stuckinbathroom
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This is like when Dems chased out Al Franken or Andrew Cuomo, there’s a noose tightening now around straight heterosexual male sex. I see a lot of conservacons cheering but this seems longhoused to me.
Al Franken perhaps, but I always got the impression that Cuomo’s cancellation was the left’s way of shitcanning him for bungling the pandemic with a minimum of cognitive dissonance. Much more palatable to run with the fig leaf of sexual impropriety than to recant the glowing hagiographies they had spent the previous couple years composing.
stuckinbathroom
25d ago
I (and they) would much rather go back to China
stuckinbathroom
26d ago
I believe the increased scrutiny ("Are you a chinese spy?") and increasingly hostile culture against China lead to many Chinese deciding to go back to their country.
Not to mention the near-impossibility of dating as an East Asian male fob in the US, especially in the major tech hubs (Bay Area, Seattle)
stuckinbathroom
27d ago
I remember one of the things that really struck me about Halo in its day was that it didn't have bosses.
Arguably hunters are mini-bosses, especially on the higher difficulties. And there was the unique elite with gold armor and the plasma sword—I think in “Silent Cartographer”—but he was easily dispatched with a single plasma grenade so it’s hard to call him a true boss.
Hungary is also an interesting sign of how this new "postliberal right" have abandoned the plot on traditional conservatism.
See, the thing is that actual traditional conservatism doesn’t necessarily have any strong ideological reason to join itself with pro-business, anti-regulation free market economics. The latter is approximately what Americans call libertarianism, and what Europeans call (classical) liberalism. It’s really a historical contingency that in America, this political strain happened to join forces with the religious right/moral majority/tradcon types from approximately the Reagan era to the Trump era; even then, it was far from a solid Republican voting base (cf. Clinton peeling some of them away with the Third Way, “the end of welfare as we know it”, NAFTA, etc.)
There’s no reason to think this should be a general law of conservative politics; indeed, globally speaking, it tends to be the exception rather than the rule, especially in systems that favor the formation of smaller, focused parties instead of two big amorphous tents. Hell, even within the FPTP Anglosphere, it’s not uncommon to find conservatives, leftists, and classical liberals form 3 entirely separate parties (cf., respectively, Tories, Labour, and LibDems in the UK; Tories, NDP, and Liberals in Canada)
Or when the pro-government media tried to "attack" him that in the EU parliament, while waiting for his turn to speak, he had his hand in his pocket and was adjusting his penis, or that the shape of his large penis is sometimes seen in his tight pants on some of his photos.
“My opponent has a magnum dong, for which he needs monster condoms” is … not the angle I would take for an attack ad. But what do I know; perhaps it comes across better in Hungarian.
stuckinbathroom
27d ago
Magyar knows the symbols and spefaks the language, and uses national symbols, national clothes, songs and so on.
Nominative determinism strikes again!
stuckinbathroom
28d ago
I'm admittedly fortunate in that nobody in either of my families is a high-grade fuckup and I could see how that'd cause issues with the current state of things.
IMHO this is literally the entire argument (whatever you think of its merits) for a redistributive welfare state to take care of the young, the old, and the incurably indigent. You are indeed very lucky to have at least some family members of an older generation alive and in good enough shape to provide a degree of childcare, but from behind the Rawlsian veil, such good fortune is hardly guaranteed.
stuckinbathroom
28d ago
I think the point that comparatively few people used to live long past the point of becoming a net fiscal drain still stands, though. Modern medicine has made eking out low-quality end-of-life years, at exorbitant expense to the taxpayer, much more common than it once was. See also the comment downthread about Down syndrome life expectancy over the years.
The funds were “invested” in Treasury bonds which means that they were spent more or less immediately on whatever the government at the time wanted. The return on that investment will ultimately come from taxing future generations, or inflating away the debt, so it’s really just an intergenerational Ponzi scheme with extra steps.
But I agree with you that this was the plan from Day 1, so strictly speaking it’s not a broken promise per se (at least not yet).
stuckinbathroom
28d ago
Maybe they should have a special express lane on the highway for people who pay more than $50k a year in taxes.
I’d settle for a plaque from Lockheed Martin/Raytheon/Northrup Grumman every time I pay enough tax to fund a new Tomahawk or something
Can’t speak to her looks, but she would be at least a year older
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