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				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Yep.  I explained the thing where 98% of women who go to the hospital because they were slipped a roofie have no unknown drug elements in their tests.  They just drank too much.  At her body weight, 6 shots is enough to put my daughter into blackout territory.  She absolutely cannot hang with her 200lb guy friends who drink much more often than she does.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


The process of getting NATO members to increase their spending is an example of what I want him to do, at least for a time.




And again, I'm asking what method you think would have worked?  Most of Europe clearly doesn't want to do anything of the sort.  I understand that the "Get a job or you're out of this house" feels like fascism to a lot of people, though it does fall directly in line with my "Boomer Common Sense" analysis of Trump.  But again, what lesser, gentler, more diplomatic measures do you think would suffice to get Europe to meet treaty obligations and generally return to being allies worth having?




He still threathened an invasion of Greenland, and thus the dissolution of the alliance.




For which we got a better strategic position in Greenland that isn't dependent on an increasingly unreliable NATO.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


For one it is not at all clear what his current goals are, or what specific problem he has with Europe that he wants to solve.




You literally cited his specific criticism and goal in your previous post.  What lesser, gentler measure do you think would have gotten European NATO countries to meet their spending commitments?




Overall I think he should be more clear about what his boundaries actually are and what the consequences for breaking them will be.




Obama and Biden did this.  The results were the 2014 and 2022 invasions of Ukraine.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Trying the thought experiment now, and nope, I feel pretty much equivalent horror and outrage for hypothetical-you in this scenario. I truly can't imagine a woman IRL (not random outrage accounts on social media) making light of any 19-year-old of either gender getting gang-raped by text invite while incapacitated by veterinary tranquilizers, much less getting ridiculed/blamed/judged afterward. Have you tried asking any real women about this?




I can't help but think this is you already being locked into a "forcible rape" mindset.  See the "veterinary tranquilizers" wording.  Ketamine is a party drug.  The first time I ever heard it about it was from an emo girl I was flirting with in high school.  To her, a K-hole was a fun Saturday night.  My gay friends do it routinely at parties and raves.  They talk about it like it's coke in the 80's.


Nothing I've seen of Jane Doe's descriptions sounds like a K-hole.  It sounds like the fun pary drug levels.


So, reframe.  It's not "Iconocham was raped, omg", it's "Iconochasm went to a gay bar, got trashed, did party drugs, and now he's trying to tell his wife he didn't consent to sucking off a glory-hole worth of men".


Lol.  What a closet case, amirite?




would she have taken equivalent risks visiting a crush if she were touring Nairobi or Bogota? Seems unlikely




Women do that often enough to serve as cautionary tales.  Everyone in the world is just like her high trust community, right?




zero late-teenage women (absent major trauma history) are sexually aroused by the idea of taking 2 dicks at the same time




Are we counting Heated Rivalry in the viewing history as trauma?  Some of the messages make it sound like that night wasn't her first threesome, and she was planning future ones.  More generally, I think we have fundamentally different interpretations regarding what happened that night.




trying a new and somewhat disagreeable sex act (MMF threesome, anal, choking, blowjob, handjob...?)




Seriously?  An MMF threesome is very different from a handjob.  And on the rare occasions when we talk about it, most men claim that women asked them to try choking.




So the question is, what would be responsible advice to a young woman about when to trust her own judgment when a guy she really likes asks her for something she wouldn't normally want to do,




That's the critical question, isn't it?  Are young women adults able to make and own their decisions, or do they still need adult supervision?  My personal advice is to secure a degree of commitment first.  If you remember CanIHaveASong, she had a post about waiting until marriage, and then finding herself functionally incapable of finding fault with her husband for almost a year.  Male and female bodies and sex acts have biochemical reactions on each other.  Don't fuck a guy if sober you wouldn't be willing to get stuck on him for a year.


