hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
15hr ago
I think the heavily hispanic areas swung towards Trump as a side effect of hispanics regarding themselves as having more in common with their white counterparts, leading them to vote with their coworkers and immediate bosses. This change has been more or less predictable for decades now even if most of the voices calling attention to it have done so prematurely.
hydroacetylene
15hr ago
I mean, scientologists are mostly white, and everyone thinks they're stupid and delusional.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
I think a bunch of this is climate, as well- in the south it’s still too warm to hang deer in November, you have to pack the body cavity with ice, or quarter it in an ice chest, which means you need a freezer to store that ice, which means you need a deer camp with electricity. + there’s less public land, you need to secure permission to hunt on someone’s private land. Militates in favor of hunt camps, and since it’s usually private land with restricted access, there’s no free rider problem to setting up feeders and tree stands.
Deer stalking is a different sport which is more common on public land- heavier forest cover makes the Rockies-style ‘drive around on public land until you see an elk’ a way to not see any game.
The gender difference I’m reasonably sure is cultural, though. AFAIK the intermountain west and northern Rockies aren’t much less socially conservative than the south, so it seems kind of random.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
Ah, out west. Texas's hunting culture is an extension of the greater south, whereas the west's is not, so the regional distinction is probably the dominant factor here.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
It's possible this is a regional thing. But my experience with hunting camp is that wives and daughters might be hanging around, and might be claiming to be shooting, but they're really just there to get their husband or father a bigger bag limit- and will happily take credit for shooting something to outsiders, even trusted ones, for that purpose.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
Which raises the question- I see a lot of recruitment and advertising around me to become electricians, underwater welders, pilots, etc. I see some recruitment to become an RN or EMT but functionally none to become a PA or an NP.
Now it's possible that I just miss it, because it's aimed with surgical precision at eg medics leaving the army, currently employed lower healthcare professionals, etc, but I think it much more likely that these fields are just doing a bad job of recruiting the best and brightest out of strata that see $130k/yr as a salary that makes lack of social respect with a masters degree worthwhile.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Your argument also begs the question² of whether transitioning is a bad decision
This question, on a fundamental level, resolves to postulates, and postulates are unfalsifiable so this turns into idiotic definitional debates.
even if it were, if the 'consequences of a bad decision' include extralegal violence, protecting people from it is one of the most fundamental functions of society
Transgenders larping as women should learn self-defense, I guess. Society has to pick and choose whose safety to prioritize in this instance and it should come down hard on the side that's doing what its supposed to do.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Yes, but you're not male. Gays/transgenders larping as women come off as a bit gross to straight men, the sort of person who'd make you want to wash your hands after shaking theirs, but not scary.
It's ultra nerdy male. There's jockish spaces, normie spaces, etc that are just as male.
hunting
Most women hunters are not actually shooting. They're allowing their husbands/fathers/whatever to use their tags. This as participation in the sport is... debatable.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Gay men generally don't want to do things that would have a different impact on other people based on whether they are gay.
Is your argument that Gay men are generally concerned at making sure that the men they hit on are gay, or that they are scrupulous at avoiding statutory? Because that is... debatable.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
My guess is that Gaetz will probably come back to the Trump White House in some form that doesn’t require a Senate confirmation, after the news dies down.
This is entirely possible, and furthermore, Gaetz may well have been the driving force to remove himself from consideration, rather than doing so at the behest of Trump.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The Greek-Catholic belt in Eastern Europe, Georgia the country, and the American red tribe have TFR’s ~2. It’s achievable even if I couldn’t really point to the unifying factors- western social conservatism, religiosity, and ruralness, I suppose.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Men in a dress and a wig? Yes.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I mean, the solution for this poor unfortunate is to work through whatever issues drive interest in transgenderism rather than transitioning. Make your bed and now lie it, I suppose- using the men’s locker room is a risk for some biologically male transgenders, but society oughtn’t to be in the business of protecting individuals from the consequences of their own bad decisions at the expense of people who haven’t made such bad decisions.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I mean, trying to pull permits for a literal rocket launch would do they anyways.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
This is the purpose of government under liberalism. You can totally have ‘different people live under different laws and there’s complex rules about who defers to whom’, and have a state, as long as it’s not a liberal society.
I don’t think trans realize that.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
And this is specifically autistic, though. Your plumber dissatisfied with his love life hits the strip club instead.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I have empathy for those suffering from mental illness(like those who can’t tell what gender they are), but that doesn’t mean I go along with their delusions. Some things are just false. 2+2=5 men can get pregnant there’s more than two genders etc.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I don't think it's because conservatives suddenly discovered they exist.
I agree with the general thrust of your argument- there were transgenders in the ‘90’s and while it wasn’t acceptable among cultural conservatives nobody cared that much- but trans issues got big all of a sudden partly because Chris Rufo was able to magnify some high profile cases of trans making progressives look bad and republicans won a governors race in a blue state out of it.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
legal processes to change their legal gender. They kill themselves at elevated rates when forced to conform to their biological gender. This is not just some kink.
They also kill themselves at elevated rates after transition.
Like, ‘it’s entirely a kink’ is legitimately a bad argument, but it doesn’t mean transgenderism is valid. We can just… not accommodate crazy delusional people.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
My grandfather, back during segregation, conspicuously used the colored bathroom many a time. Nothing was ever done because no one gave a shit(it, uh, might have been different the other direction, but a wage slave at a store has Better Things To Do than get in a confrontation with a customer so lots of them presumably got away with that too- I think some of the segregation cases involved blacks who got away with using the white section over and over again before anyone called them on it).
Of course the real benefit to these laws from a red state perspective is it makes it impossible for blue cities to force bathrooms to be gender neutral.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Musk and Rogan have legitimately embraced some conservative views, even if mostly on the libertarian end.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
‘Protect women’ is not actually a historical norm, and societies which are not western today often have no problems harming women.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Nude swimming disappeared because swimsuit technology improved; communal showers i’m pretty sure went out of style due to increasing wealth making individual stalls more affordable.
Pilot training is so expensive that it probably evens out here(planes, man).
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