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				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
So fix those problems.  It’s like saying “well lines at the DMV are long, so we can’t require people to get a driver’s license before driving a car.”  That doesn’t follow.  What should happen is you hire people for the DMV offices, automate as much as possible so people can get licensed to drive.  Not being able to stop all murder is a terrible reason to legalize murder.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m not really that convinced by the argument that these kinds of IDs are hard enough for legal Americans to get that we should somehow be aghast at the idea that someone would have to produce proof of citizenship and identity for voting.


For one thing, just going about modern life requires this sort of thing all the time.  You can’t open a bank account, drive a car, get a job, or get on an airplane without proving that you are who you say you are.  I can’t even walk into a casino without proving my identity and age.  Which brings up the question of exactly how people can go around and survive in 21st century America without having a valid ID in some form.  The biggest change here is that the ID would also have to prove citizenship.  This isn’t a big deal for the 99% of Americans with jobs and cars and bank accounts.  Most of them will have ID and while you might need some proof of citizenship, it’s not particularly difficult to do so.  And really I think a single passport card would actually eliminate the Pokémon problem simply because it’s one universally accepted card that any entity would accept as proof of identity and citizenship and so on.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				The American Renewal Act: A 127-Point Systems-Level Overhaul (Citizen Juries, 20% Market Cap, and a New Constitutional Anchor)
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think something like this is absolutely a good thing.  The trouble with creating an agency is that it’s forever even if the issues the agency was created to oversee no longer exist.  It also creates a pretty strong hedge against mission creep and redundant oversight where two agencies are regulating the same sorts of issues.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Birthright Citizenship at the Supreme Court
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Neither side is dealing honestly.  The pro-birthright position is just as unprincipled as the anti-birthright position.  The history of the 14th amendment has no provision for the idea of people coming to the United States specifically to have children within the borders who would thus be citizens.  The argument was that they had all these former slaves who had been born in the country and had lived there their entire lives.  The point was that they didn’t want these former slaves to be in legal limbo where they could work and pay taxes and so on without the protection of the Bill of Rights.  That’s why we have a fourteenth amendment.  Trying to shoehorn illegal immigration and birth tourism into a “slaves are citizens now” post civil war law that was written before global travel was plausible on the scale we have today.  Trying to use this amendment to create an immigration free-for-all where any person who gives birth here —even if they were only here for a day and only came so that baby would be born on American soil and thus be American— can have an American baby, and thus have a way to stay or return later is simply disingenuous.  This isn’t what the law was designed for.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Birthright Citizenship at the Supreme Court
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I see it mostly as a case for originalism more than anything.  The distortion comes from the fact that the people writing these amendments did not intend it to be what it is now— basically a situation where a woman can go into labor just as the plane from Bangladesh is landing at LAX and thus the baby is automatically American.  The intent was to make citizens of former slaves right after the civil war in an era where international travel was rare, expensive and somewhat difficult.  The amendment if interpreted in that light and noting that the Indians were excluded because they were not taxed and that the amendment mentions subject to the jurisdiction, I think you could make the case rather strongly that we are talking about long term, legal, tax paying immigrants at minimum and more likely except for freed slaves that this applied to the children of citizens, with the intention of preventing a situation where generations could be born in the United States and never be citizens with the legal protections that are granted to citizens.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Birthright Citizenship at the Supreme Court
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
On the other hand birthright citizenship creates the problem of birth tourism which happens in all kinds of forms now and is used as a means to back door legalize the parents who come to the USA specifically to give birth to their American citizen child, thus using that American citizenship as a means to stay because they can’t raise their American child if they get deported.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 9, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It’s negative because of the misuse of social pressure to extract the tips.  It’s not just “do it if you feel like it.”  In many cases, the person finds himself or herself in public or with friends while the waiter hands over or spins the iPad with the tip already filled in, then the person is forced to either go along (and add another 15-20% to the total bill) or publicly choose to not tip.  To me, the issue is less tipping itself and more the coercive approach taken where im pressured by the knowledge that other people see what im doing (often including the waiter himself) thus making it less of a free will gesture and more of a pay or be a jerk gesture.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 9, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m definitely in the Postman camp, although I think entertainment has gotten more stimulating, not necessarily better.  Most mainstream movies barely nod at old-fashioned notions like character development or coherent plot, instead going straight for the dopamine hits of explosions and crazy over the top special effect shots and CGI.  You can kind of see this in long running movie series, like James Bond.  Early James Bond was a spy, sure he was often in danger, but he was more often than not using his spy craft, thinking and investigating.  Now, it’s over tge top, and barely bothers with mystery and gathering clues plus Daniel Craig can survive just about anything.  Is that better than Dr. No?


But I do think screens are a hyperstimulous that people choose over other less stimulating options.  And if you saturate a society in such screens, eventually they sit home and stare at them all the time.  I don’t think anyone would choose this.  I’ve said this before.  If it were simply a matter of screens being better at entertainment, then people would be saying things like “sure hanging out with my buddies and playing basketball was fun, but it wasn’t as much fun as playing basketball on my PS5 against a random guy online.”  I’ve never heard anyone yet regret spending time doing non-screen things because it kept them from a similar screen activity.  Nobody regrets going outside.


