Aren’t there differences between what types of people do better in different branches of the service (as with most jobs)? Anyone with actual military experience able to comment?
 

Well, I don't have military experience, but my father did, and I learned some things from him. (In fact, my mother used to tell him to "stop being navy," in our house.) So, anyway, in renewed fear of embarrassing myself, I offer this humble observation:

The navy needs people like my father: engineers. Why? Because you can't run a damn ship without engineering. The whole thing depends on mechanical engineering. Right back to the sailing navies from Britain, you can't operate a ship without understanding some technology and then actually working, physically with it.

Oh, BTW, there is also the mathematical navigation part of it. You know, the Army hardly ever really has had to do that little trick, but my father did in the days way before GPS.

So, my short answer is yes, there are differences between types of militaries with regard to how much engineering is essential.

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I have to admit, this site has gone more and more full Nazi.
 

SFG wrote to me:

You both actually seem to agree Anglin is dumb and yet managed to get into a minor flame fest.
 

Putting homos and pedos in the same sentence is considered hate speech. Yesterday I was surprised to find out it took me 11 months to hear the new that Milo Y. whose last name I can't spell has announced he is ex-gay.

https://nypost.com/2021/03/10/milo-yiannopoulos-announces-he-is-ex-gay-and-sodomy-free/

My memory is dim but as I recall it he got cancelled when he said his priest sodomized him when he was 13 and he thought it was fine. Fun even. He is nostalgic about the whole thing. Something like that. I didn't pay attention but he was on every website all the time before that and you could not avoid him.

Fair enough.

But the acceptance of teen boy sex seems more mainstream in the homosexual world.

(But if you’re gay and don’t do that kind of thing, I have no problem with you at all. It’s been around for centuries-the Romans evidently had it, and there are descriptions of gay emperors in China.)
 

Replies: @Art Deco, @SFG

I have a hard time seeing how polyamory with one female multiple males can work . Once she gets pregnant, the guys will all bolt so really it is just the promiscuous female that we already have given a fancy new name.

Polygyny, now that has staying power.

Replies: @SFG

Would the US allow Russian nuclear missiles to be put in, say, Cuba? Hmm...

Replies: @Jack D

I’m sure you could find a similar bunch of stories about what the Ukrainians did to the Russians when they got the upper hand.
 

Replies: @War for Blair Mountain, @Almost Missouri, @Steve Sailer

They gave their consent to slaughter Slavic Russian Civilians in Donbass for 8 years…including 400 children…



It’s all crocodile tears for the Civilians in Donbass…and these crocodile tears would dry up real fast if there was a military draft of all able body young men and women in the US to fight the Russians in Ukraine…..

There wasn’t a peep out of Steve about the slaughter of the 400 Slavic Russian Children in Donbass from 2014 to present….

Replies: @RadicalCenter

I sympathize with normal Ukrainians who don't want to be Russian subjects, but I'm not "with" them because that clearly implies you support NATO and the US, whoch is inexcusable.

Replies: @Johnny Rico, @SFG

First, how about the people being terrorized, killed, shelled, and suppressed in the Donbas region because they speak Russian and consider themselves part of the Rus civilization? Do “they live there” too?

Second, millions of “the ukrainians” are ethnic Russians, and millions more are native Russian speakers alongside the LESSER-used ukrainian language.

Moreover, the genetics, languages, religion, and culture of “ethnic Russians” and “ethnic ukrainians”, to the extent that they can even really be neatly separated, are extremely close, as befits historically kindred people.

** The western part of “the ukraine” was arbitrarily added to the ukrainian SSR by that Georgian paragon of freedom, peace, and democracy, Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili a/k/a Josef Stalin. In 1939 he ordered the transfer of Polish land to “the ukraine”; in 1940, Romanian territory; in 1945, Czechoslovakian territory; and in 1948 some islands from Romania. The people added were of course not consulted, nor were the people already in the SSR.

** As for the Crimea, it was arbitrarily tacked on to the ukrainian SSR by another paragon of democracy, peace, and freedom, Nikita Khrushchev, in 1954. Again neither the people in the existing SSR nor the people “transferred” were consulted.

