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Culture War Roundup for the week of March 16, 2026

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Many things are habbening at once, here are for some more random culture war (and culture war by other means) news for the second part of the week.

Middle Eastern habbenings are already sufficiently covered elsewhere, things are going interesting even outside this part of the world.

1/Cancel culture files

Canceling machine is still running in overdrive mode, and it is coming for Cesar Chavez.

It turned out that "Moses of his people" routinely raped underage girls including another famous activist Dolores Huerta.

This is bad. Imagine if it came out that MLK raped Rosa Parks. That bad.

Many streets, schools, libraries, parks etc. are to be renamed soon.

It is already beginning.

2/Dukes, princes and kings of hazard files

Gambling is getting normalized and spreads all over the world.

Not only betting on sports for plebes, but betting on world habbenings for sophisticated situation monitorers.

In Washington DC, Polymarket just opened the world's first bar dedicated to monitoring the situation.

This sort of gambling, in addition to ruining people's finances and lives, adds another element of chaos to already spicy world's situations. With few clicks, anyone in even middling military/govt positions can personally greatly profit from insider info.

And if you are in high, decision making position ... another source of income opens, faster and more lucrative than old timey corruption and theft.

No suprise that tensions are running high.

A war correspondent just received death threats from online gamblers who wanted him to change his reporting on an Iranian missile strike so they could collect a payout. One bettor had $900,000 riding on the outcome.

3/US gun politics files

Illinois wants track all ammo and mandate microstamping of serial numbers to all ammunition.

Even if they could make it work, there is so much ammo already manufactured, you could say. This is no way to protect Black lives from gun violence!

This is the point. You cannot get the evil white gun hoarders for their guns (yet), but you can send them to prison for unserialized ammo.

4/Democracy files

In suprising news, Kim Jong-un wins North Korea’s parliamentary elections with 99.93% of the vote.

This was not something anyone could predict.

In 2023, Kim oversaw his party's WORST election results in 60 years, winning just 99.63% of votes.

But "to give up" is not in Kim Jong-un's dictionary.

He persisted.

He fought and regained trust of the people. May this tale of true grit and determination inspire all of us.

5/Woke culture files

You’re not hallucinating the great weirding of America

You’re in a small town in Wisconsin.

The transgender assistant manager at CVS has a septum piercing, a wolf cut, and a nametag that reads “Finn.”

TL;DR: Wokeness is not dead yet. It might be wobbling at the top, but it is marching triumphantly across America.

Dinergoth is the aesthetic of ruined suburbia and dying small towns.

They are the mainstream now, they are not weird anymore. You are the weirdo.

6/Space invader files

Third recorded interstellar object at 16th March crossed the orbit of Jupiter and is now on the way out of Solar system.

So far, three interstellar objects were detected.

Number Two looked and behaved like ordinary snowy mudball, numbers One and Three were, in comparison to Solar system objects, very strange.

Either we live on rather busy interstellar highway, or interstellar objects are not at all like Solar system ones.

Alien starship monitoring community breathed in relief (and disappointment).

Close encounter with Jupiter was the opportunity for space battleship to rev up her engines and use Jupiter's gravity for course correction straight to Earth.

Previously, we had doubt about object origin. Now, we are certain that crew of 3I/Atlas is made of highly intelligent beings who saw nothing worth conquering on this monkey planet.

7/Cryptid files

The famous Patterson–Gimlin film was, for 59 years, known as the best evidence for existence of Bigfoot/Sasquatch.

Now, new documentary shows it all as "incredible hoax". Not only straight confession of Patterson's son Clint, but another 16mm film reel showing Bigfoot costume.

More links and sources here.

But, at the end, it doesn't matter.

Real or not, Bigfoot lives in our hearts. For forever.

John Nolte has a theory about why the left is suddenly so eager to throw Chavez under the bus.

Cesar Chavez opposed illegal immigration every bit as much as Donald J. Trump. Chávez understood that illegal aliens undermined the wages of legal migrant workers and their union bargaining power.
Cesar Chavez was so opposed to illegal immigration that, just like Minuteman Project of 2004, which was widely smeared in the legacy media as racist, Chavez put together his own militia to stop illegals from crossing the border. There are credible reports that violence was used as an example to others.
To form his United Farmworkers Union (UFW), it was Chavez versus the growers, and for obvious reasons, the growers loved the open border.
For just as obvious reasons, Chavez did not.
And there you have it.
That’s why it was time to take Chavez down. The left feared, and not unreasonably, that as Chavez once again entered the public consciousness through these milestone birthday celebrations that New Media would co-opt him as a powerful symbol of the truth: that illegal immigration is devastating to the working class and benefits the rich and powerful.

How often do the actual beliefs of historical figures actually matter once they've been pedestalized? I'm fairly sure MLK would have a bunch of conservative cultural views that'd get him cancelled today

Indeed. People don't usually worship the person as a whole, but merely the carefully curated public persona.

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