Botond173
8hr ago
This book has firmly convinced me that drugs are another example of what Charles Murray calls a failure of bourgeoises values. It might be okay for Elon Musk or Bill Gates to have a heroin or marijuana addiction, just as it is okay for those men to destroy their families because the monetary resources that both enjoy mean that they can recover from such setbacks. For the lower class, no such thing is true. Drugs are a road straight to hell (here on earth).
Steve Sailer made the same argument in 2009.
Botond173
11hr ago
It bears mentioning that the French have chewed up and spit out three dynasties, two emperors, four republics and fifteen constitutions so far. On one hand, I think this explains many things about both the ENA and your points as well. It also means that the French have the innate ability to politically regenerate themselves from time to time.
Botond173
12hr ago
Are women generally expected to have social adroitness though? As far as I can see, this is not the case. If a woman lacks social skills or acumen but is otherwise no actively unpleasant or obnoxious, she's usually just considered a cute dork or a clumsy goofball, I think.
Botond173
12hr ago
the last male UK Prime Minister before this one
Do you mean Rishi Sunak? How does he count? Did Schwarzenegger or Jerry Brown leave their wives and then marry a younger and hotter woman? I don't get it.
Botond173
13hr ago
My assumption is that widespread cable TV coverage and peculiar interpretations of the ‘classic’ US school shootings of the late ‘90s and early ‘00s compelled normies to put these in a different mental bucket as a particular phenomenon different from spree killings or ‘mass shootings’ in general.
The common characteristics are:
• The horror of ‘kids killing kids’ (of course, many ghetto shootings technically fall into the same category, but again, normies generally ignore those altogether or at least put them in a different mental bucket), college students and recent graduates who are technically already adults also being “just kids” in this context
• If the killer happens to be an adult, he’s a young adult who attended the school in question and is motivated by vengeance; otherwise adult killers are largely uninteresting and thus fall into a different mental category
• The killer is not mentally ill in the technical sense of the word (which is another reason I argue the Bulgarian case does not count) but is driven crazy through addiction to violent FPS games and metal music, by a deep dive into various weird-ass online subcultures or due to sexual frustration
• The massacre is happening strictly on school premises, with the killer hunting his victims indoors like prey
• Neither the killer nor the victims are nonwhite criminal or criminal-adjacent ghetto-dwellers; this needs to be stressed because it’s a big aspect making the whole incident a case of incomprehensible horror
• The shooting is interpreted as a sad commentary on the decadence of modern society and kids these days just being all screwed up
Come on. Nobody in their social circle considered Harris and Klebold to be either criminals or adults. Normies don't care when present and future career criminals, especially ghetto-dweller nonwhite ones or lumpenprole white trash ones, are violently hurt or killed because they understand that it all obviously comes with that lifestyle.
But let me approach the subject from another angle. Look at this list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States_(before_2000)
I'd say less than half (maybe a third) of these incidents bear any of the hallmarks of what average people think of when they hear of a 'school shooting'.
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