MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
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MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
6mo ago
I think some of it is a size issue. Reddit is so large that even a single forum on Reddit can have 15K followers, and you never get to know anyone. In the old forums, you’d have maybe 2K users, and you get to know them fairly well, and enjoy hearing what people I actually sort of know think about things. Or get advice from someone I know and have some sense of where the advice comes from. On bigger corporate forums, it’s less talking about an issue and more *decamping the reply button to get a short pithy response in that might, maybe be read but that would not get a response. In bigger places you shout into a void, you don’t really have a conversation.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
6mo ago
I think the anonymous thing is kinda a joke. You don’t even need that much “anonymous” datapoints taken together to figure out who someone is. The time and location where you post, the people you follow, the exact configuration of your browser, put enough details together and anyone with access can find you pretty easily.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
6mo ago
I mean unless you consider such things as assimilation, gainful employment, speaking the language as requirements for first-class citizenship a minor change, or required proof of criminal background checks for entry to be a minor change, we absolutely are talking about a major change here. Right now, basically if you manage to put a finger on the dirt of your chosen country, you’re in, and will be supported by the government of that country for as long as it takes for you to get on your feet (and given how good the benefits are, the immigrants aren’t in any hurry), with no requirement that even the bare minimum (speak the language, adapt to the culture, be a law abiding member of society) are required. Just show up.
Also, if you try to block by country, I think what will happen is that people will quickly spread the word and suddenly every person trying to enter from Central America will claim to be from Southern Mexico or Columbia or Venezuela or whatever they need to say to get it. They’re probably already lying about everything else, lost their passport (or never had one).
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
6mo ago
Most people to be honest don’t actually care about either one. The people who care, for the most part care for the reason that the prosecution on 1/6 is overboard and despite the whining from the status quo elites probably did almost no damage to the public at all.
What has done damage to the median American is the status quo. They’re paying a lot more for goods, having to tighten their belts. Often their city is less safe than in years past, and they’re more concerned with the education their kids are getting in their schools. I think even had the 1/6 event resulted in 4 more years of Trump, the general public would be much more concerned about mundane concerns like gas/food prices, indoctrination in schools, the money shipped to Ukraine, Ashville and the hurricane relief, and dozens of other real world concerns.
To be brutally honest, I think that very few people actually care what form of government they have or who runs it. What they want is peace, affordable living, safety, and freedom from too much intrusion into their private lives. If they could get that with democracy, they’d enjoy it, but if ending democracy made their material life better, they would not care.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
6mo ago
I’ve never understood people who believe that the purpose of backing up your images in any form wasn’t about anything other than Apple trying to become another entry for the Eye of Sauron. It’s a huge cost to create software whisking your photos into a server, labeling them etc. and at least according to theory, the idea is totally not to get the feds involved or to maintain privacy while doing so. Especially given that the bad solution they used to have was “what’s on your phone stays private on your phone because we don’t download it, look at it, or label it. It’s just crazy because doing nothing would have continued to give users the privacy that Apple claims to be all about, while protecting Apple from liability for not finding crime-think images. Now, because of the downloads, I could theoretically sue Apple for not catching images of my rape or of my ex holding a gun he then tried to kill me with — they have those images, they’re tagging them, and if they’re potentially hinting a crime, them not reporting it would risk them being an accessory to what was happening in those images.
Long story short, anything that doesn’t remain completely off the internet servers is public at this point and the only way to guarantee that is to use analog cameras and write on paper.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
6mo ago
Look, the reason Russia wants Ukraine (and keep in mind it was fine with an independent Ukraine as long as it stayed aligned with them rather than NATO/EU) is because it has no defensive border between itself and Ukraine. Us supporting the color revolution to create a Western aligned government, promising them eventual NATO/EU memberships, and selling them weapons is pretty darn close to what lead to the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. We were creating an armed hostile camp within striking distance of their border and then make a shocked face when Russia decides tha5 this is unacceptable. And again, despite all the rhetoric of “Russia bad an$ wants to invade every country on its border,” it’s not making those moves. The threat of “if Ukraine falls, everybody else gets invaded” doesn’t make any sense or at least no more sense than saying that the world needed to stop us from invading Cuba in the 1969s lest we also decide to invade Haiti, Antigua, and Dominican Republic. None of those states were security concerns for the USA at the time, and even the Russian were not worried that there would be invasions beyond Cuba. You can’t just park weapons along a border of a rival state and call them rabid for that either.
