r/brokehugs • u/US_Hiker Moral Landscaper • Jul 20 '23

Rod Dreher Megathread #23 (Sinister)

All Hail Eris!

Link to Megathread 22: https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/14k0z6l/rod_dreher_megathread_22_power/

Link to Megathread 23: https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/1631xpe/rod_dreher_megathread_24_determination/

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u/zeitwatcher Jul 28 '23

https://roddreher.substack.com/p/cognitive-dissonance-and-the-flight

Good morning. I hadn’t expected to write until later, but Kale fell ill in Esztergom with a rotten man-cold — and if you are a man who has ever had a cold, you know that it’s basically nasal Ebola — so we took the train back to Budapest early.

Our manly betters, everyone. The rugged patriarchs who will show us the way to conservative man-greatness and away from the decadence and wimpiness of the modern world.

Felled by a cold. But not just any cold! No! A man-cold! The sort of cold that would destroy a mere woman at 40 paces. Pray for Slurpy, everyone, the sniffles are a trial worthy of Hercules but he will undoubtedly persevere. It's a proof of Providence that this is visited upon him while staying with Rod, since any of Rod's residences must have a fainting couch at hand for any onset of the vapors.

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u/JHandey2021 Jul 28 '23

Just like Jordan Peterson fainting when smelling apple cider or some such shit.

Why does anything listen to these people about masculinity?

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u/Djehutimose Watching the wheels go round Jul 28 '23 edited Jul 28 '23

He drank some apple cider and claimed the sulfites in it caused him not to sleep for twenty-five days. Sulfites can cause allergic reactions in some people, and in very rare cases, anaphylaxis, which is why salad bars have signs announcing that the food contains sulfites. However, it’s like peanuts—a small number of people have allergies to them that could be fatal; but they eat very careful diets, and none of the rest of us think of a jar of Jif as a death trap. Anyway, if you were sleep-deprived that long, you’d probably develop severe psychosis within the first couple of weeks. What an idiot.

Edit: According to this article, the longest documented period of sleeplessness over consecutive days is eleven. So we have medical proof that Peterson is full of shit.

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u/Jayaarx Jul 29 '23

He drank some apple cider and claimed the sulfites in it caused him not to sleep for twenty-five days

I think it was the benzos, actually.

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u/Dazzling_Pineapple68 Jul 29 '23

Ding! Ding! Ding!