hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
11hr ago
This is the exact same mistake that Biden did. He won 2020 and they took it as a mandate to do everything they wanted, instead of trying to aim for the moderate centrist voters who decide elections
Biden did not do this. His admin was full of radicals who believed in arc of history triumphalist nonsense thought themselves to have a mandate to do whatever current progressive doctrine wanted, sure, but they believed this regardless of election results and also this wasn't sleepy Joe himself, it was staffers.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
Puerto Rico is corrupt, news at 11. That's why nobody cares about this story. Not because of the partisan valences, because 'Bribes paid in Puerto Rico' is a page five story, and this one didn't even manage to actually swing the election.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
Haiti being a basket case is relatively recent, because they were ruled by an insane witch who turned the country into a failed state because he didn't trust his own government, and the Dominican Republic's dictatorship was a normal standard average egomaniac strongman.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
Isn't the main non-Indo-European zone in Italy in historic times Etruria, today one of the wealthier regions?
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
The counterfactual is, of course, Ireland, which saw much higher and longer migration and now has the same wages as the historic colonial overlord.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
Aren't Italian Americans generally quite successful outside of organized crime?
hydroacetylene
14hr ago
But the indo-Europeans were not a civilized people, they were steppe barbarians, and indo-European-ness doesn’t elsewhere correlate with wealth within Europe- Finland and the Basque Country are both wealthier regions.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
The knights of Columbus are a Fortune 500 company with no reliance on external funding and strong ties to the powers that be, because practicing Catholics are overrepresented in the elites and functionally all male practicing Catholics are members. This makes labeling them a hate group both A) pointless and B) risky.
The $PLC’s ‘radical traditional Catholic’ hate category is indeed full of groups which are not hateful, and those which are not groups, alongside a small number of deranged conspiracy theorists like the dimond brothers’ monastery. But it doesn’t address the knights of Columbus.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Going back four generations. Probably roughly a third 20’s and younger. Keeping track of exact ages is a woman thing, thats a best guess.
You've never even had a coworker change gender on you?
No? Is this a common experience? I don’t work in big tech, I don’t think I’ve ever had a coworker transition.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I have a very large family and trans issues are entirely theoretical, just some weirdos that come from other, worse, families. Ditto for my in laws.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Going to(thé correct)church is strongly recommended and sometimes mandatory in rightist regimes with a religious component- Vatican II happened to blow up a load bearing pillar of Franco’s regime(and South Vietnam’s, but that’s another, longer, less straightforwards, story), but that didn’t mean public irreligion was acceptable.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The intimidation being delusional is extremely relevant information.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
To note, from what I’ve heard, a substantial part of contraceptive failure- I don’t use the things myself- is that people don’t like them. They discomfit people because they’re unnatural, so people take shortcuts, they cheat, they try to get away from it.
It’s an entirely human reaction to refuse to do the thing right, when you know the thing itself is wrong.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
My understanding is trans panic has been used successfully for lesser charges, but not in a while, and never for murder.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
But there’s two reasons for feeling widespread intimidation- either 1) a large portion of people are out to get you or 2) unjustifed paranoia.
This thread is evidence- albeit not a slam dunk- against the first hypothesis, and we already know transgenders have very poor mental health on average.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Communism- by which we mean intentional socialism or Marxist-Leninism- is too unworkable to exist without an authoritarian edifice, and so it only exists where dissent is suppressed.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
In practice we kinda do know what religion in schools looks like(and it’s not the handmaid’s tale)Christian schools are a dime a dozen.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I mean the answer to that news story is ‘we run an employee donation matching service and do not know what NAMBLA is’, because normal people generally don’t.
In any case thé knights of Columbus also runs a ‘hateful charities blacklist’, you could probably borrow theirs that lists Aryan nations but not the family research council.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
As well as a large number of ‘hate groups’ which are not groups, or which haven’t been active in 20 years, etc.
It’s worth noting that this is not new for the $PLC- they listed thé family research council back when gay marriage was not even particularly popular, let alone the law of the land, to say nothing of groups whose positions they couldn’t even point to.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
IIRC thé vast majority of what planned parenthood does is STD treatments, which is uncomplicatedly reproductive healthcare.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Nonsensical, near AI-written woke novels are not new. They are also rarely best sellers; thé best selling speculative fiction writers are still white men writing books about adventures and fighting, and women churning out ‘young adult’ slop about tomboys having love triangles in a dystopia of large hams.
Paying attention to this is, literally, exactly what they want. In the course of normal human events this novel is read by a dozen activists and the publisher loses money.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
But trad marriages are all about power dynamics, and they were the norm at one point.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Do you have better numbers? No really, do you? Or do you have fan fiction about how trans faces an elevated murder risk?
Because while those numbers are not perfect, they are a damn sight better than what radical trans activists base their statistics off of.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Well how exposed to crime are trannies in general? I would expect a large basement dweller percentage which meaningfully reduces population average exposure to crime, as well as strong underrepresentation of things like career criminals and the like that are very exposed to potential murder.
I will note that although the parties nationally can't get their shit together well enough to pass voter ID laws, states with strict voter ID and no mail in ballots are all red.
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