Invaders complaining about Super-Invaders.

https://www.amren.com/news/2018/02/italian-town-taken-nigerian-migrant-gangs/

Conscious reason can get you only so far when tribal emotions have been aroused, when existential fears rain down, when narcissistic impulses have been given free rein, when spiritual longings have nowhere healthy to go, when social trust has been devastated, when all the unconscious networks that make up 99 percent of our thinking are aflame and disordered. …

I’m sure that your co-ethnics in Israel could explain “existential fears” to you, Dave….Or maybe you could just ask your IDF -veteran son….

This is the first time that I heard that Linda Chavez, of whom I have been aware for a few decades, is Jewish!?!

Amusing reads, Steve, if you haven’t yet. Same author.

https://www.nysun.com/national/harvards-new-president-finds-a-teaching-moment/90196/

and this

https://www.nysun.com/foreign/pences-visit-to-israel-could-offer-a-window/90171/

OT While the Smith-Mundt Media was finding Americans who didn’t know they were Russians, this was happening. Maybe Eastwood will live long enough to do a movie.

https://mobile.twitter.com/CraigRSawyer/status/966526325497380866

What if a non-profit org of veterans ran joint ops w LEOs & quickly caught an IRS agent, a Utah church elder, an Army recruiter, 2 illegal aliens & an organized crime boss, among others, committing child predator crimes? Isn’t that a national story?

She is married to Christopher Gersten, former Bush Administration official, and is the mother of three adult sons, David, Pablo, and Rudy. She is a grandmother of nine and resides with her family in Boulder, Colorado. Chavez was raised Catholic and converted to Judaism on June 9, 1967, when marrying her husband.[8] Chavez said in 1986 that she was never a practicing Jew, and that the conversion papers were signed simply to allow the wedding ceremony to take place. She said she was “an on-again, off-again practicing Catholic.”[9] Some of Chavez’s distant paternal ancestors had been Conversos (Sephardic Jews who converted to Catholicism).[10]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Chavez

Hilarious. These people are so intellectually and morally bankrupt it beggars belief.

When you’re an MOT*, it’s kind of disingenuous to accuse everyone one else of tribalism. Isn’t it?

Is Brooks a bit disappointed and maybe concerned that if everyone else starts thinking only about their own tribe, that they might have started on the road to wisdom that Jews trod so many generations ago?

(* Member Of the Tribe, i.e., Jewish – yes it’s a real acronym used by, uh, members of The Tribe. I mostly remember Jews referred to as The Tribe in the Sixties but I think it’s still used.)

Brooks son served in the IDF, imagine where Israel loyalties are placed.

I remember June 9, 1967. I was pissed off, that Friday evening, because ABC had preempted “The Time Tunnel” because of the ongoing news coverage of the Six-Day War!

Rome chose its symbol to be the fasces, a bundle of rods. The meaning is: “Rods by themselves are easily broken, but when bound together are strong.” Imagine an analogy to soldiers in formation. Various European states subsequently adopted this symbol, and you can see it behind the podium of the US House of Representatives.

“The strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack.”

“Oy vey, that’s collectivist Goy. Western Civ has always been individualistic. You should break up and fight us one at a time.”

To be fair, I’d be proud of that, too.

Honestly, I don’t think Brooks, for all his bloviating, is all that bad. He is actually kind of thoughtful, at the very least.

BTW, Andrew Sullivan recently wrote about the opioid issue in what might be his best piece in years. There was some understanding and compassion for Americans there, and today that’s a real sign of independent thought.

Maybe in their advancing age some of these opinionators are actually feeling a bit of regret when it comes to what’s happened to their neglected children, the American people.

There’s no rational, scientific reason.

Except the Darwinian, biological imperative to want your own genes to be strong, fit, healthy, and successful and known for those reasons, and having a famous, successful third cousin is proof to many people that your genes are strong, fit, healthy, and successful.

It’s entirely rational, from a biological perspective. Brooks is just lying now.

It is collectivist. The Greeks were far more keen on individualism than the Romans.

Except it wasn’t pride, it was “special affection”. i.e. irrespective of any differences in views or attributes, Brooks now thinks more fondly of Pinker. “Myself and my cousin against the world.”

I am half Jewish and have been asked by a full on Jew at a workplace that didn’t have many if I was “a member of the tribe.” So maybe this phraseology is effectively shunted out of mind by Jewish academics and media writers, but it’s pretty obvious to the rank and file.

This is SUPER-EXCITING NEW SCIENCE!

15 Jewish-American celebrities (Ruth Behar, … Linda Chavez, ) [took] a 23andMe DNA test …
… most of the individuals we tested were directly related to one another.

Apparently, converting to Judaism CHANGES A PERSON’S DNA. Curious minds will want to know more. For example:

(1) What happens if one re-converts?
(2) Do other religions have this effect?
(3) Does Cult-Marxism affect DNA?
(4) Does this mean red-diaper babies are genetically doomed?
(5) Can animals convert to religions?

We live in exciting times.

It is collectivist. The Greeks were far more keen on individualism than the Romans.

And who ended up ruling whom?

Is Jewish tribalism that moves Globalism.

By far the most red-pilling speech ever given at @CPAC.

@Marion_M_Le_Pen discusses how the young French generation has been “brainwashed with guilt and shame of their country.”

She also talks about the harm that massive immigration has done to France.

By far the most red-pilling speech ever given at @CPAC.@Marion_M_Le_Pen discusses how the young French generation has been "brainwashed with guilt and shame of their country."

She also talks about the harm that massive immigration has done to France.#CPAC2018 pic.twitter.com/uwrUJrCgS0

— The Columbia Bugle

Rome chose its symbol to be the fasces, a bundle of rods. The meaning is: “Rods by themselves are easily broken, but when bound together are strong.” Imagine an analogy to soldiers in formation. Various European states subsequently adopted this symbol, and you can see it behind the podium of the US House of Representatives.

A bundle of rods with an axe stuck in it. As you say, it symbolized the strength of the collective over the individual. Also, the rods symbolized the authority of the state to administer corporal punishment, the axe its authority to administer capital punishment.

“Oy vey, that’s collectivist Goy. Western Civ has always been individualistic. You should break up and fight us one at a time.”

Yes, I am beginning to suspect that this is what is intended in the repeated appeals to our “higher angels”. Live by your rules, so we can defeat you with ours.

Conservatism is not the worship of ashes but the preservation of fire.” -LePen #CPAC

"Conservatism is not the worship of ashes but the preservation of fire." -LePen #CPAC pic.twitter.com/sIDUIcZG6K

— Virginia Dare (@vdare) February 22, 2018

According to that video clip, embedded above, her DNA turned out to be over 20% Middle Eastern!

Mixed bag … some on the list are real achievers and some are just NYC media people.

