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				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 24, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


There's even at least 3 major doctrines, Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform. In Reform you just have to be a decent human being!




You can tell what branch of Judaism someone belongs to by how they pronounce the Hebrew word for Lord (Adonai):


Orthodox - Ah - Doe - Nye


Conservative - Eye - Duh - No


Reform - Eye - Dee - Nye


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 24, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Unionists in Belfast?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 17, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Dating website stats (like OkCupid's stats from a decade or so ago) also suggest that black women would be far more willing to have sex with a white man than white women would be willing to with a black man.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 17, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I am not familiar with any such laws, certainly not in any jurisdiction I am likely to be in.




Because they are usually de facto laws created by selective enforcement, not de jure. See the prosecutor in the Kyle Rittenhouse case straight up saying he would not have prosecuted any of the rioters if they had managed to kill Kyle.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 17, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Also, lynching people is wrong even if they did do something that deserved the death penalty. It deprives the lynched of due process, it is true, but it also deprives the injured of having their injury validated and redressed. Lynchings forever throw doubt on the validity of the victim's injury.




I won't comment on lynchings in the South specifically since that has a bunch of complicated factors, but when it comes to vigilante justice generally, it's one of the places where I agree with Hlynka that there is a "Leviathan-shaped hole". If the state shows itself consistently unable or unwilling to enforce order, then they no longer have the right to rule, and the right to power falls to whoever can and will enforce it. The "consistently" part here being key, even the best rulers will make occasional mistakes or have occasional failures, and I would not find vigilante justice justified here.


This is why things like two tier policing, revolving doors in the courthouse where a judge lets a career criminal out on bond for the 50th time, etc. are so dangerous. They undermine the legitimacy of the current state, and give greater legitimacy to any challengers, whether lone vigilantes or more organized opposition.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 17, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I'm sure there's some of that, but NIMBY types and degrowth types don't need much motivation to oppose them as is. Plus all the AI haters.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 17, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Young Frankenstein is in second place for me after del Toro's


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 17, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
To be fair, a good number of fans of the original seem to actually prefer the change Snyder made to the ending.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 17, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
According to the director, he read the first two chapters, got disgusted with it, and then asked one of his assistants to read it for him and give him a summary.  Forget the parody of the book aspect, it must have been a terrible summary because half the movie should have been bootcamp plus another 20% with Johnny going to OCS to be a truly faithful adaptation ;)


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 17, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


What about Green Knight




I absolutely hated the Green Knight, and felt it was just another example of Hollywood thinking "If we subvert the original that makes it deep and interesting!"




I have more mixed feelings about them but Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio and Frankenstein were at least interesting films, even if some of the changes were quite baffling.




I loved his Frankenstein actually, my favorite adaptation of any I've seen. It's like he saw the midwit meme about Frankenstein being the name of the doctor, not the name of the monster, and leaned into it 100%.


https://i.redd.it/9wxxw22oqis91.jpg


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


By the way, do you worship Jesus Christ or your government? You pay lip service to Jesus but seem to be more into Pontius Pilate and his men. Saints don't defend themselves, the soldiers that crucified Jesus as capital punishment do.




You're doing the thing:


https://i.redd.it/j3ts5gx0ptgg1.jpeg


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 17, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Also the girl in A Rape on Campus was believed by millions despite some blatantly obvious issues with her story. I've harped on this multiple times on this board, but no man (weird fetishists excepted) is going to intentionally put his dick and balls anywhere near a pile of broken glass, violent fratbro rapist or not.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 17, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
As I mentioned in another subthread earlier this week, Clancy had sufficient presence of of mind to send her husband away on an errand to give herself the time needed to kill the children. From what I've seen/heard of the trial, there is absolutely evidence that she was suffering from mental issues, but in my judgement not nearly severe enough to completely strip her of her agency and free will in deciding to brutally strangle her children (including an infant).


