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3d ago
More. For the first two points I think America/Israel feel like we’ve already dismantled terrorist networks/nuclear program for probably a decade. I’m not going to pretend that America cares that much about Iran killing 30k Iranians. So for the three things you mentioned I think we already feel like victory has been achieved.
My gut says we want the events to unfold to at a minimum to make Iran unaligned in global geopolitics. They are not a big player outside of the ME but they still for geopolitical reasons align with Russia/China. It’s why when Iran does have something useful like drones they get sold to Russia.
Then the question is what sort of vassal do we want out of Iran. If you are going to play the game thing is no reason to stop the game with Iran being neutral especially since Iran has long had elements that are Western. The Saudis are a vassal but still get to run some of their geopolitics independently. They have played games in the oil markets we did not like. Then there is a level of vassal that has to do whatever you tell them to do. Venezuela may be in this camp now, but they bring very little value. Argentina may have chosen this path now. Trump could probably call Milei he needs 50k soldiers for peacekeeping on Wednesday and the troops would be delivered on Friday.
To summarize at this point we are not talking any given action they take. It’s alignment. Probably some change in government structure to guarantee the alignment change.
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3d ago
As an Italian I often find I have more in common with them than Anglos. They look like us. We’ve been cross breeding for 2k years. I even find I can pass as Jewish fairly easily.
I have a lot of problems with institutional Judaism, but I probably would find it easier to make friends in Jewish society than any other culture.
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3d ago
Sure you won’t find an official top spokesman for pointy hat people, but the ADL is/was fairly close to that position as the official Jewish voice. We can motte/bailey it that they weren’t “official”. The Israeli government didn’t declare them a state actor.
But the ADL fulfilled about 50–70% of being their official spokesman in America for decades.
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3d ago
Even if I take your view “the Jews are buying all media” I still prefer this result than Netflix buying WBD. Now you still have an independent streamer of scale. I’d rather have Ellison own WBD than the global corporate Apple, Netflix, Amazon owning the big players.
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3d ago
Not the only post today that things we lost Venezuela because it’s not in the news everyday. To the best of my knowledge Rubio is essentially the head of state of Venezuela at this moment.
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5d ago
Someone want to tell me why I don’t receive text messages? Had a non-saved number ask me for something and I did not get the text until someone I talk to regularly group chatted it. I click on the number and I see they texted me but it didn’t show up before. Did it just get marked at spam?
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7d ago
Male spots attract virtually no gays. Sailor was making a good point that like 1 pro athlete has died of aids but many figure skaters. So they weren’t in the closet. They are just not gay.
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7d ago
This feels like getting a job on hard mode. People should be able to find work thru normal processes not needing to be sort of a small business owner after graduating.
This seems like a sign of let’s shut down the Indian IT mills. If companies really needed employees you could get work thru formal processes instead of networking. It seems like there are a lot of people in his situation. Being better at networking changes who gets the job but not the overall need. If jobs are plentiful then companies would hire off the resume pile instead of selecting someone they are already friends with.
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8d ago
2 to 3 year age gaps when young are equivalent to 20-30 years when older. A 15 year old dating a 17 year old gets access to a bf with a car and making a McDonalds job. Boys her age do not have that. So now she could do things like go to the movies and he can pay for it. A big difference and lots of independence for that age. A 25 year old dating a 45 year old with savings of a couple millions get access to international travel, gifts, maybe some boat excursions versus her age equivalent taking her out to the local restaurant.
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8d ago
IMO a lot of people question the IRGC is filled with true believers today. It’s been too easy for Israel to take out Iran leadership which implies there are a lot of snitches in the Iranian ranks.
And then you look at their former Presidents pinned tweet Ahmadinejad
He frequently says things that aren’t Iran Supremacy now. There is at least some belief that the Iran regime is hollow now. Sometimes people just keep getting up in the morning and doing their orders until the system changes.
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8d ago
To a big extent Democracy is dependent on equality. You need a large majority or the dominant vote being relatively equal people with similar values and goals. If that is not true then the population balkanizes. I think it would be fair to say children of single mothers are at a disadvantage.
You also introduce male-female voting gaps. If 5% of men have multiple partners, 20% are incels, 20% of females are single mothers, and then around 50% are paired off you have a very bifurcated voter base. The 20% who are incels all become Littlefinger types wanting chaos in a hope that in a new order they become the 5%. 20% of females want government money. When you have 90% of people in stable relationships raising children they mostly just want stability and good governance. Huge incel populations want civil war because they either die childless or become the new ruling class.
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9d ago
I think single motherhood is bad too. It is part of low expectations society especially for blacks.
The family unit though seems to be the core of the American experiment. It can survive X% of that but I think breaks down when the mass of society isn’t invested in the American experiment together .
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9d ago
It’s fine if it’s limit to 1-2% of the population. We put 2% of men in prison so there is some slack. Gets bad though if it’s scaled.
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9d ago
It’s fundamentally bad for Democracy for guys like Musks/Belichick getting second or even more cracks at marriage. If some may have many partners it means other men have 0 or partners they hate. There is no way for this to scale in my opinion without having massive flaws that don’t work well in Democracy. Absent war that kills off a huge portion of the male population. The likely result is ending up with 20% of the voter base being angry and looking for a fight.
