hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
5hr ago
I don't often agree with secure signals. But the entertainment industry is one of the few places where 'it's the jews' is a reasonable first order hypothesis much of the time.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
But what do you think they think of woke communist parents indoctrinating their children to be woke communists?
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
I suspect that ‘exegetical’ was not these people’s reason.
hydroacetylene
7hr ago
Lots of western Mohammedans eat regular bacon, and don’t check what the content of their sausage is, and eat whatever a bbq joint specializes in… while still refusing a pork chop. I’ve even met some who will drink vodka like a fish and then refuse beer or wine because Islam.
Right, homosexuality was a lot less stigmatized when everyone agreed it was a distasteful personal Vice.
hydroacetylene
7hr ago
The religious conservative view is not that parents have a right to propagate their worldview. It is that we are right and you are wrong, and children are highly impressionable and need paternalist guidance.
hydroacetylene
7hr ago
Don’t Islamic countries actually have very high rates, comparatively, of online Vice- gaming, porn, gambling, etc?
hydroacetylene
7hr ago
It seems to me that the reasonable middle ground is that you can’t ban artists for outside of stadium, unrelated speech or conduct. Michael Jackson? Don’t host sleepovers in the stadium. ‘Macklemore’? Don’t talk about Israeli aggression during concerts. Etc, etc. These venues are after all privately owned, even if it’s not a truly free market.
hydroacetylene
7hr ago
Clearly, ‘Macklemore’ needs to cross the Mike Tyson threshold, where any story about him is believable, regardless of how crazy, and no one would give a shit. Seriously, the mild mannered anti Zionist not antisemite in an industry controlled by the Jews… what did he think would happen?
hydroacetylene
16hr ago
I have some bad news for you- the ven diagram of ‘might try to kill Trump’ and not a complete screwup is basically weird rationalist cults and foreign powers.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Older women do not have a partisan fertility gap.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
It’s not rally around the woman, it’s rally around the mom. These women deeply believe that all mothers, everywhere, are incorruptible paragons of selflessness being taken advantage of by men into not sticking up for themselves.
Most societies have had this idea; in our society it’s vulgar feminism, but in plenty of societies it’s reverence for motherhood.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
‘America B’
hydroacetylene
1d ago
That is a lot of confidence in democrats winning 2028, from a group which is given to believing all sorts of fantastic Qanon level BS about republicans ending free and fair elections.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
This stuff is at some point dependent on physical hardware, no? We can just blow up the data centers if they get out of hand.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Yes, you’re confusing America and England. Anglicanism is a liberal elite religion here- establishment but very much not appropriate for the right wing of the Republican Party. Catholicism covers the whole class spectrum in America and the (relatively small) liberal wing is still more moderate than the episcopal church.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Building datacenters is conservative coded in America, even if it's not super popular among either party. Conservatives are also racking up wins on gun rights.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Lol, the winners are strivers at semirural schools. The innercity kids and valley tejanos fail out their first year and get replaced with Catholic school alums that transfer from commuter schools with a specific program for this.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Technically speaking, as I point out over and over and over again, North Vietnam accepted defeat. The US withdrew, then North Vietnam invaded again, and South Vietnam actually won the first time- then they sacked their best general out of paranoia and North Vietnam winning the second time shocked everyone, including the North Vietnamese. The US believed that it had accomplished its war goals of building a functioning South Vietnamese state which could defend itself and preventing North Vietnam from total war.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The USA didn't do the battle of Berlin, the Red Army did- because they didn't give a shit about casualties(either their own or those of the unfortunate civilians ahead of them), and the wehrmacht was also defeated at that point, reduced to a bunch of ten year old boys.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Not actually true- up until the development of scientific evidence for evolution and an old earth, most Christians, including the apostolic churches, took those passages completely literally. It wasn't dogmatically required, but, like, Matins of Christmas talks about the earth being 4,000 years old at the time of Christ. The Byzantine calendar takes the same assumption. This was the mainstream assumption in 1800.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
That is not how the American elite works.
It's probably true that the Episcopalians wouldn't have taken him, but the Lutherans are not known as a convert church. A convert to Lutheranism would probably look suspicious in American political context, even. Becoming Catholic is a sensible career decision for an aspiring member of the conservative elite- although staying Lutheran or Jewish or Mormon might be acceptable, converting over would not be. These are ethnic religions in America. His real alternative was eastern Orthodoxy, which is far smaller and lower profile(and would probably be regarded as eccentric kinda Catholics by most Americans anyways- including by professional sociographers).
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Going to Latin Mass isn't really a political tail either, unless you're trying to present yourself as a democrat. Desantis and Vance both do, and Abbott has some ties. Mike Johnson even hosted a Latin Mass, and he's not Catholic.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
McKinney is not a standalone city, although like most wealthy suburbs it is much whiter than the metro as a whole.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
A huge chunk of these students are employed in Dallas or Houston- Texas is not a few oil rigs with cattle wandering between them, after all, it has a huge white collar services sector that employs more college grads than it can produce.
UT Austin admissions are also, like most state flagship schools, non-meritocratic in a non-racialized direction- substantial preference for in-state applicants. This manifests itself, in the specific local case, as autoadmit for top six percent of the class at all Texas public schools, surely a much more dot Indian group than the state as a whole(also much whiter and more asian). The losers from that policy are mostly hispanics, who are underrepresented among top six percent students(blacks also don't benefit from that policy, but 'wholistic admissions' benefits them in practice, so this is probably made up for with non-autoadmit spots, at least partially). And indeed, we see lower ranked UT schools with very very hispanic campuses.
The Amish and the Hasidim have(often badly dysfunctional; these are not paradaisical cultures) worldviews alternative to modernity. The Mormons are fundamentally modern people. That's the difference.
And Islam comes with a complete premodern worldview and value system, complete with legal code straight out of the eighth century.
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