If you practiced what you preach you wouldn’t be this patronizing, condescending and dismissive.
Enjoy those public services while you can, so long as voting is your praxis, and you remain proudly ignorant of what that entails, they will continue to be defunded and privatized.
Lol, if you actually read the article it legitimately was the counter-protestors attempting to bomb the white nationalists protesting against “Islam” outside Mamdani’s residence.
The spin here that Mamdani was the target, or in active danger from the “explosives”, is incredible!
The actual target was Jake Lang and the police protecting him and was an attack against NYPD who is actively enabling and supporting said intimidating campaign against Mamdani and does pose an actual risk to his, and his families, health and safety.
I’m positioning myself against “aristocratic selection mechanisms” which y’all insist on calling “voting”.
So yeah, fuck “voting”.
Quit blaming the victims, this is what the result of voting looks like.
Nah, this is why it’s important to make sure “vegans” are at your parties.
Spam musubi is identical to your pumpkin pie example, main ingredient changed and often with different sauces/sides/etc like spicy mayo, teriyaki or gravy. Either they’re both unique or neither one is and, based on how you categorized everything else, nothing is unique.
Loco Moco is just egg curry with hamburger.
Gumbo is just bouillabaisse over rice.
Bolognese sauce on the other hand is, as I can’t find any other similar dish that was invented independently
Tomato based meat sauce? That’s just curry with some of the complexity removed.
Poutine nachos? Authentic Mexican food!
Also, think about what it means when you dismiss a food as “uniquely American” because it’s “Native American” cuisine.
Midwest and Alaskan, as well as east-coast, those three sound most promising. Can you maybe tell a bit more about them?
I’m sorry to say, but there’s nothing unique in any of those places either. Ambrosia is a standard fruit salad, Cincinnati chili is just spaghetti and hot dish is just shepherds pie. Sloppy Joes are just a ragú curry sandwich and corn dogs are tamales on a stick. Akutaq is just ice cream with an extra ingredient or two and birch syrup is “an ingredient, not a dish”.
This comment is an example of how that process continues. The original colonizers did their damnedest to try and erase those cultural lines and draw over them with their own.
Those cultural lines are faint, and per capita extremely weak, but that’s why it’s important to amplify them and highlight them when and where they exist instead of disregarding, ignoring and blurring them further.
It depends on how you define “uniquely created in the USA”.
Frybread has a rich and complex history within the USA, and I would argue it’s very much “uniquely created in the USA” but most variations have a pretty much identical recipe to hungarian lángos.
Also a lot of USA food is very regional. Hawaii has a lot of unique foods, such as loco moco, spam musubi, etc. but would be unrecognizable to most USAians.
Teriyaki dishes are technically Japanese, but the Pacific northwest has taken the concept and run with it to the point where it’s now it’s own unique creation. It also has cheese zombies, jojos, Seattle dog, huckleberry everything, etc.
Southwest USA and Mexican have a lot of overlap but are also just as distinct with “Tex-mex” being it’s own culinary thing. Puffy tacos, chili con queso, cornbread, cowboy caviar, nachos, etc.
Midwest, Alaskan, southern, east-coast, Puerto Rican, etc. all also have their own unique culinary traditions at this point with lots of micro-regional distinctions within them.
However, they aren’t marketed, advertised or popularized in the same way that things like “Chinese food” is. Despite “American-Chinese food”, like general Tsao, or orange chicken, being very much it’s own genre that is unrecognizable as either traditional/old recipe USA or Chinese foods.
To discover many of these things you can’t just “tourism” through but have to actually try to know and understand the people and places.
Conversely, it’s not like Italian food stops being Italian due to its use of “new world” food stuffs like tomatoes, or pasta is any less “Italian” despite it just being Chinese noodles with a few changed ingredients.
If you insist on playing that game you’ll find nothing is unique.
Turns out if you’re careful about the specific kids and you have enough money then yes it is de facto legal.
Take some time and seriously reflect on the difference between how you think legality works and what you’re witnessing.
Can you cite any specifics? Because either things are actively spicier than I was aware of or you misunderstood what was being said.
If that was the goal it would’ve been false flagged already. The goal really is just a simple as they don’t think their actions will have consequences, and so far they’ve been largely correct.
You didn’t answer the question.
How much more tyrannical do you need?
As a crime-free civilian
No you’re not you just haven’t been prosecuted for any of them.
You, and everyone else, are just as much inherently criminals as those behind bars. You’ve just gotten lucky so far with your life trajectory to have different experiences.
^Link is specific to US and UK but holds true for most any “developed” country.^
That’s the logic behind prison, but not the reality.
Locking a person in a cage does not solve whatever underlying issue led to the crime in the first place. The resulting trauma and stigma almost certainly makes it worse once they get out of prison causing crimes.
Or they are locked in a cage forever for the most menial of crimes, at which point they themselves are the victims of a greater crime.
Its not a lie, there’s a formal point system to determine whether someone is associated with Tren de Aragua. 8 points means they’re definitely a part of the gang.
It’s 3 points for being in the US without documentation, 6 points for associating with any known members and 2 points for any social media posts containing “associated references”.
Practically every Venezuelan is part of the gang according to the DoJ. So it’s not a lie, just guilt by association.
And what has that materially changed?
I know you’ll argue that it’s too early to expect anything, but mark my words that nothing will materially change. SPD’s budget will continue to increase with the deficit taken from public services, homelessness and sweeps will continue to escalate and expect nothing more than apologetics when ICE/BPD starts to escalate in the area.
Your hope and optimism is being weaponised against you.
Quite the change in position from “go touch grass”.
Am I wrong in stating that you view voting as a form of praxis?