cleek, that was the point. No work requirements though. The anona was not sufficient for a full family anyway. And rents in Rome were extremely high too (worse than NY City).
Well, full time work in several jobs and still in need of food assistance is indeed a parallel. A major difference is that any politician proposing cutting the anona would have quickly met a sticky end. And actually cutting it almost killed an emperor or two. The threat level is not yet as high in the US.
Btw, 'deserving poor' almost required "...". The main criteria were not necessarily actual need (again one could see parallels).
Well, geoengineering could also be used to actually accelerate global warming since some would directly profit from that (e.g. fossil fuel extraction in the Arctic and ice-free transport lanes for the same).
Btw, this idea can already be found in Jules Verne's 3rd part part of the Gun Club Trilogy (there it is about righting the rotational axis of the earth in order to get the Arctic ice-free to get at assumed large coal deposits).
No guarantee that I will find the time to read it (let alone compare the German and English versions).
That Karp piece you quoted from the New Republic sounds like a Roman senator preparing the next 'imperial expansion by pure self-defense' (although to my knowledge Rome never used drug smuggling as a pretense. They'd have gone British Opium War style anyway.).
German neonazis use stickers "American Indians did not control immigration. Now they live on reservations."
And that was years before they Syrian civil war or Putin's "special military operation" in Ukraine. Then it was mainly against Turks (These days even neonazis buy at the Turkish greengrocer. Probably the same 'problem' that Himmler noted that every German had 'one decent Jew' he did not want to get persecuted).
Berlin in the 18th century was close to immigrant majority (French Huguenots) and that was essential to the economy (Brandenburg was the 2nd most devastated region of the 30 Years War after Bohemia).
I have strong suspicions that I have Huguenots in the family tree myself.Did not help with learning French though :-( .
I see a hot debate, whether this will be called 'apeacement' or 'apiecement'.
(and whether Ghislaine Maxwell will be successfully nominated as Secretary of Whore after pardon and damages for suffering).
As for reparations, I would not be surprised in the least, if that became part of it (maybe even with a coerced 'admission of guilt' for the war on the part of Ukraine).
But check the soil first. I would not eat anything grown in our little backyard garden* - at least not without changing the top 1 m of earth first. Everytime anything is done on this building, the materials are stored there and I take it as a given that some nasty stuff seeped into the soil on more than one occasion in the last half century we have lived there.
*the rental flats on the raised ground floor have one (with stairs from the balcony leading down to it).
His Orangeness probably wishes that Epstein had de-filed all the evidence and sooner or later will try to get Bondi to do it for him (and then claim that Hillary did it).
Maybe she could be put on the next case:
According to the administration the rise in beef prices is due to illegal immigrants smuggling herds of sicks cows into the US. Somone has to go to the bottom of that (all the BS should make enough of a stink to make it easy).
Well, the SCOTUS precedent is clear: Aryans are welcome - provided they are NOT Indian (even if they out-racist most Nazis).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Bhagat_Singh_Thind
Maybe a compromise could be found (call SCOTUS!) by creating 'metic' and 'helot' as new legal categories. His Orangeness already claims the right to revoke citizenship (iirc it's already in the works to get it to SCOTUS). If he could reduce non-Aryans to helots, the employers, who currently employ the swarthy 'illegals', would have their practices legalized and the base could be persuaded that legally abusable 'not really Americans' could be a boon instead of a nuisance. As a plus the new categories would allow the reintroduction of miscegenation laws: Race defilers would lose their full citizenship status which would be OK with SCOTUS since it would not technically make mixed marriages illegal but just discourage them and also further reduce the number of residents eligible to vote. For the privileged their non-Aryan wives could get the legal status of concubine (I think His Orangeness would appreciate that).
