hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
20hr ago
In an American context, the traffickers are clearly 'generic foreigners'. They could be Eastern Euros, they could be middle eastern, they're from a part of the world Americans don't understand and that's what's important. They might code as brown, probably do to most Americans.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
Why would the government prefer people who believe in ley lines and the silurian hypothesis focus on roswell coverups instead?
This is not the equivalent of bringing up something jew-related when securesignals is chatting up a cute blonde you fancy. This is the equivalent of walking up to a ranting homeless guy accosting her with theories about the blood drinking shape-shifting lizards putting a chip in his brain and inviting him to the David Duke/Minister Farrakhan conference about whether white and black can and should unite against their common enemy, the Jews.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
I don't disagree with you, but 'male cop kills innocent random person' is a much more common story than a woman cop doing the same- of course, most police officers are male, but it does demonstrate that this is not entirely caused by a weakness of her sex.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
Some of these people just literally don't know he shot a cop, they're uncritically believing lies from left-rag media sources. For others the 'right to protest' is the 'right to advocate left wing causes' which trumps reactionaries' right to safety. Sort of like how racism was the real public health hazard...
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
Taken is totally about a threat to white girls by scary foreigners, though.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Again, these guys were not ‘AIPAC influence in US policy’ and ‘inconsistencies in the Epstein flight logs’ guys. They were ‘the CIA is using witchcraft to circumvent constitutional restrictions on domestic spying’ guys. They were Atlantean ley lines in the capital guys. They were Silurian hypothesis guys.
I understand the kook sniping point, except that if so, it didn’t work. The guys that bit already had insane hoe scaring ideas that violated the laws of physics because they were fictional.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I really liked having bigger genitals, chest hair, etc. I thought the first few whiskers were the awesomest thing ever, even though I had to start shaving. I liked the changes in facial structure, too.
I’m willing to admit these weren’t totally equivalent, but secondary sex characteristics were awesome, except for the part where my underwear now fit awkwardly.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Indeed thé crusaders bragged about being unusually non-rapey by the (low)standards of armies at the time. We can probably take this with a grain of salt, but it does indicate sex wasn’t the motive(armies which are motivated by sex slaves tend to brag about how many and how beautiful their captured women are).
Just because you don’t believe in medieval Catholicism doesn’t mean they didn’t.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I would agree that his logic leads there, but he literally didn’t say government issued girlfriends. I suspect this is standard utopian logic.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
At the very least thé sentence lengths seem accurate.
I’m reminded of the government crackdowns on anti-nuclear(weapons) protestors. Most of these people had aggravating circumstances just a bit worse than their confreres are willing to admit, but they still got the book thrown at them.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The people going off on aliens were already talking about Atlantis and government witchcraft programs and Bigfoot, that's my point. It’s not converting the antisemites and Epsteiners. It’s converting thé people ranting about Nazi bases in Antarctica and psychic spies.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The maverick is hitting a specific market niche, and despite its low price that niche is not ‘basic car’- it’s got all the same tech as the F-150. It just gets really good mileage.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I dunno, thé why files guy got one shotted into aliens and UFO’s, and he’d been talking about psychic powers before hand- and is the current king of mass market conspiracy theories.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I have never seen a UFO, and kinda agree with you. That being said, there are totally actual scientists making the podcast circuit talking about aliens. Dr Beatriz Villaruel is one of the more prominent examples.
Their actual peer reviewed publications are much more cautious and conservative, but you also presumably don’t have the advanced degrees necessary to understand them.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The delusion is thinking that the hormones and whatever else actually make you a man/woman, rather than the opposite in a costume. It no more entitles he to she transgenders to use the women’s room than a naughty nun costume for a Halloween party does. People on ozempic are actually literally skinny, they can verify this with a scale. People on hormones are actually literally not the other sex.
Now like I said, this doesn’t have anything in particular to do with whether transition should be allowed. I would lean towards ‘no’, but that’s a separate point having to do with attitudes towards gender roles. It’s not some axiomatic conclusion from the point being made.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The Catholic scandals took off in places that did not have popular anti-Christian sentiment. It was actually the proximal cause of anti-Christian sentiment in Ireland, starting when Ireland was still religious(I would argue that Irish collapse in religiosity was overdetermined, but it was still the proximal cause).
The visceral horror of it was that it was happening to kids from good families, who were doing nothing wrong. The public doesn't care very much about homeless prostitutes, never has, never will. Trying to draw attention to their plight(and it is a plight, this is not a fun life), just makes people want to get rid of them. On the other hand the abuse victims came from families that did everything right and were betrayed.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The normal response to defecting from gender roles is, uh, not a polite 'oh. okay.'. Go wear a dress in public(and not in the gay district) with a big bushy beard if you don't believe me.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Not sure who you're talking to, but that isn't the modal "anti-trans" view, and I doubt anyone has that strawman view on this forum.
It applies to me. All transgenders are wrong about a very obvious and easily verifiable fact. That is, literally, the definition of transgender. They confront proof of this wrongness every time they take a shower or use the toilet- hopefully, multiple times a day. They are, in other words, delusional, and playing along for the sake of their mental health is not actually any sort of obligation, except perhaps occasionally for actual mental health professionals, and not for the sake of increasing their comfort with their delusion but only for that of getting at and treating the underlying issues.
Now there are many lumped into the category of transgender who believe themselves to be something other than male and female, who identify as 'queer' or 'nonbinary'. I don't know what these categories are because these categories are not real, and while these people are wrong they're wrong about metaphysics- claiming to be something that isn't real on nonexistent philosophical grounds isn't falsifiable, it can't be delusional. But these people are not transgenders proper.
This stance does not, incidentally, actually determine whether people should be banned from transition. Not least, transition is sufficiently difficult to define as to make that hard.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
People believe all sorts of dumb things, and Americans in general believe a lot of dumb things about nutrition in particular. ‘Boys get better nutrition than girls’ is mostly false, but when the two sexes start to choose their eating patterns there is a difference, and a few female specific nutrient deficiencies(mostly iron) do hang on in the modern US(although no one is stopping women from eating steak).
hydroacetylene
3d ago
And the literal police facilitating rape isn’t a failure of trust?
hydroacetylene
3d ago
On the other hand, if you look at the literal best in the world players- overwhelmingly, the superstars are white or mostly white, Mbappe is the only counterexample I can think of. You just tend to see poor people overrepresented in athletics because for the borderline pro level talent, they have less opportunity cost in gambling on the lottery ticket. Same reason thé NFL is heavily black in the US- but the star players are not.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
I mean, from a political perspective are you going to throw up a connected nonentity or someone with a promising career ahead of him to be a company man PM for an unpopular government?
hydroacetylene
5d ago
No, a smart big brother would take the fight and then beat little bro himself. You don't leave him out to dry.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
The slavs have a conspiracy theory about them doing this in Ukraine. Everyone has a conspiracy theory about the Jews building backup Israel on their land.
I guess he wasn’t good enough to get tutors taking his tests for him?
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