hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
43m ago
This was the late 2010’s. His wife was vegan, they were pretty into environment and animal stuff and they were homeschooling for partly that reason.
Plenty of eccentrics in the trades. Usually more of the white nationalism and a pet monkey version, but still.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
Their purchases of US military equipment at sticker price is probably some subsidy to the military industrial complex. They also briefly stabilized Somalia, until the USA made them stop, and Yemen, before the USA made them stop.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
Yes, during the Cold War extrajudicial executions in Latin America were largely outsourced from the USFG to local governments.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
Venezuela has weaker rule of law, transshipment wouldn’t surprise me.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
I mean, what makes terrorists special?
The origin of a ‘special category’ of criminals was pirates as hostis humani generis, followed by slavers in the 19th century, and terrorists after 9/11. Adding narcotraffickers doesn’t seem like too much of a stretch.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
I mean Iraq is, currently, a petrostate. That is the main sector of their economy. Making it US owned is… very possibly not an improvement.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
Shipwreck survivals in tropical water are a thing that happens; theoretically they could make an improvised raft out of wreckage and float to shore. Of course realistically dehydration or drowning would get them and their body would be eaten by sharks, but eh.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
FA-18’s have autocannon and can just shoot them on-site.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
Probably, to make them less biased. I'm not saying it's a good plan or that it'll work.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
That's British English, though, an American would not say that. An American might say 'retard' or just 'tard' or 'downie'(not always a slur). An older American might say 'moron' or 'idiot' as a slur but nowadays that wouldn't be used for an actually retarded person, it's used for other drivers.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
He has to have some measure if he wants to use leverage on the media.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
I mean, on the bright side, advertisements mean there is a significant oversupply- more people wanting to offer them than people wanting to take up those offers.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
I have met one. Male, retired marine. Very very Covid obsessed(which is why I don’t still know him). He was married, held social policy views which could have fit in with either party, but supported republicans because he homeschooled his kids and loved guns.
Has your friend tried dating vegan hippie chicks and convincing them of whatever he agrees with the GOP on?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
And, you know, the US’s cartoonishly high violent crime rates.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
A good test for this would be to see if current Inuit cultures seem to have similar 'high trust' norms.
The Inuit have had some weird trust building exercises, but today, their culture is dominated by severe alcoholism, and there are probably as many living in slums in the cities of their ancestral lands receiving welfare as there are in the ancestral environment.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
It’s entirely possible to rescue failing cities by boosting particular neighborhoods(there’s a word for it- gentrification). IIRC shagbark wanted to do this in rust belt New York.
Unfortunately, he wanted to combine this with Luddism(lol), trad-Catholicism(minus the guilt), and ideological commitment. Alas he found no takers; most people don’t want to live a third world poor lifestyle, they would rather have jobs.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I mean, you don’t have to delve into the tribes being dismissive of the problem to understand the differences- measured by consumption, Mississippi is far richer than NYC. Measured any other way, lol no it isn’t.
This shapes a lot of attitudes on the question- from teacher pay to the rise of ‘socialism’(these people aren’t Marxists, they just want free shit- because they insist on lifestyles that are unaffordable if it isn’t free. Literally, NYC/San Fran apartments have a high percentage that are subsidized, but if it isn’t subsidized it’s a huge stretch even for the high incomes in these places) to ongoing tribal divergence(I wonder how much of the blue tribe hatred of red is just that we don’t care about how much their trendy apartments cost to rent- they should accept less desirable neighborhoods/avocado toast/international travel).
Suburbs are sometimes exclusivist, but theres also plenty of suburbs that are affordable to the lower working class- I live in one. They’re simply a practical solution to ‘everyone gets a single family home with a yard’ in a rich country where you have to be quite poor not to have a car. Most of my neighbors, if offered the choice, would not move to a walkable safe neighborhood, because they want a single family home with a yard.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
A Song of Ice and Fire surely qualifies?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
But a conventional honor culture(like in America’s black ghettos or parts of the Balkans or the rural south) is not exactly what’s being described- the idea is that Indians find scamming and lying admirable as long as you aren’t hurting your buddies. The really rough parts of New Orleans or rural Albania don’t work that way, going back on your word is worse than murder.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
How does this compare to sci-fi novels by sales? Entirely possible good reads just has a slanted user base.
I know for my part I might recommend a book in person, but I’m unlikely to post about it on goodreads, and don’t actually know what good reads is.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
There wasn't a middle of the road option; there were cheap shitty motels and there were luxury hotels, with no real in between.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Environmental quality in the fifties was generally poor. Especially in the east, improved management and environmental consciousness has cleaned up a lot- there's no flaming rivers anymore.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
and families were cramming 4+ kids into a tiny home, with kids sharing rooms in bunk beds.
What's wrong with that? Plenty of kids still share rooms and they don't really mind bunk beds.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
But a six figure salary in the fifties was the equivalent of making over a million dollars a year today, most of those people have full time domestic servants. That's a very high salary.
The US white homicide rate is still higher than anywhere in Europe except for the Balkans, Baltics, and Russia. State level homicide rates are still really really high outside of DC and Illinois(which is what I’m assuming the two counties are). Highest murder rate is usually Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, and DC- and even outside of that top tier, murder rates are still much higher than comparable populations.
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