sleepyegg
2mo ago
Ah, I forgot about body augmentation. It's just a matter of time before we have the triple breast augmentations, Total Recall style.
There has to be a hard physical limit to hoeflation eventually, right? Thongs as casualwear? The human body can't go above 100% exposed, surely.
Unless the inside of mouths, noses, and other bodily cavities become parts of sexual interest. If 100% outside nakedness becomes the norm, then it stands to reason that women's dental gumlines become hidden fetish zones.
It is their version of exterminating the woke mind virus before it becomes endemic in the Chinese population.
This information quarantine requires maintenance so it's a sensitive issue. The Chinese are relatively united and patriotic, so it seems to have worked out relatively well for them. As far as I'm aware, they don't have a need for cultural war threads like we have here on the Motte. If anything, the Chinese are curious how western democracies aren't devolving into total anarchy and chaos given the increasing political polarization over culture war topics.
sleepyegg
2mo ago
Absent other factors, and assuming murderous criminality has a strong genetic basis, Blackstone's ratio might result in a high level of murderous criminality in the general population as the innocent are butchered faster than they can reproduce.
From this perspective, a 1:1 ratio or even a 10:1 ratio allowing for many innocent convictions will reduce the genetic propensity for murderous violence.
sleepyegg
2mo ago
Iran needs to oppose Israel's existence as a state to harness Islamic street credibility, the survival of Shia theology in a Sunni dominated world may depend on it at this point.
As for America's support for Israel, it's largely due to entrenched jewish capture of US media, cultural, and financial institutions. Not as a deliberate act, but as a consequence of typical jewish high-IQ, educational attainment, and preference for high prestige, high status employment. US jewish elites are uniquely vulnerable to Israeli propaganda to support them at all costs. In turn, the US gets strongly nudged to support Israeli political ambitions.
No justice system is perfect, sometimes innocent people are convicted and sometimes the criminal murderers go free.
I think people should be incentivized to do their job, and disincentivized from doing the opposite of their job. I want the tax auditor disincentivized from giving tax breaks. I want the firemen disincentivized from allowing fires to burn buildings. I want the doctor disincentivized from selling me unproven medical treatments. I want people to not do the opposite of their job description, even if there are occasional errors and mistakes.
The prosector who railroads and convicts an innocent person can have their salary cut and retirement benefits reduced, and the threat of demotion and the loss of their job if their mistake is serious enough. Like any other job, there should be consequences for serious mistakes or abuses of power.
I am waiting for the "only Nixon could go to China" moment, translated into the current situation as "only Trump could abandon Israel."
Trump has the unique opportunity to forge a reasonably lasting peace with Iran and getting them to abandon "death to America" and nuclear materials in exchange for completely abandoning Israel. It might get some bipartisan support, and it would be politically impossible for a democratic president and most republican presidents.
In this way, Trump could legitimately claim to have put America first, and I would admit that he secured an excellent deal. He would get a lot of heat for it, but I think it would slide right off him and he would be able to sell it to the public as a win.
sleepyegg
2mo ago
The radical stuff may work, but may have unexpected side effects that make your health much worse. Just go with the traditional slow ramp up of high intensity exercise combined with adequate protein intake and rest. Whey protein is the tried and true nutrition source if you can tolerate lactose. Supplement with omega 3 fish oil pills and that's all most people need. Fresh eggs and meat when you have the time to cook them.
If there were radical, reliable shortcuts everyone would already be doing it. All this other stuff is a waste of your time.
sleepyegg
2mo ago
Yeah, the election of certain positions like prosecutors invites trouble, as demonstrated in this situation.
sleepyegg
2mo ago
If Trump agrees to prostrate himself before Allah, praise be unto his name, five times daily can we get better terms? He can be the first Shia caliph-president (Cali-president?).
Remedy: Tie conviction rates less conceded errors to personal advancement in a prosecutor's career. Prosecutors cannot be an elected position in this remedy. A prosecutor should be deincentivized from having losing cases on their professional record.
Sometimes the partial toleration of native criminal gangs can reduce the influence of foreign criminal gangs, like the way probiotic bacteria outcompete dangerous bacteria for nutrients.
The Japanese seem to have long tolerated the presence of their native yakuza until very recently. The yakuza would probably not tolerate the existence of Pakistani rape gangs in Japan. I believe the yakuza do engage in human trafficking, but that seems more focused on foreign southeast asian women serving a primarily Japanese clientele.
