reactionary_peasant
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reactionary_peasant
9mo ago
Sorry for the off topic question, but it's the first time I've seen it in the wild -- are you intentionally capitalizing "Black" and not "white?" If so, may I ask why? I always thought this was just a progressive journalist signalling thing.
reactionary_peasant
9mo ago
I never understand the hypocrisy angle, and it always seems to me to be used 100% in bad faith.
I'm a parent and have several vices that I'm not proud of. I don't want my children to have the same vices, so I teach them that those vices are wrong. No parent wants their kids to grow up hooked on anger, alcohol, drugs, or porn. For each of my vices, if I could go back in time and prevent myself from ever getting hooked in the first place, I would do it, even for the vices I "enjoy." It would have been better to never have known those corrupting pleasures. But I can't. Sometimes it feels like having a chronic disease. So I scratch the itch every so often and do my best to endure the temptation otherwise.
Even if the Zieglers don't feel guilty about having threesomes and don't intend to stop, I don't see how it undermines their organization. Perfect morality and zero hypocrisy is an intentionally impossible demand. I don't think the Zieglers believe that having threesomes is morally preferable to not having them. It's possible to realize that you have a broken moral compass and at the same time to work hard to ensure that the people you love most in the world, your children, don't end up like you. So this pearl clutching seems ridiculous to me. Let he who is with sin cast the first stone.
To more fairly apportion the blame though -- the reason these hit pieces are published is because there's an unfortunate section of the red tribe who "thank God that they were not made like other men" and will drop support for this group over this. Luckily I think this group is shrinking, but it must still be effective -- they're certainly not publishing these to convince blue tribers.
reactionary_peasant
9mo ago
That's how I've always heard it, but I'm also hopelessly out of touch.
reactionary_peasant
9mo ago
This is first time I've come across "podcast" as an uncountable noun ("no interest in podcast," "who watches podcast," "making podcast"). Is this a new thing? I hope not, it's really grating to me (though tbf most new coinages are).
reactionary_peasant
9mo ago
Maybe we're low class and gross?
Not sure, that's just my impression from my work circle and my dad friends. I could be in a bubble. In any case with the amount of times we eat at famiresu and monthly Domino's pizza cravings I might not be the best judge of what's low class and gross, lol.
reactionary_peasant
9mo ago
Your forgot
- Eliminate alcohol
It's what helped me stop getting sick all the time. A drink or two a night was enough to ruin my sleep and in turn suppress my immune system. YMMV of course.
reactionary_peasant
9mo ago
Also, only tangentially related, but in Japan there's a fascinating phenomenon at business meals (even internal meals!) where the first person to order will order entree X and drink Y, and then everyone else at the table will follow suit, with the chances of someone ordering something different decreasing in proportion to how late they place their order (i.e. the last person to order is almost guaranteed not to order something else).
I've asked Japanese people about this and they say that they don't want to break the flow or harmony and that it would be embarrassing or it would draw attention to order something else. As western barbarian steeped in individualism, I can only comprehend this on a theoretical, intellectual level. It's totally alien to me.
reactionary_peasant
9mo ago
unless you really trust your dining companions, it’s always best to just order the steak/lobster/stack the cocktails for game theory reasons
Not sure if you're joking but this is the sort of comment that makes me wonder if motteposters spend much time around normal average people (no particular offense meant towards you). If someone did this in my friend group he'd be cajoled into paying $10-20 towards the bill. You probably couldn't swing steak and lobster but if everyones getting chicken fajitas you could probably get the steak fajitas for +$3 without anyone complaining. It's kind of like going over the speed limit. Everyone just sort of knows that you can go roughly 5 over in a 40MPH zone and roughly 10 over in a 70MPH zone since the cops are people instead of robots
reactionary_peasant
9mo ago
Is it because you're uncomfortable feeling like you "owe" someone or are "owed" something? I used to be like that to the point where I would refuse gifts from friends and family sometimes, but I realized one day that allowing someone else to be generous to you is actually also an act of humility and generosity on your own part since you're making your self "vulnerable" in a sense. Since then, I've tried to freely accepted gifts (though I do try to gift back later when I have the chance).
It just occurred to me -- I guess Americans mostly falls in the with the Arab/Chinese/Koreans on this matter? Or maybe somewhere in between. If you sent someone a "tikkie" in the U.S. for a coffee, I think a lot of people would think you're stingy. When I used to eat out with friends after around the age of 25 or so (i.e. when most people weren't scraping to get by), usually someone would pick up the bill for the entire table, and then next time it would be someone else's turn to pick it up. Occasionally there were weasels in the group who tried to only pick up the tab at the cheapest restaurants, but we usually would just go somewhere fancy next time it was their turn and stick them with the bill. Some people probably came out ahead a few bucks here and there but complaining about that would have seemed petty.
I spent most of my time in the South though and America is really a handful of nations in a trenchcoat pretending to be a single unified nation, so perhaps norms are different elsewhere.
EDIT:
It’s an honor to pay for another.
N=1 but this is pretty much how I feel. I feel proud to be generous with my money and pay for my friends. Not sure how much of that is culture vs personality vs something else.
reactionary_peasant
9mo ago
I would read this. Pls write.
reactionary_peasant
9mo ago
I would think of times when you remember having fun and try to recreate not necessarily the activities but the conditions under which you had the fun.
