hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
32m ago
Trump got his way in LA and Chicago. He lost in Minneapolis. Yes there were all sorts of protestors in these places but it was all page five stories and professional activists getting arrested.
hydroacetylene
45m ago
Prisons are built mostly in deep rural areas that are poor enough to welcome employment prospects of working as guards, or in situations where the government doesn't have local veto points(military bases etc), for precisely NIMBY reasons. This is a known and solved problem, and with enough money we could build enough prison to hold anyone who's gotten a jaywalking ticket.
The problem is getting people to prison. First, they need to be arrested. Mostly solved, but you've got to have a place to hold these people until trial and sentencing(takes a really long time, because these people have no incentive to play ball), and jail is usually located in urban/suburban areas reasonably near the scene of the crime. So you give people bail or an ankle monitor, because for constitutional reasons you can't just build the jail in the middle of nowhere where the alternative is cornfields/forests, so there's space limitations(and a lot of these jails are in downtown areas where there just literally isn't more room to expand). Then there's getting through the criminal justice process; our system relies on a large percentage of the (overwhelmingly guilty)suspects pleading guilty in exchange for reduced sentencing, but even that is way at the high end of the bandwidth our system has. You'd need a lot more judges and lawyers.
hydroacetylene
53m ago
Vance's only shot at being president is if Trump dies. That's not particularly far fetched- Trump doesn't show many signs of ill health, but he is in his eighties. But Vance doesn't have a lane in the GOP primary.
hydroacetylene
55m ago
Vance is not popular, though. He's certainly well spoken and has a good shot at being a conservative intellectual or vizier. But it's difficult to say who he appeals to; the Romneycrats that like his speaking ability prefer Rubio(and have since it became apparent they weren't going to get their first choice, ever).
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
A Lutheran belonging to a body which split from the main Lutheran body in his country over the belief that that body doesn’t embrace the Augsburg confession anymore. In the USA the main such body would be the Missouri synod, very common in intellectual conservative circles and big enough to be locally dominant in some areas- but all the self proclaimed confessional Protestants here seem to be reformed.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
Well yeah, a more competent regime would have focused on the fraud first, then followed up with immigration enforcement after using it to take down local political machine structures- or simply avoided the high-profile immigration surge, because it's Minneapolis and you just don't need that many boots on the ground.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
DOD schools might be outperformed by a small district in the Boston or DC suburbs, but they outperform any state. Yes, including Massachusetts.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
It's interesting to see the parts of the American conservative coalition that are represented even after we account for tastes in intellectualism(like duh, megachurch Evangelicals do not want to engage in philosophical political discussion. That's not to say they're stupid, but they simply have different tastes). We have tradcaths but no orthodox Jews and I've never seen a confessional Lutheran. We have libertarian techbros and NrX types but few of the deep red RFK fan lifestyle skeptics- you know, the real life Ron Swanson types. Really very few crunchycons at all. None of the black dissidents you see hanging around conservative intellectual circles but lots of white nationalists. We've had conservative housewives in the past, but I think all of our women are working right now.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
I still don't understand the flameout ban, although I totally get that he was going to have to be banned eventually. I miss having a different classical conservative on the board and maintain that implementing a smoke the whole pack rule would have been a better short term solution, sort of like how secure signals got the single issue posting rule.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
Why are you using the ghetto spelling of his name?
You'll notice this chaos happened in Minnesota, and only in Minnesota. So the formula for successful immigration surges is clear- get the local authorities to cooperate. The immigration surge has to end in a particular location eventually, for allotment of resources reasons, so temporary cooperation is the fastest way for local authorities to go back to whatever mismanagement and petty corruption they were doing before. Obviously Minneapolis and Minnesota more broadly had ideological reasons for not wanting to go this route, but so did LA and Chicago- one has to wonder if the bigger factor was looming federal investigations into Minnesota fraud was a bigger factor. I wonder if Trump could have gotten cooperation by using these investigations as leverage, or by waiting a minute until the investigations had some results.
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
I am registering my support for a schizo Saturday thread. Put conspiracy theories, manifestard ramblings, fringe science ideas etc in the second to last thread of the week. It'll be dead Monday or Tuesday, contain all that shit to one place.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
US bases include housing for soldiers and their families, like normal cookie-cutter suburban neighborhoods. Changing this changes the model of military service.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Hegseth is low human capital and so is much of the rest of Trump's cabinet.
You just said your primary objection to him was aesthetics. Which is it?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
This group probably does not double check targets to make sure they aren’t schools- if I had to guess, their job is to write forms that the people checking targets to make sure they aren’t schools fill out.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The US military maintains a network of schools for service member’s Children. This is the best public(Catholic schools are better) school system in the country going off test scores and is a regular line item in the budget overseen by the DoD- it’s not ad hoc.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Nobody thinks the US military was trying to kill Iranian girls on purpose.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I don't think you should be friends with people you don't like. But you should befriend people who you don't like that much. Talk to your coworkers, your neighbors, your in-laws' cousins, make friends with people you're connected to by circumstance and not robust common interests. The modern western idea of adolescence has destroyed this concept of connecting with people who are... fellow citizens, and not fellow anything else, by imprinting social bonding through an idea of absolute similarity. Learning to bond across an inferential gap is a core human experience we're missing, and you should seek it out. Maybe you'll help someone else, maybe they'll help you.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Tribute. It's called tribute.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I mean petroleum producing parts of Canada will eventually secede and the country will collapse. One party Canada won't last forever.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The drive by’s and burglaries gone wrong murders which go unsolved were also not committed by Einstein. Statistically Dr Moriarty’s murders were all committed against cheating spouses or something where you don’t need Sherlock to figure it out. Dumb, impulsive people kill more randomly, because they are dumb and impulsive.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Of course, we must bear in mind that most murderers are impulsive dummies.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Or mom makes her put herself out there until she goes out with someone. It happens.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
This was probably something built into the software and not something deliberately chosen by the business.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Doesn’t speed dating have a problem with not being able to get enough men?
One of Trump's favorite pastors, Robert Jeffress, is affiliated with the southern Baptist convention. His First Baptist Dallas church has satellite campuses, has a theological convergence little different from nearby and well known megachurches, and he is the son of the previous lead pastor. This is a megachurch, and so are tons of other SBC churches.
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