Ukrainian SSR in 1939:
https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=Sb%2BdQSPH&id=2FDC05E48D6808CF49AEA6FCC5D6D522932770A4&thid=OIP.Sb-dQSPHPjBqsxzPLf_RxQHaEP&mediaurl=https%3A%2F%2Fth.bing.com%2Fth%2Fid%2FR.49bf9d4123c73e306ab31ccf2dffd1c5%3Frik%3DpHAnkyLV1sX8pg%26riu%3Dhttp%253a%252f%252fwww.infoukes.com%252fhistory%252fimages%252fww2%252ffigure02.gif%26ehk%3DGGk8lOysUoxVRagjFZS9OxNYSmizeyEFmJ%252bhYPvjS5g%253d%26risl%3D%26pid%3DImgRaw%26r%3D0&exph=670&expw=1170&q=ukraine+1939+1945+map&simid=608056048145872153&form=IRPRST&ck=10FC73C192323747DFEDE025196F553D&selectedindex=4&vt=4&sim=11

Current “ukraine” after the Soviet Communist dictators’ decrees:
https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=N9Eh%2Bc8y&id=82CB6ACB8D719DB096D6E0B06D60C91BB9E48E77&thid=OIP.N9Eh-c8yOyXEjpqq18wrvQHaEZ&mediaurl=https%3A%2F%2Fth.bing.com%2Fth%2Fid%2FR.37d121f9cf323b25c48e9aaad7cc2bbd%3Frik%3Dd47kuRvJYG2w4A%26riu%3Dhttp%253a%252f%252fniezlomni.com%252fwp-content%252fuploads%252f2016%252f11%252fukr2.png%26ehk%3DFLTOtN7ri%252fvcaAL5QbOp1%252fcvNhX7I8EnkCClGnURoT8%253d%26risl%3D%26pid%3DImgRaw%26r%3D0%26sres%3D1%26sresct%3D1&exph=475&expw=800&q=ukraine+1939+1945+map&simid=608043128883800049&form=IRPRST&ck=1140C768337C48725F67A25343F77F4F&selectedindex=8&vt=4&sim=11

Now why should we be so concerned with getting more “ukrainians” and Russians killed to preserve the borders decreed by these dictator-torturer-murderers?

By the way, the history of these territories and the allegiance / identity of the peoples in them, suggest that the countries bordering western “ukraine” could greatly benefit from a grand deal with Russia. Give the people of each western oblast the right to decide, in an internationally supervised binding referendum, whether to:

(1) stay in the “ukraine” — which, if the Russians are wise, henceforth will be a much smaller and landlocked country;

(2) become an independent country; or

(3) (re-)join Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, or Romania.

Make it a two-round election. In the second round, the people choose between the top two vote-getters from the first round.

The only other example I can think of is Gary Gygax, but I am sure others here can come up with others.
 

Replies: @Ralph L

Brendan Eich, co-founder of Mozilla, was fired as CEO for having supported the wrong side of Proposition 8, the anti-gay marriage proposition.

Glenn Greenwald, co-founder of The Intercept, resigned from its board because he wanted to report on Hunter's laptop and how corrupt Ol' Joe is before the election and the others did not. (He was forced out because of his integrity, not exactly deposed.)

It is a well known fact that at least prior to 2014, most of Russian shitposting was in fact outsourced to a place nearby with dirt cheap labour. Called The Ukraine.

Thats where the Ukrainians learned the trade of troll farming they are using now so massively, and with full help of the Western big tech and legacy media. Heil the Ghost of Kiiyiyiyvv!

What's "right-wing" about Mitt? His hyperparasitic neoliberalism?

Replies: @Kronos

A useful heuristic here is "Not a Republican now, but likely would have been in the 1980s" vs "Would never have been a Republican".

Yes it is and fried chicken is Austrian. And now fried chicken is like the epitome of southern and black American cooking. English people were never much in pickles either. German Poles etc were. Fried chicken and potato salad on every southern and black diaspora menu German.

The whole Midwestern pacifist stereotype of a while ago came about, as Steve pointed out a few years back, because German Americans didn’t really want to kill Cousin Fritz, quite reasonably.
 

Replies: @Frau Katze

Anglo Americans never had any trouble killing Cousin Jack in both the Revolutionary War and the Civil War .
Why should German Americans have a different set of rules ?

