The Rise & Fall Of Kamala Harris (10-27-24)

01:00 Australian Men Might Be The World’s Laziest Daters, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=157717
03:00 Are Aussie men dating duds compared to other countries?, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iznyvjz3wa8
17:00 10 Signs You’re DATING AN AUSSIE MAN, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KQCPwGQ9_A
18:30 Kamala Harris’ Lead Polling Expert Explains Trump, the Polls, and How She Wins, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIm5SplyGGc
22:00 What’s the matter with young men? https://www.newyorker.com/news/fault-lines/whats-the-matter-with-young-male-voters
26:00 Ronald Brownstein on Kamala Harris’s path to victory, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIm5SplyGGc
34:00 John Podhoretz and the Commentary magazine crew on Trump’s momentum, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR0Uz7ti9Wc
40:00 Michael Tracey Election Discussion with Richard Hanania, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwGjF5tz-JE
58:00 What Are The Most Common Lies You Have To Tell To Get By In America?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=157738
1:10:00 Trump goes on Joe Rogan
1:14:30 Kip joins
1:21:00 What’s good about American culture? https://www.interexchange.org/blog/international-participants/10-things-to-know-about-u-s-culture/
1:46:00 My journey from Seventh-Day Adventism to Judaism, https://www.lukeford.net/luke_ford/bio/l1.html
1:48:00 When Did I Board The Trump Express?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=83076
1:53:00 Steve Sailer’s 2015 coverage of Donald Trump, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=111233
2:01:00 Mark Halperin latest on Trump Derangement Syndrome, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE-GYg9lD5Y
2:02:40 Jon Meacham’s rant about Trump voters
2:08:00 Trump’s winning vibe vs Kamala’s losing vibe
2:16:20 Amy Wax on the feminisation of institutions, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh-SUtMtRow
2:20:00 NYT: The Policy Record Harris Isn’t Talking About, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/us/politics/harris-racism-sexism-policies.html
2:21:00 NYT: Kamala is totally into DEI, https://www.stevesailer.net/p/nyt-kamala-is-totally-into-dei
2:26:00 The Rise and Fall of Kamala, https://www.stevesailer.net/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-kamala
2:32:00 Depictions of Sex in Popular Media, https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/depictions-of-sex-in-popular-media
2:39:00 Romantopia vs porntopia
2:40:00 Restrictive eating among young women comes from female competition
2:45:00 The decline of lesbians and the rise of trans
2:50:00 Cultural differences between America and Australia, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=157717
2:56:00 Michael Oren: Israel’s retaliation against Iran leaves open the question of whether the mission secured its fundamental objective of deterring the Islamic Republic, https://claritywithmichaeloren.substack.com/p/game-ender-or-game-changer
2:58:20 ISRAEL ATTACKS IRAN – with Nadav Eyal and Jonathan Schanzer, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERj4GQ82wcw
3:00:00 ISRAEL’S STRIKE ON IRAN – MIKE AND GADI SHARPLY DISAGREE, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2taiqx3yeE
3:04:00 When will Israel go ape on Iran?

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What Are The Most Common Lies You Have To Tell To Get By In America?

Australians tend to be more plain spoken than Americans because Aussies live in a more secure, higher trust society.

Most of the lies that Americans tell these days are exactly what you would expect in a diverse low-trust litigious society. Such fibs were less common 60 years ago.

To be socially acceptable in many parts of America, you have to:

