TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
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I don't think that's true. We did put a lot of Japanese into concentration camps after a very specific incident gave rise to what was, IMO, a reasonable fear that the Japanese within our borders were both nationalistically loyal to Japan and liable to act on that loyalty.
The Japanese really were fanatical and after that went down I can't say I'd have made a different choice.
So until baseline Chinese-Americans start acting in ways that imply a credible threat that they'll do the same, I don't think there's any concern here. Even if China (for some reason) sneak attacks us.
However, if they do, it would indeed become reasonable to keep Chinese nationals out of high-security positions without extreme levels of vetting.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
2d ago
Next you'll be telling me Sicilians, or the Irish, are white too.
"White" has only recently been understood to refer to skin color rather than certain ancestral clusters and the psychological traits associated with them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_European_marriage_pattern
Slavs definitely would not qualify.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
2d ago
I think of 'hard right' as split between trad-Christians and pagans, who tend to have fairly oppositional views of sexual morality. So idk what @hydroacetylene meant either.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
2d ago
Yeah, well, what can I offer as a white man except that this perfectly matches my experience with the Asian-American women I've known.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
4d ago
I don't suppose I'll be able to.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
5d ago
How's democracy been working out in general?
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
6d ago
No, by learn to ignore it I also mean remove their institutional power and right to vote.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
8d ago
Just so.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
8d ago
This is going to come off as much more flippant than I intend it, especially given the brevity, but: I really think part of growing up is learning to ignore spurious female complaining. While they can and do have real problems, shit-tests are endemic.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
9d ago
The rest notwithstanding, I'm a bit confused at the prospect of voting for someone who will implement much worse policies on the basis that their opponent engaged in some ugly campaigning. Like yeah, presumably we used to have standards along those lines, but we're also pretty clearly past them at this point.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
9d ago
Or a feral one
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
9d ago
At about 01:00 today, yes. No baby yet. Wife bigger than I've ever seen her though so probably not long now.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
9d ago
When you are born, you may be sure
As birches creak and willows weep,
As rivers swell with waters pure
And feathers fall from bloody beaks,
Though nightmare creatures stir in deep
Pelagic canyons far beneath
And sullen metal deities
Arise to flense you of what fleece
You chance to bear; and that bequeathed
By some alleged eminence grise
We cannot see—
Yet I shall shatter hallowed halls
And topple all the highest walls
And seize the devil by his balls
And HOLD until my face turns blue
I'll do this every day for you.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
10d ago
Counter-signaling presumably.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
10d ago
All I see is teeth and egregious glasses but hey maybe it's a generational thing.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
11d ago
I don't understand this at all. Either your point, or that if I'm interpreting that video correctly the Chargers scored a touchdown.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
12d ago
Never heard of it!
As usual I'd like to see a much more specific term than 'drug' being used here. I don't think the guy who sells mushrooms to his friends deserves to die.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
14d ago
Congrats! We're due any day now. Not by any means our first rodeo though.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
14d ago
The practical use for it is extreme maneuverability to avoid accidents.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
15d ago
Hilarious read.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
16d ago
How foreign? Ukraine is barely a country, and the people don't seem very enthusiastic about the fight. AFAICT this war is perpetuated by the government for the government at the expense of the people.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
16d ago
I think Ukraine is a dead state regardless of whether the war ends today. The demographic damage is apocalyptic.
Surrounded by healthy children and grandchildren, I'd say. And the dudes being rounded up and forced into the meatgrinder at gunpoint don't seem to share your sentiment. The young women, fleeing, never to return. Whom exactly does this war serve, on the Ukrainian side? Because it sure doesn't seem to serve the people.
If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,—
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
This is a tempting hypothesis but there are plenty of reasons to avoid endorsing it. Not that I'm at liberty to go into those, regrettably.
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