Eetan
1mo ago
New week is here, it is time for some culture war (and culture war by other means) news, news not concerning plebeian ball games, aspiring upper class winter games, or top elite human capital tropical island games.
1/ From Demography is Destiny files
It seems world's TFR as a whole is below replacement by now. It is just rough estimate from highly questionable data by anonymous xitter demography nerds, possibly the inflection point already happened few years ago.
What is certain that the exponential growth that began in early 1700's (due to potato, maize and wise leadership of European and Manchu statesmen of the time) is finally over. The line leveled up and will start going down.
Whether it is matter for mourning or celebration, is up to you.
2/ From Elite Human Capital files
Even the most elite human capital is made of flesh and blood(so far) and all flesh must perish.
TL;DR: The lessons are: if you are a billionaire, avoid choppers, it is not worth it. Also, do not be a woman.
3/ From Cold War geopolitics files
Cuba is on the ropes, strangled by intensified US blockade, and, unlike in the past, no help is coming.
It is clear now that Venezuelan operation was about regime change in Cuba.
Politically speaking, it can be Donald's crowning achievement.
Marco Rubio will have his revenge, Red tribe boomers get to enjoy one final triumph over dirty commies before they expire (imagine Donald Trump personally tearing down statues of Fidel and Che in Havana just before the midterms), the remaining old style leftists are humiliated one more time. Cuban people gain freedom and democracy (whether Mexico, Colombia or Haiti style is to be seen), ICE finally gets to round up Cubans and return them home. Everyone wins.
4/ From South Asia files
Resistance in Baluchistan embraces grandma power, and is on the roll.
One struggle against colonialism, imperialism, racism, sexism and ageism.
Whether real or PR, it is interesting they think this particular PR is needed. It could be another case of provincials being slightly out of touch with Current Year(TM) zeitgeist, or it could be prescient vision that in negative population growth world, the elderly will be expendable and disposable meat (as we already see in East Europe).
5/ From Eastern European files
Most high-level assassination attempt of the current East European unpleasantness. The target was lieutenant general Vladimir Stepanovich Alekseyev
He seems to be IRL action movie hero, who successfully fought the assassin after being shot in the back twice (while the assassin seems to be boomer who was using gun for the first time in his life)
6/ Gamer affairs + more Eastern European current events files
Most oppressed people in the world, the gamers, are fighting back.
16 years old Muscovite Artem killed one Alexey Belyaev deputy head of Roskomnadzor, Russian media and internet censorship agency. There is severe media blackout about this issue, as if someone was worried.
Xitter anonymous shitposter reactions are overwhelmingly positive. Zoomer gamers are strongly Kulak pilled. As Kulak predicted.
From pure technical point of view, compared with previous event, the difference is palpable.
Lone Zoomer with knife and grudge >>>>> Boomer with gun working for big three letter organization for promise of big payoff. (only mistake Artem made was letting to be taken alive to be raped and tortured for the rest of his life, but no one is perfect)
The Age of Boomers is over. The Time of the Zoomer has come.
If true, we would observe baby boom in war zones or mega violent nightmare places like post-Soviet space or South Africa.
Eetan
1mo ago
Who are these people, exactly?
Spinners and weavers from 250 years ago. Imagine that your (and your ancestors) whole identity is your skill and craft, and then some nerd invents a contraption that makes yarn and cloth faster, cheaper and better and you end in the gutter.
Easy to understand why they were angry, and also easy to understand why their anger achieved nothing at all.
Eetan
1mo ago
The absolute right to run away is the child’s ultimate expression of his right of self-ownership, regardless of age.
So, 5 years old who leaves home to move in with nice uncle who promises him as much chocolate as he wants to eat, is adult citizen with full rights, while 50 years old who is living with mom is still legally a baby?
Very cool. Misesistan is going to be interesting place. Perhaps not to live in, but certainly to watch from the other side of the world.
Eetan
1mo ago
Anyway, he's a Bulgarian citizen named Ilia Belov, he's got this weird Islamic pseudonym
Could be convert to Islam. Unthinkable in trad Bulgarian culture, not(yet) common but rather thinkable in British gutter trash street culture.
Eetan
1mo ago
Is "Stephen Yaxley-Lennon" supposed to sound dweebish
Hyphenated surname is posh, upper class coded, not the best for someone who stands up as champion of common man against corrupt elite.
Eetan
1mo ago
What's the explanation for (American middle class & PMC white) women wanting to embarrass their sons for dating?
Easy to understand. They do not want some wily vixen seduce Junior and drag him away, leaving them all alone in the big house.
Eetan
1mo ago
Since the Roman pagans accepted E's gender nonconforming hijinks for four years, we can call ancient world pretty accepting.
It would be unthinkable for medieval Christian ruler get away with such lifestyle even for four days.
Eetan
1mo ago
Cute and sexy goblins, instead of disgusting green vermin? It starts with World of Warcraft.
Eetan
1mo ago
Maybe the strikes continue, but US Navy is not announcing them anymore and keeps the snuff footage for themselves instead of proudly displaying it online. There are always many possibilities, only when, decades ahead, archives open, history nerds might start patching together what was actually happening.
Eetan
1mo ago
Your impression?
Yes, the poster is troll and, regardless whether he is made of flesh or bytes, he is effective troll because he effectively calls out internal contradictions in Current Year(TM) official world wiew.
"You say you believe in God. Word of God is clear that graven images are very, very bad. Why are churches full of golden and bejeweled statues and icons?"
"SHUT UP THIS TROLL!"
Did they "deserve" to die?
Yes, every man has free will and free choice and is, ultimately, the master of his fate and captain of his soul.
