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It's hard to be Jewish in Russia

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It's hard to be Jewish in Russia

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I never see naked adversarial outgroup bashing amongst our cohort and first and foremost this is a court of ideas. You're welcome to present anything and if you can defend your findings with evidence then it doesn't matter what colour tribe your ideas come from. The reason it appears to be left bashing is because mainstream leftist discourse is easily picked apart. I'm not 100% certain but I imagine there's a leftist version of the motte out there with equally as rigourous standards for their stances. Moreover, most of us are surely grey tribe in here with no cultural affiliation with true red tribe at all. I know Scott wrote this 8 years ago now but it still seems at least relevant-ish:

The Red Tribe is most classically typified by conservative political beliefs, strong evangelical religious beliefs, creationism, opposing gay marriage, owning guns, eating steak, drinking Coca-Cola, driving SUVs, watching lots of TV, enjoying American football, getting conspicuously upset about terrorists and commies, marrying early, divorcing early, shouting “USA IS NUMBER ONE!!!”, and listening to country music.

The Blue Tribe is most classically typified by liberal political beliefs, vague agnosticism, supporting gay rights, thinking guns are barbaric, eating arugula, drinking fancy bottled water, driving Priuses, reading lots of books, being highly educated, mocking American football, feeling vaguely like they should like soccer but never really being able to get into it, getting conspicuously upset about sexists and bigots, marrying later, constantly pointing out how much more civilized European countries are than America, and listening to “everything except country”.

You can replace some of the talking points (i.e. swap out "opposing gay marriage" with "opposing transitioning children" and "supporting gay rights" with "supporting trans rights") but the crux of it still stands. I'd wager 9/10 mottizens fit far more firmly into the blue tribe culturally even if some of their ideas lean red.

Besides which, where else is there for cultural leftists to explore and discover blasphemous, forbidden thoughts? Certainly not reddit, not for a long time.

In the dark recesses of the internet I frequent there seems to be uniform cynicism about the inevitability of the great replacement, white genocide, etc. Does no one think about what is going to happen when Whitey decides to fight back? (Whitey here as a linguistic placeholder for the amorphous, undefined whole of whatever "white" is in the Anglosphere today.) Despite Fukuyama's erstwhile claim to the contrary history has not ended. This is just the middle of one of the million cycles of this story. Group A ascends, group A gets comfortable, group B takes advantage, group B ascends, group B gets comfortable, group C takes advantage, group C ascends. And sometimes it's A, B, A, B for hundreds of years with of course continual morphing of factions and players. We even see these dynamics play out on small scales. If there's any truth to this adage, "Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, weak men create hard times," it's fairly obvious where Whitey is in this cycle.

But the stereotypical white traits so handily collated by the National Museum of African American History and Culture that saw Whitey culture both create and dominate the modern world haven't lost their power. When Whitey bands together and decides to fight back his enemies better look out. In this instance Von Neumann was undoubtedly right: for those who wish to see Whitey gone from the face of the Earth the preemptive strike is the only final solution. If his enemies continue as they are, i.e. ever encroaching half measures, always stopping just short of "the line", those strong men are going to reappear. And once Whitey at large starts to view his lot in the culture as hard done by - i.e. receive social justification and approval to stand up for themselves - the oppressor/oppressed hierarchy is going to reverse. And when that happens the ideas of those strong men of these hard times are going to take off like a rocket ship.

Because right now shame is the superpower of Whitey's enemies. In fact, that's ultimately their only power: social. They've made it impossible for Whitey to feel socially safe and justified in defending themselves. But the former satanic scare of the "alt right" is currently metamorphosizing into the dirtbag right and in the process starting to attract and build some counter culture social cred. In a short few years "White Power" is going to be the new "No Fat Chicks" on tinder profiles. Ten years from now when the current generation of wokescolds have come to be viewed as highly uncool schoolmarms by Generation Alpha I strongly suspect White Supremacy will be the ultra-hip counter culture and I fully expect to see white supremacist rock stars who are ethnically black. Twenty years from now I predict White Supremacy will be the new normal. Unified Whitey, with his emphasis on the scientific method, protestant work ethic and future orientation have always been and will likely always be an absolute force to be reckoned with.

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Me and you both brother. After a lifetime of observation it feels like a unified theory is finally coming together. Things are starting to make sense. My very first lectures in linguistics in undergrad were bafflingly opaque. Unlike hard science we couldn't observe and measure anything physical, (well, phonetics aside). You can't see a noun. We (the humans) had to build up the concepts of syntax, morphology, phonology and so on. What we're describing has always existed but bringing it into conscious awareness and true definition meant seeing way beyond the fact that what goes up must come down.

So much of human behaviour is mystifyingly illogical yet mystifyingly consistent. Like linguistics, you can't see moral righteousness, you can't measure who whom. But we see these concepts in action consistently. We, the animals with the impulses driving this behaviour have had to step back from it, while practicing it, to watch it enough, understand it enough to crystallise it into something as easily digestible as: he is being domineering, they are being bullies, I am being assertive.

There's no Galileo of human behavior to hand these concepts down from on high. We're putting it together ourselves on the fly, right now, in this century. It's very exciting. In hard science they say there's no low hanging fruit left but the social sciences are nowhere near that. Scott, big Yud, they're the backyard scientists of yore. Psychologically we're still in an age where grand discoveries can be made by laymen.

Mainstream psychological understanding is still somewhere near where biology was with Spontaneous Generation theory: a total guess taken as fact for 2000 years.