MadMonzer
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MadMonzer
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2hr ago
There was a police investigation into online death threats sent to supermarket heiress and feminist activist Caroline Criado-Perez which led to no prosecutions because the people sending the death threats were minors or doing it from outside the jurisdiction. The only cases which are both newsworthy and serious enough to prosecute involve a sane, adult, British man threatening a female celebrity.
PC David Copperfield devotes a chapter in Wasting Police Time to how he was expected to police non-credible death threats, writing from the perspective that they almost always involve teenagers, who will be let off with a caution if the case is prepared for prosecution, and that is in practice dealt with with informal warnings.
Sending credible death threats is something the police take seriously, but given that it tends to be criminal low-lifes threatening each other over drug deals, chavs threatening each other over chavettes, or chavs threatening their chavettes over general disobedience, it isn't newsworthy.
MadMonzer
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2hr ago
If you are over 50, I do not think getting a leather jacket will make you more attractive to hot Chinese spies.
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4hr ago
Why American?
The question of who Jared Kushner is working for is an interesting one, but the way to bet is that he is working for the people paying him. Based on the publicly available information, that would be the Saudis. If the book claiming that the Dutch managed to flip the Russian spy who had pwned Kushner's phone is correct (which I doubt) then the Emiratis are paying even more.
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4hr ago
As I understand it, an important part of any protection racket is that you do in fact protect people from outside groups as well as your own.
With the Ankh-Morpok Thieves Guild being the paradigmatic example.
An interesting question about the next 5 years or so in El Salvador is whether there is going to be a big increase in disorganised crime now that the gangs are unable to suppress it and Bukele's police almost certainly lack the necessary skills.
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5hr ago
Sleeping with a professional prostitute while married is a lot less socially harmful than keeping a mistress, which in turn is less harmful than leaving your wife to marry your mistress.
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5hr ago
"Switch sides and you don't have to keep fucking the kind of man who thinks he's still cool wearing a leather jacket at 63"
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5hr ago
Ethnic machine politics sucks, but my experience growing up in London in the Loony Left era was that public employee union machine politics sucks worse (my understanding is that SF and NYC are the main victims in the US). Ethnic machine politicians have a mandate to provide good public services to their ingroup, and the nature of urban local government is that often (but by no means always) means providing good public services that benefit everyone in the borough.
To avoid both you appear to need competitive partisan local politics, which is difficult in a world where politics is nationalised and urbanites and right-wingers consider each other permanent enemies on culture war grounds.
"I never thought the leopards would eat my face" says ethnic machine politician who delivered the bloc vote to the Face-Eating Leopard Party.
I have very little sympathy for Trump voters who are suffering because of Trump policies, but there are two groups which provoke negative sympathy. One is people who voted for Trump because Biden was insufficiently pro-Palestinian - I mean WTF, but they did. And the other is small business owners who employ illegal immigrants. What did you think "Mass Deportations Now" meant - vibes, papers?
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8hr ago
"Would Song China have industrialised if they hadn't been curbstomped by first the Jin and later Genghis Khan" is one of the great what-ifs of history. I am not a China expert, but based on schoolboy history they had high-trust commerce-supporting institutions (1), widespread use of water power (2), better metallurgy than the pre-industrial west (3), and underground coal mining (4).
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9hr ago
There are men who will be mostly honeypot-immune as long as their aging wife remains pleasant to be around, with no government-issue mistress needed. There are also men who will be mostly honeypot-immune as long as they have access to at least one woman who is pleasant enough, hot enough, and appears to be devoted, but are a risk as their wives age. (By all accounts Jensen is in this group). Government-issued mistresses might work for the second group, but given today's sexual morality what is really needed for both groups is government-issued second wives. (Late 20's, 9's, IQ about 10 points below the executive, pleasant and sexually available, give them short-hours NOC jobs in appropriate prestige fields like PR or arts administration).
A true horndog is not going to be kept away from the honeypot by providing alternative women - for this type of guy you can never have too many women. As pointed out elsewhere in the thread, they are probably immune to blackmail, but not to pillowtalk.
As a separate issue, my sources tell me that the training new high-level clearance holders get includes a warning about honeypots, and part of what they say is
- Even a wifeguy is unreasonably susceptible to a skilled honeypot if they are drunk and their colleagues don't intervene.
- A professional honeypot is more likely than not to spike your drink.
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10hr ago
Depends on the route. The easy way is a blackmail op with a professional sex worker doing the seducing and the spy holding the camera. That wouldn't work on Xu Bo because there is nothing to blackmail. But the Huang op looks like a hard mode honeypot where the spy does the seducing and the information you are after leaks via pillow-talk. That works even better on a man like Xu Bo.
I agree with @CertainlyWorse that the reason why the US (or another western country) can't do a hard-mode honeypot is that western culture doesn't allow us to ask a professional-class young lady to do that for her country.
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10hr ago
Yes - there is a period where your wife is overloaded with being a new mum and the only lovable thing about her is that she is the woman nursing your child. I was lucky enough to have three adults in the house for the first two weeks (I had paternity leave and my MIL moved in for the duration) but I can't imagine how tough it is being the second adult (grandparents are absent or acting like entitled Boomers) in a house with a newborn while also working full-time.
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10hr ago
Founder-CEOs are a single point of failure for their companies, and investors like it that way for a good reason. There are controls you could have in place that would detect a compromised CEO, but the type of controls that would prevent an undetected compromised CEO screwing the company/country/investors/future of humanity are not compatible with the benefits of a founder-controlled company.
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10hr ago
Ethnic Arabs/Muslims in greater Detroit voting for Trump over Gaza
I can't find links to regular blue white leftists doing this in the general - Google wants to keep sending me stories about blue white leftists not voting for Biden in the primary. But there are numerous press stories after the election, mostly featuring push polls by pro-Palestinian groups claiming that voters staying home over Palestine cost Harris the election.
