Households stay intact when there are social and governmental incentives to do so. A traditional religion is one way of implementing these social incentives but is not the only way. East Asian cultures accomplish it through traditional value systems that are mostly orthogonal to moralizing Gods.* While they do worse than the West as far as low fertility, they do better at preventing out-of-wedlock births.

In a world where everyone except a few high-g oddballs was religious and a political or social movement that was secular was dead on arrival, it might make sense for an atheist to pick the least bad religion and jump on its bandwagon. But that’s not our world. Trying to convince the proles to attend church seems to be pointless as it will inevitably fail. If those preachers can’t do it, why would I, a nonbeliever, be able to do so? And you have to get them to attend church, the group with the highest rates of social dysfunction are not the non-religious but those who identify as Christian and never attend church.

And anyway, I agree with only some of the moral values preached by the religionists. The emphasis on upholding marital commitments is admirable. What’s not is the mindless pro-natalism. They call it the “culture of life,” I call it the culture of dysgenics. Stupid people who will be bad parents and don’t want to have kids should be encouraged to not have any.

*”Confucianism” is often misclassified as a religion. It is only a religion if you define ethical systems as “religions” in which case most of the vocal atheists would be “religious” and the word loses all meaning.

Cops pulling people over have traditionally faced the possibility of getting shot. Now, they face the possibility of getting shot and the possibility of becoming the next target of the Twitter mob. Not surprisingly they’ve decided to pull over fewer people and people are freer to drive recklessly. Not every problem in the world is due to nonbelief in your God.

The best arguments religionists have are of the form “you atheists aren’t any better than us, you obsess over stuff you’ve never seen too!” Here’s a bright idea, make an argument for why religion is better than atheism. Why it’s more rational.

The unspoken reality is that politicians on both sides don’t want to let go of the restraining influence of the others. Democrat politicians don’t want to actually do “climate action” and deal with the resulting 6\$ a gallon gas and Republican politicians don’t want to ban abortion and cause a baby boom among welfare mothers. The union allows them to virtue signal and then blame the other side for the signaling not being turned into action.

Suppose you had a time machine and could bring some 18-year-old guys from 1880 to the modern-day. I’d expect that they’d be much closer to the incel than the Chad end of the male attractiveness spectrum. They wouldn’t understand modern fashion and they’d be shy because in their world men who went around flirting with random women got beaten up.

Do you think there is anybody left at the State Department who would be allowed to write up a George Kennan-like Long Telegram explaining that much of America’s foreign policy problems are due to apprehensions in Beijing, Moscow, New Delhi, Ankara, Budapest, and the like that the American deep state is, in effect, promoting unhappiness and sterility among adolescent girls, and that those perceptions are largely true, as the author’s imminent cancellation will demonstrate?

Even more unthinkable would be the worry their sons will be sexually frustrated incels.

On the other hand, the Establishment encouraging gender confusion in teenage girls is likely to lower their total fertility rate as it will take them longer to get straightened out and realize, uncool as it sounds, what they really wants is a husband and kids.

Alternatively, they realize their Tinder hookup or imagined bisexual girlfriend isn’t going to cosign on a mortgage, so those not-very-cool guys deserve a second look after all.

The entirety of the West has not only endorsed feminism and homosexuality, but has vehemently enforced it. People get stuck in the mud moralizing these behaviors instead of rationally processing them. When a person is able to escape their feelings and analyze homosexuality and feminism critically, from an evolutionary perspective, they are able to see these behaviors for what they really are: a crypto-eugenics psy-op.

When one analyzes them critically, he realizes they accomplish the opposite of “eugenics.” You can only think they’re “crypto-eugenic” if you don’t know the meaning of the word “eugenics” and use it as a shorthand for “anything I don’t like.”

Steve’s not very eager to tell the anti-vaxxer contingent that they’re a bunch of morons.

As to the mask thing, it’s evolved over time. At first, not wearing a mask marked you out as someone who refused on “principle” to make even the smallest sacrifice for others. But eventually it came to mean “this person has no money,” as only students and people in service jobs were asked to mask up.

When she joked about one day wearing a high-necked wedding dress, he looked at her low-cut neckline and said, “That would be out of character for you,” she said.

His treatment was “objectifying and boundary crossing,” she said.

Ms. Czerwienski said the stress associated with the case made it almost impossible for her to complete her dissertation. The other plaintiffs, too, said that doors had been closed to them because of their outspokenness.

Sure is a mystery why people wouldn’t want to work with them.

Of those 40% of marriages that are ending in divorce, how many of those were normal, heterosexual couples who had kids?

