I know you’re reading, Delicious Tacos. I am approaching Los Angeles in my big blue van and I will find you. I will force you to give The Worst Boyfriend Ever a shining endorsement on all your social medias— I am your natural predecessor. It’s like Mr. Incredibles and that ugly kid who wanted to just be like him, but couldn’t, for some reason, the kid just evolved into a very demonic and malicious version of himself.
OK that was a funny Penny meme but seeing him at the beginning and end of his ordeal side by side shows you the toll this took on him. He looks like he lost 20 pounds at least from the stress.
I hope that the BOM or our brother Marine JD don't just use Penny as a disposable prop for a photo, but ensure that the man is set up, because what we need is to take care of our own, like our enemies do. Creating a sense of reciprocal obligation to each other, from those of high degree to low, is missing from "our" culture, as Rufo rightly notes above.
And you just can't hate Cyclops Dan Crenshaw enough.
That Brittany girl who runs Evie magazine just seems like such a bitch lol. She never misses an opportunity to mog other women. I remember the romance novel fantasy vacation she described having with her boyfriend. I feel like the idea of Evie mag could be better executed by someone else.
Re: Stealth War. How should the US respond to ascendant China? Wrong question. When should we respond to an ascendant China? We should've responded to China's ascendancy ten years ago. It's too late now.
The appropriate response is to send a heartfelt "sorry" to Russia (possibly including a few strangled corpses of those who wronged them), then try to team up with them as Prof. Mearsheimer said we should have done in the first place. Russia and China are natural enemies, it's only the USA's foolishness that drove them together.
Re: low trust societies, the one area that hasn't been touched yet is authority. We still continue to make an idol of authority (both in concept and practice), leading to passive acceptance of judge/jury/executioner private company policies and tyranny-by-any-other-name in government.
This is not sustainable. Due to its usefulness with an inherent hierarchical species that loves to do things at scale, I predict that in order for authority to remain viable it will reach a point of reckoning, principally around accountability.
Yes this is very meta (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes) and could end up being turtles all the way up, but something has to give.
Low trust societies create a demand for sub-cultures with high trust, enforced from within that society. e.g., organized crime, ethnic support networks (which is often another way of saying organized crime.)
OMFG that Tweet of the Week killed me. Also so glad to have seen the Christmas movie, and glad someone calculated the length of Swann's walk...you know I actually like the guy but he turned to complete schizoposting and was as wrong as possible while being a huge dick about it and calling everyone else idiots, which is about the most you can embarrass yourself regarding election results lol
"tawdry, tatty little piece of Chicken Coop Couture from Evie magazine"
I'm liking it actually. The poster against it later says, "lol I can’t believe I let you goad me into this but I have those Kazakh milkers friend, not all female aesthetic opinions are reducible to jealousy"
China is the boogeyman. They are not in good shape, they are not ascendent. They have a demographic time bomb and a debt crisis on the horizon that will end the Chinese state as we know it. Articles in this summary that keep ignoring that suggests something else is at play.
Except neither of those situations as I described does the US face to anywhere near the same degree. China is facing almost a halving of their population in 25 years. And the impact from that will show up sooner. When all these people in China begin hitting retirement age, there is no money to pay them. Their savings in real estate are essentially worthless right now.
80% of their energy and food or material to grow food is imported.
I don’t diminish the US’ own issues. We dodged a bullet in the last election. But we have time to fix our issues, and just gained a bit more. Our economy is still the most powerful on the planet. China’s chance to outlast us isn’t zero, but it’s awfully darn close to that.
One thing to realize is that elites will do whatever it takes to remain elites, no matter how terrible. If there is no money for old peoples' retirement, Chinese elites aren't going to shed a tear at them starving. Some of those elites remember doing exactly that in the Cultural Revolution, as peasants died of starvation outside full but guarded granaries. Our elites are doing similar by ramping up inflation far faster than welfare payments.
Chinese elites intentionally tried to decrease their population, as they had far too many people taking up space with subsistence agriculture. Something like 1 farm family with 5 acres, who can feed 1.2 families. They keep trying to change this with typical socialist efficiency, so the only solution is a final solution: let the peasants starve off.
A big part of why I'm betting on China is they seem fairly organized around Xi, even if it is mainly out of fear. We in the West have no real hierarchy any more, just a bunch of factions fighting it out for temporary first dibs on parasitizing off the taxpayer.
Xi has been very effective at consolidating power. However, he is getting almost no information anymore because no one wants to bring him bad news.
Totally closed systems don't respond to changes in environment because they close off access to information that would allow for adaptation and growth. They are static, and as such they are brittle and break.
Foreign capital inflows into China are falling, western firms continue to back off. The Chinese consumer market they dreamed of accessing does not exist. Regardless of who follows Trump, our trade posture with China will become more adversarial, which China cannot survive. As to the Chinese elite, I am certain they are uninterested in what happens to the people in the country. I would say to them, eventually, starving and penniless, the people will make them care. It's an old story, played out in many different ways and many different places.
