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				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I've recently made a bit of a small amount of a fuckton of money based on starting amounts




Congratulations!  I am always happy to hear about a fellow Mottizen prospering.




It would be one thing if there was some sort of big social project that the party was ride or die for




There are several major administration priorities, including (1) beefing up immigration enforcement (such as by increasing integration between federal immigration authorities and local law enforcement), (2) going after racial and gendered DEI policies and set asides (e.g., the VRA's "majority minority" districts, which SCOTUS seems likely to strike down and federal contracting laws), and (3) clearing state voter rolls and voting policies of tactics amenable to machine-style vote banks (e.g. the practice of receiving mail-in-ballots after election day)


It's just that a lot of this stuff is being done in quiet backrooms with a lot of very unsexy administrative law wrangling, and so doesn't make headlines.


However, on the broader point about there not being some sort of "plan," I completely agree with you.  Trump clearly plays things by the seat of his pants, and there simply isn't the personnel infrastructure around him, either qualitatively or quantitatively, to carry through some sort of grand bizarro-Great Society-level legislative initiative.  Plus, Congress is very close to becoming a completely vestigial organ, and so is in no fit state to draft, amend, approve, and push through such legislation anyways.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Sometimes it feels like TheMotte is stuck in 2020. Woke is over. Trump is president. MAGA won




Respectfully, this is much too short a time-horizon.  Yes, Trump is president now.  But he won't be in 2 years, and there has been no substantive action taken against the organizations which enabled aggressive progressive lawfare both against conservative ideas generally, and conservative activists in particular.  There is precious little stopping a hypothetical Newsome or Ocasio-Cortez administration from simply reversing every single one of the anti-DEI measures Harmeet Dhillon has worked so hard on as DAG for Civil Rights, or dropping all of the ICE detainer agreements that Tom Homan has negotiated with thousands of US local police jurisdictions.


And even now, there are significant entrenched woke gains in life and society that really are quite nauseating, ranging from the symbolic (it's still mainstream journalistic style to capitalize "Black" as an enthnicity but not "white") to the really quite substantive (a continued progressive hammerlock on the education system including continued racial setasides and preferences for the melanated).  The citadels of progressivism - my own beloved, beshitted California, Chicago, NYC - remain entirely undisturbed.  The battle is very much still live.


Any forum is less interesting when the dominant ideological faction is in power, because it is easier to criticize and muckrake than it is to get into the nitty gritty of governing policy, which almost always underdelivers compared to rosy dreams and expectations.  However let's not get carried away and assume that current trends are anything like inevitably going to continue.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


communist LARPers are




Be very careful about who you think the communists are, and about underestimating them.  Because out-and-out commies are also the organizational backbone of left protest movements here in the US (RevComs, PSL, etc.), not to mention how thoroughly the "gay-race-communism" social progressive variant has succeeded in pentrating not just politics, but culture as well. The NYT and AP still capitalize "Black" but not "white."


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


The wretch who died the slave's death is venerated and remembered in the most gorgeous, opulent setting.




And where did all those riches come from?  From the works of Nietzchean virtue - conquest and craft and cunning.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think he's snarking that SCOTUS is, in fact, our highest legislative body.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


So it’s not clearly the original intent to allow 8 billion people to hop a jet and give birth on the LAX tarmac.




Except that it clearly was, because there was all that wilderness to settle, and increasingly factories to staff-up.  They were literally giving land away to anyone that could prove they could work it productively.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


And if the answer is that it isn't, what then?




