Botond173
11mo ago
This is probably nothing new, but I'd argue that cars are great (i.e. efficiently used) for one thing, that is, for a nuclear family to move between two locations, as long as both our outside urban cores.
Botond173
11mo ago
I don't think that the average woman can deliver 3 or more healthy children in a span of 5-8 years and retain good health. Statistically it's not likely. But even if it is, this is the equivalent of advising women to marry after finishing college. I think that's rather countercultural today.
Botond173
1d ago
the perceived nadir of the state of music back then
I suppose this means "completely commercialized pop music marketed to angry white guys".
Botond173
4d ago
You're both right. At the end, this is what all this eventually boils down to.
Botond173
8d ago
Fair enough. But hasn't pretty much all combat since late 2022 taken place in the central and southern sectors? I imagine Kharkov's logistical role as a railway hub hasn't been that important since then.
Also, maybe the current offensive is limited because it's only meant to capture areas which are due to serve as starting points of a bigger offensive in the summer. Not that I'm certain that they want to capture the city this summer.
Botond173
8d ago
an important military hub for the existing frontline:
Is it really one though?
Botond173
15d ago
When I think of wokeness, I think of the great cultural turn around 2010 - 2015... Hanania has no explanation for this.
Liberal disappointment in Obama seems to explain most if it, I think. OWS and the Tea Party can be interpreted as repercussions from this.
Botond173
19d ago
Botond173
21d ago
I'd say the decisive factor was the armistice in 1953, and the Americans not leaving. The war was never terminated in a clear manner, and was instead transformed into the mess that persists to this day, with the DMZ and so on. Had the North Koreans been capable enough to successfully and swiftly reunify the country through force, as it happened in Vietnam, Korea today would be a more or less normally functioning, average Asian nation, as Vietnam is. This'd be preferable to the current situation. One consequence of American military presence was the widening exposure of the populace to American cultural concepts, such as radical feminism. Also, there wouldn't be any Sarah Jeongs in the US.
Another factor was the assassination of President Park Chung Hee in 1979, which the Americans probably had some role in by either abetting it or supporting it. If there was one South Korean leader after 1953 who had both the willingness and ability to turn the country into a more or less normally functioning Asian nation without the current social dystopia of implemented cyberpunk, it was definitely him. If given 5 or 10 more years, it might have worked. But it was not to be, and he was replaced by a stooge of Washington.
Botond173
22d ago
Russia is actively taking refugees from the middle east and elsewhere and shipping them to the Finnish border where they are provided with bicycles and told to cross.
How is that, in effect, different from what Serbian, Macedonian and Turkish authorities were doing in 2015?
Botond173
28d ago
Sociology as a legitimate discipline existed before leftists ruined it in the West, you know.
Botond173
29d ago
The IT sector as a whole in the United States has, as long as such records have been kept, attracted more men than women.
I'm not disputing that.
This is mere pravda.
As far as I know, it's actually Sociology 101. Men are more likely than women to apply to jobs for the purpose of supporting a family or to position themselves as eligible for marriage. This means they're less likely then women to accept positions with bad pay/prospects, no matter what advantages may be on the table. So if people get the impression that the IT sector offers better prospects than they thought, which is basically what happened after the 1980s, it will attract more men than before.
An increase in data-entry "operator" positions (typing, basically, for which women had been predominantly hired for decades) compared to the "console operator" type positions (which we know in 1974 leaned slightly male)
Yes, that makes sense. The devil is in the details.
Botond173
29d ago
The social conditions where 'nerd' is no longer normalized as a slur are indeed very, very recent in historic terms, whereas the Sexual Revolution was more than 50 years ago.
Botond173
29d ago
I'm only informed enough to use basic sociology as reference. When the social status of a specific profession appears to be dropping, men start leaving it, and it starts attracting women instead, especially single women. If society starts attaching higher status to it, such as what happened to the IT sector as a whole after, say, 1980 or 1990, it then attracts more men than women.
Still, the 70% figure from 1986 is kind of crazy, but I guess another part of it is that it became more common to hire single women to such positions after reliable contraception became accessible.
Botond173
1mo ago
Exactly. I was about to point that out, but I wasn't sure if the OP is referring to E.R.
Botond173
1mo ago
"Upper Volta with rockets" was the phrase coined (possibly by a British journalist) in the 80s
It was actually coined by Chancellor Helmut Schmidt.
Botond173
1mo ago
I guess the popularity of such trends will inevitably grow when home office work becomes normalized, for example.
Botond173
1mo ago
My observation isn't about hybristophilia per se. It's broadly that a demographic largely secluded from the daily reality of societal violence and brutality is prone to consuming media content in general (not just true crime related stuff) that is exceedingly violent and pathological.
Botond173
2mo ago
If Germany had not attacked the USSR, chances of the Red Army taking even half of Europe (let alone all of it) are basically zero.
Considering that the Soviets built up an armored force and a bomber force larger than that of the rest of the world combined, plus trained and fielded more paratroopers than the rest of the world combined as well, I wouldn't be so confident in this view.
Botond173
2mo ago
Does that "wrong choice" include eugenics and the Nazi "merciful death" program, in your view?
Botond173
3mo ago
I think the Sexual Revolution would still have happened more or less the same way, the crucial difference being that none of it would be commonly justified by feminist arguments.
Botond173
3mo ago
Unfortunately the only demographic even capable of controlling, policing and neutralizing violent young men is other violent young men. In a more or less ideal society, most of them will be social instead of antisocial violent young men, of course, but that presupposes a society that successfully integrates and indoctrinates them i.e. a patriarchy, which these stagnant, violent, modern, post-patriarchal Latin American societies aren't. In fact, many of them may be antisocial themselves; this isn't much of an issue if the political leadership recruits them as its future goons one way or another. To what extent are these governments are capable of this long-term, I wonder.
If you don't mind being lonely, you should also not mind not becoming a mother.
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