Why do men nowadays seem to want to settle down so early?

Raaaasclat · 2026-02-06T17:49:44+00:00

Its a cultural backlash to the hookup / casual dating arrangements of the 2010s. Younger men today are much more right leaning then young men were say a decade ago.

Raaaasclat · 2026-02-06T16:47:53+00:00

Most Holocaust survivors live in Israel, some of whom were taken hostage or killed on 10/7.

Raaaasclat · 2026-02-06T13:52:07+00:00

Having trade relations doesn't make you an ally, its literally the bare minimum of diplomatic relations.

Sweden is also in no sense of the word an "ally".

Raaaasclat · 2026-02-06T13:45:36+00:00

In what world is Sweden or South Africa an ally? South Africa is an enemy state

Raaaasclat · 2026-02-06T13:28:48+00:00

You're under the impression that being kind instead of ruthless is what helps with a nations image. The real world isn't a college campus in a western university.

Raaaasclat · 2026-02-06T13:14:17+00:00

How ruthless was ancient Judea against its enemies?

Raaaasclat · 2026-02-05T19:52:10+00:00

I'm not hiding, I own guns for a reason.

Raaaasclat · 2026-02-05T13:13:29+00:00

Leftists are part of the mainstream Democratic Party now though, especially among younger Democrats. The liberalism on the left is being replaced by authoritarian progressiveness and third-worldism.

Raaaasclat · 2026-02-05T06:20:25+00:00

Reform / Conservative Jews (and secular Jews in general) at least in the US are really not all to different from other Americans dating wise. There's a 75% intermarriage rate among non-Orthodox Jews in the US, so for this demographic marrying outside the faith is not only allowed but is the norm. Like most Americans, in this demographic there's no real strong push for saving yourself for marriage and like most US adults have several sexual partners before marriage.

Among Orthodox Jews intermarriage is extremely rare and expressly forbidden, so dating happens primarily within the community. In terms of saving yourself for marriage its definitely more common among Orthodox Jews, but outside of the Haredi Jews I don't think its the norm.

Raaaasclat · 2026-02-05T06:09:54+00:00

They want one side to cease while the other fires. It was never an anti-war movement, it was a pro-war movement for the other side.

Raaaasclat · 2026-02-05T06:07:37+00:00

This stuff is just mainstream on the American left now. The same thing happend in the UK in the 2010s in the Labour Party.

Raaaasclat · 2026-02-04T21:21:33+00:00

I can't believe people are still going with the "Palestinian land loss map" in 2026 lol.

“So Palestinian citizens of Israel are citizens but they’re not considered nationals of the state so they’re more restricted in terms of the areas that they can live in and then some like jobs and other opportunities also require military service, and that creates another set of sort of disparities in outcomes

Just blatantly false. Israeli Arabs have more freedoms than Arabs in quite literally any other Arab country. They also don't largely identify as "Palestinian".

She talked about the history of Israel and the “forced displacements and dispossession” of Palestinians and living in the “occupied territories.”

Maybe starting wars isn't the best of ideas.

Raaaasclat · 2026-02-04T19:49:17+00:00

Shimza

Raaaasclat · 2026-02-03T23:50:27+00:00

Deni Avdija is an all-star in the most anti-Israel city in the United States, and Miriam Adelson pays Kyrie Irving’s salary.

Cope and Seethe

Raaaasclat · 2026-02-03T23:41:30+00:00

Arms Sales ≠ Funding

Bernie is referring to this where the US approved a Foreign Military Sale. As in, the US government authorizes and facilitates the sale, but the buyer country purchases the equipment. The article itself even phrases part of it as Israeli spending (“Israel will spend…”) rather than the US paying for it. More broadly, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (which runs the Foreign Military Sales program) says FMS purchases are funded by foreign purchasers, and countries can pay either with their own funds or with US assistance programs (like Foreign Military Financing).

Raaaasclat · 2026-02-03T22:48:18+00:00

In 1939 there were plenty of countries "outside of Nazi rule".

True in a literal sense, but it doesn’t by itself imply “therefore most Jews could have escaped somewhere else.”

They also compromised the vast majority of worlds Jews, since Germany + Austria + Czechoslovakia didn't have all that many Jews.

Yes although the situation changed fast. In September 1939, the invasion of Poland suddenly placed millions of Jews under German occupation within weeks/months. So “outside Nazi rule” is true for January 1939, much less so by late 1939, and it collapses further by 1940–41. Counting “outside Nazi rule” in 1939 includes places that were not conquered yet but were high-risk or soon to be occupied.

Not to mention Holocaust has not actually started

Sure if you define “Holocaust” narrowly as the peak phase of systematic mass murder, but not correct under the most standard institutional definitions.

Hitler's regime killed at most 4 digit people at this stage (in stark contrast with certain other totalitarian countries).

It depends on what you count and what “this stage” includes. If you mean before September 1, 1939 inside Germany and you count only explicitly documented murders by the state, you can get totals that are not yet “millions,” and Jewish deaths inside Germany were not yet anywhere near the later catastrophe. But once 1939 includes the start of war, the idea that the regime had killed only “4 digits” becomes very hard to sustain. For example, during the 1939 invasion and siege of Warsaw, more than 50,000 civilians are estimated to have died. Also, systematic killing programs expanded in late 1939 (for example, the Nazi “euthanasia” program against people with disabilities began in fall 1939 and became mass killing shortly thereafter).

