Botond173
5mo ago
As far as I know, one recurring talking point of (mostly suburban and PMC) white liberals is that the blindness and ignorance of classical liberalism towards North American racist and white supremacist power structures is the main factor driving many people towards identity politics. If we accept that premise, it’s a major driver of woke sentiment as well.
Botond173
6mo ago
Do you call the Netherlands the Netherlands or “Netherlands”?
Do you call a country “neutral” after its legislature specifically amended the national constitution for it to declare that national membership in NATO in the future is inexorable?
Botond173
6mo ago
How exactly does affirmative action make black women fatter? I'm not sure it's about food prices.
Botond173
7mo ago
Rhetoric is one thing, actions are another. Altogether I find it a bit of a stretch to say that Chinese foreign policy was markedly aggressive during Mao, either compared to that of the USSR or the Qing Dynasty for that matter.
Botond173
8mo ago
But conservatism is already doing tons of work toward extincting itself
Huh?
Botond173
9mo ago
Based on what little I know about cars, "muscle cars" as such disappeared after California and other US states enacted all sorts of emission regulations in the name of protecting the environment and so on. I think it's just another example of Western civilization becoming ever more lame-ass, but whatever. Anyway, I find the concept of a "non-V8 muscle car" sort of laughable.
All new construction is ludicrously luxurious by the standards of 15 years ago
Huh? Like...what?
All new cars are ludicrously luxurious by the standards of 15 years ago (performance models now have 600-1000 HP)
What does more HP have to do with luxury?
Botond173
10mo ago
because men who are plausible leaders will never be actual incels
I suppose what you meant to say was that no group of men accepts an incel as their leader?
and no one will take the massive status hit that comes with taking up any incel-adjacent positions.
In a patriarchal society where early marriage and monogamy are the norm, this would be generally the case indeed.
Botond173
11mo ago
See my reply to @stuckinbathroom above.
Botond173
11mo ago
The problem is, if your argument starts with "no, she's not a man, although she isn't exactly a woman either", chances are you'll instantly lose the normies.
Botond173
11mo ago
Vibes alone don't explain what's happening. In this case, both sides seem to be willing to turn this into a culture war issue because - for different reasons - they think social circumstances favor them, and their messaging will be well-received as a result. If this condition weren't met, one or both sides would drop the issue, and there'd be no culture war over it.
Botond173
12d ago
There are two glaring problems with that. Imperial Germany had a legacy of democratic norms already - there was a legislative assembly, elections, political parties, political discussions in a free press etc. Also, Germany isn't in Eastern Europe.
Ah yes, the long rich democratic tradition of the 20 years between the World Wars, that were imposed by Woodrow Wilson's deranged fantasies, and managed to revert to authoritarianism even within that short timespan.
What is this meant to be a reference to please? Czechoslovakia? Because there was no reversion to authoritarianism in that case.
The attachment to democracy was so short that we were seriously debating if it's not better to take the Asian Tiger route, and only implement democracy after authoritarian reforms.
The Asian Tiger route was a strictly Southeast Asian (Confucian) phenomenon in the specific context of the Cold War and facilitated by generous and targeted American capital investment and the proto version of offshoring. None of that applied to Eastern Europe after 1989.
It can work if the stars align just right, but has the tendency of taking it's necessary conditions (like everybody having roughly the same values) for granted. The moment these conditions are not met the democracy enjoyers themselves will start begging for it's end, arresting opposition candidates, and seriously considering the banning of political parties, for the high crime of people voting the wrong way.
It was all a long-term consequence of German 'reunification' (the annexation of the former GDR into an unchanged federal state structure) being a complete shitshow which incidentally the Americans played no part in.
Botond173
25d ago
the victorious British (if they were lucky) or French (if not) troops
Care to explain the distinction?
Botond173
4mo ago
5 foot 8, 170 pound women are rather rare, aren't they? Also they are rather unlikely to be attracted to the sort of men who follow such advice in the first place. These are just statistical facts.
Also, keep in mind that such a woman very easily becomes a 200 or 220 pound woman after childbirth(s).
Botond173
4mo ago
I think the glaringly obvious problem with this parallel is that Finland was already a neutral nation before the war started so the "forced neutrality" part wasn't that much of a thorn in their side; the government didn't display any inclination to join any military alliance and was not in any way hostile to the USSR, and was not helped during the war by any foreign country in any way. And it's not like any Ukrainian government is prone to accept Finnish-style neutrality either.
Botond173
4mo ago
What proposals from Reagan and Thatcher are you referring to, if I may ask?
Botond173
5mo ago
Shielding your car from precipitation and sunlight at least is generally a good idea and contributes to the longevity of the framework. And if you go as far as to build a garage for that purpose, it should be used for that purpose, and not as a shed, I'd say. If you also need a shed, then get one built.
Botond173
5mo ago
It's a matter of supply and demand. No matter how much serious effort is made to normalize 'sex work', there will never be enough voluntary prostitutes among the native population of well-off Western countries to satisfy local demand. Prostitution and human trafficking necessarily go hand in hand.
That's not exactly a stable social consensus though, is it?
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