dailydogma
4hr ago
...It really doesn't? At best your point would be that their parents or grandparents didn't assimilate.
No, it really does. Who you marry is much more important than «futzing around» in your lawn, give me a break. And really, it's the only relevant measure of assimilation. They either mix with the natives, and the new generations become a corresponding genetic mixture, at the weighted midpoint of the two groups, or they remain a 5th column. As a 5th column, they may adopt some superficial cultural signifiers, but they will still be an ethnocentric 5th column, always serving their own discrete ethnic interests, as reflected by their marriage incompatibility with natives.
dailydogma
4hr ago
Tinder won the market. If people were good, they would reject Tinder and would embrace MarriageApp. They freely chose not to. Or, Tinder would have evolved to be MarriageApp.
dailydogma
4hr ago
Americans mad, but, how is that satire exactly? Satire is funny or ridiculous, this is just saying that people should face consequences for their decisions, which is neither funny nor ridiculous.
dailydogma
1d ago
Are you 17? I was into Lacan and « semiotics » at that age, as well as complaining about old Pops. When you get older, you'll realize everything is heritable, just like your dad is trying to tell you through his wisdom.
dailydogma
1d ago
He thinks that tiny dip after 2010 is the phones. Could be. But he's missing the bigger picture, which is what happened after the baby boom (before that I think it was just infant mortality dropping and education increasing).
dailydogma
1d ago
Clearly in this case status is endogenous to phone introduction and phones are exogenous.
dailydogma
1d ago
The medium is the message bro. Our material environment fundamentally changes how we interact with each other
Postmodern marxist pablum.
Yes humans are agents that can make decisions, but those decisions are heavily influenced by our environment.
How does the phone provide influence? Fundamentally, it is a calculator and a radio. Humans freely chose what to compute and transmit on it. You don't like that they chose narcissism and vanity. And you're not willing to accept that the reason is that they are narcissistic and vain.
The smartphone has been engineer very deliberately to alter your behavior.
No, voluntarily downloaded software has been engineered to give consumers what they want. Huge difference.
dailydogma
1d ago
Why would you think it's satire? My point seems substantial enough. Phones are a blank slate and humans are the ones that provide the substance. If you don't like what most phones do, you don't like most people. The phones are not agents.
dailydogma
1d ago
If it is the phones, I welcome it. Good people should reproduce more when they receive something as awesome as a smartphone. It even lets you find a mate far away who is a great match, basically for free, which was impossible before. The phone is a mirror. The cursed call the mirror cursed when actually the mirror is honest.
dailydogma
2d ago
The only Jewish person on the Supreme Court, appointed as a liberal justice, voted with the liberals, as would be obvious. In the same way, the black justice appointed as a liberal voted with the liberals, and the black justice appointed as a conservative voted with the conservatives.
Yes. But on average, how do Jews and Blacks vote compared to Whites? Do you understand my point now?
The travesty is that three conservative Catholics - including two (ie enough to invert the majority ruling) appointed by the current President - voted to oppose his reasonable agenda, made clear more than a decade ago, to deter illegal immigration, which they conveniently didn’t mention opposing until now, long after their appointment by said president.
An original American would say it's a papist conspiracy to flood the United States with papist hispanics so the Pope can rule over the US.
dailydogma
2d ago
It's not Catholics, it's everybody. The median person at least. But Catholics like Nick Fuentes will keep blaming the Jews, because, let's face it, the Jews are to the left of the other religious groups so they were earlier on the scene and are always going to be over-represented in leftism. Not to mention the Israel issue.
dailydogma
2d ago
It's the kids, teachers, and the system. Every part of it is rotten. The kids are not disciplined, but the adults aren't capable of it either, also the kids aren't smart enough for classical learning, but neither are the teachers, since the teachers reflect the parents and the kids are just recombinations of the parents. And the curriculum is set by the same people, so of course it reflects their essence.
It's not the modern school system, but rather the modern people.
dailydogma
2d ago
Kids should actually know something about the history of their country and the world. A population ignorant of history and science but which can speak a couple of languages is not a recipe for success.
Actually I think this was one of the major early American education controversies. I suppose I fall on the side of the classics and against mainstream pragmatism. I don't like the framing I see where they were contrasting positivism and classicism. That's a false dichotomy. To me, the classics are positivism material, while pragmatic education teaches useless propaganda. Memorizing useless factoids is not positivism; mathematical theories are. Therefore, children should study Euclid and not flower reproduction. This will better prepare them to learn real science as young adults. Likewise, memorizing alleged factoids about the American Revolution is not positive history. Reading primary sources is. Therefore, children should study a classical language so that they can read ancient writings on their own.
The idea of science that the pragmatists believed in was common at the time. It was the type of science that gave us scientific socialism, which worked out so well, Lysenkoism, behaviorism, psychoanalysis, and so on. It was a loose science where one justifies oneself with some observations here and there, then ties it together with some colloquial language paragraphs, and if others agree with it enough it gets the stamp of positive science.
The ease with which children learn languages is exaggerated, but yes, it's easier to learn languages when you are young. It is not "easy." The "passive language-absorbing sponge" theory is not true.
It's not easy. In fact, I don't think it's easier for school aged children. Just accessible, unlike logical mathematics.
dailydogma
2d ago
As it should still be. Only a minority is capable of higher learning.
dailydogma
2d ago
Then why is it that so many students who spend hundreds of hours studying a foreign language in school come out the other end not knowing how to speak them?
They don't, I think Americans get maybe 40 hours of actual language learning per school year in those classes.
