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Culture War Roundup for the week of September 1, 2025

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I am a right-wing extremist. I am aware of "The Dread Jim" from many previous discussions through the various iterations of this forum.

His proposed solutions are not feasible, nor are they necessary, nor does he appear to possess insight or a track record that makes him worth listening to or discussing in any significant way. He, like many similar "right-wing extremists", appears to be possessed of a combination of panicked fearfulness and abstracted zealotry aimed at a sort of imaginary, narrative-based glorious final battle. He, like many others, lacks the necessary coldness of heart to effectively prosecute the culture war.

His suggestions are similarly foolish.

  • eliminating voting rights is unnecessary if federal power can be annulled and Blue cultural and political power centers neutralized and demolished, which by all evidence appears to be much easier to accomplish.
  • Rolling back LGBT's influence on our society does not require exterminating LGBT people, only creating general awareness of the concrete harms their movement has caused and an understanding that their social control can and must be resisted. This, again, appears to be working.
  • It is a very good idea to roll back feminism and "women's rights" generally. As with LGBT, what this looks like is establishing common knowledge of how these movements have catastrophically overstepped, the concrete harms they've caused, and the ways we were better off before them. Women having the vote is irrelevant if we neutralize the unaccountable power that vote is meant to enable. Relationships between men and women, whether spousal or familial, are not advanced by the sort of iron fist Jim advocates. Loving relationships can exert a level of stabilization, security, and sound life decision-making that Jim's preferred forms of tyranny can never achieve.

It is a very good idea to roll back feminism and "women's rights" generally. As with LGBT, what this looks like is establishing common knowledge of how these movements have catastrophically overstepped, the concrete harms they've caused, and the ways we were better off before them

How do you convince people that life was better when they were really "people" in the same way men are without a jackboot? This went away for a reason in the west, all the religious and mythological reasons were shown to be "fake" (as far as society is concerned, I dont want to engage in a theological debate) how do you put the gene back in the bottle?

How do you convince people that life was better when they were really "people" in the same way men are without a jackboot?

The past is not an unknown world to us. We have solid evidence of what the world was like before the progressive era, and it did not consist solely or even primarily of dehumanized women and tyrant men. Men and women have loved each other and cooperated together for all of recorded history, and they can do so again. The brave new progressive world has made both men and women wretched. Currently, it is expending vast effort to try to paper over its deficiencies on behalf of women in particular, usually by the use of blatant social and legal double-standards. Remove some of these, and maybe we can get back to something resembling constructive engagement once more.

This is the inverse of your criticism of Jim. Jim believes you that the past was pure evil, and wants to return that evil you both agree we've lost to the modern world. I do not believe you that the past was pure evil, and want to return the non-evil we've lost to the modern world. Your system has not solved men abusing women. It has not solved rape. It has not solved sexual harassment or coercion. I believe my system can do better on all of those things that yours, and I think we can and possibly have proven it.

system has not solved men abusing women. It has not solved rape. It has not solved sexual harassment or coercion

Crime in the first world is the lowest it has ever been at any point in history. You are in less danger over the last 20 years than any other person in the history of the world, for the most part by a significant margin.

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