Engdawg69
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one way in which it is different is that every major political faction in Weimar had a paramilitary large enough to pick a fight with the Reichswehr and every adult male was a veteran. a little under 1% of Americans fought in AFG/Iraq.
February 7, 2026 at 8:20 AM
one way in which it is different is that every major political faction in Weimar had a paramilitary large enough to pick a fight with the Reichswehr and every adult male was a veteran. a little under 1% of Americans fought in AFG/Iraq.
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i think it is particularly interesting that Barro, McArdle, and Douthat saw the moralizing change which has happened since the 1970s not as "you might get arrested for fucking a 12-year-old" but rather "your friends on Martha's Vineyard might cut you off for fucking her."
i would say that it's class solidarity but at this point i think it's just a tic. they don't even really process anything anymore
February 7, 2026 at 6:16 AM
i think it is particularly interesting that Barro, McArdle, and Douthat saw the moralizing change which has happened since the 1970s not as "you might get arrested for fucking a 12-year-old" but rather "your friends on Martha's Vineyard might cut you off for fucking her."
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Sometimes I sympathize with Trump, because it probably is genuinely very confusing why you can talk about purging the lifeblood of the nation of foreign filth and nobody cares, and then you post some dumb racist video and everyone starts yelling at you.
I found the dumbest most pathetic post on the internet today:
February 7, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Sometimes I sympathize with Trump, because it probably is genuinely very confusing why you can talk about purging the lifeblood of the nation of foreign filth and nobody cares, and then you post some dumb racist video and everyone starts yelling at you.
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I have sort of vaguely reactionary cultural preferences in that I don’t really care for the more twee kind of tumblr-inflected turn that a lot of sci-fi/fantasy lit has taken of late, but this is entirely the market rationally responding to who buys books. Dudes need to be more literate.
February 8, 2026 at 3:17 AM
I have sort of vaguely reactionary cultural preferences in that I don’t really care for the more twee kind of tumblr-inflected turn that a lot of sci-fi/fantasy lit has taken of late, but this is entirely the market rationally responding to who buys books. Dudes need to be more literate.
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Blueskyese and Xian share an obvious common root as both being Twitteric languages, the difference is that after the split Xian became a hybrid Twitteric/Channer-linkedin tongue, while Blueskyese changed less overall but did pick up some tumbleric and redditor loanwords
yeah Bluesky is primarily a Tumblric language
February 6, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Blueskyese and Xian share an obvious common root as both being Twitteric languages, the difference is that after the split Xian became a hybrid Twitteric/Channer-linkedin tongue, while Blueskyese changed less overall but did pick up some tumbleric and redditor loanwords
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To everyone just now finding out Isaac Asimov was rather famously a sex pest: He's been gone 34 years now, you can handle this truth, I believe in you
February 5, 2026 at 10:54 PM
To everyone just now finding out Isaac Asimov was rather famously a sex pest: He's been gone 34 years now, you can handle this truth, I believe in you
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This is historically inaccurate on two counts:
(1) In pre-Enlightenment Europe, only the aristocracy routinely married off teenage girls. Commoners generally married in their 20s.
(2) Few adults dropped dead in their 30s/40s. The life expectancy distribution was bimodal (early childhood and 60+).
(1) In pre-Enlightenment Europe, only the aristocracy routinely married off teenage girls. Commoners generally married in their 20s.
(2) Few adults dropped dead in their 30s/40s. The life expectancy distribution was bimodal (early childhood and 60+).
Don’t give me this talk about back in the day, girls got married and had babies at age 14 or 15. We aren’t back in the day, when people only lived to around 40 and had to have children as early as possible just to ensure their survival.
February 5, 2026 at 6:55 PM
This is historically inaccurate on two counts:
(1) In pre-Enlightenment Europe, only the aristocracy routinely married off teenage girls. Commoners generally married in their 20s.
(2) Few adults dropped dead in their 30s/40s. The life expectancy distribution was bimodal (early childhood and 60+).
(1) In pre-Enlightenment Europe, only the aristocracy routinely married off teenage girls. Commoners generally married in their 20s.
(2) Few adults dropped dead in their 30s/40s. The life expectancy distribution was bimodal (early childhood and 60+).