* Boast about your work ethic (Americans have fewer worker protections and less social welfare than any other first world people). Americans are more vulnerable to loss of job, loss of health insurance, and loss of safety than other rich nations. Yanks must work hard to live in a low-crime neighborhood while Aussies can take this luxury for granted.
* Pretend to align with the mission statement of your employer.
* Pretend to be racially and sexually blind (as opposed to noting that different groups have different gifts). For example, you talk about bad neighborhoods and bad schools rather than about the bad people that make neighborhoods and schools dangerous. You don’t reveal how much you hate certain groups because they are a source of distress in your life rather than joy. In many social settings, you display guilt about racism, sexism, homophobia and other fake sins.
* Act as though your hero system doesn’t invalidate competing hero systems (for example, the claims of Judaism & Christianity are contradictory).
* Pretend that America is the product of its amazing founding documents and ideas rather than noting that its founding documents and ideas are overwhelmingly the products of Anglo-Saxons and that the systems that they started in America are not equally suited for all groups.
* If you are a bloke, you must pretend that you enjoy the company of women you don’t want to bang. Blokes must play down their desire to hang out with men like themselves.
* Pretend that you see people as individuals rather than as members of groups.
* Play down how much of what you say and do is false but necessary to reduce the chances of litigation (such as you don’t apologize when you cause an accident).
* Play down the the high amount of discrimination you practice to have a good life.
* Pretend to care about out-groups and in the horrible things your ancestors did to out-groups.
* Pretend that you are not repulsed by fat people, weak men, and by other groups that might fill you with instinctive loathing.
* Pretend that you support small government and states rights when you simply don’t want to subsidize out-groups.
* Pretend that you care about the plucky foreign people who are celebrated cause of the moment (such as Ukrainians or Israelis or Palestinians or Africans).
* Pretend that there are important leaders of various victimhood groups (blacks, Jews, gays, trans, Mexican-Americans, etc) who deserve our respect.
* Pretend that there is a LGBTQ community when in fact the various components of this community have nothing in common with each other.
* Pretend that what unites as Americans is more important than what divides us (sometimes true but usually not).
* Pretend that George Floyd was a great man.
* Pretend that the president is ipso facto worthy of respect when he’s always a politician who’s more worthy of skepticism than deference.
* Say that Donald Trump is a threat to democracy.
* Minimize your protest that your professor and TA can’t speak a type of English you can understand.
* Deny that you own a gun.
* Deny that different groups have different interests.

Arnold Beichman wrote in the New York Times June 6, 1971:

Six ‘Big Lies’ About America

THE culture of a free society be comes seriously corroded when lies circulate freely as truths; when an unsupported assertion is accepted as a statement of fact rather than as something to be proved, when the line between possibility and certainty becomes invisible.

In political discourse, one expects lies and half‐truths; politicians are not, after all, philosopher‐kings. In culture, however, when lies begin to be accepted as worthy of debate by our enormously powerful social critics and literary intellectuals a crisis in values follows. Culture cannot long withstand perversions of truth. When culture becomes politics, revolutionary politics in particular, there can be no criterion for truth and its inseparable companion, rationality, for then every man is his own judge of truth with the right, if he so chooses, to force his truth on the refractory. As Andre Malraux once wrote: “The path that leads from moral reasoning to political action dead selves.”

America today is a country about which more lies are told by Americans than were ever dreamed of in Moscow, Peking or Havana…

What is new is that lying through the perversion of language or distortion of visible fact is now widely accepted as normal, so long as these derelictions are created by “progressives” around “progressive” issues. Take a little lie: the misuse of the phrase “underground press” to de scribe the left‐radical‐counterculture newspapers, all of which are obtain able on most 42d Street newsstands or on street corners from the East Village to Haight‐Ashbury. The phrase “underground press” formerly de fined publications which had to circulate secretly, from hand to hand, because they were against a repressive government, against a ruthless establishment, determined to punish publishers of such publications. There was an underground press in Czarist Russia, as there is one today in Communist Russia. An underground press existed in France during the Nazi occupation. It didn’t sell at any kiosks in Paris any more than a samizdat paper, like Chronicle of Current Events, sells at kiosks in Moscow.

I. America is either already a Fascist country or on the road to Fascism.

THIS is all agreed, among the social critics I am discussing, but there is some dispute as to how soon before American Fascism becomes real Fascism. This isn’t as absurd as it sounds. After all, if a polemicist announces over the radio, television, in a newspaper or magazine or in a best‐selling book that America is a Fascist country, it might be considered zany to make such a statement. So you get around this problem in rationality by distinguishing between “Fascism” and “real Fascism,” without ever making it clear what the distinction might be.

Charles Reich in “The Greening of America” tells us that America is at “the brink of an authoritarian or police state.” He tells us that “to day [in America] both dissent and efforts at change are dealt with by re pression.” The Harvard Crimson a few months ago announced with dramatic precision that America will be living under “real Fascism… before three years are over.” Prof. Herbert Marcuse has said that “as far as I’m concerned, one can speak with complete justification of an incipient Fascism” in America. A few sentences later in the same interview he disclosed the existence in America of “preventive Fascism.”

