hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
7d ago
Political Catholicism is occasionally instrumentally cooperative with Russia, just like other movements outside the western mainstream(Russia's funding/assistance in western countries is an enormous grab bag including everything from greenies to texas nationalists and everything in between), but it's not ideologically pro-Russia.
hydroacetylene
7d ago
What's wrong with that? Having more conservative intellectuals at the highest level is, if anything, good for national stability- democracies with weak conservative wings deteriorate very fast, much faster than overwhelmingly conservative democracies(Japan etc).
hydroacetylene
7d ago
While I agree that there's definitely criticisms to be made of the war even from a neocon perspective, this does read like TDS. The war on Iran is easily justifiable from a Neocon perspective(we invaded Iraq over less), and there is an international coalition- it happens to be middle eastern countries rather than European ones, but it's there.
(bombing brown people)
Every ethnicity in Iran is light skinned, and the dominant one has an extremely long history of civilization. Are Chinamen 'brown people'? Russians?
hydroacetylene
8d ago
It is rude to claim that some people are stupid, or fat, or lazy, or ugly. It is perfectly fine to claim that some people are immoral or short. You can say ‘criminals are bad people(morally)’, but not ‘thieves are too lazy to work’.
If there’s a pattern there, I don’t quite see it.
hydroacetylene
8d ago
The motte is not an echo chamber. It is a forum with admirable diversity of right wing opinions, which doesn’t quite correspond to the typical diversity of IRL right wingers.
Revleft, back when it was a thing, wasn’t an echo chamber either- it was different kinds of communists screeching at each other for being secret reactionaries, and sûre that’s not the vibe thé motte is going for, but you don’t have to have the conventional representatives of the other side to not be an echo chamber, is my point.
hydroacetylene
8d ago
The motte doesn’t have a ‘consensus’, we’re all witches and wrong thinkers of course, but different kinds of wrong thinkers, a wide variation and one which is instructive to watch, as while we do exhibit blind spots and patterns, we truly cover a variety of politically incorrect opinions.
hydroacetylene
9d ago
Blacks are American as all get out, assuming you mean AADOS. They're essentially stupider poor southerners(their crime rates are not actually higher than rural southern whites). Yeah they vote for democrats but they don't like anti-american socialists. Most of their cultural quirks are more 'America was like this in the fifties' or 'they're poor' than genuinely different from the American mainstream.
hydroacetylene
9d ago
Sure, I'm not doubting that there might be an explanation where her parents were merely bad at their job rather than insane. But there would be an explanation, it's not a default.
hydroacetylene
9d ago
Except that America is freakishly good at assimilating people and most of the migrants are from groups that aren't that different and also regard American white identity as aspirational. There's not a lot of Kazakhi yak herders and quite a lot of honduran construction workers- and even in the ethnostates of Europe, the latter assimilate OK, let alone in the US.
Yes, those honduran construction workers will probably not produce very many fields medalists, but modern wealthy societies have a lot of uses for low IQ individuals. Literally every billboard near my house is advertising blue collar jobs- in slaughterhouses, warehouses(and not just Amazon), factories, construction, etc. All no experience needed and all paying a living wage.
hydroacetylene
9d ago
Being nice to the help is a status marker for good breeding in America. Presumably other cultures that care more about breeding care more about that status marker.
hydroacetylene
9d ago
Nature abhors a vacuum. Instead of deciding what your child will not be, decide what you want your child to be. This is endorsed by the bible and common sense, but it also means that you can pick parenting books based on what you want for your child- that should help you pick one.
hydroacetylene
9d ago
I mean, Canticle took place before Vatican II, and presumably the sequel was written when the church was at its ontological low point.
hydroacetylene
9d ago
The Doomed City by the strugatsky brothers; thé prose is a bit dumbed down in translation but it’s an interesting and thematically rich story. I’m at the part where the good Nazis have taken power from the mentor and turned the sun back on.
hydroacetylene
9d ago
Israël and red China- thé CCP dynasty is now another Chinese empire, thé latest in a long line.
hydroacetylene
10d ago
The reason thé haredi size is unmanageable is that they do not do productive work(they live off welfare fraud). The Amish do not do this, they work to pay their own bills.
