if it just wants to die quietly along with the older people who just remain catholic by habit.

That may be true in europe and north america, but catholicism is booming in Sub-Saharan Africa in a lot of countries with younger populations. A lot of those countries also don’t have very progressive views on LGBT people and would be fine with backtracking on that front.

This is why I’m for tarriffs dependent on wage, labor and environmental standards. If you’re moving production to another country because they have some resource or large field of experts fair enough. If you’re moving production over seas to dodge labor and environmental regulations you should pay up. It also encourages those countries to raise wage and labor standards to avoid tarriffs.

Trumps tarriffs are idiotic, tarriffs on countries with higher labor standards like Canada and the EU aren’t helping anyone. The countries that do have low labor and environmental standards aren’t going to raise them to avoid the tarriffs, it seems trump just wants to get them to buy more American goods to lower the trade deficit for some reason.

by perfectly standard measures kokain is way more dangerous then alcohol

No it’s not, by your perceptions of those measures it may be but experts disagree.

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You also have to consider deaths from collateral damage, eg. Driving under the influence. Alcohol tops those charts by a lot and causes a lot of innocent deaths.

science defying stupidity

The scientists are on his side. Most drug harm experts agree that cocaine is on the same level as alcohol

A lot of drug harm experts agree

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Idk about the claim of it being illegal because it’s from Latin America, but a lot of racism was involved in deciding to make it illegal. There was a moral panic at the time that it was giving black men super human strength and unctrollable lust for white women.

If it was a comedy I would give it a pass, but this episode wasn’t, or at least it was a bad one. The only sort of funny scene was the sermon. The rest was young boys slowly dying.

I get the focus is supposed to be on Elijah and how bad he is but the background is the lost cause myth and sympathizing with the common confederate troops. I guess you could say they didn’t want to make the confederates look bad so Elijah could look horrible in comparison, but you could’ve had Elijah just be even more racist then the troops.

Like the only sort of funny part where he gives the sermon, if it were realistic he would’ve gone full race baiting and go one about how the unions gonna come and free the n*****s and slavery is in the Bible etc. to rile up the troops. But in this mythical confederacy racism and slavery don’t exist which is ahistorical.

They gave it back after doing a war crime and executing prisoners of war. They also executed them with a fucking gattling gun which is just cruel. I think they were trying to get you to sympathize with the confederates about to die instead of the northerners who were killing an already defeated foe.

if it was a serious show I’d agree but it’s satire

I agree, righteous gemstones generally whitewashes the southern church and rarely shows the racism and homophobia that would be present. But I give it a pass because it’s funny, this episode wasn’t funny. The only joke of the show was him giving a bad sermon to those troops, the rest was just sad imagery of confederate boys dying. This episode was them trying to be serious and it didn’t work IMO.

Wouldn’t call carney and the liberals lefty, there centrists. The left NDP party under Singh has been losing ground as people have ben rallying around the liberals to make sure the conservatives don’t win.

Still would probably piss off trump and his crew. They just probably won’t get much progress, but considering the direction of a lot of other western countries not backsliding into fascism is pretty good.

Tradwife content is on the rise for women as well, more and more young people are buying into this mythical simpler past as the world gets more complex, alienating and difficult.

For anyone asking why it’s strange, from the article

Traditionally, the dollar would strengthen as tariffs sink demand for foreign products.

If you’re looking at the dollar with supply and demand, if international trade to the u.s. decreases with tarriffs, then the amount of dollars leaving the u.s. also decreases and thus the supply of dollars on the international market. Assuming demand remains constant then the strength of the dollar should go up.

For this decrease in strength you have to look to demand which has to decrease enough to counteract the tarriffs plus more. This decrease in demand is coming from both decrease in demand for assets priced in dollars (u.s. companies stocks, treasury bonds, real estate etc.) And retaliatory tarriffs which lower demand for u.s. goods.

Robots don’t get drunk, or distracted, or text, or speed…

Anecdotally, I think the Waymos are more courteous than human drivers. Though waymo seems to be the best ones out so far, idk about the other services.

triangle of the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas

Hamas triangle? Do you mean the red triangle on the Palestinian flag, the one that predates hamas by half a century?

What hamas slogans were painted? The picture only shows “free gaza”, “killers” and “complicity”, nothing supporting hamas, unless anything calling for the end of the genocide is supporting hamas.

The financial times and the Irish times have since picked it up.

The financial times and the Irish times have since picked it up.

Yeah, checks notes… Cooper Longbottom, Kasia Wlaszczyk, Shane O’Brien, and Roberta Murray are surely trying to turn Germany into a caliphate…

I don’t think that should be the main worry. People are already having less children, below replacement in most of the developed world. Meanwhile the trend on meat consumption is going up, we should focus more on trying to stop that.

This is the same state that brought us dirty soda, i.e. take some soda and add even more syrups and cream. Try and convince me this isn’t some grand conspiracy by a shadowy cabal of dentists.

Only spouses. The right to fuck your wife is something even imprisonment can’t take away.