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That explains why Democrats do well in LA. It does not explain why a candidate in 3rd place would suddenly outperform the 1st place candidate in later-counted ballots. Those are two totally different questions. Nobody is shocked that LA is blue. People are asking why the vote pattern changed so dramatically after Election Night, why Raman’s late-ballot share looks so different from her earlier performance, and whether the batch-level data can explain it. That’s not a conspiracy theory.

Many (including myself) have cited the pernicious influence of TQ+ activism on LGB acceptance. Still others have noted the illiberal turn of recent gay rights activism. The increasing candor with which the material facts of gay sex are broadcast everywhere may also be playing a role. Whoever interpreted acceptance of homosexuality as a release from basic standards of decorum and decency erred badly, and in fact vindicated the predictions of opponents of the cause. They said it would be this way, and so it is.

I have been seeing a certain archetypal commenter in the spotlight recently; all women my age, progressive, and employed at mainstream institutions. I don't know them. Yet in every case, I can intuit their origin story. It goes something like this: > be an older millennial female, no strong passion, but strive hard in school > reach High School > steer clear of the kids who like talking about “far out” philosophical issues > also steer clear of student government and debate club, which seems too contentious and vaguely threatening > focus on getting perfect marks, complying with college reqs. Get into top uni based on those marks > get introduced to politics in freshmen social justice class, instantly floored > the appeal of college politics is just how cut-and-dried it is. Unlike other fields, it has a clear “good” and “bad” side, no ambiguity. The “good” side always wins in classroom discussions, you feel like a hero for validating consensus with "The Conversation" > politics becomes your religion, “this is my passion!” > graduate with top marks and recs. Your degree is essentially in “Current Thing-ism”. Have no broad understanding of history or philosophy. > Your concept of human events is just people being oppressed for 4000 years until feminism and progress happened in the 20th c. > despite the Global Financial Crisis, immediately get hired by a government/media org because they want someone who “understands the role of female politics in our new digital era!” > most of your colleagues share your perspective, the ones who don't are older guys on their way to retirement, not looking for the confrontation that disagreeing with you would certainly involve. > great awokening happens, double down on Current-Thingism politics > organe-man-bad and COVID happens, triple down on politics. > you are 15 years deep in your career, you have never once genuinely engaged with a peer who didn't validate your worldview or who you didn't consider a "token" opposition to placade your political enemies > vibe shift happens, establishment uncertain, time to have a "conversation" with the people you've considered deplorable > have conversation, hear non-progressive opinion that is common in the modern world, historically ubiquitous > react with schock, umbrage horror. "Can you even believe this is happening?" > confident that non-progressive opinion is trivially easy to refute, somehow have no idea how to actually refute it > unaware just how deeply you have been betrayed by your education, such that the average educated man on the street has more practical understanding of what politics is than you do with decades of "experience."

Medio minuto en tiempo record. Normalmente un disparo por minuto. El problema real era el calentamiento del cañón - debían parar para refrescarlos con cueros empapados en vinagre - y el obturamiento del cañón por restos de pólvora sin quemar - para eso estaba el rascador.

"The mind is the leader and commander of men's mortal lives, and when it advances to glory by the path of virtue, it is amply powerful and capable. It will lack not fame, and needs not fortune, since by fortune neither a man's integrity, industriousness, nor any other good quality can be given nor taken away." - Sallust

@Tracking_Power at this point your musings are straight up Hitlerite and kinda redundant and boring

The Blessèd Revolution of the Shabbes Goyim

@Frances_Coppola they weren't "peaceful protests" but violent riots organised by Hamas as a prelude to the October 7 pogrom

West Bank Palestinians formally laid down their arms in 1993. Since then, Israel has killed 6,500 West Bank Palestinians, including at least a thousand children. In 2018, Palestinians in Gaza launched a peaceful protest. Israel responded by killing hundreds and maiming thousands. Unarmed Palestinians are constantly at risk of death and injury at the hands of Israeli Jews, both soldiers and civilians. The historical record shows that Palestinians are far more likely to be killed by Jews than vice versa. Sam Harris has written poisonous nonsense.

@Frances_Coppola they would have the right of self-determination but obviously not israeli citizenship or access to weapons because then they'd simply vote Israel out of existence and kill all the jews

@GenocideSmurf It is apartheid because the enclaves would be racially segregated and their residents would not have citizenship or rights.

Excellent, so we can stop using the "two-state solution" fiction to pretend Israel isn't a brutal apartheid state.

@BeudotEzra @Frances_Coppola it's only apartheid because the Arabs ban jews from living in their ethnic enclaves

@GenocideSmurf @Frances_Coppola You continue to describe a situation of apartheid

@ConorMacNam86 @TadhgHickey so it was the Palestinians who killed Jesus? lol

@GenocideSmurf @TadhgHickey It’s a sectarian terrorist settler colony for ethnic European Nazi’s.

Tehran is fucking beautiful. Thousands of years history. Not some made up ethno-fascist sex shop built on Palestinian villages & graves.

@Frances_Coppola it would be no more "segregated" but just as homogenous as Saudi Arabia

@GenocideSmurf Bantustans is the correct term for disconnected enclaves segregated by race whose residents have neither citizenship or full rights.

@Frances_Coppola How is it Apartheid though? Beyond the slogans, do you have an argument?

@Frances_Coppola Yes because Batustans were also disconnected by nature. Population pockets connected by roads & tunnels. Better call them Emirates because the Emirates r also disconnected but they work well with each other & with larger neighbouring states - like how these will work with Israel.

@Frances_Coppola you're just repeating the usual mindless slogans. the reality is quite different: Israel and the Gulf States would invest in these Emirates, making them developed, educated and wealthy. This is in Israel's interest. But they won't be able to have weapons or security control.

@GenocideSmurf What you describe is in essence the same as this "antiquated model". It is, therefore, apartheid.

@Frances_Coppola That's an antiquated analogy from a completely different system that doesn't work to explain the "emirates" model, especially with 2.5m Arabs living inside Israel proper in total equality with the Jews. Just a false and not very useful comparison to SA

@GenocideSmurf Read and learn. britannica.com/topic/Bantustan

@Frances_Coppola how so? there will obviously be two societies and two different political systems but how does that in any way resemble apartheid?!

@GenocideSmurf What you describe is apartheid.

@Frances_Coppola it is not apartheid They'll have a form of self-rule (whether that's democratic or not is up to them, probably not) in their own areas but without weapons or control of their borders (a state minus as they call it.) This is the best they'll get in any deal.

@GenocideSmurf That's called "apartheid". And it is not remotely justified by Oct 7th.

@vanikehuman it'a similar to African or Caribbean syncretic christianity

@IhabHassane You're not going to force 900.000 jews out of Judea. That's their land now and they'll enforce the rules in their own security interests. You've lost and there's nothing you can do about it unless you want to end up like Gaza.

You cannot build "illegally" on your own land. The West Bank is occupied Palestinian territory under international law. Israel has no sovereign authority there. The only illegal construction in the West Bank is Israeli settlements — built on stolen Palestinian land.