Botond173
4mo ago
No, you aren't crazy.
The most plausible explanation is that Hillary's campaign staffers in 2016, most of whom were probably single and childless cat ladies already caught up in the cycle of online feminist radicalization for years, convinced themselves that "Berniebros" (who actually never existed anywhere but the imagination of Hillary's propagandists and were simply a mirage), "Nazi" 4chan trolls and toxic male Trump supporters represent a worthy political target somehow, and thus convinced Hillary that it'd be a good idea to radicalize her own base by rallying against the "basket of deplorables". I imagine it wasn't her own idea actually, and most of this was simply about her staffers wanting to feel good about themselves.
Botond173
1mo ago
I suggest 'human biological determinism' as the alternative meaning of HBD. At least that's how I've seen it defined in the past.
Botond173
5mo ago
I'm going to argue that it was celebrating the military victory on Latvian soil over, you know, literal Nazis ("garbage humans", "deplorables" etc.), alien occupiers, aggressors, oppressors etc. It's not a monument, as far as I can tell, to the reannexation of Latvia, or to the establishing of Soviet military bases in Latvia i.e. "occupation", or to Russianness, a Russian empire, or to Stalin.
Botond173
8mo ago
So I clicked on the link and took a look. I don't disagree with the findings of that study, but I think there's definitely some nuance warranted here.
If we define 'sexual predation/assault' according to 21st Century feminist terminology, then the cited research is definitely correct. After all, I think it's self evident that it's usually not low-status men who make - and, presumably, get away with - 'inapproriate' sexual advances, do sexual acts without specifically asking for consent etc.
However, if we use the word 'rape' in the original / based / non-normie sense of the word, i.e. rape-rape (h/t to Whoopi Goldberg), a brutal and violent act, then I think we're safe to say that low-status men are more likely to perpetrate it.
Botond173
6hr ago
Plenty of married couples rent?
I'm sure they do, generally as long as they're still childless. Once they're not, I'm not sure most people see that as a viable option.
Botond173
6hr ago
There's a graph that circulates on Twitter frequently about how Western youth are supposedly polarizing sharply away from each other, with women becoming more left-wing and men becoming more right-wing, and if you actually look at the graph it just shows men becoming mildly more conservative, a change that is barely perceptible, while women are stampeding to the left.
South Korea is an exemption though, as far as I can tell.
Botond173
6hr ago
You can't write this and then not give us anything!
Check the quotes in the original comment, I suggest.
Botond173
5d ago
It's hardly realistic to assume that any Russian offensive in the future will even reach the Moldovan border.
Botond173
26d ago
Drugs are no big deal, the whole war on drugs thing is right wing conservative Republican freakout
designed to tyrannize innocent BIPOC, of course.
Botond173
1mo ago
I think eugenics and euthanasia are concepts worthy of consideration, and the German military defeat in 1945 does not turn them into "wrong choices".
Botond173
6mo ago
The political issue with leaving the statue standing is that statues need regular cleaning and maintenance. The next thing you know, outraged leftists are posting photos all over social media of maintenance workers, many of them blacks, cleaning the feet of Lee and his horse under the instructions of the city government. That wouldn't go over too well.
Botond173
6mo ago
No, because I don't have the habit of saving the URL of articles I read in a database in case someone asks me for the source on an online form 8 years later.
Botond173
7mo ago
That's not what I meant. How is it relevant that he wasn't the one who technically purchased the paintings?
Botond173
7mo ago
In that case it's clear that your assumptions about dissident rightists bear little resemblance to reality.
Botond173
8mo ago
If you don't mind being lonely, you should also not mind not becoming a mother.
Botond173
10mo 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
10mo 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
11mo ago
According to the linked Wikipedia article, it seems it was a simple case of cancelling:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bachelor_(American_season_25)#Controversy
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.
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