Prof. Philip Slater of Brandeis has written that “liberals will be given the choice, during the next decade or so, between participating in some way in the new culture and living under a Fascist regime.” Mel. Wult, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, has as his formulation sentences like: “Though we are not yet a Fascist state in general …” or, “Though we are not now police state in general…”

The usefulness of this charge that America is now or is about to go Fascist is that it is such a Big Lie that no evidence is needed to prove it; or better yet, everything is evidence, whatever is handiest. Recently the handy evidence was found, of all places, in Prime Minister Trudeau’s Canada, following last fall’s assassination of the Quebec Labor Minister by terrorists. Trudeau’s “police‐state” measures meant —I heard this charge made in a lovely Central Park West cooperative apartment—that America was next. You didn’t have to prove that Trudeau’s decrees were Fascist; the mere declaration that they were Fascist meant there was no need to prove they were. What is more, to call them Fascist was to imply that these decrees were permanent and that, therefore, Canada had embarked on the road to Fascism. Thus, a cor respondent for The New Republic, writing from Montreal as a self described “draft‐refusing” American, said: “The morning of Oct. 16… the country chosen as a refuge and whose government all praised for its tolerance had suddenly, without warning, become a police state.”

And since America Is Canada’s overbearing next‐door neighbor and since Canada dare not sneeze with out first obtaining America’s imperial permission, be assured that Fascism’s next stop is America.

THUS by constant reiteration that America is pre‐ or proto‐Fascist, America becomes Fascist and all the scholarly qualifiers, like “incipient” or “preventive” or “not yet a Fascist state in general” get blurry and redundant. In this atmosphere, any unpleasant or awful event in America can be transformed into living documentation that we now live in Amerika. Such demonology can so easily turn a doubtful future into the undoubted present—I think, there fore it is. This sort of “noncognitive” cognition was ably defined by George Lukacs, the eminent Hungarian Marxist: “It is the Stalinist tendency to exclude everywhere so far as possible any sort of mediating concepts and to bring into direct connection the crudest matters of fact with the most abstract theoretical positions.”

Take this question: Does anybody really think that President Nixon, Vice President Agnew and Dr. Kissinger would dare impose a Fascist regime on America or that they are contemplating such a coup d’etat? There are intellectuals who regard it as highly reactionary or at best naive to ask such a question, since it implies there is possible doubt as to such a conspiracy. Not to believe that the nation’s leaders, the Pentagon and the military‐industrial coin plex are planning a Fascist takeover is to demonstrate that one has been brainwashed into a state of political cretinism. And to demand some proof of such conscious (or “unconscious”) plotting is to place oneself solidly in their were I to argue that Fascism means something specific or were I to suggest that there is a huge difference between being a Republican incumbent President desperately anxious to be re‐elected and being an “incipient” Fascist, the grudging concession might be: “Well, maybe Nix on hasn’t got there yet, but give him time and you’ll see.” While it is permissible to add up every act of injustice in America as proof of the existence of Fascism, to use a similar “ethical calculus” about other countries, where acts of injustice are systemic, not episodic, to prove their “Fascism” would be impermissible.

The more scholarly and objective way to pin the “Fascist” label on America is to blur the distinction between this country and the U.S.S.R. For example, the historian Howard Zinn has written: “When the United States de fines the Soviet sphere as ‘totalitarian’ and the West as ‘free,’ it becomes difficult for Americans to see totalitarian elements in our society, and liberal elements in Soviet society. Moralizing in this way, we can condemn the Russians in Hungary and absolve ourselves in Vietnam.”

Let Zinn’s Russian peers try to organize a Moscow version of a “March on Washington,” or demand an end to Soviet occupations of foreign territory or an end to discrimination against ethnic minorities and he’ll see the difference between “totalitarian elements” in America and totalitarian elements in the Soviet Union. But Zinn knows all this—and still he’ll keep repeating this same old equation about: U. S. totalitarian elements = Soviet liberal elements.

The greatest purveyor of the canard about Fascist America is the mythopoeic Professor Marcuse, whose phrases, “repressive tolerance” and “the democratic educational dictatorship of free men,” remind me of Robespierre’s defense of the Terror: “The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.” When one begins to turn culture into revolutionary politics, the rhetoric of para dox is a most useful weapon, like the New Left phrases “creative disorder” (i.e.—pre venting a pro‐Vietnam war meeting from taking place at Harvard) or “creative vandal ism” (i.e. — destroying 10 years of a professor’s research notes during a building occupation). In the same category is Tom Hayden’s description of student revolutionaries as “guerrillas in the field of culture.”

