on HRT instantly.
In practice, the motte has- numerous times- provided sources showing that this is not what actually happens.
hydroacetylene
9d ago
and the school is merely respecting their privacy.
Kids don’t have privacy from their parents, especially not at the behest of a third party institution.
hydroacetylene
9d ago
The onion does sometimes publish zingers. Their series on Biden’s age back when it was controversial was hilarious. Their fake vox pop articles are generally funny.
I think a lot of their content is just bluntly failing the ideological Turing test, which isn’t funny but a certain kind of person thinks it is before publication, and political correctness causes them to leave $20 bills on the sidewalk regularly.
hydroacetylene
9d ago
I think ignoring Taylor swift when you can’t win her over is a good idea. Conservatives win elections when they come off as the normies against whack a doodle communist hippies. Taylor swift fandom is kinda definitional to being a normie woman.
hydroacetylene
9d ago
I think trump did it on more than just trans issues(which are one of the half dozen or so most unpopular positions in the American political sphere). He moderated on abortion, he wants no taxes on tips and overtime(both giveaways to working class Americans). In general the Republican party’s approach of actually addressing concerns with their platform and trying to reach out with policy benefits has been quite effective.
hydroacetylene
9d ago
Notably, there is no reason for including men. While men can be given drugs to cause lactation they cannot be mothers, even if they wear a dress and grow their hair out and insist on going by ‘she’. It is impossible for a man to give birth.
hydroacetylene
9d ago
AOC has just generally been on the ‘serious soul searching’ end of the election postmortem, and while I don’t give the lion’s share of the blame to democrats being the party of retarded gender shit, it’s pretty easy to see how AOC can overweight that factor. Like it’s very unpopular and doesn’t entail asking serious questions about the party’s stance on immigration, why abortion isn’t a magic bullet, or whether government economic statistics are fully trustworthy. Plus- disclaimer I am not a progressive and don’t move in very progressive spaces- it seems like trans activists are …difficult allies on a good day.
hydroacetylene
9d ago
Breastfeeding has not received quite as much cultural attention as childbirth, for reasons I can only guess at.
Yes, yes it has. Screaming about breastfeeding has been A Thing for a while now.
hydroacetylene
10d ago
No. Bezos’ wife number one was a key part of him being able to build Amazon; she has a legitimate partial claim on the fortune and it’s not like she divorced him because she felt like it.
hydroacetylene
10d ago
No, this is life expectancy at age 20. People in the past didn’t die in their forties very often, but they did die younger than we do today.
hydroacetylene
10d ago
This is largely the sentiment I see from normie cons, with the caveat that many believe some groups- they’re always cautious about which ones but if pressed would probably name heavily Muslim groups to start with- are essentially unassimilable, and that only their children, or more probably mixed race grandchildren, can be expected to buy into American values enough to be ‘real Americans’.
hydroacetylene
10d ago
Republicans 100% believe that there are democrats who can be convinced to vote Republican with the right pitch(and that Trump did this), although often holding that non voters are mostly people who shouldn’t be voting anyways.
hydroacetylene
10d ago
That certainly seems to be what it means in practice.
hydroacetylene
10d ago
Anti-Indian sentiment within the Anglosphere seems mostly confined to Canada and the UK
Indians are not a popular ethnicity among blue collar Americans.
hydroacetylene
10d ago
Mail-order-brides are just the default for old country types in the USA. It’s not because American women find East Indians unattractive(although in practice they probably do).
hydroacetylene
10d ago
To put it bluntly, losing a few billion dollars in a divorce is a patently absurd, and extremely harsh outcome, and even if we admit that it doesn't render the guy destitute.
Bezos didn’t lose billions of dollars. It was their money and it was divided in a divorce settlement. Losing a big chunk of the fortune you were able to accumulate because your wife was loyal enough to support you into building a business that turned into the most profitable one in the world is a fair penalty for deciding to cheat on her.
hydroacetylene
10d ago
It kinda sound like they got elected on a platform of violating the actual red letter rules and the adults in the room noticed it and are having them impeached?
hydroacetylene
10d ago
The Ivy League will never run out of applicants.
They do, of course, need a good mix of genuine merit admits/connections admits/diversity admits. That might be slightly harder to manage, but plausibly deniable different rules for different people ain’t that hard to manage.
I don't think that's true.
It's true that being categorically anti-vax was extremely rare to the point of being unheard of among normie republicans, but the Alex Jones crowd had conspiracy theories out the wazoo about vaccines and it was common to object to the HPV vaccine. Yes, my filter bubble is less likely to vaccinate their kids against MMR, but the fringes already didn't trust vaccines. It's probably more accurate to say that antivaxxers were mostly far left; the far right getting majorly into alt medicine and opposition to vaccines was not my top prediction five years ago, but it's not a surprise at all. Normie republicans listening to the far right post covid, on the other hand...
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