For the record, I’m fine with cutting off a chunk of land for the Black Nationalists, too. I expect it to go about as well as the White Nationalist land, but again, so long as no one goes there involuntarily, it isn’t my problem.
I notice this one isn’t tagged “satire”, which seems to mean you actually think segregation is a valid solution. Never death though, that’s barbaric.
Keeping people that hate each others’ guts physically apart from each other is in fact superior to killing them, since they might eventually chill out but killing is permanent. Additionally, if it turns out someone has been separated that should not have been, they can be moved again later, whereas no one can be unexecuted. It isn’t that I think killing is never justified, but you lot huffing a hero fantasy about “killing Nazis” are too eager to kill and too detached to actually notice when you’re attacking dudes who are not Nazis.
It’s already well-known that at least one dude who was never at and was in no way attached to the march or white nationalists got doxxed as a “Nazi”.
I encourage being ABSOLUTELY certain before killing. I admire the “choose the reversible option first” philosophy, but segregation is not right. I’d think you’d have learned that from history.
What exactly do you think prisons are, if not segregating people who have a proven track record of violent or damaging behavior from the rest of the population?
Are you a prison abolitionist by means of death penalty?
And why can’t people live in different places with different rules? I actually support the creation of more city-states as a means of political preference satisfaction in general.
Also, let’s be honest here, Antifa sucks at figuring out who is and is not a Nazi and will indeed claim they are “absolutely certain” in the middle of killing people who are not and have never been Nazis.
At some point, you have to ask, is what you want to prevent people dying, or is what you want to punish those with what you deem to be evil beliefs? Because “put all the Nazis on their own little island” accomplishes the former, but not the latter.
Prisons are bad, but replacing them wholesale with the death penalty is only worse, way too many people arrested unjustly or for stupid things that shouldn’t be illegal.
Yes, antifa is generally bad at identifying actual opponents. You’ll notice I don’t tend to blanket state I support them, for that reason mainly.
I don’t know where you intend to set aside for all the different racists though. The places they want are already taken.
I don’t need to move all the racists, just the most racist of the racists. The most racist of the racists are among the most dangerous.
There are still a number of very lightly-developed areas in the world. They had to truck people in from all over the country just to make that rally. There isn’t going to be something where we need enough land for 100 million people. I don’t think Whitopia would get even one million people.
Singapore is about 720km2 in size. America is something like 9 million km2 in size. So Whitopia and Blaktopia each get about one one thousandth of a percent of the land, each with a 10km corridor for sea access. Doesn’t need to be great sea access either, just enough for a seaport.
(Also a wall would be built around each so that access could be controlled to prevent weird cross-border crime stuff.)
For the record, I’m fine with cutting off a chunk of land for the Black Nationalists, too. I expect it to go about as well as the White Nationalist land, but again, so long as no one goes there involuntarily, it isn’t my problem.
I notice this one isn’t tagged “satire”, which seems to mean you actually think segregation is a valid solution. Never death though, that’s barbaric.
Keeping people that hate each others’ guts physically apart from each other is in fact superior to killing them, since they might eventually chill out but killing is permanent. Additionally, if it turns out someone has been separated that should not have been, they can be moved again later, whereas no one can be unexecuted. It isn’t that I think killing is never justified, but you lot huffing a hero fantasy about “killing Nazis” are too eager to kill and too detached to actually notice when you’re attacking dudes who are not Nazis.
It’s already well-known that at least one dude who was never at and was in no way attached to the march or white nationalists got doxxed as a “Nazi”.
I encourage being ABSOLUTELY certain before killing. I admire the “choose the reversible option first” philosophy, but segregation is not right. I’d think you’d have learned that from history.
What exactly do you think prisons are, if not segregating people who have a proven track record of violent or damaging behavior from the rest of the population?
Are you a prison abolitionist by means of death penalty?
And why can’t people live in different places with different rules? I actually support the creation of more city-states as a means of political preference satisfaction in general.
Also, let’s be honest here, Antifa sucks at figuring out who is and is not a Nazi and will indeed claim they are “absolutely certain” in the middle of killing people who are not and have never been Nazis.
At some point, you have to ask, is what you want to prevent people dying, or is what you want to punish those with what you deem to be evil beliefs? Because “put all the Nazis on their own little island” could accomplish the former, but not the latter.
