hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Why does Clav need a deeper meaning? People like watching insane celebrities act like coked up retards(because that’s what they are). He’s different in form, but not function, from Britney Spears.
hydroacetylene
14hr ago
Chattel slavery actually has a pretty clear bright line- the individual can be transferred from one owner to another like any other piece of property, it isn't bound to real property.
Nowadays bound to real property is pretty rare in the west- it comes up in mineral/water rights sometimes and game animals, but it isn't something average people have to care about. But various forms of unfree labour which were not transferable, they were bound to real property, were not slavery, and historically bounded property was very common in other contexts as well.
hydroacetylene
15hr ago
Psshh. Europe dominated the world in the first globalization. Whites conquered the Western hemisphere when it was full of brown people.
hydroacetylene
16hr ago
Protection from termination for political views varies by state, and- perhaps counterintuitively but unsurprisingly- it tends to be blue states which have strong protections for political views, theoretically to protect union organizing.
hydroacetylene
16hr ago
I've seen a few, all from regions of the world with lots of blonds.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
At least at the moment, democrats are moving away from advocating for top end tax increases.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
Yes, usually two-three drinks per day. This is a large reduction over previous consumption.
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
Join a functioning and high fertility white subgroup.
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
That is not true, see elsewhere in this very thread that transition increases psychiatric morbidity. See also the 41% suicide rate of transitioners, which is not a sign of a mentally healthy population on average(after all, most depressives manage not to kill themselves).
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
'Child marriage' when it's basically all 16-17 year olds. Not, like, actual children like they do in the middle east. That's still illegal.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Not giving money to schools is the third rail of American politics. Like cutting social security.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Large parts of medieval Europe basically didn’t have actual chattel slavery for long periods of time- they had unfree labour, but serfs weren’t slaves.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Why not? We already allow childhood mutilation of genitals for males! In fact teenagers are probably more ethical to do on than babies cause the teenagers could always push back while the baby can not.
I'm going to push back on this- circumcision is yes bad but not as bad as FGM, and and one meets the threshold for child abuse while the other one doesn't.
My son isn't circumcised, my future ones won't be either, you don't need to convince me it's bad. But, as a circumcised guy, it's nowhere near as bad as FGM is supposed to be. There's a major difference in severity.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
It also has a system in place that prevents people (adults!) from voluntarily buying the drugs for themselves that they want.
Unless they're 'for your dog'. Or a doctor takes the word of your chiropractor that he heard you say you needed them. Or you have money. Or...
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Nothing Iran has done thus far indicates that they care about making money compared to their Wadiya-like anti-Israel and anti-Western views.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Just because parents don't know what a collective action problem is doesn't mean they can't identify one. Not everyone works off of formal logic, parents can recognize that instagram is bad for kids at the same time as kids being socially isolated by being the only one not on instagram is bad for kids.
I have a previous thread about very conservative parents being better at their jobs, and my sources overemphasized discipline as a factor. Lots of the commentary was basically about how 'discipline' meant setting limits on social media. Plausibly your theory about parents feeling disempowered is supported therein; but short of spreading the folkways of the rightmost 10-20% or so of the population more broadly(and I have another thread about that), the best way to solve this specific problem of teen social media use is to make a law against it. They won't follow it voluntarily but it will let their parents enforce it.
Of course, I would prefer to be a selective libertarian and empower the rightmost 10-20% of the population by not doing anything to prevent the rest of it from self destructing. This is not out of a general commitment to freedom. But it's entirely understandable to me why social media bans that nobody knows how to enforce would be welcomed by parents.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Hijra aren't trans, though, they're a weird localized form of fake gender who exist by public embarrassment(somehow they don't get beaten up? I thought India was a third world country with weak rule of law?) enabling their begging schtick.
I will acknowledge that in general, we don't have reliable numbers from large parts of the world. Trans seems a WEIRD phenomenon to me, but it's possible that I'm wrong. 'Millions and millions of trans people' is a legitimate possibility, even if I lean towards 'there's less than ten millions in the world'.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The US is way on the high end for transgenderism population prevalence, for one thing.
And for another, does that .5% include non-binary, genderqueer, etc things that are different phenomena, and which would dominate the numbers if included? Most statistics that I see show a ‘not male or female identifying’ category, when in reality MTF’s, FtM’s, agendered weirdos/fake genders, and intersex(rare birth defects) are four essentially unrelated things. To the best of my knowledge intersex and fake genders are much more common than FtM which is much more common than MtF.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I don't like Mohammedanism either, but how do you determine what cultural difference is too great?
Like in 1850, we knew that Catholics weren't incapable of running a society to then-modern current standards, because France existed. But Malaysia seems to be at least on par with the better parts of Latin America, the gulf countries are fairly nice places to live, and Turkey is a modern developed country.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Of course it's a bit racist to insist your children marry within race. That's fine- not that racism is good, but that this is specifically a fairly harmless way of going about it. Everyone has preferences for who their children marry- and as far as I know nobody(except maybe the hare krishnas) adopts Indian culture from the outside.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Are there millions and millions of trans people? They're a pretty small minority that's simply absent from large parts of the world. And there seems to be multiple phenomena involved, with most of these people specifically being MTFs, which isn't even the biggest group.
I'm getting flashbacks to the Catcher in the Rye obsession among prominent murderers, for some reason. No doubt there are many people who like Catcher in the Rye, but it seems overrepresented among murderers.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I’m wondering what you’re basing this off, because most informed speculation is that ‘white’ as a social category underestimates thé percentage of phenotypically European cultural Americans.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
But starvation isn't a real problem in the modern west. People who can't afford food will be taken care of- possibly by food waste, but more often by charity- either private, government, or informal(eg the donut shop worker giving unsold product to the homeless at close instead of throwing it out for raccoons).
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Actually a century ago Catholic immigrants mostly only married within their own little niche ethnic group. Irish-Polish Catholic marriages were more encouraged by the Church, but not by the immigrant communities themselves.
In France French coullion means a vulgarity approximating ‘fellow-motorist’, but in Cajun it is an endearing term for a fool.
This process is extremely common in the world’s languages. See also ‘nigga’. Sounds like it’s well underway.
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