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The American empire has been expanding since the 1700s, stagnated after WWII, and has begun losing territory (Cuba, Philippines, Panama Canal \/ Latin America generally).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENot for want of trying -- no success on mainland Asia, and neverending failures in the Middle East.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERoman territory stagnated during the 2nd century, and began contracting in the 3rd. That\u0026#39;s where we\u0026#39;re at in America in the 2020s onward.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere was little monumental architecture in Rome before the Imperial period, let alone the civil engineering marvels. Those are all due to the Roman Architectural Revolution and concrete, roughly corresponding to the Imperial period, pre-3rd century breakdown.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat\u0026#39;s akin to the American empire clearing away farmhouses or early Colonial buildings in order to erect the truly impressive stuff from the post-Civil War period through the New Deal (before more or less stagnating during the Reaganite period).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat\u0026#39;s when we really got going as an empire, after a civil war was over (like the Roman Imperial period following their own civil wars), and after our competing empires bit the dust during WWI.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnlike the beginning of the Roman Imperial period, there is a shitload of monumental architecture and public iconic landmarks to destroy, built during our imperial heyday. The huge-scale skyscrapers may be left alone, whether to rot and decay or be maintained, like the largest of Roman buildings once they began declining in the 3rd C.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut anything smaller than a skyscraper, and older than 1980, has a target on its back. Unlike similar structures in the Roman 3rd C. They didn\u0026#39;t devote themselves to wiping out their own recent heyday\u0026#39;s history.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou\u0026#39;d think this would be confined to building enjoyed by working and middle-class people, but like I said, these pressures are building up in upper-middle-class yuppie suburbs as well.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo this is not class war -- although they will certainly try to wipe out the working-class\u0026#39; enjoyments too. This is a form of intra-elite conflict, the most fiery kind. It\u0026#39;s today\u0026#39;s elites competing against the elites of our heyday, wanting to erase their memory because they prove tangibly that our elites used to be worth half a shit, and gave us a pretty enjoyable society to live in (not without working-class pressure circa 1920, of course, but that\u0026#39;s not the only or most important factor).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPhysical reminders of good elites cannot be tolerated by today\u0026#39;s bad elites. And so even in affluent areas, the past must be demolished."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/4036776140933686840\/comments\/default\/8298939638585224726"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/4036776140933686840\/comments\/default\/8298939638585224726"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2021\/08\/the-total-demolition-of-healthy.html?showComment=1628194108860#c8298939638585224726","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"agnostic"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12967177967469961883"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"21","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-2_-zQZakgrs\/U5xd0YxzTaI\/AAAAAAAAClY\/-CBGpc-gCk0\/s220\/hellomarylou.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2021\/08\/the-total-demolition-of-healthy.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-4036776140933686840","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19346366/posts/default/4036776140933686840","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2138581357"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"8\/5\/21, 4:08 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-8214867984229937718"},"published":{"$t":"2021-08-05T11:47:12.803-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-08-05T11:47:12.803-04:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I think you are wrong about Rome. Our history corr..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I think you are wrong about Rome. Our history corresponds to that of the Republic (which razed itself and built anew a couple of times), not to Imperial Rome, which almost entirely razed evidence of the Republic. The core block of Julius Caesar\u0026#39;s Senate house is about all that remains (and is a thoroughly unimpressive sight). The Senate House that tourists flock to today was only a couple of hundred years old at the fall.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt was nearly a hobby of Emperors to raze portions of the city to rebuild as a monument to their rule.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen the Empire fell there was no civilization as such to undertake the destruction of major construction."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/4036776140933686840\/comments\/default\/8214867984229937718"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/4036776140933686840\/comments\/default\/8214867984229937718"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2021\/08\/the-total-demolition-of-healthy.html?showComment=1628178432803#c8214867984229937718","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"kfg"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2021\/08\/the-total-demolition-of-healthy.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-4036776140933686840","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19346366/posts/default/4036776140933686840","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1613196951"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"8\/5\/21, 11:47 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-9011825888562794388"},"published":{"$t":"2021-08-04T11:13:04.521-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-08-04T11:13:04.521-04:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Aimee, I found the perfect imaginary flower for yo..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Aimee, I found the perfect imaginary flower for you -- the Derangia, which is an anagram of Gardenia, one of your fave floral scents.