Blueberry
2d ago
This is a common misconception but for German Nazism it is wrong (dont know about Italian/Hispanic fascism). The Nazis rejected Christian morality and also Christian sexual morality like castity/celibacy. After the war the 1950s were very social conservative, but this was a backlash against the Nazis and Religion/Churches had the moral highground after the horrors of the war. It was the next generation and the 1968 movement who conflated both to have their moral high ground and leftist social/sexual revolution.
Here is a text of a Spiegel article you can translate:
The young American journalist Howard K. Smith, who traveled through Germany in 1937, was quite taken aback by the images he encountered at the Haus der Kunst (House of Art) in Munich. In his memoirs—published in the United States in 1942—Smith wrote that Nazi art "lived solely and exclusively off two themes: pornography and militarism."
Smith’s account contradicts common assumptions regarding sexual morality under National Socialism. For a long time, Hitler’s ideology was considered hostile to pleasure.
The children of the Nazi-perpetrator generation fashioned this image in the 1960s, when they took to the barricades to protest against the uptight attitudes of their parents—and, above all, against an Adenauer-era republic that chose to forget its own history.
According to U.S. historian Dagmar Herzog, there was no overarching "hostility toward sexuality" in Nazi Germany. On the contrary, the majority of Germans at the time were actually "spurred on and encouraged" to "seek out and experience sexual pleasure." This applied, of course, only to those Germans who were heterosexual—and, furthermore, blond and blue-eyed, possessed a "Nordic" appearance, or could at least prove that their ancestors were "Aryan."
Much to the dismay of the churches, the new regime saw no issue with young "Aryans" sleeping together before marriage or having other sexual partners while married. Quite the contrary: the prevailing philosophy was that the sooner they learned how much pleasure could be derived from procreation, the better. The Nazi youth organizations were intended to serve as training grounds and playgrounds. Within the Hitler Youth, it was actively encouraged for young Germans to engage in sexual activity—or, as Hitler put it during his monologues at the Führer’s headquarters, to "try things out." A 1937 report on the Hitler Youth by the social democrats in exile noted that "promiscuity is the effectively accepted norm."
In the course of her research, historian Dagmar Herzog uncovered an internal, "strictly confidential" directive from 1934, addressed to the female leaders of the League of German Girls (BDM). It explicitly instructed them to encourage teenage girls to engage in premarital sexual intercourse.
The Nazis’ response to male homosexuality was more restrictive and infinitely more brutal. Shortly after seizing power, they made gay men fair game for the male-only, thuggish squads of the SA and SS. At the end of 1934—just months after the gay SA leader Ernst Röhm was shot dead on Hitler’s orders—the Gestapo established a dedicated commission to combat homosexuality. Acting on denunciations, this Gestapo unit compiled lists of names and kept suspected meeting places under surveillance. In Berlin alone, they estimated there were 200,000 gay men.
Blueberry
2d ago
Even if they are Christian infidelity to his wife doesn't have any bearing on him leading Nvidia, or does it? If he knew she was a Chinese spy or somehow extortet/compromised him is the important thing.
Blueberry
6d ago
Sure, but if a conservative politicians wife would dress such modestly and veil their hair the left would sneer at them as being weird
Blueberry
15d ago
https://youtube.com/watch?v=rculB4m7_tw
Btw the book is real, Stephanie Meyer had fun with her story and gender swapped everyone. The ending is a bit different to contain the story in one book.
https://www.amazon.de/Life-Death-Reimagined-Stephenie-Meyer/dp/0316505455
I bought this expecting it to be a novelty item. before I knew it, I too was invested. A few things were handled better in Twilight, like Rosalie’s story, but overall I found Life and Death a much better written and developed book. Meyer has successfully created voices for Beau and Edythe that are different (and more interesting) than those of Bella and Edward. I could write pages about Edythe, I’m swooning. She’s one of the most alluring characters in fiction, ever. Is this how cishet women feel reading romance novels?
Blueberry
15d ago
This is fun:
If the magic trait depends on two dominant genes, than a Wizard could be AABB (to AaBb), a Squib would be AAbb (to aaBB) and a Muggle is aabb.
However, this leaves us in a very odd situation. This means that Draco and the rest of the blood purists are right!
At least in the weaker sense in that purebloods mating with muggleborn and muggles increases the risk of descendants being squibs.
Blood theory makes a stronger claim though in that pureblood wizards are superior in magical ability. This is more difficult to prove with Voldemort being super powerful but having a muggle as father or muggleborn Hermione Granger doing quite well. Magical ability could be polygenic in the sense that the magic allele is a switch on/off, but IQ and other mental traits influence its power.
Edit: Speaking of Voldemort: Parseltongue is hereditary and linked to the bloodline of Salazar Slytherin. So there are magic genes beside the active/inactive switch.