Replies: @Reg Cæsar

Before Hitler, Germans and Jews got along really well for the most part (although anti-Semitism existed before Hitler, it was just one stream of opinion). Just as well as WASPs and Jews get along in America. There was lots of intermarriage and they were influential in each other's culture - Reform synagogues were modeled after churches, with pipe organs and choirs and German cultural institutions and industries were full of Jews.

I grew up near a retirement community of (non-Jewish) Germans who had come over in the 1920s during the hyper-inflation. Most of them had lived in NY and when large parts of Queens, etc. turned ghetto they came down to this retirement community in rural NJ. They started out as customers of our farm (Germans would take the trouble to buy fresh eggs at the farm - most Americans just got them at the supermarket) but my parents became friendly with some of them. Some of the women taught my mother to do things like canning, which wasn't practiced in her village in Galicia (they were more into pickling as a means of preservation) and they would bring us cookies for Christmas and so on. They got along fabulously with my parents and I have nothing but fond memories of any of them. I never met their kids, who were fully grown and not living in the retirement village but I expect that they just disappeared into mainstream America and were indistinguishable from any other American.

Replies: @Art Deco, @Anonymous

They were attacking Jews, and the destruction of German American culture came after WW1, not WW2

 

You have the plot.
 

Matt was leaning against the refrigerator in the corner; he must have let himself in through the open garage door. Like always, he made her head swim with seasons -- his hair was all the colors of autumn; his eyes the bright blue of a winter sky; his smile as wide as any summer sun. He was wearing a baseball hat backward, and a Sterling Varsity Hockey tee over a thermal shirt that Josie had once stolen for a full month and hidden in her underwear drawer, so that when she needed to she could breathe in the scent of him. "Are you still pissed off?" he asked.
 

She lay in his arms for ten minutes and then said she was tired and needed to go to sleep. After she kissed Matt good-bye at the front door, she went into the kitchen and took the rug cleaner out from underneath the sink. She scrubbed it into the wet spot on the carpet, prayed it would not leave a stain.
 

Replies: @Rob, @SFG, @Kylie

Steve's post was about how people like you are losers.

Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Chrisnonymous, @anon, @Matt Buckalew

Agreed, the ladies do kinda have it coming, and none more than the US women's soccer team, I’m rooting for the ex men to make their move on team USA. After all everyone knows they’re better than the men’s team, right?

Replies: @Pincher Martin

If Tom Wolfe were alive today, he might write a novel about Simone Charlette, a brilliant, beautiful, naive girl from rural West Virginia who wins a scholarship to a prestigious university. Much to her surprise, she finds that her fellow students have little interest in academics. They devote most of their time to getting drunk and having sex.

One night, Simone goes to a bar and meets Robyn (formerly Robert) Gronkewski, a muscular 6'5" transwoman who serves as captain of the university's nationally-recognized ladies' rugby team. (In the dim light, Simone mistakes Robyn for a man. It takes her quite a while to realize that Robert/Robyn is LARPing as a woman.) Robert/Robyn has a little too much to drink and forces xirself on Simone, deflowering the sweet innocent girl with xir ladypenis.

When Simone reports the incident to campus police, she finds herself drawn into a complex scandal involving Joan Beiden, who has just been elected the first transwoman president of the United States. Joan (formerly John) is having a secret lesbian affair with Robert/Robyn, who just happens to be John/Joan's grandson/granddaughter. Robert/Robyn is the illegitimate son/daughter of John/Joan's son Slayer, who just happens to be the son of John/Joan's first wife, tampon heiress Alexis Beiden (nee Carrington). Alexis died in a mysterious car crash in Maryland in 1972. She left John/Joan a hefty fortune, which allowed xir to pursue a lucrative career in politics.

John/Joan Beiden orders Simone's immediate assassination. But Simone is rescued by ... Robert/Robyn, who has come to realize just how corrupt and f**ked-up his family situation truly is. As Robert/Robyn and Simone travel the country, staying just one step ahead of Beiden's relentless goon squad, they fall in love. Robert sheds his ludicrous Robyn persona and embraces his masculinity.

