I miss the days when I had a lot of leftist followers who would send my own posts to me through the tumblr messaging system and demand I explain it to them
Just be me and be politically inscrutable to all of your readers at once, without explanation.
…how difficult is it to become a Girl Scouts troop leader? Just wondering.
Like… fuck it. I’m good with kids, I’m decent at teaching, I’m WFR trained, I know how to camp and organize activities…. sure, I might not be the sort of person most parents would allow their impressionable young children around, but Girl Scouts as an organization is famously accepting, so maybe I could form a troop that Actually Does Things someday.
just don’t say things like “I demand minions” and you’ll be fine
You don’t say things like that. You get henchmen through a combination of admiration of your enormous ambition and force of will, exploitable personal flaws among your henchmen, and money. Begging for henches is just bottom tier, the incel of supervillainy.
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But if you aren’t attractive enough, then people won’t want to approach you.
Ah, the horseshoe theory of attractiveness.
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You didn’t receive approval from your department manager.
Go put that back in the produce section where you found it.
Why did the early 2000s neocons think we could export liberal democracy to the Middle East? We can’t even export liberal democracy to the United States.
Once you drink too much of certain variants of Liberalism, you start assuming that Liberal Democracy is the natural condition of mankind and once the restraints are removed, it will naturally emerge and take root, along with economic development.
I mean, it‘s probably doable, but step 1 is to enforce a ban on cousin marriage for 1000 years.
Ah, but you see, Neocons are ideologically prohibited from acknowledging this, because hey, what is a foreign culture but food and clothing waiting to be sold in the United States?
You could do it in far fewer generations, but you’d have to install a 20-year military governorship, still ban cousin marriages out to the third degree, enforce village exogamy, and seize total control of the educational system to wipe out non-trivial parts of the culture and replace them with ideology necessary to support Liberal Democracy.
That’s a pretty big ideological price, and it would require a long troop presence to enforce.
It’s hardly impossible. Afghanistan was liberalizing at one point. But if you’re too hooked on the ideology that democracy flowers in all soils, it isn’t possible for you to carry it out.
That actually kinda sounds like “the last few hundred years of Japanese history, but faster”.
I mean, if you believe Clark, it sounds like the last thousand years of Western European history, only faster.
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I’ve vaguely heard murmurings about a secular decline in testosterone levels, but imagined it was overhyped or at worst just a result of the obesity epidemic. @lambdaphagy and I had a chance to just scratch the surface of the literature, though, and it’s frankly alarming.
Total T dropped about 20%, bioavailable T dropped 50%, over 20 years from 1987-2004. The Finns aren’t exempt either. Cohorts were matched for BMI, and even if they weren’t, the effect size of obesity is off by almost an order of magnitude. Doubling BMI causes T to fall by less than half, and, mirabile dictu, American BMI has not doubled (yet, give it time.) Average BMI went from 25 in 1960 to 28 in 2000.
The speed of that T drop is just jaw-dropping. Obesity doesn’t help, but doesn’t explain this level of cratering. So: phytoestrogens, xenoestrogens, micropharmaceuticals in the water, behavioral effects? More work is required, but hit me up if you have any good intel.
Cold Take: Crime declined because we removed lead from the gasoline, lowering the amount of lead-induced brain damage.
Lukewarm Take: Crime declined because we allowed abortion, removing some of the worst-off potential people from being born and raised in substandard conditions.
Hot Take: Crime declined because we put drugs in the water supply and we’re all transgender autistics/neurodivergents now, even the women. (Especially the women.)
collapsedsquid said: need an owl pic with a black mask
nationalism must reach its logical conclusion: one person == one nation!
Oh sht, it’s Anarcho-Sovereigntism!
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uggggh why can’t you just settle for a metaphorical dark god like the neoreactionaries do
