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TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
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TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
8mo ago
Its an Egg McMuffin for me but the sentiment is the same.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
8mo ago
I don't think "normies" are taking ayahuasca much less "turbonormies".
The impression i get is that the normie drugs of choice are things like weed, psilocybin, and cocaine, while the primary audience for ayahuasca is crazy venture capitalists and queer Ivy-Leaguers.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
8mo ago
You just assume that parenting matters. Why?
Because if you spend any time around children at all it is immediately apperant which ones have more engaged parents/caregivers.
The idea that it doesn't matter is another one of those ideas so manifestly absurd that you need to be an academic to take it seriously.
Like, what the fuck bro, your main setting literally is about multiyear winters, fucking spend more than 10 lines talking about agriculture
As much as I enjoyed the first couple books and most of the short stories this has always been my biggest beef with ASOIAF. A multi-year long winter is a potentially civilization-ending event for a preindustrial society, made even worse given they occur at irregular intervals (limiting the ability to plan for it). This ought to have massive downstream effects on social organization, economics, military planing, and (ironically given Martin's complaints about Tolkien) Taxation, yet we don't see this. The Westeros we are presented with is basically just an ersatz renaissance Italy with dragons and ice liches.
Finally I've always found Martin's critique of Tolkien (he says that Aragorn was a good and virtuous king, but what about his tax policy?) to be somewhat facile. If Aragorn was virtuous i think it is reasonable to presume that his tax policy was at least moderately fair, and if he was a good king, i think its reasonable to presume that it was competently administered. What more do we need to know? LotR is a fantasy novel, not a economics treatise.
Martin may as well be hating on a fairy-tale for ending with "and they lived happily ever after", because no matter how happy Snow White and Prince Charming are together they will eventually grow old, suffer from back pain, and die. Like, what the fuck bro, that's not the point of the story, nor does it change anything.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
8mo ago
What happened is that the real world is several orders of magnitude more complex than a closed and instrumented course, and that the hype-men vastly overstated the maturity of the technology.
Im asking what it means to be "to the right" in this context, what is "off mainstream" supposed mean?
If by "mainstream" we mean the kind of views held by the professional managerial class and presented on conventional/legacy media then we're talking identity-politics, with the "mainstream" supporting it over the objections of the wider population.
As individual vs collectivist (class/racial) politics has historically been the chief axis of division between "left" and "right" in the US, "off-mainstream" and "anyone to the right of" James Lindsay or Carl Benjamin could easily be interpreted as including anywhere between 2/3rds - 4/5ths of the entire US population. Not exactly useful catagories for disussion.
James has termed the actual right "woke right"
Can you define "actual right" in this context? Because it seems to me that users like @FiveHourMarathon, @ArjinFerman, and @OliveTapenade are correct. Yes you can fool people if you lie, but what does that prove?
You yourself are a person who quotes Lenin to dunk on conventional conservatives while claiming to be on the right, what does that tell others about you?
The right plays second fiddle to the left so has to be the moral side so that they can call the outgroup for "hypocrisy" which is utterly spineless since only the powerful can be hypocritical.
If anything its the opposite. The left plays second fiddle to the right as the left defines itself in its opposition. The right erects structures that the left then subverts and destroys.
only the powerful can be hypocritical.
Lenin was wrong though, hypocrisy has nothing to do with being strong or weak, it is the price paid for having principles that go beyond political expediancy.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
8mo ago
Are we sure they are lying though? Both BAP and Fuentes are pretty queer-coded and, as the old saw goes, it takes one to know one.
Lauren Southern and Nick Fuentes are both minor celebrities (for a given definition of "celebrity") who made thier bones out of trolling the woke. While both try to paint themselves as very trad, both come fom very liberal "blue" backgrounds.
The accusation of being "a fed" comes from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's known habit of using honey-pots, entrapment, and controlled opposition to target would-be dissidents/criminals. That Fuentes seems to be able to publicly advocate for an engage in illegal and anti-social behavior without suffering negative consequences has resulted in suggestions that he must at least have "friends" in FBI, or amongst the wider powers that be, if he isn't actually working for them directly.
