Lewis2
6hr ago
Are there actually plenty of mono-racial clubs? Even groups like the NAACP have white members, despite names that might indicate otherwise.
Lewis2
17hr ago
In most states, it is legal for a 30 year old man to marry a 16 year old girl. Not only that, such marriages were pretty common 150+ years ago, and no one thought anything much about it. Here’s the thing: while I in theory have no problem with a 30 year old marrying a 16 year old, I can’t help but notice that most 30 year olds who are interested in marrying 16 year olds today are creeps. That age gap has become so uncommon and socially frowned upon, that almost the only guys who pursue it are antisocial weirdos that I don’t really want to hang out with.
Likewise, I don’t have a problem with the existence of private, monoracial clubs. In some ways, I can even see the appeal. But whites-only clubs are even more frowned upon than 30/16 marriages, so any such club is going to pretty much exclusively attract an audience of schizophrenics, neo-Nazis, feds, and other undesirables who I don’t particularly want to spend time around.
I don’t think most people have thought about it in quite the same terms that I have, but I think most people have arrived at the same conclusion. Until that changes, whites-only clubs are going to be pretty thin on the ground, even if they remain technically legal, because schizos, neo-Nazis, and feds tend not to build durable, attractive organizations.
Lewis2
1d ago
Trail Life USA is a Christian scouting organization that is only open to boys.
Lewis2
1d ago
The Girl Scouts hated that change more than anybody. They even sued the Boy Scouts for trademark infringement after they rebranded and began allowing girls to join.
Lewis2
3d ago
I’ve always been comforted by the fact that, if life got tough enough, I could always just drive my car off a cliff. Now I’m starting to worry that might not be enough.
Lewis2
4d ago
The pope is the supreme head of the Roman Catholic Church and as such can change canon law at whim. Even if one pope instituted term limits, his successor could abolish the limit whenever he wanted.
Lewis2
18d ago
Re 1:
Morrison was given the same sentence on Thursday, when she continued to insist that she would never use the Morrison name and would have “100% recidivism” if she was forced to.
“I would rather remain in prison for the rest of my life than use that identity,” she said….
Primrose and Morrison had both motioned for name changes prior to sentencing, which were denied by U.S. District Judge Leslie Kobayashi, who nonetheless acknowledged that the couple still consider Fort and Montague to be their “true” names.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Muehleck pushed for a maximum sentence for Primrose and Morrison — 16 months for the conspiracy charges and passport fraud, and 24 months for aggravated identity theft, pointing out that the pair have continued to make false statements about their identities, even during the hearings.
While discussing the pre-sentencing report, Primrose told the court, “I am Bobby Edward Fort, I will not be signing anything that says Walter Glenn Primrose.”
That seems like an extraordinary commitment to the bit. I can’t help but wonder if the couple had some sort of traumatic experience prior to adopting their new identities. Their insistence on continuing to use the old names doesn’t make sense to me otherwise.
Lewis2
20d ago
Once they were going steady, sure, but at that point, many of them just went ahead and got married. Teen marriage rates peaked in the 1950s, which also explains why the teen birth rate was so high. But any girl who slept around before going steady would have gained a reputation for being easy.
Lewis2
20d ago
But if you told one of these women they're not "ALLOWED" to wear sundresses or that they shouldn't wear Goth girl outfits, they would throw an absolute shitfit at your attempts to restrict a behavior that she herself was choosing to refrain from.
That doesn’t seem unreasonable to me. I don’t smoke and have no interest in smoking, but I would strongly oppose any attempt to ban cigarettes. Likewise, I rarely drink, but I think Prohibition was quite the government overreach.
Lewis2
25d ago
I would imagine that most young children who accidentally shoot themselves do so with a gun that was carelessly left accessible and loaded by a moronic parent. Not to be too harsh, but that just seems like stupid genes weeding themselves out of society.
Lewis2
27d ago
Sorry, that was a typo on my part. I meant 20 minutes. In the city closest to where I live, there are Amish farms less than a 20 minute drive to a live theater.
Lewis2
27d ago
In my state, towns and cities are incorporated; villages are not. There are some very affluent villages that are filled with people who just don’t want to mess with another layer of government.
If you live in an area that is technically sparsely populated but you can drive <20 minutes and see a live production, that's gotta be suburban.
This metric really only works in large cities. In small or medium-sized cities (say anything under approx. 500,000), it’s possible to have literal Amish farms less than a 20 mile minute drive from a live theater.
