I will admit, when I realized that each generation must raise the next, and I mean really realized it, not just in passing, I became more right-wing.
Anonymous asked:
Well, see, here’s the thing. White people (broadly) have been largely not-marrying-their-cousins for a while now, and they live in societies in which cousin marriage is fairly taboo. So when white people marry their cousin, it typically is a one generation thing, preventing a whole bunch of snowballing consequences.
I’m sure it seems otherwise on this blog, but I actually don’t have a strong disgust reaction towards cousin marriage. And if we continued to see rates around 1%, I wouldn’t really care.
But some populations have cousin-married at much higher rates, for much longer times. So one generation of cousin marriage for them isn’t the same as one generation of cousin marriage for other people.
It isn’t “too late.” Humans are resilient. We just have to have them stop doing it now.
Since we don’t have the full lineages of everyone, and I don’t want to go by other categories, I’d rather just throw the (very tiny) baby out with the bathwater and ban it for everyone.
Also, a big chunk of the tight family control aspect is cultural transmission. So now I’ll have to actually make that post about cultural transmission (generally) at some point, seeing as some things like FGM are cultural so cultural transmission isn’t all nice things like ethnic foods.
I’ll put the people happy about the PewDiePie copyright strike on blast: This is terrible precedent, and you should know it.
Forget for a moment the issue of “giant corporations like Google deciding who can speak and how”. Let’s table that.
This is JUST about the copyright strike. We also will leave aside PewDiePie’s racist incidents. Why? Because the copyright strike does not depend on them. It is independent of anything PewDiePie did, EXCEPT for post videos of himself playing the game.
The precedent from this strike is thus: Any dev can, at any time, copyright strike any Let’s Player who’s ever played their game for an audience. The real moral here, if one supports the strike, is: Let’s Plays are illegitimate. (Streaming too, even if Twitch might not have the same type of copyright-policing apparatus… Yet.)
If this precedent were actually enforced, you can say goodbye to your Game Grumps, to all your favorite personalities on Twitch, etc. But it won’t be enforced, not in a real and consistent way.
It will be a different kind of bad. This issue is now bigger than just “megacorps like Google can shut you down on the biggest platforms”. No. This is even more insidious: As long as three fuckers with an axe to grind are willing to strike you, then you’re gone. Even if we think that Google should be the arbiter and decide who can speak (and I don’t), placing this control in so many hands is even worse. Imagine an internet where on any given platform, there were hundreds of people who could destroy you if they felt like it, and they all had different ideologies and preferences and things that offended them. Navigating that maze would be nigh-impossible. (And yes I realize I’ve just described social media, and why it’s hellish.)
“Ok, but that only applies to Let’s Players and streamers; this is overblown.”
Yes, this only applies to people who use bits of copyrighted works in their content… Even if it were ONLY the destruction of people who play games for an audience, I would mourn it. But imagine all the reviewers, all the people Seriously Talking About Games. This precedent could easily stretch to them. (Or to people criticizing movies, TV etc.) And in fact we know that Content ID is already used to chill media criticism. We should not cheer the empowerment of these tools.
If you say “this strike is fine because PewDiePie is a racist”, then you’re fucking unprincipled. Say “this strike is fine because Let’s Players are illegitimate and should be shut down at the will of game devs, or better yet altogether”.
I hope no one ever streams Campo Santo’s games again.
finally, no more video games!
Beings of undefined race and sex, posting in strange blogs, handing out memes, is no basis for a system of government.
Ender’s Game call-out post?
In the modern Irony Economy, if you don’t engage in at least one multi-layered self-deprecating post each day, you risk losing your blogging license.
How many layers of irony must one be on?
Every post on this blog is serious, except for the ones that aren’t.
As long as I’m picking fights:
“Actually, attacking LGBTs is one of the single dumbest things SoCons have done, because LGBTs do not actually undermine the nation just by being LGBT. In fact, gay marriage is good because stable family units are good, and we can incentivize the creation of stable queer families with similar methods to straight families.
“(Polygamy, as practiced by people that aren’t autistic-spectrum rationalists, is still bad though.) …
“It isn’t enough that I not marry my cousins and engage in polygamy. For my home to not be terrible, I must stop others from doing so as well. And if they want to make a place where those are the norms, then let them, and not me, suffer the consequences of that. I don’t need dumb social policies banned everywhere, only in the places I live in/am responsible for.”
I can’t bring myself to care about “stable family units.” I just can’t. The only reason I give a crap one way or another about gay marriage is that I know some gay people who want to be married, and I like those gay people and want them to be happy.
