Humor for the Open Thread.

PEACE 😇
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From https://xkcd.com

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And, a couple of CNN story corrections:

I do love Doritos. https://t.co/TpmNNj16B8

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) January 16, 2021

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Mike Pompeos goes into final China Hysteria

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202101/1213071.shtml

Brazil ditches US drive to strangle Huawei:

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202101/1213075.shtml

Iran Launches Prophet Muhammad 15 drills, ballistic missile fell near US aircraft carrier

EU sets plans to reduce US dollar dependency

https://inversezone.com/2021/01/16/eu-sets-plans-to-reduce-dollar-dependency-in-post-trump-era/

Merkell’s successor attacked for being Assad fan

Just flagging the new head of the CDU and likely Merkel successor was a pro-Assad John Kerry reply guy. pic.twitter.com/O1Sv3J7qPk

— Ben Judah (@b_judah) January 17, 2021

Russian agricultural exports increased by 20% in 2020 to almost $30B. A year ago Putin said the plans were $45B by 2024. This looks more than manageable. Russian agricultural equipment is doing increasingly well too.

She’s right you know.

notice how we say “man” whenever we’re disappointed

— avi ༄★ (@asherberdacs) January 15, 2021

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Pity the manlets

A man who is 5 feet 6 inches tall needs to earn an additional $175,000 per year to be as desirable as a man who is about 6 feet tall

A 6'2" man can earn $30,000 less than a 6' man and will be viewed as equally desirable https://t.co/0wwJt7PJRo pic.twitter.com/rXXGsfjXFG

— Rob Henderson (@robkhenderson) January 5, 2021

The events on Jan 6 were likely instigated by federal agents and undercover agent provocateurs. Max Blumenthal has a overview since he lives in the city and went to the protest. He was even tipped off by knowledgable sources inside the government that something was about to happen. The only question is if it was planned or “allowed to transpire” but it’s clear it was stage-managed. Police even opened the doors to the Capitol for the rightoid rabble.

Paris continues to show leadership in reclaiming our cities from the clutches of car cucks. The latest plan is a complete transformation of the famous Champs Elysée.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pplyJ-Mc-8U&feature=youtu.be

The revolution is spreading. Oslo has created a plan to drastically reduce the available space for car cucks and make the city far more livable. They are taking back the city, street by street.

Stockholm continues to be a sad laggard. This is in part due to the legacy of the car lobby (Volvo and Saab), which advocated for destruction of large parts of central Stockholm to make it much more car friendly in the 1950s. Some of that damage has been ameliorated but not fully reversed. At any rate, France also has a large automotive sector and a powerful lobby which makes the work of the mayor of Paris all the more commendable.

Allowed to transpire if anything. It wouldn’t surprise me if there was some instigation involved.

I can imagine a future where the inner city only has buses and self driving taxis.

How much vaccine can Russia produce? It seems like the numbers produced has been very disappointing.

Anatoly, I previously shared this 173-page online book (or article) with you on Twitter comparing about US regions and ex-USSR regions (and jointly written by US and ex-USSR academics in the 1990s):

https://digitalcommons.spu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=works

I was wondering–are there are classifications/categorizations and/or any analyses there that you disagree with?

By the way, have you considered sharing this online book (or article) on your blog so that much more people would be able to see it and read it?

Sinovac: Brazil results show Chinese vaccine 50.4% effective

A better question would be – Is it is good? Two dozen or so elderly people have also died in Norway a few days after taking the Pfizer shot, and the medical experts have said they cannot rule out the deaths being caused by the side effects of the vaccine, rather than natural deaths or deaths due to COVID itself.

Again, it just has to be emphasised that the foundations of this lock-down and hysteria are based on keeping very old people alive.

Those numbers for Sinovac are supposedly that low because of different methodology. The article even mentions it. There doesn’t seem to be any clear numbers on it yet.

The low numbers of vaccine doses produced by Russia is pretty expected. The competing vaccines are from massive pharmaceutical companies. But other countries are supposedly going to produce the Russian vaccine too. Let’s hope the production ramps up.