II

America is guilty of genocide.

IF one argues that genocide is something like what happened at Auschwitz or Katyn Forest, the argument shifts: America is guilty of cultural genocide, ethnic genocide, psychic genocide—all of which are ipso facto as bad as physical genocide. If it is argued that China’s over whelming of Tibet, Stalin’s seizure of the Baltic countries and the dispersal of their populations, and Soviet counter revolutionary invasions of East Germany, Hungary, Po land and Czechoslovakia might be considered acts of cultural or ethnic genocide, and that the Kremlin’s sup pression of Russian intellectual life is metaphorical genocide, the retort be that all this is “cold war” propaganda. If the debater is too young to have experienced the cold war, the answer may be: “So what? Russia is bad but America is worse.”

III

The Bomber Left in America is a moral force.

THE Bomber Left may be guilty. But the guilt is pardonable because (1) America is a violent country, (2) violence is the Bomber Left’s agonizing answer to the need for a moral response to America’s counter revolutionary refusal to “change”* and (3) nobody, except by accident, ever gets hurt during a bombing. So the bomb becomes an abstraction destroying another abstraction: a computer center at Wisconsin (where a student was killed); a faculty club at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where a custodian was killed; a hall at Pomona College, Claremont, Calif., where a secretary was blinded and otherwise severely injured opening a time bomb package. Political frustration ascribed to the Bomber Left usually evokes among avant‐garde social critics deep sorrow; a similar indulgence for the “Goldwater Right” is unthinkable; any violence arising out of despair on the “Wallace Right” is, by avant garde convention, backward looking and contemptible. Violence on the Bomber Left* is an aberrant yet progressive step toward the New Jerusalem. Thus Bomber Left violence becomes nonviolence while Bomber Right violence (where is it?) becomes Fascist violence. The Bomber Left is made up of victims of American society; the Bomber Right is American society.

IV

The American worker is a “honky,” who revels in racial discrimination, imperialist wars, Fascism, anti‐intellectualism, “blind” anti‐Communism and other political blood sports.

INSTEAD of producing a race willing and capable of serving High Culture, these latter‐day industrial troglodytes, say the critics, have created a disgusting life style far inferior to the thousand dollar‐hi‐fi‐stereo‐Fiat‐Spider Triumph ‐ “Easy Rider” ‐ acid head ‐ Progressive Labor ‐ pot life style of their opposites. Surprisingly, these same critics, while condemning the dollar imperialism of the American worker, find it in tolerable that there should be any poverty in America. Presumably should this poverty be finally eliminated, the newly affluent workers would then become in the eyes of their putative liberators— such as Marcuse, Oglesby, Reich, Dowd — reactionary, racist, imperialist and puritanical honkies impatient to hard hats.

This lie about the American worker is an old elitist one which goes back to Alexander Hamilton, who said: “Take mankind in general, they are vicious.” This contempt was more recently expressed by Prof. Andrew Hacker of Cornell, who was absolutely ecstatic that he could announce America’s approaching “terminal hour.” Its doom was inevitable because even if America “could end poverty and bigotry, diffuse its pyramids of power, and sup press its imperial tendencies, there is no reason to believe that such a society would contain a greater quotient of talented people.” He also announced that “the egos of 200 million Americans have expanded to dimensions never before considered appropriate for ordinary citizens.” As George Orwell said in another connection, “You have to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: No ordinary man could be such a fool.”

V

Our political system is an utter fraud, particularly the two party system.

THIS lie is generally circulated by American academicians who insist that a one‐party state is not to be condemned out of hand, that if the one‐party system has a “socialist” cachet, it might even be a useful modernizing vehicle. I am not suggesting there is anything particularly sacred about a two‐party or multiparty state, nor that such a state is beyond reform. What I am arguing is that a one‐party state is a far greater threat to freedom than a two‐party or multiparty state.

VI

America is on the way down while other countries are on the way up.

ALL the countries of the world, particularly those which go by the name “revolutionary” or “people’s democracies,” are privileged, apparently, to have their faults and virtues judged by the standards of history. America, according to the critics we are discussing, is the one country which may be judged by the standards of sociology. This double standard of judgment, of course, makes it impossible ever to grant America the benefit of the doubt or the credit for good intentions.