Sorry, no, raising children is not “the one thing that keeps many marriages going through the rough or dull patches”. If it were, the divorce rate would be substantially lower than 40%.

There are ample data out there, if you care to look, that lesbian couples (including, presumably, lesbian couples with children) have higher divorce rates than heterosexual couples, who in turn have slightly higher divorce rates than (frequently childless) gay male couples.

We were just talking on here a couple months ago about how, in heterosexual couples, 70% of divorces are initiated by the wives. The lack of raising a child together isn’t what causes most marriages to collapse; women deciding that they’re done with the marriage is what causes most marriages to collapse.

Scott Alexander had a review: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/movie-review-dont-look-up

If Steve was in the movie, he’d make one or two posts saying the comet was real, then would say nothing more to avoid angering his donors.

It fails as an allegory for climate change because the comet is actually a falsifiable prediction. Whereas climate change disaster predictions are more religious-type unfalsafiables e.g. “some bad thing will happen somewhere some time.”

The ultra-vaxxers of Oz have a repressed inner self hatred via their vaxxx doubts. (was I suckered into getting vaxxxed?) So they lash out at Novak. They lay their inner shit on Novak. Misery wants company.

Is this hypothesis falsifiable? It seems to me that the booster should provide a test case, if people really do regret getting the vaccine, they won’t get the booster. Reminds me of the old belief among gays that all those straight guys were secretly gay and jealous of them and any day now were gonna divorce their wives and move to San Francisco.

Have you stopped washing your hands, brushing your teeth, wearing your seatbelt, and doing all manner of things that don’t stop 100% of the problem? #RickAndMortyTierIQ

Do you have an arguent rooted in actual data or is it just “I feel culturally closer to some anti-vax sportsball commentator than to those scientists?”

diminishing returns

Still worth getting.

Tennis is too high-class for people to riot over.

The vaccines do prevent the spread of COVID, though.

A Jew has Jewish friends, what a shocker!

And perhaps you are the one who feels bad that people don’t offer you teenage prostitutes at parties. I and most normal people certainly don’t.

I think most don’t actively desire it in the immediate sense. They’re loyal to their wives or just don’t have the energy for it. But I think there is a sense of “some men got to do this and I didn’t.” Back when I was in college there were certain parties some men were invited to and others weren’t. The men who weren’t were jealous to varying degrees of the men who were, some of the men who were went out of their way to induce that jealousy and mock the men who weren’t. You know what I’m referring to? Yes? No? Sort of?

I wonder how much of the Mossad/blackmail theorizing is motivated by feelgood bias and the just world fallacy. Virginia Giuffre Roberts never said anything about the Mossad, I’d bet she couldn’t even pronounce “Mossad.” What she said was that she and other girls were brought around and offered as gifts to Epstein’s friends. Just like you offer your friends free beer at the parties you throw, he provides them with a 500\$ prostitute, no charge, he’s rich enough that that’s a trivial expense for him. Now, I don’t believe Roberts’ story, but if you do where does it leave you? You’re faced with the inequalities of money and sex in society, nobody’s offering you free 17-year-olds at the parties you attend. That makes you feel bad. But you convince yourself there was a camera in the room, that changes things. Epstein’s rich friends, they got their comeuppance in the end when the Mossad came and blackmailed them. That’s a good feeling, there’s justice in the world…

Too bad, was looking forward to gloating after an acquittal. I guess I can only repeat my line about woke men I know IRL who say “#BelieveWomen, except for my ex-girlfriend, anything she says about me is a dirty rotten lie!”

It gets to the question of Blackstone’s ratio, “better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.” I bet a lot of people unthinkingly profess it because they know it’s the “correct” answer, without thinking through why it’s correct. When they’re on a jury facing a guy they are 90% sure is guilty of murder, they’re going to reexamine that belief. “If I have a group of eleven men, ten of whom are murderers and one of whom is innocent, and my only choices are letting them all go and keeping them all locked up, what do I do?” The juror might decide to round that 10% doubt down to 0%. That juror might be able to look the innocent man in the face and say “this crime is so heinous, so horrible, that it’s worth depriving you of liberty to prevent people from getting murdered.” The juror has to ask the same question in these underage prostitution cases where they think there’s a 90% chance the accused is guilty. Can I look the one innocent Ghislaine Maxwell in the face and say, “it’s worth depriving you of your liberty to prevent 14-year-old girls from being offered the chance to trade money for sex?” It sounds horrible, I know many would rather just think inhabit a fairy-tale world where there’s never any doubt about who are the good guys and who are the bad guys. But if you’re on a jury you may have to face the messy dilemmas of reality.