The phrase “Ashkenazi intelligence” is misleading. I propose that the real intelligence is actually Khazar intelligence based on shared intelligence genes that east Asians have. Ashkenazi =/= Khazar. Only a certain subset of Ashkenazi are Khazar, mostly the ones living near the Khazar homeland, another brother ethnic group to the Khazars are the Hungarians who also have high intelligence. The Hazara of Afghanistan are resented and persecuted by the Pashtun because of their academic prowess and success, a similar dynamic to euro-americans and asian-americans.

Jews are not the race of geniuses they claim to be. It is the Khazars that are, and only because they have diluted Asian admixture. Which makes asians yhe bigger geniuses.

There are no Jewish i.e. Semitic genes for intelligence, the search and propaganda for one is Jewish conceit who can not admit that their geniuses is a gift from the Khazars.

Of course we say “man” when we are disappointed. In order to be disappointed, you need somebody with agency and responsibility to fail your expectations. Those happen to be men. Women (smartly) try their hardest to dodge both, and so as they try less, they fail less.

Men are workers and women are more like tourists. It is easy to be disappointed in a worker. But only an idiot would expect enough from a tourist to be disappointed in them.

So Russia saved Lukashenko only to Belarus … check notes… purchase direct competitor of Superjet with money lend by Russia. With friends like this, you don’t need enemies. Russia need make own Maidan in Belarus. https://www.aex.ru/m/news/2020/12/22/221101/

Imo the “man” thing is an expression of brotherhood and solidarity with another man when things are tough.

“I’m sorry that this happened, man”.

But it is not only used as expression of disappointment, for example there is “you know, man?”, or “yeah, man”, “What’s up, man”, etc.

It is some kind of group solidarity expression, when men bond as a group. When you say that, you signal to the other side that they are like you, or they think like you, ot that you are in this together, or that you feel sympathy and understanding to the other side, etc. It is a positive signal towards another man.

I think it is similar to the “What’s up, nigga”? expression among blacks.

Russian analysis on Biden’s Win.

Unrealistic amount of white people in that vid

The future is here!

Well if Lascher can keep it that way it would be based.

I can imagine a future where the inner city only has buses and self driving taxis.

Are you saying this is the future?

PEACE 😇

I am pretty sure that if or whenever men started thinking more like women do, the end of that particular culture would certainly have ensued. And if women became more manly the end result would be the same. Women and men have very different psychology, which is fine because that makes us complementary.

It’s up to us to create and sustain cultures that make these complementary mindsets compatible. It is also fun to learn to understand and appreciate someone psychologically different. But of course genderless leftists do not get it because they are psychologically gender-confused.

Too bad for them, they’re missing something.

🙂

If Ben Franklin were still alive, he would not be asking if it was a rising sun or a setting sun. He would be asking whether it will be an Indian elephant or an African elephant in the inauguration parade.

Ukrainian electricity production is now below 50% of the Soviet peak in 1990. Over half the electricity produced is from nuclear power. But all their reactors are supposed to be shut down the coming decade and they’ve already had their lifespans increased. Do they have any plan to solve this? Can they keep increasing the lifespan of the reactors? New electricity production sources to cover this would be very expensive for Ukraine.

Comments/questions regarding this Anglo-American establishment leaning commentary:

https://www.unz.com/article/the-russian-revolution-separating-truth-from-myth/

Russia generation of electricity from nuclear power exceeded peak of Soviet Union last year . Of course it does not require stating that compared to then in USSR time , this is more electricity supplying in Russia what would be about 55% of then Soviet Union population ,now.

Lithuania are also f**ked from their dissolution of nuclear power

Since Ashkenazi Jews are very often substantially Italian — about forty percent in this genetic study — their high average intelligence and academic / intellectual achievement should be presumptively attributed at least in part to their Italian heritage:

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2013/10/08/ashkenazi-jewish-women-descended-mostly-from-italian-converts-new-study-asserts/

Are there any genetic-test studies that show Jews to have a meaningful amount of East Asian ancestry, or that they “cluster” genetically with East Asians or other Asians?

Where do you park the elephants and camels? Looks like the first step towards a setting up a gypsy bazaar. I heard Europeans loved gypsies…..

Anatolij, what’s your take on mastodon, pleroma and such like?

Manoids should be capped at 20% of the population, which would ensure enormous global benefits in terms of reduced violence, war and dysfunction. Once such a change has been implemented, we will marvel at why we didn’t think of it sooner.