Better question about the current situation is:
If Alex Pretti drew his gun first and shot the ICE agents, would you say: "If the agents were sensible, they would pick safe burger flipping or shelf stocking job. They volunteered for this work, well knowing it could be dangerous. They chose their fate. FAFO."?
Eetan
1mo ago
Normal people don't have time to do this shit for 20 years. They are almost certainly sponsored by someone top-down.
Political activists are not, by definition, "normal people". This activity is not extraordinary expensive, the "sponsorship" is coming from their moms (or, for the veterans, some low effort no show jobs).
If they were ex-NKVD
If they were ex-NKVD, it would mean that comrade Lysenko was right, that glorious Soviet biology really discovered secret of eternal youth. Awesome news!
Eetan
1mo ago
The Twitter poster's point, whether he is flesh and blood in realspace or bundle of bits in cyperspace, is that the right wing has absolutely nothing comparable. Leftoids organize and fight, rightoids are trusting the plan, polishing their guns and waiting for big boog.
Eetan
1mo ago
other similar modernity-defying groups?
The Mennonites who are growing at brisk pace and actively spreading around the world. Most of their growth is in Latin America, but lately they are coming to Africa too.
Unlike the Orthodox Jews, they managed to keep low profile (so far). If you know who Mennonites are, you are either their immediate neighbor, serious theology nerd, 16th century history nerd or demography nerd.
Eetan
1mo ago
I'd wager Kulak's twitter followers in Minnesota could do it alone.
Maybe they could, but they are not, so far, doing anything at all. And there are lots of (nonviolent, legal) things that could be done right now, no need to wait for the full boogaloo.
Where are, for example, counterprotestors, protecting ICE from liberal protestors? Imagine three sided standoff - ICE, anti-ICE protestors and anti-anti-ICE counterprotestors duking it out on the rough streets of Milwaukee (all dressed in identical camo and armed up the wazoo).
Eetan
1mo ago
What glib judgement? It shows that Russians are modern people who are not satisfied with medieval style of worship. Trad style churches are empty in the Western world too.
Golden icons, singing and incense were big things for old time peasants, but modern man needs modern religion.
This is how you fill churches in 21st century.
Eetan
1mo ago
then what is beyond that
Extra legal interesting times.
Times where one side has, among other things, by OP admission, "low-level insurgency infrastructure" of "early-stage urban cells" built out of nothing operating on the streets, while the other has few thousands bottom of the barrel thugs and few tens of million spectators watching and cheering these thugs on screens.
Log on your Polymarket accounts and place your bets.
Eetan
1mo ago
The State's preference to persist in this Orthodox advocacy is not indicative of the popular demand for irrationalism; quite the opposite, it's another grift vector and a top-down attempt at social engineering like the insane WWII sacralization (Immortal Regiment) that the people passively accept (which is actually a massive mark against Russian culture, just a different one).
This is exactly indicative of massive popular demand for irrationalism and attempt to channel it for official state purposes. Remember explosion of astrology, shamanism, psychic powers and all sorts of occultism and woo that instantly happened when Soviet censorship eased just by a little bit. The same with WW2 cult (and cult of Stalin) - these came from the bottom, at the beginning Immortal Regiment was purely grassroot phenomenon.
Not that Russia is any exceptional, it would be hard to find true rationalist country, with low rates of belief in both traditional organized religion and astrology/witchcraft.
Eetan
1mo ago
Of course, the alternative is not 'no bloodshed'
The alternative is enforcing existing laws against employers of undocumented immigrants in red states where they are concentrated the most. It is it not happening due to fear of backlash - if ICE was hauling away CEO's it would have 90% approval rate. But, instead, you have violent street circus to satisfy sadism and bloodlust of MAGA base. You really do not have to be tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy theorist to understand what is going on.
Eetan
1mo ago
is L'État, c'est moi a claim to have democratic mandate as well?
No, it is exactly opposite. It does not mean "I am humble servant of the people" but "The people must serve the state, this means me".
Kings of ancient regime derived their legitimacy from divine will, royal blood and tradition, and if anyone hadn't like it, too bad for the rebel scum.
Eetan
1mo ago
It is four chan style dissing of aliens and all alien lore, seeing it just as another psyop.
Eetan
1mo ago
I'm sure Chinese and North Koreans pretend even harder, but nobody - including themselves - believes in this pretense. And, what is very important, nobody cares, especially in Russia - Russians are completely fine with fake elections, because they don't really value free elections - they are completely ok with fake-electing the same Tzar for life, if he doesn't treat them too badly (in this case, they'd kill him and put on a new Tzar for life). Everybody in Russia knows elections are fake and the parliament is a dressing for what Putin wants, with less power than medieval nobles' assemblies under absolute monarchs. They are absolutely fine with it.
This is the case all over the world. Every regime except Taliban and Gulf monarchies claim to represent "the people" and rule in their name, every colonel who just gained power by coup says he is really defending democracy. Last man who failed to conform to this unwritten rule was late Emperor Bokassa the First.
Looks like total Western cultural victory. When you start seeing various strongmen repudiating this charade and crowning themselves as kings, sultans and maharajahs, you will know that Western supremacy is fading and multipolar, multicultural world arrived for real.
Eetan
1mo ago
Yes, typical anarcho communist community ends as bizarre sex cult in peace time or just another bandit gang in war zone, while anarcho capitalist community ends in massive scam and rug pull (AFAIK no one yet attempted to build anarcho capitalist paradise during some shithole country civil war).
Whether Baluchi fighting grannies are real is of secondary importance (there is combat footage on Baluchi telegram channels, but we know it can be easily faked or staged).
My point was that Balochistan Liberation Army presents in their propaganda sending grannies to fight as something heroic and admirable.
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