non_radical_centrist
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non_radical_centrist
11mo ago
Do you have any guess on how it plays out?
I think short term, Zoey probably wins out. They might not win the law suit, but they'll have a victory in PR and their career regardless.
I think long term, the trans issue is probably losing for the left. Trans people are usually(albeit not always) physically ugly, and physical ugliness does not do well in politics. Gay men care a lot more about their aesthetics and actually looking good than a lot of trans women I think. Drag queens do care about their aesthetics though, and I'd expect eventually end up in a position like beauty pageants- not cared about too much by wider society, and the child ones considered creepy.
non_radical_centrist
11mo ago
I recently bought The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante on sale. It's a visual novel with a decent amount of stats and decisions and different endings to it, and balancing them is decently challenging and fun. The actual story is quite good imo. You play as an upper middle class man from childhood to his experience in a revolution in a fantasy world clearly strongly inspired by late 18th century France. It's pretty positive about its not!Christian church and the value of family.
non_radical_centrist
11mo ago
What do you think stops upper-middle class people from imitating upper class people, and by faking being high status become high status? Shouldn't they be able to imitate that upper class accent and thereby convince people they're upper class and worthy of deference?
non_radical_centrist
11mo ago
I think the site is a circlejerk, but less than almost any other political space. I think /r/politicalcompasshumour has a wider variety of common beliefs(although the modal belief is probably pretty similar to the modal themotte belief, just with more anti-elite populism), but that's the only space that comes to mind that's less of a circlejerk.
I think themotte would need some sort of "change my mind" contest where a mod presents a topic and people can write effort posts about original opinions to get some new variety. Preferably about new topics, not just about race or transgenders like it feels 90% of threads here are about. Something like "Is violent revolution are a viable solution or a stupid idea? Elaborate" or "Will China overtake the US in the near term?" I think would be interesting and fun.
non_radical_centrist
11mo ago
I would've thought upper+upper middle would be more than 5% of the population, more like 10-20%. But my question still applies, what stops the closest to upper middle class portion of the population from imitating elite class markers and thereby devaluing them?
non_radical_centrist
11mo ago
This still takes dedicated shopping trips and preparing homemade meals. If someone is just eating frozen meals or going out for fast food, removing meat leaves you limited. I have a pescatarian friend who would be vegan if not for her doctor telling her she wouldn't be getting enough nutrients without fish, and she still struggles, because she lives in a college dorm and doesn't put nearly this much effort into her meals. Even if someone is making their own nice homemade meals, removing meat cuts a lot of nice variety they would have to their meals.
non_radical_centrist
11mo ago
Might it just be that sometimes the leadership of a country decides to go to war because it's the correct decision, or at least appears that way to them, and then everyone who opposes the leadership opposes the war and everyone who supports the leadership supports the war?
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11mo ago
non_radical_centrist
11mo ago
Sounds interesting
non_radical_centrist
11mo ago
I mostly do just browse by popular. What stuff do you see in /new that you like? I rarely see anything particularly good there besides some occasional under rated yuri
non_radical_centrist
11mo ago
Ah, you mean Onee-sama to Watashi: Ojou-sama ga Isekai Tensei?
I didn't have anything in particular in mind, I just know I've sometimes seen yuri romances that would probably have 5-10x as many upvotes if the one of the characters was swapped with a generic male
non_radical_centrist
11mo ago
I've never asked out a girl who wasn't from a dating app specifically romantically, because that always felt too high a chance of rejection and awkwardness. When I'm in a position like yours I'd ask them out in a way that's ambiguously romantic or platonic. If I was in your position, I'd just send her, "Hey, it's a shame the group's going to stop meeting, but would you like to go grab dinner or go to a movie on ___?" Then if it goes well, ask her to go on more dates, and at some point when it feels natural make it clear you're romantically, not just platonically, interested.
non_radical_centrist
11mo ago
I think the Wikipedia page for them has some decent arguments
non_radical_centrist
11mo ago
I didn't read the article you linked and honestly I don't really care enough about the topic to.
