hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
14m ago
The absolutely insane salaries offered are what's doing the pushing. You can have a very nice life in America on $60k/yr- for multiple people. Let alone multiple times that. There's no need for the education system to push vast numbers of smart kids to try to go to the most selective college they can get when they know that's the siren song of six figure salaries.
hydroacetylene
29m ago
Solar panels are popular because it's giving stuff to middle class people(homeowners). Heat pumps are probably more red-coded than blue at this point, for climate(not change) related reasons, but Americans will eat rice and beans before embracing bugs as food.
I don't know where you're getting 'infinite energy' from though. Solar has serious drawbacks that make it a not-infinite energy source.
hydroacetylene
34m ago
So, uh, why are you reading? Like what are you reading for?
You should read what you like if it's for enjoyment. Whether that's Tom Clancy(RIP) or Jane Austen(also RIP), or in your case Cormac McCarthy(RIP again). If you're trying to become well read, then read Shakespeare. If you just want to blend in with a certain crowd, well, that's going to entail plenty of other things you wouldn't necessarily choose to do, I'm not sure why the modern equivalent of Dickens is a bridge too far.
hydroacetylene
43m ago
Because, whatever their views on the Iran war or drug interdiction, it seems inarguable that cartel crews or Islamofascistic regime enforcers are bad people, and that is what people care about- not what they have in common with them.
I am aware that you are German, but in America the death penalty is broadly extremely popular. 'The government killing bad guys' is a very popular position, and arguing about the niceties of exactly how they do this is splitting hairs. BLM gets support because of the view that many black victims of police shooting are not bad guys, or at least not bad enough to deserve the death penalty(AFAICT most of them die from their own stupidity after committing various crimes which carry prison sentences of less than a decade, which of course is pretty far off from offenses most Americans regard as justifiably capital).
hydroacetylene
16hr ago
That sounds correct, but I could not reproduce his full name on command.
I was bisexual beforehand, and not encouraged to befriend other patients. Support group dynamics were seen as unhealthy and to be avoided, and no residential programs existed in this world that I am aware of for that reason. So I do not know if this would have been successful for obligate homosexuals but that case was stated to be very rare- I don’t know if this was bubble effect or not.
I had homework that was a mix of standard therapy fair(journaling etc) and developing positive conceptions of myself as stereotypically masculine- bear in mind a positive stereotype of masculinity as conceived by conservative Christian clergy assisted by reactionary philosophers, there were no hooter’s trips etc. The most unusual thing I was asked to do was to admire myself nude and then in my underwear in the bathroom mirror, I think to appreciate the connection between my body and tendencies, but most of it was stuff like growing an appreciation for sports(this meant playing, not watching), doing stuff with my dad/grandad(fishing and working on cars were recommended), learning a new (tangible and masculine)hobby, and so on and so forth. I have no doubt that if I had been noticeably out of shape fixing that would have been considered part of the program, but I wasn’t and weightlifting wasn’t pushed- although undergoing physical discomfort and self discipline was, this mostly meant things like ‘not hitting the snooze button on your alarm’ and ‘walking around with rocks in your shoes all day’. There was actually a lot of attention paid to self image, I think I remember there being clear reasons for that in the book but not what they were. I was supposed to have straight male friends.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
Well yeah, I didn't say the manosphere was correct about where they're trying to go with this specific point. Merely that there's not nothing to it. The average 20 year old girl is very attractive, they are correct to notice this.
In general I am not a manospherian, but when arguing against them we shouldn't shred apart the true things(which don't mean what they say they do) along with the falsities.
I benefited from conversion talk therapy. Nobody claimed a particularly high success rate, but I got the impression that most of these therapists thought a majority of people improved somewhat. I never heard discussion of aversive practices, I didn't get the impression it was common or normal, or even really part of the same world. Everybody was religious and had strong views about family systems and the like. It was, mostly, fairly standard therapy with some unusual homework exercises centered around a self conception as a man/woman designed by God for that role. These therapists took other, non-conversion therapy clients and cases, I suspect the bulk of their clientele were dealing with trauma or whatever. The list I was given was, overwhelmingly, male, and a few women were highlighted for those that preferred a woman to talk to(this was, clearly, intended for women who don't feel comfortable discussing certain things with men). Unlike with most therapists, they freely and frequently recommended talking to someone else, changing therapists often, etc, as it was thought that different people specialized on different specific issues within the complex that causes homosexual ideation. The theory of treatment was based on a book written by some Dutch reactionary psychiatrist, this was freely shared with me and I read it out of curiosity(unfortunately, I purchased it on an old kindle account which I no longer have access to).
I should note that it did, factually, work in my case. I not only lost disordered urges but also became more stereotypically masculine, developed a greater interest in sports and the like. I'm happier for it.