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Adult men hitting on teenage girls is so broadly reviled that it cost the Republicans a Senate seat in Alabama. But yes, of course, it's actually something everyone is secretly okay with and we would all admit it if it weren't for the woke scolds
February 5, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Adult men hitting on teenage girls is so broadly reviled that it cost the Republicans a Senate seat in Alabama. But yes, of course, it's actually something everyone is secretly okay with and we would all admit it if it weren't for the woke scolds
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It’s so beautiful
February 5, 2026 at 8:30 PM
It’s so beautiful
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big thing on racist moron social media right now is "exposing" that the rosa parks bus incident was planned by civil rights leaders, something that you learn in middle school
February 2, 2026 at 8:33 PM
big thing on racist moron social media right now is "exposing" that the rosa parks bus incident was planned by civil rights leaders, something that you learn in middle school
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To summarize: read theory.
February 1, 2026 at 6:33 AM
To summarize: read theory.
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Absolutely fucking wild that this is now libcoded.
even if it isn't a bluff, "getting arrested on a bullshit pretext by a brutal government" was in fact one of the recurring tactics of the civil rights movement!
January 31, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Absolutely fucking wild that this is now libcoded.
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in retrospect in the wake of the epstein files being released, no wonder ‘me too’ was met with such anger and ultimately those in power it meant to target never face many consequences
February 1, 2026 at 5:28 PM
in retrospect in the wake of the epstein files being released, no wonder ‘me too’ was met with such anger and ultimately those in power it meant to target never face many consequences
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Whenever you see a story about how liberals aren't making their conservative peers feel welcome enough, this is who they're talking about.
University of Illinois college republicans advocate for executing protesters as “traitors” with art that takes a disturbing killing and makes it even more extreme.
dailyillini.com/news-stories...
dailyillini.com/news-stories...
‘Fell the enemies:’ Illini Republicans support ICE amid killings - The Daily Illini
In a post that included a graphic of a presumed officer holding a gun to someone's head, Illini Republicans stated that they “stand with ICE."
dailyillini.com
February 2, 2026 at 5:20 AM
Whenever you see a story about how liberals aren't making their conservative peers feel welcome enough, this is who they're talking about.
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hey, we have provincial southern cities of a million people here, too
February 4, 2026 at 5:07 AM
hey, we have provincial southern cities of a million people here, too
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‘Isn’t it interesting how protestors are always vindicated 20 years later?’ was such irritating smug midwit shit. Protestors are wrong all the fucking time.
this was also when people were doing 'students are always on the right side politically throughout the whole of history' a lot.
February 2, 2026 at 10:03 PM
‘Isn’t it interesting how protestors are always vindicated 20 years later?’ was such irritating smug midwit shit. Protestors are wrong all the fucking time.
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I'm sorry some of you were deprived of the ability to die valiantly as a foreign volunteer for the Spanish communists by temporal circumstances but you don't have to make it everyone else's problem you know
February 2, 2026 at 10:47 PM
I'm sorry some of you were deprived of the ability to die valiantly as a foreign volunteer for the Spanish communists by temporal circumstances but you don't have to make it everyone else's problem you know
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It’s head-spinning. Somehow, after 22 days of spending 5+ hours a day patrolling for ICE, the antifa types have decided that not only should I not be allowed to do that, but I am “a danger to everyone around me” and should be universally excluded from left spaces. Insanity
February 2, 2026 at 5:52 PM
It’s head-spinning. Somehow, after 22 days of spending 5+ hours a day patrolling for ICE, the antifa types have decided that not only should I not be allowed to do that, but I am “a danger to everyone around me” and should be universally excluded from left spaces. Insanity
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I’m actually a believer in accurate historical casting, at least within the bounds of credibility - for films set in a real historical contexts. But Radley is right here - this is myth. Sirens and cyclopses exist in a world of imagination, and we are free to reinterpret them however we want.
The woke scolds are trying to make this about racism. But Musk is right. It's about historical and scientific integrity. When the God of Thunder disguises himself as a swan to seduce and fuck a queen and the resulting baby hatches from an egg, *of course* the baby will be white. It's just science.
