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Culture War Roundup for the week of November 11, 2024

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You cant mass import 80 iq people who obviously are gaming the system like refugees or most migrants and expect to have a sane living situation. Demographic concerns are very real, my own people are a micro minority here despite having ruled since time immemorial, you dont wanna face that.

Indians can be genuinely very smart, a good number are but most game systems via incorrect means. Khalistan is a about as likely as earth splitting in half in the next 2 days.

K pop does make korean guys smewhat more appealing to some younger girls but it isnt that large an impact. Okcupid data was fairly accurate. I dont have issues because I learnt to cold approach, I cannot imagine what its like being a legit incel in some place like NY where you have the hottest women ever born whilst you can barely get a landwhale to match with you. Dating apps are a scam anyway though they represent reality in a world where you have nothing going for you. Most guys are that way, very few actually are attractive personality-wise. I would not want to be some fresh off the boat asian or south asian guy who is short and cant get any intimacy whilst his sister can go and realistically have short-term flings with male model-tier guys since dudes would hit anything.