To view a nation through history is to allow the possibility of a melioristic future. To judge a nation by sociology is to inhibit comparison of its hopeful present with an in glorious past. To believe that anything can improve here without a violent revolution (I insist on the adjective “violent” since everybody to day is for revolution, especially President Nixon) is, according to these critics, to demonstrate a benighted chauvinism. What this adds up to is that whatever America does, for whatever reason, America is wrong.

Unlike the other 143 countries in the world, only America is to be judged by the exacting and unattainable standards of a Utopia. If there is full, high‐wage employment in America for a decade, then capitalism is merely buying off the workers so that they won’t rebel. When unemployment comes, that’s the real capitalism. If — so goes this view — the Gross National Product rises and consumer income with it, it merely reflects the materialism of American civilization. If the G.N.P. falls slightly, it’s the beginning of the end, thank God. If President Nixon loses two Supreme Court nominations and one SST vote, it doesn’t mean much because, after all, has anything really changed? It’s better to vote for Nixon than for Hubert Humphrey because, as President, Nixon will bring Fascism to America much faster than a practitioner of “repressive tolerance” like Humphrey, and then…. (The same political strategy in Weimar Germany was expressed by the German Communist party as “Nach Hitler, kommen wir”: After Hitler, we will come). Besides, whatever Nixon does as President would be no worse than anything Humphrey might do.

Racism, tribalism, communalism and religious hate burden India, Pakistan, Sudan, Japan, Ceylon, Australia, Britain, Yugoslavia, Algeria with its Berbers, Spain with its Catalans and Basques, Latin America and its Indians, the U.S.S.R. and China and their repressed minorities, and on and on. The world crackles with hate, with racial and nationalistic passions — but only America, in the view of the critics we have been following, is racist. (What distinguishes America from the rest of the world is that we, its citizens, happen to be ashamed of our racism, while most everybody else is busy explaining the rationale of racial and religious discrimination and why it’s impossible to abolish it overnight.)

THUS, having neatly caricatured the country and most of its 200 million inhabitants, we can all await the revolution, we intellectuals, we culture critics, we who have helped bring the Day of America’s Judgment nearer.

Amerika — Fascist, genocidal, materialistic, violent, paranoid, honky, insensitive, undemocratic, counterrevolutionary, hopeless… did ever a country since Nazi Germany so deserve to be utterly destroyed?

Rony Guldmann writes in his work-in-progress Conservative Claims of Cultural Oppression:

* Disclosing his motivations for writing Liberal Fascism, which argues that modern liberalism and fascism grew out of the same intellectual roots in early twentieth-century Progressivism, Goldberg recounts that “[e]ver since I joined the public conversation as a conservative writer, I’ve been called a fascist and a Nazi by smug, liberal know-nothings, sublimely confident of their ill-informed prejudices.”

* Liberals disguise their moralistic hostility toward conservatives as their vigilance before the perennial specter of fascism, which won’t quite die and so must be continually exposed and preempted.

* Charles Taylor observes that “modern humanism is full of potential for…disconcerting reversals: from dedication to others to self-indulgent, feel-good responses, from a lofty sense of human dignity to control powered by contempt and hatred, from absolute freedom to absolute despotism, from a flaming desire to help the oppressed to an incandescent hatred for all those who stand in the way.” The conservative claimant of cultural oppression senses that the seeds of the latter are always germinating somewhere in the depths of the former, that liberal do-goodery is always just a few short steps away from liberal totalitarianism, and that the one is merely a gateway to the other. Contemporary liberals may repudiate the heavy-handed political repression of other progressive offshoots like European fascism. But they have not repudiated what are the seeds of that repression, their sweeping vision of social reform and social unity implemented by the centralized authority of experts.

Link:

20 Common Lies

I’m fine, nothing’s wrong.
I was stuck in traffic.
You look great in that [insert article of clothing here].
I only had one beer.
My phone died.
I had no way to contact you.
I never got the message.
I’ll call you right back.
It didn’t cost that much.
It was on sale.
Oh, this old thing? I’ve had it for ages.
I’m on the way.
Thanks, it’s just what I’ve always wanted.
You’ve lost weight.
You haven’t changed a bit.
I didn’t touch it.
I have no idea where it is.
I’ll try to make it.
I have a headache.
I would never lie to you.

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Australian Men Might Be The World’s Laziest Daters

Jewel Nichols writes:

Why are Aussie men so afraid to summon, at the very least, some sort of compliment that isn’t “you’re so fun” or “you’re such a baddie”? They’re just straight up lazy. And it’s this laziness that permeates Australian dating culture in general, from organising dates to texting back.