For example, these were some of my conditions:
- Being in an all male social group
- Trying to impress a woman I liked
- Spontaneity/no pressure to follow a plan
- Something physically active
- Open-ended/not time-bound
- Outdoors
- Traveling across the U.S. by car
- Cooperative/non-competitive activity
- No upcoming commitments
Then, find something that checks as many of those boxes as you can. I think the negative ("freedom from") conditions are perhaps more important than the positive ones, FWIW.
reactionary_peasant
9mo ago
Man, I relate to this comment so hard. You probably already know this, but you likely still have the "spark" you had before the kids came along. My wife and I went on a trip a few years back without our kids to another city where we intentionally made no plans. When we got up on the first morning it was exciting (another rare feeling!), and I found myself having pure fun just wandering around, teasing, flirting, and buying frivolous snacks and taking silly pictures just like we did when dating. It was a huge relief to know that I hadn't somehow lost that capacity under the crushing burden of fatherhood and family management. It's a memory that keeps me going when I feel oppressed by that grueling sameness.
reactionary_peasant
9mo ago
The way it was explained to me by Chinese friends was that excess == wealth. Chinese have grandparents who at different times couldn't buy enough food to eat, and parents who were restricted in the amount and quality of ingredients they could buy. So using ingredients extravagantly feels like a celebration of wealth and comfort. Similar story from Korean friends. Metal bowls and chopsticks were only available to the nobility, so they became a symbol of prosperity and class. Similarly, only the nobility had the money and ability to secure a wide enough variety of dishes to completely cover the table as is often done even in Korean homes. I'm sure that once famine and extreme poverty have mostly passed out of living memory people will question the need for such portions.
Re. the other comments on ramen broth -- you really shouldn't drink a lot of ramen broths. Tonkotsu, shio, and shoyu broths typically have a ridiculous amount of sodium, not to mention grease. Most Japanese also don't drink the broth and I think they many would consider someone who did a bit low-class and gross. There are however some more recent health conscious places (often targeted at women) that serve smaller bowls of ramen with totally drinkable broth (usually vegetable or chicken based). I try to find those since I love the broth.
reactionary_peasant
9mo ago
It's because it was done in Alabama. If it had happened in a California it would've been "a botched execution, a tragic accident." But it happened in a red state, so those fuckers probably wanted him to suffer. It's just banal cultural war spin.
reactionary_peasant
9mo ago
As an example - ophthalmologists almost always wear glasses and almost never get laser eye surgery.
Why glasses over contacts?
reactionary_peasant
9mo ago
Maybe so, though I'm not sure how it relates to my post. I'm definitely sincere here. I post here to give the normie religious-man-with-a-family opinion because a lot of users seem unfamiliar with it, and also to have my beliefs about my outgroup challenged. Special thanks to the inveterate left-wingers who post here. I'm always sad to see a left-leaning post downvoted.
reactionary_peasant
9mo ago
Can you try to put in a bit more effort? I don't know why you seem to constantly get away with these pseudo-profound one liners. I'm pretty sure most other users would get modded.
A state of nature would be an absence of authority, it would just be might makes right at the individual or, at most, clan level. Anarcho-tyranny is worse than might makes right if you're part of a disfavored group. You can have a mighty clan, but modern states have an incredible amount of muscle and intelligence at their disposal. It doesn't matter how many sons or cousins you have, nor how strong they are, the US Government is going to come down on any members of your clan like gigaton of bricks.
reactionary_peasant
9mo ago
IIRC previous discussions here said that although facing off with Trump was a big risk, DeSantis may have believed that his best shot would be to ride his "tough on woke and covid overreach" image to victory while people still remembered and cared about those things. Looks like it didn't pan out.
reactionary_peasant
9mo ago
It seems like it's actually worse than being in a state of nature, since in a state of nature you could retaliate by picking up a big rock and smashing your enemy's head (and maybe his family's heads), while being a disfavored group under a bad sovereign means you'd have to successfully smash the heads of your enemy, his family, the entirety of the city, state, and federal law enforcement to achieve the same result.
reactionary_peasant
9mo ago
Nitpick re. [2], I think the formula you're looking for is:
"How can you tell Joe served in the Army?"
"Don't worry, he'll tell you."
reactionary_peasant
9mo ago
No, you're not alone. I agree with him on most things and even I find his smug low-effort one-liners and condescending attitude tiring, though he's far from the most smarmy or condescending person on here.
I think this particular post of his is actually much better than his average, though. Particularly the last paragraph.
reactionary_peasant
9mo ago
IIRC it had been trending this way for a long time. SK polls showed that the generations old enough to remember the Korean War (and who often had brothers, sisters, aunts, or uncles on the other side) still supported reunification, while the youngest generations (who have only ever seen NK as a bizarre, menacing foreign country) opposed reunification, partly due to lack of ties, but also due to an unwillingness to shoulder the inevitable economic and social damage to SK caused by absorbing the impoverished, uneducated, dysfunctional NK population.
Sad to see this finally formalized but I suppose it was unavoidable.
reactionary_peasant
9mo ago
I actually upvoted this comment because I appreciate your honesty. However I think it would have been good form to state your belief that "those who are not happy with the current ruling [...] are for the most part the absolutely dumbest people alive" earlier in the thread so other posters can avoid wasting their time trying to convince you otherwise.
Interesting, thank you.
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