hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
17hr ago
JD Vance will not prosecute Trump.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
I mean, maybe his impulsiveness and refusal to be left around is why... well I doubt queen Elizabeth wanted him to marry Meghan Markle.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
British monarchs have definitely abdicated before, even in the twentieth century.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
Red tribe normies mostly do not like Trump's personal behavior, but they have a strong divide between 'I wish he'd stop tweeting' and 'I like it, he tells it like it is'. The latter group is a minority, but not a small one, and it is very very male.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
Leaving aside the assertion that democrats would do any better of a job running the country(and Biden definitely did not- we can probably take him as a generic democrat due to his senility giving outsized power to the staffers), there is no right wing authoritarian regime which can be in power without taking care of conservative Catholics.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
People yearn for a social credit score.
There is, obviously, legitimate demand to know about the person you're dating. These women are going about it badly. I have no doubt that the Tea app is neuroticism, immature drama dynamics, and ridiculous wokescold signaling on a good day. But they don't have a better option- even if the Tea app is probably worse than nothing.
People want elders, community figures, authorities to tell them about those they come in contact with. Our brains are built for 150 person farming villages with a median age of 12, where your grandma knows everything about the young man you're talking to, because there's like, three of them. Young women try to recreate that on their own and don't do as well as their grandmothers.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I mean it seemed patently obvious to me that an establishment candidate wasn't competitive enough to get to 1v1 territory. It seemed like everyone knew it was going to be a fistfight for who could be credibly anti-establishment after Romney's failure.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Is Bannon actually in the authority position for this to mean much? Like hail Trump, hail victory. Bring on the red caesar, it would be very good for my ingroup. But Bannon could well be a loudmouth, and in fact seems to generally be a loudmouth. I would put higher odds on Vance taking the throne by assassination after the midterms than on Trump actually doing this- I dunno, could be wrong. But he's just really old to try to make your long term dictator, and the people that would need to cooperate in it have to know this.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The pied-noir are anti-Israel?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Paul Ingrassia is evidence that, contrary to magicalkittycat, the GOP really doesn't like the Nazi thing. The senatorial class isn't into WWII revisionism. Even the senators generally open to unorthodox views didn't like him. I suspect that a normal republican wouldn't have nominated him, but Trump isn't an ideologue and nominates based on personal loyalty, not ideology.
And as a groupchat, it's important to note that this was less 'nazi group chat' and more 'groupchat where one guy went crazy and became a nazi'.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Apartheid ended with a native/settler ratio of like 8:1.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The eighties were the last period when tradcons believed that our ways could take over society again in the near future. We happened to be wrong, but that's why we look back on it nostalgically.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Willing to believe this, but gestures at literally everything about the public school system when bureaucracies claim not to have enough funds, we should have a strong presumption that they’re lying for iron law reasons.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
As other said, Martin Luther himself was quite enamored with flatulence and excrement, often using it as a rhetorical device
The vast majority of the world’s Christian’s would not see this as an endorsement.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I mean, orthodox caesaropapism being what it is, don’t you think your distaste for strong rulership is even harder to justify there?
hydroacetylene
2d ago
And Ted Cruz is the zodiac killer.
It’s interesting that in ‘12 and ‘16 the primary, for the republicans, turned into a Christian conservative vs secular conservative duel, but as far as we can tell this far out, the ‘28 primary definitely won’t- the name Donald Trump might have been surprising in 2013, but the basic contours of ‘big field of people, most of them having no business running for President, coalesces into a duel between a basically-secular conservative candidate and a strongly Christian candidate with history as a conservative hardliner’ is what most people would have predicted.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
These are, notably, the most conservative Democrat in the house(like praised by prolife orgs) and the rep from the reddest district to send a dem to congress.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Some of this is probably institutional inertia/alignment/reputation. Everyone knows AIPAC is a fearsome enemy so everyone fears to cross it.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I mean the question is why the tobacco industry, pharma industry, et al haven’t minmaxed their money in politics the way AIPAC has. These are industries very vulnerable to regulation and successful enough that we can assume their lobbying arms are not run by dummies. Yes hard money, soft money, but AIPAC isn’t spending that much.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Maine produces some genuine red tribe leftism occasionally. This guy seems to be an actual revolutionary communist, not the namby-pamby Berniecrat thing.
Now, of course, an actual revolution by the proles… would not lead to a far left government. But he doesn’t know that.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The DA claims that it is a cynical attempt to hold the city for ransom to secure more funding for the Public Defender's office.
This seems likely, considering the literal demand is ‘more funding’.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Would you be willing to make a deep dive/effort post about pot? I’ve definitely gotten the impression that it’s gotten an undeservedly good rap.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
This video is obviously stupid, crass, and does nothing good for anybody. But if you’re upset about trump’s moral character might I gesture to, just picking something at random, stormy Daniels? Nobody thinks he’s a good Christian along the lines of Bush. Cruz and Santorum were the high water marks of personally devout politicians in recent years- and they couldn’t win Republican presidential primaries.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
That and Israël is reasonably bipartisan. That’s pretty unique.
Presumably, believing that she's lying or crazy.
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