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Married to a tomboy, so I have that going for me, which is nice.


				
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Married to a tomboy, so I have that going for me, which is nice.



				

				

				

				

				

					

					

					
					
					

					
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				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 6, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


We're in an interesting situation where inflation has made these chicken shit denominations worthless but large denominations are not useful since big transactions are handled by check, card, wire, etc.




An "interesting situation" that almost seems like a squeeze to impose digital currency.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Geri was at a Scottsdale doughnut shop in May 2021 when a woman and her daughter, 4, noticed he was standing in line behind them with his genitals exposed, according to court documents.






Geri, who represented himself at trial




Those two sentences tell me everything I need to know about his executive functioning.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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I say keep that along with the quarter, eliminate the $1 bill and move Washington permanently to the dollar coin, and cycle through all the presidents on the quarter. Replace the half-dollar coin with a $5 coin, and put Lincoln on it.




I don't get this notion that the US needs dollar (or $5) coins. The last $1 coin program was terminated early and ended up with billions of coins in a warehouse.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Which is funny since the progressive approach to trans issues is analogous to them cutting off an anorexic's body parts to help them lose weight.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 6, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I see from the $500 bill article I'm not the only nitwit to conflate the two:




In June 2024, Representative Paul Gosar introduced a bill into Congress which would, if passed, require the Treasury to issue $500 bills featuring President Donald Trump




				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Introduce a $200 bill. Inflation means that the $100 bill is no longer as useful as it once was. It is time to acknowledge this by creating a higher denomination note.




We need a $500 bill. The prior one had Cleveland, who served 2 non-consecutive terms, which means the new one should have Trump. Perhaps not ideal, but the precedent has been set.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Being an atheist doesn't make you infertile




I agree it doesn't cause it, but the correlation is present.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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By raising children in this environment, you are choosing to place them in a system where leaving the faith often means losing their entire social world, and potentially their family.






My concern is that the price is higher than it appears, and that the bill will be paid not just by you, but by the family you hope to build.




But it very likely means he's having a family and children. The LDS attorneys I know are out-reproducing the non-LDS ones by a ratio of 3:1 or 4:1 (actually more given all the ones I know with zero children, such as myself). At what cost epistemic hygiene if it means no children?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 6, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


But there's one simple phrase that makes me doubt that "causing mass death without inherently presenting yourself as a target of investigation" is simply as easy as "practicing even rudimentary opsec" — and that's "parallel construction."




There are parts of the Mangione story that I doubt for this reason.


I see parallel construction on a semi-regular basis in mundane drug stops. Boy, it's remarkably convenient that a local cop happened to stop this particular 18-wheeler for a traffic violation, had a drug dog ready and got a positive alert, and immediately measured the inside length of the trailer that revealed the hidden compartment in the front of the fully-loaded trailer. Incredible odds on that one.


So there is zero question in my mind it's happening on a much larger basis, and the only question is just how much of it is going on.


It also makes it quite remarkable that the person who planted the pipe bombs on Jan 5 has never been caught. So remarkable that it some might say it glows.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 6, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
And the HBDers here will be very aware of the demographic breakdowns between those two positions (and it's not usually a switch these days but more likely an electrical cord).


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for October 8, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


you have to look around you and determine that actually maybe I’m the one who believes something that makes for a worse, less fulfilled society,




See the semi-recent post by @WhiningCoil about realizing he was raised incorrectly, or even that substack post by Bismarck where he realizes he, in fact, is the rootless cosmopolitan.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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noted race scientist Scott Siskind




Steve Sailer heartbroken.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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LOL, perhaps you'd like to hear about Werner von Braun instead?




I don't think the average immigration restrictionist has many objections to letting more Anglos or Saxons in.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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I will say all the Mormons I know are very pleasant people and if I were to consider a church and could overlook not having a speck of faith in me, I'd consider the LDS strongly. (Honestly the greatest trial for me in terms of adhering to their rules would be giving up coffee.)




A paragraph I could've written myself. Never been a smoker and giving up alcohol wasn't too bad, but my morning coffee is often the best part of the day.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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As I understand it, the prohibition comes from Words of Wisdom from Joseph Smith, not the Book of Mormon. It wasn't until 1921 that following it because a prerequisite for temple admission, so the history of following it is different than the history of following the Book of Mormon, hence some divergence on the issue.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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I'll certainly take the compliment, but sadly my writing skills are limited to the occasional high-quality sentence.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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This unchosen role into which you are born comes with equally-unchosen duties and obligations to which one is bound.




Where the Traditionalist view fails now is answering what equally-unchosen duties and obligations apply to women, what mechanism is attempting to enforce their application to women, and what society's duties and obligations towards men are. The answers to those three questions seem to be a hat trick of "nothing," which makes the Traditionalist view less than compelling.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Maybe carrying around constant location trackers in our pockets is a bad idea?




It is a terrible idea if one wishes to commit crimes. Like the guy arrested for the fire, my clients learn this fact to their detriment on a regular basis. For many of them, they will not truly absorb the lesson and will continue to commit crimes while carrying a location tracker, using said location tracker to arrange the crimes, or even using the tracker to record them committing the crimes.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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I have successfully given up coffee (not caffeine entirely, although I’m actively working to reduce my daily caffeine consumption and dependence)




I know a number of devout LDS members, and they're all over the place on the caffeine issue. Coffee is a clear no, but opinions diverge widely on caffeinated sodas and energy drinks. I'd say that's a lower priority than the big steps you've made in other areas.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Under a month from my upcoming trail race, and then a month after that to the possible second one. I am ready for all this training to be over. Trying to get in a 10-mile run on a weekday morning is tough, to say nothing of the weekend runs.


Also, it's funny how thin 195 lbs. feels after years in the 210-215 range. I'm still 20 pounds heavier than my endurance race weight when I was in my late 20s, but that was years ago and doesn't count in my mind the same way.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 6, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It's a copypasta from July 2024.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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I don't think it's been fired yet, but I can imagine a "revisionist" historian in 150 years identifying the failed assassination attempt on Trump and Kirk's assassination as the start rather than the later primary inciting incident that most people think of.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Get a biological woman to go on a date with me with a positive, collaborative attitude and not talk about Gaza.




In any college-educated/mostly Blue Tribe milieu, that last requirement is going to be a killer. A genuine Red Tribe setting (i.e. some churches) might be okay.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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But is the problem purely liberals alienating young men or are conservatives also successfully courting them?




Probably more the former. Team Red isn't offering that much, but at least they aren't broadcasting their disdain at every opportunity.


Disclaimer: I'm middle-aged and not terribly in contact with the yutes. But as a straight white male with a job, I occasionally wonder what exactly Team Blue could ever do to entice me to vote for them in a national election (short of entirely abandoning 75%+ of their policies).


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 6, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Do you have evidence of republican politicians caught saying they'd like to murder their opponents' children?




There was that failed Republican candidate in NM who was convicted of doing drive-by shootings of several opponents' houses (which included children in the houses).