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Amusingly, similar experiences seem to have resulted in my development of the same reflex only in the opposite direction.

I watch the advocates of "innate cognitive differences" stack epicycles upon epicycles trying to explain why teaching methods don't matter, why classroom discipline does not matter, why nutrition, poverty, a tradition, literacy, a stable home-life/two-parent household, and any number of other things don't matter while arbitrarily dismissing any arguments, claims, and evidence to the contrary as "blank-slatism" and can't help but find it just as (if not even more) ridiculous.

Especially when the most aggressive and ardent advocates always seem to be coming from the same space. This might sound uncharitable but perhaps if you redirected some of that energy from rationalizing the world into being a little less neurotic and asking that cute barista out on a date maybe the problem of dysgenics would start to seem a little more tractable.

Considering I made appeals to the opposite this is just bizarre. I guess it makes more sense to equivocate fiction with reality than look at multiple population groups deriving drastically different outcomes from similar environments.

Opposite of what exactly?

I to have learned to hate misleading statistics being quoted by political operators who clearly do not understand statistics. I to find myself feeling frustrated when forced to countenance arguments that go against my directly observed reality. I to have become wary of if not outright hostile towards anything resembling strategic equivocation. I to am sick of the "ridiculous rigmaroles" and "half baked social theories"

The only difference between us is that you think your side is free of these sins.

I made appeals to the opposite of what you call 'the advocates of innate cognitive differences'. More specifically when I said that not all teaching methodologies or environments need be equal. On top of that I mentioned that there are other issues with schooling that are outside of the scope of specific teaching methodologies.

It's not that the difference between us is that I don't recognize the pathologies that naturally come about when people have grouped up, regardless of the topic. It's that I don't assume I'm better than you. So I don't base my arguments around that.

So, you’ve now regressed to the “people who disagree with me are lame weirdos who get no bitches” stage of normie-tier arguments?

No more so than anyone else here I would argue.

The standard form of the argument in question is that the lame wierdoes can't get "bitches". HlynkaCG is claiming they choose not to, which rather puts a different spin on the "lame wierdoes" part. I can say candidly that similar advice was of great personal benefit to me.

Sure, I think that’s a reasonable distinction to draw, although in the context of Hlynka’s entire post - and his oeuvre more broadly - it’s difficult not to default to a less charitable read.

It’s also not clear how Hlynka believes that asking “the cute barista” out on a date will significantly help the dysgenics issue; one of the reasons why many HBD advocates struggle to find partners (I’m well aware that the reasons are numerous, but this is one of them) is that the majority of the single women they are likely to interact with on a daily casual basis are not selected for intelligence, let alone for sensible beliefs about the nature of humanity, which means that it’s not worth investing significant effort into dating them only to have the relationship implode after the first deep discussion about race. Or, even worse, for the relationship to result in marriage and children, only for the woman to fill the children’s heads full of egalitarian nonsense.

I’m not saying this is the primary reason why so many of us far-right “weirdos” are single, but I can say that this has been one of the serious obstacles in my personal life. In any case, if the shot across the bow being fired at my side of this particular battle is “maybe if you stopped autistically sorting people into theoretical categories like they’re data points on a spreadsheet, and spent that mental energy getting laid, you’d have better personal life outcomes”, that argument is both correct and also missing the point on, at least, an intellectual level.

Is finding a mate a priority or not? If it's not a priority, it probably won't happen. If it is a priority, obstacles can be overcome. It seems to me that a lot of single men approach this from the perspective of "it'd be nice if I found the perfect woman, otherwise no thanks". But in the first place there are no perfect women (or men either), and in the second place, being in a healthy, committed relationship is incredibly beneficial, in a way that I think a lot of men don't realize until they've had it. Certainly the modern world does not often grant single men the experience of being cared for and valued as a person.

Assuming that finding a mate is a priority, the two questions that follow are first how to be a worthwhile mate yourself, and then how to find a worthwhile mate. Ideally, one wants a selection mechanism better than "someone I'm willing to have sex with/is willing to have sex with me, at least once." What is more desirable is a good person to share one's life with, and of course the possession of enough goodness oneself that a good person would be interested in sharing a life together. Since it is lives at stake, you want something that penetrates through the surface detail and into the core of identity, worldview, lifestyle. You want people who make thinking long-term and being responsible part of their core identity. Such places exist, so if you're dissatisfied with the quality of the women in your social circles, why are those your social circles in the first place?

If one is an outspoken racial ideologue, that's probably going to be a hard pass for most women. But why is being an outspoken racial ideologue necessary? Sticking rigidly to the evidence and disdaining theorizing, maintaining a humble admission that one can be wrong, appealing to evidence on the defense and refraining from actively pushing the issue is likely plenty, and all of these are good practice in any case, because HBD is not a terribly actionable worldview.

If your intellectual pursuits interfere with the process of gaining and keeping a family, they're probably not worth it. A family of one's own is immensely valuable, far beyond what theory can provide. Almost all theories will be irrelevant in a decade at the most. Family will shape and enrich your life till the day you die, and then continue shaping the world on and on long after you have returned to the dust.

