Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
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Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
9mo ago
This is a compelling point! Obviously I think there’s an HBD element in effect here, and I also agree that these men display an obvious contempt for European society.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
9mo ago
How about all the scientists and philosophers throughout history who achieved incredible things that did not in any way correlate to success with women? The path of the scholar or monk is a totally legitimate historical archetype for men to aspire toward, but such men have not historically been sexually successful.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
9mo ago
I did write it on a phone, but have not used WhatsApp in years.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
9mo ago
Right, to be clear, I am not a Christian, and my (admittedly amateurish) research into comparative religion and study of the development of early Judaism demonstrates very clearly to me that the Old Testament is in no sense whatsoever an account of an Aristotelian God-As-Pure-Logos. I’m merely pointing out that the specific argument “the Prime Mover argument is wrong because even a Prime Mover would need a mover” is a bad argument. Most of the other arguments against Judaic and Christian cosmology are still very valid and true.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
11mo ago
Ah, fair enough, I missed that the discussion was about EU countries specifically. I was under the impression that Serbia, Albania, and North Macedonia had fairly high murder rates by European standards, although I’m not surprised to hear that the same is not true of Croatia and Slovenia. I have a soft spot for the Baltic states for weirdo esoteric/historical reasons, but it’s good to get a reminder that they are, by European standards, still fairly poor and dysfunctional.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
11mo ago
Any Baltic sorts
I’m wondering if you meant “Balkan”. Are Lithuanians, Latvians, and Estonians associated with criminality by Western Europeans?
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
11mo ago
”Classic” - The Knocks & POWERS
“Burning Up” - Marianas Trench
“My Type” - Saint Motel
“Dance” - DNCE
“Bulletproof” - La Roux
“Classic” - MKTO
“Talk (Single Edit)” - Two Door Cinema Club
“Brokenhearted” - Karmin
“Kill The Lights” - Alex Newell, Jess Glynne, etc.
“Mamma Mia” - A*Teens
“Time To Groove” - Majestic & Nonô
“Funhouse” - P!nk
“Cake By The Ocean” - DNCE
“Collect My Love” - The Knocks
“Preach” - Saint Motel
“Fireworks” - Purple Disco Machine
“Black Magic” - Little Mix
“Don’t Start Now” - Dua Lipa
“Safe And Sound” - Capital Cities
“Sway” - Fitz & The Tantrums
“Try Me” - Josh Ramsay
“The Feeling” - The Knocks
“Better Days” - NEIKED, Mae Muller, etc.
“Upside Down” - A*Teens
“Everytime We Touch” - Cascada
“We Like To Party” - Vengaboys
“Our Own House” - MisterWives
“Want To Want Me” - Jason Derulo
“How 2 Dance” - Kaiser Chiefs
“I Don’t Like It, I Love It” - Flo Rida
“Sugar” - Maroon 5
“Nightcalling” - Red Rum Club
“Dancing Feet” - Kygo & DNCE
“Break My Heart” - Dua Lipa
“Can’t Stop The Feeling!” - Justin Timberlake
“Disco” - Sub-Radio
“Moves Like Jagger” - Maroon 5 & Christina Aguilera
“Shake It Off” - Taylor Swift
“Hard Times” - Paramore
“Shut Up And Dance” - Walk The Moon
“Rhythm Of Your Heart” - Marianas Trench
“Dancing Queen” - A*Teens
“Animal” - Neon Trees
“Came Here For Love” - Sigala & Ella Eyre
“Kiss You” - One Direction
“Move” - DNCE
