hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
1hr ago
I’m not sure what you mean by ‘falling off the wagon’- they’re already doctors and lawyers(who, I’ll note, have from an objective perspective made large sacrifices to their standard of living to dwell in NYC, doctors in flyover live in mansions not apartments).
Maybe this is one of those things I don’t get and won’t get, like why neurotic strivers think they’re better than me without having the pedigree to back it up, or why people live together for five years without getting married.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
My keyboard is set to recognize English, Spanish, and French. I do not know, or want to know, why it sometimes autocorrects the to thé, but it doesn’t seem worth fixing.
hydroacetylene
10hr ago
I think 1) left wing posters should be given more leash but also 2) Turok’s seething 2005 leftist contempt has used it up.
hydroacetylene
10hr ago
This is even more complicated because ‘cruelty free’ sometimes gets used as a label for animal products produced in more humane conditions eg free range eggs. It’s just a bad term for expressing anything in particular.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
I don’t think you’re quite understanding mandatory reporter laws. Everyone is technically required to report, absent specific circumstances(confessor/lawyer privilege, 5th amendment grounds, etc). Mandatory reporters are further subject to time and formatting requirements.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
No, resurrection is thé resurrection of the old body in glorified form. I could link pages upon pages of Catholic autistic esoterica about the exact properties of these bodies but they are the same bodies.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
Woke is all about Catharism. Thé Cathari can save you by association- at terrible cost to themselves. The queer black women grace us with their presence, bringing us enlightenment, despite their suffering. Any sexual practice is good, as long as it doesn’t make a baby. There are those who are enlightened by the cathari and those who are stuck in the false consciousness of prevailing religion. There are those who are awakened to the reality of structural oppression(this is the literal meaning of woke) and those who are stuck in the mainstream mode of society. Christianity is imperfect but a great vehicle for the true faith.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
Probably indefinitely. Northern European Protestant cultures cannot function in modernity without a Refugia to provide labor that makes up for their own low fertility rates; in the past these were mostly Catholic cultures that provided immigrants(Ireland as the ur-example, but that’s what Mexico was recently. Obviously, neither of these places are going to be exporting masses of young laborers they way they could in 1850 or 1990.), but that’s not an option anymore so the choice is between tolerating weirdos in your midst- provided they have six well behaved and hard working kids- or importing Africans. Germany may rather the latter, now that there’s no youth surplus in its Slavic near abroad, but America will almost certainly rather give the Amish more of the same special carve outs they have now.
If I were thé Hasidim, however, I’d be worried. Antisemitism is slowly becoming normalized on the left and the future right is unlikely to have much patience for groups that won’t even pretend to work.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
It seems to be code for ‘the aesthetics of 2000’s democrats’.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
It is the latter group which won’t even exist. The choice of existence becomes rarer thé longer it has been a choice. Those transhumanists will produce few young, lose most of them to soma, and then burn out the few that remain with oriental bugman academic grinds. Keeping that civilization going requires a reserve supply of mark I humans to replenish it and modernity does not supply it.
Say what you will about the Amish and similar, they hang on. In 3000 AD there may not be a Silicon Valley but there will be Pennsylvania Dutch.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
I don’t think we’re talking past each other much.
FWIW I completely endorse your perspective on the rat and the kitten, though I don't expect most others to get it. Regardless of intentions, learning to kill animals well requires botching the process rather a lot of times.
Cats, uh, do not generally deliver a humane and quick death, and hunters who place their shots poorly are not thought well of. I certainly wouldn’t tolerate a novice Hunter making gut shots. But that’s an unrealistic expectation of cats; what animals do to each other is not bound by the golden rule.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
My usual reaction to catching a rodent is to break its neck and feed it to the cat already dead, not to torture it. But the cat needed to learn to catch rats, to be clear(and that is how cats learn- their mothers bring them wounded prey). It is, of course, beneath a person to maim an animal because its attempts at escape are amusing, Ivan thé terrible style. But we shouldn’t worry about the suffering of lower animals in veal or shrimp or egg production. Their suffering is instrumental, not intentional.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
When I had a kitten I maimed a captured rat to teach it how to catch rodents. I feel no guilt about this whatsoever.
The great chain of being is real. I simply refuse to give a crap about shrimp welfare. You can too. The answer to ethical vegans saying ‘but think of the animals’ is ‘yes, when I do that I remember what they taste like’. I recommend this approach.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Also, its probably the only actual racial identitarian movement in US politics that anyone talks about
Black identitarian movements are a thing.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I remember the GOP before Trump. Still disadvantaged in academia and the like.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Got to ask- were they already reducing headcount?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The Greeks actually wrote a lot about the conditions for democracy and what separated Greeks from barbarians in being able to do it.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Bush was genuinely pious, but he wasn’t some townie(which is what the poster I replied to was getting at). He was, literally, a coastal elite who was educated in the Ivy League. He may have had blinders from ideology or end times prophecy but he and his admin weren’t villagers who had no choice but to believe what the scribes pronounced.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
We have, off the top of my head, at least one male atheist redpiller concerned about promiscuity. Every time he brings this up I ask him why he hasn’t converted to a fundamentalist branch of Christianity and he doesn’t answer, but theres clearly a reason.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
It would shock me if Galicia didn’t have mines and good land, and Russia doesn’t want that part.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
It seems like the Ukraine invasion is mostly an analogue to the Iraq war from Russia’s perspective, not the USA’s.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I don’t think you can blame this on the naivety of republicans because it was an elite stratum doing the invading.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I do remember all those photos; I remember lots of democrats awful proud of Iraqi elections even if they didn't like Bush. The war was well-defended on 'liberal' grounds and maybe I'm just confusing liberal and leftist here but I recall plenty of definitely-not-Bush voters awfully supportive of the war.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Iran's government might be incompetent, but again, I don't understand what's uncivilized about it?
Because CNN does not, as far as I know, object to the ‘tyranny’. They object to Trump. Liberty-as-in-freedom to live your life is not something these people particularly value and they don’t really claim to either.
It is probably true that the Trump coalition is being a bit hypocritical when they back Trumpian caudillismo, but I don’t think the anti-Trump coalition(to the extent that it can meaningfully be called a ‘coalition’ at this point) is hypocritical for backing Biden’s use of federal power to punish his enemies while bemoaning Trump’s- they really do think that the untrammeled rule of the expert scholar-bureaucrats is most important and don't value freedom at all.
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