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11d ago
More and more people say this. It use to be considered a very necessary check and balance. Now it’s basically made things ungovernable except thru a strong Presidency with the court in your pocket which Trump almost has but not 100%.
I don’t see an issue with the GOP getting rid of the filibuster. They really should never lose the Senate for a generation if they are doing things with some competency.
As it works now it basically means congress never has to do a hard vote.
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13d ago
Interesting and probably no longer the case - EBT was black coded when I was growing up. No white person would take them even if the need was present. You would either work more hours or do with less.
I don’t view this as an “extraordinary claim”. Something changed in America and we have 2 Americas. My dad was an alcoholic and my mom worked about 70 hours a week. She made 30k a year. I’ve had a job since I was 12 years old. This is normal to me. I guess we should have had food stamps? Back then there was social stigma at being on assistance.
America culture has changed. Which I am willing to concede. But it’s not an extraordinary claim especially if you’ve lived outside of blue belts. It’s how things were.
I feel like “old man yells at clouds”. But Anglo culture was different.
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14d ago
Typo. But a funny one for this conversation. To be clear I am not advocating for rape because a girl wore some lululemon and was doing squats.
Just that they likely like the fact guys are noticing them.
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14d ago
I don’t think conservative means you get to quit thinking and just follow the past. The world changes and you can update your beliefs.
My preference for society is a lot of classical liberalism within a traditional culture. But I also believe you need to update your political philosophy for the environment you find yourself in.
I think it makes sense that Russians have historical no matter what form of government they were under were more military authoritarian. It’s a reality of their geography and being easy to invade. If I were Russian I would adopt political ideologies that were more Russian.
Today I find myself adopting more Latin American Right-Wing political philosophies because I feel like America has demographically become more like Brazil than 1960’s America.
If I am living in a country that is 90% Anglo without military threats (traditional America or England) then I think I like classical liberalism the best. I could possibly see some kind of Nordic politics being a possibility.
I like the saying that fascism is an immune response to communism. I think I would be a fascists in a lot of countries in the 1930’s though without the murdering a lot of Jews part.
I could see myself becoming a communists in some potential all knowing AI tech worlds where jobs don’t exists. And the AIs can internalize something like the price system that makes capitalism work.
Basically I have come to conclude that different ideologies work better depending on tech level, culture, demographics, political adversaries, and geography.
You can have progressive taxation and a social safety net and not have the absurdities. America was once like this and my gut says their are a lot of people who would be in real need, but would feel a lot of shame taking EBT.
Something something high trust society where the government can offer goodies and make it easy for those in need to get help but people don’t abuse the system even if they could hack it to their benefit.
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14d ago
Every government program expands until it all is essentially 70% fraud by most people’s understanding of what the program was suppose to fix.
Wait until you hear about military disability payments. Those have essentially become a pension scheme for military personal who are perfectly healthy. Programs like that are virtually impossible to get rid of because which politician wants to fight the motte of taking care of disabled veterans. They have expanded to basically anyone who was in the military even if it was a desks job or a chef and if you don’t sign up for disability you’re basically turning down part of your compensation. If we want higher military pay we should vote for it.
I think things like this expand because the most morality lacking person figures out how to hack the system and then it slowly spreads to people less evil until even the good people hack the system because 70% are doing it so it’s just normalized.
I’ve met 25 year old girls with EBT cards. EBT was never meant for them. Or the drug users or probably 75% of current recipients. It’s meant for the person who can’t find a job because the largest employer in town shutdown, the single mom whose husband became an alcoholic and left her, the person with a health issue etc.
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14d ago
Usually when someone goes viral for ick guy was looking at me it’s some tatted up chick who’s not that hot.
Gym bros wear completely different clothing that doesn’t show off so I don’t think tight lulus etc are for comfort. It’s what they are socially allowed to wear to be hot and get attention and I think they like it.
I believe I have seen articles on female only gyms and they always fail and no one goes to them.
Why I thought this was more of a fun thing. Most girls besides online too much feminists want some male glaze. My workout clothes and fairly common for a man is like basketball shorts and a t-shirt. It doesn’t highly body parts. Female gym clothes are often form fitting lululemon stuff, 30-50% of the time the top exposes the stomache and even actually breast material. A few percent you can make out actual vagina lips.
Those outfits provide a small performance gain but greatly stimulate the male attention. Plausible deniability of wanting attention.
And yes female interests in hip exercises and squatting is primarily to develop their body for male interests or their husband. Combined with form fitting closing it’s a lot for the reptilian parts of the male brain.
Most interesting thing is if I ran a poll female only “Should men eye fuck girls at the gym”. It would be 100% no. But actual female fashion trends optimize for that.
One thing I am confused on google culture is I would assume the best programmers are autistic in the way I am autistic. Most of the best programmers would kind of just notice that men are better at certain things. I could see how the mba corporate types go with the current things.
Maybe google has been less of an autist place and more of ad selling machine for a long time.
If I am being honest I can’t think of a girl I’ve ever met who truly impressed me with her mind. Most of the books I’ve read have been written by white men. Ayn Rand is the only female author I have read and remember. Damore’s autism is actually the exact type of person I would expect most programmers to be like.
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