It is a bit of a puzzle how China in the first quarter imposed tough enough restrictions to basically eliminate the country's Covid outbreak but only saw GDP fall -6.8%. This paper based on traffic data concludes the real decline that quarter was -19.4% https://t.co/B1u3MOK496

— Tom Hancock (@hancocktom) January 18, 2021

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It is a little frustrating to see the response many analysts had to the GDP growth data Chinese released today. These numbers aren’t especially good, and they certainly shouldn’t have been surprising. Back in April and May, when most analysts…https://t.co/3bWjc5oEN2

— Michael Pettis (@michaelxpettis) January 18, 2021

There’s been a good amount of data suggesting that China smooths its official GDP growth numbers. This includes both increasing and lowering the official numbers. You can search for it, there’s plenty of information about it.

These numbers aren’t especially good, and they certainly shouldn’t have been surprising.

Why? China Q4 rose at above 2019 quartely levels (6,5 vs 6 – 6,3) just as the US stalled and Europe probably entered a double dip recession. Not bad, right in the face of slowing global economy. Money talks – hence the rise of the CNY, FDI and chinese bonds. That is – foreign money likes China.

https://www.ft.com/content/93ad4482-aa8a-407a-8039-0538457356b3

Maybe it made a mistake. But fact remains – money likes China.

What’s your gender ThuFri?

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There was a quite large gender imbalance in the 50s Soviet Union, Im not sure but I think that women were almost 2/3 of population. So the country that got closest to your dream demographics was the late Stalin Russia.

You lower the number of PCR cycles and you get way less COVID-19 and then you up your GDP a notch et voilà ! You have proved that China is the Utopia par excellence. And yeah, don’t forget to erase all these Wuhan P4 gain of function studies otherwise the foreign devils might become suspicious.

Modern warfare is information warfare…

You just basically described Tinder or liberal arts college campus in the US where men are either invisible or absent. Those places are so dysfunctional they make Taliban village look competent.

Per supply and demand, those 20% of men get to treat women like disposable trash (they can always get another woman), and women go nuts with antidepressants, wine and cats. This is how you get Hillary Clinton voters, hardly a global benefit. Just ask Libyan slaves.

Yeah, I wrote about it when replying to Dmitry at the Leviathan thread. The 50ies were the Soviet dude’s paradise. Soviet females vying for the sexual attention of the thinned out male population, while cooking their men the best possible sshi or borsch and serving the 100 g of ice cold vodka before each meal.

The proud and liberated Soviet woman also had to cope with the occasional alcoholism of her man to not stay alone with the kids in the tiny kommunalka. A kommunalka full of other similarly liberated females who would have eagerly picked up her spoiled husband.

Also Soviet gals got to do all the nice jobs:

That’s how real feminism works: the female shovels dirt, while the male drinks vodka, smokes Belomor papyrossy and eats pierogies.

The ideal organization of the gender roles.

🙂

Manoids should be capped at 20% of the population, which would ensure enormous global benefits in terms of reduced violence, war and dysfunction.

So the country that got closest to your dream demographics was the late Stalin Russia.

In modern times, which are perhaps the most interesting, yes, but:

In 1950, the sex ratio in Russia (broadly the lowest of USSR) was 62:100 in the 25-49 age group.

In 1648, after the Thirty Years’ War, some estimate that there were only 5 men in Sweden for every 9 women, which would be a slightly lower ratio (roughly 56:100), if correct.

about forty percent in this genetic study — their high average intelligence and academic / intellectual achievement should be presumptively attributed at least in part to their Italian heritage

Ashkenazi Jews’ high intelligence can probably be attributed neither to their Italian nor their Semitic heritage but to selection factors that occurred after their ethnogenesis in the late Roman period.

Must be hard to compete with the native lads.

This is exactly the type of sicko stuff that could only arise in the brain of an Indian nerd

Smoothing isn’t the only thing our Chinese friends are doing 🙂

Perhap ThuFri would like to keep all the sexy fems for herself?

http://themostcake.co.uk/scene/the-five-types-of-lesbian-cyclists/

https://www.trafalgar.com/real-word/sweden-lgbtq-friendly-country/

Also:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26701771/

That would be the simplest explanation for this “manoid” nonsense.