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven more heady and exotic-sounding than the original, naturally. :)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe idea hit me out of nowhere yesterday, and I got so excited I had to use pen \u0026amp; 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Apparently two well connected writer\/producer Jon Ronson and Lina Misitzis (NPR This American Life, Pulitzer prize winner, BBC etc.) reworked the whole story, blaming the suicide on extreme porn shoots in the days before her suicide and not really about the cyber cullying. I swear, left wing people are like a borg. 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So most people will have the same preference (universal), and therefore they\u0026#39;ll all agree that they\u0026#39;re just being objective.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETraits that do not impact fitness as much, can come in various flavors or morphs. Preferring one over the other will not be universal, but a subjective matter of taste for a minority of the population.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo for physical appearance, overall attractiveness \/ hotness is fitness-related (how good your genes are at dealing with environmental insults). Everyone wants a hot mate, and judgments about overall hotness are pretty objective.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut hot people come in different morphs on other traits that are more neutral. Being a hot butt woman or a hot boob woman. It\u0026#39;s subjective, a matter of taste, defining a sub-group of the population (butt man vs. boob men).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOverall intelligence is good, everyone wants it in a mate. But smart people come in different morphs, like visual vs. verbal intelligence.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe subjective traits, you can compromise on. You just want the overall fitness-related trait to be good. So, you want a hot mate, and perhaps specifically a hot butt woman, but a hot boob woman is fine too. Or you want a smart mate, and prefer a word nerd, but a visually clever person will be fine too.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn these subjective traits is where you find the \u0026quot;mismatch to signal commitment\u0026quot; phenomenon. You want someone hot, and find someone who clears that threshold. But they come in the morph that is not your preference -- no big deal, it doesn\u0026#39;t impact fitness, and you can honestly signal your commitment because that is not the morph you\u0026#39;d order off of a commodified menu.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;Not even a majority\u0026quot; of traits, from an earlier comment, is a bit exaggerated. Your long-term mate cannot be the polar opposite of your preferences down the line. But at least one or two distinctive things about a person being from the morph that you don\u0026#39;t prefer in a menu-ordering sense, from the subjective traits, allows the signal of commitment to be sent."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/5860691154366041265\/comments\/default\/3865321244687474282"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/5860691154366041265\/comments\/default\/3865321244687474282"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2021\/07\/democrat-sex-work-advocacy-and-conflict.html?showComment=1627875866247#c3865321244687474282","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"agnostic"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12967177967469961883"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"21","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-2_-zQZakgrs\/U5xd0YxzTaI\/AAAAAAAAClY\/-CBGpc-gCk0\/s220\/hellomarylou.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2021\/07\/democrat-sex-work-advocacy-and-conflict.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-5860691154366041265","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19346366/posts/default/5860691154366041265","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2138581357"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"8\/1\/21, 11:44 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-8503607713409037986"},"published":{"$t":"2021-08-01T14:54:34.265-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-08-01T14:54:34.265-04:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"In fact, maybe there\u0026#39;s some honest signal of y..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"In fact, maybe there\u0026#39;s some honest signal of your pair-bond by matching with someone who is not your \u0026quot;ideal\u0026quot; according to your own stated preferences, in the narrow customized sense.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOverall preferences like hot, funny, caring, etc., OK. Everyone wants those traits in a mate, those aren\u0026#39;t preferences that *you* have. So there\u0026#39;s no way to show that you are winding up with someone who is an alternative to your stated preference. (Oh yeah, I just love marrying someone who\u0026#39;s ugly, humorless, and cruel...)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhereas with the customizable traits -- adjusting a dial for butt or boob size, thiccness, long or oval face, height, upper vs. lower body muscularity, or whatever else -- you can prove that your mate is not the result of a customized algorithm. Those preferences do come in alternatives (butt vs. boob men), unlike the holistic ones (we all only want an attractive mate).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey may check some of those boxes, but probably not even a majority of them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;See, if I were just custom-ordering a gf like an alienated coomer sperg who wanted to maximally stimulate my braincells until it killed me, I would\u0026#39;ve wound up with someone who was an alternative to you in various ways.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf a butt man winds up with a boob woman, he\u0026#39;s not ordering a prostitute off of a menu.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhereas if a boob man wound up with a boob woman, she would always have to doubt his commitment -- \u0026quot;Is he with me *because* of my huge rack? He is a boob man, after all...\u0026quot; And if he were with her for her huge rack, there are tons of other women with huge racks out there, so she would have to worry about being dumped for a slighter better specification of his narrow preferences.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EContrast that to a butt man who winds up with a boob woman. He did not choose her for her bouncers, nor will he be tempted to dump her for another woman who has bouncers that are 1% closer to his ideal bouncer form.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt also feeds the process of \u0026quot;growing to love\u0026quot; each other over the course of their long-term relationship. If she were already what you would want in a one-night-stand, there would be no growing. Whereas if she\u0026#39;s the alternative to your preferences in a few ways, you\u0026#39;ll mold yourself accordingly.