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				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
No, it's being treated seriously by people who are being intentionally riled up and misled by those seeking to gain from the chaos.  They don't "get" that federal law enforcement is actual law enforcement because they are being explicitly told by people they trust that ICE has no power over them.  This chaos is being deliberately orchestrated.  Don't let those doing the orchestration off the hook.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Assault is a crime. (I would have thought that the violence is an inherent part, but I do not know the specifics of MN state law, so maybe I am wrong and 'violent assault' is a thing.)




Traditionally assault (threat of imminent violence) was legally distinct from battery (the actual violence), but it seems MN combines the two.  Under Minnesota Statute § 609.02:




Subd. 10. Assault.  "Assault" is:


(1) an act done with intent to cause fear in another of immediate bodily harm or death; or


(2) the intentional infliction of or attempt to inflict bodily harm upon another.




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				Therapy vs. Confession
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Therapy I think is more often the modern replacement of the confidant in an age where deep friendship has been undermined by the demands of society than the secular replacement of confession.  The most commonly treated mental illnesses (anxiety and depression) often have little to do with one's sins, but rather with the weakness and vulnerability of one's social bonds in their communities.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Whites are "indigenous" to Europe, so one of the biggest social checks on expressing concern about demographic replacement in the US doesn't apply there, making it simultaneously safer for people so inclined to express and a convenient retort to those who would criticize them.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 18, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
When the driver of the vehicle you are in is accelerating for a cliff while another passenger is wildly swinging a knife around, it's hard to bring oneself to care about the cliff given the more immediate threat of the knife and the apparent impossibility of doing anything about the driver you can't reach.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Relational aggression.  For various reasons (eg, feminism, male intragender competition), we've been systematically eliminating the checks on this when practiced by women.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Of course, those fathers raising an "emancipated independent woman who can stand up to the world" conveniently neglect to teach her not to abuse her partners, while supporting raising sons to be agreeable and submissive and thus easy for her to take advantage of...


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Sure, so long as we symmetrically destroy the wonders of modern (social) technology that enables women to create a social environment that pushes men away from socialization due to their extreme levels of unchecked social aggression.  Men wouldn't be so inclined to remain "undersocialized" if we didn't enable women to abuse them so much in their intragender status games while denying men the ability to complain or often even talk about it, let alone retaliate without instantly jumping on them to "protect" the women in question--granting the women the status gains they were going for in the process.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


First homework is stupid. Even worse it is pointless.




Most work you perform during your working years will be stupid and pointless, but you still need to do it.  Better that children are taught early to swallow their pride and get shit done even when they don't see the point in it.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Human artistic successes are indicative of survivorship bias.  AI just makes this more visible because the productivity is so much higher.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


And people like Good, who seem to believe that a fake title ('I'm a Legal Observer! Can't touch me!') is going to protect them from any consequences




What do you expect when nominally respectable media sources are implying exactly that (emphasis mine):




What should an observer or wrongfully detained citizen do if they’re taken by ICE?


More than anything, keep yourself safe. In the instance of an arrest, don’t resist, don’t fight. Those are the kinds of things that could get you hurt. If you are a U.S. citizen observer and you are detained by ICE, ICE has no authority over you. ICE agents, under the law, are allowed to temporarily detain someone until they’re able to verify their immigration status. But just remember that you have the right to document and observe ICE officers. They can be recorded. If you do get arrested, confirm that you are a U.S. citizen and say nothing else. Call a lawyer, call the National Lawyers Guild hotline, and we will figure out how to get you out.




				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
No, the "official left position" has long been that behavior that would be classified as a *-ism when targeting groups they support isn't a *-ism when targeting groups they don't, allowing them to continue claiming *-isms are bad without having to give up discriminatory behavior against groups they don't favor.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Does it?  Zero empathy seems better to me--inequality tends to build the kind of resentment that burns bridges rather than building them, while shared hardship tends to do the opposite.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I suppose an excess of empathy can be a thing. At risk of getting too philosophical though, I'm pretty sure most schools of thought consider an excess of apathy (or worse, contempt) to be more dangerous in virtually every sense, yes? If we must err, let us do so on the side of empathy. And due process, for crying out loud.




If we must err on the side of empathy, then let us do so universally rather than selectively.  Those decrying ICE are rarely acting out of universal empathy.  For instance, did you know that MN has the largest number of indefinitely detained citizens in the country?  Ie, it locks people up indefinitely with civil commitment to work around the due process that would be necessary for criminal detention in a process routinely defended by Democrats including progressives like Keith Ellison.  They curiously don't get protesters out like ICE, despite being subject to consequences far worse than deportation.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
What recourse would you have against the Somali migrant that you wouldn't against the ICE agent?  In the role of baby-sitter, the ICE agent has no special privileges above those of a normal citizen.  The most likely offenses a baby-sitter would commit would be state offenses, and it is well established that local law enforcement is not particularly supportive of ICE atm, so it seems unlikely LEO camaraderie will benefit them.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The west shore of Lake Superior also leans heavily left, even compared to MN as a whole.  MN's 8th district, which covers that shore, was a DFL stronghold for over 50 years until redistricting merged it with more conservative districts to the south and west.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
That is what their media bubble is telling them and it is driving them to extreme levels of paranoia around the situation.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Whatever it is, it isn't trolling.  Progressives in the area view ICE as Trump's personal thugs here to snatch dissidents, not LEO here to enforce laws.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for January 9, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Any favorite mod recommendations? Been thinking about getting a computer just powerful enough for modded Skyrim.




Clockwork.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think it is more that going after drawn porn is often easier in a number of ways (eg, no sex workers complaining about the negative impacts of your "advocacy", fewer connections to networks of corruption, etc).


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


There's an absolutely fair argument "real porn is produced by real people and depicts genuine suffering" vs. words on a page.




That might be a fair argument, if fictional drawn porn didn't draw even more ire than live-action porn.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Always has been.  Feminism exists to elevate women over men, part of which involves permitting women to use their sexuality as power over men.  Constraining their sexuality to the privacy of their relationship is "oppressive" because their open display of their sexuality is a reminder of a grace they hold that men don't.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The experience isn't gendered, but the cultural narrative about it is.  Women are not criticized for failing to live up to their partner's unvoiced expectations to nearly the extent men are (EDIT:), largely as a consequence of men being expected to communicate directly and women being expected to communicate indirectly.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Ironically, the "communication issue" can be looked at a similar way as porn only with the genders reversed: women get a very confused one-sided view of how relationships work from media targeting their fantasies, one where the man always knows exactly what the woman wants and delivers without her having to communicate at all...


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 29, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Which seems like a pretty good way of summing it up, although it doesn't fly in public.




We have no trouble saying that to male victims of DV if they so much as raise their voice against their female abuser.  It only doesn't fly in public when applied to the demographic that is only allowed to be viewed as a victim.