JTarrou
1hr ago
By preaching race-hate, the elites paper over the class switch they're making in those elite positions. It's not poor black american kids getting DEI positions, at least not at the elite level. It's mostly rich, elite african and caribbean kids from extreme privilege who then pretend to be oppressed because they had to go to Brown instead of Yale. The elites are betting that black americans will be happy just to see people who share their skin color in elite positions. And so on with all the other minorities.
The issues that are pushed by the elites are intended to fail. They are not reasonable requests. The minority grievance will be channeled into the stupidest possible lane to ensure that nothing really changes, but everyone can claim it's because they weren't radical enough. Abolish police? Men in women's sports? Chemically castrating gay kids? No borders? Generation after generation of the scions of wealth and power posing in commie gear and talking about tearing down the system.
The whole revolutionary pose is nothing more than a threadbare blanket over the rankest conservatism. So fearful of change they must stymie every advance by making it stupidly radical.
JTarrou
14hr ago
The indigenous are just the most recent intellectual cat's paw to be used by the actual native elites to keep the restive natives at bay by humiliating and shaming them for imagined crimes against more historical natives.
Whether it's the poor, the disabled, the gay, the communist, the catholics or the blacks or the jews or the palestinians or the ukrainians, it's just the cudgel of the day. It's how rich mostly-white people who went to the best colleges convince themselves they are chosen by god to lead their countries. The "revolutionary" stance of Ivy league grads and rich kids. It's just a hatred of their own working class, and fear of their electoral power. Only with constant state-funded propaganda, educational brainwashing and public religious ceremonies can the nation be cleansed of its (historical and minor by comparison) sins. And of course, a lot of public money flushed down the toilet of middle-class bureaucrats siphoning off all the cash being spent on the problems they claim to want to alleviate.
JTarrou
17hr ago
The list is extensive
Stalin was a Georgian, Napoleon a Corsican, Hitler an Austrian, Churchill half American etc. to demonstrate sometimes these extreme partisans rise to leadership as well. Sometimes the signal is seen as authentic.
JTarrou
1d ago
Where does this end?
It ends with women importing a patriarchy willing to force their fertility in accordance with tradition. Handmaid's Tale is a utopian fantasy, and only one religion fits the bill currently.
JTarrou
1d ago
One of the phenomena I've noticed is that marginal members of groups often position themselves as radical partisans of that group. Colin Kaepernick is a half-black kid raised by a white couple. So of course he has a giant afro and a black-supremacist girlfriend.
Fuentes is a gay little mexican, so of course he's a "white nationalist" or whatever.
Those stuck inbetween groups may feel the need to loudly signal their loyalty through signals that may or may not be seen as authentic by more central members of the group.
JTarrou
1d ago
Offhand, successful sniper assassins are fucking rare. There's a few, but the vast majority of firearm assassinations are done a couple of ways. There's the concealed handgun at gut range, and the classic Three Guys in a Van With AKs Riddle Your Ride.
At teh ranges to be expected in even a large indoor venue, a shotgun isn't an obviously crazy choice, unless you're considering SS body armor. But, of course, the weapon choice was the least of his tactical errors.
JTarrou
1d ago
The extent of my running experience is the two mile in high school, plus a platoon sergeant with a fetish. But this is one of those big things that humanity has been pushing for a long time. The limits of human physical capability. Always cool to see a milestone fall.
JTarrou
2d ago
This. Women define the term expansively to cover as much behavior as possible, men do basically the opposite.
I've never struck a woman outside a training gym. But I've been struck by dozens, stabbed by one. And had a fork thrown at me which by sheer bad luck stuck in my leg by another. By my count that's one count of DV, unreported. If I were a chick, that would be two decades of abuse and it's all society's fault for the misandry that encouraged that sort of female behavior. I call it dating latinas and art hoes.
Note for the boys still in the game, one or the other, not both. That's how you get stabbed.
JTarrou
2d ago
The safety people are concerned about is usually downstream of their political paranoias and conspiracy theories.
Middle class fratboys are "rape culture", but afghan hill people are "diversity of consent". etc
The left-wing focus on guns is mostly a dodge to redirect public anger over black crime and liberal judges throwing violent criminals into the population at law-abiding Republicans who own guns. If only Billy Bob couldn't buy an AR, DeQuarious wouldn't be shooting LaShontrakayze with a Kel Tec.
JTarrou
3d ago
In practice it's only "men who self consciously see themselves as men in terms of political class".
But yes, it's generally a bad idea in any democracy to gain a reputation for hating half the country.
JTarrou
3d ago
Camus' "The Fall" is basically about this. He calls it the "Judge Penitent", the man who confesses his degeneracy and uses that as moral cachet to criticize the failings of others.
JTarrou
3d ago
The answer is simple. It's not about making women safe, it's about dragging men as a political class. There's never much trouble finding a member of a group to be the public face of opposing it. Mearsheimer, Candace Owens, Milo etc.
