2rafa
8d ago
Yeah because it turned out that most of USAID’s budget was bribe money to local elites in the third world so they don’t defect to China, which Trump is set on antagonizing and competing against.
2rafa
8d ago
If Trump was smart he’d cut a deal with enough Dems who genuinely want infrastructure / railroad / whatever funding to pass a bipartisan budget that raises taxes somewhat on everyone (but especially on ‘the rich’) that can be framed as an ‘emergency national bill’ by all parties.
2rafa
9d ago
I know of zero relationships that ended because the guy went too far right.
I know of one, the man now has a tiny twitter account retweeting BAP and Fuentes, NYU dropout, beautiful girlfriend, handsome and from a good family, started very loudly talking about how slavery was justified at parties, was literally part of the tiki torch march at Charlottesville, now lives in a small town inland in Florida off what most of his friends think is his grandfather’s inheritance. Went to private school in NYC (I didn’t know him then, but I have friends who did). Gained 50+ lbs.
2rafa
9d ago
Sure, but then this cuts both ways. In that sense MGTOw man who regularly goes to pub with his colleagues or who plays D&D with his friends or who organizes grill party for his nieces and nephews or who volunteers for summer camps for children is not lonely either.
Sure, I don’t think this guy is necessarily lonely, unless he does really want a romantic relationship in which case he might be. But there are plenty of widowed older men who have similar large social circles, even if it’s less common than for widowed women.
2rafa
9d ago
Male friendship can be as close, but my impression has always been that male friendship is abandoned for a romantic relationship in a way that female friendship isn’t always.
2rafa
9d ago
That is sad, I think it’s a great tragedy for a child to grow up without their biological mother but I’m sure your current wife is able to help as best she can. I do think it’s best for the children to know, the alternative is that they seek her out, meet her as impressionable teenagers and young adults and then are possibly ideologically indoctrinated; if they think she’s a loser from the beginning that is much less likely, and any lies she might tell about you are less likely to be believed. All the best.
2rafa
11d ago
Barrett is a liberal with Haitian children, she is left on every single issue except abortion. She is as conservative as the Pope (current or former). Her policy is just the policy of the Catholic Church, some kind of generic progressive social democracy except opposed to abortion.
2rafa
12d ago
Anyone with financial means fled them like they were radioactive as soon as it was feasible to do so. They transformed into crime-ridden slums with horrible public schools.
That didn’t happen because of the invention of the suburbs. Dense inner suburbs in New York City like Brooklyn Heights have some of America’s most desirable and expensive real estate even though their residents could easily afford huge McMansions further out into the (20th century) suburbs. In Paris and London they likewise remain extremely expensive and desirable real estate even though - again - their residents could easily move out to the modern suburbs and live in much larger houses with big gardens etc.
The factors that turned the inner suburbs of Baltimore and Philadelphia into shitholes have nothing to do with some inherent issues with that urban housing layout. There were indeed intractable problems with dense urban and particularly tenement housing until the mid-19th century but modern sewage, plumbing, hygiene and other innovations mean they were no longer relevant a century ago, let alone today.
2rafa
12d ago
They are 100% urban and 76% ethnic Chinese.
Europeans (the supermajority population in most American suburbs) have lived in dense urban towns and cities for thousands of years too.
The American preference for suburbs also is less organic than many conservatives online suggest. Zoning laws effectively prevent mid-density inner suburbs of the European or even traditional American kind.
2rafa
13d ago
Among Greenwald’s core audience (leftists and third-worldists who hate the American political establishment but are not in any way ‘right wing’) this is presumably no big deal. Among Islamist and far-right antisemites and anti-Israel activists…well, Greenwald is literally a gay Jew, so they would have little love for him in any case.
Not that this means it wasn’t an intelligence leak, but I doubt this changes much for him.
2rafa
13d ago
Dark enlightenment / NrX / Moldbuggian Silicon Valley reactionary philosophy in general. More of a 2007-2017 thing though, even though Moldbug and Thiel are still somewhat influential.
2rafa
16d ago
If ever hauled before the Metropolitan Police for wrongthink posted online (which I actually think I’ve largely avoided), I will declare ‘Civis Americanus Sum’ and Tweet my man JD, who will get it all cleared up.
2rafa
17d ago
In the end this will force people to blindly trust preferred sources in a way we haven’t done in 120+ years.
Since the popularization of the camera, major hoaxes have required escalating amounts of effort to reliably and persuasively fake audiovisual evidence.
Of course, they still existed. Stalin’s erstwhile colleagues were airbrushed. The BBC convinced the British public that spaghetti grew on trees. But until recently, hardcore OSINT types on Twitter could pretty reliably prove quite quickly whether something was real or fake.
Now, that’s increasingly no longer the case. We are moving back to the days when you decided to believe the foreign correspondent of your preferred newspaper simply because you believe him, and his reporting, with no further evidence required, necessary, or even available.
2rafa
18d ago
That’s obviously not what people mean when they say meet people in real life. You’re right that most hobby groups are filled with retirees, because those are the people who have time to do those things.
You meet people in real life by making friends, getting invited to parties, meeting more people, getting invited to more parties (by which I include everything from barbecues to housewarmings to weddings to Halloween to NYE, whatever) until you have a relatively busy social schedule because one of your dozens of friends and acquaintances is probably hosting something this weekend and you’re invited.
Okay, but who is using ‘dating’ apps?
