hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
5hr ago
Pakistan's air force performed very well in their last flareup.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
Uh, does the Taliban need assistance from India to carry out carbomb attacks? Like this naively seems to be "Jews caused the Ukraine invasion" tier conspiracizing- Russia doesn't need outside encouragement to invade a neighbor it's on bad terms with, and the Taliban doesn't need outside encouragement to be terrorists.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Ok, but democrats will infight to the point that republicans have a lot of influence on that bill. There'll be a faction that settles for nothing less than abolishing private insurance and a faction that really doesn't want to do that and it'll wind up with a republican-ish bill that everyone but Thomas Massie, MTG, and Rand Paul votes for. Probably some giant omnibus that actually succeeds in driving down drug prices over the short term and republicans present as 'Trumpcare'.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
It, uh, sounds like she doesn't want to get serious with you. See also 'been dating for ten years'. You should break up. She'll just find another excuse.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
For selfish reasons, I hope the democrats unseat them in bloody primaries which nominate #resistance dems instead of some of their highest value over replacement senators.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
AIUI, there are several 'foodstamps' programs, and the ones people might actually starve from not getting are funded- it's possible that a lengthy pause in foodstamps would cause issues for people, but private charity can bridge over it for a month or two- especially these two.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
‘The boss wants to use AI’
hydroacetylene
2d ago
This is not guaranteed, but it's what happened in every previous shutdown. I'd expect that 95-99% of the backpay gets disbursed; people that took vacation during the shutdown or something might not be.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
AFAIK, the TDLR is that obamacare includes subsidies for people who buy their own insurance(that is, don't get employer-coverage or welfare coverage or etc). These are mostly early retirees. Trump's government funding bill slashes these subsidies, the democrats won't vote for a bill that doesn't keep them.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
It’s a downballot election, most people don’t pay attention to AG- they check the box matching their party preference for governor.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
As I point out every time this comes up, Christians in Israel are a model minority very similar to eg Chinese-Americans. Israeli Christians generally outperform the Jewish minority but have less political representation, and this is a very common situation in first world countries.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
I mean, when Matt Walsh says 'dual citizens shouldn't be allowed to run for office' he's not talking about me- I could, in theory, claim Dutch citizenship through my grandfather. I've never bothered because I don't particularly want to live in the Netherlands, and in the US this is not an uncommon situation(although the most common country is likely Italy). This is a roughly analogous set of circumstances to Jews technically having access to Israeli citizenship.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
She looked unhinged. Like that's it, she looked like the homeless woman outside of walmart who asks for cigarette money and delivers a warning about lizard people. This stuff matters.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
As far as I know, Georgia is much much much more religious than Russia, in the actual religion sense. Religious authorities doing stuff like that matters in societies which care about religion for the sake of religion, not for the sake of larping.
hydroacetylene
7d ago
I would agree that walsh and fuentes have more similar 'actual policy opinions' than in the popular consciousness. But this is the motte, we're not a representative sample. Walsh is much less hoe-scaring because he talks like he believes his social and racial conservatism out of moral and practical reasons, and not like he believes it out of bigotry. Non-ideologues, especially women, care about that a lot more than they do specific policies. Walsh and Fuentes both have blandly standard trad-cath policy views on abortion, the difference is that Walsh stopped going to Latin mass because some interpersonal drama with Candace Owens convinced him to go to his local parish instead, and as far as anybody knows Nick Fuentes is not a consistent church attendee.
Now I don't actually know Fuentes's motivations. I'm just saying, the way he talks makes a bigger difference than we're giving it credit for because we're weird policy autists. Shapiro didn't put out a special episode with no adds because of that, obviously- he did it because he's Jewish and feels threatened. This is the baseline state of being Jewish and doesn't tell us much, and I doubt that the employees had much room to tell him to stop. Not that I'm suggesting they tried very hard- Walsh, like most actual rad trads, very likely is used to seeing low-IQ antisemitism associated with schizophrenic drama queens and probably neither thinks it's a societal emergency nor feels much personal sympathy for its evangelists, although I obviously can't speak to his personal motivations. But the difference in popular perception? Walsh comes off as a true believer with a reasoned value system. Fuentes comes off as an unhinged bigot. Principles are important vs women are gross(and gay-as-in-literally-homosexual misogyny is probably going to be as big an issue for Fuentes appealing to the normies as the anti-semitism).
hydroacetylene
7d ago
My lived experience of actual Ukrainians is that they believe this narrative of the holodomor, whether or not you do, and discussion of it would be as welcome as bringing securesignals as a +1 to a bar mitzvah.
hydroacetylene
7d ago
Mostly UGCC members, but American residents who speak Ukrainian(not Russian or Surshik) at home. I'll be the first to admit this is a biased pool towards anti-Russian hardcore nationalists, but I also remember them liking Assad for middle-eastern Christian reasons, which points to less influence on their views by the US media and state department.
hydroacetylene
7d ago
Galicia is Latin for "land of the Celts" and was used as a term for difficult to control borderlands inhabited by ethnically distinct peoples in European state formation; at least for some of them, old habits die hard.
hydroacetylene
7d ago
America and Argentina were very wealthy by the standards of most of Europe at the time; really only the UK and the low countries could compete.
hydroacetylene
7d ago
I think you're way underestimating the difference in the way Fuentes vs Walsh come off. Walsh would not have said 'your body my choice'. He's just a lot less hoe-scaring. He talks like a social conservative who believes his own stated moral and practical reasoning and not one who's actually just bigoted.
hydroacetylene
7d ago
Ukraine's demographics are way worse than Russias. Of course there's a strong regional aspect- eastern Ukraine is starving old people currently getting bombed, western Ukraine was doing better than average for Europe before the war.
hydroacetylene
7d ago
This is how Russia treats its second class citizens, yes, but eastern Ukraine doesn't actually have young people left. Western Ukraine has demographics that up until recently were at least not worse than average for Eastern Europe(that is, still quite bad). Eastern Ukraine has demographics that are Manchuria-tier. Russia's not raising a big slave army out of it, no matter how brutal their conscription laws. That's why the Russian army is increasingly muslim- same reason.
hydroacetylene
7d ago
Improving things for prisoners is a regular low priority hobby horse for the christian right. They're much less loud about it than progressives but unlike the latter, they actually get around to trying it.
hydroacetylene
7d ago
I'll notice your solution is impossible to implement.
You accurately note that the vast majority of prison rape is committed by males. Did you know transwomen have the same rate of sex crimes as any other male?
There are two possibilities for the bill- one which does literally nothing but make abortions free, and one which is a series of 90/10 bipartisan bad ideas that passes with flying colors, gets labeled 'Trumpcare', and nobody blames when the price controls cause insulin shortages.
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