@nonregemesse
Note the movement away from the horse. Cavalry charges only worked insofar as they were able to inspire fear which broke lines and allowed in the horse. They were very very effective at inspiring for a fear for a long time, but didn't work when infantry was disciplined enough.
@wanyeburkett
You don’t even need to have kids to get this you just need to know people with kids. Everyone with a few kids past a certain age has stories similar to this.
@memeticsisyphus
Their definition of "disown" is also almost always an insane exaggeration. E.g. mom and dad refused to go to gay "wedding" but still invite them over for thanksgiving.
@nonregemesse
For those interested, highly recommend The Face of Battle by John Keegan. Good treatments of what the experience of war was like for grunts in 3 of the most impactful battles in history.
@Noahpinion
The Big Lebowski, Office Space, The Matrix, and Fight Club are all different interpretations of the same theme. That the big struggles are over ("the end of history") and we are just left with boring consumerist life. A profound sense of disillusionment upended by 9/11
@MattPolProf
@SublationMag
@ronald_beiner
Who is this article for? Anyone even mildly sympathetic to
@AuronMacintyre
will be turned off by the sneering and obvious bad faith engagement. Is this just chum for leftists? Engagement bait? Do you have any arguments besides gestures towards Nazis or pointing out that leftists
@opinonhaver
He probably could have stated this more explicitly, but the point is that these paintings are perfectly nice and widely popular. Art critics hate them precisely because they are just simple, nice paintings that lots of people like. Contrast with modern art which everyone thinks
@memeticsisyphus
Even if you don’t think they did it, it’s insane to look at the case and conclude: “oh wow, this is obviously all racism and these upstanding gentlemen were framed!”
@myth_pilot
AirBnB as well. On top of random strangers constantly coming in and out of your neighborhood, you’ve got a house that would otherwise be a home for a family. Or even just a person. That’s less people out walking around, going to neighborhood shops and restaurants, agitating for
@CliffordAsness
“articulate adult conservative” you mean lovable loser who will embrace the frame of the left and sell out her voters at the first possible opportunity
@SpiritofPines
What’s wrong with the antibiotic eye drops? Hospitals are cesspools and there’s lots of bad bacteria in/around the birth canal during a vaginal delivery
@Oilfield_Rando
I got out of the Army in 2020 and essentially this was my first introduction to business school. Just a constant flow. I was still somewhat naive then but something didn't seem right when they assigned the Kendi book a summer reading which has a chapter titled "Capitalism is
@JalenRose
Labeling someone a bust just penalizes them for other people's expectations. Is it Andrew Wiggins fault that everyone thought he was the next MJ? He's still a great player and person.
@th3v0t4ry
Ranger Regiment does this and it was an obvious benefit to us in regular infantry units. It also gave them an opportunity to filter their officer corps again at every rank. I’m not sure it would work as well for SF considering the bigger difference in mission.
Which is more valuable:
A. Raising your children, who upon birth become the most important people in the world
B. Increasing sales of a conglomerate sunscreen brand by 3% YoY in Q3
Add AirBnB to this as well. On top of random strangers constantly coming in and out of your neighborhood, you’ve got a house that would otherwise be a home for a family. Or even just a person. That’s less people out walking around, going to neighborhood shops and restaurants,
It’s hard to overstate the damage done by immigration to the social fabric. Even in wealthy neighborhoods houses bought out by wealthy immigrants become social zeroes where you used to have a neighbor.
@vrgldh
I live in a part of town that was almost all white working class and nearly all the development came from the nearby railyard. Now signs are in Spanish. Which community got "marginalized"? The new one which gets massive government assistance or the old one that got pushed out?
@jessesingal
Once they flipped the switch to “it’s inhumane to not provide treatment” it suddenly became impossible to really study it. Very frustrating
@Babygravy9
It takes a good amount of experience to even have a good idea of what failure feels like and importantly, what it feels like to be 1-2 reps shy of failure.