Don’t get me started on dating apps. The rhetoric around the typical Aussie man on Hinge is boring though, we get it: there’s a load of gym selfies, fish selfies and mullets.

What no one’s talking about is the surge of Aussie men in “open relationships”.

Since Hinge added its “relationship type” feature I’ve clocked a load of them. I had enough of that shit for four years in Berlin but the Aussie breed is worse. They’re too lazy or afraid to introduce any sort of parameters or boundaries and you end up having an angry wife banging on your door at 1 a.m. or Facebook messaging you with the opening line, “Hello lovely, you seem like a smart young woman but…”.

It’s tough out here. I’m sorry I didn’t marry my high-school boyfriend and pop out four kids by age thirty just to stay at home and take care of them while my husband drives his navy blue Subaru to and from his work and his side-piece’s house… But could that reality be better than being on the dating scene?

You either meet a sweetheart who seems okay but then fucks you four times without giving you head, or they ghost, or tell you to not tell anyone you’re fucking (has happened to a beautiful friend of mine THREE!!! times), or roll over and text other girls while you’re still naked in their bed (has happened to multiple friends of mine).

Australian men also suck at love-bombing. At least in Europe when men love-bomb, you get a trip to Italy out of it.

Here, they buy you the ugliest flowers you’ve ever seen and eventually give you chlamydia.

And the men in Australia who don’t love-bomb you are boring as shit, they take you on five dates to mediocre restaurants and lame-as-fuck dive bars then tell you they “don’t have time to date”, even though they work part-time and their only hobby is indoor rock climbing.

Report:

“If I’d met an Australian in the UK, I would have flocked to him and now, honestly, I’m going to take a wide berth – that accent’s not going to do it for me anymore, I’m afraid,” she told Today.

“I went on six dates in three weeks and the best one was when I got catfished – he lied about his height, his age and his profession, but he was so attractive and he did pay for everything.”

Aussie columnist Jana Hocking has also had her run of bad dates with local guys with way too many people relating to recent pieces she has written online.

“Lift your game men, you’ve gotten really lazy,” she said.

“I’ve had guys drop farts on dates, I’ve had guys turn up in ripped boardies and thongs., They’ll ask you just come to their house and hang or you’ll go to the pub and instead of paying attention to you, they’ll be watching the NRL or the AFL or the cricket on the screen behind you.

“Guys, come on. You need to step up. Is it too much to ask to just take us out for a nice drink?”

From Reddit:

The older generation seem high effort and buy their partners gifts from Chanel, and like to go on international holidays, weekends away etc. The younger ones seem to be very low effort and don’t know how to cook or be romantic. I’m always giving them advice on gifts. If my brother didn’t take my advice on gifts he would be buying his partner gag gifts all the time.

The two Australian men I had serious relationships with were fairly low effort. One always had me pay for everything with an excuse as to why he couldn’t, even if it was his idea to go out. The other one never wanted to go anywhere or do anything that required him to dress nicer than a pair of trackies and joggers. Going out was always take out.

From another thread on Reddit:

* The first thing to say is I’ve been in Oz for 7 years, I’m English (male), a naturalised Australian and married to an Aussie, with Aussie kids. I love this country and it’s people and I’m proud to call it home.

The thing is, I find Aussie men (on the whole) quite difficult to engage in conversation because they don’t seem to ask any questions. They’re generally happy to talk but I find that I’m often doing the heavy lifting in a conversation and that if I don’t ask questions the conversations grind to a halt. I’m always friendly and respectful, I’m not loud or outspoken and I’ve lived all over the world and never had an issue with chatting to people.

* Aussie girl here. And yeah, I can see where you’re coming from.

Does it apply to all Aussie guys? Definitely not.

Does it apply to a large proportion of Aussie guys? In my experience, yes.

I’m a good conversationalist. I can get pretty much any guy comfortably chatting to me. But I have to ask all of the questions, and do all of the prompting, otherwise the conversation will grind to an awkward halt. And that’s not because they don’t want to talk more – it’s just that they don’t seem to know how to keep a conversation flowing (or at least, not with a girl, even if I’m happy to discuss topics they’re interested in).

* It’s because we worry it might turn to cricket and we’d have to put up with being told valid dismissals are not out, that we are morraly corrupt and must play within England’s spirit of cricket as it suits them on the given day, and that our wins were actually losses.