I hope the decision gets reversed on appeal.

One can always respond that the difference need not be large and that the winner may be Papua New Guinea.

The funny thing is you’re essentially admitting that atheists are challenged to explain patterns of reasoning and evidence that falsify their theories, while the religious can just explain away anything with “muh God did it.” One’s showing up to the batting cage and having some trouble, the other’s lazily declared that God already gave them a spiritual home run.

This might have something to do with all the sex-selective abortion that was happening in Korea around 1995.

I don’t think many of us are “defending” Epstein. It’s just that some of us realize it won’t end with him. Their goal is a world where anytime a woman decides she’s got a grudge against you, she can yell “RAAAAPPPEEE” and you’ll get kicked out of college, fired from your job, thrown in prison. You better make sure none of your exes are angry with you, Enlightened Man.

As for the denunciations of the girls, this is a question of whether the state should send someone to prison. That’s why people are asking if they are credible witnesses, it’s not out of a malevolent desire to be mean to them. Here’s a question to feminists and QFags, suppose you got to know these accusers. Would you let them borrow your car? Babysit your child?

The Maxwell case has been underwhelming, and the media is already preparing their audience for an acquittal:

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/12/the-prosecution-is-fumbling-its-case-against-ghislaine-maxwell

You saw similar articles on the Rittenhouse case, once the media was confronted with the disconnect between what they had reported as fact and the evidence that is being presented in court.

The accusations against Prince Andrew were known about for many years and had no effect on him. That only changed when the media decided they wanted to cancel Alexander Acosta, Trump’s secretary of Labor, in 2019.

From Reuters:

NEW YORK, Dec 8 (Reuters) – A man testified at Ghislaine Maxwell’s criminal sex abuse trial on Wednesday that he drove teen girls to the Florida mansion of the late financier Jeffrey Epstein and saw them leave with hundred dollar bills.

The man, who identified himself as Shawn, testified that he had begun dating a woman named Carolyn in Florida when he was 17 and she was 14….

Shawn, now 38, recalled traveling to Epstein’s house with Carolyn for the first time with a girl named Virginia Roberts and Roberts’ boyfriend after Roberts told Carolyn the pair could make money by giving “a guy a massage.”

“She was excited to make money,” said Shawn, who has not been accused of wrongdoing in the case.

He added that he and Roberts’ boyfriend saw Roberts and Carolyn go into Epstein’s home, waited for them for more than an hour, and saw them leave the home with hundred dollar bills….

Shawn’s account of that first trip largely matched up with Carolyn’s version. After that first trip, Shawn said he drove Carolyn to Epstein’s home every two weeks, and that Carolyn would leave with hundred dollar bills. They would use the cash to buy drugs, Shawn said, echoing his former girlfriend’s statement on the stand on Tuesday…

He said he sometimes received calls from Epstein employees seeking to schedule a massage appointment for Epstein with Carolyn, including from someone with an English accent who did not give their name.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ghislaine-maxwells-trial-enters-eighth-day-testimony-fourth-victim-expected-soon-2021-12-08/

“Girlfriend,” LOL. Imagine being the person who thinks the whole political system ought to be up-ended because of something that comes out of these characters’ mouths.

They remind me of the martyrs of another political movement that rose in profile during the summer of 2020. The activists aren’t that dumb, if they had better martyrs, they’d be using them.

Maybe they didn’t know he was gay when they pulled a random celebrity name out of their a**. At this point I’m surprised nobody’s accused Stephen Hawking.

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The QAnon believer is immune to all dangers. One may call him a liar, idiot, nazi, violent extremist, it all runs off of him like water off a raincoat. But call him a white knight and you will be astonished at how he recoils, how injured he is, how he suddenly shrinks back: ‘I’ve been found out.’

The QAnonner is immune to all dangers. One may call him a liar, idiot, nazi, violent extremist, it all runs off of him like water off a raincoat. But call him a white knight and you will be astonished at how he recoils, how injured he is, how he suddenly shrinks back: ‘I’ve been found out.’

This is like the communist historians who tried to conceptualize every ancient war through the lens of “class struggle.” Nobody in the trial, either on the prosecution side or the defense side, is saying anything about blackmail, anything about Israel. It’s just another intra-elite #MeToo purge where the feminists are happy to get the support of useful idiots on the Retard Right.

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail, but there’s no conspiracy necessary. Israel gets the support it does because of legal, public campaign contributions from rich supporters.

At least it wasn’t \$14.88

Ann Coulter read the multi-trillion-dollar BBB bill so you (and congressional Republicans) don’t have to.

https://www.takimag.com/article/i-read-bidens-build-back-better-plan-and-oh-my-god/

Speaking of lazy Americans: people here were wondering recently how it is that so many members of the underclass are suddenly flush with cash.

