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				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Has game journalism become so poisoned that everyone has to jump onto the latest left-wing fad or risk being cancelled?




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				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Go on Grindr and you’ll find that there’s no shortage of “discrete” tops




As opposed to continuous tops, also known as homeosexuals


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I wouldn’t describe myself as a conservative per se, nor did I take part in the recent brutal framemogging of junkfoodgooning EBT-maxxers kerfuffle regarding food stamps ‘round these parts, but allow me to steelman a little:




The idea underlying all of these objections is one of deserving. Certain poor people don't deserve access to government food assistance.




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Government policy should encourage the kind of behavior that will eventually lead people to reasonable self-reliance. We should certainly not be subsidizing the undeserving poor, that is to say, those who could work but just don’t want to. The more luxurious the benefits of welfare, the less incentive there is for its recipients to wean themselves off the dole and become productive, independent adults.




For all the Biblical allusions, I can't find the part where charity has to be earned through moral virtue.




I can’t tell if you’re being serious here, and nor am I a Christian myself, but I would wager that a conservative Christian would rebut your point by distinguishing between 3 very different things: (1) God’s unconditional grace and love for mankind, (2) freely-given (human) charity, and (3) taxpayer-funded welfare. Perhaps God’s grace permits you to enter the Kingdom of Heaven regardless of your earthly transgressions, but nowhere does Scripture say that there will be no temporal consequences for sin and vice.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


So there we have it: two empires, alike in size and strength, both very much in their decadence phases, with none at the time believing the Brits would be so thoroughly victorious.




Two empires, both alike in decadence,


In fair Hong Kong, where we lay our scene,


From recent grudge break to new mutiny,


Where foreign blood makes foreign hands unclean.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 9, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


the birth was the crowning achievement




I see what you did there


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 9, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m just waiting for the inevitable Tumblr Ridge jokes to drop


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 9, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
scratches beard “OK. What kind of Republican are you?”


“Ch-Ch-Cheney …”


“Cheney? Neocon?”


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				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 9, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Ten-four. Shutting it down. Over.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 2, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Rent is, but labor isn’t, and I bet restaurant owners have to pay a big premium to get employees to take the graveyard shift.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 2, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
”Bonum commune communitatis” intensifies


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 2, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The greater good.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Ohh, I see, the point is to make it so that emails leaked after the fact are indistinguishable from forgeries.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Theoretically, a privacy-conscious email host would regularly rotate their DKIM keys and publicly post their stale ones (i.e. make sure it's trivial to forge old emails)




Uh, you mean publicly post their stale public keys so it’s trivial to verify old emails?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
What’s =ith all the random equality =igns?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I wasn't aware that those were accepting women back then in China




You clearly haven’t been studying your Little Red Book enough. To the re-education camps with you!


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I doubt this shifts the Taiwan needle to dangerous new levels




I’m curious, why do you say this? Regardless of the veracity of the charges against Zhang Youxia, I’ve read that he was one of the few people (perhaps even the only one) to tell Xi that his designs on Taiwan are hare-brained and likely to fail. With him out of the picture, how could an attempted invasion of Taiwan not be dangerously more likely?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
If true, this is the scariest possible take, IMO. The last (military) man standing on the CMC is now Zhang Shengmin, a career political hack with no actual combat experience, who survived this round of “investigations”/purges the same way he always has: by toeing the Party line and sycophantically telling Xi whatever he wants to hear. Now, worryingly, Xi has 2 more factors nudging him to go all-in on Taiwan 2027: no one’s around to tell him it’s a bad idea, and if he somehow does pull it off, he gets the PR win of making Zhang Youxia look like a treasonous coward.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Treason and corruption charges towards long-believed patriots of the highest level never sell the same.




