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				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


That doesn't answer the question. Do you think that a world where the IRGC has nukes is more stable or less stable than the counterfactual that we currently live in?




Yeah, the part that answered it is "I'm not sure, but it's not difficult to imagine". You can round it off to "yes" if you don't like my uncertainty.




Secondly the only two countries to voluntarily relinquish an existing nuclear weapons capability that I am aware of are South Africa and Ukraine, who are you referring to?




Gaddafi. Looking it up now, I see he didn't quite make it to the finish line.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Given the crackdown of western governments against social media, when a few elections didn't go the way they wanted, I find it hard to believe that the role of the US in the Arab Spring was non-central, and it was all about some dude setting himself on fire.


Frankly, the very notion of "organic" mass movements is in dire need of evidence.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


My question for you is do you think that allowing the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to have nukes would have a stabilizing effect on world affairs or do you agree with me that it would have a destabilizing effect, if the latter how much of a destabilizing effect?




I mean... during my lifetime, no one had a more destabilizing effect on the world in general, and the Middle East in particular than the United States. If it's even true that Iran is scrambling for nukes, it's patently clear the reason they're doing so is because America deposed a ruler that handed off his in good faith, on the assurance that he will not be attacked. I'm not sure what effect a nuclear Iran would have, but a world that becomes more stable as a result is not difficult to imagine.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Wait till you see how the US stock market is growing compared to others.




Can I please get this chart in a version that please back more than one year?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I disagree about characterizing it as lying, but yeah, the simple statement that his insults don't really mean much, and are more reflective of whether he perceived their target as loyal or disloyal than of their actual merits, is uncontroversial.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
They already tried a sequel, doubt they'll do anything else with it.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I dunno, man. I am entirely sympathetic to the American normie populist right, in no way see them as inferior, and the reason I think Trump is being puppeteered, is that he jumped head-first into an idiotic war that he explicitly campaigned against, and which is exclusively in the interest of Israel and against the interest of the normie populist right.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


This is happening in context of a recent FBI report suggesting that Fulton County Georgia had tabulated approximately 20,000 more absentee votes than they had recorded sending out.




Ah... nothing like a good flashback to all the "no evidence of voter fraud" discussions we had here to start the day.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Not every single one in the intelligence community, just the specific department she's in charge of, and perhaps not even all of those, I'm sure there are many hiring decisions that are insignificant in the grand scheme of things, but it doesn't look like he got hired as the receptionist either, so...


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 9, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Keep in mind he's not a European.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Isn't DNI run by Tulsi Gabbard? How is she "the intel establishment"?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for March 15, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Not sure if this counts, but I can't get over the fact that Hollywood wordcells, notorious for their poor understanding of science and technology, somehow ended up being right about how computers (will) work:


    

  • "Zoom! Enhance!"
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  • "Computer, in the Holmesian style, create a mystery to confound Data with an opponent who has the ability to defeat him."
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				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 9, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Define "converted".




That you start believing the tenets of their faith, if you don't already.




I think jihadis are generally gunning for a world where infidels are made to mouth along to Muslim prayers and follow shariah law;




Well, if I get to call a group evil based on what I think they want, there's even less reason to go easy on the environmentalists.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 9, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The goal is "everyone has converted", you are still mixing the how with the what.




I did say that all of this forced-conversion stuff was simply the cherry on top of much of shariah law already being evil,




You also said that "slavery to a supernatural being" is evil, and that straightforwardly condemns the entirety of Islam, and all the Abrahamic faiths. You tried to backtrack from that by shifting back to jihadist tactics again.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 9, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Even among faiths whose teachings could be phrased this way




...who just so happen to cover vast swathes of the world population...




it is by no means a majority who hold that it is acceptable or desirable to force such submission at the point of a sword




We were talking about the goals themselves being evil, you shifted the goalposts to the means of achieving the goals.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 9, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
How do you know that every Nazi / Jihadi signs on to the evil parts as well?




And anyway, insofar as "bringing humanity to the light of Allah" is ultimately a euphemism for "enslaving humanity to the tyrannical will of a supernatural being" I would consider that an evil aim in itself




That sounds like something only an evil person would say.


Also, in an attempt to prove that we shouldn't treat all environmentalists as evil, you just condemned not only every Muslim, but every religious person on the planet.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 9, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Bringing humanity to the light of Allah, doesn't sound evil in and of itself to me, and even a good leftist will find lots to agree with even in the OG Nazi party platform. So I don't see a reason to allow this kind of picking and choosing for one, but not the other.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 9, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Even if you mean "nobody cares about that fine distinction for militant environmentalists", that is not true.
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but they can also in no way be said to be part of the same organization




Unless you specifically mean Ted Kaczynski, and not violent eco-activists generally, this is complete nonsense, and of course people think they're a part of the same movement.


The reason Kaczynski doesn't fit is that he was following a different set of ideas than environmentalism, not because he was violent.


Even the militancy is hardly relevant. Few people bother drawing distinctions between violent and not violent Nazis, or violent and non-violent Jihadis.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 2, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Sure, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine is justified, because Ukraine retaliated by bombing Russian refineries.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 9, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
You wot, mate?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 2, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
If your duty is to keep some sort of order in the world, this war is in it's active dereliction. If your duty is to be hegemon for the same of being hegemon, it's no different from "having fun".


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 9, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					




The 2021-2024 option might have sounded more professional, at least when he showed up to work




Well yeah, this is about culture. I am not appalled by the civilian death toll, 170 is rather low for a major operation as far as these things go. Pete offends me aesthetically.




The perfect two-line summary of the entirety of pro-Trump vs. anti-Trump discourse, isn't it?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for March 8, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Feel free to ping any mod you've seen around recently, they're good sports about this stuff. I think I saw some @self_made_human poasting just now, can you help out?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for March 8, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Do all main posts need to be approved?




Yeah, all posts need to be manually approved by the mods, no matter how long you've been here, and how good your reputation is. Until then, it is visible only to you and the mods.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Tinker Tuesday for March 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I haven't seen that before in an asteroids clone (maybe I just haven't played enough).




Yeah, this is based on the Alien Phobia series. Looking it up now I see that the flashlight there was more decoration than actual lighting, but I also like how it panned out, so definitely keeping that.




The one thing that strikes me though is that there's no easy at-a-glance visual cue of if a bug is dead or not; maybe the light cone should only highlight the living bugs instead of the dead ones?




Yeah, I'll be trying a few things out. Currently I'm just using open source sprite sheets, which are what they are. Originally I was thinking of adding high amounts of blood splatter, with the idea that the sudden change in the color palette will make things more obvious. I made a few attempts with AI, but it seems it has trouble understanding the assignment, so I left it as it is until I get around to improving the graphics. Other than that, I can make the corpses a bit darker when they're drawn into the background texture.