hydroacetylene
No bio...
User ID: 128
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
Au contraire, turning 'Is Trump a pedo' from a government coverup scandal to a boring legal drama will energize NPR resistance libs but convince everyone else this doesn't matter. They'll forget it in a week.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
Produce isn't getting stolen. The underclass doesn't want it and doesn't know anyone who does. There's probably a meat theft problem, but the real reason is that the urban poor just doesn't cook and doesn't want to. There are no grocery stores selling fresh ingredients because nobody would buy them; they buy whatever processed foods and sodas/energy drinks their foodstamps cover, but not raw meat, produce, staples like rice or flour or pasta, dairy. The native underclass eats an atrocious diet of ultraprocessed foods with terrible macros and they won't buy anything else.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
My guess is that the NGO running the store is just incompetent- the empty shelves are probably as much about poor stocking/inventory management as they are about shoplifting, otherwise Aldi would be suffering the same problem. Maybe there's also an incompetent pricing system- this seems like a thing progressive NGO's would be bad at.
I do wonder how nearby grocery stores- there are supposedly two of them- are handling shoplifting. I wouldn't expect extralegal justice.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
I have to wonder if this is a part of the success formula for Big Bang Theory- Sheldon's mother may not be everyone's favorite, but she definitely has redeeming qualities and listening to her is usually a solution for the character's problems.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
He's a sneering anti-Trump libertarian who has a history of some politically incorrect racial views but now claims to oppose political correctness on the basis of colorblindness. That's not a totally inaccurate representation of his schtick but he also has unkind things to say about rural people, women, etc. He's very very pro-abortion and thinks the winning formula is 'aesthetics and rhetoric of Bush era democrats, but without the concern about race, hyper-neoliberal economics'. As a political formula this is, regardless of how well it would work as a governing formula, almost actively delusional; he combines most of the least popular positions in the modern US. He's also aggressively anti-Trump.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
I haven't heard the words (quadroon, etc.) uttered out loud unironically ever in my life, and I was born and raised in more or less rural Alabama, and both sets of grandparents regularly used the term "nigger" though notably (to me) neither of my parents ever said the word within my earshot and wouldn't allow it said in the house (by me or my brother.)
I remember 'mulatto', 'mestizo', and 'half-caste' used. Adult males may or may not have used the word nigger occasionally, but not in the presence of blacks or women- and none would object to it even if they didn't personally use it. It was definitely a cultural descriptor as much as it was a racial term though. Nowadays people know what a 'cholo' and a 'castizo' is and might use the term, but only the former is derogatory.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
Do dogs have more variance? A lot of the phenotypic differences are driven by single genes; it's not implausible that genetically chihuahuas and great danes are slightly closer than Yeniseians and Negritos.
hydroacetylene
12hr ago
I'd be curious to know about how good most genetically distant populations, Mbuti pygmies and Australoids fare in that respect.
There's plenty of partly-aboriginal people running around in Australia. They just look white. And there's an entire ethnic group(cape coloreds) descended from Dutch-Khoisan crosses in South Africa.
hydroacetylene
12hr ago
It's worth noting that Latin American immigration is not universally non-white, has a long history of assimilating pretty well- and generally not to the criminally inclined underclass, the Hispanics and blacks hate each other and the Hispanic underclass is probably not, proportionately, much higher than the white one- and that Hispanic fertility in the US holds up much worse than native white TFR.
There are criticisms of Latin immigration- they're terrible drivers who raise premiums for everyone, they drive down wages for the native lower-working class, etc. But America's underclass is, mostly, black. The non-black underclass has plenty of whites in it, and I wouldn't claim those whites are any better than the blacks. The median Hispanic in the US works as a cook or a mechanic or construction worker, pushes his kids to move up the social ladder but doesn't complain when it's only one rung, and uses no drugs worse than pot. His daughter is likely to marry a white man, give birth to European looking and acting children, and have higher fertility than her peers who marry other Mexicans. His son likely has a better chance of stable and productive employment than his white peers. The developed parts of Latin America with lots of whites are, by the standards of high income inequality middle income countries, the best in the world- much nicer places to live than former soviet countries, South Africa, etc. It's unlikely that Hispanic immigration will raise income inequality or suppress economic growth by enough to reach, say, Chilean levels. Hispanic migration is simply not a crisis to US ability to maintain its functioning civilization.
hydroacetylene
12hr ago
Nazi Germany mostly inherited the imperial German military system, essentially intact but unused. Reviving it was politically popular and the sort of thing that was inevitable from whoever rose to the top in the Weimar republic. Hitler's main military reforms were either net negatives like the SS or copies of the adaptations other major powers made to the lessons of WWI, coupled with the existing highly-competent Prussian officer corps's adaptations to the lessons of the Spanish civil war.
