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Culture War Roundup for the week of December 22, 2025

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Vivek’s big issue is he’s lived a sheltered life. He’s never been with normies. 95% of the people in any country are just too dumb to win as strivers (Israel excluded). Promoting striving culture is just bad politics because 95% of the voters can’t win that game.

I don’t think striving culture makes countries rich. I think the best scientist just enjoy being scientists and are having fun. It’s not grinding for them. I think few professions benefit from striving culture. The only potential exception being medicine.

I don’t consider myself a striver. I did do math problems for fun growing up. I went to math tournaments. Why did I do it? I was having fun.

Vivek is the only Republican I would vote against. The vision for the party he has is a cancer and it’s worth giving Dems a little more power to destroy him.

It’s stupid to let Vivek run in Ohio because I highly doubt I’m the only one in the base who vote against him.

He's also just really scuzzy, even by the low standards of Ohio politicians. Musk can make these sort of arguments stick by pointing at one of several giant factories. Vivek can point to... failed biomedical stuff in an even-more-scammy-than-normal field, a politically-focused investment fund, and partial ownership of BuzzFeed.

None of it's clearly fraud, or illegal, or even likely to get the New York AG going after him, but I wouldn't be surprised if he loses more Red Tribe support than Jay Jones lost Blue Tribe support.

I just don’t see who in the Republican Party that Vivek appeals to. He seems to believe in blankslatism which is very unpopular in the high IQ parts of the GOP. He made fun of football and cheerleaders so I don’t think he’s cool with the blue collar guys. He’s not Christian. I will be completely honest that I don’t think someone can be American without conversion.

Who’s his voter base? Boomer neoliberals? I thought they all became Democrats already.

This anti - Vivek rhetoric is wild to me. He was one of the most eloquent avid culture warriors and had the skin color and balls to say what everyone was thinking more than Trump or DeSantis.

I am tired of presidents that play dumb or are dumb. I want 4-syllable words in speeches and the worship of merit. I want to crush pro-black racial spoil systems, salt the earth so they never return, and I'll take any ally anywhere to accomplish it.

I understand that many in the red tribe don't want these things but I would have voted for him, easily, even with the scuzzy businesses.

If you believe in hbd and are concerned about racial spoils systems then how could you do anything that might increase the number of Indians in America? The vast majority of Indias population is no more intelligent than American black (probably lower due to race mixing). A few Brahmins are fine but anything that risks potential immigrants of 100’s of millions of lower class Indians is a gigantic risks.

Infinity Indians isn't the argument I'm making, and I don't think Vivek ever made it either.

But that seems like what we will get. Heritage Americans don’t like being racists or mean. Indians will advocate for other Indians. Without limiting Indians today we end up with infinite Indians which eventually means the large amount of low IQ Indian populations.

I don't know the statistics about how Indians advocate for one another. I work in tech, so I see plenty of the ingroup preference there. I agree it's a risk, but I also don't think high-caste indians are interested in importing their lower-caste brethren.

I’ve heard Vivek condemn American culture. I haven’t heard him condemn H1-B Indian IT sweatshops. These are maybe 110 IQ individuals. Vicks probably 130-140. I don’t see many SV Indians leaders speaking out against these H1-Bs. And I bet these 105 Indian IQ guys won’t speak out when the 80 IQ Indian caste try to get in. It’s a slippery slope but we’ve already begun sliding down the hill.

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