@realKalos @ZoomerHistorian We do have words for those things though… gargling etc.
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DeepWithARifle
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Clean butt is important, but I guess there is no Arabic word for rinsing your genes?
بدر الدين@D1mashqi
Interesting how English doesn't have standalone words for Madmada (rinsing the mouth) and Istinshaq (rinsing the nose), nor even Istinja’ (cleaning after relieving oneself) Which is because hygiene wasn't, and still isn't, an integral part of western culture
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@Fair_and_Biased No immigration. Zero. Send them all back.
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There’s almost nobody in the United States who is a true “heritage American.”
Your grandparents or great-grandparents were probably Polish or Italian or Irish immigrants.
Mine were Slovenian, Greek, and German.
The promise of America was just as much theirs as it is ours.
That’s the same promise that an immigrant receives today.
The point shouldn’t be to eliminate immigration but rather to ensure that all immigrants to the United States come here legally, work hard, share our values, and are completely committed to our Constitution.
Reverend Jordan Wells@WellsJorda89710
🚨VIVEK JUST EXPOSED THE “HERITAGE AMERICAN” MYTH 🔥 (And he’s 100% RIGHT) 🇺🇸 If you come here the right way — legally, with respect for our laws and our flag — you are a full American. Period. This “heritage American” nonsense that says unless you were born here you’re somehow less American? That’s the same supremacy logic the left loves to scream about. By that standard, you’re telling Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk they’re second-class. Absurd. I’ve met legal immigrants who are more patriotic than most native-born Americans. They came here for freedom, not handouts — and they defend it harder than some people who were handed citizenship at birth. Republicans, we have to do better. A changing nation doesn’t need gatekeeping — it needs unapologetic Americanism. Don’t tell the next generation of legal, hard-working, flag-loving Americans “you’re not really one of us.” Vivek is just as American as I am. Full stop. Who’s with me? 🇺🇸 #VivekRamaswamy #LegalImmigration #AmericaFirst #RealAmerican #Patriots #UnapologeticAmericanism #MAGA
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@Slatzism @TheEbonyMaw Don't ask questions whose answers you don't want to know.
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@TheEbonyMaw “almost never have to unclog”
how tf are you guys clogging a urinal
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Urinals aren’t some sort of special treat the boys get. They’re used because of scale. It’s a business decision. Urinals are smaller, use less material, & less space. They’re cheaper to implement. You almost never have to unclog them.
It’s not that difficult to figure out.
Delusional Takes@DelusionPosting
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DeepWithARifle أُعيد تغريده
I think this somewhat misunderstands a deep English (and Anglo-American) cultural expression regarding our relationship to criminals. We loved the dashing highwayman… but we wanted to see him hanged, too.
One can ultimately trace these things back to tales of Robin Hood and broader Anglo-Saxon resistance to the Norman Yoke, but there’s a long history in-between. The common law had long banned torture (unlike on the continent), so it became the custom for captured highwaymen to ‘die game,’ that is, to show bravery, dignity, and defiance in the face of the hangman’s noose, playing to the crowd, showing no fear, right to the end.
(By contrast, in France, such criminals died screaming in undignified agony.)
The crowd always loved it, and they indeed loved *him*, the highwayman. Their cheers for these romantic heroes were authentic. But we’re not talking about the dark ages anymore, we’re talking about early modernity. There was little real sense in which the common Englishman identified with the bandit as some spirit of resistance to foreign tyrants. They were bandits, and they deserved their fate. The people *wanted* him to die, but this did not contradict their sincere admiration for him.
It’s basically a play, everyone had their roles. The cold, indifferent proto-state, the adoring crowds, the dashing rebel.
Many modern people find this incomprehensible. Surely if the crowd sympathizes with the bandit, they want to spare him? The want the King to show mercy? And he would, sometimes; that too was a role to be played. But the English were a bloody people, fatalistic and—in proper Christian fashion—able to sincerely love and forgive a man while approving of the commonwealth sentencing him to death.
Kolchak the Daywalker 😇 🐊 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦🍌@ArthurKolchak
Unfortunately, this is a tendency with deep roots in American history- the slopulist urge to root for the allegedly free-spirited and individualistic transgressor. Robin Hood without a social conscience. Oscar Wilde once observed, "The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes."
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DeepWithARifle أُعيد تغريده
It's always been funny seeing headlines like this.
If you want a program to survive because you are a legitimate user of it, you should be against the program being defrauded.
Fraud is a threat to the continued existence of the program!
