PierreMenard
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PierreMenard
7mo ago
I do think that hardship is necessary for men and that a lot of men are too soft these days. But I don't think it has to be arbitrary hardship.
There is still plenty of useful hardship to be found if you look for it, and perhaps the issue is that our modern societies do not make it clear that there is hardship. While circumstances like disease and war use to take a good chunk of the male population out, there was still some competition and finding a wife or a husband was something that was emphasized throughout people's education. If you are serious about finding a spouse, having children, then what are you doing about it? If you do not want to go below certain standards of attractiveness, sanity, personality, and your current geographical area is not providing an adequate supply of potential willing mates, then have you tried expanding the area?
If you are too poor to travel, then here's your hardship, make more money.
If you are afraid of linguistic and cultural barriers, then here's your hardship, figure out a way to tolerate different mores or find a combination that suits you.
If you are afraid that an apparently willing mate is attempting to scam you, then here's your hardship, learn to make yourself vulnerable, get ready to lose everything and bounce back...
Overcoming hardship only gets you more women if the side effect somehow increases the pool of mates or your attractiveness. For example war campaigns take (some) men to war-widows ("love you long time"), colonization to riches, artistic struggle to fame, industriousness to stability, etc... Ultimate survival hiking might make you more attractive to some women, but they're probably going to be quite crusty themselves. Is that what you're looking for?
PierreMenard
7mo ago
I don't know about the New World Order but aren't the US pro-LGBTQ++? It seems to be an important aspect of US foreign policy to antagonize close allies/trade partners in regards to their LGBTQ++ policies, for example.
Blinken says he raises LGBTQ+ rights "in every conversation" with Saudis
Putin, meanwhile, is anti-LGBTQ++
Is that an incorrect statement?
I know very intelligent people who believe this.
Why do you think that they are wrong?
PierreMenard
7mo ago
I was specifically asking about the LGBTQ++ angle. There is nothing wrong in thinking that the US are more pro-LGBTQ than Russia, or is there?
Putin, meanwhile, is anti-LGBTQ++, so he's the based warrior holding out against the tide of Globohomo-ism.
Once Russia is taken out by the usual spring-time CIA peaceful protest, who else seriously stands against the tide of Globohomo-ism? China?
Russia isn’t ‘based and trad’
Perhaps not trad but various Russian policies would qualify as 'based' by Internet right-wing standards. Moreover as the Russian progressives are drained out by current events and isolation from the West, Russia is actually becoming more based as time goes. The fact that more and more Russians come online to English-speaking websites to complain about Russia is a testament to this phenomenom.
Russia has immense corruption
Isn't corruption better when you're a wealthy dissident? I sure bet some of these Jan 6th political prisoners wished they could bribe themselves out of their current predicament.
huge mass immigration from Islamic Central Asia
Yes and causing nowhere near the issues London, Paris, Berlin or even some US cities have to deal with iirc. Russia is an example of globalism done right, if anything. Many on the right have been able to unironically cheer for the Taliban, so that's not necessarily an issue either.
declining religiosity
Somewhat contradicting with mass islamic immigration? Or do you mean a decline in religiosity from its absolute height of attendance under state atheist USSR? If the government is at least pro-traditional religion then there is hope, unlike in the West.
bottom tier birthrates (certainly among, uh, Christians)
Soviet-tier Christians. Real Christians will not go extinct but their day-to-day family lives are greatly improved when removed from a strictly anti-Christian society.
At least America is rich, Russia isn’t even that.
Wealth is a sin in itself, so not surprising that the apparent sum total of the Western people's morality in itself is greatly lower than that of the more humble Central Asian people.
PierreMenard
7mo ago
If by the "Ukrainian people" you mean the people in charge behind Biden and Zelensky. There's a surprising number of people in Biden's inner circle that seem to have ties to a certain region West of Russia.
Blinken told the story of his stepfather, who was the only Holocaust survivor of the 900 children of his school in Poland. Pisar found refuge in a U.S. tank after making a break into the forest during a Nazi death march. Nuland was born Shepsel Ber Nudelman in The Bronx, New York City, on December 8, 1930, to immigrant parents, Meyer Nudelman (a Moldovan Jewish garment repairman, 1889–1958)[5][6] and Vitsche Lutsky (a Belarusian Jew, 1893–1941).[5][7] Merrick Brian Garland [...] grandparents left the Pale of Settlement in the western Russian Empire in the early 20th century, fleeing antisemitic pogroms in what is now Ukraine and Poland, and seeking a better life for their children in the United States. ...
Realistically speaking, the men getting sent to the meat-grinder at gun point are not a threat to Zelensky. Only people close to him, you know, whoever flies him around to Canada and the US etc.
PierreMenard
7mo ago
Maybe they should try voting harder. These 'Ukrainians' certainly don't seem to have a good grasp of the basic system of democratic institutions that they allegedly aspire to join.
