hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
15d ago
So twin studies are disproven because scientists have only found 2% of the genes? Don’t you think there might be a bunch of genes they just haven’t found yet?
hydroacetylene
17d ago
Thank you for writing this up with more comprehension and detail than I could have done. I’ve had roughly the same impression- Trump has people to put democrats in jail this time, the party is increasingly in disarray, 2026 is going to be a disaster for the DNC in the senate for structural reasons, etc.
But Trump has also gotten good at performing the part of a strong rightful king, and by nature people love rightful royal power. He has the head of the longshoreman’s union and the head of NATO writing effusive love letters that wouldn’t be out of place addressed to a Chinese emperor. Obviously, writing this way to Trump is a great way to get what you want(or at least make it more likely), but it also sets a precedent that this is how the president, leader of the free world, POTUS, is to be addressed, and that in turn makes it more normal, which in turn raises the impression that president Trump has the Mandate of Heaven. People understand that on a primitive clan based society level.
I wrote earlier about how Trump was campaigning not as a better leader, but as the rightful leader. Democrats don’t have any counter to that. That’s why Trump’s popularity keeps rising.
hydroacetylene
17d ago
Roe wasn’t a 14th amendment ruling, it was a right to privacy under the ‘penumbra’ of the constitution. Famously Ruth Bader Ginsburg thought it was badly written and not grounded in anything.
hydroacetylene
19d ago
The difference is 'my opponents literally, not a misuse of figuratively but actually do want to let men and boys in your daughter's locker room and discipline her for being upset about it' is a winning issue for Republicans.
hydroacetylene
19d ago
While I'm much less white-identitarian than most people on here, it's entirely possible that among the specific set of 'young blue tribers who never leave the ivory tower bubble of academia' the position really does boil down to 'white people have no right to exist'. As it applies to the USA this is basically a luxury belief- the serious antiwhite racists are mostly a subset of AADOS(+a few natives) who are begrudgingly tolerated by their coethnics. In Israel, on the other hand...
hydroacetylene
23d ago
The democrats cant seem to stop themselves from attempting to coronate shrieking Karens who can’t take two steps back from sub-20% positions.
‘Why aren’t there millennials there’ is probably downstream from whatever problem causes that.
hydroacetylene
24d ago
Unmarriageable women in the olden days were a dime a dozen, though- after the convents became selective those who weren’t taken care of by a male relative worked as servants, in textiles(the word ‘spinster’ has a completely literal meaning as well as its other one), as prostitutes, etc.
hydroacetylene
29d ago
Uh, did she really believe harlots are going to be well liked or have a good reputation in the public sphere?
hydroacetylene
6d ago
The real lesson is actually 'if you oppress a group of low performers you must never stop. If you grow tired of oppression then leave no survivors, but only if they are low performers. It's fine to just liberate Chinamen or Ashkenazim because they'll catch up without really needing the help their more unhinged activists demand.'
hydroacetylene
9d ago
The Greeks actually wrote a lot about the conditions for democracy and what separated Greeks from barbarians in being able to do it.
hydroacetylene
13d ago
Is Texas just requiring the same sort of "age verification" that's existed since the 90s (the website says are you 18 and you click yes)?
Texas is requiring that pornhub make potential viewers upload a photo of their driver's license. Presumably if a parent uploads a photo of their driver's license to let their kid watch porn and Texas attempts to enforce the law against pornhub then that would be a different lawsuit but let's be real, the tiny number of people who actually do this won't get caught.
hydroacetylene
16d ago
Confucianism as not-a-religion is a pretty modern frame; while westerners have been confused about it for a while it does include substantial ritual/preternatural commitments as traditionally practiced. See 'Chinese rites controversy' for further information.
hydroacetylene
17d ago
The answer to your questions is ‘the natural process of time’. Elected leaders being treated as kings would be item #9000 that horrified a resurrected Jefferson or Washington. Indeed, the founding fathers thought America had strayed from their vision in their lifetimes, and we know that because they said so.
hydroacetylene
19d ago
I'm not sure why Iran getting a nuclear weapon is such a disaster. Like, bad, yes. Saudi Arabia would nuclearize pretty much immediately and Turkey probably wouldn't be too far behind, and that means Ukraine and Taiwan, maybe Egypt too, would probably take it as permission, and...
