I mean, she's done that several times.
I have respect for nearly every Supreme Court Justice -- yes, even RBG. There were times through the years when I saw her use solid jurisprudence, even if I disagree. I still hold the Scalia-RBG friendship as a great example of friendship over ideological lines.
I can't say the same for Brown. She's clearly deeply out of her depth and I imagine there's more than one Justice who dislikes her because she's just not... qualified.
Hit the nail on the head like a master carpenter.
I have a distinct memory of college and some girl being so upset Republicans won an election that she was crying. "How can people vote for evil?" I remember her wailing.
Even then, as a dumb little 19 year old, I remember thinking "people aren't evil just because I disagree with them..."
We all have to understand that it doesn't matter. They are the good guys in their little fairy tale. They have already convinced themselves of their own virtue, and everyone who doesn't see it their way is evil.
You can't win.
Let them burn in their own shit heap. Most of them won't even get it when it literally hits them upside the head. Think of that 'anarchist baker' who was on this page recently. She was killed for her stupid beliefs. She didn't have any "aha" moment. Most of them never will.
And the ones that do will voiciferously deny they ever believed it.
You're right, I just hate the conclusion I've made.
I keep checking the math, hoping it will change, but I'm pretty sure at this point.
The root issue of this whole mess is this:
Loud minority starts bitching about something, but get voted down, ignored, or otherwise told to pound sand.
Loud minority turns to government and together they agree to curtail rights (to benefit government) so that these fundamental human rights can be protected [from people who disagree with the thesis].
Loud minority is still a minority, but government "selflessly" protects loud minority, furthering their power to curtail rights.
Slowly but surely the normies realize that more government involvement in ANYTHING is bad and ruins it.
Soon the loud minority is even smaller and quieter, but the government now has all these powers.
It is why I have such a disdain for these people. They push their agendas in such a short-sighted way that it makes everything worse and they take no fucking accountability and then cry about the problems they made.
At the risk of sounding like Imp, you could lay 100% of these problems at the feet of the female electorate. They are fickle and stupid and make everything worse.
At least you aren't getting the untrained laborers... those are the worst. For most lower status filipinos a nursing job is as high as they can hope to go, and I have found them to be pretty hardworking.
And they are probably learning NURSING when they study it, not bullshit about "birthing people."
Still sucks for Americans, but they are doing it to themselves.
Liberals are hijacking human psychology and are oblivious to it. In fact, they mistake their manipulation for consensus.
Their entire voting bloc are easily manipulated tools devoid of critical thinking... and they are driving us all over the edge.
The internet in its current state is a mistake. I don't have any good solutions to prevent the inevitable implosion, though.
Actually the only one I would consider a friend has mostly shunned Indian culture. When he was in the states we got into plenty of trouble and he regularly ate beef. I don't think he personally liked the caste system.
Most Indians are hard to be friends with because that cultural barrier is so strong.
The Caste System is completely incompatible with Western values. The whole "you are born into your social class" very obviously conflicts with the Equality/Meritocracy we are all hoping is restored someday.
I have some Indian friends. They are nice people but they look down on people below them and will always favor their countrymen and castemates.
Humans are tribalistic and indian culture lends itself to tribal attitudes -- this shouldn't be a shock.
This actually mirrors my experience, but I wonder if it is a little delayed.
I graduated with a BA in 2009, took a year off then went to grad school in 2011. That was quite a shock and I left in 2013 after my Master's... and it has gotten dramatically worse since then.
College grads pre 2010 is probably 80-20, but post 2010 it probably looks more like postgrad. What I am saying is that I think this trend is broken but we can't see it yet.
My hypothesis is much in line with yours. I am drawing on personal experience, so make of that what you will.
My family two generations ago was solidly middle class, but alcoholism and family tragedy broke that. I am one of the millions of boys who never had a father and who grew up in a bad neighborhood - but I made it out. Sure, I am smart, but I don't think that is the whole story.
When my mom failed (which was a lot), my grandparents picked up the slack. By the time I had made it through high school (a presitigous all boys school where I didn't fit in but it served me well) my grandparents had sold one of their inner city properties and dipped into their retirement. If I was a girl and made the same mistakes my mom did, I would not be able to give my child the life I had.
For American blacks, this is the predominant reality. They were making gains up until the 60s, and then the welfare state happened. As single motherhood rose among blacks, there were no middle class grandparents to lean on. Those kids slipped through the cracks and became fucked up adults.
The 90s music you mention didn't change culture, it was just the first time the consequences of those broken homes made it mainstream as those kids became adults.
