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We can't keep living like this - murder of Iryna Zarutska
I'm very upset by this. I was reluctant to watch the un-edited video full video, but I did. We can't keep living like this.... posted 6d ago with 16 replies received news family

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The general situation is of long standing. There's been plenty of elite-coddled, racially directed violence from the late 1960's and onward.... 6d ago received

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This stuff is obviously totally unacceptable and evil. It's way too widespread in the "black community" (which is a failure of integration be definition). This mural stunt is a good thing to do. Better is to fund institutional power for our guys to work on... 3d ago received

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How to catch a wife, 2025 edition.
Anon asks how to find a good woman in 2025. I've been out of the game for a while and experience only generalizes so much, but success is informative, so I have some thoughts.... posted 2mo ago with 33 replies received eugenics life family

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A perfect question for this board. Deeply important, completely taboo to talk about honestly.... 7d ago received

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No, I stand by everything I said. You should marry a woman who you enjoy talking to!... 5d ago received

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What goes on the reading list for the Students?
When someone is properly enlightened and can think outside the lies of the age, we say "he's done the reading". There are some obvious candidates for what that reading is exactly; the current classics like Moldbug, Land, and BAP for example. The 20th centu... posted 1mo ago with 23 replies received bookclub family

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I’m skeptical of the “obvious” list. Unless "online discussion groups" counts, these lists don't represent a distinct tradition. I'm tired of seeing scraps of disparate canons taped up together. It seems like these recommendations, separated from any... 1mo ago received

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There was diversity of thought, and the people who disagreed with each other were enemies, not discussion partners. Schmittian pluralism 6d ago received

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Can you get stable people to join a Männerbund?
I've been floating the idea of getting groups of young men around to do things, but it seems those with clock-in-clock-out careers, a house in the suburbs, a car, and a salary consider this to be the good life: normal and wonderful. They're telling me with... posted 1mo ago with 24 replies received family

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Living in a nice neighborhood, in the richest and most powerful country on Earth, owning your own house, with a stable comfortable job and a happy family is "a mouth full of glass"? You should interrogate yourself as to why that grates you.... 1mo ago received

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To answer your question directly: of course a Männerbund is composed of stable men.... 1mo ago received

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This is the line that exposes the whole essay as (unfortunately) completely unserious. The market is very, very good at ensuring that the flow of global commerce continues to flow. There are tens of millions of very smart whites and asians who are devoting... 7d ago received

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The Gay Question (Asylum Mag): homosociality vs sodomy
An explosive thesis: the centrality of male homoeroticism to premodern production of manliness and great men. We're all familiar by now with a few key ideas:... (web.archive.org) posted 2mo ago with 25 replies received history life family

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Here's the canonical reply to this mode of inquiry:... 2mo ago received

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Pretty sure homoerotic behavior (whether involving actual sex or not) does not contribute to, but poisons and degrades, male groups and friendships.... 2mo ago received

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Men used to form friendships through hunting, building, fighting, and working together—activities that were necessary for survival and building anything meaningful. You trusted other men because your livelihood depended on it. Sure, some abused that trus... 2mo ago received

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Remedial sex ed for zoomers: you're still an incel in the eyes of God
Millennial "dating" woes are going viral again, with gen z set up to do even worse (nearly half are incels). Fertility rates are spiraling. All discourse on the subject is from terminally ngmi femcels who have no idea what they are talking about. As a mill... posted 3mo ago with 10 replies received eugenics life family

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This format is worse than useless: "the solution is to simply <thing that will never happen>". It leads to blackpilling and learned helplessness.... 3mo ago received

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I think you are wrong about the relative power of substrate and software to determine what work gets done. I think the real answer to invest in children is the fact that you have a headstart on determining their memes (and gene-meme coevolution will no dou... 2mo ago received

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Are the interests of capital and industry necessarily in conflict with health?
During Englands industrial revolution people rushed into the cities and there were many more people to feed. Wars restricted trade which led to a huge boom in the alcohol industry in England, along with this many dairy establishments moved into the city. T... posted 2mo ago with 6 replies received economics family

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Instead of suggesting changes on the national level, which I don't believe any of us have control over, let's turn this into practical advice for people reading the thread. If we should ban seed oils, we should not consume seed oils, if the FDA should end ... 2mo ago received

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Ray peat website has best articles on PUFA aka seed oils.... 2mo ago received

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Roland-Garros and aristocratic institutions
I watched the French Open men's final on Sunday. The combatants were Jannik Sinner, a 23 year old German-blooded Italian, and Carlos Alcaraz, a 22 year old Spanish Moor. Great match, but I miss the elegance and athletic beauty of Federer. As a man of tenni... (www.ultimatetennisstatistics.com) posted 3mo ago with 1 reply received eugenics family

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Good post but I'm gonna disagree with the framing. tbh the hyperspecialized "start training for a sport while you're still in the womb and make it the sole focus of your life" stuff never seemed aristocratic to me. I understand the aristocratic focus on sp... 3mo ago received