It seems like the practical problem with having lots of little theme-park ethnostates is that polities can't really help warring on or playing dominance games with their neighbours. If they're part of a big liberal union they don't function very well as theme-park ethnostates, but if they're not, they'll probably be forced into war with their neighbours just because of realpolitik, tribalism, and resource scarcity issues.
It’s a good question.
In terms of breaking the whole US up into little theme park ethnostates it’s definitely worthy of greater consideration.
However, in the context of what likely brought this to your mind just now, the tiny white nationalist theme park ethnostate (and corresponding black nationalist theme park ethnostate) would be small enough that they’d be effectively protected from invasion by being right next to the United States, and would benefit from access to American markets and infrastructure, so it doesn’t need much realpolitik maneuvering.
For my purposes, the tiny WN ethnostate exists for three purposes:
Remove WNs from political influence in the country (and the resulting media firestorms/streetfights/crimes/etc)
Gather experimental information
Increase viability of Exit as an option in polities where whites have become at-risk minorities (such as Zimbabwe redistributing farmland)
I don’t actually want to live in the Principality of Whitopia. (In fact, I haven’t disclosed on this blog whether I would even be eligible.)
The America I grew up in, and the America I believe in, is multiracial.
However, I also support the creation of more city-states as political experiments in general, even for philosophies that I think will fail.
For the record, I’m fine with cutting off a chunk of land for the Black Nationalists, too. I expect it to go about as well as the White Nationalist land, but again, so long as no one goes there involuntarily, it isn’t my problem.
I notice this one isn’t tagged “satire”, which seems to mean you actually think segregation is a valid solution. Never death though, that’s barbaric.
Keeping people that hate each others’ guts physically apart from each other is in fact superior to killing them, since they might eventually chill out but killing is permanent. Additionally, if it turns out someone has been separated that should not have been, they can be moved again later, whereas no one can be unexecuted. It isn’t that I think killing is never justified, but you lot huffing a hero fantasy about “killing Nazis” are too eager to kill and too detached to actually notice when you’re attacking dudes who are not Nazis.
It’s already well-known that at least one dude who was never at and was in no way attached to the march or white nationalists got doxxed as a “Nazi”.
if you post someone’s address, job, full name, personal details, anything that’s doxing, there are only two things that you want people to do to them:
1) really mess with them to an insane extent, like ordering gay porn, perfume samples, religious books and hundreds of pizzas sent to their house and try to ruin their personal lives/get them fire
2) kill them
so don’t fucking do it
don’t dox people
i want Nazi’s to get fired or worse
i get this but there has already been one instances from last week were people got the wrong person and it could fuck up his whole life for something they didn’t do
two instances, actually.
they got one of the wrong guys twice.
do you get that?
two people that are categorically NOT nazis got accused of being nazis by some half cocked dipshit on social media.
also fucking with nazis or trying to get them fired is categorically A Bad Idea.
I keep seeing this sentiment in the notes but don’t fucking do it
don’t feed into their victim narrative.
that’ll just push them further into extremism.
like, do you really think someone racist is gonna change their fuckin mind if they get fired because 5000 “undesirables” according to nazi doctrine get them fired?
do you think they’re suddenly magically gonna get a good attitude towards minorities that nazis have historically persecuted?
getting someone fired from a fucking hotdog job where they’re clearly miserable, probably not making much money in the first place ain’t gonna help.
not bein able to pay their bills will not teach them some sort of lesson, or the kind of lesson that would lead to them not being a fuckhead.
it’ll teach them
“these subhumans want you starving, want you to be unable to feed your families and want you dead”
WELL DONE
YOU JUST RADICALIZED A DUMBFUCK EVEN FURTHER
HE’S GOING TO GO DEEPER INTO EXTREMISM THANKS TO YOU, IDIOT
DON’T DOX PEOPLE
This is a major problem we as a society have with deradicalization. Like, you can’t exile someone from society and expect them to reform, it just further radicalizes them. People are social animals and need a network of healthy relationships so as to deradicalize. If you cut people off from the opportunity to build those relationships, you’re ensuring that the problem will never ever get fixed
An excellent treatise on why prison doesn’t work. The nazis already are nazis with a network of relationships, likely with other nazis if they were in a gathering with other nazis. Are you suggesting the targets of nazis shoukld sit down and talk with people who literally want them dead. or else to literally do nothing?
Well I mean it worked for me, so yeah, pretty much.
congratulations on not being a nazi anymore, not everyone is so quick to give it up.