The final confrontation occurs on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, just as John/Joan is about to take the oath of office. As the fateful hour of noon approaches, Robert and Simone gain entry to the ceremony by posing as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. (The real Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been incapacitated after consuming brownies laced with fentanyl.) As John/Joan walks up to the podium to take the oath, Robert leaps onto the stage, sheds his clothing, and thrusts his male anatomical features in front of the television cameras The shock causes John/Joan to have a heart attack and die in agony. Then Robert and Simone engage in a passionate kiss and walk off into the sunset.

Then Pamela Harrington, John/Joan's running mate, becomes the nation's second half-black (but first half-Indian) president and leads the nation to ruin.

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Got to agree. It all depends whose pig is being poked with a lot of these folks.

No shortage of White Crunts who delighted in "smashing the patriarchy", talking crap about/selling out "white males", and turning the volume knob up to 11 on every little thing, true or not.

I hope the dude crushes every collegiate swimming record there is.

 

Replies: @JimDandy, @Forbes, @Rooster13, @BB753

ATate wrote:

I imagine if the vast majority of the women swimmers were to stumble on this blog they’d be leading the charge to get you and everyone else cancelled.

They worship DIE and want you and me dead. They endorse, embrace, and advocate for this tranny crap. They’re “allies”.
 

Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Achmed E. Newman, @Mr. Anon, @Mike_from_SGV, @Moses

Did you completely miss the photo where the 4th place winner got invited to the podium due to Thomas taking a spot? The swimmers are not embracing the transgender crap, they are sending a pretty clear rebuke to transgender participation in their sport,

Replies: @Ben Kurtz, @Barnard, @anon, @Jack P

Quit trying to be Captain Save A Ho.
 

I wholeheartedly agree. Title IX removed many men’s sports at colleges all in the name of equality, do you think any of these women care about that one bit? Hell no! I went to college with many of these strong independent women athletes, and I can tell you nearly every single one was on the frontline of the gender war pushing the LGBTQ agenda. Here’s my message to them:

THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED, THIS IS WHAT YOU GET!

I honestly hope a man holds every women’s title in every sport; just rub their noses right in it! Maybe next time they’ll stop and think logically for a moment before following the “tingles” and advocating for a destructive ideology.

16 of his female teammates (anonymously) sent a letter not supporting his right to swim with the girls. Also from reports the girls on the team ignore him. So I think that's a bit of an overstatement.

But I'm also rooting for him and think it's hilarious, because it's finally waking people up to the leftist absurdity that sex can be changed and gender is a construct.

Replies: @sjjdjdj

I'll give you 1 example of massive Japanese creativity: architecture. iSteve should post on this. There must be at least 15 genius Japanese architects working now--that is F'n amazing given Japan's small population.

Replies: @Reg Cæsar

Seriously, the breadth and visual creativity of anime is pretty impressive. And it isn’t woke.
 

He is not some defender of the white race
 

all he is doing is killing a bunch of Russians and Ukrainians. This fratricidal war is stupid.

 

Replies: @SFG

Russia is actually a miniature version of the world - the white regions are richer and have more opportunities so non-whites within Russia( and also from outside) leave their homelands and migrate to the white parts - much to to the displeasure of whites.
Infact there seems to be greater racial resentment among whites in Russia than in the West( likely because they are not so brainwashed).

I’m a verbalist blatherer, and I basically agree.
 

Thing is, you aren't helping the kid by pretending they don't have challenges or limitations (which is not the same as rubbing it into their face tactlessly) in how you go about training them any more than you do by not emphasizing free agency and the ability to improve. It's all about balance.

Unfortunately, the best way of doing this is individual treatment. Everybody is a unique person with their own quirks, predilections, and whatnot: people are solar systems, not electrons. But that's so at odds with contemporary reality, especially with an ideological drive that wants to de-emphasize the parent in favor of the state.

Yeah - William Shirer repeatedly refers to the homosexuals and perverts that were part of the SA.

I don't think Hitler himself truly cared much one way or the other. He just used the homosexuality prevalent in the SA for propaganda justification. WWI and the following Weimar years led to widespread sexual liberalization in German culture, and the Nazis were hardly immune to this: they'd later exploit when it came to things like social acceptance of illegitimate children. Himmler was a lot more puritanical, hence the pink triangle drive, but homosexuals never made up more than a tiny sliver of camp inmates.

