Bartender_Venator
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Bartender_Venator
1d ago
I think he's referring to the occasional 20-to-30-second intervals where American sports happen.
Bartender_Venator
2d ago
The sentiment among a lot of young Tory types in London during the Scottish independence referendum was: "Good riddance, we can stop paying for you and we'll have a Tory England for a generation."
Bartender_Venator
2d ago
Mencken is the funniest writer in American history, Mark Twain doesn't come close. His book "The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche" is very interesting, but written very early in his career. Mostly useful as a corrective to modern attempts to make Nietzsche a safe lib. The place to start is A Mencken Chrestomathy, which is his own selection of his best writings. It'll teach you a ton about culture and politics in 20s/30s America while making you laugh the whole time.
Bartender_Venator
3d ago
Heidegger + 4chan
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edit: messed up the reddit spacing, which I think counts as proof
Bartender_Venator
4d ago
Communism is a hell simulator, but at least you get to die (sometimes pretty quickly).
Bartender_Venator
4d ago
Would you like to discuss actual crime rates? Crime statistics? Because I've got a lot of them. Did you know that people from non-Western backgrounds commit one-third of all rapes in Denmark? I wouldn't recommend looking up the statistics on stranger/assault rape, that might send you to His Majesty's Posting Gaol. We can go through the stats on grooming gangs, if you like, or discuss the exact relationship between the numbers 13 and 52. The man on the street might not know the exact numbers, but if you do know them, it's clear that his folk-knowledge understanding of them is basically correct (modulo a couple esoteric race science aspects he may not know, like certain otherwise indistinguishable Balkan varietals being significantly different from each other).
Bartender_Venator
5d ago
TLP's definition of narcissism overlaps like 90% with "masochistic personality".
Bartender_Venator
5d ago
I think you radically underestimate the extent to which technological progress can accelerate when we don't have a communist albatross around our necks. Particularly considering the wider reforms to the State ethos which would be required. But I appreciate the phrase "restarting the course of history that was set in motion in 1492", it's a great slogan. We just gotta freeze the Germans out like the last colonial race or they'll start killing everyone out of sheer autism again - Anglos don't got that dawg in them and the Latins are too venal/horny not to make nice with the locals once they're in charge.
Bartender_Venator
9d ago
I'll finish it in the morning, felt like I have an unfair advantage - or maybe disadvantage - from having more exposure to British physiognomy. There's one guy who looks exactly like a hybrid of Nick Land and Lord Miles, which got me laughing too hard to keep going.
Bartender_Venator
9d ago
I love the Storm of Steel review (I'm biased).
I love how the Kakistocracy review starts off with the classic girl-writing move of "you wouldn't believe how gross this guy I dated was! He slept on a stained mattress in his mother's basement, and oh wow you wouldn't believe what he made me do on it - what a loser!"
Bartender_Venator
10d ago
Ride-along question on this: Mottizens, do you think this is actually Hunter Biden, or is it a brilliant publicist? My money's on the latter - it's too perfectly Online, and it doesn't read at all like any of the Hunter Biden writing/messages we've seen. Also insanely good at hitting as many DNC youth outreach talking points as possible. Or maybe Hunter secretly got Extremely Online? He was seeing some dirtbag left egirl for a while.
Bartender_Venator
10d ago
I can't imagine many straight women have much interest in watching photorealistic AI-gen softcore porn of male characters.
Wait until they start integrating this into AI boyfriends, though.
Bartender_Venator
10d ago
"Objectification" is, like "Male Gaze", originally a serious philosophical concept (in this case, from Hegel, who uses the term to refer to making something real, so for instance "shelter" is objectified into "houses") which was picked up by American scholar-activists in "Studies" fields who saw it and thought hey that's a cool term, it sounds bad, let's redefine it as Bad Thing my outgroup does. Funnily enough the Hegel term is closer to how men and women actually interact, and you could easily make a full feminist theory out of it, but that's hard and academics are lazy.
Bartender_Venator
10d ago
LA's also a serious machine city, significantly more so than Chicago these days, and he's running on a platform of "turn off the money fountain." If you want to survive doing that, your best shot might be to cut deals with some of the unions in advance, and signal loudly that you'll play nice with the money fountain (this is what Trump did). I wouldn't underestimate the chance they "find" enough mail-ins for Raman to knock him out of the runoff, better to have two candidates you know are both committed to the machine.