Elon Musk claims Christopher Nolan has lost ‘integrity’ over The Odyssey casting
Lupita Nyong’o is reportedly set to play Helen of Troy in Nolan’s upcoming adaptation of Homer’s epic poem
www.independent.co.uk
February 2, 2026 at 3:46 PM
I’m actually a believer in accurate historical casting, at least within the bounds of credibility - for films set in a real historical contexts. But Radley is right here - this is myth. Sirens and cyclopses exist in a world of imagination, and we are free to reinterpret them however we want.
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in general it is very strange for anyone — even gutter racists — to imagine the mediterranean world as somehow looking like northern europe.
The woke scolds are trying to make this about racism. But Musk is right. It's about historical and scientific integrity. When the God of Thunder disguises himself as a swan to seduce and fuck a queen and the resulting baby hatches from an egg, *of course* the baby will be white. It's just science.
Elon Musk claims Christopher Nolan has lost ‘integrity’ over The Odyssey casting
Lupita Nyong’o is reportedly set to play Helen of Troy in Nolan’s upcoming adaptation of Homer’s epic poem
www.independent.co.uk
February 2, 2026 at 4:04 PM
in general it is very strange for anyone — even gutter racists — to imagine the mediterranean world as somehow looking like northern europe.
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Nabokov: I am going to write about a monster doing sick shit
Readers: wow this book is hot.
Nabokov: oh so all you are monsters and cant comprehend the text.
Readers: wow this book is hot.
Nabokov: oh so all you are monsters and cant comprehend the text.
Any time people start with the ephebophelia nonsense I want to point them to this quote by Nabokov about Lolita where he just fucking eviscerates an interviewer claiming that Humbert Humbert was the equivalent of 40 year olds marrying 20 year olds:
November 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Nabokov: I am going to write about a monster doing sick shit
Readers: wow this book is hot.
Nabokov: oh so all you are monsters and cant comprehend the text.
Readers: wow this book is hot.
Nabokov: oh so all you are monsters and cant comprehend the text.
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The most succinct way of describing the Biden years is an attempt to return to normalcy in highly abnormal times
I think he geniunely believed that it would have been inappropriate and believed in preserving norm. This was in some sense noble. In a most greater and more meaningful sense, he was stupid and wrong.
February 1, 2026 at 6:36 AM
The most succinct way of describing the Biden years is an attempt to return to normalcy in highly abnormal times
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I don't exaggerate when I say that Andrew Wakefield should be tried for mass murder. We'll never know how many people have died or will die as a direct result of his fraudulent study.
This is the large domino, with the small domino being some random quack in the UK in 1998 trying to undermine the existing MMR vaccine so his business partner can swoop in with his own. Instead he lost his work credentials and now kids are dying needlessly all over the world, so great job everyone.
Austria loses its WHO status as measles-free, too, together with Armenia, Azerbaijan Uzbekistan and Spain. This comes as no surprise, considering the rise in numbers in recent years and the decline in MMR vaccine coverage
#VaccineHesitancy #PublicHealthImpact #AllChildrenNeedProtection
#VaccineHesitancy #PublicHealthImpact #AllChildrenNeedProtection
January 28, 2026 at 10:04 PM
I don't exaggerate when I say that Andrew Wakefield should be tried for mass murder. We'll never know how many people have died or will die as a direct result of his fraudulent study.
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god bless none of this is true for the vast, vast majority of Chinese workers.
Then they should deliver China's employelment benefits with it.
Your vacation days follow you throughout your career.
The company is required to pay for your 5 mandatory social insurances: medical maternity, retirement, unemployment, and workplace injury.
You get a House fund.
etc
Your vacation days follow you throughout your career.
The company is required to pay for your 5 mandatory social insurances: medical maternity, retirement, unemployment, and workplace injury.
You get a House fund.
etc
January 29, 2026 at 2:43 PM
god bless none of this is true for the vast, vast majority of Chinese workers.
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9-9-6 was a Chinese term invented mostly to show how depressing and lifeless work culture was; watching softbrained AI guys adopt it as an ideal is ... well, entirely predictable
January 29, 2026 at 8:39 AM
9-9-6 was a Chinese term invented mostly to show how depressing and lifeless work culture was; watching softbrained AI guys adopt it as an ideal is ... well, entirely predictable