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				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I just followed the advice of the guy above me and replaced Th with Ð.  That’s all I did.  If you think it’s Jamaican cool.  I like the idea of simplifying th3 phonetic system, and I think adding ć for ch and ś for sh would be cool as well (both come from polish)


But of course it’s probably never happening, so the kids will have to suffer digraphs.


Śe sold seaśells at ðe seaśore just looks cool.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Not only that the “tax the rich” thing only works until you start living on your own and get into a permanent job.  It’s popular with college kids because they don’t pay taxes and would get free money, essentially.  But once you see your first check at a full time salaried job and realize that you’re paying nearly 40 of your check to the government, the appeal of “gibs” goes down a lot.


It’s one of the biggest red pills that people get alongside having a child and owning a house.  Once you see how these things affect your life and family, you get cured of socialism really quickly because you realize that you are the one who will pay for it all.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Ðis is ðe way.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I don’t think there’s a window, but I think the limit comes with the complexity of texts that would hold the attention of a child that age.  First graders are fine with very simple stories using simple words and concepts.  A fourth grader wants to read more complex stuff.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think it’s less about the teachers and more about the kids.  Somehow teachers started to think that they need to be “entertaining” to get kids to learn things, so things that work (like learning phonics, or memorizing times tables, or memorizing the dates and people in historical events) but are boring for kids don’t happen.  Instead, there are a lot of silly but fun trendy ways of teaching— dramas, artwork, imagining yourself as someone in that event, etc.  they don’t work, but the kids have fun and that’s what matters especially for elementary school teachers.  Then the kids who don’t know the basics eventually reach a plateau and the methods that they could use to figure out what they don’t know are things they never learned to do.  Whole word and guessing based on pictures doesn’t work when you’re reading a dense textbook with no pictures.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think we’re largely on the same page.  I honestly think that most o& the trends end up hurting the below average kids.  And when adding in the reduced instruction time to make room for The Narrative, those kids are toast.  A smart kid can learn on his own so taking away class time for LGBTQ stuff or Black History or whatever isn’t a big deal.  If you have a kid who’s falling behind, he needs every second of help he can get.


Although to be honest, I think most of the problem of education is that we don’t track kids as many other developed countries do.  Every kid is put on the college bound track unless he specifically wants off, and the culture pushes college to an absurd degree meaning that unless they’re introduced to other tracks, the current will carry them to university and they won’t be able to keep up.  If you track kids, not only can you tailor the methods o& instruction to what best serves that group of students, but you can make sure that they end up with skills they can use to support themselves.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I mean, I think it depends on the person.  People in tech and entertainment want to be in California because those industries are centered in California.  That does create a certain demographic who wants to live in California because they’re wealthy enough to pay to live there.


Even in red states, you find people clustered in red areas around blue cities.  People want to work in the big cities because the high value industries are clustered in cities.  If possible, they prefer to live in red counties that surround those cities because it’s cheaper and has less crime.  And I think the reason for the people willing to live in California for those industries, it’s a combination of those industries being very lucrative and the relative distance between LA or San Francisco and the nearest available cheap red state housing.  In my area, you can live in bright red Arnold MO and commute to bright blue St. Louis in about an hour.  Most middle class people do that because it’s cheaper, safer, and easier than trying to live in the city.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think the idea that the states won’t ever do their own work in some form or fashion is false.  And this is the entire premise of DOGE — much of what the federal government is doing is not something it should be doing, and in fact so much of it has not only not helped, but has caused real harm. We have a Department of Education that not only doesn’t educate our kids, but wastes our money basically standing in the way of kids learning the very basic concepts they need to understand their world.  They’ve been pushing to waste limited class time on woke propaganda, and have pushed “trendy” schemes on schools that simply do not work.  They spend billions of dollars to basically stand in the way of kids trying to get an education.  Worse, they destroy the potential of those few kids who are thriving in schools by forcing them to learn at the pace of the slowest kids in the class.