Now there are certain jobs thé Amish do not do. They’re never going to be most of the world’s strippers or tech workers. But at the end of the day society really doesn’t need all that many of those people. It does, however, have a blue collar laborer shortage.
hydroacetylene
10d ago
Hilaire Belloc was a British Catholic reactionary intellectual from the interwar era- in other words, from the same milieu and basic worldview as JRR Tolkien, GK Chesterton(with whom he cooperated on his vision of distributism), etc, and his vision shares the expected blindspots of such thinkers- that is, it's not very well suited to modern industrial society, because it's agrarian, ruralist, and asystematic in approach due to the aim of preserving traditional, and by that point more or less dead, social structures. John C Medaille is an academic economist or philosopher or something, it's hard to tell(he doesn't have an advanced degree and the University of Dallas plays kind of fast and loose with the separation between the two), who attempts to bastardize the theory into a modern industrial society compatible version, which of course in practice would at broad enough scale probably reduce into vanguard party socialism. He does, however, put together an interesting framework for small scale and less profit-oriented businesses to compete in the modern USA, and can point to a few small scale successes, mostly on the scale of reviving main street in singular small towns and the like.
Where this gets interesting is applying his ideas to the sorts of industries which hold back attempts at building genuine parallel societies, a la the Gab endgoal. Like it or not a parallel society in the 2020's USA needs an alternative to big tech, hollywood, etc, and 'just be Amish' is unworkable. The traditionalist project can only succeed by forming a parallel society which takes over the American mainstream through natural population growth, like what mohammedans are doing to some Euro countries. Ideologically driven niche coordination problems tacking into the winds of economic rationality are literally the problem. Once that precondition is solved and begins achieving broader adoption it generates a positive feedback loop which of its own volition begins to purify the stratum embracing it of modernist influences, and superior social function increases the appeal still further, sort of like how the gradient of Jewish practice in Israel drags the entire country increasingly to the right. Yes it takes time and needs kinks ironed out but traditional structures can only come about through traditional, not revolutionary, means.
hydroacetylene
10d ago
In mammal and bird species, juvenile masculinization is a very common phenomenon in species where 'mating too early' is a serious issue on the population level, reaching its apogee in spider monkeys and hyenas(where it's looped back around to... causing serious issues on the population level for other reasons). Humans notably don't do this by default, but it should be unsurprising as a result of male sexuality fear.
That humans are incapable of doing this should also be unsurprising.
hydroacetylene
10d ago
No.
The decay of Anglosphere democracies will only be rectified when the still-civilized parts of the population do to them what mohammedans are slowly but surely doing to France, Sweden, etc. There is no hope for this in the UK and in South Africa this will only occur after balkanization.
hydroacetylene
10d ago
I mean, autism seems to reduce the odds of forming a stable nuclear family.
hydroacetylene
10d ago
Distributism as a full scale alternative to socialism/capitalism is selling a bill of goods, and more of a feature of neodistributism than chesterbelloc(indeed continental contemporaries attempting this saw themselves as doing something different).
But while neo-distributists have nothing useful to say about running a whole economy, their discussion around the conditions pertaining to small scale capitalism are very interesting. And that smaller scale refugia is necessary to build the basis for a societal rebuild. There are entire industries dominated by cultural enemies which cannot simply be dispensed from, even as their alt version never needs to rise above the ideologically driven niche- and ideologically driven niche capitalism at small scale is the version of distributism advocated by most of the neo-distributists, with the Belloc version rural by necessity- unlike Medaille’s theories.
hydroacetylene
10d ago
I don’t have a lot of sympathy for middle aged men whose mistresses turned out to be jailbait(especially not 14 year old jailbait), but going out with one involves going far enough out of a 14 year old’s way- bearing in mind that she couldn’t drive and sharply limited independence was pretty normal at that age- that it’s difficult to believe her parents didn’t know.
hydroacetylene
11d ago
Palestinian Christians and Israeli Christians are both essentially thé economic elites of their local Arab communities. They’re not ‘worse off’ in a meaningful way.
hydroacetylene
11d ago
As I said, I think a better world would have found ways of preventing her from doing what she did, and of preventing the men who did what they did to her from doing it.
They’re called ‘parents’, and you don’t have to live in a better world for that. No really, since you went to school with this person- where were her parents? 14 and 40 is a very different thing from 17 and 20(which many parents would let slide even if they don’t like it).
hydroacetylene
11d ago
The FtM’s are not, by and large, particularly interested in being male. They are interested in being not-female, so I wonder how much of the sexual assault link is driven by them specifically and how much is driven by stable two parent families producing both few assault victims and few gender weirdos.
Was Little House in the Big Woods the one where the neighbor woman tells a story about being almost eaten by a panther? At the time I read it I just thought it was an interesting story, but looking back at it it's a super-visible way to illustrate that these people lived like Indian peasants do today.
The whole series is very interesting because it covers a family going from being subsistence farmers where meat is a special, a few times a year, treat to being townsfolk who can do things like buy clothes(instead of handmaking them out of raw fiber) and ride trains, and they're... incredibly grateful in later books.
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