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				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 11, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Yes, that includes for women [...]. But it also means consequences for men.




And yet the consequences for men keep coming, and the consequences for women don't.  There isn't any reversing of the sexual revolution going on here.  Just the perpetration of a new double standard where men get responsibility for both their own choices and those of women.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 16, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I've written before about pretextual excuses, such as when NYC *claimed *their employee vaccine mandate was for public health reasons, but then implemented exceptions that were inconsistent with their lofty claim.




Or, for instance, when someone writes a long comment purporting to be about the US legal system, but is really just a vehicle to take a shot at Trump.


				

				

						

							

								
    
									
									
									
									
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				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 8, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
If you had a free hand, what WOULD you do about it?  Other than police state stuff (in which I include effective gun control), I don't see what you can do.  Having the FBI pay special attention to Hispanic neo-Nazis probably won't work.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 1, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
"Leftists are the real authoritarians" plays about as well as "Democrats are the real racists".  It is axiomatic that the right is authoritarian and the left is fighting against that.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 15, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Despite my fallouts with The Left, I'm still broadly a social democrat; I think that an effective state is one that provides good free services to all its citizens, including things like high quality education, healthcare, and public transit.




And this is the problem.  You won't update; nobody ever does.  No matter how many times it turns out the obvious problems those on the right claimed would occur actually did occur, no one who has bought into the leftist view will reject the premises which said they wouldn't.  It's a trapdoor epistemology.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 18, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Pressuring women for contact or sex when she has said no should not be normal. Unsolicited pictures of gentitalia should not be normal. Continuing to contact a woman after she's said no should not be normal. Lying should not be normal.




Then women must stop rewarding these behaviors.  If you want to actually impose change from on high, your authority has to somehow punish Stacey when she accepts a date with Chad after she turned him down the first time.  Just telling men that 'no means never' isn't going to work if they see that guys who get laid are being persistent and guys who aren't persistent don't get laid.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 14, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
If he's put in prison for any of the stuff they're throwing at him now, he will be a shoe-in for the Republican nomination.  You could not ask for a better way to get his base to turn out.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 26, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Marxism has been tried, over and over again.  Always it produces shortages, usually it produces skulls.  Why do we have to keep doing it?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 18, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Well, if you followed the implied rules here, dating apps would be completely useless for men -- just that last point is enough; there's not much point in dating if you're not going to meet in person and there will 99% of the time be some reluctance expressed to take that step.  But of course rules or not, Chad isn't going to follow them (and he'll usually get away with it) so nothing changes.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 1, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Not everyone, Black Lives Matter thinks all three should be prosecuted.  Because the mentally ill homeless are ordinary people's social and moral superiors and raising a hand against them, regardless of provocation, is verboten -- and black homeless especially so, of course.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 19, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The viability of standardized tests, colorblind policy, and merit-based immigration vetting all depend on either their outcomes being race-neutral, or HBD being at least tacitly accepted.  The strong belief that all racial groups are equal, combined with the demonstrated fact that they are not, means you have to give up or distort standardized tests and merit-based immigraiton vetting, and discard colorblind policies.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 1, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


The first step to saving our civilization, at least in the sense that I care for it as a civilization, is not for tens of thousands of people to go kill the local subway-screaming bums. Lock them up? Maybe. Kill them? No.




Locking them up is an option for a political entity with a jail and a staff; it's not something an individual can do.  Those political entities (the city and state of New York) have chosen to do otherwise.  That means the locals either must put up with the subway-screaming bums no matter what they do, or they must use less-measured force.  It's a bad situation, but it's certainly not clear that making everyone put up with the aggressive drug-addled mentally-ill violent people is better for civilization than allowing direct action be taken against them.




Life doesn't work like that. You can't just have some kind of society-wide spree of murdering undesirables and find that somehow, all of the things that you actually like about liberal modernity have survived.




Are you sure?  And even if not, maybe most people would prefer the aggressive drug-addled mentally-ill violent people dead over whatever they lose by that happening... perfection, after all, is rarely an option.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 19, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It's a public university, which means there's one thing which has a chance of working -- elect DeSantis-equivalents to the governorship and legislature and pass a law banning this stuff, then appoint a Rufo-equivalent to make sure it happens.  However, that won't happen because Virginia has gone blue.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 11, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


It’s both a strategic mistake and a grave political failure to use the courts to target Trump now.




Unless it works.  If it's crazy and it works, it's not crazy.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 31, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I recently found an interesting post about the driving/transit+walking divide that I'd like to discuss some here: If We Want a Shift to Walking, We Need to Prioritize Dignity.




