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				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 20, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
In a debate over X, asking “what about Y?” raises two questions.


    

  1. Is Y similar to X?
    2. 

  2. What’s the correct position on Y?
    3. 



Whataboutism is when the parties disagree on 1. At best, they’re now having a second debate which may or may not affect the original.


The side which was asked is going to find this more frustrating, since they assume it’s not even relevant. This asymmetry makes “what about Y?” very appealing to trolls.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 20, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Jefferson pardoned everyone who had been charged under the Sedition Act. His party had taken power with a mandate to remove them, and I guess he was implementing his part.


I’m willing to bet that pardons were part of the normal political sausage-making that was the norm through…I don’t know when it fell apart. Reagan? Clinton?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 20, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Hmm, maybe you’re right. In the spirit of Jan 6, I’ll commute it to time served.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 20, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
You know what would have been really wild? If Biden had pardoned these guys during his final spree.


Better yet, he could have just pardoned the nonviolent ones, closed the investigation, etc. and called it a show of unity. Then Trump wouldn’t get to bulldoze another norm for free points.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 20, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
That's a pretty inflammatory claim. Please recall the relevant rule.


Three day ban.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 20, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think the phrase




German authoritarian far left hate speech police that persecutes its only genuine patriots




is equivocating between “strong believers in a nation-state” and “strong believers in our nation-state.” The motte is that Nazis obviously fit the former definition. The bailey is that the German left ought to treat Nazis as if they fit the latter. This is ridiculous.


For a less charged comparison: the Confederacy. Confederate soldiers and generals were obviously patriots; respecting them as such is fine, but not obligatory. Honoring them as if they’re our patriots? I object.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 20, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Between him and Reagan, the Democrats basically lost all access to a huge chunk of Boomers. They voted for him, he failed to deliver, and then Reagan promised something completely different.


I do think his legacy turned out okay. Even my grandfather, who is a pretty central example of one of those Boomers, doesn’t really seem to hold it against him personally.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 20, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Um, yeah. You wouldn’t exactly expect Stalin to reward them.


It’s reasonable to wish the Germans were more merciful to their dissidents. But there is no reason to call neo-Nazis patriots, because the state they belong to explicitly opposes the one they’re patriotic about.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 20, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


its only genuine patriots




Who would that be? Neo-Nazis aren’t patriots. At best, they’re lukewarm about the modern German state. It owes them no special deference.


I say this despite agreeing that Germany’s laws on the subject ought to be more like America’s.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 20, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I am particularly curious about how this fits into the campaign against inflation. The neoliberals have been trying it for decades!


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 20, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
They mentioned that the program had been adjusted last-minute to sync up with the traditional 12:00 swearing-in.


I did find the whole presentation kind of slapdash, even though every individual part was well-executed.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 20, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


We're going to dig deeper into this speech, but first, I think we want to hear Carrie Underwood...




Thanks, CBS. You have captured the American ethos.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 20, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I naively expected that to apply to sitting Senators.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 20, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Couldn't agree more. High point of the ceremony, probably because no one was speaking.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 20, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
One thing that stands out: President Trump is a much better speaker than either of the Congressmen or even the commentators. He hasn't been filling space with an "um" or an "ah." Since we can't see the original text, I don't know if he's sticking to the script, but I'd be willing to bet it's improvisation.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 20, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
☁ INAUGURATION THREAD ☁


I was going to post this to encourage Americans to participate in our show of civic unity. Let the messages of unity and American exceptionalism wash over you. Pay no mind to the commentators muttering about President Biden's last-minute preemptive pardons, or to the persistence of each Democrat speaker in reminding everyone that the Constitution exists and definitely binds the hands of the executive, too.


Kavanaugh has sworn in VP Vance. Now for the President.


Here's to four uneventful years. May the new administration succeed in delivering on their promises.


Edit: some of these promises kind of suck. I sure hope we don't do anything stupid over the Panama Canal.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 13, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
None of this JAQing off. Speak plainly. You were specifically warned about this quite recently--and on the exact same subject.


Three day ban, this time.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 13, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Ah, my mistake, then.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 13, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
No, it was SB8.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 13, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Someone tried, but the suit was thrown out. Judicial activism? Sloppy law? Who can say?


Obviously the parents are less likely to sue their provider, so if the public enforcement is thrown out, civil suits are going to be hard to come by.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 13, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I haven’t forgotten. And while @The_Nybbler insists there there totally were magic words in Dr. Karsan’s case, I observe that this one relies on §171.205 instead of §171.046, and thus uses the “physician’s belief” standard instead of the “physician’s reasonable medical judgment” one.


If Dr. Karsan was only shot down because she didn’t say her own judgment was “reasonable,” I don’t think other doctors are wrong to be afraid of having their words twisted.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 13, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
From the source propublica article:




“Dr. Totorica states to not move patient,” she wrote after talking with him. “Dr. Totorica states there is a slight chance patient may need to go to ICU and he wants the bedside ultrasound to be done stat for sure before admitting to room.”






Though he had already performed an ultrasound, he was asking for a second.






The first hadn’t preserved an image of Crain’s womb in the medical record.“Bedside ultrasounds aren’t always set up to save images permanently,” said Abbott, the Boston OB-GYN.






The state’s laws banning abortion require that doctors record the absence of a fetal heartbeat before intervening with a procedure that could end a pregnancy. Exceptions for medical emergencies demand physicians document their reasoning.




You can read the relevant statute here is §171.205. The additional regulatory burden is not an accident. It’s one of the main mechanisms by which Texas is reducing abortions performed in-state.


I expect the goalposts to recede into the distance as the usual suspects try to place the blame somewhere, anywhere but on the pro-life bloc.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 12, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Did anyone ever sample TikTok or Instagram representatively? What would they measure?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 12, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
If you’re ruling out interest groups because you don’t have the interest, you should rule out religious groups where you don’t have the religion.


Have you considered volunteering? Pick something that’s not too stressful or depressing, maybe gets you outside of the climate allows. My sister joined some sort of local team which cleans and landscapes the local parks.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 13, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
DCI is extra strange. My college band had a couple members who’d done it, but with corps that were nowhere near us. Not sure how much of their headcount is explained by catchment.