hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
8hr ago
Uh, blue collar Americans dislike Indians more than they dislike other middleman minorities(Lebanese, Koreans, Albanians, etc) for being rude to their workers. This is not a highly visible complaint, but it primes the ground for other complaints.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
I mean it definitely doesn't seem to have been true of Mexicans. Even in the early 2000's when 'immigration' was a euphemism for 'Mexicans' people mostly didn't seem to have big problems with Mexican culture- maybe some griping they didn't learn English fast enough, but people thought they were mostly normal blue collar guys who worked hard and liked beer and sports.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
Working class Americans don't like Indians because snooty brahmins treat them like shit, and Americans are used to more... nice class relations. It's not 100% of them but it's enough to develop a reputation. Add the paganism(which the average American probably doesn't see as an ultimate sin that invites vengeance on the community but does see as savagery we moved past thousands of years ago) and cultural oddities and the highly visible middleman minority status and it doesn't really help. The stories out of Canada(which many people might not realize are from Canada) probably make it worse. Tech workers complaining about H1B's are more a thing in higher social classes.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
People the world over copy suburbia when they get the chance- that's part of the impetus behind Israeli settlement, for example. Obviously someone likes them.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
HSR isn't profitable but neither are American freeways.
The difference is that freeways are reasonably versatile. You can have passenger cars, busses, and eighteen wheelers on them. HSR is stuck in its particular niche.
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
Well then he should fix that.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
Those joys are unfortunately not very describable.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
I mean at the end of the day, the US is going to lose slower than China. The population is declining slower, it has far more fossil wealth to live on, there's more natural resources making purchasing power/GDP disconnects easier to weather, and if you think US foreign policy is disastrous- wait until you see China's. The US native white population has a pretty decent fertility rate by first world standards and the core red tribe is actually replacing itself.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
Then get married and become a normie.
Like it or not, society doesn't revolve around men having fun. You're not a kid anymore. I'm not sure why eccentrics should have a veto over societal development. The suburbs are great for most people; your disinterest in growing up into a normie probably says more about you than it does about society.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I mean to be fair Europe has both first world militaries(France) and first world economies(Netherlands, Denmark). Not in the same places, mind you. But still.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Wasn’t the 1979 bomb South African?
I’m going to call BS on the Ukrainian nuke- if they had one, they’d hit Moscow.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Nature is already going to do that for us - not only are the fossil fuels going to eventually run out, rational human beings prioritised the easiest-to-access and most efficient stores of fossil fuels. The energy return on energy invested of conventional fossil fuels is going down, and the EROEI of shale and fracking is even worse.
Isn’t there quite a bit of easy to access fossil fuels that are off limits for political reasons, eg Venezuela’s dictator not trusting anybody capable of drilling?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The unreasonable people don’t even want to do that, they want to try to bribe really poor communities to have storage facilities near them, then decide better of it and just hold onto it.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Reactors could well be designed to run off of colder water than was available. Naively it should have been fine- most of the energy in cooling is used to boil the water rather than heat it up- but euros like to engineer things to have really tight tolerances for some reason.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
IDK, but when I’ve been speaking Spanish a bunch I get a ton of ads for soccer.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
You really don’t have to look very hard to find examples of teachers getting fired over a past in sex work, some of it a lot tamer than that.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Texas’ new maps are pretty far from a maximal gerrymander. Indiana, on the other hand…
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Why did they remaster friends? Serious question. It’s a sitcom. There are no special effects or panoramic vistas. ~no one watches it for the costuming. On a deep and fundamental level, who cares.
Unless it’s just copywrite extension.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Yes. Conspiracy oriented women love her.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Russia gate was, to be clear, mostly lies, but it wasn’t election denial.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The proles mostly understand that CEO’s earn more than them, but very few will defend how much more- which, TBH, is mostly an artifact of poor corporate governance.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The NBA orchestrated the Luka Doncic trade in exchange for fixing the draft lottery to get Flagg to the Mavs.
Interesting in the context of the preexisting small scale conspiracy theory that the giant casino company which owns the mavs deliberately traded him to reduce the team’s fortunes, because they think a losing team gives them more political influence.
Right wing twitter recently melted down when location was shown for accounts, and it turned out that 70% of users with a name like DefendTheWest turned out to be from India and Nigeria.
Also revealed a giant percentage of man hating feminists were from South Asia and sub Saharan Africa.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Uh, doesn’t the average OF girl have quite poor earnings?
hydroacetylene
2d ago
But the proles are not upset about celeb pay. They might be upset about CEO pay, but rarely entertainers. They’re the fans here(that’s what celebrity means).
I don’t know about Appalachians specifically but whites and Hispanics intermarry regularly- especially white man/hispanic woman. I can’t say anyone would care if it was white/black instead but it’s considerably less common.
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