🙂

Selection doesn’t create variants. The question is, where did they get the variants? If they got them from Europeans (not a wholly unlikely scenario) then that adds another layer of irony to the standard political posture of Jews.

You would have to be a homosexual not to find the idea of a 4:1 female:male ratio appealing. Perhaps strategic abortions could be implemented to achieve this end?

More Humor for the Open Thread.

PEACE 😇
 

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/01/18/trump-ban-only-free-speech-zone-for-american-conservatives-russia/

I don’t know how easy it would be to make the sets or do the creature effects, but I think it would be an excellent basis for a horror movie, if it started out as people storming the Capital Building and breaking into Nancy Pelosi’s office and slowly discovering worrying signs of Satanism leading to some supernatural conclusion.

It is not partisanship that makes me thing so, but there is something incredible creepy about her. It’s her advanced age, extensive plastic surgery, the fact that she comes from a political family and was an intern for a senator in the early ’60s, before America’s decline started.

What is the closest thing to an S&P Index fund for the Chinese economy for western investors?

Does anybody here have any money in it?

The drug epidemic continues to worsen in United States. Up to 90k deaths from overdoses in 2020 from 72k in 2019. When does it stop?

When does it stop?

When the swamp undergoes thermal and radioactive sterilization. Probably sooner that we would reasonably believe…

How about a modern rendition of Orwell’s 1984?

PEACE 😇

People were joking about a Muppet '1984' so I thought the reasonable thing to do was make a trailer with me playing every character. pic.twitter.com/f5vulslByP

— Seán Burke (@SeanBurkeShow) January 13, 2021

I wonder if the low TFR of SK is somehow reflected in the K-pop (not just the music) that it is exporting to a lot of the Third World. I only have an extremely superficial knowledge of it, but it seems to me that it centers on an inordinate number of love triangles and reverse-harems. (of course, an honest look at Hollywood might be even bleaker, when you add in miscegenation and the trivialization of sex)
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On a cultural tangent, I also wonder if it would be fair to say that the Chinese movie industry is obsessed with swords

It’d certainly be nice to see a film using modern slogans, and touching on modern foreign policy.

But other countries are supposedly going to produce the Russian vaccine too.

See the Wikipedia page as a start, it lists a number of countries that are partnering with Gamaleya to produce the vaccine, and used to have a list that are doing it for export. Some of those partnerships will likely fail, but not all if Gamaleya truly understands how they make it, and some of that ex-Russia production is supposed to go back to Russia.

There was that article a few years ago about dating life on campus where there then were 60% women and just 40% men. However, even though there were too many of them, the women still didn’t want the lower half of the male population so there apparently was half fresh-born chads cleaning up (with an average of three women competing per man) and half semi-incels.

(NB: Article was mainly a long interview with female students, as I recall.)

How come the Inca, living in a mountainous environment, and, with a lower technological level, were able to consolidate a greater territory under one state than the pre-Macedon Greeks?

I think this is a really interesting sociological question. Don’t know the answer, but I can think of a few possibilities:
-the potato (if true, this really makes a joke of the Enlightenment)
-lack of horses/Med sea made barbarian introgression more difficult (easier to control borders)
-Amerinds are less individualistic than Europeans

Intelligence seems to be linked to greater preponderance of genes that are common to various populations (but in fewer individuals in populations with lower average intelligence than in those with higher average intelligence), rather than to novel or new mutations arising in specific populations.

In other words, Ashkenazi Jews are not more intelligent (physiologically) because they have gotten specific genes for intelligence from either Italians or Semites (or developed a novel mutation) but because their particular historical and environmental circumstances led to an increase in the preponderance of genes associated with intelligence in their specific population – genes that were present in proto-Italians and Semites in smaller proportions because they were less necessary.

Or someone who cares about his sisters, daughters, etc. Or for that matter, for males also. Being spoiled is not good for the spoiled.

Or someone who cares about his sisters, daughters, etc. Or for that matter, for males also. Being spoiled is not good for the spoiled.

I do not have sisters or daughters, so perhaps you are right and I lack the insight, but how would such an arrangement be any different. You sisters and daughters are going to get with a male stranger in any case, would it matter if they were getting with male strangers who also had other women? Monogamy is very rare these days anyway, so in this hypothetical society of 80% females and 20% males, it is not like the males would be any less focused on one particular female than they are now.

