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				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
A bunch of those just live in my head.  "There are two kinds of food and you will never find out about the third".  "The earth has no sky (but the sky does)".  "Buckets are real".  "The sun is a ghost/ flat moon".


Might try to write an effort post to debunk the bucket deniers.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


But then why do people go so hard against ICE when ICE was trying to target criminal immigrants, etc? I think partially bc those opposed didn't believe the "criminal focus" bit. But also bc boats sink with their evidence, vs the infinite clips of ICE doing stuff (many posted by ice itself lol)




Based on personal conversations with boomer libs, they just believe straight up crazy things about the situation.  That ICE is rounding up random brown people, including citizens, and torturing and killing them just for fun, and sending them to FOREIGN TORTURE PRISONS, all with absolutely no legal authority to do anything because they're not cops.


They appear to literally believe that Donald Trump created ICE as a kind of para-military KKK to enact his evil as the wicked emperor of America.  That's why they're so gung-ho to seek vengeance on ICE agents.  They think of it like "Molly Weasley killing Bellatrix Black", and not "jailing law enforcement for enforcing the law on child rapists".


We've had a lot of discourse about right-wing radicalization, but the shit women on TikTok are getting up to is a genuine Abyss where reality goes to die.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


The only players in this conflict who, as a matter of sincere religious conviction, base their foreign policy on a desire to accelerate the fulfilment of their religion's end-time prophecies, are the Christian Zionists in the US.




This is just noble savage nonsense, like everyone else who takes a stand against Christianity while blithely ignoring the egregiously worse comparisons from Islam.  Are you really contending that religion has no influence on the behavior of a explicitly religious fundamentalist totalitarian government?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I will also just add that while I myself have made the point that a strong (and especially unified) Europe is not in American interests




I'm self-aware enough to admit that a strong, muscular Europe would probably also annoy me, if in different ways.  But it's hard to imagine it would be less pleasant to look at than the current version of a suicidal Europe that hates itself - not even for it's sins, but most of all for it's former muscular virtues!


It's like watching your dad mainline MSNBC until he looks like Rosie O'Donnell.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


A Europe that is able to do things beyond writing strongly worded letters and accepting refugees




This is literally what Trump and MAGA wants and the response from Europe's political leadership has been a genteel, refined, well-bred, exquisitely credentialed version of a toddler throwing themselves on the floor and screaming because you asked them to put on their own trousers.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Damn.  How about this?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


If it makes you feel better, I've already dialed downed the usage of AI for stylistic advice or editing significantly, because I've increasingly come around to the people who think that that it dilutes my own voice and personality.




The best use I've found for LLMs is stripping out any personality or style from corporate slop emails I am sending.  No fucking way am I bringing my whole self to work - the mask is entirely sufficient for the likes of them.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
She became a generic omnicause protestor instead of The Climate Child.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It strikes me as an example of "Every accusation is a confession."  Perhaps this sort of thing hits better if the reader is a dissembling, delusional jackass.


In fairness, I have read none of these books, but in fairness, they mostly sound just dreadful.


I thought I had read Catch-22, but checking the wiki article, I now suspect that was a segment of a couple chapters in some English class, rather than the full book.  Or I've just forgotten 90% of it over the last 20 years.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I abhor the abominable intelligence, as you may know.


But this is actually an exemption.  I loved the early AI stuff because it produced spectacular surrealist humor.  The AI generated conspiracy theories is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.  It's hard for humans to be that creative and absurd without descending into lolquirky, but GPT2 did that by default.


I didn't get that impression from the OP, but then I have a lot less experience with explicitly AI written text.  It felt like it had Count's signature sneer.  Does AI tend to produce that level of quasi-coherent argumentation?  If I had to guess, given the prompt "AI was used", I'd say it was a messy screed that was organized and streamlined by an AI.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
God damn, these Jew guys sound incredible.  How do I get on their team?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I have to preface this by saying that I normally don't think highly of you as a poster.  When I saw your header, my first instinct was to roll my eyes and minimize the conversation.  But I did end up reading it, and I'm really glad I did.  This was an excellent essay, a worthy indulgence for the sin of a few dozen shitposts.


Dead wrong on every single value judgement throughout, of course, but beautifully, hilariously so.


Excellent trolling.  I actually had a few hundred words written before I realized you didn't include any links or real background info, and then realized why.


To hasten things for everyone else, article.


The school in question was a central planning initiative that's been captured by the French deep state since basically the beginning.  It's a finishing school and personality-killing brainwashing symposeum for nomenklatura kids, and very very much an example of Selection, to the little extent that entire framing is worthwhile.


Which is, of course, the entire point of the post.  Being carefully, forcefully stupid in a way that demands reponse from the 'tism.


Gr8 B8 M8.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Imagine a religion that believes it is evil to pick up $100 bills lying on the sidewalk, and even demands you tithe more $100 bills to the sidewalk.  From the inside perspective, getting mad at people who pick up the free money makes total sense - they are violating a holy norm.  But from the outside perspective, they look like retards.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Is it?  I know oil prices help, but weren't they reliant on Iran for drone parts?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


The poster I was responding to was specifically declaring to be unAmerican some Indian guys who wrote a blog post about SCOTUS minutiae in flawless English, and who another poster claimed to have met and argued about baseball with. The average immigrant is irrelevant to this argument, as he very specifically excluded a non-average one, implicitly asserting that this non-averageness does not matter to him.




There's a broader point to make here that deserves a top level.




