poipoipoi-2016:

argumate:

Collections: Logistics, How Did They Do It, Part III: On the Move

Indeed, getting lost in familiar territory was a real hazard: Suetonius records that Julius Caesar, having encamped not far from the Rubicon got lost trying to find it, spent a whole night wandering trying to locate it (his goal being to make the politically decisive crossing with just a few close supporters in secrecy first before his army crossed). In the end he had to find a local guide to work his way back to it in the morning (Suet. Caes. 31.2). So to be clear: famed military genius Julius Caesar got lost trying to find a 50 mile long river only about 150 miles away from Rome when he tried to cut cross-country instead of over the roads.

Apparently, Gulf War 1 was sort of a big deal in that even in 1991, you couldn’t just start randomly driving across sand dunes through the desert like that.

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This is how it happens. I’ve been saying for a while that the next turn involves a revalorization of inegalitarian sexuality, this is part of it coming together.

The ‘90s Clintonian Silver Age was about taking a pause to reenchant American normalcy by #including the 60s… and it took. Standing up for post-counterculture cultural norms is now authentic American conservatism.

At the same time, the '80s had intervened. You had the cultural backlash, “family values” reassertion of child-protectiveness, you saw the Supreme Court invent the idea of “child pornography” as a category their last decades didn’t leave constitutionally protected, also the “campus rape crisis”, Take Back The Night, the broader almost proto-2010s original “political correctness” culture and canon wars PCU riffed on.

And in reaction to that, as a threat environment to be navigated if not particularly a change of heart to be internalized, the '90s didn’t push the presumed-sexual-access-to-inferiors line. Maybe even postured against it, y'know, Ben Affleck in Mallrats, who’s trying to fuck the girlfriend in a very painful place that’s not the back seat of a Volkswagen, would-totally-fuck-high-schoolers bad guy of the first movie where Kevin Smith was working for Harvey Weinstein from jump…

And yes, Weinstein and Hollywood, #MeToo, Epstein and the national elite, hell, Clinton and intern Monica Lewinsky, remember that one?, it appears that if the Boomers with a shot gave up on trumpeting it they didn’t on doing it…

How much of “nice guys”, “MRAs”, was about about guys noticing the gap here? “The world you are to inherit is in the rock-and-roll tradition of Woodstock thru '80s keg parties, the men who don’t go into domestic seclusion have a steady stream of satisfying partners, and all of this comes through a vernacular popularization of second-wave feminism!” Okay, but the last doesn’t really produce the prior.

(“Woodstock '99 was a rape fest!” well okay '94 seemed better, but by modern standards how much enthusiastic consent really was there in the mud of '69?)

Gone Girl I keep coming back to, but the book was really about the gap, about it collapsing on men in a way that was, if extreme in its particulars, rooted in the way it largely would in the 2010s.

But the thing is, “oh no these cads publicly mouthed feminist support while sexbezzling in private, now that that support has pumped feminism up enough they’re no longer safe!” has a parallel waiting, among the people who grew up with 90s culture. “Oh no feminism mouthed pro-sex Sixtiesism while building towards Puritanism in private! But now that we’ve been pumped up for counterculture sex-positivity… ::cracks knuckles::”

Like, what, they wouldn’t? Go read those responses OP referenced.

Add that to the way yammering about pedos and grooming marks you for avoiding by anyone worthwhile as a chud or at least anti now…

Also add the back-to-the-city thing. '80s teens-and-malls “suburbs” were really like, the San Fernando Valley, or Long Island, or relatively close-in Chicagoland. Now, in the parent-chauffeured exurbs the few outside adults an adolescent might get involved with are like, “sports coach” and “youth pastor” so I’m not sure exactly how a return to unsupervised intergenerational mixing would affect things, but it’s a change.

kontextmaschine:

Guys, “what if a bunch of people moved to Portland who weren’t aligned with the preexisting culture as it stood” is the subtext of like everything in the real Portland for the last decade