Yeah, and your methods are only making the problem worse, so I’d appreciate it if you got out of the way.
You don’t know my methods, or do you think dead nazis are more of a problem than alive ones?
You are absolutely right, friend. The government must act to stop this epidemic of ideologically extreme vehicular homicide through every means possible. Driving into crowds is never forgivable.
Therefore every Jihadi and Jihadi sympathizer must be executed. No safe spaces for Jihadis. Their sick and twisted ideology offers no deconversion. The only good Jihadi is a dead Jihadi.
Liberals might protest that Jihadis don’t cause much violence, statistically, but the only voice Jihadis will listen to is violence.
For the record, I’m fine with cutting off a chunk of land for the Black Nationalists, too. I expect it to go about as well as the White Nationalist land, but again, so long as no one goes there involuntarily, it isn’t my problem.
Don’t fall down the rabbithole, anon. You deserve better than that.
An artificial neural network might give you a more realistic feeling ‘waifu’ or even a digital harem, but once you remove all the supportive scaffolding - the game engine, the art assets, voice synthesis base lines, dialog templates, and so on - what’s left is three to five orders of magnitude less complex than a real woman.
That’s a pet, not a person.
It isn’t a proper replacement for real human companionship, for human love, for human loyalty.
Now, I’m not saying it’s wrong. I have an AI companion embed myself that I use to delegate tasks, including reading through and summarizing the day’s Argumate posts. And, of course, many households have various robots - including mine, when I was with my ex!
But it isn’t a real substitute. It’s a very unhealthy path to go down, and some people, they become addicted, and it really kills them inside. So don’t do that to yourself, okay?
Trump is handling this poorly, even by his own standards. He could have disavowed of them loudly, and ended his speech with something like “And that’s why we are going to build a nice, big, non-violent wall“
He could even have signed an executive order to establish a General Lee museum where they collect all the statues. That would still have been better than this.
Why did he not just do a Nixon-style dog whistle or something? I bet somebody wrote him a speech to that extent and he winged it!
He isn’t wrong about the potential for value drift - many Leftists already dislike or hate the U.S. founding fathers.
However, I endorse creating a
Museum of the Confederacy and putting them all there. In fact, I really like that idea. There have got to be like three dozen or more of the things, so they could be put outside/etc. You might get rid of some of the most similar-looking ones.
I live in Russia. I can casually buy a belt buckle with the confederate flag at the flea market. how
Use of the Confederate flag on clothing and stuff was pretty much unquestioned until very recently, that’s not a value judgment that’s just a statement of fact. Also says there should bad, you should be able to buy the Buckle with anything on it.
no, i mean
obv it’s not illegal
but how is this a thing that has market value here of all things
Putin’s long-term plan to divide the United States by having the South rise again. He sponsored this recent rally as part of a long-term goal of reviving the Confederate States of America and pitting it, once again, against the virtuous northern Union.
(Of course I say this jokingly. He’s actually funding California separatists.)
that adhd feel when you can’t even focus on the things you love doing + that are important to you, and you start to question whether you actually care about those things at all and feel like you have no interests or hobbies
Liberal Peter Kropotkin’s seminal work, The Request For Bread
Conservative Peter Kropotkin’s seminal work, The You Think You Deserve Bread You Lazy Entitled Fucking Millennial Well Guess What No One Owes You Anything
Libertarian Peter Kropotkin’s seminal work, The Sustainable Production of Bread While Communists Starve In Bread Lines and Conservatives Pay Farmers More Money Not To Farm
Technolibertarian Peter Kropotkin’s seminal work, The Disruption of the Incumbent Bread Industry In the Hands Of My Friend’s Startup
Socdem Peter Kropotkin’s seminal work, The Means-Tested Subsidization Of Bread So Poor People Can Afford To Buy It Even With the Taxation of Bread
Primitivist Peter Kropotkin’s seminal work, The Abolition of Bread as an Artefact of Evil Agricultural-Technological Civilization
Agorist Peter Kropotkin’s seminal work, The Methods People Resort To to Find Bread Now That the Government’s Price Controls Have Made It Impossible To Find In The Stores Wink Wink
Populist Peter Kropotkin’s seminal work, The Deportation Of The Immigrants Who Used To Make Bread and The Discovery That The Natives Didn’t Really Want Those Jobs After All So Now Bread Is Really Expensive But It’s Okay We’ll Just Blame The Jews For It