Now, further, other than antagonizing Russia, there’s no strategic value to Ukraine as an EU member or being under the protection of NATO. It’s a corrupt state, it’s chiefly agricultural, we don’t need more ports on the Black Sea (we have Turkey for that purpose). Assuming Ukraine had made it into NATO and the EU, what do we gain? What was in Ukraine that would be worth billions of dollars a month and risking nuclear war? I can see intervention in Taiwan. Having a huge chip manufacturing sector is valuable, we need that industry if we’re going to remain competitive in the 21st century. That’s an absolutely vital thing to protect. And my fear is that our ability to do anything when China makes a play for Taiwan is going to be greatly diminished because so much of our money and military equipment was sent to Ukraine, the public will to defend ye5 another invaded country will be spent, and we’ll be unable to do anything as China absorbs Taiwan and corners the market on chip manufacturing.
I think we need to be much more strategic about where we spend our blood and treasure. We cannot sustainably intervene in every conflict around the globe. And since we have to pick our battles, it seems muc( better to do so on the basis of vital security and economic interests rather than the emotional response to events. I just don’t see anything in Ukraine tha5 would justify us continuing to prop it up long after it should have accepted the loss of Donbas, and that’s generously assuming that there was ever any serious interest at all,
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
6mo ago
Ukraine should never have been given any inking of joining NATO. Had we left them alone and not supported the color revolution, there never would have been a war in the first place. We’re bleeding ourselves white to support Ukraine, a country with no vital security or economic value to either Europe or the US. Worse, we’re repeatedly crossing Russian red lines meaning that we’re doing all of this and risking nuclear war to do so. And Zelensky has long refused to accept reality and negotiate a peace plan — mostly because the man believes if he can just convince us to give him just one more weapons shipments, he’s going to take back Donbas and be a hero to his people. In reality, he can’t take back the land, because he’s down to running a draft by kidnapping old men off the street and shipping them to the front. He’s almost out of Ukrainian people to throw into the meat grinder.
All of the above is why us giving Zelensky endless money and weapons is a bad idea. This isn’t and never was our problem, and the only reason it ever became a problem is that we supported a revolution and then decided to dangle NATO. Membership in their faces. It doesn’t change the reality on the ground and it doesn’t change the enormous cost of this war. And it doesn’t give Ukraine anything that NATO needs
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
6mo ago
How many other countries has he invaded since the Ukraine war began? If he had any interest in other territories, why hasn’t he tried to take them?
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
6mo ago
The attitude that his war has anything to do with us. I don’t think it does, and in fact it’s hurting our other interests as we bleed our coffers to support a country too up its own arse to actually negotiate a ceasefire with Russia. He’s bleeding his country of men for pride, and insists that he needs our money to do it with.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
6mo ago
I’m not sure we should be involved in a “security guarantee, simply because it’s going to be an endless stream of aid given out to Ukraine and it’s not in our interests. We need tge money at home.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
6mo ago
It’s easy to get blinded to anything you don’t see on the daily. We’re becoming a low trust society without thinking about it because at least in the beginning, most of the rot is far enough away from the people who matter that they can afford to ignore them and simply not show people the problem. For the last 60 years or more there have been areas of America where people of means were urged to not go for safety. And for the last 30, we’ve been promoting sexual deviance on a scale that’s not really been seen before and now it’s creating insane results of kids being super sexualized at young ages, being so convinced they’re trans that they (enabled by the school system) are adopting new genders and being lead down the path to major surgeries that they can’t possibly understand well enough to consent to. We’ve promoted self esteem to the point that people no longer feel the need to improve themselves in any way. That’s before adding immigrants from places where they’re much farther down various paths to degenerate behavior or outright barbarism.
And I think a lot of people are noticing it a lot more simply because of the results of a low trust society invading their suburban enclaves. Now their stores are locking up expensive items because “Thou shalt not steal” is no longer an expected norm of behavior. Some of it is imported with immigrants, some of it is the rot of civilizational decline and the loss of norms that go along with it. But if you really want to get a good feel for just how close the frog is to boiling, go look at videos of city streets in any city in 1900 and the same streets in 2024. Philadelphia used to be a great place to live and you could walk the streets without fear. Now those same streets are boarded up and filled with fentanyl zombies and open air drug markets while the authorities say they can do nothing but distribute Narcan and clean needles. It’s getting worse, and while I don’t think third world immigrants are helping, I’m much more concerned at the moment with helping people to rediscover the pro-civilization memes that we used to take for granted.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
6mo ago
I think the idea of showing the west what some places are really like is important and ultimately red-pilling simply because the regular media only shows certain aspects of the countries we’re importing migrants from and only generally the positive. The South Americans of media are poor people who just want to be like us. They don’t talk about the drug gangs and the corruption and the murders. They don’t talk about the poverty, the lack of education, or the strange cults (santissima muerte for example). Undoubtedly this is true of MENA and the Caribbean, Africa, and South Asia as well.
