I am pro Russia for several reasons.
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The fundamental debate regarding what the west is. The globalists want to see a gobalist, universalist empire. I want the west to focus on itself. We shouldn't be fighting in Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine or Venezuela. Even if these wars went well I don't want a global empire. They are inherently multicultural, require a police state and tie our fate to people we have nothing in common with. I support all groups fighting the globalists. The refugee and heroin flows from Afghanistan stopped when the globalists were physically kicked out of the country by the Afghan people. The Iraqis kicked the globalists out of most of their country as well. Hopefully people fighting for Keir Starmer and Macron get kicked out of Ukraine as well. These wars end up with us footing the bill while we get swamped with migrants. Then we need more government control to stop whatever evil cartoon character the media is trying to scare us with this time.
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Being sucked into the west would wreck Ukraine. Their culture would get replaced by America ghetto culture, their cities would fill with migrants and they would get all the same cultural bagage that saddles the rest of Europe. I have visited Kiev and it was a beautiful city with minimal third world migration, few tattooed fat women with nose rings. The last thing they need is an EU/Soros cultural program.
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It is bad enough that we northern Europeans have to be in the EU with Greeks and Romanians. Now we are going to add Ukraine into this mess? We are going to end up paying to be in a brutally corrupt and inefficient EU.
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The Eurocrats aren't even trying to hide that they are trying to bring down Russia. What they want to replace it with is woke vassal states. I see it is positive that Russia is Europe's largest country and is free and independent.
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All empires need Limes. The idea that the woke globalist order is going to stretch to Eastern Ukraine and to the Chinese border will put us in a constant state of semi war. It is much easier to have large buffer zones between us and other civilizations. Pushing right up against them creates conflict that we don't need. I don't want to get nuked for transgender story hour in Taiwan, Tehran or Kharkiv.
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We have two competing world orders. The BRICS world order is based around civilizational states that make deals with each other. The other competing globalist world order is based upon forcing a world view on the entire planet and defining all decent as evil that has no legitimacy. This world view is fundamentally opposed to states being sovereign as the global order is supposed to stand above the nation state.
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The idea that Europe is about to be steamrolled by Russia stands in contrast to the other narrative that Russia is a collapsing gas station. Which one is it? Is Russia about to collapse or are they about to conquer Europe? If Germany is going to be steamrolled by Russia it says more about their current civilizational incompetence than anything else. The German diplomat who cried at the Munich security council meeting after JD Vance said that European countries have to protect themselves reveals a lot about the incompetence of our current ruling class.
functor
5d ago
People forget that Europe is 16% of global GDP and that the rest of the world is most of it. A huge portion of the global economy is outside the west.
Europe can either go down the war path and ban Chinese cars from the European market and risk losing Chinese parts making the price of European cars skyrocket or accept competition. Drivers in Indonesia, Bahrain or Mexico aren't going to buy a Renault with every component made outside of China that will cost far more than a current Renault when they can buy a BYD. The middle east is heavily car dependent. Losing a Chinese supply chain means European companies would be shooting themselves in the foot.
functor
5d ago
My impression of European bureaucrats in the last 24 hours is of a body staffed by a bunch of snooty has-beens.
My experience from living in down town Stockholm is that they are rejects from all good institutions. The people at leading tech and finance firms are utterly incredible. Our political elite are often their dumb sisters. They don't work nearly as hard, they are substantially lower Iq, they are socially anxious, boring at parties and lack general education. It is women whose parents work in genuinely impressive jobs but have regressed to the mean that end up at these positions.
A big difference between the US and Europe is that politics is a lot less lucrative here. A PM at spotify will make far, far more money than a minister in the government and more than any government employee.
Much of the private sector elite consider the political elite to be utterly incompetent. However, the econmic elite tends to focus too much on economic issues and not see the overall decline of society.
functor
6d ago
Bonnie Blue has an entire team behind her (no pun intended) and they are world class at creating publicity. They manage to engineer her into relavence by getting her into lega trouble, e-drama and on interviews with legacy media. Far more people follow her e-drama than actually watch her porn. Her latest antics gets tens of millions of views on social media without containing any nudity.
Showing pictures of your privates on only fans isn't going to get you rich. In order to get rich you need a massive following and marketing. If Aella was just posting ass pics should would be making 500 dollars a month. She has turned herself into an influencer within a space with a lot of well paid nerdy men.
The problem is all the women who don't understand this and start an OF, make 300 dollars a month yet every one around them will eventually find their nudes.
functor
7d ago
Isn't being pro Israel the epitome of being a centrist. The mainstream of both parties are fanatically pro Israel, the radical base of both parties strongly dislike Israel.
The strategy needs to make sense. More neocon war mongering and destroying countries leads to more chaos, drugs and migrants.
