Botond173
12d ago
Good point. I guess the lowered libido of these people is then accepted generally as the new normal without anyone taking notice.
Botond173
12d ago
This is probably what is also driving the creation of so-called mancaves.
Botond173
12d ago
In the open concept kitchen the noise and smell that generates in the kitchen is not contained which means the living room is of limited use. Of course, lipstick feminism sees this as a sign of progress, as the helpless wife is no longer sequestered away as a slave in chains or something.
Botond173
13d ago
A couple of factors to consider:
On a smartphone or small tablet it’s convenient to keep wasting your time on social media while commuting, walking, loitering somewhere, eating out, hanging out, waiting in a queue etc., which is what normies usually do. On a laptop it’s not.
A smartphone is also normally used for calls and texting, of course, so for the average person it’s multifunctional. A laptop is not.
Operating and maintaining a laptop on a basic level requires some minimal level of human agency and a somewhat significant level of disposable income. For a traditional PC this applies even more. In the case of a smartphone it doesn’t.
Botond173
13d ago
It makes sense. The social reality is that in absolute numbers most sexual encounters take place within long-term relationships, despite the Sexual Revolution having fueled illusions to the contrary. The fewer such relationship there are, the less sex will be taking place.
Botond173
13d ago
As a rightist dudebro who hates modernity I wonder if the custom of installing a TV in the bedroom is driven by the adoption of the concept of the American kitchen, which makes the living room unsuitable for watching TV, which in turn drives the man in the house to watch TV in a different room.
Botond173
13d ago
If that were true, in countries with free or near-free higher education and/or with nationalized healthcare the youth would be significantly less leftist than in America. I don't think this is the case though?
I'd suggest that maybe it actually is. In fact, to the extent that rabid leftist youth subcultures exist in Western Europe, they appear to be motivated by woke ideologies disseminated online from the USA.
Botond173
14d ago
Noted. One would assume though that such a generational divide is exactly the sort of factor that would compel more political compromise though.
Botond173
14d ago
What's the potential political risk in refusing the aid the war aims of the current government then? It's not the concept of Israel that is the matter at hand here.
Botond173
14d ago
That’s not the issue at hand. OP claims the Dem establishment has no option but to keep giving all the support to Netanyahu’s government that it demands in the form of military intervention, arms shipments etc. For me it’s not clear why that is. Even if all the people with money and brains seem to still like Israel, which seems like a rather big stretch, the political situation at hand does not necessarily need to follow.
Botond173
15d ago
I’m not asking why these Dem leaders are not taking a clear stand with Hamas against Israel. I’m asking what perceived tangible political risk is there in them parting ways with the Israel Lobby and refusing to yield to them anymore.
Botond173
16d ago
Outside of the right genuinely becoming stronger through X, there is a one word answer: Israel. The establishment can't compromise any more on Israel. They have to vote yes when Israel asks for arms. They have to stand up and clap for Netanyahu.
Why?
Botond173
16d ago
Are you subscribing to the interpretation of Dreaded Jim that the Great Purge of 1937-38 was a manifestation of left political singularity?
Botond173
16d ago
'Despicable' might be too strong a word. 'Fatally infected by slave morality and pathological altruism' maybe?
Botond173
19d ago
Yes, your job is essentially to get hot women into the club so men come in and buy drinks.
So I reckon you need to be a hot man for that?
Botond173
20d ago
The more I read this the more I'm convinced nobody saying this has seen an actual kid in many, many years. (Or they have, but were trying so hard not to crimethink that they didn't actually perceive them.)
This is hardly surprising. In a demographically imploding and atomized society, children are scarce and not present in many social locations, and couples with small children normally interact with one another and not with singles.
Botond173
20d ago
As someone who’s illiterate regarding pharmaceutics I do wonder what side effects Ozempic has.
Botond173
21d ago
When researchers actually combed profiles on a bareback-centric site, the share of HIV-positive men actually trying to infect partners came out around 1 percent.
What is the practical difference between engaging in loads of casual homo sex and rejecting condom use because you’re sticking to the principle of not lowering yourself to such a laughable lame-ass normie norm as a proud gay man, and engaging in loads of casual homo sex and rejecting condom use because you’re a perverted psycho intending to infect other men with venereal diseases? Because I imagine the former practice is much, much more widespread than the latter.
Botond173
21d ago
I’d say they only get involved in a culture war matter when anyone is questioning, ridiculing, criticizing or delegitimizing women’s sexual choices and behavior.
BONUS ROUND, turns out the female journalist that wrote the puff piece about the gay pedophile couple wrote a response to the controversy. Accountability is nowhere to be found, but getting mad at American conservatives is! https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-07-10/gorman-second-thoughts/4809582
She's also a Jewess with roots in present-day Slovakia and described on Wikipedia as a 'Australian social justice journalist'. Jokes are surely still just writing themselves.
Also the amount of gays that did not (and still don't, though anti-retrovirals have changed this somewhat) care about having and/or spreading AIDS gave and still gives a lot of people pause.
Another example was the so-called Patient Zero of the AIDS epidemic in the USA:
"Shilts interviewed epidemiologist Selma Dritz, who reported that in 1982, she informed Dugas that he was infecting other people, but he refused to cease having casual sex in spite of this."
Botond173
21d ago
I'd argue that it's romantic relationships between teenagers (normally between a teenage girl and a slightly older boy) that can be categorized as 'socially approved ephebophilia', as socially generally tolerates such sexual acts within certain limits. Society is also generally OK with male college students having relationships with 17/18-yr-old girls. Relationships between older male groomers and underage teen girls, on the other hand, are cases of socially not approved ephebophilia.
I doubt anyone has compiled data about that in particular. In terms of absolute numbers, I’m guessing it’s indeed down, but culturally it certainly is more normalized than it was 20 or 30 years ago, I guess. It’s data on STD rates that could conceivably give us more of a clue.
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