Botond173
11mo ago
Recently this community was asked about its overal opinion on Edward Dutton in a now-deleted comment. I didn't chime in since I don't have a firm view of the man one way or another, but I did happen to check out one of his latest media appearances a couple of weeks before I saw the comment. Now that there's a new small-scale question thread, I decided to re-listen to that particular segment on the Stark Truth Radio.
Roughly at 47:04, Dutton starts making an argument about generational hormone cycles and references Peter Turchin, and then claims that William Strauss and Neil Howe argued way back in 1997 (in their book The Fourth Turning, presumably) that the 2020s will be a decade of appalling conflicts, because young people will be high on dopamine or something. I find this somewhat surprising, and if Dutton happens to misrepresent or falsify their scientific argument, it's obviously not a sign of his credibility or integrity. I've never read that book so I can't tell if this is the case, but I'm sure at least one regular here has, because generational theory appears to be a popular subject here overall, for good reason, I should add.
So can anyone comment on this?
As far as I can see, nobody else has made this point so far, so I'll argue that if any (future) Allied government deserves real blame for not averting another world war, it is the French, for not opposing the German remilitarization of the Rhineland in 1936, which would have been easily justifiable legally and carried no risk.
Botond173
10mo ago
There are historical examples of diplomatic deals made by democratic governments which include concessions to a dictatorship and yet do not result in war, and end up more or less being respected. I can mention the Camp David Accords which included the military dictatorship in Egypt, or the One China policy, the various treaties to limit nuclear armament etc. So let's not think in absolutes.
Botond173
10mo ago
this whole Prigozhin situation made one fact crystal clear: American dissident right (and "anti-nato left" by extension) is extremely solipsistic
I noticed exactly the same thing in this context about the Hungarian leftist opposition, and I'm sure in this they aren't one bit different from any leftist political community in the West which considers itself the underdog, for whatever reason (and I guess this describes most of them for sure). By coincidence I was offline the whole day yesterday, and by the time I decided to check online reports on this today, the whole rebellion was already in a fizzled-out state for hours. Out of curiosity I checked out a bunch of online platforms where this sort hangs out, and I saw an enormous number of braindead takes, divorced from all political reality, unvarnished glee at the supposed prospect of a civil war in a country with thousands of nuclear warheads, expressions of the firm belief that Putler will be toppled, overtly optimistic conjecture about the expected consequences in Europe, lousy memes expressing various combinations of this, pretty much zero understanding of the likely motivations of Wagner members etc. And when the whole leftist mirage collapsed in a matter of hours, there's pretty much nothing left on their part but example upon example of pathetic copium.
Botond173
10mo ago
Afterwards it came to light that the deployed Wehrmacht units had orders to retreat without a fight if armed resistance was offered by the French. There would have been no defenders.
Botond173
10mo ago
It'd have been a great embarrassment for Hitler and obviously would've eroded his willingness to take similar political gambles in the future. It'd have also demonstrated that the French government will respond militarily to violations of the Versailles Treaty. I'm not arguing that it'd have prevented another Franco-German war forever and ever, but it'd have averted another world war, eventually.
Botond173
10mo ago
Well, ok. Not territorial concessions to invaders, strictly speaking, but such concessions nevertheless.
Botond173
10mo ago
@faceh:
"'Failing upward' doesn't even begin to describe it."
This reminds of some Fox News segment about street crime in San Francisco, which I saw pop up as a Youtube recommendation. Being moderately curious about that whole trainwreck of a situation, I watched the beginning of the video, which included a short segment from one of Chesa Boudin's public speeches. In it, he declared something along the lines that "it's deplorable to believe that we can be free by caging others". To be honest, it didn't even occur to me back then what utter bullshit this statement is. Only recently did this dawn on me. Very obviously, "we" (i.e. any human society) do not cage others so that we are free; we do so in order to be safe. Isn't this completely self-evident?