Studies consistently show that approximately 75-85% of Tinder users identify as male, while women make up only 25-15%. In some regions, the disparity is even more pronounced, with ratios as high as 91:9 in Italy.
Even these numbers overestimate the actual percentage of female tinder users who would be willing to hook up with a man from the app, since a substantial percentage of tinder’s women users just do it to get some easy attention and never meet up with anyone from the app at all (whereas almost every man who uses it would probably be willing to hook up with an attractive woman he met on it).
So in reality, what do dating app statistics tell us?
They tell us that a substantial percentage of the male population is competing on the apps to have casual sex with the ~15% most promiscuous women, who as a result have their pick of the men. Given that this 15% run the gamut of hotness, that means maybe 4% or fewer of women are both attractive and open to casual sex with random men from dating apps.
This results in the genre of ‘sad tinder despair’ male posts. It also explains how most men who rack up high body counts (and aren’t celebrities, famous athletes or male models) are usually hooking up with less attractive women.
This does not tell us much about the dating habits of the vast majority of women. The kindergarten teacher whose hobbies are crochet and collecting Disney memorabilia who is far too shy to meet a man off the apps (and far too insecure to create a profile at all) is not fucking a new guy off Hinge every week. The average man never even encounters this kind of woman except maybe in passing.
2rafa
18d ago
Hunter Biden is a fuckup, Trump's kids aren't.
Of course they’re fuckups, even Don himself doesn’t like them, which is why the actual business decisions in his family business - which he built to pass down to his own sons - are made by others. Trump spends more time with Elon and possibly even with Kushner that with his own older sons. Maybe he likes Barron. Certainly Ivanka is the child he considers not only his favorite but also the smartest.
2rafa
18d ago
I’ve written long comments here lamenting the negative outcomes of the sexual revolution.
2rafa
19d ago
There are still a few Hanania fans here, at least. He is a contrarian drifting towards the Yglesias level of annoying, but he still makes some good points.
Fail to listen to the people and you will eventually invite into power someone ambitious, cynical and charismatic enough to ride their rage into power. It turns out that in addition to their political talent, those leaders are also usually extremely greedy and corrupt. Who would have guessed?
Fortunately, any potentially affected country’s political elite can avoid this disappointing outcome with one simple trick. Just end / partially reverse mass immigration and, if you can stretch to two policies, facilitate the construction of huge amounts of cheap, quality housing.
Male behavior doesn’t support body count rhetoric. This isn’t bitterness, I would even have met your own standard before I met my spouse, it’s just fact.
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Very high status men marry formerly very promiscuous women all the time. Prince Harry, Ronald Reagan, Jeff Bezos, Edward VIII, Evan Spiegel, even probably Donald Trump (NYC was a crazy place for Eastern European models in the early 1990s). If even men with the highest status and most options do this, clearly the revealed preference isn’t very strong.
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Status signalling about not marrying a promiscuous woman is more for other men than women. “For the streets” rhetoric is for the boys, it’s male bonding, often times it’s even post-breakup comforting of the “don’t worry babe, he didn’t DESERVE you. Men suck!” variety, just between men rather than women. The truth is that men love promiscuous women and always have, I suspect because promiscuous women are disproportionately likely to be more ‘masculine’, more outgoing, more likely to have male interests and are more likely both to enjoy male company and enjoy entertaining men.
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Other rules explain male courtship behavior better, including assortative mating and related patterns around class, hotness, shared extraversion (which means people who…partied a lot in their twenties usually settle down with people who partied a lot in their twenties).
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Public disdain for promiscuous women is mostly redirected class signalling. See copious 4chan memes where the trad chaste woman in the sundress is compared to the nasty tattooed whore with the body jewelry and the (mixed race) baby, no father in sight. Many of the most promiscuous women I know are hot, not tattooed, have no children or OnlyFans and are otherwise indistinguishable from other urban PMC other than being marginally more outgoing than average. I presume there are also low class women (maybe even some single mothers) who were not particularly promiscuous at all and who have tattoos.
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In my long experience knowing many women in their twenties of varying levels of promiscuity, I have never encountered one case where a woman was actually ‘punished’ for her promiscuity. Women do share their Ls with the girls, at least a lot of the time. Certainly there are examples where the woman might never know, but I have never found an example of a beautiful woman who couldn’t settle down with a man in her league and social class because she was too promiscuous in modern America or Britain.
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Some quick fire anecdotes: my Arab coworker, who told our mutual male coworkers that all British women were whores, just married a bottle blonde Dubai Russian with a dubious past, but it’s OK because she’s converting to Islam. The sluttiest girl in my high school class just married er boyfriend of 5 years, a handsome Ivy rower with family money from the same extended social circle and so undoubtedly knows all about her past.
The woman punished for her promiscuity is a male obsession in a deeply seated and likely unchangeable way. Men are obsessed by ‘fallen women’ because men (gay and straight, which make me think this is even deeper than just sexuality) love sluts (and not just for sex). Men are scared and in love with promiscuous women. They imagine grand punishments for them (many of the greatest novels and plays of all time). In the end, the joke is that there is no real punishment, at least most of the time.
2rafa
19d ago
He has a weird face but I suppose in way it’s kind of an ancient face. Some (a minority of) Palestinian Christians are the last pure Levantines, you are witnessing a phenotype from deep in civilization’s past.
Yes, I also thought Bannon was irrelevant but a lot of moderate Trump supporters listen to his radio show pretty religiously.
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