BTC drops 25% and all the salty bears who lost out on the rally are out of the woodwork to denounce it, declare it dead.

Bitcoin, like gold, offers a store of value against currency devaluation. Unlike gold, it’s much easier to store & transfer.
Bitcoin, like fiat, is only valuable insofar we all agree it is. Unlike fiat, governments and central banks can’t manipulate it.

Bitcoin isn’t going anywhere.

Yep. And this why BLM is heavy on college age liberal females, and so are other cultural identity causes. They are desperate and fight for status. This is the primary root cause of our modern cultural revolution.

And to be fair, I understand. Imagine growing up as a young girl where you are constantly told that you are amazing and special and you are going to conquer the world and beat those evil men. And then you go to liberal arts college thinking it will prepare you to do just that. And then the reality sets in, where you are just a pump and dump meatbag for a few local Chads, you have large student debt and uncertain job prospects (labor market is oversaturated with liberal arts grads) and even your OnlyFans account is not bringing enough cash to pay rent. It must be psychologically crushing, so they act out in desperation.

Feminism hasn’t been about equality for a long time, and its not even a war on men anymore. (While some of that is still going on with 2nd tier female executives gunning for the jobs of 1st tier male executives, it is mostly a top of the food chain fight. Not many feminists advocate for more women in high voltage transmission line technician jobs for example, even though those jobs are 100% male).

Feminism is literally about ugly women destroying attractive women for social status. Once younger more attractive women are psychologically crushed and disfigured, their very real pain and rage are directed against whoever the ugly women need destroyed to achieve personal status. It is a highly effective strategy because once the younger ones are crushed, they are trapped in this vicious cycle and must work to destroy others in order to elevate their own status as well.

Just week ago lifetime of one reactor was extended by 10 years. There are plans to complete couple of unfinished reactors.

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/TagSection?tagid=916

I don’t have the fortitude to put up with four wives squabbling with one another.

That can easily be explained by the fact that this isn’t the 1800s anymore. Women are not limited to manoids on campus. It may be the primary source, but it isn’t the only source for potential mates/hookups. In addition, I don’t think most manoids understand how ugly they are in the eyes of women.

In my experience, the sexes differ in what they look for. Men tend to be much shallower in their criteria, whereas women tend to be more well-rounded.

Men tolerate women with lower levels of ambition or even unemployment if she is highly attractive. A submissive/dependent woman may even be a plus to an insecure manoid.

The same is typically not the case for women. Slacker/loser men, even attractive, aren’t given the same benefit of the doubt. Women also to look for traits like assertiveness, social dominance etc. By contrast, a socially dominant woman who is assertive will scare away manoids.

So, while most women find manoids phyiscally unappealing, I am not sure it matters all that much, since they put a lower premium on looks more generally than men do. Of course, these are just my casual observations/experiences.

Feminism is just one of the subtypes of gender dysphoria among the progressives. To understand what’s going on in their heads, one’s better understanding what’s going on in their pants. They don’t think straight and they don’t f☆ck straight. This also makes them unable to build long lasting relationships and happy families. They’re freaks.

Ben Judah blocked me.

What is your gender ThuFri?

Actually an alien or a certain animal may find human women to be extremely ugly, so looks are subjective. It is just something, probably genes, telling you in particular “that looks good”, “that does not look good”, etc.

Someone else gets different signals.

There are also cross racial differences, for example men from one group may find women from another group ugly. So these things are very subjective.

For example black women are getting very low ratings on dating apps. Would you call them ugly then? That’s quite subjective.

Men look for genetic fitness (which is what “beauty” is a proxy for) and women look for status (which is the interplay of social dominance, physical attractiveness, and wealth).

Not sure that one is more shallow than the other. Both sexes try to optimize the offspring with resources available. It does lead to inequality though, because while beauty has engineering solutions (makeup and high heels will do the trick for most women), status is inherently zero sum game and it leaves majority of “manoids” out of the dating game. Women will not date if they perceive their date to have lower status than them. This is a big problem for high status women as they experience “good men” shortage and are potentially eliminated from the gene pool.

Based and harem pilled?

He’s a punk.

The good thing about maintaining a lesbian island (of exiles) is that, as a joke, you could occasionally exile male feminists there.

