Botond173
4d ago
I'd say it's more likely that the BSW will be brought into the governing coalition.
Botond173
6d ago
I guess this social equilibrium works as long as there do not arise minorities sworn to unrelenting violence against each other?
Botond173
6d ago
It wasn't a lack of information that drove them to this, but a sense of humiliation and resentment.
Botond173
6d ago
It's supposed to highlight that anti-woke sentiment isn't the sole phenomenon driven by that particular "major bone of contention".
Botond173
6d ago
I'd argue that the delay of marriage is mostly driven by women and not men in this particular social condition, and the resulting normalization of late marriage erodes young men's willingness to prepare themselves for marriage long-term.
Botond173
6d ago
simply due to seeing them as used goods
As @jeroboam mentioned below, it's not just that. There are other relevant factors also usually at play. I don't agree that the sire / biological father is always in the mix with various potential disadvantages and risks the new husband faces, but often he is. Also, his (the husband's) entire social circle is likely to look down on him as a loser, usually for a good reason. His wife is also likely to see him basically as a spare of secondary importance.
Botond173
6d ago
As usual Andy ngo is the only person talking about the case at all,
I'm sure I'm not the first one to notice that this has usually been the case from the beginning. Apart from obscure conservative or alt-light-adjacent sites and blogs, nobody reports on antifa activities or portrays those in the most favorable light possible.
Botond173
7d ago
I don't believe that a member of the PMC would never lie or misrepresent facts to push a political agenda. I also don't believe that that's what they're doing in this particular case. I also don't think that nonwhite minorities traditionally had ample reason to believe that American society is a honest meritocracy.
Botond173
8d ago
Unfortunately I think their belief in this is mostly unironic and sincere. So is that of their mulatto 'allies'.
Botond173
8d ago
As far as I know, one recurring talking point of (mostly suburban and PMC) white liberals is that the blindness and ignorance of classical liberalism towards North American racist and white supremacist power structures is the main factor driving many people towards identity politics. If we accept that premise, it’s a major driver of woke sentiment as well.
Botond173
9d ago
To what extent do American normies buy into the belief that their society is a honest meritocracy?
Botond173
11d ago
I'm not an expert on whaling but I thought that whale fat(?) was mainly used to produce high-quality candles and certain machine lubricants.
Botond173
11d ago
Isn't it the case that trucking always sucked but it sucks even more now that the consequences of deregulation are felt?
Botond173
12d ago
It was, for example, supposedly his idea to transport oil in tank cars instead of barrels, which nobody initiated as a practice until then.
Botond173
13d ago
Hasn't Chinese civilization been basically an autarky for most of its history?
Botond173
14d ago
Meh. I remember McCain's and Romney's lame-ass campaigns, and I'm surely not the only one.
Botond173
14d ago
Not only have we now pardoned even more criminals who should be serving punishments for the things they did, Trump has now given the other side incentive (and justification, no matter how flimsy) to defect further.
Which is the same thing they'd most likely do if he decided to pardon everyone except those who provably committed violence against the police.
Botond173
14d ago
The reelection victories of Nixon, Reagan and Bush Jr. GOP midterm election victories in 1994 and 2010.
Botond173
14d ago
In what sense do you consider yourself radical while at the same time rejecting woke tactics?
I view this as further proof of my presumption that the only way for liberalism to capture a society through democratic (non-violent) means is by boiling the proverbial frog; rhetoric of the sort you mentioned is what is used when this project fails. Boiling the frog does not just entail the Gramscian long march through institutions but also incremental steps to secure limited but permanent political gains while at the same time avoiding generating worthy opposition that actually may be dangerous to your project; all this is to take place while society is distracted by ultimately irrelevant other stuff.
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