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ABigGuy4U
2hr ago
In Northern Ireland during the Troubles (a period of civil war waged by clandestine paramilitaries roughly along religious sectarian lines), neighborhoods in the major cities would have large political murals on buildings and walls that marked the area as either Protestant or Catholic. This is a region where walking into the wrong neighborhood could get you shot.
gattsuru
2hr ago
Hm. That's the third time in a week I've seen the topics overlap, but at least in my neck of the woods it's not something people treat as interchangeable. Might put some feelers out to figure out of that's just a linguistic change or if people are getting genuinely confused on the matter.
100ProofTollBooth
Dumber than a man, but faster than a dog.
3hr ago
You fantasize about castrating James because you are not allowed to fantasize about locking up the girl you dated.
Style and phrasing is straight out of The Last Psychiatrist and Sadly, Porn.
Well done.
100ProofTollBooth
Dumber than a man, but faster than a dog.
3hr ago
Here's my prognostication:
A disproportionate number of western women enter their 40s and 50s single, never married, and childless. It doesn't matter if they "realize" they want a family or not. Instead, the tyranny of aging means they will simply get less male attention as time goes on. Gracefully accepting defeat isn't something many humans do, so they will rebel in their own way. Not against men in some sort of wide scale "Go Girlboss!" moment. Instead, they will attack the easiest to spot targets with the lowest possibility of retaliation; young women.
The great reckoning will thus be these spinsters attempting to shame or otherwise emotionally blackmail these younger women not into avoiding the older generations mistakes (see: failure to accept defeat) but into agreeing with the spinsters ahead of schedule. Recommended Slogan: "The only way to be a feminist in 2035 is to admit that all men are evil. Defund the patriarchy!"
But young women themselves will largely see this for the spite fueled grift that it is and veer away from anything that even resembles this. They'll continue to be pretty and young and go on dates, but perhaps not put out as much, and perhaps seek the counsel of trusted male friends on their potential mates. Play this tape forward enough and all of a sudden the "cool girl" thing to do is to take things slow, pair bond hard, and get married early and have babies.
My primary support for this prediction is that it's already happening. Gen Z women, from the survey's I have seen, are super divided between "all men are evil" levels of feminism and "lol, I just want to be a mom" levels of trad. There isn't much of a middle ground. I've also seen some millenial women, after having become moms, hit the hard defect button out of the sisterhood. My anec-data of note was seeing a FAANG director-of-something-made-up leave that $500k / yr job to be a SAHM after taking an extended maternity leave and changing her mind to "whoooaaa babies are way better than spreadsheets."
In business, there's always a lot of discussion about the unit economics of company. Simply put, does selling one unit of your product to a customer cost more than you're selling it for? In startup land, the answer to this question can be "yes" for some amount of time. In a high growth setting, paying to buy up market share can be a viable strategy. But, eventually, the answer has to be "no." If it isn't, you're running a structurally negative return and it's just a matter of time and debt before the company dies.
I see failing ideologies like third wave feminism in this regard. You can have whatever worldview you want, but if having and professing that worldview leads to a lifestyle that cannot support itself in the long term, eventually that worldview dies out. Freezing eggs, looking for sperm donors, and then being a single mother is a far far higher risk, lower return, more expensive, and more complicated strategy than "get married. have kids" You can try to find some sort of grey middle ground, which has been the entire experiment since, roughly, the late 1990s / early 2000s, but I think the experiment has shown that middle ground is, at best, a thin isthmus rather than a lush and wide peninsula (geography metaphors for the win).
ToaKraka
Dislikes you
3hr ago
I'm not sure whether this counts as culture-war material, but it definitely is political, and I found it extremely interesting.
Daily Telegraph (found via Breitbart):
Sir Keir Starmer’s Chagos Islands deal will cost 10 times more than he claimed, official figures reveal.
The Government’s own estimate of the cost of giving away the British Indian Ocean Territory to Mauritius is almost £35bn, according to documents released under the Freedom of Information Act – far higher than the £3.4bn figure Sir Keir has previously used in public.
Labour ministers now face claims that they misled Parliament and the press with an “accountancy trick” to hide the size of the bill from taxpayers.
An official document produced by the Government Actuary’s Department shows the cost of the deal was first estimated at 10 times Sir Keir’s figure, at £34.7bn, in nominal terms.
The UK will pay £165m a year to rent Diego Garcia for the first three years.
The rent payments will then be set at £120m a year, increasing in line with inflation from year 14.
The document shows that civil servants were first instructed to lower the cost of the deal on paper to £10bn, to account for an estimated annual inflation rate of 2.3 per cent over 99 years.
Then it was reduced again by between 2.5 and 3.5 per cent per year using the Treasury’s Social Time Preference Rate, a principle that money spent immediately has more value than funds earmarked for future spending.
The final figure was calculated to be 90 per cent lower than the cash value of the payments the UK will make to Mauritius over the next century, in what critics say was a deliberate attempt to mislead the public.