(Like in the Soviet gulags, they were considered a contemptuous joke by other inmates. The guards didn't need to dole out beatings, all the other inmates would: just like any other prison system! Camp solidarity is like the au courant notion of bread lines creating social bonds: the product of effete demi-intellectuals who take shallow pop history at face value. Mutual suffering can create bonds: but in the ass-opposite way as presented. You tie in closer with your team or your family, not with strangers, least of all ones from a socially devalued "outgroup". If anything, you vent by doing things you wouldn't if society were stable.)

Replies: @Jack D, @Anonymous, @Paperback Writer

In an example closer to everyone here, Trump wasn’t driven by ideas, he drew on people’s resentment against the woke professional managerial class. He started talking about immigration because it worked for him at rallies, but he wasn’t reading Peter Brimelow (or our host).
 

Ideas do have consequences. BLM, which has a justification for its violence, is not the same as a Mexican drug cartel which says I have the uzzi. BLM may have just helped put a black woman on the USSC, the cartel will always be no more than an outlaw.

As Keynes put it, practical men see themselves as beyond ideology, but they're usually unwittingly operating out of some long-discredited ideology.

Exactly. Remember that one Jew, what was his name, Jesus Bar Something? The Romans put an end to those ideas right quick, bang bang. A very practical people.

Replies: @Ian Smith

Only Jews are allowed to have a history, in fact to obsess and endlessly harp on it.

If a goy does so, he's a weirdo. Likely a devotee to some "lost cause" like the antebellum South.

Some Philistine like you can be counted on to remind him that "ideas don't matter". Hmm, Philistine, interesting word. Wonder where that comes from?

There's nothing gayer than bedding Playmates. The ultimate beard.

Replies: @Bardon Kaldlan

And that is exactly what they'd expect you to believe!

Having your wife and mistress engage in a public sexual jealousy fueled brawl in Aspen is an... odd life highlight for a closeted homosexual man to have.

(Good thing I saw you. Back to keeping my promise.)

Grimes is not hot. She is ugly in the face. She's just slim and in Obese America that makes her an automatic 8/10.

You can tax away the gayness behavior to a considerable degree...at least in mainstream society.

Mitigation. There is no social cure for depravity.

For individuals, there's only forgiveness and then celibacy. Some of them can live the hetero life (I've know them) and should be encouraged to go that route, but the truly screwed up ones should keep it real close to the closet and endeavor to have constant accountability. The whole drugs/promiscuity/party scene is horrible for everyone. How many young men died as a result of the coming out party of the 70's and 80's?

Replies: @Mr. Fussy

Yeah, sure, try forcing your child to be with a woman whom he does not love and does not want to have sex, causing a lifetime of repression. Worst case scenario he ends up killing himself. Clearly you are not fit to "decide what to actually do with gayness". Maybe let gay men live their lives as they please?

It seems to actually be biological and making people hide in the closet seems pointless. Maybe something like the old Roman standard where it was OK to be attracted to men but you were still supposed to raise a family. ..."

Wishing and hoping, aren't you?

Apprehension? Putin and Xi have got to be laughing their heads off at their principal rival shooting itself in the foot like this.
 

Replies: @Wilkey

And Americans are laughing at Xi. The birth rate in China has fallen precipitously. The evil and idiotic one-child policy of China is like chickens coming home to roost. Unlike America, who the hell wants to immigrate to China? Maybe some North Koreans, but that’s about it. It seems like the best and brightest of China are trying to try to get out.

China has a world problems of its own that it has created and incentivized.

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/birth-rate-mainland-china-2021-drops-record-low-2022-01-17/

Replies: @PaceLaw, @PhysicistDave, @Almost Missouri, @S. Anonyia, @JR Foley

Foot? More like crotch. China and Russia (and other saner countries) are heavily disturbed by the US led “gender fluidity” caca. Western feminists criticize African nations for practicing female circumcision but then support far more horrific procedures to turn women into “men.” How to you explain this to a Chinese diplomat without making him vomit?

