Divalent

Civic nationalist

[Divalent @Divalent6653]

[THREAD] Comparison of NCAA Men's and Women's performances in Track & Field events.

In this thread I compare the performances of the top 500 individual men and women athletes in each of the events contested during the 2018 Division 1 NCAA Track & Field outdoor season. /1

[Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo]

Say it with me: "A welfare state is a fundamentally nationalist project that is incompatible with an open-borders stance"

[Charles Murray @charlesmurray]

Weird feeling to read an analysis of what's behind a person's position when you're the person whose position is being analyzed. In this case, I read through it wondering why my past comments have anything that need analyzing.

I think I've been straightforward about why I can't stand Trump-the-Man. Character is the main way I judge someone. Trump stamps every ticket for disqualifying moral failings: using others as scapegoats for his mistakes, taking credit for others' accomplishments, disloyalty to friends, defaulter on debts, cheater on contracts, disloyalty to spouse... I'll stop there. More simply, I admire men whose word is their bond, with whom I could do business with a handshake, and who would have my back in a bar fight. Trump's not one of them

OTOH, I've openly said that I like a lot of the policy things that Trump has done, especially in his second term, and am deeply relieved that he beat Harris. For that matter, I voted for Trump in 2024 and regret not voting for him in 2020 (I foolishly believed Biden's promise to be a moderate one-termer). Just as you're supposed to able to hate the sin and love the sinner, I can hate Trump-the-man and still rationally vote for him.

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[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

Want to save the West? Start by telling your children the truth.

A society that teaches its children to hate their inheritance shouldn't be surprised when they fail to preserve it.

Teach your children gratitude. Teach them why freedom matters. Teach them what made the West successful.

Because if you don't tell them the truth about their civilisation, someone else will tell them a lie.

[Divalent @Divalent6653]

@thesmokingdutch @David_Hambling @GrandpaRoy2 https://t.co/fyxIVQe4XI

[Igor Sushko @igorsushko]

💥 Ukraine's new penetrator bomb appears to be highly effective with its delayed fuse.

[Divalent @Divalent6653]

@eigenrobot But isn’t there a difference between a prostitute who fucks to earn a living, and a woman who fucks for pleasure?

[Divalent @Divalent6653]

@north0fnorth Might it be that you have cause and effect backwards?

[eigenrobot @eigenrobot]

we talk a lot about institutions being skinsuited tho everyone carries on as if they they were the same as they once were.

it occurs to me this applies hardest to governments and peoples.

the US government, the UK government, on and on have no substantial institutional continuity with the entities we traditionally associate with those labels who generated the prestige of the organizations. the presidency is debauched, congress is castrated and vestigial, the court profaned, the bureaucracy metastatic.

similarly our notions of "americans." what is an "american" today? what have they to do with the people who fought the revolution? who conquered the frontier and the world? who bore the long twilight struggle, even?

it seems to me very little. the blood is grown thin and saeculum has done the rest.

we have forgotten the face of our father.

[Westside L.A. Guy @WestsideLAGuy]

Politics is downstream of culture. But culture is downstream of demographics & money flows. Once you understand that, a lot of what's going on in the country makes sense.

Let's take L.A. mayoral race for instance. No, Pratt is not going to win. Yes, Bass is an abject failure. But people don't vote based on a checklist of policies but rather based on their personal values and self-interest.

L.A., like many major U.S. cities, has undergone a radical demographic transformation. There isn't much of a functional White middle class - the group that fueled the rise of the modern American conservative movement and was the reason why CA used to be a GOP leaning state. What L.A. now has is a wealthy liberal elite (mostly White), large mass of poor/working class Latinos & Blacks who rely on government programs, and some young professionals trying to move up (they're also heavily liberal, particularly unmarried White & Asian women).

Pratt's critique is factually correct but it doesn't matter because a majority of L.A. voters benefit from the current dysfunctional liberal regime. They get government handouts & see crime/homelessness/high taxes as the price that the wealthy Whites should pay to fund their lifestyle. Simply put, demographic transformation has resulted in deterministic race socialism, an ossified identity politics that is divorced from the long-term well being of the city.

What's happening in L.A. is happening throughout the country. NYC, the country's largest and most important city, now has a foreign born socialist mayor elected by Third World immigrants & unmarried college educated White women.

This is also why right wing commentary is cringe & low IQ, as it fails to honestly discuss these issues and instead dances around it, engaging in pathetic bouts of copium. Whenever a right wing pundit or "strategist" mouths off, I have one question for them: if you were the dictator of the U.S., what policies would you implement to ensure the conservative vision you advocate for?

There are only TWO, I repeat, TWO correct answers:

-Immigration moratorium
-Rollback of the feminization of American institutions, especially universities

That's it. Don't come at me with dumbass shit like "more tax cuts," "increase defense spending," "giving tax breaks to couples who have kids." Nah bro, stop with that boomer retard drivel. This isn't 1984 when Regan won 49 states on a message of standard economic conservatism. Wake the fuck up and know what time it is.

