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				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 12, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The problem being that women “having rights” is really a subset of corporate control over America.  What the rights mean, effectively is that women want to be free to work and have careers and be good little consume-product-bots.  Freedom in the modern world is more of a brand than anything else.  You’re free to choose what sectors of the economic engine you want to be a battery for, and which consumer demographics you want to buy the imagery of.  But beyond that, we’re pretty constrained as more and more of the decisions we used to be able to make are things you can get unjobbed for saying where the wrong people can hear you, and your daily tasks are set by people in offices a thousand miles away.  And your free time is spent watching whatever entertainment LA thinks is cool and of course must espouse Goodthink.  Which is exactly why I think the fears of Christian Nationalism are not realistic— it would cost the economy too much money, and too many potential wage-slaves to have half of the American population shoved into kitchens to cook and clean.  It would half the disposable income per household and thus fewer bobbles sold, less wine, fewer meals out.


I think the “fear” feels a bit like the wrangling over 50 Shades of Grey also seen at the time as a terrible misogynist novel in which women were shown the dark side of S&M and date rape.  Except the main audience of the book was women who just couldn’t get enough of this stuff.  Not because they were afraid of it or repulsed by it.  It was because they wanted a man to make them feel like Grey made his woman feel.  I get the same vibe from Handmaid.  They want some outside events to force them to stop working their stressful job for a boss they hate while their baby hits all their milestones at daycare.  They want a world where all they have to worry about is cooking and cleaning and hugging their babies.  But since they aren’t supposed to want that it’s sublimated as horror.  Wouldn’t it be horrible if they were forced into living like a tradwife?  Don’t you know that Trump wants to do that?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 12, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
But, how exactly?  I don’t see how “Afghanistani social norms suddenly get transposed onto the USA” makes for a more realistic horror than most other horror stories available.  In fact, the scenario as written is completely uncoupled from the reality of life in the USA.  As pointed out in the Exiled article, the horror of most Americans is not “too much religion” controlling people, but the realities of corporate America.  Which is to say that Corporate runs American culture and life to such a degree that most families are forced to kennel any kids they actually have within 8 weeks of having them so they can go back to being a duel income family and seeing the baby after 6pm on weekdays (until bedtime) and weekends.  And the horror of living in decaying cities where you can get jumped by thugs but can’t protect yourself from them.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 5, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think there’s room for arguments around where exactly to draw the line on drugs.  But I think the harder drugs should certainly be illegal simply, as I said as a way to keep the junkies from stealing and harassing people and from openly doing drugs on the streets.  The problem is that as the do gooders continue to move various social norms toward the bottom, it creates a rot and quite often that rot ends up harming those who, unlike the do gooders who just want to be compassionate without a thought that such compassion might be making the problems worse.


I think the worst idea is decriminalized drug use for a lot of reasons.  First of all, since most hard-drug users tend to either be thieves or fencing for other thieves, you can keep a lot of street crime down by giving jail time to drug users.  You can’t always catch a thief in the act, but finding a dime bag is a decent enough proxy.  Having drug use be illegal (and again, I’m thinking more of the hard stuff) also means that drug users will be much less likely to use openly, and if they do, you can arrest them for that.  As it stands now, you can’t walk down some streets in major cities because homeless drug users harass people, rob people, shit on the streets, and build huge eyesores of cobbled together houses in the sidewalks.  This obviously kills business near those areas because believe it or not, nobody with money to spend wants to go to drug alley for anything.  This reduces the value of property within walking distance substantially and creates more poverty and more despair and ultimately more drug use and more crime.  The monied flee fairly quickly as crime slowly climbs.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 5, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Probably.  But I don’t see how that deals with the problem of open air markets that exist now and the criminal elements attracted by them.  The cops have their hands tied because even if opioids are illegal, most drug offenses are not being prosecuted to the full extent.  And the gateway drugs are legal which makes it less of a problem for sellers.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 12, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think there are other thing unique to American inner cities that might account for the difference.  For one thing, there’s actually a very strong selection bias still at work.  Anyone with any sort of talent, ambition, and work ethic tends to flee the ghetto areas for better areas.  The ones that remain are the ones who have few prospects and aren’t ambitious enough or smart enough to make a better life.  Add in that the younger generations living in that area are decades removed from positive role models of the sort that happen in better areas — a man working hard to get a good job, hell a man sticking around to raise his kids, parents who care about what their kids are doing with whom at what hour, kids expected to learn in school.  Basically the kids are raised feral by adults raised feral and don’t know of anyone in their peer group who are civilized in the conventional sense.  All of that mitigates against any sort of Law, Order, or Respect.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 12, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Because she can get rid of an enemy without the blowback of being guilty of doing the deed herself.  Julian Assange faces much the same — he’s charged in the USA so Britain can simply say “he’s accused of terrorism of course we’re sending him to America if he leaves the embassy.  If they try him themselves he can be sympathetic to the public causing people to not like the regime as much.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 12, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The problem that I don’t see addressed by pro-euthanasia advocates is how exactly do you prevent the perverse incentives that remove the free choice of the individual?  How do you make sure that insurance companies don’t instantly refuse to pay for surgeries or pain treatments or even medical equipment when an elderly person reaches the age where she’s eligible for euthanasia?  How do you keep the family from talking advantage of early stages of dementia to convince their granny to choose euthanasia so they can inherit her money?  The potential for those kinds of things would be pretty strong — a lot of money is spend on care in the last five or so years of life, which can mean that for insurance, ending the life 7 years early is a substantial cost savings.  For the family, they’d get a bigger inheritance as you aren’t using those funds for the purpose of keeping granny alive.  Governments can also save on accommodations in some cases.


