hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
2hr ago
I mean, I think the missing ingredient is that straight men do not want to be sexually harassed by other men. They pay good money for it from female sex workers, but not from other men.
Nobody really envies cute young secretaries with creepy gross old bosses.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
Dogs aren’t really like a human child. They can’t talk, for one.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
Sure, but those are iterative improvements- which we can assume will happen. They are not major breakthroughs.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
Because it’s already happening and blue America has neither the consistent control nor the willingness to put in the work to stop it.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
I find it curious the assumption that this is primarily a superstimulus which will target gooner men, when the thing simulated, it is a character which can have a relationship. AKA something appealing to women. This could easily be internet porn for the femcels, rather than a replacement for internet porn for incels.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
Actually slightly higher- most of the Amish converts would come from pre-existing high(er) TFR groups.
Of course, Rum Millet for as a reward for high TFR is... interesting.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
This suggests that the problem will self-extinguish as pillarization results in parallel status hierarchies in red and blue America.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
You think this is bad, wait until AI can make realistic toddler robots.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
Elon could at least conceivably give up all his wealth, his titles, his positions of symbolic authority, and start from zero. Because the male body has little to no intrinsic value, it's easier for men to become a "blank slate". But when your body itself is the source of this overbearing value? That's a bit harder to rid yourself of.
The lindy way for high status men to do this is to enter a monastery(and honestly, while I'm not expecting Elon to do this, it'd be the least surprising tech billionaire). This option is also open to women; both Christian and Buddhist monasteries have convents to go with them.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Is England a better place where nobody cares about the Legend of King Arthur anymore? Where there is no common understanding that they are English, and that they have a common mythos that binds them together more firmly than something as pedestrian as the right to vote for some wanker in Parliament? Is Spain a better place when there is no longer that same pride in the Reconquest, that same understanding that their ancestors were chosen by God and Saint James to bring the light of Christendom to the Iberian Peninsula, and drive out the infidel who conquered the home of their fathers?
These are not counterfactuals. Perhaps it is better to phrase it as ‘would Spain be better if the Spaniards believed, to this day, that God and St James chose them to militarily reconquer thé land for Christendom? Would England be a better place if the inhabitants believed they had a special place in the world?’. America still has a founding myth; and this is a major culture war flashpoint.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I did do as my parents wished- they agreed to HVAC. There were job plans they vetoed. I presented an alternative plan to their preference for me to go to college and they accepted it.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Maybe, but I think it’s more likely that he meant what he said about the leviathan and woke.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Trump is not necessarily going to do the smart thing.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
At a large institution? No, you’ll need to be on a contractor list, with proof of insurance on file, with the contractors scheduled to be there following minimum notice.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Yes. History rhymes. Which of his associates will March on Rome?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
why wouldn't the government release all their records
Because the records don't exist- either due to having been destroyed or due to never having been compiled.
Because the CIA participating in running hundreds of US children into sexual blackmail ops might actually bring down the government.
After the covid reaction, I don't believe this. Nothing will cause the revolution. Americans are too docile.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
none of Epstein’s victims were Jewish
Didn't he target fatherless white girls living in poor, hispanic-majority neighborhoods? This is not a very Jewish demographic. It's also exactly the demographic you'd expect 'just wants to sleep with teens' types to target.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The counterfactual would look like Trump introducing his own praetorian guard. But he's Marius, not Sulla. He's not gonna do that. He's gonna say 'the secret service is great- the best. They had a bad day'.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Missing that shot was definitely happenstance, I wouldn't read too much into it. But if some competent planning group tried that wouldn't they have a backup plan?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
You are not exactly talking about the class valence of the attitudes in my post(c'mon, 'shotgun weddings are trashy' is the lowest hanging fruit ever) or interrogating the implied racial attitudes.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Texas does not threaten to secede. The far right in Texas threatens to secede regardless of who is in the white house and gets some measure of popular support when the white house has a democrat in it.
And that is, functionally, what Texas nationalists are- it's just the native far right. Some are russiaboos and some are white nationalists but all of them are goldbugs. Some are ruralists; none of them believe in global warming. Lots of them have conspiracy theories about pedophile rings controlling the federal government; none of them will countersignal those theories. Some are balanced budget hawks, most are christian nationalists, all of them think all gun control except maybe you can't bring a gun physically into a prison ground is unconstitutional. There's a lot of hyper-red tribe signaling about meat and pickup trucks and indie country and open carry. But the common threads in the movement are red tribe cultural supremacy(and this is, in their view, an explicitly assimilatory identity, Hispanics should learn American football and blacks should learn country music but they don't have to change their skin color), hyper-Austrian economics(this does not necessarily imply libertarianism), and extreme skepticism of the federal(not necessarily state) government. Lots of similarities to Ron Paul, but few if any of them would eg point to marijuana prohibition as government overreach. It's just a far-right movement and for much of it secession should be taken seriously but not literally. They really do have strong grievances on cultural, economic, or anti-federal overreach grounds. Daniel Miller really does believe these mean Texas needs to be an independent country, but his rank and file may not; lots of them are just there for the grievances. It's kind of similar to explicitly pro-militia sentiment in red areas of blue states.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
There's lots of people who make moral judgements of tattooing. Older women do so quite regularly.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
While I agree that Turok is a one trick pony, attitudes towards abortion are germane to the topic. I did grow up with the attitude that a woman seeking an abortion was not just a murderer but also a shirker(just like a boyfriend who didn't marry her when he found her with child). I don't think fetal personhood is, though.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
It was recommended on SSC, which I read for the deep dives, eg 'X: much more than you wanted to know'.
Borderers were not a random draft of Scotsmen- they were a specific ethnic group known for violence and outlawry, which was deported to Ireland and then from there to America. This isn’t Australia where the selection was straight up sending criminals(reversion to the mean would take care of that).
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