I think honestly if you gave people the option of having the entertainment technology available in 1946, but also having the lifestyle of the same year — lots of real friends, going to dances, playing sports outdoors with your buddies, gathering for card and board games or just dinner, etc. I have a strong suspicion that most people would leap at the chance.  There’s a lot to be said for such a lifestyle and the culture and community it creates.  So radio plays aren’t as cool as Netflix and you can’t listen to anything at any time.  You still have close friends and a community and get more exercise and share an organic culture.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 2, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m not going to say treason.  I don’t think it fits.  But I will say that in my opinion, most of the bad outcomes from wars in the twentieth century and twenty first for that matter come not so much because of the war itself, but because the nation wasn’t fully committed to winning.  Asking the president to “just stop” isn’t going to bring peace, because it simply shows the world that the USA refuses to win wars.  Why would Iran or other nations like Iran be worried about a weekend bombing that leaves the country mostly intact and most of the leadership still in power?  You punched the bully once in the face, but stopped short and without forcing him to stop hitting.  What he learned is if he can survive the first punch, he can do as he pleases.  I don’t think America will stop, but I can’t imagine this sort of thing isn’t giving Iran a reason to not bother to negotiate.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 2, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It’s not just working that’s at issue.  It’s working for other people outside of the home, thus creating a situation where the woman is tasked with keeping house and cooking after a full on workday.  Add to this that such an arrangement pretty much requires that the family fork over tens of thousands of dollars a year to warehouse the kids while mom and dad work, and that if anything less than ideal happens to the kids, they’re blamed, and you have a situation where having a child (let alone 3-5) is just so daunting time and money wise that a lots of couples don’t even try.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 2, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
My issue with most discussion around fascism is that essentially, it’s completely unemperical.  The things that get counted are basically decided by whoever decides to declare by checklist that some government is fascist.


Politics as war is not a unique concept to fascism.  Politics evolved as an alternative to actual warfare any time the leadership of a society changes.  The ballot is a form of ritualized bullet, and was invented because the alternative was basically kill the leader and his heirs if you didn’t want that royal line to rule.  Elections are a bloodless Red Wedding, to be blunt.


Territorial aggression?  Again, nations taking action to prop up regimes friendly to themselves and topple enemies is not some innovation of MAGA and Trump.  That was essentially how we fought the Cold War, invade any country that went communist, prop up those countries that went capitalist.  There were dozens of these wars: Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, and we propped up Pinochet as a capitalist dictator in Chile.  We invaded Iraq several times, we bombed Serbia at least twice.  Obama had a hobby of drone strikes.


And to cut it short, I think until such time as a warning list for fascism comes that doesn’t allow for the gamesmanship of the person calling the game getting to decide based on vague definitions what counts, the entire discussion is at best a waste of time and at worst, booing the out group.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 2, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I mean it’s only short term more efficient.  Essentially, the idea is the same as eating your seed corn.  Sure, short term it’s more efficient to eat every single seed of corn you produce.  Except that eventually you come to the next season, have no corn to plant and thus will have no future crops to harvest.  And essentially, I think this is how our entire society is structured— what matters is not long term success, but the next quarter, the next year, or the next whatever, *even if it means destroying the long term future of your company and society.”


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 2, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The issue is that no matter what you do the problem does not change.  You have two legitimate claims by people who claim the entire land is theirs by birthright, and they both absolutely hate each other. There’s no real solution for this unless you give one group the exclusive right to Israel/Palestine and send the others packing.  Most other solutions are wishcraft that will only last until the parties are finished rearming.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Iron dome mostly works because Israel is a fairly small country, and therefore it’s plausible to shoot down the missiles coming into most major cities simply because you don’t have much land area to defend.  Along range missile shot at Israel is only able to hit Israel by going along a limited range of latitude and longitude.  The USA can’t do it even with a lot more money because the USA is a large country— larger than continental Europe— and the range of available targets is much larger.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I mean most people have no understanding of history especially in the ancient world, so missing any history before the enlightenment is to be expected.  The understanding of Luther is basically “read the Bible, fought the pope, founded Protestant faith.”  It’s rare that anyone other than history majors could give a non-cartoon version of an event that happened before 1800.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think in most cases it requires bullshitting, and a lot of trying to figure out the exact phrasing necessary to get past the algorithm that scans the resume to even be seen by a human.  It’s not really optional either, as most professional jobs have an algorithm that weeds out most résumé’s before the humans get a shot at it.  Which I think drives a lot of credentials simply because having the degree is what gets you sorted into the “maybe get read” pile.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
As much as I don’t like the Olympics, I think at some point the point of a game is to have fun.  For most normies, it’s basically escapism.  You watch or play sports to escape from life for a while.  And I think much like all other entertainment they should not be made into something other than entertainment.  People can enjoy things without having political views shoved in.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Well, a tool used in the wrong place and time breaks things.  At best a lot of the checks and balances were conceived as “stop horrible thing from happening,” and were meant to be used judiciously and only to stop seriously bad things from happening.  Now, basically, no bills can pass unless they beat the filibuster, and since congress is pretty evenly split, most bills don’t meet the standard.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think it could work well.  The CEO might influence culture, but it’s not like they’re going to make the games.  The best CEOs tend to let the talent be the talent with minimal interference from the top.  That sounds like what the new CEO wants.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I mean we can quibble about the bread.  GV whole wheat is less than $2 a loaf.  But even if you go with white bread it’s better than cookies.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think those who say we have to draw the line somewhere are correct simply from a practical perspective.  The resources available are limited by the ability to tax, and in some measure by popular opinion.  If people turn against EBT because they’re constantly seeing the cards used to buy either absolute rubbish foods or foods that ordinary people cannot afford, there won’t be any support for the programs.  Also given the limited funds available, it makes sense to go for the best nutrition for the buck, not because of morality, but because you only get so much, and it benefits the public if the limited funds they give to EBT users buy healthy foods rather than rubbish foods. If 90% of the funds go towards pop, cookies and chips, that doesn’t benefit the poor people either.  Having poor kids be obese because mom buys nothing but crap sets them up for all kinds of health problems later on (and puts the taxpayers money on treating such a thing when it happens).