The short version of that being that pedestrians are special snowflakes who won't walk unless the built environment is just right.  Meanwhile, looking at your Sioux Falls shot, the issue isn't so much "dignity" as scale.  Well, that, and the fact that no one wants to walk to car dealerships.  The blocks are about 0.5 mile x 1 mile.  If you want to have a pancake breakfast and then head over to pick up your new handgun, that's over a 20 minute walk.  It's not a matter of dignity or respect.  Making the walk nicer isn't going to make it take less time.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 6, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Right, because the Culture War has taught many the lesson that an invitation to engage in high-decoupling analysis is a trap.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 12, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


In a bizarrely pro-Trump interpretation of his tweets, one staffer who was supposed to actually evaluate his tweets said that when Trump referred to "American Patriots" in a tweet, he wasn't referring to the rioters, but to people who voted for him. I have no idea why this person thought that the people who rioted weren't Trump supporters.




Bizarrely pro-Trump?  The tweet was this:




"The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future.  They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!"




Were there 75,000,000 rioters?  Did Trump actually say in this very tweet he was referring to people who voted for him?


What this release amounts to is many people inside Twitter were looking for a reason, any reason, to ban Trump, and despite some initial resistance by some more process-oriented people, he was indeed banned.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 15, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
And you'd prefer if the Soviet Union still existed?  Even if the alternatives are both bad, the better one is still better.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 11, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Carlson tells us that the man who incited a riot must not be punished or else we'll get more riots.




Trump did not incite a riot in any way, shape, or form.  There is simply no reasonable line you can draw between Trump's statements (which, among other things, were not made at the site of the riot) and the riot.  Not by the Brandenburg standard, and not by any standard which has been applied to any politician since Brandenburg.


I realize you're not American and may not be familiar with American freedom of speech traditions and jurisprudence, but there simply isn't a serious question here, and anyone who IS familiar with such traditions and jurisprudence knows it.  You simply cannot take take the fact of a riot, and anodyne political statements made as part of a political demonstration ("I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard."), and infer from the latter an attempt to incite the former.  Nor can you do things like "Trump claimed the election was stolen; if the election was stolen violence would be justified; therefore Trump called for violence".  That's just not valid.  The test is that the speech must be intended to cause imminent lawless action, and it must be likely to cause it.  Ex ante likely, that is, though that doesn't much matter because it fails the "intent" test.  Telling a group to march to the Capital to make their voices heard is unquestionably protected speech of the sort even Robert Bork would accept.


So you are probably right that Trump will not get his immunity.  And given a DC jury, chances are pretty good that he'd be convicted; contrary your claims, I think a D.C. jury would convict Trump of anything up to and including murder without evidence of a victim.  And he may indeed go to prison.  And if that causes widespread violence, everyone involved in his imprisonment absolutely deserves it.  I doubt it will, though; the part of Trump's base capable of widespread violence is wholly infiltrated by the FBI and/or cowed by the Jan 6 response, and the rest is all bark and no bite.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 2, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I guess massacring civilians and gangraping dual citizens who post on social media about supporting Palestine has that effect.




The horror cherry on top of this cake of horror is this won't change anyone's minds.  Pretty much nobody is going to stop supporting the Palestinians over Israel because of this, not even most of the survivors of the Rave for Peace.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 10, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Also, what are the arguments against LVT, besides low-effort "taxes are always bad and raising them is evil?"




Still low-effort is "it's communism, but only with land".  But given how bad communism has turned out, I think it's sufficient.  The Georgist LVT is equivalent to the government owning all the land and leasing it out to the highest bidder.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 15, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
So


1) You claim "the political system that perpetuates our current ruling class will be so severely damaged..." is equivalent to "the government system cracks and fails"


2) You claim the inevitable result is something materially worse


Therefore


3) By logical implication your position is that the current ruling class should remain in power, and those who oppose them should just suck it up.


It should not be any surprise that those who are not happy with the current ruling class are not really open to this conclusion, and are therefore probably not on board with at least one of the premises.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 9, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The only post-Bruen challenge the Supreme Court has taken is Rahimi, and that's clearly to give them a chance to backpedal and find that a restraining order is certainly a sufficient reason to take away a person's gun rights.  The Supreme Court is simply not interested in people having gun rights, only in grandstanding about them.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 1, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I'd argue that a neural net is a derivative work of its training data, so its mere creation is a copyright violation.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 11, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The Supreme Court, and conservatives in general, do not want people to have gun rights.  They want to make an abstract legal point about the Constitution, but they'd be horrified if it had any practical effect.  "Sure, you have the right to keep and bear arms.  But what makes you think that means you can carry a GUN?"