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				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 7, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Religions can die. Countless religions lie in the trash heap of history. Even if it didn’t die completely, Zoroastrianism is no longer important.


Islam is much stronger but much more brittle than Judaism. I doubt they’d survive long after the destruction of their holy site. It’s a religion that’s much more “particular” than most in that it’s formally attached to a set of places and yet claims universality through historical conquest.


Islam can’t handle huge setbacks in the secular / physical world, it’s part of the reason 9/11 happened in the first place. It was almost like a violent outburst born in a fit of narcissistic rage on a societal level.


Ironically there was an Iraq war era general that I will paraphrase here: you pay the butchers bill up front or you pay it with interest over time. The network of Islamist parties in the decade after 9/11 were directly responsible for the butchery of millions of people, mostly Muslims.


Leveling Mecca and fatally humiliating an awful religion into obscurity seems very tempting given a full and honest accounting of the bloodshed directly caused by Islam in the 21st century.


The United States was explicitly modeled on the Roman republic, and this is one aspect of our pagan past I wish we would have the balls to recover: the ability to unashamedly and utterly crush our enemies without moralizing or hemming and hawing about it.


The whole world would turn against the US, you say? I say a US government acting in the best interests of its citizens would find that to be essentially inevitable, and the last 25 years have vindicated me.


If you put those that would have opposed a punitive war against Islamism directly after 9/11 and those “allies” who have been leeches and fair weather friends in the last 25 years into a Venn diagram it would be a goddamn circle.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 7, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I was 16, and in journalism class.


As everyone was glued to the TV, my instinct was to write a poem. I did so in the moment and recited it quietly, without being asked, in front of the class. I don’t remember the poem but it had an impact and I wish I had saved it. My teacher was army national guard, and we talked one on one four about 45 minutes.


My first instinct was to join the marines but I was talked out of it by my parents. Within a year I was living in the Middle East.


9/11 had a huge impact on my life. I learned a new language, learned about Islam and deepened my knowledge of Christianity and Judaism. Poured myself into learning the history and culture of the region. Became more religious at first and eventually became an atheist and remained that way for almost my entire adult life. Studied history of the region in university.


It set up an odd dynamic to my life given the changes in culture that have happened in the last 25 years. People who know me even a bit know that I’m very educated, both formally and self taught, in multiple areas that relate to the region and its people and its enduring legacy.


They, being largely “well-meaning” liberals tend to think because of my expertise and first hand experience assume I tend to have sympathy towards certain groups and movements.


They are extremely mistaken, as if they have trouble conceiving of someone increasing their dislike of various groups in line with increased knowledge.


I grew very quickly to detest Islam, even as I got along very well with individual Muslims, and had an entirely pessimistic view of the Muslim Middle East and the greater Umaah.


I noticed how it increasingly alienated me from other atheists who only ever seemed to criticize Christianity. I noticed how cowardly they were as atrocities in the name of Islam continually stacked up and up into the millions of casualties in the decade that followed and these people basically said nothing.


Honestly, knowing what I know now, if I was sent back in time to Sept 12th, 2001 in a bid to change the course of history I’d be a nonstop advocate for nuking the Kabaah.


I feel like it would have saved my fellow Americans a lot of trouble in the long run, even if we couldn’t have brought ourselves to do it out of some misguided sense of decency.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 7, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
This somehow tracks on an historical level and yet it seems off.


I know that a homogeneous society can more easily sustain more social spending and higher taxation for public goods but I think that doesn’t necessarily translate into fondness for communism or more importantly, the ability of a communist party to successfully launch a coup.


And America has a lot of built up anti-communist antibodies in the form of our religion, our civic institutions, the shape and scope of our landmass, etc.


Jacobin-like Argentina is the closer analogue. Argentina was wealthier than France at the beginning of the 20th century and absolutely imploded in slow motion until it was an utter backwater and stayed that way and might continue to stay that way unless the supreme autist Milei actually gets a durable victory.


Argentine is almost entirely European and yet managed to fuck up an enormous economic lead and turned into a socialist shithole.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 7, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
This tweet encapsulated it perfectly:




The breakfast question for small government conservatives






"You live in a welfare state. Federal taxes are taken from you, spent, and wasted. Would you rather have the money given to your friends, or your enemies? Remember that the money will be wasted either way, you're not allowed to get it back, the money needs to be spent. The only thing you can decide is whether the money is given to your friends, or your enemies."






"But I don't want to live in a welfare state."




				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 7, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
For these reasons and more as an American I support eventually barring dual citizenship, or at the very least barring those who hold dual citizenship from holding office or voting until they formally renounce their other citizenship.