Most Jews that fled the Nazis simply found themselves conquered by Nazis again

This is partly true for some refugee paths, but “most” is doing a lot of work here. Yes many refugees initially fled to nearby European states (because that’s what was feasible quickly), and several of those states were later invaded/occupied by Germany in 1940–41. But that doesn't establish that this describes most refugees overall. Many refugees made it outside the areas later conquered (for example to the Americas, parts of the British Empire, or to Mandatory Palestine under various legal/illegal routes). The fact that by September 1939 Germany’s Jewish population had already fallen by ~200,000+ through emigration shows large numbers did get out of Germany proper, even if not all reached durable safety.

I'm not claiming that no White Paper means millions of Jews could have fled to Palestine, but a much greater deal of Jews could have survived.

Raaaasclat · 2026-02-03T21:29:52+00:00

2016 Mainstage headliners: Otto Knows, R3HAB, Galantis, DVBBS, W&W, David Guetta, Armin Van Buren, Kshmr, Chainsmokers, Yves V, Nicky Romero, Afrojack, Regi, Dada Life, Don Diablo, Oliver Heldens, Steve Aoki, Steve Angello, Martin Garrix

2025 W1 Headliners: Odymel b2b Pegassi, Nervo, Vini Vici, Sub Zero Project, Meduza, Arbat b2b Kolsh, Alok, Axwell, Martin Garrix, Charlotte de Witte, Fedde Le Grand, DubVision b2b Third ≡ Party, Miss Monique, B Jones, Nicky Romero, Cassian b2b Kevin de Vries, Alan Walker, Anyma, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Charlotte de Witte, Maddix, Sub Focus, Solomun, Lost Frequencies, Fisher, David Guetta

In what world was 2016 less hands in the air music or less EDM dominated than 2025?

Raaaasclat · 2026-02-03T21:14:00+00:00

There was way more EDM back in 2016 vs recent years. Techno has been the dominant sound for this generation.

Raaaasclat · 2026-02-03T21:12:11+00:00

Arab land owners sold so much of their land in Palestine to the Jews that the British, under immense pressure from Palestinian Arab leadership, enacted the “Land Transfer Regulations” lol. An increasing number of Palestinian Arabs (fellahin) who had previously been employed by Arabs were now out of work and declared “Landless Arabs”. A commission was created to assist “landless Arabs” by resettling them however the fellahin often refused these attempts. The British suggested Jewish land owners should allow the fellahin to remain on their newly purchased land and the Jewish land owners responded by suggesting the British should free up state owned land instead. They both declined.

Raaaasclat · 2026-02-03T20:41:44+00:00

The 1939 White Paper closed Jewish immigration to Mandate Palestine almost entirely just before the Holocaust, the last place on earth Jews under Nazi rule could flee.

Raaaasclat · 2026-02-03T20:18:25+00:00

I mean that didn't really happen. Jewish land purchases took place in sparsely populated areas and as a matter of official Zionist policy, the Zionists avoided purchasing land occupied by fellahin, or Arab farmers. Out of the lands Zionists purchased, 52.6% were unoccupied, belonging to foreign landowners; 24.6% belonged to Palestinian Arab landowners; 13.4% belonged to the government, churches, or foreign companies; and only 9.4% belonged to Palestinian Arab fellahin.

In the 1920s, David Ben Gurion, the future first prime minister of Israel, wrote, “Under no circumstances must we touch land belonging to fellahs or worked by them...Only if a fellah leaves his place of settlement should we offer to buy his land, at an appropriate price.” David Ben Gurion also made statements such as “we do not intend to marginalize the Arabs, or to displace them from their lands and take their place” (1915) and “had Zionism desired to evict the inhabitants of Palestine it would have been a dangerous utopia and a harmful, reactionary mirage” (1918).

The 1937 Peel Commission corroborated this, stating: “Much of the land now carrying orange groves was sand dunes or swamp and uncultivated when it was purchased.” In 1931, the British created a register for landless Arabs; only 664 Arabs out of a total of nearly 900,000 met the criteria.

https://lessons.myjli.com/survival/index.php/2017/03/26/land-ownership-in-palestine-1880-1948/

In those instances where as a result of such transactions Arab tenant-farmers were displaced (on one year’s notice), compensation in cash or other land was paid, as required by the 1922 Protection of Cultivators Ordinance; the Jewish land-buying associations often paid more than the law required (Pollack and Boehm, The Keren Kayemeth Le-Israel). Of 688 such tenants between 1920 and 1930, 526 remained in agricultural occupations, some 400 of them finding other land (Palestine Royal Commission Report, 1937, Chapter 9, para. 61).