“Kings & Queens” - Ava Max
“Je Viens De La” - Two Door Cinema Club
“Sugar” - Robin Schulz & Francesco Yates
“HandClap” - Fitz & The Tantrums
“Steal My Sunshine (Single Version)” - LEN
“Ride Or Die” - The Knocks & Foster The People
“Talk Too Much” - COIN
“Kiss” - Prince
“Troublemaker” - Olly Murs & Flo Rida
“Vowels” - Capital Cities
“Rock Your Body” - Justin Timberlake
“Hot Wheels” - Doom Flamingo
“Up All Night” - One Direction
“Waterloo” - ABBA
“Perfect Mistake” - Josh Ramsay
“Work This Body” - Walk The Moon
“Anyway (Rhythm Shed Refix)” - CeeLo Green
“Moves” - Olly Murs
“Emotions” - Mariah Carey
“Coloring Outside The Lines” - MisterWives
“Rose-Colored Boy” - Paramore
“Closer” - Tegan And Sara
“Everybody Talks” - Neon Trees
“Kissing Strangers” - DNCE
“Shut Up And Kiss Me” - Marianas Trench
“Cinderella” - The Knocks
“Uma Thurman” - Fall Out Boy
“Happy” - Pharrell Williams
“Daydream” - The Aces
“Toxic Pony” - ALTÉGO, Britney Spears, Ginuwine
“Cheap Thrills” - Sia
“Never Gets Old” - Penguin Prison
“I Sold My Bed, But Not My Stereo” - Capital Cities
“Misery” - Maroon 5
“Do Me Right” - Vintage Trouble
“Dance Monkey” - Tones And I
“Crazy In Love” - Beyoncé & Jay-Z
“Moneygrabber” - Fitz & The Tantrums
“Stutter” - Marianas Trench
“Walking On Sunshine” - Katrina & The Waves
“Feel It Still” - Portugal, The Man
“Blurred Lines” - Robin Thicke, T.I., Pharrell Williams
“No Need For Dreaming” - MisterWives
“Shut Up And Let Me Go” - The Ting Tings
“Come Alive” - FMLYBND
“Paper Wings” - Taylor Swift
“1901” - Phoenix
“Feels” - Calvin Harris, Pharrell Williams, Katy Perry
“Feels Like Summer” - Panama Wedding
“Untouched” - The Veronicas
“Popular Song” - MIKA & Ariana Grande
“Levitating” - Dua Lipa
“September” - Earth, Wind & Fire
“101” - WALLA
“Rain On Me (Purple Disco Machine Remix)” - Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande
“Total Eclipse Of The Heart (Dance Mix” - Nicki French
“Sucker” - Jonas Brothers
“What You Know” - Two Door Cinema Club
“Here (In Your Arms)” - Hellogoodbye
“It’s All Happening” - Saint Motel
“Dance” - Tim Halperin
“Raise Your Glass” - P!nk
“Midnight City” - M83
“I Think I Like You” - The Band CAMINO
“It’s Time (Penguin Prison Remix)” - Imagine Dragons
“Kids In America” - Cascada
“Untouched” - The Veronicas
“I Can Talk” - Two Door Cinema Club
“What Makes You Beautiful” - One Direction
“Do Me Right” - Vintage Trouble
“Paper Rings” - Taylor Swift
“Brave” - Sara Bareilles
“How Will I Know” - Whitney Houston
“Girls Just Want To Have Fun” - Cyndi Lauper
“Time & Time Again” - Sleepy Tom & Hotel Mira
“Locked Out Of Heaven” - Bruno Mars
“You’re Gone” - Smoove & Terrell
“Shadows” - Alphabeat
“Valerie” - Mark Ronson & Amy Winehouse
“Fire Alarm” - Castlecomer
“Electric Love (Oliver Remix)” - BØRNS
“Paralyzed” - Rock Kills Kid
“Hey Ya!” - OutKast
“Stutter” - Marianas Trench
“Fiona Coyne” - Skylar Spence
“Watermelon Sugar” - Harry Styles
“Around The Bend” - The Asteroids Galaxy Tour
“Play That Funky Music” - Wild Cherry
“I Wanna Dance With Somebody” - Whitney Houston
“That’s Not My Name” - The Ting Tings
“ABC” - The Jackson 5
“Paralyzer” - Finger Eleven
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
11mo ago
Based if true.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
11mo ago
So, I had wanted to run this article by David Cole by you, since of anyone on this forum you seem to be the best equipped to address the validity of his claims. (Although certainly, others are encouraged to weigh in, since I know we have a number of uses here who are prepared to offer sophisticated and well-sourced defenses of the “non-revised” Holocaust historiography.)