I think honestly if we saw the end results of a lot of our “degeneracy” caused by our lax approach to education, productivity, permissive social norms, and embrace of sexual deviance we’d be much less okay with normalization of that kind of thing. Most of this is likewise hidden and we’re stuck trying to keep the lights on for the civilization with people less and less inclined towards doing the kinds of self control and work required to keep it all running, let alone building a future.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
6mo ago
I keep thinking about the posts both @urquan and I and FdB have been making about the death of middle brow in most things. It’s a need for balance because the high brow is obviously too high for most people to meet in any real sense unless you’re obsessed with that one thing and willing to devote huge amounts of time, effort, and often money into that thing, but the low brow seems to be “you can’t be perfect, so why bother to try.” I think both end up being at least somewhat of a problem because a society that teaches people to not put effort into anything will become the place where kids play video games instead of leaving the house, the place where nobody reads good books and thus cannot think in anything but obvious cliches, and the place where everyone wears bathrobes outside of working hours. On the other hand a society that requires super high standards for minimum participation is also one that shuts out the majority of people from getting involved in things that they might care about. If you need a phd to understand poetry, then poetry is closed off to most people (although I would argue that rap is poetry for normies) and nobody tries to write any.
I’ve found this In cooking. A lot of younger kids tend to think cooking is hard. The thing is, when you look at the recipes they’re doing, it’s insane. Multiple pots and pans, fiddly instructions, exotic ingredients, and so on. Of course they don’t want to cook, it’s been made complicated because the hobbyists have taken over and made dishes that taste great, but are so complex to prepare that most people give up and door dash instead.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
6mo ago
The upside is that such borders tend to be stable and since they fight to victory or defeat once the war ends the defeated are unlikely to continue rearming to retake territory that they lost substantial men attempting to defend or take. Once the war ends, it’s mostly over.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
6mo ago
I think the same. The old method of setting who owns what tended to resolve conflicts fairly quickly. Your lands are the ones you’re strong enough to keep. If you can’t they belong to whoever can. The reason so much of the world is stable is because their borders were formed before international busybodies could interfere in the natural order.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
6mo ago
Amazingly the version in which the median white person in the marriage is very likely to out earn the median black person.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
6mo ago
For some it’s definitely a benefit. But my biggest concern is that a lot of these diagnoses are not only not true, but believing them can take a normal person and turn them into almost a basket-case simply because the therapies designed for serious mental illnesses don’t work, but can make things worse.
Having a depressed person focus on the depression and focus on healing might help, but if you take a person with a case of tge blues and make them focus on their feelings and think about it as part of them, you create a worsening depression. The person had problems that could have been solved easily, but it got medicalized. Or someone with poor discipline and organization skills gets diagnosed ADHD and has an excuse for not doing what they actually could have done all along, but chose not to. Too much focus on feelings over getting things done just seems to take minor problems and turn them into something serious and long lasting.
