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				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 17, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
He appointed the judges who overturned RvW.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 17, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Internet drama that we all subsequently talk about and/or elect president.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 17, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The centralization trend was already present, hell Usenet was a central forum before people used the term forum (compared to contemporary BBSs.)


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 17, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
TikTok is poised to overtake Twitter as the main wellspring of culture. Facebook and Reddit both let you post videos. Substack, tumblr, and other blogs are an increasingly irrelevant fraction.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 17, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


For me it is hard to believe that people were so stupid for such a long time and wasted time and resources doing it just for fun.




You may be underestimating just how much people enjoy cruelty.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 17, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Making video the primary form of communication has ruined the internet.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 10, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


the 'cis-by-default' concept that's kinda the opposite of it, where someone doesn't hugely care about gender but also doesn't get any reason to act toward their default role.




I strongly suspect that this is the majority of people. I am baffled by someone describing the experience of 'feeling like' something as abstract as a Gender.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 10, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


they could have made their own universe




We live in Sequel world now, no further universes are allowed.


Also, you're not allowed to not care.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 10, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Oh see I thought that, like many things in AoT, the ending where Erin Does Shit (which I also haven't seen yet) was going to be Evangelion-adjacent.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 10, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
No way on (2). When Putin needs a Casus Belli he bombs some civvies. He wouldn't torch something that was making good money.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 10, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I more or less already feel this way about the transition from Desktop to Mobile. I can sit down to my desktop and program it; my phone can only be programmed with a special SDK running on a desktop, and the program can only be shared with permission from the powers that be. We already lost, we lost years ago, and everything sucks now.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 10, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


reducing the ability of a criminal to continue his crimes, deterring future crimes by others




And revenge is the instinctive drive to accomplish those present in all primates at least.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 10, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
9/11 truthers tend to (but don't always) avoid saying something as antagonistic as 'hey nyc cops, your buddies didn't die in 9/11, they were crisis actors, you're an actor' etc. I would expect someone as high profile as Jones doing it to get Dorner'd.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 10, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
If he'd gone after 9/11 cops the way he went after Sandy Hook families he'd be dead by now. He chose his victims wisely.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 10, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
That's just what AIs are good at right now, don't confuse it with intelligence.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 10, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


At what point does justice cross into thirst for revenge?




Justice is the formalized, civilized version of the impulse for revenge. Jones goes to court instead of being paraded around the streets of Hartford on a rail.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 10, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I suppose there's no accounting for poor production, but then I'm not sure that kids movies we had before the 2010s (or whenever we wanna draw the woke dividing line) were particularly well made. Sure there are outliers, but you've got to remember that most of that stuff is and always will be crap. Find the good ones and show those to your kids. And while you're at it, don't give them unfettered access to streaming platforms.


As for adults who make a habit of engaging online with children's mermaid films, time to put away childish things/etc. And similar story to Show Which Will Not Be Named, if you give it your time, Bigcorp wins.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 10, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Some of his more memorable rhymes:




Heard they'd do anything for a Klondike






Well, I'd do anything for a blonde dyke






And she'll do anything for the limelight






And we'll do anything when the time's right






Uh, baby you're makin' it (harder, better, faster, stronger)




The last line finishes on a sample of Daft Punk for the punchline.


I dunno if this is one of the best lyrics of our time or whatever, but considering we're playing the field of pop music, at least he didn't rhyme 'baby' with 'baby.'


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 10, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
In the next sentence I used:




homicidal last-ghasp sprees




Which should have made it clear I wasn't talking about Jesus.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 10, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I just don't think it's a particularly reasonable principle and it never was. Good movies are an art and art is for expressing themes which are sometimes political. It might be more reasonable to ask that politics be kept out of pornography.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 10, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
If you can't tell the difference between George Washington and a suicidal school shooter kid, we're going to have difficulty finding any common ground.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 10, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


He didn't ask why you think he cares now.




Nor did I?




And I think that answer is an easy way to dismiss people who talk about principles




I wasn't dismissing that, I was pointing out that his principle of 'keep politics out of movies' or however he formulated it was never really a principle in the first place


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 10, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Go back and watch media from the 2000s, you'll notice it's absolutely full of pot shots at religion. Different culture war, but it was absolutely a thing back then. But now it's your ox being gored/the Overton window has changed and you haven't.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 10, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Imagine having so little sense of self worth that a sword and someone having to mop seems an undue expense.




Hey give me some credit here, I didn't go for the obvious mess argument and instead injected a fun fact about Samurai swords.




You're dying, subjectively the outcome is no different than if the world itself ended...




People who only care about their own subjective experience and not at all about the future others experience are either not going to worry themselves into a suicidal state, or are the same nihilistic problem individuals that we need to solve for. Unfortunately most do not choose the honorable way out.




the spree killer, as dystopian as they are is at least still recognizably human...




Eh, recognizably mammalian perhaps. From humans I expect more; I expect a human to profit from its acts of violence, even if only to make sure you think twice before fucking with the next human you encounter. Going out in a pointless blaze of glory against unwitting strangers is the type of nihilistic destruction I instead expect from housecat.




The willing submission even in death to the biomedical security state...




Or the triumph of the individual against an inhuman healthcare monstrosity to force the beast to do the one against its decrepit programming: allow the patient to die peacefully.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 10, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
This seems preoccupied with aesthetics. Is cutting yourself in half with a sword more badass than a death doula? Probably. Is it the most pragmatic choice? I wouldn't say so. For one thing, samurai swords are expensive and if you use it, someone needs to wipe the blood off or it's going to mess up the steel.


I further disagree with your elevation of suicidal terrorists. They're rabid dogs who need to be put down, not someone to be celebrated. But the dichotomy between assisted suicide and homicidal last-ghasp sprees is a keen observation, so i'm going to talk about that instead.


Has the stigmatization of suicide pushed people towards murder followed by suicide by cop? One has to wonder if we could reduce the number of spree killers if we responded to their initial self destructive impulses with 'yeah, you can schedule a death, won't take long, and you get a free pizza.'


Maybe that's too extreme a swing. Maybe we just need to not treat suicide as the worst possible outcome for a mental health crisis, and instead treat murder as the worst outcome and suicide an acceptable alternative. If we oriented healthcare and pseudo healthcare that way, there might be a chance...


But then, suicide is probably far more common than murder-suicide, and we don't want to cause 10 suicides to prevent one murder, right?


I suppose not.


And I think Aesthetics might be more powerful than we realize. See, your swordsmen and your mad dogs and your teenagers all have one thing in common: they're imitating behavior, playing out a narrative they've got in their heads. Is there any way to get the djinni of a dangerous narrative back into the bottle? (Dangerous as in, you die at the end of the story!)