Dating is a recent phenomenon. Arguably, the majority of the human population has never dated prior to twentieth century and probably a lot of third world people do not even date today. This is especially true for the Islamic and other patriarchal cultures. I wonder how the whole dating thing – that we take for granted – does effect selecting for, or against, different socially beneficial aspects of human psychology.

Also, the online dating is even more recent and I don’t think we will be able to measure its effects before a couple of decades has passed. One thing is sure, dating online is probably no different from dating complete strangers because an internet dating profile is so easy to fake.

Before, people simply mated with those who were members of their extended community or some other community/tribe/clan nearby, about which a lot of information was available. People probably knew a lot about the family of their spouse, sometimes going back a few generations. And different social classes mostly mated in their own milieu even if there always was some sexually driven social mobility.

Perhaps the emergence of dating is directly correlated with the decrease in the stability of family structure. A young man or woman who would spend some 10 to perhaps 20 years dating or frolicking around might simply come to some sentimental exhaustion, while you need strong and stable affective patterns developed to form a stable relationship and a family. If we tired up quickly of the imperfections of other people and thought that there are “many fish in the sea” then why would we work to build anything stable with these imperfect people?

But perhaps I am just being retrograde and more is always better.

This is exactly the type of sicko stuff that could only arise in the brain of an Indian nerd

Yes, it does carry the whiff of a resentment-ridden hindoo, struck down by the awful realization that no matter much material success he achieves he’ll never been considered sexually desirable in western eyes.

Chinx are confronted by the same issue, though they are able to console themselves that caucasoids are a sufficiently alien racial kind that there’s no need judge themselves by the same set of standards.

The demiurge was cruel to hindoos though, not only endowing them with just enough caucasity (however transmogrified) to offer a glimmer of hope only to then rudely slam the door in their faces, but also to curse them with a karmic philosophy that relentlessly reminds them of the earlier sins for which they are doing penance in their present incarnation.

That’s a very funny (or poignant) graph, that 80% of men are considered below average in looks. I think I first saw it in Christain Rudder’s Dataclysm or in the associated blog.

The article I mentioned might have been https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/08/tinder-hook-up-culture-end-of-dating .

If we tired up quickly of the imperfections of other people and thought that there are “many fish in the sea” then why would we work to build anything stable with these imperfect people?

In English, you semi-literate bashibazouk, people “tire” or “get tired,” they don’t “tire up.”

Otherwise, it’s long been recognized – no “perhaps” about it – that the sexual revolution led to a decrease in family stability. Conservatives used to (futilely) decry it for this reason, while for leftists it was a positive feature.

The breaking point was probably the modern requirement of going to university. First, the young men disappeared from their homes and parents before getting married, then the young women followed them. This presumably broke old-time dating (along with contraceptivs and on-demand abortion). Also, family formation was delayed by something like ten years in the bargain.

It is easy to talk about genes but it is much harder to find them. Actually it is even worse. It is much harder to correlate 100’s of 1000’s SNP’s with IQ scores. I think the best they got so far was 11-13% variance explained using up to 1,0000,0000 SNPs, which is 10% or all possible variants there are in human genome. Why IQ scores do not correlate well with genes?

Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-018-0147-3

For research at the intersection of genetics and neuroscience, the set of 1,271 lead SNPs that we identify is a treasure trove for future analyses. For research in social science and epidemiology, the polygenic scores that we construct—which explain 11–13% and 7–10% of the variance in educational attainment and cognitive per-formance, respectively—will prove useful across at least three types of applications.

Taken together, these 1,271 SNPs accounted for just 3.9% of the variation across individuals in years of education completed.

As discussed in FAQ 1.5, we can create an index using the GWAS results from around ~1 million genetic variants. Such an index is called a “polygenic score.”
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The polygenic score we constructed “predicts” (see FAQ 1.4) around 11% of the variation in education across individuals (when tested in independent data that was not included in the GWAS). This ~1 million SNP polygenic score predicts much more of the variation than does the genetic predictor described in FAQ 2.2, which was based on only 1,271 SNPs. Including all ~1 million SNPs tends to add predictive power because the threshold for significance/inclusion that is used to identify the 1,271 SNPs is very conservative (i.e., many of the other ~1 million SNPs are also associated with educational attainment but are not identified by our study, and on net, it turns out empirically that more signal than noise is added by including them).

