hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
3mo ago
Look, commenting about jobs- I freely acknowledge that tech jobs might just be uniquely ridiculous. But for most normal jobs you apply and then call the company and check up on it, and then if the interview doesn’t raise any red flags and you have the basic qualifications they’re looking for, you’re hired. The zoomers seem to have forgotten that second step. As with most things, they should listen to their elders born before jet fuel melted steel beams and they’d do fine.
hydroacetylene
8mo ago
One candidate is very clearly trying to ethnically cleanse me, my family, and my children.
This isn’t ethnic cleansing. She’s not deporting white Americans. She’s not forbidding white Americans from marrying other whites. She’s just importing lots of people for deficit financed cheap labor. This is bad, but words have meanings.
hydroacetylene
5mo ago
No it doesn’t. Even IRL antisemitic right wingers- of whom there are far fewer than on the internet- see Palestinians as a bunch of savages in the desert that need dealt with by someone.
The American right has, probably, a literal single digit number of people with any sympathy for Palestine whatsoever. If there was a way to poll trump voters who also deny the Holocaust, I suspect that poll would show strong support for Israel in its wars against Palestinians. There are more Trump voters who use Palestinian as a slur than who think Israeli forces have done literally anything wrong.
hydroacetylene
11mo ago
Would you say the same thing if she had been 9? 7? 5?
hydroacetylene
4d ago
I understand that 'more abortions for black women(and this is South Carolina)' is your #1 priority. But no one said you can't complain about South Carolina not funding planned parenthood.
hydroacetylene
13d ago
Knowing the specific population of Iran is far, far less relevant than knowing it’s a Shia theocracy implacably opposed to Israël and pushing Shiite interests in the Middle East. Getting Iran’s population right is kinda trivia.
And Ted Cruz believing the mandate to support Israël is much more popular than you give him credit for. The specific formulation may not be, but ‘God will punish the enemies of Israel’ is both widely believed among the base and a reasonable interpretation of recent events.
hydroacetylene
16d ago
I spent a very long time unable to get a girlfriend, while I know a guy who’s primary profession seems to be beating his girlfriends have both a steady long term partner and several affairs going on at a time (see Radicalizing the Romanceless and Untitled)
This is probably not because women love awful men, it’s because he’s willing to make the old college try over and over again and even a low success rate, over enough attempts, gets some actual successes.
hydroacetylene
3mo ago
A few years ago a couple of NYPD cops even beat up a judge and got away with it
Based
hydroacetylene
12d ago
Man I don’t care. I will discuss getting the vaccine on a risk/benefit basis when 1) Dr Fauci is publicly executed and 2) the lockdowns receive Holocaust-level treatment in broader society. Til then, don’t care, my stance is that the chink virus isn’t real, was never real, and is just the government killing people and lying about the cause as an excuse to take away our freedom.
hydroacetylene
2mo ago
I continue to believe that tariffs are, while a bad thing, a highly survivable thing for firms that deserve to survive. High taxes are not a death knell for business(even as they aren't a good thing).
Putting tariffs on garments, strawberries, etc is dumb. But it's just a tax. It might cause a recession- I suspect more by bursting bubbles already in the economy than by the actual deadweight loss. It won't cause the great depression 2.0.
hydroacetylene
3mo ago
I believe Ukrainians who aren’t draft dodgers or degenerates should be welcomed here. But didn’t the Biden admin have some push to only bring in LGBT Ukrainians or similar nonsense?
hydroacetylene
5mo ago
Not really, no- perhaps foreign to the anglosphere(and definitely weird to hear from someone casting himself as a liberal) but 'Russians aren't really white/are mixed race, they're mongolian savages that invade europe again, tatar yoke, muslims in the russian army raping european women, etc' is a common anti-russian canard. It's not even strictly speaking wrong.
There's a bunch of handwringing downthread about how the real problem with low TFR is dysgenics and not shrinking populations. I've got some data to push back on that: https://ifstudies.org/blog/more-money-more-babies-whats-the-relationship-between-income-fertility
The US is a meritocracy, which means that income and IQ are correlated- and we see a dysgenic fertility for native blacks(but they're shrinking as a percent of population and not that high of one to begin with) and a eugenic fertility for native whites. The latter statistic is interesting because we know that the conservative white fertility rate is higher than the liberal white fertility rate, while incomes run in reverse- which indicates either east asia tier fertility for lower middle income blue tribers or african tier fertility for wealthy red tribers(and no, from 10,000 feet red tribe and conservative/blue tribe and liberal are not different things, even if they might be in individual cases. At least not post-Trump). Hispanics look like they have a dysgenic fertility pattern, but anecdotally they do lots of tax fraud so the income statistics might be off, and also I'm guessing recency of arrival leads to a looser income/IQ correlation. Still, it might be dysgenic. Asian fertility is low but broadly eugenic.
That gives an overall picture which is actually relatively encouraging- the largest group has a eugenic fertility pattern, people that are hard to categorize have a eugenic fertility pattern, and two poor minority groups have dysgenic looking patterns, but one of them might not actually be dysgenic.
Realistically concern about dysgenics is concern about either a) the browning of America or b) the likelihood of a majority black world. And I'm not claiming either to be unconcerning, but upwards mobility still exists in Latin America. Latin America manages to filter its higher IQ individuals into roles that are necessary to the functioning of society. There is an industrial society south of the border. It's poorer, produces less innovation, and has higher crime rates, but life is OK by global standards. It sucks a lot worse for an untalented individual to live in Brazil than in the US, that's true. But it is very much not a third world country with third world problems. The browning of America is manageable, and the effect is overstated anyways because blacks(who have the lowest IQ) aren't growing as a percentage of the population.