Bartender_Venator
11d ago
Sure, but the point is, it's an announcement he's rich and wants a house in Argentina. It's not an announcement of anything to do with his future lifestyle or political beliefs except for what "people familiar with his thinking" say. I guess he could have used a bunch of shell companies, but there are many many possible reasons beyond the ones we're speculating. Maybe he has a big business deal coming in Argentina and wants to make Milei happy, who knows.
Bartender_Venator
12d ago
Yes, I am bad at counting.
Bartender_Venator
12d ago
The Argentine peso trade (short Peronists, buy when they lose) has been something international investors have been able to set their watch by for a long time. Maybe Milei breaks the country out of that, and he's certainly the kind of guy they need, but he's not exactly a figure who projects long-term stability. The eternal Argentine cycle probably would have restarted already if the Trump administration hadn't bailed him out (and made money on the trade while doing so).
Bartender_Venator
12d ago
$12 million is ~0.048% of Peter Thiel's net worth. According to Google's incredibly shitty search AI, that's equivalent to a $9,000 purchase for the median American. Sounds pretty reasonable for a timeshare.
Bartender_Venator
12d ago
Writing personal growth and change is a big challenge for a lot of modern indie authors. Some of them, like ARX-HAN and Jordan Castro, just... don't really do it. Others try too hard, like Madeline Cash's Earth Angel (her short stories are very good). I was impressed by Juan Ecchi's Dryback and Justin Lee's A Prisoner's Cinema, in that respect, and you can also 100% write stories that don't need it, like Andrew Edwards' Crowbar, if what the characters are doing is interesting enough. Probably the hardest thing to pull off is DFW's "the hero of non-action"; I think the only book in this category I've seen do that really well is John King Spezio's Something of the Springtime.
Bartender_Venator
13d ago
If everybody thinks your accent is one of the sexiest on the planet, I can see why there isn't much incentive to change it.
Bartender_Venator
13d ago
Personally, I still think INCEL felt more "real" than The Feminist, just because The Incel is using real arguments you see on the internet, whereas The Feminist hides it under cutesy satire ("narrow shoulders"), and even though the ending isn't satisfying, it's both true and also within the very same incel discourse the book is dealing with (whereas The Feminist is, as the title would suggest, much less about actual incels and much more an intra-feminism argument). ARX-HAN's cowardice is in wrapping things up with a neat bow, but he did tie a neat bow.
What I thought was the weakest part of INCEL is that the protagonist is the least interesting part of the book. He's basically just there narrating what more interesting characters are doing. Felt pretty clear to me that ARX-HAN wanted to write a book about the guy's jacked misanthropic Korean friend and some of the other cast members, but hung it all on the protagonist because that gave it a consistent voice/theme/etc.
Bartender_Venator
18d ago
This is, roughly, how George Clinton and the anti-Federalists rigged elections in early-US New York.
Bartender_Venator
20d ago
When the message is sent to men to "be nice" it's not really "don't cheat" or "don't be an abusive parent." Rather, it's things like "be kind"; "be considerate" "be a good listener" "be the kind of guy who helps her move a heavy thing" etc. So you are pulling a bit of a bait and switch.
It's much simpler than that. It's "be attractive while doing these things". Imagine the two guys from the "hello, Human Resources" meme carrying a heavy box for a woman. One of them, she's staring at his forearms flexing, one of them she's watching the sweatstains break through his shirt with mounting disgust.
If you're reading this and it annoys you, stop typing and give me 30 pushups.
Bartender_Venator
20d ago
Smash his wifi and put trenbolone in his coffee.
Yeah that's correct. What makes a soccer game exciting before you get to the penalty box is largely illegible unless you're the sort of fan who makes the effort to learn about the tactics. Like if you don't know what a passing triangle is and how to spot it you're going to zone out until the ball comes near the goal and then you might as well be watching American football. Still, the game is the easiest to learn it's ever been now that you have substack tactics guys breaking down gifs and so on.
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