hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
7d 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
7d 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
7d 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
7d 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
8d 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
8d 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
8d 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
8d 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
8d 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
8d 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
8d 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
8d ago
That certainly seems to be what it means in practice.
hydroacetylene
8d 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
8d 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
8d 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
8d 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
8d 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.
hydroacetylene
8d ago
Trump’s state department made a push for decriminalizing homosexuality in other countries, for one example.
Trump is less pro-gay than democrats, and he’s not pro-trans. This does not make him anti-gay.
hydroacetylene
9d ago
Well yeah, I didn’t say ‘globally this will be a right wing crusade’. I said ‘in the US restricting minor’s social media will be increasingly associated with republicans’. Other countries might code it differently; I’d expect Japan, Germany, Hungary to make it a center right policy, and most of the rest of the Anglosphere+France to make it a center left thing.
hydroacetylene
9d ago
Umm, yes. The GOP is most accurately described as a pro-fossil fuels Party which supports the interests of social conservatives(not necessarily socially conservative interests) and tax cuts.
hydroacetylene
9d ago
I’m not discounting Musk himself doing something big. I just don’t think this will be a durable legacy.
hydroacetylene
9d ago
Uh, how exactly is she a crank? She’s a Hare Krishna who doesn’t hide her ‘member of a very conservative religion’ views on social issues while having some progressive ideas and being opposed to US intervention.
hydroacetylene
9d ago
No, they’re not, there are upper and upper mid level officials in the Texas and Florida governments who will get drafted instead.
hydroacetylene
9d ago
Uh, westerners trying to do the rough equivalent has mostly not worked very well, although the neuroses of fundamentalist Christianity may be a major explanatory factor there.
In practice, the motte has- numerous times- provided sources showing that this is not what actually happens.
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