PierreMenard
7mo ago
It could also be the pyriformis muscle if it's specifically in the back of the thigh. If lying down on your back, with your left foot on the ground, crossing your right leg over the left, then with your arms pushing both legs toward your chest and stretching the back of the thigh = pain. According to a physical therapist I went to see for this, sitting at a desk should be on a draft-like chair angled 45 degrees to the ground (forward tilt). To prevent tightening of the hamstrings and legs in general. It could be a matter of adjustment of your current chair or you could get one of these 3 models modway articulate ; alera elusion multifunction high back ; alpha home ergonomic or something like a herman miller but supposedly they're not that great for the price. Ideally you get a chance to try them in a show-room and see what fits your size.
PierreMenard
7mo ago
Why has no EU leader come up with a scheme to offer EU citizenship to any asylum-seeking people of color for acts of bravery in Ukraine yet? It worked so well for the original people of color.
PierreMenard
7mo ago
his ideas are already on the ash heap of history
Are they really? The Western pro-technology crowd seem to be running into some kind of game-over screen as they came up with contraception pills or the washing machine before artificial wombs. The intellectual future of the West, if any, is Amish.
Voting machines and drones don't make a modern democracy, you still need meatbags somewhere in the system to operate a military or pretend that your elections have meaning.
PierreMenard
7mo ago
Well I don't know then, probably hamstring muscles putting pressure on the sciatica nerve. One exercise that felt very satisfying was a deep stretch of the thigh by simply lying down and lifting the leg straight, holding it and pushing it toward your chest at the limit of it being painful.
I think what @dmz is saying is that we could and should use algorithmic tool to filter out signal from noise in internet content. Perhaps they are trying to demonstrate the problem. This is definitely a good point. The issue I believe is how to monetize these internet elites. They are currently enjoying a public internet that is mostly subsidized by users that are not tech-literate enough to block ads, avoid subscriptions, etc.
Interestingly this is what Twitter was pre-Musk, for blue checkmarks. Journalists and other members of the LGBTQMAP+ community enjoyed the privilege to only read content produced by their tribe on the entire website. Until Musk made the checkmark something that anybody could simply rent for $8 a month, then they all got to enjoy @Poopypopo1488 thoughtful insights.
However it seems that the original nerds that founded the internet, open-source backbone, with its free-thinking, un-credentialed, irreverent soul... They've completely bowed down to the actual elites.
On one side mingling with the corporate types to provide tech solutions to more efficiently bomb humble goat-herders or spy on their nerd brethren, on the other side bowing to the academia yahoos hard at work to redefine human nature.
Once in a while one of them tries to challenge the powers-that-be, only to be reminded who the real boss is.
In a post 9/11, post-wikileak, post-covid world, do we really want a fraction of the people with a modicum of power to have a convenient way to propagate truth?
PierreMenard
7mo ago
Well every bomb dropped on an asylum-seeker is contributing to the upcoming Russia ammo shortage. And... it would help with that other border-trespassing issue Poland seems to be having. All it would take is some more infinite American taxpayer money to make it happen.
PierreMenard
7mo ago
Korea's very traditional gender norms
What are they? Have Koreans just been having 1-2 children top for the last 300 years and now that a few 'feminists' have defected and had 0 children the balance tipped toward a shrinking population? Or what is the reason for such low birth-rates despite very traditional gender norms?
PierreMenard
7mo ago
I understand that it's difficult to convince Jews that genocide is the answer. But if Gaza had been erased from the world years ago, everyone from squalling infants to doddering grandfathers, you would not have this problem.
What seems to be needed is some kind of uh, ultimate, uh, resolution, of the uh, Jewish problem[ of non-Jews existing in their vicinity]. Perhaps one of the greatest question that has ever posed itself to uh, Jews. So to speak. Some form of uh, physical removal?
PierreMenard
7mo ago
I think there is a resurgence of anti-Hamas sentiment because at this point in time Israel has not yet learned how to be multicultural. And I think we are going to be part of the throes of that transformation, which must take place. Israel is not going to be the monolithic society they once were in the last century. Palestinians are going to be at the centre of that. It’s a huge transformation for Israel to make. They are now going into a multicultural mode and Palestinians will be resented because of our leading role. But without that leading role and without that transformation, Israel will not survive. ~ Barbayla Spectaj
PierreMenard
7mo ago
It looks like mostly peaceful protests against policy brutality to me.
PierreMenard
7mo ago
Schiff had developed a hatred for Russia due to this and several other incidents, so when he saw the Japanese and Russians engaging one another, he offered his help. And help he did!
Japan then, Ukraine today, the more things change, the more they stay the same, uh.
PierreMenard
7mo ago
Spooks do spooky things, is that really a controversial statement? Would it really be surprising that some Israeli spooks would have PR campaigns ready for the next Hamas attack? Do you also believe that journalists were frantically scrambling to come up with their articles and biography, etc the day Elizabeth II passed?