Liberaltarian Peter Kropotkin’s seminal work, The Cost Of Giving Everyone Enough Money To Buy Bread Or Something Else If They Would Prefer It Over Bread
Corporatist Peter Kropotkin’s seminal work, The Purpose Of Bread Is To Enrichen Political Favorites Not Satisfy Market Demand
Anarcho-capitalist Peter Kropotkin’s seminal work, The Calculations On How Much To Pay Whom For What To Ensure That It’s In Everyone’s Interests To Produce Bread That’s Safe To Eat Look Guys If My Numbers Hold It Would Be Totally Possible To Do It Without a Central Regulatory Authority
Anarcho-transhumanist Peter Kropotkin’s seminal work, I Invented A Bread Fabricator That Can Produce Edible Bread Out Of Any Organic Material And Open-Sourced It So Anyone Can Obtain One So Could We Please Get Over This Discussion Now
Moldbuggian NRx Peter Kropotkin’s seminal work, Having a King Would Make Our Bread Better Somehow
Landian NRx Peter Kropotkin’s seminal work, Bread Is Not An Omohundro Goal So Once The Indifferent Techno-God Arrives There Will Be No More Bread For Anybody
Singularitarian Peter Kropotkin’s seminal work, The Simulation Of Bread
Bioconservative Peter Kropotkin’s seminal work, The Necessity of Banning That Bread Fabricator Because Starvation Is a Crucial Component Of Human Existence
Technocorporatist Peter Kropotkin’s seminal work, The Regulation of Bread Fabricator Technology So That Only Huge Corporations Can Have Them And Everyone Else Needs To Become Our Serfs
Woke Peter Kropotkin’s seminal work, The Fabrication of Bread Is Cultural Genocide Because Not Starving Is White Cultural Imperialism And That’s Why The Government Needs To Protect Non-Whites From Access To Bread Fabricators To Preserve Their Subsistence-Agricultural Societies
Handful of ancaps following this blog despite the plan to transform America into a bigger and more heavily-armed Singapore - or because of the plan to transform America into a bigger and more heavily-armed Singapore?
i feel betrayed by the right resorting to terrorism... i lost family from the isis truck attack and now the people who supposedly oppose them use the same tactics on people they disagree with?
I mean taking a page from the enemy’s playbook is a smart move, but yeah, there’s always a hidden cost to it
if i hear another pseudo-intellectual white boy say “overpopulation” i s2g
like alright malthus if the population reaches a billion we’ll all starve we heard you in 1798
If I recall correctly, as the number of children per household declines, the amount of parental investment in each child increases along with educational attainment and development.
In other words, aside from other matters (which are not trivial), not having so many children might contribute to the economic development of underdeveloped areas, and thus their ability to have nice things like modern hospitals. Are you against this?
As I told the fool mutant-aesthetic, his talk of a domestic insurrection is the empty rhetoric of a subnormal piss-streaked goon. How many divisions does "No" Dick Spencer have? Do you believe the US Army would join a Slaver's Rebellion Dignity Rebellion? This "insurrection" of a few dozen pasty fat white men could be stopped by four bored black cops but would be crushed mercilessly by a hundred times its number in feds.
You don’t need to be big enough to launch an actual civil war in order to cause significant economic damage and psychic panic, particularly in a developed nation where people aren’t used to infrastructure disruptions.
Maybe you lot should quit trying to reawaken white racial consciousness and just put all those statues into museums and rename the parks after other suitable historical figures (pre civil war ones might be a good choice), not that the statues are really the chief cause, they’re just a point of friction for it to surface.
Either give up on collective intergenerational ethnic justice, or give up on shifting the demographics. You can’t have both and not get a rise in ethnonationalism, seeing as it involves yelling “you are [ethnicity]! You are not allowed to identify as anything other than [ethnicity]!”
Supposedly you guys were all-powerful before, but you got an orange internet meme elected President as backlash which you lot said wouldn’t happen, and at this rate he may well be re-elected.
As I told the fool mutant-aesthetic, his talk of a domestic insurrection is the empty rhetoric of a subnormal piss-streaked goon. How many divisions does "No" Dick Spencer have? Do you believe the US Army would join a Slaver's Rebellion Dignity Rebellion? This "insurrection" of a few dozen pasty fat white men could be stopped by four bored black cops but would be crushed mercilessly by a hundred times its number in feds.
You don’t need to be big enough to launch an actual civil war in order to cause significant economic damage and psychic panic, particularly in a developed nation where people aren’t used to infrastructure disruptions.
