Spooky

The 40-hour work week, from the perspective of efficiency, workers' rights, family time, quality, and productivity, is comically outdated. The only reason people defend it is that it has been the status quo in America for decades.

RFK Jr. complains that teenagers today don’t have enough sperm

this is an argument i will never get. "it's deserved" i didn't do shit to get born here. it's not deserved. it's luck. and most people are unlucky as hell

"Male attractiveness actually peaks around the mid-20s, only three or four years after women, and starts to drop quite sharply after 40."

Even if lot of incels are indeed just scared to try (which I’d agree with), that just begs the question of why that kind of anxiety is so much more prevalent nowadays than just one or two decades ago.

Gamers constantly vindicating Ebert’s assessment of the medium despite there protestations to the contrary.

In retrospect Christopher Hitchens ideas (fanatically anti muslim-vaguely pro palestine, neocon but marxist etc) were incoherent and pretty dumb

In Italy, Charlotte de Witte threw a free 20,000-people rave in Genova. Organized by the City of Genoa supported by Mayor Silvia Salis, who was also dancing backstage, the event is part of a wider campaign to bring music back into urban spaces. This is what your government could do for you.

“We hate technology, billionaires, white people and men” might be the worst political platform of all time

Class analysis is not about showing that the bourgeois is bad. In fact it's almost the opposite: even the most moral, caring and nice bourgeois cannot eventually resist the material compulsions that force them to exploit workers.

The very wealthy consume a rounding error of their wealth. Mostly, their ownership is actually pure responsibility with little (in proportional terms) personal consumption payoff. They make allocation decisions. That’s it. There’s also nothing wrong with inheritance. On pragmatic grounds, given that most psychological traits are highly heritable, and heirs will have grown up around their successful parents and immersed in their work, they will be far better stewards of this capital than almost anyone, and certainly better than some government bureaucrat. And dynasty encourages long-term thinking, which is all too rare these days. And what’s the alternative? Every heir has to sell off almost everything to JP Morgan and Goldman to pay their tax bill, so that eventually financial institutions control every business, with zero domain knowledge for any of them? But these are all just the pragmatic arguments. I think it’s really important that we hold the line on property rights deontologically. They get to leave their shares to their kids because it’s their property. Not yours, not the state’s. End of story.

Most men who idealize the "tradwife" don't want to be "trad husbands". They want to be normie husbands married to trad wives. They want a wife who wakes up early to bake bread while they spend the Saturday playing video games. The burden of trad is offloaded onto the wife.

Always remember: in 2014 when Ginsburg could’ve retired under Obama with a 55 vote Dem Senate majority, she was *81* and had already had cancer and a coronary artery stent.

Reading through Reddit threads in which leftists/progressives express their bewilderment/confusion/fury at working class English voters for casting their lot in with Reform, one of the things I'm starting to understand is this: They simply do not understand how a government could help working-class people in any other way besides giving them benefits, handouts, and other free things. Their entire mental architecture is premised upon the premises that 1. Working class people are poor 2. The only way for them to not be poor is for the state to give them free stuff 3. So left-wing parties need to promise them lots of free stuff Then, when these working-class voters instead vote for right-of-centre parties who instead promise an economy in which they can build a career, start their own business, make a financial success of themselves and start a family, they're confused. Because, again, in their mental architecture, what the working class are *supposed* to want is free benefits from the state. But what they *actually* want is a fair shake at making their own way in the world, making money, getting on in life. And the left simply doesn't understand that what these voters want from the state is an economy in which they can actually do this.

College is expensive because every millenial INSISTED they get to go. The boomers spent a ton so they could go. This was not the case in the boomers day. They understood natural hierarchy and sorted themselves appropriately. Their big sin was liking their children too much.