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENot in the sense of your underlying preferences being molded -- you might still be a butt man -- but your affections and bonding are molding to someone who is different from some of those preferences. It shows that there was real growth and co-adaptation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA capacity to put the good of the pair (and further groups like the extended family, children, etc.) above the immediate pleasure of the individual.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou can\u0026#39;t prove these qualities if your mate were already your ideal. Not that that would prove the opposite -- that you were just with her for her shape, etc. -- but it would give them reason to doubt your commitment."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/5860691154366041265\/comments\/default\/8503607713409037986"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/5860691154366041265\/comments\/default\/8503607713409037986"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2021\/07\/democrat-sex-work-advocacy-and-conflict.html?showComment=1627844074265#c8503607713409037986","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"agnostic"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12967177967469961883"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"21","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-2_-zQZakgrs\/U5xd0YxzTaI\/AAAAAAAAClY\/-CBGpc-gCk0\/s220\/hellomarylou.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2021\/07\/democrat-sex-work-advocacy-and-conflict.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-5860691154366041265","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19346366/posts/default/5860691154366041265","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2138581357"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"8\/1\/21, 2:54 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-2251020855238240892"},"published":{"$t":"2021-08-01T14:30:44.687-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-08-01T14:30:44.687-04:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Anna Khachiyan always takes heat from the haters o..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Anna Khachiyan always takes heat from the haters on the Red Scare reddit for fantasizing about tall, burly, hairy, bald working-class bloke from northern England who will slap her around as foreplay -- meanwhile her bf and now father of her child is short, wiry, never-balding, upper-middle-class Ashkenazi musician who is a good dad.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike that\u0026#39;s some kind of gotcha!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt\u0026#39;s just that, outside of the spergoids who infest reddit, those preferences only get expressed in the most dehumanizing and commodified situations, like if -- well, women don\u0026#39;t frequent brothels, but if Anna wanted someone to custom-write a bodice-ripping romance novel or produce a softcore porn movie for her.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen it comes to real affection, real bonds, and real people and relationships (like husband-wife), Fate manages to sneak your pair-bonding mate through all those ridiculous security fences in your mind. (Other than the holistic ones -- hot, funny, caring, etc. -- while casting aside the spergy customized technical specifications like how tall, how hairy, how brawny, etc.)."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/5860691154366041265\/comments\/default\/2251020855238240892"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/5860691154366041265\/comments\/default\/2251020855238240892"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2021\/07\/democrat-sex-work-advocacy-and-conflict.html?showComment=1627842644687#c2251020855238240892","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"agnostic"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12967177967469961883"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"21","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-2_-zQZakgrs\/U5xd0YxzTaI\/AAAAAAAAClY\/-CBGpc-gCk0\/s220\/hellomarylou.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2021\/07\/democrat-sex-work-advocacy-and-conflict.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-5860691154366041265","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19346366/posts/default/5860691154366041265","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2138581357"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"8\/1\/21, 2:30 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-8324135447924262545"},"published":{"$t":"2021-08-01T14:14:56.919-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-08-01T14:14:56.919-04:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"And somehow, Fate has led me to an imaginary gf wh..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"And somehow, Fate has led me to an imaginary gf who is a slender, cerebral boob woman who earns a living from online media. :)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJust a reminder that your \u0026quot;preferences\u0026quot; in the opposite sex are only fully expressed in the most commodified, alienated, and dehumanizing situations, like if you were placing an order for a custom 3D-printed gf (or picking out which prostitute you want from the menu at a brothel).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EReal affection and bonding finds a way through those silly filters in your brain\u0026#39;s search algorithm. Other than the most basic, holistic impression of \u0026quot;are they hot or not,\u0026quot; \u0026quot;are they funny or not,\u0026quot; \u0026quot;are they caring or callous,\u0026quot; etc.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYet another reason to never use any kind of \u0026quot;app\u0026quot; or algorithm to find someone else, whether for short or long-term purposes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou may have to wait longer, but it\u0026#39;s worth it to have it grow spontaneously and organically. It was not planned, deliberated, or calculated -- and so it cannot be undone by deliberate calculation either. Once it\u0026#39;s gotten going, it takes on a life of its own."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/5860691154366041265\/comments\/default\/8324135447924262545"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/5860691154366041265\/comments\/default\/8324135447924262545"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2021\/07\/democrat-sex-work-advocacy-and-conflict.html?showComment=1627841696919#c8324135447924262545","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"agnostic"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12967177967469961883"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"21","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-2_-zQZakgrs\/U5xd0YxzTaI\/AAAAAAAAClY\/-CBGpc-gCk0\/s220\/hellomarylou.