Secession is pretty much impossible. There are not natural borders. The right dominates the rural areas too much, and the left dominates the urban areas too much.
I have wondered about a modification of our political system. Right now we have 50 states, 2 senators each. What if we changed representation so that there were 50 states with 2 senators each, but every census, the 20 largest cities got their own senator, and didn't get to vote for state senators.
NY LA Chicago Houston Phoenix Philadelphia San Antontio etc
Would have their own, almost certainly Democrat senator. Meanwhile, Republicans might actually have a chance again in California, NY, Illinois, etc.
Look at Georgia. The enclave of Buckhead, part of Atlanta, has had a Atlanta secession movement for years. It almost made it to a vote this year, but who slapped it down? Republicans. Weak.
Bonus fact: The maximum turkic DNA that a turk can have is about 24%. Unless the turk in question has a parent directly from turkmenistan, most turks are actually majority descended from native Anatolian and Greek ancestry. It turns out that the Seljuk invasion was numerically smaller the native Anatolian populace who have been present in Asia Minor for thousands and thousands of years. In fact, while the maximum descent for turks is about 24%, most of them have significantly less, the average is a little under 10%. There is a really interesting haplogroup study about this floating around somewhere that's worth looking into.
Yeah, it's very interesting. Your average upper class Istanbul Turk basically IS a Greek. The Ottoman Sultans almost exclusively married/fucked Greeks, Armenians, Circassians (white Christians), and thus the Sultan's line is probably even LESS Turkic than average. Sultan Suleyman the Great's (or the Lawgiver as he's called in Turkey) greatest love was named Roxelana. Look her up on Wikipedia.
When you get into the southeastern / eastern small rural Anatolian towns, THOSE towns are substantially more Kurdish and Turkic, but they were also never as Greek. The coastal areas, Black Sea area, etc., largely Greek.
Edit: That still doesn't justify letting them into Europe. Fuck the turks.
I was optimistic about Turkey. Erdogan fucked that up. It would be very interesting if there was a protest against his dictatorial Islamo-authoritarianism by youth rediscovering that, hey, we're actually Greeks, we should embrace our awesome Orthodox Christian / Greco-Roman heritage rather than the last 500 years of Central Asian pastoralist barbarians.
But it will never, ever happen.
You know, much like QAnon, I don't doubt that there are many proud boy believers. But you're right, the IDEA of "omg proud boys!!!" is far more dangerous.
It must have been about 5 years, when I was sitting in my office and I notice like half the floor cleared out (probably 5-10 people). They all came back like 30 minutes later, looking agitated. I asked what was up, and nobody said anything.
I heard later on the local news that there had a rumor--a RUMOR--that there was going to be a proud boys rally downtown, and the streets got mobbed with counterprotestors....but there was no one there. It was totally made up.
All these feckless 20-somethings had their dander up, thought they were going to punch some nazi white supremacists, and it was completely imaginary.
My town is as blue as it comes. Surrounded on several sides by red, thankfully, but the idea of a rightwing rally is ludicrous. Republicans in my town are lucky to get 10% of the vote.
A great deal. Pricks.
Jesse was..... an introduction to R34....
Brb.
That's probably their furbaby, seeing as their genetic lines end with them, pretty fitting.
"Royal court" and similar stuff is a HUGE fucking deal at HBCUs. There's one near me and the campus is just plastered with royal court stuff at times of the year.
Also, one time I was on an HBCU campus for work. I sat down on a bench with my laptop to check email. A girl comes running up to me and says "Hun, you gotta get out of here, you're sitting on XYZ's bench, those guys are gonna fuck you up." She points across the campus and she wasn't joking--4-5 guys are headed my way looking pissed as fuck.
Needless to say, I got the heck out of there!
Hector Enrique Valencia Valencia killed Kimberley McRae, 69, when he pressed a lamp cord against her neck and left her lifeless body inside her apartment in January 2020.
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No, I thought it was great! Nice wordplay.
Teacher(s) revolting in Florida
I think you got the word order wrong there. It should be "Revolting teachers in Florida..."
Systemic opression, generational harm, patriarchy, white supremacy, big oof.
Mental illness features something called "comorbidity" where mentally ill people usually don't have just 1 thing wrong with them, it comes in clusters. This is why LGBT people have much much higher rates of mental illness than the general population.
No, no, you bigot, you've got it backwards. Don't you know that all problems in the world are caused by white males? If white males weren't so hateful to LGBTQIAP+ folx, they would have NO mental illnesses.
