The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women’s Roles in Society, by Eleanor Janega concludes much the same.

but they did abuse the women

More matriarchal societies existed in primitive cultures than you’ll likely learn about in grade school.

The misogynist violence is not a consequence of human nature but a legacy of our engineered social system.

If you’re part of a caste system, you don’t have to be at the top to endorse it. We saw this play out in South Africa during apartheid to devastating effect for decades.

Building increasingly narrow traunches of hierarchy guarantees nearly everyone will have someone else they can bully. White women might be subhuman relative to white men, but they’re ubermensch compared to pocs, foreigners, and white children.

They do not respect you or your bodily autonomy.

They see you as fulfilling a particular role and revile you for failing to fulfill that role. For all the noise about individual liberties, conservatives are just as collectivist as the rest of us when it comes time to talk about honor and obligation. The only question is what obligations are due and to whom.

Cities are about to get raided by hillbillies & rednecks

I’ve got some terrible news for you, about the political contingent common to plenty of big cities. It won’t be hillbillies and rednecks tearing shit up. It’ll be city cops, state troopers, and the deranged failsons of used car dealers.

They don’t need to be paid now. They can get fast-tracked onto the federal courts later.

Oh sure. You can buy tannerite explosives as part of a gender reveal kit, ffs. But, like with any kind of fireworks or similar explosive materials, there are risks to improper transportation and use.

You can buy firecrackers from stales on the side of the road in some states. But people injure themselves with firecrackers all the time.

Detonators are difficult to build and transport. In a high risk activity, like domestic terrorism, the offender has a bias towards getting the thing to work and away from personal safety. This compounds the risk of accidents.

And that’s before you get into the process of milling the combustion material. Which, again, not great for your long term health if you’re just trying to hack it in your garage or kitchen.

In theory, lots of things work great. In practice…

You generally want some kind of background and some proper equipment. I’ll concede that making thermite can easily go wrong in the opposite direction - cooking up a recipe that doesn’t ignite at all.

As a general rule, a yard sign is an indication of the sentiment of the individual/neighborhood and not a major factor in influencing whom other people are going to vote for. By contrast, watching someone come into my neighbor’s yard and tearing up signs is a highly polarizing/motivating force for otherwise apathetic or undecided voters.

Of course, if you’re in a neighborhood that’s full of very openly hostile political opponents, it might not be motivating in the way we’d hope. A bit like someone shoving a burning cross in your yard. Its as much a threat of future violence as it is an act of petty vandalism. A guy caught on camera doing this shit is motivating for the neighborhood, certainly. But police inaction when this guy is reported is its own kind of red-flag.

Attaching it to some kind of ignition, most commonly.

But even past that, you typically want a very fine concentrate and even distribution of aluminium and rust. Grinding that shit up and mixing it is nasty for your lungs, without quality equipment on hand.

Not something you typically do on a whim. The process isn’t exactly without risk.

No no no. I was told by some terminally online Republicans that everyone in Mexico is voting and that’s the only reason Trump will lose California.

Bernie doesn’t even want to replace capitalism, he wants to save capitalism from itself.

Roosevelt style liberalism only works when you have a full blown leftist movement to triangulate against. Sanders doesn’t have anything like that to leverage. There is not Eugene Debbs running from prison with a million voters backing him up.

Of course, it should be noted how much Harris lags Dems in every swing state. He’s really hauling dead weight here. And it’s not helping his own popularity.

Majority of white women went MAGA in 2016. So this might be a racism thing rather than sexism

Anyone who lived through 9/11 and didn’t feel particularly frightened about what would happen next simply wasn’t paying attention

Surprised he didn’t just mail in her ballot

Some numbers guy political consultant said “This is the best way to turn out votes in the last week of the election” and a bunch of campaigns believed it.

It’s all just consultant Voodoo. Whomever wins still have described the signs and rituals one must perform to become President, and then everyone else will try to do the same thing four years from now.

In fact I’m not sure where the Republicans could fall back to ideologically.

At the heart of every Republican is a British Tory who desperately wants an American King.

Ever since the Dixie Flip they’ve pretty much built their entire party around racism and religious extremism.

Republicanism, even back to Lincoln, was a theory of Industrial expansion. Modern Republicans simply have nowhere else to expand into.

Racism and religious extremism are about re-colonizing the interior a second time, with a smaller and more “pure” cohort of settlers.

But without the large locus of dense population like the party had when it was dominant in the metropoles, that’s increasingly difficult to accomplish.

What the GOP needs is a new Mecca (or, perhaps, a New New York). A large, population dense center of power to expand out of again. Maybe they’ve found that in Salt Lake City. Maybe they’ve found it in the increasingly right wing Texas capital of Austin. Or in Silicon Valley. Or in Tel Aviv. Maybe they’ll rediscover New York (Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo certainly suggest fascism still plays well in the Big Apple).

But Settler Colonialism 2 is the dream.

He’s been on ozymbic, which is why he looks so deflated of late. May still have another ten years in him on that alone.

But also, you’ve got a guy like Dick Cheney whose heart hasn’t beat in over a decade. Modern medicine can do some crazy shit.

The City Council in Charlotte, North Carolina

Nothing to do with state law