It's true that Hitler did some common-sense reforms that he can fairly get credit for, but these reforms were, well, commonsense- few of them were unique to Germany.
hydroacetylene
12hr ago
This is a generalized woke failure that they just... fail to say anything convincing to anybody not onboard with their program to begin with. They look ridiculous not like 'just decent persons'. Libs of TikTok was successful propaganda by showing wokes explaining their position in their own words.
hydroacetylene
12hr ago
I would like to chime in in Turok's defense- as someone who does not agree with him very much- that he has slightly improved. I agree with goodguy- he is obnoxious but a month is too long.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The foster system is horrible everywhere. Broadly, the system doesn't care much to improve it and the public outcry is... limited.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
These people mostly have nuanced-if-not positive views on grown men dating sixteen year olds. They are simply mistaken as to the actual ages of Epstein's victims.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
What do you call the child of a Dane and a Yoruba?
Mulatto.
Why do we call a black Brazilian Hispanic?
Negro(their preferred term for themselves- call them preto and they'll whoop your ass).
What about someone with more indigenous heritage from Chiapas in Mexico?
'Illegal' in the most common case, but if you're looking for a racial description probably 'Mayan' or 'Indian, feather not dot'.
Or half Inuit?
Half-caste
What about Zohran Mamdani, who was born in Uganda to Indian and African-American parents?
Desi
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Wolves and dogs are literally not separate species and it's quite possible to argue that coyotes shouldn't be categorized separately either.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Aren't feral horses, water buffalo, and camels all categorized as 'invasive' in Australia? I personally oppose the designation- I prefer a more southwestern-US view that increasing megafaunal variety is good even if some native species suffer, but Australians have the right to their own opinions on the relative value of kangaroos vs horses even if I would have a Texas-style pro-exotics policy where only animals causing damage to the things people want out of the ecosystem are considered invasive if I were Australian emperor- but that is what Australians call them.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Do people even bother calling rats invasive?
Yes. But they usually don't call such things as armadillos(who expand their native range all on their lonesome- despite their association with Texas they didn't get here until circa 1900) invasive.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The fostercare system is a lot blacker than the population as a whole, but I would push back against hoffmeister's assertion that black kids in the foster system are a particular problem- nearly everyone in the system has problems and teenagers in fostercare behave horribly. I'd disagree with the assertion that whites in the foster system are a touch better.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I don't pay much attention to upvotes downvotes on other people's posts(sorry, we're wired to see how our own speech is received. We should probably get rid of upvotes/downvotes) but I get the most negative pushback criticizing the red/black pill on gender relations.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
My prior is very high that prisoners giving interviews about their involvement in sensational crimes are just Mehmet Ali Agca-ing various retarded theories in the hopes of getting a book deal, attention, or boredom relief.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
People in general are OK with lower class girls from the same tribe becoming courtesans(which is basically what Epstein's victims were) as a form of social mobility as long as it's quiet. Very few people are OK with ingroup women of any description working as brothel prostitutes/streetwalkers(which is what the Rotherham victims were). It's reasonable to see these as different kinds of sex work and I'm not sure 100x worse is that far off.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
A surprising number of people just literally don't know that Eptstein's victims were adult-presenting teens who were mainly 16-17 and performed escort work. They think it's Rotherham, where elementary and middle school aged girls were used as brothel prostitutes.
Every society has distinguished between hetairia and porne. People are fine with the former as a vice other people engage in but furious at the latter involving citizen women.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The wire is a character drama focused mostly on the criminals as long-run characters in a broader narrative, though. Very different genre than episodic investigative dramas from the cop's perspective.
You can make an interesting show about investigating lowlives shooting each other. It just wouldn't look anything like CSI.
Yes, the supermercado was bustling. Something tells me this isn’t a Hispanic neighborhood. The actually poor whites and blacks won’t eat rice and beans.
Meat theft is definitely a thing, it’s easy for everyone and the social class a rung or two above the junkies that they have access to eats as much meat as they can afford.
More options
Context Copy link