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				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 11, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It’s not even that great then.  Unions are a huge reason why America is no longer manufacturing things to the same scale it was.  It’s orders of magnitude cheaper and easier to simply build the plant in Mexico or Southeast Asia than deal with the overinflated wages and poor work ethic of union employees.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 11, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
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So the Republican speaker of the house has decided to open an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden’s business dealings with hunter.  I have serious doubts that this will go very far as democrats still control the senate.  This looks like an attempt to stir up the base for re-election season.


I personally see this as a big distraction as we have a lot of very serious problems that need to be addressed.  BRICs, Taiwan, Ukraine, inflation, and


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 25, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m not sure.  As in the sense of using demographic data, it doesn’t appear so.  That doesn’t mean you can’t build a psychological model, or notice dress or behavior that’s more common with shoplifters than the general public.  I see a guy in a big bulky puffer jacket in June, I’d bet on him being a shoplifter.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 8, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
If the guy was still flailing it’s reasonable to assume something bad would happen if he let go as well.  I mean I think he was trying to keep the guy from attacking other people and until he’s not struggling I can at least understand why that might make penny think he’s just getting more pissed off.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 1, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think it’s on the right track.  I see the current voting system as a travesty because it no longer requires that you have any stake in the continued success of society.  The old version was owning property, and it worked pretty well for the simple reason that if you owned property in a community, you were personally invested in the continued growth and prosperity of that community.  Children and businesses likewise give you the same incentive to choose policies that build up the community rather than destroy it.


My solution would be simpler.  If your income from government sources is greater than your payment to the government in taxes, you don’t vote.  People in that situation have more incentive to vote themselves large payouts for themselves and to lower work requirements such that they don’t have to contribute.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 24, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
A new broom sweeps clean.  I don’t want people executed, but I think a revolution that disempowers current elites cannot help but be a good thing as our current elites have no interest in solving real problems, instead, they’re busy arguing over fake problems and using said fake problems to expand the military state and social control over the population to absurd heights.


Just a random list, but these are some of the big problems not addressed:  AI and technological unemployment, street crimes, spree shootings, income inequality, infrastructure, a shitty K-12 education system, college costs, pollution and global warming, and media/social media unitary censorship.


What we’re doing instead: micromanaging whether or not a state can ban porn-adjacent books from elementary school classrooms, trans rights, indoctrination into woke thinking, pride and race pride, and putting visibly trans people into positions of power or at least inviting them to the White House.


I don’t think anyone sane could possibly come to the conclusion that it’s better to have outdated, crumbling roads, but porn in school libraries, or street crime being less of and issue than proper pronoun etiquette, or accessible higher education being lower on the list than making sure that the White House has a resident military trans woman and invites more trans women to the White House.


IT’s anarcho-tyranny.  We can’t or won’t solve real problems, so we’re busy remaking culture at gun point to be things that most people are ambivalent about if they don’t oppose it outright.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 25, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Our current plan is to give Ukraine every weapon we have, regardless of whether or not the Ukrainians are able to win the war, letting the war drag on while we essentially use up our weapons in Ukraine (which will probably lessen our ability to defend Taiwan (and thus secure our chips supply), lose credibility as it becomes obvious that we can no longer actually deliver on our promises, and Ukraine will probably lose Donbas anyway.


