hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
3hr ago
You are aware that it is possible to have a loving relationship without having sex?
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
The law mainly functions to prevent loving, family-condoned relationships between 20-something men and teenage girls.
How many of those do you think would happen in this day and age?
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
I think this is bubble effects for an affluent, socially liberal stratum. Trailer trash is also dysfunctional(as you presumably know well, you post about the Irish equivalent often enough), we just expect it because they're dysfunctional poor people. I have female relatives who would claim to have similar socially liberal beliefs but they won't walk the walk- when you've lost the internalized socially conservative views you'll fall for totally stupid stuff that usually affects the dysfunctional underclass.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
Older, affluent women are, and have always been, ideological enforcers. That's true regardless of where you go. In blue tribe suburbs they're screaming at people about ICE; in the Arab world they're lecturing their (grand)daughters about the hijab.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
This seems unlikely, considering his record of managing the war in Syria....
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
Raising the age of consent(it used to be, basically, the beginning of puberty) is a remnant of older laws intended to protect unmarried young women from older guys lying to them to get laid. There were a lot of these laws in the past, a high age of consent isn't an adequate replacement.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
The correct comparison to the NYT would not be Fox news, though- Fox is in a different medium, just to start with. The WSJ isn't terribly pro-Trump, but it's still an overall right leaning paper, and the National Review is somewhat more pro-Trump and also a high quality source. Fox is the equivalent of, like CNN.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
I mean Trump did campaign to anabaptist groups by claiming democrats would take away their customarily high levels of religious liberty. Vaccines falling under that doesn't seem implausible.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
Start calling the medical marijuana prescription mills and ask if they'll write a scrip for ozempic.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
Any way, I guess I’ll be looking for recommendations to for where to get grey market tirzpeptide soon.
Is it on Trumprx?
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
Fifty year old upper middle class women being karens is the sort of thing that requires more of an explanation if they don't do it, you notice it from the left because of 1) lies about ICE and 2) media focus on the protestors, not what they're protesting against.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Latin American countries are great about prosecuting corruption and insistence on democratic norms. It's totally not punishing opponents for losing.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Yes, it's totally normal for presidents to arrest school board attendees for terrorism, run sting operations against religious groups their own FBI is telling him are innocent, and attempt to strongarm communications companies into censoring their opponents. Very common.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
This is a misunderstanding of how bodycam footage works- the storage capacity on bodycam footage is not infinite, as part of the paperwork on a police interaction officers have to outline and save their bodycam footage. Routine stops like that aren't getting reviewed by a supervisor, they're getting reviewed by an office lady who checks to see if this needs to go to a prosecutor for a ticket, the officer needs extra time to drop off an arrestee at the station, the judge on call to sign warrants needs a phone call, or if he needs to get sent over to dispatch for another call, etc.
This is pretty normal bureaucracy for running mobile operations. Bodycam footage might be saved and owned by the municipality, thus making it technically a public record, but they're probably not being viewed by police supervisors unless the arrest generated a complaint, or there's a new system being tested, etc. Police supervisors have actual jobs to do that don't entail personally watching officers do theirs(they system was set up to have officers work with limited supervision).
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Clearly JFK escaped and reinvented himself as Jeffrey Epstein.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Well yes, that's what I meant. 'After the new congress is seated'.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I maintain a fan theory that Vance will take the throne by assassination after the midterms, diadochos-style. Does that make you feel better?
hydroacetylene
2d ago
You really think Minnesota is more of a hotspot of illegal immigrants than, say, Texas?
Texas has deported more people than Minnesota, it just sends in the state troopers to beat up annoying lefty protestors instead of letting ICE handle it themselves.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
but it doesn't have that much on the Republican side in the age of the Trump Cult.
Or the democrat side. Biden sat pretty far outside the post-watergate norm for domestic policy pressures, and the unwillingness to acknowledge that is a major reason that stasis is unfixable. Cultural republicans have rights, and if we have to choose us or you to be oppressed, guess what we pick.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The Mexican military is an ill-disciplined conscript army that loses half its members every year to desertion- the largest part of which is literally just cartels promising better food to soldiers that join already trained.
Mexican marines do the actual cartel fighting- masked and deployed away from their hometowns. They face reprisals but also are literally operating outside of civilian control; the reason they fight the cartels rather than the army is because the cartels have too much influence over the government for forces under full civilian control to be used against them(also, the whole 'half the army leaves to join the cartels for better food every year' thing).
hydroacetylene
2d ago
It seems to me that the reasonable compromise is for ICE agents to have clearly identifiable and displayed badges.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Pro-life direct action(entering abortion clinics to be enough of a nuisance to stop operations without actually hurting anyone) prefers the term 'activist'. Perhaps a polite euphemism, but more accurate than 'terrorist', which should be reserved for people who actually get violent.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Or the government shuts down and Trump just shifts funding around, illegally, to keep his priorities going. You know, like he has a propensity to do.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
SSPX consecrating new bishops
I'm posting in transnational Thursday because Vatican inside baseball.
