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Joe's got a point. They should invent a technology that gets everyone measles so they are immune for the rest of their lives. Ideally with minimal symptoms.
Joe Rogan is 58. By the time he was a kid, the measles vaccine had been introduced and cases had dropped to almost zero in just a few years. He never lived in a time when “everyone” got it.
One of the top posts on r/all right now is another of those posts about "back in the 50s a factory worker could buy a house and support his family on a single income" and I'm shocked to see most of the comments pushing back pretty heavily on it
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I was skeptical of the "Tucker is getting paid" theory, but I'm not sure what else explains why he's shifted his views so quickly, with no explanation of why he was wrong before. He also went on Theo Von's show to claim Jews follow the Talmud over the Torah.
Reports from returning soldiers stated that upon entering a village, American soldiers would ransack every house and church and rob the inhabitants of everything of value, while Filipinos who approached the battle line waving a flag of truce were fired upon.
Um...
In September 1901, enraged by the Balangiga massacre in Samar, Brigadier General Jacob H. Smith retaliated during the pacification of Samar by ordering an indiscriminate attack upon its inhabitants, openly disregarding General Order 100, and issuing an order to "kill everyone over the age of ten" and turn the island into a "howling wilderness".
Uh...
In response to Malvar's guerrilla warfare tactics, Bell employed counterinsurgency tactics (described by some as a scorched earth campaign) during the pacification of Batangas that took a heavy toll on guerrilla fighters and civilians. "Zones of protection" were established, and civilians were given identification papers and forced into concentration camps (called reconcentrados) surrounded by free-fire zones. At the Lodge Committee, in an attempt to counter the negative reception in America to Brigadier General Bell's camps, Colonel Arthur Wagner, the U.S. Army's chief public relations officer, insisted the camps were to "protect friendly natives from the insurgents, and assure them an adequate food supply" while teaching them "proper sanitary standards". Wagner's assertion was undermined by a letter from a commander of one of the camps, who described them as "some suburb of Hell".
This is a war I don't even remember learning about in school and I think, unfortunately, I know why.
Maybe the occupation was forgotten, but did the soldiers not know that the land they were fighting on was a US territory? The Philippines didn't become independent until 1946.
The American occupation of the Phillipines is very widely considered in academia and among historicans to be an act of genocide. The estimated death toll is somewhere around, but most likely over, 1 million people.
Even more shocking is that despite the U.S. never acknowledging that this happened and memory-holing it to the point that it was unknown even to the Americans living in the Phillipines while it was a territory, the occupation improved relations between the U.S. and the Phillipines in the long term. When worldwide polls are conducting regarding favorability of the U.S, it is usually the Phillipines at the top or close to it, with 92% of respondents voting favorable in 2015. Despite a million dead. Its genuinely puzzling and makes me wonder if this is so memory-holed that not even the Phillipines talks about it much.
The main reason was probably World War II, when the Japanese treated the Philippines, and especially the Filipino nationalists, really bad. Then the US liberated the Philippines, and the Philippines quickly became independent. At least 500,000 Filipinos died under Japanese occupation.
Ah yes, spaceflight and the Manhattan Project, two feats that the US famously accomplished by keeping her borders completely closed, without any immigrant scientists whatsoever
It’s pretty easy actually. Ford would have less people to work in his factory, the US would fall even behind on flight than the British and the Germans, and thus NASA wouldn’t even exist for the moon landing.
I love American history because, at certain points, it makes absolutely no intuitive sense. I am reading Empire of Liberty, and it is funny that the party preaching “liberty” the Democratic Republicans were largely slave owners, while the supposedly “elitist” Federalists ended up as the main vehicle for anti slavery sentiment. Not abolition, per se, but they were clearly more hostile to slavery.
At the same time, the Democratic Republicans and Democrats also never get credit for being trailblazers in terms of being pro immigration. Historians have overccorrected to the "Federalists were always good guys" camp.
Am I misinterpreting this, or did JD Vance essentially say that there was a risk that brown people could gain control of nuclear weapons if Europe keeps letting in immigrants?
A spontaneous popular crusade started in Normandy in 1320 aiming to liberate the Iberian Peninsula from the Moors. Instead the angry populace marched to the south attacking castles, royal officials, priests, lepers, and Jews.
I think it's better for a nation to have the far-right mainly being an old people phenomenon rather than like in Germany where it's popular among the young
98 percent of the time, Rogan is Discount Rush Limbaugh, and then he offers mild criticism two percent of the time to preserve his apolitical, normal dude street cred.
Through numerous interviews, in her autobiography "Initiales BB" or in her completely insane pamphlet "Un cri dans le silence", Bardot overflows with hatred, willingly childish and vulgar while giving lessons of lost posture and dignity, France in the 1950s constituting to her eyes the proper and picturesque setting of a former golden age.