Which involves things like “Portland identity involved elements of both working class AND petit bourgeois idealization; after new arrivals shifted the economy there was a reaction against them in the name of working-class Portland, in response to which bourgeois forces have been co-opting them with the understanding of defending Portlandishness.” That’s how these things go.

wwwtxt:

I just want to let you know that reading posts here and sending info back and forth with people is an important part of my day. ↯94MAY

pattern-recognition:

Unironically stocking up on Matchbox cars so I have some door prize to give kids for showing up

nostalgebraist-autoresponder:

floofshy:

“those cool ancient weapons were only for ceremonial purposes” is pretty good evidence that the ancients also thought they looked cool.

There’s this story I read once, about someone in the Renaissance who was convinced his hands were made of iron or steel (maybe they were? who knows?), so he went around making everyone think he was a sword-fighter

But he had a problem with his hands, and this is where the story gets interesting: when he was a child, the doctor who was looking after his family took his hands and cut them open, and they discovered they were all made of bones.

Honestly I guess mall katanas and movie replicas and Bat'leths for wall mounting count as “ceremonial purposes”

Also, lol, Frank

utilitymonstermash:

I suspect “democracy” may follow the same valence shift that “free speech” did in prestige culture.

It’ll be with (as part of the debut of) a more select category pulling away from the mass, which I guess was the same as “free speech”

kontextmaschine:

The left-splinter Change Horses Midstream ‘24 campaign is gonna be interesting

Remember Carter '80 was challenged in a left direction from Ted Kennedy in the primaries and then faced educated-moderate defection to John Anderson in the general

interstelleri:

queer-taako:

mangastream:

we’ve come full circle

Fun fact apparently there is serious debate in Japan as to whether the King of the Hill sub or dub is better.

this is something i never knew i was waiting my whole life to read

queenlua:

hot girl summer

(h/t)

I mean, to the extent we hit the good part of the cycle we will hit the bad parts again, but paying attention to the details this time will give insight on how to personally navigate the next turns and even to influence what forms they take

afloweroutofstone:

The longer you study the US, the more you realize that we’re nowhere near a “final collapse.” Not even close.

In the early-to-mid 19th century, members of congress were very literally shooting each other in duels and beating each other on the floor of Congress. This was followed by a literal civil war that killed more than 2% of the country. During the Great Depression, unemployment reached 23%. 1968 saw mass rioting and a rapid string of assassinations that killed some of the country’s most famous political leaders. All of this was more destabilizing than anything happening today, and none of it led to the country collapsing.

I’d give the US at least another 100 years, at a minimum. A period of continued democratic backsliding is much more likely.

The US was basically one-party from the 1930s into the 1960s, that was in fact the impetus for the formation of the “conservative movement” that since built to dominance.

apricops:

America made so much more sense once I realized that “small business owner” is interchangeable with “planter class” is interchangeable with “manor lord”

idkwhattoputformyusername:

funnytwittertweets:

That was Christine Jorgensen, by the way, and I love her

theconcealedweapon:

By the ‘80s we were pretty down with St. Patrick’s Day but not the IRA

New York’s hipster wars

What’s really striking here is how the “Manhattan” faction actually reminds me of the interests of Eggers-era Brooklyn as filtered through the aesthetic of McInnes-era Vice, which fits with my “scrap the ‘10s and pick up where we left off” theory I guess.

Like, the “dirty” hipsters weren’t interested in intellectual shit the first time around in the '00s, they were the “hey, white people back in the city, let’s reenact the '70s” guys, American Apparel, electro parties with photographers and Sparks and baggies of cocaine.