Cole seems to make a very persuasive case that Sobibor was indeed one of the camps at which large-scale murder of Jews - including women and children - was carried out. As I’ve said to you before, I remain persuaded that this is in fact the case. I am genuinely eager and curious to get your perspective.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
7d ago
Yes, there’s a bit in Stephen Sondheim’s musical Assassins where people sing a patriotic campaign song calling him “Bill McKinley”.
I’ve tried to find out if during McKinley’s life, people actually did refer to him familiarly as “Bill”. The only concrete example I’ve found is that during the Battle of Antietam, McKinley drove a supply wagon carrying, among other things, coffee, and that this led to political opponents later in his career derisively referring to him as “Coffee Bill”.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
1mo ago
So, how archaeologically well-attested are these? I’m not saying I don’t believe you, but I’ve also encountered a number of hotep-adjacent spaces where tendentious claims are presented as “facts that YT doesn’t want you to know* and then it turns out to be a massive exaggeration or an outright fabrication. (Or to be claiming for black Sub-Saharan the accomplishments of non-black peoples like the Egyptians, etc.)
I appreciate you engaging. My views on race and my generally unfavorable attitude toward blacks are well-attested and easily searchable in this community, but I’d be quite happy to have some intelligent and open-minded black individuals to engage fruitfully with here. I’m cognizant of the effect that spending as much time in the dissident-right echo chamber as I do can have, and if you can provide valuable correctives to any shortcomings in my knowledge, I would appreciate it.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
2mo ago
Alternate timeline where Edward the Black Prince ascended to the throne.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
3mo ago
Wouldn’t Modern Family fit this bill? I only watched the first few seasons, but unless something changed significantly, Claire and Phil are portrayed as an admirable white family with a normal family structure and three loving children who, though flawed in ways conducive to humorous sitcom hijinks, are fundamentally blessings in the lives of their parents.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
4mo ago
I’m not criticizing my outgroup; I am involved in multiple group chats where people, including myself, use that word without feeling bad about it. I wouldn’t call somebody that on the Motte, because I respect the norms of this community. But I want to be very clear that I don’t think it reflects particularly poorly on Trump voters (or anybody else) if they use that word.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
6mo ago
But this is precisely the shell game I’m accusing you of. “Western countries happily lived one way for hundreds of years, and then very recently they decided to do things a different way. That means the original way they did things, which lasted for much longer than the more recent thing, was never actually Western at all.”
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
6mo ago
The people who were later replaced by a new group of people who vastly expanded the original settlement into something incalculably larger, more valuable, and more important. AKA nearly every existing structure in the city today, and the infrastructure needed to support those things.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
7mo ago
How can Jesus just be an important prophet in Islam when his whole shtick was 'i am not just an important prophet'?
I think that this is another example of cynical syncretism; Muhammad did not want to alienate potential converts who had been exposed to Christianity, of whom there were many in the region by that time. By paying that baseline level of respect to Jesus, Islam could piggyback on Christ’s message/legacy and incorporate it into the framework of Islam. To rescue things theologically, one could believe that Jesus was exaggerating his own divinity and power at the time in order to ensure that his message was received and promulgated as effectively as possible given the religious and cultural milieu he was in at the time.
And why would God send angels and gold tablets to one guy's backyard with the message 'ladies, if you sleep with this man, straight to heaven'
The history of early Mormonism is definitely more complicated than that. I fully agree with you that the beginnings of the church are highly inauspicious; Smith was at best a fabulist and had that same narcissistic and grandiose cult leader personality I earlier attributed to Jesus. Much of the Doctrine and Covenants is simply a catalogue of various petty spats and disputes he had with his followers, many of whom were embarrassingly naïve. However, the fact that a church with such an unpromising origin could, within the span of less than 200 years, grow into one of the most successful and prosperous religious movements of all time, with some of the happiest, most well-adjusted, most affluent, and most fertile adherents of any extant religion, suggests that perhaps Smith truly was a vessel - however imperfect - for a genuine divinely-inspired message. (Perhaps that message is that European-descended people need to continue to further syncretize and shape Christianity in order to bring it more in sync with our natural instincts and with our modern needs.)
