hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
1hr ago
A used, reliable sedan will give you more than enough utility to compensate for depreciation over ~1yr.
hydroacetylene
13hr ago
You should put the maximum amount into a Roth IRA. This is a tax advantaged structure to assist with retirement.
Real estate in desirable cities is the best bet for appreciation(your cap on IRA contributions is a lot lower than that), due to Tokyoization over time. If you don't want to do that, you can buy precious metals as a savings account with extra steps, you can put it into a mutual fund.
You probably should buy a car, you kinda need one.
hydroacetylene
13hr ago
It's pretty common in less-religious parts of Eastern Europe for soviet nostalgia to be conservative coded. Eastern bloc regimes were socially moderate, paid their pensions on time, kept the streets clear, and made sure employment rates were high- eastern Euro boomercons mostly have not been the beneficiaries of their EU integration driven economic growth.
hydroacetylene
13hr ago
And nor was Israel that big of a factor in the Iraq war, it was mostly about stabilizing oil sales.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
Terminator two had a plot such that making a sequel necessarily creates a plothole. It was a neat, tidy self-referential loop... which renders the whole plot irrelevant.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
(except Islamophobia, I suppose).
The Ayatollah certainly hates sunnis more than Trump or Kirk.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
Iran funding people who shoot at Israel is well within the normal rules. Iran did in fact start it with the shots at Israel, however, and they've been going tit-for-tat for months.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
Which parts of the US? Because off the beaten path you can definitely find the hero-cultism of military service, ubiquitous open carry, highly visible cops, Trump cult of personality, American exceptionalism, etc.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Generally feminism is a class-interest movement for urban, educated, professional women in the west. That's why they don't tend to care very much about things like sexual assault in the military, third world oppression, grooming gangs, etc., but care a lot about college campuses or US men's only spaces.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Isn't there another round of uprisings and protests going on right now?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
You didn't get a 'militarized manifest destiny frontier society' vibe in the US?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Feminism is an instrumental criticism of fundamentalist Islam for American political conservatives. It is rightly seen as an instrumental criticism by people who disagree with American conservatism, but wrongly seen as 'not worth worrying about' by them. Women actually do have few rights under Islam.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Iran was always going to be important for Chinese contingency plans for dealing with a blockade of the strait of malacca, though.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Romans usually used a mole- which would prevent negotiation after it was completed, just the same. A ram reaching the wall is, like a mole reaching the wall, the end product of a lengthy process.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
This is a near historical universal- Rome didn't negotiate after their final siege assault was ready.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I mean Iranian women are still under coverture.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I expect it to go thé way of The Learning Channel. In all things there must be balance.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
But didn't these Kansas transgenders have warning that the law was going to go into effect?
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I presume you can point to examples of people in 21st century America suffering violence for gender non-conformity? C’mon man, you know this place. If your claim is ‘dudes in a dress get beaten up for wearing a dress and not for being trans’ then provide some evidence that dudes get beaten up for wearing a dress.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Animal planet has gone the way of the history channel, though- it’s mostly reality shows, with a smattering of lunacy, and a minority of actual animal-related content.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Haven’t the actual leaders mostly stayed in Lebanon? I know Samir Geagea has, despite assassination attempts and prison sentences.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
You can just call yourself doctor, nobody cares. You can't suddenly start practicing medicine or teaching at a university, but nobody will stop you from calling yourself that.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
They are wrong, for the simple reason that everyone in place to piggyback off of his martyrdom is much more competent, and with the possible exception of Rubio also much more ruthless and power hungry. But democrats are optímates and incapable of thinking that way.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Conservatives do write decent novels, all the time. Literature awards go to black women wokeing out all the time, but lit fic hasn’t been good for a while.
The Palestinians have been displaced for too long, and have states of their own(they’re really not that different from Jordanians, Syrians, and Lebanese), this is just balkanian Kosovo je Palestine at this point. The people claiming the land weren’t born there. Their parents weren’t born there. Life sucks for the Palestinians, retaking recent settlements in the West Bank might be reasonable, but Tel Aviv je Palestine is just stupid. The reality is both sides have blood on their hands, the Palestinians seem to now be led by actual psychopaths when they aren’t led by corrupt, incompetent assholes, and the nakhba is more or less outside living memory.
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