hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
1hr ago
It seems like the obvious way to square this circle is that Israeli forces are being generally indiscriminate in Gaza and the officer who ordered a potshot at Holy Family Parish did not realize this was a location to be treated with kid gloves(which it does). The Israeli government did not want to destroy the church or they would have presumably done it via artillery fire that 'missed'. They also let cardinal Pizzaballa visit and call more attention to the place.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Vance is smart and utterly ruthless. That scares people.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
IIRC that scene was in the (admittedly heavily embellished)source material- the Vikings(or their Christianized great-grandchildren, whatever) themselves were the ones who lied about it.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
I'm not disagreeing with you in broad strokes, but 'protecting young women's sexual purity' is much more of a right wing value. Obviously Epstein is dead and the MAGA base doesn't think he's chilling in Cuba with Tupac, though.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
I mean, Vance's incentive is to get Trump to resign as soon after the midterms, but definitely after the midterms, as possible, for constitutional reasons.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
Yes, poverty in the native underclass and poverty among non-underclass is different because these people have different folkways.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
I think the difference comes down to shopping behavior- either that of men vs women, or that of women shopping for themselves vs their husbands. Anecdotally women want to buy their stuff in person, but feel comfortable just ordering stuff for their husbands online at the best price available.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
Did you miss the 'native underclass' descriptor? This is a predominately urban group defined by generational poverty.
There are a variety of people(eg grad students) who have very similar incomes to the generationally poor underclass, but are not underclass.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
Normal, working and middle class blacks shop at grocery stores and eat normal, burgers and spaghetti and pork chops, food. Most blacks are not the underclass(and the underclass is not entirely black, although it is disproportionately so). Underclass whites don't cook either.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
I will agree that at the time of final arrest he was not going to be charged with any crimes serious enough to merit death- but he has committed some of those crimes in his life.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
That would be the normal way to leave but you could also double back through the store.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
Meat shoplifting is 100% a thing and way worse for the store's bottom line than stealing rice or tomatoes. Mostly not for personal consumption(although it does sometimes happen), but for resale- meat is expensive unless your cost to acquire rounds to 0.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
The children of Asian and Hispanic immigrants seem to integrate just fine. Like sure there's activist exceptions but by and large second and third gen Hispanics and Orientals are just... Americans.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
I see he's banned now lol.
For two weeks. He'll be back and probably get another chance before a permaban.
But now that I'm here, I'm curious to know if your perspective is the prevailing opinion here.
For this specific problem? Almost certainly graft by left-wing NGO's is the culprit in the eyes of most posters.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
Yes, the supermercado was bustling. Something tells me this isn’t a Hispanic neighborhood. The actually poor whites and blacks won’t eat rice and beans.
Meat theft is definitely a thing, it’s easy for everyone and the social class a rung or two above the junkies that they have access to eats as much meat as they can afford.
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
Au contraire, turning 'Is Trump a pedo' from a government coverup scandal to a boring legal drama will energize NPR resistance libs but convince everyone else this doesn't matter. They'll forget it in a week.
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
Produce isn't getting stolen. The underclass doesn't want it and doesn't know anyone who does. There's probably a meat theft problem, but the real reason is that the urban poor just doesn't cook and doesn't want to. There are no grocery stores selling fresh ingredients because nobody would buy them; they buy whatever processed foods and sodas/energy drinks their foodstamps cover, but not raw meat, produce, staples like rice or flour or pasta, dairy. The native underclass eats an atrocious diet of ultraprocessed foods with terrible macros and they won't buy anything else.
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
My guess is that the NGO running the store is just incompetent- the empty shelves are probably as much about poor stocking/inventory management as they are about shoplifting, otherwise Aldi would be suffering the same problem. Maybe there's also an incompetent pricing system- this seems like a thing progressive NGO's would be bad at.
I do wonder how nearby grocery stores- there are supposedly two of them- are handling shoplifting. I wouldn't expect extralegal justice.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I have to wonder if this is a part of the success formula for Big Bang Theory- Sheldon's mother may not be everyone's favorite, but she definitely has redeeming qualities and listening to her is usually a solution for the character's problems.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
He's a sneering anti-Trump libertarian who has a history of some politically incorrect racial views but now claims to oppose political correctness on the basis of colorblindness. That's not a totally inaccurate representation of his schtick but he also has unkind things to say about rural people, women, etc. He's very very pro-abortion and thinks the winning formula is 'aesthetics and rhetoric of Bush era democrats, but without the concern about race, hyper-neoliberal economics'. As a political formula this is, regardless of how well it would work as a governing formula, almost actively delusional; he combines most of the least popular positions in the modern US. He's also aggressively anti-Trump.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I haven't heard the words (quadroon, etc.) uttered out loud unironically ever in my life, and I was born and raised in more or less rural Alabama, and both sets of grandparents regularly used the term "nigger" though notably (to me) neither of my parents ever said the word within my earshot and wouldn't allow it said in the house (by me or my brother.)
I remember 'mulatto', 'mestizo', and 'half-caste' used. Adult males may or may not have used the word nigger occasionally, but not in the presence of blacks or women- and none would object to it even if they didn't personally use it. It was definitely a cultural descriptor as much as it was a racial term though. Nowadays people know what a 'cholo' and a 'castizo' is and might use the term, but only the former is derogatory.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Do dogs have more variance? A lot of the phenotypic differences are driven by single genes; it's not implausible that genetically chihuahuas and great danes are slightly closer than Yeniseians and Negritos.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I'd be curious to know about how good most genetically distant populations, Mbuti pygmies and Australoids fare in that respect.
There's plenty of partly-aboriginal people running around in Australia. They just look white. And there's an entire ethnic group(cape coloreds) descended from Dutch-Khoisan crosses in South Africa.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
It's worth noting that Latin American immigration is not universally non-white, has a long history of assimilating pretty well- and generally not to the criminally inclined underclass, the Hispanics and blacks hate each other and the Hispanic underclass is probably not, proportionately, much higher than the white one- and that Hispanic fertility in the US holds up much worse than native white TFR.
There are criticisms of Latin immigration- they're terrible drivers who raise premiums for everyone, they drive down wages for the native lower-working class, etc. But America's underclass is, mostly, black. The non-black underclass has plenty of whites in it, and I wouldn't claim those whites are any better than the blacks. The median Hispanic in the US works as a cook or a mechanic or construction worker, pushes his kids to move up the social ladder but doesn't complain when it's only one rung, and uses no drugs worse than pot. His daughter is likely to marry a white man, give birth to European looking and acting children, and have higher fertility than her peers who marry other Mexicans. His son likely has a better chance of stable and productive employment than his white peers. The developed parts of Latin America with lots of whites are, by the standards of high income inequality middle income countries, the best in the world- much nicer places to live than former soviet countries, South Africa, etc. It's unlikely that Hispanic immigration will raise income inequality or suppress economic growth by enough to reach, say, Chilean levels. Hispanic migration is simply not a crisis to US ability to maintain its functioning civilization.
If Vance has a chance to take Trump out now, he'll almost certainly get another one after the midterms- and he has to take the presidency after the midterms to be able to serve two full terms. Better to get six months that way than three years this way.
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