Botond173
11mo ago
The Japanese didn't adhere to Western codes of chivalry, they routinely tortured and executed their captives and generally fought without either decency or mercy. Such an enemy isn't seen as worthy and earns no respect; I think American attitudes towards them during the war reflect that.
Botond173
11mo ago
During WWII Germany was of course villainized in propaganda and amongst western Allied soldiers; massacres of surrendering German soldiers were not regular but also not uncommon.
I think it's important to point out here that the massacred soldiers in question were almost(?) all Waffen-SS, not Wehrmacht.
Botond173
11mo ago
Didn't the warriors of various Indian tribes routinely take hostages/captives and kill/torture them?
Botond173
11mo ago
Those with the biggest gaps the opposite way, where men approve of the issue moreso than women, are (again, in descending order):
The Trump era Tax Cuts, Repeal and Replace Obama Care (note that overall men are actually slightly on-net negative about this, but women are 23 points more negative), Build The Wall (men at -4, women at -47)
I'm not American but it seems to me that these three are much less relevant politically than the other four.
Botond173
11mo ago
Global warming is real, in all likelihood, yes. Whether or not it's directly caused mainly by pollution in Western societies isn't that clear, as far as I can tell.
Botond173
11mo ago
nuclear is a very attractive solution to the problem
Just to nitpick, this mainly applies to countries which still utilize coal and oil for such purposes to a large degree. And as far as I know, all of them are outside the West anyway and are investing more and more into nuclear energy, with the sad and pathetic exception of Germany.
Botond173
11mo ago
Rape is a primal fear for young women
Is this a conclusion we can draw with certainty from women's usual observable behavior? I have my doubts.
Botond173
11mo ago
Several said they hide their conservative views because women they know have said they won’t date right-leaning men.
Again, watch what they do, not what they say.
Botond173
11mo ago
There’s no equivalence. It’s one thing when men and women compromise on an individual basis in the context of marriage despite differences in points of view. It’s entirely different to have social conditions of increasing atomization and an overall decline of social engagement where young men and women are, relatively speaking, getting politically radicalized in opposite directions, which appears to be a phenomenon without historical precedent.
Botond173
11mo ago
The everyday observable behavior of average young women does not seem to indicate that they are gripped by a primal fear of rape.
Botond173
11mo ago
By definition, society is only able to adapt to, and withstand the effects of, events with precedent, as it obviously lacks experience in dealing with events without. It’s the same thing as armies preparing to fight the last war, which is understandably the butt of jokes, but unfortunately nobody can prepare for the next war, as nobody has seen it yet. Every event without precedent has the potential to result in an enormous crisis.
Also, the social radicalization in question is mostly happening in one direction only, which is not something that is discussed to a larger extent here, as far as I can see. In the past decade or so, it’s leftists, and leftist single women in this particular case, that are mainly radicalizing in Western societies, not rightists. This is mostly resulting from intentional, systematic and choreographed propaganda campaigns directed at them. Thus I find it rather rich on your part to declare that “there is nothing that needs to be done, a new balance will be found”. I’m sure you’re aware that any social concern of the liberal Left can simply be dismissed out of hand according to the same line of reasoning, aren’t you?
Anyway, frankly I find your attitude regarding this rather conceited, so I don’t have anything else to add.
Botond173
11mo ago
So, a couple of months ago (I think - time is a flat circle), there was a conversation and some slight complaining about how center-right parties in Europe never work with "far-right" parties, and how that's proof that the elite are against the votes, etc. and it's actually unfair the center-right aligns with the center-left instead of the far-right and there was even some talk it was somehow undemocratic.
As a dissident rightist I’d offer a different point of view.
It’s not only that center-right parties in (at least) France and Germany (in this context) never work with far-right parties; that’s just the less important half of the story. It’s that they’re willing to cooperate with any sort of left-wing extremist groups – i.e. withdrawing their candidates in the 2nd round and calling on their supporters to vote for the leftist bloc that includes those extremists, for example – in order to keep the far right in a political quarantine. Again, I’m sure there’s a lot more delicate context to this whole issue and I’m not well-versed in these political events anyway, but that appears to be the crux of the issue.