Lewis2
29d ago
I’m sure many did abstain, but I didn’t think the polls included an abstention option. If that’s accurate, the CDU voters should have shown up in the polls somewhere.
Lewis2
29d ago
Naturalized citizens and their citizen descendants can vote, including those who still hold citizenship in their home countries. As those numbers increase, the AfD will have a harder and harder time gaining traction. Not that it really matters in Berlin. The city is so left-wing, they passed a non-binding referendum five years ago to seize thousands of apartment buildings from their corporate owners, compensate them at less than market rates, and then convert the buildings to social housing projects. Now that the CDU is out, there’s a good chance the new government will try to pass a binding referendum to the same effect.
Lewis2
29d ago
The latest round of German state election results are in, with great gains for the left-wing parties and the AfD, and a crisis of confidence for the center-right CDU, which had its worst election results in modern German history.
After the AfD’s historic win in Saxony-Anhalt two weeks ago, all eyes turned to the state elections in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Berlin, which were held yesterday. In Berlin, the CDU dropped from the largest to second-largest party, which will push it out of government. This result was not unexpected: the Left, Greens, and SPD had won enough seats to form a left-wing coalition government in the 2021 Berlin election, and the CDU only snuck into power after those results were overturned due to election irregularities. The Left, led by Turkish dual-citizen Elif Eralp, saw the greatest gains, at 26% of the vote, while the AfD also did quite respectably, at 16%. The CDU, Greens, and SPD all lost seats, but the Left, Greens, and SPD will be able to easily form a coalition government.
(Incidentally, for anyone who was hoping that the AfD would do better in Berlin, the city’s demographics makes that almost impossible. “As of December 2025, about 42.3% registered residents of Berlin had a migration background, compared with 29.9% in 2015. Out of that, 976,419 residents (24.9%) were foreign nationals and 678,774 (17.3%) were German citizens with a migration background.” (Wikipedia) Even if the AfD were to somehow convince every single ethnic German in the city to oust the Ausländer, ethnic Germans will soon be a minority in their own capital city.)
Yesterday’s real electoral drama wasn’t in Berlin, however, but in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, where the CDU failed to overcome the five percent hurdle and so won zero seats in parliament. This is the first time that the CDU/CSU has failed to receive any seats in a state or federal election. The AfD, on the other hand, surpassed all recent polls, gaining 38% of the vote and 32/71 seats. Of course, this will still result in a left-wing government, as all of the remaining seats were won by the Left, Greens, and SPD.
One thing I can’t quite understand is where all of the CDU voters went. Looking at opinion polls in the run-up to the election, the AfD was at a stable ~35% of the vote for the past year, while the CDU dropped from 13% to ultimately less than 5%. Did the center-right CDU voters mostly switch to the center-left SPD? This is what seems to have happened, but I have no real insight as to why, except that no one seems to like the CDU these days. If any of our resident Germans can chime in, I’d appreciate hearing your thoughts.
Lewis2
1mo ago
Re #1, perhaps the legislator is just a secret eugenicist. Poor people can’t have more kids if they can’t have sex.
Lewis2
1mo ago
I don’t disagree, but Hillary “basket of deplorables” Clinton wasn’t always the most smooth-tongued of politicians. To your point, though, the quote is actually 28 years old, and we’re still criticizing it.
Lewis2
1mo ago
True, but I think she’s an actual, honest-to-God gynocentric feminist, and it never occurred to her that that statement might be controversial. She’s like a pro-lifer who starts off her arguments by claiming we are all made in the image of God. Neither one really thinks about how people who don’t share her foundational beliefs might react.
Lewis2
1mo ago
It’s literally a nothingburger.
There’s already a meme for that.
ETA: Now that Reddit has hobbled old.reddit.com, it might be worth revisiting the decision to automatically change all Reddit links to old.reddit links.
Open to “"people of color and allies.”
Includes white members.
This one does appear to be a genuinely all-black organization, though it operates as an exclusive private club, with hefty annual dues, invitation-only membership, and a competitive process to even be considered. As such, it meets the requirements of a private club that is exempt from the Civil Rights Act. It would be perfectly legal for white men to start the same type of club. Indeed, a number of whites-only country clubs famously continued to exist into the 1990s, and it was only social opprobrium, not legal threats, that led them to change their policies.
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