I’ll also note here that from my point of view, only the right is really expected to have these high hills of purity to climb
I recall one of our old conservative grandees, from before the move to reddit, either BarnabyCajones, Hlynka, or FacelessCraven making the case that these "high hills of purity" were what distinguished the right from the left. A man on the left is allowed to have "no enemies to the left" and no values beyond the pursuit of politics. But a man on the right expects, and is expected, to be judged against some higher power or virtue. Some of more vocal NRX and Alt-Rightist(Alt-Litists?) In the comment section like E. Harding, Vox Day, and The Dreaded Jim felt they had been called out and caused something of a furor.
Sadly (for archival purposes) Scott appears to have memory-holed many of the old culture war conversations from those days, but i also can't say that i blame him. The original discussion leading up to and surrounding, The "You're Still Crying Wolf" "This Blog Endorses Anyone but Trump" posts got pretty heated.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
8mo ago
have you ever met any cops? Did you know people in school who grew up to become cops?
Yes, have you?
No, the only reason we get unchecked crime is that people choose to allow crime to go unchecked.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
8mo ago
2 thoughts (that say mostly the same thing)
These are legit points that I l will have to bring up if/when i get around to writing said effort post.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
8mo ago
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
8mo ago
the whole package deal is kind of a crappy deal when you think about it logically.
I think you ought to stop and examine exactly why you think this, i suspect the answers may surprise you.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
8mo ago
I mean it quite literally isn’t their fault.
This is one of those views which are so absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.
After all, even a dog can be trained.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
8mo ago
Steve Rogers pointing, I understood that reference.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
8mo ago
You're not wrong.
I would say that what @WhiningCoil, @jeroboam, @Capital_Room, @The_Nybbler, Et Al. are describing is the downstream effects of what I am describing. IE the afore mentioned "modern pathologies"
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
8mo ago
I'm going to posit that the people who do raise families are not properly equipping their children as a direct response.
Sure, you can always blame the parents but that's also part of what I'm talking about when I say that "the modern secular European blue/grey-tribe mindset is just not conducive to, and in many respects actively hostile towards, the forming of families". You see, I actually agree with you that having kids is inherently "unsafe", and therein lies the rub. Because if there's anything in the world that the modal secular blue/grey-tribemember seems desperate to avoid, it is personal risk, or more pointedly blame.
I believe this aversion is at the root of many modern pathologies including the seeming death of the adult. That desperate desire to avoid or minimize risk/blame ultimately bleeding over into a more generalized aversion to anything resembling personal responsibility or agency, and ultimately emotional and cognitive infantilization.
Furthermore I am positing that the collapse in birth rates is largely downstream of this phenomenon.
Something I've been thinking about writing an effort post on is the seeming death of "the adult", and the issue of delining issue seems directly related.
My 30-second elevator pitch is that the people talking about dysigeninics and raising the status of big families are either burying the lede or missing the point. That lede/point being that the modern secular European blue/grey-tribe mindset is just not conducive to, and in many respects actively hostile towards, the forming of families and rearing of children.
In the immediate aftermath of the election there was a user here asking who were the 40-something percent of women who voted for Trump because the didn’t know any. In contrast the answer seemed obvious to me because I know many women who voted for Trump, and the answer was "Moms".
The reason big families are "low status" is that they signal a rejection of many core secular liberal beliefs. A married couple with multiple car seats in the back of thier vehicle may as well be screaming "the things you care about are not the things we care about" at every member of the intellectual, activist, and managerial classes they drive past.
You have a "fur-baby"? That's cute, call me when you're ready to stop playing the game on "beginner mode".
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
8mo ago
There is an old saw that says that a man is often most conservative about what he knows best.
I find Buchanan to be so rife with basic historical errors and internal contradictions that it's difficult to take him (or anyone who would quote him positively) seriously. Is Churchill supposed to be an inveterate fuck-up, or a Xanatos-esque supervillain who played everyone in the world like a fiddle? The answer seems to change from chapter to chapter.
I also find it somewhat surprising and ironic to see 200 Years together cited here given Solzenhitzen's ultimate conclusions. I feel like a lot of people see (or hear about) Solzenhitzen's claim that the Jews share at least some blaim for the holocaust and various progroms and stop there without ever engaging with Solzenhitzen's arguments why.
I have, but "Karen from HR" isn't a "normie", just the opposite in fact. She is the personification of much of what the normies hate, and voted for Trump in protest of.
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