@magic9mushroom's banner p

magic9mushroom

If you're going to downvote me, and nobody's already voiced your objection, please reply and tell me

2 followers   follows 0 users  
joined 2022 September 10 11:26:14 UTC
Verified Email 

				
User ID: 1103


				
				
				

			

		

	














	


		


			



	

		

			

			

				

					

						

							
						

						

							
							

								
magic9mushroom


								

								

								
								
								

								
							
					
 
				


				
If you're going to downvote me, and nobody's already voiced your objection, please reply and tell me

				
				
				

				

					2 followers  

					follows 0 users  

					joined 2022 September 10 11:26:14 UTC
				


				
					

					
No bio...

				

				

				

				

				

					

					

					
					
					

					
User ID: 1103


					
					
					
				

			


					

						
							
								Verified Email
							
						
					



		

	

 











			
			

			
			

			




	


		

			
‎

			

				
				

					Hour
					Day
					Week
					Month
					Year
					All
				

			


			
‎

			

	
	

	 Hot Bump Top Bottom Old Controversial Comments
	



		

	






	

		
		

		
		
	

	

  







		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 22, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Yeah, I figured that you saying that was a possibility.


This is kind of awkward to point out right now, but... I already quit Wikipedia. I thought the problems could be fixed bottom-up. Maybe they could have. I'm now convinced that they can't, not since No Nazis* and the lab-leak purge - attempting to fix them is now considered evidence of being an enemy infiltrator. So I'm on strike as a WP editor, for years now, because "no longer lend our strength to that which we wish to be free from" i.e. the admin/crat class and to an extent WMF.


*If you want to be bitterly disappointed, look at the history of the talk page on that essay. I thought I had it bad when my objections got hatted as NOTFORUM; afterward, they just straight-up deleted all the dissent against it.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 22, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


It's a specific condition, gender dysphoria, that is directly alleviated by altering the person's body.




So, I mean, Alzheimer's is a specific condition, it's associated with elevated amyloid-beta levels, and aducanumab reduces amyloid-beta levels. We should rush out and give all the Alzheimer's patients aducanumab, right? No need for testing!


Except, wait, they did the testing and it shows that aducanumab doesn't actually slow cognitive decline, which is the outcome we actually care about. Turns out that having an explanation for how something could work doesn't necessarily mean that that explanation is correct or that it does work.


The statistics on transsexuals that transition are awful. It is possible that they're slightly less awful than the statistics for would-be transsexuals that are prevented from transitioning. I dunno, because TTBOMK nobody's actually done the RCT. Doing the RCT would be really hard due to trans activists sabotaging the control group, sure. That doesn't make not having it done less of a problem.


I will note that I had full phantom-limb gender dysphoria and (mostly) grew out of it; it's not obvious to me that the "would benefit from transition" group can actually be distinguished from the "would be harmed by transition" group.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 22, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


If a trans person was not notable before transitioning, their former name is of no interest to the public and there is no reason to include it, and a good reason – namely, courtesy – to exclude it.




This is only true if there was a legal name change exactly concurrent with the transition, and everybody that noted the person did so under the new name.


See e.g. the page on the Zizians. That Ziz's birth name is Jack is notable because Ziz was arrested before legally changing name (I legit don't know if there has even been a legal name change to Wikipedia's insistent "Ziz LaSota") and as such "Jack LaSota" is the name on the court documents and in much of the press. But "Jack" only appears in the citations, with no explanation.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 22, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Were you aware that before he became NASA administrator Jared Issacman was best known in gunnie circles for registering a fully armed and operational Mig-29 with the ATF as a Destructive Device?




I've managed to confirm the Mig-29 (assuming that was a typo in his name), but not "fully armed". Could you provide a source for this?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 29, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It's not that hard to build a nuke if you don't have to worry about law enforcement (including "international law enforcement" in the sense of other countries firing missiles at your house). You'd need millions of dollars (though not billions), a year or three, and maybe a degree of recklessness regarding whether you get cancer, but it's doable.