This is not a public service announcement to reduce female risk of victimization, this is a political blood libel aimed at shoring up the paranoia of the sort of bigots who think all men are racist patriarchal scum (but not the good Mr. Peglow).
JTarrou
3d ago
Link back to the first post and my response to it here.
Excerpted:
The whole point of a prediction market is that people with inside knowledge will exploit it, thus leading to shifts in the odds line, thus leading to that insider information being communicated to all of us, anonymously through the price signal.
JTarrou
4d ago
The cost of victory is internal dissent. When the left was culturally dominant, they had infinite groups struggling for internal supremacy. They still have some of it.
Various flavors of righties fighting each other instead of the left is exactly what one would expect the moment they win. If, as I believe most likely, right-wing politics becomes more culturally dominant, this will only get worse. If the left becomes the cultural minority as it were, we can expect them to paper over their differences after some period of internal struggle and make some changes to try to get back in the saddle.
Political parties are coalitions. There's always internal disagreement. Winners fight over the spoils, losers become compacted as a coalition by failure.
JTarrou
4d ago
I believe the SPLC leadership are hardcore anti-white racists funding anti-black/jewish racists to fundraise off that perceived threat, who have been bilking hapless lefties out of their money to put on a racist kabuki theater while enriching themselves.
Of course, anti-white racism requires enough cognitive dissonance and luxury beliefs that it usually involves a fair bit of anti-black racism too, but that's generally subconscious.
JTarrou
5d ago
"Dangerous right wing hate groups" are so thin on the ground they literally can't hold a meeting without funding from the Deep State funneled through NGO cutouts like the SPLC. I'm reminded of the tale of the anarchist newspaper in which every one of the dozens of editors, employees and writers was an intelligence agent or informant for a different government. "Anarchy" groups were a whole thing for intelligence services to conceal their doings back in the early 20th century. If you've heard of a "white supremacist", odds are good he's being promoted by teh glowies.
My experience as someone with excessively geeky and male interests is that I needed to build a whole different skill set of talking to girls/normies about topics that weren't my "interests". I had to learn to be interested in more things.
A decent girl with a couple very general shared interests is a reasonable aspiration. A manic pixie dream girl who is into model trains AND confederate reenactment AND the Persona franchise probably isn't. Not to be snide, just trying to make a silly point.
The competition for women who are into male-dominated interests is intense, and you can tell from the physical mismatch of couples how much some men are willing to sacrifice for that shared interest.
I don't know what you're into, but when you go to events for it, are the men notably more or less attractive than their female partners? How many of the men have female partners? How many unattached women are there? Where are you in the social hierarchy of that interest? And can you do the math for what that means for your chances of snagging someone from that particular pool of potential partners?
JTarrou
6d ago
it is now much more widely accepted in society that insulting and abusing the disabled is a shitty thing to do
Is it? Concern for the less fortunate was not invented in the sixties.
JTarrou
6d ago
Imaginary mental anguish is a common manipulation tactic.
Who is out there informing all the retards that someone said the word? Do they have a daily call-in show?
JTarrou
6d ago
Socialization is a self-fulfilling prophecy. If someone has been socialized to be an adult by twelve, they'll mostly live up to that. If they've been socialized not to be an adult until 40, they'll do that too. It's mostly a function of what we all demand of adolescents. "Teenagers" are a modern invention. Legally and socially we need a clear line, which has for the past fifty years or so been eighteen. For the most part, that's not a bad compromise. But the socialization about what is expected of those age groups changes much faster than law.
JTarrou
6d ago
Now I think "interesting women" are a sorta-gay straight-male fantasy. Like a bro, except hot and and female and you have sex!
If you must have an interesting woman in this definition, you better get interested in chick stuff, or start hitting on Camille Paglia. The venn diagram of attractive single women with a 40k obsession and a geographical proximity to a given nerd approaches a geometrical line.
The ways in which women are interesting has little to do with their hobby interests.
JTarrou
7d ago
The whole secret of fishing is where and when.
If there are no suitable mates where you are fishing, try a different hole.
Also, perhaps think long and hard about what you mean by "interesting".
Long ago, I thought interesting women were women who were interested in the same things I was interested in. Which meant all the interesting girls were lesbians.
I agree with the cultural shift required in the black community more or less. But that's not really something anyone outside the community can make happen. I hope it happens, but there ain't much for anyone else to do.
As to greater black participation in college, I think that's a losing game and people need to forget that path as a means of uplifting the poorer parts of the black community. Whatever IQ predicts, it predicts academic achievement. You are not going to get the poorest and dumbest third of black people through any college degree worthy of the name. It is not going to fucking happen, and if that's your plan to help black people, you don't want to help black people.
Better norms about violence, honor, work and family would be great, but as I said, not really much for everyone else to do about that.
It is time to end the discrimination based on college degree, which would do more for the black community than trying to bootstrap 75 IQ hoodrats through a college course.
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