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2021\/07\/democrat-sex-work-advocacy-and-conflict.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-5860691154366041265","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19346366/posts/default/5860691154366041265","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2138581357"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"8\/1\/21, 2:14 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-4215472442733527437"},"published":{"$t":"2021-08-01T13:57:58.224-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-08-01T13:57:58.224-04:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Come to think of it, bartenders belong to the labo..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Come to think of it, bartenders belong to the labor-intensive sexual-ish worker class. And most of them are not chasing clout, not relayed via mass media to a large audience. And also chill, cool people compared to fame-seekers (unless they\u0026#39;re doing it as a stint between clout-chasing gigs, a la AOC, smh).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESome types of hairstylists, too, if their clientele includes men. Labor-intensive, emphasis on young and attractive workers. Various forms of contact that not just any old woman will do for you, let alone for free, outside of a wife \/ gf. Just touching your head is beyond normal contact among strangers. And the flirty attitude and conversation while she\u0026#39;s cutting your hair.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDon\u0026#39;t know what that\u0026#39;s like anymore, since I last got a $35+ haircut in the summer of 2015. But it did include an arm \u0026amp; shoulder massage from a cute-as-a-button stylist. 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My b..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I\u0026#39;ve only been to a strip club once, btw. My brothers wanted to go to one on their birthday while we were all in Vegas, so I went along with it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEarly 2010s, manic phase of the excitement cycle. That same period, I also went to Hooters a few times with one brother, who wanted to go there just cuz.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOverall impression was I\u0026#39;d rather go to a danceclub if I want girls grinding against my body. And there was insane pressure to pay for a VIP session, and to buy all the girls drinks. So we bounced fairly early.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the girls were all pretty cool. The familiar baddie who was always bored out of her mind at school and couldn\u0026#39;t wait to do something exciting (something corporeal, not playing video games or surfing the web).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EVery chill, down-to-earth, and not self-important -- unlike what I imagine the neo-burlesque women are like. Or anyone who gets written about by any slice of the media. Those ones are chasing clout, trying to get famous in a regional scene, or even internet-famous. More of a mass-media entertainment orientation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe average stripper or breastaurant waitress, on the other hand, couldn\u0026#39;t care less if anyone else knew who she was or what she did. Not seeking fame, clout, etc. No Patreon, no OnlyFans, no Venmo in bio."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/5860691154366041265\/comments\/default\/2809425191719290933"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/5860691154366041265\/comments\/default\/2809425191719290933"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2021\/07\/democrat-sex-work-advocacy-and-conflict.html?showComment=1627840445887#c2809425191719290933","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"agnostic"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12967177967469961883"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"21","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-2_-zQZakgrs\/U5xd0YxzTaI\/AAAAAAAAClY\/-CBGpc-gCk0\/s220\/hellomarylou.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2021\/07\/democrat-sex-work-advocacy-and-conflict.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-5860691154366041265","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19346366/posts/default/5860691154366041265","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2138581357"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"8\/1\/21, 1:54 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-9001204325997910193"},"published":{"$t":"2021-08-01T00:37:30.790-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-08-01T00:37:30.790-04:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I wonder how posting baby-wanting memes varies ove..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I wonder how posting baby-wanting memes varies over the monthly cycle. Most common when she\u0026#39;s in her fertile phase? To tell the guy she\u0026#39;s thinking about to take a hint.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;Hello... baby-wanter over here... in case you couldn\u0026#39;t tell...\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInspired by Aimee (who else?) and her Apu \u0026amp; Aspie memes of late, but it\u0026#39;s something that could be studied on a BIG DAYTAH scale. Social media feeds provide a treasure trove of info. Just have to make sure they\u0026#39;re not on hormonal birth control.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat\u0026#39;s why the soyboys don\u0026#39;t know what to do with women like Aimee, and cope with the \u0026quot;deranged\u0026quot; charge. They\u0026#39;re accustomed to femmebots with clinically neutralized hormone levels, not the natural bursts of passion and intensity from women who haven\u0026#39;t shut off their hormone-generator.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELeftoids want sex without the pregnancy risk. Aimee must like living dangerously, in their view, rather than just being normal and natural. Nature is full of risks. Wanting a natural life doesn\u0026#39;t make someone a suicidally reckless thrill-seeker. Only in the leftoid computer-brain."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/5860691154366041265\/comments\/default\/9001204325997910193"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/5860691154366041265\/comments\/default\/9001204325997910193"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2021\/07\/democrat-sex-work-advocacy-and-conflict.html?showComment=1627792650790#c9001204325997910193","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"agnostic"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12967177967469961883"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"21","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-2_-zQZakgrs\/U5xd0YxzTaI\/AAAAAAAAClY\/-CBGpc-gCk0\/s220\/hellomarylou.