The US Department of Education just posted Malfoid slop:
"There's Magic in Learning"
https://x.com/usedgov/status/2115069815505203483
Or rather, there is Magic in Yearning, Make Romance Great Again, am I right? …
Two weeks ago @KingOfTheBailey had an excellent post about the trend:
https://www.themotte.org/post/3960/culture-war-roundup-for-the-week/486219
The result has been a lot of chaotic glee that Harry Potter is up for recapture and reinterpretation. … The chuds are rediscovering fanfiction from first principles, using it to poke sticks in eyes or roll back some of the idiocy of the past few years, and they're doing a lot of it with AI. … It is extremely interesting to me that there seems to be very little goonbait in the Malfoid stuff I've seen,
I want to note three things two weeks later:
- The lack of explicit sex seems to hold
- I don't see explicitly an agenda pushed (the US government co-opting the meme and make it unpalatable for leftist demographics could change that), instead I see a collaborative goal to change as few things in the canon as possible and the pieces just kind of fall neatly into place. It is a male-brained analysis of a system (the HP canon) and what little screw to exchange in a running motor; for example if the plot point is still happening that Harry Potter is badly hurting Dracina with the Sectumsempra curse (plus the question if she keeps scars from that) is argued about emotional impact and character motivation, but not from making a larger point in the gender war.
Original:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=L5g-17uLO90
AI Anime versions:
Kind of sloppy but neat:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=g6jjXAASi_Q
Better animated, but very Korean:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=4mkZ8jEYySo
- It is very visual. My stereotype is that teenage nerd girls write/read tons of fanfiction (literature), but teenage nerd boys watch lots of anime, so that makes sense? Beside written scenes there is a pipeline of (Asian) illustrations -> (Asian/Western) AI cinematics
For example this illustration of Dracina casting a peacock as patronum is striking:
https://x.com/CaboVT/status/2106491934818853274
And was then canonized in this AI Battle of Hogwarts scene:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y6tAajsc9PY
And then discussed how a (male) peacock can sort of make sense as a representation of Harry for Dracina.
Then there was first an illustration of Harry/Dracina fighting Voldemort together with the same wand:
https://x.com/Aurondarklord/status/2106975585507418609
My favorite thing about Malfoid is watching the internet collectively decide on, and then stick to, the canon of her alternate universe. Like at this point EVERYONE agrees that this "both of them holding one wand" visual is how they kill Voldemort. EVERY version of the final battle in her timeline uses it. It's a genuinely heartwarming exercise in organic, viral cooperation.
Which sparked this AI scene:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=VgfNf79t3oo
I don't care it's AI, this shit is like finding diamonds in a coal mine.
What I love about this trend is that regardless of which path the story takes, the fandom unilaterally agrees that the final battle ends with Potter and Malfoid holding the wand together.
I don't care how cheesy or juvenile or klischee it is; narratively it just makes sense: Draco is the rightful owner of the Elder Wand, we have the redemption arc of Slytherin and Voldemort is defeated (again) by the power of love. Could this not be done with a male Draco? Why not a good old fashioned friendship? One argument I read was that women often see rivalry as sexual dominance (e.g. the gay romance in Heated Rivalry) and so Rowling couldn't work out an honorable defeat/submission of Draco to Harry. So a Harrys + Dracos male friendship would actually need a more extensive rewrite than a female tsundere Dracina being in love.
Anyway, now that the US government involved (Hello fellow kids!), doesn't that mean the ship is sailed and the trend run its course into being old and uncool?
Not necessary, I want to officially register my prediction that with the start of the HBO series (December 25, 2026 (Christmas Day)) AI is good enough (or will be good enough in coming years) to replace Draco scenes with reimagined Dracina scenes. There will be alternative Malfoid-episodes which can be torrented.
Blueberry
17d ago
woman doing manly industrial work while still looking pretty and feminine enough to be worth defending, but the Nazis don't.
I found this:
And this:
Pretty similar women worker propaganda.
Blueberry
17d ago
What is Mother of Learning and what makes it good? I skimmed the internet and it is about a young wizard on a wizard school (inspired by HP?)
Blueberry
20d ago
Though in real life women talk with women more about other women than about men
Blueberry
22d ago
Slavoj Zizek on receiving his N-Word Pass and solving the Israel-Palestinian conflict:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zkvw6BUgU0I
Blueberry
27d ago
Yudkowsky is not impressed though:
https://x.com/alltheyud/status/2110853001749594363?s=46
This stage of progress is like: "We're gonna pry the panel off this machine and look inside. Whoops, our screwdriver just broke off in our hand. (Years later.) AWESOME NEWS THE SCREWDRIVER IS REPAIRED NOW."
Best to go one quote posts to see his replies to Anthropic researchers
Bill Gates infidelity was not by affairs though (romantic relationships with decently wealthy women of roughly the same social class), but prostitution of young adult models from Eastern Europe (provided by Epstein).
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