hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
11hr ago
IIRC Trump ran a specific outreach to the anabaptists on the basis that democrats would take away their customarily higher-than-usual levels of religious freedom, and this was successful in increasing his voter rolls.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
Notably, the people who spend $100 annually on sportsbetting are statistically likely to not use betting apps, they have a fantasy league with their friends where a commissioner divides up cash, they participate in their workplace march madness bracket, etc. They're probably not a moneymaker for the apps because if you start charging them money they just go back to doing that.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
Texas Germans are incredibly bureaucratic and conformist, they just vote republican. The Texas hill country is a Norman Rockwall painting with the good, the bad, and the ugly.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
The sole surviving roman novel is a comedy about roman men competing for the affections of a sixteen year old boy. I'm not sure about transgenderism, but pagan Rome does seem to have accepted homosexuality among the plebs.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
Except that the median American finds out about ICE from social media. The median American found out about the covid lockdowns from leaving their house.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
My balkaner friends have told me that gypsies/albanians/muslims are seen as, not necessarily harder(and these guys would be middle class legal first or second gen immigrants, not gutter trash) but as a whole lot more dangerous than your average street tough. It wouldn't surprise me if gutter trash saw such a reputation in a much more positive light.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
There's a lot of 'worst of both worlds' possibilities here, not the least of which is they were flirting consensually until he tried to feel her up in ways she didn't like and it turned into an argument. It's not that weird for gutter trash young men to go after teens, and it's not that weird for the teens to like it up until they don't.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
DeepNeuralNetwork is a different person who gets very little agreement from the rest of the forum.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
It is? Most Americans do not know that it is an ethnic group and think it refers to brightly dressed people who travel with circuses to pretend to be fortune tellers.
hydroacetylene
12hr ago
Veggie tales is a kids cartoon that has been very popular for generations because 1) it’s a kids cartoon, it has to be good enough for that 2) it’s generally parent approved and 3) it’s widely available. If you didn’t grow up with it you probably won’t get it, but at least in the early aughts, everyone showed kids veggie tales. I think a lot of it is just childhood nostalgia because it’s one of the few things that’s still relevant decades later.
hydroacetylene
12hr ago
Starting on Alexander to Actium, in the part about the malaise in Athens. There’s some obvious parallels to today, but I’ll leave it at that.
hydroacetylene
12hr ago
There is a Texas state rep who is one of the most conservative reps in the state house, with high approval ratings and strong support from the moral majority.
Thing is, he used to own a porn site. His campaign straightup acknowledged this and said it was ‘before he acknowledged Christ’ or something to that effect. He apologized but it wasn’t grovelling, he just said that before he was born again he regarded it as a business decision and now regrets it. 0 political liability running in a lane that wants to ban porn.
So yes, I believe this. Lots of people did things they’re not proud of and lots of people acknowledge that. Epstein slipped through the cracks by lying, and it’s a lie most people are willing to believe.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I strongly suspect girls(and boys) were always idiots at 15 and that historical low marriage ages worked out mostly because the girl wasn't the final say in who she married. For some reason I don't think this guy is trying to bring that system back.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
You are aware that it is possible to have a loving relationship without having sex?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The law mainly functions to prevent loving, family-condoned relationships between 20-something men and teenage girls.
How many of those do you think would happen in this day and age?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I think this is bubble effects for an affluent, socially liberal stratum. Trailer trash is also dysfunctional(as you presumably know well, you post about the Irish equivalent often enough), we just expect it because they're dysfunctional poor people. I have female relatives who would claim to have similar socially liberal beliefs but they won't walk the walk- when you've lost the internalized socially conservative views you'll fall for totally stupid stuff that usually affects the dysfunctional underclass.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Older, affluent women are, and have always been, ideological enforcers. That's true regardless of where you go. In blue tribe suburbs they're screaming at people about ICE; in the Arab world they're lecturing their (grand)daughters about the hijab.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
This seems unlikely, considering his record of managing the war in Syria....
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Raising the age of consent(it used to be, basically, the beginning of puberty) is a remnant of older laws intended to protect unmarried young women from older guys lying to them to get laid. There were a lot of these laws in the past, a high age of consent isn't an adequate replacement.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The correct comparison to the NYT would not be Fox news, though- Fox is in a different medium, just to start with. The WSJ isn't terribly pro-Trump, but it's still an overall right leaning paper, and the National Review is somewhat more pro-Trump and also a high quality source. Fox is the equivalent of, like CNN.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I mean Trump did campaign to anabaptist groups by claiming democrats would take away their customarily high levels of religious liberty. Vaccines falling under that doesn't seem implausible.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Start calling the medical marijuana prescription mills and ask if they'll write a scrip for ozempic.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Any way, I guess I’ll be looking for recommendations to for where to get grey market tirzpeptide soon.
Is it on Trumprx?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Fifty year old upper middle class women being karens is the sort of thing that requires more of an explanation if they don't do it, you notice it from the left because of 1) lies about ICE and 2) media focus on the protestors, not what they're protesting against.
Somalis may not be running with rednecks very often, but they aren't running with the normal blue tribe locals either- they're probably exposed to antivaxxers because that's in the water, and it's kind of unpredictable what they choose to go with, because this is a fairly inward-looking community.
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