They got 15 Jewish-American celebrities (Ruth Behar, Joshua Bell, Mayim Bialik, David Brooks, Linda Chavez, Alan Derhowitz, Stephen Dubner, Nadine Epstein, Tovah Feldshuh, A.J. Jacobs, Steven Pinker, Robert Siegel, Thaddeus Tobe, Laurel Touby, and Esther Wojcicki

So, given all of this storm and thunder, what did Le Pen actually say at CPAC? Well, the beautiful blond barely spoke for ten minutes. In her speech, Le Pen lionized America’s ancient relationship with France, America, Britain, and France’s struggle against globalism, and the need for young conservatives to mobilize against the liberal consensus in North America and Europe. Where Le Pen may have gotten controversial was near the end of her speech, when she brought up how atomization, anti-family policies, and mass immigration have hollowed out the nation-state model. Even more daring (at least by CPAC standards) was Le Pen’s suggestion that nations have a right to preserve their traditions and their bloodlines.

The fact that American conservatives could object to this because of “muh free markets” and “muh exceptionalism” is characteristic of why American conservatism needs to die.

http://thermidormag.com/a-wail-and-gnashing-of-teeth/

Don’t IDF soldiers basically spend their time beating up blondish Pallie girls,like the one who got all that attention. You join OUR Marines as an 0311 ,you’re going to have guys shooting right the fuck at you.
Better he play it safe. And in his circles,IDF will get the clothes off faster than US Army.

… Today, after the financial crisis, the shrinking of the middle class, the partisan warfare, a scarcity mind-set is dominant: Resources are limited.

Aren’t they?

The world is dangerous.

Isn’t that what neo-cons are always telling us?

Group conflict is inevitable.

Does he think the chances of it are remote? If so, why is it then so common?

It’s us versus them. If they win, we’re ruined, therefore, let’s stick with our tribe.

The Brooks family certainly stuck with its tribe, didn’t it.

The ends justify the means.

Who does not think this? Who does not think that whatever means they employ are justified by their ends? This has got to be one of the stupidest commonly used cliches that there is. Everybody believes that their means are justified by their ends. They merely don’t believe that your means are justified by your ends.

That was an incredibly trite and foolish sounding paragraph with which he introduced his essay. Yet I don’t think Brooks is a fool. He is a liar and a conman.

Meanwhile in the Florida shooting … the cop on the scene AT THE SCHOOL ran and hid. A cop getting donuts essentially ala Steve on the Late Obama Age Collapse. I’m sure the cop was thinking, likely a person of color as the shooter, better get donuts.

He’s retired on full pension. But he is not being prosecuted for shooting a kid of color. The other cops responding milled about outside the school no doubt thinking the same thing.

But hey, trust the government to protect you, turn in your guns to the Children’s Crusade!

And the chatterati wonder why people are bitterly clinging to their guns and religion. Tribally.

Brooks is toast and knows it. The White middle and working classes are destined for serfdom if lucky but he’ll be alongside them. Not much use for wealthy White Jews among the new overlords in MS 13 and ISIS and the New Black Panther Party. Who knew the Colors of Benetton were really a Rodney King Riot?

I’d rather hear Le Pen speak, then just about any other typical CPAC speaker. As that guy said, Con Inc. needs to perish.

“Myself and my cousin against the world.”

Which is the annoying, non-stop mantra of elitist Jewish brethren.

Steve, you sure you’re not related to Brooks? It’s as if he’s going out of his way to write stuff helpful to your career.

No, he’s just worried that Whites will start thinking tribal, because the other groups already do.

He knows full well if whites(at least the lower classes) get tribal it will spell doom for the white and Jewish management classes that run the U.S. This is why these groups have worked so hard to keep populism, white organizations and nationalism beaten down. As those are the first stages of white tribalism.

“Learning of this kinship tie, I now feel special affection for him [Pinker]. Why? There’s no rational, scientific reason. I just do.” – Brooks

Actually, there *is* a “rational, scientific reason.” It’s called “Evolutionary Psychology” and “Group Selection Theory.” It’s probably also why you’re “gooey-eyed” about Israel. David Sloan Wilson could explain it to you.

Oh, and praise Marion Le Pen. Vive la France!

Quick Google shows Chavez had previously “discovered” her converso roots. I guess she is a neo-converso. (See what I did there?)
RUTH Behar is a Cuban. Her folks hailed from Turkey. Now son,you knew that,right? You weren’t thinking of the loudmouth Joyce Behar,were you? Course not.

What did you reply?

A few years ago the magazine Moment gave genetic tests to a bunch of writers with Jewish heritage. The tests reveal that Pinker and I are third cousins.

Aren’t all Jews third cousins?

… the decline of social trust, the breakdown of family life, the polarization of national life, the spread of tribal mentalities, the rise of narcissism, the decline of social capital, the rising alienation from institutions or the decline of citizenship and neighborliness.

Well, if Robert Putnam is to be believed, those are all symptoms of ‘multi-culturalism’.

https://www.amazon.de/Bowling-Alone-Collapse-American-Community/dp/0743203046/ref=sr_1_1?s=books-intl-de&ie=UTF8&qid=1519371762&sr=1-1&keywords=bowling+alone

Ya gotta love TPTB. They do everything in their power to foment tribalism … then they decry tribalism!

I’m sure his son is just rebelling against all the unchecked universalism he learned at the dinner table. It’s not like there’s an extensive collection of public writing which contradicts this assumption.

Crimes of American tribalism in modern day:
‘Reducing immigration’

Crimes of Israei tribalism in modern day:
Viciousness and body count too great to fathom. I’m sure Brooks must write about the Purim hate raids or about farmers with nothing but some olive trees having them taken or the constant drip drip ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem and across the West Bank.

Mayim Bialik: your devout Jewish friend who loves loves loves Passover but hates Thanksgiving because it’s ‘a holiday which celebrates genocide.’

23andme, despite being founded by and and heavily used by Ashkenazi and demi-Ashkenazi, does not have an accurate cousin-finder feature that works for them due to the bottleneck event/small founder population issue. Also does not work for the same reason for French Canadians. It works best for non-Ashkenazi white North Americans.

Thus it is possible but unlikely they are really third cousins.

If Brooks and other globalists were seriously interested in curtailing or preventing tribalism, then they would not have supported, and would not continue to support, the mass importation of dissimilar peoples into the USA. They actually would be in favor of having as much a homogeneous nation as possible.

And we probably never came any closer to that than with our pre-1965 demographics which basically consisted of a 10 percent legacy slave population and an overwhelming European majority that more or less had melded and frequently intermarried amongst itself.

Everything since 1965 has done nothing but increase the potential for tribalism. Additionally because our post 1965 immigration policy favors both mass immigration and family unification, it assures us that whatever new groups we get, we get them in numbers, in extended families and clustered in the same settlements. That is a recipe for tribalism.

