MadMonzer
Temporarily embarassed liberal elite
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MadMonzer
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9hr ago
Per Steve Sailer's extensive investigation of SPLC finances, very little of the money here is taxpayer money - the whole point of the SPLC was to maximise unrestricted donations from left-wing Jews so Morris Dees and Jo Levin could keep the money. DOGE wasn't going to find this one - it required old-school criminal investigation.
MadMonzer
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9hr ago
And broken up when the undercover FBI agent starts suggesting actual serious criminal activity and the undercover journalist calls the local cops on him.
MadMonzer
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10hr ago
I despise Israel-the-political-entity and I cheerfully agree with you on this point. 10/7 was an act of barbarism, and the best model for Hamas' behaviour since then has been "identify the most evil thing an insane evil person could come up with, and watch them do it".
If you are going to us methods of barbarism in a somewhat-justified war, you should do so in pursuit of a somewhat-justified military objective and with a somewhat-justified hope of military success. 10/7 was some evil cunts getting off on Jewish pain from the safety of their Qatar hotel rooms with no visible path to military victory, or even a draw.
MadMonzer
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10hr ago
I reject this discourse by referring to myself as a "sperg" which is not a term politically correct people are willing to use even if the sperg in question is welcome to it.
MadMonzer
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11hr ago
Yes - pre sexual revolution the vast majority of marriageable, single older men were widowers. If a man was a bachelor at thirty there was a reason. "Confirmed bachelor" was a euphemism for gay.
MadMonzer
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11hr ago
This situation is also rough on the kids from the first marriage, who suddenly acquire a stepmother who isn't old enough to be their mother, but will need to play the social role of mother unless the kids spend ~100% of the time with their biomum. I'm going to date myself by pointing out that acquiring a stepmother young enough that she could just about have dated him instead of his father was what pushed Bill of Bill and Ted over the edge into loserdom. (Ted was just as thick as two short planks).
MadMonzer
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12hr ago
The whole point @magicalkittycat was making (which I agree with) is that these guys are exceptional among rich/powerful/successful men. Most R/P/S men are still married to the mothers of their children, so they are facing weaker taboos against taking up a younger girlfriend than they used to - both the taboo against adult age gaps and the taboo against adultery in 2026 are weaker than the taboo against adultery was in 1980.
The informal institution of "rich men having mistresses but being discrete about it" was not created by seekingarrangement.com.
The purpose of the age gap taboo from the point of view of the feminists and allies imposing it is to force middle-aged divorced men with options to date middle-aged divorced women rather than dating prime-age never-married women. Middle-aged divorced women, and women who want to improve their options should they choose the life of middle-aged divorced woman, are the core constituency of feminism.
MadMonzer
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12hr ago
That kinda works sort of, but has another problem, your essentially saying that a 14 year old with a higher IQ should be an adult, with all that entails. I dont think many people would accept that.
Adulthood ideally requires a level of emotional control that gifted 14-year olds are less likely to have than normie 21-year olds (but plenty of 14 year-olds have it and plenty of 21-year olds don't) and an ethic of taking adult responsibility which 14-year olds have not generally had the opportunity to develop in our society, and particularly not in the PMC milieu where most gifted kids are going to come from (but would do in a better-run society).
Right now, my guess is that less than half the gifted 14-year olds with the cognitive ability to pass an "early adulthood exam" are emotionally ready for adulthood, but 80% of them could be if we raised gifted children with that expectation (and most of the 20% are sufficiently autistic that they will never be emotionally ready for adulthood - part of the purpose of academia in a world where it isn't ruined by woke activism is as an artificial environment which makes geniuses who can't adult maximally useful)
Orange and blue are the colours Fidesz and Tisza chose for themselves.
In general (several countries are exceptions) European political colours are the reverse of the modern* US convention, with centre-left parties using red (even if they are no longer actually socialist) and centre-right parties using blue. See for example this official EU Parliament page, or any Wikipedia article about a European national Parliament. (Wikipedia by policy follows parties' own choice of colour where possible).
