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wayfarer
54m ago
"has no arms production" is distinctly different from "has arms production not relying at all on imported components"
"has no arms production" is distinctly different from "has no large scale industry" (which was not true either last time I checked)
You claimed "has no arms production" which is simply a misleading mendacious lie that you put there on assumptions that people reading it are idiots that will believe you.
hydroacetylene
50m ago
Do the Anglicans have the cash to give much? My impression is that while, like most established churches in the west, they have substantial real estate holdings, they don't have enough liquidity to even cover expenses and are reliant on generally-earmarked investments to keep the lights on, pay salaries, etc.
hydroacetylene
47m ago
As opposed to 'Mgubu the witless'?
Aside from the parallelism in 'people of small hats/people of slanted eyes' it doesn't seem offensive in isolation either.
hydroacetylene
41m ago
Not really, no- indios in Latin America are very heavily the descendants of settled tribes. There's only a few thousand Chichimeca even left and they occupy the same very bottom of the racial hierarchy that Mayans do. Latin American racial snootiness is mostly about being whiter, sometimes with a dose of hybrid-vigor ideas, not about differences between various tribes.
Lizzardspawn
41m ago
And yet no one thinks about the dogs in Kharkiv and Kiev ... somehow they have not committed group suicide after 4 years of war. And somehow the dogs survived somehow for a hundred years of fireworks before 2015 when this madness started in earnest. And to think that almost all breeds have started as hunting dogs... I find the efforts to ban fireworks extremely annoying. The fact that they have limited success even in my god forgotten eastern european country is troubling. The more working class neighborhoods are still using a lot of fireworks but posh places are silent on new years eve.
BreakerofHorsesandMen
Sweet Sejenus
36m ago
What is to be done? Clearly we must do something
Why must we do something?
Or are you describing someone else’s thinking? Sorry, it just isn’t clear to me if the quoted bit is your own thinking on the subject.
wayfarer
27m ago
This would act as deterrence in a way that targeting a major city would not
last time I checked Temple Mount was in Jerusalem, a major city
self_made_human
C'est la vie
24m ago
Man, not every movement that is somewhat stupid is a "psy-op". I remember a non-negligible number of bleeding hearts back in India complaining about fireworks because it scared dogs, while the general populace didn't give a shit. Neither did I, both because my dogs could snooze through a nuclear exchange, and because I really didn't care.
Even my ex (who was a bleeding heart liberal by any standard) was part of them, because her poorly trained, nippy little anklebiter was scared shirtless.
It's obvious to me that a certain fraction of people will have an innate proclivity towards certain stances, might be personally sensitive to loud noises, or might live in places where fireworks get out of hand. And that eventually, they might start grassroot or coordinated complaints about it.
Not every silly worldview is a psy-op. You're diluting the word into uselessness.
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
20m ago
Well I envy you the restraint of your neighbors. I am not so fortunate.
self_made_human
C'est la vie
18m ago
I could be wrong, but my understanding is that the majority of white-passing "aboriginals" simply have negligible or <10% Caucasian ancestry. At that point, what's surprising about the fact that they look white?
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
16m ago
Conceptually, I think the choice of "grifting" has a fairly limited cap on median outcomes. Limited cases might exist, but it's hard to sell indefinite affirmative action or reparations for a minority doing better than the median. I can't see democratic will supporting that for long, and it's unpopular even when isolated exceptions come up: Elizabeth Warren, or affirmative action for Obama's kids applying to college.
Chinese-Americans seem to have taken the "work hard and naturally do better than the median" option, which I think sounds better if it's available.
iprayiam3
16m ago
stopping at a reasonable hour (say 10-11 pm) so as not to disturb those trying to sleep. 10pm?! This gets you less than an hour of darkness where I live.
On July 4th itself, we should at least induldge till 2:00am., with maybe till midnight on the day before, through the next closest weekend.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
13m ago
That's the thinking of the people pushing for shutting down municipal fireworks shows.
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
10m ago
And yet people have jobs, which they very frequently have to be at the next day. July 4 doesn't usually fall on a weekend like it did this year. It's not reasonable to insist that people can't get sleep when they have to be up the next morning just so that people can get hours upon hours of fireworks. 11 pm, even in your time zone, would be over an hour of darkness. 10pm would be similar in places I've lived. My stated timeframe of 10-11pm is a perfectly reasonable one imo.
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
6m ago
To be clear I in no way support stopping municipal fireworks shows. I'm referring purely to people setting them off in the street in front of their house, which has a significant component of antisocial jerks in my city. Official fireworks shows (municipal or otherwise) are perfectly fine and need no action taken at all.
Hapas just look white. 90% of the Cherokee just look white. Most white-hispanic babies look white. White middle easterner crosses too, but in fairness middle easterners are pretty white looking already(although I know a Maronite/Italian couple whose kids look, on average, whiter than either of them). Even the white/black crosses you're probably thinking of look more white than the popular portrayal; America's definition of 'black' just encompasses people of mixed ancestry. There are other countries, like South Africa and much of Latin America, where that's not the case and they're not perceived as looking black.
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