(Incidentally, I think demanding +4SD for 130IQ etc. is excessive. The set of Indians who immigrate into the US is already biased towards the smarter, more looped-in with US culture set; the criteria you lay out are maybe +2.)




+2SD would get you to just the 130, with a 100 baseline, which is a fairly generous assumption AIUI.  "Intelligible English" alone is another +2, and I'm sorry, but if you think otherwise then you are experiencing a powerful selection effect.  Go try to have a five minute conversation with the kind of guys who own motels, or talk to random strangers in a grocery store.


Or take a summer job at a T-Mobile store in a diverse area.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


You are going to have to contend with every white racist's problem, which is that the majority of the people you would like to be in your ingroup feels more kinship with the urbane Indian-American guy than with you. If we were entering a new golden era of free association and vibes-based citizenship, they would sooner team up with him to send you to Madagascar than with you to expel him. I feel like the abstract schema, where A and B say "I consent" to each other while C is off to the side seething at B like "I don't, you should be with me instead", occurs fairly frequently in cuckoldry memes.




The problem is that this is an extremely selected comparison, and it's kind of embarrassing that our elite capital folks are missing the point.


I've written posts complaining about personal experiences with Indian immigrants - let me give a different example.  The professor I had most often (3 classes) in college was an older Indian guy who taught physics.  One of my favorite memories of him was when he was covering a unit on optics, and he had projected on the board an illustrative image, which he off-handedly mentioned was the cover art to his favorite album.


Yes, it was exactly what everyone is thinking.


We teen white kids had a great moment of fun about it.  "Holy shit, did you guys know Indians could be Boomers, too?"


I liked that professor.  He was a good dude, and he was good to me.  I'll bet the Yale professor on Con law is in a similar boat.


Cool.


So, what about the other 99.99%?


Because the average immigrant is absolutely not an urbane, 130+ IQ dude with excellent English and a witty command of prestige television references.  That's actually about 4ish SD above average.  The experience of the average American dealing with the average immigrant is more like spending 10 minutes struggling to explain the difference between a square and a circle to someone with English (and apparent reasoning, though the linguistic issue is likely severely amplifying that) skills on the level of a three year old, while they are acting like an entitled asshole.


There was a post on the old place, years ago, and I can't quite remember who it was.  GeneralMcCusker, or McJuncket, or however those names were spelled, I think.  Anyway, the post described the enlightening experience of working in a T-Mobile store in a bad diverse part of town.  And the post basically suggested that a similar life experience ought to be a requirement for having meaningful opinions about the communities of people involved.


I think a lot of this discourse is driven by people who never see what everyone else is complaining about, not in spite of, but precisely because they are extremely high functioning individuals of means who have organized their lives so as to never have to deal with the downsides of their tolerant and high-minded policies.


I know several such people IRL.  Friends and family.  Great people.  I truly love them.


But on this sort of topic, all I can ever think is "Your actions speak so loud, I can't hear a word you're saying."


For comparison, imagine if we dumped an entire American trailer park into a small town in a foreign country.  And when the locals objected and complained, the entire upper class said "What are you losers talking about?  The Americans are amazing.  You're just jealous because they're better than you."  And then the only American they've ever met is FiveHourMarathon.  Just so when everyone here is acting like their mental model of an immigrant is self_made_human.


We could halt all immigration and fully denaturalize and deport the bottom 90% of immigrants, and it's likely that most Westerners who actually post to this forum would barely notice.


But the people dealing with them in parks and the subways and retail establishments and getting undercut by people's who market niche is ignoring labor laws most certainly would.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think there's value in specifying that it's two patties stacked, instead of one giant one.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I always thought it was strange that McDonald's has an item called a "double quarter pounder."




Isn't that two patties that each weigh a quarter pound?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Testosterone makes men feel less conformist and agreeable.  You would likely have a massive problem with defections.


And Piker believes every word that comes out of his mouth.  It's just that those words are all narcissistic retard slop.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Do a run of those stickers and slap them over the whiney defensive ones, not your own car.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
He's hot.  Also, rap slang objectifying women has metastasized to the point where high school white girls are using it to describe men.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I put it to the teen daughter, and the response was "Yeah, he's a baddie."


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


That's not a good reason to be soft on Russia too, they are our enemy.




That was not the American consensus position 14 years ago.  It became a bit sketchy after Russian invaded Crimea in 2013, but no one wanted to go too hard on that because it was embarrassing to Barak Obama and Hilary Clinton, who were not just "soft" on Russia, but far softer than Trump has been.


"Trump kisses up to Putin" is actually just a retarded, self-serving lie, perpetrated by bad actors who were driven insane by TDS.  He says nice things sometimes when he wants something from people, just like he does to Kim Jong Un and Zohran Mamdani, and other times he says mean things.  And in the real world, Putin consistently launches invasions when verbally harsh, limp Democrats are in power, and sits in his lane when Trump is.


Again, as someone who does know the history here, it's hard to take your position as anything other than an isolated demand for standards, fueled by ignorance.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Trump wrote a book on the tactic and has spent 50 years living by the motto of "Make an insane starting demand and then allow them to talk you back to merely what you originally wanted".  Unfortunately, that doesn't scratch the Orange man dumb dumb poopy head itch for people who can't model other minds.


Hence, the idiotic TACO meme.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Everything dooms the Republicans in the midterms.


That's not analysis.  It's barely even sarcastic.  I feel like every month there's 1-2 things that DOOM REPUBLICANS IN THE MIDTERMS and then the actual polling needle barely budges.


Maybe everything is just fully too stupid for mere "events" to make anyone update.