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I'm the only person with this full name, weirdly enough. Ever, as far as I can tell.
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The thing about the Tea Party is that the loudest figures associated with it were already starting to seem tame by 2014. Obama's election started this, but there's something more driving the push to insanity. Maybe pre-existing conspiratorial tendencies, but the US right is clearly broken now.
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To me, most of economics kinda looks like the just world hypothesis turned into a field of study.
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How much of it is Obama directly and how much in reaction to the Ferguson protests and related stuff? Even when it gets to the "nobody wants to work anymore" stuff, to an outsider that talking point looked like a lot like a deflection from the George Floyd protests.
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If it looks random, it probably isn't.
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Sounds interesting. Too bad it's only available in select places.
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Here's my take: If your governing bodies display fasces prominently, you're not allowed to say "our government can't be fascist because that term is based in a certain history".
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Pretty sure it's officially. This sounds like the sort of stuff that's supposed to be archived.
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Huh: "Elect the man who [will do stuff that happens] if Canada becomes the 51st state".
I expect this is forgetting how the sentence started when you go to end it, but considering how trumpian the tories there have been, it sure is fitting.
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It's in keeping with how the blackshirts and brownshirts recruited. More or less everything over the last couple of decades or so has been very spooky to see from the perspective of someone familiar with the original rise of fascism.
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Huh. I guess I mostly remember how many of them blatantly went "there's nothing wrong with misogyny!"
I genuinely think GG is meaningfully tied up with why MAGA made it into power and why many in that movement are so open about their hate.
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But to answer the question directly, I believe for the most part these national ID cards are obtainable for nominal or no fee. Of course, they do require actually keeping a reasonably accurate record of residents and citizens, which is probably why that impoverished hellhole has trouble with it.
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1. I said "countries", not "other countries".
2. The explicit point was that there are countries that issue national identity cards (some automatically to everyone, others on request only) but do not require anyone to have them.
3. I specifically referred to the "English-speaking world", not the US.
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Did I say "the US"?
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Both gamergate and the puppies were largely driven by outright neonazis, so not really. Fascists used fandoms to recruit, rather than it being anything inherent.
But because everyone else dismissed it as online and therefore meaningless, they got more traction than they should have.
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The hilarious part is that there's plenty of countries that do have national ID cards that don't make carrying them mandatory.
The English-speaking world seems to have serious difficulty imagining one without the other.
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There is a very rich tradition of people not understanding the dynamics of stocks and flows. This leads to the conclusion that either you're wrong or many, many people in important positions do not have a grasp of elementary-level arithmetic.
I suspect it's the latter.
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That doesn't make them a stabilising force, which was what the original point was concerned with. Indeed, it makes them one of the destabilising forces.
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Other English-speaking areas use "eighteenth of April" and not "April eighteenth", so that's not actually true.
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The third of January is used in most of the English-speaking world, I believe. It's also used in most of the other European languages.
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I wonder how Schumer will say this isn't really defying the supreme court.
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(By which I mean "frat boy behavior" should be treated way more seriously than it is.)
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Are the two really different?
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"If"?
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You would have if you'd been around the Fortune 500, though.
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Yup, and if they want to broaden that, I believe that's entirely within the competency of the Parliament of Greenland.
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I believe defence is a secondary purpose after hunting in Greenland. Both are pretty solid reasons to have firearms.
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They're already one of very few (the only?) places in the world where you don't need a licence to own a non-automatic rifle, I believe.
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Chocolate was a drink until Europeans got a hold of it...
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Finding downsides to it is easy. What I want to know is, has anyone found even a potential upside?
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Maybe that was a time in the US. It wasn't outside it.
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The fear is not rule by mob violence. The fear is that the violent mob isn't directed by the right elites.
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Interesting. I had not seen that, but it makes sense. The terminology used there seems a little odd, though - 'abandonment' and 'fled' imply that we know people left, which is not at all the case.
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Which leaves the question: Why don't they?
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If anything, the inverse. Temperatures fell. It's possible some of them joined the inuit, but the last recorded thing about the norse Greenlanders was a wedding. Nobody really knows what became of them, but they certainly didn't return en masse.
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Perhaps, but it doesn't change the fact that the norse settlers went extinct. Which, if you're trying to say "don't mess with tough people" seems relevant. :)
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Vikings? They went extinct in Greenland. Around the time the current Greenlanders arrived. Make of that what you will.
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The problem with that alleged upside is that there will be much less stuff to ship if it becomes possible.
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It's not quite far north enough for most of these to matter. Even the northern coast is usually ice-free.
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This was in fact brought up at Munich some weeks back.
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Why is that phrased as a hypothetical? They're already doing it.
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You are literally turning this on its head. Telling people that the financially sound thing is to get rid of Teslas isn't vilifying them; it's the fact that they are already vilified that makes that the sound choice.
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Tell me, what do the words "if you can" mean to you?
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I think that's actually a clearer example than the gamergaters. Games discourse actually isn't dominated by the gaters, but I haven't seen anti-authoritarian anti-vax for a while now.
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Given how painfully polite and non-confrontational Hayes tends to be for interviews, his pushback here is actually quite remarkable. I think we're seeing liberals radicalise in a way they haven't in a long time.
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You might as well discuss how Polish votes would have changed the composition of the Reichstag in 1939 for how relevant it is.
Yes, that part of it too.
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... how else do you envisage Canada becoming part of the US?
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At least this time he's acknowledging he's not getting it. That's progress.