The economist was hilariously prescient about this couple:

Branding experts purr that Harry and Meghan have an interest in preserving the integrity of their brand. But the logic of 21st-century capitalism is against a peaceful settlement. They will need more than Prince Harry’s inheritance, which is estimated at £20m-30m, to keep up with the global super-rich. Ensuring that their brand remains hot and providing their “distribution channels” with “content” will require them to extract more and more value from the monarchy—perhaps including revelations about racism and sexism at the heart of the royal family. The daylight that Walter Bagehot said should not be let in upon the magic of monarchy is as nothing to the glare of 21st-century capitalism.

https://www.economist.com/britain/2020/01/16/harry-meghan-and-marx

I’d say the problem is more with “marrying a divorcee” than “capitalism” but okay.

“Why is it that when an 88 year old dies before getting the shot, it’s proof that five year olds have to get in line and roll up their sleeves at CVS, but it’s just a normal occurrence after they’ve participated in the experimental drug trial?”

Because it’s based on a statistical comparison rather than anecdote.

Woah, a 99-year-old man dies. That never would have happened if not for the vaccine. #RickAndMortyTierIQ

“purge of the Clinton Machine”

Those epicycles keep on multiplying. A simpler model is that there are a number of people out there, particularly women, who are closer to the Republicans than the Democrats in terms of policies but refuse to support Trump because of his low-class behavior.

I remember an article I can’t find about black drug gangs in L.A. The guy who wrote it, some kind of criminologist or sociologist or something, was puzzling over the fact that these gang members didn’t seem to be making much money. Less than McDonald’s, he said. He quoted one gang member saying something along the lines of “the gang members get the girls even if the McDonald’s workers are making more money.” But he considered this statement so obviously contradictory to Revealed Truth that he didn’t pursue the idea further.

It’s always funny when there are these articles about antivax sentiments among some non-white group, and the contingent of white anti-vaxxers starts to squawk “it’s not faaaaaiiiiiir that these non-whites get to behave in an anti-social, illogical manner and be hand-held while the media just calls us stupid.”

Wait, the transgenders are enjoying themselves? This is the first I’m hearing about it.

From the subject matter, I’d bet the audience is going to be primarily male. They chose a female pseudonym for two reasons:

1. Better chance at winning prizes.
2. Appeal to men who like gory novels but want to feel smug and superior to “the rubes” they associate with the genre.

“Cases peaked, then rapidly declined.”

Yes, whether it was the booster shots, or the fact that the delta variant fizzles out quickly, if the experience of India and the UK is any guide, or else some combination of both those factors, Isreal is doing pretty well about now, and looking to do even better in the weeks ahead, and even though the infection rates got high, the death rate was lower than in the past . About 40% of the COVID deaths there a while ago were coming from the unvaccinated, even though they’re a small minority in Israel, so that tells you something.

In other words, if this is supposed to be some argument against vaccination, whoever is trying to spin it that way needs to rethink it. Or, as you say, at least update it.

Maybe it’s a simple story of “some people like being slapped around.” Sure, some would draw a bright red line between “domestic violence” and “consensual S&M” where you have a “contract” and everything. But acting out the inclination through the latter method is a phenomenon specific to WEIRD society, maybe 30% of NWEuro derived peoples, less of others. Proles just don’t operate that way.

Sorry if I associated the 85-IQ post-2020 anti-vaxxers with the 80-IQ pre-2020 variety.

Certainly your comment section is contributing to the spread of this anti-vaxxer idiocy, Steve.

But you spoke against it a couple times back in January, it would be unreasonable to ask for more.

Prince “Tampon” Charles and his Paedo Brother,

He failed to use the hoverhand.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hover-hand

I’m sure that’s where the gays will feel safest, right next to migrants.

As is common in these kinds of articles, the woman implies that both partners want to get divorced and that the stumbling block to doing so is “what’s best for the kids.” But she never says it explicitly and if you read between the lines it’s consistent with her being the only one who wanted it:

Sometimes during the final months of my marriage, I wavered. Maybe if I quit my long-distance job and found a position closer to home even if I did not particularly care for it, we could hold on. Perhaps I could work part time, join the P.T.A. at my son’s school and start cooking dinner. I fervently wanted to save my marriage and give my children an intact family. And I had been taught that divorce was a terrible thing, to be avoided at all costs.

There’s the usual false choice between getting divorced and having loud screaming matches:

Long frosty silences, screaming matches and unrelenting tension between parents can inflict damage to the well-being of their children.

