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				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Arguably this could be a result of more excitement and attention over the election.




Attention and excitement resulting in something like a 10% swing in favor the the incumbant after just giving the opposition party supermajorities in both legislatures 20 days before?


What do you think happened in those 20 days that caused such a massive swing?


On an unrelated note, Judge Voldemort has already demanded Bolsonaro the Younger surrender his passport to keep him from "fleeing".  I can't wait to hear all the norms-enjoyers have a very principled crashout about that.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Saw numbers that Lula's increase from the first round is more than the total number of votes cast for every other candidate that was eliminated in the first round.  On top of Bolsonaro gaining a modest increase in total votes.  So yeah, apparently over 100% compared to the last round of "mandatory" voting.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
That was just pointless pettiness.  You could do the same thing with better deniability just by playing games with permits or construction timing.  Even worse, it backfired a millionfold.  It's been too long to remember the specifics, but there were stats being thrown around like "Network news spent more time talking about BridgeGate in a single day than they did Obama's IRS targeting scandal ever."


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for October 25, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
2016:  Very lazily worded wish that Donald Trump would be the Republican nominee and "lose the vote".


2024:  Very precisely worded wish that Donald Trump would be "shot in the head".


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


What stops men from writing stories where they're already wonderful and people just don't realize it?




This is called "OP MC aurafarming slop".  It's very popular in niche online publishing.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The specific baby issue he's talking about is much less of a thing for boys.  Their secondary orifice that you really want to make sure isn't getting feces in it is much smaller and more removed from the primary expulsion orifice.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It's actually the term for when you've had so much cyberware installed that you experience severe psychological symptoms.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Sometimes you need to yell at your friend for being a fucking idiot.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I'm pretty sure the steelman, such as it is, if we're going to stoop to calling it that, is "We got the attack in first, playing defense about specific facts and credibility is a suckers game."


See, for reference, the Cornell rape case.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The best thing about Project 2025 was that absolutely no one read it, so you could just say it had anything in it and people would believe or reject on pure tribalism.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


propaganda






in order to discredit them.




Are you claiming that the actual beliefs of real trans advocacy organizations are propaganda lies meant to discredit them, comparable to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion?


Do you really not get the distinction people are drawing here?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


this is often genuinely a cover for a veiled accusation that the activists are only telling kids to transition because they get some perverse sexual thrill from doing so, or even because they want to physically molest the kids they initiate.




Not necessarily sexual.  Back when LibsofTikTok was just posting videos of libs talking to their own kind, there was a recurring archetype that I'll roughly sketch.  Imagine a woman in her late 20's.  She has a degree in education, a boring real life and a rich inner life.  She posts videos talking about making her classroom a safe space, and a mild cynic could easily come to the conclusion that she really, really wants that experience of the "safe space" being necessary.  That she believes that "school" is the setting for a drama anthology in which she is the main character, guiding and saving 22-26 desperate young people per year from repressive, intolerant, conservative parents.


The thing is, there just aren't that many gay kids.  In a class of 20, she'll have maybe 2, and the odds of a terrible dramatic confrontation with the family where they have to seek help from their favorite English teacher that comes to a head in exactly that year is much, much smaller.  How often can that really happen?  Thrice in a career seems like a high estimate.


And yet a lot of teachers seem to be hyped as fuck at any hint that they get to do a big dramatic Very Special Episode type shit, just like the movies.  That's why they got into teaching you know, and not because they're a lower-midwit who was afraid to leave a comfortable environment.


Objectively speaking, there are millions of teachers and only a few who post videos on TikTok giving the impression that if there aren't enough dramatically crying trans kids then they'll make them, but there are enough for a Twitter account to find a few every week for a year and make the meme well known.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Florida seems to collect those property taxes and then disburse them back to the local governments.  The state itself seems to be doing very well, fiscally.  $3.8bn budget surplus, paying off debt ahead of schedule, well funded Rainy Day Fund.  They also seem to get most property tax revenue from rental properties and second homes, which don't get the homestead exemption.


Might be they actually can just eat the loss in revenue to reward the people who actually live there.  Perks of a competent government.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


This is because everyone perceives masculine occupations as cool and important




Some male occupations.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for October 18, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Thoroughlygruntled mentioned the Mayweather/Pacquiao fight.  I actually bought the PPV for that one and had people over for it.


Holy shit, what a boring disappointment.


I've never been into boxing.  I used to watch UFC, in a "get drunk with the boys on Friday night" kind of way.  They were fun.  They were exciting.  There was passion.  I remember one, can't remember the fighters, but it was two big strikers slugging it out, literally clapping for each other after getting rocked in the face.  Just sheer love of the game.  The worst of those fights was more exciting than watching Mayweather's extremely technical, pointsmaxxing "I take a Full Defense" every single round.


Based on that limited sample size, I think the problem may be more of an increase in skill and strategy, at the cost of heart and valor.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for October 18, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) belongs to an "all white + jews" club.  He's very serious about systemic racism, but he just keeps forgetting to check and see if the private, exclusive club he belongs to has admitted any brown people yet.  Stop snickering.  It's [D]ifferent.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Or as Heinlein phrased it, "A horse can make another horse, but that's a trick a tractor never learned."


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Even the very left-wing reddit absolutely loves the scene in Roseanne where Dan beats the shit out of the guy who abused his sister-in-law.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				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.