Beyond that, think carefully about what you want and what you can be proud of yourself for.




whether that be taking an extra drink/hit




This is a thing everyone has to be responsible about, and why I stress knowing your limits.  I was straight-edge until college, and then the first time I drank I probably should have gone to the hospital.  I remind my (rather small) daughter routinely that she absolutely cannot hang with the boys, and I take a more European approach of letting her drink moderate amounts in safe environments, both to blunt the novelty and to make sure she knows what it feels like.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The real upside is likely a small chance of ending up in a relationship with a rich chad.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
What lesser, gentler measure do you think would have worked?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I have the same opinion of the use of ethnic/racial heuristics in such matters as 1980s-comics!Batman has of firearms.




The average comic book writer has the moral and intellectual sophistication of a five-year-old.  The outliers tend to be sick, depraved fucks who openly identify with the villains.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for October 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Using Bing AI summaries as a reference, Africa currently has something in the ballpark of 4000 military aircraft, including helicopters and transports.  Europe had ~933 naval vessels.


Is 1-2 "modern" (I assume a fair bit of that stuff is decades old tech) aircraft reasonably sufficient to take out a WW2 era ship?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Is it?  We have an existance proof that they're willing to do hugely unpopular things.  Blue states like California and NJ explicitly have laws to get illegal immigrants ID, and then laws that auto-enroll people with ID to vote.  20 million people in the right states could swipe 30 congressional seats and the resulting electoral votes.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


The surprising thing about Trump is that most of the people who have done substantial amounts of business with him




Is it most?  Or is it some, which is then fixated on by motivated reasoners?  The bank he was fined a half a billion dollars for defrauding said they were happy with the business they did and would do it again.  Disputes with contractors are normal and common; in my own limited experience I've seen both sides of it.  Is there a fair-minded reason to think Trump is notably worse than average for the industry?


Compare that to Obama who supposedly stiffed workers on, er, 100% of his construction projects, his presidential library.  A library whose workers are now unionizing to counter how badly they're being exploited and shortchanged.  Is that a fair description of Barak Obama?  Should that be the subject of 10k articles?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


They are not going to open the border because it would be extremely unpopular, even among Hispanics.




They essentially did this just four years ago.  There will be fig leaves about fake amnesty claims and naked lying and nevertheless tens of millions will come and be allowed to census and vote in blue states.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Strictly speaking, no one needs to do anything.  But a candidate who doesn't bother to respond or explain at all why they disappeared for two weeks with zero planned events until election day should certainly expect a lot of speculation.  That's "know you're cooked and giving up on the campaign" behavior.  It reminds me of Kamala, and her internal polling that never showed her in the lead even once, no matter what the public polls said.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
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				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


While Obama and GWB have fired some high-ranking generals, under Trump 10% of the top brass was fired or sidelined. I surmise this is not conductive to an atmosphere of honest feedback. "Mr Hegseth, I think engaging Iran on this scale will not result in regime change, but drag the US into a long-winding and unpopular war" is unlikely to be received very well -- probably he would tell you to get your testosterone levels checked because you are lacking the Spartan warrior spirit or something.




They already lied to Trump during his first term to keep doing shit they wanted to do in the Islamic world (Syria and Afghanistan).  I sincerely believe the Afghanistan pullout was deliberately sabotaged to punish Biden for taking away their medal farm.


And the fundamental question that the Hegseth shakeups are attempting to address is "Are these generals good at war, or are they good at slide decks that brownnose the right people and don't rock the boat"?  The core criticism is that for the last 20 years, the top levels of the military have, in fact, been running on vibes.  Directly disagreeing with your boss is, in fact, high-T behavior.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


John Mulaney earned a BA in English lit from Georgetown.




Doesn't he have a bit where he specifically cracks jokes about how he didn't do the work?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
They literally had a blueprint.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Doctor's notes are magical bureaucratic talismans, but politics is a street sport. People are too cynical for that nowadays.




Compared to "A journalist said that these stillshots of surveillance footage of a backyard that they say match the satellite images of Talarico's backyard show a non-birthing person with brown hair acting like they don't have the flu so he definitely wasn't in Ohio"?


A doctor's note isn't proof-positive, but it's more normal than whatever the hell that is.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Honestly what kind of middle aged adult even gets the flu for a week?




