I'm not really sure what theyre talking about tbh. I've lived here my whole life -- my entire family is conservative catholic -- and I still know plenty of poor and rich democrats. It's different in the more rural areas though -- they tend to run red. Southern NH probably helps outweigh the red rural areas.
Dude. I found a working baratza preciso at savers for $11 a couple days after I realized the same thing and decided I'd start hunting for an espresso grinder.
It was the perfect confluence of timing, interest in making different style coffees, and unwillingness to spend a fortune.
Undoubtedly my best thrift store find.
Now I can get pretty much like 75% of the way to real espresso (won't get crema, but whatever) with my free secondhand aeropress and my $11 grinder. It's amazing. Another $15 for a milk frother and I'm making yummy cappuccino style drinks easy peasy
Def agree on half-life 2. I even played HL1 before to prep, and weirdly enough enjoyed that more than I enjoyed HL2. Guess it's hard to understand the hype when you weren't there when it came out.
There are a lot of weird cringey exchanges in this show similar to this that end up being stylized writing to trick or subvert the viewer. You should continue watching
Obviously this article is meant to cast the Pope in a bad light, but honestly I'm not going to fault the dude for invoking historical figures who proved to be beneficial to his own order.
I mean, how many times do people invoke the image of Teddy Roosevelt in the US? Dude was hot for war, all the time. Or Abe Lincoln, who, prior to freeing the slaves, would claim that whites were still superior to blacks (depending on his political audience), and would advocate for the relocation of blacks to another country, similar to the US government's efforts made against Native Americans.
Invoking historical figures is so often a bad move, but how can you fault a person for not knowing these things? Roosevelt and Lincoln are gods in the US. Andrew Jackson was the king of the free man, a paragon of libertarianism, rose straight up from the ground to the presidency. But I'm sure the Native Americans felt otherwise.
As for the Pope thinking the attack was provoked by NATO and not wanting to condemn Russia, well that's kinda horseshit. Because Russia deserves condemnation for preemptive war in the same way that NATO deserves blame for outfitting more bases along the Russian border, and the US deserves blame for their interference in Ukrainian politics in 2014.
Hell yeah. I just read Guards, Guards! by Pratchett and I'm working through LotR again. Dune is amazing, but I haven't continued past the original so maybe I'll read those next.
If you're into history, I've been listening to The People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, it focuses on each major historical event from the perspective of the regular individual person rather than focusing on the people who happened to be in power during them, and it's pretty good so far. I also read Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky, and that was life changing. Those are two pretty political ones, though.
In terms of fiction Id recommend Cormac McCarthy -- either The Road or Blood Meridian -- The Road is a post apocalyptic story about a father traversing through the ashen environment with his son, while Blood Meridian is a brutal Western set in the 1800s. With both of these, it's not as much about plot as it is about the poetry of the writing.
I haven't read a scifi book in a minute, but I haven't seen a lot of people recommend A Canticle for Leibowitz. It's three separate-but-connected short post-apocalyptic stories that follow the gradual resurgence of humans after a nuclear event. It's really subtle in that it doesn't slam you with like a whole universe and systems like Dune, but it's expertly written and hits some pretty thought provoking topics. Def underrated.
I started preferring long form media recently. Audiobooks especially. Social media allows anyone to say a single thing that may or may not be legit, but since it's bite sized information units they don't need to back it up. Long form media requires a person to back up what they say, and having that barrier of entry filters out those who probably aren't worth listening to.
Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
Yeah. I mean I guess if you want to get technical with it, I'm probably talking about something more akin to neo-fascisim. But I kinda think it's splitting hairs at the end of the day.
Why do you think that? I think really the only big hallmark that is missing is a single dictator/autocracy.
Otherwise, you have a nationalist, privatized, militaristic country, in which national politicians and news organizations collect money from corporations and as such are so influenced, and a lack of political plurality where voters are consistently forced to choose between the lesser evil.
Idk, I mean you're right Im no political science grad. But sounds pretty fascist to me.
I agree with you to an extent, but I also sympathize with the person above. I think it was Noam Chomsky who said this, but if each president after WW2 were brought before the Nuremberg Court, they'd be hanged for war crimes. I think when he said this he stopped at HW Bush, but Id be willing to bet it's true up to now.
This doesn't mean all sides are the same. I'm still going to vote Democrat in a general election, for the most part. But at the end of the day, they still push a globalist free-market ideology, they still promote war, and they still condone the surveillance of the American people, the imprisonment of dissidents and political threats, and the destruction of the environment in the name of profit.
Fascism is already here. It's the corporations (the rich) who hold power, and both neoliberals and conservatives work to uphold that dynamic so they themselves can maintain power.
I agree with you to an extent, but I also sympathize with the person above. I think it was Noam Chomsky who said this, but if each president after WW2 were brought before the Nuremberg Court, they'd be hanged for war crimes. I think when he said this he stopped at HW Bush, but Id be willing to bet it's true up to now.
This doesn't mean all sides are the same. I'm still going to vote Democrat in a general election, for the most part. But at the end of the day, they still push a globalist free-market ideology, they still promote war, and they still condone the surveillance of the American people, the imprisonment of dissidents and political threats, and the destruction of the environment in the name of profit.
Fascism is already here. It's the corporations (the rich) who hold power, and both neoliberals and conservatives work to uphold that dynamic so they themselves can maintain power.
I live in a small city about an hour away from a major city. I'm also an hour away from what I would call the boonies -- rural, remote areas where owning guns and open carrying is normal. In fact, I've seen open carry around here, in the city, quite a bit. It's pretty normal around here.
I heard a shooting happen in the suburbs near my house when I was a kid. It's what's considered the "nice" part of town. An old woman walking her dog was killed. I heard the shot through my bedroom window. Only til I moved into the inner part of the city did I witness guns being shot in the city more often. Most of the times you hear pops, it's fireworks. A couple times, it's been guns. Those couple times are pretty freaky.
Every once in awhile I'll walk past a crime scene downtown, usually something happened like a stabbing the night before. One day I scrolled through reddit and saw a video -- a point-blank execution had occured outside the club down the road. That one was disturbing. I think the kid is going to jail for a long time.
The inner part of this particular city is not as safe as the suburbs, but for the most part you should be okay, as long as you're not looking to start trouble. When I'm walking around town, especially the immediate area I live, my eyes are open. At night, they're wide open.
Even if the group calls for violence, it should be legal to be a part of that group. If I am subscribed to a YouTuber who calls for violence on people, and those subscribers commit violence upon those people, and I am sitting at home eating Cheetos, it is not justice for me to be charged for being part of that group.
The caller of violence should be charged, the co-conspirators, inciters, and the actors -- but not me, because I was eating Cheetos on my couch.
A free speech absolutist would say libel should be legal, and I'd disagree. There are certain things the government can do to ensure a person's right to free speech doesn't infringe upon anothers right to health, happiness, etc, and I think that's okay, but that people really need to be wary of such things so that power doesn't get too concentrated. But I wouldn't say I'm an absolutist.
Im just saying you shouldn't make it illegal to be a part of a particular group, because then the next party in power will have precedent to make it illegal to be a part of a different group.
I'm not really sure what theyre talking about tbh. I've lived here my whole life -- my entire family is conservative catholic -- and I still know plenty of poor and rich democrats. It's different in the more rural areas though -- they tend to run red. Southern NH probably helps outweigh the red rural areas.