Maybe you lot should quit trying to reawaken white racial consciousness and just put all those statues into museums and rename the parks after other suitable historical figures (pre civil war ones might be a good choice), not that the statues are really the chief cause, they’re just a point of friction for it to surface.
Either give up on collective intergenerational ethnic justice, or give up on shifting the demographics. You can’t have both and not get a rise in ethnonationalism, seeing as it involves yelling “you are [ethnicity]! You are not allowed to identify as anything other than [ethnicity]!”
Supposedly you guys were all-powerful before, but you got an orange internet meme elected President as backlash which you lot said wouldn’t happen, and at this rate he may well be re-elected.
I actually wonder how much of the uptick in political extremism (between the alt-right and the antifa types) is the internet tough guy ethos and troll culture leaking into the real world.
People wanting to LARP WW2 (and the U.S civil war) to look badass, while seeming to forget the part where millions died.
There’s some of that but I think it’s more about European politics leaking into the US through the Internet
Democratic socialist politics and antifa specifically is from Europe
Ethno-nationalist politics and Nazi street fighting specifically is from Europe
It’s shocking because it doesn’t belong here and it doesn’t make sense in America where there’s no chance of either movement gaining enough political traction to achieve their goals and just about everybody involved in serious street violence gets arrested and has their life ruined, or gets shot
And I’ve seen a lot of Europeans get bizarrely invested in extremely America-centric issues as well, it’s not just one-sided
It’s worth noting that Richard Spencer almost exclusively gets his ideas from European thinkers like Benoist and Dugin. He more or less shuns Moldbug, the only major contemporary American unorthodox right-wing intellectual around. So I think that theory of europeanization may hold some merit.
This absolutely matches what I’ve observed in Facebook groups irt the far Right. I actually flat out told a friend the other day, “You know that [group] is an Alt-right group, right? The use of the word “Europa” is a tell.“
However, I haven’t seen anywhere close to the same amount of European influence in far Left circles. If anything, they’re getting cues from South America, not Europe, although they of course enjoy accounts of street brawls in Greece.
You have far Right Europeans getting far Right Americans fired up about issues the Americans don’t really have, and vise versa, so they’re both thinking they’re facing ALL of the issues faced by both the EU states AND the United States.
Maybe we need to get all of the Europeans to quit using English. This Internet thing is getting out of hand.
Yeah, that’s definitely not what I said. I’m just really wondering how to defend yourself from piss balloons. My area is full of particularly nasty antifas and it may be useful to know what to do about it if I find myself organizing an IRL political event at some point.
If there really is no way to counter it then they could shut down all public political opposition just by drowning it in enough bodily fluids. I really don’t want that to be how the last vestiges of free expression in America are destroyed.
raincoats, or just act like you enjoy it a little bit too much.
or just schedule your event for the same day as the Nazis but in a different city, let them take the piss balloons on your behalf.
Bring your own fire hoses.
Sure, the cost of a truck with a water tank will put a dent in the rally’s expenses, but sadoeconomist is an ancap so he surely must understand the idea of the people being responsible for their own sanitation.
There is no right to complain about your biohazardous materials getting washed away. If water gets on the antifas in the process of washing the piss bottles into the gutters, well it’s far more sanitary than the liquids they were throwing.
Yes, turning all protests into super soaker festivals isn’t the greatest, but it’s better than the alternative, as long as the water pressure isn’t too high. And it better be, because you’re going to have to hose down your own guys to keep them clean.
No injuries. I’m specifically talking about just washing people.
Of course, if I were in charge of the city, I’d install high-resolution cameras before the rally, get flying camera drones too, ban face-covering masks for the rally, and then fine every last one of those people $2,500 for malicious biohazardous littering (per piss-bottle) and all the mask-wearers, too.
Me: Has actually been in skype calls and IRC chats with prominent alt-right figures, attended alt-right meetups, coordinated alt-right digital action and written for alt-right sites before leaving the movement in early 2016
Hellsite users: Think they understand the alt-right better than me because they read a HuffPo explainer on the topic or whatever
Ah, but see, demobilization is impossible, as the left says again and again.
As such, you must either still secretly be an altrightie and thus untrustworthy, or not exist - even more untrustworthy! Glitches in reality can’t be relied on for accurate information, Mutie-san.
I actually wonder how much of the uptick in political extremism (between the alt-right and the antifa types) is the internet tough guy ethos and troll culture leaking into the real world.