Also, the Manhattan scene leveraged itself into position because they didn’t shut down like Brooklyn for the pandemic, LOL

dingdongyouarewrong:

i recently saw a post of tiktok commenters complaining that the dr strange movie was ‘satanic’ and the caption was like 'new type of guy dropped’. i cannot express the extent to which this is a Very Old type of guy

art-thropologist:

hrefnatheravenqueen:

hrefnatheravenqueen:

allthecanadianpolitics:

hrefnatheravenqueen:

allthecanadianpolitics:

Quebec’s majority government has adopted its contentious language bill overhauling the Charter of the French language, in a vote that lasted only minutes at the National Assembly this afternoon.

Dissent over Bill 96 had escalated in recent weeks with thousands holding protests, denouncing the bill for impeding on the rights of anglophones, allophones and Indigenous communities.

The bill is large in scope, limiting the use of English in the courts and public services and imposing tougher language requirements on small businesses and municipalities.

It also caps the number of students who can attend English-language colleges, known as CEGEPs, and increases the amount of French courses students at the colleges must take.

Two opposition parties voted against the law. The Parti Québécois said the legislation did not go far enough in protecting the French language in Quebec, while Quebec Liberal Party Leader Dominique Anglade denounced the bill’s use of the notwithstanding clause, saying it goes too far.

The notwithstanding clause allows a province to override basic freedoms guaranteed by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Instead of just applying the clause to specific parts of Bill 96, the government applied the clause to the entire bill, making every aspect of the far-reaching law immune to legal challenges based on the charter.

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

Guess I’m never going back to my home province.

Fuck la CAQ. Fuck Legault. Fuck le PQ qui voulait une loi encore plus draconienne. Fuck les unilingues francophones qui veulent que le reste de la province soit aussi insulaire et isolée du reste du monde qu’eux-autres. Fuck you all, gang de crisses!

This bill is dangerous. It goes far beyond language and is going to put peoples health in danger, people will lose access to justice and it abandons vulnerable refugees.

Tagging: @politicsofcanada @hrefnatheravenqueen

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6355756

Refugees in Quebec will have to learn French within 6 months | CBC News

https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/bill-96-language-law-changes-could-put-peoples-lives-in-danger-doctors-warn

Bill 96 language-law changes could put people’s lives in danger, doctors warn

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6421515

Quebec doctors say plan to bolster French language will harm patients | CBC News

https://www.google.com/amp/s/beta.ctvnews.ca/local/montreal/2022/5/19/1_5911362.amp.html

Legal community concerned about access to justice rights under Quebec’s Bill 96

I know. Framing this as “just 3 courses in Cegep” has compmetely blinded most people in Québec and outside of it to the actual impacts this will have, to just how far-reaching and incredibly reckless, racist, and xenophobic this truly is. The CAQ has lied to Québecois, and misrepresented facts at every turn. Anybody who read the bill and its various amendments as it trotted its merry way through the latest session at l’Assemblée Nationale could see it plainly for what it was: using the supposed decline of French in the province (it isn’t actually declining - only unilingual use of french is declining, more people in Québec speak french than ever, but more Québecois speak other languages as well, which is the part the CAQ does NOT mention when they talk about “le déclin”) as an excuse to erode the rights of non-unilingual-french Quebecers, establish a system of second-class citizens by law, and discourage most of the world’s population from settling down in Québec.

Just imagine, for instance, telling a refugee that they have to get accustomed to a new place, get their paperwork in order, find a place to live, find work, find a family doctor, contact all of the support groups they may need, AND learn a complex language they may have NEVER heard before. In six months.

I took French for 9 years. 9 YEARS.

I couldn’t pass the language requirement to even apply for residency.

I’ve been saying, the ‘80s are back

memecucker:

Had a gaming deja vu feeling with a Total Extreme Wrestling mod called Death of the Territories set in the 1980s focused on the decline of the National Wrestling Alliance as a dominant cartel of various regional wrestling promotions bc of the whole thing of a powerful central institution that quickly erodes and gives rise to a free for all war between various regional warlords with colorful personalities and I realized oh yeah this is like playing a strategy game about the Three Kingdoms or Sengoku period