What I see here is a very vulnerable population with a lot of people poised to get (or keep) lots of money by convincing that person to choose euthanasia even if it’s not what that person really wants, or if that person has less mental capacity.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 12, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think this approach would work much better on an ongoing basis simply because it’s not just a question of whether or not an agency is “doing its job”, but also whether or not it’s a job that we need to have done at the federal (or state) level.  Some things are obviously federal-scope issues that cannot be localized to the state or local level because a uniform approach would ease commerce or provide interoperability standards.  Having a single agency deciding the standards for weights and measures makes sense.  Having one agency deciding on product labels means that companies don’t have to waste resources complying with 50 different standards.  Other things are better left to states.  I think states should be the ones deciding on their curriculum standards, their transportation needs, and so on.  Montana is rural, and thus telling them to build high speed rail is silly.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 12, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The issue would seem to be whether some escalation would lead to nuclear war.  Russia has been patient up to this point, but Putin absolutely does have red lines that he will not allow crossed without serious consequences, up to and including nuclear war.  He’s been pretty smart in my view by not saying exactly where the lines are (which would encourage NATO to get to the point where it’s next to the line, but not technically crossing it.  You’d retaliate against NATO for 10,000 troops?  Okay 9999 it is!) and creating a bit of hesitation for certain weapons or other aid packages.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 12, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It’s really quite the shame from my perspective.  It’s actually important to know whether what public figures say is true or not.  Except when these “fact checks” became mere political propaganda, it makes it that much harder to get people to believe in actual facts and actually look into whether or not a given statement is true.  And it can be dangerous especially in situations where the general public has no ability to actually fact check on its own.  If we have a natural disaster and need to get good information out quickly, having people actually trust that their news sources are trustworthy and accurate and do what needs to be done becomes impossible when people are used to understanding “facts” as “those things that we want you to believe whether or not they are actually true.”


The press doing this is creating something like a medieval world in which there was no way to study and learn the truth so you were left with terms like Orthodoxy and Heresy.  Figuring out whether or not the earth went around the sun might well be difficult.  But you absolutely knew whether or not the concept was Heresy.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 5, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Crime is what soured me on legalizing drugs.  The thing is that while “broken windows” policing doesn’t reduce crime the reverse isn’t true either — being more lax in policing makes things actively worse.  When you could get a longish jail term for marijuana possession, it worked quite well to keep drugs and drug related crimes down simply by what I call “bouncer rules”. Sure, marijuana by itself is pretty tame, but since police knew who were the antisocial drug users and sellers, you could arrest them just for pot and prevent them from doing worse things.  What decriminalized drug use did was push the cops away from preventing crime in a sense.  You can’t just bust a guy for possession because we’ve decriminalized drugs, so now that cop has to wait until a guy he knows is a drug dealer and a thief steals from another person or a business and even at that, it now has to either involve an injury or a large amount of money.  That allows problems to fester and get worse, and removes any incentive to curb the openness of the crime.  There are open air markets for drugs— in full view of the public.  Shoplifters go into stores and basically loot the place knowing that the cops can’t do anything until they hit $1000 per person.  So now it’s impossible to get that element under control because we keep giving away the tools.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 5, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think honestly the ideal solution would be to make those making those kinds of decisions have to live in the neighborhood so they have to actually literally worry about the crime problem themselves.  Having the local mayor robbed on the streets would probably do more to get crime addressed than a million anti-crime votes.  Alas, as was pointed out in the top post almost all the city leaders have long since fled the city to gated communities and likely live in mansions with gates at the end of their driveway and full security systems.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 5, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I would be forced to agree as well.  Leadership is a skill set.  And it takes an intuitive understanding of a whole system of psychology and power-wielding and strategy and understanding how to work with incomplete information.  I think of running a company being a lot like a combination of poker and chess.  Chess because it’s a game of strategy using your pieces to work to attack and defend.  Poker because you actually don’t know where the other side is on the board.  You can’t play a standard set of moves because you can be attacked by a piece you don’t even know you need to defend against.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 5, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
But the same is true of almost all other cultures.  Even China had pretty strong control over women (look up foot binding) and most of the rest of us have long since ditched those controls.  Some of the results are obviously good — women can contribute to earning money for the household, they can make and sell art, and aren’t restricted in communication with the rest of society.  And some are quite obviously bad— children essentially raised as daycare orphans, single mothers, the denigration of the military as it must loosen necessary requirements to accommodate women who aren’t and cannot meet the standards, the growth of welfare state benefits out of proportion to the growth of the tax revenue collected, safetyism.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 5, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
She’s more or less a hack.  Her music is generic pop with lyrics that say nothing interesting.  It’s what I would imagine would come out the other end if I asked AI to write a breakup song.  Her dancing isn’t anything spectacular either.  To me she’s sort of corporate pop music that I don’t like.  I want music that has something to say, I want music that’s interesting in some way.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 5, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think a lot of that might not be true.  The normies might be more sympathetic to positions on the right than we’ve been lead to believe simply because modern office politics and the fact that most social media is public tends to lead to normie self censorship.  This was what made polling a mess in 2016.  People knew better than to publicly support a lot of Trump positions.  Being less than thrilled that your kids can check out nearly pornographic gay sex books is labeled right wing, but I don’t think the actual opinions have changed that much.  And I’d say the same for things like transgender kids — most people are not in favor of young children starting down that path, and would absolutely be livid if their child’s interest in such things were actively hidden from them.