BTW, It seems awfully quiet on the IQ GWAS front. Where are the promised breakthroughs that were to materialize once we genotyped millions of people. Where is cocky Setphen Hsu and his lasso method? Did his dick go limp? He got a good start of up 9% educational attainment explained with 10,000 or so SNP’s and then went silent.

It seem that there is barrier of 10% variance explained that can’t be crossed. It seems that the missing heritability problem is real pointing finger at twin studios that possibly have a hidden flaw, that the true heritability is much lower than what twin studies were telling us. The IQist were fooling themselves and us for last 70 years.

OR is it possible that DARPA and China classified further genetic IQ studies, and they are in the process of breeding SuperJews and SuperChinese?

Slacker/loser men, even attractive, aren’t given the same benefit of the doubt.

I don’t know if the difference can be quantified, but you are waaaay off if you think good-looking slacker dudes don’t get any action.

Bitcoin, like gold, offers a store of value against currency devaluation. Unlike gold, it’s much easier to store & transfer.

Also unlike gold, it lacks any intrinsic feature that can’t be duplicated (as in competing cryptos), so it’s susceptible to being dumped in a way that gold, at least so far, hasn’t been. Why should someone willing to accept payment in crypto care whether its btc or any other?

Good discussion on Ukraine:

That’s a very funny (or poignant) graph, that 80% of men are considered below average in looks. I think I first saw it in Christain Rudder’s Dataclysm or in the associated blog.

Here it is.

Datacylsm: What Our Online Lives Tell Us About Our Offline Selves

Rudder writes:

And when you consider the supermodels, the porn, the cover girls, the Lara Croft-style fembots, the Bud Light ads, and, most devious of all, the Photoshop jobs that surely these men see every day, the fact that male opinion of female attractiveness is still where it’s supposed to be is, by my lights, a small miracle. It’s practically common sense that men should have unrealistic expectations of women’s looks, and yet here we see it’s just not true. In any event, they’re far more generous than the women, whose votes go like this: (See graph above)

The red chart is centered barely a quarter of the way up the scale: only one guy in six is “above average” in an absolute sense. Sex appeal isn’t something commonly quantified like this, so let me put it in a more familiar context: translate this plot to IQ, and you have a world where the women think 58 percent of men are brain damaged.

Now, the men on OkCupid aren’t actually ugly— I tested that by experiment, pitting a random set of our users against a comparable random sample from a social network and got the same scores for both groups—and it turns out you get patterns like the above on every dating site I’ve seen: Tinder, Match.com, DateHookup—sites chat together cover about half the single people in the United States. It just turns out that men and women perform a different sexual calculus. As Harper’s put it perfectly: “Women are inclined to regret the sex they had, and men the sex they didn’t.” You can see exactly how it works in the data. I will add: the men above must be absolutely full of regrets.

Correction: 1,0000,0000 SNPs should be 1,000,000 SNPs

Men look for genetic fitness (which is what “beauty” is a proxy for) and women look for status (which is the interplay of social dominance, physical attractiveness, and wealth).

This poor girl found out the hard way

SINCE WHEN WAS 27 “A LITTLE TOO OLD”???????????????? pic.twitter.com/dPIQicz6GD

— harper-rosé (@HarperRoseD) January 16, 2021

I wonder how many Americans will realize it, when black history month comes this year. Last year, I swear it was at least two months long. (easy to expand as MLK’s birthday can also be used to promote blacks)

But since then, we’ve had months already where blacks have been promoted 24/7, at a heightened level. It’s hard for me to anticipate how this level could be increased – at least in America. It’d be interesting to try to quantify the increase in other regions.

In English, you semi-literate bashibazouk, people “tire” or “get tired,” they don’t “tire up.”

Thanks, it’s always good to learn something useful.

English is obviously not my first language and it’s not the one I use on a daily basis. I actually learned it on my own when I was 20 something.

Mais je serais heureux de continuer en français si cela vous conviendrait mieux.

🙂

I think this the kind of Crusader Kings = True Life question. Basically, Tribal Empires are easy to build, difficult to hold.