Turning education back over to the states has some advantages.  Because the department is smaller, it simply doesn’t have the funds to mandate weird trendy ideas of education.  They need to have programs that work well and work cheaply.  No more sight words and guessing based on pictures, instead learn phonics and sound out the words.  No more new mathematical trends, use the stuff that has worked for generations.  Furthermore, because the state is much closer to the people, it’s not going to be able to get away with pushing propaganda that’s wildly out of step with what the citizens of that state believe, if they do so at all.  The citizens of Oklahoma want bibles in their kiss’s schools, they voted for that.  The people of California would push a more liberal ideology.  This is how federalism is supposed to work.  States are smaller and much easier to bring to heel by the voting population.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think you’d have to demonstrate that the program in question was of actual benefit to anyone in the public, and in far too many cases the benefits are: promoting progressive values, serving as safehouses for drug users, and occasionally providing something educational to a kid.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
This.  I use libraries occasionally and for the most part ours (fairly red part of the Midwest) are not super overt with the pro LGBT stuff, but it’s still, even in a red state there, and while I don’t have kids myself, I can understand the complete frustration that they can’t even take their kid to a library without having to police the area first to keep their young child from being exposed to sexual content.  And it’s only going to get worse if there’s no strong pushback.  I’m not sure that such a thing couldn’t be done by coming up with a sort of Hayes Code for books appropriate for kids under 16, but it’s very clear that something needs to change.  And Trump now has their attention.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I don’t think it’s going to be an easy transition, but I absolutely believe that schools need to go back to teaching the basics of literacy, numeracy, and scientific literacy.  One thing that tends to stop that is the rather large list of special interest topics that schools are required to teach, the educational trends that get pushed by tge bureaucracy, and the fact that all of this takes time away from the actual education kids need.


Just taking history for example.  Kids are graduating high school unable to tell you when very key events in American and world history took place.  They don’t know when the civil war happened, but we need to shoehorn lots of “specialty history” into the narrative to induce kids to believe The Narrative instead of making sure they know the names dates and actors in historical context for the major events in American or for that matter world history.


Or you could take literacy.  Kids are going off to college needing to catch up on reading and writing.  Kids go off to college in some cases having never read a nonfiction book.  They are used to skim reading a couple of paragraphs to find keywords and phrases but cannot go much deeper than that.  And writing is just as bad if not worse.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
To me the issue is that none of these calls are really about what they’re claiming.  It’s about creating a situation to be exploited by people looking to game tge system for people who are not even plausibly legal.  And it happens all the time.  Delay for extra discovery, delay for looking for documentation, delay by forcing the LEO to defend himself from baseless accusations that he didn’t follow every procedure to the letter.  A good defense lawyer can tie up a case for months on procedure.  And as the system crumbles under the weight of having to spend months on each case, you end up overcrowding the holding facility.  Annnnd we’re back to catch and release with almost no progress on the backlog.


If we want to actually deport some of the estimated 15-20 million people who snuck into the country over the last four years, you have to do so at a pace of probably 10,000 a day.  You can’t do that if everyone gets the liberal definition of a fair hearing.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’ll also point out that no prominent anti-Trump figures are denouncing those random calls for assassination.  I find little comfort in the fact that AOC has not called for an assassination when she also hasn’t called out those who have done so.  Nor has she said a single word about the attacks on Tesla dealerships or the harassment of people who own Tesla vehicles.  To me, this is a deafening silence signaling that while they’re unwilling to be brave enough to call for violence, they’re perfectly fine with violence happening.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I mean the issue here is that Theres so much hanging on the verbiage that I think there are gaping holes in our ability to protect ourselves.  There are lots of non-state actors who would love to be able to disrupt the United States.  And the loophole as I understand it is that as long as tge entity sending people into the country is not a legal state and the people sent are not legal members of a military organization, that there’s basically nothing we can do.  They can flood the streets with drugs, commit crimes, possibly even commit terrorist acts, and there’s no way to do anything.


Keep in mind that non-state actors can be pretty powerful.  ISIL never officially had a state, but it had effective control of a good chunk of MENA and carried out pretty horrific executions.  Al-qaida goes without saying.  Sinhola syndicate, MS-13.  These groups have effective leadership and often control territory.


I think to tie the government’s hands in dealing with gangs that have effective control over their countries of origin through corruption and outright violence just means that their problems are going to end up here.  Problems like drug cartels being able to control government officials (Plata o Plumba — silver (a bribe) or lead (aka killing you or your family)) are common occurrences in South America.  If the people who can do that in El Salvador do so American cities, that’s not a minor issue.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think eliminating the DoE would help a bit as it would stop funding trendy educational schemes that don’t work, political indoctrination, and other useless programs.  The money can be sent directly to the states and used for education, but not the bells and whistles the federal government wants.  This would mean that the schools can focus on literacy and numeracy and teaching science rather than worrying that the kids aren’t learning to be progressives.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
That just incentivizes people to have kids tge second they get here.  If you can’t deport when the illegal has American kids, you encourage people to cross the border pregnant and once the baby pops out, they get to stay.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The answer is not Twitter.  The answer cannot be exchanging one source of information for another because the actual problem is not the source of information.  It’s the meta-espistomology, how does one even begin to assess whether or not a statement is true.  And for that, you need to learn th3 toolset of thinking — formal logic, empirical reasoning, inductive and deductive reasoning.


