hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
1hr ago
People want the last not-horribly-mismanaged regime, and monarchy seems to work for the middle east in a way democracy doesn't. Monarchies are certainly rather good at avoiding the 'retarded populism' failure mode that, quite frankly, seems extraordinarily unlikely to fix Iran.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Probably not, no. Pro-life activists being arrested for protesting too hard outside abortion clinics is a thing that happens and conservatives often defend FACE violations, but, importantly, not pro-life activists who use actual violent action.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
Blacks with more red tribe adjacency(lots of them working in the trades, but bowhunting is the real reliable way to meet them) are real popular with the red tribe, generally. The tribalism in the US is about different kinds of white people hating each other, I don't see a massive difference between the two tribes in terms of actual dislike, and the fact of the matter is that we're too different to be friends easily so some tensions are always going to be there.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
The question isn't 'what's more common in world-historical terms'. The question is 'what's more likely in the modern west'. And modern western countries are tightening the noose around dissidents, they're not giving up their monopoly on violence.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
Taking GDP per capita as a rough proxy, NK is considerably worse than Haiti.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
How many truly tyrannical, totalitarian states are there in the world? North Korea, obviously. Eritrea, to some extent. After that the lines get a lot more blurred.
Chechnya. Turkmenistan. China is more than capable of doing this in conquered territories, although you're correct they do not do this in Shanghai.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
I have a hard time believing that the brains behind these anti-ICE protests aren't in fact counting on something they can use to make ICE look like stormtroopers.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Iranians may not be pro-USA, but the youth disillusionment with the regime is very real. Look at pictures of the IRGC; they're all old.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Aside from the entire gulf, Azerbaijan, Jordan, Egypt, basically the rest of the middle east?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Yeah, Oklahoma city is culturally part of greater Texas and not a generic flyover city. It's much redder, in the flat, behaves like a smaller city than it actually is, etc. Minneapolis is the opposite.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Minneapolis is unusual for being a non-coastal city that is majority white liberal and has no neighbors fitting the same description. This... causes some tensions with the hinterlands, and woke is optimized for environments where your neighbors don't like it.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
For 2, there's a specific problem- Greenlandic whaling. This is uncontroversial in the Nordics(mainland Danes don't personally do any, but they're more than happy to permit it elsewhere, and the Nordics are the most prolific whalers in the world aside from Japan), but in the USA....
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Amerinds in the modern US love America.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
How many people are complaining about having Alaska?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I mean, the island has more square miles than people, and the inhabitants are poor. This is almost the ideal place to refine rare earths and just... have the toxic lakes somewhere they won't hurt anyone.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
As an actual literal statement the political left is committed to violating black letter constitutional civil rights protections that they justify by inventing human rights, yes, that's a very defensible statement. The adults in the room in the Biden admin(and there were some- not Biden and Kamala, but figures like Ron Klain and Merrick Garland were powerful enough on their own to count) were mostly moderate, establishment, center-left types and not crazy radicals and they... just let the country fall apart while they pursued failed attempts at political vengeance and power consolidation. The war on domestic terror was just full of oversteps that make no sense except as retribution against dissidents against state ideology, the novel legal theories, etc. Meanwhile actual competent governance was... not a priority. The null hypothesis for both a Biden admin and a vegetable in the white house is that technocrats from his own party run the country in a not-cartoonish manner with some featherbedding.
Trump talks about some of this stuff. But he doesn't actually do it.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Look, you drive a car directly at a cop while they're yelling at you to stop, you're gonna get shot. The footage doesn't change this. ICE is probably not the shining example of highly professional policing, but there's no police agency that wouldn't have shot her. Yes, she may have been trying to escape rather than kill him, but it doesn't change anything in practice. This woman made a very stupid decision and died for it.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I would never have sought treatment for same sex attraction if family life hadn't had appeal. Raising children(not babies but kids), for one thing. And you do realize that dishes are, like, part and parcel of the whole 'eating' thing? There isn't a universe where chores just don't get done. If you live alone that just means you don't get to split them.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I also find this disgusting. Some people are just not meant for the bathhouse life.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I believe the most Pole-appropriate anatomical euphemism would be kielbasa.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Also, it's probably ironic that "domestic terrorism" became a standard definition in 2020 when Biden was president.
It's not ironic; it was Ron Klain and Merrick Garland seeking legal cover to use the US domestic spying apparatus against political dissidents. Sulla never accomplishes his goals, he lays the groundwork for the populares to return with a vengeance.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Sure, ICE almost certainly is not following the best policing practices ever. But driving directly at an officer while resisting arrest is still a darwin award.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Sure, arresting her would have been reasonable. That's why they tried to do it.
Unfortunately, she tried to escape by driving through the police cordon, and they, understandably, thought she was trying to run one of them over and shot her. It's a tragedy that could have easily been avoided had she 1) not been there or 2) cooperated with the arrest(realistically I doubt she faces charges).
hydroacetylene
2d ago
A lot of the guardsmen who sided with Abbott literally were not Texan- operation lone star was a coalition.
A notionally pro-western government in Tehran will almost certainly get large western loans for the purpose of immediate legitimacy-building options, and Iran can pay those loans back with oil if they need to.
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