Give it 20-30 years and another generation of broken families. Black or white, it is a race to the bottom.
Do the vast majority of japanese still grow up with a mom and a dad?
My hypothesis says we will be alright with Japan. This will blow over and be forgotten.
It's the masks they will never take off. Hell, they never really took them off after the Spanish Flu (providing over a century of data that masks don't work, but I digress).
I hope my hypothesis is correct.
South Park has gone through ups and downs... but it was downright prescient in the mid-aughts right up until about Trump.
That was when the gender wars went kinetic -- but we have to understand it's not just Trump that causes this. Anyone that is willing to thumb their nose at the ruling feminist elite will be cancelled and cut down -- a young man like Trump would never survive the march through the Institutions to get to that level of prestige.
Other leaders will emerge as this gets deeper, and you'll know who to trust by who enrages the media/WEF/globalists.
And all the leftists in the world don't have enough critical thinking skills between them to realize this is exactly what happens when you stop being a useful idiot for the tyrants.
As soon as you start to ask questions, you're thrown overboard for someone who won't.
It is all pure astroturfing.
Even if there is a real person ostensibly behind these accounts, they just spit out the talking points and cash the checks.
Though I do kind of assume they are mostly AI personalities.
I was lucky to live in a red state and my boss was anti-biden and was ready to rubber stamp exemptions... but even still I was ready to be on the street over it. I have such an aversion to being forced to do something I disagree with that it just makes me want to resist more.
It is a much more significant percentage of people who simply do not conform. I haven't read the Ashe conformity study in a long time but iirc something like 15-20% of people will not cave to social pressures.
And nonconformity is contagious -- which is why its so dangerous.
Those of us that were on reddit the day Hillary Clinton got chucked into a van like a side of beef remember when all the politics bots stopped while they waited for marching orders.
The philippines: Where western morals were inculcated for over 300 years and yet they are still unmistakably Asian.
I suspect the reason for the sex role deviation comes from a lesser need for fighting age men due to natural protective barriers. The Philippines had many tribes and conflicts, but the vast chain of islands kept people separate to a degree.
Likewise Thailand is surrounded by mountains. Invading Thailand is presumably such a chore no one ever has -- and I don't think it is because of their military prowess.
For that reason I think sexual deviancy was always tolerated a bit more than in the west, where boys needed to be fighters to protect. Its only in the past few generations where the abundance and western influence has started to push it.
My wife and in-laws are filipino and this issue has confused me.
In any case, my wife has pretty much stopped watching a lot of her filipino media with a very famous tranny on. She hasn't said much about it, but I suspect the bullshit culture war here is playing a part.
It isn't like Thailand in the Philippines, because the sexual aspect of ladyboys isn't talked about. Most of the prominent gays are monogamous (or at least pretend).
I agree with the other poster who said a primary difference with the west is that the filipinos are clearly just playing dress up.
Being gay is definitely tolerated over there though.
100% correct.
Especially with Chinese people. Remember the whole drama with the social credit score? If you aren't valuable to the CCP you can't even leave your little mud hut village.
Every chinese person you see outside of china is a patsy to the CCP. They are the elite of the elite
It isn't really genetics. Or, it isn't genetics to that degree.
It is the complete destruction of the family in US blacks as a whole that is carrying the water for these statistical differences.
Indeed. I lived in south korea -- around 2018 I started seeing a lot more low-status filipina immigrants/foreign workers appearing in the "foreigner" parts of town.
They were clearly hunting for white men, but the education/culture gap was too much. These women mostly didn't even finish high school.
But when my future wife came along (PhD student with ambition and plans to move to USA with or without me) and that was a completely different story.
It is just an anecdote and not even one directly from PHI, but it does conform to what you said.
this is kind of a non sequitur but there's this actually delicious Vegan Doughnut company on the westside of Cleveland, OH that is black woman owned.
Forget how much there is to unpack in that sentence -- I can't believe I typed it, either. But those black ladies make some delicious vegan doughnuts.
My only criticism of the place is that they struggle to open earlier than "five minutes late."
So yes, they do exist -- but the only one I can think of is a walking pile of idiosyncrasies.
Rebuttal: I know several business owners who named a woman CEO in name only to get to call themselves a "woman owned business."
I can't imagine it's easy to ignore the temptation to double dip with "Black woman owned business."
You are right.
Until I read this particular dissent I should watch my tongue because I know how dumb Sotomayor is too (I vaguely recall what you refer to as well).