hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
3d ago
The US invaded Afghanistan because we had to do something over 9/11 and stayed there due to inertia. We invaded Iraq for oil and it was actually a strategic victory. The Syrian and Libyan interventions were Obama trying to spread liberalism.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Israeli Arabs do have equal rights under the law. Palestinians are not lawful residents of Israël.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
It’s due to the nature of social progress and western responses. De Maistre defined how the revolution would be defeated 200 years ago; not through a revolution against, the Orleanist solution that failed not only in France but with Franco’s shogunate and which is at least unsuccessful in Iran, but through the opposite of a revolution, adaptatory and distributed change which coalesces into its own antithesis in a reverse dialectic, gradually restoring the civilization of the west.
The western right by and large does not realize this, and does not realize how to do this; this despite the distributists completing the system of de Maistre’s counter-revolution in an inculturated form nearly a century ago. In east Asia, things are different, as the embedded Confucianism of these societies naturally generates its own antithesis to revolution, resultant in the dialectic restoring their tradition passively. But we’re talking about the west, here, where Confucius is a strange foreign import of made up wisdom to sell fortune cookies. Things are different, and that’s ok.
What can you do? You can join real traditional communities and contribute to rebuilding functional villages which, by their very nature, will seek to confederate, turning into a standardization feedback loop that rebuilds a healthy society over the centuries. Quick and cheap doesn’t work; neither right wing Leninist vanguard parties nor neo-orleanism can push the process through, although political accommodationism to this societal rebuilding is probably a good thing.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
Minor correction- thé highly religious have a replacement birth rate. Secular conservatives have near replacement.
Red tribe spaces like bass pro shop are full of kids. Parents of young children are like R+20. A crude correlate between birthrate and county vote share gives counties above 80% Republican as the threshold for replacement. There are two large American cohorts that are mostly replacing themselves- republicans and Hispanics.
White liberals, on the other hand, have a birthrate like Asians do.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
It’s not a horror to be expected to take drugs as part of social participation. What did you think alcohol was?
hydroacetylene
4d ago
Why not both/and?
The younger generations have pretty strong failure to launch issues. Those issues are male tilted and the women who do NEET it up may not be at the top of the market, but a woman’s unemployment is just less important to the dating market. That (many)men need to get good is just factually true.
On the other hand social media trends seem to drive ridiculous expectations. That is also true.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
Mail order brides are an established thing, you can just reach out to the agencies that specialize in facilitating this if you specifically want a Chinawoman.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
So JD Vance is thé go between for the world’s top bad faith negotiators?
The actual conditions don’t mean anything; eventually there will be a cease fire where Iran opens the straights and cuts off a single one of its many foreign proxies in exchange for sanctions relief. But there’s a complicated dance of bad faith negotiations to preserve fiqh.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
There are smartphones specifically for kids. This is a major topic of discussion among parents.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
The article may be badly written because of second language errors. That certainly seems like a contributing factor to what I read.
As far as the Chinese dating market, it obviously sucks, because there’s more men than women. Ideally you want slightly more women than men, so that every reasonably eligible man pairs off, women don’t feel so overwhelmed with male attention that they resort to third wave feminism(and third wave feminism is, by and large, a reaction to the perception of male sexual threat. This perception might be illusory but that’s what’s driving it- and this is why feminism spends so much time talking up sexual harassment), etc. Add in that this is a country which doesn’t have a history of dating/courting like in the west, so they’re trying to figure this out from first principles.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
The red Chinese were lying, this is something they’re known to do and the cruise ship data is known, reliable, and confirmed.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
In practice, this is going to look like parents needing to sign off on their kids' accounts. Youtube wants kids viewing some stuff, most parents want their kids watching some youtube, kids want to watch youtube, etc. What seems to be the actual demand is that youtube and meta cooperate in parental controls ad infinitum.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
Right, why couldn’t they just have expanded their trial?
But Ashkenazim are not a majority, or indeed plurality, of Israeli Jews.
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