hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
20hr ago
I mean, Trump is probably hampered by his lack of qualified personnel, with RFK just being an especially shocking case. But that is a skill issue.
RFK specifically is in his job as coalition politics, rather than because Trump can't find anyone else.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
Renting a gun at the range is legal and not considered possession as long as it stays at the range.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
This is Des Moines, it's not gonna be rural enough to have a serious problem with feral hogs or whatever, and carrying a gun to defend against coyotes as a grown, lone human is... unnecessary.
Now technically as a matter of law, you can generally have guns in the car in the parking lot of a facility that bans them. Your car is your personal property.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
'Princeps' means 'first citizen' and was used as a euphemism for the institution of a de facto hereditary monarchy(same as 'imperator' which just meant 'person holding authority'). Over time it morphed to refer to a minor king which then became used as a courtesy title for a non-reigning royal.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
The purpose of public schools is to spend taxpayer money on themselves. They don't prioritize state funded daycare any more than they prioritize education.
Parents consistently say that they prioritize job prep. Teachers mostly prefer general education. Admins prioritize spending as large a fraction of society's resources as possible and also their ideological crusades. Statefunded daycare and actual education are not priorities.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Well yes, and as someone not employed by the district I take this as evidence that district bureaucrats should be shot and district functions sold to vendors, pour encourager les-autres.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Catholic school, same time period-
Lot of emphasis on colonial history, very in depth on the runup to the revolutionary war. Lewis and Clark and the Louisiana purchase were triumphal statecraft. We kind of glossed over the civil war era. We learned about religious discrimination in 19th century America- the know nothings, the mormon pioneers, the need for the knights of columbus, the KKK.
Lot of emphasis on the industrial revolution. US intervention prevented the European colonizers from doing far worse things to China and Latin America than they wound up doing. Monroe doctrine, Teddy Roosevelt, USA good. The AFL, Teddy Roosevelt, Cornelius Vanderbilt were all portrayed as good guys at the same time. Intervention in WWI was sadly necessary.
The depression was emphasized, but not as much as WWII. Oh gosh WWII ate the rest of the curriculum. Patton was a good guy, Macarthur was more conflicted, the new deal was a good thing but might not have worked as well as it's thought. Straightforwards USA and Britain good, Germany and Japan bad. The soviets were portrayed as bad, but maybe a lighter shade of black than the Germans and Japanese- but still very evil.
We learned about the cold war. Not a lot about anything in specific, but USA good-commie bad. JPII's role in ending the great evil of communism was very important. That's about where it ended.
For the world in general, we learned a lot about Rome, the renaissance, and the age of exploration. There wasn't a true global focus but we probably got a lot more latin american history, especially early latin american history, than a typical public school would have.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Iowa isn't a swing state, democrats haven't won a statewide election there in over a decade- and that was mostly Obama's personal magic.
As an aside, it's actually crazy how much school district admins get paid, especially considering that what they mostly do is make things worse.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
There were two sexual revolutions and they both had major social instability coming in about forty years later. Can I explain it entirely? Not really. But the 2010's social chaos occurred roughly the same timeframe after the sixties/seventies sexual revolution as the sixties/seventies social chaos occurred after the 20's/30's sexual revolution. Perhaps we'll see in the 2050's some chaotic results of something LGBTQ related, history rhymes.
As for the forty years timeframe, I would suggest that it's when children who grew up entirely under the new paradigm are reaching the age to start making bad decisions. Social change is slow even if at the surface level it looks like lightning.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
And that most people ate them proportionally less often, you had a balogna sandwich if you couldn't cook a meal for whatever reason. That's not to say their home cooking was very good- it often wasn't- but there was a lot less of the other kind of any description. 50's purchasing power was just too low, and technology too backwards, to sustain any alternative to cooking.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The Atlantic is establishment as establishment gets, they don’t want revolutionary leftists(thé kind that shoot people) in power any more than they want thé handmaid’s tale.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Masking is often de jure illegal but almost never enforced.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Uh, you know what fifties food was actually like? Lots of canned junk, white bread, only the most basic fruits and vegetables, no seasonings, make a jello for special occasions.
It was generally at far smaller portion sizes than today, and it did genuinely have less sugar and PUFAs. It was probably less processed than the default American diet in this day and age- soda was a rare treat, they didn’t have hungry man dinners, etc- but it wasn’t some wonderland of organic health food.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
It’s dietary changes. Not just seed oils- people have a lower vitamin higher calorie diet, lots of PUFAs and sugars that wouldn’t have been common before the very late 20th century. The fifties kid diet was mostly milk+adult food. Today it’s radically different. Kids hit puberty earlier because they get more calories so they grow faster. Male breast growth seems mostly downstream of obesity. Gynecomastia is a known phenomenon that sometimes happens, it’s not a new occurrence.
As for the decrease in facial hair quality, might I suggest that the increase in acceptance of crappier beards is behind it?
I’m willing to believe endocrine disrupters explanations. I just want to point out that a lot of the usual symptoms are just… body fat, or have other obvious explanations.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Statistically, there are dramatically more women who say they would like to wait for marriage on anonymous surveys than who actually do so. Revealed preferences and all that, but I think the most obvious explanation is that women are far more likely than men to be interested in waiting for sex.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Red tribe trans people- especially FtM's- aren't even that uncommon. They're just low status enough that no one cares about them, like literal trailer trash level. Not so for blue transgenders, who seem to come from higher class backgrounds more often and be a bit more likely to be MtF.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
The new Texas candidate for AG is on news today talking about how ICE invited this attack.
Uh, you know Texas democrats are ridiculous progressive fanatics in a contest to see how expensive losing elections can be, right? Just off priors this guy is too far to the left for his own base and an electoral irrelevancy.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Few illegals prefer death to deportation; they expect they can just come back.
Getting deported is viewed as a serious inconvenience that sometimes happens at random, not a life-ruining one.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
No they won't. A bunch of them will probably get fired, a few senior members will get indicted on charges that may or may not make sense. The vast bulk of ICE will not be.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Or more helpfully- indiscriminate fire at Trump coded target: left winger. Indiscriminate fire at someone the far-right hates: right winger.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Normie cons do not want to commit thé violence. There is a difference.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Could it just be that these people are a bit unhinged? Crazy people offing themselves doesn’t exactly require much explanation.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
And this idea has not filtered down to normie cons. Hence, it will not be a deterrent.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Many on the left seem to think so.
The rural western US generally has a male slant in the population. Entirely possible he just wasn't going to be able to find a girlfriend- and the trades are not high status among mormons, who push college very strongly(in fairness, their college is free).
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