From "Language is Culture" by Spandrell:
Ironic substance considering I've read at least 100 writers who speak more languages than Spandrell (I'm guessing he's a monolingual American) and who are better English writers. Mostly dead people who could quote French, Latin, and Greek at will.
dailydogma
2d ago
If that were true I wouldn't be writing in English right now. One or two thousand is for a European language to reach N1 Japanese, maybe. Especially if they don't use cutting edge methods. With efficient methods I've heard you can get it down to 700 or 800 hours. An English speaker doesn't need more than 400 good hours to learn French. Classical European languages will probably be in the higher 3 figures. Importantly, you don't have to be able to speak them, which actually saves time.
dailydogma
2d ago
What does that even mean? Are they only 25% or 12.5% Indian on average? Because otherwise I can point out an important way in which they failed to assimilate.
dailydogma
2d ago
I know I might be feeding a troll, but are you aware of the evidence that European ethnicities don't fully assimilate, as well as the fact that the genetic distances between white Americans and the races you listed are more than 5 times as large as those between European ethnicities? If you're not trolling, I don't understand how in 2026 such naive blank slatism feels plausible to you.
dailydogma
2d ago
I am glad for this ruling because it accelerates the demographic downfall of the United States. I say that not as a leftist but as someone who believes that Trump 1 was the absolute last call to do something about the demographic situation, and now the United States populace must face the natural consequences of their actions. The quicker, the better. Let it be a lesson for the history books.
dailydogma
4d ago
extremely exaggerated idea of how easy it is to become multilingual.
I think it takes hundreds of hours, but those hours are themselves easy, unlike math. Such that, young children can complete those hours, whereas they often can't grasp algebra at all, so algebra hours have to wait. The thing about the Muslim countries I refer to is that they don't learn as much about Martin Luther King Jr., the American Revolution, or the reproductive cycle of flowering plants in elementary school while trying to get up to 400 hours of French study. There is a trade off but imo a foreign language is a skill and knowing factoids about history, American or Algerian, is not.
dailydogma
4d ago
Maybe it's not the kids, but the teachers. The teachers don't have what it takes to teach linear algebra even though that's pretty accessible to a lot of high school students.
Yes, a truly academic approach is classicist in nature. The students should be taught Ancient Greek and should read widely the texts written in it, and they should compare the New Testament and its actual language to the meanings found in other writings using that language around the time. The translations into modern languages are bad, as are most translation. Even English translations of Nietzsche are terrible, and he's modern and wrote in a living language still used by multiple nations. The main English translator of him turned his bioessentialism into self help garbage, what do you think they did to the Bible over the course of thousands of years then?
Kids spend so much time in school and language learning is accessible enough by little kids that I don't see why they don't do this, other than simply being excessively stupid as people by their nature. Even that probably does not explain it, because there are 90 IQ Muslim countries that teach children French, classical Arabic, modern standard Arabic, and an Arabic dialect. And then many of these people end up speaking English or German as adults too, to emigrate.
dailydogma
4d ago
The Definition of Love (1 Corinthians 13).
From this it sounds like they will miss all the nuance. Luther rendered it as „Liebe,” but King James Version gave „charity.” The greek is agape which at the time seemed to mean not love as an emotion, but the condition of being in a pact of mutual cooperation with someone else. It relates most strongly to the requirement to „be in Christ,” that is, in a covenant or pact with Christ. One of the most major statements of Christ's divinity is when the Father uses this verb to state what is translated as „he is my beloved” in King James. It actually meant the Son was „in” the Father, as in a covenant.
Anyway, agape was not an emotional state but rather a perpetual action by a subject which requires an object. The object is not stated explicitly in 1 Cor 13, but it is implied that it is Christ or the church, not just a general exhortation to be a hippy. This is important because it has rebellious undertones that are impossible to extricate without adulterating the meaning. The same verb is used in Matthew 6:24 which states no man can serve two masters. Essentially the point is Paul is telling them they must place Christ above the state and money or their deeds are worthless. This has real implications beyond a feeling. Applied today, it's to tell the children that they must not be loyal to the government of the United States or its constitution or its capitalist market, but rather must donate their lives in the service of furthering the will of Jesus Christ. Paul is saying that any modern church that tolerates laws which diverge from the will of Christ are illegitimate and if one does not believe and indeed act on this, one's whole church is futile, there will be no heavenly reward and one's faith is entirely nullified.
I am sure they are not teaching that their own government is an infidel state for a litany of laws that mean it must be regarded as a occupying foreign nation which merely is payed its taxes but nothing more, as actual Christians treated the Roman state. So therefore they are adulterating the passage and failing to teach its true meaning.
dailydogma
4d ago
It seems more like a list put together by a committee with a few busybodies each pushing their own favorites
That's literally what it is.
Thuletide on Fertility
According to Thuletide, the age gap «pedophilia» moral panic, spawned by feminism and kicked into overdrive during the #MeToo era that began circa 2017, is a potentially civilization-ruining phenomenon. He is, of course, not referring to very real problems, like grooming gangs in Britain, but the fact that 18-year-old boys are frequently accused of being an "Epstein diddy blud" merely for talking to 17-year-old girls. If you wanted to vaporize our already plummeting birth rates, stigmatizing any age gap larger than that between identical twins is a great way to do it.
From Thuletide's Telegram:
From his Twitter, he cites the following. Older-male age-gap relationships produce more children, with total lifetime fertility peaking at +7 years (although the variation from +3 to +13 years is very small). The negative fertility effect of older wives begins immediately at +1 year and declines linearly; at +3.5 years, couples produce 0.5 fewer children, on average. Obviously, this is due to women's limited fertility window, which is much smaller than commonly believed: by age 31, around 10% of women are sterile and around 50% are subfertile (they have difficulty conceiving, decreased egg quality, etc).
He concludes on Telegram:
Sounds like a better plan than complaining about phones to me.
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