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				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 2, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


And two: his unhinged Twitter takes




I guess I'm finally no longer able to see both of the"two movies on one screen."  That doesn't seem unhinged to me at all.  Slighty provocative (only slightly because "nazi" has been abused so much that it stings about as much as "commie") but to me fairly obviously true.  Jew-hunting was likely transitory and once the exigencies of war vanished would very likely have disappeared*, while the near complete destruction of the family and basic relations the sexes is something that it's not clear a society can ever come from.  So Jesse's outraged pearl clutching to me reads as "it's okay for a a country's native culture to be completely corrupted as long as no Jews die."  I'm no white nationalist or jew hater, but come on.


*I guess this can be argued, but I just can't see a sustained long term appetite for murder of Jews after the war.  I'd guess they'd reach some sort of emancipation agreement with the governments of the German puppet states and probably would have been encouraged to move to Israel.  Not very nice I guess, but that still seems less terrible than the complete degradation of a nation and its identity to me.  I wonder if Jesse would have preferred Israel to adopt strong Laicité and import tons of Arabs rather than fight to keep its national character by hook or by crook


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 30, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
@Corvos See, this is exactly what I was talking about.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 19, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I'm just a single data point, but I definitely


    

  • ask my wife to change when she wears clashing/unseasonal patterns or colors
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  • encourage my wife to go to the gym and take time of out of my work schedule so she can go
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  • avoid buying too much junk food so we can both stay relatively thin
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because I'm not attracted to fat, frumpy, flabby women, but maybe your point was about guys looking for a quick hookup?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 27, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


nakedly extortive behavior




According to what standard?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 30, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
And here I thought I was alone.  He's long on chest thumping rhetoric and cherry picking and short on defensible positions.  I wasn't impressed with his writing when he posted here (although I often share his feelings), so I'm confused about his substack success.  The "catgirl" shtick is IMO distasteful, but reading his comments a while back, there are at least a handful of folks who think he's really that OF girl in his profile pic, so that probably helps.  Anyway, "don't hate the playa, hate the game" as they say.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 24, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I can't defend the support for Israel or middle eastern shenanigans as I also firmly oppose both.  As far as not wanting Europe to be overrun, your post prompted me to write a tangentially related post here.  In short, Europe and America have drifted apart, and I don't know if it still makes sense to act as though they share similar cultures and beliefs.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 19, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I understand where you're coming from, but I don't think the combination is as rare as you think.  Middle and upper middle class "alphas" or "chads" tend to be masculine leaders while also dressing well and requiring their girlfriends/spouses to do the same.  Think of the top salesmen in a sales department or C-suite executives.  I suppose the key is that they are probably not interested in women's fashion for its own sake, but only insofar as their woman's raiment can be used to reflect her man's high status and good taste (if I'm honest, this is also partially why I do it, I guess).


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 9, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Why?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 13, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Dang, I was trying to think of a spin on Trample.  Nice.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for January 8, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Cool post, thanks for writing it.  Should I read Shogun? It's been recommended to me a thousand times for obvious reasons, but I'm a jerk about historical accuracy and I'm worried it's going to be full of anachronistic nonsense or magical oriental Mr. Miyagi characters.  Maybe I'm approaching the book too seriously and should suspend disbelief?




For 2025, I want to read some self-help books, strange as that may sound, to get some of the books that are always being recommended.




FWIW, I'm reading King Warrior Magician Lover by Moore & Gillette, and it gets recommended fairly often in some manosphere corners. I'm only about halfway through and I'm not sure I'm totally sold on (what appears to me to be) all the Jungian psychobabble, but it's kind of interesting and different, and I could see how the framework might be useful for men. That might be one to check out.


Tim Ferriss gets recommended a lot.  I read the Four Hour Work Week back in college, but it didn't leave a huge impression on me.  All I remember is that he became a "kickboxing world champion" in some weight class by somehow exploiting a loophole in the rules and... that proved some point about hustling, or something.  But a lot of people seem to like his stuff.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Tinker Tuesday for November 5, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
How do you overcome self-loathing as a writer?  In high school I loved to write and I did so unselfconsciously, but in college I started to "try" and found that every time I wrote something that in the moment felt profound, when I read it again the next day I found it terrible and embarrassing.  Is there some mental trick to short-circuiting this impulse?  I really want to write as I remember it being as enjoyable as playing music.


Also, what are you writing about?  Tell me about your story and characters.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 28, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The comment by @monoamine is filtered, can you approve it?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 9, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Disclaimer: I don't hate cyclists and have not had many negative experiences with cyclists while driving.


I always find it difficult to find sympaths for cyclists in America.  My thinking goes like this.


    

  1. America is built for cars.  Homes and jobs are far apart.  Friends and employers expect you to travel distance only reasonably covered with a car.
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  2. Thus, cars are a necessary part of life for most Americans.  You need a car to get a job to feed your kids.  You must buy and drive a car even if you don't really want to.
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  3. Biking to work or to the grocery is not feasible for most people for many reasons.  Your employer won't think it's cute that you show up sweaty, or drenched in rain, or 30 minutes late due to snow.  Your wife won't be amused when you have to bike 30 minutes to Walmart every day to fill your backpack with food for the kids.  How do you get to the hospital when someone is sick or injured?  How do you take your family anywhere, especially when the kids are small?
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  4. Thus, cycling is best thought of as either an elective hobby for those with money and time to burn, or a last resort for truly destitute and/or criminal.  The former can afford a car if they want, they just choose not to.  The latter have bigger problems than just not having reliable transportation and prioritizing bikes over cars won't fix those.
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  5. Thus, I really don't care about cyclists' complaints.  I mentally put cyclists in the same bucket as skateboarders, rollerbladers, and Segway riders.  If you can do your hobby on public roads safely and without endangering yourself or or car drivers, then fine.  If there's any inconvenience or risk to drivers, the just ban everything except cars and call it a day.
    6. 



tl;dr I need to get to work on time or pick up food for dinner, I'm not interested in being delayed or inconvenienced to accommodate some bum or some stranger's vanity hobby.




