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				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 12, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Whereupon I unsubscribe from Matt Stoller


I had long considered Stoller to have solid analysis and a respect for markets, even when I didn't agree with his political slant, editorial direction, or choice of topics.  But he has lost me here, and probably forever, in his simpering defense of the Harris economic plan, which includes price controls on groceries and vague yet sinister crackdowns on so-called price gouging.




It’s all predictable, both the economist revolt, and reporters who interview economists as if they know anything. I suspect what’s going on is that economists, as moral reformers who ordain truth, believe price-setting is beyond the realm of elected leaders or normal people. Harris has interfered with that belief, leading to an angry reaction of religiously scorned zealots. Another possibility is that those who think the most about how to set prices are monopolists and economists. And like anyone who sees someone new coming into one’s realm of expertise, they are angry at Harris. Regardless, I can’t see much of a downside to being attacked by economists and experts, after all these are the elites who got us into this mess.




Someone hasn't read The Road To Serfdom.  I'm actually kind of flabbergasted to see this, though I shouldn't be surprised.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 12, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Is an artist allowed to paint a picture of Mickey Mouse murdering Hillary Clinton in negligee with the soles of her feet showing?  Should the paint manufacturers limit the scope of output?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 29, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
From the B&R subreddit, it appears the boxer is male intersex with internalized testes that produce typical male levels of testosterone.  Similar to Caster Semenya and likewise raised as a girl.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 12, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I'm sure you've heard of "sideshows" or "slideshows" where groups of mostly Dodge Challengers and Chargers do donuts in the middle of an urban intersection or freeway or bridge, creating an informal yet spectacularly dangerous block party.  Also the roving gangs of plateless dirt bikes and quads, presumably mostly stolen anyway.  Oakland, Baltimore, Atlanta, etc


And the police are literally completely incapable of shutting these down.  We've heard the official explanations about manpower and escalation, but I would love to know how those internal deliberations really go.  You've gotta have some gung-ho sergeants putting together gameplans and orchestration, but the top brass shut it down?  For woke / squishy / PR reasons?  Anyone have real insight?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 22, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Joe: "Lord, why do you sound like Nancy Pelosi?"


Lord: "I move in mysterious ways.  Now, we can do this the easy way or the hard way..."


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 10, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Based on what?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 15, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Anyway, looking him up, I found a recent article he wrote entitled It All Comes Down to Race. I read it carefully, twice, and I'd like to engage this community because I don't know any other place where this can be critically discussed.




You aren't aware of anywhere else on the internet that allows criticism of white nationalism?  Seems fishy...


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 24, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I've been chided by you yet wholeheartedly defend your regime as mod, FTR.  Well done.  Amadan too, begrudgingly.  And more than I can name.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I was hoping the American Grand Strategy in Ukraine was to bleed Russia dry, at the expense of Ukraine.  I think it has basically worked, as beyond WMD, I think Russia has very little in their arsenal to threaten the West with.  I am surprised, however, by the turn of events where Trump accuses Ukraine of having started the Russian invasion.  My hope remains that Trump is playing 4D chess with Putin, softening him up for a triumphant blow, but my hope wavers.  It seems clear that Ukraine would be a much more likely and loyal ally than Russia could ever be.


In my view, here are the American interests in the region:


    

  • A greatly weakened Russia
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  • Ukrainian mineral rights
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  • Opposing invasions and annexations
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  • Additional and stronger allies and spheres of influence
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American fears:


    

  • WMD in the wrong hands (Russian collapse, or scared Putin)
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  • Emboldened Russia
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  • China / Taiwan
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The Biden strategy seemed pretty reasonable if tepid in light of these points.  I'm not sure what Trump would think of the above.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 10, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


don't think there is any reason to believe that being a "male feminist" says much at all about how likely any particular man is to be a sex pest.




Sure, but the vast, vast majority of muslims are not terrorists, yet most terrorists who fly airplanes into buildings are muslim.  Most male feminists are not sex pests, but many sex pests turn out, ironically, to be male feminists.  There may be some kind of cluster that is worth examining.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 11, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


May Trump supporters and Trump voters and Trump himself never know peace.