The Constitution itself provides an instrumental example - it was completely illegal under the then-extant Article of Confederation, but it turns out you can just do things if there's the political will and organization to do it.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Bondi has little-to-nothing to do with SCOTUS briefing and oral arguments.  That's the province of the Solicitor General.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I haven't read Infinite Jest, or Gravity's Rainbow, or White Noise.  However I adore Catch-22, and find Slaughterhouse 5 perfectly fine.  YMMV.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Obviously I can't speak for the "Polish street," but their government has been unrelentingly hawkish towards Russia for over a decade.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
That remains yet to be seen; this thing is still barely a month old.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I struggle to see what other kind of war could have been envisioned.  Admittedly I'm not military myself, but I certainly hang out with a goodly number of current and former military personnel in various online and IRL spaces from several different branches -- they uniformly say that this is more or less a textbook example of the "American way of war."  With focus on as-precise-as-technologically-possible aerial and missile strikes on political and military targets, down to the targeting of specific individuals, supported where possible by Special Forces/CIA paramilitary "dirty tricks" I don't see how this is functionally different from, e.g., the way we went into Afghanistan.  The bombardment of Tehran, Isfahan, and IRGC infrastructure looks a lot like 2003 "Shock and Awe" in Iraq.


What, do you think Paul Wolfowitz was jonesing for the 82nd Airborne and 1st Infantry Division to be rolling from Turkey towards Tabriz?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


France had no centuries long tradition of representative democracy and rule of law.




It did, just a much patchier one.  The idea to call an Estates-General didn't come from nowhere - there was a known and remembered tradition of such assemblies.  And, if anything, the ancien regime French had too much rule of law; the intransigence and excess legalisms of the various provincial parlements (a misleading name for regional judicial courts which also excercised forms of judicial review in the form of registering or declining to register royal edicts) blocked numerous attempted reforms prior to the revolution.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Masculinity and femininity as general pro-social concepts are only really useful when there is a division of gender roles.




Why would masculinity and femininity be downstream of social roles rather than biological tendencies?  Regardless of social expression, there needs to have a framework for disciplining the excess physical energy of rambunctious teen boys, and the excess social power of young-adult women.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


While I get that Blackstone was an Englishmen, I find it a bit rich that US legal thought should be based on him.




It was the actual choice of the founding generation, who explicitly adopted the english common law in state constitutions and statutes (see the term "reception statutes").


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Foremost for Blackstone is allegiance (weirdly shortened to ligeance in a few places)




It's not a weird shortening at all; allegiance is all about who you recognize as your liege, i.e., your ruler.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The British one seems pretty batshit, what with being somehow both fanatically culturally-progressive and also Islamist.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Dizzy, do you believe that apartheid ethnostates are morally acceptable in the present age




Yes, the gulf arab states are perfectly legitimate, regardless of their appalling track record towards "migrant workers."


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
"Ethnic cleansing" plus 50 years is just a normal border.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Because no-one wants to get stuck in the middle of a war zone.  Same reason there were refugee columns out of Belgium and northern France during the early days of WWI.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Personally, as a luke-warm supporter of the war, nos. 2-4 resonate with me, with a side-dish of "Israel probably told us their intelligence had penetrated the IRI governance and internal security structure enough to be able to achieve meaningful attrition/disorganization of regime-loyal elements."


Like, apparently things are so crazy that Mossad agents are calling individual district commanders of the Basij and warning them to stand down or get droned.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				My Willing Complicity in "Human Rights Abuse"
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Yet the persistence of this misuse indicates (at least to me) that there's something underlaying it other than just an inability to comprehend the scope of third world squalor.


If I had to guess, I would say it's not so much with the actual harm done the worker, but instead a discomfort with the idea of a westerner exercising power and control over a racially or ethnically-othered workforce.  The journalist isn't looking at the worker and seeing Kunta Kinte from Roots; he's looking at the worker's boss and seeing Simon Legree, and backfilling everything else from there in horror.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 9, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
If we're going to stay faithful to actual latin pronunciation, apparently it would be "weekeh wersah" because latin "v" is pronounced like an english "u" and latin "c" is pronounced like "cat" not "cell."


Of course, as a proper anglophone of the 21st century, I find this abhorrent, and never actually use it.   It's "Veni, Vidi, Vici" not "Wenny, Weedy, Weeky" damn it!


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 2, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


what kind of name is Markwayne anyway?




Strikes me as GenX Jimbob, personally, but YMMV.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 2, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The wiki isn't fantastically put together, but I didn't know about the conflicting sources.  I've only ever seen it posited as an established fact, including by some individuals who otherwise defended Churchill.  Thanks.