No one considering Iran for this?
Because that's a red line and everyone in the chain of command for that hit all the way to the Ayatollah dies. Yes, it's unfair that the US gets to play big dick foreign policy while other countries can't, but that's the way it is.
While Capitalism is in the causal chain that ate those things it is the massive amounts of wealth created by capitalism that actually eats everything.
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9d ago
How much actual banning of single family homes is going on? The only thing I've seen is banning "single family zoning" which doesn't ban single family houses but bans the banning of denser options.
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9d ago
Is there a term where only one party is ever granted full moral agency, responsibility, and blame, while everyone else is treated as passive, contextual, or structurally determined. In the United States itself it's white men at the end of the agency chain, internationally it's the United States.
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14d ago
If it's not confirmed I'm very confident DC is under wide-area persistent surveillance. You have to spend a lot of time figuring out CCTV locations to defeat it.
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15d ago
It does greatly depend on state, but I live in a cool state. I used to work for F&G it's de facto here, you have 24 hours to get the salvage tag. Cops showed up after I'd dispatched it, we had a pleasant chat before they took off.
I salvaged a deer and pretty much every vegetarian I know said they would eat it. Most didn't know you could legally (it depends on the state) salvage roadkill and thought it was pretty cool. In my case I also dispatched it, so time from death to fridge was faster than most harvested deer.
Minor culture war angle: A Muslim guy had "called dibs" on the deer and didn't want me to kill it because then it wouldn't be halal. Said he had his brother on the phone and he was going to come butcher it. The deer was suffering greatly and I said if his brother wasn't almost here I was going to kill it. He wouldn't tell me how far away his brother was. Heard him derogatorily call me a cowboy between whatever he was speaking. I'm not nearly that cool.
Which shows where the critical failure lies, and what his sin really is - the lack of leadership, of charisma, of inspiration, of a passive type of ideological cowardice where instead of boldy stating 'Come with me to build a good society' he instead wibble-wobbled about how men should just do the things he had been doing while making limp-wristed motions in his general direction.
The issue is this get's pretty culty and has trouble lasting long-term. I see it a lot in churches - particularly non-denominational - that get big, sucking in the remnants of the declining churches around them. They create quite the impressive "community". It's all based around the Charismatic pastor, they start a little Bible college, if they make it a decade or two the pastor tries to set up his son, and then they whither away.
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16d ago
There's a subset of Mottizens that if transported to a rural setting, working remotely in fairly lucrative jobs, would have a good time at the bar/coffee shop. A big heuristic is if you can already pull that off. An issue is that reaping the benefits of rural living requires quite a bit of less productive labor, and it's hard to resist the incentive of working your more productive skill sets harder.
I am very sympathetic, I’ve always dreamed about going off and living in the woods. Unlike many I’ve grown up rural adjacent. On the list of effort posts I’ll never make is how expensive it is to switch from urban/suburban to rural. Being well off and rural is a lot of fun, but maybe not that fun as Critical Access doctors are hard to come by, unless that’s just because lefty docs don’t want to live around righty plebs.
Over roughly 70 years annual growth of 3% will double that of 2% growth.
Subsistence living sucks, it sucks hard, as evidenced by all of history people moving into really (by our standards) crappy urban life because of just how much subsistence living sucks.
Incentives matter, there’s a reason rural life is in the decline, and if you’re not very cognizant of what the issues are you’re going to get bit hard.
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25d ago
I don't disagree that societies expectations of women are low, or that society is explicitly and institutionally biased towards women. What does he advocate for beyond preaching from the pulpit that women should lower their standards?
Algorithms bubble check: was this on any major commentators radar as a real thing? I didn't see anything about it it until the hoax angle came up.
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28d ago
My point isn't so much that it would be easy. More that with the current dynamic it's extremely unlikely to even happen in what I would define as "civil war".
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28d ago
Semantics but if the military isn't involved I don't consider it a Civil War.
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28d ago
How does a civil war actually manifest in the current environment? Terrorism sure. Although civilian Marxists have been pushing to arm themselves since Trump’s 2016 campaign, they’re still a few decades behind the right. The MAGA right is probably even better armed than normie Republicans.
The intelligence community and the brass may have a fair amount of anti-Trump sentiment, but I don’t think they command the loyalty of the grunts. In a coup attempt, I suspect the Marines would gladly clear out Langley and Fort Meade. The big, mostly red county map comes into play. Democratic strongholds, while densely populated, are essentially islands. Then there’s the constant refrain directed at 2A activists: “What are you going to do against a drone?” That argument collapses even faster than the standard rebuttal when the right controls the executive branch and the grunts. At that point it’s no longer armed civilians sabotaging your planes and drones on the ground - it’s Marines attacking the base itself. The left has almost no ability to project power outside the areas it already control
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29d ago
X algorithm just fed me:
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Williams and Ceci sent fake job applications to more than 800 faculty members in engineering, economics, biology, and psychology... As shown in the graph below, faculty expressed a strong preference for the female candidates - a 2:1 preference overall.
Your post is clever, how you reframe the film, but without actually making it an "effort post," I think it's lacking, clarity and not overly helpful if one hasn't seen the film. The film is a Culture War Artifact or time capsule worthy of discussion. It demonstrates both how long "woke" narratives have been pushed (much longer than this) and how tropes have changed.
Spoiler: The family is actually the most gentry of gentry living in a huge house in New England with a progressive bohemian aesthetic. They are ever so willing to signal their tolerance and encouragement of their young daughter's fornicating and their gay, interracial, deaf son's desire to adopt a child, yet they are cruel to Sarah Jessica Parker's character for the slightest of faux pas... or is it a slight faux pas and not a full on cancellable offense?
A film that I just watched that is quite the Culture War time capsule is the very good 1960 classic The Apartment.
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