Tisza are a big-tent centre-right party, so using blue is unsurprising. (The left in Hungary is defunct, a it is in Poland and the Czech Republic.) Fidesz adopted orange in their early days when they were a right-liberal party opposed to Soviet Bloc communism - yellow and orange are the most common colours used by liberal parties, including the British Liberal Democrats (both over time), German FDP (yellow) and Dutch VVD (who use blue-and-orange, reflecting their role as the de facto conservative party in Dutch politics as well as their own right-liberal tradition).
* To the best of my knowledge, Red = Republican and Blue = Democrat only became the convention after Bush vs. Gore. (Both parties use red, white and blue in their imagery). The BBC used blue = Republican/red = Democrat up to and including 2000 for consistency with the British convention (e.g. the popup map on this archive page) and switched to the modern US convention in its 2004 coverage (archive example). One account I read was that the US networks generally used blue for the incumbent and red for the challenger and red this became fixed as blue=Dem/red=Rep because the 2000 map became a meme during the Bush v Gore litigation.
MadMonzer
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13hr ago
I personally feel a bit blinded now, like I've had a sense badly dulled. The price of oil is a shitty low-resolution proxy with too many confounders, vs a high-volume prediction market directly asking the actual question.
That is the point. Insider traders who bet on secret war plans are leaking information in the form of market prices in the same way that traditional disloyal civil servants leak information in the form of off-the-record briefings of journalists. If the government can keep secrets, it is more militarily effective, but also less accountable to citizens. In the case of short-term war plans like the date of a surprise attack, the US as a whole is better off if the government can keep secrets, which means that running a prediction market which allows government officials to insider trade is a hostile act.
Or to put it even more bluntly, the enemy has had their senses dulled in the same way you have.
MadMonzer
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1d ago
MadMonzer
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1d ago
But the only aspects of the red pill that went viral were those laced with misogyny and intense sexism. The big "red pill" content creators of today are the Andrew Tate types, which are essentially grifters selling BS courses to young men.
This was a huge part of the red pill/PUA movement from day 1. David de Angelo came to the early-noughties seduction community from the online snake-oil salesman community, and there was also overlap because both pre-2000 seduction artists like Ross Jefferies and snake-oil salesmen made heavy use of NLP, and the NLP community effectively got into a self-reinforcing loop of using NLP techniques to sell overpriced NLP classes to people who (if they were able to learn and use the skills) then saw selling selling overpriced classes as a high-status way to monetise your skills.
How we go about doing this is another question though.
Abolish section 230 protection for algorithmically curated content. If XBook is exercising the level of control over what you see that they do, in fact, exercise then they are a publisher, not a neutral platform.
MadMonzer
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1d ago
Able to raise my children in a way I would approve of.
MadMonzer
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1d ago
I'm still fighting the lonely battle to have it renamed the Fermat-Wiles theorem. Fermat's marginal proof never existed, for crissake.
MadMonzer
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1d ago
I see stolen valor. Karp wants the status of a warrior-elite, understands and is willing to deliver on the obligations of noblesse oblige that come with it, and thinks he deserves it because of the contributions his company makes to national security. But he hasn't personally fought so he can't have it.
See also Tanner Greer's mostly-negative review of Karp's book comparing Karp negatively to the Gilded Age commerical oligarchs and longer blog post explaining what the East Coast establishment that emerged from the Gilded Age did that the Tech Right have not yet attempted.
My talk on Greer's thesis is that the East Coast Establishment was a real elite (who understood itself as such, worked hard to perpetuate itself as such, and took its nobless oblige seriously) that justified its elite status almost entirely in commercial (as opposed to martial) terms and is thus pretty much the only available model for non-fighting techbros like Karp.
MadMonzer
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1d ago
And yes, that means we do know better than you, about most everything, most of the time
The question isn't whether we know more than "you" (i.e. the man in the street - the idea that Silicon Valley-based Motteposters have superior access to intelligence and rationality than other Motteposters is straightforwardly silly), it is whether we know more than relevant domain experts.
How long it takes for a smart generalist to come unstuck is notoriously a measure of how legitimate a field of knowledge is, and there are plenty of legitimate fields of knowledge outside the core competence of "tech" - most obviously all the non-software engineering disciplines. Before Musk founded a rocket company, he found as many smart rocket guys as he could and listened to them. When he bought into and refounded a car company, he hired car guys and listened to them. But there is legitimate subject-matter expertise to be had outside STEM. When Musk took over large parts of the US government, he didn't bother to talk to people who understood governing, and DOGE came unstuck - and not just, or even mostly because Musk was too autistic to maintain public and political support for what he was doing per @ThisIsSin, but because he was taking an approach (what P J O'Rourke would call "balancing the budget by cutting helium funds") which everyone who understands the budget knows can't work because the math doesn't math.