What’s actually happening is that the left has put shame-filled labels on them, included them in HR training and thus put people on notice that their livelihoods and even their ability to keep their children depends on them at least publicly being open and inclusive and mouthing the lefty talking points on those things.  And because of the conforming culture of PMC and aspiring PMC whites, they mostly go along with the watchwords and even out those who refuse to conform to HR.  Try saying something vaguely populist right at a normie dinner party.  The over the top reactions are not those of genuine disagreement.  They’re fear.  These people act like Inquisition Spaniards hearing something heretical, not people who have thought through the issue and come to a reasonable conclusion about the issues.


Trump might be pandering to his base, but I don’t see it as a negative simply because I don’t see a lot of people who actually oppose the things he’s saying.  They’re mostly afraid to be publicly on his side.  And the thing is that voting is the one place where you can express a heresy without fear because the ballots are private.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 5, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It would make sense.  If the social discord was sownin the 1970s, then the first generation raised with it would be late gen X in the 1979s and 1980s.  Those people are parents of high school and college kids now.  So that means that only those in the boomer and early gen X era can even vaguely remember a time when racial politics and class/race resentment weren’t prominent parts of the political and social landscape.  Most people under 60 or so think those things are normal.


And Russia has an advantage of being fairly culturally similar to the West to be able to talk in their language. They’re Orthodox Christians, which gives them an understanding of the foundation of Western religion.  They’re shaped by Greco-Roman cultural norms, including individualism and guilt over shame.  China has none of that.  China was its own civilization for millennia.  It’s influenced by Taoism, Confucius, and Buddhism.  They emphasize conformity and respect for the elites instead of individual self expression and individual rights and liberties. As such, even though China has become a sort of city on a hill, it can’t really communicate it’s values because of the lack of commonality,


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 5, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think it will have an impact in the sense that I think it will eventually backfire once the conventions are over and the median American starts paying attention.


First off all because this is a very basic question of junior high level bullying behavior.  They’re calling Vance names on the basis of an obviously false accusation that is supposed to be in his book but isn’t.  This isn’t going to endear the Harris ticket to outsiders.


Second, and I’m amazed at the sheer incompetence of the strategic leadership that haven’t screamed about the possibility, is that it opens the door to the GOP pointing out all the progressive weirdness.  And to the eyes of normal average Americans, progressives are a lot weirder than conservatives.  The party that wants to normalize drag queen story hour for preschoolers is simply not going to win the battle to convince the average 50 year old guy who’s not into politics that the GOP is weirder than they are.  Weird is actually the progressive Achilles heel— pointing out deviants just means people realizing just how weird liberals are.  If I were running a GOP campaign, I’d lean into it.  Yes, we’re “weird.  So weird that we don’t want to trans your kid without your permission.  So weird that we believe in marriage and family.  So weird that we’d rather wave the American flag than the Palestinian flag.