People wanting to LARP WW2 (and the U.S civil war) to look badass, while seeming to forget the part where millions died.
There’s some of that but I think it’s more about European politics leaking into the US through the Internet
Democratic socialist politics and antifa specifically is from Europe
Ethno-nationalist politics and Nazi street fighting specifically is from Europe
It’s shocking because it doesn’t belong here and it doesn’t make sense in America where there’s no chance of either movement gaining enough political traction to achieve their goals and just about everybody involved in serious street violence gets arrested and has their life ruined, or gets shot
And I’ve seen a lot of Europeans get bizarrely invested in extremely America-centric issues as well, it’s not just one-sided
It’s worth noting that Richard Spencer almost exclusively gets his ideas from European thinkers like Benoist and Dugin. He more or less shuns Moldbug, the only major contemporary American unorthodox right-wing intellectual around. So I think that theory of europeanization may hold some merit.
“To defeat the Jew in your fatherland, you must first defeat the Jew in your heart,” I say, as I lead the unsuspecting Nazis towards my cleverly-disguised Buddhist monastery deep in the remote mountains of Nepal.
So with the Antifa ripping down a confederate statue, perhaps Social Justice Capture the Flag is back from a few years ago.
And with that, perhaps they will all switch over to doing property crimes instead of wailing on each other with bats and bike locks and what-have-you, and tensions will de-escalate.
Hopefully. I mean if that does happen it’s probably worth the price of a few statues.
in the past I kind of dissed Greg Egan for overlooking the possibility of Islamic terrorism, but his (fictional) predictions of resurgent Aryan Nationalist groups in the near future seem increasingly reasonable, even if he didn’t quite get the memetic background entirely right, focusing more on a kind of New Age woo than the clusterfuck of retreads from the 1930s mixed with Pepe memes that we actually ended up with.
one of the things that does feel very real is the concept of “science” treated as a political football getting kicked around by nominally leftist and rightist groups whose connection to reality grows ever more tenuous
Well, when you combine people getting excited about demographic replacement with people who still pretty unapologetically believe in Collective Ethnic Intergenerational Justice, then of course ethnic majority ethnic nationalism is going to rise.
If you got dudes talking like they’re going to take ‘revenge’ for stuff that happened decades or even centuries ago, well, that’s the basis of a lot of “ethnic tension” and ethnic violence.
another prediction was that widespread genetic testing would end up getting picked up by ethnoracial nationalists as an ironclad way of determining group membership, particularly focused on Y chromosome inheritance, thus you’re either a descendant of the historical Father of the People or the interloping usurper descendant of some barbarian rapist; thankfully that idea hasn’t got off the ground yet
We’ll have genetic engineering by the time it would have taken off, I think, which is going to weird effects on the whole race politics thing.
Hopefully good ones. If we’re lucky (and we might actually be in this one particular case), we may be able to patch the genes of adults, too.
in the past I kind of dissed Greg Egan for overlooking the possibility of Islamic terrorism, but his (fictional) predictions of resurgent Aryan Nationalist groups in the near future seem increasingly reasonable, even if he didn’t quite get the memetic background entirely right, focusing more on a kind of New Age woo than the clusterfuck of retreads from the 1930s mixed with Pepe memes that we actually ended up with.
one of the things that does feel very real is the concept of “science” treated as a political football getting kicked around by nominally leftist and rightist groups whose connection to reality grows ever more tenuous
Well, when you combine people getting excited about demographic replacement with people who still pretty unapologetically believe in Collective Ethnic Intergenerational Justice, then of course ethnic majority ethnic nationalism is going to rise.
If you got dudes talking like they’re going to take ‘revenge’ for stuff that happened decades or even centuries ago, well, that’s the basis of a lot of “ethnic tension” and ethnic violence.
What degenerate branch of my ancestry managed to survive - and thrive - with the instinctual response to warm weather “Yeah I should slip out of this vitally protective covering (: (: (:”
gonna guess it’s the branch that hadn’t fucked up their melanin, probably
“fucked up”
Ok but what if the evolution of lighter skin was in fact Scandinavian minimalism
Is "dudebro" even about masculinity though? It's making fun of frat boys, which is a more specific thing, with connotations of immaturity. I don't think an equally masculine term like "sirgentleman" would catch on as much without those associations.
It may have begun with frat boys, but it’s clearly metastasised; if you replace all occurrences of dudebro with frat boy the results are incoherent.
