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Russia and Ukraine are two butch lesbians fighting over a condom

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				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 9, 2026
			
		

	




	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Uh, people do pretend to be retarded to win sports competitions. Here you go.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 2, 2026
			
		

	




	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Before this discussion goes any further, what would be your response to Herodotus?


In the parable of the Persian king, asked the Greeks what sum they would take to eat their dead fathers, they reacted in horror. To the Callatiae, he asked what they would do to burn their dead, and they similarly reacted in disgust. To which the historian reaches the conclusion that custom (nomos) is supreme, the king of all things.


Justice, it seems to me, is the effect of a body of custom. And if we cannot come to a consensus of custom, then every nation is an island in an sea of barbarism, and we'd best be suited to wipe each other out. So that is the compromise: and why an unjust state's opinions are just as valid as a just one's, because everyone believes that their custom is best. (Yes, even the liberal self-critical postmodernist one.) The least common denominator is the only thing that can survive, which seems to be a poor way to assess the validity of states. But without a universal measure of justice, what else can be done?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 26, 2026
			
		

	




	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Police deployed during stand-off over control of top Poland court, although all of the right-aligned posters on twitter and 4chan are calling it a coup. Apparently, there is some constitutional shenenigans in the appointment and approval of judges by the Polish president... sound familiar? I don't actually know very much about Polish politics - or European politics, beyond the anglosphere - so unfortunately my OP is a bit light. Does anyone in the Motte read Polish, or know what's going on?


My gut instinct is to say that Donald Tusk has overstepped in this manuever. You can't extralegally ignore your own head of state, even if it is to fix problems created by past abuses of the constitution. Unless there is some compromise in the background, things could get real tense, real fast.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 26, 2026
			
		

	




	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
To be very specific: the majority of gun crime is committed by young black men killing other young black men. But because America is still in many ways a liberal country, it can't specifically address the problem of a specific racial group without diminishing everyone's rights, because racism. But if we disarmed all young black men and banned Muslims from flying in airplanes, everyone would be better off with a lot less overhead.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 19, 2026
			
		

	




	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Hypercompetent characters probably aren't fun to watch going to the grocery store, but Apollo 13 is a great film because all the people involved are the best of the best at what they do, and they barely survive by using all of it.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	




	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I was meaning the green-reds. But the pro-pali left is accurate, too.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	




	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
If we were being overcome by Saladins and Ibn Khalduns and Abu Hurayras, one could - if grudgingly - accept defeat and conquest, for that is the way of things. But instead we are being choked to death by the alcohol-drinkers and the gang-rapers and the welfare-collectors, enabled by their watermelon compradors.


It makes one despair.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	




	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
"I'm a reasonable person, uniquely qualified to overcome natural bias with reason," said the polycule-encrusted finance hippy getting arrested for securities fraud.


Ever since Bankman-Fried walked into a federal prison, rationalists have been a joke, being a spectacular example of too much money married with insufferable arrogance. At least the average human hasn't pulled off an Enron in recent history.