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[liberalsarecool]

No skills or experience, just pure nepotism. White conservatives can not recognize their privilege.

[omgweatherunderground]

I was talking to a conservative chap who mentioned he was about to take a month off. And I was like, “What type of job allows you to take a month off?” And he’s like “oh, I work for my dad, he owns multiple 711′s”. He said this after unironically preaching about bootstrapping. 

[ranma-official]

we do 1 month per year in Russia (though not at once and we usually schedule them so the office doesn’t just close down for summer because everyone left), it’s good

[blackblocberniebros]

Tfw when Russians at least get paid vacation time and Americans don’t.

[ranma-official]

the USSR was generally bad, but month-long paid vacation, 35-hour work week and three month-long paid maternity are actually very good

[mitigatedchaos]

Honestly, the trick is actually get them to follow the maximum work week hours. That’s the real issue here for many workers. Either they lowball the hours to avoid paying benefits or they salary and then work extra hours. Anyhow I’m not sure 35 hours is best, but Americans don’t get enough vacation, and I’m concerned about the health effects.

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[elementarynationalism]

We advocate for viewpoints as diverse as mass third world immigration, communism and neoconservatism.

See! The goyim hate us no matter what we do!

[argumate]

gosh I wonder why some Jewish people might be in favour of free movement across national borders for people facing persecution

I wonder why that could be

just fuckin’ wondering here

[mitigatedchaos]

I think that is literally why EN thinks that happens, he just doesn’t agree any of the three items.

[Oceans Yet to Burn]

Male-dominated video games become spectator e-sports for predominantly male viewers because they sustain a different project than celebrating physical excellence. They don’t showcase a specific form of male-bodied performance so much as support a specific sort of male spectator: a straight middle-class boy full of resentment and patriarchal rage. This is and has been the sports fan par excellence.

http://reallifemag.com/jocks-without-borders/

hooo brother.

(via argumate)

why do they always write about white men like bad fantasy books talk about orcs? I mean, ‘full of patriarchal rage’?

(via 1nsomnizac)

now remember that most of these straight middle-class boys are Korean, even in the linked article, and scratch your head.

(via argumate)

no patriarchy like Korean patriarchy

(via argumate)

Koreans are the whitest boys of all.

(via mitigatedchaos)

[insert roof Koreans joke here]

(via raggedjackscarlet)

New Alt-Right faction:  The Seoul Boys - Militarized Korean shopkeepers will retake Europe for Christianity.    

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[argumate]

The interesting thing about the deceased wife’s sister debate and the more recent same sex marriage debate is that they dragged on for ages as people told horror stories about the collapse of civilization that would ensue if they were recognised, then after the law was changed people immediately lost interest and never mentioned it again.

Like, seriously? No follow up? No re-evaluation of the argument after the law has been in place for a few years and the sky remains unfallen? We all just scoot on to the next flamewar about trans bathrooms or whatever the fuck.

Prediction: when bathrooms are all unisex, everyone will immediately forget that this once used to be intensely controversial.

[mitigatedchaos]

Okay, but some practices are way more likely to cause complex damage than others, and unisex bathrooms are probably not one of the ones likely to cause (that much) complex damage.

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[nostalgebraist]

Buzzfeed is an entertainment website that collects an enormous amount of information about its users. Much of the data comes from traditional Internet tracking, but Buzzfeed also has a lot of fun quizzes, some of which ask very personal questions. One of them – “How Privileged Are You?” – asks about financial details, job stability, recreational activities, and mental health. Over two million people have taken that quiz, not realizing that Buzzfeed saves data from its quizzes.

I read this in Bruce Schneier’s “Data and Goliath” and thought “oh my god, ‘Buzzfeed sells mental health information from privilege quizzes to insurance companies’ would be the most horribly believable 2010s internet thing,” but the source he cited was merely an article (see also here, here) saying that Buzzfeed could conceivably do this (of course they can) but there is no evidence they actually are

Still a weird thing to think about

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[afloweroutofstone]

“Supporting Putin against imperialism is the best thing I can do for myself as an advocate of the working class” is one of the most nuclear hot takes in internet history and we owe Minisoc a lot of credit for making this website entertaining

[kontextmaschine]

horseshoe theory tho, this is what a lot of the alt-right actually believes

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[rtrixie]

I just saw a TV ad for a class action lawsuit against Volkswagen for their environment data fraud

What stage of capitalism is this

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[funereal-disease]

On the one hand, I am disappointed (but not necessarily surprised) that we’ve reached a point where expressing vitriol over an eleven-year-old unpublished first draft is, like, a fun weekend activity,

but on the other, nothing else has so elegantly illuminated that performative dragging is not actually about justice of any sort.