I think it would be better to cede Donbas and arm the remaining and build NATO bases in West Ukraine as a deterrent to further incursions.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 18, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
In order to blame someone they’d have to have the power to do it.  White Americans did, for example, push Native American tribes onto reservations.  White Southern Americans passed Jim Crow laws.  If you want to blame Jews for the fall of Weimar, they not only have to be there when the gun goes off, but have to be holding the gun.  But, quite often it was other people.  Hyperinflation was caused by the Allies demanding draconian reparations.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 24, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think they’ll ultimately win.  It’s just that really they’re still in the foundation stage of the movement.  Almost any real political upheaval is a generations-long process of first creating a philosophy and ethos and then unify around that philosophy and work to implement it.  But if you’d have judged the communist movement by what it was in 1870 when it was first taking shape, you wouldn’t have predicted the Russian revolution.  The tumultuous nature of the current generation of reactionaries doesn’t mean much because I believe it will eventually settle on an ethos that will be United enough to win real power.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 17, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Honestly, it would be good for everyone if nobody voted.  The reason that neo-liberalism must be so careful to purge society of crimethink is because we vote.  I don’t think that all efforts for propaganda would stop, but the volume and ubiquity of culture war propaganda would vastly decrease if it didn’t matter so much that I personally sign off on various issues.  Ukraine could fade into the background and I could call their capitol whatever I wanted.  I could believe whatever I wanted to about transgender issues without worry about the elites or their lackeys trying to thought-police me to death.  There might well be limits to this, but at least the volume, the fear, would be turned down.


Why would anyone normal care about other people’s genitalia or a war in a country they can’t find on a map and only became independent in 1992?  Why am I, a relative nobody, worried about policing?  And my suspicion is that the average person, because of the vote, is often forced to pretend to care, is policed for the ways they pretend to care, when they’d much rather spend time on kids’ education and sports, their jobs, their family, and whatever hobbies they choose to enjoy.  I think almost everyone would actually be happier to never worry about cultural affairs ever again.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 4, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I don’t think you need anything that dramatic.  You just need to coordinate society such that people who are rude and do disrespectful things are shunned.  If he’d lost friends for doing that he wouldn’t be doing it.  And as long as it’s tolerated it continues to get worse.  My guess is, based on observation, that this isn’t the first time he’s done that.  More than likely he’s been pushing on social norms for a long time and not getting any negative results.  And if we stop tolerating it, it stops.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 20, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m not convinced.  The behavior of Muslims doesn’t indicate they’re 1990s style Americans who are okay with other religions as equals.  They’re absolutely not okay with gays, they don’t want women working, and so on.  There are numerous videos of Muslims preaching that America or Europe will become Muslim.  A Baptist preacher saying even 10% of that is a far right radical.  A Baptist preacher saying that and blocking major roads for prayer services would be probably thrown out of the SBC.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 16, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
True, but allowing the pot to be stirred to the point of death threats and violence is probably going to make things worse.  If the gag order means that Trump cannot angry tweet his internet mafia into going after the judges, court officials, lawyers and witnesses, then there’s a good chance that the trial can proceed in an orderly manner and Justice will be done.


And if he’s tweeting about this without his attorney telling him not to, he has a terrible lawyer as this can only dig his hole deeper.  It’s not hard to see how him stirring up his base and tweeting the home addresses of those who will testify against him can be brought up in the trial and bias the jury against him.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 17, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I agree, for the most part, though I quibble a bit with your choice of virtues simply because you ignored what I think are most important— valuing knowledge and hard work as virtues alongside high time preference, honesty and loyalty.


HBD fails in my opinion because on whole most cultures are fairly young.  Modern Western European culture as we know it today only really came to prominence with the enlightenment, which putting it roughly back in time to 1700, would give it slightly better than 300 years of assertive mating (as we never really purposely bred humans as we do dogs).  Modern Japan as we know it started with Meiji.  Had you gone to Japan during Sengoku or Europe during the medieval period, you’d find a much different culture with much difference in values.  There are outliers.  Jews and the Chinese are both continuous cultures from ancient times.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 26, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I kind of agree here.  I’m very firmly in favor of weak affirmative action, which is more of a tie-goes-to-the runner version of AA.  What that means is that if I have two candidates equally good for the role I’m hiring for, I should choose the minority.  The issue most people seem to have with AA is not “they’re hiring black people, women, gays, etc.” but the fact that minority status is trumping other qualifications for the position.  In short, the position that you don’t have to be nearly as good at the position, or as qualified for school is what people seem most upset about.


