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Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.

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Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.

				
				
				

				

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				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 20, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The TV show Yellowstone is noted by right-wing pundits as a way to insert social justice narratives into red-tribe TV, capturing it the way country music has been captured by left wing and corporate music interests.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 20, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Well shit, I hadn’t realized the egregore had adapted to infect natural conservatives. I guess Yellowstone was a harbinger.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 20, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Not necessarily. Jonathan Haidt, in his book The Righteous Mind and his Moral Foundations Theory, posits that the leftist/collectivist mind literally cannot comprehend how non-evil people can honestly believe loyalty and purity are good ideals to have. It’s not a matter of IQ or brainwashing.


Since the minds on Reddit are largely of that mental tribe, it follows that it’s not insulting or judgy to state that they expect certain norms because it’s their nature, not just their culture.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 20, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
France did help us with that war of independence.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for July 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I had something to open or cut at work a few years back, so in front of the owner, I asked my manager if I could borrow his knife. Keep in mind I didn’t know if he had one on him, but he has a Texan accent.


The CEO looked at me with an expression of incredulity, as if I’d grown a third ear and she just noticed it.


Well, without a word, my manager grabbed a Swiss Army knife from his pocket and handed it to me. She looked at him with an even more incredulous look.


It was the single most sitcom moment ever. I could practically hear the laugh track.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 13, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Beautiful! Fantastic reasoning!


The natural segregation of people who speak a different political language according to their Dunbar friend groups of 150 has a greenhouse effect on the universalist systems of each political tribe: the blue collectivists, the red civilizationalists, and the grey individualists.


Now add in the effect of media and social media echo chambers which assume a universalist system’s supremacy/supermajority, conflating another universalist systems’ craziest adherents with the whole of them. Drug dealers.


This is why the only stable path I can see forward is tricentrism, where the major ideological silos are broken open by the explicit and valuable recognition that those people over there in that other tree are not the enemy unless one of us chooses a universalist system.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 13, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
There’s always the option of running bots that populate the subs with high-quality engagement bait and are explicitly listed as blue, grey, or red tribe bots. Add a switch for users to show or hide them, and a switch for users to show subthreads that get at least x amount of positive engagement.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 13, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The blue tribe has Reddit.com
The red tribe has scored.co which grew out of Reddit’s ejected The_Donald sub with 6m members at its high point.
The grey tribe has lesswrong.com


There are others, but these are pretty big sites.


We really are about as active as a single subreddit. I’d love to see a philosophy thread here, focused on the abstract and non-culture-war, with these insightful and interesting folks, but I’ve gotten little buy-in on my threads.


However, I do have some ideas for a distributed problem-solving forum which might be integrated into the codebase.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 6, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
While private equity is often seen merely as predation of slack time / redundancy in a business, I see it as an attempt to find profitable business models in the face of blatant anti-business sentiments in governance.


“See?” the PE-bought biz says, “We’re no Randian exceptional beings trying to make the world better. No need to try to kill us, we’re already dead inside.”


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 6, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Good catch! It’s when a person’s image of themselves shatters that they’re most susceptible to rumination and ideation.


I vigorously maintain that the poetic and glamorous reporting on Kate Spade’s suicide is what killed Bourdain: “She hanged herself with a scarf from her own fashion line,” said the news report on the car radio, and I literally yelled at the radio, “You fools! You’re causing a wave of suicides!”


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 6, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I will believe this is about defense against taxation and antitrust judgments, and not capitalistic hypercompetition, until someone gives me sufficient evidence my priors are mistaken.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for July 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Thank you, Actual Progressive. I intuit, then, that unrepresentative depictions/hiring/election results are taken as evidence (not proof) that oppression or bullying has kept the depiction from being representative?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for July 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
One could even flatly say having Representation in the Republican party and the conservative movement would be, to their eyes, a bad thing.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for July 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’ll count that as both: dewhitening the leadership as primary, and secondarily as a form of psychological conditioning.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for July 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’ll count that as primary: a form of psychological conditioning.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for July 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
"Representation" should be defined for this comment thread as people of diverse backgrounds being seen as protagonists, deuteragonists, and antagonists in fiction, being elected representatives, and being hired for visible jobs at management/executive levels.


Is Representation a primary goal of the progressive project? Or is it a secondary goal, a virtue signal for societal diversity, since it can be seen as a sign that oppression has ceased, a sign that diverse people should be expected walking around in public, using services, present in labor jobs, and other signs of diverse social integration?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for July 3, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
A corporation is already a profit-maximizer with decision-making so distributed it’s practically an egregore. Why not see if LLMs trained on management books can do management better than humans?


The idea of stock ownership of an LLM corporation is interesting, and the CEO-bot won’t need a salary or golden parachute.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 29, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
To my eyes, the man believed he was still being assaulted by the group, which is why he wrapped his arm around the policewoman’s neck.


Then he looks down at her uniform and realizes he assaulted in mistaken defense, and in the adrenaline rush insists that the police go chase the real bad guys, which is a chargeable offense on grounds of offensive racism.


This whole sequence of events disturbs me.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for July 1, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I may grab a copy!


I’ve developed a notation for standard grid logic puzzles that has been helping me greatly, I may do a video about it.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for July 1, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m feeling healthier than I have in a while:


    

  • Two months ago, gave away my Chromebook that was keeping me up to 1am.
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  • A month ago-ish, started watching movies on cheap Tuesdays at the Regal theater. First two I saw were meditations on men’s mental health: Backrooms and TADC finale.
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  • Started doing logic puzzles again.
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  • On Monday, quit Twitter. Immediate improvement at work and at home.
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