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Culture War Roundup for the week of January 8, 2024

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Cogs that aren't having enough children and are too expensive.

Funny thing really. The way you can tell that all the talk about "dysgenics" is bullshit is that it's not "the help" who are dying out, it's the fagot/tranny/elf brahmins.

the fagot/tranny/elf brahmins

Obnoxious, antagonistic, boo outgrouping, and whether meant ironically or not, clearly not the kind of argument we want to see made here. No, not because you used no-no words, but because you used them in a way calculated to be antagonistic.

I'm feeling mellow today, so 1-day ban. You really seem determined to once again see how many infractions you can accumulate before you get permabanned. Frankly, you only haven't been permabanned because as polarizing a figure as you are, a lot of people like you and you rack up a lot of AAQCs along with your shitposting. But the forbearance is not going to last forever. If your goal is just to push us to a final ban so you can go back to DSL or wherever to crow about how you finally "proved" something (whatever it is you think you're trying to prove) then just do your big flaming swan song and get it over with (and please make it worthy). Otherwise, knock this shit off - for someone who talks so much about discipline and being a grizzled NCO who's seen the world and survived some shit and knows what for, you do not get to pretend you can't help yourself or don't know what you're doing.

Obnoxious, antagonistic, boo outgrouping, and whether meant ironically or not, clearly not the kind of argument we want to see made here.

Is it not though?

I'll grant that my specific choice of words could be interpreted as uncharitable but at the same time I was specifically echoing the rhetoric used by others in this thread an elsewhere. @Hoffmeister25 is correct, and yes, a significant part of my motivation here is to highlight the contradiction.

The sort of rhetoric that you casually dismiss when aimed at the outgroup doesn't feel so good when it's aimed back towards the ingroup does it?

The sort of rhetoric that you casually dismiss when aimed at the outgroup

What rhetoric directed at the outgroup are you claiming I failed to mod?

doesn't feel so good when it's aimed back towards the ingroup does it?

Are you really claiming that I modded you because you attacked "my" ingroup?

Is that really what you're claiming?

Are you really claiming that I modded you because you attacked "my" ingroup?

Not you in particular so much as the community in general. To be blunt causal dehumanization and eliminationist rhetoric are pretty common here.

Someone here goes on a tear about how much normies suck, republicans are retarded, and the Jews deserved it, they're as liable to get two-dozen up votes and an AAQC because that's the outgroup.

Meanwhile if someone comes out against the race essentialist prog consensus or refers to a queer theater kid by anything other than xer preferred pronouns and suddenly the down votes and the mod-hats come out.

That dichotomy and very clear double standard is what I'm referring to when I talk about "heightening the contradiction."

The Funny thing that I don't really think that Zorba or Trace ever properly grasped is that I sincerely believe in the sub's foundation, and I believe that Rome is worth a man's life.

Someone here goes on a tear about how much normies suck, republicans are retarded, and the Jews deserved it, they're as liable to get two-dozen up votes and an AAQC because that's the outgroup.

Yes, I'm aware. But upvotes don't prevent someone from being modded.

Meanwhile if someone comes out against the race essentialist prog consensus or refers to a queer theater kid by anything other than xer preferred pronouns and suddenly the down votes and the mod-hats come out.

I'm disgusted that you would say this and either believe it or try to make me believe you believe it.

not because you used no-no words, but because you used them in a way calculated to be antagonistic.

Honest question: is there an example of anyone using similar no-no words that isn't judged as being "calculated to be antagonistic"?

Use-mention distinction.

If you are referring to other people as faggots or trannies or niggers or whatever, it would be hard to convince me that your intent was anything other than to be insulting and inflammatory.

So when you started the phrase with:

not because you used no-no words

You meant, "Not because you mentioned no-no words, but because you used them," and the following clause was superfluous?

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Real world grim and stupid politics snipped, let us move to our favorite fantasy world (for the same thing, but WITH DRAGONS!)

Obssessive political crap is over, obssessive nerd crap starts now!

elf brahmins

Can there be such thing?

Of course!

Ed Greenwood's fantasy kitchen sink world is place for everything and everyone, and place of pseudo-Hindu fantasy copycat culture are the Shining Lands.

Var, Durpar and Estagund are lands following the Adama faith, religion based on reincarnation, oneness of all things and strict caste boundaries.

And since Shining Lands are properly free of racism and speciesism (as it should be in these types of fantasy world to prevent them from being even bigger Grand Guignol charnel houses that they are)

Just like the gods were aspects of the Adama, so too were the various species of the world. No follower of the Adama would turn away anyone based on their race alone.

yes, when Baldur Gate 4 comes out, you can legitimately and canonically play elf brahmin.

Yes, even DARK ELF BRAHMIN! Here comes Nivray the Rotspider, ready to save the world with his wise and brilliant advice!

edit: yes, the links work now

Yes, even DARK ELF BRAHMIN! Here comes Nivray the Rotspider, ready to save the world with his wise and brilliant advice!

Finally some Tamil-Brahmin representation that isn't in theoretical mathematics 🙏

I don't know what he means by "elf"(I don't think it makes any sense as a slur for Williams syndrome in context) but it is literally factually true that the gays and trans have extremely low TFR and disproportionately come from not-poor backgrounds.

He’s making a reference to Curtis Yarvin’s “dark elves and hobbits” essay.

In that case it's just false; blue tribe conservatives seem like they have very similar TFR to the core red tribe.

The super rich actually have more kids than almost anyone else in the US.

Right, they've set up policies that drive their competition extinct while multiplying their servants. Classic high-low vs middle.

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