hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
1hr ago
In reality, the police will just say no, and only beat you if you resist arrest.
hydroacetylene
7hr ago
Gun rights orgs have been very successful at expanding concealed carry. They’ve made real progress on silencers. Losing in blue states is almost exactly the same thing as prolife- both have managed to defeat federal efforts.
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
In practice, that tends to turn into the Turkish arrangement….
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
Conservative Christian churches have behavior codes and statements of belief that get them like 80% of the way there. Lefty groups use self attestation, which is easier to get around up front.
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
Wouldn’t this be reasonable suspicion, as for a traffic stop, and discarding the gun is itself probable cause?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I think that was part of the problem for this location…
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Odd. I’ll occasionally see a Hispanic or Asian masking- but never black.
White people who mask seem to generally be in clearly poor health.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
In 1900 ‘native Brit’ probably referred to people who lived there before the saxons/celts/whatever in romantic imaginings. ‘Native’ wasn’t how they talked about civilized people then.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Have you considered that the establishment/conventional right just doesn’t agree with aryan race warriors rather than being intimidated into moderation?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The prolife movement and gun rights movement have been extraordinarily successful- much more so than the DSA- in right wing organizing.
What tends to happen is that right wing ideas about race are mostly embraced by very disagreeable people who cannot cooperate. But there’s plenty of anti-LGBT orgs, gun rights orgs, anti-tax orgs, socially conservative groups, etc.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
‘It’s wrecker shit’ from people who keep claiming that they don’t want to do a Stalin.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Or they didn’t find it particularly important, because this novel was already going to be the award winner and they didn’t give a damn about anything else?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I don’t have a hard time believing Talarico is likely to win. The public doesn’t know him, Paxton is a terrible campaigner who’s mostly known for bribery and sex scandals, and it’s a blue year.
I do think that Abbott and French are significantly undervalued.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I give Paxton’s odds at 45%. Higher than prediction markets give him, but he is mostly known for bribery.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Consequences? Well the democrats will impeach Trump again, launch some investigations that go nowhere, and eventually the government will shut down.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I suspect that rural western Mass doesn’t have tons of homeless people to begin with.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
These people were just not charging when people asked not to be charged. These kinds of self consciously far left revolutionary businesses usually fail not because of lunacy like their founders leaving to go to clown school or fights about masking but because of ideologically demanded poor business decisions like that one. Thats the common thread in these kinds of articles, is the coffee shops that decide payment is optional or workers don’t need to listen to management shutting down because that won’t keep you in business.
Christian or mainstream businesses don’t do stuff like that. They may go under because they don’t have enough customers or are bad at setting prices or can’t keep costs under control or any other more pedestrian- or dramatic- reason, but they’re very unlikely to decide that employees(writ large; some of them have sinecures) don’t need to do any work or customers don’t need to pay when they don’t feel like it.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I’ve seen a lot of white hispanics take advantage of affirmative action programs. They were all legitimately smart. IME Hispanics love community college programs to become, like, phlebotomists and technicians of some description who earn the same amount as the college graduates who shouldn’t have gone anyways(with shorter training and less prestige, of course), and that eats a lot of the crowd that would normally be demanding affirmative action.
There’s a separate ‘national Hispanic merit scholar’ thing, that’s like a 1450 SAT instead of 1500. That sort of thing is pretty common for Hispanics who are, shall we say, college material.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
In America the answers for rural employment are often
- Infrastructure maintenance or working in some other necessary function that’s located way out of the way for entirely legible reasons- railroads, long distance power lines, water reservoirs, etc are typically the best paid jobs in rural areas without extractive industry.
- Long haul freight or immediate dependence on it- truckers are going to drive anyways, it doesn’t really matter if they live in lower cost of living rural areas. Truck stops are also very economically important in these areas.
- Prisons and other government facilities people want built far away from themselves.
- Extractive industry. The single largest employer in rural Texas is usually natural gas- and most educated people in rural Texas are either teachers or working in the white collar side of gas extraction(there’s a lot of clerical work involved in land rights, accounting, sales, etc).
- Meeting the immediate needs of the above or tourism. The USA is a very wealthy society and people can go on vacation a lot, the gleanings are more than enough to subsidize a few rural towns. One overlooked source is hunters- most cattle ranchers bring in hunters during parts of the year, and hunters stop for fast food, hotels, etc, even in areas without beautiful scenery or good weather. Another major source is people just road-tripping through on their way to more desirable locations(Buc-ee’s notoriously makes a fortune off this).
- And of course there’s always remote work.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Clearly somebody is selling alcohol in Greenland.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
This will probably be a Dane who’s technically a Greenland resident- chic fil a normally requires previous business experience.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Greenland just found 13 billion barrels of oil, and lots of FIFO workers are alcoholics.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
That's been an issue with doctor google for forever though- webmd says it's cancer!
hydroacetylene
3d ago
This is America, and there are neighborhoods in the city center which are exurban in most metros.
The sine qua non of keeping the peace at protests is separating the two sides. The police following proper procedures around patriot front doesn’t require explanation; them not following proper procedures around other groups does.
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