As a point of contrast, Germany post WWII was able to move past Naziism – to not continually be engaged in arguments about it (I think – right Helmut?) – by owning it, recognizing it as toxic and a point of shame, and making explicit choices to reject it. Until AfD I guess.
a) no one in 1945 could come up with the idea that Germany had not totally lost (unlike 1918 when all fronts were still outside the Reich's borders and the population did not know that the Western allies would completely overrun them in the spring).
b) The Allies (in both West and East) allowed the broad majority of Nazis to get off lightly while at the same time making clear that this would change should they try to revive the Reich. And they kept that ultimate control long enough for everyone to get used to the new and improved democracy (which was accompanied by the 'economic miracle', giving it a huge boost).
c) it took decades (until the late 60ies) and a new generation to really come to terms with the true evil of Nazism. But (see above) the country was provided that time and was protected from anything like the Lost Cause poison.
Maybe, if Sherman had gotten his way and reconstruction had not ended by probably the dirtiest of all cow trades in US history (Andrew Johnson making a deal with the South to save his hide), there could have been something similar in the US.
Personally I think that the AfD is to a large degree a result of the fake enforced anti-fascism of the GDR. Botching the reconstruction of the East after the reunification (a good deal of disaster capitalism happened there plus - at least perceived - large scale carpetbaggery) gave it fertilizer. And now the weed grows all over the country, having surpassed a critical mass. No idea where it will end. Imo most adherents have not lived through the actual GDR (let alone the 3rd Reich) and got infected by a certain made-up nostalgia with no personal experience what an authoritarian regime actually looks and feels like.
Since this is a music thread:
Is someone here able to transcribe the lyrics of this song for me?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJgDp5zF4s0
I only get disconnected fragments and the auto captions produce mostly rubbish.
Opening fire early and with dreadful aim, a shameful display of incompetence [OK, just the usual far left extremist hate speech against the prime paladins of His most serene Orangeness].
On the record: I wish them facial necrotizing fasciitis (non-lethal but beyond cosmetic surgery to undo), not getting fragged.
Remember: It is perfidy to quote GOPsters verbatim and a felony to provide audio or video proof when the quotes get challenged. That includes public speeches made to an audience of millions.
My biggest ask would be to make “Oldest” the default sort order. I (personally) find it confusing to go bottom-up to follow the chronological sequence of posts.
I fully concur.
For the length, I'd say 4 weeks/1 month.
Since I delete cookies before closing the browser, subscribing would not save time for me.
I'd love to get rid of the current avatar images though.
I usually use a photo of this old bronze head in other places.
One could say the same about Netanyahoo. He is on very good terms with Hungary's Orban and the Polish far right despite both using stoking antisemitism as a standard domestic tool (and His Orangeness has begun to more or less copy-paste Orban's anti-Soros talking points lies too). The important thing is that they are all fellow authoritarians.
Solti's Bayreuth Ring* (his first I think) had a making-of made as a feature of its own.
A film team officially accompanied the production and the rehearsals. Something quite uncommon at the time. In addition there was an audio feature using the recordings to explain Wagner's leitmotif technique in detail.
*that's where the clip comes from if I am not mistaken
The moment the hostages go free the yahoo from Netanja will de facto renege on the deal. And of course the operations in the West Bank will proceed and likely accelerate aiming for a violent reaction giving the pretense to go full Gaza on the areas where Palestinians live. Or maybe not full Gaza since the settlers would likely prefer to get all of it intact. Otherwise the current cabinet would break up because the two Nazis will resign and leave the yahoo without a majority which in turn is likely to finally make the corruption trial against him proceed and get him into jail. He would not like that.
Oh, I forgot the 'clear and present danger' doctrine that Hitler invoked after the 'Night of the long Knives' and that has also been a tool of abuse by US governments.
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On “Open Thread”
It's said about Iceland: If you don't like the weather, just wait 15 minutes.
On “Am I missing something?”
cleek, that was the point. No work requirements though. The anona was not sufficient for a full family anyway. And rents in Rome were extremely high too (worse than NY City).
Well, full time work in several jobs and still in need of food assistance is indeed a parallel. A major difference is that any politician proposing cutting the anona would have quickly met a sticky end. And actually cutting it almost killed an emperor or two. The threat level is not yet as high in the US.
Btw, 'deserving poor' almost required "...". The main criteria were not necessarily actual need (again one could see parallels).
