TequilaMockingbird
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No, the only reason we get unchecked crime is that people choose to allow crime to go unchecked.
TequilaMockingbird
2d ago
2 thoughts (that say mostly the same thing)
These are legit points that I l will have to bring up if/when i get around to writing said effort post.
TequilaMockingbird
2d ago
TequilaMockingbird
2d ago
the whole package deal is kind of a crappy deal when you think about it logically.
I think you ought to stop and examine exactly why you think this, i suspect the answers may surprise you.
TequilaMockingbird
2d ago
I mean it quite literally isn’t their fault.
This is one of those views which are so absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.
After all, even a dog can be trained.
TequilaMockingbird
2d ago
Steve Rogers pointing, I understood that reference.
TequilaMockingbird
2d ago
You're not wrong.
I would say that what @WhiningCoil, @jeroboam, @Capital_Room, @The_Nybbler, Et Al. are describing is the downstream effects of what I am describing. IE the afore mentioned "modern pathologies"
TequilaMockingbird
3d ago
I'm going to posit that the people who do raise families are not properly equipping their children as a direct response.
Sure, you can always blame the parents but that's also part of what I'm talking about when I say that "the modern secular European blue/grey-tribe mindset is just not conducive to, and in many respects actively hostile towards, the forming of families". You see, I actually agree with you that having kids is inherently "unsafe", and therein lies the rub. Because if there's anything in the world that the modal secular blue/grey-tribemember seems desperate to avoid, it is personal risk, or more pointedly blame.
I believe this aversion is at the root of many modern pathologies including the seeming death of the adult. That desperate desire to avoid or minimize risk/blame ultimately bleeding over into a more generalized aversion to anything resembling personal responsibility or agency, and ultimately emotional and cognitive infantilization.
Furthermore I am positing that the collapse in birth rates is largely downstream of this phenomenon.
Something I've been thinking about writing an effort post on is the seeming death of "the adult", and the issue of delining issue seems directly related.
My 30-second elevator pitch is that the people talking about dysigeninics and raising the status of big families are either burying the lede or missing the point. That lede/point being that the modern secular European blue/grey-tribe mindset is just not conducive to, and in many respects actively hostile towards, the forming of families and rearing of children.
In the immediate aftermath of the election there was a user here asking who were the 40-something percent of women who voted for Trump because the didn’t know any. In contrast the answer seemed obvious to me because I know many women who voted for Trump, and the answer was "Moms".
The reason big families are "low status" is that they signal a rejection of many core secular liberal beliefs. A married couple with multiple car seats in the back of thier vehicle may as well be screaming "the things you care about are not the things we care about" at every member of the intellectual, activist, and managerial classes they drive past.
You have a "fur-baby"? That's cute, call me when you're ready to stop playing the game on "beginner mode".
TequilaMockingbird
6d ago
There is an old saw that says that a man is often most conservative about what he knows best.
I find Buchanan to be so rife with basic historical errors and internal contradictions that it's difficult to take him (or anyone who would quote him positively) seriously. Is Churchill supposed to be an inveterate fuck-up, or a Xanatos-esque supervillain who played everyone in the world like a fiddle? The answer seems to change from chapter to chapter.
I also find it somewhat surprising and ironic to see 200 Years together cited here given Solzenhitzen's ultimate conclusions. I feel like a lot of people see (or hear about) Solzenhitzen's claim that the Jews share at least some blaim for the holocaust and various progroms and stop there without ever engaging with Solzenhitzen's arguments why.
Maybe things are different in the UK but my experience, the preoccupation with "dignity" and titles over things like training, compensation, hours, etc... is generally a mark of lower intelligence.
The iq 130 nurse practioner who figured out that they could get 90% of the power, prestige and pay for 30% of the effort, vs the iq 105 doctor who's motivation to finish med-school was in part to shut up thier parents, teachers, classmates, et al.
TequilaMockingbird
9d ago
And a cynic might suggest that this is why the parasite class is so gung ho about socialized medicine.
TequilaMockingbird
9d ago
My alternate formulation would be that while a surgeon might be a man (or woman) of import, a doctor is almost certainly trash.
TequilaMockingbird
12d ago
Worse than that, it lifted previously existing sanctions/restrictions and thus could arguably be read as giving them permission to obtain a nuclear arsenal so long as they don't actually do so until 2031.
TequilaMockingbird
12d ago
The real question imo is what's the steelman for staying in the deal when "the deal" is that we (the west) effectively subsidize Iran's support for Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, Et Al in exchange for a pinky-promise from Iran not to develop a nuclear weapon before 2030.
TequilaMockingbird
13d ago
I know you are, and I'm cracking a joke about Ukraine firing missiles into Russia.
TequilaMockingbird
13d ago
There's no state on Russia's
northernsouthern border peppering them with so many missile attacks that large numbers of civilians are forced to abandon their homes and jobs to stay in Moscow hotels
Growth Mindset!
TequilaMockingbird
13d ago
My impression is that being Pro-Palestine and Pro-Ukraine is the standard woke PMC intellectual (or as you put, it "current thing at ivy league") take while supporting Isreal while being somewhere between ambivalent towards and supportive of Ukraine is the default/normie position.
Meanwhile supporting Russia while hating on Isreal seems to be the majority opinion here because this space defines itself in large part through its opposition to/hatred of anything "woke" or "normie". We are very smart dont you know.
Supporters of both Russia and Isreal are what we call "principled libertarians" but there are maybe a dozen of them in the whole world and they are surrounded by witches.
TequilaMockingbird
13d ago
Its exporting energy which in the end is not that different.
TequilaMockingbird
13d ago
God always had a sense of humor.
TequilaMockingbird
13d ago
strong supporters of Israel will weep bitter soyjack tears when such tactics are used by any other party in any other situation.
Yes, have you?
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