Botond173
8hr ago
Young men generally prefer partners about 3-5 years younger than themselves. Look at the data from any country and any age, and this bears out. DeepNeuralNetwork is mistaken or just trolling.
Botond173
8hr ago
I think it's conceivable in the 2nd case that the man has long checked out of the marriage mentally and emotionally, knew that there is a heavy social and legal penalty for a man who abandons his family, but years of trans propaganda and the social normalization of transgenderism made him notice that him claiming to be a woman is the one option he has to shield himself from those penalties. In the first case I think there is also some chance that the man in question decided to just fake gayness.
Botond173
9hr ago
Indeed. "Men build civilizations, women build societies." (I read this on a Manosphere blog ages ago.)
Botond173
9hr ago
Thanks for the summary. I'm somewhat skeptical regarding 2) though, as I imagine these Somalis have long been acculturated in a Blue Tribe milieu which is rather antagonistic towards anti-waxxer activism. And 3) and 4) do sound a bit like Blue Tribe copium. Either way, a drop from 92% to 24% these factors do not really explain.
Botond173
1d ago
And the areas with low immunisation include New York state, whereas West Virginia has high immunisation coverage. Minnesota, that impeccably Blue state, also has low coverage. So "voted for Trump" does not seem to be correlation, much less cause.
Makes sense to me. Anti-vaccination tendencies, as far as I can tell, are prevalent among middle-class suburban wine moms, especially the ones that are natural medicine nerds, and that demographic is largely Blue-coded. I imagine they are also prevalent among all minority groups, religious or otherwise, that are characterized by a general distrust of state authority. Average, run-of-the-mill working class people, on the other hand, such as a big segment of the West Virginian population, only rarely adopt such views, because their attitudes towards healthcare, and pretty much everything else, are inherently practical.
Botond173
1d ago
In 2006, 92% of Somali 2-year-olds were up-to-date on the measles vaccine, according to the Minnesota Department of Health. Today's rate is closer to 24%, according to state data.
Such a huge drop in 20 years is baffling.
Botond173
2d ago
Can you maybe offer some information regarding regulations of measles vaccination in the three federal states OP has mentioned? I guess it'd be relevant here.
Botond173
2d ago
As someone who never heard of Gaines county I looked up the Wikipedia article on it out of curiosity after I read your comment. This part stood out:
A large population addition to Gaines County came in 1977 when a group of conservative German speaking "Russian" Mennonites from Mexico arrived to start farming and ranching.
I'd say whatever their overall attitude is towards measles vaccination it probably has more to do with the 'German speaking "Russian" Mennonites from Mexico' part than with anything else.
As one of the sort of pro-Russian regulars who otherwise never happened to make such predictions I can only make the following observation for now: during every single winter the USSR was engaged in WW2 they completed at least one successful offensive. Compared to this the Russian performance in this war is indeed found wanting. However, it's also true that as of now the Ukrainians had three whole summers to complete the victorious final counteroffensive they and their Western propagandists have been predicting since Spring 2023 which was supposed to be some sort of re-run of North Vietnam's Spring Offensive of 1975 or the Croatian Army's Operation Storm in 1995.
Botond173
2d ago
Antifa is bad because they aren't left-wing enough.
Well, maybe a handful of people do believe that, but my point is that the hardliners of the Blue Tribe surely have at least an ambivalent attitude towards the sort of politicians they call Social Democrats in Western Europe.
Botond173
2d ago
I feel the need to be against any kind of policy that just casually wastes the lives of people who are fuckups.
I'm reminded of one of the observations of @Corvos (emphasis mine):
In practice, most of these are 'virtuous circle' things. People with more career opportunities have more career direction, people with more social experience have better social antennae, people pick up hobbies from friends, people who are sought out by the opposite sex understand the opposite sex better. And everyone else, sooner or later, finds themselves outside the circle of lamplight eating chicken tenders or browsing tik-tok makeup videos in a messy apartment because they're not going to manifest 1-5 into being by sheer force of will and they know it. They no longer have access to the virtuous circles, and from where they are (tired from working 9 hours at a bad job, shy, or poor) the activation energy is higher than anyone can reasonably ask of them.
This state of affairs results not particularly from a lack of male-only spaces but from modern society being mostly opt-in. There are no longer mandatory social occasions like church, balls, or village meetings, there is no longer a mandatory social group (extended family living nearby) and there is no longer mandatory (arranged) courtship. We could resurrect these things, and I think we should resurrect these things.
