Botond173
8hr ago
Playgrounds count as third places as well. In that sense, young parents in fact also very much need them.
Botond173
8hr ago
Isn’t the usual heretical HBD realist argument regarding food deserts that the rampant crime that is the staple of ghetto areas is discouraging enterpreneurs from running small shops of any kind? Also, doesn't a food desert by definition include any shop within a walking distance that offers any food, not just healthy food?
Botond173
8hr ago
I’m rather certain that youths in apprenticeship/vocational training also have sufficient opportunity to party, smoke weed, play video games, chill and hook up. The main difference is that none of that is financed by government money; on the other hand, we’re talking about people that are already earners. I guess I also have to concede that they lack access to the social circles that are normally made up by college students, which does hinder hookup/options.
Am I missing something here?
Botond173
9hr ago
I wouldn't argue that BJJ gyms count as third places, as they obviously only exist to serve BJJ practicioners. Third places by definition need to also be accessible to average people who don't necessarily share a niche hobby.
Botond173
3d ago
I think it's more accurate to simply say that the female sex drive is reactive and the male sex drive is not.
Botond173
3d ago
non-promiscuous men are still chasing the "hoes" (and are complaining about them) instead of concentrating on the majority of women that aren't
I've checked out this extensive discussion and maybe I've missed a couple of arguments but I don't see anyone questioning this premise, even though I think it's highly suspect. It seems to be a usual case of female delusion drive by a combination of projection and the apex fallacy.
Botond173
3d ago
I think the correct summary is: society accepts unfairness as long as it benefits women.
Botond173
3d ago
Yes. This is the same data I have previously seen posted on Marginal Revolution, for example. Demographic implosion has been happening for decades and is continuing, but the causes have changed.
Botond173
3d ago
I think Kraut was referring to the population pyramid, not population size.
Botond173
3d ago
I suggest two thought experiments.
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Let's assume that Denmark goes into a serious economic crisis and consequently the government decides to cut down own welfare spending? Which demographic is most likely to lose their handouts first, if not poor men, especially single men?
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Take a 20-year-old pretty single woman from the poorest region of Ukraine and take her to a Danish town. Compared to a 20-year-old poor but handsome local man on welfare, which of them do you think is more likely to receive more attention, time, money and resources from Danish society?
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Also, is your argument then that homosexual men romanticize the concept masculinity because they are unable to experience their own masculinity by being a husband and father?
Botond173
8d ago
I wonder if Mishima had Italian and German (so post-Axis) contemporaries, with the same sort of experiences and talents as he had.
Botond173
8d ago
I think relatively intelligent women are also aware of this and it is a source of frustration and resentment for them. A beautiful woman has innate value to society pretty much no matter what she does – that’s rather obvious. But the thing with innate worth is that, well, it’s innate and constant. You’ll be valued as a beautiful woman for sure, but not for anything else or anything more. You can try proving your intelligence and abilities but everyone will just assume that it’s only your pretty face that gets doors opened for you. You’ll never be more than you already are. This does not apply to men who, on the other hand, have no innate worth to society.
Botond173
8d ago
There’s this relatively well-known (I guess) online trope that goes something like this:
Girlfriend who is breaking up with you just now: “You’ll never find another girl like me!”
You (in your head): but.. you literally look exactly like every other girl (recalling a scene you’ve just seen on the street the other day, where a bunch of college girls looking exactly the same were hanging around the street corner)
The joke here is mainly that the college girls featured in this trope are all wearing these gigantic, baggy, light-colored jeans and also completely similar tops. Can anyone explain where this style originates? What’s the story on this? I’m aware of the usual answers: women are like a dumb herd, fashion does not need to make any sense, it’s just a fad etc.
I can only assume that the modern average middle-class single woman, acculturated in 3rd wave feminism, is reluctant to wear either skirts or those tight-fitting low-rider jeans from the turn of the millennium because she assumes it’d draw the attention of shithead patriarchal dudebros.
Botond173
8d ago
Not Charlottesville PD, but the officials who were controlling it. The governor, the city mayor, the deputy mayor etc.
Botond173
9d ago
I think the covert agenda was to provoke an altercation where at least one protester is compelled to fire a deadly shot, thus producing one or more tragic and heroic liberal martyrs for the mainstream media to then sanctify.
Botond173
11d ago
I'll repeat another point I made here earlier.
Nobody ever brings up the Pikeville rally, which happened a few months earlier, with pretty much the same political groups present on both sides. Which is understandable, because nobody remembers it. Down the memory hole it went, because there were no deaths, no altercations, no incidents at all. You know why? Because the riot police was deployed, and was actually ordered to do the one job they should have, which is separating groups of violent protesters from one another. Which pretty much tells you all you need to know about the political reality of the Charlottesville rally. I think the main takeaway is that such protests are preferably to be organized at locations where the local political leadership is non-RINO Republican, because only they can be counted on to treat the protestors and antifa equally.
Botond173
11d ago
You should have hand-selected thirty people and gone somewhere private and just made it seem like it was a big march. The point of this, I suppose, would be to recruit members. Of course the media would be there and find the ugliest person saying the dumbest thing and link that to your movement. This is 101 stuff. And you didn’t actually want to signal strength anyway, you wanted to signal victimhood. You needed to show a White Virginian having to work at a slaughterhouse surrounded by Hondurans who don’t speak English, and then show a random Muslim from Pakistan getting a scholarship to UVa with a clear look of superiority on his face.
I ask you to consider that the rally, despite its name, was specifically organized to protest the planned removal of General Lee’s statue. This is the starting point that needs to be considered first.
Botond173
11d ago
I suspect that what you think of as errors were intended policy actually.
Botond173
15d ago
Haley Stevens, Mallory McMorrow, and Abdul El-Sayed all have viable campaigns.
This reads like some political comedy piece.
"Socially acceptable loitering" is simply another word for "socializing", I think, which is the whole purpose of third places.
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