aldomilyar
17d ago
Part of what confuses me about this is that if I'm going to a private island escortfest I don't think most people have a practical way of distinguishing between a 16 year old escort and a 18 year old escort in that context.
aldomilyar
18d ago
Yeah acting like a false flag is going to aim to clip Trump on the ear instead of either 'deliberately missing' or 'intending to actually kill him' is pretty galaxy brain.
aldomilyar
18d ago
If you're going to get a tattoo make it a commitment to an actual lifestyle or longterm bond. I'll respect the signalling of MS13 or Yakuza membership over random pop culture shit.
aldomilyar
19d ago
Atleast that person stands for something and has a sense of gravity about the occasion, though.
I might not want to hang out with a Yakuza but I respect their commitment to their lifestyle more than I do 'oh I've got Milhouse smoking weed'
aldomilyar
21d ago
Yeah I'm broadly the same. Jews have outsized success in the modern economy/culture, but I'd also much rather have them than Indians since I think my incentives are better aligned with Jews and Indians are more palpable 'KPI optimizers' who I feel are far more open to downright grift and don't throw up the same level of actual scientific, cultural and technological contributions that I actually benefit from. Also end of the day there's far less Jews than Indians (even if assuming it'll mostly only benefit upper castes) so that also puts a natural cap on how egregious things can get.
aldomilyar
21d ago
I wouldn't consider myself antisemitic perse. I think they have an outsized influence on Western politics/culture and I think it's kinda funny that the whole grievance studies thing has now pivoted to start vigorously ass-biting on the Israel v Palestine solution after they've essentially actively cultivated and allowed a lot of the oppressor framework stuff to take over the culture. On the other hand, I'd much rather live in a one-state Israel than in a one-state Palestine and I think any peaceful, productive resolution is far more likely to come with Zionism than vice-versa. Only one group there is likely capable of producing a viable nation-state that'd actively advance the status of all peoples (provided they were peaceful).
Like on the aggregate I think Semites have an outsized influence on a lot of things, but nonetheless are sufficiently aligned with my own personal interests and incentives that most of those influences have been broadly positive so uh carry on Illuminating albeit with a hope that the genie getting out of the bottle on Zionism might lead to less courting of the colonial grievance studies vibes.
aldomilyar
21d ago
From my experiences on the apps a couple years ago I also feel like the artifice of dating apps make it way easier to just X somebody on a single awkward interaction or factor that doesn't meet approval. Both since there's a sense of millions of alternatives, but also since you're most likely never ever ever gonna run into that person again.
Back when your perceived options were like tens of people in a geographic area and you'd keep running into people at Church, hobbies, extended friend groups or whatever it paid a lot more to be civil and not ghost at the first turbulence.
aldomilyar
22d ago
As a non-libtard who occupies a vague place somewhere in the reactionary spectrum, the main problem is that most liberals come in with the assumption that anyone who isn't a liberal is obviously some sort of underground cave creature who dropped out of primary school.
And from being on the Motte for years it feels like Liberal incursions inevitably struggle with a sort of 'In my ordinary place of conversation everybody agrees with 90% of what I'm saying automatically, and questioning anything beyond 80% of the platform is literally banned. I am thus wildly uncomfortable with being in a spot with the no no words being allowed'
aldomilyar
22d ago
Honestly this topic reminds me a lot of when COVID enthusiasts would enter the motte back on reddit and get pushback on what was, to them, an ordinary position that in real terms was probably 95th percentile COVID alarmism and then immediately take umbrage when they had to actually justify some of the concepts underpinning stuff like masking. Since in ordinary discourse you were briefly not allowed to even question these matters.
I'd consider myself Zionist since I think that the best case scenario for a 'liberated' Palestine is ultimately Lebanon 2: The Electric Boogaloo plus likely continued extremism and believe that peaceful Israeli Arabs are better off than their equivalents through the rest of the non-Petrostate Middle East. However, certain forces have cultivated this moment of blind anticolonialism oppression Olympics thinking and at a certain point you're gonna reap what you sew when you encourage the cultural milieu of the last half century.
aldomilyar
24d ago
Open Neo-nazis is likely going to filter for people with criminal pasts and the like. I'm sure there's plenty of productive people with essentially white supremacist beliefs, but I'd personally prefer not to live next to somebody with a Swastika face tattoo
aldomilyar
24d ago
I went to high school and used to lift weights with Sewell. Good guy even if his politics took a turn.
aldomilyar
25d ago
Yeah but the point of 'sovereignty wasn't ceded' arguments is essentially that the lack of any sort of a coherent political union or body of Aborigines with which to negotiate a surrender means that they didn't surrender meaning that they still own the territory of Australia under illegitimate occupation. Galaxybrain shit.