The old social structure functioned in a way that propped up people with low levels of agency in various ways so that men who were otherwise likely to end up as failsons turned out to be doing-mostly-OK-sons. This was based on the unstated assumption that their labor and investment was needed in society. Now this assumption is no longer there.
Botond173
2d ago
The original Substack series is available here. The author is also active on Reddit and regularly shares the posts:
Botond173
3d ago
I won't disagree with your argument (although I doubt it's anti-ableism that is an important factor in this) but my point is that "Anti-Fascist Action" named itself as such because they, in accordance with the Stalinist line, considered Social Democrats to be fascists as well but at the same time wanted to dishonestly appear to non-Communists, which is a tactic their modern-day heirs are also continuing. I imagine this would be another divisive subject of discussion among Blue Tribers if they actually thought about it for a minute.
Botond173
3d ago
I also suspect that they'll retcon the history of the Great Awokening and deny that it ever happened, claiming that it was the invention of neo-Nazi propaganda and never anything real and substantial. Basically the same way they've trivialized and misrepresented political correctness, critical race theory, radical feminism and DEI. There have been extensive discussions of this memory-holing process over the Intellectual Dark Web subreddit.
Code Pink, however, is I think a rather different story. I'd argue that the Bush Jr. administration utilized the parallel wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as a huge source of distraction in domestic politics, which largely explains why the Culture War was more or less dormant during his presidency save for manufactured and long forgotten scandals like the stem cell research issue. (This also explains most of the existing nostalgia for the 2000s.) For the left-wing opposition it seems like a good idea to push an anti-war message, which then compelled many Republican normies to troll them in turn with militarist antics. In reality, very few average people are dedicated militarists or anti-militarists. Code Pink was a case of manufactured pacifism / anti-interventionism. Kayfabe, basically. The hatred of immigration restrictionism, on the other hand, is genuine.
Botond173
3d ago
It seems to be almost a Reddit left wing consensus that the year is 1933 and you should do whatever you would have done then if you consider yourself a good person.
As far as I know, there is a well-founded overall consensus among historians that the political line pursued by the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) after 1919 in the Weimar Republic ended up abetting the Nazi seizure of power instead of preventing or even disrupting it. There is also largely a consensus that the Anti-Fascist Action organization as it was founded in 1932 was little more than a front organization of the KPD. I sort of wonder how these people would react if you merely asked their opinion on this, but I guess asking this question in itself would instantly mark you as a Nazi in their eyes.
Botond173
3d ago
I can only wish the right-wing was ever as based as these people claim it is.
Botond173
4d ago
Yeah. Somehow I surmised that whatever happened is largely due to the lockdowns.
Botond173
4d ago
Maybe @BahRam You can chime in with what he meant more specifically.
I mean the standard diner that is a recurring location in Goodfellas, for example.
Botond173
4d ago
The classic 24 hour diner doesn't exist in most locations anymore, and when it does it's too expensive for broke young people to go there casually. Also they kind of frown on people just hanging out for hours, and young people are staying at home online anyway.
As someone not from the US I'd ask you to elaborate on this a bit. I've only seen such particular diners in movies and I can only assume that they normally make cozy third places in the terms of sociology. Is there any particular reason why they are normally open around the clock and are disappearing and are relatively expensive?
Also I think maybe older people have the idea that anime is more high-brow than it is? We got this small subset of poorly translated anime films in the 90s, plus everything from Studio Ghibli, and thought it should be some high-class artistic statement because we didn't understand it.
This is supposedly such a widespread media phenomenon that it has its own article on TvTropes. Sadly I cannot remember the term anymore. The short story is that importing anime in the '80s, dubbing and distributing it was a big market risk, so these companies only selected those anime series that were pretty much guaranteed to be popular. This created the misconception among many Westerners that these series represent the entire anime industry and that anime is always high-class. Unfortunately Sturgeon's Law applies to it as well.
Botond173
4d ago
I guess OP was referring to the life choices of white and Asian students, not blacks.
Botond173
5d ago
I'd assume they found the news about reprinting the yearbooks at a cost of over $50,000 due to OK signs to be cringe and lame as f***.
A long time ago I used to follow the Youtube channel of The Young Turks. (Bear with me please.) The host Cenk Uygur was commenting on the clearly accelerating social trend of relatively hot female high school teachers in their 30s and 40s seducing their male students. He offered an explanation that seemed to be right on point. There is only one thing in this world that a teenage boy can offer a grown woman but a grown man will never do so: undivided attention. It's a temptation many of them can't resist, as their lives are deeply frustrated in that area.
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