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				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 28, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
If you just have basic conservative values, it’s pragmatic to talk about the privileged influence of Jews in America. Do you want to reduce affirmative action? Noting the over-representation of Jews at Universities, while gentile Whites are under-represented, proves that European Americans have been historically under-privileged at universities for three decades. Tired of white privilege discourse? Jews only have been over-represented on the Supreme Court and presidential cabinet for five decades. Nationalism? Jews practice as “nationalism for me but not for thee”.


As mainstream Jewish groups are simply not an ally of Western civilization from a conservative perspective, it makes complete sense to zero in on them for reasons of persuasion.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for November 27, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
iPhone only at the moment


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 21, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Politics today is about persuasive emotional messaging, which women are more receptive to.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 21, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Doomerism will kill any conservative boycott movement, but all you have to do is send a well-researched and cited dozen pages to top investors of company x, clearly spelling out that they are likely to lose z percent income from a boycott, and they will vote for a different ceo or direction.


It’s not rocket science. It’s remarkably easy. Investors in companies still, at the end of the day, do not want to lose a large amount of money.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 21, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


something healthy in expressing gratitude, though I can't quite put my finger on it.




Gratitude is the salience of important Goods. In our daily life we’re constantly distracted by transient cares which don’t really matter: gossip, comfort, sweet tastes, coffee, and so on. Gratitude is the stepping up to a tall hill, and overlooking our life and home in the grand scheme, and noting the real permanent Goods that we have: family, safety, and memories with friends. Gratitude is a longterm, serious, sincere attempt and recognizing the good things in our life in relation to our sum total life. In this sense, gratitude is actually not very progressive: it necessitates real values, a real telos, and the idea that people should be focused on the appreciation of this.


Anyway, I am thankful precisely that my ancestors conquered the New World. Why shouldn’t I be? They played the game according to the rules at the time, and they won. That’s one of the greatest historical feats on record (winning a new continent) and I find that awesome. I am grateful that they destroyed the Indian nations.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 21, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
We are already completely fine with wrongful convictions, which is why we throw people away for life despite a chance of wrongful conviction. The difference between being killed, and being thrown away in a tiny cell for your whole life, is vanishingly small, It is the bulk majority of the moral harm done already. You cannot reasonably be against killing people, despite the chance of wrongful conviction, and yet be perfectly fine completely ruining their life in every way short of killing them, despite the chance of wrongful conviction. (As, the number of people eventually freed from wrongful conviction of murder is much lower than not.) Chance is a fact of life that we all deal with every day. Sometimes we just die. The small chance of being executed wrongfully for a murder we didn’t commit does not somehow make executions not worth it, any more than dying when a bridge collapses makes building a bridge not with it.


The evidence for deterrence is that we are promptly executing the drug dealers in front of their community. If you can’t even attempt to reason from first principles why this might deter future criminals, I have no idea what to tell you. Nations that execute drug dealers (and have high catch rates) do shockingly well in deterring drug use. You can look up interviews on YouTube of international drug traffickers talking about how none of them would ever traffic into Singapore. Because they would be executed. I promise you that if you, at the age of 12, saw your uncle executed for drug dealing in front of you, your chance of subsequently dealing drugs will plummet.


Also, we’re obviously talking about dealers of hard drugs, not “drug related” offenses.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 21, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Such reforms have never been studied, as they haven’t been implemented since modern social science; if and when they are studied, it would take a very good metastudy to determine what’s true from what’s false.


There is no research indicating that public executions are ineffectual in deterrence. There may be some research indicating that imprisoning individuals for twenty years before executing them in private is ineffectual in deterrence. This is different than a speedy public execution in the neighborhood of their peers, which I promise would have a deterrence effect.


You are making a ridiculous, silly, ignorant category error by confusing conservative Islam with the potent terroristic ideology that causes young Muslim men to commit terrorism. It’s really not fundamentalist Muslims as a category who commit terrorism, but a small subset who subscribe to radical terroristic ideology promoted by a small few. At least in the West. That’s much more than 1 in 6 million. It’s probably more than 1 in 100,000. Of the adherents to ISIS ideology, or Al qaeda ideology, I’d say 1 in 20,000 probably commit terrorism. No, there is no study on this either.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 21, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Teaching the virtues in school with stories and examples, teaching young women how to pick mates in teen years, teaching women to be homemakers which reduces total societal stress, banning degenerative media, publicly executing drug dealers. There’s a lot you can do to reduce the terrible behavior that leads to a kid being born from a felon mom and meth addicted pornstar father. After he’s born, better male role models would also help quite a lot.


If the rate of anti-gay believers who become violent against gays is 1 in 60 million per year, or 1 in 6 million, I do not feel comfortable calling this anything but statistical noise. I do not believe his anti-gay beliefs (if they exist) are causal whatsoever.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 21, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I thought it was determined his motive was shooting up any nightclub


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 21, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
18% of Americans believe that it should be illegal for adults to engage in lgbt sex.  That’s 60 million Americans. The rare attack we get from this group is statistical noise, and while the attack itself is proof of the attacker being anti-lgbt, there’s no correlation between “strength of being anti lgbt” and the attack. Eg, in this attack the person has no strong history of engagement in anti lgbt activism.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 21, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I do not think that is correct. Once you get the ball rolling corporations would have a legitimate fear of doing things that cause 20% of consumers to flee. What’s more, a boycott effort can act as a propaganda engine to cause non-members to flee (put up money to market, say, how Apple products are associated with poor child labor in Africa — emotional appeals to hurt consumer trust). Even if both Apple and Microsoft lean left, you simply boycott the most left one, or etc


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 21, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I just wish conservatives would start a serious boycott effort. I am 100% fine screening my purchases according to a blacklist for the rest of my life. I am 100% fine calling 10 businesses in my state to suggest the boycott and calling 5 corporations to complain, and I’m extremely lazy. I am ready to loudly and annoyingly protest outside certain businesses to discourage patrons. Etc etc. There are millions just waiting for the organizational infrastructure to fight back where it hurts.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 21, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It seems to me that his identity is more aligned with a progressive identity than a conservative one. He is the product of a progressive lax culture, not a conservative one. He’s the child of a drug addicted porn star father and a felon mother. His father was addicted to meth, a commonly abused drug in the gay nightclub scene. His parents’ lifestyle was the opposite of conservative.


