Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
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Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
10d ago
Read: “I made an alt so I can drop a pissy comment without repercussions”
Don't be pissy yourself.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
10d ago
What a coincidence: I just read John Williams' "Augustus" and I was also scratching my head over what "the Octavian strategy" meant here.
Amadan
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14d ago
Yes, but how much of that 25-30% is literal smut ("romantasly"?) or a Sci-Fi with added romance to it?
In Korea? Not much. In the West? I think mainstream romance (which may include a little bit of steaminess but generally ends in a conventional HEA between a monogamous couple) still outsells smut/romantasy by a significant amount.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
14d ago
The report button goes to all the mods, not just me. I do not make all mod decisions, I just tend to be the most visible.
As for your post, well, kind of borderline. "Something has to be a little bit wrong aberrant with you to be a conservative in a time when their sentiments are flatly unwelcome at our various employers' pride networking corporate events." On one level, I get what you are saying, that someone who is publicly signaling opposition is probably a confrontational sort of personality and maybe looking for a fight? But phrased as if there is something inherently wrong or "aberrant" about being a conservative, it is not surprising you got peoples' backs up.
Otoh, @ThomasdelVasto saying:
Why does it seem like so many conservatives in the public eye are degenerate perverts? Lord have mercy on this wicked generation.
is hardly more conducive to a respectful exchange of ideas with people who do not share your ideology.
I don't think either post merits modding, but neither of you have much room to be complaining.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
14d ago
I am a moderator, and you should care because I enforce the rules here, which include rules against personal antagonism, uncharitability, and carrying on with grudges.
Normally I might give you the benefit of the doubt and point out to you that when you see someone replying to you with that red banner, it's a mod post and it's meant to be heeded if you don't want to lose your posting privileges.
But this is the second time I have modded you for being unnecessarily belligerent, and your response has been to double down with more antagonism. Possibly you did not remember our previous interaction, but I do not think you are so new you are unfamiliar with the rules and moderation here.
I lightly warned you to tone it down, and you seem unable to respond to any kind of criticism or correction with anything but belligerence.
You're banned for another week. Future bans will escalate quickly if you cannot change tack.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
16d ago
The large proportion of men whom I am concerned about not having a stake in our civilization are mostly not incels.
Amadan
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16d ago
I see. That's a more depressing prediction, though perhaps more realistic.
I don't see dateless men being a significant factor in that, though. I don't actually believe incels are a factor at all, other than online.
Amadan
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16d ago
I do not believe for a second this is your first rodeo. But in any case, I cannot make you heed my warning. The course from here is up to you.
Amadan
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16d ago
I see this online a lot lately: supposedly all these "tfw no girlfriend" guys are going to rise up. "You are in danger!"
No. These guys are, frankly ,not the warfighting kind. They'll jack off to porn and seethe and imagine burning it all down (and you'll get the occasional Elliott Rodgers) but there's no movement of dateless men ready to "do something" and even a more political Andrew Tate probably couldn't move them to that kind of action.
Amadan
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16d ago
Everyone has the relationship they deserve.
Amadan
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16d ago
Okay, look buddy -
You spinning up a new alt every few weeks to whine about your lack of sexual success is not strictly against the rules, though you're bordering on single-issue posting and we dislike alt-churning, which means the next time you create a new account to repeat the cycle we may not let it out of the new user filter.
This top level itself did not violate any rules though it did incur the displeasure of many people reporting it. There is a certain entertainment value in a good blackpill rant, but not everyone finds them entertaining, especially as the problem with blackpillers is that they take themselves very, very seriously and become increasingly irate when they realize other people do not.
Which is where you are now, heading in a predictable direction, which is getting belligerent and insulting towards everyone who argues with you and sounding like the penultimate act of The Feminist. You're filling the queue now because everyone from those politely disagreeing with you to those offering well-intentioned advice is getting snarled at or told they're lying about their own life experiences.