non_radical_centrist
11mo ago
I don’t know why gun rights advocates don’t just admit that yes, if all guns were confiscated and a very strict licensing regime was put in place gun homicides would likely drop substantially
What's the point in admitting "hypothetically, if every legal and illegal gun was confiscated, gun crime would drop". As far as I know most gun rights people don't have an objection to the government confiscating illegal guns used by gangs.
non_radical_centrist
11mo ago
If people liked more original stuff, it would get bigger budgets. Capitalism works pretty well with entertainment. The only real flaw happens when people demand that the biggest productions that are advertised everywhere also fit their desired preferences specifically. If you don't like the mainstream stuff, there is endless smaller stuff to fit anyone's preferences if they spend some time looking.
non_radical_centrist
11mo ago
Original stuff does quite well when it is good.
Sequels do even better when they're good, like Avengers
non_radical_centrist
11mo ago
Did Jews ever declare war on the standard European nations? If you had two countries like England and France who had numerous wars over their history, but every war was initiated by the French, I would say the English were "oppressed" of a sort.
non_radical_centrist
11mo ago
I own a suit I got for my highschool graduation, I don't think I've worn it since.
non_radical_centrist
11mo ago
I think westerners are very aware of homeless people who might pull scams or uncomfortably ask for significant amounts of money. But we aren't expecting nicely dressed polite people to pull that. But I've got no idea how easy non-westerns are to scam, honestly I'd assume they're about just as easy to be convinced of the scam but are less willing to part with their money because they have less.
non_radical_centrist
11mo ago
I think being a pundit is more about telling your audience what they want to hear than getting facts right. Most audiences do want their pundits to at least loosely tell the truth, but getting the narrative they want to hear is really the number 1 priority.
non_radical_centrist
11mo ago
I think the form of government depends on who holds the power. If all the power in the nation is concentrated in a tiny military elite, you'll have a dictatorship ruling over peasants. If there are lots of independent wealthy land owners, they can demand stuff like voting rights and constitutions and get it unless the dictator destroys the source of their own wealth.
I think we're headed towards large welfare states, as we're soon going to reach a point where technological productivity is so high, millions of people can be fed and housed even if they themselves do 0 or near 0 labour, just off of the charity of others. I think parliamentary democracies will stay mostly stable, presidential democracies probably fall to a coup of some sort eventually.
non_radical_centrist
11mo ago
Maybe I'm not elite enough to know true elite values, but I think people that claim there is truly some global elite class should travel more.
I think that's true for regular elites and all elites in the past, but things are becoming a bit different now with very extreme levels of wealth and ease of travel. The very richest billionaires are more easily able to meet up from around the world in exclusive venues, instead of American billionaires mingling with American millionaires because there aren't enough other American billionaires to make an entire social group with.
non_radical_centrist
11mo ago
Many white women went along with the anti-white bandwagon in the (naive) belief that the mob would spare them. Well, they sure did miscalculate on that one. In fact, I get the sense that white women are often treated worse than white men in the media when there's a pile-on like now. There's a particular resentful nastiness to the "Karen" insult - which again is only applied to white women and not women of other races - which has no real equivalent among white men.
Many people have observed that terms like "Karen" and "white women moment" let people get away with blatant sexism that would be otherwise considered unacceptable. While I think the woke movement has gone too far in general, I think it's a real thing that a vocal minority of people hold anger and bigotry towards women. And where for a little while that bigotry was unacceptable in public discourse, it's situationally acceptable again as long as it's against a white woman.
I think, but I'm not certain, that most men are like you, though of course everyone virtue signals that they have absolutely no physical attraction to anyone significantly younger than them. But if you're worse at hiding it, which is probably likely since I don't think themotte posters are known for their social skills, then it would go badly for you.
Something I'm looking into to you might find useful is getting some compTIA certificates and going into tech support/network security.
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