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				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
As someone who has studied the Middle East and Islam, and has a working knowledge of Arabic (don't ask me to recite the Quran or anything, I have zero interest in tajweed), I will pass on your offer. I know too much about Islam. (And the Quran is shitty Bible fanfiction, second only to the Book of Mormon in transparent and low-quality mimicry, inexplicably adored by people who turn off all literary faculties to convince themselves otherwise.)




and only going to get closer as time goes by




Bro, I'm far from the most Islamophobic person here, but this triumphal colonialist attitude of yours really makes me start sympathizing with the Retvrns.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Indeed. For anybody reading this, you are welcome to join and you will be treated like a full brother or sister no different from any other brother or sister.




This is not what African Muslim converts say about how Arabs treat them. And you yourself have posted repeatedly about how you consider yourself a higher class of being than the peasants ( but still Muslim!) who fetch and carry for you at home.


And of course, if there is one group that treats Arabs more brutally than the Israelis, it's other Arabs. Let's not even get into Shia versus Sunni.


Your own attitudes bely the pretty words about a universal Ummah. It's no more true than Christians saying " We are all brothers and sisters in Christ."


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for October 14, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Several people (including myself) have disagreed with @erwgv3g34, but if you want to tell someone they are wrong, provide some arguments and substance.


"You're wrong and delusional and silly" is just being needlessly antagonistic. Do not post low-effort "Nuh-uhs" like this.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for October 14, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Congratulations. But set point theory is absolute garbage science, and taking science & dieting advice from Dread Jim is like taking dating advice from Dread Jim. I wonder what Jim thinks about all the obese female devotees of "set point theory" as the reason why they can't lose weight. CICO, as some people below have pointed out, is true but simplistic. You lose weight by creating a caloric deficit. You could lose weight by consuming fewer calories but all of it as pure sugar. That doesn't mean that would be a good or enduring way to lose weight. There is some fuzziness in the whole "caloric deficit" concept, because people do have different metabolisms, which mean two people eating the exact same calories and doing the exact same amount of exercise won't necessarily see the same changes; that is what people mistake as a "set point." No, that doesn't mean your body has a higher set point than the other person's, it means your body doesn't burn at the same rate as the other person. So yes, it is (unfairly) harder for some people to lose weight (and we know testosterone helps, which is why it's much harder for women to lose weight), but no, nobody has a "set point" of 300 pounds.


(The rant about how "Doctors are hiding the truth from you that they aren't allowed to Notice!" is typical Dread Jim histrionics. It's true some doctors are spineless about telling patients to lose weight. It's also true that losing weight long term is difficult, but the mechanism is well understood if not popular: people lose weight by exercising and restricting calories more than they like, they lose weight, and then they go back to their previous habits. This is the Eliezer Yudkowsky theory of Why The Laws Of Physics Do Not Apply To My Fat Ass.


I get that most people don't like exercise (I don't love it myself), but even a moderate amount of exercise will make you feel immensely better (I like having exercised). The improvement curve in early stages is enormous. Back when I was overweight, regular exercise among other things made my back pain disappear.


I'm ambivalent about low-carb and keto diets; I tend to think most of these diets with some elaborate theory of how the body processes certain types of calories are just calorie reduction smuggled as "only/don't eat these things."


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


That won't do anything. As Amadan just wrote, there is no sidebar, there is only precedence. The rules are what the mods do, not what is written.




That is not what I wrote.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Retarded thoughtless ragebait slander.




Calm down.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for October 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I doubt "Claude" hates Trump, in the sense that Anthropic has deliberately trained it with a bias towards anti-Trumpism. It probably has the Internet-average "opinion" of Trump.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Bub.


This is getting obnoxious. And yes, this is a mod warning, even though you will add it to your ledger of "The mods are persecuting me because I'm just too clever and edgy for them."