The problem for liberals is not that they have bad sources of information, it’s that they generally reason from authority.  They take the pronouncements of the Cathederal on a given topic much like a Catholic would take the pronouncements of Pope Francis or Muslim would take a Hadith— the authority has said it, therefore it’s true, and I don’t need to check it out.  And even for a very good source of information, this is a terrible way to try to make it all make sense.


Secondarily, I think Twitter is a terrible source of information simply because it doesn’t have anything to think about.  It’s just millions of idiots screaming into the void about things they don’t understand.  There’s nothing to practice empirical reasoning or deductive reasoning on.  And the thing is if you can get someone to start using the toolset, you can get them out of their bubbles faster.  Get them trying to predict what else is true if X story is real and it’s harder to keep that person in a bubble.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I mean, at some point, it is an invasion.  We’re seeing them act to get millions of people across the borders, in some cases releasing them from prisons, and the resulting mess is causing material harm to us by draining our resources and creating chaos in our streets as many of them turn to gang activity to support themselves.  At what point does the USA get to call it an invasion?


I get that there are technicalities in the law.  Gang syndicates are not technically a country, even if they can take control over parts of their home country.  It’s not technically an invasion because they’re not in the military and don’t have direct orders from the home country to do this.  But it has the same kinds of effects.  We’re spending ourselves broke feeding this horde, and they’re causing crime rates to go up and filling our streets with drugs.  But all good, they don’t have official orders.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I don’t know that it’s a transformation of values.  Political parties are alliances, and you are trying to take the government or some other institution by force, and you can’t do that without numbers.  As such, you’ll take anyone you can get who will sign onto as many of your values as you can. At this juncture, the conservatives don’t control the means of cultural production (they have conservative media and explicitly Christian media, but this is fairly niche and doesn’t really set the cultural tone), don’t control any of education, nor do they control the deep state.


This is obviously a problem, and it’s going to take a pretty big alliance to move the needle here.  Purity tests only make sense after the victory, not before.  It’s actually the biggest tell that a group is a hegemon — it has the luxury of purging itself of those who do not agree with them.  If you can maintain control without heresy, you’re in firm control of the cultural battlefield.  Conservatives cannot make this mistake— if they start purging heresy before they get control over culture, education, and the government (and not just the elected government, the deep state is probably more important here) they’ll slide back into irrelevance and the left will go right back to preaching socialism and LGBT stuff and enforcing their agenda.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m not sure to what degree the founders would have contemplated an international crime ring that sells deadly drugs and enforces their terf with extreme violence.  Sure they’re not a state in the sense of a flag, national anthem, and Olympic team, but on the other hand by such a measure neither are, Palestine, Islamic State, Tibet, or Transnitria.  If members of a group affiliated with Hamas infiltrated the United States, then is the Alien Enemies Act out of the question?  Palestine isn’t a state per the UN, so Hamas isn’t the head of a recognized government.  So, could we do something here?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think this seems most likely.  The entire Epstein thing sounds like a blackmail operation with the goal of getting very highly placed people in a situation where you can easily threaten them by simply having their names on the list.  This is a list of people who flew to an alleged pedophile island.  And if there’s on thing that’s still career and basically life ending it’s being a pedophile.  How much would a person be willing to pay or do to not have their life ruined forever?  I wouLd imagine it would be a lot.  As to who Epstein is doing this for, no idea.  Could be Jews, Mafia, Russia, just about anyone.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 10, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think art and education are the critical components of gaining control of the culture.  Culture is the water you swim in without thinking about it.  So if I want to normalize an idea, I would absolutely want to push it into every bi5 of culture I can get away with.  If I want to normalize gays then I slowly inject that idea in every story told and song would be written about gay life.  If I wanted to normalize Buddhism, you’d see a lot of the heroes of your favorite tv series and movies and references the dharma and meditation and quotes from the sutras in your music.  Eventually you’ll not notice it so much, but it will affect you.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for March 16, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’ve noticed the same.  I think it’s somewhat negative because it doesn’t tell future historians what happened that day.  But I do like that it also makes it hard to spin.  The events of January 6 can be a riot, insurrection, protest, or a bunch of Karens whining.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 10, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It wasn’t a Twitter hate mob.  The thing is that in the case of Peterson, they basically got him turned out of university, forced him into choosing between “training in woke” and not being able to practice psychology.  And this wasn’t Twitter, a lot of the hate came from news media, political pundits, the students at his university.  Basically he was fortunate to have popularity with young men and thus could still earn a living.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 10, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think like everything else it goes in cycles.  The modern age (basically since the 1860s has been a time of Cthulhu swimming left, but there are other periods in which Cthulhu was swimming rightward. The rightward swings tend to happen in times of cris, but they do happen.