Botond173
9hr ago
Target rich environment indeed, for flings, hookups, short-term relationships and plate-spinning. Not for marriage. See my reply above to The_Nybbler in the same chain.
Botond173
9hr ago
Doctors are normally from middle-class, relatively affluent suburban families, I imagine. In these circles assortative mating has been the norm for decades. For such a doctor to marry a nurse, for example, someone who does not and will not have a college degree and is of a lower social status than him, is not considered socially accepted behavior. It’s suspicious, sleazy toxic male behavior, and his family and friends will not approve of it. Most middle-class people have no stomach for social ostracism.
Please note that I'm referring to strictly marriages only.
Botond173
9hr ago
the women who make this their top priority from the time they're 19
I'm pretty confident that no such women exist anywhere. Either they don’t make this a priority because it doesn’t even occur to them and would find it icky were it to be suggested to them, or their family make it a top priority for her with her having little choice in the matter because she lives in a patriarchal culture. What does happen in reality is that some women pair up in high school or college and remain committed, usually cohabiting for long years before marrying and having children. But it’s a matter of convenience, not personal strategy. If this does not happen, her chances of mating successfully will start quickly diminishing in the current social reality.
Botond173
10hr ago
I thought it would make sense to quote what actually happened. But noted, thanks.
Botond173
1d ago
You can have a concept of Britishness as a civic identity shared by a closed class of English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish (or Northern Irish) people, although there isn't an attempt to actually do that until modern right-populist movements, and it goes down like a lead balloon with the Scottish and Welsh.
I think the one shared identity of those peoples was empire-building.
Botond173
1d ago
I'd argue that when a foundation of a state as a process entails the expulsion of ethnic minorities, it can be considered an ethnostate. Post-1945 Czechoslovakia and post-1995 Croatia, for example.
Botond173
1d ago
from the 1934 Montreux Conference of the NSDAP and its allies
Notable in their absence were any representatives from Nazi Germany. The conference in Montreux occurred only six months after the assassination of the Austrofascist Austrian chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss by Nazi agents and the resulting diplomatic crisis between Italy and Germany. Likewise, Mussolini did not allow any official representative of the Italian Fascist Party to attend the meeting, ostensibly in order to see what the conference could achieve before lending full official support.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_Montreux_Fascist_conference#Participants
Botond173
1d ago
This is eminently practical from a leftist point of view, as people unwilling to oppose communist revolutionaries with force will inexorably end up being ruled by those very revolutionaries, resulting in their dispossession, deportation and eventual destruction, thus removing them as a potential right-wing threat and permitting future leftist to sing their praises as principled, moderate conservative martyrs. Either way it's the leftists who win.
Botond173
1d ago
Mussolini specifically did not even bother to attempt to comprehensively define it for good:
The essay was written in 1927 by Mussolini, with the help of Giovanni Gentile. It was first published in 1932, in the 14th volume of the Italian Encyclopedia (Enciclopedia Italiana), as the first section of a lengthy entry on "Fascismo" (Italian for 'Fascism'). The entire entry on fascism spans pages 847–884 of the Enciclopedia Italiana, and includes numerous photographs and graphic images. The entry starts on page 847 and ends on 851 with the credit line "Benito Mussolini". All subsequent translations of "The Doctrine of Fascism" were derived from this work.
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In 1940, Mussolini ordered all remaining copies of the document, which had different editions and translations, to be destroyed "because he changed his mind about certain points".
Botond173
1d ago
There are no women who get no attention at all, and none that have zero access to sex. In that sense femcels factually do not exist.
Botond173
1d ago
There's a point there, but the whole issue is that women aren't accepting such correction or coaching.
Not from non-attractive men, that is - and those are incidentally the only social group willing to coach them. It's a deadlock.
Botond173
1d ago
In a post-patriarchal society that'd be pointless for a number of obvious reasons.
