ChickenOverlord
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ChickenOverlord
12hr ago
I'm more than happy to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with Somalians and aboriginals etc., and to help them achieve the most they can with their inherent abilities. I don't see how that means I need to spend disproportionate amounts of money and effort trying to give them a standard of living and civilization beyond their ability to maintain.
See the parable of the talents. We don't expect the servant given one talent to produce ten, we just expect him to not squander what he was given.
I mean, sure, but it doesn't make them hucking spears at each other any less primitive. At least Rwandans used machetes to murder each other which requires metal while a spear works fine with a stone or even wooden tip.
ChickenOverlord
12hr ago
It's hard to believe that Australia is thoroughly and uniquely poor in this regard.
It definitely isn't. The Arabian peninsula and Saharan Africa both have much worse soil for farming, but both still managed to spawn civilizations. Arabia in particular spawning one that conquered the entire Middle East and North Africa.
I don't doubt that DEI contributes, but the most egregious thing I noticed (after looking into it after the Butler assassination attempt) is that the Secret Service budget for protection duties is $1.2 billion, which is an obscene amount of money for how little they do. They only provide full-time protection for roughly 40 people (I assume Trump and Vance and their families, Barack and Michelle Obama, George and Laura Bush, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and some small number of others). Not sure how many people they provide temporary protection to outside of presidential election years but I doubt it's many.
Compare that $1.2 billion to the entire military budget of several countries: https://www.globalfirepower.com/defense-spending-budget.php
The Secret Service has a bigger budget than roughly 1/3 of the world's militaries, to provide protection to just 40 people. That they seem only moderately competent in the best cases (like this most recent attempt) and wildly incompetent in the worst (Butler etc.) and that they misused such a massive budget means thet the rot has been in the Secret Service for a very long time.
ChickenOverlord
13hr ago
What happened to good old fashioned ANFO?
Timothy McVeigh happened. The feds have been tracking fertilizer purchases nationwide since the Oklahoma City bombings for suspicious purchases, and I believe there are also trace amounts of other chemicals added to the fertilizers now so they can more easily track it to the source of purchase etc.
Eh, not too interesting. There was a reservation 30 minutes from my hometown, they only had a K-8 school so several kids from the rez went to high school with me, and my summer job before my first year of college was doing construction on houses in the reservation. I've visited several others over the years while travelling, or as part of service projects, etc.
For the ghetto stuff, I went to USC for football games and other events several times, and despite USC being a ridiculously wealthy school it's smack in the middle of the hood. Also my brother lived in Koreatown for several years but that was more of a Hispanic ghetto than a black ghetto (the Koreans mostly left after 1992). For Oakland, most of my extended family lives in the SF bay area and I have a cousin who lives in Oakland proper for some incomprehensible reason (I'd assume cost of housing but he's also a weird leftist hippie type so I think it's related to that too lol). For Baltimore, I had issues with my visa when going on my (LDS/Mormon) mission to the Czech Republic so they stuck me in the Baltimore mission until my visa was approved. First lesson the other missionaries gave me when I arrived was "Don't trip and fall or you'll get AIDS" after which one of them proceeded to show me dozens of photos he had taken of random needles on the sidewalk etc. all around Baltimore.
For the Czech Republic that was just part of my missionary service as well. We taught a good amount of Gypsies, we had limited success with them though.
Oh also I walked through some bad parts of Seattle at 3 AM once because I missed the last connecting bus at Ranier Beach station on my way home from the airport. Fortunately I was wearing milsurp clothes and had a hobo beard so no one bothered me.
ChickenOverlord
1d ago
So if Israel makes a pledge to defend the United States if it's ever attacked (and they honor that pledge to the same extent Norway has) do you think people who complain about US military aid to Israel will be mollified? Serious question.
Some of them (such as myself) would be (if we were also getting bases, unrestricted access to Israeli defense tech, etc. out of it). But I agree with you that there would be plenty who would not be because they hate Israel for other reasons. But I don't think it's necessarily because of anti-Semitism in all cases, some of the opposition to Israel seems to be because of deranged strains of Third-Worldism as well (and sometimes the two overlap as well).
Also, do you think those people care about US military aid to Egypt? My guess is that for the most part they don't even know about it.
I do, but I agree that the median American is retarded and ignorant about it. I will point out that the quantity of aid given to Israel is greater than that given to most other countries, so someone could be opposed to it on those grounds (though I admit they usually are not).
I'm personally opposed to almost all foreign aid, unless there is a clear benefit to the American people and taxpayers from that aid.