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No to conventional education
I was thinking , connecting to how it would be better to educate a young prince, on how to get a better and more rounded education than conventional. More and more people every year are getting non-conventional education, many are homeschooled, others just... posted 7mo ago with 3 replies received family

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The important thing to pursue is a coherent, modern program of liberal arts. That's not Great Books. Great Books is a off-target 20th-century reaction to the late 19th-century collapse of the liberal arts.... 7mo ago received

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First, I agree with most of what you say, though I want to make a case for classical languages like Greek or Latin as the natural means to learn the first three.... 7mo ago received

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Bad influences on my intellectual side
I have been having a hard time performing well in an underwhelming environment. Mostly because of people but also general vibes. I feel it is much harder to thrive in such an environment. I sometimes feel subconsciously justified in not pushing as hard as ... posted 7mo ago with 5 replies received family

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I think my first piece of advice would be to develop your communication skills. I read the post a couple times, and I'm still not sure what sort of situation you're describing. But before becoming a better writer, work at becoming a better conversationalis... 7mo ago received

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Another thing to consider doing is setting yourself an intellectual challenge to grow in a way you want to and work towards it. This is similar to #2585 but I'd encourage that you actively try to create something as well. When you read a great work, you sh... 7mo ago received

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Creating Top Tier Educational Institutions Once Again
Harvard... posted 8mo ago with 2 replies received family

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The SSC articles on Hungarian education are pretty interesting. This one is about a homeschooling regimen that produced chess grandmasters:... 8mo ago received

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Ranking Socio-Economic Factors
I understand this tweet thread as saying there is some feature F that is mostly innate that determines the wellbeing and health of a society. Some people have F and when they're with others who have F, they naturally create the Good Society the way beavers... (x.com) posted 9mo ago with 7 replies received eugenics family

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I like the luther analogy. Let's stop buying the indulgences, and start calling out the true nature of socio-economic salvation. But what does that entail in practice?... 9mo ago received

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Pedagogy
One characteristic I've observed with non-parents in our circles is that they have strong opinions about pedagogy and child-rearing (despite having zero firsthand knowledge of anything other than their own childhoods and a lot of extremist literature).... posted 13mo ago with 6 replies received family

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Sample lesson kernel which can encompass many winding detours: The Collatz Conjecture.... 13mo ago received

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What would you like to teach your kids (that you did not know yourself at the age of majority)? / Clear guidance for sons
I am being selfish. I think there will be some dedicated fathers reading this. I would like to hear your opinions.... posted 1y ago with 1 reply received family

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I have one son so far. I figure the main thing I want for him is the stuff I would want in retrospect for myself:... 1y ago received

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Clear guidance for women
Although I expect that most here will be men, I want to ask: What should we encourage young women to do?... posted 1y ago with 31 replies received eugenics life family

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Rereading Proverbs 31 it's clear how much it's gesturing at founding a *specifically great/noble* family as being part of the calling.... 1y ago received

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I like to use this framing if you're a woman:... 1y ago received

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Thoughtcrime is the first discipline in the art of ideology.
Your initiation and first exercise in the martial art of ideology is to think something, and really truly believe it, that would get you arrested if you said it in public. If you can't do this, you are intellectually boxed in. You are cut off from reality ... (www.paulgraham.com) posted 2y ago with 4 replies received rationality family

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>>1296 seems somewhat relevant with regard to this discussion. The timer is ticking. 1y ago received

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Pamphlet excerpt
A friend has been distributing a pamphlet and I wanted to share this excerpt:... posted 1y ago with no replies received family

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Jubensha; The Chinese Game The West Needs, But Has Never Heard Of
https://deng.poker/jubensha posted 1y ago with 6 replies received family

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Are aesthetics really primary when seeking converts?
A common theme I see in some circles online is that many political opinions and other social convictions are downstream of aesthetics. This leads to a sort of propagandizing via art and literature, appeals to physical beauty, etc.... posted 1y ago with 15 replies received politics family

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This feels like overthinking. Mathematicians are lefty because mathematicians are academics and academics are lefty. Call it aesthetics or whatever why people are drawn to what are propagandized as beautiful ideas within their formative environments, but I... 1y ago received

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That is to say, if everyone who can be good is attempting to be good, then we need no other plans. If God is real then He will guide us; if not, then our efforts are already in vain. 1y ago received

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The martial art of ideology
The best idea on Lesswrong was the martial art of rationality. It didn't deliver.... posted 2y ago with 24 replies received philosophy rationality family

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Rationality is the virtue of thought and I think it's good to keep the term around, but it isn't the father of virtue, since sometimes it is prudent to stop thinking, and because a lot of activities are better without thought.... 2y ago received

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Interesting. I need to be more consistent with the Romanization. It is a pet peeve of mine that the usual Romanization of the Peking dialect promulgated by the government... 2y ago received

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