Do you, personally, believe that Israel has a right to exist as "a Jewish and Democratic state"?
Rights are irrelevant. It is impossible to have a Jewish, democratic state in the territory currently controlled by Israel because that territory contains more Palestinians than non-Haredi Jews, and without a genocide (real or technical) is likely to continue to do so. (And even if a multiethnic democracy with Jewish character was possible, neither Israeli Jews nor Palestinians have any interest in attempting it).
Both the current governing coalition in Israel (led by Netanyahu) and the most popular opposition party (led by Naftali Bennett) claim to be committed to a Jewish state including the vast majority of the West Bank, which implies either permanent apartheid (with the Palestinians continuing to be treated worse than any minority group in any country which expects credit for being a "democracy") or a Final Solution to the Palestinian problem. I don't think either Bennett or Netanyahu or most of their supporters are actually thinking in terms of Final Solutions, but Netanyahu's coalition includes Kahanists who definitely are and Bennett ran on a joint list with them before he adopted big-tent anti-Netanyahu politics.
None of this implies that that the current Israeli government is as evil as Hamas, but when Germany play Argentina in the World Cup you don't have to hold your nose and root for the lesser evil, if you are a good person you can go touch grass, and if you are a bad person you can buy popcorn and root for injuries.
Do you, personally, believe that a state can in practical terms be both "Jewish" and "Democratic" in the commonly-understood definitions of those terms?
Absolutely, and inside-the-Green-Line Israel was (and still is, in so far as it can be conceived of separately from the West Bank settlements). A democracy whose character reflects the shared culture of the voting majority while acknowledging the rights as individual humans and citizens of members of ethnic minorities is a solved problem. But building that Jewish democracy was only possibly with a supermajority-Jewish population.
MadMonzer
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1d ago
American Jews are more than 10x over-represented in wholesale financial services, and there are substantial parts of the industry (though not close to a majority) where access to senior positions is gated by Jewish social networks.
This is a long way from Jews controlling finance, but when you can't safely tell the truth except on a pseudonymous online forum or in left-wing spaces dominated by machine politicians elected by unassimilated immigrants from Goatfuckistan, it isn't surprising that people postulate a more powerful conspiracy than the one that actually exists.
The same applies to Hollywood and probably the US MSM more broadly.
MadMonzer
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1d ago
Antisemitic thoughts and speech among Palestinians whose family members have been mistreated by Jews in living memory is just as defensible as any other justified ethnic hatred. Were one being eristic, one might compare it to the routine anti-German sentiment that kept popping up in the cultural output of Jewish and philosemitic Americans well into the 1980s.
MadMonzer
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1d ago
In a sense the euphemism treadmill functions to exculpate words over time. The treadmill means that today nobody uses 'retard' to mean 'person with a mental disability'.
I still see "retarded" (though not "retard") used in the wild to describe actual retards, mostly from older people who don't know what the new PC circumlocution is. I think we are at least ten years away from the point where "retard" is as harmless as "idiot", "imbecile" or "moron" (all of which went from scientific term for learning disabilities to slur and now to mostly-harmless-but-not-PC term for generally stupid behaviour)
MadMonzer
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1d ago
I think attempts to broaden "gay" as a slur beyond male homosexuality don't work, because whatever broader meaning you adopt is impossible to protect and the word ends up being used to describe anything bad, in much the same way as "lame" (or possibly even anything at all, like "fag" on 4chan). In the UK in the early noughties I was part of a group that trolled the humourless scolds of then (then temporarily out of power) PC left by handing out buttons saying "Homophobia is Gay" and "Ablism is Lame". Everyone who wasn't a PC humourless scold got the joke instantly. I also remember a US-based online campaign around the same time trying to oppose the generic negative use of "gay" by saying "Gay is Lame" or something similar.
