2rafa
4hr ago
warrior elites are generally unsympathetic to nerds and Jews.
The most common predictors of hardcore antisemitism in the 21st century are (1) religion (particularly Islam but to some extent traditionalist Catholicism) and (2) political opinions on Israel/Palestine (strongly tied to 1) and - among whites - white nationalism, neither of which have much to do with whether someone is a ‘warrior elite’.
Jewish far rightists have always had to contend with the fact that there are many antisemites on the far right. Nevertheless, they are not required to be performatively anti-Jewish or opposed to Jewish identity the way that Jewish devout pro-Palestinian activists have to. With the exception of Unz, who really does hate himself, most far-right Jews aren’t antisemitic, and most (BAP and Moldbug includes) are quietly proud of being of Jewish descent.
2rafa
7hr ago
Why would only men not know what women like, while women would have insight into preferences of both genders?
Because I think being attractive to men is simpler than being hot to women because men care more about physical features alone while women care about both physical features and more intangible but easily perceived qualities like a sense of presence and charisma, for which being hot is often necessary but not usually sufficient. If that’s misandry I do apologize.
Say you ask the average relatively attractive woman to wear the outfit she thinks men will like the most - she will probably know what it is. Will the average man know the inverse? It’s not that women don’t care about men’s style, either. Men just don’t seem to think about it.
2rafa
7hr ago
He doesn’t really cover the issues with implants which is that rupturing is an issue, they have to be replaced every 10 years for life (expensive, time consuming, recovery process, inherent risk of anaesthesia), and the initial cost is quite high for many young women, plus you want to shop around to find someone good.
Most people also aren’t relentlessly focused on maximizing their hotness, which is why plenty of people don’t care about style, don’t go to the gym, are overweight etc.
2rafa
7hr ago
If anything it is the opposite: a literal hairy pigwoman can get laid, thus showing women do not need to know anything about men to get their attention
Since most women have little interest in maximizing the number of sexual partners they have, whether they could find ‘someone’ to fuck is irrelevant. What matters is finding someone good, who will commit, who is nice and who is attractive (in various ways), and that is very much as competitive for women as finding a good partner is for men.
2rafa
7hr ago
It ties into intrasexual competition which is ultimately derived from opposite sex attraction but in practice sublimated beyond a broader layer of activity best described as posturing. Men and women both do this in different ways, throughout their lives. Being a man with a small dick is bad, imagine if everybody knew you had a small dick, including other men.
2rafa
15hr ago
It’s funny, but it starts from the premise that the “BSS” is “B” without really describing why.
2rafa
15hr ago
It is a really bad post. If I was going to try to annoy the majority of posters here, I would call it mansplaining, but that really is what it is. It starts from a strange premise that women don’t know what men find attractive, and are all out here starving themselves trying to be as skinny as coke era Kate Moss because they’re too stupid to understand that men like the slim thick build with big tits (something rather incongruent with the huge implant industry, almost entirely driven by female demand - ie not husbands demanding their wives get surgery). If anything, it’s men who seem more confused about what women like.
2rafa
16hr ago
You mentioned once that you have many female relatives who waited until marriage for sex. Given that this is practically unheard of among the native Angloid population, you must be a foreigner, but from where? The Balkans? South Asia?
2rafa
1d ago
I think this is a very interesting question. When I encounter someone who is nominally a religious trad drinking (in the case of Muslims or I guess Mormons), aborting, whoring etc, the deep hypocrisy this represents is the strongest characteristic of a certain type of chauvinism. It manifests itself in many ways, for example a liberal, promiscuous, immodestly dressing woman from an Islamic culture who identifies as a devout Muslim and argues against ‘white feminism’. The most common variant is typically the personally promiscuous and/or alcohol-drinking man from a chaste, sober religious subculture who nevertheless believes he is strongly following the rules he clearly does not care for, and yet judges those who also do not care for them as an outsider.
2rafa
2d ago
There is a confidence that these things grant you that is sort of the polar opposite of insecurity.
I just don’t think it’s true that men who are socially and sexually successful can’t be insecure. There are tons of famous actors, musicians, political figures and so on who are obsessed with their image, stalk fan pages, get extremely upset about anonymous criticism on social media, let it get to them.
A lot of people with a lot of money are constantly worried about losing it, question whether they could make it themselves, or make it again. I think famous and successful people often have this kind of feeling. Whether you want to call it insecurity is a matter of opinion, I guess, but I do think Musk cares about his image, even though he doesn’t know how to improve it because he fired / didn’t listen to his PR, unlike Zuckerberg who seems to do what they tell him to.
2rafa
2d ago
Trolling is about annoying people you don’t like or, at best, feel neutral about (see umad memes, /pol/‘s famous trolls, the /int/ amerimutt meme, leftists calling Vance weird, calling political opponents incels, even stuff like Colbert, although that’s more parody than trolling). But the people Elon is ‘trolling’ in this theory are his actual fans who watch him on Twitch etc, young right-leaning men who like Tesla and SpaceX.
