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10hr ago
You’re right. But still, if you’re an activist type, your emotions are too strong and sensitive to be satisfied with pop country. Pop country listeners are domesticated, not really in the arena of changing or caring about anything.
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14hr ago
Isn’t tailgating usually just a dozen or so people though? A somewhat low-level organization
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15hr ago
What thing do women enjoy doing as leisure which involves the largest social organization? For men it’s probably something video game related: guilds with up to thousands of players, clans with dozens, or some large joint Minecraft projects, etc. What is the largest social organization that organically develops among women? I’m thinking it may be something related to fandom, eg k-pop fandoms probably organically develop into large organizations. Or maybe true crime communities that work in unison to piece together information across thousands of individuals. It’s interesting that these are both evolutionary — either loyal devotion to the männerbund, the tribe of virile men, or else village gossip, ensuring the safety of the community.
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15hr ago
You need a counterconditioning counter-culture. Progressivism is extremely attractive from a basic conditioning point-of-view. It has a monopoly on women who look like French models and heartthrob interests in Hollywood romantic comedies (not Hallmark), it has an excellent propagandistic visual culture that is way superior to conservative visual culture (outside of groyper edits), it has a neat good-vs-bad storyline, it has aversive atrocities it can use to support its positions that every kid learns in school, it has the all good music, and it has a cadre of loyalists who will work for free because they treat their ideology like a quasi-religion with totalizing importance. If you’re a normal urbanite who has unmet needs and isn’t autistic or self-sacrificial, everything is much better with progressives: it’s fun, it’s beautiful, and the women are hot in a particularly fashionable way.
You can’t fight this unless you have your own loyalists and artists; you get loyalists from making your ideology exciting with a clear battle of Urgent Good vs evil; you get artists by seeding communities; when you have the art and the excitement, the hot women will come.
The closest thing to a viable 21st century defense against progressivism was, I think, the Redscare Podcast niche culture. It actually managed to get art hoes in cities to become conservative. It attached itself to Catholicism because that’s the storage facility of great conservative art and it presents an exciting alternative conservative worldview.
You can’t rally people around “people should be able to be billionaires”, because that’s intuitively disagreeable. You can rally people around “my benevolent Renaissance-like patron is superior at promoting the common good than state bureaucracy, though”. That’s a good start IMO.
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15hr ago
Does the Vice President of the United States really not have the power
For a long time it was political suicide to go against the Israel lobby. I don’t think that’s the case anymore, but maybe Vance still feels that it is.
The day after the attack, Johnson confided to a Newsweek reporter that he believed Israel deliberately attacked the Liberty to prevent her from spying. Israeli officials learned the details of Johnson’s interview within 24 hours and successfully pressured the magazine to water down its planned story. “The Newsweek editorial has made changes in the last proofreading of the news item compared with the original version that I was shown last night,” Patir cabled Jerusalem. “It toned down the version by adding a question mark to the heading, leaving out the words deliberate attack, and leaving out the commentary paragraph that said that the leak is intended to free American policy makers from the pressure of the pro-Israeli public opinion.” Diplomats also needed to tone down President Johnson. To pressure the President, Israeli officials tapped Justice Fortas and Washington lawyer David Ginsburg to make Johnson “aware of the dangers facing him personally if the public learns that he was party to the distribution of the story that is on the verge of being blood libel.”
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3d ago
The influence of sports stars extends beyond the field. If, hypothetically, all great soccer players were Japanese, then Japanese culture would proliferate among Europeans; Europeans would start listening to Japanese music and imitating the behavioral norms of the Japanese, while the women be more interested in dating a Japanese in the same way as K-Pop leads to interest in Koreans. So there are significant second-order effects on society from the athletic figures we venerate.
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5d ago
The "earlier claim" tweet was written right after the MOU ended (june 17th to July 8th). Your OP assertion is "we know that during the last closure the US military escorted many ships through". The "since early May" in the CENTCOM tweet may be doing a lot of work here: do they mean that, technically speaking, between early May and until June 8th there were escorted ships, all of which occurred during the MOU phase? If they mean, as the phrase suggests (versus what it technically includes), that there were ships passing through in early May, this would go against CENTCOM’s May 26 post:
🚫CLAIM: Recent media reporting claims that the U.S. Navy has restarted escorting or assisting commercial vessels during transits through the Strait of Hormuz. FALSE.