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2021\/07\/democrat-sex-work-advocacy-and-conflict.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-5860691154366041265","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19346366/posts/default/5860691154366041265","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2138581357"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"8\/1\/21, 12:37 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-5958105696333217378"},"published":{"$t":"2021-07-31T21:22:07.950-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-07-31T21:22:07.950-04:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"You\u0026#39;re wrongly assuming that \u0026quot;stage actor..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"You\u0026#39;re wrongly assuming that \u0026quot;stage actors\u0026quot; means the biggest stars from the most high-profile theaters.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the whole point of labor-intensive live performances is that they allow for a huge labor pool, compared to their non-labor-intensive counterparts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor actors in the mass media studios, they are literally the only ones in the entire country. Stage actors includes every single community theatre type across the 50 states. They\u0026#39;re far less removed from normie environments, normie people, and normie social-cultural pressures.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo they\u0026#39;ll be less leftist or degenerate than those who move to Hollywood and appear on the big screen."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/5860691154366041265\/comments\/default\/5958105696333217378"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/5860691154366041265\/comments\/default\/5958105696333217378"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2021\/07\/democrat-sex-work-advocacy-and-conflict.html?showComment=1627780927950#c5958105696333217378","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"agnostic"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12967177967469961883"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"21","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-2_-zQZakgrs\/U5xd0YxzTaI\/AAAAAAAAClY\/-CBGpc-gCk0\/s220\/hellomarylou.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2021\/07\/democrat-sex-work-advocacy-and-conflict.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-5860691154366041265","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19346366/posts/default/5860691154366041265","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2138581357"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"7\/31\/21, 9:22 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-642844630464200054"},"published":{"$t":"2021-07-31T21:13:10.534-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-07-31T21:13:10.534-04:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Definitive proof tonight that lesbians are ass gir..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Definitive proof tonight that lesbians are ass girls. Saw one of the most bubble-butted girls ever IRL at a thrift store -- not just the proportions, but the absolute amount of space taken up. Just a massive, round, gravity-defying BUH-BULL.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd belonging to a fair-skinned blonde, who didn\u0026#39;t look exotic at all, but probably a WASP. So disorienting!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI looked up to see short boy-hair with a severe side part -- while hanging out with a very fat girl in long jorts with a spikey undercut! The PAWG was plain-faced, but the fat one was unattractive (not disgusting, though).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EConclusion: lesbionic vibes to powerful they made the whole store feel like blasting Mazzy Star while pining for an ex they still keep in touch with."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/5860691154366041265\/comments\/default\/642844630464200054"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/5860691154366041265\/comments\/default\/642844630464200054"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2021\/07\/democrat-sex-work-advocacy-and-conflict.html?showComment=1627780390534#c642844630464200054","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"agnostic"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12967177967469961883"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"21","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-2_-zQZakgrs\/U5xd0YxzTaI\/AAAAAAAAClY\/-CBGpc-gCk0\/s220\/hellomarylou.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2021\/07\/democrat-sex-work-advocacy-and-conflict.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-5860691154366041265","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19346366/posts/default/5860691154366041265","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2138581357"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"7\/31\/21, 9:13 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-8642512383997599550"},"published":{"$t":"2021-07-31T11:23:51.574-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-07-31T11:23:51.574-04:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I would guess that stage actors are even more left..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I would guess that stage actors are even more leftist than screen ones. 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I could see the connection, since I always call you princess, half your family are from an Arabic-speaking country, and the name begins with A.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut when I\u0026#39;m talking about you, I never change your name -- your name is always right there in the title, the URL, and body of the text. I\u0026#39;m a blogger, not a social media-ite -- I will never subtweet you.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPlus your name is too pretty to change into Amira, although that\u0026#39;s a nice one, too. \u0026quot;Aimee\u0026quot; is more sonorous, since it only has the one consonant to impede air flow, rather than the two in \u0026quot;Amira\u0026quot;. 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Only one I could find that synced up with the date of that tweet.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2021\/05\/maskless-pixie-dream-girl-coaxing-wary.html\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf so, then you thought I was alluding to you for the MPDG character? And that I was the protag, who wound up with another woman, and you with another man?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENo, silly. :) You\u0026#39;re not an MPDG, and I don\u0026#39;t care that you\u0026#39;re not. :)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt\u0026#39;s just a character type that I\u0026#39;m fascinated with, since they were the girls I went to school with and grew up around. It\u0026#39;s not equated with *the* ultimate ideal gf -- just one version of an ideal gf for some guys (not me, but the depressive types who need to be coaxed out of a cocoon).