What's nearly impossible is hiding that you are building a nuke. If Omega gave me Satoshi's bitcoin codes, took me off the various watchlists I'm probably on, and told me I had to build a working nuke without anybody knowing or the world would end, I might be able to pull it off, but I'd still bet against it.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 29, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


The general understanding is that "not under the jurisdiction" covers invading armies




There is a rather-trollish argument, which I don't think the dissents mentioned (though holy shit, those things are long, so I've only skimmed them), that by definition an illegal immigrant who is still actually present in the USA is someone against whom the USA is failing to exercise jurisdiction, in much the same way as it is failing to exercise jurisdiction over an invading army.


I don't think I'd considered this before today (though I did when still reading the opinions, not from your post), and I'm not sure I agree with it, but it does seem colourable.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 29, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I'm certainly open to believing the framers were so intellectually rigorous as to consider it necessary to incorporate language for the situation where an occupying army brought along their own women




I will note that the idea of "camp followers" should have been accessible to them; camp followers are so old that the Romans talk about them, and they persisted all the way into the 20th century*.


*The obvious example is the Imperial Japanese Army. Obviously, most of the "comfort women" were actually Korean and Chinese sex slaves and that was a crime against humanity. But one thing that's often forgotten is that some were actual Japanese prostitutes who volunteered and were paid; those were not a war crime, and very much were in the ancient tradition of camp followers - and could indeed be considered part of the occupying Japanese army rather than the Chinese populace or some third category.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 22, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I'm not sure why nuclear bombs should affect your ability to sit down and peacefully let someone else rape you to death.


If we have to point at a recent development which would undercut my claim, it'd be brainwashing camps, not nukes.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 22, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Much as "those who ‘abjure’ violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf",




This isn't true. The early Christians, famously, did not abandon pacifism against the Romans.


It's more correct to say that pacifism (absent a non-pacifist protector) tends to get you killed or enslaved. But you can do it.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 29, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


What's an example, meeting your criteria of (a) the target countries don't take the people in voluntary and (b) no military force is involved?




I mean, I think some of the various places that expelled their Jews in the Middle Ages would fit those criteria, at least if you interpret a) as including "the target country doesn't really want them but is unwilling to just kill them all when they show up anyway".


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 29, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Comparing anything right-wing to Nazism is an overused cliche, but it fits here: AFAIK Nazis initially planned to just deport the Jews somewhere (Madagascar), but ended up brutally overworking and exterminating them, because their end goal was to get rid of them and that was easiest.




Per Scott's post, the First Solution was convincing the Jews to emigrate (to Palestine and elsewhere, and by normal peacetime means like commercial passenger ships) by making life in Germany shitty for them (and seizing money from rich Jews to pay for the tickets of poor Jews). This failed because everybody else refused to take the German Jews (note that this was before decolonisation, so this mostly means the Western governments - they, after all, set the immigration policies of their colonies).


The supposed Second Solution was deporting all the Jews to Madagascar (forcibly, and by extraordinary means). This made no sense, because by then Germany was at war with Britain (which controlled the Suez, Gibraltar and the North Atlantic), and thus couldn't possibly get the Jews to Madagascar. Most people think this was just a fake plan as a cover story for the Final Solution (there was at least one other - the Wannsee Conference mentions "evacuation to the East" i.e. Poland/Russia).


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 27, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I'd say more "charismatic" than "intelligent", and the amount of people on Hitler's level is very low so if you can resist anything less you're mostly fine.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 22, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


But honestly, I don't believe what you are saying right now since the videos don't sound like AI to me. It just sounds like you're erecting an arbitrary hurdle to shield yourself from earnest engagement. I don't know why and it feels like a shame.




No, I'm not lying; that is my true objection. Leaving aside that I've never lied on theMotte (though I've occasionally accidentally said false things, and I've often refrained from telling the whole truth), what motive would I have to lie here? Like, I mentioned this in my first post of our interaction; if I didn't want to engage with you, I simply wouldn't have engaged with you.


If you look around some of my other posts, you'll see that I'm a full-blown Yudkowskian Jihadi, and my objection is the AI-box one, which indeed I've explicitly mentioned on here over a year ago.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 22, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I know it's 25 minutes and I know the guy has a depressing delivery.