Weak AA doesn’t actually do that.  It might require looking for more minorities to apply for the job, which isn’t that hard.  It doesn’t forgo requiring relevant qualifications and skills and even testing for them.  It simply means that once you have that pool, you should hire the most qualified and if two are equal, then give the nod to the minority.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 19, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think the fact that 4 years later he’s still talking about the stolen election probably hurts him in the polls among mainstream voters who don’t think the election was stolen.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 25, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Maybe I’m not understanding you but I’m not sure how not having meat as the main dish of your meal is that much of a diminished enjoyment.  Most of the time, for me, I don’t miss it.  I don’t say no entirely to meat, I’m just not making it the star of the meal.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 18, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I agree with you even though I don’t agree with racism.  Politics is simply social power.  And the vast majority of people really don’t have thought out positions on issues, they follow whatever the powerful people around them (elders, bosses, authority figures, teachers and professors) tell them that good, honest, hardworking people believe.  This is why issues like minimum wage get terrible traction— the only people who care are people who get paid hourly.  Trade unions are a non-starter because wanting one is coded working class, uneducated, poor, and hated by the political elite and businesses.  Hence people won’t allow themselves to favor them, and would be offended if someone suggested they need one for their office.  Go down the list of any issue, and the difference between things that are popular and unpopular is the power of people holding that position.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 13, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I don’t see much of that.  I recall watching Reddit on that very issue, and while they sort of managed to talk a good game about “wanting help” and so on, there were a lot of things about that discourse that made me suspect that “therapy” as they were looking for it was more of a fig leaf than a honest search for help.


I don’t recall any of them being focused on the potential harm actually molesting a child would cause, or any type of moral repugnance against molestation by people who claimed this condition.  They instead focused on their situation, how they were mistreated, how they were at risk of losing everything, and how they were not allowed to be sexual as they wanted. At the same time, they were very quick to point out the difference between pedophilia and ephebophilia.  Now I get the risk of coming forward, but I just never noted anything that suggested that they really understood what molesting a child did to the child or that they even cared.


Second, they simply aren’t that interested in actually solving the problem or doing anything to make it more difficult to offend.  They weren’t asking for drug intervention, they weren’t asking for in patient treatment.  They weren’t even willing to inform anyone else or restrict themselves from working in places where they would have easy access to children either in private life or at work.  What they wanted was once a week outpatient talk therapy and nothing else.  That’s not much in the way of treatment and would not protect kids.  The pedophiles attending would still be able to get jobs in places where they work with kids, they’d still have full libido, and nobody around them is alert to the problem.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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popular anti-zionist position is a one-state solution where Palestinians get full citizenship in Israel, often alongside Palestinian right-of-return. Now, zionists would argue that such an outcome would cause problems such as a group like Hamas being elected as the government of Israel and ethnically cleansing jewish people, or at least committing terrorist attacks once they are all Israeli citizens with freedom of movement. But the standard anti-zionist position is that this wouldn't happen, that palestinians are resorting to violent resistance against oppression and would no longer need to do so once they are no longer oppressed. The standard comparison is to South Africa, where terrorist leaders such as Nelson Mandela became the new government but didn't outright ethnically cleanse white people. (The South African government discriminates against white people through heavy affirmative action, is now failing to keep reliable electricity and clean water going, has the 3rd highest murder rate in the world, and sometimes has the leaders of political parties talk about mass-murdering white people. But they haven't actually done it and many anti-zionists would be unaware of these things anyway.)




