TranscendentalEmpire

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Eh, I'm not a big enough fan of milk to really go out of my way to drink it. Mainly just lactose free milk for cooking/baking.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

In Colorado, aside from serious charges like murder or kidnapping, most felony charges have a three-year statute of limitations.

Well..... That's kinda crazy. I feel like a lot of investigations take longer than three years. Hell there's places in the US that have like a decades worth of rape kits police are ignoring.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

This picture makes my tummy hurt just looking at it. I have a bit of lactose intolerance, but even with lactose free milk.....I couldn't imagine just pounding down a tall glass of milk.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

There's always been a significant portion of American society that would have much preferred if the US would have intervened in WW2 on behalf of the Nazi instead of the allies. Imo that subsect of our population has never really changed in their belief, they just moderated their language to make their beliefs more digestible.

The amazing thing to me is that Communism has consistently been a dog whistle for these people for generations, being a substitute for a plethora of slurs aimed at a plethora of different people.

They are now attempting to utilize the same defunct laws that their grandparents made to strip away what little power we the people still have. Strange that there are laws against communist political parties but not against fascism.....the actual people we engaged in a totalitarian war against.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

24" of max overhang is a pretty typical standard for deck.

Most decks don't have 12" joist supporting them..... Plus, the roof appears to be cantilevered as well.

modified the supporting exterior wall to handle the extra load.

Tbh it's hard to tell, it really looks like a house with interesting bones that got wrapped in shitty vinyl in the early 00'. But I'm not seeing any anchoring hardware, so there's a chance that the joists are interconnected with the ones supporting the second floor.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

It was definitely touted as one of the benefits of Thirdway politics. However, the real imperative was ending gridlock in Congress. Back in the late 80s and early 90s gridlock was new and actually seen as a big problem, especially after it caused a gov shut down under newt. Bill Clinton basically swept the presidential race for his second term for "solving it".

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Lol, no it really isn't. Citizens vs United was the culmination of decades of the DNC constantly bending over backwards to compromise with conservatives.

Basically in the late 80's and early 90's the legislative grid lock we all know and love today was becoming the status quo. So a strategy of compromising with "moderate" conservatives over policy that benefited aspects of both parties was popularized by the Clinton's.

This "Thirdway politics" led to short term benefits, and allowed the Clintons to get a death grip over the DNC. After a short period conservatives took advantage of this tactic of compromise to drag the DNC further and further to the right. Basically every sitting senator and most of the politicians in the house made their political careers by being the best at compromising with the right.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Right, but my point was that the Jewish community isn't a monolith, 25% of the American Jewish population lives in NYC. Of that nearly 1 million people there are going to be a significant population of them that are going to have some pretty extreme views about Palestine.

While this poll may not accurately reflect the spectrum of beliefs of Jews in NYC, it's statistically unlikely that NYC Jews represent the entirety of the American Jewish population who reject Zionism. Meaning more than likely more than half of the NYC population of Jews support Zionism, or believe that anti Zionism equates to antisemitism.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

The majority of Jews in New York are secular and therefore don't have a mouthpiece like the major Orthodox groups

That's the thing with ethno-states, you don't have to be religious to be a nationalist. It's not just orthodox Jews who have a problem with Palestinians. Hell, you don't even have to be Jewish to have extremist views about the genocide in Palestine. You could be orthodox, a secular Zionist, a right winged nationalist, or you could even be vicariously motivated evangelical who thinks a war in the holy land will spark the second coming. Are those views "normal"? Not to me, but I'm not exactly in charge of making those opinions for others.

As I said, it really depends on what your perspective is when it comes to what qualifies as normal.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Only takes one or two employees to pretend to have heat stroke/exhaustion and get a work sponsored trip to the hospital to force a change in the working environment.

Really would be safer for everyone to have someone pretend rather than wait until someone actually has one.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Lol, people failing to recognize the inherent contradictions they spew always amazes me. "The economy is great, unemployment is down, people don't understand the economy is great, only real challenge its cuts to food stamps"......

So what you're saying is the economy = corporations are making record profits, more people are working than ever, those people don't see any of the profits, working people recognize they can't afford to live without food stamps.

It's like they subconsciously yearn for the guillotine.... We need to make a derogatory term to call someone who so flirtatiously teases people into class violence. (Chop)Block tease? Guillotine slut? Idk....needs to be workshopped to rule out tones of misogyny.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Eh, I guess it's a matter of perspective. Just like you shouldn't claim all Jews are extremist, it's also inaccurate to claim that all New York Jews are just normal people who happen to be Jewish. That is unless you believe holding extremist political views is perfectly normal.....which is a matter of perspective.

Imo the Jewish community has gone pretty far to the right, a similar response to America after 9/11. Even a lot of the prior moderate American Jewish community has recently adopted some pretty hard right stances when it comes to Palestine.

Just looking at Jewish communities on places like reddit can be pretty wild as far as how common it is for people to respond to valid criticism of the Israeli state as antisemitic hate crimes.

This is the inherent problem of ethno-states, it creates room for forced conflations between ethnicity and nationality.

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