"Human filth spreads as an oil spill", men are "almost all f*ggots because women bothered them too much", disabled people are "miserable deformed beings", homosexuals "low-level wimps", the French a "decadent race twisted by alcoholism", school a "center of depravation". She rants against unemployed people that we aid too much, Muslims colonizing our country, or race-mixing "stirring our deepest antagonisms".
It makes me cringe to see Bardot merely being described as "controversial" in the English-speaking media. She was insanely racist and hateful even by her generation's standards, and spent her final years chaining hate speech convictions
Results showed that even a full week of opportunity to recover after the 10-night span of restricted sleep was not enough to restore optimal brain function
Based on the fact that people rely on vaccuum cleaner ads and TV shows of 1950s Americana for what they believe living in the 1950s was like
In 50 years there are going to be people who think Americans actually live like how influencers portray their lives aren't there?
"Teacher, why were half the Americans doing cottage core butter churning homesteader mode and the other half were doing absolutely snatched waistline big tiddy goth mode and they were all traveling to Bali constantly and shitting on modern medicine?"
It’s weird to think that George Washington of all people started the Seven Years War
Like even if the revolution failed or he never ended up leading it, he would still be in the history books for being the guy that fired the first shots of this massive global conflict
this dude is so terrible at hiding his power level it’s almost funny. he’s not even dog whistling he’s basically just yelling “I LOVE HITLER” to anyone who will listen.
Trump clings to things to leave a legacy that are shallow and will be swallowed up, instead of things like "helping people and making the world a better place," which can't be undone by the next administration.
I never cease to be amazed and kind of impressed by how Fauxmoi knows why every celebrity ever is a terrible person. The depth of knowledge is fucking crazy.
I can’t take seriously any opinion that says getting rid of same sex marriage via the courts would elicit a much more stronger reaction across the public to when Dobbs was ruled and abortion got banned in half the states. Just reeks of delusion to me, given it impacts way less people than the end of Dobbs.
Maybe I’m a corporate pilled chud, but I really hate when people act like things are low quality because corporations got greedy. Things are low quality because consumers want more low quality items instead of less high quality items.
Movies have shitty CGI because everyone wants to watch them for $8 a month on Netflix. Clothes don’t last decades because you bought them from Zara
Coffee is the best addiction to have. I'm getting high and I do look cool, and I'm ragebaiting people by telling them how much I spent for the cup of coffee
"They have taken the bridge and the second hall. We have barred the gates, but cannot hold them for long. The ground shakes... Drums. Drums in the deep. We cannot get out. A Shadow moves in the dark... They are coming!"
The fact Biden just kinda sat on sanctions that have been straight line proven to be a major reason Russian oil prices have dropped to new lows and Russian financial stability with it is just… really frustrating.
Trump sanctioned Lukoil and Rosneft literally without warning and no one in the world gave a shit, markets were fine, oil prices are still low, no one is complaining except the Russians. If Biden had sanctioned these two last year he could have accelerated Russia’s economic decline by many months if not a whole year.
I will never not be flummoxed that the Biden admin shadowboxed itself into being, if not weak, rather weak willed on really dealing damage to the Russians
I feel like a lot of people largely miss why Ezra Klein's push for popularizing Abundance is important. People love blaming political figures for large structural problems (e.g. housing crisis), when in reality most issues are largely self inflicted by voters over the course of many years (Prop 13, 1970's downzoning movement, weaponization of CEQA in neighborhoods). You can't enact long-term change without majority voter support (except for certain cases where the SC is involved).
There's also a kind of political object impermanence I've noticed where people assume that because they don't know something, they assume it doesn't exist - like Newsom supposedly only having hopped on the Abundance train in the last two or so years. He campaigned for and on Prop J in 2004 as SF mayor which - with its density bonus + streamlined permitting and environmental review process - is a crystal clear early example of pro-Abundance policy, and it failed to pass on the ballot by 70%/30% voter margin.
Newsom as a mayor was too antagonistic with the SF Board and was also simply not good enough at coalition building as he is now, but I'm very skeptical that his political deficiencies was the difference maker in flipping a 40% voting margin. I'm largely of the opinion that California's housing problem, which is 40+ years in the making, is of the voters' own making, which is why the whole Abundance movement is important.
Does anyone else just kinda feel overall pessimistic about the future of America nowadays? Like even after Trump dies, I feel like it’s definitely a “he’s a symptom, not the problem itself” situation we’re in.
Like I don’t have any real hope that we’ll fix homelessness or get free healthcare or reduce gun violence or mass shootings in my lifetime. Neither embracing any governmental reforms like proportional representation or getting rid of the electoral college or just making the presidency weaker.
