MadMonzer
Temporarily embarassed liberal elite
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MadMonzer
Temporarily embarassed liberal elite
9hr ago
we insist on...
What you mean "we", kemosabe? The people who think that transwomen get real periods are laughed at in public by normies and in private by other transactivists.
MadMonzer
Temporarily embarassed liberal elite
10hr ago
Part of the problem at the top end of the US prestige pyramid is that the Ivy+ schools always knew they were finishing schools, but at some point (I think the 1990s) they decided that "finishing" the next generation of elites meant indoctrinating them in a particularly stupid form of left-wing "anti-oppression" politics, and not only (or even mostly) in the classroom.
What that got us was an elite that lie about their privilege and claim to be oppressed victims, and take it seriously when other elites do the same thing. Increasingly including conservative/Republican/red tribe elites.
MadMonzer
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10hr ago
Naftali Bennett is already trying to take advantage of the collapse of the Israeli left to realign Israeli politics based on an alliance between right-wing patriotic secular Jews and Modern Orthodox patriotic religious Zionists, as opposed to Netanyahu's coalition which is increasingly based on an alliance between MO and the Haredi parasites.
Given the widespread view in Israel that Netanyahu should have been able to prevent October 7th, he is likely to succeed.
MadMonzer
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10hr ago
Also extending the lifespan of the British monarchy by 1000 years by trying to ban secular Christmas celebrations.
MadMonzer
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10hr ago
Your regular grandma did not read Augustine, she probably could not formulate elaborate theological arguments, but she knew what is a man a woman or what is marriage based on age old culture influenced by specific ethos.
Most Motteposters grandmothers will be of the Silent Generation, which is the generation that effectively invented modern divorce. Your regular grandma grew up in a society where marriage was for life, but participated in the process (1/4-1/3 of the time by frivorcing her husband herself, but in almost every case by treating her contemporaries who did so as respectable women making a praiseworthy life choice) of making it for as long as both members of the couple still feel like it. Almost nobody complained - and in particular the social conservatives who should have done mostly didn't. (Reagan signed no-fault divorce into law as governor of California).
If your grandma actually did something to preserve the age-old view of marriage, then she was an outlier, not a regular grandma.
MadMonzer
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12hr ago
there are both red and blue tribe conservatives
Per Albion's Seed (see also multiple SlateStarCodex posts explaining the theory with explicit application to the US culture war) the Red and Blue tribes (as tribes - the political coalitions are broader) originated with different Protestant denominations. If you are a believing Catholic who takes the unProtestant bits (particularly Papal primacy, but arguably also the Catholic view of the sacraments) seriously then in my view you are not Red or Blue. Certainly you are a profoundly non-central example of Red or Blue. (The same applies to serious believers in any other non-Protestant religion, but not to secular/Conservative/Reform Jews or cafeteria Catholics who are assimilated into the surrounding post-Protestant secular culture).
MadMonzer
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1d ago
Carful training ensures plane speech and prevents carlessness. Carless speech can get you boaten up.
I can't go into a supermarket novel aisle without seeing three full shelves of romantasy novels about plucky young women with magical powers drawing the obsessive affections of foreboding but ultimately caring men. So where are the novels about clueless but good-hearted losers reincarnating into rpg worlds with a special skill that makes them irresistable to a harem of ninja babes?
May I recommend Yudkowsky and lintamande's Planecrash for over a million words of mostly-accurate maths, crank decision theory, explosions, and BDSM isekai geek harem fantasy, including about three quarters of a million words of damn good writing.
MadMonzer
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2d ago
planely
In this case, it is especially important to speak planely, and not carly.
MadMonzer
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3d ago
And other disgusting traditional Pushtun practices. I'm not sure whether Bacha Bazi was the most important, or just the one which made most sense to western audiences seeking an explanation for Taliban popularity.
The modern argument about how Abrahamic religion handles male homosexuality is odd because both sides' core claims are correct.
- The trads are correct that the holy books of all the Abrahamic religions condemn all forms of male-male sex, that if you give the key passages (the so-called "clobber passages" in the OT and NT and equivalents in the Talmud and hadith) their simple, obvious meaning the condemnation is unequivocal, and there is nothing else in the holy books that would suggest not giving the clobber passages their simple, obvious meaning.
- The LGBT lobby is correct that the actual historical practice being condemned by these passages at the time they were written (i.e. the machismo-based homosexuality of which Bacha Bazi is the Pushtun manifestation, and which while not universal was a cross-cultural default before Abrahamic religion) looks nothing like 21st century gayness-based male homosexuality, creating a colourable "originalist" argument that the original intent of the clobber passages doesn't extend that far.
Given the long-standing theological argument about higher criticism, the Christian trads (definitely) and the LGBT crowd (probably) are interpreting the Bible correctly according to their own standard interpretive methodologies.
MadMonzer
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3d ago
Most men are similarly repelled by the idea of fucking other men's asses.