On Monday, the SSPX superior general announced in a homily given at their French seminary the intention to consecrate new bishops on July 1st(https://sspx.org/en/publications/sspx-announces-future-episcopal-consecrations-57012). Rumours had been swirling for years of new bishops in the near future, with some evidence(often leaked documents discussing the possibility) usually provided, and their public communications arm running stronger-than-normal defenses of the first ordinations, at Econe in 1988. Those rumours had sprung into overdrive following the deaths of two SSPX bishops over the past few years.
As a 'why now', it must be mentioned that although the two SSPX bishops are old by tradcath standards, they are quite young by RCC cleric standards; at 68 and 67 they are several years away from the normal retirement age and over a decade from the mandatory retirement age. This decision had no doubt been a while in the making, but from a personnel replacement standpoint it would not be viewed as necessary, at least not right now. What probably does drive an accelerated timetable is the current head of the dicastery for the doctrine of the faith(DDF, formerly known as the inquisition- and responsible for addressing crises of this nature), Victor 'Tucho' Cardinal Fernandez, referred to by his many enemies as 'Cardinal Kissyface' after one of his more ridiculous scandals. He is an isolated and... controversial pope Francis appointee who is widely viewed as incompetent and the prospect of having him botch the handling of the situation could either create sympathy or simply allow them to outline granting permissions in exchange for token concessions as the easiest way for pope Leo to handle it. And this poor opinion of Cardinal Fernandez is not due to my trad bubble; prior to his appointment his predecessors- both conservative and moderate liberal- had maintained a dossier on the reasons not to let him climb any higher in the church hierarchy. Cardinal Fernandez cannot make a unilateral decision, but he is the bureaucrat to whom everything else will be delegated. It should also be noted that pope Francis left a lot of people in senior positions in the RCC feeling very alienated and scandalized, and that moving before the wounds heal is one way to avoid the universal condemnation of 1988.
The SSPX, in a press release later this week, claims that the 2019 declaration on religious liberty signed by pope Francis at Abu Dhabi represents a grave enough situation to justify the ordination of bishops without canonical permission; it's worth noting that this happened seven years ago, and that some level of discussion on new ordinations had been going on, with seemingly very little having been actually said, for years at this point. Setting a date for the thing is a typical society negotiating tactic and stalling is a typical Vatican one, as well.
Functionally no progress on a permanent deal for regularization had been ongoing since the Abu Dhabi declaration but this is mostly due to Vatican-side church politics. The permanent deals outlined during the 2010's had always taken for granted that the SSPX would be permitted to ordain new bishops and generate their own turnus(a short list of (usually three)names submitted to the Vatican, one member of whom is recommended to the pope by the relevant department), so this is not a dealbreaker- if anything, it's probably an accelerant for talks. There is a confirmed meeting between the SSPX superior general and Cardinal Fernandez next Thursday, but the SSPX is pressing to deal with the pope directly. A rumour which I can't source, but trust the veracity of, says that the SSPX has four turnuses already drawn up. No doubt the implied threat is that, absent permissions for four specific men, all twelve will be consecrated a bishop; this is genuinely much worse from the Vatican's perspective than simply allowing the four most moderate names permission, and pope Leo knows that even if Cardinal Fernandez doesn't.
The only additional factor known at this time is China. In the PRC, like in most countries where Catholicism is illegal, there had long been tolerance for the underground church ordaining bishops without permissions. This changed with a Rome-China deal, in which the PRC government was allowed to pick bishops with agreement given from Rome before ordination, in exchange for lifting persecutions. The PRC has not upheld its end of the bargain, and the Vatican has accepted this. This... complicates condemnation of new SSPX bishops as schismatic, and their biggest enemies within the RCC are themselves an even bigger headache, particularly in Germany. For those two reasons, I believe the most likely scenario to be that Rome gives no permissions, but also does not condemn the ordinations after the fact, and declines to excommunicate the clergy involved(yes, the excommunications are automatic, but 'automatic excommunication' does not mean what you think it does- it means that the excommunication takes effect at the canon law equivalent of an indictment, not a conviction), with the consecrations not affecting much at all.
I strongly suspect girls(and boys) were always idiots at 15 and that historical low marriage ages worked out mostly because the girl wasn't the final say in who she married. For some reason I don't think this guy is trying to bring that system back.
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