Im all for reasonable flexibility in most situations.  But reasonable limits are absolutely necessary even if we can’t agree on edge cases because of the practical consequences of having no limitations.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think I’d separate things out a bit, simply because of the conservative political “team” of different parties (in America basically the parties represent groups that in a multi-party system would be separate parties who would join forces for a political advantage).


So what we really have are probably 3-4 conservative leaning blocs:  libertarians, nationalists, traditionalists, imperialists, etc. each agreeing to an uneasy alliance to get things done, but believing different things.  Liberals tend to have similar blocs:  socialists, hippies, race activists, internationalists, etc. working together to get things done even if they disagree on most things.  We form the parties before the election via conventions and primary elections. Europe has the elections then forms the alliances.  So I see liberal and conservative as more umbrella terms where a better way to think about it is as an alliance.  Traditionalists can generally faithfully transmit values and ideas and story and songs.  Libertarians or imperialists or business conservatives probably care about the economics than anything else and might not care at all about singing Silent Night in the original German the way a traditionalist might.  Race activists probably care about the traditions of their own people and they probably transmit that.  Socialists don’t care.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’d definitely be on board with reasonable limits on the types of food you can buy on EBT gibs.  I don’t think it’s reasonable to allow people to use gibs for luxury goods or empty calories in the form of junk and snack foods.  To be honest it might be more reasonable to simply give out the benefits as those kinds of foods so they have less option to trade for stuff or abuse the system.  My thinking is that basic meats like ground beef or chicken canned or frozen veggies, cheap bread and basic Kraft cheese product are probably good enough to live fairly healthy, especially if you’re allowed to buy other stuff to supplement the diet for flavor or whatever. It’s hard to abuse the system when you’re getting canned corn and ground beef.  It’s a pretty bland diet, you can obviously live off of it, but not something that you’d choose if you had better options.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 9, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
To a fairly large degree most protesters are some form of LARPer at least in the sense that they don’t care enough about the cause at hand to risk any serious consequences.


The biggest factor is the bubbles.  In the old days, radicalism was harder to create and maintain because you had to essentially remove the person you wanted to radicalize from sanity checks that happen from non-radicalized people around the person.  This is why old religious cults often encouraged members to cut off old relationships and only cult members remained for social connections.  You also want to make the person’s thought process as much as possible about the thing you’re radicalizing the person on.  So with a religious cult, you’d see this radicalized person seeing almost everything through the lens of the religion in question.


The problem we have at the moment is that the tools to do this are in everyone’s pocket and available all the time.  A person who is in a liberal social media bubble often has very few people online that are not liberals (the same is likely true of hard right conservatives as well).  They often block anyone who disagrees, stop listening to media that doesn’t support their biases, and spend hours watching videos about conservatives saying or doing something that looks evil to them.


Personally I don’t think that if we lived in the media environment of 1986 you’d see much of a protest.  Our problems, in context of other historical crises across the globe and through history simply are not that bad.  We have stable currency, nearly full employment, and our biggest food problem is obesity.  Most real radical moments come from serious sustained economic problems much more serious than our current situation.  You’d need things to essentially be really really bad before people are ready to upend society.  In an environment where you could not saturate yourself in a radicalization bubble, you don’t have enough problems to convince people to blow up society over politics.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 9, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think in large degree the ability of random people being able to take incriminating video is making this stuff more likely.  In 1980, you couldn’t call CPS on a kid playing alone, you could not film a kid playing unsafely and send it to CPS.  If you were going to report something you had to go home to do it.  And I think like a lot of other things, removing barriers makes that stuff happen more often.