Third City Feliform

Aight, let's see how Mamdani handles the homeless population with this one

The Catholic Church *does* hate Jews, but only in the way they hate British, Russians, Chinese, for *all the wrong reasons*, and thus also hate much nicer groups like Scots, Ukrainians, and HongKongers.

By the ridiculous standards of "antisemitism" bandied by the pro-IDF Christian right in the Anglosphere, the Catholic Church running schools where no one meets a Jew unless they're smart enough to study physics at uni later is fucking anti-semitic.

Utah is to the US Republican Party what Chechnya is to Putin's government. They rule their state like a theocracy, AND they are constrained in it by the federal government, AND they aid and abet the national theocracy, AND they aid and abet the international imperial ventures.

The left falling for the "a regime can't oppress its own people unless the regime is foreign" thing means that when Tumblr finally realised Mormons were as bad as fundiegelicals, they played on tropes of a shady cabal controlling the media.

The "clankers" of Star Wars are of course like the chestbursters of Alien: perfectly rational to kill it before it kills you, but THEN you reload and go find the actual person who put you in the path of it.

Pro-lifers think the libs crave infanticide and don't understand this.

So, you want a protagonist who isn't a human minority that segments the market, but you don't want them to *actually* ascend from the complicit majority.

So, you give them a non-human enemy.

Tropes about alien cock and hiveminds are racist in a way that loses money, but clankers...

Observation 2: Most dystopian media trades in "what if it happened HERE?" and is about either a boring everyman protagonist or the white girl version of one, who feels special but doesn't have anything legibly different about them.

(Epistemic status: bong hit)

Observation 1: since 2022 or maybe 2016, the left and right have both shifted towards an understanding that the ethnic majority of a country cannot be victims of an oppressive regime unless the regime is foreign.

Coming up to a Jewish guy's apartment like "don't get me wrong, I want to have sex, but I hope you were being literal about the coffee too, I have a hole in my knowledge that needs filling"

People from ethnicities where you assume they're Muslim don't actually brew coffee any better than the Greeks, but I had fun checking

Walking out of the Middle Eastern grocery/deli/??? like "whether the Greeks, Turks, or a secret third thing invented this menu item, the real winner is me, the consumer".

Hey, who better to check if a wannabe jackboot is trafficking kids that the guy who knows all the kiddie traffickers in town?

indorinately mad at learning that 'bash' is a stupid sort of acronym. come on.

I'm autistic naive officer class but I'm also Russian-Australian, drunken idiocy is both my birthright and my citizenship-right.

I realise the clientele IS mostly drunk idiots but you generally keep enough lid on it to keep the cops outside, ya know?

I'm pretty sure a de facto part of the point of a alcohol venue checking ID is to let the bouncer slow down traffic and check if you look like an idiot who'll start shit.

They also have the right to boot drunk idiots regardless of ID, because they're a PRIVATE BUSINESS which I thought y'all liked

Also, checking papers is FUCKING INEFFICIENT
You want a surveillance state, you embrace the turnstiles and friction-free platforms
(There's non-jackbooted security guards for travellers with weird needs.)

Anyone who actually needs detaining can be in the local jail, why the fuck would you check papers and pay extra to ship them out of town? What are you, the town guard of a city-state?

It's a public good to have late night transport that gets drunk idiots off the streets, and worth paying for enough security guards that being in the drunken idiot transport is still safer for *you* than being on the dark street.

In Australia, sometimes a real dumbass attacks the driver. You want to offer a workplace where you can concentrate on operating heavy machinery without getting stabbed, but also where people can travel within city limits no questions asked. So, lots of physical barriers.

There are real problems with artisanal violence on some public transport systems.

They are usually also problems in the walkable areas surrounding the stops and the non-walkable dodgy flats people who use those stops live in.

Adding cops means adding better armed thugs.

If you're in a shithole like Canberra where the train owners can afford security guards and the populace makes you need it, people who start shit will be dealt with regardless of what their papers say, so why ask?

Most people outside Eastern Europe couldn't name Georgia's second city, let alone go to eight, but it always makes me happy when people who don't live in and can't easily travel to the capital raise hell in other places!

(Seems like Tbilisi is a capital like Moscow and Berlin, not DC and Canberra)

The more direct hypocrisy I like to point out from TERFs is that they act concerned about cis women in prison having trans woman cellmates, but never ask whether the prison has cis male guards.

But given she plays the British patriot, she should be part of disgracing the former prince.

On one hand, if Trump had an honest bone in his body he would have dropped Maduro off at the Hague like a comic book superhero leaving crooks tied up for the cops.

On the other, it's good that the things Kegsbreath did are in fact illegal under his own country's law.

A mass knoifing on Bondi Beach would definitely make at least national news, but bringing a bunch of guns is just un-Australian. And, unfortunately, raises the high score.

So, one of those things where you only know a guy who *lives* in the area if some failson is slumming it in your social group, but where you've likely been there for a family-friendly day outing. NOT one of the many infamous stabby parts of town.

The Westfield mall in the suburb of Bondi Junction and the Bondi Beach in the neighbouring suburb of Bondi are both in affluent parts of town (not that being a rich knob should carry the death penalty!) and visited by a much broader swath of Sydneysiders and non-Sydney-residents.

You have probably heard about the mass shooting at Bondi Beach. You may not have heard about the knife attack at Bondi Junction shopping centre, which is back in Australian news. If so: FYI, these are basically unrelated.