reactionary_peasant
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reactionary_peasant
1yr ago
I've explicitly told my wife that we are not friends. If we were in the same social circle, we probably wouldn't be very close since our interests only overlap a little. We're attracted to each other physically and romantically, and also through the camaraderie developed from building a family together.
I don't like the casualness that the word "friend" implies. I don't think husbands and wives should be as casual with each other as male friends are. I've been in relationships like that and it definitely cheapened and degraded them.
reactionary_peasant
1yr ago
There’s a subtle variant of racism 0HP advocates for that I’m coming to agree with but doubt I can communicate clearly.
I would be interested in reading this.
reactionary_peasant
1yr ago
What's up with Ohio? I know next to nothing about the place, but I lumped it in with places like Iowa and Nebraska. Has the been a shift or was it always this way? A quick Google suggests maybe Cleveland and Columbus have gotten bluer?
reactionary_peasant
1yr ago
The apparent "Spirit of 68" was mostly a tiny vanguard getting signal boosted by a very sympathetic media, academia, and bureaucracy. The "Spirit of 16" never existed. Rather than a fervor that swept the nation, it felt more like a small, intense, yet frail flame that could be snuffed out at any moment due to overwhelming headwinds from the pro-68er institutional powers. Those headwinds successfully prevented the 16er movement from growing strong enough to convince normies to trade their 68er moral framework for an alt-right one.
I don't think ZHPL is (purely) grifting here though. Right-wing anger has been simmering since the Tea Party (earlier?) and Trumpism was its most recent eruption. Trust in the soap box and ballot box have been eroded by these failures. ZHPL is exhorting right wingers to resist demoralization and prepare for the next opportunity. I'm not terminally online (I don't use any social media), but I am doing most of the things he encourages right wingers to do, and if there were any actual opportunity to wrest control of the country from my enemies, I'd participate somehow. Perhaps he's trying to convince young men disappointed by the failure of Trumpism not to simply check out and take the blue pill.
reactionary_peasant
1yr ago
Not to channel the Nybbler, but they will jail Trump because they believe they can easily crush any scattered dissent and win. And they may very well be right.
reactionary_peasant
1yr ago
I think it's supposed to be pointing out how the same people who think it's justifiable or understandable for Palestinians to rape and murder people encroaching on their land also think that even the feeblest response from (white) Americans to the invasion of their land/replacement of their culture by immigrants or activist minorities is racist and morally unjustifiable.
reactionary_peasant
1yr ago
If you do get banned, it will probably be for constantly deleting your posts. Stop doing it, it's really obnoxious.
reactionary_peasant
1yr ago
Some men, and I think this is in part behind some of the 'incel' subculture or identity, have seemingly realized that the sexual revolution's free for all buffet clearly often applies primarily to the highest status/most attractive men in a kind of highly unequal romantic economy. But that doesn't mean they didn't 'want it'. Many Western men (even many people here, I have found) are essentially temporarily embarrassed chads who are merely upset, if they are upset, that they're not on top of the sexual hierarchy of men, not that the sexual hierarchy exists. It is a problem of position for them, rather than one of system.
This is an excellent insight, and yet another example of a rebellion against "modernity" that is in fact rooted in the same soil as that against which it rebels.
reactionary_peasant
1yr ago
Bruges? It's a shithole.
reactionary_peasant
1yr ago
What's up with Senate passing a resolution affirming support for Israel 97-0? As a flyover pleb I'm genuinely confounded by this. I do not give a single shit about either Palestinians and Israelis, and I honestly have a negative feeling towards both of them since I'm pretty sure they would abuse me if I lived in there country and they probably despise my race/religion/way of life. My preferred response to such a proposed resolution by my elected officials would be "lol who cares," but somehow nearly everyone across the entire political spectrum feels either conviction or pressure to signal support for one side of this ugly foreign conflict.
What's going on here? I know there's the "Jews secretly control the government" thesis, but a massive global conspiracy has never seemed like the most parsimonious explanation. What's the motivation of, say, a senator from Mississippi or Oregon to affirm their support? My hunch is that the political calculus is simply that "supporting" Israel bears little to no political costs, whereas opposing/ignoring Israel might have a remote risk of negative publicity or loss of campaign funding.
Is there a more nuanced explanation?
reactionary_peasant
1yr ago
As a fellow long-term Japan resident, I really appreciate and empathize with your posts.
Their Japanese politeness prevents them from acknowledging me, though my American friendliness feels somehow hurt by this, as if they might cheer me on.
Made me chuckle. I guess it never goes away, huh?
lol, I'm stealing this
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