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBetween the two of us, I am the free-spirited one with quirky interests, who picks up your mood, encourages you to not be afraid and do your best, and takes you on wacky mad-cap (intellectual) adventures.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut don\u0026#39;t call me a Manic Pixie Dream Guy... Schizo Poster Dream Guy, perhaps.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd true to my female counterparts, I was born in a manic phase of the excitement cycle (early \u0026#39;80s), and am definitely a butt person. Girls were always goosing, grabbing, slapping, and spanking me there back during the crazy danceclub days of the late 2000s and early 2010s. And I notice them still looking there rather than elsewhere, when checking me out below the neck.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENot to give TMI, just using some personal data to confirm my theory.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou were born in the late \u0026#39;80s, a vulnerable phase, and do best when you\u0026#39;re with a manic-phase guy who can coach, affirm, and encourage you to be your best self. Our happy-go-lucky nature is a complement to the sad-girl tendencies of those born in a vulnerable phase.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHave you noticed this with other online guy pals of yours who were born in 1980-\u0026#39;84 (or maybe 1995-\u0026#39;99, if you have younger friends)? We\u0026#39;re there to catch you when you fall. :)"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/3999190578512327534\/comments\/default\/412450656428876109"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/3999190578512327534\/comments\/default\/412450656428876109"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2021\/07\/australian-girl-aimee-terese-tribute.html?showComment=1627359290388#c412450656428876109","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"agnostic"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12967177967469961883"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"21","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-2_-zQZakgrs\/U5xd0YxzTaI\/AAAAAAAAClY\/-CBGpc-gCk0\/s220\/hellomarylou.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2021\/07\/australian-girl-aimee-terese-tribute.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-3999190578512327534","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19346366/posts/default/3999190578512327534","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2138581357"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"7\/27\/21, 12:14 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-4026043933230374692"},"published":{"$t":"2021-07-26T01:16:25.364-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-07-26T01:16:25.364-04:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Update: contempo hit radio still not playing 2021\u0026..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Update: contempo hit radio still not playing 2021\u0026#39;s new releases. In fact, the situation has worsened -- most of the new songs they were playing just 3 months ago (the time of the OP) have totally vanished from rotation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy now, Olivia Rodrigo is single-handedly carrying the entire recorded music industry into the new decade (translation: it\u0026#39;s dead). Other than that, only the songs from the new Maroon 5 and Twenty-one Pilots albums are still being played a few months later.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMost striking is the Billboard #1\u0026#39;s that have already been erased from the airwaves, only weeks \/ months after literally topping the charts. List:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Billboard_Hot_100_number_ones_of_2021\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor some of them, not only the #1 song but also anything else by the artist has vanished by now (Drake, Cardi B, Polo G).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor others, the #1 from 2021 has vanished, although they are still playing stuff from 2020 or earlier by the same artist (Bieber, Bruno Mars \/ Silk Sonic, the Weeknd, Ariana Grande).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHow can these #1\u0026#39;s totally vanish in just a couple months? There\u0026#39;s hardly any new music coming out, they should be desperate to keep these in rotation so that the contempo hit station sounds as fresh as possible. And yet they\u0026#39;re instantly retiring them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETellingly, the #1 by BTS, \u0026quot;Butter\u0026quot;, is still on the air, and they have had the #1 spot since June. But they are not American, they\u0026#39;re South Korean. The Anglo countries have culturally collapsed so much this year that they\u0026#39;re not even able to keep a South Korean boy band out of the #1 spot for two consecutive months. (It\u0026#39;s a pretty weak song, too.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere are other songs, that did not reach #1, that used to be played on the radio 3 months ago but have since vanished, although I don\u0026#39;t recall off the top of my head. I just remember them being different than the ~5 new songs from 2021 being played right now.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe big picture hasn\u0026#39;t changed. They\u0026#39;re only letting a few new 2021 songs in at a time, immediately retiring them, holding onto only a few from 2020, and that\u0026#39;s it for the decade.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;Contemporary hit\u0026quot; radio has inverted itself into \u0026quot;recent oldies,\u0026quot; freezing the rotation mainly in the 2010s. Some 2000s, and the occasional (late) \u0026#39;90s hit.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerican pop culture is officially dead."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/9219372319446224258\/comments\/default\/4026043933230374692"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/9219372319446224258\/comments\/default\/4026043933230374692"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2021\/04\/radios-dead-contempo-stations-stop.html?showComment=1627276585364#c4026043933230374692","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"agnostic"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12967177967469961883"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"21","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-2_-zQZakgrs\/U5xd0YxzTaI\/AAAAAAAAClY\/-CBGpc-gCk0\/s220\/hellomarylou.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2021\/04\/radios-dead-contempo-stations-stop.