Separately, it seems that only some white, western democracies are susceptible to this particular problem. It doesn't seem to happen anywhere else. So yes, the current generation of white UK men might be the most cucked men ever, so far. At least with colonialism the subject people's women were coerced by some type of force, the white UK men have no such excuse.
sleepyegg
2mo ago
Highly politically polarized societies are a bad thing, they incentivize corruption and reduce trust. The US seems to get a little more polarized every year, with no offramp yet in sight.
A little propaganda and a common enemy can sometimes bridge factional divides. China, Russia, Iran, jews, muslims, sometimes I wish the governing elites could just agree to settle on a single external enemy and turn on the propaganda hose.
Otherwise, expect agency purges, counter-purges, and political stasis in-between.
sleepyegg
2mo ago
Chick-fil-A, a national chicken fast food chain, never opens on Sunday. I think the reasons are religious.
Workers often have no control over their schedules, so it's usually up to the business owner to decide the work Sabbath schedule, if any.
sleepyegg
2mo ago
It may or may not be doxxing. But it sure delivered a coup de grace to Franco's potential career in New York. It creates an unfavorable apperance of wealthy jews using their business clout to crush the economic prospects of non-jews under a victim narrative of antisemitism.
Massive amounts of Muslim non-assimilating immigration is very destabilizing as western europe is discovering. This is bad, but bad in a way that is obvious to low-information, low-IQ voters. So, the problem is being corrected slowly and there is at least general awareness about it.
Jewish disproportionate influence in western democracies from the control of media outlets, financial institutions, and general high-level intellectual output is destabilizing in a different way. Shabbat, the jewish day of rest, is Saturday because of jewish influence on western culture. The paradigms of universal education and literacy are also rooted in jewish religious tradition. That is to say, the paradigms of western daily life are rooted in jewish thought and religious-cultural practices, in a way that Islamic influences can never compare. The low-information, low-IQ voters cannot recognize or deal with this type of problem like the way they respond to unchecked Muslim immigration at the ballot box.
At the same time, jews are seen as both a protected religious minority and a protected cultural minority. So, while jews are foundational contributors to modern western culture, they are also simultaneously a protected double-minority. Jews avoid being the targets of woke leftism while enjoying most of the cultural majority benefits of white christians. You could say that jews are Schrodinger's white+, white when convenient and nonwhite when the woke left is looking for the next target.
While all this is going on, many diaspora jews also feel an obligation to defend Israel from potential harm. For some jews, this takes the form of deprioritizing their home country's interest in favor of policies that favor Israel's interest. This is a recipe for disaster for their home country.
In my opinion, @Rex has it right when he says that Israel is the single biggest external threat to US interests. They are an unacknowledged threat because they have convinced both political parties (AIPAC) that Israel's interests are one and the same as American interests. To voice this paradigm in public is antisemitism. To persist in criticism of Israel is Nazism.
sleepyegg
2mo ago
Not appreciating the good things in one's life is probably a common mistake, and a mistake that I've made many times. Sometimes it's useful to reflect on the bad points in one's life to regain perspective on the things that are actually going very well by relative comparison.
sleepyegg
2mo ago
Oh. Then maybe drugs are a consequence of being a philosopher, and the sex tent is from the drugs.
sleepyegg
2mo ago
Got it, no drugs. Perhaps the sex tent is a social status marker of sorts. As in, we are the enlightened philosophical elite unrestricted by plebeian sexual mores. Participation is then demonstration of status.
I see. I did read a little of Scott's stuff but I mostly lurked the SSC subreddit. I didn't stay long enough to learn the terms. In fact, without SSC I never would have found the Motte, which is spoken of only indirectly with hushed whispers as if naming the Motte would invoke darker powers. Like naming Voldemort in the Harry Potter setting.
Yeah, entrenched jewish capture is not the most neutral term. Jewish sociocultural dominance might work, but doesn't grasp how integrated jewish ideas are into law, philosophy, etc. of the US.
On jews convincing americans to support Israel willingly, this is generally true except for the most recent Trump backed excursion into Iran. There was no buildup period to gain broad public support for a sustained conflict against Iran, just Netanyahu convincing Trump to start the hostilities himself.
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