Also we have been running an insane visa lottery whose entire premise is to invite in people from groups that supposedly haven’t yet immigrated to the USA in vast numbers. Thus it ensures an ever growing number of different ethnicities, aka tribes, into the USA.

In fact our whole post 1965 immigration policy seems designed to nothing but create a multitude of factions, aka tribes. The fact Brooks and others continue to push for the same immigration policy is telling.

No, not nearly. But I know where this is coming from. My brother did 23 And Me, and it came up with like five third cousins, which is very very dubious given what we already know. I suspect 23 And Me just tosses in bogus relatives, for marketing reasons.

Greeks ruled substantial parts of Italy about 700BC-250BC and again about 400AD-700AD. About 750 years total, and much longer than Italian rule over Greece. And in the final century of the Western Empire the Western Emperor was often a puppet of the Greek Eastern Emperor, so you could arguably add another century to the 750 years.

See my above comment. The feature does not work for us inbreds. We should get a 5% discount. We are as related as third cousins without actually being so.

Happy to report however no first or second cousin marriages as far as my personal records go, which is 1650-1850 depending on the line.

Which is the annoying, non-stop mantra of elitist Jewish brethren.

Tribal norms reminiscent of Arab culture are kind of what you’d expect given that Ashkenazi Jews are about a half and half mix of Southern European and Middle Eastern (i.e. Arab) DNA. They’re basically Arabs who have their s*** together. Mostly joking.

As Steve often references, the Bedouin saying:

I, against my brothers. I and my brothers against my cousins. I and my brothers and my cousins against the world.

If only we could find the right excuse or guilt trip, we could turn off that preservation instinct and have you all in our control as our janissaries and golem is back in business. It worked so well in the Weimar Republic after all. Now I’m getting my carpetbags ready for your answer.

What’s conservative about women running for office and giving political speeches?

At least she’s kind of attractive unlike Aunt Marine.

I don’t recognize all those names, and perhaps some of the “just NYC media people” work for relatively insignificant media organizations, but the media in general is extremely influential on public attitudes, and to imply otherwise reveals a dangerous level of ignorance about how the world works.

Are you saying you’ll resort to any means for any ends? Or even any means for certain ends? Whether or not you have moral standards, some people actually do have them.

While leftist Jews are openly encouraging tribalism among non-white goyim, “conservative” Jews are discouraging tribalism in white goyim while said Jews’ sons serve in the Hebrew army.

In Britain –

https://www.gov.uk/getting-an-mot/the-mot-test

The fact that American conservatives could object to this because of “muh free markets” and “muh exceptionalism” is characteristic of why American conservatism needs to die.

Indeed it American Conservatism should die and it’s adherents run into a pen full of hungry swine and devoured, because it’s not conservatism but bald ass neo-liberal economics and corporatism writ large. Any country that embraces such a insane operating principals that the GOP/American Conservatives promoted will self-destruct in short order as we are doing.

American conservatism was and is a handmaiden to the corporate and progressive movements in this country. When it(and Buckley’s people) surrendered on the culture wars they had nothing left but to play but the loyal opposition and keeping their followers in the dark as to what they really lost to the progs and corporations.

It’s embarrassing enough that David Brooks is a “celebrity” but is Ruth Behar even in the Generic Fame Top 5 for Behars? I take it she & Chavez were penciled in by the NYC Consul-General guy, the better to represent the Hispanic juggernaut more diversely

I found the “who are your heroes?” question illuminating, because I realized most of the people who immediately came to mind for me are dead.

A few living ones I came up with:

George W. Bush: Though I have gradually evolved to the point where I think most of what Dubya did was a disaster, I retain a lingering affection for his unflappable, steadfast determination and serious, grownup demeanor. He might have been a lousy president, but he was a sterling example of a man. Would that such manly qualities had been invested in a leader more suited for the times…

Bill Gates: Windows mostly sucks, and his foundation is a waste of money, but he’s the last businessman I can think of whose efforts in business left the world a better place than he found it. (Steve Jobs is a better example, but Jobs is dead.)

Chuck Yeager and all the old astronauts like Buzz Aldrin: The level of courage those guys had is almost inconceivable today.

John Derbyshire, Pat Buchanan and Charles Murray: I share many of the opinions of these guys but I’m too cowardly to affix my own name to them. All three of them have paid a price for it, and I believe all three will be mostly vindicated — though probably not within their own lifetimes.

Tom Wolfe: He will probably be remembered in hindsight as the greatest writer of his age.

Elon Musk: He’s kind of a putz but his childlike enthusiasm is admittedly endearing. We could use more rich assholes like him.

Shigeru Miyamoto: My generation’s Walt Disney.

I’m sure I’m forgetting a few, but those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. Those are just the famous ones, by the way. I have other heroes, but none of them are famous — mostly business or military guys I just happen to know.

If you expand the criteria to people I merely “admire” for various reasons, the list would be a lot longer — but “hero” to me denotes something more than mere admiration. A hero is not just somebody who is greatly accomplished, but somebody worthy of emulation. There just aren’t a lot of living people I think can live up to that standard.

The estimated ancient ancestry of Ashkenazi has become more precise since the old initial 50/50 Levantine/Italian estimates. Here is a 2017 analysis using huge gene databases:

One estimate method:

–The inferred ancestry profile for AJ was 5% Western EU, 10% Eastern EU, 30% Levant, and 55% Southern EU. –

Levantine here is not “Arabs” or even Levantine Arabs, but the ancient Leavtine population which is better represented by modern Druze, Samaritans, and Lebanese Christians, and more distantly Syrian and Egyptian Christians (Copts and Assyrians).

Using a couple more methods, they have the European share as 63% and 67%.

The general model they have is the Italian proto-Ashkenazi were about 30/70 South EU/Levantine, and the East and Western EU mixture came after the bottleneck of the migration to the Rhineland and from there East.

Nothing wrong with first and second cousin marriages if the genotype is healthy. Some of my own relations even married their nieces – it was a question of keeping the money in the family. These were Dutch patricians, not Americans, and I’m talking about the late nineteenth century.
The offspring were fine. I have no doubt that they would have been told to think again if they had expressed an interest in marrying their nieces too, but marriage with first cousins did go on in some cases for two and even three generations with, again, not only no bad side effects, but the emergence of an elite which was every bit as intellectually brilliant as it was financially secure. Proof? Two Nobel prize winners and a host of eminent men in every field, from medicine and physics to art and architecture to law and government.

The Jews are worried about this sort of rival tribalism, not that of blacks or Mexicans.
I wonder why?

Stephen who?

re Susan Wojcicki, spot the joke in this clip:

I suspect 23 And Me just tosses in bogus relatives, for marketing reasons.

