hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
13hr ago
merely delayed until a secure bio-lab can be constructed in a heliocentric orbit away from earth.
We can build a bio lab on a disused container ship parked in the middle of the Pacific Ocean right now if we want to, and for all practical purposes thats pretty similar.
hydroacetylene
14hr ago
?? These were the people pushing for hard lockdowns during the China virus freak out.
hydroacetylene
14hr ago
Of course, Ukraine isn’t queer.
hydroacetylene
14hr ago
As if democrats don’t make bad faith claims about elections all day long.
hydroacetylene
14hr ago
Of course, it must be noted that black voter turnout has not declined after voter ID requirements became stricter.
hydroacetylene
14hr ago
Almost everyone in the US has jumped through the hoops to get a government photo ID, you can’t survive without it.
hydroacetylene
16hr ago
Those random spree killers are low functioning copycats of weirdos. Their MO is, and is likely to remain, opening fire at an elementary school or festival, not bringing down planes- see also the lack of bombings.
hydroacetylene
16hr ago
Current day depopulation doomers should take note, and think twice before they engage in their own atrocities to prevent the coming apocalypse.
Ehrlich’s continuing popularity was driven by the basic instinct that poor people are gross, and that gross things breed to much. ‘The science’ was never his biggest supporter; it was predictable liberal elite prejudices all the way down.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
Is it really true that the SAVE act doesn’t count most state drivers licenses as acceptable ID’s?
In any case, Trump is more of a Marius than a Gracchus. Dirty tricks and proceduralism isn’t new here- he’s justifying it differently by ‘mandate from the people’.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
This happened before- both major parties have done this, the other one just adapted.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Neither these scenarios, nor the use of firearms to stop hijackings, will happen. Airplane security is pointless.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Jane Austen was not a victorian writer, and he's Finnish anyways.
I don't know that she's a popular part of the American curriculum, either- Shakespeare makes a strong showing in the better programs, and everyone reads Huck Finn(The American novel). The shorter works(Where the Red Fern Grows, The Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird...) are pretty common. Younger grades have modern literature written almost specifically to be read in English class. In high school, I remember a bit of Steinbeck, more Dickens than I would have preferred, but perhaps a quarter of the curriculum being Shakespeare.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
English is essentially anchored by Shakespeare and the King James bible, and for specifically American English also Twain. Not by Jane Austen, particularly- while she definitely 'counts' as a literary great, Pride and Prejudice in not an anchorwork for English as a literary tongue the way that Shakespeare's first folio is, nor the the King James bible.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The only Islamic group to defeat the US was the Taliban; they may simply be taking inspiration from Mullah Omar in picking a reclusive leader with severe war injuries.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Or we're simply more sensitive to even trivial risks. We could make planes open carry friendly, and it would be fine.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I mean the latter two, yes. Bride people seems easy enough to parse, especially with context. I will admit to probably needing to look up valetudinarian, but we have dictionaries in our pockets.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
You should be able to read a book from ~1800 without needing a translation. Literally, it’s not that different.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Well, the poorest of the poor don't tend to join the army very often- the working class and middle classes dominate enlistment. These people might be on CHIP or something but they're not getting huge welfare assistance, nor do they need it. The military is attractive out of economic necessity to the recently shotgun married and that's about it, and they're also mostly already in the army.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The gulf states turned their oil money into everything they want, without needing to kill tens of thousands of their own people from time to time. They have high human development, high incomes, and did that without needing to abandon their way of life/traditional culture.
Not bad for petrostates with average IQ in the 70's- the most comparable countries are shitholes in sub saharan Africa. Has Nigeria transmuted its oil money into anything good?
Iran produces better tech than the gulf Arabs, I'm willing to believe that- but unlike the gulf Arabs it doesn't keep the water on in its own capital city. Iran's government ignores huge chunks of its responsibilities.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
There are shitlibs, resistancelibs, and blue tribe tribalist tards in Texas. Probably very few in Johnson county, but immigration jails aren't built in downtown Dallas.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Indeed, these people didn't identify as Antifa- IIRC, they identified as members of the john brown gun club, one of several groups that people refer to when they say 'antifa'.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
AAQC’d
I have had conversations with illegals which certainly rhymed- their salaries are quite low by Texas standards, but they still make in a day what a good job paid them in a week in Oaxaca. Even when their employers treated them badly they considered it worth it; they regularly worked six twelves and asked for more hours, and few of their jobs were pleasant and fun. But Mexico- or for that matter honduras- are simply not as bad as India. I don’t say that as a value judgement, $1/day labor isn’t really a thing there. And as northern Mexico has industrialized there have been far fewer migrants from there; being a factory worker in Monterrey isn’t as good as being a factory worker in Dallas, but it beats being a ditch digger or roofer in Dallas.
Overall there’s a neglect of the ‘what’s the alternative’ problem. Like yes working in a sweatshop sucks, but subsistence farmers try it and then beg the places to expand so they can get their friends and family on. The world is not naturally ‘nice’ and plenty of people can improve their lot by quite a lot with it still sucking.
I’m not trying to make some grand point. Yes there are grand points to be made, but for most people migrating or working in sweatshops or whatever, it’s not a grand point, it’s an individual one.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Marco Rubio will be in his sixties after an eight year Vance presidency, and he's already been waiting a while. Americans like to complain about how old their politicians are and he likely knows this, plus he's almost certainly more popular among the broader public than Vance. He doesn't have a lot of reason to take that deal.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Disadvantaged Americans aren't as desperate as disadvantaged Russians, nor are they fit for military service. You could force the probation roster into the Army without too much fuss from other people, probably, but the US army wouldn't be exactly thrilled to have them.
I mean why would illegals lie about citizenship on a survey? They’ll just not take it. Ain’t nothing suspicious in not having time for a survey.
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