TIRM
3d ago
There was a minor American evangelical opposition to bar codes and the metric system. Both accused of being the mark of the beast. I'm not clear if these people in particular were able to block it's adoption, but they existed.
Of the era ramblings in this manner.
Much more modern example of similar ramblings.
Accusations that the metric system is somehow linked to the mark of the beast originated in, at the latest, the 1870s. This is an OG conspiracy theory picked up by some Americans in the 1970s.
There are other fringe Christians also long opposed to metric system based on an unrelated understanding of the holy meaning of the inch. So metric system advocates are also working for the devil.
"Let's count units by 10s."
"The devil put you up to this?"
Kind of approximately the last century and a half. At least for some fringe minority.
TIRM
3d ago
I like when then they bust someone and scarily state that he had a few guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition in his home. Pretending as though that is noteworthy or strange.
TIRM
3d ago
Public school administrators as a parasite class. The teachers are far below these people.
But I actually think most school administrators are not productive in a "positive net value of their labor" sense. There's been a multi-hundred percent increase in school administrators in the past few decades. There's some correct level of administration and then there's the Iron Law of Institutions run wild. I think we are far into the second case regarding public school administration.
TIRM
3d ago
I don't understand why the right is so opposed to it.
Same reason we don't use the metric system:
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Revelation 13:16-17
This is overstating it a bit, but there is some portion of America that opposed the metric system and opposes things like national IDs or implantable payment chips as being "the mark of the beast". The beast being a seven-headed monstrous enemy of God. Or at least symbolically represented as such.
TIRM
5d ago
Being able to create real life Manchurian Candidates would be extremely valuable. If you could transform captured communists into sleeper agents. If it were real it would be a great weapon to use against our enemies.
But also yes, a nightmare if it existed and inevitably wound up being used on regular people.
TIRM
6d ago
That money could be given to the DNC to spend on whatever they think is best. Such as a turn out the vote effort for whomever is running for president.
TIRM
7d ago
little reason to need wonder why or how someone who was against ICE might have hit people ICE was detaining instead
Supposedly the victims were inside a windowless van with ICE markings. In the back of some ICE vans are ICE officers. In the back of others are detainees. Oops, these were detainees.
TIRM
7d ago
Christchurch shooter did it first.
The bullet writing seems like a lamer version of gun writing. And if I recall correctly one of the trans shooters also used obviously copycat gun writing.
TIRM
7d ago
But the opposite, right? It is an escalation by hoping they get unmasked and personally targeted. As in them and their families getting payback for enforcing immigration law.
TIRM
7d ago
That's the excuse some Democrats keep using. But, his trip to Europe ended more than a week before the debate and he took it off to rest. That is as well rested as someone can be.
TIRM
7d ago
she didn't seem actively malevolent
On one hand, yes, I agree.
On the other hand, good God we've set the bar low.
TIRM
10d ago
So strange that Chapo Trap House is popular. I tried listening to a couple episodes and it is egregiously bad in every aspect.
TIRM
10d ago
What is the executive even allowed to do here? Does the law let the president turn off the tap?
Congress is so passive that presidents end up enacting policy through rather strained interpretations of existing law. The law says they get to impose processing fees? Then instead of $250 it is $100k. And then hope courts agree this is valid.
TIRM
10d ago
I'd go further and let them take any job at any employer. Assuming the new employer will sponsor them. I think tying people to their jobs is generally bad. And if the market determines such a person is suited for a different job title with more or different responsibilities then they should be allowed to do it. The fact that they have to ask bureaucrats for permission to professionally grow by accepting new job titles with more or different responsibilities is horrible.
For instance, supposedly decades ago Massachusetts' enforceable non-compete contracts slowed their tech industry growth and resulted in California overtaking them. Locking employees into their jobs is enforced stagnation and yet another scheme to push down wages. Such contracts were greatly restricted in scope in 2018 and completely banned last year. Good riddance.
TIRM
11d ago
I can talk about the true reasons in polite society: it undercuts wages and makes an underclass of workers who effectively cannot leave their jobs. It is an attack on the wages of a subset of professional workers.
TIRM
11d ago
Yes. I recall long ago seeing early youtube videos about doctors detailing Israeli atrocities. Turns out they were fake and the doctors were lying. This has been somewhat common for a couple decades that I'm aware of.
TIRM
12d ago
The targeted body part differs each day, as if it’s coordinated work, they suggest.
Shots so precise they choose which body part gets the bullet consistently correct and the kids are surviving day after day racking up bullet wounds? And we're to credulously believe this?
This tells me little about Israeli snipers and much about the credibility of de Volkskrant. Rather puts a stink on other similarly crazed stories. But maybe those other ones are true and this happens to be a single deranged lie smuggled into a list of true stories. Maybe.
TIRM
16d ago
After the tidal wave of gasoline that was Oct 7th, I'm not ready to point fingers at Israel for not deescalating.
TIRM
17d ago
Japan or North Korea strict gun control maybe. Typical developed nation gun control no.
TIRM
18d ago
Visas are a privilege with many restrictions. These people have no right to be here and can enjoy celebrating the murder of Americans in their home country. We don't need them to do that here.
First link on Google:
“The Department may revoke a visa when it receives derogatory information directly from another US Government agency, including a member of the intelligence or law enforcement community,” the manual says.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has terminated hundreds of visas under a rarely used provision that allows for revocation if a person’s presence in the US “would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States.”
TIRM
19d ago
According to the posters on /r/somethingiswrong2024 it was the Heritage Foundation who murdered him. That would be a false flag attack.
But again: somehow the rest of the world did. Their precious tooling using only Troy ounces, Whitworth screws and French inches except when needing 尺 instead was swapped decades ago. Weird how the other 96% of the globe somehow managed.
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