✅TRUTH: Project Freedom has not resumed, and U.S. forces are not currently escorting commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz.
I mean, at least one of their posts must be misleading. They are correcting the claim that America is escorting ships (on May 26) with “project freedom has not resumed”. But project freedom stopped on May 5th. So this tweet suggests that from the 5th to at least the 26th, there were no escorted ships.
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5d ago
https://x.com/CENTCOM/status/2059310640037269628?lang=en
It’s Iran and CENTCOM vs Trump admin. But Trump Admin is pretty much always lying. So why would you trust the Admin on this? Ships destined for China may be passing through without escort as part of an American-Chinese deal. Do you really think America would blockade things destined for China? How do you think China would reply to that?
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5d ago
The ships we see going through are for Iran-allied countries, eg China. I don’t think the US military would be escorting ships carrying oil for China.
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5d ago
Video game industry will continue shift toward mobile and freemium. Movie studios will make deals with short-form video apps for the rights to “micro movies”. Vanilla WoW will remain the best mmorpg of all time. Someone will begin combining porn, lootboxes, short-form video (on the corner of the screen like a minimap) and flavored vapes into one singular video game product (they use Amazon Prime to mail you flavored carts relevant to your video game progression within 24hrs), a Gesamtkunstwerk of vice. Schools will try to teach language in schools not with phonics, but with ebonics, using rap-a-along content.
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5d ago
during the last closure the US military escorted many ships
The problem is that we don’t really know if this is true or not. The Admin has an interest in pretending that this is occurring, both to buffer the economy and sow confusion in Iran.
Iran is apparently deeply divided
We also don’t know if this is part of Iran’s negotiation tactic, allowing them to renege on previous promises while blaming it on a rogue faction, like how America can blame things on Israel while also having the ability to stop them at threat of force.
NGOs on the ground teaching Iranian clerics to embrace hashtag Black Girl Magic
This is not typically the criticism of our previous excursions, but that they cost trillions of dollars and led to many casualties and caused other problems down the road. All the black girl magic in the world likely did not exceed $100mil.
I still predict boots on the ground eventually. Trump does not have the temperament or neural plasticity to change course.
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6d ago
We should aim to treat 10 with psychological interventions. I highly doubt we have exhausted the possibilities for treating the disorder. Have we tried psychedelics, like ecstasy and LSD, to nudge them toward loving themselves? As a last resort, maybe we allow them to neuter themselves, but there is as much relation between “sever junk” and “I’m a beautiful woman” as there is between “sever limb” and “I’m a butterfly”. There is no reason to think that 10 is closer to being a woman than 1. The most adamant transgenders are often the most masculinized behaviorally. In what sense does a 10 who is a video game speedrunner or a fan of Paradox games plausibly know what being a woman involves? It’s likely that they know less about the inner life of women than the average rugby player whose name is literally Chad.
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7d ago
I can hardly find anything on it. Seems like an interesting neo-Confucian syncretism religious movement that may or may not be extinct.
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7d ago
Does anyone have any thoughts on so-called Chinese Salvationist Religions?
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7d ago
I’d argue Kirk was the most well-known politically-active non-politician for Americans for under-25. If you typed “politics” into tik tok you would see either Kirk, someone trying to dunk on Kirk, or someone criticizing Kirk. All of the other contenders (Hasan, Withers, Nick Fuentes) were responding to something Kirk-related on a weekly or monthly basis. His videos were everywhere.
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7d ago
The Right of the entire West, it seems.
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7d ago
Robinson was part of a leftist community online, which is why his bullet had the words “O Bella ciao, Bella ciao, Bella ciao, Ciao, ciao” on it. I’m sure more information on this will come out after or during the trial. Christians do consider soldiers martyrs, depending on the cause. Also denomination dependent. There are many cases of American martyrs whose stories are just completely made up, like Matthew Shepherd who died from a meth-related incident.