I’m glad I don’t have a brainless racist narcist demented idiot for president. Oh and, when he got elected I already predicted this would lead to a new civil war.
Aren’t you in Europe?
Come now, you Europeans love America! That’s why you’re trying to turn Europe into America after all, with internal open borders, a federal government, a unified currency, and the emergence of a monoculture founded on those three traits, which has only minor regional differences in culture.
Soon you’ll have your own New New York, with your very own Orange Man. It’ll be great.
@mitigatedchaos What do you know about Europeans? We have some sort of hate-love for you guys.
Look, mate.
Trump complaints from Euros just convince Trump’s base that Trump is on the right path, especially in the form of “brainless narcissist” etc.
It often goes hand-in-hand with an idea of Europeans as the more Cultured and Refined civilization - but the kinds of people that expressed those ideas in America are also the ones put their cultural and economic interests ahead of the Rust Belt voters that gave Trump the Presidency, and frequently insulted them (and celebrated their demographic replacement).
Trump’s base has a negative amount of trust for them.
So that makes the post a good opportunity to dunk on the European Union as a project by pointing out the irony involved.
The reason the US dollar functions well despite spanning a continent, while the Euro has contributed to the collapse in Greece, is a combination of US Federal government spending and higher labor mobility, which evens out the spread of dollars. The spending and issuing of currency are unified at the same level of government, allowing them to work together. (This can also kinda work with some separation if the economies are similar enough.)
That is not the case in the EU, where the currency issuing and government spending are separated, and the government performance levels are quite dissimilar.
To unify them, it would be necessary to shift even more power to the EU government (which is apparently happening). To make a true European Federation, not a mere European Union. That would make Europe much more similar to America in structure.
Secondly, it requires the increased labor mobility. Cultural uniqueness grows in environments with friction that allow drift from other cultures and cuts the rate of memetic transmission, and the increased overhead of communication, up to a certain level, makes business harder rather than easier. (Think language barriers as an example.)
So all those people moving around to where the money is will start to converge on a more unified culture as a means of doing business more easily (like having only one or two languages that they all share!), just like in the United States of America. Cultural traditions will spread more quickly and widely, meaning there will be fewer of them. Cultural preferences, too, will be more evenly distributed throughout the Continent.
Plus this whole thing about “increasing diversity” by importing large numbers of foreigners like America will also erode the local traditions as they do not share them. Instead, they’ll buy into the new broader Euroculture.
So Europeans are complaining about the American President while taking the steps required to make Europe much more like America - eventually France and Germany will be no more different from each other than New York state and Illinois.
Anyhow, only going halfway at it is actually even worse, as it causes things like the situation in Greece. Either be a true Federation or be independent nations.
And yes, I know not all European countries are in the EU, or have the same level of integration into the EU. After all, Britain kept the Pound (a decision I agree with).
I’m glad I don’t have a brainless racist narcist demented idiot for president. Oh and, when he got elected I already predicted this would lead to a new civil war.
Aren’t you in Europe?
Come now, you Europeans love America! That’s why you’re trying to turn Europe into America after all, with internal open borders, a federal government, a unified currency, and the emergence of a monoculture founded on those three traits, which has only minor regional differences in culture.
Soon you’ll have your own New New York, with your very own Orange Man. It’ll be great.
More work towards achieving Total Artist Unemployment.
Aloha Argumate-Senpai!: Discourse Beach inches closer to defictionalization.
But anyhow, note the limitations. I don’t think we’ll actually get Total Artist Unemployment, because these artificial NNs don’t do general reasoning, which limits their capabilities (apparently also true for self-driving cars).
However, I can imagine a future in which 10x as much manga-style stuff is created, and the media ecosystem is even more fragmented as micro-genres emerge. Attention resources are limited, though, so we’ll see.
Anyhow, someone needs to use this as the avatar generator for a comment system like SSC has. That would be hilarious.
More work towards achieving Total Artist Unemployment.
Aloha Argumate-Senpai!: Discourse Beach inches closer to defictionalization.
But anyhow, note the limitations. I don’t think we’ll actually get Total Artist Unemployment, because these artificial NNs don’t do general reasoning, which limits their capabilities (apparently also true for self-driving cars).
However, I can imagine a future in which 10x as much manga-style stuff is created, and the media ecosystem is even more fragmented as micro-genres emerge. Attention resources are limited, though, so we’ll see.