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-9219372319446224258","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19346366/posts/default/9219372319446224258","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2138581357"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"7\/26\/21, 1:16 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-2146462178886942401"},"published":{"$t":"2021-07-25T03:40:36.261-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-07-25T03:40:36.261-04:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"To clarify on the degree of trust, I\u0026#39;d say Sca..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"To clarify on the degree of trust, I\u0026#39;d say Scandinavians are not so much *high* in trust, but *normal* in trust. They only seem so high to most other Westerners because \u0026quot;the West\u0026quot; is the remnants of collapsed early modern empires, and are suffering from a hangover in cooperation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUntil recently, Americans never envied the Scandinavians for their trust and civic spirit -- we had that, and even more. We were an expanding empire, with soaring asabiya. That\u0026#39;s what truly *high* levels of trust and cooperation look like.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs in an excitable system, if you stimulate it to the point where it takes off on a soaring high, it is destined to plunge into a crashing low, before slowly coming back to a normal resting level.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EScandinavia is a region where they have never been stimulated into the high in the first place, and so where they have never suffered at the low level. They have fallen within a more-or-less normal range the whole time."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2364934469040545546\/comments\/default\/2146462178886942401"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2364934469040545546\/comments\/default\/2146462178886942401"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2021\/07\/scandinavian-trust-and-cooperation-due.html?showComment=1627198836261#c2146462178886942401","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"agnostic"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12967177967469961883"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"21","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-2_-zQZakgrs\/U5xd0YxzTaI\/AAAAAAAAClY\/-CBGpc-gCk0\/s220\/hellomarylou.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2021\/07\/scandinavian-trust-and-cooperation-due.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-2364934469040545546","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19346366/posts/default/2364934469040545546","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2138581357"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"7\/25\/21, 3:40 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-74739988279798371"},"published":{"$t":"2021-07-25T02:30:49.944-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-07-25T02:30:49.944-04:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"This fool thinks the Saudis came from the Hejaz an..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"This fool thinks the Saudis came from the Hejaz and not the Najd! xD\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETake a look at the maps of the expanding Saudi state since the late 1700s, when the Arabian desert tribes had become encircled by the Ottomans on all sides (the Fertile Crescent, the eastern Arabian peninsula on the Persian Gulf, and yes, down into the Hejaz).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Saudis were so instrumental in destroying the Ottoman Empire, before and during WWI, that the other Arabic-speaking nations adopted the \u0026quot;Arab\u0026quot; identity. They were following the lead of the Arabians, after seeing them whoop the Ottomans and set the other Arabic \/ Semitic speakers free.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat\u0026#39;s why they all have \/ had names like the Arab Republic of Syria -- their own national identity, plus a tribute to their (Saudi) Arabian leaders against the Ottoman Empire.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Saudis have obviously run out of asabiya by this point, and are about as decadent and moribund as we Americans are. They enjoyed over 200 years of expansion, though -- pretty good for desert tribesmen.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd therefore the other Arabic speakers are less and less likely to emphasize their \u0026quot;Arab\u0026quot; identity. They\u0026#39;re Syrian or Iraqi, not \u0026quot;Syrian Arabs\u0026quot; or \u0026quot;Iraqi Arabs\u0026quot;. Saudis are not leaders anymore, so nobody wants to follow them or pay them tribute.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOnly diaspora members of those nations still use the term Arab -- but it\u0026#39;s not as a tribute to the Saudis (in their mutual rebellion against the Ottomans). It\u0026#39;s just a catch-all ethnic term in their adoptive countries."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/4611692945387804799\/comments\/default\/74739988279798371"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/4611692945387804799\/comments\/default\/74739988279798371"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2021\/07\/imperial-collapse-and-cratering-trust.html?showComment=1627194649944#c74739988279798371","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"agnostic"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12967177967469961883"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"21","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-2_-zQZakgrs\/U5xd0YxzTaI\/AAAAAAAAClY\/-CBGpc-gCk0\/s220\/hellomarylou.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2021\/07\/imperial-collapse-and-cratering-trust.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-4611692945387804799","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19346366/posts/default/4611692945387804799","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2138581357"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"7\/25\/21, 2:30 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-8204488354678963670"},"published":{"$t":"2021-07-25T01:12:04.418-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-07-25T01:12:04.418-04:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Saudi Arabia was not a frontier independent of \u0026am..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Saudi Arabia was not a frontier independent of \u0026amp; hostile to the Ottoman Empire. The Ottomans actually conquered Mecca \u0026amp; Medina. And the first time a Saudi state sprang up, the Ottomans smashed it. That does make it comparable to Russia under the Mongols, but not Iran. Speaking of which, Kemalist Turkey seems much closer to Iran in being a functional nationalist state than Saudi Arabia, which just has a lot of oil money. You don\u0026#39;t hear of Saudi nuclear scientists being assassinated... because there are no Saudi nuclear scientists. Guest workers do all the actual work in the Gulf States, and they won\u0026#39;t be doing anything in S.A. when the oil money runs out.