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cleek, but the Roman anona was only for the deserving poor and their number was limited by law (and excluded migrants).
On “The surprising philosophy behind Palantir”
Well, geoengineering could also be used to actually accelerate global warming since some would directly profit from that (e.g. fossil fuel extraction in the Arctic and ice-free transport lanes for the same).
Btw, this idea can already be found in Jules Verne's 3rd part part of the Gun Club Trilogy (there it is about righting the rotational axis of the earth in order to get the Arctic ice-free to get at assumed large coal deposits).
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No guarantee that I will find the time to read it (let alone compare the German and English versions).
That Karp piece you quoted from the New Republic sounds like a Roman senator preparing the next 'imperial expansion by pure self-defense' (although to my knowledge Rome never used drug smuggling as a pretense. They'd have gone British Opium War style anyway.).
On “Shabana burns the cakes”
German neonazis use stickers "American Indians did not control immigration. Now they live on reservations."
And that was years before they Syrian civil war or Putin's "special military operation" in Ukraine. Then it was mainly against Turks (These days even neonazis buy at the Turkish greengrocer. Probably the same 'problem' that Himmler noted that every German had 'one decent Jew' he did not want to get persecuted).
Berlin in the 18th century was close to immigrant majority (French Huguenots) and that was essential to the economy (Brandenburg was the 2nd most devastated region of the 30 Years War after Bohemia).
I have strong suspicions that I have Huguenots in the family tree myself.Did not help with learning French though :-( .
On “An openish thread featuring the comedy stylings of Steve Witkoff”
I see a hot debate, whether this will be called 'apeacement' or 'apiecement'.
(and whether Ghislaine Maxwell will be successfully nominated as Secretary of Whore after pardon and damages for suffering).
As for reparations, I would not be surprised in the least, if that became part of it (maybe even with a coerced 'admission of guilt' for the war on the part of Ukraine).
On “Pop!”
But check the soil first. I would not eat anything grown in our little backyard garden* - at least not without changing the top 1 m of earth first. Everytime anything is done on this building, the materials are stored there and I take it as a given that some nasty stuff seeped into the soil on more than one occasion in the last half century we have lived there.
*the rental flats on the raised ground floor have one (with stairs from the balcony leading down to it).
On “Your quest begins now!”
His Orangeness probably wishes that Epstein had de-filed all the evidence and sooner or later will try to get Bondi to do it for him (and then claim that Hillary did it).
"
Why not simply call him a girl defiler?
"
Maybe she could be put on the next case:
According to the administration the rise in beef prices is due to illegal immigrants smuggling herds of sicks cows into the US. Somone has to go to the bottom of that (all the BS should make enough of a stink to make it easy).
On “Spelunking for fun and profit”
We have a problem when the upper end of “young voter” is in their 40s.
Well, look at the age of the indiscreet "Young Republicans" ;-)
On “When virtues become vices”
Well, the SCOTUS precedent is clear: Aryans are welcome - provided they are NOT Indian (even if they out-racist most Nazis).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Bhagat_Singh_Thind
On “Horrifying stuff”
Maybe a compromise could be found (call SCOTUS!) by creating 'metic' and 'helot' as new legal categories. His Orangeness already claims the right to revoke citizenship (iirc it's already in the works to get it to SCOTUS). If he could reduce non-Aryans to helots, the employers, who currently employ the swarthy 'illegals', would have their practices legalized and the base could be persuaded that legally abusable 'not really Americans' could be a boon instead of a nuisance. As a plus the new categories would allow the reintroduction of miscegenation laws: Race defilers would lose their full citizenship status which would be OK with SCOTUS since it would not technically make mixed marriages illegal but just discourage them and also further reduce the number of residents eligible to vote. For the privileged their non-Aryan wives could get the legal status of concubine (I think His Orangeness would appreciate that).
