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				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
True, the Irish state doesn't directly furnish weapons to Hamas. It has, however, donated over €68 million to UNRWA in the last twenty years, and a significant proportion of UNRWA staff are known to have participated in the October 7th attacks.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I find the idea that Abdul would need to mirror the US support for Israel if it become pro-Palestine questionable I think I pro-Palestine America would look a lot more like Ireland than Iran.




I'm not sure if this argument expresses the point you intended it to. Most people in Ireland virulently hate Israel, turn a blind eye to Hamas's activities and are happy to donate money to organisations which are, at the very least, affiliated with Hamas.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for November 1, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Ender's Game has a child protagonist, but the violence might be a bit excessive for a ten-year-old.


When I was that age I read this collection of Philip K. Dick stories and don't remember any of them containing anything too objectionable.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I'm in exactly the same boat as you. It's still a funny line though.


(I'm also not bisexual, but on at least one of the three times I caught Covid, certain symptoms lingered for months after the acute symptoms had passed.)


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Are you going to shoot a guy in a wheelchair?




It was good enough for the Brits.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for November 1, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
IIRC Pinker quoted exactly this to buttress his argument.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for November 1, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I gave up on A Gentleman of Leisure about fifty pages in. It hadn't elicited so much as a chuckle.


Last year I bought my dad Steven Pinker's book When Everyone Knows that Everyone Knows..., about the concept of common knowledge. He enjoyed it and lent it to me. I wanted an easy read, so I started it on Tuesday. Richard Hanania's argument about the deficits of non-fiction books certainly applied here, and it did give the feel of being unnecessarily padded. In particular, even outside the chapter which was specifically about humour, there were an awful lot of references to sitcoms and jokes (I don't mean Pinker himself cracking jokes: I mean him reciting jokes told by other people to illustrate his points). I was also broadly familiar with most of the arguments he touched on. But for all that, it was absorbing enough that I'd finished it by Thursday evening.


Perhaps the only surprising part of the book came near the very end, in which, as part of a chapter about academic freedom more broadly, Pinker more or less outs himself as a HBD enjoyer. His argument, in effect, is that scientists should deliberately avoid investigating the question of whether there are differences in intelligence between the various ethnic groups, as it's simply something we don't need to know, and were it to be proven true, people would use that information to indulge their worst prejudices. I interpret this as a tacit admission that Pinker thinks that certain races are more intelligent than others, on average: if he didn't, why would he be advocating for intentionally burying our heads in the sand? This passage felt eerily familiar to me, and I realised that Scott (who wants to duel Pinker to the death) has already done the endorsing-HBD-without-technically-endorsing-HBD thing at least twice: once in Kolomogorov complicity and once in his review of Freddie deBoer's The Cult of Smart. (I'm curious if deBoer thinks scientists ought to investigate the question of whether races differ in average intelligence, and if not, why not.)


I received a gift, an adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird in comic book form. It occurred to me I haven't read the book itself since I was in secondary school, so this might be a fun way to reintroduce myself to it. A snack between meals before my copy of The Camp of the Saints arrives.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Random Musings on the State of TheMotte
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Hire a genuine leftist or two into the mod team and then consult them when issues arose in regards to modding leftists.




I have to be honest: implementing two-tier policing/sharia courts in moderation decisions is an objectively hilarious suggestion for how to run a forum.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The ad explicitly claims that Americans cannot afford groceries because the money is being set aside to kill Palestinians, not Iranians, so I question the relevance of the war in Iran.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
"Occasional CIA informant" suggests to me something very different from "worked for the CIA" or "documented CIA handler".


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Sure, but a large portion of commenters think he was a terrible poster who should have been banned.




Okay. So what? He wasn't.




Is there a particular account you have in mind.




I do, but I'd rather not say.




Do you think I'm him?




No.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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And I've yet to see a single one of darwin's comments that people could bring up as an example of his supposed poor behavior that rightists don't mimic in the other direction while receiving a free pass.




Well, plenty of Darwin's bad behaviour was expressed in comments that received a free pass. The aforementioned crashout over JK Rowling did not incur any mod actions, so far as I can see.




I highly doubt that's how he would see it.




I agree with you that he would claim not to see it that way. Still seems like the most parsimonious explanation.




His original account is not banned so I don't see why he'd need an alt.




Simple: to escape the reputation the previous alt (guesswho) had accrued. I don't think he ever created an account under the username "darwin2500", so creating the "guesswho" account wasn't done for reasons of ban evasion.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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I'll never understand the contention that Darwin was treated shabbily by the mods or by the userbase (if anything, I think the former treated him with far more patience and forbearance than he really deserved), nor that he was "chased out". He made a series of demonstrably false or misleading claims about JK Rowling, multiple people pointed this out to him, and he was so embarrassed at being shown up that he simply stopped posting. It's not like he was facing torrents of abuse or harassment.