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[afloweroutofstone]

Remember when Republicans pretended they were fine with legal immigration

[mitigatedchaos]

If they don’t do something, then there is no future for the Republican party.

But don’t worry. In about ten years I’m going to be asking “remember when the democrats made fun of marrying your cousin instead of calling all objections racist?”

Maybe Dems shouldn’t brag about Demographic Destiny™ next time.

[afloweroutofstone]

“If they don’t do something, then there is no future for the Republican party”

We can hope!

[uberwarhol]

Hey, we can also hope on the effects of inbreeding

[mitigatedchaos]

So you’re saying you agree we should ban cousin marriage even though, at least in Britain, it’s most heavily practiced by ethnic minorities?

Because I agree.  Marrying your cousin is terrible, doing it for multiple generations is worse, not just with health risks, but also socially as support for extreme patriarchal norms.  It doesn’t magically become good just because isolated, low-income, lower class white residents of rural Appalachia do it.

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darkagenewsnetwork.wordpress.com

The future of religion and culture

I did a quick post elsewhere about my thoughts on the future of religion. It was suggested that I share it here and expand upon it. I’m not a theologian these are just some observat…

[the-imperial-autocrat]

A new article by @mulcahythebaronofurga.

“Christianity went through a process of modernization during the 20th century. As new norms replaced old ones. But churches are emptying because of the loss of authentic faith. 

The left will come to realize that Islam is not going to tow the line of homosexual acceptance nor will it promote feminist values. They’re valiant defenders of Islam now. But they won’t be if they become 30-40% of the religious population in the United States of America.”

“The soft populist-nationalism of Donald Trump is bulldozing through the neo-liberal headquarters. Illegal immigration is down. He’s pushing for merit-based immigration. He’s questioning affirmative action. He’s laying the foundation for a larger movement that is currently in it’s adolescence. 

Capitalism and mass immigration have destroyed traditional norms, faith, and proper birthrates. A rejection of modern capitalism would do plenty for societies around the world. In terms of reviving older cultural and political norms. I’m quite fond of distributism, capitalist protectionism, and a rightist variant of Kropotkinism as alternatives to the current system.” 

@awhiffofcavendish @artist-tyrant @the-orthodox-autocrat @higher-order

@dietmountainmadewka @gospel-panacea @rtrixie @theorthodoxknight

[rtrixie]

Hmm, interesting

[mitigatedchaos]

I have various disagreements, but the real biting one is this:

It fails to account for Transhumanism.  

For many years, opponents of Transhumanism have described it as techno-utopian fantasy that will never come to pass, and maybe the brain uploading part and the Singularity are, but they’ve been getting a lot quieter about the rest of it recently.

We have vat-grown organs in labs already.

We have nervous-system controlled robotic limbs.

We now have established, in a lab setting, some pretty serious genetic modification on human embryos, removing genes for a disease.

These aren’t science fiction.  Only their economic viability is - for now.

Recently mouse lifespans were increased by 10-15% with stem cells in the brain, and studies on blood health with mice have also been promising (inspiring all those jokes about Vampire Peter Thiel).

There is a point where lifespan begins to increase more quickly and healthcare costs start to come back down again, where screening out genetic diseases and selecting for higher performance first hits the wealthy and then everyone else.  This starts to undermine the effects of lowered fertility on more left-wing social configurations.

It undermines race, it undermines social darwinism, it undermines demand for religion.

You can ban it in Europe, you can ban it in America, but if you do, then the research will merely continue in Asia.

You might get a shift rightwards socially, but I don’t think it will look like what you expect.  It will probably be in the form of a more holistic view of society where it is acknowledged that we can only afford to be kind if we’re careful not to increase the situations that required us to be kind in the first place.  All the bitching about gays is a sideshow.