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				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 7, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think if the person is suicidal or seriously lacking purpose, it might serve purpose as medicine. But to use it recreationally is on the same tier as underwater cave diving. You're a braver man than I for trying even the more moderate option.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 7, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I apologize in advance, but there are a lot of deranged people in EA who are totally into microdoses of LSD or other mind-hallucineugnics. I'm not one of them, in either sense of the word, for good reason. I have no doubt that what you experienced was real enough to you, and that it was a bad one. But your experience, as it reads, is no different than a schizophrenic rant from someone severely disturbed, and voluntarily inducing oneself into such an experience is perverse. It's a personal choice to mindkill oneself with ayuhuesca or what have you, but I never saw it as a brave or adventurous thing, but a kind of psychic suicide.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 7, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
If every contentious jury trial had a obstinant black man on it that refused to obey instructions and just voted on their moral intuitions, the outcomes of these trials would be a lot more right wing. So as long as the trial doesn't directly involve a black defendent, you can guess that the jury will hang. Arguably the prosecution made an error of letting three nurses into the jury pool, but the defense foolishly made the assumption that a black man would be the same as the other white men on the jury.


The progressive media was gearing up for a witch hunt on the holdout, but that isn't going to go anywhere now.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 7, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Hannania is jealous Iago, that's all there is to it.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 7, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Would you tell the Cherokee that? Would your legalist argument somehow undo the Trail of Tears? I'm sure the interned Japanese were happy when Korematsu was overturned, but I think the interned Japanese would rather it not happen in the first place. But I belabor the point. You don't want to be convinced. I bring up all of these examples because it is an example of the law being bent around the interests of the state at the time. By motivated actors, within the system, who ignored the plain American constitution to do as they pleased.


And you refuse to recognize it. It's infuriating. The liberal administration before Trump ignored the plain reading of the law, but somehow you still insist that a carefully written piece of legislation will magic them into compliance. No, that's not going to happen. You would be naive to believe that men would be constrained by laws, especially if they believe they are moral in the breaking of it. Liberals go on how conservatives no longer believe in the rule of law, but don't admit to their own shamelessness in this regard. There are areas of which federal law does not apply. They are called sanctuary cities.


You think conservatives will ever believe that the liberals will act in good faith, after trying everything in their power to cheat them?


That trust is not coming back.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 7, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
You're making a legalist argument for a society that has arguably abandoned it. Even the Romans, who were scrupulously so, could not stop Caesar with their laws, with all the religious sacrality they put into obeying it.


I would not call it an ideology, but a fact. The laws do not constrain the great, but the small. I'm sorry, Cato. You've lost this argument thousands of years ago. The Americans of today are hardly more moral or law-abiding than the Romans, much less the Americans of yesteryear. Some would argue a lot less.


How does John Marshal refute Andrew Jackson?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 7, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I remember a conversation we had on this, where your argument was 'you just need to write better laws'.


But that's not how politics works. That very well may be the case how legislation works, but any set of laws can be worked around, given motivation and cooperating actors in a supposedly impartial system. There is no system of rules of which is invincible to the people who operate within it. If you have a system of perfect rules which is immune to shenenigans, please share it with the class. If the solution is so apparent, why don't people just make laws with no loopholes at all?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 31, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
"Dr. Kafka is here, he's given me this intake form, but all it says is 'are you sane?' for all of the questions. It goes on for hundreds of pages..."


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 24, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The Israelis were willing to accept the UN partition plan. The Arabs weren't. It's ironic that so many maps that are put forth by the Arabs enshrine those borders of which they rejected in the first place.


But that's beside the point. The UN Charter says all ethnic groups have a right to self-determination, and that includes the Jews who lived in the Mandate of Palestine. The Arab invasion rendered the question of legality a moot point. No matter what the Israelis did or didn't do tactically, they were the defenders against a war of aggression at the start of their national existence. Their claim to the land is based on the blood they shed to defend it, not in liberal legality.


Does anyone pretend to even contemplate the hypothetical - if the Israelis lost - that the Arabic nations involved would even consider the Israeli claim? No. No one is foolish enough to believe that.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 24, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Under this logic, would the 1948 Arab-Israeli war be an illegal act of aggression on the part of the Arabs?


You can't have it both ways. You can't be a revanchist jingoist in rhetoric and hide between the liberal international order when you lose. That's chutzpah. You either live in a world of rule of law and norms or you live by the sword. If the Arabs want to rule by right of conquerer, they can't wail and rend their garments when the Israelis pay them in kind.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 24, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I'm not going to get on my anti-third worldist soapbox. That's an exhausted line of rhetoric.


