I think it's past that now. I'm not sure the church is strong enough. Maybe in Sweden, which I'm ignorant of beyond some basics.
And besides, the government doesn't just fund propaganda. It funds actual increases in the status of women, e.g. the support for college loans in the US where women make up >60% of the debt and pay it off slower than men. It's worse: Biden has already made moves to forgive these loans so the government may move towards more subsidies that raise female status.
Tanista
17hr ago
They're in the goldilocks zone of allowing women enough leeway for them to this sort of sexualized but high status work but also not so feminist that ridiculous male expectations aren't anathematized maybe?
Tanista
19hr ago
As with everything, there is a defense of some alternate universe version of what Trump does. But that never functions as a defense of what Trump actually does because jumping into a war with Iran because you were feeling yourself after Venezuela and were listening to people like Netanyahu and Mark Levin is just so much dumber that you'd honestly rather have the Kennedy School people in charge.
The likely outcome of all of this is that Trump gets a worse deal than Obama did while admitting that the US almost certainly wouldn't use military force. Maybe his "strategy" is more high variance but it hardly seems worth it.
Tanista
19hr ago
Yeah, the Bush example can at least be blamed on the chaos and damage (and the lies) that followed.
In the case of Obama it was notable even though the public was war-weary and he was avoiding entanglements.
Tanista
22hr ago
Most likely outcome is that Iran pockets any gains it makes in terms of driving a wedge between Israel and the US and continues down its own path of doing what it wants.
The US will gain no ally on the Iranian side (rightfully so).
Tanista
22hr ago
It's impossible to imagine a world where Obama or Dubya or Clinton made these kinds of empty threats and promises that went nowhere at all.
Remember Obama's "red line" and the shit he got for that? Ancient history.
Tanista
1d ago
Chalamet should get a retroactive Oscar for Call Me By Your Name, because to this day people still believe that that gay softboi persona is how he really must be. He really can't shake it.
He's always been a white goober who loves sports and he arguably cost himself an Oscar talking like MJ without realizing people won't tolerate that shit from actors.
- That's not soccer, it's kickball.
- Elephants (like dolphins) are honorary Aryans. You picked one of the most sophisticated (and dexterous for its size, given the trunk) animals around.
Tanista
2d ago
Can't wait for Britain to win the World Cup so everyone can retreat to their houses and silently meditate on the fact that it's coming home.
No, what separates us from animals is our flexibility.
Soccer is the game where we show a level of finesse no animal can without even flexing with our opposable thumbs or superior handling. The ultimate mog.
Ability to avoid being arrested with trivial effort by not doing things like getting recorded or incriminating yourself via publicly posted video.
There's rumors that the NI protestors were "suggesting" businesses close and turn off their cameras, protestors leave phones at home and so on. Basic opsec but better in comparison.
Is that blacks, cops, school shooters, and reckless drivers aren't multiplying every year.
If we consider school shooting a white preoccupation (which is dubious using a naive definition but accurate if we mean suicidal spree shooters who actually get attention) these populations are rapidly aging out of peak offending years/into their obsolescence. White people are ancient, even blacks are, iirc, at the upper end of their 30s for their median age.
Tanista
5d ago
I don't think the population is the biggest problem here, though I grant that once the ratchet has been turned they're too squeamish (or easily distracted, thanks to Trump) about turning it back. If anything I think the complacency is a result of a belief that the immigration system is mostly sensible, and people don't want drama about it like they have down south (people also always underestimate how many migrants come in, though they felt it post-COVID).
It's clear that the ruining of the immigration system was a result of Liberal ideology and business lobbying post-COVID. Carney just baldly stated that he cannot do what the public is asking for and end temporary migrants because business is very concerned about losing that spigot.
I don't really think there's an easy political solution to the fact that businesses want cheap labour and are able to lobby Ottawa to get it, especially given the Liberals' entrenched power. There are benefits to being a vetocracy with neither party being able to dominate like in the US. Theoretically you could remove some programs and put everything under a points-based system but the next Parliament (likely Liberal) can just undo it at will.
There's some argument that the Liberals figured it was money on the ground and they would get to slam the CPC for being racist and maybe they've learned their lesson. I don't buy it though. I think you have to do to parties what happened to the UK Tories before people learn. The lesson here is that they destroyed the reputation of an immigration system that was well-regarded enough that Trump made noises about adopting it in 2016 and they had a couple of years of anxiety and then got right back to governing.
As someone with direct experience of the Canadian immigration system, this is not inherent to a points-based system: it's a product of deliberate choices, mostly by Trudeau.
The fraud problem, for example, became exponentially worse after COVID.
And a lot of this could be easily solved by things like a country cap. It's not that difficult to make it harder to coordinate fraud.
You're also vastly overstating how bad life is in the countries of origin especially for those with sufficient resources to make a multi-year refugee odyssey viable. There's a reason they frequently go back to visit on holiday
They go back because they maintain family links.
