Tree
1d ago
Iran and Russia have pretensions to negotiate with the West as if they were equals, but they don’t have the cards. Even as a lifelong western stan, I’m still amazed at how easily the highly reputed armies of anti-western powers crumble. The quick and absolute dismantling of Saddam’s "top 5" army was one thing, against a superpower-backed coalition. But this is just a few western planes and drones taking out a big chunk of a regional power’s air defense, missile launches, leadership and nuclear sites in one go. It's another complete wipeout for a woke, decadent army versus the 'high asabiyah' hard men.
Tree
1d ago
People’s go-to strategy to increase motivation is to make their life suck. Nofap is effective at that, pure loss with no upside.
Not my thing. Wouldn’t wish it on my worse enemy. Nofap makes you horny, obviously, but what isn’t said enough is that it makes you lonely, tense, angry, too.
Tree
1d ago
Dacia Logan. It’s a spacious station wagon I can comfortably sleep in. I like the idea of potentially driving away without organizing anything. Even though I could have had an old diesel for free, I splurged on a new one for 8700 euros 5 years ago. No climate control, no little electronic motors everywhere to roll down windows for you and spare you the the anguish of having to move a whole arm. 63 HP. Wish it had less, always a pleasure to hear the strenuous effort this minuscule 3 cylinder-engine brings to push this huge car along. Apparently only 10% of logans sold had this hardcore ‘access’ option, everybody else went with decadence. So it’s a collectible, value can only go up. Although I did install a radio and speakers, to my shame (that lawnmower engine provides enough melody).
Tree
1d ago
She also demands a husband who is okay with her non-monogamous lifestyle. Most men can easily ignore past whoring. It’s current whoring they can’t abide. Makes for awkward breakfasts.
But usually then they're already married with kids, or they're monogamous, or they're very sexually submissive, or they're poor in a way I’m not financially prepared to support in a world where I want children.
She made millions from OF/prostitution, she has 122,000 substack readers, how many golden spoons could her children possibly need?
I wish women would stop framing their greed/hypergamy as just safeguarding the interests of children. It's about as subtle as the man who claims to like big tits because his future children’s nutrition is always on his mind.
Tree
6d ago
Or recently they mistakenly were causing inflation by increasing their interest rate which was supposed to fight inflation, until they finally realized that and cut the interest rate which cut the inflation proportionally?
Do you think lowering your target interest rate lowers inflation? Like erdogan?
Or does it mean you endorse milei's policies, the austerity poster boy?
Tree
6d ago
People disagree with him because of partisan considerations, and they downvote him because they disagree with him. They shouldn't be doing that, they're already in the wrong. But using those illegitimate downvotes to argue he's wrong is even worse, because it encourages them. Now they will think that by clicking harder they can win the argument.
Tree
6d ago
That seems to be the driving fear, although we've never seen it happen in a productive democracy.
Also, why is weimar germany or argentina quote-unquote unproductive?
In the real world, regular people seem to hate inflation so much that we almost always err on the other side: too much unemployment from taxes being too high.
I thought the 70s stagflation had put to rest the silly notion that high inflation equals low unemployment.
Tree
6d ago
What will inevitably happen is that some lefty will use this bullshit to do what they always do and spend with abandon until collapse. It will not be like greece, who was bailed out by the nordic german taxpayer (while being decried as evil austerites), more like venezuela. Oh, how surprised they will all be, that the infinite money machine did not, in fact, work.
Tree
8d ago
If women don’t talk about it, and they usually don’t (you being an exception), then I don’t think you can pin the blame on men. Plenty of doctors are women, and besides, you can’t expect much from doctors. They have fixed categories they put people in, so they don’t have to think. Tell them a pregnant woman vomits often, nobody panics because it’s all part of the plan. But say that some undefined adult vomits often, well then everyone loses their minds.
As to why pro-choice feminists aren’t publicizing it, my guesses are:
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they prefer to highlight damage they can attribute to men, rather than nature.
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they don’t want to be limited to physical damage, they want the right to abort for any reason, including mere convenience.
Tree
9d ago
I think it’s because the only ones who know, have nothing to gain and a lot to lose by publicizing that information. First they don’t want to admit to themselves that they may have made a costly mistake, when it’s too late anyway. And even if they somehow avoid the psychological sunk cost trap, they realize the husband and children would only be sad to hear it. So the next time the subject comes up, they just mumble something about not wanting to have to buy a bigger car.
Generally, I think there’s way less people who say they regret having children, than there really should be. You’re already at disneyworld, you drove 8 hours for this, paid 400 dollars, might as well pretend everything is great.
Tree
9d ago
Nobody said anything about the extinction of the species
I was exaggerating for comic effect. I just think you’re very very wrong on men’s willingness to get kicked in the balls for their children.