If these trends continue, and I see no reason to believe that they won’t, we’ll see situations where center-right parties enter governing coalitions with Islamic fundamentalists, Trotskyites, hard-liner Greens, Maoists, various Communists and whatnot just to maintain this political line.
This, in effect, is the mirror image of the Communist argument that imperialism/fascism is capitalism in decay i.e. that the capitalist class will sooner side with literal fascists than to cede power to their class enemies when their regime enters a crisis.
Botond173
11mo ago
If society could only deal with things with precedent it could never have developed in the first place as early societies would constantly be encountering things for the first time.
Well, yes, societies have the potential to undergo development/refinement in such conditions, that much is certainly true. But they can also degenerate and collapse, which is what a demographic implosion is likely to result in, or at least contribute to.
Botond173
11mo ago
working, hard-working Americans, white Americans
Funny slip of the tongue right there.
Botond173
11mo ago
Yeah, it's like the "I don't know anyone who voted for Nixon" sentiment back in the days (I know the quote isn't technically real, but anyway). This isn't meant as a dig at the original commenter; this is a simple facet of social life anywere. I'd also add that despairing men have all the reasons in the world to hide their despair in meatspace. Of course we see little of it. Also, the stats prove that the ratio of single, unattached men is growing.
Botond173
11mo ago
It's a matter of the cart and the horse. To achieve what you suggest, it'd first be necessary to socially normalize the practice of groups of young single men banding together and visiting martial arts gyms that exist to serve only them. Which...well, I think you get my point.
Botond173
11mo ago
There are lots of jobs where physical strength matters, and they're very gendered male.
But these jobs are proportionally much more scarce than 50 or 100 years ago.
Botond173
11mo ago
I present to you some food for thought: a post from the stupidpol subreddit from 4 years ago: Did we ever find out who killed those kids in the CHAZ?
Reading through the comments, the consensus seems to be that there had to be multiple, maybe dozens of leftist activists there, mostly local White antifa, who either witnessed the murders or knew who the armed guards were or knew who recruited and armed them. Had just only one of them ever snitched, we'd probably know about it, because there would have been arrests and interrogations, and the media would have reported it. But no such thing happened, which means nobody ever snitched. Not one of them. And the reason is probably not that this is such a well-organized group.
Botond173
11mo ago
I think it's a chicken and egg problem. The regime is set up to ostracize and otherwise punish anyone to the right of the center-right, which statistically means there'll only be one prominent party there, which in turn will be the only one that dissident right-wingers will gravitate to.
Botond173
11mo ago
I can't help but notice that three of the four jobs you listed are public sector jobs, which may have something to do with them being low status.
Botond173
10mo ago
This assumption probably won’t count as anything new, but it seems to me that the overall leftist strategy in the current culture war over (in essence) MtF transsexual boxers in the Olympic games hinges entirely on the following unstated assumptions: a) TV viewers generally aren’t that interested in women’s sports in the first place b) the sort of sports where these particular MtF athletes seem to predominantly want to excel at are generally seen as low-status in the eyes of suburban middle-class Blue Tribe normies c) the relative number of cissexual women genuinely interested in such sports is insignificantly low.
Botond173
10mo ago
I don't know/care if anyone made this point already in the media, but it's relevant to mention that Rwanda was never a British colony, so any argument that this is all somehow indirect blowback from British colonialism has no basis.
I’m wondering to what extent the German Wehrmacht is, or at least was present in British and American cultural memory as a worthy enemy in battle, unlike the Japanese and the Italians, in a similar way how, I suppose, Confederates were seen as worthy enemies in the Northern US after the Civil War, unlike the various Indian tribes. It’d largely explain why the so-called myths of the clean Wehrmacht and the Lost Cause of the South came to be.
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