hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
19hr ago
Uh, the government won’t be open for much of this shutdown anyways. In practice government offices are shut down from Christmas through new years.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
See also- beauty pageant winners. There are black women who’ve won legitimately(miss France, for example), but there’s also a cavalcade of troons and landwhales who get DEI boosted to the top spot. For some reason, the wokes are way more excited about the latter.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
Unlike Frederick Douglas, the median american hears the name ‘Harriet Tubman’ and goes, oh yeah, badass, helped people escape slavery. Frederick Douglas is more likely to get a literally who response because even if his contribution is important, it’s not sexy. Ditto for sojourner truth.
For an influential African American everyone has heard of, and who has mostly positive associations- try MLK(yes, yes, he wasn’t actually a good person, whatever, but the normies don’t know that anymore than they know who sojourner truth is).
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Well yes, Baton Rouge itself does not want St George county to split off for that very reason. And the prototypical blue cities in red states, like Austin and Asheville, are doing at least OK.
Very poor governance associated with extremely large- and often outright majority- black populations is a major problem for these cities; Jackson and St. Louis are not doing well on non-crime related metrics either. Very white red states often do quite well on things like education and crime. But sun belt states maintain high crime rates and rural whites in the south have extremely high crime rates by first world standards- while blacks have a big portion of the blame, there are still other things going on.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Ah, but does it predict better than percentage of households headed by a woman?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
A 20-year-old male was subsequently arrested after being in contact with her while also planning a bombing against federal employees to happen concurrently with her own shooting.
Ah, the real issue.
The reason why this is important is because a Family Obliterator a few days after this happens (and after DR-people started posting AI deepfakes of Fuentes being shot on Twitter) drives two hours to Fuentes’ house with bombs and a gun, fails to break in, and then dies in a police shoot-out. My initial suspicion is that this person was probably a DR-leaning person politically due to some concurrent factors, but generally this is just showing how much politically-motivated violence the internet is facilitating on purpose. I’ll wait to see any more developments, but this is very odd.
I'm not sure; the DR mostly views Fuentes as being a clown. Honestly I'd kind of suspect antifa or non-aligned schizo, given Nick's politics.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
There’s probably a confluence of factors, with particularly bad local governance being a factor in lots of cases(Jackson’s water crisis was resolved by the corps of engineers in a matter of hours, but had lasted for weeks with no progress; you don’t get that with even minimal competence from the local authorities). Everything in New Orleans and St. Louis is horribly mismanaged, an adversarial relationship with the state doesn’t help but cant be blamed entirely(Austin seems to do fine despite its frequent and visible fallouts with the state).
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Crime in the US is a disproportionately but not exclusively black problem- US whites have much higher homicide rates than Europe, and indeed higher than Canada. It’s also not the case that crime is a mostly blue state problem- if anything, it’s more common in blue cities in red states, while there remain many hotspots in other locales.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Other countries have totally done that, South Korea just went unusually far.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
you can go broke trying to pay down medical bills for health conditions you have no control over.
You can just not pay it. Medical bankruptcies are essentially voluntary.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The US does have a European-sized welfare state, has crime rates which are not globally that high, has a high life expectancy and low infant mortality with universal access to emergency medicine(seriously a driver of US healthcare costs is the constitutional right to access emergency medicine and then just not pay it), and has universal access to college education(which, if you’re willing to accept the kinds of conditions college kids have historically lived in, is actually fairly affordable). There’s a housing shortage, but it’s a lot better than other Anglosphere countries.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
So not anything we didn't already know. Just funny to hear it from the horse's mouth. Especially an ethnically-mexican horse
Uh, just so you know, Central Americans are the very lowest caste for old-country Mexicans. Intra-Hispanic prejudice is alive and well between immigrant groups in the US, too.
I would not take an ethnic Mexican as some sort of less-biased observer of recent illegal migrants, even a very progressive one.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
1700’s America was the wealthiest society on earth at the time; death by starvation was more or less unknown and nutrition standards were high by the standards of the day.
The colonies had a way higher standard of living than the old country.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
South Korea made childhood hellacious so nobody wants to subject people to it. It’s not a mystery.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I mean, the question is ‘what’s the relevant difference and is it possible to have it apply to humans’. I’m guessing there’s at least parts of veterinary practices that cannot- if lower liability because they’re just dogs is really a significant part of the puzzle, then we can’t really reduce human medical bills that way.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Eg, the US healthcare system.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Corruption isn’t always and everywhere a bad thing. Sometimes bribery is just straight an improvement on the official process of bureaucracy is bad enough.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Russia was a global superpower in 1990. While it has a natural tendency towards land power in Eurasia, it’d be foolish for strategic planners to disregard the possibility of substantial Russian global power projection. Indeed, is suspect the biggest reason for Russia’s lack of global power projection today is fiscal, rather than lack of ambition.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
So, corruption?
hydroacetylene
3d ago
I mean, to start with East Asian countries underperform their IQ numbers. Japan is poorer than Italy, after all. China also has multiple bubbles propping up their economy.
But secondly, China has a population pyramid that makes Europe’s look good and a rigidly inflexible totalitarian government that has not managed to find solutions to historical Chinese weaknesses. Sheer number of people will make China a top global economic power for the foreseeable future, but ‘dominant by a wide margin’ seems unlikely just due to those.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
A Twitter schizoposter with a radical feminist bent. Like most actually-radical feminists, she was really and truly radical. There was some crossover with the Twitter DR due to the shared schizophrenia, but she was a radical feminist misandrist and not a DR member even if she believed in esoteric crap about hyperborea.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Personally, I think that American planners recognize a unified Europe (and China) as the only likely competitors to their dominance over the long course of history.
Over the very long course of history, the Russian empire has the ability to be a competitor for the United States. It happens to be an incompetent corrupt oligarchy which doesn’t care about economic growth. But there are possible-if-not-plausible futures where a Russian empire is a superpower again.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
People have been shining lasers at commercial aircraft though, which is super-duper illegal, and while the sorts of weird libertarians(seriously, what is it with libertarians being such normal boring business savvy centrists recently? Bring back the schizoposting bigamist with YouTube videos on how to drill 1/8” holes with equipment convertible to a grow lab) who just blatantly violate regs like that are rare in urban blue states, there should be at least some in the largest metro area in the country.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Like most UFO’s, these are almost certainly mundane flying objects getting misidentified by onlookers. That should be our default assumption in a ‘see Bigfoot think black bear’ type way. This case is bolstered by the sheer number of sightings which are clearly identifiable as planes.
Hahaha
The history of authoritarian communism gives lie to that claim.
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