hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
4hr ago
Deveraux is basically right about the object level, but his severe case of TDS blinds him to quite a lot- notably the protestors have done quite a bit that a more competent regime could spin as they had it coming, for one. For another, a lot of what the protestors are doing is actually illegal. De-arrests, interfering in lawful police operations, resisting arrest, etc is all very illegal and these people have open-shut cases. It’s also a ‘page five story’ strategy that won’t generate immense amounts of controversy- he can issue warrants for US Marshall’s to go after these people once they’re identified. This is probably what the databases of protestor license plates and subpoenaing data from social media sites is all about.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I mean, if the US government is cleansing red tribers in Alaska of all places, then it's not a civil war anymore- the blue have already won so convincingly that there's no real civil disturbance.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Alexander to Actium(the Peter Green version). So far, slow going- I expected a more challenging read, but the cultural changes in Athens are a bit dull.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
It's unclear that hip-hop and the ghetto thug culture could only have come from African Americans, at the very least. Most modern day observers way overestimate the cultural differences between poor southern whites and blacks in the period; the white underclass often behaves in very similar ways to ghetto blacks and trailer trash could easily have invented(and arguably did) thug culture, we associate it with AADOS because that's more visible to us. Hip hop I'm less sure about but the rhythms that became rock n roll were not ethnic specific at the time.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
At the end of the day, the protestors win by making the government's enforcement arm look bad, which forces their political goal. This is non-violent protest theory 101. Dogs and waterhoses are good for the protestors, a bunch of them going to jail for things like 'obstructing police proceedings' is not, because nobody pays attention to that outside of the activist core.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The changes to law codes imposed by Christian missionaries are, afaik, not really disputable; they do seem to involve women being asked their consent to marriage. This process occasionally happens today in parts of the deep third world where Christianization imposes huge increases in the rights of women over very low baselines.
It's fair to point out that Christianity does not immediately solve every problem with poor treatment of marginalized groups, and that societies which are not Christian often have some informal pressure for women to get the rights Christian law codes later guarantee(the Viking sagas are quite explicit that a woman's father's consent is important to a marriage, not hers, but use the girl's consent as a trope marker for good fatherhood). But anthropologists are still making hay out of cultural differences between villages in polynesia and remote parts of Africa and the Amazon which were Christianized at different times. It seems to be a robust finding that women and girls in traditional societies have a much better go(albeit not up to modern western societies) when their village is Christian.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Wait how do you live off of that? IIRC you live on your own, right?
No country particularly wants somebody it’s paying pensions for itself, although Russia is very happy to take you into the army(hope you like дедовсчина) and plenty of third world countries don't have the capacity to exclude you if you just fly in and hang around(do you speak Swahili?), they’re not cutting you a check.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Being raped by strangers in your sleep is not a common occurrence. It's entirely possible that she thought her husband was having sex with her while she slept and even if she didn't like it she didn't see what the big deal was. Like if you know your husband doesn't always take no for an answer you'd just assume it was him doing it.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
If you have truly passive income, then Costa Rica and Paraguay welcome you and your social security check.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
IIRC the most common job for the wives of high earning men, like for women from wealthy families generally, is 'k-12 teacher', narrowly beating out 'homemaker'.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Labour in the postbellum south was generally very cheap, with no shortage of poor whites doing the exact same jobs as blacks.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
All of these countries are much poorer than the US and people who can afford to drive usually prefer that. There's precious few examples of places where driving is a realistic option and it isn't preferred to busses.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
My grandparents who remembered those days were very clear that the reason was to prevent blacks and whites from interbreeding. Nobody cared if black and white men mingled, although they usually didn't. Black and white women worked alongside each other regularly. But southern states briefly experimented with segregating their high schools by gender after brown v board. Racial vitriol was strongest for black men mixing with white women.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The desegregated subway was safe for years. Progressives didn't like it, but it was safe despite equal policing.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Waitress is a mostly female job in the US, but they aren't selected for attractiveness.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
US schools actually do do a very fine job of teaching, comparisons are just compiled on the basis of comparing scores between poor black kids in the inner cities and the kids of the Japanese elite so the education system can pitch a bigger fit about 'inadequate resources'.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
It’s worth noting that twitterati who have crunched thé numbers found, unsurprisingly, that high income men prefer women with high education while having little preference on income.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Probably a little of column a, a little of column b, but schools do seem to push teachers to report cases they aren’t really sure about(I mean, teachers have told me this).
hydroacetylene
3d ago
But one third of kids are investigated by CPS- thé bottom 1% of parents are not having 33 kids apiece, just mathematically CPS is investigating not bottom-1% parents. And the same logic holds for 5 or even 10 percent, as well.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
You know, if Australia’s not going to have freedom of speech anyways, it actually seems better to crack down on gross fetishism than not.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
What definition would you suggest? You have to have some cutoff, the general case of murder isn't a mass shooting.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
The risk factors for mass shooting are actually known- biological males from broken homes, with either known mental disorders or Islam. A tailored policy would be unconstitutional, but it is very possible.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Society is pretty chill about most mass shooters being biologically male because biological males form 50% of the population or thereabouts- you can't not be chill about it.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
So technically humans are R-selected compared to our close relatives, because we have more kids when their big siblings are still in diapers. A 'natural fertility population' would have a TFR of between seven and ten, high compared to great apes. Of course we're K-selected compared to wolves, which have more similar family structures to people than great apes do.
Anti-nuclear protestors in the US have been successfully dismantled by arresting them with a gentle touch and issuing press releases that make them sound like hippie lunatics.
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