It’s also not clear how Hlynka believes that asking “the cute barista” out on a date will significantly help the dysgenics issue...

It's quite simple really. If you believe that dysgenics is a serious concern, and If you believe that you are intelligent enough to be worth reproducing with, the obvious solution is not to whinge on reddit about it. the solution is to have more kids.

The thing that rationalists always seem to miss about the opening Idiocracy is that the "smart" couple chose their fate. They chose decline, They chose to be replaced. The future belongs to those who show up.

Then you are one of the ones that @FCfromSSC was just talking about.

It’s also not clear how Hlynka believes that asking “the cute barista” out on a date will significantly help the dysgenics issue; one of the reasons why many HBD advocates struggle to find partners (I’m well aware that the reasons are numerous, but this is one of them)

It depends on what you want to do with your life.

Do you want to be normal normie, normally living in normal society like everyone else, or do you want to be rebel and revolutionary, destroying the normal society root and branch?

If the former, behave and think like every other normie, no other advice is necessary.

If the latter...

https://www.marxists.org/subject/anarchism/nechayev/catechism.htm

The revolutionary is a doomed man. He has no personal interests, no business affairs, no emotions, no attachments, no property, and no name. Everything in him is wholly absorbed in the single thought and the single passion for revolution.

...

Tyrannical toward himself, he must be tyrannical toward others. All the gentle and enervating sentiments of kinship, love, friendship, gratitude, and even honor, must be suppressed in him and give place to the cold and single-minded passion for revolution. For him, there exists only one pleasure, one consolation, one reward, one satisfaction – the success of the revolution. Night and day he must have but one thought, one aim – merciless destruction. Striving cold-bloodedly and indefatigably toward this end, he must be prepared to destroy himself and to destroy with his own hands everything that stands in the path of the revolution.

...

The nature of the true revolutionary excludes all sentimentality, romanticism, infatuation, and exaltation. All private hatred and revenge must also be excluded. Revolutionary passion, practiced at every moment of the day until it becomes a habit, is to be employed with cold calculation. At all times, and in all places, the revolutionary must obey not his personal impulses, but only those which serve the cause of the revolution.

I watch the advocates of "innate cognitive differences" stack epicycles upon epicycles trying to explain why teaching methods don't matter, why classroom discipline does not matter, why nutrition, poverty, a tradition, literacy, a stable home-life/two-parent household, and any number of other things don't matter

We know what the root cause is for classroom indiscipline, poor nutrition, bad (cultural?) traditions, bad (parental?) literacy, unstable home life and one-parent households.

If people are smart and capable, they won't find themselves in situations where they're having more children they can support with unhelpful partners, won't have a culture glorifying crime, won't be illiterate, won't disrupt classrooms, won't create or maintain food desserts or fail to provide nutritious food.

This might sound uncharitable but perhaps if you redirected some of that energy from rationalizing the world into being a little less neurotic and asking that cute barista out on a date maybe the problem of dysgenics would start to seem a little more tractable.

With great respect, if you preface an insult by implying 'this only sounds like an insult', it does not become less offensive. Quite the opposite.

and there you are

Which comes first? Genetics or 'parents loving their children enough to take a serious interest in their education'? You could be saying that love is a metaphysical force, beyond the power of science - I have no response to that.

Which comes first?

Does it matter?

Well it's only the basis of what you're trying to imply, that genetics is unrelated to whether parents care about their kids education - or is that comment just sneering 'aKsHuAlY' at the thought that people might object to whatever you're saying?

No it's not, what you're doing is affirming the consequent

I don't have to imagine it, I've seen it.

That the predicted outcomes of abandoning of strict discipline and race-blind grading predicted by American trad-cons came true came true is not a condemnation of their thesis it is a vindication of it.

This is literally nothing but a long winded insult. Which I suppose should reinforce one to the essentialist position if that's all one can say in opposition.

As someone who doesn't think that's all the story, please actually make arguments instead of just...this. We both know there is more to it than that, that you're actually capable of it and that the venue demands it.

This is literally nothing but a long winded insult.

You can say that but I would reply that is no more insulting than a lot of stuff that gets posted here every day without comment including, I would argue, the post i was directly replying to. The only difference is who's sacred cows are getting gored. As for accusing me of being "long winded" do you know what forum you're posting to?

Simply put, If had intended for my post to be insulting, it would have more closely mirrored that of FacelessCraven @FCfromSSC only I would not have displayed the admirable charity and restraint that they have thus far.

From just upthread:

“For seven years in a row, Oakland was the fastest-gaining urban district in California for reading,” recalls Weaver. “And we hated it.”

Teachers: "We totally figured out how to teach poor black kids! we just didn't like doing it, so we decided to not teach them instead, figuring that ought to work just as well!"

HBD: "As this example clearly shows, teaching poor black kids just isn't possible."

You dumb fuckers it's right fucking there youHNNNNNNNNNGGGGGG!

But it's fine. It's fine! We can just go back to discussing how valuable our existing institutions are, and how we should centralize more of our lives under their direct control.

I know right? Welcome to my world.

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