Dem post-defeat analysis says Gaza did cause people to stay home
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20hr ago
And notice how the left wingers would never, ever, even once, encourage someone to stay home or vote for a Republican.
Radical pro-Palestinian activists were doing exactly that in 2024. "Genocide Joe" was the meme.
If MTG runs, and I think she will, then she dominates the "right-populist conspiratorial, but thinks Trump is part of the elite conspiracy" lane. I don't think there is room for both a social conservative and a libertarian in that lane, and I think most voters who fit the description would vote for the social conservative other things being equal. In addition, I think MTG beats Massie on online clout and TV charisma, but I am happy to defer to the Motte's actual Republican primary voters on this point.
I do think that the Libertarian Party should snap up Massie if they want to be semi-relevant again.
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1d ago
Although the Nazis did engage in industrial extermination of their own citizens, it was a sideshow - only about 200k Holocaust victims came from Germany proper. The largest groups killed were Polish and Ukrainian Jews.
In other words, the Holocaust was mostly a massacre of conquered populations - something which you suggest is a normal incident of might-makes-right.
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3d ago
Why would Israel choose the daughter of a known Mossad asset
They didn't. If Epstein was Mossad, his initial handler was Les Wexner and not Ghislaine Maxwell. Again assuming the theory is correct, Epstein's network became important enough to have a cabinet level sponsor, who was Ehud Barak.
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3d ago
new cars costing between $40-$70k
US MSRP for a new Toyota Camry (which was the best-selling car in America as late as 2020) is in the 29-36k range depending on trim level.
The reason why new "cars" cost a lot more than they used to is that Americans have normalised buying a light-duty truck as their "car". @Tretiak thinking that "cars" cost 50% more than a Camry and that this is why normie-Americans are feeling the economic pain is evidence for any or all of the standard vibecession theories:
- The economy is fine, kids nowadays just need to learn frugality
- The problem is rising inequality, not stagnant incomes - normie-Americans are hurting because their neighbours can afford pickups.
- Social media is making people more envious because people are more likely to post (and the algorithm is more likely to amplify) their
And for my snarky theory, which is that America is a country where personal physical safety is bought in a zero-sum auction. Elites seem to think this is normal, but it generates permanent economic anxiety among the middle class of a type that doesn't exist in countries with less crime, safer roads etc. "A car large enough to feel safe letting your kids in given that a moron could crash into you any time" is defined relative to the other cars on the road, so the morons being able to buy pickups with 7-year subprime auto leases directly raises your cost of living.
Even if one (or more than one) of these theories is true and the American economy is actually fine (official statistics say it is, and it is definitely doing better than other countries with similar or lower levels of normie economic anger), saying so is of course a voter-hostile position of the type that tanked the Dems in 2024 and the Reps last week.
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3d ago
I agree with you that social contagion (and especially social media contagion during the lockdown) drove the increase in the number of young people self-identifying as trans, and that social media censorship (and selective algorithmic amplification which isn't technically censorship) is a major piece of how the whole trans thing happened. But I don't think control of the White House drives social media censorship as much as you say it does. The big social media censorship scandals, including the trans ones, started during Trump's first term, and the evidence you link to says the trans thing peaked in 2023 when Biden was still in the White House and the Dems were still just about favourites to win in 2024.
In so far as the social media environment has changed in a way which means it no longer artificially boosts transactivists, it has a lot more to do with (in roughly descending order of importance)
- Tumblr (which was always the spiritual home of this stuff) going down the toilet for other reasons, probably the December 2018 porn ban
- Musk buying Twitter and changing censorship policies
- Tiktok taking mindshare from sites moderated by Americans who cared about the American culture war
- The snit over Musk buying Twitter leading to Bluesky acting as a containment vessel for very online left-wing crazies such that the sort of person who would have been a Tumblr transactivist in 2018 was now on a site where transable normies were not.
In 2026, the only site where trannyjannies rule and normies still visit is Reddit. As far as I can see, the only normie-friendly site which might still be run by trannyjannies if Harris had won in 2024 is Facebook, even that feels like a longshot, and in any case I don't think filtering retarded Boomers' social media feeds is a could way of transing teenagers.
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4d ago
The Department of Energy's actual job is to maintain the US stockpile of nuclear warheads.
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4d ago
People involved at the time thought that OWS and the Tea Party (and the rise of Ron Paul libertarianism at roughly the same time) were blue-coded and red-coded wings of the same movement - a bipartisan anarchist/libertarian-coded populist revolt against bank bailouts and the non-punishment of the morons who caused the 2008 crisis. Obviously this ceased to be plausible after the Tea Party became a mostly anti-Obamacare movement.
I don't know if there was a time when this belief was accurate or not. But I don't think it is fair to say that OWS was a reaction against the Tea Party - it was a reaction against the same establishment failure that the Tea Party was reacting against.
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4d ago
"You can't afford beef any more, so don't buy it" is good advice if true. It is also an admission of failure coming from someone whose job it is to ensure that Americans can afford beef.
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4d ago
And the good kind of pain in the arse, in that it is more painful for criminals than for tax evaders and more painful for tax evaders than for law-abiding citizens.
On the other hand, the unspoken contract between foreign criminals and tax evaders and the US Treasury that means most of the world's dirty money is stored in boxes of Benjamins despite 1000 CHF notes having a higher value-weight ratio (and probably lower inflation to boot) is worth something like 5% of US GDP, so it might be a bad idea to rat on it.
As someone who has moved in with the woman I was sleeping with, it's a great idea for many obvious reasons.
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