ChickenOverlord
1d ago
Those same people were apparently unaware that the US has full on military installations in South Korea and Germany. That the US is pledged to treat an attack on Norway as an attack on the United States.
What treaties do we have with Israel that are in any way comparable to NATO? We pledge to defend Norway in case of an attack because they pledge the same thing back to us. Is it a lopsided relationship? Absolutely. But we don't even get those same guarantees back from Israel, lopsided as they would be. I'm not inherently opposed to entering a mutual defense treaty ala NATO with Israel, but there would have to be more to it than we just subsidize their military, forever.
I don't have too much to add to what you said, but I think it's interesting to note that Prince Philip's comments in 2002 about Australian aboriginals, specifically him asking if they still threw spears at each other, were vindicated entirely. Even though the Australian media generally still considers him racist over the question, "reality has a rightwing bias" it would seem. I present to you a gang fight in a rural Australian town between two aboriginal gangs, where they literally throw spears at each other (and at a cop car): https://old.reddit.com/r/ActualPublicFreakouts/comments/1gpmasx/brawl_breaks_out_in_remote_aboriginal_community/
Like, I really don't want to be uncharitable to aboriginals, but they have a dysfunction that seems to be on a whole different level than the dysfunction we see in other comparable subcultures. I've been to several Native American reservations throughout the US and gone to school and worked with several natives, I've been in ghetto black parts of cities like Oakland and LA and Baltimore, and I taught several Gypsy families as a missionary in Eastern Europe. All of these groups are doing immeasurably better than Australian aboriginals. Even if you believe that the issues these groups face are due to colonization/slavery/racism/whatever, I don't see how you can argue that Australian aboriginals got treated worse than black chattel slaves in the US. But even blacks the first generation after being freed from slavery seemed to have more civilized behavior than aboriginals centuries after being colonized.
The point I'm trying to make is that blaming colonization for the ills of aboriginals doesn't hold up to scrutiny. Similar to how people point to the Chinese Exclusion Act and the San Francisco Councils of Vigilance as proof that historical discrimination isn't keeping present day Asians from succeeding in America, with Australian aboriginals you can point to almost any other aboriginal or otherwise mistreated population across the world and they'll have better results despite often having been treated much worse. Whether that's the Ainu in Japan or the Kurds in the Middle East or the Navajo in America. I just don't see how continuing to lay all the blame on Europeans can continue to hold up to intellectual rigor (though I don't believe my opponents are actually trying to apply intellectual rigor here in the first place).
As a final bonus story about aboriginal dysfunction, because it's simply so absurd that it's hard to believe it's real. Truth really is stranger than fiction:
There was never much in Wadeye, a remote township 420 km south-west of Darwin. It only got its first coffee shop a few years ago. It still doesn't have a public toilet.
But after days of brutal clan warfare, there's even less there now.
About 500 people have fled the township of 4,000 to hide out in surrounding bush after the savage violence erupted and left them homeless.
Famous for its gangs named after heavy metal groups or performers - like the Slayer Mob, Judas Priest Boys, Metallica Mob and, for female locals, the Celine Dion gang, the Kylie Girls and the Madonna Mob - Wadeye has been riven by violence for decades.
But in the latest eruption, one man, 32, is dead, allegedly speared through the head, and another is seriously injured after being shot by a bow and arrow.
Frightening photographs from the township - which is the Northern Territory’s biggest Aboriginal community - have revealed the extent of the war between the tribal rivals.
Likened by some to 'the Wild West', Wadeye has seen pitched battles after dark between rival gang members wheeling around the streets and setting houses and vehicles alight.
ChickenOverlord
2d ago
Certainly not as drastic as half black half white or half Indian half American, but my dad was Presbyterian (of Scottish decent), my mom was Catholic (of Irish and French descent). They both became Mormon before my oldest brother was born, so they found a new (shared) identity to raise us up as. That would be my advice - find a new common identity you and your wife can share, and raise your kid to identify as that. If you ever immigrate to the US (or Europe). I would strongly recommend adopting being American or being European as an identity. Especially in America, there is nothing that Americans (especially more right wing Americans) love more than an immigrant who goes whole hog into the American identity.
He must be a Luca Goers or Al Bhed Psyches fan.
Edit: on second thought, he's probably not a Psyches fan, the Al Bhed are too Jew-coded.
The fertile crescent very much doesn't include the Arabian peninsula. It's more Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Israel.
I don't either, but in comparison to Australian aboriginals and their accomplishments, the Bedouins have them beat by a mile.
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