An argument I'm somewhat sympathetic to is that if we don't accommodate cyclists, we'll be stuck in our current automobile-centric hellscape forever.  That is probably true.  However, my preferences go like this:


    

  1. Cities designed for bikes & public transit, cars rarely needed
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  2. Cities designed for cars
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  3. Cities designed for cars where cycling is awkwardly retrofitted into existing car infra with significant gaps where there are no provisions for bikes at all
    4. 



In the U.S., number 3 seems by far the most common, and it sucks for everyone.  The car/bike war is one of those problems that IMO can only really be solved by  a strong executive power not beholden NIMBYs and lobbyists.  Until one materializes, I'm supporting option 2 all the way.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 2, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Now, please give me your evidence




I can't provide you any evidence about an alternate historical scenario that never took place.  I'm openminded, what do you predict would have happened had Germany won?  Jew-hatred appears to me to have been an expression of German paranoia and and inferiority complex, once geopolitical rivals have been vanquished and the German people felt strong and unchallenged, would it have continued at such a fever pitch?  It seems like it would have become politically unnecessary in peacetime and probably a diplomatic liability.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 30, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Not a bad suggestion, luckily for me I don't really read much Reddit outside of niche subreddits that are devoid of politics.  Reddit takes are too boring to even hate-read.  I've also been able to quit 4chan this year for the same reason, it's complete braindead noise now.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 18, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


But the performative surprise that others might is disingenuous.




Uncharitable and frankly surprising since your posts are usually pretty high quality.  I'm not performing anything.  "Performative " describes people who act outraged when a 42 year old bangs a 17 year old but don't care when a 43 year old bangs an 18 year old.




It’s not some made up woke shit.




Conservatives were performatively butthurt about this stuff way before the Woke.  "Won't someone think of the children!" is an ancient meme.  I never said it was "made up woke shit."  Conservatives have a way longer history of disingenuous pearl clutching, that's why I brought up Lewinsky.  I'm saying that I think both wokies and self-righteous moral majority types who express offense at this are inconsistent and ridiculous.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 27, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think your suspicion is reasonable, and I can't speak to how common my aunt's case was.  But AFAIK he simply ate the child support costs and straight up handed over the kids to my aunt.  I think they had a relatively amicable divorce because he gave my aunt most of their assets (house, car, etc).  He had already knocked up his new girlfriend and has since started a second family.  I admit I don't know how alimony works, but my aunt is middle class and white collar, while he comes from a working class background and, I suspect, made considerably less money than she did (during the time of the divorce -- I don't think it was so when they got married).


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for December 15, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I don't think there's enough American patriotism or anti-Chinese sentiment to go around to keep the economy afloat without seeing blood in the streets




This is also my prediction.  The only thing MAGA Americans love more than America is consooming large amounts of low quality goods.  Conservatives aren't patriotic or nationalistic enough yet to stomach a reduction in their consumption of cheap plastic crap and electronic gizmos in order to benefit their fellow Americans.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 2, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


it's a real thing




Yeah, real in that people make the claim.  As @hydroacetylene pointed out, tons of people also claim descent from Muhammad. This lineage also has a wiki page, does that prove that it's "real?"


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 2, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think that's totally fair and reasonable, since for some reason Jew-haters seem uniquely dedicated and patient in carefully drawing people into "JQ" discussions and barraging them with an endless supply of factoids.  I can't prove I'm not a troll, but FWIW I don't believe in any kind of global conspiracy to control non-Jews or suppress The Truth or anything.  Jews just seem to me like an exceptionally powerful ethnic group who are very effective at leveraging their economic and political success, like Indians or Chinese.  If Chinese could get American children to learn about and feel bad for the Century of Humiliation, I'm sure they would.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 22, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


quote




TIL I like Phil Mickelson.  That's how I've always fantasized I'd answer a question like that.


"How do you feel about accepting money for $PROJECT from known ism-ist-ophobes? Will you disavow??"


"Well at the time I felt good about it, but now that you're asking, I suppose I'd have to admit that I feel absolutely great about it.  Simply thrilled, really.  In fact, I think I'll fly back next Friday to have dinner with them and take some photos together for my professional homepage. I'll buy you a plane ticket so you can join me, they love journalists."


I'd have to work on something spicier but you get the gist.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 10, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Hmm, this sounds fallacious.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 27, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I'm against using LLMs in this place, but to be fair this criticism




This is the same like 3 points repeated a half dozen times and should have be edited down substantially.




applies equally to many Motteposts written by human(?) hands, IMHO.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 26, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Softboiled is the true master race.  Easily digestible protein with delicious, vitamin rich raw yolk.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for January 8, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Thanks, I appreciate it.  And yeah, it gets really expensive.  Never start drinking scotch or cognac, boys...


Re your question, I mentioned it in another post, but listening to the Huberman Lab episode on alcohol helped me quit.  He actually talks about the glass of red wine a day idea here. tl;dl the effect of the good compounds in red wine is so small that you'd have to drink a ton of wine to get any benefits, and the physical effects of alcohol are so negative that there's really no "healthy" amount.  But he does acknowledge that you should weigh the social and QoL benefits of an occasional glass or two against the effects and use your judgement (e.g. a glass or two of wine at wedding is probably okay of you're not an alcoholic).