Botond173
17hr ago
Or maybe a 63 year old guy who dresses like he's still 30
What is this supposed to mean please?
Botond173
1d ago
Water under the bridge. What I meant is that the culture war as such, the one we know, the one within living memory, can be traced back in my view to the radicalizing effect of the Tea Party phenomenon at the earliest.
Botond173
1d ago
Supposedly the only 'proof' of his far-right politics is that he posted the Gadsden flag on social media once.
Botond173
1d ago
According to Wikipedia this seems to have been a mundane story:
While it's true that Serova, working as a hospital volunteer, met Rokossovski several times while he was recovering from a shrapnel wound in early 1942, it was not acknowledged. Frontline soldiers saw the two often travelling together.
And:
In March 1942 Rokossovsky was badly injured by a piece of shrapnel. It was widely rumored that Valentina Serova was a mistress of Rokossovsky during this time. [...] Evidence for their close relationship was found in the accounts of frontline soldiers.
It should be noted that this Serova woman was known to be courted by a renowned author, poet, playwright and wartime correspondent at this time who wrote one of the most famous Soviet war poems about her. I think it's fair to say that this makes it unlikely that she was openly thotting around. Traditional Christian mores were no longer the standard in these times in Soviet Russia but that doesn't mean that female promiscuity was accepted as normal. Another point that counts against this rumor is that the general provably had a mistress already who was unsurprisingly a female military doctor.
Botond173
1d ago
Whether or not GPU sales to Red China is a nothingburger is precisely the issue.
I'm assuming you mean CPU sales?
Botond173
1d ago
The average Western man in 1986 had a high school diploma and the overall ability to perform grunt work and not much of anything more complicated than that. The attributes he had going for him were that he was neither a cripple nor an imbecile, was not severely abusing either drugs or alcohol and was not an extreme wifebeater, and had an average job, a functioning cock and the ability to sire children. He had little to no understanding of female psychology and sexuality and only had a vague notion that society expects him to be a faithful husband and father,
In 1986 these attributes earned him the ability to have a middle-class lifestyle, a car, savings, his own home and a worthy wife. In 2026 they guarantee him precisely nothing, zero. I'm guessing this is what OP is referring to.
Botond173
1d ago
There are two obvious problems with this.
One: legalizing prostitution would equal a tacit admission that the Sexual Revolution failed because the feminist proponents thereof argued that women want to have and enjoy sex as well and will become sexually available once the Revolution succeeds, thus rendering prostitution not necessary anymore. And I doubt that current British society is prepared to admit this to itself.
Two: the domestic supply of hookers is vastly outstripped by demand. It has been more or less the norm that families in abject poverty would sell their daughters into brothels; this is how the industry has sustained itself. But with the emergence of the welfare state this economic pressure on the poor has disappeared in the West. The result, as we can see in Germany for example, is that huge numbers of prostitutes get recruited from Eastern European and Third World wastelands which in turn fuels illicit human trafficking.
Botond173
1d ago
Well, of course when you compare a junkie at his worst to an anime nerd at his best,
He did no such thing.
Botond173
7d ago
I'm assuming it was a reaction to it in the sense that there was a growing sense of disillusionment with Obama among leftists by 2011 and when they observed the Tea Party phenomenon which they mostly viewed as implicitly racist they must have thought that they should have their own popular rebel movement as an answer.
Botond173
7d ago
I'd argue the cycle of overall radicalization started in 2010 and the catalyst was the Tea Party movement. The OWS phenomenon in 2011 was a direct reaction to it.
Botond173
8d ago
Finally a reference to the Uma Musume: Pretty Derby franchise on The Motte. Thumbs up (and not just for this).
Botond173
9d ago
I'm wondering if Abdul El-Sayed is going to get invited to Bill Maher's podcast.
Botond173
9d ago
Hold up. White Men voting 55% red concerns you above all else but women (not just white women but all women) voting 58% blue (and we can be sure that the ratio is even more lopsided in the case of white women) does not?
Botond173
10d ago
Hold up. Are you specifically talking about Anglo countries or Western ones? Or do you think the two are essentially the same at this point? Is federal Germany practically an Anglo country as a long-term consequence of Anglo military occupation? What about France?
Botond173
11d ago
Let's ignore Paraguay and the 19th Century for now. OP's claim is specifically about Zoomers and colleges campuses today.
Botond173
13d ago
well into the 1980s, it was considered bizarre and dubious for a soviet man/woman to be unmarried at age 25. If they were still unmarried at age 30, they were basically a freak and complete outlier in their communities.
I'm sure this applied to men but I'm not sure to what extent it applied to women.
Botond173
13d ago
The USSR in 1950 had about a 4-5 male-female ratio because of the war.
According to the results of the 1959 census the (male-to-female) sex ratio among people aged 35-50 was 4:7 so I'm guessing the ratio in 1950 was more imbalanced than 4:5. To the extent that this did not result in a sexual revolution, I think it can also be explained (outside of the regime's totalitarian nature) by the fact that a man shortage was hardly an unknown phenomenon even before the war and that Soviet Russia already underwent a sexual revolution during her earlier history. There is an excellent article about this in The Atlantic from 1926.
Botond173
14d ago
For the sake of clarity I'll outline what I think are observable facts.
It's true that women greatly outnumber men on most college campuses but when looking at society as a whole we see that men are slightly outnumbering women which is a historically abnormal state of affairs as the death rate of young men is usually higher than that of their female peers. In such a situation women are increasingly prone to socially developing a sense of overall male sexual threat as the average level of male thirst keeps rising. I agree with the argument that this is a big driver of third-wave feminism. To the extent that your argument about college girls not actually engaging in debauchery and lowered standards is true, and I think there is truth to it, this seems to be one important cause of it.
I'd refer back to an observation that is supposedly backed up by evo psych research: 1. when (eligible) women start to outnumber men in their social circle for whatever reason, they start engaging in an escalating sexual competition for male attention and resources; this appears rather self-evident 2. however, such competition stops making sense when the sex ratio becomes too lopsided - I can't exactly tell where that point is but maybe a ratio of 130:100 or 140:100 is already there. It gets to a point where sexually unattractive men start propositioning women for casual or commitment-free sex which in turn induces nausea among women and compels them to end the sexual rivalry for male attention. I think it's entirely plausible that at least some college campuses have already entered this phase, which in turn does underpin your argument.
Botond173
14d ago
I'd refer to an older comment by @Lewyn:
The original Michael Bay Transformers is exactly this type of period piece. It encapsulated everything about that era of early-2000s American culture; military dudebro Call of Duty aesthetics, jingoistic patriotism, frat boy humor, etc. That type of theming was dead and buried by the 2010s, but is maybe making a resurgence now. I remember hating it at the time, but it does feel nostalgic to see now with how different everything became.
(emphasis mine)
Botond173
14d ago
It's fairly easy to resolve this contradiction because it should be easy to identify how it all worked in practice: singles did have a choice in mating but only within the social circle they were confined to by their family and elders. In plain English this meant they were provided with a limited pool to choose from. So both factors were at play.
Botond173
14d ago
Normally, too many women chasing too few men do result in debauchery and lower standards, yet that is not what we are seeing.
Are you sure about this?
Botond173
14d ago
The same phenomenon was described in this comment chain extensively by @2D3D.
Maybe he's tired of his job already.
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