MadMonzer
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1d ago
In British English, "cunt" has become the preferred slur for toxic masculinity taken to the extremes where a harsh slur is needed. "Douchebag" in AmE and "wanker" in BrE capture similar but subtly different aspects of toxic masculinity at a milder level.
Wokists use "bro" or "dudebro" as a slur for this kind of thing, but that usage hasn't caught on among normies. My impression was that "chud" is used this way by the very online yoof.
But the normal way to attach someone engaging in unnecessary performative masculinity is to accuse them of compensating for a small dick. I'm not sure why no dialect of English has developed a one-word term for "small dick energy"
MadMonzer
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1d ago
Until about 30 years ago the average age of virginity loss was around here, so this is obviously false.
Not in cisHajnal countries, which not coincidentally are also the countries where consent in something approximating the modern sense formed part of traditional sexual morality. The average age at first marriage in England never dropped below 25 for men/23 for women (see here for example) until the 1950's baby boom. Pre-marital sex obviously happened, but since it tended to result in a shotgun wedding I don't find the idea that losing your virginity a decade before marriage was common.
Marrying your daughter off at 14 is for royals and goatfuckers, and in neither case is her consent relevant.
The best answer I have seen, and it isn't a great one, is this law review article by (left-wing lawprofs) Jack Balkin and Sandy Levinson (henceforth B/L)
They identify three types of constitutional crisis:
- A political actor openly violates the constitution, typically citing necessity in an emergency or some kind of extra-constitutional plebiscitary mandate, and nobody is able or willing to stop them.
- Something needs to be done but isn't because there is no constitutionally regular way of doing it and nobody is prepared to trigger a type 1 crisis.
- People disagree about what is and is not constitutional and the normal tools of constitutional adjudication can't resolve the dispute, so people turn to (threatened or actual) political violence instead.
The traditional paradigmatic examples (not cited by B/L) are:
- Sulla and Caesar's coups against the Roman Republic
- The unanimity requirement in the Polish Diet making the Polish Commonwealth unable to defend itself because foreign enemies only needed to bribe one Diet member.
- The English and American Civil Wars.
B/L are good on what is not a constitutional crisis - for example anything which can be resolved by SCOTUS is a normal dispute, not a crisis; impeachment is an extraordinary but regular remedy for Presidential misbehaviour, not a crisis; the controversial use of emergency powers in a real emergency is a crisis, but not a constitutional one.
B/L are less good on what is a constitutional crisis - partly because the US Constitution mostly works so true constitutional crises by their definition are rare. (Also it will never be clear whether something is a type 2 crisis or not because it isn't clear what action is actually necessary). They say there has only been one clear-cut type 1 crisis in America since independence - and it was right at the beginning, with the Constitutional Convention going rogue and the Constitution being adopted in violation of the amendment procedure set out in the Articles of Confederation. They identify two cases of type 2 crises that they think are clear-cut:
- The 1800 election, where the Federalist majority in Congress was required to break a tie between two Democratic-Republican candidates for President, but had no incentive to do so. (They say this crises was only resolved by Democratic-Republican states near Washington DC threatening to send their militias to compel Congress to act).
- The 1861 secession crisis, where both the lame-duck Buchanan administration and the incoming Lincoln administration thought that secession was illegal, but neither thought there was anything constitutional they could do about it.
The biggest flaw in the paper is that B/L don't think about game theory. There are a number of cases where actor A threatens to violate the constitution (triggering a type 1 crisis) or to use dubiously constitutional hardball tactics (triggering a type 3 crisis) and actor B acquiesces. B/L consider this to be a dispute resolved within the constitutional framework, but it isn't. They give numerous examples of Roosevelt getting his way with this type of threat, both during the New Deal and during WW2.
The other obvious gap (which B/L acknowledge) is that their framework doesn't really work in an environment of pervasive government secrecy. If the President violates the constitution but doesn't get caught, is it really a constitutional crisis?
I suspect part of what is going on is that almost every political party for whom not being red is part of its identity (which covers the centre right, the far right, right-liberals and some left-liberals, particularly in the former Soviet bloc) wants to use blue if it is available.
Looking at the member parties of the Patriots for Europe group in the European Parliament, I would say most right-populist parties end up using a darker shade of blue than the main centre-right party in their country.
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