2rafa
2d ago
I’m not offended haha, it’s an interesting topic. The Chareidim are almost entirely Ashkenazi, there are some conservative, arguably ashkenazi Sephardic/Mizrachi populations, some of which have adopted some Chareidi customs, but largely in Israel. Estimates of Sephardic IQ are difficult to come by.
2rafa
2d ago
Because the richest, smartest secular Ashkenazim have had intermarriage rates exceeding 70% since the 1990s and exceeding 50% since the 1970s in all likelihood. As a group they/we are declining in size by significant amounts each year.
2rafa
2d ago
This is like @self_made_human’s original post and earlier comment. The Indians who do so well are selected as the smartest people in a 90 average population. Their performance is going to be completely different to a population where the average is 112. For example, they might be overrepresented in some things and not in others. A 130 Indian might just seem more ‘weird’ than a 130 Ashkenazi.
I know smart Indians like to imagine they’re all from highly endogamous castes that preserved their unique intelligence through the millennia, but as you yourself have argued this is mostly cope.
2rafa
2d ago
This is a good post by Academic Agent.
95% of this article is a ridiculous combination of gish gallop and ‘this doesn’t SEEM to make sense, RIGHT’ begging the question, dismissal of proxies out of hand even though the validation of g as central to human performance is pretty much entirely because it acts as a proxy for countless things etc.
The evidence for higher ashkenazi IQ is overwhelming because of extreme Jewish outperformance even in societies and at times when every tribe was highly clannish. Countless groups in America and elsewhere are still very clannish and yet don’t perform to the same level.
2rafa
3d ago
How old are you? If you can raise it to 179 or 180 you have a solid (say 30%) shot at the top 6 if you’re also charismatic and good at interview, which in turn means that you can hustle for the top tier of clerkships, big law jobs etc.
But it’s still insanely expensive, 2 years of not making money or developing a career, and no guarantee of wealth, power or (particular) status.
2rafa
3d ago
There’s almost as much antisemitism on Instagram (have you ever checked out reel comments on anything featuring any Jewish person?) and nobody seems to care at all, least of all Zuck. Hard to believe that’s the reason.
2rafa
3d ago
That’s not what Moldbug’s theory was. Moldbug’s theory was always that a lot of ‘nominal’ elites were successful finance/tech/etc people who had a lot of money but were actually subordinate in power terms to a class of people who cared more about politics.
2rafa
4d ago
People seem to forget that The Bell Curve was discussed neutrally on major news networks, by academics and in the mainstream press in the mid-1990s, a positive piece on it made the cover of The New Republic at the apogee of its circulation, it was discussed in every publication and had many open defenders. These things always ebb and flow.
Scott has always accepted HBD, almost certainly since the hungarian science fair article in 2017 and likely since the Nrx FAQ in 2013.
2rafa
4d ago
The Hungarian High School Science Fair Project stuff, as the above comment suggests, made his view on this pretty clear, he just chose not to go ultra deep into it because then it becomes your thing and you can’t write about anything else.
2rafa
4d ago
Yes, I think he made it clear he didn’t want to discuss it (all that about witches), but he’s always been open that he believes it.
even if all the Palestinian journalists had been killed
It really was extraordinary just how many “Palestinian journalists” were killed. How many there were in general, even. There appeared to be more “Palestinian journalists” in Gaza than American journalists in NYC, which is quite impressive given that there are likely more in NYC than in any other Western city. Every third man in Gaza appears to have been a Palestinian journalist.
Bibi needed an excuse to do a deal (which the IDF and Mossad and wider Israeli secular-ish establishment, including the banks and anyone remotely interested in the Israeli economy sorely wanted) over the heads of the Kahanists like Ben-Gvir and other extremist religious Zionists.
Witkoff (by all accounts a relatively zionist person himself) being “tough” provides Bibi with the excuse needed to throw up his hands and say “look, we have to do it, we don’t have a choice, it’s going to happen” and accept the deal that most of the Israeli establishment wanted anyway. It had to be Trump’s man because if it was Biden’s guy, the Kahanists would demand to wait until Trump’s guy was in in the hope that he would offer a better deal.
This concisely explains the situation. In the end this is the best deal, the IDF didn’t want to spend years mired in Gaza which would be terrible for morale, Hamas was always going to reform and - with Hezbollah severely weakened, a much stronger border and Iranian foreign policy in shambles - Hamas is less of a risk now anyway. Its full destruction was impossible without permanently destroying the ongoing lucrative reconciliation process with the Gulf Arabs, which can now slowly resume.
Disagree with the others. Air fryer fries are unacceptable and never reach appropriate crispness. If you want crispy potatoes that aren’t deep fried, either cube them (into small cubes) and pan fry them until crispy or boil, smash and then roast in the oven after brushing with oil or ideally duck/goose fat (which you preheated in the over for at least 10 minutes) for 40 minutes, taking them out every ten to brush with oil again.
A good way to deep fry with limited mess is to quickly cut shoestring fries with a mandoline, blanch in oil, then deep fry in a relatively conservative layer of oil at the bottom of a deep pot, to limit spray.
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