I think as a long term goal it’s one of only a handful of things that will be absolutely required to preserve the American dēmos and citizenship that actually has any meaning.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It’s not cargo cult politics, it has precedence in the recent past that still has purchase in the present.


Outside of a pretty narrow bubble, the American electorate doesn’t like communists and doesn’t like communism and those that do will likely never be on my side anyways.


There’s no downside to calling a spade a spade, I’m not sure how more simple this could be.


Almost all of recent American electoral politics seems to vindicate that viciously attacking your opponent works, actually. If you don’t have “cultural supremacy” the way you get it is by seizing or appropriating the megaphones by being ultra aggressive and destroying or undermining their ability to hurt you.


It’s literally why Trump is president, right now. It’s not some theory.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
So this does support what I’m saying and  I wouldn’t be surprised if you cut the electorate in half and just looked at the top 50% of voters that vote the most often it would be even more skewed  against socialism / communism.


Pro-communist Americans live in a nearly airtight informational bubble and they’re so highly over represented in media & education that they started to believe that they really are way more popular than they are.


From a red tribe perspective most of the pro-communist Americans are either such a lost cause that no meaningful political conversion can be had or are a product of such a toxic academic & educational environment that the only way to actually combat them is to destroy the rot at its source: seize endowments, squeeze the institutions, aggressively prosecute rule breakers, etc.


Calling communists out is very good and very productive culture war from the red tribe perspective and its self reinforcing as long as the targets truly have trouble credibly avoiding the accusations.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Actually I’d be willing to bet heavily that the average American normie, even the more peripheral blue tribe normie, still hates communists and has an instinctive negative reaction to things being labeled as communist. The great awokening didn’t go deep enough to completely hollow out Cold War memories or basic intuition about equality and human nature.


As you can see from blue tribers calling anything right of Bernie sanders “Nazi”, name calling and shaming your opponents actually does work if repeated often enough. It works especially if it’s at least sort of or directionally true: a modern progressive hardcore blue triber is much closer to a communist than a Beltway libertarian is to a Nazi, but that never stopped basically all left wing institutions for implicitly or explicitly calling libertarians and centrists Nazis.


Mincing about trying to get the exact precise verbiage to soothe delicate “mmmm acktually!” type light blue or grey tribers who are hyper-sensitive to PMC class anxiety that’s firmly in the hands of blue tribe is a big part of the reason we got here in the first place.


So I reject your entire premise.


Running around calling people “Third Worldists” or “Critical Theorists” or “Queer theorists” or whatever flavor of Marxist inspired leftist ideology that they subscribe to is neither more precise nor more effective. An octopus’ tentacle is still part of the octopus.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
This is why, if you want to see less of this, the rational game theoretic response to this is to continue to mock him relentlessly in his death and everyone who mourns him as a retarded communist. Amongst other actions, of course, memetic warfare is no substitute for lawfare and political action.


Unceasing mockery of this farce of a man and the institution he represented is, from my perspective, good and right and quite frankly the crueler and more acerbic the better.


This whole scenario is very “late Soviet Union” in its flavor and I find it to be utterly hilarious in a bitter sense.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 3, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Isn’t this basically the origin of the post WWI “stab in the back” myth?


The idea that Germany was actually winning but elements inside the country betrayed the German army.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 13, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Thank you that’s very helpful, I’m pretty bad at these sorts of things.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 13, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


“Handmaid’s Tale is meant to reassure every wretched office-worker who goes home to a cat, a VCR, and Pizza-for-one that her life is noble and progressive. Handmaid’s Tale is fun horror-fiction for women who work in the American-style cubicle-world precisely because it’s so utterly unrelated to the miseries and terrors of their own lives. No one wants to force middle-class American women to have babies. In fact, it’s almost impossible for them to contemplate having kids, because they’re terrified that it might set them back in their careers, and their rivals in the adjacent cubicles would grab their parking spaces and health plans. Nobody wants to use their bodies. That’s precisely the horror with which they live: no one wants to mate with them because in their world, every single striver must fear every other, and the sort of joint action involved in mating and rearing one’s young is impossible, laughable, a thing which only those who have abandoned the hope of A Career can contemplate. So in their minds, mating and rearing children moves down in class, becoming a thing for rednecks and (though they’ll never say this part out loud) immigrants-of-color. The desire to have children gets bounced outside oneself, onto these lesser beings, and returns, courtesy of Atwood, in demonized form, as the tyranny of procreation, family values and the Patriarchy. It’s the horror they love to fear.”




Except from one of my favorite book reviews of all time, from Exiled a defunct Russian online magazine in the year 2000.


Funny enough they made an episode of the TV show recently called “exile” which made searching online for this review extra difficult and I’m almost certain that was done purposely because this review, and in particular this excerpt, has been shared online amongst literary types for years and years.


