hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
2d ago
I mean, I wouldn't be happy if nude pictures of me were being widely disseminated.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
It's the monroe doctrine. Basically the US is the hegemon in the western hemisphere, and Cuba is the sole allowed exception. Venezuela had this coming a long time.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
No, as long as the USA wins very fast and we don't have to fight a counterinsurgency/civil war, we're pretty happy with it. We don't want anything that will lead to a draft(yes I know objectively the US would lose WWIII rather than imposing one, but the core red tribe still expects to be conscripted if America can't raise enough troops voluntarily). Maduro needed to go.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Venezuela was repeatedly threatening to invade its neighbors over the objections of the local regional powers(they'd been given knock-it-off notices by both left and right controlled governments in the USA and Brazil). Invading Venezuela and getting rid of Maduro is broadly popular among the rest of Latin America on 'this is what we have a hegemon for' grounds.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I mean, this was the country which managed to sink its own ship while attempting to detain a cruise ship for no particular reason.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
That sounds right. I think anselm was a fake name he used once.
After googling, yep, that was it.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
It was something generic like ‘a boy’s life’ or ‘this boy’s life’ or something by an Anselm Wolfe or wolf.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
I keep seeing this ‘what to do’ take, but an angle that just gets left out most of the time is this- statistically, most of the young women not having children are in long term cohabiting relationships, and we know transforming those into marriages leads to higher fertility. Convincing cohabiting couples to marry is probably both cheaper and more effective than convincing unselected women to have kids/more kids.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
I mean teachers pay is politically radioactive in the US and doctors are roughly as sympathetic.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
The US has local party committees. You can get involved by going to your precinct convention, in person, and voting in the party election. These precinct elections are very poorly attended and so you can probably win a ticket to your county convention. It helps if you’ve previously volunteered with an advocacy org and block walked in the primary- you need both of these to get an invite to young republicans, which is a social club and not a political org, but it’s not necessary just to vote in party elections(and literally ‘showing up in person on a random Tuesday in the late evening’ is the only bar to clear for that).
hydroacetylene
3d ago
The events are, literally, social events to network/build camaraderie among people who are already politically involved. You earn an invitation, you don’t request one.
You want an in for young republicans? Go join a pro-life protest a couple times, then volunteer for the campaign of your local further-right Republican in the primary- look for state legislator candidates with a GOA or taxpayer-friendly endorsement. You’ll get an invite.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Getting invited, personally, to go door to door isn’t hard, though- just hang around where young politically engaged conservatives are.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
As a religious guy, his best in would be the local pro life movement. Go join a group that protests or holds prayer vigils and go from there.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Revenge porn laws create some, don’t they?
hydroacetylene
3d ago
I mean at the end of the day it is difficult to reliably tell teenaged from adult women, and so I suspect most major AI’s will simply not allow you to turn pictures pornographic. There will almost certainly be laws creating strict liability for AI’s and even nonconsensual nude images of an adult woman aren’t going to go over well.
Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t think AI erotica is going away. But just like YouTube doesn’t want hardcore porn on it, chatgpt and grok will eventually get much stricter about erotica, and there will likely be separate, much less pg-13, AI’s.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Houston, Texas, piloted a ‘gold card’ system before the state made them stop because it was covering illegals, where preventative care and EMTALA treatments were covered by the government when given to people who weren’t going to pay any amount anyways. Eventually, healthcare systems will get this nationally as a bailout for themselves. The old will still be on Medicare, the health sharing orgs will keep growing, and the poor will just have shitty non-emergency care.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
The young republicans recruits individuals involved in conservative politics already(pro-life movement, block walking, etc). It does not take randos interested off the streets; it’s a social club for young people who are already politically active.
The one near me hosts events, they just don’t advertise to the public.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
I know the hypothesis that you’re a government official trying to get commentary from the big brains is ridiculous, but posts like this make it awfully tempting.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
Relatedly, I would be in favor of social messaging to encourage fewer people (but especially fewer women) to go to college, and start families instead. But realistically I don't know how this social engineering would work, especially without the power of a church behind it, and I am not in favor of increasing the power of religion, so, yes, once again you may be right that there is no real solution.
There is already a thumb on the scale in favor of women getting more educated uber alles. Obviously removing it is difficult in se, but we should probably start there.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
Nazi collaborators are so old that it's a waste of time to bother with anything else.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
You can reduce the number of women going to college pretty substantially without actually getting it below the male rate.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
While the historical double standard is real, it was supported by widespread prostitution, not a one sided hookup culture. Seduction was literally a crime in these societies.
Yes, there were a handful of artists and very wealthy men who got away with it. They get away with statutory today(see Epstein et al), which is the actual equivalent(remember, the concept of a 'teenaged girl' as a box a young woman might fit into is actually very recent- most historical languages had equivalent terms which meant 'unmarried young woman' and they had similar legal rights and protections).
hydroacetylene
4d ago
Except that spinsters lived, yes, but in poverty. So did domestic servants, prostitutes, etc. Women had a far smaller range of jobs available to them and earned far less from those jobs than men working them.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
I have a theory that collapsing social norms play a big part in this- in the eighties and nineties single people were expected to go out dancing(etc) even if it wasn't their cup of tea. Nowadays only the very extroverted/promiscuous/partying do this. And, well, 'not a huge partier' is a legitimate preference to have(which most people share for their long term partners, on both sides of the gender divide). It's a whole thing where evaporative cooling of the normal modes of social interaction make those modes of social interaction less appealing for normies.
I've seen guys on twitter lament that the only women at bars, dance halls, etc are 'washed up party sluts' or whatever, with boomers wondering why guys think this way all of a sudden. And I have a sneaking suspicion that shy second grade teachers in the eighties were a lot more likely to go out dancing anyways than they are now- do you think they liked the club much back then? It's loud and it's after their bedtime and there really are a bunch of sleazy guys out to get them there. Phones and occasional hinge profiles are so much safer, even if they don't work.
It really isn't that hard to find news stories about dads beating up their daughter's boyfriends for perceived transgressions.
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