/s in case anyone wasn't clear.
btw, I saw someone add the "P," presumably for pedophile to LGBTQIA++ earlier, and that's genius. Keep it up. Maybe "M" for MAPs?
Appreciate the breadth of topics in your links. I had seen the Newton, but the Cuneiform/tablets was news to me--cool!
Huh, I thought he was somewhere in Europe. I mean, he's been pretty careful about not self-doxxing / power leveling. Canada maybe?
Yeah, I have an electric leaf blower as well, and at max speed it is loud as heck. I always use earplugs. Great for cleaning out garage, walkways, deck, etc.
Old neighbors would leaf blow their entire yard if there was a single leaf anywhere on the rass. We live in a tree-filled area, and their hour borders a park with many trees. It was crazy.
This is a poor argument. All but the most extreme libertarians and anarchists acknowledge that there must be some limits on activities on private property and limits on purchase.
Should the government be able to limit your ability to cook meth in your house?
Should the government be able to limit your ability to play 100db music at 1am?
Should the government be able to limit your ability to store radioactive material on your property?
Should the government be able to limit your ability to store highly noxious chemicals or perform highly noxious activities on your property?
The answer to all is, yes, with some limits. A suburban neighbor is different than a 100 acre rural farm property. There should be rules, and they should be different.
Yup. I got a Toro eSuper Recycler. It's amazing. Quiet, no engine maintenance, no getting gas, able to cut my ~1/3 acre of grass no problem. I will never buy another gas model, and yeah, the emissions are bad too.
Fuck leafblowers. I wish they were just banned period. If we lived in a society, like Switzerland that had social standards and cohesion, it wouldn't be a problem. My old neighbors would leaf blow every morning for ~2 months. Including when we had two brand new infants (years apart). Including on Christmas morning. Etc. I would have no problem if people limited their loudass leafblowers and small engines to certain limits hours of the day.
Electric snowblowers do not seem like the tech is ready.
I watched a lot of anime ... 20 years ago. I only recognize a couple. Fill in the blanks?
What about Trigun? Rurouni Kenshin? Azumanga Daioh? :-P
Biden's delusional pervert ...
You're going to have to be more specific.
the one arrested for stealing and putting on women's underwear from the airport
Ah yes, that one.
H1Bs visas are why tech jobs in the U.S. are being flooded by Indians and Chinese. H1Bs must be limited.
Yeah, but if Silicon Valley doesn't get the BEST--by importing the best, because Americans are stupid--then no startups would happen, all the companies would move out, and American would be left behind.
This was said to me, completely seriously, by a handful of Silicon Valley dudebros a few years back.
Fuck 'em.
It's a real problem with people just vote R without thinking. They don't have to earn your vote.
This is absolutely true, and it goes both ways. Politicians who don't have to worry about getting reelected because their constituents will vote for anyone with a D or an R almost inevitably slump towards shittiness (corrupt, failure to stick to their promises, etc.). They become the swamp beast.
Berlatsky is a fucking lolcow all the way. AND, non-ironically, a pedo.
"Berlatsky Prostatia" is an interesting search term.
I also love that he has a very feminine "daughter" who lives the basement, grunts, and eats chicken nuggets. That's exactly what I think of when I think of 19-year-old girls.
On one level, I don't mind this.
Most leftists will go along. But--you have to hope that there there are a few potential leftists out there who think to themselves, quietly, "If I'm a Democrat, will I ever have a chance to become a judge? Will another white male ever be nominated by a Democrat for SCOTUS in my lifetime? Is that fair?"
Maybe I'm being an optimistic.
Yeah, same experience, I liked the art style and aesthetic, but I found it very boring and not interesting to play. Maybe put 1.5 hours into it total.
I think the feeling was that if they let Buckhead form its own city and leave Atlanta, that Buckhead was where so many businesses area located, where many wealthy neighborhoods area, and is something like 70% white (as opposed to Altanta as a whole which is ~40% white), that the decreased tax revenue for the rest of Atlanta would lead it to decay and fall apart.
Also, the "optics" of a wealthy area wanting to pull out like that were bad.
I'm personally ALWAYS in favor of smaller units of government. Smaller government is more responsive to the people. I used to live in a small town, and if you emailed one of the city councillors, they would almost always either email you or CALL you back. Where I live now, good luck getting a response. Good luck getting a response from your US senator.
Smaller is better.