Replies: @Alden, @Ben tillman

“ Putin and Xi have got to be laughing ”

For all the confusion and propaganda on sex in the USA, we still are reproducing at a higher rate than Russia and China. And while to our shame we’re encouraging the most confused young homosexual and BPD teenagers to mutilate themselves, in China they spent decades coercing abortion of second children and aborting a tenth of female fetuses. They still do this to a lower extent in China. The long term effect is to make China’s abysmal birthrate even worse long term, as 1.2 children per woman is worse when only 45% of births are female. Local level data suggests the official national Chinese birthrate statistics, as low as they are, are actually inflated. So does the fact that birthrates are even lower in greater China: Taiwan, HK and Singapore.

And while less masculine men in Russia and China aren’t declaring themselves homosexual, they aren’t marrying and having children either.

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Having a severely mentally ill cadre who hate all normal humanity in control of a nuclear arsenal that can destroy the world six times over is terrifying to any rational actor. You basically can throw game theory and mutually assured destruction theory out the window. Xi and Putin are realizing that they are going up against The Joker at this point.

Nuclear Waste Disposal Policy at Biden's Department of Energy is overseen by this person. Do you think they think long term about the future of society and the planet?


https://twitter.com/MillerStream/status/1491900120803151872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491900120803151872%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Flifestyle%2Fnew-biden-dept-energy-appointee-part-time-drag-queen-queer-activists-145352610.html

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Well, these toxic ideas spread. Your liver doesn't laugh when your lungs get diagnosed with cancer.

Also, there is the simple reality that the US has the capability to cause unimaginable destruction. An angry, low-IQ, non-passing trans woman pointing a gun at you is nothing to laugh about.

"Laughing"?......they need to come to their senses and realize it is a disease that must be destroyed .

Off-topic (but along the lines of a self-deluding Party's unforced errors), here is Tom Piatek's short essay urging resistance against the eager enthusiasm of the Sect'y Blinken/Anchorman Holt/Columnist Rubin cabal, as they push the U.S. towards a showdown in Ukraine.

Replies: @SFG

Yes, one of the tells here is her argument that lynching led to a decrease in black patent holders. Ask her how many blacks were lynched between 1890-1900 and I doubt she would guess fewer than 20,000. The accepted historical total is 1,217. True believers like Cook also think these lynchings were a result of things like showing up whites, instead of being charged with serious, violent crimes in most cases. Virtually no one out of those lynched ever would have received a patent.

Would it be considered icing if they found the Little Potato underneath the opposing team goal 20 years from now, embedded between the rebar in one of the concrete floor plates in Maple Leafs' rink, as discovered by Geraldo Riviera or the Canadian Myth Busters? That would be a real Canadian thing, eh?

I think the observation about women being more interested in social than physical reality is true as well, and makes plenty of evolutionary sense. Social reality is more important 90 percent of tune anyway, at least until your crops stop growing.
 

It causes the shit-libs no end of grief.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jordan-peterson-the-gender-scandal-in-scandinavia-and-canada

https://sputniknews.com/20190118/scandinavia-feminism-women-labour-1071594857.html

https://theculturetrip.com/europe/sweden/articles/swedish-teens-choose-careers-based-on-gender-roles-according-to-science/

Love the last one "According to science"! Yup, written by a chick.

"Well, so what? What's wrong with being sexy?"

"Sex-IST. Sexist." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrMWRKSNLcs

And: "Because he's the victim. Their objections were that she was the victim." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEXn7KB8TQs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59kf86v_Cpc

There are shades of this about gay men.

Nope. Pinker wouldn’t read Kevin McDonald.

Too American. You won't find such a type of thinking or behavior in France or Poland or Brazil.

Replies: @SFG

He correctly nails The Tears as something men are powerless against in many settings.

The woman was young, no more than twenty-five, all breasts, bright red lips, raging hair, and sultry makeup, popping out of a black turtleneck sweater. She wore black pants and teetered atop a pair of black spike-heel shoes.

At first their voices were muffled. Then the woman’s voice became louder and the man’s became lower. It was the classic case. The man wants to confine matters to a quiet private argument, but the woman decides to play one of her trump cards, which is Making a Scene. There is Making a Scene, and there is Tears. This was Making a Scene. The woman’s voice became louder and louder, and at last the man’s rose, too.