Would it even be surprising that they would have a whole coordinated network of agents embedded within influential countries' media (and governments) ready to propagate that PR? If the "I" in AIPAC stood for Italian we'd hear a lot more talk about the mafia.
PierreMenard
7mo ago
Not the great argument Shemer thinks it is.
People compare Hamas to Nazis. That's not fair. Nazis knew killing Jews was wrong. (...) If you do not support Israel & the Jews, you are literally worse than the Nazis.
People that have lived perhaps for 4 generations under Israeli rule are worse than Nazis? Who could be responsible for this state of affairs? The experiment is not perfect, we would need control groups of Palestinians strictly administered by China, France, Russia, UK, Germany, Italy, etc, to see if Israel is just particularly bad at this exercise. Comparisons can be made with various colonies... Tough luck for Israelis to get involved in Western-style colonization so late in the game.
PierreMenard
7mo ago
Mexicans effectively have 'right-of-return' to anywhere in the US. Not just Mexicans either, but basically anyone that can set foot in Mexico.
If Mexicans were engaging in cross-border terrorism against civilian targets I can see the chances going from vanishingly improbable to fucking never
Only fentanyl-mediated genocide of the American youth. What would they do if Americans were routinely cutting their power, water, access to essential goods, bombing their residential neighborhoods before sending Americans or people with 1/8th 'American' blood on the mom's side to 'settle' them...?
PierreMenard
7mo ago
Before genociding the whole Palestinian population, Israel must first genocide one-half of it.
Before genociding one-half of the whole Palestination, Israel must first genocide one-half of it.
Before genociding onaf of the onaf wholstination, Is'rl must first genocide one-half of it. ...
Therefore genocide [of the Palestinian population] is impossible.
If Israel were to physically remove say all of a given members of a certain generation of the Palestination, say the 50+ years olds, but that population, was, over the next or 5 next years, replenished by virtue of the previous generation aging into it, and so on and so forth for every generation, would it still be the same Palestination?
PierreMenard
7mo ago
What occurred over the weekend wasn't merely 'a PR campaign,' largely because it wasn't actually the Israelis driving it. The primary drivers of engagement were the perpetrators and their supporters social media channels, which were in turn picked up, signal boosted, and dissimenated by social media dynamics the Israelis have never demonstrated functional control of.
So it's Hamas that spread the claim that they decapitated babies? Just like Assad was the one spreading the news that he was gassing his own people conveniently right after the US said they would not do anything to Syria unless Syria used chemical weapons? Saddam bragged about having WMDs? And Russia bombed its own pipeline as well? Trump created the piss-dossier and asked the FBI to investigate him for it?
The enemies of the war-hawks in Washington DC just seem to keep making these obvious PR mistakes that provide material for these war-hawks to do what they love to do. Weird, uh.
PierreMenard
7mo ago
Perhaps these so-called democracy-enjoyers should think a little more about breeding if they are concerned about the country democratically turning into a theocracy. Why does it even matter to them anyway? Most of them will probably be dead by the time it becomes a theocracy, and if they are not, they can still probably enjoy the spoils of some other dying democracy.
PierreMenard
7mo ago
Which country would qualify this standard?
Israelis and Arabs and Muslims and Jews living side by side with equal rights
Jews usually have protected statuses in Western countries, with specific laws or law enforcement rules protecting them, social media companies having antisemitism-specific regulations and anti-antisemitism groups openly controlling their content... Meanwhile there are anti-muslims rules and laws against hijabs, mosque building, honor-killing, etc. It seems to me that it would be hard to say that muslims and jews have equal rights in the West.
Israel and the US share too many overlapping values for America to take the side of any of its enemies. I mean, Tel Aviv has gay pride parades!
But that is a direct result of Jewish representation among American government officials and media corporations, according to Joe Biden. How much of Blinken's commitment to the global LGBT-evangelization comes from his 'American values' vs his own ethnic motivations?
Israel expresses a general disregard of European-developed conventions regarding warfare, and resists disclosure of its nuclear, chemical, unconventional weaponry. It could even be surmised that a similarly hostile attitude to war-regulations from the US could stem from the Jewish influence exposed by Joe Biden. Indeed, it is much easier for Israel not to adhere to the ICC or the CCM if they can hide behind the largest Western "democracy" doing the same.
While Western militaries are no stranger to war crimes in the past century, these war-crimes were usually means to the end of eradicating nationalist, ethnocentric rivals, as in Dresden or Hiroshima. On the other hand, Israel wields civilian bombings, blockades and police brutality in order to preserve its own apartheid ethnostate. Unlike in Israel, the only boots-clad parades approved for ethnic Europeans are the ones 'celebrating' their disappearance as a people.
So they picked both? This is what happens to the descendants of Ukrainian nationalists in the West per @kurwakatyn
Isn't there a contradiction in a ardently nationalist country striving to join the EU or US orbit?
What if they join the EU and Russian-speaking EU citizens from Finland or Germany start moving in? Or would they start begging the EU to close its borders like Poland?
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