What’s the standards for quality control in a privately run, largely unregulated lab operation like 23andMe that has neither requirements nor any natural incentives to subject itself to external audit or inspection?

OT
Shares of the Snapchat parent company sank 6.1 percent on Thursday, wiping out $1.3 billion in market value, on the heels of a tweet on Wednesday from Kylie Jenner, who said she doesn’t open the app anymore.

With Jews it is always a case of “do as we say, not as we do.”

In this somewhat different tribe, some things seem to run in the family too:

Sadiq Aadam Mohamed was hacked to death on Tuesday night. His brother Mohamed, was stabbed to death in September 2017, and their cousin Mohamed Abdullahi was stabbed to death in 2013.

Sullivan probably knows some gay guys who are hooked on opioids. If this was something that just affected heteros, he wouldn’t care about it.

OT, but it appears Ann Althouse is channeling some iSteve vibes in this piece on a black history month kerfuffle at NYU:

ADDED: This post caused me to make a new tag, “watermelon,” and to apply to posts in the archive. In this process of retroactive tagging, I found 2 fascinating things.

First, the time Dan Rather said, about our first black President, Barack Obama, “if a state trooper is flagging down the traffic on a highway, Obama couldn’t sell watermelons.”

Second, the story of how Sayyid Qutb — who inspired al Qaeda — grew to hate Americans. So I dug up the text of “The America I Have Seen: In the Scale of Human Values” Sayyid Qutb ash-Shaheed (1951). The relevant excerpt:

As for their food, that too is very strange. You will attract attention, and cause disbelief, if you request another cube of sugar for the cup of coffee or tea that you drink in America. Sugar is reserved for pickles and salads, while salt, my good sir, is saved for apples and watermelons.

On your plate you will find combined a piece of salted meat, some boiled corn, some boiled peas, and some sweet jam. And on top of all this is what Americans call gravy, which is composed sometimes of fat, vinegar, flour, broth, apples, salt and pepper, and sugar, and water.

We were at the table in one of the cafeterias of the University, when I saw some Americans putting salt on their watermelon. And I was prepared to see these strange fads and also to play jokes on them from time to time. And I said, faking innocence, “I see you sprinkling salt on the watermelon.” One of them said,” Yes! Don’t you do the same in Egypt?” I said, “No! We sprinkle pepper!” A surprised and curious giri said,” How would that taste?” I said, “You can try for yourself!” She tasted it and said approvingly,” It’s tasty!” and so did all the others.

On another day in which watermelon was served, and most of the same people were at the table, I said “Some of us in Egypt use sugar at times instead of pepper.” One of them tried it and said, “How tasty!” and so did all the others.

http://althouse.blogspot.com/2018/02/did-nyu-serve-racist-dinner-to.html

Straw man argumenta via reductio ad absurdum. Clearly he said everyone uses certain particular means for certain particular ends.

These were Dutch patricians, not Americans, and I’m talking about the late nineteenth century.

It would be vastly more dysgenic now; children with high mutational load then would often simply die. Decreased mortality means that more children with issues will survive to reproductive age.

No question your response is more accurate, I was shooting for the funny and, a little insightful maybe. The people around that part of the earth are known for their clannishness. And supposedly the Palestinians are part of that Levantine group, right?

I would have thought just by looking at a lot of Jews, they are closer to European than Arab or Levantine. Some Druze:

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More:

http://www.aymennjawad.org/14038/the-druze-militias-of-southern-syria

Looking at pictures of famous Jews, they seem more European if Southern European to me. Though some seem to be more generally European than others, like Zuck for example.

That 65-70% stat is a good one to promote.

They are not “The Tribe”. They are “The Family”.

An intellectual and political Mafia, preaching the water of universalism while they drink the wine of ethnocentrism.

By the way wouldn´t this be evidence that being closely related strongly enhances group solidarity?

“And supposedly the Palestinians are part of that Levantine group, right?”

Not really. War and Ottoman mismanagement depopulated the area between about 1100-1700, and most of the Muslim population that has blended into the new Palestinian ethnicity came to the area 1800-1900 from areas as far as Crimea, but especially Egypt.

I shared a room with a Jewish woman at an art workshop, and one of the first things she told me was that she was Jewish. One of the next things she told me was that she immediately recognized another woman at the workshop as being “part of our tribe.”

I retain a good bit of skepticism about how accurate it is and agree with the marketing angle. The ads usually emphasize how “surprised” the person was to find out he/she had some ancestry of which they were totally unaware; i.e., I’m sure 23&Me loves telling some fifth-generation white American from the Southeast that he/she has some percentage of African or AmeriIndian ancestry. I believe it is being used to further globalism and how we’re really just “one big family” and that our genetic differences are trivial. Sort of like how we heard for several years that we share 99% of our genetic make-up with chimpanzees, although I haven’t been hearing that lately.

Ditto, here, 415, in the early 1980s by a Jewish guy who worked in a high-end staff department at Warner-Lambert. “Are you Jewish?” was the exact question. Road not taken? I don’t know. More like road not available. I’m not and said so.

In my early 60s now, I allow that I severely underestimated the importance of human relations of all sorts in modulating one’s life path. (I know that sounds too high-minded.) Race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, all that.

Stephen Dubner does Freakanomics and is on NPR (WNYC in NY). Robert Siegel hosts All Things Considered. Or hosted. He retired in January. Looks like he announced a while ago, so perhaps not one step ahead of a #metoo mob. But more deadwood cast aside on national public radio. Lots more diverse hosts on the way.

The End of the Two-Party System — By David Brooks has 1422 comments which is high for the NY Times. So Brooks is telling his NYTimes readers what they want to hear. Let’s say the NY Times pays Brooks $150,000 per year. His columns function as advertising for his speeches on the lecture circuit where he should be making $300,000 per year. We can mock David Brooks but he is laughing all the way to the liberal-left bank. So much so that he was able to hook in a new younger wife who was his research assistant. (that sly old fox!)

For this kind of annual income I would write stuff I only half believed in if necessary. I would make sure my columns were click bait worthy. Brooks’ competition at the NY Times is Nicholas Kristof. I’ll bet they check out each others number of comments.

Lastly, the NY Times is making money these days. Its largest income is from paid subscriptions to its website. Though far as I know you can always open up a NY Times article in a new “private window” with Firefox and Chrome (an incognito window) if you have gone past the NY Times 10 free reads per month. Perhaps their business section prevents this?

Agree. If someone is your third cousin, then your grandparents would be first cousins, which would be easy enough to figure out with five minutes of conversation.

I interpret the third cousin comment to mean that you have enough shared genes from multiple ancestors that you are the equivalent of third cousins.

I was eating a bowl of pho at the only Vietnamese restaurant in town(they own half the gas stations too) and they had Fox News on THE DAY OF the shooting on the restaurant tv.

