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Culture War Roundup for the week of December 30, 2024

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and --according to at least several well thought of books and authors-- Classical Jewish psychology

Yeah, you just had to throw that in for no reason.

I predict we are not actually going to see Jewish rape gangs similar to Rotherham.

Failed discussion norms taught to you by failed kikes like

Yeah, no.

Would you make the same prediction if it was sexual degeneracy or pornography rather than rape?

I have not heard of Jewish pornography gangs.

Like many I industries I'm sure there are great non anti-semitic explinations for their over representation in pornography.

Higher IQ seems like a satisfactory explanation.

Are higher IQ and pornography corralated?

Like many I industries

I was under the impression you'd expanded the scope of the discussion to over representation in fields beyond porn.

Yes, it's true for many industries, including porn.

High IQ is likely why it's true in many industries finance, banking, law, medicine. I took your answer to mean, including porn. Pornography, from many of the adverse outcomes, press and documentaries covering this industry it doesn't present as requiring high g.

I'd imagine success in running a porn-related business would be just as g-loaded as running any other business.

Unless, by over-representation, you're talking Jewish porn actors/actresses? Because that would be a new one, to me.

This attitude is exactly why discusion in this space is failed.

I insult indians, Pakistanis, Muslims... No Problem. I include links to lectures on indian psychology that is anything but flattering...

I even signpost that the segment you object to would be aping the style of 4chan, but offend one little ethnicity that produced over 50% of the atomic spies, and 50% of the civil rights lawyers of the 1950s and 60s that advocated the current DEI regime... Even in a segement where whites, indians, blacks, and muslims receive equal or great opprobrium... And the discussion needs to be stopped with a "NO"

After 2000 words... one charged insult, "Yeah, No."

This is an attitude vastly more toxic to truth than 4chan's aggressive offense and I'm glad to leave it behind.

After 2000 words... one charged insult, "Yeah, No."

If you write 2000 words that are angry but somewhat justifiable, and then gratuitously attack someone else who has no connection to the incident, having people complain about the one attack more than about the 2000 words is your own fault. Nobody is required to address your points based on number of words, rather than on how bad they are, and the one about Jews was a lot worse, even though it took up few words.

Might I suggest that you, while clearly a very intelligent guy, may not be as bigger-brained than the rest of us as you often wish to portray. I learn things all the time here, I learn things from your own posts, even. That is not to say I believe everything that's posted here by you or anyone else (though I do admit I don't have the expertise many here have in various subjects and often weigh that against what I perceive are their historically expressed biases in deciding how far to believe them.)

You clearly have biases and often mix them with facts in an attempt to either gather likeminds or subscribers. This isn't by any means unusual but I also think that if any point you wish to make is worth making, it's worth making without resort to knee jerk insulting dismissals. I personally found your insults to Indians rather immature, and I remember posting, if not a rebuttal, less than a ringing endorsement. Some of us can't be bothered to engage with a zealot who we know will never ever give ground, and more and more that is what I perceive in you.

I will say that your posts, and sometimes even your rants, are often very fun reads, and that you add a lot of color to the Motte (perhaps not the word you'd prefer?)

After 2000 words... one charged insult, "Yeah, No."

spot checking and discarding entire thing is a valid and smart strategy

for some time there is too much text to read all of it

Fell free to call it as Jewish strategy, it will just make me like Jews a bit more.

I mean it's a bit discordant.

It's like hearing

"The barbarians are in the gates, the Muslims, Pakistanis, and Indians are part of a gross rape ideology and we've let them in the country. They are of course supported by the worst group of all, the Scottish Protestants."

It stops sounding like a coherent set of problems, and more like just someone angry and ranting about all the people they don't like. As a piece of rhetoric it's bad because it makes whatever legitimate issues you have with the first set of groups sound less convincing.

I appreciate the defense of Presbyterians.

Jewish organized sexual abuse seems to be a thing in some ultra-orthodox communities, but I’ve never heard of it being directed towards outsiders.

Freud’s psychological work is bunkum, but it doesn’t seem like his Jewishness has much to do with it.

Read "ordeal of Civility" the most common reading of Frued is that his Jewishness is HIGHLY relevant to his theories... Indeed one cannot interpret things the Oedipus complex without understanding his personal biography with his own father, Jewish second class citizenship, and the humiliations involved... The theory being Frued was less interested in Oedipus having sex with his mother than him killing his father.

but offend one little ethnicity that produced over 50% of the atomic spies,

I mean, the US only built nuclear weapons before everyone else because of Jewish scientists. So I feel that, on balance, you should feel favourably towards them on this issue.

I wonder how those Jewish scientists all ended up in America. Presumably some elaborate conspiracy.

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