The zionists are right.  I don’t see any solution to this that doesn’t eventually look like a Zionism transposed to some other location.  The historic record here is pretty clear — a stateless Jewish minority is going to be the target of either states looking for a scapegoat or angry mobs taking matters into their own hands.  In most Muslim countries, non Muslims are second class citizens at best.  So in order to protect Jews you absolutely need a Jewish state somewhere.  If that’s the case, you need to create a continuous land area in which Jews are given complete control.  And you’re now displacing whoever lives there now.  It ends up looking almost exactly like Israel except now we’re building in South America or Montana or Wales or something.  There aren’t really good answers.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 16, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
What about potential intimidation.  My understanding of the reasoning is that Trump and/or his followers might threaten people involved in the case thus basically making it impossible to get witnesses to testify.  If Trump tweets out the name and likeness of someone connected to the trial, his followers might threaten them or damage property etc.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 14, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think lying is probably the wrong word, as is fake.  The people signing this document as far as I can tell we’re, at worst, an alternative slate of electors choosing to take this action because they believe the Georgia election was fraudulent in a way that falsely handed the win to Biden.  The reason I object to the terms “lying” and “fake”, is that they assume the conclusion— they assume there was no fraud and thus anyone doing anything on the assumption of that fraud is lying.  Keep in mind, Trumps claims never got any sort of hearing, most being summarily dismissed on standings issues.  In other words, these guys are trying to rectify a situation where they believe the wrong results were certified and thus it might be dishonest, but I don’t see it as fake and they aren’t necessarily lying.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 31, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m not convinced by this.  They never actually connect Hoste to Hanania.  The best they have is anecdotal connections (both drop out of HS, get a GED, then go on into academia) none of which are unique enough to really be a smoking gun.  I would bet there are at least 10,000 students who did the same thing.  Second, the connection between the two online is the (supposed) sock puppets, except that they never bother to establish they are sock puppets, rather than one person follow the account of someone else.  I follow accounts on multiple platforms, I’m not the person I’m replying to and even being a consistent reply to posts by Hoste doesn’t make it clear that Hanania is Hoste.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 1, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
So the state department is wrong.  Wouldn’t be the first time, nor will it be the last.


I have a hard time buying that our Atlanticist side of things is getting anything of value out of this war.  The only thing we can really do at this point is act tough and hope the Ukrainians can hold out long enough to make the Russians stop where they are.  I don’t see (at least without NATO boots on the ground) Ukraine actually retaking either Donbas or Crimea.  So the best case is a stalemate that requires us to spend vast amounts of our own treasure to maintain.  And again, this is a fight for basically a rural farming country with a good sized corruption problem.  They’re in it now because they can’t afford to lose face and show the world how weak we actually are.  But at the same time, we cannot infinitely send billions a month in aid.  It just doesn’t work because eventually we run out of money (or print ourselves into hyperinflation) and public patience probably isn’t going to last that long (I think we can probably only keep going for another year or two).


Worse, doing so now reduces those capabilities to use them later.  Ukraine isn’t a prize on the global stage.  Taiwan is.  But after billions in aid to Ukraine, and our depleted weapons stocks and a public not interested in yet another military adventure to a place they don’t care about, they aren’t going to be able to do the same thing again.  Which means that China gets a very valuable piece of industrial infrastructure, the entire computer chip industry, and all of the leverage that comes with it.  We’re basically, without thinking it through deciding to fight tooth and nail for Nebraska and ceding New York.  Any sober analysis would consider that colossally stupid.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 24, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I mean they are too.  Nobody’s completely innocent here.  The larger issue here is that the needs of the people won’t be met as long as the elites — in both parties— are more concerned about symbolic cultural issues than they are about meat and potatoes issues like a functioning school system, streets you can safely walk down at night, train tracks that don’t cause derailments, or subways and mass transit that aren’t mobile homeless hotels.


And I think removing the old guard (hopefully peacefully) will at least put the new guys on notice that they better get to work fixing things for average Americans need fixed.  At this point, I’d much rather public schools be explicitly Christianized and Nationalist but teach kids how to read and write and do math at a level needed for 21st century living than have a woke school that produces functional illiteracy and innumeracy.  I’d rather the flag be changed to some nationalist thing with an eagle and see a il dulce photograph in every building i& it meant not being afraid of street violence or spree shootings.  Going down the list, honestly I don’t care about anything other than solving the real problems.  If it takes a Sulla or Caesar or Mussolini to put American civilization back on track, then fine.