hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
3hr ago
And the hardcore conspiracy theorists are a non-negligible percent, although ‘microchips in thé vaccine’ may not be 100% literal all the time.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
Maybe Vance will take the throne by assassination after the mid terms. It would, if nothing else, be very interesting.
It’s unlikely, but we live in interesting times.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
Trump has had… lots of appointees that didn't agree with him much. RFK wasn’t someone I would’ve expected to be on the Trump train.
Perhaps Warsh is expected to be more susceptible to political influence?
hydroacetylene
15hr ago
If it’s comforting, thé historical pattern in hegemony holding democracies is very clear- real or imagined security threats drive deviations from normal business, which drives polarization that turns inwards(we are here), butchers a good chunk of the political class on both sides, and results in a decidedly not democratic center right government that does a lot of corruption but doesn’t really hold grudges and keeps the economy going. In the long run, we’ll be OK.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
Yeah, I deliberately steered clear of ‘as seen on H2’ conspiracy theories.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
Following that definition, would it be fair to say that you think a woman whose lifestyle involves walking around in the bad part of town at night in a miniskirt without male company deserves to be raped?
We call these women ‘prostitutes’ and getting raped is an occupational hazard of streetside prostitution.
Now that doesn’t mean they deserve it, but as the vice squad will tell you, they should get normal jobs to avoid it. Their lifestyle is, well, having sex with people who hire shady illegal prostitutes, a much larger percentage of whom are rapists than is normal for sexually active males in any culture.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
Pistols are really loud, like ‘agent is now temporarily deaf and probably has permanent hearing damage’ loud. Looking elsewhere doesn’t seem likely.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Hahaha. They can just get paid cash; it’s common enough in restaurants and construction even for citizens, and rent rooms in cash from landlords that don’t give a shit, and drive cautiously as beater #90000 that’s probably not going to pay his ticket so why bother stopping him.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Just one, I believe Dean is a US operative, not Australian. I wouldn’t be shocked if we had one from another country but if so he hasn’t made it obvious.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Soccer hooliganism is very illegal in Europe, actually, and these clubs are well coordinated. There’s a book about it, I can’t remember the name.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Eh, there’s a good chance Amazon literally couldn’t staff itself at current levels without illegals, whereas they can pass tariffs onto the customer pretty easily. Amazon already offers a better compensation package than is normal in blue collar labor markets and their dominance relies on fast turnaround times that require big workforces. I haven’t seen internal numbers, but they’re probably way more scared of a potential labor shortage than of cost increases.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
It’s possible to be both, right? I’m not a mental health expert, but ‘suicidal ideation’ ‘delusions of grandeur’ and ‘group persecution complex’ are frequently co-occurring.
I interact with lots of minorities, but not ones selected for being woke. I’ve spoken to black small business owners who say ‘yeah, thé police kill unarmed black people all the time, but they’re thugs who have it coming even if they didn’t deserve it in that moment’. I’ve talked to people who became Republican for RFK’s health crusade- conspiracy theories about fast food controlling the population and stuff. I’ve talked to people who believe smoking is good for you and it’s being covered up by big pharma. I’ve talked to people who believe the flu shot is a conspiracy to spread the virus so the healthcare system can sell tamaflu. I’ve talked to people who think Amazon is manipulating the price of concrete as a 3d chess move to drive competitors out of business. There’s people out there claiming jet fuel is fake, so therefore 9/11 is too, that the US military runs a human experimentation program that’s already developed gene editing technology, that the government is secretly controlled by the British, It just goes on and on and on. And lots of dumb, crazy beliefs get results. The military human experimentation guy correctly predicted everything that went down with the border in Biden’s term.
Almost everyone believes a wide variety of stupid things all the time. When these are uncoordinated stupid things it doesn’t cause much problem. But a coordination mechanism for stupid things people believe, now those are dangerous. It could be used for good, sometimes. There’s a decent case civilization arose by coordinating stupid ideas around taboos into construction projects. But it can be used for evil, as well. That’s what woke is, and it’s why every society has a state ideology and represses, however softly, alternatives.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
IDK man, last time I got jury duty I noticed the defense lawyer in pinstripes and it made him seem super shady.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
So your point is that it'll give an intelligent investor plenty of time to sell before the market crashes? Because people who have the money to invest in asteroid mining and people who aren't willing to wait years to see a return are, I suspect, non overlapping circles.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Gold is not behaving more reasonably, but that probably doesn't matter for rings because jewelry prices are not very connected to metals prices- the markup was already big enough to absorb material price rises and stones were the main driver of material costs anyways.
This, BTW, is why jewelry makes a terrible investment- unlike eg guns, which you can usually sell for a decent percent of the initial purchase price, jewelry you definitely can't, due to the very high markup and subjective appraisals.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
To note, the (very successful)French line infantry wore straight white, which in field conditions just looks like gunpowder smoke. Line infantry wears a cote that makes it obvious what team they're on, for coordination purposes(the entire point is having a recognized formation that you can get into and reform quickly). Hence why most armies used blue- easy to recognize- and the confederates used tan(which also blends into gunpowder smoke) while taking favorable casualty ratios. It's supposed to distinguish them from the enemy army, not the surrounds- as tech improved, armies stayed further apart, and the instrumental value of hiding became more important, so they started to use colours that would blend in with the surrounds- initially khaki rather than camo.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Or wear an FBI style uniform, with a baseball cap and windbreaker with the logo and acronym emblazoned on it in bright contrasting colours.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
They could easily have uniforms that look like standard police uniforms, or the FBI gettup with the baseball cap and letter jacket.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
A fasces without the axe actually has a specific symbolic meaning in the Roman context- it was born inside the pomerium, the sacred ground in which blood could never be shed, by lictors bearing witness to the peaceable power of the magistrate in directing civic functions.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Well yeah, if you were paying offshore oil rig rates you’d fill up every blue collar job- except that most of the businesses employing them would shut down.
Plenty of citizens at these jobs are getting cash, because the class of citizens they employ are ones would be subject to garnishments.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Rather, it is some farmer or hotel owner who systematically employs illegals at wages which would not attract legal workers.
Being far more familiar with the blue collar labour market in areas with lots of illegals than you probably are, I can't really give a source but you'll have to take me at my word- illegals do not get lower wages than legal workers. Part of this is doing more physically demanding hazardous work, sure, but part of it is also that any part of America which attracts illegals(they are, after all, not going to rural Mississippi) has a severe labour shortage anyways. Illegals make a very similar dollar amount to legal workers doing the same jobs, although usually without healthcare, retirement, unemployment insurance, etc. This is cheaper for the employer, but not due to wages. Illegals are preferred partly because of this, but as much because they don't smoke weed every day, ask for overtime, etc. They're there to work and make money, and the employers which hire them are used to paying cash because legal workers prefer it too(can't get child support deducted that way, can spend it on drugs without having to go to a shady gas station and pay 10% to a middle easterner who mutters racial slurs while he cashes it, etc)- but the illegals' preference for cash is far more sympathetic to most people, including the mildly racist who are nonetheless disgusted at the behavior of the lower working class that competes with them for jobs. And blue collar management in the lower midwest speaks Spanish anyways.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
And what was the survival rate in the gulags they were sent to?
hydroacetylene
2d ago
You can sell parts of it, you know, not the whole thing.
Conventionally attractive males getting teen girl fanclubs despite being terrible people is… not a new phenomenon; Dzhokar Tsarnaev did, and nobody thinks the Boston marathon bombing was right.
This is more a datapoint in extended adolescence among leftist women than anything else. I suspect that if Dylan Roof had been employed as an underwear model you might have seen some of the same thing in the opposite direction.
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