hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
9hr ago
All this aside, early Christianity probably had a higher fertility rate than general Roman society. Christianity embraced low-status individuals(slaves, women, etc) and treated them well(Constantine made slave welfare laws under Christian influence very early, and Christian writers bragged about treating their women better- notably, the pagan majority doesn't contradict them). That doesn't equate to the modern left's tendency to grow wholly memetically rather than through fertility; all the information we have is that Christianity was a high fertility minority whose memetic appeal was at least partly by distributing opportunities to help themselves to the urban poor.
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
Gay conversion camps are legal in much of the country, driving your kids to a different state is I suppose friction but it doesn't really stop anyone who would send their kid to conversion therapy anyways.
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
Ciao Bella is also an Italian anti-fascist song which is well known among the online subset.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Trades stereotypes:
Welders: not the brightest
Drywallers and roofers: in areas near the border, none of them are here legally. In the upper Midwest, they’re the guys who get paid last in the company- if they have any money in their pocket, they skip work to go to the strip club.
Ironworkers: welders are stereotyped as barely literate. Ironworkers are stereotyped as barely verbal. Very good at drinking and fighting though.
Electricians: like HVAC techs, usually a bit better at fancy book learning than the other trades. Kinda introverted, big egos, keep to themselves. Electricians have separate unions, boards, etc. They haze their apprentices worse but have more in-trade solidarity more.
Plumbers: fully generic in the trades, a few of the specializations are in the ‘book smart’ category like electrical and HVAC. Known for having multiple ex wives.
Carpenters: Hispanic but the legal kind that still doesn’t speak much English in places where Hispanics aren’t unusual. In places where they are, kinda generically lower class.
Elevator guys: they got the money. Lots and lots of money. They do take risks though.
HVAC: residential techs are used car salesmen. Commercial techs are aggressive personalities that it’s hard to tell if they’re racist or just misanthropic. Career installers are all jailbirds. All of them are the types that would have been better at school if they didn’t hate it with such a burning passion.
General construction: there’s a stereotype of them as crackheads, but recent trends make that unfair- they mostly do meth instead.
Truckers- heavily black, always about to quit. Like their prostitutes. Petrified of an accident.
Concrete guys: alcoholics recruited from the general pool of hard laborers in the area; around me thats illegals. More likely to have their immigration fraud actually done than roofers and drywallers, who mainly just hope nobody checks.
Oil field workers: they got the money, well they did before they spent it all.
Hot side tech(restaurant equipment): baby mamas, plural. Probably can’t pass a drug test, thé boss agrees not to impose one unless there’s an accident. Spends money like theres no tomorrow, but doesn’t earn enough to.
Painters: permanently acting high from all the fumes. Real oddballs because of it.
Pipe fitters: always looking for the next gig- because they’re employed for the job, not necessarily for the company. Broke a lot.
Millwrights: another ‘book smart’ trade, these guys actually liked school- lots of them have degrees in something related. They have a lot of parts on hand and don’t know what to do with them.
Maintenance- as in internal guys: these guys are the first level of what’s possibly three or even four layers of subcontractors. Good ones have breakers mapped out, roof access memorized, keys to everything located by person who has them, etc. Bad ones don’t know any of that, and they don’t know what they don’t know either. Most are somewhat in between, but all of them are fat.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
In real life it’s a ‘happens every once in a while’ story that Mexico refuses to extradite a gang official to the USA over opposition to the death penalty.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
But the US, Russia, China, etc are soveriegn nations. Qatar isn’t. Bombing in Qatar by a more powerful country is OK by that measure.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Red tribe democrats still exist, but They Are Old and a shrinking minority.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Have comic books writers ever been high flying?
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I’m wondering if it has succeeded as a defense against lesser violent crimes, maybe battery? Beating up a hooker is often treated as a less serious crime than it should be anyways.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Were the troubles justified? That seems to be the closest analogue for what is getting envisioned.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I would say Francisco Franco was in the clear, probably
Considering it was literally a declared crusade…
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Yep, we’re getting maga patriot act. Maybe as an executive order, or by repurposing existing anti communist laws.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
That people believe this is no surprise; we’ve known.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
combat deaths aside, you're talking about a war between the farmers and the people making fertilisers, which puts the food supply in severe jeopardy
The petrochemical industry is super duper red.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Those data centers would melt in a week or so of this scenario…
hydroacetylene
3d ago
The purpose of a system is what it does.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Yeah, that’s a wound a deer wouldn’t have run from- he was dead before he hit the ground.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Blacks also seem underrepresented among the kind of extreme left that might try to do this- black Hebrew Israelites don't care about this guy.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Fuentes has actual talent and social capital
No he doesn’t. I mean, talent, maybe. But he’s incredibly unpopular.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
This wasn’t a particularly difficult shot- this could easily be an actual Trotskyite or one of the tens of remaining red tribe leftists, or some kind of apolitical loon. There’s a lot of people who can make that shot.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
At the end of the day thé two tribes absolutely dominate different fields, so sustained civil conflict should have a tempering factor.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
In the past, crazy people targeted celebrities. Today, they target political figures- just one more symptom of politics eating everything.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Bonus points if it’s unclear whether or not he’s trans.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
90 seconds is probably about as fast as you could expect someone to react, though? Nobody expected stabbing out of nowhere.
I don't think this is true, I think that people are not reproducing because it's work and people don't like that. Retirement savings is a booming business but mostly among people who have kids; places with lower pension amounts are not known for their higher fertility.
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