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				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 31, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I quit when I got to the Anime Brazil continent.  At that point I wasn't sure why I was playing it at all, and that setting was too goofy even for FE.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 31, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
This is a good illustration of how incoherent the term "social conservative" has become.  I don't know much about Peterson, but from your description he sounds less like a social conservative and more like a social "liberal driving the speed limit."  Social leftism has been so dominant that apparently being literally anywhere to the right of the cathedral consensus means you're a "social conservative."  I wouldn't be surprised if TERFs are considered "social conservatives."


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for April 4, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Probably 4chan /f/, other spinoff imageboards, Newgrounds, maybe Something Awful.




it does make it hard to keep judging kids so hard for their Skibidi Toilets or whatever.




This is fair, there was a lot of faggotry (TL note: "faggotry" means cringe).  The one big difference IMHO was that clicking in a mysterious .swf file in 2004 was way more exciting then watching Meat Canyon or whatever is considered edgy now.  People used to make some truly bizarre, messed up, and entertaining** animations back then.


** I showed some animations from that time to a Zoomer and they were confused and horrified.  So maybe not entertaining for everyone. Ah well.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 31, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
You can tell it was made by people who love the genre.  Respect.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 31, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I forgot about that, but yes, completely agree.  I played a recent Fire Emblem game (Engage, I think) and the MC is fanfic-tier overpowered dragon goddess who has a dark alter ego.  In older FE games you were some guy who was good with a sword, or at best a noble who had fallen on hard times and had to play politics and win difficult military victories to regain power.  I guess normies enjoy power fantasies.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 31, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I remember reading the Warcraft 2 game manual multiple times as a middle schooler.  It was dark, gory, and realistic.  There were heroes, but they weren't larger than life and sometimes they got died. It read like a chronicle of Aztecs invading England, it was badass.  I especially enjoyed how each Orcish clan was essentially a separate tribe with it's own rituals and cultures, lovingly detailed.  Shout-out to my homies from the Bonechewer and Laughing Skull.  The human kingdoms also had interesting histories, I loved the stories of Lordaeron and Alterac.  Even the heroes were cool.  Aleria, Turalyon, and Uther were badass.


Warcraft 3 pushed all of this into the background to focus on goofy Arthas.  The gameplay was good, but the SOVL was gone.


(Controversial take -- I feel very similarly about Final Fantasy VI and VII.)


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 31, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
wtf I love yasuke now


I would watch this


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 31, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Yeah, nearly all English language reporting about Japan is awful and written by progressive midwits (at best) who are also often weeaboos or some other form of nerd.  Names to watch out for include Jake Adelstein, a "Yakuza expert;" David Aldwinkle ("Debito Arudou"), a gaijin-rights activist, and the editors of the Japan Times, whose reporting on Japanese culture and politics usually seems to boil down to "Shame on Japan for not being more like San Francisco."  English NHK or Japanese Twitter is way better.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for April 2, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
For me, it's


    

  • Magnesium tablets
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  • Chamomile tea
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  • Melatonin
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  • Benadryl (normal dose)
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I start at the top and add medications depending on how tired I am.  Normal day: magnesium, or maybe nothing.  Exhausted/sick/in pain but need to sleep ASAP: all of them.  I have never had any sort of hangover from taking these together.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 31, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I agree that those people are real, but IME it's the older generations posting the "Buckle up, buttercup!" and "my hands look like this so hers can look like this" memes.  The only millennials I see posting in that vein (on X) seem to be trolls.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 31, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


The even more irritating thing is that much of these same beliefs are also sincerely held by social conservatives (including many users in this space), who tend to typecast women as "potential victims" and men as "potential problems"




Do you have any recent examples of this?  As one of the resident social conservatives, my belief is that this "perpetual childhood" should include a curtailing of rights and privileges in proportion to its reduction of responsibility/culpability, and the fact that it does not is an enormous problem.  I thought this was a fairly common view among the social cons here. The double standard you're referring to strikes me as more of a boomercon thing, and I don't know if we have any of those here anymore.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 31, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
First, it's a matter of degree.  If I saw a black guy with a MAGA hat on YouTube, I would think "huh, interesting" but I wouldn't instantly subscribe and share his videos to my friends and family. Second, at least in my experience, it's only blacks and, every now and then, a homosexual man.  I never get videos about based Asians, or Native Americans, or lesbians, or trans people, or recent immigrants from the third world.  And that makes sense to me, because the normie idea of Civil Rights seems to be "MLK did some stuff and we realized we should treat black people nicely, and then a few decades later some... other people did some stuff and we realized we should let gay people get married.". So those two groups are the most salient to normies.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 31, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think Greer might be overfitting "TikTok users to "Zoomers." My tech illiterate lifelong Republican MAGA mother regularly sends me boomer-humor tier TikTok clips and she is obsessed with "based Black MAGA conservatives" spouting GOP talking points or praising Trump (sidenote: it is truly bizarre how civil rites fetishism is so prominent in the generation regardless of political leanings).  I get similar stuff from my aunts and uncles.  I think @Stefferi is right when he calls this as "normies vs fringe," although instead of fringe I'd say "nerds."


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for March 21, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Your political compass link takes me to a picture of a nice hat.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for March 7, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Congrats!


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 3, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
People would probably listen more if the leftists hadn't been crying wolf for the last 8 years.  At this point, I assume that any statements like the above are just crybullying in the vein of "I feel unsafe" designed to scare or shame non-leftists into letting down their guard so that leftists can abuse their dominance of the media and deep state to undermine and destroy literally anything my side tries to do.  So, too bad.  I guess we'll just have to suffer some corruption and incompetence as a country.  You kept distracting us and nudging our arm when we tried to use the scalpel, so now we're using the chainsaw, because we've got to do something soon.


