hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
4hr ago
Arab Christian’s have globally normal rates of cousin marriage compared to the very high ones among Muslims, yes. There’s a few HBD just so stories(sub-Saharan African DNA in the Muslim population and jizya forcing conversions among the poor), too, but they seem like just-so, and also it’s a pretty even spread; Maronites who lived in enough isolation to get away with stuff aren’t any dumber than Copts who didn’t.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
Well yeah, this law is written to address unregulated adoptions not dotting their I’s and crossing their T’s. Most of those adoptions are done through well-meaning church groups, because that’s where trailer trash usually turns. To say that they sometimes have ugly ends is… well that’s all I’m going to say, but this law is probably intended to make sûre sweet church secretaries get somebody to do due diligence, not address child trafficking.
hydroacetylene
16hr ago
Just your daily reminder that in the US, the average Roman Catholic Sunday mass is tacky, and does not particularly follow unified style guides. That isn't even trad griping about things which aren't my preference like altar girls and the like; I am the Lord of the Dance Said He is a much more common hymn than anything like Faith of our Fathers, let alone the lovely classical music that inspired so many composers. Mass prayers may differ much less in verbiage, but when sung they are often set to cheesy folk music, or evangelical praise-and-worship light. Guitars are more common instruments than organs. Catholic churches vary strongly in architectural quality but the average Catholic goes to mass in an uninspired pseudo-amphitheatre decorated with designed-by-committee religious art that has nothing in common with the historical churches of Europe that nobody goes to, in a brutalist style if they're unlucky. The typical vestments look, literally, like burlap sacks. The 'ornate gravitas' that you speak of is uncommon enough in America to have special names for it(and is far less available than the other common strong liturgical preference- 'charismatic style' which apes evangelical worship services much more strongly. The majority of deeply religious Catholics in the USA imitate Evangelical outward forms). It's popular with Hollywood because it's easy to show on a screen looking and sounding cool. Most American Catholics have never heard Gregorian chant in a church service, see incense a couple of times a year, and dress worse for mass than protestants do.
hydroacetylene
16hr ago
I understand you don't hold to the same interpretation of Christian morality that I do. I'm not going to pretend that from a deontological perspective I think this is ever ok.
But an angle I've not seen addressed directly in the comments- are you really OK with your kid growing up without a dad in the house? Really? Are you OK with having a kid and not being dad? Are you really OK with that?
The other commenters have addressed the... abundant... practical issues. A few have touched on the moral issues that apply under a more conventional Christian morality. But are you really just... accepting of the possibility, nay, probability, that you might could be unable to fulfill your duty as a man to the next generation, more or less on purpose? You don't gotta be Thomas Aquinas to see how that just ain't right.
hydroacetylene
16hr ago
It appears that they were charged under 'accepting payment for adoption' not child trafficking. The former is, yes, a crime, but normally addresses 1)running adoption agencies without proper licensing and 2)paperwork violations to enable fraud(relating to taxes, parental rights, custody disputes, etc). It's entirely possible it just has low sentences because they got charged with 'sketchy shit' and not 'heinousness'. As for why they were charged that way, probably because the DA thought it would be easier to prove.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
Crucem Santam Subiit
I don't play videogames or watch anime, so no.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
I mean if you want to keep it even simpler- the wage premium for legal workers is actually pretty small, the lack of healthcare/hr overhead is what makes illegals so attractive. Just remove employment regulations. Prevailing wages and working conditions in the vast majority of the USA are already governed more by supply and demand than by regulation, you're mostly cutting red tape.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
Confessional protestantism and fundamentalist evangelical-adjacent protestantism are going strong, and they don't restrict the internet anymore than hardcore Catholics do. They're hard to track and more geographically constrained but they do exist.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
And in point of fact, Israeli Christians are local version of orientals, in having incomes and educational outcomes that handily best the majority. Jews do better than Muslim Arabs or Druze but behind Christians. Basically nobody disputes that this is for IQ reasons- Arab Christians are a genuinely high IQ group.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Schizo podcasts help pass the time better.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Mexico already has one of the largest industrial sectors in the world.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Episcopalians are still going- shrinking congregations that skew much older than the average church, but they're not about to die out, there'll just be fewer of them. Methodists are still there, albeit older and slowly shrinking, PCA has managed to avoid full collapse even if it's got hard times for the forseeable future. ELCA(mainline lutherans)- famously not a waspy denomination- are the real mainliners who won't be around when their current congregants kick the bucket(which won't be that long).
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The African American female church attendance rate is much higher than any other demographic sees; the male church attendance rate is not. ‘The men need to go to church more’ is a criticism of black culture that most black people themselves would agree with, and the usual red tribe elite formulation is that blacks should go to churches with stronger family values moralism anyways(the black church is not that).