As far as the vote pattern goes, it seems like the most intelligent liberal justice is attempting to mitigate the damage done to state mandation of official social liberalism. This is an issue in which I am, of course, keenly interested in given my ideological views, but it does seem like Kagan and Sotomayor recognize at least some constitutional limitations, whereas KJB simply rambles in favour of whatever the current dem party line is. No wonder Kagan is reportedly tired of her.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
All of them come from the Indo-European root 'arstos'- either through the Greek 'aristos' or the Gaelic 'eire'.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
And 'Ireland' and 'Aristocrat' and so on and so forth.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
Most women have at least a few years of being naturally very attractive without putting much effort in; this often disappears very early due to the efforts required for weight control in modern society, sure, but it's not a false notion inherently.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
Women(except for a few very type-A examples) tend to communicate in casual speech to express agreement, not to express opinions or observations(as men normally do). This doesn't necessarily mean anything other than 'I am very liberal'.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
Women do have non-sex drive inclinations to motherhood- watch them interact with small cute things(children or animals) sometime. Our society gives girls enormous amounts of conditioning to try to break this, because it's terrified of having to eat the bill for unwed motherhood and is unwilling to oppose pre-marital sex. But remember those studies of girls who had to care for infant simulators and then went and got pregnant?
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
In practice, being fat and/or socially inept as a woman will get you some pretty harsh judgement too. Maybe not right to your face, because a) that's not how women interact and b) it's a faux pas to say this stuff out loud. But women are judged more harshly, not less, for weight issues or social ineptitude.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
Was Little House in the Big Woods the one where the neighbor woman tells a story about being almost eaten by a panther? At the time I read it I just thought it was an interesting story, but looking back at it it's a super-visible way to illustrate that these people lived like Indian peasants do today.
The whole series is very interesting because it covers a family going from being subsistence farmers where meat is a special, a few times a year, treat to being townsfolk who can do things like buy clothes(instead of handmaking them out of raw fiber) and ride trains, and they're... incredibly grateful in later books.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
Political Catholicism is occasionally instrumentally cooperative with Russia, just like other movements outside the western mainstream(Russia's funding/assistance in western countries is an enormous grab bag including everything from greenies to texas nationalists and everything in between), but it's not ideologically pro-Russia.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
What's wrong with that? Having more conservative intellectuals at the highest level is, if anything, good for national stability- democracies with weak conservative wings deteriorate very fast, much faster than overwhelmingly conservative democracies(Japan etc).
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
While I agree that there's definitely criticisms to be made of the war even from a neocon perspective, this does read like TDS. The war on Iran is easily justifiable from a Neocon perspective(we invaded Iraq over less), and there is an international coalition- it happens to be middle eastern countries rather than European ones, but it's there.
(bombing brown people)
Every ethnicity in Iran is light skinned, and the dominant one has an extremely long history of civilization. Are Chinamen 'brown people'? Russians?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
It is rude to claim that some people are stupid, or fat, or lazy, or ugly. It is perfectly fine to claim that some people are immoral or short. You can say ‘criminals are bad people(morally)’, but not ‘thieves are too lazy to work’.
If there’s a pattern there, I don’t quite see it.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The motte is not an echo chamber. It is a forum with admirable diversity of right wing opinions, which doesn’t quite correspond to the typical diversity of IRL right wingers.
Revleft, back when it was a thing, wasn’t an echo chamber either- it was different kinds of communists screeching at each other for being secret reactionaries, and sûre that’s not the vibe thé motte is going for, but you don’t have to have the conventional representatives of the other side to not be an echo chamber, is my point.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The motte doesn’t have a ‘consensus’, we’re all witches and wrong thinkers of course, but different kinds of wrong thinkers, a wide variation and one which is instructive to watch, as while we do exhibit blind spots and patterns, we truly cover a variety of politically incorrect opinions.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Blacks are American as all get out, assuming you mean AADOS. They're essentially stupider poor southerners(their crime rates are not actually higher than rural southern whites). Yeah they vote for democrats but they don't like anti-american socialists. Most of their cultural quirks are more 'America was like this in the fifties' or 'they're poor' than genuinely different from the American mainstream.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Sure, I'm not doubting that there might be an explanation where her parents were merely bad at their job rather than insane. But there would be an explanation, it's not a default.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Except that America is freakishly good at assimilating people and most of the migrants are from groups that aren't that different and also regard American white identity as aspirational. There's not a lot of Kazakhi yak herders and quite a lot of honduran construction workers- and even in the ethnostates of Europe, the latter assimilate OK, let alone in the US.
Yes, those honduran construction workers will probably not produce very many fields medalists, but modern wealthy societies have a lot of uses for low IQ individuals. Literally every billboard near my house is advertising blue collar jobs- in slaughterhouses, warehouses(and not just Amazon), factories, construction, etc. All no experience needed and all paying a living wage.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Being nice to the help is a status marker for good breeding in America. Presumably other cultures that care more about breeding care more about that status marker.
American politicised evangelicalism has never been primarily anti-Catholic. It's too new; American politicised protestantism was at one time primarily anti-Catholic, but that was in the nineteenth century and they were not evangelical.
Evangelical is a specific thing, it doesn't just mean 'politically active protestant'.
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