Plus, there’s the notion that the author grew up in a cultural environment intolerant of divorce, is now among a small minority of people who disagree, and only came around to the idea shortly before the marriage ended:

I used to believe that divorce is a terrible thing, particularly when children are involved. Growing up, I absorbed cultural tropes about absent fathers in efficiency apartments, mothers struggling to support themselves, and awful stepparents and unwanted stepsiblings. To this day, divorce is portrayed as precarious and grim. Parents whose marriages break apart are made to feel they have failed catastrophically. Divorce is shameful, traumatic and Bad For The Kids.

Partly BS, but here’s the truthful part of it: I’m reasonably certain she was saying these things on her way to the altar. There have been a few honorable exceptions, people who get married and modify the vows to reflect the new “until I’m not happy anymore” zeitgeist. But in general they know men won’t marry women with that kind of attitude. So the former student radical “changes her mind” around age 29, and then “changes” it again five years later. What they want is not to be “left alone” by society, it’s to be wolves in sheep’s clothing without being called out on it.

I’ve eventually come to the view that at least people who remarry after a divorce still believe in the institution of marriage. That’s probably better than the alternative.

Someone who divorces their partner without cause (as opposed to being the victim) and remarries does not “believe in the institution of marriage.” They believe in romantic relationships, maybe in having children, but certainly not in marriage.

“I used to believe that divorce is a terrible thing, particularly when children are involved. Growing up, I absorbed cultural tropes about absent fathers in efficiency apartments, mothers struggling to support themselves, and awful stepparents and unwanted stepsiblings. To this day, divorce is portrayed as precarious and grim. Parents whose marriages break apart are made to feel they have failed catastrophically.”

This female is utterly full of crap. Growing up, she absorbed a divorce ideology, courtesy of people like her criminal family, whereby it hurts kids more to grow up in an unhappy marriage, rather than endure a broken family.

“Divorce Can Be an Act of Radical Self-Love”

That’s funny, up until now I thought it was an act motivated by altruism…

Recently I asked my daughter, now 10, how she felt. She told me: “Some of my friends spend more time with their parents, but I have to give you a lot of credit because those kids are in two-parent families. Our criminal justice system is horrible and messed up, and you are trying to help it get fixed.”

Cause that’s totally how 10-year-old girls talk…

Am I the only one who just wants to play hopscotch and bake cookies and watch the McLaughlin group? – Lisa Simpson

Strikingly, Force-wielding talents are narratively explained in Star Wars not merely in spiritual terms but also in ableist and eugenic ones: These supernatural powers are naturalized as biological, hereditary attributes.

What’s with this new trend of describing as “eugenics” any belief in heredity? Eugenics is about doing something about it. In this way the Jedi, by not allowing their members to marry, are dysgenic, not eugenic.

By making this arguing you are basically conceding to the Left’s premise that the childless materialistic lifestyle is so objectively superior that the only thing that can turn people away from it is a phony baloney God telling them they have to suffer through having children. I don’t buy that.

Notice too the differing levels of responsibility here. The Soviets had a pronatalist policy that failed to convince Russians to have children, that reflects poorly on the Soviet ideology. Christian clergymen are failing to convince Westerners to remain Christian, that reflects poorly on those Western individuals and nations who “abandon” Christianity. The Christians have tried their hardest to convince people they need to have X to have Y and are failing to preserve either.

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/7eaa9d6b-6920-4b07-9737-f4529138e826

Focusing on advancing an ethnic group rather than a God makes sense because ethnic groups exist and Gods don’t.

I’d tell a different story: of humans gradually coming to realize that these Gods don’t exist and this occurring at different rates depending on national IQ. In some places like Estonia and Japan the process is nearly complete. Among the Jews outside Israel, it’s quite advanced. In the White West, it’s at 25%-50%. In India and the Arab world, with national IQs measuring around 85, it’s still stuck in the coffee salon stage at ~5%.

The blue tribe has always thought of mother as a job that should be done, if at all, by unskilled workers and immigrants. Still, the effect of legal abortion is eugenic even if much of its support is driven by a pro-dysgenic ideology.

It’s all the more ironic when you realize that “reproductive rights” are, in practice, nothing more than a privilege reserved to women (or “uterus-bearing persons,” or whatever) alone. If, in fact, the law treated the decision whether or not to have children as central to people’s well-being and dignity, it wouldn’t enthusiastically hunt down unwilling men and force them into nonconsensual parental relationships for 18 years. This is one area where “equality” and gender neutrality isn’t coming any time soon, and certainly not with any support from the ACLU.