Shep Smith was going on in his favorite lavender twang about how horrible it was etc

Anyway I kept looking at the TV and they kept implying the psycho was a white dude….of course it came out later he was some Cubano nutter…. probably one of Castro’s Muriel refuse that then had a mentally defective kid….

Anyway what struck me about the school was how non white the school looked. Probably 80% of the ppl in the crowd or interviewees looked foreign but spoke English….

Of course the white girls interviewed were the first ones to mention gun control and Trump by name while the minorities merely talked about the shooting and who the psycho Cuban was

I am a legacy American with a well-documented genealogy back to colonial times. I took the 23andMe test back in 2015 along with my elderly parents. I also uploaded to Gedmatch so I could compare results across testing companies. I have over 1600 cousin matches on 23andMe and have traced the ancestry of over 300 of those matches back to a known common ancestor. It’s been an interesting experience confirming the paper documentation with DNA results and also banging on several genealogical brick walls.

It’s a worthwhile exercise for legacy Americans interested in history and genealogy.

Pinker’s rationalism is not the total cure. But I have to confess, I really like him. A few years ago the magazine Moment gave genetic tests to a bunch of writers with Jewish heritage. The tests reveal that Pinker and I are third cousins. Learning of this kinship tie, I now feel special affection for him. Why? There’s no rational, scientific reason. I just do.

I’d like to see Harvey Weinstein’s DNA thrown into that tribal mix and see Brooks’ special affection bubble up…

Tovah Feldshuh Her pops was a criminal….

Tribal Thinking is bad but for We
(2% of the people agree.)
We’re connected and rich;
But Tay-Sachs is a bitch:
Interbreed o’er the mark and you’ll see.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/ashkenazi-jewish-genetic-diseases

I have to ask: If you are a conservative, what are you trying to conserve?

The push to restrict immigration suggests we are trying to conserve jobs for only Americans – that is the zero-sum part – and conserve America as a white nation. That isn’t conserving much of anything.

But we are not trying to conserve religious freedom – we are fighting a war over whose religious ideals should be fostered by the government.

We aren’t trying to conserve the great ideas that advanced us – from labor protections and anti-monopoly actions of the early 1900s to safety nets like Social Security.

We aren’t trying to conserve the middle class – our tax cuts move wealth up the ladder.

We aren’t trying to conserve our infrastructure – that is just advanced as a way to use foreign money to skin Americans; or our natural resources – we are busily trying to assure that we can dig anything from anywhere no matter how much the social and environmental cost may run.

Is it our democratic ideals? The ones we sold when we decided to stop a sitting President from filling a Supreme Court seat, or the ones we undermine when we choose to make voting harder. or the ones we let go to waste as we continue to elect people who cannot compromise, and cannot represent the nation as a whole?

David Brooks is getting ready for open tribal warfare in the United States. David Brooks knows that President Trump got the votes of Americans of German ancestry in the Great Lakes States and the Anglo-Celts in the Southern States and that is how he won the election.

David Brooks should read about the different kinds of Germans in the United States. Two of my favorites are the mid-Atlantic Germans who got here hundreds of years ago and the 1848 wacko Germans who like to bang pots in Wisconsin when the governor threatens to prune their government worker benefits a bit.

David Brooks could also read about the Angles, the Saxons, the Normans(Scandinavians, Belgians, French….etc.), Low Land Border Scots and the Ancient Celts of Britain. David Brooks’s tribe has been making demographic war and civilizational war upon these other tribes for a long time.

Tweets from 2015:

Neo-Con rat David Brooks pushes nation-wrecking open borders mass immigration and unnecessary Neo-Con wars. #nhpolitics @realDonaldTrump

— Charles Pewitt (@CharlesPewitt) October 13, 2015

@JamesPindell @JebBush David Brooks should read "Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways In America" by David Hackett Fischer. @AnnCoulter

— Charles Pewitt (@CharlesPewitt) September 25, 2015

David Brooks explains it all — Jeb Bush & The NY Times Push Nation-Wrecking Mass #Immigration http://t.co/4Xad46plsy #nhpolitics #UKIP

— Charles Pewitt (@CharlesPewitt) May 27, 2015

From the linked article:

Even African residents of the town have started to complain about the mass migration of illegals into the town. A resident named Martin commented: “We live in an abandoned place, we cannot accept all these people because we do not have the strength or the means to educate them. We are not in Africa, but in a civilized country, and these people need to be educated.”

That observation is not going to win him any friends on the New York Times’ editorial board.

For the most part, we found zero degrees of separation.

This means that most of the individuals we tested were directly related to one another.

This finding far exceeds the three degrees of separation found among most Americans.

This dumb because of course a group of people who stem from the same part of the world is going to be more closely related than randomly selected Americans who are from all over the planet. What is the degree of separation if you selected 15 Icelandic-American celebrities (if we have that many)? This is like comparing walnuts and grapefruits and finding that the average grapefruit weighs more – it’s a completely trivial finding. You could have skipped the DNA tests and reached the same conclusion.

Are you saying you’ll resort to any means for any ends? Or even any means for certain ends?

No, you idiot. I was saying what I was saying. It’s not my problem if you mischaracterize it or if you’re too stupid to figure it out.

You have to offset against that the fact that a lot of people nowadays don’t reproduce at all.

The folk wisdom POV is that cousin marriage produces deformed monsters that are mentally deficient but the real world evidence is that the results are only slightly worse in term of defects than marriage between unrelated parties. If the rate of defects is 2/1000 in the 1st group and 1/1000 in the latter it’s twice as bad (these are not real numbers) but still 998/1000 cousin offspring are fine (or at least no worse than anyone else).

Greeks ruled substantial parts of Italy about 700BC-250BC……

Parts of Italy that were not Roman.

………and again about 400AD-700AD.

By which point even the Romans were not really roman anymore. Nor perhaps the Greeks, greek. In any event, getting back to Daniel Chieh’s point above, one can’t argue that the Byzantines were especially “individualist”. Diocletian, who moved the seat of empire to the east, cast off even the pretense of republican forms and embraced the style of oriental despotism.

I’m sure the cop was thinking, likely a person of color as the shooter, better get donuts.

I rather tend to think he was thinking, per the cliche in every cop buddy-movie: I’m too old for this s**t; I don’t want to get killed when I’m eligible to retire.

Brooks is toast and knows it. The White middle and working classes are destined for serfdom if lucky but he’ll be alongside them. Not much use for wealthy White Jews among the new overlords in MS 13 and ISIS and the New Black Panther Party.

That is just ludicrous nonsense. But I knew that would be on offer when I saw the byline: Whiskey

Reminds me of the joke:

Two Arabs are sitting in a Gaza Strip bar chatting. One pulls hiswallet out and starts flipping through pictures.