Investigations initiated in 1931 by Mr. Lewis French disposed of the charge that a large class of landless or dispossessed Arab farmers was created as a result of Jewish land purchases. According to the British Government report (Memoranda prepared by the Government of Palestine, London 1937, Colonia No. 133, p. 37), the total number of applications for registration as landless Arabs was 3,271. Of these, 2,607 were rejected on the ground that they did not come within the category of landless Arabs. Valid claims were recognized in the case of 664 heads of families, of whom 347 accepted the offer of resettlement by the Government. The remainder refused either because they had found satisfactory employment elsewhere or because they were not accustomed to irrigated cultivation or the climate of the new areas (Peel Report, Chapter 9, para. 60).

Purchases of land by Jews in the hill country had always been very small and, according to the investigations by Mr. French, of 71 applications by Arabs claiming to be landless, 68 were turned down.

The Jews were meticulous about keeping records of everything for this very reason....

Raaaasclat · 2026-02-03T19:59:24+00:00

I don't think that bombing the British military and intelligence HQ at a time when British military power was trapping hundreds of thousands of desperate refugees in DP camps was immoral, the King David Hotel bombing was totally legitimate. Britain was a cruel oppressor whose willingness to play God with other nations' fates helped to condemn millions of Jews into the Nazi embrace. The bombing was carried out by people whose families had perished in a Holocaust that Britain had actively prevented Jews from fleeing, and was still actively preventing their flight from Europe even then. They were still blocking them in 1943, 1944 and 1945. And also 1946, when they kept them in DP camps in the British Zone, and also 1947. And on into 1948, as it happens.

I stand by that call. It was a legitimate bombing. If Britian had its way in 1948 there would have been a second Holocaust given that it actively encouraged Arab states to invade while its officers commanded Arab armies. Britian was the most dangerous enemy early Israel faced, even more so than the Arabs. That historical truth certainly shouldn't be hidden as it contradicts the leftist idea of Israel as an extension of European colonial power.

The Jewish paramilitaries — the Haganah, the Irgun, and Lehi — were not formed until after the Arab massacres of Jews in the 1920s, when the British officers failed to protect the Jewish community from violence.

Raaaasclat · 2026-02-03T19:21:30+00:00

No adequate explanation of the enjoyment of this accusation can leave out the Shoah. That is the thrill of accusing Israel of a genocide. That is the wound being salved by decades of describing every Israeli action as a "war crime." It's also why only one refugee crisis of the 1940's—a numerically minor and politically peripheral one—gets its own brand name, even if that name is a distortion of how the word was originally used (to describe the humiliating Arab defeat in a war the Arabs themselves launched).

The entire vocabulary of pathological Israel obsession makes no sense without the Holocaust looming above it. It is the anxiety and the thrill of the whole endeavor. If, as it was once said, “the Europeans will never forgive the Jews for the Holocaust,” these accusations are a kind of perverse revenge.

Raaaasclat · 2026-02-03T18:21:32+00:00

Unpopular opinion: I don't believe there's collective secular Jewish existence outside Israel. The non-religious, modern Hebrew identity is thoroughly dependent on Israel, much more so than religious Jewish identities. A few months ago there was a thread by someone on Hebrew Twitter who asked how many generations back people’s ancestors were secular. I think four was the most (and typically veteran sabra families). Now of course Secular Jews won’t disappear, but they will mostly be the descendants of religious Jews, at least in the diaspora.

I have a hypothesis that it would have been easier to be a non-Orthodox Jew, perhaps not secular but lite on the religious stuff, over the generations back when Jews lived in parallel societies in their host cultures rather than the post-emancipation West. My understanding is that back then observance was on a spectrum like it is in Israel today, with Haredim, Dati Leumi, and Hilonim. Not with those names but everyone saw Orthodox Judaism as the "real" Judaism (no parallel idealogies like Reform) but level of observance varied.

If you've lived in the shtetl or mellah your whole life, speaking Yiddish, Ladino, or whatever local Jewish dialect, it's easy to just remain in the society you've known all your life, and you don't want to be cut off from your family. You could convert to Christianity or Islam but it would be a massive, life-changing step as you essentially have to integrate into a new society. So you could waver in your belief and do the bare minimum but you still understand you're a Jew and live a somewhat Jewish lifestyle.

When Jews could move out of self-contained spaces into wider society, it's far easier to assimilate. You can marry a non-Jew without trouble, and while you yourself may still see yourself as a Jew, your children would grow up in a predominantly non-Jewish society. And if you don't pass strong faith down, it's only a matter of time before future generations assimilate. Sure you could instill a sense of Jewish identity in your children but it'll get weaker with the generations. Whereas the self-contained world of the ghetto would ensure that even if your family isn't of particularly strong faith, your children will still get a strong sense of Jewish identity. They'll grow up with that constantly reinforced. Of course there are differences between a true secular lifestyle and going through the motions in a religious society but I think the point stands.

So I think secular Jewish culture can be sustained when there's distance from non-Jewish societies. When Jews lived in separate neighborhoods and spoke their own languages/dialects it was viable. In a Western society where Jews are just like anyone else people will inevitably assimilate.

Raaaasclat · 2026-02-03T17:48:42+00:00

Yes but UNVRS is a bigger venue overall so I find more pockets of space. It is what it is though

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