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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 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 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 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 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 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?"


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 11, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Now that we have vacuum cleaners, washing machines, and microwaves, what need for men to marry at all? They can just do those five minute tasks in between coming home from their Real Jobs and settling down to have fun with online porn, online gaming, and ordering drugs and booze online.




This, but unironically.  Especially since men's standards on those tasks tends to be considerably lower than women's.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 25, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It's a dead horse.  The idea that poverty in and of itself causes crime (rather than crime causing poverty, or people who suck being poor criminals) doesn't have much support at all, but it's one of the axioms of modern social democracy (gotta tax the rich to give more to the poor so the poor don't revolt, after all) and also progessivism, so it's unchallengeable in practice.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 15, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
If the failures are in their face enough, they may oppose that particular policy temporarily.  But they will draw no other conclusions about other policies based on the same premise.  And, as soon as those failures are not in their face any more, they'll go right back to supporting the failed policies until they fail blatantly and obviously again.


The catchphrase to remember: "The worst thing about this incident is it makes it seem like the right has a point".  Because the idea the right might actually have a point is anathema.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 4, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
This seems like picking the criterion to suit the conclusion.  Was there some prior general rule that "work" was something you'd support if your family did it?  So if a family member sold medical equipment or industrial mining equipment, you'd buy it?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 1, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The mainstream left is generally sympathetic to Cuba ("Look how great their health care is, shame on the US for not having single payer") and was sympathetic to the Sandinistas (if only because Reagan opposed them).