hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
3hr ago
No? You have the same working class you’ve always had, except now they (pretend to)speak Spanish and have darker skin.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
Americans see Canada as ‘not actually foreign but a different country, it’s cold up there, hockey, maple syrup, some of them speak French, socialized healthcare you need to wait on’. Not totally accurate, but more nuanced than ‘has beavers’.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
Puerto Rican citizens have the right to migrate to America. Basically all of them did; it’s not one of the big Latin American countries and they’re one of the most represented ethnicities among Latinos in America. Guam and American Samoa are less notable, largely because there’s just so fewer of them. US territories have very large percentages of population living in the continental USA.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
And military procurement is by default going to be tightly regulated because a lot of this stuff is illegal for civilians to possess.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
In 2024?
2020, sûre, Biden was relatively popular despite concerns about his age. But after the debate where he promised to beat Medicare?
hydroacetylene
7hr ago
In a versus Biden election, republicans might have swung New Jersey, Virginia, Minnesota, Maine(at large), New Hampshire, New Mexico, and Rhode Island. Thats much more than 15 EV. Biden was incredibly unpopular because he belonged in a memory care facility.
I agree that California was still not in play. But you’re underrating thé effect of ‘our candidate can speak in complete sentences’.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
The GOP would nominate Desantis(probably the donor favorite) or Abbott(probably the party insider favorite) or Rubio(a compromise position) very quickly. All of whom would destroy the senile Biden in a debate. The GOP would also benefit from the disgusted by Trump crowd no longer having to grit their teeth over trump. I think the GOP pulls an incredible map in this scenario- thé democrats were just incredibly unpopular.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
Centraco migrants, even legal ones, seem to prefer work to welfare- like other Hispanics in general.
That doesn’t mean they won’t take free stuff they’re eligible for. But these aren’t Somalis. They’re not ultra-clannish or opposed to work. Im continually baffled by thé attempts to portray Hispanic immigration as bad because they are lazy(in general, they are not) as opposed to because of the negative effects on wages, the breakdown of law and order, or because of the bad things that actually do go along with Hispanic social norms.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
You do not get a permanent underclass, you get a browner local working class, they intermarry with natives.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
A not-Trump GoP candidate would still have beaten Kamala like a drum and, after instituting a state cultus of Trump, would then proceed to enact a much more effective agenda. Trump himself has largely failed to crown himself with laurels; a not-Trump candidate taking up the torch would probably have not only tried but succeeded in doing so.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
It’s not treating strangers as individuals. Which is the psychological norm.
People think ‘Christians are bad, because some are homophobes’ or ‘Christians are good, because they run charitable endeavors’. In practice, neither of these people has met very many religious Christians.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The Amish can ship food to the Africans in exchange for brain draining their igbos and Tutsis as doctors.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
IIRC republicans are split while dems and independents are strongly opposed, per the most recent data. Republicans are also more accommodating to data centers when in power.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
That already exists. Progressive lawmakers occasionally propose laws allowing infanticide on the part of the mother. Awkward pro-abortion arguments regularly get into ‘this would also apply to a 3 month old’ territory.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Infanticide, probably not so much- SIDS parents get investigated.
Crappy parenting, though? Yes. There’s a world of difference between intentional infanticide and alcoholic/drug using mothers smothering their babies on accident in a stupor.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
There is a vast difference between AFL unions and teachers unions. It could have also been an SEIU Union, which is even more aggressively left wing.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Define people like you?
This was a union arbitration contract. Union arbitration contracts are notorious for protecting people that did verboten to liberals things(normally sexual harassment but racial comments definitely would be a thing there).
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Thé going rate for general maintenance in a data center is six figures.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Right, we didn’t have Nolan wells discussions. We had lots of Charlie Kirk discussion, because culture wars relevance. We talked about the assassination without letting the Luigi mangione phenomenon have much presence on the forum.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Why are we talking about Lindsay Clancy so much?
Obviously, it’s a hot topic in the news, people who normally have heated discussions about The Bachelor are talking about this trial instead. But the motte isn’t one of those groups. Why is this particular social media brain rot such a big deal to the motte? Not criticizing, just noting- we didn’t talk that much about Johnny depp/Amber Heard.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
To what extent is anti-data center pushing big tech into further GOP alignment?
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Something like a quarter of England’s residents were of Irish descent before immigration picked up, no? These people seem to be counted as ‘ethnic Britons’- maybe the term has no meaning except not wanting to see brown people.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
For an empire, to be ‘ethnically’ part of the main ethnicity is eventually meaningless- there was not such thing as an ethnic Roman in 400 AD, either. Sic semper imperium.
That doesn’t make it cosmic justice or revenge for colonialism or whatever bullshit. It is simply the way things are; thé ethnic component of Britishness or Americanness is gone. You want to maintain ethnic purity then you don’t get to be the empire, you have to live under it.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Cheaper childcare is, literally, nothing*. It's a subsidy for moms to work, which is why progressives are OK with it.
*in high income countries
AFAIK pit bull data is based off of lots of different sources which mutually add up. Many of these sources, like animal shelter personnel or police officers, can be taken as better at identifying dog breeds than average. Even pit bull breeders seem to recommend that it isn’t for first time dog owners.
That doesn’t mean every pit bull everywhere is A Problem, because as you point out it’s a varied group. But it does gesture to an issue with the group as a whole.
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