The fact that he was previously charged for threatening to blow up his mother’s house strongly suggests that he targeted the sexually promiscuous nightclub because of its similarity to his father (in his mind). Clearly he had an interest in violence against his parents before.


If you want less of these kinds of attacks, what is the best course of action?


    

  • Well, there’s absolutely no association between anti-gay belief and attacks on gays. Many millions of Americans are heavily invested in being anti-LGBT, but they don’t attack gays. Muslims and Orthodox Jews hardly have any interest in attacking gays, despite being anti-LGBT.
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  • There’s a stronger relationship between shooters and broken families / traumatic childhoods, in particular absent fathers.
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To best prevent future cases of this sort of violence, producing even more lgbt propaganda will accomplish nothing (it’s already omnipresent after all), but fixing society and keening families together would probably help. It would be more advantageous to actually extol the value of a stable mother-father marriage, versus continually talking about gays


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 21, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
What evidence would you expect there to be, for or against, for that idea? If  he’s alleging such an idea, in order to get evidence he would need to be employed as the head of a social science lab. Otherwise, he has to rely on the research already down, but that doesn’t exist on this topic. Requiring him to supply evidence for this kind of idea is saying he can never have the idea at all.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 21, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Everything can be summed up with “we live in an immoral nation”. H1bs lead to reduced salaries and later tech layoffs. Poor food quality and poor education on nutrition and two-parent working households lead to ill health later on. Etc etc. Even without COVID lockdowns we would be getting worse in all measures of real life qualify


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for November 20, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
As sports are a parasocial relationship to some degree, having female announcers is a nonstarter for many fans. It would be like me watching a girl play video games when I’m not horny. Why would I do that? I watch to relax and listen to a guy I relate to, which is a kind of parasocial friendship. So with sports, I want to relax and hear a bro talk. For this reason, men watch Joe Rogan, not because anything he says is insightful, but because he’s the Average Joe Rogan.


FIFA probably has female announcers because western lib democracy countries thought it would be a propaganda win over the Arab world


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for November 20, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
the desire to feel a family would be a gene governing in-group preference, and corporations are already adept at finding ways to give consumers this feeling without having a real family.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for November 20, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The personality traits that used to lead to fertility in the past, like a love for cute /neotonous things, a desire to be a “parent”, all now have cheaper and most accessible satisfactions, like watching anime and owning a stuffed animal or pet. I don’t know of a personality trait that leads to fertility as its most expedient satisfaction


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for November 20, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I don’t really think there are pro-fertility genes except for “sexual desire” and “potency”. Sex negative is in fact more culturally fertile because such people tie sex to family formation through propaganda. So in this sense, yes, the conservative memeplex can outbreed the progressive one. But once they have children they lose some large percentage to the progressive memeplex, and conservatives don’t produce enough children to cancel this effect (unlike the Amish).


I agree on sex positive mind virus point.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for November 20, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’ve heard it said we shouldn’t worry about fertility because eventually those with pro-fertile genes will even things out. But this isn’t true, isn’t it? Pro-fertile genes are just “sexual desire”. The modern world takes the people with the most fertile genes and makes them infertile through artificial sexual outlets (casual sex, porn) and artificial intimacy outlets (parasocial relationships, pity politics). So there’s no optimistic evolutionary solution to infertility, there’s only a cultural solution. Or am I missing something? There’s genes for wanting to ejaculate when seeing a woman, but no gene for “wanting to ejaculate inside a woman and wait nine months to create a child”.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 14, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Do you still think it was Russia?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 14, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Amber Heard could be an event that people reference as the failure of [left wing thing], like early GamerGate. So doing all of this is a why to prevent people in the future from remembering the past correctly. More allegations, someone says “well remember amber heard?”, mods ban them for misinformation and point them to a doctored Wikipedia page and they’re left scratch their head. As the most televised trial, it will be in history books too, which can now be dr’d


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 14, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
However it is very good for brain health and reversing diabetes


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 14, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The ironclad rule is that there is always going to be a cost associated with the benefit of a drug. When you’re dealing with pharmaceutical drugs that are not totally tested in normal humans, the cost is likely much greater than the benefit. But it’s easy to feel an immediate benefit, and much less easy to feel the longterm benefit that has imperceptibly small differences day by day.


If SBF were actually serious about maximizing his mind, and not just looking for an easy solution, he would go on a fasting regimen to lose weight, hire a personal chef to give him nutritious meals, start training for a marathon, quit league of legends, and never sleep on a bean bag chair. But really, he just wanted to get high. He was motivated by the same desire as meth addicts.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for November 16, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I finally got and am quickly recovering from COVID last weekend. It took me this long to finally get it. I had made myself a nice document on what to do to prevent severity, stuff like licorice root consumption, aged garlic extract, sunlight.  But when I finally did feel sick, all I wanted to do was eat haribo gummies and saltines and drink a lot of water.