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Just watched The Manosphere by @louistheroux. I think what non-traditional people don't understand about tradition, both progressives and the young too online right, is that tradition isn't primitivism. Tradition isn't Woman in Kitchen, Man Conquer Rape Pillage Command. Tradition is about standing on the shoulders of the giants and the simple in order to grow beyond base drives. And tradition means having norms evolved over generations that are transpersonal so one very rarely must assert "You Woman Do X, I Man Do Y"; everyone knows what to do. Questions about norms dobarise when you're brought into confrontation with non-traditional scenarios, and when they do they're answered in collaborative ways (eg, the halakhic process), not through alphas asserting their opinions through power. Yes, we traditional people talk about basic things, like war, sexuality, and character, in ways that make progressives "uncomfortable"; it's not because we believe people should behave like the House of Atreus (obviously, the point of those Greek stories is to establish norms contrary to their bad behavior), but rather because we see that these are fundamental elements of humanity that everyone must confront. Unlike Western progressives, we do not imagine that our species has developed cultural software that somehow obviates our natural hardware. We believe not in that sort of progress but live committed to deepening relationships, to rising up in answer to the challenges of life, to acting in noble, dignified ways, and to emerging, though not merely by our own volition, into a world of redemption. Theroux btw was extraordinary in how he gently but firmly, respectfully but with genuine curiosity confronted his subjects.

The contradiction of wanting traditional norms without traditional values... Iow, "others (in particular, women) should behave according to my vision of tradition, when it suits me (Alpha of my virtual reality paleo tribe), while I say retrograde things to shock the pants off ppl conditioned to progressivism, and do whatever the hell I want because base appetites are so based."

Walked the dog last night past a house where 3 middle-aged couples were playing cards at a kitchen island, with glasses of wine My first thought: this is the world internet rightists say they want to protect My second: internet rightists would pour scorn on those people

Hashem's people don't run the world. Hashem does.

Jews don't run the world, but we could be a stabilizing hegemon in the Mideast

ה' יילחם לכם

@Osint613 Maybe they have a surplus of electricity since they cut the internet

Iran’s Energy Minister says the country has a “surplus” of electricity and that citizens should not worry. Before the war, Iran was already dealing with rolling blackouts and persistent power shortages.

מי לה' אליי

Actually I only make m@tz0t with the finest US treasury bonds

You get to download one "dead" Indo-European language into your mind. Options are limited. Which do you choose:

A linguistic genie will gift you knowledge of one as-yet undeciphered language. Which do you choose?

You get to download into your mind one language you don't know. But the choices are limited. Which do you choose:

@yoniChanowitz You are an inauthentic Khazar because you don't speak Georgian but instead Yiddish

@MeirSimchah Besides Georgian, none of these allow me to talk to Jews any better

Iranian authorities deploy security forces across cities due to fears of unrest.

Fascinating

@MeirSimchah I already speak Georgian, Alabamian, Mississippian, and Tennessean. 😁

Yeah, I was thinking about that. I'm told that Turkic languages are pretty close to each other, so knowing one of them is a lot of bang for your linguistic buck. On the other hand, I don't know anything in Azeri or Turkish that I particularly want to read... I just think it'd be interesting to inhabit the structure of these languages.

@MeirSimchah Azeri is almost Turkish which gives a way larger audience of people to speak with, literature to read, movies to watch etc

@gork please give me odds that the replacement Intelligence Minister for Iran is from the Mossad

@Osint613 Prepare for impact...

NEW 🔴 Iran has reportedly appointed a replacement for Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib, who was eliminated by Israel. The successor's identity will be revealed soon.