The sensible solution is to enforce borders and limit drugs/guns/migrants there. Turning Venezuela into another Afghanistan will just achieve what the Afghanistan war did, aka 10x their drug production. The US doesn't have to fight cartels, they just need to keep a secure border.
Trump is going for regime change in Venezuela, that means more chaos, more drugs and more refugees. The strategy should be a stable Venezuela and largely not caring about Venezuela while enforcing the border.
This is similar to when people living in a cave in Afghanistan were allowed to go to flight school in the US. The solution to 9/11 wasn't banning Afghans from the west, it was the patriot act, a surveillance state and failed wars.
functor
19d ago
We are also dealing with the fall of the soviet union. The elite were terrified of ending up like the tsar. The current elite is self entitled and is't worried about an uprising i the same way. Competition between the Soviets and America for who had the best system kept the elite more loyal to the populace. The current political elite give some symbolic issues to their base and then pander to elite positions.
functor
24d ago
AI gets blamed for the lack of entry level jobs. While it might be partially correct, there is no denying that there are a lot of sub 100 Iq people graduating with low interest and low levels of skill. Previously people might have graduated with a history degree that didn't really teach them how to do their job but at least they were bright, could write well and were willing to work hard to establish their career.
Let's say a company wanted four blog posts a week on their website. In 2020, they would have a manager and four content writers, and the five of them would spend a lot of time in meetings. Today they would have one person with AI and make that person work 10 hours a day to create the content. The more employees a company has, the less efficient the organization becomes. Having lots of mediocre people is far less efficient than having a few highly dedicated high performers.
An alternative route is that employers start hiring people with irrelevant but difficult degrees as they are a better proxy for intelligence than college degrees in general. Physics can't be watered down to pass people who shouldn't be in college.
functor
24d ago
Did he fail? They lied about WMD so why wouldn't he lie about his other causes for the war?
He enriched the military industrial complex which was lacking a justification for its budget in 2003. He swamped Europe with migrants pushing the agenda of mass migration and cheap imported labour. He destroyed several countries in the middle east making them easy to bully and extract resources from. Not only that, but he got ordinary republicans on board with creating a surveillance state that knows more about its citizens than stasi did. In his new toasty warm dwelling he probably looks up at Earth with pride as he effectively achieved what he wanted, a global police state run by the US which culture is consumerism.
functor
24d ago
Similar to how it happens in latin american countries. Mexico is in a state of civil war and the Mexican government doesn't have total control over the country. The coming civil war looks like a failed state with groups fighting each other. There probably will be fewer explicit political groups fighting and more low level violence and gang violence.
functor
25d ago
Do they actually believe it? If their kid was in a burning building would they want a female or male firefighter to rescue their kid? Would they be equally comfortable with a transgender person in their daughter's gym changing room as they would be with a woman? Are the refugees welcome in their neighbourhood or in their kids schools? How many of these elites would want to to walk through harlem on a Sunday night after the police was de-funded?
These people want people to become generic interchangeable worker/consumers. Some narratives push the world in that direction, they believe in it to the same extent that Bush believed Iraq had nukes.
functor
28d ago
For me what did it was job stress. The client is chasing me, we have a massive deal on the way. I don't care what the others think, I am setting my phone to loudspeaker so I can see what is shared on the screen in the zoom meeting in a public place. I have to get to the office asap, I don't give a bleep what the others in the checkout line think of me. Traveling has also helped. I have been super tired, a bit annoyed and I simply stopped caring.
functor
29d ago
It took many years of way until Daniel Ellsberg released the true scale of the lying and failure of Vietnam. It took a decade of fiascos in the middle east before Bradley Manning revealed the scale of lies and propaganda in the middle east. Those wars at least had some critical media that put some pressure on participants not to behave as if they were in a banana republic. People are naive if they think this war isn't at least as corrupt and as lied about as any of the previous neo con debacles.
functor
29d ago
My main reason for supporting AI as a right winger: it nullifies the demand for most immigration. We don't need cheap farm labour, we need bots. We don't need imported taxi drivers, we need waymo. We don't need migrants doing construction, we need Tesla humanoid robots. AI will primarily remove jobs for low skilled workers. Cheap labour has been a main driver of immigration since the ancient era and this driving force is about to be removed.
To make things even better from a right wing perspective, we are going to automate away a lot of left wing coded office jobs. HR, marketing, public sector paper pushers can be replaced by LLMs. Shrinking this class would be a major victory for the right.
functor
29d ago
There is a huge difference. MacOS is built to handle a few types of hardware that performs a limited set of tasks. Windows is supposed to be completely backward compatible to the start while catering for servers, industrial robots, laptops, gaming and every other use case. Windows is supposed to work on every hardware.