The other problem in FdB’s “gentrification of mental illness.” Especially when an illness is deemed a part of ADA protections, Theres often a push for people with extremely mild versions of the symptoms (and I’m wording it this way because I’m not convinced that the vast majority of new cases are actually that disease) to get their diagnosis and use the ADA protection to get ahead in life. Or Autism. The people who really actually suffer from these disorders often end up falling further behind because the stuff intended to make it possible for them to live a normal life are handed to people with no such disorders who then use that help to get ahead of their peers, let alone the kids who have actual mental illness. Worse, those with the real thing often end up facing the stigma of being told that they’re not trying because some normal kid they know got diagnosed with ADHD and got a phd in something and so the reason you can’t keep an office job and remember to answer the emails isn’t the ADHD, it’s that you’re lazy or stupid or incompetent or whatever. No, the guy who got his phd wasn’t really ADHD, and the guy who can’t keep an office job is, and now he has to try to explain that to a boss. Or the actually autistic kid who can’t have normal conversations gets compared to a kid with “autism” who’s actually is just slightly shy. I know people with ADHD, real honest-to-God adhd, not the gentrified version, and they can’t keep a job easily even with medication because they have a serious disability.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
6mo ago
The thing is that most of these theories cannot help but run right into “movie physics” — things actual physicists and engineers generally know to be implausible if not to violate known physical laws. And they’re always discovered by people with almost zero known domain expertise (which makes sense as they seem to be making rather elementary mistakes) and so shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near the stuff they’re talking about or have access to information about these systems. It’s like the cook thinks he’s found a super secret beoring warp drive. No, that’s not how classified information works even in civilian stuff. If I’m not actually working on the project I don’t have access to anything.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
6mo ago
I don’t think so. The military isn’t going to let it out of the bag that they’re testing new technology. It would be silly in an age of global communication to say “hey, everybody, these aren’t UFOs. They’re super top secret military technology that we’re testing and calibrating our detection systems to recognize. Stop asking if it’s Spock.” And it’s also not inconceivable that military people might pretend to the public that they don’t know what’s going on. The lack of these things appearing anywhere other than US naval bases is rather odd, as it would seem like if I wanted to scare American military people, I’d want to go as deep into American territory and be over the most valuable military bases (which are probably Air Force and Space Force, not Navy). Furthermore, if they aren’t ours, I think our tolerance for them buzzing about our assets is probably pretty low, even if we didn’t shoot one down, we’d likely have a drone or two of our own pushing these things away.
Anti gravity seems a bit far fetched. It’s overkill for the purpose of getting these things airborne. If such a thing exists, it’s likely several million dollars a drone. There are dozens of these things. That’s not including fuel or power cells to support it.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
6mo ago
And I’d argue we both have a point. On both ends we have the dumbest possible people who show up to vote, people who can’t handle their own finances deciding on what they want in the budgets for the government to be like. Or people deciding foreign policy who can’t find the countries in question on a map. Monarchy at least allows for the experts to handle the issue under the direction of someone raised from birth to know how to run a government.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
6mo ago
I agree but for a different reason. Basically job hopping is endemic to the American labor market. Nobody trains because you aren’t going to keep the guy you trained, he’s just going to take that certificate and put it on his resume and be gone long before you recoup the costs of training him.
I used to work at a nursing home and it was this all day long. They foolishly had a training program for CNAs. People would take the trading and be gone within a month because they had something on their resume that was valued in the market. They go to a hospital and make the same money or sometimes more, have fewer patients and more PTO. It was stupid, especially since the company couldn’t protect itself from that kind of thing. Labor laws are such that you can’t insist that people you train stick around long enough to pay back at least the cost of the training. They were basically training the nurses for the hospitals around them for free. And this happens all the time. You train someone, and he gets poached. Then everyone stops trying to train and focuses on poaching from places that are still foolish enough to waste money training. Everybody then complains that entry level work doesn’t exist, but takes full advantage of the few entry level jobs out there.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
6mo ago
I think honestly we’ve made real convictions dirty words, often hiding behind rhetoric about nuance and tolerance and so on. A healthy culture has absolute convictions about itself and its place in the world. It doesn’t mince words in an attempt to curry favor with other people. It forthrightly declares that its ways are good, true, and right lives up to them and enforces them on others. Healthy Britain remade much( of the globe in a more western image — banning evil practices and forcing good practices, spreading her language and religion and folkways. They banned child prostitution in much of the globe and ending burning women on funeral pyres in India.
And this is exactly the rot, head down. We can’t talk about the reality of things happening in the world, or causes that we all intuitively understand but that are too impolite to say aloud. And therefore, no action can actually be taken. We can’t say that thug culture needs to be ended, or that Islam enjoins jihad and subjugation of infidels. We can’t say that maybe we shouldn’t be taking in millions with values inimical to our own values and pretending that they’ll assimilate.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
6mo ago
I will agree with you up to a point. Almost everyone in the West has long since abandoned the dispassionate search for truth. The problem being that truth is unkind. Most of the truth is unkind. The narrative denies that there can be bad cultures and that some should be at least reformulated into something civilized. It denies that talent exists, that not everyone is smart enough or capable of doing anything they want. It denies that some behavior should be condemned because it leads to terrible outcomes not just for individuals but for civilization as a whole.