On “The South shall writhe again”
As a point of contrast, Germany post WWII was able to move past Naziism – to not continually be engaged in arguments about it (I think – right Helmut?) – by owning it, recognizing it as toxic and a point of shame, and making explicit choices to reject it. Until AfD I guess.
a) no one in 1945 could come up with the idea that Germany had not totally lost (unlike 1918 when all fronts were still outside the Reich's borders and the population did not know that the Western allies would completely overrun them in the spring).
b) The Allies (in both West and East) allowed the broad majority of Nazis to get off lightly while at the same time making clear that this would change should they try to revive the Reich. And they kept that ultimate control long enough for everyone to get used to the new and improved democracy (which was accompanied by the 'economic miracle', giving it a huge boost).
c) it took decades (until the late 60ies) and a new generation to really come to terms with the true evil of Nazism. But (see above) the country was provided that time and was protected from anything like the Lost Cause poison.
Maybe, if Sherman had gotten his way and reconstruction had not ended by probably the dirtiest of all cow trades in US history (Andrew Johnson making a deal with the South to save his hide), there could have been something similar in the US.
Personally I think that the AfD is to a large degree a result of the fake enforced anti-fascism of the GDR. Botching the reconstruction of the East after the reunification (a good deal of disaster capitalism happened there plus - at least perceived - large scale carpetbaggery) gave it fertilizer. And now the weed grows all over the country, having surpassed a critical mass. No idea where it will end. Imo most adherents have not lived through the actual GDR (let alone the 3rd Reich) and got infected by a certain made-up nostalgia with no personal experience what an authoritarian regime actually looks and feels like.
On “Weekend music thread #02 Bad Bunny”
Thank you, lj.
Let's see whether the last few gaps can be closed still.
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Since this is a music thread:
Is someone here able to transcribe the lyrics of this song for me?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJgDp5zF4s0
I only get disconnected fragments and the auto captions produce mostly rubbish.
On “Politics thread”
Opening fire early and with dreadful aim, a shameful display of incompetence [OK, just the usual far left extremist hate speech against the prime paladins of His most serene Orangeness].
On the record: I wish them facial necrotizing fasciitis (non-lethal but beyond cosmetic surgery to undo), not getting fragged.
On “There have to be clowns”
Remember: It is perfidy to quote GOPsters verbatim and a felony to provide audio or video proof when the quotes get challenged. That includes public speeches made to an audience of millions.
On “Opinions on settings”
My biggest ask would be to make “Oldest” the default sort order. I (personally) find it confusing to go bottom-up to follow the chronological sequence of posts.
I fully concur.
For the length, I'd say 4 weeks/1 month.
Since I delete cookies before closing the browser, subscribing would not save time for me.
I'd love to get rid of the current avatar images though.
I usually use a photo of this old bronze head in other places.
On “Let’s start calling a thug a thug”
But it’s about 3% of the population.
I think that should be 0.3% (1 million per 340 million).
Well, still better than the billions of illegals and illegal votes in California alone that His Orangeness used to rant about. ;-)
On “The Qatar that plays like butter”
One could say the same about Netanyahoo. He is on very good terms with Hungary's Orban and the Polish far right despite both using stoking antisemitism as a standard domestic tool (and His Orangeness has begun to more or less copy-paste Orban's anti-Soros
talking pointslies too). The important thing is that they are all fellow authoritarians.On “Weekend music thread #1”
Solti's Bayreuth Ring* (his first I think) had a making-of made as a feature of its own.
A film team officially accompanied the production and the rehearsals. Something quite uncommon at the time. In addition there was an audio feature using the recordings to explain Wagner's leitmotif technique in detail.
*that's where the clip comes from if I am not mistaken
On “…..”
The moment the hostages go free the yahoo from Netanja will de facto renege on the deal. And of course the operations in the West Bank will proceed and likely accelerate aiming for a violent reaction giving the pretense to go full Gaza on the areas where Palestinians live. Or maybe not full Gaza since the settlers would likely prefer to get all of it intact. Otherwise the current cabinet would break up because the two Nazis will resign and leave the yahoo without a majority which in turn is likely to finally make the corruption trial against him proceed and get him into jail. He would not like that.
On “Where are the 5 words?”
Oh, I forgot the 'clear and present danger' doctrine that Hitler invoked after the 'Night of the long Knives' and that has also been a tool of abuse by US governments.
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