Writing for The Telegraph, Dame Priti Patel, the shadow foreign secretary, said: “Instead of owning up to the costs, Labour have used an accountancy trick to claim the amount was only a mere £3.4bn.”
Foreign Office sources insisted ministers had used a “standard” calculation for long-term government spending, and denied accusations that it was part of a “cover-up”.
However, other projects announced by Labour have not used the same method, which has allowed ministers to advertise higher spending on popular policies. Angela Rayner has since launched a 10-year affordable homes plan that included inflation-level increases in government spending as part of the cost of the policy – a method not used with the Chagos deal.
I'm getting flashbacks to my Engineering Accounting class in college. Calculations in this vein definitely are used on a regular basis for cost–benefit calculations in engineering. And a long-term discount rate of 5–6 percent certainly sounds reasonable to me. But, if discount rates are being used selectively rather than uniformly, that indeed would count as an "accountancy trick".
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
3hr ago
The respective answer for faceh's question would be "just buy GFE from her onlyfans".
bolido_sentimental
3hr ago
We're around the same age and I've been considering the same question. Like others have said, it's basically a question of taking whatever skills you have to whatever the largest employer is. If I were going to try and move to Muncie, Indiana, then I'd try and see what kind of jobs I could get at Ball State University, or at the Magna plant. If you're IT (like I am), you see what MSPs serve the area and see if they need an engineer, or you try and get on as a sysadmin at whatever businesses there are.
Career paths - as you note, you're kind of locked in with what you've got unless you want to learn a new skill. My barber says he'd train the right person from scratch if he liked him. Every town has lawyers, every town has accountants, every town has police, every town has clergy; but it's hard to transition into one of those things without being ready to change your life tremendously. Nevertheless I have been thinking about it anyway.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3hr ago
You might as well ask what a given woman can do to be more appealing for an average 2D aficionado than his endless, effortless, potentially AI-enhanced harem of 2D waifus.
Oh, that's easy. Blowjobs.
Would you then contest the assertion that women are fundamentally lesser than men? I think that @To_Mandalay is essentially correct in this thread about how women have always been considered lower on the Great Chain of Being than men, do you disagree?
In Christ there is no male nor female; excepting that, yes, women are obviously lower on the great chain of being, inasmuch as children are. This isn't wrong or bad. It becomes wrong and bad when we train them from birth to be upset about it.
It's literally Satanism. He teaches men that we should be as God and should resent the One who loves us and upon Whom we depend. Imagine teaching an eight year old that he should reject all guidance and authority from adults and make his own way and cultivate anger and disrespect for his parents. This is not good for the child.
I don't hate women at all, though I do empathize with women who seem to hate themselves like this poor soul
Yeah, that's the fault of men who allowed women too much freedom across domains such that they ended up stuck in this woeful state.
It seems perfectly reasonable to me for women to feel trapped by their biology, to despair that their ordained purpose is mere continuance of the species while the men drive forwards the transcendence of Man.
Well that doesn't hold at all. Motherhood is one path for women, and the right one for most, I expect; but at some point the kids are bigger and there are numerous ways for women to contribute beyond just birthing and nursing. Society used to be rife with social organizations run by women and we were all better off for it. Having some kids only takes a few years and then women usually end up with plenty of options for doing other things. This whole complaint is just a boogeyman scare tactic designed to divorce us from each other at ruinous expense to all.
The other path for women is loosely defined as 'monasticism', i.e. foregoing family to devote their lives to greater service to all. Also an acceptable path, though as I say wrong for most.
Believe it or not, women are prone to being very happy about being women without enemy action convincing them otherwise. Each of us has our place in the Great Chain of Being; embracing that is wisdom itself.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
3hr ago
what can a given guy sitting in front of her do or say that will actually get her to stop thinking about her messages, or her latest instagram post, or make her want to scroll tiktok instead of engaging in conversation.
You might as well ask what a given woman can do to be more appealing for an average 2D aficionado than his endless, effortless, potentially AI-enhanced harem of 2D waifus.
Corvos
3hr ago
(You were in Japan, you've seen bidets that look like they came from the 22nd century. I don't know how they solve the issue there, but it's probably more elegant)
That's where I'm coming from. I tried it a couple of times - there's a wand that comes out under you and squirts - but it felt like having a water pistol shot at my tender regions. Then I was dripping wet for five minutes. It seemed so obviously inconvenient that I'm mystified by their popularity, but lots of people keep telling me it's the best thing since tummy rubs and they aren't all cultural bidet-users so I figure there must be something to it and maybe I was using it wrong.
In general though it seems to me that paper works far better. Of course you can make it sound disgusting, in the same way people who only had showers growing up will recoil if you talk about baths being 'lying in your own filth' but in practice it's fast, hygienic enough, self-disposing and requires little equipment.
Or to put in another way, I never got past the first stage of this clip from Thermae Romae.
100ProofTollBooth
Dumber than a man, but faster than a dog.
3hr ago
Eh, the case for sexual traditionalism is pretty strong.