NBC News@NBCNews
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sparks outrage among disability rights advocates with recent comments alleging widespread fraud in Medicaid programs that pay people to care for elderly or disabled family members — a system millions of Americans rely on to survive. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/r…
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We could do Venus with modern technology mostly. Giant sunshade at L2, in a few centuries the atmosphere freezes into giant dry ice glaciers. Then you either sequester the CO2 or move it off world. Add a bunch of water perhaps from comets or asteroids, and kickstart a biosphere.
Not easy but it’s only sci-fi because of the scale, not the tech.
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@LogoSimian Well, you are wrong on Venus, that thing is /fucked/ but you are on the money for Mars. Step 2 is definitely the moons of the gas giants, however. There might already be life waiting for us there.
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DeepWithARifle أُعيد تغريده
There is a hypothesis that Adam, had he not sinned, would have been charged with turning Earth, a wilderness, into a garden akin to Eden. It certainly comports with his post-fall commission "fill the earth and subdue it."
I think the fact that Mars and Venus are wildernesses that are harder to garden than Arizona or Antarctica by an order of magnitude or two -- but only by an order of magnitude or two,-- comports with this hypothesis, and with the Adamic charge.
Now, we are fallen, so who knows how well we can or will succeed. But it looks to me like our immediate cosmic neighborhood has steps up in difficulty like a well-designed videogame.
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DeepWithARifle أُعيد تغريده
xAI needs to get up to parity ASAP before the wokes running Anthropic build an AI aligned with exterminating White people.
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@selentelechia I was slicing a smoked pork belly for dinner and my son asked me what animal it was fun and we had a whole conversation about pigs.
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I tell my kids we eat dead animals.
who hides this from kids lmao
John Thomas@thebbvegan
Do you think if children were told that they were eating a baby cow or a baby pig for dinner, that they would be happy about it and continue eating it as if nothing happened? No. I can guarantee you that if kids knew where their food comes from, they would be upset that they’re eating a dead animal.
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@KeenanPeachy Honestly I’m fine with this. But we should be able to ban foreigners from buying American land, directly or by proxy.
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Did you know that American Samoa requires you to be ethnically Samoan to buy property there?
They have a very strict racial rules that bar white Americans from buying land or homes. You need 50% "native blood."
Racism is always okay when it goes one way.
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DeepWithARifle أُعيد تغريده
I had a great chat with a friend of mine, a middle-aged gay man who left Seattle after the 2020 riots made the city he called home for thirty years “unlivable.”
He’s traditionally voted Democrat but asks me for my opinions sometimes. We were talking about taxes and he shared “I wish they’d tax the rich and spend it on social programs instead of war.”
I asked him “what percentage of federal income tax comes from the top 1%?”
“I don’t know. Maybe 10%,” he said.
I told him it was 40%, and that the 1% paid more than the bottom 90% of taxpayers combined. He was shocked. And we both agreed the tax code should be simple and transparent.
And then I asked him what portion of the federal budget is spent on war versus social programs and welfare.
“50% for the Pentagon and 10% for welfare programs.”
I told him it was basically reversed and that social entitlements and welfare spending was actually more than 60%.
Again, he was shocked.
The resentment and envy machine that drives the political left’s slogans thrives on people simply not knowing.
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The poster below holds that lining a mailbox with cement--a *passive* defensive measure against mailbox baseball--is a violation of just war theory b/c of the damage it will do to a vandal who is driving in a car with a baseball bat.
This not only exhibits a poor understanding of Just War theory, it is so horrifically stupid it makes you wonder how on Earth Christianity ever surrvived the Muslim invasions.
Passive fortifications are disproportionate violence?
Fuck you.
The Blessed Salt 🧂@theblessedsalt
This post is an excellent litmus test for understanding of just war theory. Despite the fact that I can see how effective this would be, I must oppose it because the damage it would do to my enemy (who bashes in my mailbox) would far outweigh the good of saving my mailbox. Its disproportionality is opposed by our duty in charity (and even justice) to watch out even for the good of our enemies. (Yes, by the way, I have had my mailbox bashed in by random vandals.)
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@K21Becky @upstatefederlst My grocery store has a chinese restaurant in it. What now?
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@upstatefederlst Target is not a grocery store, it's a store that in some locations sells groceries. The fast food stores inside the box discount stores are independent franchises.
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There are Starbucks and Pizza Huts inside Target.
Now what?
Rebecca VanZant@K21Becky
@upstatefederlst "prepared food sold in grocery stores" that wasn't hard
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@RhyminCarly I think it's fine to intend to kill burglars in the general case, but the invitation to the burglar is the problem, yes.
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@DeepWithARifle Agreed. It’s specifically the intent (perhaps even hope) to kill the burglar by inviting him to target the house that I think makes it wrong.