A majority black world, on the other hand, is likely, but immigration enforcement is getting harsher and Africa is hard to get out of. This is, in other words, likely a mostly African problem- and Africa's fertility is still declining. Particularly if the breeder hypothesis(and Lyman Stone's simulation suggests it tops out at 33% of population- still enough to strongly influence societal direction) turns out to be true, the concern in 2100 will be less about enormous numbers of black migrants reaching Europe and more about the Dutch Calvinists getting enough votes to institute a theocracy. It's true that random African peasants don't contribute much to civilization but keeping them in Africa is eminently doable.
Dysgenics is an overhyped problem, just like overpopulation was in the seventies. The real problem? Pensions, tax receipts, instability in central and west african shitholes that have a surplus of young males and no ability to manage agricultural production, general population contraction.
hydroacetylene
11mo ago
Right wing cancel culture is a thing- remember when homosexuality could get you canceled?
Nobody wanted to see Trump get assassinated. Well, nobody wanted to see what happened afterwards. That makes this easy to start canceling people.
hydroacetylene
11mo ago
It seems pretty clear from the fact that this is coming up at all that she didn't like it. It is not, at all, difficult to imagine a boss pressuring his 21 year old domestic servant girl into sexual activities she didn't really want to do. This is not an uncommon scenario, and our prior for twenty one year old nannies having sex with their married bosses is that the poor girl probably didn't want to do it.
Look, he's not fucking groupies off IG and then ghosting- that's deplorable behavior, but the girl shouldn't have gone along with it. This is a case where it was simply not a realistic expectation that she could have held out under pressure, and that comes with extra ability to judge him for misbehavior. Like the comment below, he's clearly a cad in that he's not doing anything illegal, or at least not seriously illegal(if he makes a habit of this as it seems like he has been then he's almost certainly given alcohol to a twenty year old) but it's clear that he's doing things that are dickish.
hydroacetylene
13d ago
I would’ve guessed 80 million, but let’s be real- it doesn’t matter that much. Ted Cruz knows Iran is big enough to be relevant. That’s what he needs to know.
hydroacetylene
2mo ago
I still don't care about coronaviruses or airplane cockpit security; the threats were wildly overblown by a single high-profile incident. We didn't need to respond to covid at all(and indeed, the correct response- both with the information available at the time and with benefit of hindsight- was to just shoot the chicken littles trying to shut down society over it and declare it 'not a big deal') and 9/11 can be safely considered a one off event.
So the real question becomes 'why are tariffs more like mortgage backed securities than covid?'
hydroacetylene
3mo ago
Biden won thanks to the basically-pragmatic black wing of the party rigging the vote-counting in a handful of major cities. He was beholden to pragmatic types who didn't want to be a trans-issues party and are often mildly uncomfortable with LGB, nevermind T. He got along badly with the idealogues and was closer to the gerontocrats than to the progressives.
The progressive idealogues still got everything they wanted- despite Biden assembling an extremely moderate political staff which was frustrated with the progressives.
hydroacetylene
4mo ago
I oppose identity politics for white people but support it for specific groups of republican white people(eg, Cuban-Americans, combat veterans). It is perfectly reasonable to oppose white identity politics which in practice will mostly go to democrats.
hydroacetylene
7mo ago
To put it bluntly, losing a few billion dollars in a divorce is a patently absurd, and extremely harsh outcome, and even if we admit that it doesn't render the guy destitute.
Bezos didn’t lose billions of dollars. It was their money and it was divided in a divorce settlement. Losing a big chunk of the fortune you were able to accumulate because your wife was loyal enough to support you into building a business that turned into the most profitable one in the world is a fair penalty for deciding to cheat on her.
hydroacetylene
8mo ago
it's not at least meeting the standard of several others which are widely considered ethnic cleansings.
Name them.
I’ve said before that I don’t like Haitians, if they were dumped in my neighborhood I would call my reps to demand that El transportador moved them somewhere nonspecific. But moving them in is just retarded, not ethnic cleansing.
hydroacetylene
11mo ago
She was quite clearly groomed into it; I have no doubt that a younger child could be groomed into the same behavior because it has happened before. Children want to please adults.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
women having impossible standards for men
While there are definitely a minority of women on the internet demanding men be 6'5 self made millionaires who believe every woke shibboleth and yet act like conservatives, it seems like most women have eminently reasonable standards(be stably employed in a good job, not be a porn/substance/gambling addict, not a criminal, taller than her, etc) and simply aren't exposed to men who meet them.
I don't disagree with you either. I am saying that 90% of woman woes have as most of the answer 'just approach more, bro'. Yes, I know it's awkward and intimidating but women like a man with balls. Show her you can put a kid in her. Yes lots of men need to learn how to approach and get better a flirting and yes there's the bottom whatever percent. Maybe you're five feet tall(if you're shorter-end-of-normal, here's a pro-tip- cowboy boots work wonders, they come off as masculine and you can probably get a good pair from an estate sale or something) with an ugly face and a stutter. I don't know you personally.
At the end of the day men are the sex with agency. Act like it.
Do the bare minimum to not die NEET men have always existed, and always been seen negatively. It’s not some new thing caused by the awfulness of modern women(and, for many normal women, it does go the other way around- it’s difficult for the shy kindergarten teacher who has feminine hobbies and really wants kids to find someone compatible and not terrible as well).
Part of it is that modern society just coddles men more. There’s no expectation that you’re willing to move to take a job(and in the fifties people would move for factory jobs, not even the cushy white collar positions that ask for relocation these days) or spend a bit of time in harsh conditions or work twelve hour days. A lot of the boomer success literally does come from being willing to work twelve hour days in travel jobs while sharing bedrooms.
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