I was just talking to my dad and he said it was actually dead during Eid because everyone went back to the provinces. Those are poorer places than even what counts as a metropole in a tiny, sub-$1000 GDP per capita country. But they want to see their people.
Make no mistake though, they'll be back for work on Monday. And if they were told they couldn't come back after they left, they're having Eid right where they work.
And there's some obvious benefits that come with having foreign currency in these countries. But they're gonna have to come back and earn more. My mother is in this cycle of bouncing between Saudi Arabia (for the Hajj/Umrah) and then back home to see people and relax and then back to America for work or see the kids, depending on what her bank balance looks like.
There's no genteel way out of this. This idea that you're going to cut off a spigot here or there and it'll stop is the sort of bloodless wonkery that people like Starmer are driven by. If there was some solution like that it'd already be found. It's not going to happen.
It just wouldn't happen, "allowed" or not. The George Floyd riots are a sign of low in-group bias, which is what you'd need here. About half of whites were fine with the chaos that was going on and those people simply aren't going to be supporting the riots in favor of racial reactionaries.
Tanista
5d ago
It's not war, it's low-level ethnic conflict (serious warfare risks drawing in state employees pushed to stop it who're probably going to be more competent than random Sudanese people)
The recent Southport riots have shown that a lot of people just aren't that competent at rioting, the downsides of a comfy life. There's some reports that the Irish are doing better but I wouldn't draw too much on Twitter reports yet.
Tanista
5d ago
Which countries want to be those stepping stones?
And these people are not dumb. As far back as the Syrian refugee crisis they were picking their location. There's a reason there's a Channel issue at all and it's because the migrants want to move.
They therefore get deflected to an argument that does make sense to them. This is usually either economic (‘people scapegoat minorities when they’re feeling precarious’ is a common one) or media (‘social media presents a biased view of the world so they can’t see the truth that actually the important things are all fine’).
I don't think this is just a centrist thing. The socialists at Novara media play the same games and then call for eating the rich as their solution. It's just a standard anti-other-people's-radical-politics stance.
This is just wordplay. In that sense even Aella is not just a lover or a whore, she is partner of sorts for and powerful, intellectually stimulating them toward higher success.
No, this is the wordplay. Comparing a person in a monogamous marriage for more than a decade through your hard times and providing material support to a whore you rented for thousands an hour after you already became rich is not really credible. We've been allowing whores to make this argument in public without laughing them out of the room for too long.
I come from an Islamic society, I have no problem with the idea that women's upside in divorce should be capped. But those are polygamous societies.
But that's not the sort of society Bezos got married in. In the one he did, monogamy is the law and women are considered partners in a more substantial sense by both the feminists and Christians, even if they manage it differently. It's doubtful that Western civilization has suffered from treating the one wife as more important and precious, even if the idea of giving away half your earnings to someone now incentivized to take it is galling.
The point stands. Golddiging under various circumstances is highly profitable for women, even an utter bimbo without any hard skills outside of seduction can amass huge wealth and power that way. That is in fact vast majority of cases how women do it all around the world.
Yes, sure? First off: a lot of men do that to themselves. Men chase these women like they chase them. Bezos chose to abandon the wife of his youth for a sexpot despite knowing the costs.
Second, I said this was the best case argument precisely because that's just not Mackenzie Scott's bio.
Tanista
6d ago
Europeans democratically vote for politicians who pursue pro-immigration policies.
Of the major European states I think the UK has the best case that large masses of the public have been voting against mass migration via the Tories and Brexit just for that to...never happen for years, followed by the Boriswave from the same people who campaigned to exploit these feelings.
Now that it's failed with traditional parties, they're seeking alternatives. The Tories have suffered a pretty steep fall after their actions and Farage barely got to enjoy his front-runner status before he was being attacked from his right.
There are men in the right wing that should probably be running white civilization who post on X from the Bahamas instead because white people insist on cultural communism instead where the lowest, dumbest, most immature whites get a vote equal to classicist philosophers and race scientists.
Antiracism is probably positively correlated with IQ, and lower class people are likely less antiracist in part because they're less likely to go to college.
Tanista
6d ago
Eh, there is a certain level of jumping where one can fear for their lives.
In any case, these people are like defense attorneys: they have the client they have. The lies told - he was jumped, he knew them as bullies - were the best fig leaves they had. Surely it would have been better if they could claim Metcalf and his friends inflicted some grievous injury but, well, we saw his mugshot.
To me the rapidity and totality of the lying happened precisely because the case as it stood was just indefensible and incredibly stereotypical (it seems demented but the mindset of a tribalist seems to be "we need to get there with our own story first", similar to the Digwa case* even though it shouldn't make any difference in the long run). In the Rick Chow situation people could at least try to argue that he should never have chased the kid or that Chow was lying as a way to say it was still an injustice. Here, you have to make shit up.
* Though there are reports that the police tried to downplay the Nowak situation so maybe it's more rational than I give it credit for.
Gretchen, stop trying to make European AI competitiveness happen. It's not going to happen.
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