@SpiritofPines
I’m 100% with you on the Hep B. But the eye drops were explained to me as primarily being about cleaning up anything that may have gotten in the newborns eyes during/immediately after the delivery, which makes sense. Hadn’t considered the risk of antibiotics though. Likewise the
Which is more valuable:
A. Raising your children, who upon birth become the most important people in the world
B. Increasing sales of a conglomerate sunscreen brand by 3% YoY in Q3
Again I think everyone writing about neo-traditonalism on the right (here described as a "neo-patriarchy") would benefit from taking their eyes off the tradwife memes and looking at prominent case studies and sociological data:
@NateAFischer
Reminds me of the way I reacted to Trump in 2016. In reality I was mostly going off the vibes of WSJ which was my main news source at the time.
@Aristos_Revenge
The revitalization of the heartland and American conservativism needs to be small business/solopreneurship enabled by a handful of SV big tech companies. Otherwise the economic value of density will win out.
"...we do not (and often cannot) understand just how the traditions we inherit help our survival, and because of that, it is difficult to artificially create replacements."
@Scholars_Stage
@KeytarCatholic
I understand this makes you feel good to post but there’s a difference between evil acts which society correctly deplores and severely punishes and evil acts which society celebrates and pushes on children. In this case, skimming through the perp list they have all been punished
@revenant_MMXX
There are many companies that have studied this internally fairly extensively and they pretty much all find that productivity drops. Some banks and such track basically your every keystroke and they find productivity drops. That's on top of the lack of growth from young
@RichardHanania
Vets are also more conservative than population average; one of the goals is probably to increase the proportion conservatives in schools
@NateAFischer
He’s correct that rights are a result of their corresponding responsibility. For example, the British government has a responsibility to protect the English people, therefore they have a right to deport violent foreigners.
@johncoogan
It would be great if he increased the price 30% and explicitly blamed the Apple tax. Would bring it top of mind to the PMC and may impact the way the left regulatory zeitgeist views ATT
@NateAFischer
He’s correct that rights are a result of their corresponding responsibility. For example, the British government has a responsibility to protect the English people, therefore they have a right to deport violent foreigners.
@RichardHanania
This take is true when it comes to factual questions, but NYT and WaPo are clearly and consistently biased in headlines, story selection, and word choices.
“I’m new to Catholicism, but here’s an inflammatory opinion riddled with falsehoods and malicious mischaracterizations. If you disagree you’re a schismatic.”
@extradeadjcb
I live down the street from a nice little urban park. Kids are there playing soccer or baseball all the time.
Every single weekend it gets a fresh dump of trash and beer cans. This dysfunction is everywhere.
@AuronMacintyre
“U.S. Ambassador to Russia, 2012-2014” has apparently suffered no career setbacks for his failures and learned nothing. Ukraine war started on his watch.
@Aristos_Revenge
No idea what their biz status is but if they can go megaviral, I’d bet their skincare company will do well. Skincare is a marketing game.
@vonleonrod
For 1,000 years Catholics venerated people they thought were saints and didn’t care what Rome said. Even today, the canonization process requires that there already be an existing cultus. Venerate people you think are saints.
@eigenrobot
@BuucketHe4d
The all cause mortality claim is likely due to the age skew in vaccination rates, so the average vaccinated person is older than the average non-vaccinated person and that is causing increased mortality
@phl43
Thomas's opinions on cultural issues are very consistently not standard issue conservative opinions - opinions that get buried relative to other prominent black intellectuals, along with most other black conservatives.
I would be lying if the former infantryman in me isn’t dreaming of a big boy conventional war with combined arms maneuver where we do the things we trained to do. But that part of me can play COD where the millions that die are pixels and not real people with lives and loved ones
@DanielHadas2
It was a mistake to demonize housewives in the name of progress. As if any corporate job could ever be more important or meaningful than raising children. Modern life provides the ability to be fully engaged with an intellectual project without neglecting duties to the family.
@Partisan_O
I haven’t thought about WJB since he was taught in school as the bad guy of the progressive era and a dangerous populist. Lately I’ve realized that’s probably propaganda. What’s a good speech of his to start with?
@FeserEdward
Context and perspective are important. You put up with a gross looking commerce center so you can keep it contained from the natural world.
@robkhenderson
I like how they bring up obesity as if that hasn’t been a problem for a decade+. The war ended and they shit on a massive swath of the recruiting base with vax mandates and Milley embracing woke talking points.