why would i get in a raging political argument with my family when I can get in a raging political argument with the online accounts with whom I have a parasocial relationship?
I cough like this all the time now
they're not poisoning the blood they're just invading our white nation
The original tweet is not even correct in any way. Ilhan Omar is not from Puntland, she's from Mogadishu. Her father is from the area of Puntland. But Puntland didn't even exist on a map until 1998 - when Ilhan Omar was 17 years old. No one in her family, including her, ever lived in a place called "Puntland." Her father was basically from the area that became Puntland, but never lived in it at any time it was referred to as "Puntland."
Furthermore, the Puntland flag is from 2009 - 14 years after Ilhan Omar's family was in the United States. Not even her father has any ties to that flag, its extremely modern. Chuds will just find anything to get worked up over.
edit: Puntland didn't even exist until 3 years after Ilhan Omar's family was in the United States
edit 2: furthermore, I'd love to see EndWokeness' source for "largest Somali population in the west" because I don't think that's true either. I'm pretty sure London has more Somali people than Minnesota.
They’re right, except Wednesday and Avatar 2 is also fascist/reactionary art 😤
I wasn’t saying it should be about men. “Women in 20s and 30s more likely to die than any generation since wwii” surprised me since usually men have the worst life expectancy prospects. A quick reading didn’t clear up for me if this was any generation, or any generation [of women]. Though as someone pointed out I missed where they said the report is only dealing with women.
Community is when you have a maid and a driver
There are also climatic regions and cultural regions and historical regions though, which makes this way too simplified. I will argue for northern Kentucky, esp Louisville, as being part of the Midwest, but this is for historical/cultural reasons. But the core of Appalachia as part of the Midwest? No. Tennessee also makes no sense.
Also that map is weird. The Great Lakes flow into the North Atlantic by way of the st Lawrence river, the Ohio flows into the Mississippi and ultimately the gulf. There are two watersheds that are really part of much larger watersheds (st Lawrence and Mississippi). Not sure which is supposed to be the Midwest but based on this map the core of what we consider the Midwest today would actually be part of a different region than Cleveland, Detroit and Chicago
edit: wait, is it just me or does this map make no sense. Where is the Mississippi watershed? Surely they're not implying that minneapolis is part of the lake michigan watershed?
edit 2: okay okay, it looks like the mississippi watershed is like the same color as the huron-michigan watershed except topographical or something. And also I just didn't realize how close the borders of the mississippi watershed come to lake michigan. Map makes sense, although the labeling could be better.
edit 3: furthermore, the post is wrong because they're saying regions should be based off watersheds, but they're using two watersheds and the upper half of a third to define the "midwest." I'm not sure if they're saying the great lakes or the Ohio watershed could be considered the "midwest," but neither makes sense to me. If the Ohio watershed is the midwest, then appalachia is part of the midwest while detroit, cleveland, chicago and milwaukee are not. If the great lakes/st lawrence is the midwest, then most of Ohio and Indiana, including Cincinnati and Indianapolis, are not the midwest, while Montreal and Quebec City are the midwest. And furthermore, if watersheds are how we define regions, Minneapolis and New Orleans are part of the same region.
Furthermore, how do we define watersheds? The map is showing three watersheds, but really the Ohio river watershed is part of the Mississippi watershed. So is the entire Mississippi watershed part of one region, including the Missouri and Ohio watersheds? That would be a gigantic region. Or are we splitting them up, which begs the question, if we're splitting up the watersheds, why not split them into even smaller watersheds? Why not have the Salt River tributary as a region and the Tennessee River as another?
But really this map is showing one watershed since ultimately all of this water flows into the Atlantic. So why not have everything east of the continental divide as a single region? You can see how complicated things get.
ah yeah, maybe I can't read as well as I thought I could
Is this worse than men of the same age range? Cause usually you hear about men having worse life expectancy, etc and the article doesn't compare the two.
Oh yeah sorry misunderstood. Yeah I was just reacting to the phenomenon of the Taylor swift Stan specifically
please stop, don't remind me of this
edit: damn now I'm missing drinking vodka down by the train tracks and walking around my suburban hellhole in shutter shades not a care in the world. Trump? Gamergate? Covid? Dawg, get your mind straight, we're going to the project x party tonight.
I feel like this is a new phenomenon though? I grew up with Taylor Swift, like I was in 8th grade when the Kanye VMAs things happened, and I definitely remember her being a huge artist and a lot of people being into her, but on this level? Like Beyhive, Barbz level, defend her to the death stans? That I don't remember.
I believe what people say is the US has technically not been at war since WWII, since everything since then has not gotten the approval of Congress, so has been a "military operation," not a war.
However I was taking a look at the VA pension benefits, and they define "wartime periods" as including the Korean War, Vietnam War and Persian Gulf War/Iraq and Afghanistan operations. This of course leaves out things like Grenada, Panama, Haiti, and also instances where US troops were part of UN/NATO troops, like Yugoslavia.
Since technically these conflicts have the same status as larger conflicts like the Korean and Vietnam wars, why aren't they treated the same way? Why are some military operations considered "wars" while some aren't, even though neither have congressional authorisation? Is it really just subjective thinking since clearly the Vietnam War represents a much larger conflict and went on for longer than Grenada, so can more accurately be called a "war" - even though there's no definition really to back up that assertion?
Idk maybe there's no answer. Just something I noticed and was wondering if anyone knows if there is a reason for this.
Does any English person actually understand this shit? Oh yeah this is a ceremonial county, this one's a metropolitan county, oh this one is a ceremonial county and a metropolitan county, but hold on its not a historic county. I mean, a single location seems to be in like at least 5 different locations. Some of them are tied in to some local government, some have seemingly no reason to exist at all?
Say what you will about the US, at least I know where I live. The US does have some confusing shit going on, but I've never experienced anything like this. Every time I try to understand how England works I get "oh yeah no one really understands how it works." There are like 5 different maps all overlapping each other. Does anybody know how this works?
Feel like I'm just staring at like 12 different maps of English divisions going "damn bitch you live like this?"
We’ve all heard about antibiotic resistance, but is it also possible for bacteria to develop resistance to common disinfectants, like bleach, alcohol and soap?
I was reading this story and was sort of confused as to what was going on
Thinking of joining an ml party. I’ve been doing little things with dsa and other orgs now and again but it gets tiring having to hold my tongue around liberal progressives all the time and I’d like to be part of an org where I theoretically don’t have to do that.
If you’re in one of these parties, why do you like it, why should I join? I’m also mainly interested in any reasons why I should not join any of these orgs. Like are any of them just full of cops, or are they political cults full of abusers or anything? Tbh right now I’m leaning towards frso just because I like their stance of national liberation struggles within the us and also the idea that they’re sort of a “pre-party” organization, since I recognize while I’m probably knowledgeable enough theory-wise to join an ml organization, I definitely still have a lot of learning I need to (and would like to) do. But it would be nice to have comrades and not just be reading alone in my room lol.
But that is by no means set in stone and I’m hoping someone can give me a rundown of the ml landscape in the USA and/or guide me away from any parties I probably shouldn’t join.