Jews are not white. That is the entirety of the Unz Review comment section. The rest is commentary. Go now and learn it.

Re Leon Black, the case is a woman who alleges she was “forced” into a “years-long sexual relationship.” To back up her claims, she’s found an anonymous woman who “went to Epstein’s “massage room” where Black gave the woman \$300 for a massage, but then raped her, the court filing alleges, adding that she was in “such agony that she could barely speak or breathe.”

The long-term goal here is to allow any woman who’s upset with an ex to suddenly decide the whole relationship was “nonconsensual” all along. You don’t need to go to bat for Leon Black, he has the dream team of lawyers and doesn’t need your help. But they’re coming for you too. See this recent case:

https://reason.com/2021/09/15/james-madison-university-alyssa-reid-title-ix-nonconsensual/

Don’t feel safe in the private sector either. The wokers are working to export it there too.

I really doubt Milley is woke. He just saw the incentive structure. Side with Red and Blue will cut your funding, side with Blue and Red won’t cut your funding, they’ll just whine on Twitter. Until the GOP grows some balls, this will continue.

Trump waited until the end of his administration to do anything. As usual, it was blocked by the courts:

https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/fierce-pharma-politics-judge-blocks-trump-s-most-favored-nations-drug-pricing-rule

And as usual, Trump promptly forgot about the effort and is back to whining about how he supposedly won the election.

The question of why the Dutch are so tall remains unclear. …

Not so hard to understand:

I’m no fan of senile Joe.

Of course, they also could be so stupid as to think this won’t bring about violent resistance.

It’ll happen any day now, I’m sure.

My interpretation of this post is that Steve had an unexpected financial expense and wants donations from his antivaxxer readers. There’s no logic to it.

Given the age and homosexuality I think a reference to AIDS is the best interpretation of that video.

“If you’re vaccinated, you’re not gonna be hospitalized, you’re not gonna be in an ICU, and you’re not gonna die.” — “Joe Biden”

“I got the vaccine because senile Joe recommended it” – said no one ever.

I wonder how many people mischievously selected it. I once listed my gender as “cisleithanian.”

“No one has explained, for example, where Epstein got his money from (who was funding him), or who his clients were, and the authorities are strangely supine in their attempts to find out.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Wexner

“Sex trafficking” is just the new word for “prostitution.” What we need to do is start enforcing laws against adultery.

Conspiracy theorists have traditionally adopted pseudo-logical arguments, “the bullet couldn’t have traveled this distance in this amount of time,” “the building’s structural integrity was such that it couldn’t have collapsed all at once from fire alone,” etc. QAnon is more “muhhhh children being harmed by EEEEVIIIILLLL spirits.”

Lack of ammo and spare parts will whittle down the utility of their new toys quickly, if they can even figure out how to use them.

SJWs don’t like Maher, or any of the New Atheists for that matter.

“…By comparison, 53% of white college-educated households in their 30s have debt, up from 27% three decades earlier. ”

So this number has almost doubled ( and naturally the number of W c-e hhs has increased too) but this is not worth mentioning with any sympathy.

What a scam. How much of this student debt goes to pay all the cat-lady busybodies in admin and sensitivity training and BIPOC offices? The percentage increases seem in line with the huge increase in the number of these entirely useless jobs. Blacks (and whites) are going into debt to pay these good-for-nothings, virtually all of whom are some sort of affirmative action hire. Hell, some of them are no doubt using the money to pay off their own debt to the same colleges.

They already exclude people for not graduating from high school, smoking weed, and not being physically fit. If they excluded people for he said she said relationship drama, we’d have no one left.

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It seems like every case of false conviction starts with:

1. Witness is interviewed for the first time, says I didn’t recognize him/I don’t remember if he was there/etc.
2. Suspect comes under suspicion.
3. Witness is interviewed again and this time he says “well, now that I’ve had more time to think about it, [statement that incriminates suspect].

Heinlein is underrated as an influence on a generation of smart young men. To really understand him, though, you have to understand the historical context. People read him, see all the “alternative lifestyles” and assume he was some kind of hippy. When he wasn’t. There were a lot of men like him who thought most of what the hippies said was nonsense except the sexual stuff. When one side is promising free sex free love and the other side is saying “no, no, my 3000-year-old book of fiction says that’s sinful,” you could see why they went the way they did. Eventually some of them realized that the problem wasn’t anything the Bible said, it was that the average man wasn’t gonna get invited to the party.

If Russia ever kicks Anglin out and he has to move to China, it’ll be funny when he gets resettled in the East Turkistan due to being an antivaxxer.