There is a certain category of user who continually wants to push boundaries, talk about things in a smarmy, antagonistic way, bring up topics in an edgy, circumlocutory fashion with plausible deniability, and then screech like a chimp kicked in the balls (not sure if being kicked in the balls actually affects chimps the same way, but I like the image so I'm going with it) when called on it and told to give it a rest, or at least tone it down. And they proceed to bring it up over and over, "calling out" the mods (or a mod) in every thread where they can possibly wedge it in because maybe if they keep grinding their axe often enough, everyone will take their side and throw rotten fruit at the mods and tell us to let them post as they please or something?


You are here.


There is also a category of user who is too autistic to realize that talking about their weird gooner fetishes isn't funny or fun and doesn't understand why we'd say "Not here."


It is not because the mods are prudes, or humorless (well, I am, but not all the mods are), or trying to BAN MY VIEWS THE MODS CAN'T HANDLE.


It's because we want people to be reasonable and civilized and not shit up the place, particularly by trying to see exactly where the line is between "I can get away with this" and "Too much."


You are here.


Now, FWIW, I kind of disagree with@netstack's original formulation: I would not say categorically that all "sex and sexuality" topics are inherently CW. I can imagine sexuality-related content that would be funny and light-hearted enough to be Friday Fun Thread material. The problem is that what was posted in that thread was not. (And this is not an invitation to test what you can get away with.)


As myself, @netstack, and @naraburns have explained to you and others repeatedly, a lot of modding comes down to "I know it when I see it," along with community sentiment, when it comes to deciding what does and doesn't fly. This means that yes, it's subjective, sometimes what passes one mod will not pass another, and we are not going to give you a long TOS contract spelling out what you can and cannot get away with and then gnash our teeth and say "Curses, foiled by your brilliant legalism!" when you figure out a way to post something that we did not explicitly prohibit.


So no, "boner jokes" are not prohibited in the Friday Fun Thread, but it is context-dependent (a boner joke that winds up being CW-bait or "joking about boners with minors," for example, would definitely not be appropriate material).


I'm not going to ban you, even though you have multiple "Ban this guy next time" warnings, because banning people for complaining about the moderation is a bad look and people without familiarity with your oeuvre (and past history under other alts) might think we're just being sensitive to criticism. But I am telling you that open and reasonable discussions about moderation are 100% allowed, even if accompanied by harsh criticism. You can take it up with us in public or private when offered in good faith. We do our best to clarify our thinking and our moderation decisions, and if you really want to know if a given post will be okay or not, you can ask us. But every CW thread is not an opportunity for you to complain about that one time a mod did something you're still chafing about.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for October 11, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I wasn't sure what you meant by "going far harder on those topics than anyone here" - going harder than SS would mean actually saying the quiet part out loud. I guess I can wade into the cesspool of marginal subs and see how much wrongthink is really being tolerated. I doubt Zorba will be moved to take use back to reddit, though.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for October 11, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
No topics are banned. You're not being persecuted.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for October 11, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Are there really? Reddit is actually letting people post that they want to kill da Joos now? I wasn't aware of that, but if that's so and you can post that trans women are men, then maybe we could make the transition. I am skeptical, though, especially since even a temporary liberalizing could easily be reversed.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for October 11, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Consider the possibility that you get downvoted because your debate style is obnoxious and supercilious and you describe people who weary of it (or maybe just have lives and families to get back to) as "scurrying off."


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for October 11, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
We were already on the admins' radar when we moved. I agree that we probably moved sooner than we had to, but I absolutely think we'd have been banned eventually, and if we returned, sneerclubbers and other old friends would be reporting every post about HBD, Jews, trans, and Boogalooing. We mods get shit here for sometimes cracking down on people stepping a little over the line in their eagerness to express how much they hate their enemies, but I think people have short memories if they think half of what they get away with here would fly on Reddit.


Yes, we're probably in a long, slow death spiral. I occasionally visit forums I frequented twenty years ago; some of them are still around with the same dozen or so people who were there twenty years ago. Maybe that is the Motte's fate. I'd like to think there is a way out of that, but you're kidding yourself if you think "woke" is so over that we can go back to the days of the first Trump administration on Reddit.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


The idea that she married her brother and committed immigration fraud was treated as a laughable conspiracy only Fox News-addled partisans would treat as anything more than a joke.