Botond173
1d ago
This is one reason I never bought the "patriarchal oppressor" framing — why do you think men call precious things like their cars "she"? Because they love women!
I think it's because cars, ships and aircraft are expensive to maintain, especially when it comes to paintjobs.
Botond173
1d ago
They like having gay men as friends. It’s simple social dynamics. Young single women in groups of two or more are happy to invite gay men into their social circle because they know these men will never be a source of any jealousy and conflict among them, and that these men will never hit on them.
Botond173
2d ago
I’d say the two important pieces of data here are ‘second and third generation hippies’ and ‘end of their fertile years’. I’m assuming casual and/or premarital sex is completely normalized in social circles consisting of hippie descendants and that not all of these guys are hopeless loser dorks. I imagine many of them are but there is necessarily a level of variation among any group of men. And sexually attractive and blue-pilled men i.e. men unaware of the real sources of their attractiveness and social status do exist everywhere and are not rare. This probably means that many of these guys had affairs and flings with women in their social circle as long as those women were young and mainly interested in having fun, hanging out etc. and just assumed that this is how it’ll always be.
I find it curious that you listed massage therapists. Do those happen to be gay by any chance?
Botond173
3d ago
You’re mixing up a couple of things here. The atrocities that took place in East Prussia were the usual sort of war crimes committed as acts of revenge and as an outburst of revelry and barbaric violence. It’s a stretch to say that these represented a systematic state policy. The expulsion of the German minorities happened after the war and cannot be considered war crimes as such, and took place in the context where the Nazi government used the defense of those minorities as a pretext to occupy and attack neighboring countries. Strictly speaking, no military considerations were involved, only political ones.
The German war crimes that are brought up in this discussion were committed in the context of a hostage-taking policy, which in itself was not considered to be against the laws of war before 1949.
Botond173
3d ago
No need to mention it. I was myself surprised when I came across this article. I just assumed that the Brits deployed lethal poison gas there as standard practice without a second thought.
Botond173
4d ago
A fairly extensive Wiki article is dedicated to this mysterious subject.
Botond173
4d ago
The ambiguity is by design, because this is another standard case of SJW journalists concocting arguments designed to appeal to normies and thus give them the false impression that they are culturally on the same side as these journos.
What are the normie boundaries that apply in this case? To expand on what you observed: 1. Scientists are serious people with important tasks; they should dress accordingly in public 2. Fanboying over latex-clad skimpy pin-up girls is sort of tolerable as long as you’re an unserious young dudebro; when you’re older, not so much; by that point you should marry some frumpy woman and throw such clothes into the garbage 3. Some hobbies are only appropriate to pursue in general during adolescence 4. Fat and ugly women exist and we need to tolerate them because they deserve a place in society. To rub under their noses the existence of hot women when they’re already miserable and dispirited most of the time is unbecoming of a decent man, who is supposed to be magnanimous and benevolent, not petty and snarky.
But do these journalists and bloggers actually subscribe to such norms unironically? Of course they don’t.
Botond173
4d ago
That’s no ‘hentai shirt’. A hentai/ahegao shirt/hoodie looks something like this (Amazon URL) or this (Reddit URL). There are multiple variations and are well-known in the otaku subculture.
This shirt features simple pin-up girls (as correctly identified by Time magazine) in leather/latex, which has been a normie-adjacent heavy metal / sword-and-sorcery / fantasy aesthetic marketed to toxic white trash / working class dudebros for decades. It has nothing to do with hentai or anime for that matter.
Botond173
4d ago
I think the unstated consensus among the normie masses is that being bullied is simply a sign of low status, so it's not their job to try fixing that.
Botond173
4d ago
There has been an escalating trend for years by that point. It was probably the Tea Party movement that was the direct trigger. It had a cascading effect, and the Blue Tribe started radicalizing itself. See this Jezebel screed as one example. The writing was on the wall that things are about to get bad.
That's a rather bold claim to be made by a CEO in the construction sector.
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