Knock it off. Take a breath. Touch grass. But mostly, accept that other people's perspectives may not match yours, and if you want to doompost, you still need to engage with civility and the same charity you would like to be extended to you.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
18d ago
I agree with you that some people pretend not to understand why other men would want a virgin (or as close to virgin as possible).
That said, the US is no longer governed by traditional Christian mores. You may bemoan that and seek smaller communities where the norms remain, but it shouldn't surprise you that a lot of people nowadays genuinely do find it strange to care so much about body counts.
I must say I myself find strange the new pagan-Western ritual of engaging in a series of pretend-marriages wherein you cohabitate, have sex, and mix finances with multiple partners before you finally vow lifetime partnership to whichever one you happen to be with when you realize the window for children is closing. And then have your first child in your mid-thirties.
FWIW, I actually agree with you that this is fucked up and in my personal life I prefer something much closer to traditional Christian ethics even though I am not Christian.
I do not miss that being the law or de facto law, though.
Amadan
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18d ago
Amadan
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18d ago
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST I'M POINTING OUT A SYSTEMIC ISSUE THAT IS EFFECTING EVERYONE IN EVERY COUNTRY SIMULTANEOUSLY AND YOU THINK I'M PLACING BLAME ON ANY SPECIFIC GENDER, OR GROUP?
Going into a capslocking spiral does not make your point stronger. No, I do not think this is a systemic issue affecting everyone in the country simultaneously.
Identify the cohort of males who are carousing and stealing women's most fertile years and cull them. Just straight up kill 'em.
That's, uh, quite an immodest proposal. Besides vibes-based executions of anyone who seems a little too caddish, how do you propose implementing this as a practical matter?
Basically, remove the economic policies that keep women from enduring any significant difficulties, ever, from childhood on, so that women will actually need a man in their life for more than just happy fun sexy times.
It's hard not to see rants like this as "incel, bitter, and women-hating" when you insist that women are kept from "enduring any significant difficulties, ever, from childhood on" (do you actually... know any women? Would any of them agree with this characterization of their lives? Do you think they are all lying or delusional?) and that the solution is to make women need a man (you didn't even qualify that with "to raise a child" - I was accused of being unfair in characterizing your position as "force women to settle for someone and marry him whether she wants to or not" but that seems to be literally what you are advocating here).
Now you added a sort of "j/k... unless?" coda but if you didn't really mean a single thing you suggested, what do you actually suggest? If the situation is genuinely as dire as you claim, then we would be essentially facing doom without implementing the Dread Jim Protocols. Of course I do not think the situation is as dire as you claim.
all I'm asking from YOU is that you politely stand aside and don't raise a fuss if men start taking steps that will address the problem since you're clearly not interested in accepting any responsibility or otherwise intervening to help.
No, you're asking me to stop arguing or opposing the measures you suggest. I will not be doing that.
If you suddenly start interfering with attempts to address the problem, you're really not on men's side anyway.
I'm not on your side. I do not accept that you are arguing on behalf of men.
Amadan
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19d ago
South Korea's problems are numerous, and the lack of desire of South Korean women to marry and have children is more that they perceive it as being a shit deal for them than that they are all sleeping around. (SK is still a pretty conservative country and most of them aren't.)
Most American women are also not just ordering up dick on Tinder.
When you say "We should change course," do you have any suggestions that aren't basically "Reduce female agency"? Because you seem to blame everything on women while rejecting any suggestion that unsuccessful men are to blame for their own lack of success .
Amadan
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19d ago
You haven't actually rebutted anything, just repeated a claim that religious rhetoric implies something genocidal about Israelis.
American soldiers in WWII hated their enemies as much as any other soldiers do (read contemporaneous accounts of their attitude towards Germans and Japanese), but the political hatred of Nazis as an entity wasn't what it is now.
Amadan
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19d ago
Easier said than done. The administration right now is putting most of its energy into dismantling the federal bureaucracy in a way that will be difficult for a future administration to undo, but successive administrations being able to reverse the policies of previous administrations is a feature, not a bug, of American politics.