Based on the first few photos I saw he doesn’t look very twinky. Heterosexual young men today show off their bodies in ways that used to be associated only with women and gay men. The supposed false pregnancy is interesting though:

Investigators also dug into Mays’ personal life and discovered several red flags. After telling investigators during an initial 10-hour interview that he’d recently separated from a female sailor upon discovering that she was pregnant and he was not the father, investigators “later learned this was mostly contradicted by the female sailor” in question, the warrant said.

That sailor recounted to investigators that while Mays had gone around telling everyone she was pregnant and that he was “going to be a father,” she had never been pregnant and made that clear to him, even taking a pregnancy test to prove it.

Notice what it doesn’t say: that the female sailor denied a relationship occurred.

Potentially ill-informed hypothesis: this is due to sex-selective abortion in the past. The abundance of men makes it easier for women to delay marriage further and further knowing a B-male will always be waiting.

The standard stereotype is that Koreans are more susceptible to foreign ideologies than Chinese or Japanese: whether Christianity, communism, and now wokismo. The NYT article (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/01/world/asia/south-korea-metoo-ahn-hee-jung.html) is kinda funny(though one should always remember the possibility of mistranslation here)

Throughout the trial, Mr. Ahn insisted that his sexual relationship with Ms. Kim had been consensual. His lawyers argued that she had not acted like a victim during the period in which she said she was raped.

They noted that she had accompanied Mr. Ahn to restaurants and wine bars, and they presented into evidence messages she had sent him, which they said showed her friendliness toward him. The lower court ruled that Ms. Kim lacked credibility.

But the appeals court rejected what it called the defense’s “stereotyped” view of a rape victim. It said that it found Ms. Kim’s testimony credible, consistent and detailed, and that Mr. Ahn had enough power to coerce her into unwanted sexual relations.{snip}

In September, a well-known theater director, Lee Youn-taek, was sentenced to six years in prison for sexually abusing actresses. In November, a prominent pastor received a 15-year sentence for raping female followers who said he had deceived them into believing he was God.

Ah, shucks, that was my best pickup line!

I recently wrote a review of “They Live,” focusing on the allegorical aspects: https://alexanderturok.wordpress.com/2021/07/10/they-live-as-an-allegory-for-neo-nazism/

Maybe the environment of the times was a bit (ok, maybe a lot) too permissive

It wasn’t the environment of “the times,” it was the environment of one particular subculture within the times that was out of step with the law. “My subculture says this is okay” is generally rejected when Jamal the crack dealer uses it and should be rejected in this case too.

I would say age-of-consent laws should, at the margin, be reduced. It’s certainly cringe watching all these white knighting “populists” cheer them as if their enforcement against Hollywood moguls was a dog-bites-man rather than man-bites-dog story. But the Polanski case, yeah, it should stay criminal.

People sometimes say “b-b-but premodern society X allowed marriage” – the keyword there is marriage. It’s completely inappropriate to compare that to these kind of Hollywood pump-and-dump whore-arounds. It’s hardly unreasonable to ask them wait until ~16 years old to start with that.

It’s not accurate to reduce the California phenomenon to “hostility to density.” It’s more a hostility to any kind of development whatsoever. There is a lot of completely undeveloped land out there, I’m not talking about parks but private, fenced-off land nobody is allowed to do build anything on. People buy and sell it, speculating on the off chance that one day governments allow people to build there.

Nah, excess deaths exceed reported COVID deaths.

Can someone make an argument for what “they” achieve with all the lockdowns? Don’t say the goal is “control,” that’s just a tautology. It would make sense, for instance, if they shut down private schools but kept public schools open. But in reality, they’re doing the opposite.

Of course, because, what government doesn’t want to report a lot more COVID-deaths than actually occur?

There was a big thing about abortion in Georgia a while back, might be part of it.

The legislature blocked implementation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Florida_Amendment_4#Implementation

Note that this is not the same as the lifetime probability of a felony conviction or incarceration, which will be higher than this as it includes people who don’t presently have convictions but will in the future. For incarceration, probability is 32%:

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/graphs/lifetimechance.html

One of the popes did say it was okay to use the heliocentric model so long as it was merely a “calculation device” and not asserted to correspond to reality.

The reason Eisenhower kissed General Lee’s ass so hard is because he knew where his best soldiers were coming from – you know, the ones who liberated Auschwitz?

Them and Obama’s uncle.

