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				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


You call it a strawman to to talk of executions, but your proposed solution is really not much better,




Well, if it's not much better, can we start executing criminals then? No skin off your nosenat this point, right?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Though I notice we’re talking about voluntary cancer treatments rather than state-mandated sterilization. I get the impression there’s some noncentral uses of “chemical castration.”




Unless I misunderstood something, we're talking about both. It's not that there are non-central uses, it's that the same drug is also used for cancer treatment.




The load-bearing questions are things like safety, reversibility, political leverage.




I'm not sure what you mean about political leverage, but sure. I don't see how you can halt someone's puberty long-term, and then reverse that. Maybe you can grab a source for that?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think you got too fixated on the DMPA thing, GnRH agonists are also used for chemical castration. Off the top off my head Lupron is used for both chemical castration and puberty suppression.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


It's pretty much entirely historical as a result of Jim Crow. Localism in the UK is weakly left-coded, although in practice it is generally supported by the party out of power in Westminster at the time. In Spain localism is strongly left-coded, but it is right-coded in Italy.




I agree that localism (much like free speech) is often used cynically, but that's neither a typical response, nor an actual argument against localism.


"Muh Jim Crow" also doesn't quite explain it either. Are you saying American anti-localists will change their mind if you constitutionally take that issue off the table?




Healthcare policy is run at a subnational level almost everywhere - even in the UK Scotland and Wales have their own NHSs.




The world consists of more than the UK and the US.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Do you have any evidence that it's not true? Like I said, they use the exact same drug, with the exact same purpose (sex-hormone suppression).


Also, answer my question: do you want my views applied globally or locally?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Anyone who's on puberty blockers is being chemically castrated. It's the same did ug that's used for both.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
And I don't think kids in California deserve to be chemically castrated because they gravitated to the wrong kind of toy. Would you rather have my views applied locally or globally?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The "nebulous mechanism" is the welfare state, and what happens is Europe.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


What would be a rules-compliant way of expressing violent disgust?




Write about how irreconcilable your values are with those of the people you're criticizing, how no compromise that doesn't involve separatuon is possible, and how insisting on imposing these values top-down will inevetibly lead to society falling apart, and quite possibly violent conflict, if they are not reined in by more reasonable people.


It may be a lot of worm, but it's a low price for preserving the quality of discourse here.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I never understood the liberal and leftist antagonism to this. It's an obvious compromise, fits right in with their ideas of multiculturalism, Diversity Is Our Strength, etc., and if you're so sure your ideas are better than others', this arrangement will make it plainly obvious soon enough.


I can only interpret as a deep insecurity that letting the experiment run will actually disprove, rather than prove their ideas.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Oh, I didn't. I also thought that "I didn't start this" somehow was the offending part, lol.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It might not be a particularly new / original / enlightening thing to say, but how is this a warning?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Transnational Thursday for March 20, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Support for abortion in germany is in excess of 70%




Are you talking about support for uncoditinally legal abortion?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Tinker Tuesday for March 18, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I was sick last week, so didn't get a lot done beyond minor improvements.


How are you doing @Southkraut?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It's not a nonsense question. "William" is an example of name, an arbitrary label we out on people that makes it easier for us to communicate who we are talking about, or who we are addressing when we talk. Are you saying "woman" is also an arbitrary label? Why not just say thatz if that's what you mean?


In contrast most definitions, the way progressives try to talk about what is woman is incoherent, and far from simple.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Simple? I still don't know what they are saying they are.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 10, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Given that there was comparatively no interest in USAID prior, an about face inside of a few days speaks to mob mentality and blind allegiance to the party line.




How is this a problem particular to populism? Are we supposed to forget the constant swapping of profile pics to show your alignment to the Current Thing? The about face from "Covid is no worse than the flu" to "Covid is the biggest disaster since WW2"? Or from "lab leak is a conspiracy theory" to "Covid did most likely leak from a lab, and we knew about it from the start"?


To USAID in particular, is it really an about-face, or did people react to previously unknown information about it being used for Blue-aligned causes, from spreading transgenderism in the third world to sponsoring the majority of Ukraine's "independent" media?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for March 9, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


How reliable is data on this?




I don't know, but don't you think this reply is a bit of a cope? You made a simple question indicating curiosity about what are Trump supporters' priorities, and how they measure whether or not they've been achieved. I can give you a simple answer based on publicly available data, but what answer do you expect when you start questioning it's validity? I can't think of a way do a deep dive and sanity check the numbers, and you probably know / suspect that, so I'm left wondering if the original question was even asked in good faith.




and the Trump administration doesn't seem to be especially scrupulous in how it communicates their actions and the associated data.




This is the lovely thing about adversarial systems, you don't really need them to be. There's no simpler way to attack Trump and demoralize his supporters than to show that he failed to stop / slow down immigration. The fact that nobody is doing it is good indication that the numbers are relatively accurate.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 10, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Man, if they're tilling the earth with them, I'd think that would be considered more patriarchal.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 10, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Yup, and when you generalize this you get the arithmetic series sum formula. Congrats, you're as smart as 15 (or less) -year-old Gauss.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 10, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


and also the (myth?) that Gauss had been forced to add 0-100 to keep him from making trouble in class.




I heard that one too, but as the incident showing he's a prodigy, rather than one proving he's a dum-dum troublemaker. Instead of calculating the sum by brute-forcing, he came up with the arithmetic series sum formula on the spot.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for March 9, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
If immigration ranked high on his list, then Trump cut it off overnight. I also appreciate his crackdown on the trans issues, and calling off the dogs set loose on a whistleblower by the Biden administration.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Transnational Thursday for March 13, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


and a list of the names and addresses of your entire family on the other side.




Yeah, fair, that would be quite effective.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Transnational Thursday for March 13, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think unspecified threats to your career and your social circle suddenly treating you like you were a kiddie-diddler is far more effective. Your monkeybrain can grok direct threats and you might go "fuck you" depending on your situation, even if your demise is 100% guaranteed, but it has far more trouble processing the kind of social ostracism that was deployed during covid. Most people can't handle it, and come up with ways to not ask too many questions even in the privacy of their own brain.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 10, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I'm obviously no Einstein, but I think I fit into the "didn't do well in school, did well IRL" category pretty well. If people like me were the reason for schools doing whatever the hell they are doing now, it truly feels ridiculous.


Not only don't I see how any of the changes to education systems that I observed over my lifetime would help me fit in, the only thing you'd have to do to make me happy is get rid of credentialism, and let me learn what I want to do on my own (which is exactly what happened).


To your question, I often wonder if I wouldn't be better off going to trade school myself, but when I was growing up that was widely seen as the loser trajectory, so I was avoiding it like the plague. The end result being years of wasted effort at university, as I'm smart enough to get in, but unable to grind long enough to graduate.