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The States: Maybe A National Divorce Is A Good Idea After All

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My sister made the most Long Island statement I've heard in a long time. She was talking about a Physical Therapy place my mom went after a fall.

"It used to be okay, but then a Hasidic group bought it and now they cheap out on everything."

The really irritating thing is I researched it and she's right, so I can't even call her a bigot. A Hasidic-owned outfit did buy the place, and now they are getting sued all over the place for cut rate materials and poor standards.
 
Kepler said:
My sister made the most Long Island statement I've heard in a long time. She was talking about a Physical Therapy place my mom went after a fall.

"It used to be okay, but then a Hasidic group bought it and now they cheap out on everything."

The really irritating thing is I researched it and she's right, so I can't even call her a bigot. A Hasidic-owned outfit did buy the place, and now they are getting sued all over the place for cut rate materials and poor standards.
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And that is the dark side of stereotypes: Whether we like to admit it or now, stereotypes are rooted in truth.

It's wrong to just assume they cover every person who fits the general description, but the tropes and tendencies displayed in them were common enough in society to become a generally accepted truth...
 
Handyman said:
Ugh Hasidim...
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Yeah, the Brooklyn and L.I. version at least are bad news. Physical and sexual abuse of women and children. Almost spectacular levels of conservative malevolence we typically associate with evangelical Christians and radical Islam. Fraud and tax evasion as the default business technique. There are survivor groups and real Jews turned their backs on them a long time ago.
 
Kepler said:
Yeah, the Brooklyn and L.I. version at least are bad news. Physical and sexual abuse of women and children. Almost spectacular levels of conservative malevolence we typically associate with evangelical Christians and radical Islam. Fraud and tax evasion as the default business technique. There are survivor groups and real Jews turned their backs on them a long time ago.
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Yeah any insular conservative fundamentalist religious group is going to arrive at the same end result, even if they take different paths to get there.

It's like a few months ago when the Dalai Lama asked the kid to suck his tongue and everyone was like "wait, is he a weirdo?". No, the guy who has been revered as a god by the backwards mountain-top insular region since he was 5 years old is a totally normal well-adjusted guy.
 
That's the one requiring all ballot initiatives get 60% to kneecap the Abortion rights initiative that's probably going to get 55ish percent in November.
 
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What is at stake?
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There's a proposed amendment to codify abortion rights in the state constitution on the November ballot. The GOP legislature, after just saying last session that August special elections are a waste of money, forced one anyway that would amend the constitution to make future changes require a 60% super majority (and a bunch of other qualification measures to make even getting on the ballot near impossible) rather than a simple majority purely to try to stop that November referendum.
 
Judge rules that Texas law is too restrictive for pregnant women with serious complications and orders law to be changed.

im sure they’ll get right on that
 
Holy shit. I can’t link of course but Gavin Newsom just tweeted this along with animated pic from prager U currriculum for kids that Florida is now allowing

“Florida’s latest curriculum—featuring cartoon Christopher Columbus explaining, “being taken as a slave is better than being killed!” and telling time-traveling kids that slavery was “no big deal.”
 
Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
Holy ****. I can’t link of course but Gavin Newsom just tweeted this along with animated pic from prager U currriculum for kids that Florida is now allowing

“Florida’s latest curriculum—featuring cartoon Christopher Columbus explaining, “being taken as a slave is better than being killed!” and telling time-traveling kids that slavery was “no big deal.”
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They didn't consult me. I'd rather be dead.
 
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