But there are an awful lot of people who want to signal that they're skeptical and anti-war. And they bring up comparisons to the War on Terror, and bring up the talking points of that time - even when they're not applicable. But sometimes the richer and stronger and technologically advanced side wins. In fact, that's what happens most of the time. People forecasting the end of the American empire by the number of shells in the shot locker or rockets in the arsenal are selling an narrative that isn't congruent with reality.


We live in a Western society that has transparency, that has motivated partisan actors obsessively analyzing every scrap of evidence to throw against the war. This is the evidence the skeptics tout. But curiously, they're completely unskeptical about Russian, Iranian, and Chinese sources, taking the statements of state media and their organs without comment. You can come to your own conclusions as to why this is.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 24, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Any article that speaks to a gender as a whole is to be discounted as hot culture war garbage. You can imagine Quisling saying 'my fellow Norwegians' in the same cadence, with the same amount of concern for his fellow countrymen as Tracey does for his fellow men.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 17, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
As a Canadian who regularly deals with snow, I can absolutely believe this.


First of all, there's powder snow, the kind that skiers love. But if you've ever tried to make a snowman with it, you realize that it doesn't stick together well - it's too 'dry', and doesn't clump.


Then there's your building snow, which is wet enough to clump but dry enough to handle, and feels kind of like rolling a very large cotton ball. You can actually make an igloo out of this stuff: it's solid enough to be worked with wooden tools and can be pulled away and shaped into cubes.


Then there's wet snow, which is soaked through and difficult to work with. It will freeze solid overnight and be unworkable, but you can walk on top of it.


Then there's the well-layered snow, which the accumulated and undisturbed pilings of at least a week. At the bottom is a layer that has been compressed by the weight above it, so it's safe to step on, but you'll leave a trail. Mice can live here.


Then there's compacted snow, run over by cars: it's almost as hard as ice, and often has rocks or pebbles or other detritus in it.


...and that's just off the top of my head, living as a sheltered urbanite. Inuit doubtlessly have far more fine distinctions, working with it as both building material and environmental obstacle.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I don't feel sad for him. Like, at all. Not even the performatively gracious liberal kind of sadness. I feel many things (satisfaction? schadenfreude? triumph?) but not that. He made his folly, and chose death over living as a fraud that he always was. It wasn't society's job to baby his delusions or enable his deceit. No doubt there are thousands of liars just like him amongst the progressive ranks, who have not been found out solely because of the lesser degree of their deceptions of which they profit and the institutions which prop them up. Arday died pathetically and publicly and in a way that is mockable for decades to come.


They could all perish tommorow, every last one of them, and I would not weep a single tear.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 3, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
He's not porn brained: he's gay-brained: hypersexual gay men (which is a significantly larger portion of the pride community then liberals want to admit) think and talk and act as bluntly as this.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 3, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I have to rebut both of your points, in that...


A) the Trump Administration put out war goals at the start of the conflict, that did not mention regime change. Perhaps that was an internal goal that was not achieved for a lack of effort, but it was not a political commitment that they had to wind back.


B) Tankers that turn off their maritime transponders wouldn't show up on your website. Not to say that they're all doing that, but a small trickle of traffic is making the run. Saying 'no trade in the Gulf' is an exaggeration.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 27, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
By this logic, Israel is also behind Eurovision's winners consistently being shitty. (Which might even be true.)


You can play the degrees of association game to ascribe blame to Israel on anything. The problem isn't that your theory doesn't explain your thesis: it's that it explains too much.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 20, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It's a consequence of living in a liberal, progressive society. There is an overwhelming pressure to not judge people for their individual choices and it is honestly suffocating. It is a very low bar that they are refusing or unable to meet. Or, in other words, to classify you as 'think you are better' is politeness. You are better, straight up, then people who cannot shower or who dress like freaks or who pretend disabilities they do not possess.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 20, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Unfortunately, you've just outed yourself as otaku-who-thinks-he's-better-than-other-otaku, the missing archetype in your observations. As a fellow patrician in this category, you have my sympathies. I refer you to Roger Ebert's observation on fandom as an explainer for the poor hygiene: knowledge on obscure anime is used in replacement of social normality.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 20, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
There was a time and place where Communists genuinely believed that central planning and the socialist economy were genuinely superior to the capitalist mode of production, and their victory would come about through increased productivity and a greater standard of living. That did not come to pass, and nowadays the only people who flog that are ivory-tower intellectuals that retreat into decades old data and tortured misinterpretation while ignoring the mountainous piles of lived, subjective experience.