Elsewhere, maybe. I'm pretty sure there were plenty of people here who took the idea seriously, or at least did not consider it laughable.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for October 11, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think it's mostly the first thing - we have had a gradual but inevitable decline in activity (and what activity there is in increasingly self-referential or just retreading old ground), and thus in QCs.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I advocate the romantasy because they make it really easy to see the machinery at work, and there are so many of them you can probably find something to your taste.




I am not sniffing at romances (or romantasies) because I don't understand the allure. I understand the allure. Of course everyone has fantasies, whether they are romantic, power fantasies, competency-porn, or whatever. What I mean is that every romantasy I've ever looked at is just so badly-written, and has so little plot beyond "Which bad boy alpha fighting over me shall I choose?" (I mean, I guess in some of them the chick is also a bad-ass fairy assassin or something, but that just makes it more badly written) that I cannot enjoy them. I feel the same about romance in general, though I've read a couple that were enjoyable enough, despite being very formulaic. Do you recommend any romantasy that would actually stand on its own, with good plot and prose in its own right, beyond serving up female wish fulfillment?




Call me crazy but I think it's the same idea: fantasy is inherent to narrative, narrative is inherent to cognition, and that's how we understand history. News and current events are just stories, and we understand stories in heroic terms. Everything is hero-worship, fantasy is cognition.




Without getting too serious (and off-topic), I don't quite understand your point here, because you seem to be saying that your Iran takes are fantasy and hero-worship, which I am pretty sure is not what you meant. I mean, I get that you literally worship Trump as a hero, but are you saying that framing all events as a fantastical narrative of good and evil is how you think we  should understand the world? Rather than messy conflicting narratives where facts exist but are hard to discern or agree upon?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
You and @VIM have both been temp banned before for this kind of petty sniping. Stop it. Argue without the snide, condescending pot shots.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
You've been warned and temp-banned many times for this kind of posting. We let you have a pretty long leash; you're allowed to hate people, you're allowed to be angry, you're allowed to say you think violence is inevitable as long as you aren't directly advocating it or threatening it (and even then, we're pretty subjective and lenient as long as you aren't fedposting too blatantly or insulting us with "in Minecraft" winking).


But you're not allowed to personally attack people because they don't share your point of view. No matter how angry that makes you and no matter how much you hate that people believe things that make you angry.


We've always been clear that there is a high bar to calling someone a liar directly. And the people you are snarling at are clearly stating why they don't share your point of view. People are not lying when they disagree with you that you are being replaced. You can argue all you like about what "replacement" means, but you do not get to just spit and snarl because you don't like the state of the world and that you have to share it with people who aren't aligned with you. Telling someone "they know it's happening and they think it's good" is uncharitable, and against the rules even if you really believe it's true. (I think several things about you that I really believe are true and which would be unacceptable to post.)


You've got one post above that was borderline and has been sitting in the queue while we decided what to do with it, which was a mistake because you only escalated the antagonism.


Mitigating circumstances are that we took a few days to get to this, and we're generally reluctant to drop a long ban on someone a few days after the fact (reluctant- but that doesn't mean it won't happen), and that you deleted the even more incendiary post you wrote, which suggests you at least had second thoughts about the wisdom of behaving like this, if not the appropriateness of it.


Less mitigating is that your mod notes are lengthy and show no sign of improvement, only a temporary willingness to tone it down and hope we forget before the next time you lose your cool.


So I'm not going to permaban you as I threatened to last time. But I am giving you a 30-day temp ban.


It seems pretty clear you don't want to discuss, you just want a place to spit and stomp your feet and pound your fists and rage. This is not that place. You won't get another warning, at least not from me.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for October 9, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


and the artwork for the single is blatantly AI-generated (note that the word "the" appears twice at the top of the image,




I didn't even notice that because I was distracted by her nipple being in the wrong place. AIs nowadays usually do better than that with anatomy unless they're told "Make sure the nipple is half-visible beneath her collar."


