ectsang.bsky.social
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What a great article. Thanks for posting. I grew up partly in and spent ~decade in the “disaffected” Midwest as an adult and I will confidently tell you it’s racism and misogyny that motivates Trumpers, period. They’ve never voted for rises in minimum wage or equal pay, for instance.
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Dominion theology has been around for a very long time.
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There’s also Point Roberts…
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I also think it’s interesting to note that when minoritized people point out history (especially the negative aspects), we are asked to get over it, but for whatever reason we should naturally give a shit about what dead white men said who would have enslaved or otherwise exploited our entire race.
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He’s still gonna be overlooked… it’s good to see coverage though, after all this time
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OMG that’s a real insult to perineums
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whoops. That’s what I meant. Screenshot maybe…?
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Wow. I truly don’t understand people.
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Several of your posts are blocked.
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Ironic, given how much of the British Museum is derived from British conquest and genocides (attempted and successful).
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This is the America of conservatives. It’s not these leaders. Their voters wanted this. They’re enjoying this. They want more of this.
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What a Karen. I bet she calls the police on people for being Black, too.
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Personally, I think this is an overestimation of the goodness and intelligence of Trump supporters—they elected him twice and they knew he would do all these things—but I hope you’re right.
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It’s incredible that anyone has anything positive to say about this guy.
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…and many do. They are enjoying this.
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Yup. This is all just yellow peril.
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Wow. I hope I live long enough to see Africa prosper.
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Constant yellow peril. I’m super angry at my fellow East Asians for voting GOP. We all knew this was gonna happen.
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Wow! How cool.
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I am not a fan of the royal family and think King Charles is worse than his mum (who I actually think wasn’t horrible for a British Royal by the time she died)…but given that I thought his speech was quite good and very reasonably delivered.
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Also, would be interesting to code this for red vs blue in each state, where applicable. (Eg, CA and TX)
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Argh. *are large
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Also, this is very consistent with data I’ve seen… TX is roughly 50% worse than CA. (I think that’s an appropriate comparison because their populations aren’t large.)
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I was gonna point out CA is coded GOPer and someone beat me to it…
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…including education is where they clearly spent all their money. So they are reaping the rewards of that while we starve our schools. You see that in the US, too—California’s public universities are the best in the world, and its economy shows it. And it is the #1 mfg state in the US as well.
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As someone whose family escaped the CCP shortly after 1949, what I find remarkable is that that same CCP lifted 750M people out of poverty. And as a former factory builder/engineer (US autos), I can confirm that China is incredibly sophisticated in mfg. Their investments in infrastructure…
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I find McGee as having a bit of “yellow peril” BS… but not everything he says is bad.
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So for me it’s take it in its entirety or leave it, especially since it claims to be all good... I’m not saying Christ didn’t say some good things which we should heed etc. I’m talking about the religion as a whole and whether to put blind faith into it. For me it is a resounding “leave it”.
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I find it fruitless to try to rationalize the Bible… I get that people do it and there’s a whole field of Christian apologetics who spend lifetimes & write tomes to rationalize everything, but if a book needs you to do mental / intellectual contortions to justify it, doesn’t that say everything?
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I remember stopping the teacher on at least one occasion (since we were reading directly from the Bible) and asking about some less nice passages… and yes, we ignored the bit I asked about. What’s amazing to me is that more people don’t see that kind of thing and “wtf”…
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LOLOLOL good point LOLOLOL
OMG I used to go to Sunday school and it’s absolutely insane how all that garbage was normalized.
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I have a lot of doubts about whether reading books will make you do anything or become anything. I mean, I grew up reading the Bible and I didn’t turn into a genocidal maniac. I also never even once tried to sacrifice my son! Somehow, they never ban the insanely violent Bible though.
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Once Peterson chose to take on anything in the culture wars, he’s been an absolute hack.
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Can we roll him in germs and send him home? He doesn’t believe in them, so it should be fine.
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www.timeshighereducation.com/world-univer...
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And they are no slouches internationally. HKUST is #66 in the Time Higher Education rankings, like UCSB. (HK has five of the top 100! Not bad for a small city. Singapore has two!)
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Destroying American competitiveness one university at a time…!
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This is cutting your legs off to spite your brain. Insanity.
The worst part is, even if we chose to reverse course today, the research loss is still measured in years.
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I wonder what the motivation was behind this, on the part of Ford’s team…
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I wouldn’t be too public about it. There’s still plenty of yellow peril attitude in Canada…
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Even non-Asians are thinking about going elsewhere.
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Oh this isn’t good. It does make one wonder about security when it comes to Chinese manufacturing.
It also makes me wonder how much truth there is in this reporting, because it doesn’t seem like actual kill switches. Like are they just IoT enabled inverters? Or actual kill switches?
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I wonder what their thought process is as to how this works from a campaigning standpoint…? Because that’s what all this is.
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...what were they thinking as they walked along the Bering Strait and down not one, but two continents? What were these people like? Did they think about the distant future?
It's mind-blowing to me that we don't really comprehend timescales like this, and yet, here we are, looking back...
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When I read stuff like this, I always think first about how none of those people (from 25k years ago) had any inkling what "eastern Russia" or "Siberia" were...
But then I wonder, did they have any idea they would have such far-reaching impact on humanity? Why did they take such long walks? And...
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I totally got why you did it!! Just funny reading for those of us named Evan.
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Hm
Never thought about abbreviating “evangelical” that way. It’s freaking me out because that may or may not be my first name LOLOL
Thanks for this though. Interesting correlation.
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He’s copying Pete Wilson.
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Evangelicism is a great inverse measure of logic/reason. I grew up in evangelical churches. The level of intellectual honesty is extremely low. This is why evangelicals are least likely to “believe” in science, whether it’s environmental or medical science.
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That’s shitty…