“This is my oldest son, he is a martyr.”

“You must be so proud,” says the other.

“This is my second son. He is a martyr also.”

“A fine young man,” replies his friend.

“Here is my third son. He too is a martyr.”

The second Arab sighs and says, “They blow up so fast, don’t they?”

I thought it was an Afghan saying.

Maybe in their advancing age some of these opinionators are actually feeling a bit of regret when it comes to what’s happened to their neglected children, the American people.

That assumes they have any affinity for the American people in the first place. Clearly, a lot of them view us as a hostile tribe.

David Brooks never says anything original. A switch has been flipped and The Narrative is now openly confronting the dangers of tribalism which allegedly never existed, until it did.

In the past few weeks, Jonathan Haidt, Steven Pinker and now Amy Chua have been given the spotlight to promote their fairly soft critiques of the Diversity Mantra.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/20/opinion/destructive-political-tribalism.html

David Brooks revealed that bit of personal information to try to make a point about our longing for connection. He did this though it’s not in his personal interest to further the iSteve-like obsession about Jewish tribalism.

That’s not how tribalism works. Tribalism doesn’t feel the slightest need to be honest with those outside your tribe, it relies on the implicit.

Except when they have to fight off Hamas terrorists emerging from tunnels. There’s a war in Gaza about every 2 to 4 years – they are overdue about now:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Israel%E2%80%93Gaza_conflict

Israel’s population is 1/40th that of the US so 67 IDF killed is like 2,680 killed for the US, which is more than our losses in Afghanistan.

There’s a pretty high chance that Hamas will start another war soon – the Israelis are building a massive underground system that will render the Hamas tunnels (which Hamas spent a huge amount of money digging) worthless so it is use it or lose it time for Hamas. Not to mention that Iran is turning up the pressure at the northern border. An Israeli jet just got shot down over Syria (after the Iranians sent a drone into Israel) for the first time in decades. If I was looking for a safe gig, the IDF would not be it.

They dominate key sectors of the economy, including Wall Street, the media, Hollywood and Silicon Valley. And because coastal elites are viewed by many in the heartland as “minority-loving” and pro-immigrant, they are seen as unconcerned with “real” Americans — indeed as threatening their way of life.

What happened in America in 2016 is exactly what I would have predicted for a developing country pursuing elections in the presence of a deeply resented market-dominant minority: the rise of a populist movement in which demagogic voices called on “real” Americans to “take back our country.”

Seeing coastal elites as a market-dominant minority is sobering. In my research, I’ve found no examples of countries successfully overcoming this problem. On the contrary, all over the world, when this dynamic takes hold of a nation’s politics, a result has been an erosion of trust in institutions and in electoral outcomes. Countries lurch toward authoritarianism, hate-mongering and an elite backlash against the popular side of democracy.

Signs of all these developments are present in the United States. As to the latter, right before the 2016 election, a book review in The New Yorker discussed “the case against democracy,” including proposals to impose knowledge tests on voters (something Latin American elites have been writing about for a long time). The review quoted from a book by Jason Brennan, a libertarian political philosopher at Georgetown, who wrote that “excluding the bottom 80 percent of white voters from voting might be just what poor blacks need.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/20/opinion/destructive-political-tribalism.html

Arabs really enjoy lying, over matters great and small. They get great pleasure out of tricking other people- that’s the essential basis for the Arab sense of humor. Lie detectors don’t even work on Arabs because lying doesn’t stress them at all.

BTW, Qutb was ahead of his time – black pepper on fruit is trendy:

https://www.epicurious.com/expert-advice/why-you-should-add-black-pepper-to-summer-fruit-article

Mexican also put pepper on fruit but they use chili pepper (and lime and salt). Qutb’s head would have exploded.

I wonder what the “sweet jam” on Qutb’s cafeteria plate was? Cranberry sauce? And where did he get his gravy recipe? Maybe Qutb wasn’t the only one pranking other people. 1949 was not a culinary high point in American history and college cafeterias are not notable for their fine cuisine but that gravy sounds pretty strange.

A lot of the major cities in the North were 95-97% white before 1950. The countryside in the North was close to 100%. This is what makes those anti white TV commercials that one sees now so remarkable.

Neither the cop nor the shooter was a Person of Color. School shooters tend to be white (occasionally Asian, rarely black). Black people prefer to do their shooting retail and not wholesale. Overall black carnage is far, far worse but it happens in 1′s and 2′s and not by the dozen so it doesn’t get the same publicity.

Despite his Hispanic name, Cruz was adopted and his genetic background is not clear, but he looks pretty Euro. He also looks strange – fetal alcohol syndrome?

I remember June 9, 1967. I was pissed off, that Friday evening, because ABC had preempted “The Time Tunnel” because of the ongoing news coverage of the Six-Day War!

LOL. I enjoyed The Time Tunnel as well. But that was a rerun, they expected you to be at your TV on-time to watch it during it’s first run.

Have you done 23 & Me or similar? People often turn up unknown relatives, sometimes close ones.

Bill Gates: Windows mostly sucks, and his foundation is a waste of money, but he’s the last businessman I can think of whose efforts in business left the world a better place than he found it. (Steve Jobs is a better example, but Jobs is dead.)

Paul Allen is far more admirable than either.

Agree on Derb, Murray, and even Buchanan, but add Sailer, Unz, Gottfredson, Jordan Peterson, James Watson (except for his cowardly apology), Rushton, Herrnstein, Giraldi, and many others. All have paid a steep price for their truthfulness. The list could be much longer, but these names stand out in a quick moment of reflection. Shockley for example just came to me.

As a cynic, I’d ask if one can be a hero and not a martyr?

And supposedly the Palestinians are part of that Levantine group, right?

Please engage with this Twitter account…

As a Lebanese Christian and given that we Levantine minorities are the main victims of Jihadis, I find Ms Zoe Williams’ claim about my absence of skin in the game w/the West very ignorant and, mostly, very very insensitive.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) February 22, 2018

Why would Jews be heavy users of 23 and Me, other than they are the kind of people with disposable income to spend on things like this? I can’t think of a bigger waste because the results for all full blooded Ashkenazi Jews turn up the same – it’s not like you are going to find out that you are 1/8 Cherokee or something and you never knew it.

Most Jews are not third cousins with each other in the family tree sense where you could point to a single pair of common ancestors 4 generations ago but they have the same degree of genetic overlap as actual 3rd cousins because of a larger number common ancestors further back in the tree.

The whole point of that paragraph was to ADMIT that Brookes has Tribal Feelings too! That is what the “rationalism not the total cure” bit was about, and the line about having no rational basis for the 3rd cousin thing making him feel warm fuzzies

Nothing wrong with first and second cousin marriages if the genotype is healthy. Some of my own relations even married their nieces – it was a question of keeping the money in the family.