Cuba was always poor, relatively speaking. Communism has made it even poorer. Today's communists don't even try and sell you on the idea of a centrally planned economy anymore, instead degenerating into standard Maoist and third-worldist fare on how American is the originator of all imperialist evil. Even their fellow communists in China have criticized them for their lack of reforms. Defenders of Cuba now mostly do it out of habit, and not out of any genuine belief in a imminent revolution by materialist praxis.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 13, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
That wasn't what he was asking for at all. He was asking for your priors, not the content of the truth of Vance's statements. That would give important information ('why are we forced to guess?' and 'why is this important to you, much less the conversation?') That is certainly within the possible, if you weren't so evasive about it.


Let's flip the script on you. If I said 'Now we can all assume that Magicalkittycat both tells the truth and lies', that would be superficially true (no one is completely honest 100% of the time, and even if they tried to be, they would make lies of omission on occasion). The statement tells us almost nothing about which parts of your speech are truthful and which ones are lies. But besides being useless, this statement certainly isn't smuggling in a trojan horse's worth of assumptions against you, which certainly wouldn't be used against you in a partisan way. Certainly, I wouldn't imply you tell the truth when it looks bad for you, and you lie when you argue in your defense.


I mean, I'm just saying the truth, aren't I?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 13, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
As a person who manages to be longwinded without the use of LLMs, I demand a redistribution of this wealth, less I start using AI myself to encourage a similar payoff.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 13, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I speak in the most general of terms. I applaud you for sticking around. I admit that my bias towards replying to the comments that annoy me the most has skewed my perceptions. I may have exaggerated in my charactization of the political polarisation but I do not think it is baseless.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 13, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
You know, I am very happy that this space exists. It's great. I can voice my righty opinions without being mobbed by the average denizen of Reddit. But it's precisely because I can do this that intellectual left-wingers leave the space. You've seen it. I've seen it. The nice ones that would be pleasant to talk to have genuine emotional distress to arguments that they find distasteful. They don't stick it out to fight it. They leave and never return. So the conversation to expand the Motte might be - how do we keep the people we already have from disengaging from the space we have now?


I... believe, that mods engage in affirmative action, to keep the leftists we do have from leaving. I have no evidence of this. But from observed experience, there seems to be a longer leash for the provocatively left-leaning. But the problem is that the temperament of those that remain are not in the first group. They are either clever trolls or freshly educated zoomers who seem to be unaware of the very basic rightist objections to common leftist beliefs. A policy that is intended to preserve our left-leaning goodposters saves the worst of them, instead.


Is this better than having no leftists at all? Supposedly. As good as mod work is in preserving the character of the Motte, I think the fault of the righty-consensus here - in addition to the usual social media partisanship factor - is exogenous. Namely, the broader leftist intellectual sphere is intolerant. Not to say that righties are any better, but they lack the cultural and academic soft power to abuse ingroup inclinations IRL. There's nothing we can do about it. The academic-NGO complex moderates righty ideas out of the public conversation. You have to go out of your way to even know that such objections exist that do not immediately cast our motives as racist, misogynist, etc.


This has been a long tangent, but to sum it all up... To expand the Motte will inevitably lead to a righty-Motte and a lefty-Motte. A schism, so to speak, that has already happened. I do not believe that the death of lefty-Motte was a coincidence. Ring-fencing the topics of acceptable debate destroyed the entire purpose of the space. The magic (and the witches that casted them) was gone.


I don't know how to solve this partisan self-sorting problem. But it should be something that should be kept in mind. As soon as you create subforums out of the current Big Chum Bucket we have, this will happen. It is inevitable, and I don't think it can be solved with good moderation.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 13, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Literally the entire alimony regime limits the ability of men to reproduce (unless they go deadbeat, which perversely encourages the stupidest and poorest to breed over the intelligent and conscientious.) Talk about 'splinter in thine eye, sequoia redwood in mine'! The health insurance market is a transfer of wealth from men to women. The entire DEI structure is a transfer of wealth from men to women. Social security - from demographics and life expectancy - is a transfer from young men to old women. The west has not tried a bachelor tax, or literally enslaving men. But they very may well do so, in the near future!


But the most timid of social considerations (well, maybe women should consider family to be important) immediately gets shouted down. Not even the most reactionary of radicals has something like a 'female tax' on their agenda. Or even lifting the extraordinary privileges the feminists have given themselves. And you say that we should try more restrictions on men?