* I’ve noticed this myself with a lot of male friends and when I’m asking them for more information about a third person story there re-telling to me, they never know more information. They will be telling me about a date their friend went on. I’ll ask questions about the date and they simply do not know because they do not ask their friends such basic details.

* Blokes are often a bit stuck in the 80s when the only acceptable topics of conversation were sport, cars and how pissed you got last night. Everything else was “a bit fruity”.

From Quora:

Understanding Australian men is difficult.
Australian men are much less likely to utter meaningless pleasantries. But they are also more likely to genuinely thank somebody, even for just doing their job.

Australian men don’t talk about their feelings, but on other subjects tend to be open and honest. Never ask for an opinion, unless you want brutal honesty.

The language is colourful, swearing is part of the vocabulary, and what sounds like insults are commonly used in jest or in friendship. Whilst we don’t set out to be offensive, we also don’t care if we are.

What is often perceived as being disrespectful or overly familiar, is usually the exact opposite. Even when introduced to a VIP, and Australian will speak to the VIP as if to a friend, because that is the highest complement we can pay.

Australians generally cannot tolerate the concept of class or status. In fact people doing menial or thankless jobs are generally afforded more respect than Executives.

Australians are often perceived as racists, because we are carefree in our language and have no time for political correctness, but for the most part Australians are the least racist and biased people around. We literally don’t care about the colour of your skin or where you come from. You are more likely to be judged on your attitude, friendliness, and conduct.

Keep in mind that Australians don’t like whingers, and the quickest way to incur the wrath of an Aussie is unjustified whinging. But its also important to understand what constitutes whinging. Complaining about most things is fine provided you do it with a laugh and a smile.

* When dating an Australian it is best to permit swearing in the conversation. If you try to amend this you will cop slammed doors, boiled up rage and so on. Please let us vent by swearing and know that we like direct conversation.

Never, ever , especially if you are British , assume we lack culture or are uncouth. We solve lots of problems quickly. Airy fairly talk of the weather and choosing to not contribute to problem solving will make you unpopular.

Be direct and upfront and do not hesitate to say “I stuffed up “. We as a population despise people who protect their ego at all costs by pretending not to be in the wrong.

* Socially easy going – Their demeanour is social, light, optimistic.
Time optimistic – They are not in a rush. Trains come every 15mins.
Financially tragic – If their expectations are punctuated, you might find they don’t pay you. They might ask for a discount, there is no culture of giving tips. So not like Americans.
Conceptually ‘not serious’ – You won’t get the serious topical conversations from Australians. I was having a conversation with an Australian in Tokyo. I asked him ‘Why don’t I meet guys like you in Sydney’. He replied…’I’d not have any friends’. The topic was ‘gold markets’. Weirdly because Australia is one of the world’s biggest gold producers. But that’s how remote they are from aborigines, mining and desert. They are closer to the beach, or Bali. Again, this is generalising. My brother goes to Bali (only).
The nature of your outcomes will otherwise depend on how discerning you are, where you look, and how you present yourself. Are you:

Conservatively dressed or dressed like a hooker? Will their perception match your values? It depends on the person.
Are you a good person? Are you an opportunist? If they perceive you to be an opportunist, they might see you in the same light. If they don’t respect you, they might treat you like a commodity.
Where you meet them? In a bar? In a philosophy meet up group? At the beach? Drunk?

The Hungry Australian notes:

10 Ways to Know if Someone Likes You
They talk to you a lot and are always hanging around you;
They compliment/insult you a lot;
They have a goofy grin on their face when they look at you;
They do nice things for you;
They find excuses to stay in touch with you;
They touch you when they’re talking to you, ostensibly to emphasise a point;
They smile or frown at you a lot, meaning you have an emotional impact on them;
They laugh at all your jokes, even the bad ones;
They kiss you; and/or
They tell you.

Ten signs you are dating an Aussie guy:

* Anniversaries are low-key.
* Prefer less material gifts.
* You are not going to get long serious conversations without lots of irreverence.
* Tall Poppy Syndrome (cut down people who are growing taller than others). They’d rather be seen as bogan than preppy or snobby. Aussies want to seem average.
* Aussie (working class) men take pride that their partner stays home.
* Aussie guys say how it is – they don’t sugarcoat.
* It’s important that you get along with their family & friends.
* Casual daters. Don’t expect formal dinners and going out to the movies.
* Aussies don’t feel the need to define the relationship.
* When you’re in a relationship, you’ll be called the guy’s missus, even if you are not married.
* Environmentally conscious.