Breeders of purebred livestock pay considerable attention to their animals’ pedigrees. The mating of cousin with cousin or of uncle with niece, called “line-breeding,” is often deliberately used to propagate desirable traits. There’s no reason it shouldn’t work as well with humans as it does with horses or dogs, provided, as you say, that the genotype is healthy.

The paragraph above too:

That is to say, Pinker doesn’t spend much time on the decline of social trust, the breakdown of family life, the polarization of national life, the spread of tribal mentalities, the rise of narcissism, the decline of social capital, the rising alienation from institutions or the decline of citizenship and neighborliness. …

Conscious reason can get you only so far when tribal emotions have been aroused, when existential fears rain down, when narcissistic impulses have been given free rein, when spiritual longings have nowhere healthy to go, when social trust has been devastated, when all the unconscious networks that make up 99 percent of our thinking are aflame and disordered. …

I mean seriously David, how either dishonest or clueless are you?

My whole life Jewish leftist minoritarian ideology has been tearing and scratching at every thread of the fabric of regular old gentile American society–community, family, marriage, religion, traditions, heck ‘effing Christmas. And then beating the crap outta of us with forced integration and mass importation of foreigners–turning America from a nation into merely a commercial bazaar.

And Brooks has the gall to whine about “decline of social trust”, “rising alienation”, “decline of citizenship and neighborliness.” “Decline of citizenship” really takes the cake. From a guy who every week preaches that Americans are shit and should be replaced by better, more hustling foreigners?

You want someone to blame David? Look in the f’ing mirror!

OT: Trump speech thread

President Trump is making a mistake by emphasizing the need for qualified foreign workers and immigrants. We still have a lot of qualified workers who need jobs, and people who have given up looking.

David Brooks Denounces “Tribal Emotions” and Also Is Stoked to Learn He’s Steven Pinker’s Third Cousin – https://t.co/2MgHgROMD5 pic.twitter.com/SfXatJN91K

— Virginia Dare (@vdare) February 23, 2018

The general model they have is the Italian proto-Ashkenazi were about 30/70 South EU/Levantine, and the East and Western EU mixture came after the bottleneck of the migration to the Rhineland and from there East.

I assume that is 70/30 and not the reverse but I still don’t understand how you make the math come out either way after dilution?

Anyway the alien Jewish (“Semitic”) race is really 2/3 European so they are maybe not so alien after all. Maybe we are even “Old Stock”?

David Brooks is a fucking idiot.
You are shitting me!

As Steve has often mentioned, animal (and plant) breeding was sort of an obsession for 19th century British and American gentlemen – dogs, horses, poultry, cattle, better crop varieties, etc.

Now the ideal dog is a shelter rescue of unknown parentage and our elite’s closest connection to a farm is some yuppie scum farmers market where the heirloom tomatoes are $4 lb. even in the dead of summer.

It would be vastly more dysgenic now; children with high mutational load then would often simply die. Decreased mortality means that more children with issues will survive to reproductive age.

Not necessarily related to inbreeding, but your remark raises a question about which I’ve often wondered – does modern medicine’s ability to preserve the lives of people with genetic maladies have a dysgenic effect?

For example, before the development of insulin therapy, Type I diabetes almost always led to the sufferer’s death before reaching marriageable age. Now diabetics routinely survive to adulthood, and many marry and raise children. Is there a measurable increase in the incidence of diabetes as a result?

A chunk of future journalism will be a cut and paste of that article.

And we probably never came any closer to that than with our pre-1965 demographics which basically consisted of a 10 percent legacy slave population and an overwhelming European majority that more or less had melded and frequently intermarried amongst itself.

Everything since 1965 has done nothing but increase the potential for tribalism.

You’re absolutely nailing it iSteveFan.

I’d only add, that it’s not just immigration, though that’s the big irreversible disaster, but there’s been a prolonged cultural attack on the American “white bread” gentile culture–values, mores, traditions, everything.

1965–or ’60, pick a date–was indeed a high point. There was an “American people” as you note. And there was nothing preventing American Jews from melding with that if they wanted to.

But no. In a spasm of “not invented here” hostility–and just pure hate/contempt–it had to be belittled, broken up and torn down.

Brooks whining about the wreckage is just beyond chutzpah, it’s some level of fraudulent dishonest sociopathy. Or look how terrible what’s happening … more please!

OT but classic Sailer stuff

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/02/22/martins-beach-silicon-valley-billionaire-takes-case-to-u-s-supreme-court/

“In a direct challenge to California’s landmark law guaranteeing public access to beaches, Silicon Valley billionaire Vinod Khosla on Thursday filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that he should not be required to allow public access to Martins Beach in San Mateo County.

Khosla, in his petition for the nation’s highest court to take up the case, argued the California Coastal Commission violated his property rights by requiring him to obtain a permit to padlock the gates to a shoreline that families had used back to the 1920s after he purchased 89 acres surrounding the beach south of Half Moon Bay.

Whether the court takes up the case is a question, but the powerful venture capitalist has hired a high-profile legal team to turn the battle over a San Mateo County beach into a fight over the future of California’s coastal laws.”

In one post about his biological mother, Cruz said: “My real mom was a Jew. I am glad I never met her”

JTA

Most Jews are not third cousins with each other in the family tree sense where you could point to a single pair of common ancestors 4 generations ago but they have the same degree of genetic overlap as actual 3rd cousins because of a larger number common ancestors further back in the tree.

From what I understand of genetics (admittedly not much) 23andMe should be able to distinguish between actual 3rd cousins and the “virtual” kind. The way they determine relatedness is by looking at the length of shared strands of DNA. So though you may share the same amount of DNA with virtual 3rd cousins, as with actual ones, it’ll have broken up into shorter strands.

As a reductio ad absurdum, think about the animal kingdom as a whole; we all derive from a single organism some 2 billion years ago, but we’re not all identical twins today!

I found the “who are your heroes?” question illuminating, because I realized most of the people who immediately came to mind for me are dead.

Same here. For example, my biggest boyhood hero was Captain James Cook.

You’re right comparing the beginning state and the end state. But the dynamic phase is very cohering for the clerisy.

1965–or ’60, pick a date–was indeed a high point. There was an “American people” as you note. And there was nothing preventing American Jews from melding with that if they wanted to.

You will note the great conservative of 1964 was Barry Goldwater, a product of such melding.

You are correct. The population as a total was 87% white, but minorities were highly concentrated in certain areas and not evenly distributed. Many places were essentially 100 percent white.

Yes I reversed the 70/30 number.

LOL. I enjoyed The Time Tunnel as well. But that was a rerun, they expected you to be at your TV on-time to watch it during it’s first run.