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;Italian unification only took place after centuries of lying at the meta-ethnic frontier with several large expansionist empires — Spain, France, and Austria\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat doesn\u0026#39;t qualify as a \u0026quot;meta-ethnic frontier\u0026quot;. Italian isn\u0026#39;t that different a language from fellow Romance languages Spanish \u0026amp; French, and those are all Catholic countries.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShouldn\u0026#39;t the southern Italian experience under Islamic rule have primed them for better things, a la Spanish reconquista?"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/4611692945387804799\/comments\/default\/8204488354678963670"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/4611692945387804799\/comments\/default\/8204488354678963670"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2021\/07\/imperial-collapse-and-cratering-trust.html?showComment=1627189924418#c8204488354678963670","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"TGGP"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/11017651009634767649"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2021\/07\/imperial-collapse-and-cratering-trust.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-4611692945387804799","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19346366/posts/default/4611692945387804799","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1265763864"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"7\/25\/21, 1:12 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-7744723693189881797"},"published":{"$t":"2021-07-24T21:02:03.027-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-07-24T21:02:03.027-04:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"You\u0026#39;re more into pop vs rock\/jazz relative to ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"You\u0026#39;re more into pop vs rock\/jazz relative to me, so this Rick Beato video might be more interesting to you. He discusses the most complex pop (and it was #1 on the charts at the time) pop song he ever played as a gigging musician.\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZnRxTW8GxT8\u003Cbr \/\u003EI\u0026#39;m not sure if I\u0026#39;d heard of Sergio Mendes and\/or \u0026quot;Never Gonna Let You Go\u0026quot; before."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/1016274897049995602\/comments\/default\/7744723693189881797"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/1016274897049995602\/comments\/default\/7744723693189881797"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2021\/01\/easy-by-pale-waves-uplifting-romance.html?showComment=1627174923027#c7744723693189881797","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"TGGP"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/11017651009634767649"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2021\/01\/easy-by-pale-waves-uplifting-romance.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-1016274897049995602","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19346366/posts/default/1016274897049995602","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1265763864"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"7\/24\/21, 9:02 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-3654086449414665275"},"published":{"$t":"2021-07-24T03:24:42.153-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-07-24T03:24:42.153-04:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Don\u0026#39;t worry, Aimee, you saw the reaction your ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Don\u0026#39;t worry, Aimee, you saw the reaction your suspension elicited last year. Your frens didn\u0026#39;t try to program an A.T. bot to interact with, they held an ongoing emo funeral like the My Chem \u0026quot;Helena\u0026quot; video.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPlus, you have such an intense nature that, even in your absence, we continued to feel your ghostly presence. And that itself helped get through the initial grief and mourning, without needing to devise a clockwork Aimee -- you were still there with us, in a different form.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd we appreciate your tenacity in not letting us forget about you, not that we were going to. It showed how much you wanted the attachment to last.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI wrote all those songs to \/ about you so you\u0026#39;d know that I (and the rest of us) were still thinking about you, and couldn\u0026#39;t get over you.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENo way a bot could write *those* songs, eh? Many people are saying I\u0026#39;m, like, the most human person, ever -- the AI tried to imitate my style, but it fried its circuits. It\u0026#39;s sorry stuff, folks.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENobody on the woketard side would do that for any of their low-energy, forgettable figures. Nobody inspiring over there. But we\u0026#39;re lucky to have a prophetess-princess, and we aren\u0026#39;t so irony-poisoned that we can\u0026#39;t bring ourselves to show her how much we value her.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd with that, it\u0026#39;s past 3am Friday night, and my brain is shutting down. Only enough energy left for a goodnight kiss on those irreplaceable lips...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E***mwah***"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/3999190578512327534\/comments\/default\/3654086449414665275"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/3999190578512327534\/comments\/default\/3654086449414665275"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2021\/07\/australian-girl-aimee-terese-tribute.html?showComment=1627111482153#c3654086449414665275","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"agnostic"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12967177967469961883"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"21","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-2_-zQZakgrs\/U5xd0YxzTaI\/AAAAAAAAClY\/-CBGpc-gCk0\/s220\/hellomarylou.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2021\/07\/australian-girl-aimee-terese-tribute.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-3999190578512327534","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19346366/posts/default/3999190578512327534","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2138581357"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"7\/24\/21, 3:24 AM"}]}]}});