As I also argued in the other subthread, if women's hormones are strong enough to cause them to murder their own flesh and blood against their own free will, that's one of the strongest arguments imaginable against women's rights and female autonomy you could come up with. Testosterone causes its own problems for men, but nothing like this.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 17, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Sure, one you can get to through waters now controlled by your enemies (see the gulf states and the strait of Hormuz for a similar example, except you wouldn't even need missiles, just some artillery near the mouth of the Thames).


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 17, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Over whose airspace? Through whose ports?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 17, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I see decent evidence to believe it was a contributing factor, but she had enough presence of mind to send her husband away on an errand to make a time window for herself to do it, which strongly suggests that it was premeditated.


In any case, if PPD/female hormones really are strkng enough to cause them to murder their own children without consciously wanting to, as the TikTok crowd is suggesting, then that's a strong fucking argument against women's rights generally and suggests that they need to be strongly controlled by the gender that doesn't have such issues (testosterone causes plenty of its own problems, but not this).


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 17, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


But maybe I'm just biased because I can't imagine a pretty feminine woman like Zendaya ever really being a school shooter.




If recent news is any indication, a woman like her would be more likely to strangle her own children to death and then blame it on PPD while every woman on TikTok rushes to her defense.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 3, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Yeah, I've been waiting for the ATF/DOJ to publish updated guidance so that FFLs can just start selling this stuff without worrying about the hammer coming down on them.


I finally bought a GOA membership even though I'm in a plaintiff state just to be extra safe, didn't want to have to worry about the dogshooters when I printed a can for my 22lr


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Here's a decent article about it I read recently: https://kirkcenter.org/essays/a-cause-lost-and-forgotten/


"It is likely that you have come up with rebuttals to these anti-suffrage arguments as you have been reading along. That’s fine—I have a dozen myself. The important thing to know is that, whatever enlightened counterarguments you have in mind, they were almost certainly espoused by none of the suffragettes at the time. For women who were not terribly political themselves, that was the decisive argument against suffrage: half the women arguing in favor of it seemed to be utterly daft."


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I don't think I know a single person who would choose losing their memories and identity and becoming a drooling vegetable instead of a dignified death should they start to suffer from significant dementia etc.




Hi, would you like to get to know me? This is a ridiculous claim, along the lines of "I don't know anyone who voted for Nixon" or Scott Alexander's example of how he doesn't know any creationists. It's a very strong sign that you live in a filter bubble. I (and billions of others) believe human life inherently has value, and should not be intentionally ended outside of some very specific circumstances (i.e. self defense, capital punishment, etc.). Would a part of me prefer to die if I started declining into dementia? Of course, I saw my own grandpa suffer from Alzheimer's and become a shell of who he used to be, it's horrifying. But I will not take intentional steps to cause my own death there, let alone be such a massive mewling pussy that I make someone else kill me.


As a side note, I've always found statements like "dignified death" and "dying with dignity" concerning, because to me dignity has very little to do with what happens to me and far more to do with how I handle it. Once again, for billions of people, this is one of the most dignified moments in all of human history: https://www.artatberlin.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/images/ARTatBerlin-Die-Kreuzigung-Christi-Hans-Baldung-Grien/ARTatBerlin-Die-Kreuzigung-Christi-Hans-Baldung-Grien-1869810459.jpg


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Gonna have to hard disagree with you on that one: https://preview.redd.it/a-young-stephen-king-v0-nkrp1vonkb6d1.jpeg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=9de52388e8d8c9162ac39a5256edf5a14914bf98


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Stephen King looks like a weird alien, James Cameron is a decent looking guy though.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
AOC has crazy eyes and big teeth, so she's definitely not supermodel material, but she definitely looks better than Zendaya.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 3, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
"They taught AI to talk like a corporate middle manager and thought this meant the AI was conscious instead of realizing that corporate middle managers aren't" - Some internet rando


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 3, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I've never understood why anyone other than the spouse themselves, and maybe their children if still under 18, would be allowed in via chain migration.