Botond173
1hr ago
I ask you not to be obtuse. The ‘Democrats are the real racists’ narrative originates from the 2000s.
Botond173
1hr ago
In what ways do they not?
In a way that agitation against Jews as Jews (that, is based on ancestry and not on Zionist leanings or Israeli citizenship) is a cancellable offense in their eyes, even when black activists do it. That does not mean that those black activists always get cancelled as a result, but anti-Semitic agitation is the one sin they surely can get cancelled for by their comrades.
Botond173
3hr ago
True. At the same time, nobody is claiming that Lebanon is our greatest ally, the only democracy in the Middle East and the bastion of Judeo-Christian culture.
Botond173
3hr ago
That is already a rather large pool of targets, relatively speaking, compared to the situation of conservative normies.
Botond173
5hr ago
who don't get that many acceptable targets
In what sense do you mean this?
Botond173
6hr ago
Do 3rd wave feminists unironically advocate for women to initiate all male-female pairings?
Botond173
6hr ago
I assume you’re a well-informed poster. You and I and everyone on this board surely knows well that ‘Free Palestine’ groups claim to be anti-colonialist, anti-racist and leftist, plus supporters of the concept of national liberation and also of BLM, for example. Their opposition to Israel’s policies rather obviously stem from this ideology and not from a general hatred of the Jewish people and not from a hard opposition towards the concept of a Jewish state in itself, as they view Israel as a white supremacist, unrepentant, aggressor settler state, and many of their members and supporters are themselves Jews. We can, of course, make all sorts of criticism of them, but this needs to be admitted. I guess we can go so far as to call them anti-white, since they see Israeli settlers and Zionists as white. At the same time, not only is their rhetoric not anti-Semitic, they do not tolerate anti-Semitism either, especially not within their own ranks.
Obviously these groups have existed before October 7th, in fact they have existed for a long time, and their ideological rhetoric against Israeli colonialism was also deployed against the US political system, which they view as structurally racist and neo-colonialist. Back when BLM was more relevant, it was the latter that was getting these activists more media attention, and I can only assume that this made many people forget that these groups are also anti-Zionist, and that accusations of anti-Semitism do not work against them at all, for the simple reason that they genuinely do not see themselves as anti-Semitic and thus do not consider themselves compelled to apologize. It’s similar to the case of the ‘Democrats are the real racists’ narrative, which does not work on Democrats one bit.
To the extent that US political opposition towards Zionism and the Zionist lobby exists outside the leftist, anti-racist, anti-colonialist milieu, I think it’s fair to say that it all stems from isolationism, to the extent that it still even exists. And the common attribute of isolationists is that they wish to isolate the US from other conflict regions in the world as well, not just Israel, so I don’t think accusations of anti-Semitism apply in their case either.
Botond173
1d ago
True. My argument is that economic autonomy permits women to select for attributes other than provider ability when looking for a mate. This may result in them indeed not settling at all, or selecting mates that are below them in socio-economic status but otherwise being exceptional in some way that makes them hypergamously attractive.
Botond173
1d ago
'Find me a real life story where an attractive woman with the option to pick between a handsome, reliable, but only moderately wealthy Blue Collar worker, and a high status millionaire minor celeb, and intentionally settled for the former.'
Botond173
1d ago
third wave feminism is, by and large, a reaction to the perception of male sexual threat
I’m no political theorist but as far as I know, one defining characteristic of 3rd wave feminism that differentiates it from the 2nd wave is sex positivity. So there’s either an obvious contradiction here or there is some weird-ass angle to all this that I fail to notice.
Botond173
1d ago
China is indeed not a place where famine, massive uprisings, civil war and regime collapse are unfathomable by any standards. The situation is probably more precarious than it seems from the outside.
Botond173
1d ago
Also a broke-ass wigger with two children from a former relationship with a black woman.
Botond173
1d ago
In a society where women are economically dependent on male provision on an individual basis in the context of monogamy, that is true. Otherwise it’s not necessarily the case.
Botond173
1d ago
The one-child policy resulted in a huge gender imbalance.
I'm surprised that the quoted parts of the article did not mention this. It's arguably the single biggest factor in this whole phenomenon.
Botond173
1d ago
Do you think Liu Yifei or Fan Bingbing would be pursued by someone like you? You wouldn’t pursue them, because you know those beauties wouldn’t be interested in you.
I decided to do a bit of research for purely scientific purposes. According to Wikipedia, I can report that both of those women are single and childless. So is Ma Nuo, by the way. According to this article, she delayed marriage until the age of 35 when she, supposedly due to social pressure only, entered a disastrous and abusive relationship. At the time of that article, divorce proceedings were still pending.
I think all this is relevant to the subject matter at hand, and can be easily explained by Red Pill theories.
Botond173
1d ago
a pre installed web browser that force enables a vibe coded extension.
Can you please explain what this even is?
They just won't let you program YouTube to say "only show and allow this kid this piano guy's channel", nothing else
True. One would assume that this should be possible in a mobile app.
Botond173
1d ago
It’s not like I want to reinvent the wheel or something, but wouldn’t it be possible to design tablets and smartphones specifically for children, just as there are crappy mobile phones designed for old people, with a some sort of built-in set of restrictions regarding apps? With all the enthusiastic narratives regarding the digital revolution and whatnot, one would think that this is feasible.
Botond173
2d ago
Either way, I'm sure 90% of those 36 million would have died within like 3 years anyway due to pre-existing illnesses.
Botond173
2d ago
But this isn't what happened during the lockdowns. The entire population was subjected to them.
Botond173
2d ago
Fair enough, but that's not the angle I had in mind. I have cursory knowledge of the usual accusations leveled against Ford regarding his Nazi ties: getting a German award, his portrait supposedly being displayed on Hitler's desk and similar things of, you know, just enormous magnitude. Compared to these, the Soviet ties of Ford Motor are one a whole different level, and that connection started before Hitler even came to power. And yet down the memory hole it goes. No mention of it anywhere.
Botond173
2d ago
It's funny how everyone conveniently forgets that Ford had much more extensive business dealings with Stalin than with Hitler. It was due to Ford that there was a truck industry in the USSR in the first place.
Botond173
3d ago
Quarantine has been an effective measure to mitigate infectious disease outbreaks for nearly a thousand years (and before modern medicine, the only available tool).
Quarantines were enacted to isolate only those who were confirmed to be infected. Let's not misinterpret clear definitions.
I don’t think it’s a case of deflection. The DRR/DR3 narrative may be effective when directed at the Republican base because it reinforces their priors but it’s utterly meaningless for Democrats because their belief is that racism is a structural evil whereas Republicans think it’s a personal moral failing. So if you accuse Democrats of racism they won’t even react because they’re full convinced that not one of them is guilty. On the other hand, the racism accusations works against Republicans (as evidenced by them always taking such accusations seriously and publicly denying them) for the reason I mentioned i.e. it is conceivable for Republicans that some of their own are actually racists, which makes them afraid of such accusations.
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