I don't really understand the West's wider strategic goal here in constantly antagonising and provoking Russia. It surely can't be as one-dimensional as leaving Trump a big mess to clean up when he gets into office, can it? There must be other motives at play here.

If America wanted to use Ukraine as a proxy and just bleed Russia of weapons and manpower then surely the status quo was sufficient. What's with these big, aggressive jabs into Russian territory?

sigh My fellow Christians, if you think vulgar videogames are the biggest problem this world faces at the moment, you need to take a good look around and then reflect on where your moral centre should be.

Men are calling themselves women, women hate men, everyone hates whites, and children are being abused or aborted on an industrial scale. Why are naughty videogames even on your list of priorities? ESPECIALLY when the right is finally something close to ascendant again.

Of course, I know the answer. The people who are bringing these petty grievances up now aren't doing it in good faith. They are shit stirring grifters.

I dunno man, every church I've ever been to has pretty high expectations of women's behaviour, just as it does for men. It's one of the few places left in modern society where you can hold women to some sort of standard and have your words carry some weight.

Thanks man! Looking forward to breathing the air of freedom :D

I will soon be starting a new job at my father in law's company in the US, coming from the UK. Very similar level of responsibility and experience required, but double the salary. Not to mention far less taxation. A lot of Europeans aren't aware of this disparity.

lol. lmao, even.

Got to be money laundering.

I think it's because most vtubers fit within the niche of genuinely nerdy girls, rather than the popular 'gamer gurl' aesthetic which is more of a performative thing. They seem to have genuine love for games, anime, TTRPGs etc. Hence why they use an avatar rather than banking on their real life looks.

You're not likely to find many 'normal' women in the vtuber space, so it naturally attracts those who are more tomboyish or disagreeable. Those kind of women are probably also more likely to be conservative, on average.

The ONLY good thing about this half-hearted acknowledgement of an unmitigated disaster is this sentence: 'This happened by design, not accident'.

I now have ammunition every time some unthinking normie or semi-engaged midwit responds to my immigration concerns with 'Well, that's just how things are these days' or 'Our governments are doing their best to respond to the immigration "crisis"'.

No, the unprecedented movement of entire populations into the West during peace time is not 'natural' or 'the inevitable result of a more interconnected world', or even a 'crisis'. It is engineered. It is a DELIBERATE policy decision pursued by individuals who WANT it to happen. Any moronic communist or self-proclaimed labour activist needs to be beaten over the head with this whenever it comes up in conversation. Why are you, o 'friend of the working man', supporting the wishes of the biggest monied interests on earth?

I don't know if you've ever watched Max Miller before, but he's the first place I heard about hellfire stew. I'd also like to try it just for the novelty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTVPV-15GL0

I made the Japanese curry recipe you posted in another thread the other day and it was a hit with my wife who usually doesn't like it when made with the store bought roux blocks. She said it tasted 'richer' and 'more authentic', so I'll be keeping that in my back pocket.

I'll try the ones you post in this thread as well at some point. Thanks!

I had also never had it until my American wife introduced it to me, and I have to say, as someone who really doesn't like fruit pies, it is very good. I wasn't expecting to like it, but it doesn't taste like what you think it would. We put kind of an English twist on it by serving it with custard instead of whipped cream, and I think it pairs very well.

Where did Bluesky come from? I've only heard about it since the election. Makes me suspicious that there's money behind this push for liberal migration.

Women will be as right wing as the men in their lives are. Like in everything else, they are naturally followers, not leaders. The best women in my experience are the ones with wise, conservative fathers who go on to marry wise, conservative husbands.

Going to school in England in the early 2000s, I remember one time in PE class where our teachers thought it would be a tremendous idea to have us learn how to do a haka dance, despite us living on the complete opposite side of the world, and all being pasty white teenagers. Of course, 'multiculturalism' was all the rage at the time.

That was my only personal exposure to Maori culture, and it's one of those memories where you occasionally think about it in the shower or just before you fall asleep, and you cringe with embarrassment at how stupid you must have looked, even all these years later. The 'multicultural' exposure had the opposite effect on me, because I now have an instinctual negative reaction to the Maori, despite never having met one!

Thank God for small blessings.

Hmm, I've always made Japanese curry with those roux blocks, but maybe I'll try this next time. Thanks for sharing.

I suppose the question is whether or not the average American will feel a negative or positive impact on their wallet during the Trump presidency. I have no doubt that the media will be hungry to blame him if there is a negative effect, even if it's only temporary. Thankfully Trump doesn't have to worry about re-election, but the Republican party will have to take responsibility for the results after he is gone.

I often think about this. I am a staunch nationalist, but I have never lived through the horrific violence of a world war. Both wars appear to have been so traumatising to Europe that they entertained ideas which to us appear completely insane (due to their manifest effects in the modern world). Perhaps, though, when you've lost a good portion of the entire continent's young men to a pointless meatgrinder, the 'peace and love' crowd start sounding a lot more palatable.

I still believe that nations which look out for their own people's interest first and foremost CAN live alongside each other without inevitably coming to blows, but the challenge is finding that balance.

Yeah, I think the shift from a hugely globalist economy to a more protectionist one has the potential to cause some serious short term pain for the US, but it's definitely the right decision in the long run. The issue is that you know if any economic hardship occurs during Trump's presidency, it will be laid at his--and by extension, the Republicans'--feet.

Thanks for the extremely detailed reply. A lot to think about there. I guess like any significant political course change, it is a gamble and there are always risks involved. Most Americans I know, including my wife, had the best economic years in recent memory during Trump's first term. American voters appear to be willing to trust Trump's ability to make a deal for a second time, despite the risks.

I guess that's my main concern. America is quite clearly capable of being self-sufficient, being a continent-sized country, but the transition from a globalist economic stance to a more protectionist stance is going to be painful if done too quickly and without a lot of thought. Just thinking about how enmeshed the American manufacturing sector is with China makes me cringe. It'll be like untangling Christmas lights...

My understanding is that America's post-WW2 policy was to deliberately cripple its domestic manufacturing and offshore a lot of it in order to buoy up allies against the Soviets and help war-wracked countries rebuild. I think it makes a lot of political and strategic sense to start bringing that back to the US, but I share your worry that the transition period might be painful in the short term, and I know Trump will get the blame if that's what occurs.

Yeah I definitely understand that America is capable of being self-sufficient. I long for the pre-WW1 isolationist policies if only because of their knock-on social effects. It would probably be better for the rest of the world as well if America turned its focus inwards.

European here. Thanking God right now. Feel free to pity my countrymen and their stupidity.