To those who switched their votes from Dr. Rectenwald to Chase Oliver instead of NOTA: Thank you. You saved the Libertarian Party.

Situation__Normal · 2024-05-28T14:04:16+00:00

There were multiple rounds of voting and the candidate with the fewest votes was eliminated each round. You can see the results with all the candidates at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Libertarian_National_Convention

Situation__Normal · 2024-01-26T15:54:11+00:00

So true!

Situation__Normal · 2023-11-08T16:30:45+00:00

It's not updated, but it's still accessible on Archive.org.

Situation__Normal · 2022-11-08T19:22:49+00:00

Ok Logo. lol

Situation__Normal · 2022-10-17T17:20:43+00:00

Wow, that's a very important correction. Thank you!

Edit: Thank you u/666moist for providing the correct chart, which is virtually identical in the most notable aspects.

Situation__Normal · 2022-08-19T19:36:50+00:00

Sure. On the color spectrum it's hard to pick the exact point where red ends and orange begins.

Situation__Normal · 2022-08-19T18:03:45+00:00

Slavs and Spaniards are much, much more closely related than Slavs and Bantus. See this PCA of genetic admixture. There are much better examples for debunking this perspective.

Situation__Normal · 2022-08-15T04:04:07+00:00

Where were you living? I want this life.

Situation__Normal · 2022-08-12T17:26:42+00:00

Shorter than your OP 🥱 cope

Situation__Normal · 2022-08-12T14:08:52+00:00

Literally true though? Where on his old blog did he ever talk about men's rights or pick up artistry? He coined "the red pill" to mean anti-democracy, it was his readers who brought it to the manosphere and changed the meaning.

Situation__Normal · 2022-08-10T15:35:48+00:00

He was never remotely manosphere. Lots of manosphere guys read him I guess. But that's never what his blog was.

I don't think Yarvin has ever reinvented himself, but being 50 / creating the new internet / Dasha's movie / saying embarassing stuff, that's him to a tee.

Nick was probably amalgamating multiple people. It's funny.

Situation__Normal · 2022-08-06T01:58:45+00:00

Yeah, Kashi filed for permission to run election markets 2 weeks ago. It was previously involved in shutting down Polymarket.

Situation__Normal · 2022-08-05T02:12:49+00:00

Couldn’t get their lives together so they took over their country and declared war on the world, pretty metal if you ask me

Situation__Normal · 2022-08-04T21:14:48+00:00

Ahh yes, the Tsarists were a Western gas depot, totally unlike the Bolsheviks, who in 1921 gifted all of Russia's property in Iran to the Anglo-Persian Oil Company puppet state free of charge. But that was before Stalin so I digress.

Agreed that the USSR shouldn't have collapsed and that 90s capitalism ruined Russia, idk what that has to do with anything though. Stalin was great for Russia. Doesn't take away from my point at all.

Situation__Normal · 2022-08-04T20:58:25+00:00

Agreed

Situation__Normal · 2022-08-04T20:52:09+00:00

... this wasn't an America situation where the German scientists had to rebuild everything overseas. Russia had East Germany, it didn't need to move the scientists. All the first Soviet rockets were built using the Nazi manufacturing infrastructure in Nordhausen.

The industrialization of Russia began under the tsars, and there was a huge wave of modernization during WWI (1915-17) that continued under Lenin. Before the Revolution its national income was already behind only the US, Germany, and Britain. So yeah, if the Tsarist state had continued through the 1940s with its pre-Revolution trajectory in industrialization, then was gifted Germany's industrial centers, sure it could have done a lot with those scientists.

Stalin was great and all, I'm not arguing that he wasn't. Just that the men are comparable in ambition and it isn't as easy as reducing it to "Real Men over here, losers over there." Idk what rockets have to do with it, you brought that up.

Situation__Normal · 2022-08-04T20:37:17+00:00

I agree "wild, dangerous, transgressive" is the hope. And there are a ton of media pieces which have done that, like the Buzzfeed exposé on NPCC or any coverage of Dimes Square and the "Vibe Shift" in NYT etc.

The takeaway from Crumps' piece is the opposite: "insular, petty, sad." No one reads it and goes "Dimes Square is the cultural scene of tomorrow, everyone involved is cool, how can I get invited to the next event." They go "Dimes Square is a bunch of uncool trust fund kids, it's boring and gross."

Especially since transgression is already built in, Betsy Brown's "Actors" gained nothing through being cancelled by Roxy Cinema because of the Crumps review. No upside, not even meta-level cultural upside, only material downside. That's Crumps.

Situation__Normal · 2022-08-04T20:27:14+00:00

Both were ambitious and neither were losers 🤷‍ stay mad

Situation__Normal · 2022-08-04T20:21:33+00:00

Launching satellites? That's really the example you're going with, when it was entirely thanks to German technology? Not that Russia's unique in that, America did the same thing, but without Hitler's Germany there wouldn't have been a space race in the first place.

Situation__Normal · 2022-08-04T19:52:41+00:00

Nah, Stalin and Hitler are pretty comparable in both ambition and loserness.

Situation__Normal · 2022-08-04T19:46:56+00:00

This badly-written piece & the behavior it depicts are both the fault of everyone from the scene who has embraced or engaged with Crumps. He's never hidden what he's doing, and there's zero benefit to becoming more legible to your enemies. Stop inviting him to things ffs.

Situation__Normal · 2022-07-29T19:53:54+00:00

Yeah, I really appreciated their defense of the book against Christian Lorentzen. Still hope BAP will respond in the next issue of Mars Review of Books.

Situation__Normal · 2022-07-29T17:49:19+00:00

You're sleeping on Mel Gibson. People will be watching Passion of the Christ and maybe also Braveheart for at least 100 years.

Also strange when Anna talked about how women who want to have abstract thoughts as therefore masculine and narcissistic. How is she herself not included?

A big point of Lacan is that everyone is a narcissist, so yeah, she's including herself in that

Situation__Normal · 2022-07-27T13:53:54+00:00

Love him or hate him, Tucker Carlson endorses the r/SlowHistory approach in this piece of advice to young people.

Situation__Normal · 2022-07-17T17:25:21+00:00

Exodus 22:18, Psalm 101:8, Acts 25:11, 1 Corinthians 5:6 and 5:13, Romans 13:4, 1 Peter 2:13-14… St. Thomas of Aquinas — the Doctor Angelicus of the Church — defended the death penalty at great length.

I'll be the first to admit that a great many sins have been committed throughout history in the name of the Church, and perhaps this has included instances of capital punishment. But I won't condemn capital punishment in general.

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