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hydroacetylene
4hr ago
To be even more fair, there's been like two ayatollahs.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
Are you willing to post a deep dive on how Iran actually works?
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
In Iran? The elites over there are genuinely much more religious than the populace.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
The minimum viable level of public support for an autocratic regime willing to take the gloves all the way off is above 0%, but it's probably below 20%, and Iran has enough bribes to go around/genuine believers to keep that minimum percentage for long enough that the current leadership class will die of old age before it rots. Remember ~nobody relevant believed in Communism in the USSR in the eighties either, but a few leaders had to drink themselves to death(and these are fanatical Islamic clerics, so they'll live longer than severe alcoholics) before someone was willing to back down on the project.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
Calling an Iranian an 'Arab' is the fastest way to make him hate you.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
Jews are politically minorities in a way that does not exactly endear them to the far right.
Why so many secular far right wingers(and in middle eastern conflicts, when forced to have an opinion, I simply support whatever side is better for local Christians. Ethnoreligious prejudices are how the locals make their decisions, after all) hate Israel I can't say- it is after all Jews being somewhere else.
Templexious
5hr ago
Then don't argue with people here? Engage the way you want to be engaged with. I disagree with Nara's "why are you here", because telling people that don't like an area's culture to leave just makes for an echo chamber.
Personally, I would rather more discussion of process and fun pontificating, including more levity, but have been hard-pressed to, be the so-named change I want to see.
But I stay and lurk anyway, because maybe I'll find something entertaining and insightful to say. Unfortunately, the law of the internet is here to stay. 90% of everything is shit.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
For 7, it's more than 50%- because the worst handful of drivers bring the average down by much more than the best handful bring it up. This is one of those things where the mean, median, and mode are wildly different.
Magusoflight
5hr ago
Probably because the liberal Democrat west still generally supports Israel, at least in most countries, and if they went full genocidal they’d lose the ability to ever play the holocaust/anti semitism card ever again (which still holds some cache, at least among the old guard in western institutions)
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
5hr ago
Is your real name remzem? How do you know "Hadad" actually represents his ethnicity? Maybe it does, maybe not, but it's a thin pretext to start declaiming the purity of your bloodline. Stop making things personal.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
- Yes, uncritically, and enforcement should get stricter.
- Yes
- No, they should be taken as recommended speeds.
- No to the passing only but yes to people can ride your ass/cut you off if you're in the left lane and they want to go faster than you are. Not speeding in the left lane is wrong without extenuating circumstances.
- Not quite guilt free but close to it.
- Depends what I'm driving- in my work van I should get a little bit of extra leeway. It's harder to see, turns slower, accelerates slower, and just plain takes up more space than personal vehicles and people should presume that, unlike them, it has to be there at a particular time. I apply the same rule to my own behavior towards eg semitrucks and trucks towing trailers.
Skibboleth
It's never 4D Chess
5hr ago
Frankly I don't believe the unemployment rate actually reflects the labor pool in the U.S. A ton of people in the U.S. are not working, or are on disability or some other program that hides their labor.
Prime age (25-54) LFPR is close to an all-time high as well. Overall LFPR is down somewhat from its peak in the early 2000s, but that is overwhelmingly driven by longer education (i.e. far more people going to college) and a generally aging population.
If you constrain the labor supply in one domain while leaving it free in others, it will tend to enable rent-seeking from raise wages for people working in that domain.
Now, this is a universally true statement that would leave all of society dramatically poorer if applied generally and also negatively impacts the workers being excluded. However, if you're narrowly focused on raising the wages of seasonal farm workers without regard for agricultural productivity or the welfare of people who would have done seasonal farm work it makes a degree of sense.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
5hr ago
It's the batshit Islamists who have the populace behind them, even if the elites are more moderate.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
5hr ago
Jordan and the UAE are monarchies (like the Saudis), so they don't necessarily align to the preferences of the people. I expect Bosnia and Indonesia just haven't reached bottom yet.
sockpuppet2
5hr ago
Which psychological effect? Psychogenic symptoms and psychogenic relief are two very different claims. What would it take to change your mind?
sockpuppet2
5hr ago
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Unless the probability of you being within sight of a driver is practically zero, you should use your turn signal. And you should try to maintain the habit, anyway.
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How often is cross-street visibility good enough to be sure nobody is coming? A "rolling stop" at a stop sign should be fine, but red lights require full-stops.
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No, drive with the flow of traffic, up to the speed you think is the safety limit for the conditions.
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This varies by location - in some places, the left lane is officially not reserved for passing, but driving below the speed of surrounding traffic is still a dick move.
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Not if cutting them off is dangerous, so probably not - slow down and slot in behind them, if that seems safer.
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I'm among the majority of drivers who thinks they're an above average driver.
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What is the probability that you're an above average driver?
sockpuppet2
5hr ago
Does this mean that, once every last criminal is deported, he will then do sweeps of farms and hotels? Left ambiguous.
It's a potentially difficult policy to execute. Despite the many weird messages various administrations have given illegal immigrants, "Our official policy is to deport you last, but we'll definitely deport you in 2028," would probably be the weirdest. Also, come time to deport them, the citizenry may find them to be the least problematic and most sympathetic illegal immigrants; hospitality workers are necessarily, well, hospitable farm laborers are mostly minding their own business out in the sticks, so long as 99% of the country is concerned.
sockpuppet2
5hr ago
Can you give an example of a potential EO rule to change this? I don't see the power you're thinking of. Also, hasn't SCOTUS been pretty open to claims of standing by states challenging Federal policy?
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
5hr ago
Yes, and when Obama was elected he kept Dubya's SecDef along with most of his top generals, and after Obama we had two straight Dem nominees who voted for the Iraq war in the Senate. We did not see politicians who supported the war suffer consequences en masse.
Tree
5hr ago
It’s routine for the somewhat secular elites in those countries fight low-level civil wars against islamists, or at least for the batshit islamists to terrorize the "moderate" islamists. The house of islam has always been the house of war.
AlexanderTurok
Alt-MSNBC
5hr ago
How is it that we didn't run out of jobs decades ago as population increased?
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
5hr ago
How do you square this with the existence of moderate, Western-aligned or neutral Muslim states like Jordan, the U.A.E., Bosnia, and Indonesia?
Public shaming is a very dangerous weapon, and if its use is normalised, can easily change targets to things that aren't anyone else's business (e. g. hair length in the 1960s).
Therefore, if it is employed at all, it should be reserved for situations of exceptional moral gravity, of a degree far beyond that attained by any of Aella's lifestyle choices; her father's parenting practises, or the making of excuses for them, would rise to that level.
(Also, the Third (Protestant)/Second (Catholic) Commandment, while commonly interpreted as an injunction against shouting 'G-dd-mn it!' when Mr Hammer meets Mr Thumb, might more accurately be rendered as 'Thou shalt not carry the name of the Lord thy God in vain', i. e., do not claim divine endorsement for your personal prejudices/power-complexes/&c. Thus, calling one's sadistic child-rearing programme 'God's Way' could be argued to be far more blasphemous than the output of Andres Serrano or Chris Ofili that drew so much controversy from Concerned Citizens.)
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