hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
8hr ago
But no one likes them. Trump has no reason to favor dissident right science. Their supporters are a negligible group of people who aren’t enthusiastic about him. They are incredibly unpopular with the general public.
hydroacetylene
12hr ago
Carrying a gun for snakes isn’t totally unknown.
hydroacetylene
12hr ago
The U.S. didn’t technically lose Vietnam, it also didn’t technically give up. The U.S. withdrew in exchange for a promise that north Vietnam wouldn’t invade the south. It broke that promise, obviously, but the first time it did so- south Vietnam actually won. The second post US-withdrawal invasion thé south Vietnamese defenses fell apart due to political factors leading to a change in leadership.
Vietnam was a failure of intelligence, not a failure of tactics.
hydroacetylene
12hr ago
It won’t be Q people. There’s a reservoir of right wingers trying to do science already- creationism(and climate change skeptics). You would have to make universities hire people like Ken ham and give them tenure.
hydroacetylene
12hr ago
Ok, but getting right wing faculty is… difficult, and in practice would look like making universities hire creation scientists and give them tenure.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
Conservative Catholics are a lolhuge percentage of the right wing PMC. That’s who staffs thé trump admin right now(well, and Orthodox Jews).
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
I mean TBF there’s third party processing companies that do it now. Like Shop- make an account with them is mandatory to check out at some of the retailers I use that stock not available on Amazon products.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
No, most people will not accept grocery bags full of cash for tens of thousands of dollar purchases. That comes with reporting and the like.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
Indeed, prewar thé standard military dress code required a moustache.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
Iirc they had a member with severe allergies and included thé ‘no brown M&Ms’ rider so they could no if someone read all the way through the document- if there were brown M&Ms then he couldn’t eat the food in the green room.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
Eh, most universities do not have Harvard or UT level endowments. Those universities have crazy tuition costs because they can get away with it, but they don’t need to charge high tuition.
In contrast most universities do not have much of an endowment, and they need to charge high tuition, which they then justify with ever better accommodations, which in turn jacks tuition up further.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
Meh, it’s practically impossible to run a right wing authoritarian regime in thé US without support from my community, in particular, we’re not the only one, I’d suggest you join one.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Dingos and saltwater crocs are technically dangerous to people, are they not? No bears, snakes and monitor lizards avoid people, no big cats. I suppose guns are pretty useless against saltwater crocodiles in general but still.
You’re not going to get attacked by a grizzly in a suburb either, you’d have to be way off the beaten track.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I don't know, French, Spanish, German, Polish, Italian, and Greek food all seems pretty well regarded.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
my impression was that the large segments of the population who are wary of black people and the segments of non-black population who live in the US metro areas were two circles that do not overlap much.
Eh maybe. To start with, the black-hispanic... strong mutual dislike... dwarfs any other racial tensions in the US by the numbers, even if BLM shenanigans are more common in the media, and this is a mostly urban phenomenon. You're certainly correct that the blue tribe is less wary around black people but nice urban liberals are well aware that big crowds of blacks/majority black areas are not good news from a safety perspective. They won't say it out loud of course but they are aware of the general correlates of race and crime, even if they think 13/52 is exaggerated, blame racism rather than criminals, etc.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
1911's have become a default sidearm among hog hunters for a reason.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
No.
The directional distribution of crime stats is widely known in America, but the specific stats are not- and most Americans do not feel threatened by high black crime, because 'not going into the hood'(the ghetto is not where most people want to hang out anyways) is a perfectly viable method of avoiding it. And political support for gun rights is mostly correlated with living outside of the inner city anyways. Distrust of the government is a real factor, but the driving factor for concealed carry is fear of mass shootings, or drug fueled 'random' crime. Not fear of gang related crime among the black population, which yes most Americans are aware is a problem but also is seen as something that is geographically limited to places you don't really want to be in anyways. The sentiment is more 'the police can't be everywhere at once' and less 'the police favor black gangbangers'- the latter sentiment would be seen as farcical among the vast majority of Americans, including the last pockets of red tribe racism.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Taking advantage of the gun show loophole requires considerable agency. You have to save up enough cash, find a show, find a way to travel there (presumably he is not driving a car?). Knowing how to ride a bus without conveying to the guy in the next seat that you are (1) mentally unsound and (2) on you way to buy a gun would be helpful as well.
In practice, there is not a generally available 'gun show loophole'. It's possible that you, enterprising prohibited person, will find a vendor not covered by background check requirements at a gun show, but it's not very likely.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
He thinks he's purging the military of Mohammedans, possibly.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Argentina has no dangerous wildlife(to humans) to speak of- argentine pumas are known for not even being willing to defend themselves against human assailants, jaguars have only a marginal presence, and the South American canid species are too small and tame to threaten people. I suppose theres bushmasters and rattlesnakes but guns are less helpful against snakes than macro predators.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Boo hoo- credit scores show good breeding and conventionality. Of course people want to see them. Wouldn’t you?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Weekly attendees at any particular denomination do.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I’ve never seen posters here advocate for gun ownership to protect from wild animals, it’s always as a Schelling Point against government overreach or for self-defence.
It’s worth noting that self defense from wild animals is written into the gun laws of Canada and Norway, I believe. Now gun politics in those countries are not a big topic of discussion, but it does seem to be a recognized use case.
In the US nobody really cares about Wyomingites and Alaskans having handguns, so this topic doesn’t come up as often.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Canada is the closest analogue and has much stricter gun laws than the U.S., although laxer than most of Europe. Russia also has very strict gun control, although I don’t know how enforced that is in Siberia. India, dangerous wild animals living alongside humans- super strict gun control, and villagers are too poor to buy guns anyways.
South Africa has a large rural population and still has dangerous wild animals. I’m aware that there is an Afrikaans speaking gun culture but I don’t believe that the actual laws on the books are notably loose, and anyways crime rates are so high there that self defense is just mathematically dominated by common criminals.
Where else? I suppose Australia technically has dangerous wild animals in great variety, but guns are tightly controlled there.
And the backlash against woke is a non-trivial amount of the democrat’s being fairly likely to lose an off year election in New Jersey.
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