[Divalent @Divalent6653]

@omni_american This is wrong. An effective solution (if one exists) absolutely requires an understanding of the cause. Different causes requires fundamentally different solutions. You don't give chemo to a TB patient, and you don't give antibiotics to a lung cancer patient.

[Divalent @Divalent6653]

@HMDatMI Exactly.

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[Divalent @Divalent6653]

@iowahawkblog You get what you tolerate. And even more so, you get what you subsidize. Tolerate crime? You get more crime. Tolerate encampments? You get more encampments. Tolerate drug use? You get more druggies. Tolerate filth? You get more filth.

[Divalent @Divalent6653]

@ArtemisConsort What exactly is racism?

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[𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯 @atlanticesque]

I believe "woke" is essentially the logical conclusion of two phenomena:

(1) There's a strong belief that differences in outcome between demographic groups can only be explained by discrimination, not innate or cultural differences.

(2) There's a large number of overeducated functionaries who rely on the *material bounty* of socially liberal politics—e.g. DEI officers, diversity grants, affirmative action hiring, etc.—to sustain their livings, and this is justified because of (1).

So long as these two things continue to be true, then there will be no fundamental change. "Woke" may ebb and flow as it contends with countervailing forces (most importantly of these is the fact that things have to actually work) but the underlying engine which drives "woke" is the same as it was in the 70s and in the 90s and in the 10s and beyond.

You cannot understand "wokeness" as merely a social trend, it is a *material* system of incentives that people rely on for, inter alia, *money*

Everyone talking about "Woke 2.0" being able to ditch what made "Woke 1.0" so odious is wishcasting because they cannot reckon with actually knocking out either of these pillars, let alone both. Like, the black middle class exists because of government hiring policies, do you think that any Democratic Party would change that? Until it would, then "woke" will be here, because "woke" is merely the logical conclusion of fundamental left-liberal beliefs that have not changed and do not seem likely to.

[Divalent @Divalent6653]

@JuryTrialReport @EllaFrei17 What is the definition of a girl?

[Divalent @Divalent6653]

@dolljointsangel It’s not misogyny to not care about men raping men. Closest thing it might be is misandry.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

My patience for other people's dogs is zero. If I'm inconvenienced or disrupted by someone's dog for even one second, it's unacceptable. Your dog should just not ever be my problem. But children are human beings. They are the next generation. We need them to exist and be participants in society or else human society goes extinct. Therefore the baseline patience we have for kids, even when they're slightly disruptive, should be INFINITELY higher than our baseline patience for dogs. And yet a lot of people, because they're retarded and selfish and worship their pets, have this exactly reversed.

[Divalent @Divalent6653]

@anishmoonka For those interested in more detailed information and summary, I ran this by ChatGPT.

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[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 WOW! WH anti-fraud task force cochair Andrew Ferguson just broke it down PERFECTLY on fraud:

"Our whole society was designed for a high trust people."

Then we imported the 3rd world.

"The American people rightly expects that their fellow citizens will deal with them and with the government, honestly and fairly."

"That's why for up until the last decade or so shelves in our grocery stores and our pharmacies were open and readily accessible. We weren't accustomed to seeing security guards outside of banks or jewelry stores."

"We didn't have to worry about organized retail theft or industrial scale scammers or the type you all protect your citizens from every day. Nor did we have to worry about fraudsters raiding our benefits program. But sadly, that is no longer true."

"It's become clear that huge groups of people in this country are taking advantage of our longstanding culture of trust to enrich themselves at the expense of the American people. I think a brief example would be illustrative. Just this weekend, I was shopping at a big home improvement store to buy a drill to do some home improvement."

"And I had a call button and wait 15 minutes for a sales associate to come unlock a steel cage and a steel padlock to get access to a drill. It's why deodorant is now locked behind plastic windows at pharmacies. It's why security guards are seen at every store in America."

"The social trust is evaporated and people are taking advantage of it and the same is true with our federal benefits programs."

"Huge segments of the population have decided to take advantage of this generosity and trust of American citizens through deception and fraud and billions and billions of dollars each year."

"Leave our programs into the hands of pirates, fraudsters, scammers and gangs who treat American generosity as little more than a get quick rich scheme."

"We shouldn't have to live this way."

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

One of the biggest mistakes we’ve made in the West is treating immigration as a question of virtue instead of a question of governance.

Of course our country can help people fleeing genuine persecution. But not against the wishes of its citizens!

That isn’t extremism. It’s reality.

[i/o @avidseries]

Another way of putting it: At a personal level, if I meet a guy who tells me he's a woman, I have no problem maintaining that fiction for his benefit. But if we build policy and institutions and science upon that fiction, we will end up embedding his disorder across the entirety of our society.

[The Last Boy Scout @Jack_Schmidt_TM]

Women do more housework. 200% more. Living alone, compared to men living alone.

Women do more housework not because they're oppressed or because it makes them healthier or happier (they're the most medicated for depression).

The do it because they like it. They do it because they're driven to because of their biological role.

The only people oppressed by housework are the men that are forced to do it by the women that are so egocentric they can't imagine anyone else being any different than them.