In a Western culture where Abrahamic religion has had 2000 years to suppress all earlier moralities, I agree that this is true. I don't think it is a human universal - there are a lot of cultures where men who consider themselves straight would have no issues dicking another guy. Ancient Greece, obviously. Bacha Bazi in Pushun Afghanistan is another notorious example.
MadMonzer
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4d ago
absolutely not "philic" of the sort of European who loves soccer.
The era when European association football was tied to working-class masculinity (which was also the heyday of organised hooliganism for obvious reasons) is now in the past, and never existed in the first place in large parts of Continental Europe - including Spain.
MadMonzer
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6d ago
Admitted. I meant that there is no University office of dean analogous to the American one, but the Colleges do indeed have deans.
MadMonzer
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6d ago
If, as your post claiming victory states, the end result is:
- The mullahs are in power
- The Iranian HEU stockpile is just as buried as it was after the 12-day war in 2025
- The Strait of Hormuz is open
then the political situation is status quo ante, which means that the war is a draw, regardless of the battlefield results. More American rockets successfully exploded in Iranian targets than vice versa, but even when an American rocket explodes in an Iranian target, that represents both Iranian and American shit exploding to the net geopolitical benefit of Russia, China, Turkey etc.
MadMonzer
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6d ago
They shouldn't be. I'm considerably more pro-immigration than the median Mottizen, and I think that family reunification immigration for extended family members (including for extended family members who are also spouses!) is bad policy.
The legislative history of the Hart-Cellar act suggests that the idiots who wrote the legislation thought that allocating most of a capped quota of green cards to family reunification was a backdoor way of preserving the pre-existing ethnic mix in America without national-origin quotas.
MadMonzer
Temporarily embarassed liberal elite
6d ago
CIS is slow to approve applications for visa renewals, and the timetables are sufficiently unpredictable that "it's your problem and you should have applied for a renewal in good time" is Kafkaesque advice.
Legal immigrants who end up temporarily out of status pending a visa renewal are mostly victims of unintentional bureaucratic fuckery. Requiring them to leave the country and wait for an unpredictable length of time for the government to handle paperwork defeats the purpose of whichever law let them into the country in the first place - the historical policy of not deporting people with pending visa renewals exists for a very good reason.
Using bureaucratic fuckery as a deliberate tool to reduce legal immigration is a maximally harmful way of accomplishing something that could be done more effectively by issuing executive orders to CIS to deny more marginal visas, and even more effectively by changing the law to close the legal immigration routes that shouldn't exist. It was a proposal in Project 2025, which even suggested impounding IRS funding to deliberately slow down processing and create this kind of situation.
Get them all.
IS the claim here that every legal immigrant deported is good for America? Would it have been good if Elon Musk and Melania Trump had been deported when they were temporarily out of status?
MadMonzer
Temporarily embarassed liberal elite
6d ago
and activist Gerrard Winstanley, leader of the so-called Diggers
Commemorating the Diggers (a radical group who appeared in the immediate aftermath of the English Civil War and were violently suppressed by Cromwell) as proto-communists is straightforwardly correct.
MadMonzer
Temporarily embarassed liberal elite
6d ago
How does one waste four months of investigation on this?
Walter Mitty: Cops, Cops, Freddie Starr ate my hamster!
PC Plod (to Freddie Starr): Hello, hello, hello. Did you eat the hamster, Freddie?
Freddie Starr: No
PC Plod (to Walter Mitty): We spoke to Freddie Starr and he denies eating the hamster.
Walter Mitty: He did too!
PC Plod: Can you help point us towards any evidence?
Walter Mitty: No. But if you let Freddie Starr eat my hamster and get away with it I'll call you Xist.
PC Plod: Okay. We will try to investigate this and see what happens.
PC Plod fills out an "Opening of Investigation" form. Given the 300 other forms he had to fill out this week, he doesn't have time to investigate anything
Four months later
Sergeant Simple: The Inspector is going to be checking our paperwork soon. What did you find in the Mitty/Starr investigation?
PC Plod: I didn't even find the hamster.
Sergeant Simple: Then close the investigation with no crime.
PC Plod fills out a "Closure of Investigation - No Crime" form.
The point of the OT prohibition on cross-dressing is that the two sexes should be visually distinctive so you can tell from a distance whether you are dealing with a man or a woman. The practical application of this rule is easy in almost all cases.
For example, male and female Highland dress are completely different, despite both involving a skirted bottom.
Similarly, although some women wearing trousers are doing so to be deliberately androgynous, nobody could think a Hilary Clinton pantsuit was anything other than ladieswear and a man wearing one would be cross-dressing.
In the context of western culture, "men only wear a skirted garment as part of full traditional Highland dress, and women only wear a garment with divided legs when doing work or sports for which a skirt is unsuitable" is a good fence around the rule against cross-dressing which I find broadly reasonable if you accept the rule.
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