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No one has every died from being too horny. If this were the case, men would have an expected and maximum lifespan of 16 years.
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Men commit the overwhelming majority of murders and violence crime. The are, generally, three broad reasons for this; money/currency (including drugs), respect or prestige, and access or exclusive access to women.
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The near human universal antipathy towards prostitution is largely based in concerns for a) health and b) preventing the breakup of families due to infidelity. I know it may come as a shock, but our hundreds of millions of illiterate agricultural ancestors weren't actually involved in a highly ideological effort to "own women's bodies and sexual agency" -- they didn't want creepy-crawlies in their pants, and also knew that Uncle Nimrod was one seriously horny dude.
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Won't pay it much attention here but; pregnancy and abortion.
Simply put, sexual hyper-liberalization is obviously high risk for society. Risk, even when high, isn't inherently bad, but one then has to weigh it against the other side of the equation; reward.
And what is the real reward for sexual liberalization? I mean this genuinely as a question, not a rhetorical device. The most common responses I have heard or seen fall into a bucket of fuzzy, highly emotional self-justifications; "People should be able to express themselves however they want" , "sexual agency is a necessary requirement for personal liberty" (I don't know what that means) , "people have a right to love whoever they want to love." None of this is very concrete and side steps the entire risk-reward framework.
I also haven't seen much in the way of good faith or realistic discussions of the downsides of a return to sexual traditionalism. The Handmaids Tale LARPing is, hilariously, just a publicly accessible BDSM fantasy. Sexual traditionalism wouldn't mean women couldn't vote or drive or have "real jobs" (read: high status wordcel jobs). I can see slut shaming becoming a little more prevalent but my thought there is that it still absolutely exists, but is just done in layers-upon-layers of backhanded compliments and covert communication styles instead of out in the open.
gattsuru
3hr ago
That's part of it, but it's also just really common for a gay guy's first crush (and fairly common for first half-dozen crushes) to be straight guys, or closeted het-passing guys. Unless you join a LGBT org early, it's hard to avoid. That doesn't necessarily impact your tastes once you grow up a bit, but it's definitely something can throw a curveball in.
Saw a tweet that made the specific argument that men aren't really competing to be more interesting than other men for a woman's attention at any given time (sometimes they are, of course). He's competing to be more interesting than her phone. Which is a difficult lift. She's got a dozen apps on there for various forms of communication, another dozen for feeding video slop, and then probably a half dozen games to fill in the gaps.
Up against that much dopamine-hacking technology, what can a given guy sitting in front of her do or say that will actually get her to stop thinking about her messages, or her latest instagram post, or make her want to engage in conversation instead of scroll tiktok.
DelendaEst
3hr ago
Poor James never knew how close he came.
According to OP James has a pattern of stealing women from his lovelorn roommate. Such a fellow is lucky to still have all his teeth, and if he continues in that vein will not have them all for long.
Primaprimaprima
...something all admit only "TRUMP", and the Trump Administration, can do.
3hr ago
Seconding, please elaborate!
oats_son
3hr ago
Whoa, at those rates, degeneracy sounds alright! I thought the average escort was like $500 judging by what Backdoor Backpage or whatever the hooker website is called, and then on that site, they were all covered in piercings and tattoos or were unshaven and all had descriptions about discovering themselves or something. Somehow your $150 average number sounds wrong, though.
100ProofTollBooth
Dumber than a man, but faster than a dog.
3hr ago
It's another trope / basic lore in RedPill forums that your "blue haired, heavily tatted, super pierced" feminist is probably into pretty rough sex / degradation / submissive kink.
OracleOutlook
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
3hr ago
Have you written more about this?
birb_cromble
3hr ago
I appreciate the perspective and the time you took to break down the legal aspect. The final report and possible trial will be interesting.
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
3hr ago
Maybe there is and you're right. I'm just one data point, as it were.
erwgv3g34
4hr ago
I keep hearing about it, but I refuse to try it out because the name is so gross.
Ademonera
4hr ago
Fair enough. I guess I wrongly assumed that there was a pretty big intersection between people who’ve listened and forum readers here, especially since it was so transgressive during its early run.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4hr ago
Given that somebody has waited a whole year longing, nonstop, for death, he should be allowed to die. If he must die, it should minimize the harm done to those who survive him. Therefore, he should be allowed to seek assistance.
I understand the perverse incentives for his caretakers, his beneficiaries, his insurer, and the welfare state. A random nonprofit in a foreign country does not have these same incentives.
I'm skeptical of every popular modern thing which could have been introduced decades earlier if we wanted to.
Naturally.
In almost every case, the reason we didn't do said thing earlier is because we argued that they were terrible ideas.
This is certainly not true. It’s not even true for your examples. Some of them didn’t make any sense before modern technology. Others are playing games with definitions—how much immigration is “mass” immigration, exactly? And the others are laughable. Do you seriously think censorship laws were held at bay by “traditional arguments”?
That's very high. In germany in a legal bordello it’s 50-100 euros for half an hour.
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