ArjinFerman
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Then you round them off to their respective overarching populations. Africans and Arabs aren't in particular danger of extinction either, so we should shrug at the vulnerability of each of the Jewish subgroups, no?
ArjinFerman
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1hr ago
Not really. We should still care about Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, Swedes, Finns, Norwegians, Danes, the Irish, Icelanders... etc., etc., etc., far before we care about the Jews. If we shouldn't care about these nations because they are all "white" and "whiteness" will live on without them, we also shouldn't care about the Jews. Unless you want to tell me that Jews aren't white.
ArjinFerman
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2hr ago
I think you'll need to elaborate on that.
Just within the last generation you could see a massive cultural and demographic shift in Europe, even in it's most populated countries, and any pushback against the trend will only get harder with each passing day. Is the fact that technically it will take more for us to die off, than it would for a smaller population, supposed to console me somehow?
ArjinFerman
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2hr ago
Er, I thought "race war" was just a shorthand on controversial topics related to race. If it was supposed to be about tone, than yeah I have to take back my agreement from the other comment.
ArjinFerman
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2hr ago
The Schism has a different political slant, new user funnel, expected level of effort, etc. Which of those really deserves credit for the volume difference?
Well, their new user funnel is actually better than ours since we moved offsite (we even have people claiming we should come back there, because we don't have a funnel at all right now), and do people actually get banned for not meeting the higher level of effort? If not, this only leaves the political slant by elimination.
I would say that the cost of flouncing back to mainstream social media is generally lower for a left-winger than a right-winger.
You're treating this as some immutable law of nature, when Reddit itself was remarkably chud by today's standards, well into the second half of the 2010's. It isn't anymore because, Reddit started banning right wing subs, or handing them over to left-wing moderators, which in turn started banning right-wing users. This in itself shows the core thesis about left wingers not wanting to debate is correct.
It doesn't matter how much more there is of one group than the other, when their core mechanism of cohesion has been, and is still being eroded.
ArjinFerman
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4hr ago
You never seen someone sperg out, and do something unjustified in retaliation to a transgression?
ArjinFerman
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5hr ago
I can't help but notice that he didn't say "the Holocaust was necessary or justified".
ArjinFerman
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5hr ago
For many centuries, Christians were forbidden to lend money, so if a Christian wanted to borrow money, he had to borrow from a Jewish moneylender
What you're leaving out of the story is that Jews were also forbidden from lending money at interest (all Abrahamic faiths were, though the only ones trying to stick to it nowadays are the Muslims) they just weren't forbidden from lending money at interest to the goyim. This dynamic is at the root of a lot of the antipathy between the groups.
ArjinFerman
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14hr ago
Unless we got scraped to train one of those super-secret models that us plebs don't get to see...
ArjinFerman
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15hr ago
I remember it being race war stuff, but I could be completely off base.
That's what I recall as well. I think there was even a post here from one of the mods justifying that decision.
ArjinFerman
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15hr ago
Culture War Thread weekly roundup posts from the /r/TheMotte era, when it was still on Reddit, are more likely to have been indexed than anything after the move to themotte.org.
Lies! Those "Bad Gateway" errors didn't start popping up because we got more popular all of a sudden.
ArjinFerman
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16hr ago
I’d say that all such spaces are subject to evaporative cooling
The schism literally started off with banning no-no opinions, no matter how civil the poster was, and I bet they'd do it again if they had an influx of right-wing posters.
You’re probably going to get several responses about how (insert outgroup here) is unwilling or unable to have polite dialogues, which I think is patently untrue.
Just the sheer difference in poasting volume between our two fora, despite us being offsite, and them being on reddit, should be an indication that there's more to the idea than you might think.
ArjinFerman
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21hr ago
Constant terrorism, no.
What do you call all the money and hardware sent to the Kurds?
Iran's proxy Hezbollah has been firing rockets at Israel since October 2023, and never stopped.
Maybe I have it all wrong, but I was under the impression that proxy warfare was not graded the same way as direct war.
ArjinFerman
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21hr ago
I think it puts more effort on the reader than on the writer. The comment that I had re-styled was a one-liner.
ArjinFerman
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22hr ago
Iran has been launching missiles at Israel,
Has Israel perhaps done something directly prior to these missile attacks?
engaged in near constant terrorism against Israel, and is engaged in a variety of forms of cyberwarfare with the US and Israel.
That's something everyone is engaged in all the time, and it's crazy to act like they're crossing some boundary that warrants a hot war.
Look I'm happy to concede my ignorance on the subject, so feel free to set me straight, but how exactly are they so black without African ancestry? Why are they so indistinguishable from Palestinians, if they are not ethnically Arabs?
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