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				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 28, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I am familiar with the unit (as of my PhD days it was still the main practical unit among engineers and experimental physicists because the Tesla is so large) but I also read "gauss" as a proper name.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 28, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
And of course all the words on the left are scientific and technical terms as well - I would say "shemale" is the closest to a non-technical word on either side.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 28, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I get all the left side and about a third of the right. For someone who gets more of them, am I right in thinking that the vast majority of the words on the right (not "doula" or "pessary") are technical terms about textiles?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 28, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I would guess Mormons and Jews still have opportunities in this regard. The workplace is largely too risky now but it was possible at one point.




Odds are bad for women among true-believing Mormons - allegedly because the expectation to go on a mission causes a lot more young men than young women to drop out of active Mormonism around age 18.


Odds are also bad for women among high-fertility Jewish sects because Jewish norms are for a moderate (c. 4 years) age gap, and there are significantly more 18-year-old women than 22-year-old men if the population is growing.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 28, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Don't fly a woman out of a different country and then try to seduce her.




This used to be called "transporting a woman for an immoral purpose" and was illegal in most places into the 1980s.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 28, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Yes. My point. Do workers BELIEVE that forcing the boss to give them more pay for fewer hours is in their interests? Usually yes.




The fact that organised violence is needed to prevent scabbing suggests that the answer is "only the workers who are correct to think this do so".


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 28, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


That's the definition of victory. America is at "pre-war status quo,"




I'd call that a draw, regardless of what happened to the other guy. I don't think the United States of America is in the type of zero-sum competition with Iran where destroying Iran's stuff is per se a victory, particularly given that China exists.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 28, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think Claude is wrong and both polling aggregators like Nate Silver and betting/prediction markets have consistently outperformed elite pundits at election prediction.


These midterms will be a good test - both polls and prediction markets are predicting a landslide, while the pundit consensus is that the Democrats are narrow favourites to win the House and have no chance in the Senate.


Random conservatives on the internet, of whom we have a great many here, are equivalent to a rock with "The polls are rigged, the GOP will win easily." Such a rock would have called two of the last three Presidential elections correctly (but zero of the last three mid-terms), but I don't think that is good evidence that the writing on the rock is causally connected to election results. The rock probably beats elite pundits, but so do tossed coins, psychic octopuses, the hemline rule, astrology and technical analysis.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 28, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


As far as I can see the post above doesn't state Iran is winning, only that USA is not winning.




This is the critical point. A drawn war is a bad result for both sides. (The famous example is the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, because Kissinger said "It's a pity both sides can't lose", but the war was indecisive so both sides kind of did).


If this was a Paradox game, the warscore would be something like 20% in favour of the US with no visible path to 100% before the "Vassal levies raised too long" warning was joined by a "There are dangerous factions" warning.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 28, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Iran is a defeated power with no ability to contest the Gulf let alone build nuclear weapons: that is simply not the status quo.






Before the war broke out, if we had predicted the above,




On 1st January 2026, the United States operated a naval base in Bahrain. As long as they remain unable to do so, the Gulf is contested.


On 1st January 2026, the public position of the government of the United States was that the Iran no longer had a functioning nuclear programme - Trump claimed to have destroyed it in 2025. Before Trump started escalating against Iran back in his first term, the agreed position of Iran, the United States, Russia and China was that Iran would not enrich uranium beyond reactor grade, with a verification process in place. I think a non-nuclear-for-now Iran is entirely consistent with status quo ante for various values of status quo ante.


I've said it before and I'll say it again. America has not lost. America has not won. Iran has not lost. Iran has not won. This is what a draw looks like. It is the nature of a drawn war that under all likely scenarios for a negotiated peace before the midterms, both America and Iran are worse off than they would be if they had not fought. This is not a tabletop wargame where you can work out who "won" an indecisive battle by counting up the point values of the destroyed units.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 28, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think "raping the defeated enemy's women is despicable, even if it is a normal incident of war" is a specifically Christian thing. The Iliad treats the practice as unobjectionable - the driving conflict is over whether the man who captured the girl gets her or his commanding officer does. Islam explicitly condones it, at least according to the simple, obvious reading of the Quran and hadith.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 28, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Swedish law makes the distinction between "rape" (defined the way you would expect Swedish feminists to define rape) where the normal sentence on conviction is <5 years, and "assault rape" (defined sensibly) where the normal sentence is 10 years or more.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 28, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Rape is seen as an extremely severe crime committed against the sacred honor of the victim and her family in patriarchal societies




Illicit sex, not rape. The consent of the woman is not the point, and in general patriarchal honour codes make no distinction between seduction and rape.