That's not the problem. The problem is that I suspect the narrator to be AI, and I have a policy of avoiding AI output for mental-hygiene reasons, especially when in an audiovisual format. If you can demonstrate to my satisfaction that the videos are not in fact AI-narrated (e.g. by providing pre-2022 videos from that channel that sound similar), I'll watch them; otherwise, your pleading is pointless, as I consider that policy far more important than this debate.




I don't believe the directors, screenwriters or anyone else were necessarily intentionally making an explicit commentary on how much they hate white people and think they are all one move away from dooming everything through racism and are otherwise beyond saving outside of a baptism through fornicating with brown people. But I am telling you that it's nevertheless the subtextual end result of their work.




Ah, that clarifies things quite a bit.


TBH, I'd at least vaguely entertained the possibility of you thinking that way. But I'm not sure why this is especially relevant to the point you were originally making.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 22, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I don't need to see a video to notice that there's racial subtext in Gattaca. The film's message can be summed up as "even when scientific racism is 100% obviously true and a master race demonstrably exists, it's still false and the master race aren't actually any better than the rest of us, fuck logic". The Wikipedia article cites at least one review pointing out the racial angle.


But I can't even construct a particularly-consistent explanation for 28 Days Later being secretly about white rage. If it's meant to be about racial hatred being good, why are those with it portrayed as literal zombies? If it's meant to be about racial hatred being evil, why didn't anyone involved cash in on belatedly noting it the way the Wachowski Brothers Sisters did?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 22, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Voters and candidates need certainty quickly after polling is concluded about who has won and where we all go from here as a result, the process shouldn't be held hostage by the possibility of some votes turning up 5 days later.




A few days delay knowing who won isn't ideal, but here in Oz we seem to mostly have put up with it in a lot of elections the past couple of decades; it doesn't seem to be a non-negotiable that blows up everything if not observed.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 22, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Considering all of that, I'd say it's clear whites are not being protected from their own racist tendencies, a concept explored in the movie 28 Days Later




I haven't watched the whole video (that narrator sounds like AI), but what I have appears to be straight-up schizophrenic delusion on par with A Beautiful Mind. The rest of your post is pretty solid, but, uh, are you okay?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 22, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Could you elaborate a little? I can hypothesise some issues, but I have no direct exposure.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 22, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Takaoka Yuka got quite a lot of fandom - not a serial killer, but we started out discussing murderers in general (okay, sure, she didn't manage to kill him, so she's an attempted murderer, but it's the thought that counts).


I used to moderate a board for stalkers/fans of stalkers, and there was a lot of love for her there. I remember saying on said board that she probably didn't deserve as much sympathy as lots of them were extending - because while yeah, sure, host bars are designed to hook people into whaling away vast sums of money on parasocial fake romance, and as such getting murdered by angry customers is absolutely an occupational hazard that's baked in, Yuka was a hostess herself and thus couldn't really claim ignorance or innocence of that game.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 22, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Well, I was more addressing the "murderer" part than the specific "black widower" part.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 15, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I knew about Nanjing, but not about the others. Good catch.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 22, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Why on earth would you think this is a good idea?




Having someone willing to kill for you is sometimes fairly useful, particularly if you are bad at killing people. It was considerably more useful in the EEA, as @IGI-111 notes.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 22, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Someone has probably made this argument on The Motte before. We aren't missing any communists from roll call, are we?




I'm not sure there have been full-blown revolutionary communists here since the site move. I'm a socialist, but obviously I'm not missing (never been to Canada, actually).


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 22, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It's not illegal for the kid to go wandering around the neighbourhood either (the kid won't be charged with a crime); the problem is that the laws/policies punish the parents for physically allowing him/her to so wander. Likewise, there are a zillion ways in which things are set up to prevent kids from killing themselves, and it would (AFAIK, though IDK about Canada) be illegal for a euthanasia clinic to assist a child suicide.


I don't think anyone's arguing for kids to be considered criminals for trying to transition; the anti-trans side want teachers and doctors (and maybe parents) to be liable for facilitating that transition, and for parents to not be punished for preventing that transition.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 15, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I was giving regions in terms of pre-modern hegemons (and hedged "known world") because of the whole issue where transcontinental wars were basically not a thing you could do back then, so Rome and Beijing didn't really have to concern themselves with what the other thought. These days the concept of a "regional hegemon" has been severely undermined (though it's still not quite nothing).