Time Tunnel itself was just a “rerun”, i.e., knockoff of Tooter Turtle, with a bit of Mr Peabody thrown in.

https://goo.gl/images/6hmM3s

Every human is 99.6% similar to every other human and 96% similar to a chimp, so the differences are what distinguish us, not the similarities.

Cousin finder is only one of many fun features.

Yeah they sound like a bunch of inbred freaks. I bet a bunch of hillbillies are pointing and laughing at them and making sister jokes right now. They’d better get some fresh vigorous vibrant sub-Saharan blood up in their veins, stat, before their old decrepit stale inbred torpid Jewish blood calcifies in their veins.

OT: This article inches perilously close to HBD for a mainstream publication:

“You can predict trust by where people’s ancestors come from,” Bjornskov told me.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-02-23/you-can-t-have-denmark-without-danes

I asked Bjornskov if there was some way the U.S. could make itself more trusting. Unfortunately, he told me, the literature is better at showing us how to destroy trust than to build it.

Actually, we know exactly how to increase trust. The answer simply is offensive, if not incomprehensible, to leftist and even mainstream brains: homogeneity.

Large protests planned as Israel gets ready to deport thousands of African migrants.

https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5127607,00.html

Yes, but in all fairness, the end of his Feb 22nd article was intended to demonstrate the (perceived) irrationality of his tribalism. It’s not really a double standard… well, not in *this* article, anyway.

This dumb because of course a group of people who stem from the same part of the world is going to be more closely related than randomly selected Americans who are from all over the planet.

Behar was born in Havana, Cuba in 1956 to a Jewish-Cuban family of Sephardic Turkish, and Ashkenazi Polish and Russian ancestry.

Ruth Behar

His father is of Scottish descent, and his mother is Jewish (his maternal grandfather was born in Israel and his maternal grandmother was from Minsk, Belarus).

Joshua Bell

Three of her four grandparents emigrated from Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary.

Mayim Bialik

Her father was descended from immigrants to New Spain from Spain in the 1500s – Her mother was of English and Irish ancestry.

Linda Chavez

His grandparents emigrated to Canada from Poland and Romania in 1926.

Steven Pinker

His maternal grandfather claimed to descend from rabbinical scholar Mordechai Yoffe.

Yoffe was born in Prague, Czech Republic; he could count amongst his ancestors Rashi and before him Hillel, Elnathan (governor of Judea) and ultimately back to King David.

Robert Siegel

Her parents were Russian Jewish immigrants who came to New York City in the 1930s.

Esther Wojcicki

That same part of the world is rather wide.

Fascism and faggot share the same root.

Pinker’s a Steve-pal and a pretty good guy overall, it seems. Listen, as awesome as the Trumpening has been, he’s only a single hero, and more often than not heroes (in the classical, not the Disney, tellings) end up meeting a tragic fate. Against this lone Olympian we have lined up: the FBI, the CIA, the State Department, 50%+ of the Federal judiciary, 99% of JEFF-porters and jour-SLIM-ists, 20% of his own Republican Party, etc., etc.

Pinker represents the old free speech, Enlightenment-values Jewish moderate center-left that is becoming increasingly alienated by the identity politics obscurantism and politically correct tantrums of CURRENT YEAR liberalism. This moderate, center-left tradition is probably Zuckerburg’s own preferred intellectual milieu, and it was certainly the tradition that inspired Google’s original, intellectually-free wheelin’ culture of respectful but rigorous, rational, and open debate.

But we live in a time of weak men, and so the 2nd largest company in the world, built by two guys who are, at heart, a pair of overgrown gifted-program kids who wanted to create a bubble for other gifted-program kids to continue in their self-directed study/gifted-program ways, have all of a sudden been blindsided by how POZ’d their creation has become. The ‘Googley’ culture of weekly symposia by actual intellectual heavyweights, mandatory 20% time off to pursue personal projects, has been hijacked (inevitable, I guess, for a company that has had to go from cherry-picking among +4SD math and physics PhD’s to +0.9SD ‘Studies’ majors) by politically-activist mental midgets, and ‘if you can’t see how this manifesto on gender-fluidity among those self-identifying as magical creatures (aka “Fantastic Beasts: And Where to [email protected] Them”) which I worked my fingers to the bone writing over the last 8 weeks contributes to the company’s mission… well, I can’t even!’

A lawsuit has just been filed by a Google employee against the company because it is supposedly a hotbed of white supremacism- meaning, the company is so POZ’d a large percentage of its workforce is now having Oberlin College-level delusions of persecution, and that this hysteria will only increase as it becomes increasingly apparent how unproductive these employees truly are, necessitating ever more shrill agitation in order to turn what is really an employee performance and attitude problem into a political cause that Google’s executives will shy away from ever addressing lest the CNN cameras roll on-campus.

At some point this has to stop. At some point society become so unproductive the lights go off even for the guys with Atherton zip codes or whose panoramic views look down on the Space Needle. As much as I love Trump, I have a nagging suspicion that 10 years after he’s left office we’ll still be only halfway through litigating the environmental impact lawsuits over the first 1-mile segment of his wall. And who does that leave us with (in the pick your poison sense) if not the Zuckerburgs of the world? And who will be whispering sweet words of reason in their ears if not someone like Pinker? Obi-wan-Pinky, you are our last hope!

This finding far exceeds the three degrees of separation found among most Americans.

This sort of moronic remark really calls into the question the whole notion that Jews are particularity intelligent. It’s as remarkable that a group of Ashkenazi Jews are more closely related than a random sample of the worlds population (which is what “most Americans” are these days) as that a sample group of Irish-Americans or Swedish-Americans are more closely related than are “most Americans”. But you’ll notice that the latter fact never gets mentioned, let alone celebrated as some sort of wondrous achievement.

I’ve often thought that people must have died from, for example, peanut allergy. But now we notice it and avoid peanuts and treat the problem. Those folks have children and as a result there a lot more children with peanut allergies. Just one of many illnesses that people seem to have these days that they didn’t have 50 years ago.

What’s conservative about women running for office and giving political speeches?

We live in an imperfect world. If women are going to run for office and give political speeches, my preference is for them to be like like Marion Maréchal-Le Pen

The school is at least 40% Jewish.

Why wouldn’t Brooks be toast? Think President Harris will have any use for him? Or DOJ head Keith Ellison?

All the new leaders are Black or Hispanic. Not much love there for old Jews a Whiter shade of pale.

How much Jewish influence in Khomeini s Iran or Nasser Egypt

Marine Le Pen is one of the most beautiful women in France:

"A people without sovereignty is not only deprived of liberty but also finds its own very existence threatened"

~Marine Le Pen pic.twitter.com/nrzKf1Trjl

— Defend Europa (@DefendEvropa) February 10, 2018

Agreed but imho the only explanation for cops running and hiding is fear of being tried. Cops are selected for aggression