“But you gotta,” the woman said.

“But I don’t gotta, Irene.”

“What am I suppose a do? Rot?”

“You suppose a pay your bills like everybody else,” he said, mimicking her. “You already beat me for half my fee. And then you keep asking me to do things that could get me disbarred.”

“You dun care.”

“It ain’t that I dun care, Irene. It’s that I dun care anymore. You don’t pay your bills. Don’t look at me like that. You’re on your own.”

“But you gotta! What happens if they rearrest me?”

“You shoulda thoughta that, Irene. What did I tell you the first time you walked into this office? I told you two things. I told you, ‘Irene, I’m not gonna be your friend. I’m gonna be your lawyer. But I’m gonna do more for you than your friends.’ And I said , ‘Irene, you know why I do this? I do it for money.’ And then I said, ‘Irene, remember those two things.’ Idd’n’at right? Did’n I say that?”

“I can’t go back there,” she said. She lowered her heavy Tropical Twilight eyelids and then her whole head. Her lower lip trembled; her head and the raging hair shook, so did her shoulders.

The Tears.

“Oh, for Christ’s sake, Irene. Come on!”

The Tears.

“All right. Look…I’ll find out if they’re going after you on a 220–31, and I’ll represent you on rearraignment if they are, but that’s it.”

The Tears!—victorious even after these many millennia. The woman nodded like a penitent child. She walked out through the blazing waiting room. Her bottom bobbed in a glossy black shimmer. One of the Leather Men looked at Sherman and smiled, man to man, and said, “Ay, caramba.”

On this alien terrain Sherman felt obliged to smile back.
 

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In the article there is a link to a video taken on the Yale campus. Look e.g. at 20:30: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiMVx2C5_Wg&t=12s (if you don't want to watch the whole video but it is well worth it)

It is incredibly disturbing:
"Don't bend out to me."
"I don't bend (the prof did it out of consideration due to the small size of the black girl."
"What is your name?"
"I am looking at your face, I am disgusted. The smirk on your face is disgusting. All I see on your face, is arrogance. And ego. I am sick looking at you. I am disgusted. I was watching them arguing with you [fellow students, mostly colored]. I don't think you understand that. I was watching you - do not interrupt me! - I was not angry before. But now I am angry. Do not interrupt me. And now I am angry. And now I want your job to be taken from you. You are condescending. You wait until it is your turn. It was not your fucking turn for a long time."

One can only admire this prof for his compassion and patience in the middle of this angry mob. I had no idea Yale deteriorated to this point where little sh.theads like this angry bitch can humiliate a middle-aged Yale prof like this.

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Criminalizing male approaches seems like a way to give the gay women the edge.
 

Getting in wars all the time will do that.

Seriously, they have too many neighbors. Look at a map.
 

The USA can afford isolationism because we’re in the middle of nowhere.

 

Maybe I am missing something, but isn’t the point of the song that the narrator isn’t the fortunate son, I.e. the millionaire’s son who doesn’t go to war?
 

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I agree with a lot of what you say, but I always thought the whole Marxist thing was overblown. Class struggle is a distraction to most modern wokists.

But there was an old NR article about the vices of the rich being more injurious to the poor, and it’s stuck with me for a while. I’m pretty sure Silicon Valley millionaires and billionaires can engage in polyamory and microdose LSD and get away with it, but when the poor try free live they just get broken homes.
 

It is the modern way that the well-off preach one set of values and live another, by and large. The less well-off live the values that the culture preaches, and thereby suffer and inflict harm.

I agree with a lot of what you say, but I always thought the whole Marxist thing was overblown. Class struggle is a distraction to most modern wokists.
 

Yeah, I always thought the PUA thing about stay at home wives was more showing their sociopolitical cards than purely self interested advice for men.
 

Ironically the second wave feminist career dream is the safest thing these days.

 

but I bet there were lots of men eager to chase their mistresses who got the whole thing started. You always have a couple of greedy guys who spoil it for everyone else.
 

If you'd really like a response, I'm going to ask that you create a dummy email or something which I can respond to (anonymous for anonymous, of course), because of the following:

1) I made a promise to myself to leave "nebulafox" behind for good this time.