But at least at first most (all?) of Christianity's changes on our ancestor's practices were genuinely positive. We did do human sacrifice. We did have sex cults. We did worship rocks and trees.
I’m somewhat more restrained in my praise of the effects of Christianization on European peoples, but I will start by acknowledging the ways in which you’re correct. Christianity did indeed put an end to the catastrophic cycles of interpersonal revenge violence which had fractured pagan European society. It ended the practice of enslaving fellow Europeans. It brought pagans within the fold of that network of commerce, political centralization, learning, and scholasticism which I mentioned earlier. It increased fellow-feeling between disparate European tribal groups - at least, that is, after the slaughter and subjugation of the people who resisted conversion was finally concluded, with the Saxon Wars and the Northern Crusades.
Still, I think you’re far too flippant when you say that they “worshipped rocks and trees”. It’s more accurate to say that they believed that real spiritual beings dwelled within nature, and that it was possible to cultivate a mutually-respectful and beneficial relationship with those spirits. The sacred groves which were a mainstay of all Indo-European-derived pagan traditions were seen as places wherein people could commune with the divine - not with the trees themselves, but with the gods whose power channeled through them. They were places of contemplation and supplication. The burning and destruction of sacred groves by Christian missionaries was a grotesque and desecrative act.
As for human sacrifice, this is a topic about which at some point I want to do a real deep dive and learn what that actually looked like, how the people conceived of what they were doing, etc. Most importantly, I want to understand what sort of people were being sacrificed. I can easily imagine that what we call “human sacrifice” was essentially functionally equivalent to how the death penalty is used today. Underneath all the spiritual woo, perhaps it was just a way to justify purging the most undesirable individuals from society. Perhaps the people sacrificed were criminals, or prisoners of war, or profoundly mentally ill - schizophrenic, or psychopathic - or were very sick in some other way, or otherwise a massive burden or pain on the ass to everyone else. Better to offer them as a sacrifice to the gods, and thereby redeem some value and significance and collective catharsis from their deaths, than to just quietly let someone take them behind the woodshed and strangle them to death so we could all be rid of them. I genuinely don’t know enough about the mechanics, the prevalence, and the contemporary justifications for the practice for me to cast informed judgment on it. There are tons of people living among us today whom I wouldn’t mind seeing burnt on a pyre or cast into a peat bog, so human sacrifice doesn’t really freak me out in the way that it seems to do for most people.
Your general complaints about the lack of literacy, philosophy, and poetry are valid, but you also need to take into account the extent to which a lot of pre-Christian culture was just forcefully destroyed by Christians and lost forever. Germanic pagans did build temples, and the Christians burnt them down or turned them into churches. Norse people did have an alphabet, and did have a thriving poetic tradition, which was later codified into the Sagas and the Eddas. I am not suggesting that pagan European society, as it existed before Christianity, was the sort of civilization that could have landed a man on the Moon. For that, integration into a more sophisticated, more centralized, more urbanized civilizational structure was indeed necessary; for that, I am thankful to Christianity, although I question the extent to which I should credit the tenets of Christianity specifically, or whether I should recognize Christianity as having inherited the Imperium from Rome, and as having been simply one step further in the still-ongoing apotheosis of Western society, a process which will require us at some point in the near future to move on from Christianity or syncretize it even further into something new and workable for the space-faring age.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
8mo ago
Outside of the Bay Area, are national sportswriters/commentators wringing their hands over the Lance thing. I very painfully had to stop listening to the output of a number of sports podcasts I’d once cherished because 2020 turned their libtard dials up to 10, so I genuinely haven’t seen what guys like Gregg Rosenthal from the ATN podcast, who is obsessed with going to bat for every mediocre black QB in existence, have said about it.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
9mo ago