Widows should wear black and take on the role of a victim, but she wore a white girlboss suit and presented herself as a new leader. This is not the liberal’s doing, it was just a tasteless and irresponsible choice. Also, the addition of conscious artifice to mourning is old. Like ancient Babylon and Old Testament old, where the family of the deceased would hire ritual female weepers. The problem is not so much that Erika was artificial as that her artifice was tasteless. Not to blame someone going through the worst event of her life, but her team should have stepped in and commanded her what to do.
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8d ago
The Right does not know how to do martyrdom culture. It’s sad because Kirk could have been a great conservative martyr. But we just don’t know how, apparently. We lost the technology. The, the spirit of a martyr should be carried through reverent rituals and heart-moving music. They tried to carry it with pyrotechnic displays, a colorful widow in too much makeup, really silly events, etc. Just terrible. Tasteless and senseless. You needed a song like Horst Wessel Lied that could be sung in a mass gathering under reddish hued lighting. You needed dedicated photographers to only present the experiences in the most powerful frame. You needed to associate his death with weeping women. George Floyd was effectively martyrized because the Public consumed his image intermediated by emotional actors (TV anchors), saddened women replaying his death, and cool people telling you to join them in a march. But the Left immediately de-martyred him through a face-swapping meme and the intentionally humorous “we are Charlie Kirk” anthem. Just plain social engineering that the right can’t compete with.
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11d ago
The claim seems like nonsense. From what I can find, the only verified evidence of the supposed assault is this 2023 Facebook conversation:
“I feel morally obligated to warn you if you were anything more than friends with Graham,” she wrote in a message reviewed by CNN. “He’s not all bad, but I ended up in a bad situation with him and I will just very politely call him consensually careless at times.” When the other woman asked if “he forces himself on people?” Racicot replied “doesn’t listen when drunk…”
This is extremely strong evidence that he did not commit any assault. A raped woman is unlikely to convey her experiences like this. He’s not all bad??? Bad situation? Not providing a yes/no when asked directly if he committed assault? No woman since the end of the Ottoman Empire has characterized her rapist as “not all bad”
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13d ago
Algorithms feel more patriotic to me, inorganically so, though I don’t really mind.
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15d ago
The Society of St. Pius X, also known as SSPX, rejects many modern ways of living, requiring modest dress for women, enforcing strict divisions between genders and encouraging large families. As members of the group have gotten into political leadership, they’ve imposed those beliefs, jettisoning books that mention LGBTQ+ people from the public library and shutting down a municipal swimming pool.
This seems awfully close to authentic post-Apostolic Western Christianity. The church fathers are unanimous that women should be clothed and veiled, that genders should be separated, and that there should be no communal pool usage. This latter thing is funny because it’s like straight out of patristic writing. Romans would attend baths that acted as community leisure, and the Christian authorities forbade attendance because of gender mingling and opportunity for lust.
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15d ago
The Parable of the Good Samaritan is about how to treat schismatics, if anything, not about how to treat the strictly foreign and alien. The take away from this parable would be: “maintain neighborly love for a group like the SSPX”. The Samaritans were Israelites, existing within the borders of Israel, of the same blood and history as Jews, with scriptural and ritual overlap but large departures in orthodoxy and orthopraxy. The Jews were able to engage in some rituals with them, according to the Talmud, but otherwise they were treated as a heretical group. For an example of Catholics attempting to practice the meaning being this parable, see how they responded to yesterday’s excommunication of the SSPX. You will find a lot of malice and spite. Yet the SSPX is 99x more similar to the Vatican than the Samaritans to the ancient Jews.
Well the linked write-up explains that Israel killed 34 American soldiers, the president and his advisors and most of the surviving crewmen all believed it was on purpose, and Israel then conspired with American Jews in government to threaten the president not to talk about it, while conspiring with Jewish journalists to quash the story, all this done through their consulate. Decades later they balked at ever paying restitution to the families, even with American pressure. To top it off, the event has a symbolically resonant name: the Attack on USS Liberty. And this happened in 1967, which was not the height of the lobby’s power.
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