Third, and you point out, it’s a huge distraction from real problems real people are facing.  Inflation is lowering the standard of living.  There’s one war ongoing in Ukraine and another brewing in the Middle East.  We have a housing crisis.  Our schools don’t do a good job educating kids and teachers are quitting in droves.  Abortion is a big issue.  The border.  But they aren’t talking about those things, instead, they’re talking about the GOP being weird.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 5, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m no fan of MAGA but I don’t think that’s a good thing.  I’m not just anti-MAGA, I want someone who is at least nominally capable of doing the job I’m voting for her to do.  She might surprise me, but I’m not convinced she would be able to get bills through congress or handle a national security issue or emergency situation.  If WWIII happens, do you trust her to be in the war room?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 29, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I mean you’re not wrong, but in context of this being an apparent campaign message from the top of the democrat party ticket, I just don’t understand what they how to actually accomplish here.  Most of the too-online liberals are already completely sold on “vote blue no matter who” so there’s no need to appeal to them.  They’d vote for a moldy peach if it was a registered democrat.  And as far as reaching anyone outside the circle, as a strategy, it makes no sense.  We aren’t voting for homecoming court members, we’re electing a government.  Just saying “they’re weird” doesn’t convince outsiders that they should vote for you.  And right now, it’s the middle of the country she has to convince.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 29, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think it’s simply the hold Trump has over the base.  If he turns on you he takes the base with him.  And it’s obvious just looking at the messaging in campaign ads.  Every single republican running for office is in some way claiming Trump’s name over their campaign.  They absolutely want his endorsement and play up any way they might have helped him.  And the base is committed mostly to him and the MAGA movement— they’re after Rinos who won’t do everything possible to help Trump.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 29, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I just can’t figure out how they expect this to play for anyone other than their own camp.  It’s not a real accusation by any stretch of the imagination.  There’s nothing behind this other than a sneer and especially for people who don’t follow politics until after the conventions, it’s actually not that good.  They’re weird like weird how exactly and why should I, the drone of sector 7G care about this?  What is the message here?  What agenda do either groups have?  How are you going to get groceries and gasoline and housing to the place where the median American family can afford to live with only one job per adult? How are you going to fix my kid’s school?  Crime?  Why is republicans being “weird”, whatever the heck that actually means, affect my life?


It’s a stupid tactic because it’s so nonspecific that the public can easily disregard it as just name calling.  At least the fascist thing was an actual accusation, a charge that would mean something objective and negative to most people.  But they can’t do that anymore because it’s seen as too mean to a guy who got shot in the ear.  They can’t run on the record, because they didn’t make life better for most Americans.  They can’t bring up either schools or the border because they lose on both.  So they have the equivalent of being a Becky and sneering at people they consider beneath them even if it’s silly.  This is a campaign that would come out of a junior high.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 29, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m not sure.  Gas prices are already a contentious issue in the USA, and taking a good chunk of oil (about 10% per Google) would spike gas prices by several dollars which would be a political crisis.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 29, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’d be fine with the idea of pure sports if these world class competitions were honest.  But these are not honest contests in any measure.  Drugs are fairly common, countries that basically pay living expenses (but not directly paying athletes) are common, and now that trans is becoming a thing we have potentially fake female athletes competing with natal women.  I’ve yet to see anyone care that much.  The sponsors get lots of money, the committee gets paid, various governments get to rally their people around their flag and patriotic pride.  I just wish it we’re honest that these are basically professional sports.  You can still do everything else and keep your pride.  I’m not even against the stuff we consider cheating if we’re honest that this isn’t pure sports.  Of course I feel the same way about D1 NCAA.  Everybody knows that the NCAA D1 major sports are de facto professional minor leagues for those sports and were for the most part okay with Jermaine the running back getting a degree in football and free foood, housing and cars for a few years.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 29, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Tbh I think the use of weird itself is a failure.  All of the things they tried in the past — policies, threat to democracy, Project 2025, the economy, etc. have been neutralized more or less.  Calling a candidate a threat to democracy after he’s been shot opens them up to charges of poisoning the discourse with violence.  Trump isn’t behind P2025, so when they start that, he can simply say “I have nothing to do with that.”  Policies don’t work either because most of what Biden Harris tried to do either failed or were unpopular.  The economy is a huge loser for Harris because millions of people struggle to afford groceries and wistfully remember the Trump era as the era of cheap food, gas, housing and low unemployment.  What’s left is “weird”, up to and including Vance apparently humping a couch.  And I just don’t see that landing because it’s a fundamentally unserious accusation that betrays the fact that they have nothing serious to offer.  It’s basically an admission of inferiority “look, I know I don’t have many accomplishments, and I know my ideas are unpopular, but those guys are weird and I’m a normal person.”