I agree. But again, everything you say can also be said about the West ;)
I do not think we can survive becoming adversarial w/ China. Actually, we could but it would require those in charge to decide to do what is in the best interests of America and the American people but against the best interests of Big Money. I don't see that happening.
Either way, I recommend taking up gardening as a hobby and making friends in your community. Local resilience will likely become more important than stock investments.
Some parts of the west no doubt - Germany comes to mind most noticeably. China is aging more quickly and will shrink much faster than any society in history. Odds are it will be messy for everyone. The US, by fortune of location and economic strength will weather it just fine, as we continue to decouple from the international trade scene. Only about 11-12% of our GDP is tied up in international trade. Half of that is with Mexico and Canada. I would expect that number to get smaller.
Actually China cannot afford becoming adversarial with us. They need our trade. We don't need theirs and in fact have very little of our GDP tied up in trade with China. China's trade is roughly 18-19% of their GDP, and we are their largest export market. You never fight with your biggest customer.China embracing a trade war with the US is suicidal. That is just the facts of numbers and percentages.
There is a rather interesting conflict occurring within the monied class in the US that has come to light during the most recent election here. It would appear there are some billionaires, not the majority by any means at this time, that take your concerns rather seriously, for all sorts of differing reasons I am sure. I appreciate Big Money wants it all. But in a non global world, Big Money takes a back seat to Big Making Stuff. It will be fascinating to watch.
Peter Thiel meme was too good. I was impressed with how contained he was talking to that stupid liberal midwit Bari Weiss. You can just tell he’s thinking at a completely different level than son many of our supposed “thought leaders.”
The Madison shooting thing gets me though. She had so many red flags and nobody thought to intervene. Why do we keep pretending that we can’t see disasters like this from miles away? Wrote a piece on this with Atlanta shooter in Chronicles. Went nowhere. Oh well, we’ll keep bickering about school security and gun control for the foreseeable future.
The Right trying to make dresses is like the left trying to make podcasts that men will listen to
Honestly that’s a great take and you should post it on Twitter
I’m not a twitter person, but thank you!
I know you’re reading, Delicious Tacos. I am approaching Los Angeles in my big blue van and I will find you. I will force you to give The Worst Boyfriend Ever a shining endorsement on all your social medias— I am your natural predecessor. It’s like Mr. Incredibles and that ugly kid who wanted to just be like him, but couldn’t, for some reason, the kid just evolved into a very demonic and malicious version of himself.
Hell yeah
I went to the same college as the girl who founded Evie magazine.
You couldn’t find a more brainless labia-haver in our class. Pretty, nice, not a slut—but dumb.
Of course, she left after three semesters and is the more successful for it, so joke’s on me.
OK that was a funny Penny meme but seeing him at the beginning and end of his ordeal side by side shows you the toll this took on him. He looks like he lost 20 pounds at least from the stress.
I hope that the BOM or our brother Marine JD don't just use Penny as a disposable prop for a photo, but ensure that the man is set up, because what we need is to take care of our own, like our enemies do. Creating a sense of reciprocal obligation to each other, from those of high degree to low, is missing from "our" culture, as Rufo rightly notes above.
And you just can't hate Cyclops Dan Crenshaw enough.
booba
My favorite Asian tea
scared all 20 groypers off Dudley's listserv
thank heaven for booba
That Brittany girl who runs Evie magazine just seems like such a bitch lol. She never misses an opportunity to mog other women. I remember the romance novel fantasy vacation she described having with her boyfriend. I feel like the idea of Evie mag could be better executed by someone else.
You have no idea how correct you are.
Another banger roundup from the best in the West
Re: Stealth War. How should the US respond to ascendant China? Wrong question. When should we respond to an ascendant China? We should've responded to China's ascendancy ten years ago. It's too late now.
Pretty much.
The appropriate response is to send a heartfelt "sorry" to Russia (possibly including a few strangled corpses of those who wronged them), then try to team up with them as Prof. Mearsheimer said we should have done in the first place. Russia and China are natural enemies, it's only the USA's foolishness that drove them together.
Lol at WBE feature. Is this the first feature for him?
yeah, his fans found me a few weeks ago and have been vigorously bromoting
Re: low trust societies, the one area that hasn't been touched yet is authority. We still continue to make an idol of authority (both in concept and practice), leading to passive acceptance of judge/jury/executioner private company policies and tyranny-by-any-other-name in government.
This is not sustainable. Due to its usefulness with an inherent hierarchical species that loves to do things at scale, I predict that in order for authority to remain viable it will reach a point of reckoning, principally around accountability.
Yes this is very meta (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes) and could end up being turtles all the way up, but something has to give.
Low trust societies create a demand for sub-cultures with high trust, enforced from within that society. e.g., organized crime, ethnic support networks (which is often another way of saying organized crime.)
OMFG that Tweet of the Week killed me. Also so glad to have seen the Christmas movie, and glad someone calculated the length of Swann's walk...you know I actually like the guy but he turned to complete schizoposting and was as wrong as possible while being a huge dick about it and calling everyone else idiots, which is about the most you can embarrass yourself regarding election results lol
Anyway thanks for including my article!