I no longer believe in democracy because frankly it seems to lead directly to this rot. The credo of democratic politics is “your ignorance is equal to my knowledge.” The votes of people who actually know things are swamped by the votes of people who form opinions from Twitter, Bluesky, instagram or Facebook. It’s the ultimate in feels over reals, in which the key to getting into office is to lie convincingly. At least with a monarch you can teach someone to look to facts and listen to experts who have earned the right to have influence.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
6mo ago
I think the problem here is that this isn’t the 1940s and you aren’t your grandfather. There’s a reason why 19th and early 20th century Western leaders could change cultures and we can’t. They believed in their own civilization. They hadn’t yet been demoralized into tge pathetic people we are today. They still believed in the rightness of their ideas, their way of life, their culture. As such they’d have no problem in saying “no, you will not rape boys and if we find out you did, we have a gallows waiting.” They had no problem saying “no, you cannot teac( your kids that because it’s morally wrong to believe that.” Today, most people have been given enough sensitivity training that they’d never actually believe that kind of thing.
There are entire chapters in the Qu’ran about war, killing the infidels, etc. there are Hadith’s about the end of days that suggest that the rocks and trees will betray the Jews to slaughter by Muslims. We’ve been taught not to notice this stuff. We’ve been taught to not notice that Muslims treat women pretty badly. Or that being gay is a capital offense in almost all Muslim countries. If we’ve been taught not to notice, let alone criticize bad ideas and practices, the result is inevitable. We can’t say our practice of allowing women to drive cars and speak outside of their own home is better than their treatment of women. We can’t say our tolerance for people of other religions is superior to their theocracy.
Given that, I don’t understand how anyone believes it could have really gone differently if nobody in the position to run the country was willing to impose on them. Creating a culture that would be peaceful and not fall to fundamentalist Islam immediately would have required a colonial government willing to do what is necessary to remake the cultures. They can’t insist that people adopt better farming methods, or more efficient technology. All they can do is hold the country until they leave it.
I’ve always been skeptical about the argumentum ad hitlerum style of Western discourse especially in the international arena. It’s really meant as a cognitive kill switch, something that is meant to completely disarm any opposition to whatever war or war aid positions that the elite are taking at the moment. And the result of this style of argument is that to put it bluntly, it takes none of our business off the table once it’s invoked.
The real impulse behind the hagiography of the White Knight Westerners defeating basically Satan incarnate is a sales pitch to unaligned countries— we’re the good guys who defeated a crazy genocidal madman. And, thus, the pitch goes, you should join our block because we’re going to protect you and other weak people or groups. The first part is true— the holocaust is obviously real and happened, and millions were killed by it. The problem is the second part. We never actually cared about tge genocide except as propaganda. The USA never expanded its immigration quotas from Europe or made it easier for European Jews to flee to our shores. And likewise we made no effort to stymie the ability of the Germans to ship people to camps. We basically didn’t care at all. Our reasons for being involved were mostly political and economic. Honestly we’d probably have gone to war with Hitler even if he’d never attempted a genocide.
The problem is obvious. Because we’ve set ourselves up as the Empire of Freedom, Theres very little to keep us from intervening in a conflict that has nothing to do with us. Often dictators exist for a reason especially in unstable countries— they don’t have enough social trust to be able to coexist with other ethnic groups, so either you get a strongman or you get lots of intertribal warfare. Removing Saddam almost certainly set back the people of Iraq even if he was a brute as the alternative turns out to be Sunni brute’s murdering Shia brutes and society coming apart as people attempt to live in the chaos. In other cases, it’s a bad idea because any war will cost millions in treasure and a good number of lives — men either killed or maimed on both sides, infrastructure destroyed leading to civilian deaths, etc. and quite often the gain we get for this is small. Not every war is worth it (unless of course you’re in the arms business), feasible, or a good idea. But because of the anti Hitler branding of NATO, there’s no easy way to make tge case that maybe there’s no good reason for us to get involved in a conflict.
The second problem is that the meme is so deep in the Western mind that in order to question the current situation, you have to “deconstruct” the hagiographic narrative of WW2. And that often ends up meaning that people blame the Jews for the narrative, and in order to create the case for the “X=Hitler, therefore bomb the crap out of X’s country either directly or indirectly,” being wrong, it’s almost necessary to rehabilitate the Axis.
I’m more or less a political realist. My thoughts on war are: it has to benefit us in some way, it has to be probable that us getting involved will mean achieving the results that benefit us. To me this is simply a saner way to think about going to war. If it’s not going to create stability in the region, it’s not going to get us a good trading position, or access to minerals or oil or things we need to build our economy, or securing vital industries away from rivals, it doesn’t make sense. Dictator = Hitler is not a reason. Bad images on TV are not a reason.
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