2) This is a topic that I've probably invested way too much mental space into-I've been in the weird position of being an observer to my generation's drama and problems and feeling the same pressures emotionally, while still being "outside", watching it rather than being a part of it, for various reasons. As such, the response would be very verbose, even on my standards.

(I'm happy to limit myself to whatever you are interested in, but my ideas go beyond this. I have broad thoughts on what average-because solutions that don't work for average people are useless, IMO-Gen Y men and women can do to rectify the situation in the short term, some of them actually original, and all of them aware of the various flaws proposed by all "teams" on this: on the right as well as the left. Above all, the refusal of anybody but the manosphere offer young men anything in the way of concrete, real positive incentives is causing problems.

Most of the talk that we hear around here is oriented around long-term solutions that write off Millennials as a "lost generation" that hopefully the Zoomers will learn to avoid following. That's incredibly stupid. Not only because I don't want to see mass misery and suffering just because average people made the mistake of trusting their own society-that's what average people do, to expect otherwise is cruel-but because if you want the neuter misplaced motherhood instincts gone wrong that would otherwise fuel impending HR authoritarianism, you need to start minimizing the amount of childless 40 something women coming. This is the key to it all, here. 99% of people are not going to o be Beethoven or Newton or Napoleon. Where have they usually found meaning? Through family! Do exceptions exist? Yes. They are exceptions. And they are majority men. Note that most "girlboss" figures in our society, from scientists to CEOs, still usually become mothers in a way that is more variable for men.

Luckily, the difference between one child and none is far, far more significant in preventing this misery than the difference between one and two, so I don't think most Gen Yers are screwed just yet... but they will be if things continue. Above all, I don't believe most of these men or women are the psychopaths made out to be on the Internet, and if people understood each other as misguided rather than inherently malicious, where the other side was coming from more and what they are dealing with, then you'd see a lot more progress.

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If you marry a career woman with similar income, she won't be able to demand alimony. When the assets are divided, you'll also get back roughly what you invested into your marital community.

However, you will have to pay child support. So there is that.

Red Pilled/Pick Up Artist/Manosphere types always tell you to marry a woman without a college degree and make her stay at home. In reality, you should do the opposite. Marry the highly-educated woman and encourage her to work. Then divide child-care responsibilities.

If the less-educated "stay at home" wife divorces you, you'll get financially screwed. Expect significant alimony (to maintain her previous lifestyle), loss of half your assets (which you built with your income), and child support. You'll lose the kids too and maybe get to see them only on the weekends.

If the career woman divorces you, you won't lose your shirt. Also, since the career woman is at work so much, the judge will give you more time with the kids.

Other advantages of career women.

-They bring more money into your household than "stay at home" moms.
-They have genes for IQ, which will help your children to succeed in life.
-Since they're always getting judged by co-workers, there's more incentive to stay in shape.
-College-educated people have a significantly lower divorce rate than the less-educated.

Conclusion: Marry a highly-educated career woman and encourage her to make lots of money. Divide child-care responsibilities.

Replies: @Batman, @SFG, @John Johnson, @Alden

>A couple of the nerdier losers will content themselves with sharing a porker.

Not nearly as many as they'll need to make this social arrangement work en masse, even among them. A willingness to at least semi-accept red pill stuff is more common than many think among younger nerds-younger Millennials, older Zoomers, so born in the 1990s-who've seen what their elders are doing and decided they don't want any part of that. Again: exceptions occur, but this is the social trend I'm seeing. Maybe I'm biased because of the circles I'm running in, but... well, flies go to honey, not vinegar.

This tends to have a snowball effect, because it leads to a rejection of advice from people who are unable to hide their (increasingly ridiculous and shrill) inability to view young men as ends in and of themselves, or with anything other than unmitigated contempt. Actual STEM geeks are usually too logical to ignore this, like a lot of people can. The inevitable progression from there is considering the likelihood that they aren't good for your interests, whatever they claim. What they do from there depends on the guy, but it's never going to end in increased trust of the mainstream.

Replies: @SFG

A couple of the nerdier losers will content themselves with sharing a porker.
 

Astute comment.

which do you like better? There will always be somebody on top. I'm not sure I trust the scientists to be making decisions for the rest of us. Instagram and pinterest?

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