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The conservative true elite is increasingly Catholic, but evangelical megachurchianity is more common for the masses. Episcopalians and Presbyterians are… not common, and don’t go to church anyways.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Pivoting to buying cheap Mexican and Brazilian and Argentine stuff isn’t that hard.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The thesis on disparate impact is 'they're uncivilized, and they should be more like us'. That is what normie red tribe elites think. The ultrapolitical ones not so much, but they're a small fraction. The fuentards are far outnumbered by people who think blacks should go to church, study, and work harder and they'd achieve white outcomes.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The red tribe elite is probably more blank slate than the blue tribe, if anything. They unironically believe that black underperformance is due mostly to culture and that removing blacks from the ghetto culture(and forcing them to assimilate to a better one, namely theirs) is what is necessary to fix issues in their communities. They can respect the oriental grindset but think they should age out of it with assimilation. Twitter is not real life.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
And more specifically, the US can likely maintain itself as the hegemon of the western hemisphere and remain the richest country on earth. It does not need china.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Hmm, you might be mostly right. I do remember some very blue educator bigwigs pushing for more homework because it was bonum in se to study like the orientals. But they might not truly be elites anyways, I suppose.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Oddly I don’t see the same level of paramilitary organization forming in the right which you wouldn’t think given their greater affinity for gun culture. I don’t anticipate any major attacks coming out of the right in the near future. The anger is there but no one seems interested in doing anything about it. Maybe because the current Federal government is perceived as friendly.
Gun culture both makes paramilitary activity easier to hide(it would take me about three phone calls to get into a ‘yeah, we have a commander, and we like to get together and train on the weekends, and we’ve got plans for when the shit hits the fan, but we’re definitely not a militia, no sir’) and makes would be attackers think twice. This stuff is concentrated among the functional, elite end of the red tribe, which already likes guns, hunting, firefight training, etc, and which is consequently very well aware that shooting people kills them. It sounds obvious, but I genuinely don’t think a lot of the nuts that go shoot people for political reasons really intend to leave body counts(I do, however, think they are crazy). Red tribe schizos who want to commit mass shootings don’t need to join a paramilitary group to do so, because they live in gun culture, and those paramilitary groups largely wouldn’t accept them anyways because they work on word of mouth, vetting, and reputation- like a more civilized motorcycle club. This mode of social organization- deinstitutionalized networking with high functioning members and extensive IRL vetting- is very red tribe and very good at excluding nut jobs.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
America is what America is. Vivek being upset about what it is does not change that. This is, literally, tautological.
Now you can of course argue that we should improve America by making it more like some other country which does things better. That is, historically, not a GOP position, to put it mildly, and race as such is kinda irrelevant- because the GOP reaction to we should have socialism like Denmark is also sharply negative. Our culture is American because it is American; Fourth of July is an American holiday because it is celebrated by Americans in America. Literally that is what makes it so.
Vivek is arguing ‘we should have oriental grindset study obsession like they do in the orient’ and nobody seems to like that- including the orientals themselves, the Koreans are refusing to bring children into the world because they don’t want to subject them to that. Obviously it’s unpopular, although there’s certain elite circles which like the idea. They are, however, not GOP elites.
Vivek needs to learn his audience instead of crashing out on Christmas every year. Republican politicians keep track of college football because that is what elite red tribers do(NFL is much more working class and much more politically neutral). They don’t rant about SAT scores.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
This isn't new- see 'Body Ritual of the Nacirema'.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
Basketball is, in Oklahoma, a sport considered roughly as important as curling, and which exists largely to pass the time between the superbowl and the beginning of baseball season. The core red tribe thinks of basketball as an amateur game and does not follow the NBA, sometimes with an excuse of 'too many games'- seeing college basketball as akin to track and field or archery or something- a sport which nobody actually cares about, but which a respectable athletics program will maintain anyways just for the sake of it.
The existence of highly ranked research departments gives the university of Texas- and a small number of other red state universities- some insulation from political pressure to the extent that that research(mostly geology in the case of the university of Texas, for obvious reasons) is extremely valuable to private sector industry.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
She didn't want to be a martyr, the whole thing is a staged political stunt to get the TPUSA more influence. I daresay I have a better insight into the priorities of the politically active core red tribe in the south central United States than the average motteizean; the TPUSA is a big part of their 'theory of victory' and this kind of stunt is exactly what somebody trying to exploit it would dream up- and some state legislators were peripherally involved, but involved enough to be an implied threat.
IIRC there was a Michigan scandal where a low income daycare scheme got shut down because some native blacks were just registering each others children and collecting paychecks. It happens pretty regularly in the US and the answer is often ‘corrupt machine politics’.
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