Took me like thirty minutes to find it when it used to be one of the top links on any search engine.


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@TIRM, I see you’re a man of culture as well.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 6, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Ah, I see.


A couple things;


I don’t particularly like or empathize with bear, I think he’s a spineless twerp with lots of personality issues. That being said “Satan, please help me rape my crush” is  the most uncharitable take on his actions possible.


He wanted her to love him more than anything in the world, without really taking the request seriously. It was in a fit of desperation he said this thing, there’s no evidence that he thought it was actually going to work otherwise even a loser like him might have worded it differently. He, unfortunately, got exactly what he asked for.


Unrequited love / lust is a pretty common, gender neutral phenomenon that just people will experience in their lifetime, we ha level just been culturally trained to find it toxic coming from a man, and really only recently.


Most people in this situation would experience extreme cognitive dissonance, man or woman. Coming to the conclusion that “I, through a magic item that I don’t and can’t understand, directly caused the torture and annihilation of someone’s else will through unknowingly careless action” is maybe one of the toughest pills anyone could ever swallow, both intellectually and emotionally, and 99% of people would only come to that conclusion until everything else was eliminated.


We know he’s in a movie and he doesn’t; if this thing worked on basically any of us it would take a long time for someone to come to the most painful and “logical” conclusion.


We see him go through every step of this process and by the time he’s finally figured it out and accepted it he’s basically forced to either kill himself or commit murder, both things most people straight up don’t have the balls to do.


He’s not a villain, he’s just a garden variety coward. There’s literally billions of people like that.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 6, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
She’s not being mind controlled by a man, she’s possessed by malign man-made sorcery.


If she was really under his control she wouldn’t do half the things that she did, he hated it too. He spent like half the movie utterly terrified of her.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 6, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
“Be careful what you wish for”, a tale as old as time. Well told, for sure, but very well trodden ground.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 6, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Yeah the joke is understated on both ends; “insane” doesn’t begin to cover the condition Nikki was subjected to.


Demonic possession more like.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 6, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I mean, basically once the bullshit magic trinket actually turned out to be real and he understood it to be the cause of everything, the only way bear could “do the right thing” was to kill himself or commit murder.


Casting him as the villain is an insane reach despite his personal failings or character flaws; he was 100% fucked no matter what.


The director basically just came out and said Nikki is probably going to prison for the rest of her life after the end of the film.


It’s a straight up tragedy, the need to cast either of the protagonists as “the villain” is indicative of how poisoned our gender discourse is and how abominally privileged women are in western society


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 6, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Your link is broken


Yeah that might have been “meme of the year” for me. I saw the movie and loved it but immediately knew that feminist interpretation of it would be unbearably wrong and annoying.


It’s a horror movie about unwittingly getting exactly what you wished for in a throwaway moment with essentially no recourse to change it.


It’s a simple yet effective straightforward horror movie with minimal subtext, but of course online feminists have to find someway to make the male protagonist take all the blame for what is essentially unknown demon magic and extraordinary bad luck.


Seeing it thrown back at them is hilarious and never gets old.


My favorite tweet about it was in the same genre:


“Horror Movie ideas for 2026. Men: What if your girlfriend was insane? Women: What if you had to be kind to a man you weren’t attracted to?”


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 6, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Yo dawg I heard you like my opinions


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 22, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Thank you for bringing me back to this


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				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 25, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
They’re clearly possessed with the demonic souls of long dead enemy native tribes hell bent on revenge against the USA. Wake up, sheeple!


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 25, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
They’re a pretty good anti-compass for me and mine; what’s generally good for their social position is bad for me and my family and vice versa with the exception of things that are extremely obviously bad for everyone like nuclear holocaust or something akin to that.


Systemically destroying their social power will almost always get my support.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 25, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


At this point the story of my life involves me going deeper into the woods, only for loud and polluting industries to follow me.




Welcome back, uncle Ted?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 25, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
My understanding is that pre-civil rights America this was actually beginning to slowly occur before the 1960s did what it did to everything; fucking ruined it.


I mean look at the Scottish enlightenment. They went from knifing each other in mud huts to being the most intellectually developed nation on the world in like four generations.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 25, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m a big HBD guy but that’s exactly why I’m also a big supporter of Bukele; there’s solutions at scale to the consequences of successive generations of very poor sexual selection effects if you have the balla to actually do something.


One aspect of American society re: blacks reinforces this. My understanding is that the difference between black and white on a whole range of indicators of social health was actually closing before the civil rights era. Things like marriage rates, owning businesses, children out of wedlock, educational achievement, etc.


Then we adopted what might have been one of the most destructive political regimes in America’s history in the late 50s / early 60s and basically just threw a nuclear bomb on the thing every year for the last seventy years.