hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
17hr ago
Depends on how you define 'mainstream'. The DNC old guard is very pro Israel. The black democrats and the old school establishment dems are generally pro Israel. It is true that anti-Israel stances are less fringe than in the GOP, however.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
We're never going to know, but she's related to some Republican bigwigs.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
She's related to some local republican Apparatchiks and it was taken up by the local TPUSA chapter immediately. It was a set up and the university chose to knuckle under.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
Ah, the logic behind greyhound races.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
It'll be for film buffs to watch classics. Instead of pretentious people watching a movie they've already seen in a freezing muddy park, they'll do it in a nice climate controlled(and dry) theater.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
It's also wrong because substituting for oil is pretty easy. You can convert a diesel vehicle to running off of LNG in your garage(literally, if you're mechanically inclined), and we're never going to run out of natural gas. Nuclear/hydro/geothermal power are buildable. EVs get better every year. Etc, etc.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
It's been a while since I've done one of these- what's a small scale conspiracy theory you're willing to go to bat for?
Now, by 'small scale conspiracy theory' I do not mean grand unified theories of the jewlluminati or lizard people, or major government direction, or whatever. It's small-scale.
Some things I think are likely true-
The 'Marriage penalty' in US welfare law is- or was- an intentional experiment to prove that marriage was outmoded in late-industrial societies. It fits the zeitgeist of the time and we know there were other reckless experiments going on in first world countries(like German pedophiles). It was not based on the assumption that single mothers need the help more.
Coyote predation on small children is far more common in the USA than commonly acknowledged(note that a huge increase over a trivial base is still trivial), and those toddlers who just disappear and everyone assumes the parents killed them but they're never charged because nobody ever finds the body were mostly snatched by coyotes. Wildlife departments and law enforcement agencies prefer to cover this up to discourage reprisals by poisoning, which has substantial knock on effects. The only confirmed coyote kill of a child(there is also a case of a hippie musician who wandered near a den, but this probably wasn't a predatory attack) was interrupted during the attack rendering it undeniable.
Conventional health wisdom overstates effect sizes because it originated in attempts to explain the rise of chronic disease in the mid twentieth century. In reality, these diseases became common because people lived long enough to get them(largely due to reduced disease burden), with effects from rising waistlines, sedentary lifestyles, etc.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The affected soccer hating is a joke. They don’t actually think you’re a homosexual communist for it. Maybe for other things, but red tribe normies find ‘caring about sports’ a point of commonality with Europeans, not something alien.
They think you’re gay commies for acceptance of nudism and high youth unemployment, though.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I’ll have you know I’m actually fourteen.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The governor’s address is public information.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Normie red tribers do not think soccer is gay, they just think it isn’t for them- like basketball or bike racing or something.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Isn’t China’s population data known to be particularly bad because of high levels of fraud by government officials trying to inflate their own importance?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Uh, didn't the local chapter of the TPUSA play a starring role?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I think it was probably written to get the Oklahoma congress to take up the problem of increasing supervision on state universities to 'prevent anti-Christian discrimination' and demonstrates the minimum amount of effort needed for that purpose.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I mean, it's very plausible she didn't put a lot of effort into the essay. This was clearly intended as a political stunt. I suspect it worked better than it was supposed to- the goal was probably to testify about the need to give TPUSA actual legal authorities over state universities before the Oklahoma house.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The obvious place to start would be the following question: "Let's see the other essays submitted and the grades they received." I would imagine someone asking that question is why the school has so abruptly sided with Fulnecky, because I would bet a hundred bucks to the charity of my opposite's choice that there were objectively worse essays given better grades in that grading pile. Do you think I'm overly confident in that assessment, particularly given the school's response? If you don't, then what's the basis of our disagreement?
I mean, the University of Oklahoma almost certainly is highly worried about the state government taking away big chunks of its independence for political reasons, and telling a trans TA(so not even a professor) to shut up and sit down is a small price to pay.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
At OU? She would have been speaking in the Oklahoma statehouse which would pass a law restricting the university's independence, maybe. That may have been the goal. But losing the war was gonna be implausible.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I mean, covid happened in 2020, and permanently smashed social trust for a huge percentage of the population.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I'm going to back this one up- no one in my bubble thinks the economy is bad.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I mean it might be the University of Oklahoma, but it's still the University of Oklahoma, that is, a state flagship. It doesn't get the serious bottom of the barrel students- in the local neighborhood Texas Tech or Kansas State would be the schools notorious for graduating students who are barely literate. This isn't some HBCU or Police-Department-Requires-a-Diploma mill.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Who the hell is pushing for higher standards and more rigor at universities? Literally who? Like that's not going to happen. And state schools in flyover aren't going to be leading the charge on that even if you get a genie out of a bottle.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
This woman very obviously submitted an essay to court controversy. But it's interesting to note- the Oklahoma government is actually based. Principled, but based. And the university is just kind of automatically taking her side(really, it was not a good essay and deserved a failing grade). This looks to me more like evidence that the university is subservient than evidence of it being despoiled.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
I mean, Turkmenistan is the most oppressive country in the region(and it borders Iran and Afghanistan, in an area where democracy is unheard of). It has a history of dictators doing absurd personality cult things like forced karaoke and… everything about the Ruhnama. It’s probably on a preexisting ‘yeah, these guys are baddies if we ever decide to give a shit about them’ list.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Carol would generally be regarded as more Catholic than Bob by most practicing Catholics and by the church hierarchy. This matrix is a live question and the Catholic Church has a literal definition of the minimum standards to be accounted a practicing Catholic- the six precepts of the church.
If Carol was a public figure she might be subject to church discipline for heretical views(Nancy Pelosi notably is), which would change the equation. But church discipline is not levied against random people for heresy.
I always wonder why the modern world has such an allergy to beauty.
In a week, I will attend the most beautiful service of the liturgical year- the rorate mass begins just before sunset, in candlelight. It progresses, the church lit entirely by light shining through the stained glass at its completion. Every year, I step out, go to breakfast in some bland diner, and wonder- 'where did we go wrong?' Our buildings look like a cubist painting of dog poop covered in white and grey paint- despite that nice straight lines with some mildly interesting decorations, fleur de lis or lone stars or stylized cow's heads looks much nicer and is cheaper. Our modern art is better termed 'where's the art', with the exercise of trying to figure out what's an art exhibit and what's just an empty spot in the museum being more interesting than appreciating the 'art'.
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