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Pittsburgher in London. Tired. he/him
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California also does not have a Romeo and Juliet law, to my surprise
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Thank you—I know almost nil about Puerto Rican history from this time period.
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Yeah. On the one hand, they eventually decided not to recognize the Confederacy (and convinced Napoleon III to do the same). On the other hand, Puerto Rico had slavery in the 1860s, so maybe they wouldn't see it as a 'new' slave state. So I agree with you, it's highly contingent on UK MPs.
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If Japan establishes a bantustan for Zainichi Chosenjin, I will also criticize that
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War is simply an intrinsic part of European culture; you'd be doing a cultural imperialism by keeping them from their traditions
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occasionally i forget that, as a result of largely happenstance, i am a 40something straight man on a website that is both a retirement home for people like me and also a virtual watering hole for the internet's most prolific transfems
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OH COME ON
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Oh no did they do it
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The Cloud quest begins with you meeting an unnamed flower girl that is clearly Aerith
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So if we're going deep into the alternate history weeds, and I squint a lot, I can *almost* imagine "soviet-style socialism for white people, slavery for black people" as a possibly existing state in some possible universe. But this is also not a good thing!
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It doesn't quite work as a parallel; I think if there was a revolution in a long-lasting Confederacy by white urban workers, they would be kept down with the fear of being replaced by slaves. That wasn't an issue in Russia: the serfs were needed for food production, unlike the South's cash crops.
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Agreed, they are absolutely wrong.
Although: there wasn't a united lower class movement in Russia, either. The communists were an urban movement; the peasantry were sidelined and repressed, then forced into a reconstituted quasi-industrial serfdom.
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"The material conditions of the Confederacy could have easily led to a socialist regime like the USSR, PRC or DPRK."
"the southern planters were basically the tsars" is not the winning argument they think it is??
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If you try to play around with parameters like "well how legitimate was the US claim on Texas anyway," you end up with "who cares, the fuckers were slavers, damn them all." And so there's no room to analogize; you have to pretend the Confederacy was just a normal polity and that's gross.
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At the end of the day the Confederates were slavers and Taiwan is a liberal democracy. Any attempt to derive wisdom from this analogy is going to be sidelined by that.
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in this situation, the US response is either
1) we must defeat slavery everywhere and will finish the job (doubtful: no US declaration of war on brazil or spain) or
2) so long as they aren't pirating us, who cares, they stole somebody else's island
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so it's an alternate history where the losing slavers started a war with another imperial power, as spain definitely still controlled puerto rico for another 33 years (versus, uh, -4 years for japan/taiwan)
okay, let's game this out, i guess spain rolls over while the big naval powers ignore it?
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wow, sure sounds like she is saying there that trans people with a GRC are treated as their certified gender, which after the recent ruling is absolutely not true
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christ. sometimes i wish i had the fortitude and mindset to ride the volatility
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If there were voluntary ID cards*, I’d take one in a second, but I have no reason to think this won’t be a boondoggle
* I have a drivers license, but it doesn’t record relevant info like immigration status
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They’re all taking it well
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OWNING MY ENEMIES BY REVEALING THEY ARE PEDOPHILES AND I HELPED MAKE THEM PRESIDENT ANYWAY
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the fact that donald trump has a long-standing relationship, friendship etc with notorious pedophile jeffrey epstein is like, just a fact. epstein would recruit girls to abuse at trump's club in palm beach. it was never turned into a big scandal because the people who run the media like trump
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LGBTQ+AEIOU
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Oh my. That's hideous. 5/5 on the first attack, and then 9/9 on the second. And a bird, too.
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I forget how things are ordered with that wording: if Sazh is the target creature, do the tokens go on before or after damage is resolved?
Either way, anything with exponential growth is so ridiculous.
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So regrettably I kinda have to take this back: I checked out Yougov and they had the same histogram buckets in the survey report. I then checked an unrelated political survey they recently did and it also had the same division. They just have a really bizarre idea of interesting age groupings. :|
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Glad you’re doing a sign in at the top now. It helps with associating voices with people and getting a persistent sense of your different perspectives. You all sound different, of course, but still, you’re four white American middle-aged men. It’s hard to keep straight without visuals.
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And over the next few years, we will see at least a few terroristic incidents from people in that population, from young men adrift and confused and angry, who in part blame the west. And the powers that be will use it as an excuse for anti-immigrant restrictions or foreign adventures.
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I'd like to see this polling as up against that for cisgender people; it does not feel like the win they seem to think it is!
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Feel like these buckets are hiding more than they're showing-- 25-49 is a hell of a large demographic group, when they break out 18-24! Also their "women are friendly to trans people than men" caveat, which they don't bother showing a graph for. Makes you wonder.
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we already have dwarf fortress at home
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'red army fraction'
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The goal is to win the median NYT columnist, who will then reflexively move away from the Democratic position