hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
7hr ago
France has very, very few salaries anywhere near that high.
hydroacetylene
7hr ago
He's talking about France, where everyone acknowledges that the pension system is going to have to be cut eventually- and eventually means 'in the mid term future', not 'in 100 years'.
hydroacetylene
7hr ago
I'm registering a prediction that Tisza is just Fidesz 2.0 in practice. Hungary seems to like it until it gets excessive.
hydroacetylene
7hr ago
Traditional conservatism ideologically has little interesting to say about the economy. It is true that most conservative parties discovered that supply side economics works in the seventies and eighties, but this was a marriage of convenience- driven largely by the left being socialist(which does not work) at the time.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
The orthodox are late to every holiday.
hydroacetylene
10hr ago
Who’s most critical to the regime? You’re a soldier fighting a war, seeking a military objective(‘destroy the evil empire’), not trying to determine individual guilt.
I suspect that the tactically correct answer is to attempt to turn Carol as a source and kill Alice. But it’s going to depend on the circumstances.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Let alone laundry- ironing all that took an entire day. They didn't have wrinkle free fabrics, and they didn't have electric irons either.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Much easier than getting your government hands on the boomers' medicare.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Yes, it's not a thing in the US. There's nowhere in the world, ever in human history, where the elderly committed lots of crime to survive. They just died. The logic for taking care of the elderly is compassion, not crime prevention. There are places right now where senior citizens need to eat dog food to survive. They're not stealing better food(potatoes and shit, not steak). 'Old people suffering from malnutrition until they get knocked out by flu season' happened because they'll just suffer rather than steal/rob.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
IME black men and women seem to really hate each other in a way that's kinda foreign to my (white)experience, and the hip-hop political incorrectness mentality that lots of black men have is a big part of it. Women, justifiably, don't like it very much, and mainstream white/hispanic culture is much much better about sexism coming with responsibility.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
...Yes? Asians are tightwads, so they live in the hood, and they stay up real late and like to go out and about.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
You can also, much more easily, just end the cap on social security contributions. Sure, the high income won't like it, but an almost literal 'raise taxes on the rich and only the rich' policy would be popular enough that they realize it's not going away.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Ok, the issue with the protection money argument for welfare- and I'm 100% willing to believe that certain programs reduce the crime rate- is that most of that welfare goes to criminally-uninclined demographics. Old people who can't maintain a normal standard of living are a known phenomenon, we know what it looks like, and they're not mugging people with their walkers. They're living in squalor and dying of malnutrition-worsened diseases. Sure, that's bad, but the argument for avoiding it isn't 'well it's worse when they rob a liquor store' because they won't rob liquor stores.
Again, I'm 100% willing to believe that, say, TANF reduces shoplifting and prostitution rates. But that's a completely separate argument.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Young men were not an esteemed group in the past when that support was voluntary.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Ok, but average life expectancy is ~80. If we assume retirement at 65 and full time employment starting at 21, that's 44 years of full time work vs 36 of nonproductive time. So a forty hour workweek is still far more than 20 hours of productivity not allocated towards old age.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
If you rescind state backing, I suspect thé teachers transing kids will find themselves having a rough go.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Indians edge out Jews for the wealthiest group in America per capita.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
People don’t care, they want to gossip, they want a story. This ain’t some early stage republic replete with civic virtue. People have a narrative to stick to- either Trump as rightful king or Trump as evil emperor. One of the tropes of the latter has always been sexual impropriety- which in our society invariably means pedophilia(or ‘pedophilia’).
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The taliban sucks for women, but I’m skeptical that maximally terrible stupid evil is a good description of the average taliban husband- most people aren’t going to go out of their way to be maximally terrible stupid evil, after all.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
There are many very successful all male societies- they need to recruit to keep their numbers up, but militaries have historically been very good at getting stuff done at the cutting edge of their society. Men enslaving women is, correct, not how patriarchy usually works- but as IS shows, it can work in a pinch as a substitute for genuine intersexual cooperation.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
This is a weird filter bubble effect. If it had been mostly white men(and there are groups of mostly white men who catcall, albeit fewer than other races), she would have had no trouble saying ‘white people’. She would have no trouble saying ‘Christians’(or more likely ‘fundies’). But conversely she’s not going to complain about women qua women.
Likewise many on the other side of the aisle would have no trouble criticizing Muslims, gays, etc. The taboo against racism is a taboo against criticizing certain specific groups, not one against ethnic prejudice more broadly.
Progressives will criticize whites, men, heterosexuals, Christians, etc, but not their opposites, is a thing thats been discussed to death.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
And this is more or less a denial and being treated as such by non-joke commenters. Even fr James Martin released a statement about how it didn’t happen but the trump admin is gross enough to do it.
There are norms for Vatican communication, and ‘Letters from Leo’ is not a good source(and there are good liberal sources on this stuff, albeit often published monthly rather than daily/weekly). This is a salacious rumour that was being treated as fact on Twitter, I don’t blame you for being taken in briefly- but holding to it so tightly is a bit queer, thé USCCB doesn’t believe it, thé Catholic journalists with any standards at all don’t believe it, even if they’re liberal activist hacks- this is simply a thing that didn't happen, and the Trump admin is denying it for that reason.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Or the avignon threats never happened.
Didn’t know you were orthodox.
Byzantine Catholics start services late(but usually use the Latin calendar for feasts in the US), too, it’s just an eastern rite thing- but our stereotype is for technically a Latin mainstream Americans who go there to be the ones who can’t manage their personal lives, and the ethnics to be successful diaspora types.
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