Is this not a straightforward call for violence?  I find this manner of speaking despicable in public, and I'd want an apology if I was her target.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 2, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
LASD is a totally different organization to LAPD and the worse of the two, IIRC.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 24, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
My favorite type of American critic: the carpetbagger


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 11, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Taboo the word hate, sheesh.  I'm with the Count, here.  The word is inappropriate for the feelings being expressed; hyperbolic and histrionic, as expected from one side of the divide.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 29, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


To have a volunteer for a foreign army as the Vice President, a heartbeat from the presidency as they say, seems unconscionable to me, particularly a volunteer for an army that is at the center of violence which is currently bringing the region to the brink.




How misleading is this?  Was Shapiro a member of the IDF?  Another commenter suggested this was a school project, when Shapiro was a student, that created some benefit the IDF enjoyed.  Can you clarify what you mean in the above paragraph?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 16, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
As a somewhat reformed Angry Internet Atheist, this is certainly the most interesting and palatable form of Christianity I've encountered.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Very interesting, but Russia seems much weaker now than in 2022.  Heavily sanctioned, big stagflation, and fielding laughable armor deployments and infantry tactics.  Quads, donkeys, motorcycles, and "camels".  We've been assured that the 3 day Special Military Operation is still going according to plan.  They've evacuated Syria, Wagner is a shadow of its former self, and are they still conscripting and fielding prisoners or is that well too running dry?


If Russia was going to roll into Poland, what do you think that force composition looks like?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Oh shit, you're veqq from /r/CredibleDefense  Doing the Lord's work over there.  That Tooze article was interesting for good and bad reasons.  I discounted most of what he had to say after the bizarre opening paragraph.  The repeated, unsupported claims of "MAGA is bullshit" seemed literally sophomoric, along with the multiple retreats to "racism!".


His analysis of the scary dilemmas presented by Vance was insightful, but I think he was wrong to downplay the now-unavoidable concerns about immigration across all Western nations which have opened the floodgates.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 10, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Men do, women are, so men naturally assume that when you ask them this, you're asking them to apply the woman's label. Unless you're a man predisposed to Gayness (which forms part of the problem with Gays, from the average man's perspective), that is inaccurate, insulting, and outright dangerous.




I think there is something interesting here but I can't figure out any of this.  Can you clarify?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for August 16, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
https://youtube.com/watch?v=LQhX8PbNUWI


We Care A Lot by Faith No More, before Chuck Mosley was replaced by Mike Patton as lead singer.  I didn't realize until now there was a pre-Patton era.


I was vaguely familiar with the song, mostly encountering it in the 1990s, and I only watched the video just now.  At first, I thought it was a parody of crusty PCU-type bands, but then I realized Jon Favreau likely based some of his parodic character on this type of genuine, authentic expression.


But is it genuine?  The song is satire, again venturing into PCU (the movie with Jeremy Piven and Jon Favreau, Politically Correct University) territory.  We care a lot about killer bees and saving the whales.  You can hear the sneering disrespect in Mosley's voice.


We're closing the 2014 decade this year, 2014 being the crux of woke takeover.  This video seems relevant, and I'm still trying to figure out if the visual elements are genuine or parodic.  White dudes in dreads playing Flying V guitars...


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 29, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The argument is that Khelif is a male with a DSD; XY chromosome and male testosterone levels.  Due to the DSD, he was raised as a girl, but this should not imply he ought to compete in competitions reserved for women.


The presence or lack of an external male sex organ is relevant to his DSD but not his competitive classification.


That's the argument you should engage with.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 24, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
This is not exactly the same as: I am clued in, turned on, and working hard.  I imagine there was a week to respond "Yes", but it's different when asked for details on a short deadline.  It sends a different signal.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 11, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
We know that "just be nice" with the treasury doesn't work in the long run.  Our economists are less susceptible to flim flam than our social scientists and culture warriors.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 29, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It can be important and relevant who the beneficiary is, but my main concern was being led to believe he served as enlisted or an officer in the IDF.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 29, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/donald-trump-weird-republicans-strange-bizarre-democrats-b2589514.html




Why calling Trump ‘weird’ is freaking Republicans out






Democrats have started pointing out just how strange the former president and his ilk really are. Ryan Coogan explains why this could be the thing that finally gets under his skin – and might help win Kamala Harris the White House




Pure cope and seethe