Quantumfreakonomics

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Culture War Roundup for the week of October 19, 2026

Quantumfreakonomics 1d ago

While JD has demonstrated that he wants to win and is willing to debase himself in pursuit of this goal, he has yet to demonstrate that he is capable of such winning.

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Small-Scale Question Sunday for October 18, 2026

Quantumfreakonomics 1d ago

If they couldn't figure it out in the last 100 years why would I expect them to have figured it out in the last 6 months?

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Culture War Roundup for the week of October 19, 2026

Quantumfreakonomics 1d ago

I can’t wait for the 2028 ads accusing Tammy Duckworth of failing to protect places of worship, featuring a heartfelt plea from the insurgent who blew her legs off.

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Culture War Roundup for the week of October 19, 2026

Quantumfreakonomics 3d ago

Try watching this clip if you haven't already. Then imagine reading a description of what happens in the clip instead of watching it. It would not sound very interesting. Words alone are incapable of communicating the experience.

I had never heard of Nathan Fielder before this film. The cinematography was riveting even though, writing it all down after the fact, not much of importance happens in the movie.

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Culture War Roundup for the week of October 19, 2026

Quantumfreakonomics 3d ago

FPC Bryan is basically Girl Scout camp. I could probably swing by next weekend and say hi to her through the fence.

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Culture War Roundup for the week of October 19, 2026

Quantumfreakonomics 3d ago

Muscular redheads just don’t hit the same since the Cornell scandal. Poor girl ruined an entire phenotype.

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Small-Scale Question Sunday for October 18, 2026

Quantumfreakonomics 3d ago

Here is the real reason QB play is on the decline this year.

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Culture War Roundup for the week of October 19, 2026

Quantumfreakonomics 3d ago

Oh boy, this subthread is going to look like the Epstein Files, because there is no way to talk about the movie without spoilers.

The number 1 culture war implication is that Billy reveals he is a Republican during his climactic villain monologue. Charlie Kirk’s legacy might be the biggest unintentional victim of the film.

Working through this brings up the question: How much of a villain is Billy really? The film builds him up as the douchebag to end all douchebags, but what, specifically, did Billy do wrong? It is strongly implied that Liz would not approve of the things that Billy does in her name, but do we have a good basis to conclude this? Liz never says a single bad word about him.

Hollywood hates the idea that two imperfect people could be in a loving relationship with each other despite their flaws. They pretend that they don’t. They make lots of movies where the surface-level theme is about flawed people falling in love, but when it happens to real people they are treated with scorn. Amanda Seyfried flat-out admits that she wants to break Liz and Billy up. Why? What purpose would that serve? Is it because he asked for compensation in return for letting an entire film crew into his house?

The outwardly patriarchal family where the matriarch secretly calls the shots is a common archetype in traditional societies. Strange that it is so hard for modern people to recognize.

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Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026

Quantumfreakonomics 4d ago

Are we sure that this isn't a story about assimilation into local culture? France has been doing this since at least 1789.

One of our office security guards is one of them, from Dagenham (one of the remaining enclaves of the former cockney London working class). He has converted to Islam, grown a beard, showed me pictures on his Instagram of his wedding and wife, who I think is Syrian.

It sounds like this guy has a (presumably) loving wife, and I don't. Who is the real loser here?