ETA: Is this guy just a troll?  He made a few other posts recently that boiled down to "things are terrible now" without any effort to convince and keeps deleting posts. This post seems tailor-made to push buttons.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 3, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
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				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 3, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Thanks, I haven't watched it yet so I didn't make the connection.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 3, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
This reads more like a collection of talking points than a coherent post.  What are you trying to discuss here?  Whether DOGE is as effective as it claims?  Whether Trump will keep his promise to balance the budget?  Hypocrisy about the White House dress code? Is there a common theme?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 3, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Source of the quote


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 3, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I dunno, man.  I might have agreed 5-10 years ago but I've been sliding inexorably toward Nybblerhood with all the recent blackpills.  Western men are mostly domesticated and will not use organized physical or often even political force to fight back against systematic anti-white discrimination, schools transing kids, blatant mass illegal immigration, mass rape of young girls by foreigners, heavy-handed lockdowns, and more.  How could conscription cause they state to lose "all legitimacy" when the aforementioned crimes against the people barely dented it?  If conscription happens, white men will get sent to die along with a few token foreigners, people will whine on social media, and the few who try to do actually organize to do anything about it will get crushed instantly by the surveillance state panopticon.


ETA: Elsewhere, you said you think a real war would shock that system.  I could only see this happening if troops actually landed on the island of Great Britain and real desperation set in.  Feeding young men to a far away meat grinder is not going to be enough to break information control.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 24, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
To abuse the metaphor, it would be like Local ISP was a local business that had been giving you low pricing because your kids went to the same school and to maintain market share in your town.  But now, your town has grown into a large city.  The company has been bought out by BigTelecom.  Jimmy, the owner's nephew whom you used to call when your internet stopped working, has been replaced by "Johnny" located in Bangalore. And there's no chance of you switching to another ISP as you can't afford the fees to break the contract.  So now Local ISP ("A BigTelecom corporation!") is raising rates, because  while they still provide you with internet service, they no longer see you as a human being, just another KPI on a spreadsheet to fiddle with in the quest to maximize BigTelecom's profits.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 3, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


China has technical excellence and no taste.




This is a good summation of China today, I'm going to steal this.


Re. your last paragraph, I still think that MAGA has yet to prove that it's a paradigm shift rather than simply a temporary setback in Enlightenment Cthulu's endless leftward journey.  Fat stacks of Chinese cash may inducen strategic myopia in weakly aligned nations, but if MAGA turns out to be a half-decade long fad, America and its core values will still offer the more attractive and reassuring bargain.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 3, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I'm baffled by perceptions of China and Chinese products in the West.  There seem to be two camps:


    

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    Normie camp.  China is the new evil empire.  They spy on everyone and steal everything.  Everything they make is fake and falls apart (Temu, electronics).  Their "technical excellence" is just aping stuff America could do effortlessly a decade or more ago (lunar lander, Nei Zha 2, Black Myth Wukong) or it's kabuki theater (Deepseek is stolen tech and/or is a facade to hide massive investment and manpower to make it look like China is catching up).  They cheat their allies on the global stage (crappy infrastructure built in Africa in exchange for minerals).
    

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    Contrarian camp.  China is the new techno-cyberpunk future of the human race.  Drone swarms shaped like dragons.  Everything on your smartphone.  Technical excellence matching that of America but at less cost (Nei Zha, BM:W, Deepseek).  Futuristic Chinese cities.  Transhumanism unfettered by Christian hangups.  They offer their allies purely aboveboard transactional deals with no moralizing strings attached.
    

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I even see it on this forum.  My info is a bit dated now, but I used to be heavily interested in China and hooked in to Chinese culture and politics.  My takeaway from my time over there living with and working alongside Chinese people was that China could never truly be a more attractive partner than America on the world stage because their core civilizational ideas are just not attractive or reassuring to non-Chinese. Most Americans see themselves as part of a universal brotherhood of nations due to America's enlightenment roots, but China see itself as the "middle kingdom" that should rightfully be at the center of Asia, and ideally the world.  It is a civilization founded on ethnic chauvinism and an inward orientation.  Barbarians ways are not to be understood or mimicked save for instrumentally in order to gain some advantage that furthers the Chinese race.  Deals with other nations are entered into not out of any sort of altruism or common ground, but as purely transactional interactions, and deals only need to be honored so far as they continue to benefit China and the Chinese -- as soon as all the juice has been squeezed, the contract can be shredded and discarded, and former partners can simply be gaslit about the prior agreement.


The obvious counterpoint is that America's foreign policy establishment is just as ruthless and amoral, and perhaps even moreso since they distract from their misdeeds with platitudes about universalism and human rights. I think this is a fair point, but I would counter that the American establishment does actually have some true believers and that it is at least somewhat constrained by what the American voting public can stomach.  China has no such checks.  I would also counter that America's amoral foreign policy is a deviation from its core civilizational values, one from which (hopefully) it is beginning to course correct, while the ethnic chauvinism of China is core to its civilization self-identity and is thus much more deeply ingrained and less likely to change.   I think we may see a few countries defect toward China, but I wager after a decade they will learn their lesson and either return to the American fold or take some sort of third-worldist position.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 24, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
This explanation has always seemed the most reasonable to me.  Plenty of nations (in the ~tribal sense) don't control their own sovereign states, and many live subject to much more culturally different nations (Kurds, Uyghurs, etc).  This is how Ukranians lived in the past as well, as I understand it.  It seems to me better to face the fact that "you can't get what you want" and bide your time than to fight a doomed cause at such great cost that your homeland is destitute, most of your men are killed in war or flee, and your women emigrate are absorbed into foreign nations.  One leads to subordination but survival, while the other leads to the destruction of one's nation.