Tree
9d ago
I didn't say it was stupid. It's no different than doing judo or boxing.
I don't think that being punched in the face is uniquely valuable as a teaching lesson, though.
I mean, look at your position ITT. Because you lack this formative experience of pain, you find the pain of labour to be unbearable, so you think it cannot be expected of anyone, thereby.... dooming humanity to extinction. No big deal, but in case you think saving humanity is valuable, then I recommend a punch in the face.
Tree
9d ago
no you sound weird, haha. Is your background hyper-liberal urbanite or something? Mine is middle class liberal, small town in western europe.
There's this quip that modern college kids' main problem is that they have never been hit in the face. Although I grant that it does sound pretty stupid to punch each other for seemingly no good reason.
why would one knowingly subject oneself to pain?
Testing your limits, overcoming obstacles, preparing yourself for future fights and challenges, I guess. And in the moment there's the thrill in knowing the stakes are higher than usual. You can play a game for a pack of chewing gum, but it feels more important to play for the right to not get punched.
Tree
9d ago
You never experienced any, partly self-inflicted, pain at all? As juveniles me and my friends used to put on a headband so we couldn't see, and just punch each other in the dark. Just a way to inflict and endure pain, fight for fun, without malice. You never did anything like that?
Tree
9d ago
Have you ever seen jackass? I know men who would endure multiple kicks in the balls for bragging rights and a beer.
Tree
9d ago
Interesting perspective.
Everybody attaches their hobby horse to this problem: “it’s modernity, it’s lack of religion, urbanization, female education, not-enough state support, the wrong kind of state support, the housing crisis, devalued motherhood, it’s feminism, it’s not enough feminism...”. Men accuse omen and women accuse men, rightists accuse leftists and vice versa and so on and so forth.
You: “Women just dislike the pain and physical damage”. Everyone: “D’oh!”.
In my defense, I thought the problem was pretty much relegated to the past outside of some minor exceptions, but yeah if I look around irl the physical and psychological issues associated with pregnancy are still very common.
I guess we increase the painkillers/meds and supercharge the research into artificial wombs. Drip in, and baby out, asap.
Tree
9d ago
It seems pretty clear to me that Lana's personal problems have nothing to do with Trump, or the culture war in general.
I don't think politics has much to do with it.
You’re a mainstream liberal. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but you tend to either be blind to wokeness because it’s like water to fish for you, or ignore it because it’s politically inconvenient to have such illiberal and unpopular allies.
Shunning used to be something cults did, but wokeness mainstreamed it as part of its attacks on free speech.
Tree
9d ago
Yeah, in practice they just go in and talk and talk about themselves without pushback, creating a 'history of me', the end result being that they 'learn' that the original source of all their problems is that their parents/siblings have screwed them over in childhood and there’s nothing they can do. It’s incredible, what garden-variety therapy accomplishes. They blow up their small, real problems to gigantic proportions, convince themselves they cannot be resolved, and also destroy their relationships with their closest family members.
Tree
11d ago
How would a no-nonsense engineer such as yourself tinker with this problem?
Because it's very tedious and time-consuming to go through his page, click on the link, and then upvote (you can't upvote from the user page).
One thing that's mildly more effective is sorting by new, so you land on a thread, and there's a good chance there are more comments of his upthread, and so you've saved a pageload or two, which feels great. It might possibly be related to what you programmers call The Big O.
Another idea I have is simply to ask him to make 20+ one-letter comments on some dead thread so I can really cut down on the time spent per upvote.
Tree
11d ago
Okay. You can't upvote from the home user page, you have to click the link to the individual comments, and then do it. So I tried to rope in some helpers.
Tree
11d ago
I tried to sprinkle some tinker flavour out of respect for the dignity of this thread. But really I feel all the non-culture war megathreads should be merged.
Tree
11d ago
Charity drive for @AlexanderTurok ! Upvote all his comments!
Through a cruel twist of fate (or the r.drama code copypaste fairy), this innocent member of our community is constantly being censored! Only you can solve this terrible software issue forever.
Do you feel that posting a flag isn’t enough philanthropic effort anymore?
Spare an upvote or two for a poor silenced soul, every bit helps!
Tired of celebrities always helping you, but YOU never being allowed to help THEM?
That’s right, he’s a VIP, world famous in the fourth degree, karlin just name-dropped him. Go to his user page now, and give an arrow to a star!
But the guy has 170 comments!? Can't you whitelist him somehow? Or should I manually give him 170 upvotes?
It’s routine for the somewhat secular elites in those countries fight low-level civil wars against islamists, or at least for the batshit islamists to terrorize the "moderate" islamists. The house of islam has always been the house of war.
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