But the Iranian leaders aren't actually insane and Iran is uninvadable anyways. Pakistan and North Korea haven't used their nukes; they're expensive dick-measuring contests that deter ground invasion and not something which even nutsy regimes would use in anger.
hydroacetylene
23d ago
It seems just barely possible for KJB? It's pretty clear she just kept getting appointed to higher and higher spots on the basis of her race and gender, and it's entirely possible to me that was enough to get someone a bit dim by the standards of the judiciary, at least, into a high-powered law school.
hydroacetylene
24d ago
Journalism is a shrinking field, which means you need the respect of your peers to keep working in it, which means ‘impressing other journalists’ is more important than ‘impressing the public’.
hydroacetylene
7d ago
Did the bill deliver a large bonus to ICE? Offer houses, goods, women, special grocery stores?
Iraq didn't stay a popular war for very long, but was it a genuinely unpopular invasion at the time? My impression is that when everyone thought the Iraqis would take to democracy easily once their evil tyrant(and that is what Saddam was) was replaced it was a generally-approved of war domestically, and it only became super unpopular when it became clear that the Iraqis would prefer armed nuts to democracy.
That discussion of Bush also reminds me a lot of Trump. He's clearly leading on vibes, not ideology or policy briefs. They're different vibes but they're vibes nonetheless.
hydroacetylene
14d ago
Hé just said New Jersey did ban people from owning a gun for voluntary interactions with the mental health system?
hydroacetylene
21d ago
I live in a- or in multiple- based subculture. One of them is extremely popular on the internet.
Yes people say things that are clownish or weird to normies. But does anyone deny that modern secular society has, uh, problems?
hydroacetylene
23d ago
I live in Texas, with probably the strictest abortion laws among high income countries(maybe Liechtenstein?). No prosecutions for miscarriage have happened here- and 40% of the childbearing aged women without elective abortion in the U.S. live here.
More to the point, there really, legitimately are lots of people who, when it comes to abortion specifically, do not think there’s a possible case of abortion that is morally wrong. Relatively recently, in Louisiana, there was a case of a young woman who wanted to keep her pregnancy and was deceived by her mother into taking an abortion pill ordered from out of state. The pro-choice crowd did not seem to respect this young lady’s choice to keep her baby- including the governor of New York, from which this abortion pill came.
hydroacetylene
29d ago
She could easily find a rationalist eligible bachelor to have kids with in her stated lifestyle. She’d just have to settle for ‘eligible’ rather than ‘attractive’(in the broad sense, rather than just a synonym for handsome).
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Ok, if we take the 'Epstein was murdered in prison to prevent him spilling the beans' hypothesis seriously, and assume that the Clintons/Mi6/Mossad are competent actors, this is exactly what we should expect. Prison guards are cheap to bribe and want lakehouses/retirement, not notoriety(they're also not going to cop to a felony like accepting bribes because of what would happen to them on the inside), and 'leaving a detailed list' defeats the point of murdering him.
I'm not too fussed about it; everyone who went to it could have a different bikini model spend the night with him on her eighteenth birthday every day if he wanted to, there's no evidence they picked Epstein's girls because they wanted 17 1/2 year olds instead, more like because escorts were provided as part of the island experience, and the pimp is dead(deservedly so).
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Religious leaders pushed back against LGBT in the Catholic and evangelical cases; mainline Protestants no.
I do remember all those photos; I remember lots of democrats awful proud of Iraqi elections even if they didn't like Bush. The war was well-defended on 'liberal' grounds and maybe I'm just confusing liberal and leftist here but I recall plenty of definitely-not-Bush voters awfully supportive of the war.
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