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This reminds me of the scenario I thought was the most interesting in an intro to ethics class:
Burglar has been hitting the neighborhood via windows. Is it wrong to purposely leave yours open, lights off, and sit nearby with a gun?
🇻🇦 Fr Victor Feltes@StuffForSisters
A landowner owns a forest, fenced and clearly posted: "No Trespassing!" A stranger has been setting snares on that woodland to catch rabbits and birds. Regardless of the legality, is it wrong for that landowner to create camouflaged spike pits on his property? Why or why not?
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@orbuz2522 @KasimirFreeman Do we remove every single obstacle from the side of the road which is more durable than a mailbox?
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@KasimirFreeman >guy drives
>Has a heart attack
>Wooden mailbox: nothing happens guy gets saved
>Concrete mailbox: guy fucking dies on the spot
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Reject anyone that calls this "immoral" or a "trap".
A trap must convert safe behavior into unsafe one using force or deception. The stone mailbox is harmful only against inherently unsafe behavior. Self-harm by aggressors is a moral blessing for society.
My moms caregiver@mymomcare
People who have lived in the country understand this!
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The Mailbox Test, like the breakfast test, is an excellent way to tell who you can allow to wield power in your society.
Goes like this:
If someone is hurt trying to destroy someone else's stuff in order to take pleasure from their pain, do you sympathize with...
The aggressor because he got hurt?
Or with the guy who owns the stuff, because he wasn't the aggressor?
You can have people in your society who fail the Mailbox Test. That's okay... they can work at hospices, or shelters for orphaned kittens, or something.
But you cannot allow them to vote, or otherwise wield political power. Because if you do, they will open the gates of the city to the enemy.
I am personally tired of everyone pretending that people who enjoy ruining things for random strangers are just kewt smol beans who are only aggressive because of all the complex socioeconomic factors and lack of resources.
They knew someone would be hurt by what they did. They knew that someone had done literally nothing harmful to them. And those two ideas, in combination made them feel pleasure. And they went and did it.
That is the sign of a rotten soul.
Defending ourselves and our property is not just a right, it's a moral obligation. Otherwise, we just kick the can down the road for someone else to deal with, someone who may not be able to defend herself.
I don't care if a vandal breaks his arms trying to destroy my stuff. Because I value my stuff more than a vandal's arms. And the fact that he tried to destroy somebody else's stuff shows that he, too, values his arms less than the opportunity to hurt somebody.
We cannot allow such people inside the city, and we cannot give the keys to those who would open the gates for them.
The Blessed Salt 🧂@theblessedsalt
This post is an excellent litmus test for understanding of just war theory. Despite the fact that I can see how effective this would be, I must oppose it because the damage it would do to my enemy (who bashes in my mailbox) would far outweigh the good of saving my mailbox. Its disproportionality is opposed by our duty in charity (and even justice) to watch out even for the good of our enemies. (Yes, by the way, I have had my mailbox bashed in by random vandals.)
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@ifchernov @StuffForSisters Obviously society has broken down in such a situation and the normal rules must be discarded if one is to survive.
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@StuffForSisters Does the wrongness of setting traps decrease as the number of trespassers increases? A lethal trap for one man is immoral (non-lethal would be ok). But if it’s one hundred poachers killing off all the wildlife?
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A landowner owns a forest, fenced and clearly posted: "No Trespassing!" A stranger has been setting snares on that woodland to catch rabbits and birds. Regardless of the legality, is it wrong for that landowner to create camouflaged spike pits on his property? Why or why not?
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Probably not. There’s too much risk to innocent parties. Imagine a child or someone with legitimate reason to be on the land or an emergency situation in which it became necessary to cross the land. The spike pit is indiscriminate in its hazards to them.
Conversely, the mailbox posited previously is only hazardous to the malicious vandal.
That said, poachers and trespassers should be punished severely.
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@rudie_cantfail @RasslinWalrus @theblessedsalt @realDavidBJr That’s not how causality works. Great how you’re choosing not to understand how that works.
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@DeepWithARifle @RasslinWalrus @theblessedsalt @realDavidBJr You would be the one inflicting injury, it's funny how you're pretending not to understand that
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This post is an excellent litmus test for understanding of just war theory.
Despite the fact that I can see how effective this would be, I must oppose it because the damage it would do to my enemy (who bashes in my mailbox) would far outweigh the good of saving my mailbox. Its disproportionality is opposed by our duty in charity (and even justice) to watch out even for the good of our enemies.
(Yes, by the way, I have had my mailbox bashed in by random vandals.)
My moms caregiver@mymomcare
People who have lived in the country understand this!
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