hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
1d ago
…No? Early America was not a clan based society in any way.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I mean, I’m in favor of the U.S. military overthrowing any left wing elected officials, Latin America style. Don’t think it would make much difference in governance though.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I think he’s pointing to two different kinds of users.
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1d ago
Argentine governance has been very very bad historically, although ‘communist’ is probably not a good word.
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1d ago
Factually there were plenty of Greeks who preferred the Turks to cooperating with the west in the waning days of the Byzantine empire, of course.
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1d ago
France is likely to be the last euro country standing.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
had a technician's mindset and pride in his/her work that would lead them to think "You know, if these rails are always a little off, that's probably a bad thing, even if 1/8th of an inch isn't Big Bad on its own."
Technicians are all about tolerances and making things work. That’s bureaucrats demanding measurements.
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1d ago
California can’t do HSR- it’s one of those statements which is kinda sort a true. California can’t stick to a plan is why they can’t build HSR.
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1d ago
There probably isn’t an easy way to do it. I doubt bukelism would work well there, because the cartels are too sophisticated and too entrenched in local power structures(there’s also lots of eg corrupt unions and normal nominally legal companies and the like). It’ll probably get better over time just due to inertia; non-cartel economic opportunities(and the cartels operate a huge grey market economy- everything from pirated movies to groceries) are much more common and much better than they used to be, thanks to US investment, and cartels are starting to realize that random directionless terror violence doesn’t actually benefit them. But they still operate under a logic(often insane troll logic, with stuff like human sacrifices and witchcraft) that rewards violence and terror, thé Mexican army has a 50% desertion rate and corrupt officers who sell equipment to them, and public appetite for a sustained counter insurgency campaign is pretty low due to the casualties involved.
It’s possible that if the U.S. decided to kill every hard drug user in our borders, thé cartels would see a permanent decline in revenue and thus influence. But the cartels also operate like standard organized crime syndicates and control 40% of the country(thats leaving out the parts controlled by auto defensas or folk socialist movements- thé Mexican government prefers the cartels to either but lacks the ability to really stop any of the three). They’re not totally dependent on US drug revenue, and the Mexican police are shitty, incompetent, and corrupt so they aren’t really a replacement for cartel rule.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The left believes the US is broke because they pursue PPP minimizing lifestyles(living in NYC, grad school, etc).
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Very high crime rates and an ongoing insurgency driven by organized crime using terror tactics are one of its many problems, yes. It's still far preferred to other parts of Latin America, going by revealed preferences.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
'Lieber Turk als Papst'.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
In conventional use, second world country refers to an industrialized middle income country.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The American market will swallow up beef at reasonable prices. Even a mild discount vs the very high US cost of production will enable functionally infinite sales. Soy and wine(the most visible Argentine product to the US market is, far and away, malbec), maybe not, but the limitation on Americans buying steak and brisket is budgetary, not consumption ability.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
To be even more fair, Mexican-Texans who trace their ancestry to pre-Texas independence settlement are a recognizable social group in current day Texas which is politically important and regionally predominant enough to be visible far in proportion to their actual numbers. That's what 'tejano' actually means.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Europe totally has a red tribe, it's just far more marginalized than the US one.
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1d ago
When democrats lost big in 2024, the head of the Texas Democrat party tweeted out something to the effect of 'we should be more willing to accept that most Americans do not agree with us on trans issues'. He was pressured into resigning within 24 hours. Gino Hinojosa is somebody that insider dems know about, even if the man on the street does not. Democrats are structurally incapable of moderating their ultra-unpopular positions, and they're structurally incapable of attempting to present them in more delicate ways.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Tim Walz.
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1d ago
Canada does not, however, have the people for that, nor does it have the wise and reasoned management to grow their population to such a point.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
With Trump out of the picture there's going to be a brutal factional fight and such factional fights are unpredictable.
Vance has no native support base, but that might be an asset if it helps him present himself as a compromise candidate between different factions. The establishment state level GOP's are mostly lined up behind Abbott, not Rubio. And Rubio himself has the benefit of being able to run as the sane man in the Trump admin- either 'it would go better with me in charge of the same agenda' or 'I did that, brought all those victories'.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Mexico is not a third world country approaching second world. It's a solid second world country with pockets of both third world conditions and modern, albeit relatively poor, first world societies. The latter are mostly the ones actually bordering the United States; the former are very far away. This isn't way back when; Mexico is a normal middle income country which has its fair share of problems but is not, like, an actual third world shithole.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
More money won't fix it, and it's not like you have money anyway.
You know America has ten times the GDP per capita of Argentina and six times the GDP per capita of Russia, yes? Like there are reasoned and informed criticisms you can make of the USA. 'Doesn't have money' is not one.
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2d ago
He's Russian, and any idiot can see that if Canada goes through an economic crisis it will stop being a country, so Carney might talk about the Chinese, but he's not going to pivot. Alberta would leave if Trump actually for real takes the gloves all the way off in an economic war with Canada, and then Quebec, and then a country with some giant holes in it would start to shrink.
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2d ago
Nobody actually believes we’re going to invade Greenland.
There’s always been a few boomercons who hate Europe for not actually being free, for being effeminate and lazy, or for their arrogance. It’s usually been a cautionary tale and most normiecons are shocked to learn about Europe’s employment laws, homeschooling bans, etc.
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