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				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 7, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Also, isn't Germany still effectively funding Russia via Green energy policy?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 31, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
In fairness, that was a longtime friend who went trans (and far left) for what I'm pretty sure was 99.9% projection/ego defense reasons.  This gets to be a thorny issue because I think people go trans for a large number of different reasons, and that particular individual did so for perhaps the worst one (e.g. "It's not my fault that I'm an alcoholic domestic abuser because I was being repressed by society but now I'm a heckin' valid woman with a clean slate and a moral blank check!")


The only other trans person I have regular contact with IRL is a lot more sane and chill.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 31, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The reality was an eyeroll and a snicker, and they managed to convince themselves it was a threat of violence over a 30 second period of histrionic catastrophizing.  Repeatedly describing the experience, but in more and more extreme terms until the version they were describing bore no relation to the experience as seen by anyone else.  It was alarming, not just that it happened, but how quickly it spiraled.


That game of solo telephone was a bit of a recurring issue with that person.  "Surreal" is a good adjective.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 7, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
There are suggestions that BSW is considering breaking the firewall and forming a majority coalition with AfD.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 31, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I have personally seen IRL a trans person straight up hallucinate violent threats from blue collar working class people.  The worst actual responses from that class are more like this.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for September 4, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Julian sighed— "Alas, our ancestors were barbarians, Medes; and the sluggish blood of the North flows in my veins. It is true, I am no son of the Hellenes!"


"My friend, Hellas has never existed," murmured Maximus, with his old bewitching smile.


"What do you mean?" asked Julian.


"The Hellas that you love has never existed."


"Do you mean to say that my faith is futile?"


"We are only to believe," answered Maximus, "in what is not, but shall be. Your Hellas shall exist, shall be the reign, the kingdom of divine men, men daring all things, fearing none."




To make it even more on the nose, Julian ultimately died while fighting a military campaign against Persia.




Iran is not Persia.  If they wish for triumph, honor and glory, then they should heed the wise counsel of RomanHelmetGuy and embrace that ancient name anew.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 31, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Or is it just 'existing in a way that wasn't part of what I learned when I was little'?




FWIW, that does constitute a (minor) harm.  Social friction isn't cost-free.  Shared norms and expectations lubricate every interaction you have with other people.  What hydroacetylene is talking about here is just the most stark gap in American culture.


In 2019 there was a list of "murdered trans people this year" going around.  I was skeptical, because there was a similar list of purportedly murdered gay people from a few years earlier that was entirely made up names, so I started searching.  The trans list was real.  Most of the names had local news reports about the murder.  And as nearly as I could tell, every single one where the offender data was known was a case of a trans sex worker murdered by a black john.  Because in that specific American sub-subculture, finding out that your whore has a dick is an insult and status-loss that is worth killing to redeem.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 31, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


If the juror is acknowledging there is reasonable doubt but voting to convict that's pretty different.




Perhaps it was "Yes, there is reasonable doubt by MA statutory law, but that law is insane".  That would be pretty standard nullification.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 31, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The core difference is ease of verifiability.  In aerospace, either the plane flies at the intended speed and fuel economy, or it doesn't.  You can just check.  And if it works, it'll pretty reliably work almost all the time forever.


Medicine and psychiatry are, as you said, investigating the most complex organism we care about while hogtied by ethical concerns.  This makes it much easier to get away with publishing papers that just don't mean anything at all.  Who is going to fight through an IRB to check?  Will the (n=25) replication attempt even matter?  If so, will the results of some general study specify out to any particular individual with their own mix of genes and hormones and enviroments and everything else?


Like I said, there are definite successes.  The comparison to homeopathy is unfair.


But so is the comparison to aerospace.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 31, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
If this goes to a retrial, I wonder if the defense will have difficulty finding women in MA who aren't on TikTok.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 31, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I've banged the drum on this being medicine and psychiatry not psychology half a dozen times.




Medicine is a significant step down in reliability from aerospace engineering.  Psychiatry even more so, again.  Not to the level of homeopathy, not to the point where there are no successes, but both fields contain a lot of bad research.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 31, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


who have no financial incentive




Aren't expert witnesses usually paid?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 31, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Because people just do instead of talk.  My high school daughter watches her young cousins all the time so my sister and brother-in-law can have some time off.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 31, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Eh, if you want to talk about a news story but can't summon up two paragraphs of things to say about it, just wait for someone else to do it.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 31, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


“One of our friends in particular had plans that didn’t involve being unceremoniously fired while on paternity leave, just 9 days after the birth of her second child.




What is happening with the gendered nouns here?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 24, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
My middle school aged son, who has never shown any interest in politics whatsoever, knew who he was, had seen some of his videos, and thought he was a "pretty cool guy".


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 24, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
AIUI, his ground game among young voters was considered very important, but in a way that wasn't really appreciated openly until after his loss.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for August 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Getting really sick of the enshittification of Google Maps.  Any good alternatives that don't autistically warn me to "stay on the current highway in 0.5 miles" and then decline to mention that my exit ramp is 200ft futher on?


Or provide useful and accurate information about which lane I should be in?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 24, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I've mostly seen people speak of Tracey approvingly for his aesthetics.  He looks like an old-school "real" journalist, aka like he just woke up hungover and still drunk in yesterday's clothes to stand outside the Substack convention demanding Jim Acosta come face him like Achilles challenging Hector.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 17, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


A lot of the economy has already been separated from what is required to survive.




It provides a value that can be traded for what is required to survive.  I think you underestimate the psychological impact of being wholly redundant and superfluous.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 17, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


If a public official think that's important enough to break the law and misuse his authority for, then he should do the time.




I agree, but I don't think that's what anyone else in this conversation was discussing.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 17, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I think this is a lot of cope. If we didn't have washing machines I think a lot of people might derive a sense of personal definition from being responsible for keeping people's clothing clean.




There is a difference between less tedious busywork and having no contribution to your own upkeep.  There is a reason there is a death spike shortly after retirement.  It's hardly crazy to suspect we have relevant instincts here.  The survival advantage is obvious.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 17, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
In the logic I'm talking about they are not breaking the law.  They are applying it selectively and vindictively.  The lowlife murdering rapist is not a challenge to State Power the way a vigilante is.  Your logic would hold if the failure to punish criminals were the result of a loss of state capacity.  What we're actually suffering IRL is a loss of state will to punish lowlife criminals precisely because they are lowlife criminals.  And also racism, etc.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 17, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I have an easier time believing that the claim is genuine if the person making it is willing to face the music afterwards, and it puts some sandpaper on the slide, too.




The State that would make vigilantism justifiable is the State that would brutally punish the vigilante regardless of the merit of their claim.  The common term for this is "anarcho-tyranny".


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for August 21, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
That is not what bottom bitch means.