Crowstep
5d ago
In the UK everyone from unemployed philisophy graduates to the children of millionaires are middle class, so that I guess. Although that's really just a weakness of our definitions than anything.
More usefully, my salary is more or less the exact median for the country, so middle income, although my parents earned more than me and my wife do.
Crowstep
6d ago
Well we're gonna have to square those two results.
Given that the survey you cited also found that 20% of right-wingers thought the assassination of Donald Trump could be justified, my assumption would be that whatever methodology the NCRI used caused respondents to be much more sympathetic to political assassination (when surveyed) than you would expect from the general opposition to it shown in the Yougov survey.
Looking into the survey itself, that seems to be the case. They gave respondents a scale of one to seven, where only an answer of one is taken to mean that the respondent is opposed to political assassination. I don't think this is an honest way of presenting the question.
An answer of two could easily mean 'Well I'm opposed to political assassination, but Trump sure has pissed off a lot of people' or 'Musk tried to fire hundreds of thousands of people, I wouldn't be shocked if someone took a pop at him'. Presenting seven options rather than three that Yougov did biases the results towards demonstrating far greater support for political assassination than actually exists (which I suspect was the goal).
Taking those results as evidence that 'left seems to believe the situation is sufficiently dire as to justify violence' isn't reasonable to my mind.
Crowstep
6d ago
And yet according to a (very) recent survey, only 11% said political violence was justified, while 72% said it wasn't.
You're demonstrating the same outgroup hatred that you accuse Democrats of.
Crowstep
7d ago
The left seems to believe the situation is sufficiently dire as to justify violence. Is there sufficient cause for resisting them on their own terms?
Who is 'the left' here? Do you really believe that a majority of say, US Democrat voters think that political assassination of right wingers is justified?
Crowstep
10d ago
Staffing a factory with hundreds of foreign workers on visas which don't allow them to work doesn't seem like an appropriate situation to apply executive discretion. This isn't a confused tourist jaywalking, this is industrial (literally) scale immigration fraud.
Crowstep
11d ago
No I definitely breath through my nose when I sleep. Probably it's just that my body hasn't got used to air con air since I live in frigid northern Europe.
Crowstep
11d ago
People who live in hot countries and have air-con at home, doesn't the dry air bother you?
I've found that whenever I try to sleep with aircon on holiday my throat gets incredibly dry, but obviously it's still better than sleeping in the heat.
As far as I'm aware, the rapidly growing Sun Belt isn't full of people complaining about dry throats at night, so clearly I'm missing something.
Crowstep
11d ago
For me it would have to be the Loudon Wainwright III version of Carrickfergus, from Boardwalk Empire.
Crowstep
11d ago
It's worth mentioning that, following the Southport riots, new guidance says that police should disclose ethnicity and nationality (although there are frustratingly caveats that could be exploited).
I think the authorities are still going by the same goal (prevent riots, ensure community cohesion, defend multiculturalism) but since the public has now realise how they're being lied to, it's actually become safer to be honest than to lie by omission.
Crowstep
12d ago
I have a good relationship with my parents, but I wouldn't say I particularly care about living up to their values. Maybe it's because their values were generic suburban apolitical secular centrism. They had no clear values to live up to. I had a good childhood and they've been generous now I'm an adult, but growing up there wasn't really a strong culture for us to preserve.
I think I do want to give my kids the same kind of childhood I had, so if that counts then I definitely want to preserve that. But I'd say it's more that I had a good childhood (quite a lot of freedom, being outside a lot, no digital panopticon yet) and I think that would make my kids happy.
I definitely want to have lots of children, which I know will make them happy.
Crowstep
14d ago
This post feels like it could be summarised as 'essentialism was more common in the past'. Plus a degree of weakmanning. How many men really believed that marathon running would cause a woman's uterus to fall out?
Crowstep
19d ago
That could simply be a particular American hangup about public urination. It shocks my tiny European mind when I see guys in the US getting literally arrested and charged for pissing in an alleyway, as if that is an actual crime. Similar to jaywalking, I suppose.
Crowstep
25d ago
What are some examples of "girl" stories that aren't cringe pandering softcore-relationship-porn wish fulfillment only (lame) women find appealing?
Depends what you mean by girl stories? Stories with female protagonists, or stories that girls/women like?
If it's the former, I remember enjoying the Old Kingdom series as a kid. The stories all (or mostly?) had female protagonists who were recognisably women, but they weren't romantasy books, the focus was on the magic and the fantasy elements. The author is male but I think he just preferred writing female protagonists.
Crowstep
26d ago
Age of Empires II, except terrain matters, troops don't immediately break rank and jump into a mosh pit when you click attack and walls are both tougher and more expensive, so you have to put your farms outside the city.
Crowstep
26d ago
It would be interesting to know why this is
My gut says that it's something very profound and evolutionary. In the ancestral environment, a boy has to earn his place as a man (by hunting, fighting etc) whereas a girl grows into a woman without doing anything per se. It would make sense for boys to seek out male role models for that reason.