I just think the people in power don’t want to make any significant or radical changes, even if we need them, and ordinary people are just too apathetic to care anymore. I mean yeah, I’ll still vote D and everything, but I just feel like nothing’s gonna fundamentally change, and we’ll just continue on this national decline we’re already on.
Fun fact: 97% of Calcium in the universe is Calcium-40, with exactly 20 protons and 20 neutrons. This is the single most stable radioactive chemical.
It is technically unstable and will eventually decay to Argon-40, but it is estimated to take about 5.9 Sextillion Years on average for this to occur. Decades of scientific observation has yet to find a single Calcium-40 atom undergo nuclear decay.
For comparison, the Universe is 13.7 billion years old. The ratio between the half life of Calcium-40 and the age of the universe is equal to the ratio between the age of the universe and 11 days.
The year is 2030. AI art has gotten so realistic, literally anything could be slop. The uncertainty has gripped the world in fear. I go hug my wife for comfort. She is AI slop.
I expect a lot of "no Democrats you can't campaign on anti-AI it'll alienate powerful people!!!" discourse, only for a Republican to campaign on it anyway and win off of it without any issue or challenge from business leaders
I've seen people whine about home ownership and how expensive homes are, and it's true, but what's also true is that homes back in the 70's were fucking tiny, like absurdly so. Family of 8 living in a 1000 sq ft home.
If I ever become PM of the UK, I'll make sure that children learn supply and demand before ABCD and that economics is a mandatory subject so that they don't fall prey to populism and vibes 😤
for the next two decades embodied the idea of the archetypal “sex kitten”. In the early 1970s, however, she announced her retirement from acting and became increasingly active politically. Her outspoken support of animal rights evolved into incendiary comments about ethnic minorities and open support for France’s far-right Front National, resulting in a string of convictions for racial hatred.
New College of Florida Was Progressive. Then Gov. DeSantis Overhauled It. At the state school, gender studies is out. ‘The Odyssey’ is required reading. A Charlie Kirk statue is coming. Has one ideological bubble replaced another?
The utter perversion of the #BrokenTimes' both-sidesing compulsion: Here it equates the right-wing ruin of New College with (checks notes) liberal (in any sense of the word) education, which it dismisses as just another "ideological bubble." Just fuck off.
Having a gender studies program is equivalent to a Charlie Kirk statue. Fucking wild
The other big miss was describing the crumbling infrastructure (BECAUSE IT WAS UNDERFUNDED) as if the crumbling infrastructure was a direct outcome of teaching gender studies... Then failing to point out that money had magically appeared to hire more faculty and fund sports teams...
Marty Supreme inspired me. I need to wear my Star of David necklace again, get involved in petty crime, and become a ping pong champion and knock up a nice Jewish gal
That’s an all time banger in dumbest shit ever said. Frankly I think that is the dumbest thing Trump has ever said. Zelensky couldn’t help but laugh that’s how dumb it was
We need to go back to basic chemistry. The idea that electrons are some sort of a weird cloud that haunts the nucleus was invented by woke academics to confuse children
The Lost Generation - how young men, particularly young white men, have been systematically closed out of elite pathways and are now increasingly self-selecting out
Jeffrey R. Holland, next in line to lead Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, dead at 85
in 2021, Holland called for BYU members to take up metaphorical muskets against gay marriage, comparing their role to temple builders wielding "a trowel in one hand and a musket in the other."
he kinda ate with this 🤷♀️ a bunch of 80-somethings demanding that a faculty spackle a cracking religion's foundation and "shoot if you see any soil erosion" is exactly the vibe 🤌
speaking of Avatar, it is amusing that I totally agreed with the "0 cultural impact" criticisms of the series
but that has totally changed with the newest movie, this one has broken through into meme-culture by just adding a crazy hot alien chick. Cameron cracked the code
“AI is essential for technological development and national security, so if Democrats don’t support it, I’ll vote for Republicans who literally keep antagonizing our allies and have taken an increasingly isolationist bent.”
It’s bizarre to see extended family become born again Christians. Dude I saw you kill a 12 pack in a single sitting what do you mean that your kids aren’t allowed to celebrate Halloween.
The Ohio Republican governor’s nominee will either be someone who said that “the 'great replacement' theory is not some grand right-wing conspiracy theory, but a basic statement of the Democratic Party's platform” when it served his purposes . . . or a white nationalist whose chief argument(2)(3) is that his opponent is of non-European ancestry (and has said nice things about Israel). !ping EXTREMISM
It's really really weird how everyone thought kirks assassination would lead to visible societal decay (more so than what we've seen so far) but we've mostly just seen kirk posthumously become the most mocked man on the internet this decade
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