I’m rather pro-natalist. I have all kinds of weird ideas for how to achieve them, there’s the bog-standard bachelor/bachelorette tax, private arbitration of divorce cases, criminal punishment of adulterers, plus more out-there ideas: https://alexanderturok.wordpress.com/2020/06/04/a-modest-proposal-to-increase-fertility-rates/

What I object to here is the accelerationist we-win-when-we-lose mentality. Family-oriented people often leave the cities, some of that is the simple desire for space. A lot of it is due to the crime and homelessness and mismanagement of the cities. If not for that, they would have preferred to stay in the city, particularly in cases like NYC where regional identities are strong. And then you get people saying “oh, your hometown got destroyed and you had to leave, that’s actually a victory for us, look at all the Leftists still living there who are suffering!” It would be one thing if this were a permanent, Greece and Turkey style population transfer and separation. But consider that right now some ACLU lawyers are working right now on the case that laws against camping in public parks are unconstitutional.

Scott Stringer had a funny line during the debate:

Katheren, just to talk about the De Blasio administration for a second cause you’ve been part of it, what were people thinking when this administration started to double the spending on homelessness from 1.6 billion dollars to 3.2 billion dollars and not reduce homelessness? And not build the housing that we actually needed over the last eight years. Tonight 60,000 people, 30,000 are children, will sleep in some of the most dangerous shelters in the country.

You got more of what you subsidize, Scott? Who could have predicted that?

These women also have a “-less” suffix to stigmatize: it’s called childless. For 50 years white upper middle class women have voluntarily lowered their fertility below replacement, and it has done way more harm to our society than homeless people have. These women are disgusting. The homeless are doing a job our chickenshit politicians like Andrew Yang are too afraid to do: punish the childless lifestyle.

Slavery on the basis of condition of birth vs slavery on the basis of one’s decision to commit a crime, yeah, pretty big difference there.

As to the massage parlor thing, better to ban adultery and then enforce the law. That way when someone’s husband goes down to the bordello, you can punish him for a crime involving an actual victim.

Unless you’re a very high SMV male, online dating is a waste of time and money. Women have their filters set to filter out all but the highest SMV men and the high SMV men are just players or are looking for a second girlfriend for threesomes with their SO–these ads are all over the place on bumble, most of the female-seeking-female ads are actually this sort of thing, posted by women whose boyfriends/husbands put them up to it.

Don’t waste your time. It’s a vast wasteland. Just get out there in the real world and treat ’em like shit and they’ll yield the pussy. Trust me on that one.

I kinda like Singer, but he’s ultimately an academic and with that comes an inability to conceive of a way of raising children that isn’t collectivized. That is the context behind that quote, he compares having too many children to the “tragedy of the commons,” the solution of simply dividing up the commons doesn’t occur to him. [EDIT: as far as what people will actually do in the far future, it’ll be listening to Peter Singer. But his whole shtick is telling people uncomfortable truths, and he ought to do that here.]

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/peter-singer-womens-right-to-have-children-might-have-to-be-sacrificed-for

Here’s a novel pro-abortion argument: I’m not joining the anti-abortion crusade for the same reason I don’t want to join many other kinds of bleeding-heart campaigns: I don’t think the “saved,” when grown up, would be likely to thank me. If they did have an opinion on the subject, they’d be several times more likely to condemn me as evil for getting abortion prohibited then praise me for it. This’d be the case whether the saved are white, black, yellow or polka dotted.

It’s not really the same as any company that announced that it didn’t hire feminists would be sued to oblivion under anti-discrimination laws. Repeal anti-discrimination and “harassment” laws and then we can talk about freedom of association.

I had to show proof of vaccination status to attend college long before the beer virus. This is no new thing under the sun.

I am assuming that this comment is serious and not sarcastic, in which case you are an idiot and a freak. Wear that if you want, also insert a microchip with all your health information in your anus to be scanned by all relevant authorities for your added safety and benefit, but leave other people alone.

That’s the idea, the people who don’t have the tag will be assumed to be anti-vaxxers.

This is why we need a special, scannable RFID tag to be worn to verify vaccination status.

The part that’s below the curve is the time before the pandemic started(except for a brief period around Jan, 18, that’s a “bad flu season.”

I am convinced of what another blogger here on UR says: This is just a rebranding of the flu

No:

Here is another data point: my son got the virus in his Army barracks last year. The Army vaccinated him a month ago, anyway. I had thought that I had read that the vaccine was optional for the troops, but my son tells me that no one asked his leave: they just lined up his platoon and jabbed them all.

Wow, I was under the impression the army was all about freedom and doing your own thing and being able to see eff you to authority figures.

“Death” is not the same thing as “having a rough go of it.”

Compare that to a slight chance of contracting the virus at all and an infinitesimal chance of having a rough go of it

Infinitesimal? You don’t know what you’re talking about.