hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Iran's government might be incompetent, but again, I don't understand what's uncivilized about it?
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
1hr ago
The better way to think about it is that the religious right is the second string faction in the coalition ruling thé GOP, regardless of who’s on top. Populists on top? The Christians are #2. Libertarians? Again, Christians are #2. Thats part of why GOP infighting is relatively less destructive of the party- thé second most powerful faction will literally never lose their coveted #2 spot.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
South Sudan is literally not Arab(thats regular Sudan, and the ethnic difference is the entire reason for the split). The poorest Arab country is Yemen.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
Christianity bans promiscuity for both sexes; thé Vice lists in the New Testament condemn all sex except married PiV, mostly by name. The patristics are even more explicit that the only acceptable sex is married, PiV, at least aiming at conception.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
Iran should be treated as a pariah as long as it refuses to behave like a civilized country
Iran is our enemy but I don’t actually know what makes them uncivilized. Certainly they wouldn’t be the worst example of either tyranny or mohammedan savagery allowed in the US orbit. They hate Israël, but so do plenty of countries in the US orbit. The USA itself uses a harshly punitive criminal justice system with plenty of prison rape. Their per capita execution rate is actually behind Singapore’s.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
Most assuredly know her as a home wrecker. That is, quite literally, what she’s famous for.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
That’s why I noted ‘doing worse than Russia’ which is crappy by white country standards but able to attract immigration from truly bottom of the barrel countries.
I don’t think this is an exhaustive list, at all. Just that crappy middle income countries are totally a thing that comes in white versions, even if truly awful undeveloped places are mostly restricted to blacks(although Afghanistan is racially white).
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
there are no white poor performance countries
Argentina, Colombia, Moldova, Ukraine, are all poorer than Russia, which itself is not conventionally considered a ‘high performer’. Indeed, thé entirety of the Balkans generates little ambition in its denizens except to leave the Balkans, and the nice white parts of Latin America are still nothing to write home about.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
And when you look under the hood, a lot of it is about laundering handouts to the middle class in the class sense, if not in the material sense. It’s downstream of the class entitlement to a middle class lifestyle without much hard work, from holding a college degree.
Don’t get me wrong, lots of people do this too. Notably seniors. But it is mathematically impossible for everyone to be entitled to an above average standard of living.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
Women hate Lauren now-Bezos because she’s a homewrecking harlot, what’s new?
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
In practice, feminist journalists always want highly successful men to marry women like themselves.
In practice, it seems like feminist journalists get angsty and critical no matter who highly successful men marry. If Bezos had married a feminist journalist she’d be writing angsty op Ed’s about it.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
Does orthodoxy really have such a strong norm towards ‘children must be PERFECT in liturgy or not go’? I ask because Byzantine Catholicism has, uh, thé opposite reputation.
You’ve posted before about the challenge of wrangling little people through Divine Liturgy(and I can sympathize), but Byzantine Catholic services are IME full of children being basically ignored until they start full on screaming. Maybe it’s a difference from thé ‘if you’re married you have to have babies and not stop’ mentality religious Catholics tend to have and orthodoxy is different- but it would surprise me.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
Men can be great cooks. It’s just there’s a certain domestic… well, something when your woman is running a space.
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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