Botond173
11d ago
After all these years, it appears that the best explanation we can come up with is that Oswald and Ruby each acted alone. But just because that’s the best explanation doesn’t mean it’s a very good explanation. It’s merely somewhat less absurd than all the other specific hypotheses. - Steve Sailer
Botond173
11d ago
removing gameplay and shoving easy modes into everything
Is this actually a trend in the gaming industry?
Botond173
11d ago
Fair point. Anime series of any genre are also known for basically not portraying any female characters that are frumpy/plain or obese etc.
Botond173
11d ago
What surprises me is the ferocity with which the supporters of Hades and BC defend the artwork and decry the label of "safe horny" (which, as I understand, means technically, but not viscerally, attractive).
As someone who knows scarcely anything on this subject I'd have assumed that label refers to the character's outfit/clothing.
Botond173
11d ago
My point here, to the extent that I even have one, is that I'm taking a wild guess that female vets who specialize in treating horses are not actually that rare, the main reason being that they see horses more as pets than livestock, which in a practical sense they are.
Botond173
11d ago
I'm guessing one aspect to this is that to be a large-animal veterinarian you have to live in the countryside, and female vets (like college-educated women in general) are not prone to wanting that.
Botond173
11d ago
Do you mean a horse with a cast on its leg? Aren't horses normally just shot in those cases?
Botond173
11d ago
I would compare the average horse that is kept anywhere in the West to large dog breeds: big, heavy and potentially dangerous, basically kept as a pet i.e. for the entertainment of the owner, and not for any economic role.
Botond173
11d ago
To what extend is Boomerism/Boomerdom even a thing in France, I wonder. They never had a Baby Boom, nor an economic miracle, I think.
Botond173
12d ago
I'd point out here as well that Russian society does not normalize/enforce white/native ethnomasochism and also does not capitulate to every demand of the Israel lobby. This is a rather palpable difference from the West, isn't it? It also appears to me that Western European elites like to extensively talk about the merits of the ideal that is multiculturalism while not showing any aptitude or willingness to actually practise it whereas Russians claim to renounce the Western ideal of multiculturalism while practising de facto multiculturalism everyday.
Botond173
12d ago
History teaches us that such atrocities usually occur immediately after a place is taken after heavy fighting in a combat situation that is altogether hectic and fluid. It makes sense to assume that the Ukrainian units that retook the town immediately killed a bunch of civilians they considered to be traitors, collaborators, looters etc.
Botond173
12d ago
Maybe it's too simplistic to approach the matter like this but I'd say it was the Kosovo War and the Iraq War of 2003 that fatally weakened the legitimacy of the concept of the rule-based international order.
Botond173
12d ago
Reasonable question if you haven’t come across FIT before
I surely have not.
My first guess would be these students were just renting a NYC apartment.
It seems I should've read the article before commenting:
According to prosecutors, Freire brought fentanyl to the students’ dorm room March 18 and falsely claimed that the substance, which he’d previously described as “straight poison,” was pure cocaine. At his urging, the women took the drug and almost immediately lost consciousness, prosecutors said. Freire was not a student at FIT.
At a court hearing in April, Freire’s lawyer, Mitchell Schwartz, called the woman’s death a tragedy but said Freire was not trying to ply the students with drugs.
If anything, he told Judge Sidney Stein, what preceded the overdoses — including the woman’s suggestion that Freire wear a wig and “look like a girl” so he could sneak up to her dorm room after she had invited him over — was “a story of teenagers doing what I would call ‘dumb teenager things.’”
“It’s not dumb teenager things to give somebody fentanyl, sir,” Stein replied.
Botond173
12d ago
I'd argue the traditional way of learning from other men how to be sexual in a healthy way has been to have a father and uncles who live in happy marriages and to instinctively imitate their mannerisms and attitudes, and the way to learn a healthy (realistic) view of female behavior was to have sisters, nieces and aunts to interact with and observe.
Botond173
12d ago
Objectively speaking the other sex is the other, though. Women are your fellow human beings, yes, but also fundamentally different from you. They aren't you, and you aren't them.
Botond173
12d ago
Some chicken or egg here right?
Regarding vets, my wild guess regarding the matter is that as the agricultural sector serves as the livelihood of fewer and fewer citizens, things getting to a point where the people employed there are a handful of lifelong professionals and a huge mass of illegal immigrants, any agricultural work pretty much disappears as a potential career choice for anyone who's not already involved in it directly.
Botond173
12d ago
I don't think most of the horses that are still kept in any Western country are kept to serve as lifestock.
Botond173
12d ago
Rookie question but how was the drug dealer let into the campus? This seems to be a case of negligence.
Botond173
12d ago
That will die in a decade or so.
Horses are capable of reproducing though, unlike cars.
Botond173
12d ago
I think this is largely the result of anti-Southerner liberal narratives. The accepted line of thinking among the Blue Tribe faithful regarding this matter is that Jim Crow laws, lynchings, anti-black racism in general etc. in the South both before and after the Civil War were mainly driven by the sexual anxiety of angry and frustrated white men regarding the inclinations of their women and the prowess of black men, the main manifestation of this being accusations that horny black thugs are always looking for opportunities to rape clueless white women (this being the usual justification for lynchings of blacks). The average white liberal is soaked in this propaganda and thus reacts with willful ignorance, eye-rolling, incredulity and disdain to reports of black-on-white rapes.
Botond173
14d ago
'women who aren't selected for priding themselves on their modesty'? What does that refer to?
Botond173
14d ago
But elite class proper ladies do not make good comics because comedy is inherently transgressive, and 'being transgressive' is not what elite proper ladies do.
They are perfectly willing to be transgressive against the white outgroup though.
Botond173
14d ago
Valid points, I have to admit. I'd bring up the memory hole phenomenon here. Based on my rather cursory knowledge of these matters, the social scare about a new ice age was a rather short-lived phenomenon based on faulty scientific interpretations of dust and air pollution levels and caused by an unusually cold winter. This happened during the Carter Presidency when the concepts of green energy and environmental protection first got official sanction. And since Carter is generally remembered as a one-term disappointment and a well-meaning idealist loser who sadly paved the way for Reaganism unintentionally, down the memory hole this whole affair went among liberals.
The same applies to the whole overpopulation scare. As it pretty much stemmed from racism and classism, at least from a current left-wing perspective (i.e. the perception that brown and poor people are gross, and anything that's gross is always seen as proliferating), liberals generally disowned that as well afterwards. In fact, today they see overt concerns about overpopulation as Nazi-coded. The origin story of Planned Parenthood was also thrown down the memory hole for the same reason.
The campaign for unilateral nuclear disarmament / so-called nuclear freeze? Basically the same story. Such people today would get imprisoned as Russian agents and traitors. To the extent that liberals today are even against nuclear weapons (that is: pretty much none at all) it seems it's mostly just sadness and resentment that Russia has them as well because otherwise it'd be feasible to defeat and dismember (i.e. 'decolonize') the country.
So to sum it up: I think your argument is correct and liberals who adopted such beliefs in the past were probably more mainstream than not on balance. But it makes for important context that their tribe changed their views afterwards and disowned the old ones. Their current view which also shapes the mainstream is that such pessimism and doomerism was never their thing.
So..what was all this talk then about Woke being dead or on the retreat?
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