Horrifying, dysgenic: gangland hoodlums gunfighting in a Bronx alleyway Trad, eugenic, beauteous: drunken aristocrats duelling in the gardens of a St Petersburg palace
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That kind of violent culture could be eugenic but not in a very efficient way, re-introduced in urbanised atomised societies it would probably be hellish
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We need a third 'genuine shitposting' category here
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Poast-Irony© is a central tenet of
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#NiceRx: Shitepoasts for Poast-Ironic Nice Neoreaction
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At the risk of getting autistic over a joke here - so take this as constructive criticism if such a thing is possible on twitter dot com... -who says gang wars are dysgenic? Is this a thing? They are probably eugenic so I need to ask. 1/
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-most of western duelling / fighting culture was intended to be non lethal. A fight to first blood or a joust rather than a literal fight to the death. (Notable exceptions apply). This is salient enough to question the comparison to gangland murders And finally 2/
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Are drunken duels to the death something the “trads” actually advocate for, it is this merely a playful dig at what a caricature of them might advocate for? /fin
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Gangland culture probably is eugenic in some ways perhaps more so actually than traditional duelling culture but we wouldn't idealise it or certainly trads wouldn't, I was just playing with that irony, that's a context where honour based violence still exists but without any.....
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of the romance we would associate with it historically. It wasn't a strong dig at trads, that's why it is in the form of a joke which is intended to be disarming eh (pun)
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>disarming
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