hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
10hr ago
none of Epstein’s victims were Jewish
Didn't he target fatherless white girls living in poor, hispanic-majority neighborhoods? This is not a very Jewish demographic. It's also exactly the demographic you'd expect 'just wants to sleep with teens' types to target.
hydroacetylene
10hr ago
The counterfactual would look like Trump introducing his own praetorian guard. But he's Marius, not Sulla. He's not gonna do that. He's gonna say 'the secret service is great- the best. They had a bad day'.
hydroacetylene
10hr ago
Missing that shot was definitely happenstance, I wouldn't read too much into it. But if some competent planning group tried that wouldn't they have a backup plan?
hydroacetylene
10hr ago
You are not exactly talking about the class valence of the attitudes in my post(c'mon, 'shotgun weddings are trashy' is the lowest hanging fruit ever) or interrogating the implied racial attitudes.
hydroacetylene
15hr ago
Texas does not threaten to secede. The far right in Texas threatens to secede regardless of who is in the white house and gets some measure of popular support when the white house has a democrat in it.
And that is, functionally, what Texas nationalists are- it's just the native far right. Some are russiaboos and some are white nationalists but all of them are goldbugs. Some are ruralists; none of them believe in global warming. Lots of them have conspiracy theories about pedophile rings controlling the federal government; none of them will countersignal those theories. Some are balanced budget hawks, most are christian nationalists, all of them think all gun control except maybe you can't bring a gun physically into a prison ground is unconstitutional. There's a lot of hyper-red tribe signaling about meat and pickup trucks and indie country and open carry. But the common threads in the movement are red tribe cultural supremacy(and this is, in their view, an explicitly assimilatory identity, Hispanics should learn American football and blacks should learn country music but they don't have to change their skin color), hyper-Austrian economics(this does not necessarily imply libertarianism), and extreme skepticism of the federal(not necessarily state) government. Lots of similarities to Ron Paul, but few if any of them would eg point to marijuana prohibition as government overreach. It's just a far-right movement and for much of it secession should be taken seriously but not literally. They really do have strong grievances on cultural, economic, or anti-federal overreach grounds. Daniel Miller really does believe these mean Texas needs to be an independent country, but his rank and file may not; lots of them are just there for the grievances. It's kind of similar to explicitly pro-militia sentiment in red areas of blue states.
hydroacetylene
16hr ago
There's lots of people who make moral judgements of tattooing. Older women do so quite regularly.
hydroacetylene
16hr ago
While I agree that Turok is a one trick pony, attitudes towards abortion are germane to the topic. I did grow up with the attitude that a woman seeking an abortion was not just a murderer but also a shirker(just like a boyfriend who didn't marry her when he found her with child). I don't think fetal personhood is, though.
hydroacetylene
16hr ago
It was recommended on SSC, which I read for the deep dives, eg 'X: much more than you wanted to know'.
hydroacetylene
16hr ago
It seems notable that libertarians and communists are very different kinds of people- I don't think this is entirely assimilatory in nature, I think this is more selection effects. EG you see very few female libertarians.
hydroacetylene
16hr ago
If electoral politics is fake and we're living in a dictatorship of the CIA, how'd Trump get elected?
hydroacetylene
16hr ago
Having someone killed in prison and leaving the motives undiscoverable is child's play. 80 IQ hood gangs do it all the time. This seems more than within the competency of the Clinton's or Royal Family's fixer.
hydroacetylene
16hr ago
I also don't think anyone would care if Bill was partying too hard with 16 year old girls. He's, uh, not exactly a current figure these days and nobody sane was going to trust him with their daughter anyway. Probably most of this stuff is beyond the statute of limitations or otherwise not prosecutable too.
hydroacetylene
16hr ago
if you know you're not, what could possibly convince you to hesitate at the last second?
The Epstein data has been released. There is no intact 'list'; it was destroyed at the same time as Epstein died, or shortly thereafter. Trump thinks bullshitting about how it's no big deal is a better move than coming clean that they don't actually have much data.
hydroacetylene
16hr ago
The one thing that sticks out about English-language media coming out of Israel is that approximately all of it is aimed at Americans.
Well who else would it be aimed at? Israel has plenty of people who know English but the most common native languages are Hebrew, Arabic, and then Russian. No doubt Hebrew and Russian language media coming out of Israel is aimed at actual Israelis.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
No. I’m familiar with oxygen-acetylene reactions in the context of welding and thought the portmanteau with hydroxychloroquine sounded cool.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
I’m guessing nobody in this story was thinking with the brain.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
Nor the ‘shove mentally ill sex offenders in segregated spaces’ plan.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
men in spheres bemoaning lack of trad values often mention virginity but I'm never clear on if they're offering the same virginity themselves
Probably(even if rather unhappily so). But the crux of what makes white weddings work is ‘the man who makes it clear you aren’t a virgin has to marry you’, not ‘men dont get premarital sex’- even if the latter is still discouraged(rightly).
I did have a ‘duty’ frame in mind, but what I was really trying to get at in my post was- different people have different duties. Sometimes this looks unfair, but it’s because people are different.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
I mean that’s kind of weird?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
he may have had his attorneys bribe the security team at the jail so they didn’t stop him.
It literally seems more implausible that he was able to pay his attorneys to bribe them than that the guards would have turned down this bribe. Prison guards are cheap to bribe and what are the gonna do, admit to committing a felony?
The guards letting it happen is the least implausible part of this story.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Ex-cons are often legally forced to work, too- employment is usually a condition of parole(which is probably most prison releases) and probation(which they usually wind up on).
There are certain jobs in America so shitty that they can get done by unfree labour(eg, out of the probation office- they are required to be employed) or by third worlders using the wage differential as the equivalent of working on an offshore rig, with no third option. Disproportionately, these are not jobs we can just do without(otherwise we probably would).
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Meatpacking plants happily hire American citizens. It's just a shitty job, so staffing is always hard, so illegals get hired because they're used to shitty jobs.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I see lots of complaining about child support payments and the like, even by those generally skeptical of girlboss women's lib.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Yes on both counts.
Because the records don't exist- either due to having been destroyed or due to never having been compiled.
After the covid reaction, I don't believe this. Nothing will cause the revolution. Americans are too docile.
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