"tawdry, tatty little piece of Chicken Coop Couture from Evie magazine"
I'm liking it actually. The poster against it later says, "lol I can’t believe I let you goad me into this but I have those Kazakh milkers friend, not all female aesthetic opinions are reducible to jealousy"
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China is the boogeyman. They are not in good shape, they are not ascendent. They have a demographic time bomb and a debt crisis on the horizon that will end the Chinese state as we know it. Articles in this summary that keep ignoring that suggests something else is at play.
Everything you say about China has also been said about the US and the West. It's not so much about who wins, but about who collapses last.
My money is on China outlasting us, although what rises up from the West's ashpile will likely rise quickly and surpass China.
Except neither of those situations as I described does the US face to anywhere near the same degree. China is facing almost a halving of their population in 25 years. And the impact from that will show up sooner. When all these people in China begin hitting retirement age, there is no money to pay them. Their savings in real estate are essentially worthless right now.
80% of their energy and food or material to grow food is imported.
I don’t diminish the US’ own issues. We dodged a bullet in the last election. But we have time to fix our issues, and just gained a bit more. Our economy is still the most powerful on the planet. China’s chance to outlast us isn’t zero, but it’s awfully darn close to that.
One thing to realize is that elites will do whatever it takes to remain elites, no matter how terrible. If there is no money for old peoples' retirement, Chinese elites aren't going to shed a tear at them starving. Some of those elites remember doing exactly that in the Cultural Revolution, as peasants died of starvation outside full but guarded granaries. Our elites are doing similar by ramping up inflation far faster than welfare payments.
Chinese elites intentionally tried to decrease their population, as they had far too many people taking up space with subsistence agriculture. Something like 1 farm family with 5 acres, who can feed 1.2 families. They keep trying to change this with typical socialist efficiency, so the only solution is a final solution: let the peasants starve off.
A big part of why I'm betting on China is they seem fairly organized around Xi, even if it is mainly out of fear. We in the West have no real hierarchy any more, just a bunch of factions fighting it out for temporary first dibs on parasitizing off the taxpayer.
Xi has been very effective at consolidating power. However, he is getting almost no information anymore because no one wants to bring him bad news.
Totally closed systems don't respond to changes in environment because they close off access to information that would allow for adaptation and growth. They are static, and as such they are brittle and break.
Foreign capital inflows into China are falling, western firms continue to back off. The Chinese consumer market they dreamed of accessing does not exist. Regardless of who follows Trump, our trade posture with China will become more adversarial, which China cannot survive. As to the Chinese elite, I am certain they are uninterested in what happens to the people in the country. I would say to them, eventually, starving and penniless, the people will make them care. It's an old story, played out in many different ways and many different places.
China is over.
Lack of information makes geniuses into retards. Doesn’t matter how smart your rulers are if they cannot get accurate information.
Our leaders would still be retarded even if they got accurate information I suspect.
That's a fair argument! Lol!
I agree. But again, everything you say can also be said about the West ;)
I do not think we can survive becoming adversarial w/ China. Actually, we could but it would require those in charge to decide to do what is in the best interests of America and the American people but against the best interests of Big Money. I don't see that happening.
Either way, I recommend taking up gardening as a hobby and making friends in your community. Local resilience will likely become more important than stock investments.
Oh - and I love to garden! Stuff you grow always tastes better. I also like a nice savings portfolio.
Some parts of the west no doubt - Germany comes to mind most noticeably. China is aging more quickly and will shrink much faster than any society in history. Odds are it will be messy for everyone. The US, by fortune of location and economic strength will weather it just fine, as we continue to decouple from the international trade scene. Only about 11-12% of our GDP is tied up in international trade. Half of that is with Mexico and Canada. I would expect that number to get smaller.
Actually China cannot afford becoming adversarial with us. They need our trade. We don't need theirs and in fact have very little of our GDP tied up in trade with China. China's trade is roughly 18-19% of their GDP, and we are their largest export market. You never fight with your biggest customer.China embracing a trade war with the US is suicidal. That is just the facts of numbers and percentages.
There is a rather interesting conflict occurring within the monied class in the US that has come to light during the most recent election here. It would appear there are some billionaires, not the majority by any means at this time, that take your concerns rather seriously, for all sorts of differing reasons I am sure. I appreciate Big Money wants it all. But in a non global world, Big Money takes a back seat to Big Making Stuff. It will be fascinating to watch.
Peter Thiel meme was too good. I was impressed with how contained he was talking to that stupid liberal midwit Bari Weiss. You can just tell he’s thinking at a completely different level than son many of our supposed “thought leaders.”
The Madison shooting thing gets me though. She had so many red flags and nobody thought to intervene. Why do we keep pretending that we can’t see disasters like this from miles away? Wrote a piece on this with Atlanta shooter in Chronicles. Went nowhere. Oh well, we’ll keep bickering about school security and gun control for the foreseeable future.
Merry Christmas Dudley
If Taylor Lorenz ever got laid would she make it wear a mask?
more than one