MacOS has a massive advantage within its supported use cases and windows will never be able to compete in terms of performance. Linux solves the same issue by fragmeting into many distributions that allow for optimizations for specific target audiences. Windows tries to please everyone but pleases no one.
functor
1mo ago
Math isn't a great proxy for Iq anymore.
Many college kids can learn a computer game in an evening, order stuff online, backpack on another continent and drive a car through rush hour traffic. Yet they can't do long division which only requires repeating four simple steps. Someone who is mentally incapable of learning 332423/234 after 12 years of math training stands no chance when it comes to being able to buy cinema tickets in an app in five minutes or using a self checkout machine. People claim to be too low Iq to learn the times table yet are capable of memorizing other things.
School for kids under the age of 10 is effectively a play school with low standards, few kids being held behind and a culture of it being ok not to aquire the skills. Kids who don't know kindergarten to fourth grade math get passed along and get put in a class where they are taught material that requires skills they don't have. Math is one of the toughest subjects to skip chapters in. If you haven't mastered one chapter in the book the next chapter is impossible. Kids develop an identity of being bad at math and society accepts this instead of forcing them to repeat the basics until they have mastered it.
functor
1mo ago
Keith Woods?
He is more of a traditionalist and deep right thinker. He has gained a fair amount of traction on twitter. Keith is less interested in the day-to-day politics and more interested in bigger issues. Since he is Irish he has a clear influence from Irish nationalism yet is not catholic.
functor
1mo ago
I can highly recommend Keith Woods who has been a major influence for the dissident right. He is also seen at a number of activist events and conferences.
As an older more stable influence in the dissident right checkout counter currents. It focuses on long form articles and more cultural stuff.
functor
1mo ago
As someone founded a fin-tech company, I highly recommend the biology route. It is Saturday, and I am at the office and will be stuck here until the evening. Unlike the stereotype of finance people as old money aesthetic, my view is more autistic nerds doing the actual work combined with sales people who barely work i finance or understand the products. Someone considering biology is probably not going into those sales jobs.
The more technical sides of finance are almost all men and women on dating apps don't really understand or appreciate your job title anyways. You are far more likely to meet high quality women in a biology lab. Proximity is the most important factor and finance is not it.
functor
1mo ago
The models aren't accounting for rare upsets. What happens to the market if there is only one factory in the world that makes some component we never have heard of but is super critical for hospitals, food production or airplanes and that factory burns? What happens to the market if there is a major war and the electrical grid relies on spare parts from few places? Bringing production home reduces the risk of extreme downturns so even if the median return is lower the average return is higher due to a smaller risk of extreme negative outcomes.
functor
1mo ago
People need to reflect upon the fact that a mayor race of a US city is having an ethnic group's view of its homeland as the main issue. Imagine if a significant US city was having its election being about the Sudanese communities view of the mayor's Sudan policy. The absolute level of capture and control by a lobby of a small country is reason enough to vote for anyone opposed to it.
As Israel is becoming an increasingly brown country consisting of jews from MENA countries and religious fanatic ultra orthodox groups it is going to be hard to push the narrative that Israel is a pro western country. Israel has a long history of oppressing Christians, is causing chaos in the middle east and is doing extensive lobbying.
Which group is supposed to be supporting the west? The ultra left LGBTQ groups in Tel Aviv? The ultra orthodox? Ben Gvir talking about moving millions of Palestinians and creating a migrant tsunami?
What makes the zionist narrative difficult is that the ADL, AIPAC and the average Likud voter aren't really representing Matt Walsh base. Mainstream republicanism seems to be a wide tent as long as they are Israel first. The Israel first part is an increasingly difficult sell. They can pander Matt walsh as legitimate because he satisfies the jewish donors but he won't have the same appeal to the base. The base won't see him as more legit.
functor
1mo ago
Ukraine has a tfr of 0.98, Russia at 1.41, Russia's is 44% higher. Also Russia has immigration of ethnic Russians from former soviet countries. Ukraine is experiencing an exodus combined with south korean birth rates...
functor
1mo ago
Most likely massive exaggerations of Russian incompetence, a massive downplaying of Ukrainian successes, huge depletions of western stockpiles, wild levels of corruption and a war based on slogans rather than reality. It will be hard to sell Russia is collapsing, Ukraine are uber mench as Ukraine is falling apart. They are way more loudly invested in this fiasco than some fiascos in the Middle East. It will be embarrassing when the charade falls apart.
Ukrainian culture is a mixed bag. They have a far worse corruption problem than western Europeans and would drag us down with that. They are also poor and will be an endless black hole for money.
On the flip side they have a lot of positive qualities as well. However, those qualities are less likely to impact us through the EU.
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