Trump could certainly push for laws that will make immigration much harder, establish enforcement norms that will require effort (and perhaps public, politically unpalatable action) to reverse, and generally make it difficult (but not impossible) for the next administration to roll it back and open the gates again. But that is not where he's actually focusing his efforts.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
19d ago
Trump could EO himself a billion dollars and as long as he stops immigration, deports all the migrants here and stops all funding for the foreign wars / foreign aide I'd still vote for him.
Well, hell, I'd at least think about voting for him if I thought he could or would carry out some of his grand promises. Every politician promises he will deliver incredible things, and if you vote for him and say "I don't care if he steals a billion dollar as long as he does all the things he promised to do" you are being taken for a rube.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
19d ago
Unless you're arguing that Body count is a GOOD thing for a partner to have... best you can say is that this is a neutral issue that can probably be ignored.
No, I would put a high body count in the negative column, but most men won't consider it an automatic dealbreaker. If you get to know someone (amazing concept, that) you may find out if they've had a lot of sex because they consider it a fun thing to do while they are young and unattached, or desperately seeking an alpha and delusional about their own market value. Or just sluts who don't value monogamy.
I do not buy the "too many cocks inflicts psychic damage on females!" theory.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
19d ago
What do you think the mechanism for that is?
Hint: your average woman on Tinder is getting easily 50x the attention that the average male is getting
Unsurprising. Tinder commodifies sex, and men mostly play a numbers game. (The average woman at a sock hop in the 50s or at your church social probably gets vastly more attention than the average male too.)
Of course.
But more and more women aren't settling for ANYONE.
Objective fact.
What now?
Accept that you have stiff competition, but it's not as hopeless as blackpillers would have you believe. Do not succumb to blackpill solutions like "Women are all hypergamous slutwhores and we should just make them marry mesomeone."
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
19d ago
The population-wide survey I posted in my OP shows that many Israelis desire genocide even in the most extreme conceptualization of killing every Gazan.
I think you'd find similar results in any survey of a country at war. "Should we exterminate every last man, woman and child?" A non-trivial fraction of the population will say "Yes." That survey is very strangely constructed, phrasing everything in Old Testament terms ("Should we treat them like the Ameleks?") which I think is a lot less straightforward than asking "Should we genocide Gaza?" I am sure you are aware that how you word a survey has a huge impact on the answers you get, such that you can ask questions that mean the same thing and get different answers.
Are there Israelis who'd be perfectly happy to kill every last Palestinian? No doubt. How are they different from Russians or Ukrainians or Somalis or Americans? You love finding these cherry-picked examples framed in careful and very specific ways, omitting crucial details or comparators, to imply Jews are uniquely evil and genocidal, but you haven't shown anything but that Israelis are reacting like most people would when they believe themselves to be literally under siege by people who, unambiguously, really do want to genocide them. (Does that mean I think Israelis would be justified in wiping out the Palestinians? No, but I think surveys showing a large number of them at this point are saying "Fuck it, why not?" are not saying anything special about Jews.)
I'll bite. I have an EV, and it had nothing to do with virtue signalling (and being "green" was little more than an afterthought). I bought an EV because when I was looking for new cars, I tried them out and loved them. The torque, the smooth ride, the lack of vibrations, noise, or smell. I will probably never go back to ICE. The convenience of never having to go to a gas station or get an oil change again really is awesome.
It does of course come with some caveats: I was able to put a charger in my garage. Charging at home is the real game-changer for EVs. And I mostly only drive locally. @100ProofTollBooth is right that I wouldn't choose it for a "go explore remote mountain trails" car. (That said, modern EVs have a 300+ mile range, so it's not that easy to run out of battery without very poor planning.)
Also, I did not buy a Tesla, and again, not because I have Musk Derangement Syndrome. Teslas have the best software, generally, but other than that, a lot of EV makers beat them on comfort and performance (and I just don't like having everything be controlled by a tablet).
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