YT comment: “Me and my partner are both Australian but even different families have different ‘cultures’ so we had similar differences, my family was more bogan ‘shit talkers’ so making fun of each other is a sport, while my partners family is much more quiet and intellectual so it took a while for partner to understand my teasing was friendly and my family to realise he wasn’t uptight.”

Aussies find American culture uptight and more strict.
Australian culture is more sexually segregated. American women are more aggressive with men than Aussie women.
Americans might find Aussies too comfortable and at ease with others.
Family and friends are more important to Aussies.
Americans are more legalistic and individualist and ambitious.
Australians impute less meaning to their work. Australians are less interested in status and are less likely to boast.

Reverse Culture Shocks returning to America after moving to Australia

Aussie don’t tip. American service was far better than Australia but not anymore.

Americans place more importance on work. Shops shut earlier in Australia and all Aussie get a minimum of four weeks holiday a year.

Aussie girl: “I felt like I was too friendly in the South.”

American guy: “In America at a party, couples stick together while in Australia guys go with guys and women with women.”

Americans find a dramatic loss of convenience when they move to Australia.

Going back to America after living in Australia [CULTURE SHOCK]

American states are far more different from each other than Australian states. Fewer healthy food options in Australia. Having chats with strangers is more common and less risky in Australia. You feel safer in Australia. In American cities, you often have the stench of marijuana. That’s rare in Australia.

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Trump Cruises Towards A Landslide Victory As Democrats Call Him Hitler (10-23-24)

01:00 Democrats, Deep State, MSM combine to label Trump Hitler
04:00 Could GOP Crushing Early Voting Lead to Massive Trump Win? With Halperin, Spicer, and Turrentine, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CPpaYn8GOA
10:30 When you vote early, you save your presidential campaign about $88 because every time you contact a voter it costs about $12
13:30 Sean Spicer says Trump is cruising for 350 electoral votes
14:30 Biden Says “Lock Him Up” About Trump While Kamala Stumbles on Addressing Biden’s Cognitive Issues, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azO2j0EaA5o
15:30: Mark Halperin’s latest report, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51HA87hImvA
Harris vs Trump: It Gets Early Out There Early, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VXg7dCV71g
16:10 Why did Kamala and the Democrats change their message to Trump is Hitler?
31:15 Where do PLAYERS COME FROM?: when nice guys turn into bad boys, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvFPakNbBQ4
42:50 Democrats and the MSM panic about Kamala’s chances
45:00 Democrats are behaving as if they’re losing
51:50 Standup comedy tells you what people really think, https://substack.com/home/post/p-150279196
53:00 Comic Matt Ruby: I knew 3 years ago voters’ top issue was Biden’s age. Every single show had some comic cracking a joke about him being senile. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ak5CQSVVvI&t=4081s
55:00 What’s Kamala’s most enraging tic? https://substack.com/@dianamurray/note/c-73548329
1:00:00 Sean Spicer: ALL Swing States Are TRENDING TRUMP!, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdNgqpjxaVI
1:07:00 Understanding the alleged Trump comments about Hitler

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Trump Surges In Early Vote (10-22-24)

01:00 If early vote numbers hold up, we’ll know Trump has won by election day, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VXg7dCV71g
09:00 Politico Kamala cheerleader Jonathan Martin: The Clock Is Ticking on Kamala Harris, https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/10/22/kamala-harris-reassure-voters-liberal-00184879
30:20 What if Senile Joe Biden was the better candidate all along?
38:20 Hacks on Tap praise the best Trump ad & critique Kamala, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hacks-on-tap/id1467297559
46:00 TRUMP Is Headed For A BLOWOUT Victory, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJuP9m78X6w
58:00 Republicans behave like they’re winning, Democrats are behaving like they are losing, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vXVB1AIims
1:00:00 Ezra Klein: What’s Wrong With Donald Trump?, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/22/opinion/donald-trump-ezra-klein-podcast.html
1:11:00 Elliott Blatt and Kip join the show to discuss schadenfreude
1:17:00 Luke & Elliott despise comic books
1:42:00 The Fifth Risk, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fifth_Risk
1:45:00 The Premonition, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Premonition_(book)
1:46:00 Why are Luke & Elliott bachelors? https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=143746

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