Botond173
3hr ago
Military interventionism during his presidency was rather limited in scope though.
Botond173
3hr ago
The Christian Right also supported him in the belief that he'll help them advance their goals. In fact, the opposite happened. At the same time, the Left largely completed the Long March through the institutions with most distracted Reagan supporters not even noticing.
Botond173
3hr ago
The Soviet Bloc was a spent force by the time he assumed office. Their best available future option was ongoing stagnation followed by limited market reforms that end up preserving the political system while abandoning the Cold War, as in the case of Cuba and Vietnam.
Botond173
3hr ago
Were there any short, sharp and successful interventions besides Grenada and Panama?
Botond173
3hr ago
Apples and oranges. The demythologization of FDR would necessarily entail the demythologization of the American role in WW2, and I wonder if Democrat-aligned normies are ready for that. In Reagan’s case there’s no such taboo present.
Botond173
19hr ago
Reagan is a time-honored hero of his party
On an unrelated note, I'm guessing the Republican reevaluation and demythologization of his legacy is something that is bound to happen at some point.
Botond173
1d ago
The reasons why this option is unavailable to many single women are the same as they are in the case of many single men. In the context of demographic implosion, social atomization and digitalization of social interactions, family sizes are generally smaller, and young adult social circles tend to be focused on niche interests; for this other reasons, they also tend to consist entirely of the same sex, or include very few members of the other sex. And to the extent these women have the ability to meet any single men through their social circles at all, those tend not to be deemed attractive.
Botond173
1d ago
But elders (including the grandma), community figures and authorities have also traditionally put strict limitations on female sexual autonomy. (Such limitations also applied to men, of course, but that’s not relevant here.) Their norms prioritized the long-term provider potential of young men above all else, not to mention other norms that are hardly compatible with current lipstick feminism. To the extent these frustrated modern women yearn for a social credit score, it’s just a proverbial case of women wanting fried ice.
Botond173
1d ago
Do US photo IDs list biological gender? Or do the Tea admins decide based on just looks?
Botond173
1d ago
You have to send in a photo of your driver's license
What if you don't have one though?
Botond173
3d ago
modern dating allows for a lot of dangerous wrongdoing which is de facto impossible for either the law or local elites* to adjudicate
under-protective of actually sensitive data
Can you please clarify what you mean here please?
Empirically, the ability to share gossip efficiently about businesses using sites like Yelp is net positive for humanity. There is a broad consensus in professional workplaces that the ability of employers and employees to share gossip about each other is net-positive for the same reasons, and that the requirement to do so with plausible deniability to avoid being sued is annoying.
There's a crucial difference though. Personal matters are personal matters, whereas business is business. Human individuals aren't shops or companies.
Botond173
4d ago
The linked article specifically states that the app is still available in Google Play, implying that it was available there from the beginning, presumably in the EU as well. I think this is relevant to the context. And just to add to your post, the article also makes it rather clear that the app facilitated the sharing of the personal data of biological men and also boys below 18 without their permission and without repercussions. On a different note, I'm sort of curious what mechanism the app used to block MtF transsexuals from use.
Botond173
4d ago
We're already at a point though where Boomers and GenX-ers are understandably nostalgic for the age of latchkey kids, because kids at least went outside together and were physically active instead of being phone addicts rotting their own brains in isolation.
Botond173
13d ago
According to an article published in an 1998 issue of a Hungarian periodical of social sciences, reproduced online in .txt format, the young Jewish woman in question was carrying forged papers and hiding in a safehouse which she had to leave because it got compromised, and no replacement could be found. Fearing that her likely capture will compromise them all, the cell members (including her partner/lover) all unanimously voted to force her to commit suicide. In 1950, party organs investigated the matter and concluded that Lakatos formed the underground cell without permission from above and was the main culprit in this suicide, was expelled from the party as a consequence and was sent to a notorious forced labor camp (interned, technically speaking, although in retrospect it’s impossible to confirm what further considerations, if any, were decisive in that). According to his social circle he was pretty much a Dostoevsky character.
Botond173
13d ago
"Accepting the risk of death" is probably a more accurate description than "choosing to die for the cause" in this context.
Botond173
14d ago
Family size has also become smaller on average. Compared to 1995, the long-term consequences of demographic implosion are surely starting to bite by now.
Botond173
14d ago
Reindustrialization would inevitably entail giving well-paying jobs to universally reviled toxic smelly dudebros. We need to keep that in mind.
Botond173
18d ago
Also, judging by Wikipedia, it was not even in the US that Coleman gained fame for herself but in Europe.
Botond173
18d ago
Was he a bad president in the sense that he was guilty of the grave moral failing of racism or in the sense that his actions sabotaged the interests and conditions of the nation? Also, in what sense of the word was his racism seen as severe?
Botond173
19d ago
I’ll not reject this interpretation but we can look at this more charitably even without subscribing to femcel views (whether femcels actually exist is highly debatable in itself, but that’s another subject). I think it’s entirely understandable that many bog standard women find it tiresome and cringey to live in a culture where they’re implicitly expected to engage in a sexual arms race for the attention of the men they find desirable, after the female sexual cartel has collapsed. It’s cringey in the same way normal men cringe at the sight of an army of simps competing for the social attention of e-thots.
That's kind of wild though.
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