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I don't think a firing squad is inhumane. I'm talking about livestreaming it, which also is not in itself inhumane, but I don't think the motivation for that is anything other than base spectacle. It does not strike me as taking the responsibility of executing someone seriously, but rather turning it into entertainment.


I'm sure many people will be entertained.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Yes, they're disgusting. Call me old-fashioned; I remember when we expected presidents to be above acting like that.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I am not, in principal, against the death penalty, and I certainly think Nidal Hassan deserves it.


However, IMO, it should be a sober, deliberative action we do because we have made a rational decision, not something to please a bloodthirsty crowd. And it should be done humanely, no matter how big a scumbag the condemned was, and no matter how many people would like to see him slowly tortured to death.




reveling in low-class pandering and/or ostentatious cruelty




is exactly the point here. I fully expect the administration to "botch the aesthetics of the occasion," by which I mean they will treat it like a celebration and sell T-shirts, and if they botch the execution itself and Hassan lies on the ground, bleeding out but not dead, Trump will probably do a cute imitation of his dying gurgles, to wild cheers.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
You could probably call it that nowadays, in the same way that a lot of stuff that wasn't originally "YA" is now called that. I've read very little Mercedes Lackey, but my recollection of the Pern books is that the romance subplots were mostly pretty light, not the primary running theme.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I like your Harry Potter takes much more than I like your Iran takes.


I generally agree with you about the nature of the Potterverse, but one of the reasons people get wrapped up in the illogic, and the "shipping," is that the books made an awkward transition from "children's series where we can accept that magic is whimsical and fairy-tale like and doesn't need to make sense" to "YA series where people are starting to have adult relationships, the story is increasingly metaphorical, and the world is starting to look silly." Thirteen-year-old Hermione being given a Time-Turner so she can take more classes is funny. The Time-Turner is a MacGuffin. Seventeen-year-old Harry fighting wizard Nazis and being threatened with torture and death makes you wonder why he (or Hermione) isn't thinking about Time-Turners.


Rowling is a good author. The sense of wonder, the aliveness of the wizarding world, the investment in characters, is why HP became huge despite neither her world nor her prose being better than many other authors writing in the same playground. But she's very much an author for whom "numbers aren't real" and "worldbuilding isn't a thing," and that means when the audience gets older and starts thinking about the inconsistencies, well, they realize that the Wizarding World only works if you don't think about it too much.


Getting back to Malfoid, I agree that this is gooner slop, even if the visual presentation is chaste. Harry marrying a nice girl next door isn't good enough; gooners don't want a quiet girl next door, they want a hot blonde badass who's pretty and feisty and kind of bitchy but will become submissive and demure (but still sexy) for you... only for you. It's the flip side of the woman who fantasizes about the rough bad boy alpha who reveals his tender squishy heart only for you.


I am kind of surprised to see you praise romantasy, as hereabouts it's often criticized for being basically literary porn for women. Now, I am a literary snob (no, not really, I like Dungeon Crawler Carl and Harry Potter), but I'm also a literary gourmand. I'll try anything. I've tried romantasy. Have yet to find one that didn't bore me or strike me as execrably bad writing. I tried to read Twilight back in the day. I didn't hate it, it didn't give me girl cooties, it just... bored me. You say the bad writing is the point, and maybe that's true (romance has always been a very formulaic, mass-produced product), but I don't know why I'd want to suffer bad writing and boredom if I am not the target audience getting dopamine hits from an enemies-to-lovers alpha story written like a fourteen-year-old's first fanfic.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Is Progression Fantasy still "niche," with Dungeon Crawler Carl breaking containment?




DCC is LitRPG, which is another sub-genre of Progression Fantasy. Yes, DCC has dramatically expanded the audience for both, but I have yet to see a harem fantasy hit the mainstream. Would be hilarious when/if it does. I can only imagine the CW discussion points it will spawn.