Crowstep
29d ago
That chart is already age-adjusted, which is the biggest factor. Red Americans probably are less healthy, but the death rates for unvaccinated people are ten times those for vaccinated. The effect isn't subtle.
Crowstep
30d ago
Mainstream science told you to mask up and get the covid vaccine too.
Crowstep
1mo ago
Back when I did judo guys would often talk about 'old man strength', which was really just better technique from the guys who had been doing it for twenty years. They weren't strong, but they knew how to leverage what strength they had.
Crowstep
1mo ago
Hefting his mace, he swung at her as hard as he could
Is that changing tenses? Consider the sentence 'While running, he saw Steve'. 'While running' modifies the verb 'saw', but it's not present tense on its own. It could also be written as 'He saw Steve while running' which makes it more obvious.
Crowstep
1mo ago
I do think there is highly significant asymmetry of discomfort between a woman being catcalled and a pious man seeing some legging-clad ass
An asymmetry, sure, but I'm not so sure we can definitively come down on either side. I find catcalling at best trashy and at worst threatening, and I like seeing semi-naked women on the street, but then I'm a guy who got laid when he was younger so I expect that affects it.
But for a lot of men I imagine seeing a semi-naked woman is like a homeless guy seeing me light a cigarette with a 20 dollar bill. Sure, I'm not hurting him, and he's not entitled to my money, but I can see how it would be painful for the homeless guy. In the same vein, rare is the woman who is relieved when she reaches middle age and men stop paying attention to her. Instead she desperately clings on to her youth and tries to stave off invisibility.
I think it's a mistake to see dressing in provactive clothing as a passive act, which is how a lot of women frame it. It's an act with plausible deniability, perhaps, but when a woman dresses like this she does so in the full knowledge of the effect it is going to have on men. All men, not just the ones she's interested in.
My suspicion is that a large part of the dislike of cat-calling (at least among adult women) is the offence that a trashy low-class man thinks he has a shot, as opposed to fear of violence, although certainly that's going to be common, particularly for teenage girls. What I really want is a truthful survey (probably impossible) on how many women feel like this.
Crowstep
1mo ago
My immediate thought was those videos of women recording themselves getting harassed by immigrant men (Brussels) or black/hispanic men (NYC) - both women studiously denied the obvious racial angle that everyone else could see, naturally - .
I'm not sure whether most catcallers in the UK would be the native underclass or immigrants, but I'm fine with the police going after either group. Catcalling is an antisocial act, it's not asking a woman out, it's shouting at her in public, very different. If Surrey Police are doing it for feminist reasons that doesn't bother me, it might be good for these policewomen to learn who the antisocial men on their beats actually are.
I wish the police used the same logic in setting up bait bikes to catch bike thieves.
Crowstep
1mo ago
But all the same, when your attempts to treat women as people with equal agency and responsibility to you fail miserably for 10 years, and the advice you constantly receive is "Treat them like narcissist/children" and it works... I mean... how do you go back? How do you compartmentalize that back away?
Women have had the knowledge that men are sex-crazed brutes forever, they tolerate us anyway.
I think the issue might be the implict (?) belief that there is some kind of genderless human standard that women (or men) need to meet. There isn't. There's men and there's women, as different as chalk and cheese. Holding women to male standards is like expecting the cat to play fetch. The wise woman doesn't expect her husband to talk deeply about his feelings or know that she's upset even if she says she's fine. You should take the same attitude to women and their foibles.
Crowstep
1mo ago
I checked the subreddit when I heard about GPT-5 coming out, I was similarly surprised out how outraged everyone was. I get that people get used to a certain way of doing things. Every UI change will get complaints, but AI is advancing so rapidly that I figured that impulse would be trumped by the sheer improvements.
Having used it, I've found it much better than GPT-4, although I'm not a power user so I couldn't say why. The answers require less refining, it isn't hallucinating weblinks like it was before. Overall just much more pleasant and effective to use. I've even started (secretly) using it at work.
Crowstep
1mo ago
Roman pagans were ultimately outcompeted by more fertile Christians. Christianity was so memetically powerful that a middle eastern mystery religion whose founder was executed like a slave went on to become the world's main faith. Islam, arguably a spin-off from Christianity, is the second most popular.
I don't know much about Confucianism or Ancient Greece, but their religious foundations evidently weren't strong enough to last. If you're looking for a religion to hold society together, then it actually needs to survive.
Most Satmars don't live in Israel (as you'd expect) and those that do don't participate in elections. I wasn't able to find any figures online but ChatGPT estimates that the Satmar only make up about 2% of Haredi Jews in Israel, and so an even smaller percentage of the total population.
Haredi non-Zionism is mainly focused on the fact that the Israeli state is too secular, they're not wishing to dismantle the state and let the Arabs take back the land.
My expectation is that as the Haredi welfare teat gets closed off and they are forced to serve in the military, a significant chunk of them will end up joining the religious zionists.
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