IDK, it really depends on how well Xi can spin these allegations for consumption by the general public (which, in turn, is easier to pull off if the allegations are in fact true, but not impossible even otherwise, especially when the state already has a vice-grip on the media). If he plays his cards right, Xi could bolster his domestic legitimacy as a “good czar (formerly) surrounded by bad boyars”


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
(Disclaimer: despite my passable Mandarin and KTV skills, I’m far from a China Hand, so take all the following with a hefty splash of light soy sauce)


Most of this analysis seems plausible, except for:




Moderately Bullish: The general was not corrupt, but represented a generation of dim or mid-witted PLA sinecures … His removal serves as a warning - if you’re not ready, if you’re here because your uncle in the CCP got you a job in the military in 1974, get out quietly, don’t hang on, don’t challenge progress.




I’d be more inclined to believe this if the sole remaining military officer on the CMC—indeed, the only CMC member at all, apart from Xi himself—were anyone other than Zhang Shengmin (no relation to Youxia, AFAIK).


Whatever else you may say about him, at least Zhang Youxia (along with fellow now-ex-CMC member Liu Zhenli, who is similarly “under investigation”/possibly purged) has actual combat experience, specifically in the mostly-failed 1979 Vietnam adventure. By contrast, Zhang Shengmin is, by all accounts, a purely political creature. If the goal were to clear out the old deadweight from their cushy sinecures and make room for smart, young upstarts, why keep Shengmin around?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I don’t entirely disagree, but another aspect of the problem is that low-skill citizens can just get on disability or welfare, which effectively acts as a wage floor, while illegals generally have no such option. Hence the phenomenon mentioned upthread, that US citizens dysfunctional enough to want these jobs are too dysfunctional to actually do them (penal servitude, perhaps, excepted).


Now I’m by no means opposed to making welfare and disability less accessible to people who could work but just don’t feel like it, but in the Year of our Lord 2026, do you really think that even if we could wave a magic wand and stop paying (native) bums and layabouts to bum about and get laid, they’d just march off to the stockyards of Chicago or the fields of Salinas, roll up their sleeves, and do an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Yep, exactly: construction, hotel cleaners, fruit pickers, meat packers … all of them are complicit in this blatant end run around the law. To be fair, though, many immigration restrictionists need to take a good, hard look in the mirror and come to grips with the fact that if a genie magically granted their stated policy goals, a trip to Disneyworld, or even just to the grocery store, would suddenly get a whole lot more expensive.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
(I’m not entirely sure who’s woosh-ing whom here, but I was referring to this song from the musical Chicago)


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Funding ICE instead of doing things like employer-based enforcement is meant to show that immigration restriction is impossible.




I am generally a fan of expanded mandatory E-Verify for interdicting illegals more cheaply/efficiently than battalions of ICE agents, but I have to admit there is an obvious failure mode: what’s stopping Big Totally-Compliant Employer, Inc. from contracting $SHITTY_JOB out to some fly-by-night outfit that hires illegals and pays them in cash, and then going all surprised_pikachu.jpg if and when it comes to light that—shock, horror!—the contractors were not, in fact, unimpeachable exemplars of regulatory rectitude?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I'm even open to the "Sig misfire" and "reached for the gun" narratives




I thought the latter was from Chicago, not Minneapolis


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


For a culture war take, I reckon something like the experience machine is already in play in my opinion in the ever increasing part of our lives by swallowed up by the digital. From titillating 24/7 drama in the news and on social media to gaming and porn, a lot of it is not too far removed from the experience machine, providing continual stimulation, most of which is devoid from any meaning in the real world.




Again, I think you’re describing something closer to wireheading than to the Experience Machine, namely, people’s every waking thought being sucked in by hedonic superstimuli which our primitive neural reward systems have no evolved defenses against. The difference is, we know what is happening to us and it is physically possible (if perhaps not easy in practice) to “unplug”: turn off your phone, touch grass, etc. By contrast, the premise of the Experience Machine is that while you’re in it, you have no knowledge of the real world, and it is impossible, even in principle, to unplug.