It also contributes to an active resistance towards archeological or other historical investigation of Australian history in order to reduce the chances of anything that might contradict the official narrative. There was a semi-recent case in which Mungo Man, the oldest Homo Sapiens discovered in Australia, was reburied in accordance with Indigenous wishes to prevent further scientific inquiry.
aldomilyar
26d ago
In my experience it's Indians who do far the most racial aggrandizing of the Asians about 'India would be hovercars and perfect development without the Raj' topics and the everpopular riffs on 'descendant of top caste complains about anglo oppression whilst having to leave India for better opportunities due to intense affirmative action for the people they've historically oppressed' though I've generally found Indian Idpol actively contradictory and absolutely insane.
aldomilyar
26d ago
Complete sidenote but I read Alison Overeem as Alistair Overeem and was overcome for a moment with confusion about ethnicity.
aldomilyar
26d ago
Still you can't deny the Aztecs had a political assemblage which could be meaningfully bargained with about concepts like land ownership and fealty. The Indigenous take in Australia is essentially they were too primitive to 'lose a war' and therefore couldn't have lost a war.
aldomilyar
26d ago
That's essentially what was proposed with the National Voice, which got shouted down hard in the most recent referendum. Now certain states (ironically the ones with by far the actual lowest population of Aborigines and highest population of liberal Whites) are trying it on a trial basis.
aldomilyar
26d ago
You'll also observe that it's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders too, the Torres Strait Islanders totally refuse to be lumped in with the rest even though only 3000 of them live on the islands and the other 80,000 live on the mainland. It's a huge mess.
Torres Strait society was pretty different to Aboriginal society. Having done a year in Darwin and been around a bunch of those locations, they had agricultural and land ownership norms that weren't really a thing on the continent itself. I think the validity of their argument for ownership of their islands is more reasonable than the Aboriginal one by some degree.
aldomilyar
26d ago
Yeah but the Maori had a bunch of hallmarks of settled agricultural society that the Indigenous lacked plus entrenched defensive positions which made it easier to just cut a deal with the local headsmen on the absolute colonial fringe.
aldomilyar
27d ago
How good a coder even is he? Like all the stories of him being fired essentially as soon as grace period expires indicates that he's not as flash as the guy in the interviews, but then bunch of random twitter takes that he's secretly some godly contributor who's just spreading himself to thin.
Like to me 'guy creates a resume perfectly fabricated to hit the startup filters and is just very good at leetcode' feels more plausible than him genuinely being some star contributor even if it's save face for his potential employers for him to be the spread-thin genius
aldomilyar
1mo ago
Yeah. If the results were marked objectively it'd be one thing, but combination of the media and some thinktanks declaring a resounding success on the topic will just perpetuate more silliness.
aldomilyar
1mo ago
These are the standards for a husband, but they're applied after a bunch of attractiveness filter to get to boyfriend/hookup status so it's 'an 8/10 who's good at dating and also has all of the above'
aldomilyar
1mo ago
"He thinks we're just having fun, I'm hoping to have his baby and force him to get serious."
Don't put your dick in anything you wouldn't be able to deal with getting pregnant.
aldomilyar
1mo ago
One of my friends is a porn producer and has been in the game for a couple decades. One time I was talking to him and the whole step-thing came up, and in his opinion it's simply popular since it injects taboo into a scene without requiring anybody to do anything actually physically excessive beyond a standard pornshoot.
We're beyond saturation point for normal PIV, so just doing a quick find-and-replace in your normal script to slip in 'stepwhatever' gets you equivalent taboo value as having to recruit people to do stuff that's actually physically onerous. Also the relative paucity of large families plus the increased rate of step-relationships adds fuel to the fire.
aldomilyar
1mo ago
Yeah. Simultaneously it can be hard to exactly explain gravity due to nested complexity in the real world, regardless of improved sensory equipment and yet still practical to assume that we're not gonna wake up tomorrow morning and fall into the sky.
Not especially vocal or belligerent people
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