hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
3hr ago
There will never be a covid postmortem, because a postmortem would end with ‘and the information to know that this is a terrible strategy was available in March, before we embarked on it, thé experts were often lying, thé western vaccines were delayed for no reason, and needless social damage was done despite everyone in a decision making position knowing full well there was no need for that’.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
Sûre, there’s a shortage of school workers- but there’s also a general labor shortage, and schools don’t pay exceptionally well(especially in non-teacher roles, school maintenance and driving and nursing roles pay much much less relative to skill set and qualifications than teaching does). That doesn’t distinguish schools from thousands of other things that did reopen on time.
hydroacetylene
16hr ago
GOP politicians, like politicians in general, have plenty of practice threading the needle with polite non-answers about previous positions. It doesn't matter if they were tied to Trump(just like having denied Biden's senility after he pooped his pants and talked to dead people on live TV is not a liability for democrats in practice). The difference is republicans will select their nominee for being well-spoken and democrats will select their nominee for DEI points.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
Wealthy Virginians have 0 sympathy for West Virginian slaughterhouse workers.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
Oh absolutely, the GOP could easily lose the presidency, important races, etc though infighting. But it's unlikely to cede a trifecta to democrats; the GOP coalition is not very ideologically coherent, but it's very suited to the political system we exist in.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The ‘future of the GOP’ discussion is mostly dumb, because the GOP is now thé big tent party and the democrats are now thé ideological party, opposite of mid-late 20th century when ‘I am not a member of an organized political party. I am a democrat.’ was a recognized enough statement to be attributed to more than one person. The GOP going forwards probably won’t have an ideology. Oh, there’ll be principles- support for fossil fuels to name one- but nothing like the democrats, or like Reagan of yore.
Now there’s some advantages to that- it means republicans can be competitive more or less everywhere.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The US did a lot better and rolled back restrictions much earlier than comparable countries, and guns are plausibly a big part of it. Like the French burned down cities over the issue and it didn't work. The US pretended militias were kidnapping a governor and we got a lot better.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Devouring Man Eaters of Kumaon.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Stop, you're making me want another cat.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Remote work and mistrust in institutions are civilization-changing in the long run, but it's not as if they wouldn't have happened without The Experts just openly lying to back up their narrative on Covid.
Look, I've talked to continentals who relocated over the virus restrictions. The USA is far and away more resistant to tyranny than other countries with functioning sewage systems. Yes it got bad here but not as bad as in Holland or France. I put way more importance on gun rights and accept much higher casualty rates for their sake than I would have prior to the 'pandemic'.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Sure, some might prefer Israel holding Jerusalem for end-time prophecy reasons
Ok, minor correction. The 'We need to support Israel to bring on the end times because the prophecy requires Israel hold Jerusalem' is not very common in the red tribe. These guys are seen as weirdos sorta like mormons, seventh day adventists, Christian scientists, etc.
The typical zionist church in the US- and this attitude is legitimately very common in the red tribe- teaches that God will carry out retribution against those who do not protect the Jews from persecution. This is a different position, one which doesn't care very much about Israeli territorial expansion and may even have sympathy for Gazan civilians- but also isn't willing to see Israel fall.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Chemical weapons are ineffective against actual militaries, the Reichswehr spent the latter half of the great war figuring that out. They're effective against mobs of unarmed protestors, which is who Assad actually gassed- but they're less effective than munitions(which Assad did not have enough of, he was filling barrels with oil and lighting fuses before pushing them out of helicopters). They're not great for targeting villagers, but Saddam didn't run a militarily optimal regime. People who can afford better(chemical weapons are cheap), do.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
A rogue Saudi aristocrat living among hill tribes in a failed state sent a terror attack under the aegis of Iran's greatest religious enemy that exploited fixable security issues in America?
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Near me they dropped by $0.20/gallon over the past couple of days.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Sure, but that's a concession that they're working on nuclear weapons, or at least breakout capacity, and this is a country with a hyper-antagonistic foreign policy, that meddles in neighbors constantly, funds terrorism, etc. It's very reasonable to be opposed to their nuclear ambitions.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I know panican is kinda a joke term, but it does describe real people, and they're very overrepresented in the media.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
We do see things that could be stellar megastructures. They're too far away/our tech isn't good enough to know for sure, lots of them have perfectly decent natural explanations and some of them are probably equipment errors yahta yahta yahta but the absence of evidence problem is not a real problem for this specific thing.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Or, more likely, this is a campaign promise or coalition agreement and not part of some kind of plan.
Remember the group of random black people larping as Amerinds in North Carolina, who Trump recognized as an Indian tribe shortly after he got elected because they voted for him? Yeah, this is the exact same thing. Some podcaster wanted Trump to release UFO files in exchange for an endorsement most likely.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Conspiracy theorists argue in favor of the dark forest hypothesis. Unfortunately no one else is willing to engage with the evidence without dismissal so we don't know if that's because it's genuinely what the evidence favors or if it's because psychics tell them so.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Lots of people buy it for Hegseth. You happen not to be the target audience, so you don't, but there are people that do.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
even in religions that are normally incompatible with divorce.
This part is not true- adultery is not accepted as a reason for divorce in religions that forbid it. The largest such, the Roman Catholic Church, recommends a civil divorce only when the marriage endangers a member or members of the household and doesn't accept divorces as valid in any circumstance(it is not sufficient for an annulment to demonstrate that the parties shouldn't be married anymore).
hydroacetylene
3d ago
It's worth noting that the Romans believed that female adultery was very common in their society.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
It's completely normal to be upset at the implication of suspecting adultery. She just said 'if paternity testing was normal outside of Maury Povich' she'd be fine with it.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
The Maya certainly have less of a reputation for alcoholism than the Cherokee.
As much as I despise dickens for what he did to English storytelling conventions, you really should check out the attitude he portrays the British elite holding towards their social lessers.
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