ALEX DRONES

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Society believes that men owe women money, preferential admission, and preferential hiring and career advancement, while getting in return only what the state offers all its citizens (physical safety and welfare/dole). What does society owe men?

The state uses the threat of deadly force to take money from men and redistribute it to women via the welfare state. It also levies fines against colleges and employers to prevent men from gaining wealth and status to redistribute it to women. And men get very little in return.

@nic_carter it's still the case even in the 2010s and now. many of the best indie-tronic outfits of the 2010s were British (London Grammar, the xx, Daughter, Ben Howard). British math rock also its own scene.

And the run didn’t end there. You still had unbelievable British rock acts in the 90s and 00s.. Radiohead Coldplay Muse Oasis Blur Gorillaz My bloody valentine Massive attack Arctic monkeys Kasabian Keane

Has anyone ever convincingly explained why Britain was the absolute center of the rock universe in the 60s and 70s and still punched way above its weight in the 80s? The chokehold it had on music culture was just remarkable 60s and 70s: The Beatles The Stones Pink Floyd Led Zeppelin Genesis Yes Queen ELO The Who The Kinks Black Sabbath Supertramp Eric Clapton Moody Blues King Crimson David Bowie 80s: The Smiths New Order The Cure The Police Duran Duran Dire Straits Tears for Fears Iron Maiden Joy Division For a relatively small country going through post empire decline the cultural output was just remarkable

@feelsdesperate "psychological??"

‘The 2026 R strategy is all out mass psychological warfare and manipulation.’

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@fredsoda @profgalloway IMO, this is itself a kind of confused notion of "owe". "society" consists of the coordination of the able. preserving the coordination of the able means taking the capable and making them able - this means "owing" them something.

i want to be very careful and not come across as suggesting that society owes men these things (like @profgalloway) however, society has a vested interest in making sure most men can hit these milestones based on their own efforts there is a balance here

@BecomingCritter I can't wait for him to post about his hospital bed again

Massimo was systematically stealing videos from other creators. 2700+ from one account Crazy that these huge accounts were making big money farming smaller accounts for so long

@CoughsOnWombats @ChristianHeiens that's why I bought up a public land-grant uni. presumably you could force it to privatize or die, but it seems like "die" is the likely outcome there and we might prefer it to properly become a true public institution rather than die, or remain an element of the exostate.

@CoughsOnWombats @ChristianHeiens sorry - when I said too "strong" a statement I didn't mean too excessive a punishment, I meant too narrow a statement of "what actual neutrality would look like".

Friendly reminder that the Danish government forcibly closed the sociology departments of the University of Copenhagen in 1986 because they had been completely hijacked by Marxists who converted them into ideological indoctrination centers. What must be done to the American university system is just as drastic, but it would require conservatives to abandon their commitment to procedural neutrality and wield an extraordinary amount of state power without hesitation or apology.

@CoughsOnWombats @ChristianHeiens you need some way of saying "you can support the EZLN as a civilian, but as an academic you are a public servant and a mendicant. it's both a breach of office and a stepping above your station to use your role to lend support to the EZLN."

@CoughsOnWombats @ChristianHeiens Harvard is the easier case because it's private. what about UW-Madison?

@tszzl if you're a liberal and you wish for liberalism to persist, you should be thoroughly committed to the kind of agonism necessary for these political interests to reveal themselves and be understood as such, rather than as merely "criminal" or "evil" base impulses

@tszzl and what's more believe that the view you express (that all conflict can be "neutralized" to the appropriate "depoliticized" theaters compatible with rank liberalism) is itself a kind of cynical strategy for the repression of legitimate political interests.

@tszzl the people who express the idea in question (that membership in the body politic is granted by a personal sacrifice) absolutely do believe it is still the case that this is possible

one interesting thing that shows up re: the definition of a true american is the idea that one's ancestors fought and bled for the movement of History in the country. in the fukuyamist sense, there is actually just no longer an opportunity to do this. history has ended "The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands." you can see what people are reaching towards--and at this stage there is no need to judge its moral value--when they say one or more of their ancestors played a role in the act of 'history' of real ideological battle and warfare. there is nothing left to die for, not really, and proxy conflicts like iraq or what have you just don't count as ideological struggle and don't hold a kind of mythological weight. people today, hungry for a kind of recognition that is impossible, can at least reach for the idea that one's ancestors partook in megalothymia and created History. for this instinct, it probably doesn't even matter which side of the civil war one's grandparents were on, at least it was "real" as fukuyama writes, the only thing that could possibly restart history now is the progress of technology, the last unpredictable adventure left to us, that alters the nature of man and makes new things under the sun possible. make of that what you will

@mauddweeb also Cortana is a fantastic "strong female character", especially if your gloss on what that means is right-wing but *not* trad

@mauddweeb guy who doesn't notice that John and Cortana are Don Quixote and Dulcinea

John Halo is a perfectly good role model

@St_Rev @GMShivers there's part of me halfway convinced that this is some kind of foreign influence campaign

@GMShivers where do you find these people

You are the ones crying over the dollar menu lol

@cold_and_quiet this is of course true, but the added value does correlate strongly to having a specific set of scarce capacities that need to be kept on retainer. I don't think people are wrong to be skeptical that that's what's happening here.

I’m the male version of these girls. I goof around all day (which includes hanging out by the pool) and still managed to add millions in value to my firm. People don’t understand added value has a weak correlation time working and stress. Most of yall are meant for the fields

@LadiesOfReddit oh my god it's barnacle jim

@St_Rev this particular point is the most underdiscussed part of the story IME. much hay is made over this idea that AI will lead to constant regurgitation of the past. very little acknowledgement that doing anything truly new requires fully metabolizing everything that came before

The undeniable and overwhelming advantage AI has here is that AI has encountered *everything*. The last human to know all of mathematics was probably Gauss. Erdos might have known 10% at his peak.