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				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 2, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
From the thread, you can even see that the Fortnite season playtime activity for the account drops greatly during the time he was in prison. The account went private within hours of discovery. Archive.org snapshot was taken down too.


I believe it.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for February 1, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
May I ask how much you make now and how much you hope to make?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The reading appears to agree with StableOutshoot?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
So do you address this with another civil rights act?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Past a certain age, a man without a Norwood can be a bad thing.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 25, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Not worth it. I just use Vanguard’s default VMFXX and dump it into my portfolio every January.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for January 28, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
What’s an accelerator?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for January 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Is it all good outdoors? I wonder if it feels more secure with the shoe around the heel.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 25, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I own an SKS and would recommend it. Mine is a Norinco in Bakelite. It came with a folding bayonet, which I used to defend my house once. I upgraded it with a 20-round Chinese “Star” fixed magazine. It is otherwise stock. Stripper clips are fun. I have several thousand spare rounds of steel case 7.62 I bought before Covid that I could spot a portion for you, but I don’t like the opsec here.


I also prefer the Mini-14 to the AR15. Mine was not that expensive but it may have been in the same ballpark. You can buy a very cool after-market folding stock right out of the A-Team from Samson. It also is more reliable than the AR15 last I checked. https://gunmagwarehouse.com/blog/samsons-a-team-mini-14-folding-stock-as-good-as-the-original/


I only buy aesthetic guns and never bother drilling with them so take my advice with a grain of salt.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
You are saying he does not have his  credentials, how did you verify that? Who would you rather read for an assessment on insurgent behavior as it applies to these agitators in MN?


I talk to people at my office over Slack who are obviously using LLMs to generate replies to conversations, but the content of their text could only come from their own unique experience and context otherwise it would be useless. It gets on my nerves, but I recognize they just prompted a modern scribe to put that experience to words.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
You don’t believe the individual has his claimed credentials or you disagree with his analysis?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’ve followed the Golden Butterfly portfolio’s asset allocation since 2017. 20% Gold, 20% cash, 20% 30-year treasuries, 20% small cap value and 20% S&P500.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Who said anything about Jews? From what I glanced at, the judges facilitating this have Star Wars names - just recently a federal judge in Oregon with the name Mustafa Kasubh (more golem-sounding than Jew) rejected a DOJ effort to uncover fraudulent voter rolls.


This is a good line of inquiry, what is the national origin, ethnic and religious make up of these judges?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 25, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’ve read two, The Elementary Particles and another one I can’t remember anymore (edit: it was “Whatever”). Yes I agree they were more engaging. Have not read Submission yet but I have it on my nightstand shelf next to a hardback reprint of The Camp of Saints(1); I’ll read them both as a double-feature.


(1) https://vaubanbooks.com/books/the_camp_of_the_saints_hardcover.php


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 25, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The Map and the Territory by Hollaback. Author hate-inserts himself literally. Still waiting for something to actually happen.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Everyone outside this forum is baking their own thoughts in LLM ovens, but what I noticed here is the baker (here’s hoping this isn’t an AI-generated warrant officer!) and the framing of the activity, supported by the signal chat leak. Does anyone else who has experience with insurgencies have a take on Minneapolis we can read?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I saw an interesting take retweeted by Elon from Eric Schwalm, a retired green beret who operated during the GWOT. Reproduced here:




As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations—I’ve seen organized resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly.


What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t “protest.” It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook.


Signal groups at 1,000-member cap per zone. Dedicated roles: mobile chasers, plate checkers logging vehicle data into shared databases, 24/7 dispatch nodes vectoring assets, SALUTE-style reporting (Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment) on suspected federal vehicles. Daily chat rotations and timed deletions to frustrate forensic recovery. Vetting processes for new joiners. Mutual aid from sympathetic locals (teachers providing cover, possible PD tip-offs on license plate lookups). Home-base coordination points. Rapid escalation from observation to physical obstruction—or worse.


This isn’t spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make a SF team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace “ICE agents” with “occupying coalition forces” and the structure maps almost 1:1 to early-stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s.


The most sobering part? It’s domestic. Funded, trained (somewhere), and directed by people who live in the same country they’re trying to paralyze law enforcement in. When your own citizens build and operate this level of parallel intelligence and rapid-response network against federal officers—complete with doxxing, vehicle pursuits, and harassment that’s already turned lethal—you’re no longer dealing with civil disobedience. You’re facing a distributed resistance that’s learned the lessons of successful insurgencies: stay below the kinetic threshold most of the time, force over-reaction when possible, maintain popular support through narrative, and never present a single center of gravity.


I spent years training partner forces to dismantle exactly this kind of apparatus. Now pieces of it are standing up in American cities, enabled by elements of local government and civil society. That should keep every thinking American awake at night.


Not because I want escalation. But because history shows these things don’t de-escalate on their own once the infrastructure exists and the cadre believe they’re winning the information war.


We either recognize what we’re actually looking at—or we pretend it’s still just “activism” until the structures harden and spread.


Your call, America. But from where I sit, this isn’t January 2026 politics anymore.
It’s phase one of something we’ve spent decades trying to keep off our own soil.




I wonder like /u/Gillitrut mentioned - what legal remedies are available here, under what law would the administration fight this, if this is an actual insurgency? Is this why I hear so much on the right about invoking the insurrection act? What is interesting about that (according to my lawyer and personal constitutional scholar, Grok) is it does not do away with civilian courts, laws or constitutional protections - and if the courts are captured (can’t get judges to sign arrest warrants, can’t get prosecutors to prosecute, can’t get juries to convict, etc etc) then what is beyond that, if the insurrection act even if invoked is still hogtied by judiciary capture?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for January 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
What’s the best form factor, shoe, slip on, or boot?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for January 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Coke Zero mixed with crushed ice.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for January 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m playing the new remake of the original System Shock in VR using my Quest 3. It really enhances the vibe it’s going for.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 11, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
They are. What exactly are you denying?


As far as my imagination of a diasporic Anglo race, how is that incoherent?


My question is about their fixation on Patagonia. Is it just strategic, or does it tie into certain beliefs like we see with Greater Israel?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 11, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Why are the Jews trying to burn down and steal Patagonia in Argentina? Why there, of all places? Plan Andinia is said to originate this, but what was the preceding interest before or contemporaneously with Theodore Herzl, does it somehow correlate with the NSDAP exodus after WW2 for becoming a serious option, despite existing settlements in Palestine? I imagine blood and soil should trace back to a time and place, so I can’t imagine a nomadic diasporic Anglo desiring a random South American place to reunify instead of UK/US/AU/NZ/CA.


https://x.com/paykells/status/2010611343251104209?s=46


https://open.substack.com/pub/ddgeopolitics/p/unmasking-the-flames-israels-shadow


				

				

						

							

								
    
									
									
									
									
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				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 29, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


It's that you (and I mean you specifically) can make an intelligent and cogent argument for why this is bad behavior that should be discouraged.




If I (and I mean me specifically) am unable to make intelligent and cogent arguments, will that be seen as a mitigating circumstance when moderating my comments?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 1, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Do you still have a copy of this essay? I need to read it.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for November 30, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
https://old.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/1p8y0xz/lumina_probiotic_the_caries_tooth_cavity_vaccine/