I see it as likely either:
“tradition” is not a valid excuse when the group you are choosing to join has the history it does.
I don’t disagree but I’ve been opposed to arbitrary traditions for must of my life, likely because of not being neurotypical. Tradition seems to have a significant impact on the decisions of humanity at large. In addition to this, recruitment efforts are pushed heavily before the recruitees’ brains are fully developed, putting them at a lower likelihood of actually understanding the scope of what they are signing up for.
capitalism has, indeed, (and I think we agree here) made a big win by “forcing” it so working class people need to join. it’s 100% part of the problem.
We are indeed in pretty much complete agreement. Understanding why other humans make choices that are generally not pro-humanity and avoiding dehumanization is something that I find very important. Responsibility should not be avoided but, seeing that motivations are not necessarily malicious is necessary to pinpointing the root cause (I’d say not just capitalism, but any authoritarian means of organizing society) and leading groundwork to mitigate it.
Anecdotally, your observation holds no water. Do you have a source for that?
To clarify: By “surprising number” I did not intend to mean “majority”.
My sources are both anecdotal (definitely biased by having lived in W. WA as well as mainly knowing people who enlisted circa 2004 or were retired NCOs) as well as surveys. I was able to find a decent list of surveys for the last ~15 years here.
Basically, yes, right-wing does likely still outnumber center-left but, as of 5 years ago, it looks to be by a smaller margin.
You’re very welcome! Great band for such uses. I’m a big fan of their shanties and polkas (then again, I love folk-punk).
It’s a bit more nuanced than that. Many join up because it’s family tradition, or more often, because it’s the only option available to them to survive or try to get ahead that is not explicitly criminal. The US forces lower to mid income people into the military by withholding education and healthcare from the populace at large.
Additionally, a surprising number of military personnel align more with center-left than right-wing politics. Capturing this in surveys is very challenging, however, as there is significant fear of punishment for expressing anything that could be critical of the Executive branch, even anonymously.
Oh no! I will have to test the ones that I have, especially the inherited one.
Wall mounting tip: Hooks on a sturdy board (maybe hardwood like oak) that spans several studs should be sufficient.
Silent Hill agrees: https://youtu.be/v50zKrep6H0
Oof! Hey, at least on the bright side it would be an extended repose.
Thanks for that. No apology necessary - that was rather hilarious.
Been a while since I was in a lab (I was mainly concerned with squishy, squidgy things like microbes, so not quite OChem either) but, this looks accurate to me with a minor bit of pedantry that I had to validate before mentioning. BPA is not actually a plasticizer but a monomer/co-monomer (it does frequently get incorrectly labeled as a plasticizer in retail products). Notably in polycarbonate, which is something like 90% BPA by mass.
A big issue with is the incomplete reaction of monomers, leading to things like room-temp leeching of unreacted BPA in polycarbonate (so glad that I took a Nalgene with me everywhere for years when I was younger /s).
I dunno. Maybe they’ll figure out a way to use whale oil.
First thing? Honestly, probably curl into the fetal position and start bawling for a while as I fully relax for the first time since circa 2007.
BBS’s
You can still do that, if you want.
It was hacking according to Kevin Mitnick (RIP) so, it’s probably safe to say that your view doesn’t need to be changed.
But those same people who hate you also want to use you as political capital to further their agenda to punish people they hate even more (read: brown skinned people)
Oh, it goes a bit deeper than that too. They do love using you folks to have an excuse to harm brown people but that’s not all of it. The christofascists are also members of a Doomsday Cult. Very literally. They literally (not figuratively) want to being about the end of the world.
They only support Israel (and claim to support Jews) because they interpret biblical prophecy to mean that Armageddon, which, again, they are actively trying to achieve, can only start once all of Israel is ruled by Jews. Following that, they believe that all Jews will convert to Christianity or be killed, along with a bunch of other things resulting in the end of the world.
So, there will likely be attempts at forced relocation of American Jews and/or more extemination camps, if the theofascists maintain and solidify power. Yay.
Also, SteamWorld Dig 2 is on sale for 94% off (about $1.20).
You are entirely wrong regarding brexit voters.
You’re a Brexiteer, I take it? https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2053168018773964
Sorry if the reality that a significant number of the Leave voters are just racists upsets you. The fact that Brexiteers made life harder for my family in the occupied counties rather upsets me.
You are wrong regarding Trump.
Care to clarify your meaning there and support it with anything?
it is entirely of course entirely reasonable not to vote for the continuation of the political economic ideology that made Trump inevitable.
This is very much looking like embracing the fallacy of Denying the Correlative. The choices in the US election were only:
There were no other options. It’s a two party FPTP system, making claims otherwise factually inaccurate. Refusing to vote against fascism was implicitly supporting fascism because refusing to vote has in recorded electoral history only ever helped the right-wing. It really is that simple.
Refuse to oppose fascism in the bare minimum fashion (other action is required) and you’re intentionally enabling harm to those that fascists hate.
You have a lot to learn. You will not learn it now.
I’ve learned that a lot of people claiming to care about humanity are just myopic egotists and lack basic maths skills. What are you suggesting needs learning?
“I wish for a litterbox with infinite cat poop.”
Probably that and they know there is no evidence to support their anti-vax agenda so, have to invent it.