hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
7d 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
7d 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
7d 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
7d 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
7d 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
7d 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
8d 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
8d 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
8d ago
I’m not discounting Musk himself doing something big. I just don’t think this will be a durable legacy.
hydroacetylene
8d 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
8d 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
8d 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.
hydroacetylene
8d ago
Mass shootings that make the news are whiter than average but mass shootings in general are blacker. It’s possible that this points to red overrepresentation- like in the military- but my impression is that while one or two of the well-known mass shooters were meaningfully connected to gun culture but not staunchly political, most of them were just mentally ill people from broken homes who are hard to place.
And, uh, breadtube isn’t a reliable source.
hydroacetylene
8d ago
I hear about mass-hacking attacks and vehicular homicide in China pretty regularly. I’m more interested in the conspiracy theory that casualty counts are massively understated to protect local officials.
hydroacetylene
8d ago
He was a black supremacist sovereign citizen. I suspect, based on police statements that sovereign citizens are a major threat but also the relative lack of sovereign citizens in the news, that these ideas go together very frequently,
hydroacetylene
8d ago
Uh, are mass shootings a red tribe thing specifically? It seems like they’re pretty spread out among Americans.
hydroacetylene
8d ago
Yes, American and Latin American societies have very high rates of mass violence(although so does China).
hydroacetylene
8d ago
No, and making it so is likely to result in a wave of exit from banks and into cash-stuffed mattresses.
It’s pretty common and most people don’t keep Benjamins under their mattress.
hydroacetylene
8d ago
Restricting minor’s access to digital media- especially social media- is very much a culture war of the future. In the USA this is a thing we’ll increasingly associate with republicans.
hydroacetylene
8d ago
Ancient germanics had a distinction between Noblemen and commoners, with nobles having priestly privileges, just like Ancient Rome. There’s no evidence for some kind of hardcoded up and down social hierarchy like the Indian caste system.
hydroacetylene
8d ago
Your conspiracy theory is… big business probably has some skeletons in its closet?
hydroacetylene
8d ago
Prediction- this will be a federal equivalent of those state subset commissions within 5 years. Sometimes they do good around the margins, sometimes(Colorado) they don’t, either way they’re generally uncontroversially and boring.
hydroacetylene
8d ago
Trump needs establishment allies. Marco Rubio in an Uber prestigious spot fits the bill nicely.
hydroacetylene
10d ago
A bunch of these heresies hung on for long enough that we have, if not an objective view, a wide enough variety of biased views to cancel each other out.
That certainly seems to be what it means in practice.
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