hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
9m ago
It's worth noting that 'marry the nice guy your parents pick out when you're in your late teens in lieu of job and degree' is simply not an option for most western women.
hydroacetylene
15m ago
So it's an important point here- the book of Job is an absolutely terrible sales pitch. People want to do the right thing, but they want it less than they want to have things work out. But on the other hand, broader society really wants people to do the right thing, far more than it wants things to work out for anyone in particular. We call it moloch, I suppose. But the obvious solution is incentive alignment- make 'doing the right thing' work out more often, even if it's not perfectly efficient. The military does it all the time to regulate soldier's personal lives and it works.
The problem for our society is a fifth column- yes disproportionately Jews and women but that's more of a correlation, or perhaps causation in the other direction- which just disagrees on what the right thing is, which has immense amounts of influence and uses that influence to redirect government policy.
hydroacetylene
22m ago
One of the interesting theories is that Hinkley was put up to it by the Bushes- he was a close associate of HW, that seems true. Insane, yes, but putting whackjobs up to insane things is not difficult.
Of course I don't really believe it. But the vice president killing the president is explicable.
hydroacetylene
24m ago
For context, most major western countries have between fifteen and twenty percent geocentrist. Extreme hardcore YEC's are a negligible percentage of this, so negligible that there's no correlation on the population level. Nothing under twenty percent is worth worrying about.
hydroacetylene
28m ago
Kruschev did not threaten to destroy the west, that's a mistranslation of what he actually said. Yes, 'we will bury you' is the correct literal translation, but that's a Russian idiom for 'we will be present at your funeral'. That is, he said communism was a historical inevitability(which was Soviet dogma and not something that was new) and capitalists would disappear.
hydroacetylene
37m ago
The pro-life movement is dominated by Catholics who apply just war theory to direct action. This is why the pro-life movement has little tolerance for pro-assassination rhetoric.
hydroacetylene
47m ago
This is how the SSPX wound up the target of a domestic spying operation- by reporting schizos they were banning from their chapels for advocating direct antisemitic activities. To say that this is a, uh, problematic incentive from a game theory perspective is probably correct.
hydroacetylene
50m ago
You're describing Islam.
hydroacetylene
54m ago
The progressive industrial complex does not depend on individual actors. These aren't genius visionaries. They aren't heavily centralized or cults of personality.
hydroacetylene
13hr ago
'by and large'
hydroacetylene
13hr ago
Sure, this is an 'off the top of my head' memory from the last time the NRA offered a grand compromise.
hydroacetylene
13hr ago
Peasant farmers always have high fertility, regardless of culture. The urbanization crash, however, is not a universal- not at the level China did.
hydroacetylene
13hr ago
Is he obligated to provide her with shelter?
Now requiring her to trade sex for it is a scummy thing to do. But it is not rape, that's the use of coercion or force to obtain sex from an unwilling partner.
hydroacetylene
14hr ago
No private sales(closing the 'gun show loophole') has been offered in exchange for concessions more than once, and always rejected when it was clear the gun control side was going to have to offer something. I suspect waiting periods would also be on offer. The NRA wants national concealed carry reciprocity and de-listing silencers from the NFA in exchange.
hydroacetylene
14hr ago
Typically the pattern is unorganized crime-> gangs-> reduction in random street crime-> organized crime problems. A bit like using fireants as a pest control tool- it's retarded because you now have worse problems, but it does work at the original problem.
hydroacetylene
14hr ago
Succinylcholine is the plot of a Tom Clancy novel.
hydroacetylene
14hr ago
Yes you can. It would likely trample on civil rights at least a little bit- and I'm very skeptical that you can have effective gun control without at least a continental-European level of laxity in civil rights regimes- but randomly searching ne'erdowells and charging them with a serious crime if they have a weapon works at controlling armed crime. But stop and frisk isn't allowed.
hydroacetylene
14hr ago
As of 2023, 60% of young men reported they were single. That number. 34% of young women reported being single. WHO ARE THE WOMEN DATING if not those young men?
It's like a combination of several factors, the largest being the Dave Chappelle skit about 'I don't have a girlfriend, but there's some women'd be upset to hear that'.
hydroacetylene
14hr ago
Women, by and large, do not want to 'get laid', they want to have a meaningful relationship which includes a sexual component. This is no easier for the fairer sex, and they run a few risks that are not realistic for a man to concern himself with.
hydroacetylene
14hr ago
Contact with reality.
hydroacetylene
14hr ago
Progressivism and neoliberalism having the same effects on society as a communist revolution that killed tens of millions is, uh, not the exoneration you think it is.
hydroacetylene
14hr ago
'Abolish the family' is not a new trend in left academia. Some noregsmen publishing it this time is, I mean, is Norway known for its social conservatism in academia? Fertility worries are trendy and blaming low fertility on strong family values is, yes, a take, but one which contradicts the available data much less than the average for the sorts of academics that dabble in family abolitionism.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Isn't there a rule against mass blocking? We have a handful of relatively prolific posters who seem to have blocked every other prolific poster.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The black population in America is declining as a percentage. Immigration comes heavily from everywhere but Africa, the AADOS TFR is lower than the white TFR, etc.
If you're interested, there's plenty of actual research on the supply chains for criminals to get their guns. The US could choose to crack down on these supply chains, and gun rights groups often support doing this, without affecting normie joe sixpack gun owner very much(the growth in concealed carry has drastically reduced the number of handguns left in cars; most guns used in crime are currently straw purchased, just like how teenagers get alcohol). This is never a popular proposition, because no one involved in the gun control debate in the US really cares about crime.
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