Botond173
10mo ago
My suspicion has always been that many men see it as an indignity to have to try to get laid, and that’s where the hangup is. Having to pursue feels like an insult. I don’t have any strict evidence of this, it’s just a gut feeling.
I’m also sure that many women see it as an indignity to have to try to find a husband/boyfriend. After all, it’s something that should just, you know, happen to them. And the thing is, they aren’t wrong, because a well-functioning society puts various structures in place in order to facilitate mating long-term and short-term, so that nobody has to structure their entire lifestyles around finding at keeping a mate with high and concerted effort. At the very least, it doesn’t sabotage male attempts at pursuit in various ways.
In another type of society ignoring your sexual desire and doing something else might be workable as a last resort, but in a modern welfare state it is for many reasons a humiliating and degrading proposal. It’s well-known that women (at least in Europe) receive far more money from the state through welfare, maternity care and health care than they pay in tax, and that means all tax-paying men inevitably support women with their hard work.
I'm sure Western societies are already close to the point where women pay more than 50% of all taxes.
EDIT: looking back I think it's easy to interpret this comment as feminist or pro-feminist. It was never intended as such.
Botond173
10mo ago
The entire concept of pursuing a "pity fuck" contradicts the fundamentals of PU Artistry.
Botond173
10mo ago
The wage gap originating from structural sexism is just a claim, nothing more. As far as I can tell, the statistics do not prove it, and judging by current trends in female participation in the workforce and education, I think the time is near when women won't be net tax consumers anymore. I'm not claiming that they will generally like this, of course, but that's another subject. The general situation we'll be in is a somewhat African-style quasi-matriarchy, where even the last vestiges of Christian patriarchy will be gone.
Botond173
10mo ago
The discussion on the Titanic was unfortunately yet another I've completely missed. To answer the original question, I will cite Cenk Uygur from the TYT, of all people. He raised a point I didn't see anyone in the thread make specifically - namely, women generally love that movie because Jack dies. He'll never age and wither, or go bald, he'll never become fat or an average alcoholic lout. He'll never disappoint, or shatter any illusions. He'll never become less attractive or less exciting than he was before his early death.
Botond173
9mo ago
What increase? As far as I can tell, there wasn't even any fallout. I can only assume that local antifa were told by their FBI handlers to let the whole matter rest.
Botond173
9mo ago
That article claimed Russia was openly waiting for Ukraine fatigue to set in but never provided any evidence to back this statement.
This is basically all arguments about Russian collusion/subversion in a nutshell.
Botond173
9mo ago
Why is it stated as self-evident even by supposed ideological dissidents like Hanania that romantically unsuccessful men are the only men holding so-called misogynistic views? I've never seen any evidence of this anywhere, and there are very obvious examples to the contrary.
The so-called one drop rule was never the norm in Brazil - in fact, the opposite was true.
In South Africa, whites were a minority ever since she existed as a single political unit, never mind a sovereign state.
For you to make your argument without mentioning these two crucial differences is sort of suspicious.
Also, there's hardly any grounds to say that the initiatives to remove Confederate documents originate from African-Americans. It's plain to see that the drivers of this are White and Jewish liberals, and their mulatto hangers-on. This is plain to see.
Botond173
9mo ago
I suppose one probable explanation is that such types don't bother to post their views on this on forums, so they aren't visible online that much.
Botond173
9mo ago
It's just that it's somewhat strange that even dissident rightists fall for this garbage.
Botond173
9mo ago
In a column meant to give an acceptable explanation for his past (supposedly) abhorrent views on women, he claims that such views "naturally" originated from his unsatisfying romantic life i.e. obviously implying that they cannot possibly stem from anything else.
But I think it' also true that high-trust societies are also prone to enact policies that result in lousy conditions such as this, such as deinstitutionalizing mentally ill people, lenient sentencing etc. Plus, I'm sure that White flight and urban decay affects high-trust societies as well.
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