It's also absurd to claim that he was "chased out" when there's a good chance he's still posting here under another username.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Wrong side of the Atlantic, I'm afraid. I think she was originally from LA.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
My brother would not believe me when I told him the capital of Kyrgyzstan was literally called Bitch Kek.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
About 40,000 according to the last census. Not a lot in absolute terms, but they're quite visible by virtue of being young (80% under the age of 45) and often working in public-facing jobs like Deliveroo drivers or hospitality. The much larger Indian population mostly work remotely or in offices, so aren't as visible.


Years ago someone told me that the initial influx of Brazilians was the result of some kind of deal that Irish meat-packing plants struck with Brazil. Nowadays I think the main reason they come is because it's the only country in the EU in which English is the primary language (many of them are entitled to EU citizenship by virtue of having a European grandparent: I've met several with a grandparent from Italy or Portugal, although for obvious reasons the ones with a German grandfather aren't as keen to advertise the fact). They often come over on student visas to learn English which they then overstay, and most people understand that these "English schools" are a bit of a scam.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Trigglypuff




Now that's a blast from the past. The Internet used to be so much more fun.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
What I meant was that "Irish male, Brazilian female" is a pretty common international pairing, and a large subset of these pairings are also interracial by virtue of being "white male, pardo female" or more rarely "white male, black female".


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
WMAF couples are by far the most common interracial pairing in Dublin, except maybe WMBF (white male, Brazilian female; obviously "Brazilian" isn't a race and some of these women are white as snow, but you know what I mean). On the very rare occasions my AF wife and I pass an AMWF couple in the street, we give each other this knowing look like "what is it, Opposite Day?"


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
What do you mean by "testosterone poisoning"? You mean people who die while trying to show off how tough they are?




I don't think smart sociopaths and sadists are particularly rare. The supply of smart people wanting to enter careers where sociopathy is an advantage (politicians, lawyers, financiers etc.) exceeds the demand.




I worded this a bit clumsily. What I meant was that stories about idiots committing acts of overt, unambiguous criminality (murder, rape etc.) are dog-bites-man stories, whereas stories about unusually intelligent people committing acts of overt, unambiguous criminality (as distinct from white-collar crime, which is a more nebulous category) are man-bites-dog stories. A professional solicitor, architect, neurosurgeon etc. who murders his wife will be front-page news; a homeless person who murders another homeless person is barely considered newsworthy. I'm far from the first person to compare how much press attention the Cornell 7 case attracted vs. a story about a gang-rape in a black ghetto, and part of it is surely the incongruity of an allegedly brutal crime committed by Ivy League students (i.e. members of a demographic we would naively expect to be selected for intelligence and civility). In fiction, Hannibal Lecter isn't even the primary antagonist of The Silence of the Lambs, and yet he's the character everyone remembers, which is at least partly attributable to the incongruity between his genteel erudition (he's even a qualified psychiatrist) and the brutality of his crimes. Buffalo Bill, by contrast, is a more realistic portrait of a serial killer by virtue of being uneducated, sexually disturbed and a member of the underclass.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I am reasonably confident that sociopaths do more damage in total because the system is better at detecting and rejecting sadists.




True, and also because I imagine the range of harmful actions which can be motivated by apathy is larger than the range that can be motivated by cruelty.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
So essentially, the 1960s was a buyers' market, and the 2020s is a sellers' market?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Perhaps "modern women living in the West"?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Dating modern American men must be like shooting fish in a barrel for any healthy young adult woman given the competition.
But maybe that's my bias showing, and the average white American man actually wants a strongly-opinionated, plus-size, nose-pierced and skin-scribbled, childfree, yoga pants-wearing woman.




Back when I was single, people often asked me why so many of the women I dated were first-generation Asian migrants and so few (none, effectively) Irish. Honestly, a big part of it could be explained simply by comparing the average BMI in Ireland with the corresponding figures in China, Taiwan, Korea etc.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I once dated an Asian-American woman for a couple of months, during which time I fell in love with her. Interestingly, she didn't tick any of these boxes: she had a healthy relationship with her parents, spoke Mandarin fluently, and struck me as significantly less neurotic than I was (despite having had certain experiences which might reasonably lead one to neuroticism). She had dated multiple white men besides me, but gave no impression of thinking white men were obsessed with or fetishizing her, nor on the verge of reenacting the Japanese internment camps.