TIRM
26d ago
I'll bet this is literally true. The President on the same day denouncing their actions and shipping more weapons. That happened recently according to a report I heard on the radio.
TIRM
20d ago
One of these is not like the others.
In the places I have lived they appear to be extremely strongly correlated.
TIRM
12d ago
Okay. So it is not 100.0% parasitism. But are they economically net positive? The US East coast ultra orthodox communities that I'm vaguely aware of are net negative if I understand correctly. As you say, they subsist on welfare fraud and have large families of severely inbred special needs children.
TIRM
21d ago
A lot of the populace already thinks Israel's guilty of ethnic cleansing
"Ethnic cleansing" is so broad that I think Israel is doing it.
TIRM
20d ago
Varg certainly does. Literally burning down historical churches and making a whites only pagan tabletop RPG.
Himmler was big on this, but other Nazis made fun of him behind his back about his faux Germanic pagan mystical stuff.
TIRM
5d ago
The votes don't matter at all. They should let you toggle being able to see votes in order to prevent the emotional distress some apparently get.
TIRM
6d ago
This is a problem I have with Biden. I'm not looking forward to Madame President Kamala.
TIRM
18d ago
shift hard and fast to the Right and mean it
This is not going to happen. But also I predict almost all American jews will not move to Israel. The author is really setting up a false choice here.
TIRM
19d ago
ring video of him berating his pregnant wife for taking the car when he needed it or something
I heard the audio and it was egregious. Articles about it may sound like hit pieces because of how very bad he sounds in that recording.
TIRM
12d ago
There's an obvious point that various contrary factions are pushing and pulling the government. So push to get the laws you want or be stuck with the laws they want. Whoever "they" are in any context.
And laws are very sticky, so there's a huge first mover advantage.
TIRM
12d ago
Or alternatively preemptively use state coercion to force your way before they do. Ban their stuff before they ban ours.
And for the many people who seem to view the state as a club meant to smash the heads of people with different preferences, that's generally their apparent goal.
TIRM
10d ago
"Good news everyone! Income inequality has really decreased in the past few years. Bad news: everything is now really expensive relative to your inflation-adjusted wage."
TIRM
28d ago
From a redditor:
When you try and make the hips bigger, it makes the hands massive.
More just dumb than clearly some ideology. Unless the ideology is merely that ugliness is desirable.
So what, exactly, are our leaders thinking?
I've said it before, I'll say it again: bleeding Russia is on sale right at an amazing discount right now, so we're buying a bit.
"But [list of reasons why long term Ukraine is screwed, won't be able to get back lost territory, etc, etc]." Yeah, sure. Also Russia is exhausting itself at a very small cost to the American taxpayer.
If Russia spends years grinding away to a standstill in Ukraine, then they won't have the ability to attack any further anytime soon.
And very optimistically, it serves as a warning to other countries wanting to invade their neighbors. If they badly desire a drawn out conflict that drains their resources for no obvious gain, we'll give it to them.
TIRM
29d ago
but the signal-to-noise ratio has increased exponentially
To be a nerd about this: you mean decreased.
TIRM
7d ago
Law enforcement and general government: 5%
Somewhat cynically: actual fucking governance: 5%
TIRM
5d ago
Also Hillary funded the Steele dossier and falsely reported it as legal expenses. I notice she wasn't prosecuted in criminal court for doing that.
TIRM
5d ago
Be the change you want to see: post relevant non-Trump content. Those griping Trumpers can't stop you.
Lots of Democrats are not progressives.
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