The concept of "rape" first existed because some patriarchal societies (including cisHajnal Christian Europe) carved out a near-empty subset of illicit sex where she is wholly innocent and he is wholly guilty. But the most common patriarchal norm is that the victims (i.e. her male relatives) punish both perpetrators without bothering to investigate. Naturally, in these types of societies men mostly stick to raping/seducing women with no living male relatives or whose male relatives don't have the ability to punish them.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 28, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Rape is a bit of an odd crime, in that in theory almost everyone agrees that it is an extremely severe crime - nearly as bad as murder, if not worse. My armchair theory is that this is because the prototypical crime people imagine is entirely gratuitous. They can conceive of circumstances in which they might think murder is acceptable or even good (likewise for theft, etc...), but it's hard to imagine a "virtuous" rape unless you're a psycho. Even when people joke about things like prison rape, the victim is a bad person being victimized by other bad people.




There is an old joke, normally told about Texas but which applies to any frontier justice culture.


"Why are horse thieves more likely to swing than murderers?" "I've met plenty of people who needed killin'. Never met a horse that needed stealin'"


Whether it is possible for a woman to need rapin' in this sense is, in fact, controversial.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 28, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I'd say "frat boys running train on a drunken co-ed" is traditional-elite coded, which is why the prog left hates it so much. Pre-2016, it was a reasonable assumption that frat boys (except historically black frats or heavily black athlete frats) were mostly Republicans, but I suspect this is no longer true because post-2016 there are fewer educated Republicans.


I think "running train on a drunken woman you collectively don't respect" is primarily associated with groups of men of any variety who think they can get away with it. Traditional-elite undergraduates and outlaw bikers have a strange need to do it according to Robert's Rules of Order in a way most rapists don't.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 28, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Frats are explicitly Greek




"Greek" refers to the Greek letters in the name, not to any intended connection to ancient (or modern) Greek culture. Different frats have different origin stories, and I haven't heard of any which claim to be a modern implementation of a Greek concept.


The use of Greek letters for college societies originates with Phi Beta Kappa, which is not a frat and per Wikipedia used Greek letters to contrast itself to the Masonic "Latin-letter societies" that were a thing at the time.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 28, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


means diffuse (white-collar crime, embezzlement, contract violation, etc.) or direct (scams, fraud)




None of those are robbery. The legal definition of robbery is theft involving the use or threat of violence. Certainly in the UK, the archetypal thief is a burglar (theft involving breaking and entering buildings), not a robber.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 28, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Per BBC coverage which is consistent with X discussion, 5 British citizens resident in London, early 20's men. The poorly-lit news photos of the arrest (British police don't publish mugshots) imply that they aren't black, but aren't clear enough to distinguish "probably European" from "probably Middle Eastern".


Given the ages, these won't be naturalised immigrants. Either they are British-born, or they were brought to the UK as children by their immigrant parents. Conservative (i.e. partisan, not generically right-wing) poasters are dunking on Reform and Restore poasters who speculated that they were small boat immigrants. The addresses given by the police are in sufficiently wealthy parts of London that we can assume that they were living in social housing, although we don't know if they live with their parents or not.


I do not think the "diesel thief" theory is plausible - diesel thieves would not have travelled all the way from London to rob a US airbase.  My initial guess is that the 5 were working for the Iranians, but but @orthoxerox's theory of radical leftists motivated by Israel-Palestine is also plausible.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 28, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
If they are Iranian, they are lawful combatants (but fighting out of uniform, which means they forfeit most of the protections lawful combatants usually get under the Geneva Conventions) - RAF Fairford is a US airbase and the US is at war with Iran.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 28, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Donald Trump's personality and style




Also the dishonesty, personal corruption and incompetence. I don't think NeverTrump Republicans' main objection is that Trump is uncouth. In this cycle, most non-lefties who are NeverTrump would say that "he did January 6th" is the strongest argument for opposing him that isn't about policy.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 28, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


You can collapse most people's views into what they think about Donald Trump.




Donald Trump's personal approval ratings poll at minus a gazillion, but the GOP is still going to get well over 40% of the vote in the midterms. There are a lot of double haters out there, many of whom voted for Trump in 2024 and some of whom will vote for their local Republican in 2026, and an even larger number of grillpilled normies.


In real politics, there is no shortage of centrist Democrats who either signed the Harper's letter condemning wokestupid or secretly wanted to, and the only reason why there are so few NeverTrump Republicans and conservatives is that MAGA successfully purged them from the movement.


Something about the current online environment (probably the algorithmically mediated impact of what midwit political junkies click on) tends to turn online political spaces either 100% wokestupid or 100% MAGAtarded. The Motte isn't immune, although we are holding out better than 99% of the competition.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 21, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Yes, but I suspect most mil-sf writers are not faking it.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 14, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Joseph Smith was a freemason before he founded Mormonism and there are numerous Masonic elements in Mormon ritual, so it would be Masonic. Catholic is plausible based on my read of Mormon doctrine - that there is an anti-anti-Catholic strand - as if Smith was pushing back against the radical Protestantism of the Second Great Awakening - but Masonic is obviously correct in this case.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 21, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Please don't - that is confusing, particularly given the high rate at which leftists and theatre kids actually troon out in the strict sense.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 21, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think the strict meaning is useful and should be retained. There isn't an alternative short word for the process of deciding that one is transgender.