I’m definitely acutely aware of that. I live in a city which is renowned for having possibly the best year-round climate in the entire country, if not the whole world. What we consider inclement weather is still better than what many cities in the U.S. experience even at their best. As I’ve looked into moving to a different part of the country, it has become increasingly clear to me how necessary car ownership would be in many of the places I’m targeting, the weather being the main reason.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
9mo ago
Suffice it to say that this has not been my experience when visiting a nude beach. Perhaps I’m just more visually-oriented than you are, or less accustomed to nudity, or I formed some different erotic associations in my formative years, but I found it impossible not to stare and to be at least mentally aroused and excited. I don’t think I’m that atypical in that respect. I’m sure that “susceptibility to arousal at a nude beach” is a normally-distributed trait among men just like anything else is, and modulated by each individual’s cultural background and particular experience with nudity.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
9mo ago
All very solid points, and I genuinely don’t intend to minimize the suffering that women of that era experienced. I merely brought up the Minoans as a sort of metonymical allusion to draw attention to parts of modern society that I want to criticize. For what it’s worth, a lot of recent archeological/historiographical work has cast a ton of doubt on the whole theory of a gynocratic Minoan state anyway; a lot of that was probably just Marija Gimbutas and her acolytes overfitting to insufficient data.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
9mo ago
You are, I assume, aware of the centuries of butchery produced by the European Wars Of Religion, all of which were fought (at least nominally) about Christianity? And the similarly brutal sectarian conflicts produced by the various offshoots of Islam? Note that I’m not downplaying any of the good and noble results produced by these religions; you have to take the bad with the good. It’s not remotely clear to me that, in terms of per capita, fascism and communism produced worse or bloodier results than their religious counterpart ideologies.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
9mo ago
No one except @Hoffmeister25 actually disagrees with your conclusion (white nationalists bad, white nationalism is intellectually incoherent).
How is this not an extremely blatant violation of the rule against consensus-building and attempting to speak for the entire forum?
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
9mo ago
To be honest, I didn’t realize the extent to which people find the guy frustrating, nor the extent to which you and others might feel that his behavior reflects on my “side”. I feel like I and the vast majority of the DR posters here conduct ourselves admirably to the best of our abilities and well within the standards and expectations of this sub. Having one weirdo who spams bad/questionable content seems like a bad reflection on him specifically, but I don’t really “identify” with him. It shouldn’t be surprising to me that others who are already ill-disposed toward my views would readily seek to tar me with the same brush as the weakman they can point to - and to be clear, rightists are equally guilty of doing so when it flatters their interests - so perhaps that’s on me for not taking the issue seriously enough.
We’re trying to have a ceasefire here, one of yours keeps shooting, and you refuse to rein him in. Think of him as your antifa, the unacknowledged presence of a defector destroys the trust in that faction. So if your opponents retaliate by either their own astroturfing or censorship, I’ll have to wash my hands of your woes.
Who, pray tell, is the “we” here? Which faction do you imagine yourself to be affiliated with here? I’m personally not thinking of the state of the sub in terms of some war, alternating between hot and cold, between certain factions. I do come to the defense of certain users with whom I perceive myself as sharing a common cause, but you are correct that I’ve never seen my job as “reining in” some of the shittier DR (or “DR-presenting”) users on the sub. If you’re now at the point where you feel comfortable threatening censorship or psyops of your own, that does certainly present a concerning opportunity for escalating acrimony. I would like to think that most people here don’t perceive the purpose of the sub in terms of “he started it, gotta win this war against the other guys, if this tactic is good enough for them it should be good enough for us”, but maybe that’s naivety on my part.
Can anyone recommend a good resource for learning Russian? I had been using Duolingo, but I didn’t feel like it was truly helping me become conversational in the language. I would take night classes, but I have a side job that requires me to keep most of my weeknights free. Something I could use while at work would be optimal, but I’m open to whatever recommendations people can provide.
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