I’m not sure if there’s meant to be a distinction between “polygamy” and polyamory in this post, but I know some polyamorous people. I like those people, and I want them to be happy, and that apparently means making polyamory into a thing that is considered acceptable.
Maybe “polygamists” as a class will make your home terrible. But I’ve never met “polygamists” as a class, just as I’ve never met “gay people” as a class. I’ve met individual people, and some of the individual people I have met don’t seem like they make society worse just by being present. Sure, I’ve also met polyamorous people who were assholes, but I think they’d be better covered by a rule against being assholes than a rule against being polyamorous.
To be clear, this is not to say that I don’t like you or don’t want you to be happy. I just feel like if you met some of the polyamorous people I’ve met, you’d have more in common with them than you seem to think.
I can’t bring myself to care about “stable family units.” I just can’t. The only reason I give a crap one way or another about gay marriage is that I know some gay people who want to be married, and I like those gay people and want them to be happy.
Are we immortal yet? No? Then it matters. A lot. Because each generation needs to create and raise the next generation.
The last time I checked, broken families are not good for people, statistically.
You can choose to be single or unattached until you die. It just doesn’t work as a way to structure mortal human societies, unless you are willing to do things that are, hmn… drastic.
I’m not sure if there’s meant to be a distinction between “polygamy” and polyamory in this post, but I know some polyamorous people. I like those people, and I want them to be happy, and that apparently means making polyamory into a thing that is considered acceptable.
Polygamy is bad along multiple axes.
Polyamory, it hasn’t been proven.
Maybe “polygamists” as a class will make your home terrible. But I’ve never met “polygamists” as a class, just as I’ve never met “gay people” as a class. I’ve met individual people, and some of the individual people I have met don’t seem like they make society worse just by being present. Sure, I’ve also met polyamorous people who were assholes, but I think they’d be better covered by a rule against being assholes than a rule against being polyamorous.
1. Polygamy is, generally, really polygyny, and married polygyny is bad for women, it’s bad for children, and it’s bad for men.
2. No one actually has to be trying to be an asshole, so long as most people are straight and men marry multiple wives more than women marry multiple husbands.
3. Not everyone is bisexual.
Alright? So what are we supposed to do with all the “extra” men?
To be clear, this is not to say that I don’t like you or don’t want you to be happy. I just feel like if you met some of the polyamorous people I’ve met, you’d have more in common with them than you seem to think.
This isn’t about whether individual polyamorous people are mean. It’s about the overall effect on society when polygamy is widely practiced, and “the overall effects on society when polygamy is widely practiced” are backwards anti-feminist-as-in-gender-equality societies when it’s a subset (even in developed countries), or the Middle East when it’s most of society.
When weird autistic (lovable!) internet nerds do it, it stays below the threshold necessary to fuck everything up, unless they’re foolish enough to start normalizing it and spreading it among normal people.
hell planet
Kill her
You kind of have to admire that level of pettiness and dedication, actually.
Yeah, no, this is impressive.
A boot stomping on a face to cheers of “YAASSS QUEEN, SLAY!” forever.
a queen’s boot slaying a human face forever
Seriously, people I respect, stop this. I read this post and immediately identified it as fraud. A beloved children’s author (whose brand is compassion) bragging publicly about buying out a troll’s house and mocking him for eviction? Do you honestly think JKR is so evil as to do that, and our public culture is so vindictive as to celebrate it? This rang true to you?
So hey, I googled. http://www.snopes.com/jk-rowling-house-troll/
TGT, you keep posting news items that 15 seconds of Google searching show to be hoaxes. Be less cynical about the world.
I already posted a correction, but this Blue Website is as it is. Though my cynicism that they’d cheer it on was correct, it was the cynicism about JKR that was not.
Beings of undefined race and sex, posting in strange blogs, handing out memes, is no basis for a system of government.
Ender’s Game call-out post?
In the modern Irony Economy, if you don’t engage in at least one multi-layered self-deprecating post each day, you risk losing your blogging license.
Also at some point around 2014 the old philosophical neoreactionaries had an internal dustup and either disappeared or unmasked themselves as horrible fascists.
Oh, is that what’s going on?
People keeping asking if I’m someone else. Maybe they think I’m some former True Neoreactionary that became disillusioned, deconverted, and sought out a new path from the shadows.
Beings of undefined race and sex, posting in strange blogs, handing out memes, is no basis for a system of government.
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