I actually did last January.  Maybe 3 days really bad, another two of "fuck it, I never do this, I'm calling out of work" and then a weekend lying low while my body finished recovering.  A week of feeling crappy is pretty unusual, but not unbelievable.  12 days and you didn't go to a hospital is the weird thing.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The thing is, he didn't even need to go that far.  A signed note from his PCP("James Talarico was in my office on this day") would have been enough, and providing a doctors note to an employer (AKA the People of Texas) for an extended absence is normal and could have been easily been played into a positive moment.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


That's just how twitter has always been. Show me the group and I'll show you the lies.




Remember when Netenyahu died?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


There is a demand for bad news and conspiracies about Talarico, but there just isn't enough supply to match




Brother, the man actually did disappear for two weeks in the home stretch of a Senate campaign with, at one point, not a single event planned until election day, and his campaign only offered a very late and very unbelievable cover story about the flu.  The NYT claims to have seen home video proving that.  You don't get to, though.  Nothing suspicious about that.  The screen shots of security footage have, since first shown to the NYT on Monday, been shared a bit more widely with the journalist nomenklatura, including CBS.




The eight timestamped images — which include watermarks from home security camera company SimpliSafe — appeared to have been taken from a camera in the backyard of Talarico's house in the state capital of Austin. CBS News matched features in the backyard to recent satellite imagery of Talarico's address. Though low resolution, the photos show a male figure with brown hair at various times of day and wearing different outfits.




So, he was sick as a dog with the flu, so sick that he couldn't even make Zoom calls or plans for future events, but he was up to puttering around in the garden at random hours in various outfits?  Well, at least some male with brown hair was.  He's willing to share home video footage, but not a statement from the UrgentCare he claims he went to, or a note from the PCP he claims he saw?


That's weird, bro.  Weird as fuck.  So obviously weird that you wrote all those words of Republican Pounce distraction.


Hey, speaking of partisan idiots leaping to conclusions that were too good to check, did you see MSNOW reporting that Kash Patel was secretly in Russia while he was literally on camera in Virgina?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


But the extreme left has a lot of high-T psychos like Hasan Piker or Che Guevara who would happily stand you up against a wall and pull the trigger.




Anyone who won a war before 1970 is a free space.  Piker though... every clip I see of the man he's whining and bitching and defensive and generally seems to be having a miserable time about it.  I would not call him high-T.  Not quite low either, though.  If I had to guess, it would be that he's been on a Clavicular-style famous rich kid cocktail of controlled supplements for so long that his endocrine system is just a disaster.


Plattner was the actual obvious choice.  God, I miss him.  I mean, good for the Democrats, it was the right call both for the country and for their party.  But he was the most fun candidate since OG Trump.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


but I do not think most leftists hate themselves




I honestly do think this is a major factor.  A significant number of the devoted leftists I have known personally seemed to be clearly using the ideology as a tool to displace their own self-loathing.  The general form goes something like "Whatever my flaws, I can't be a bad person because I support this noble cause.  My flaws are actually caused by this war and that lying son of a bitch Johnson systemic issues beyond my control.  Becasuse I'm one of the special Elect who sees that, not like the rest of the sheeple, I deserve absolution and near-total moral authority to judge others."


To be clear, I am talking here about the rarer group of proper leftists, people who would embrace a label at least as extreme as DSA.  I don't think I've observed that phenomenon in any regular old Parks&Rec progressives.


But there is a meme on the right that "leftism is a biological phenomenon", and I wonder what would happen if some of those guys went on T-therapy.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Nowhere here does the idea of replacement comes in.




It does when you consider how much they hate white people.  Your pitch here is the steelman in autarky.  They also think "less white people" is a good thing, and "less say in politics for white people", and other less savory things besides.




It is thus impossible to argue that changing the ethnic distribution of the population could be bad.




I predict that approximately 100% of leftists would say it was bad if an ethnic distribution became more white.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Trump voters would probably assume the guy is not a liar.




I don't dispute the term.  He lies to position people where he wants them, he lies to protect his ego, he lies to embelish accomplishments, he lies for pure showmanship.


The thing is, none of that is as bad as "if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor" style lies, much less the Kremlinist coming from actual leftists.