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Culture War Roundup for the week of September 9, 2024

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Is it actually against the rules for candidates to be fed lines by earpiece?

In any case, I think the idea that large numbers of Haitians are hunting ducks in parks seems unlikely given how wealthy American society is. If they’re legally resettled refugees they’re provided with homes and more than enough food by the resettlement NGO/agency; if they’re illegal then they’re working cash in hand anyway in a society where even a very low income is more than sufficient to buy food much tastier and easier to prepare than semi-wild fowl.

People from a desperately poor country wouldn't be happy to save money by cooking up the meat that's just wandering around that the wealthy Americans don't seem to want? Of course they would.

In my state getting a hunting/fishing license for $1 is a low-income benefit that's available and seems to be popular, so the idea of people ignoring the middleman because they don't expect any enforcement does not strike me as inherently absurd.

Reminds me of a story from a former coworker, who grew up eating the "free chicken" at the store. It wasn't until she started shopping on her own she realized what was actually happening was her dad picked up a rotisserie chicken, family ate it while shopping, and disposed of the rest before checkout. The store workers were apparently too polite to complain.

Wild ducks/geese have a distinctive taste which lots of people really like; it’s entirely possible that they just want to eat free range goose.

In some ways, I think it's funny that we've made a full cycle from "those geese belong to your feudal lord" to various democratic revolutions, all the way back to "you can't eat those geese because of the treaty on migratory birds your duly-elected representatives approved generations ago".

Not endorsing any particular side there, just observing.

Penniless Haitian migrants are now connoisseurs of game.

I’m imagining the film now. Somewhere between Ratatouille and The Princess & The Frog.

Catatouille, perhaps? Or The Princess & The Goose?

Jean-Paul was a Haitian immigrant who worked at the best kitchens in Paris, but who was called back to Haiti to look after his ailing mother. Now a poor refugee in Ohio, he eventually wins over the at-first-hesitant locals by dazzling them with delicious dishes cooked with animals he hunts himself at night on excursions from his small (but tidy) tent at the edge of the park. At the end of the movie the mayor (a wealthy car dealership owner) becomes his business partner in a new brasserie, and all the residents turn out for opening night.

Rednecks are, so why not?

Also everyone bitches about geese constantly around here, I could really easily picture someone saying Well if you want me to get rid of them...

Is it actually against the rules for candidates to be fed lines by earpiece?

They were disallowed from even having their own paper notes prepared, so certainly I would think that a live earpiece feeding them information would be wildly against the rules.

if they’re illegal then they’re working cash in hand anyway in a society where even a very low income is more than sufficient to buy food much tastier and easier to prepare than semi-wild fowl.

Only Haitians can truly appreciate how much more succulent a meal is when you can taste its fear.

(Ohio) Canadian geese fear nothing, not even death.

They're really annoying.

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