hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
16d ago
Trump is likely to replace the two most conservative justices with ACB types.
Don’t get be wrong, ACB is legions better than a democrat pick. But moving the court to the right is a funny way to describe it.
hydroacetylene
17d ago
Eh, people filling out their ballot wrong have it their own damn fault. I’ve no sympathy at all.
hydroacetylene
17d ago
Uh, what’s the actual mechanism for giving non-federal employees a holiday?
Like heck yes I’m opposed to giving federal workers a paid day off on Election Day when I ain’t getting one.
hydroacetylene
17d ago
Harris county had some minor shenanigans in the midterm, too, IIRC.
hydroacetylene
17d ago
No. There might be a few damn-fool riots nearby if things get really bad but Texas cops will just crack skulls. Nobody gives two shits about my suburb and that includes the rioters, so at worst I just won’t go into certain areas for a day or two.
hydroacetylene
17d ago
If you know of a riot where I could score some free cement ping me.
hydroacetylene
17d ago
Also voters usually just want someone polished and respectable to be AG. There's less demand for someone ideological.
Laughs in Ken Paxton.
hydroacetylene
17d ago
Typically for the general I just remember races where I won’t vote straight r and no on the propositions. In primaries I fill out a sample ballot(regular Republican primary voters get them mailed by numerous orgs where I live, I just mark one up to select the local far right candidate).
This stuff spreads in person as much as through new media- the q boomers’ll have lots of it if you can sit through the real life political posting(and subsequent Jew posting). The old cranks sitting in the corner swapping actual physical copies of samizdat spread it.
hydroacetylene
17d ago
How many swing states allow same day registration?
hydroacetylene
17d ago
Wasn’t there the example in Michigan? The chinaman who voted and then told everyone about it because “?”
hydroacetylene
17d ago
The voting rights push that didn’t get cloture had a provision requiring voter ID. Presumably everyone who matters agrees it’s constitutional, even if only in private.
hydroacetylene
17d ago
I totally believe this but she’s also buying into the kind of schizophrenia you get in the actual IRL tradcath esoteric paranoid schizo verse, very specifically.
hydroacetylene
18d ago
She made some high-commitment lifestyle changes since then, though. Someone in her position getting into YEC esoterica and Holocaust denial out of general historical revisionism is basically what I would expect if those changes were genuine. She’ll be tweeting about ancient Atlantean colonies on mars any day now.
hydroacetylene
18d ago
Agreed. The typical flat earth believer is very low in socioeconomic status, bordering on underclass, doesn’t believe what he’s told just in general, and winds up with a web or conspiracy theories which might contradict each other. He(and it’s a he) is about equally likely to be white or black(I’m not sure if this means blacks are overrepresented once you adjust for the very low socioeconomic status involved) and whether or not he claims to be a believer he never goes to church or prays, nor does he let Christianity influence his ethics or spirituality if he even has any. He’s deeply cynical about human relationships- in every sense of the term- and might use this to justify some mildly unethical behavior. He didn’t do well in school, even when you adjust for IQ, for the same reason his boss doesn’t like him now, and he tends to go from job to job without settling in a career. He believes a complex and often contradictory tangle of health/scientific, historical, economic, and possibly legal and supernatural-ish woo woo crap, but it’s not all natural or traditional. He might be a bit racist, but he hates rich people and authorities more. The police are out to get him(and it’s possible that they actually are), and he doesn’t connect this to his own bad behavior. He doesn’t vote, doesn’t know who he would vote for, and is mad at both parties when he thinks about politics.
hydroacetylene
18d ago
Uh, it seems plausible to me that intelligence agencies actually select for the kinds of guys that wind up getting into this stuff. Like intelligence work is basically looking for a much more boring version.
hydroacetylene
18d ago
If you’re interested in alien minds, you might want to investigate Catholic doctrines on the psychology of angels.
hydroacetylene
18d ago
Trump is apparently very popular in Israel.
hydroacetylene
18d ago
Just to add to this- visiting a gravesite today literally has an indulgence attached. It’s not just that Catholics are allowed to visit graves, but that it is officially encouraged.
hydroacetylene
18d ago
As part of a Catholic family we don't believe in any particular sanctity of the body once the soul leaves it. Accordingly, we don't visit graves, because nobody is there to see.
Uh, what?
hydroacetylene
18d ago
Antifa doesn’t like Harris much either, though.
hydroacetylene
18d ago
The spherical nature of the Earth has been widely understood in the western world since classical antiquity, and to the degree that flat-eartherism exists today outside of a "birds aren't real"-esque joke it seems most prevalent amongst PMC types who, interacting with the world chiefly through screens, seem to have difficulty thinking in three dimensions.
IME Unironic flat eartherism is somewhat common among irreligious, generationally poor men. Usually as part of a complex of inconsistent theories and ideas.
hydroacetylene
18d ago
Fundamentalist Christian memes being used as explanations by people who may not 100% practice fundamentalist Christianity is not that odd. These are elites but not part of respectable society, after all.
hydroacetylene
18d ago
Candace Owens is into the weirder end of YEC. This is epicycles on an established set of beliefs that are mandatory among a particular subset of the population. Really, you’re surprised that YEC epicycle beliefs are common among far right pundits?
Claiming demonic experiences is also common-ish among very conservative Christians, so tucker getting into this stuff isn’t strange.
Uh, does he know he’s at war? Like I knew Ukraine needed to expand their draft but I didn’t know it was that bad.
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