Amerinds had their entire State Capacity vested with the single Big Boss, which was great if Big Boss was good, but not so great if something happened to Big Boss (such as getting captured by the Spanish). Inca conquests boiled down to their Boss going down to the local tribal leaders he wanted to conquer and telling them “I’m Big Boss join me and get this awesome free t shirt or refuse me and die”. This was similar to how Mongol tribes got consolidated. Because this was very personal, from tribal leader to tribal leader, it moved quickly.

Pre-Macedon Greeks were gimped by democracy. They were great navigators and established many trade colonies from Italy to Turkey but their main ground force was made of voting age farmers standing in a phalanx. Farmers had to pay for their own gear and not many could afford a horse, so cavalry was weak. And without cavalry, phalanx was rather limited offensively, as it was too heavy to move quickly. Hence lack of land conquests.

Macedonian Kings had no democracy problem, so they made their phalanx poorer, bigger, lighter, with bigger spears, and used the savings to create Companions aka Horse Tanks. This combined arms warfare innovation of faster phalanx to anchor the battle line and then smash the enemy from the rear with indestructible Horse Tanks was unbeatable until Romans invented manipular unit structure which was a more flexible arrangement that was able to disrupt the phalanx.

And going back to the Incas, I think guns and horse are overrated as a factor in Native American defeats at the hands of the Europeans. I mean sure, they were not nothing, but in the 16th century, the most powerful military units were Spanish trecios and Swiss pike, which were basically reinvented Greek phalanxes with some firearm support.

Now, pointy sticks do not sound high tech or glamorous. BUT – it was the level of organization and unit cohesion, and the drills required to achieve this phalanx performance, that was the most important factor that made European armies superior on the battlefield. With firearms, you shot, you missed, you were out of action for several minutes to reload. Rather marginal. With pike, you had hundreds of men striking as one, again and again, crushing anyone in front of them. It was this organizational ability to maintain unit cohesion that was the most decisive factor that non-European armies lacked.

I feel like it’s been Black History Month for the last year.

I agree with your general point that it was European drill and discipline, more than technology, that made Europeans superior fighters. However, the Spanish did not have pike formations in the New World in Cortes and Pizarro’s time. They were mostly equipped with swords and shields. Muskets and crossbows were very useful for picking off native captains and cavalry relieved the infantry by disrupting charges with flank attacks. Bernal Dias has a great description of how this went early in The Conquest of New Spain.

English settlers also did not really use pike formations. They fought with muskets and cutlasses. Writings from colonists show that the muskets were considered quite superior to the native’s bows and arrows. John Smith remarked “Our God as much exceeded theirs, as our muskets did their bows and arrows”. Samuel Champlain overcame three indian captains with one shot from his musket, which he had loaded with four bullets at once.

Not a total-Chinese-market stock fund by any means, but you may want to check out the Oberweis China mutual funds, such as the China Opportunities Fund, which usually holds shares in 50 to 80 Chinese companies:

https://oberweisfunds.com/solutions/china-opportunities-fund/

Je vous en supplie, arretez d’excuser vos fautes grammaticales, ça ne me interesse pas, c’est simplement inacceptable!

English is obviously not my first language

I’m not sure if this is just false modesty, but actually it wasn’t that obvious to me. I had to think about it and review your post before I could feel confident in my assessment that you’re not a native speaker.

Your English is of a high standard, but I am always willing to provide a few pointers to help people really sharpen it up. 🙂

(In case you’re interested, besides “tired up,” the other giveaway phrases were “the online dating is” and “many fish in the sea.” A native speaker would have simply said “online dating is” and the idiomatic phrase is “plenty of fish in the sea.”)

Yep. Specifically them evolving to have a higher average IQ (by 10+ IQ points) between 800 and 1800 AD.

By the way, off-topic, but I want to ask you: Do you believe that it was a blessing in disguise for the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) to lose Ukraine? After all, with Ukraine, this union could not be genuinely Eurasian since its European element would overwhelm its Asian element and thus create a feeling of Slavic domination just like in the Soviet Union. In contrast, the loss of Ukraine combined with the population decline in Russia and the population growth in Central Asia allows Slavs and Muslims to be in this union on a more equal footing and to have a relationship that it more akin to that of genuine equals. That, and by the end of the 21st century, the number of European peoples and Asian peoples (in terms of their total population) in this union is likely to be roughly equal to each other, thus making this union genuinely Eurasian.

Also, for what it’s worth, I really do hope that Belarus will eventually exit the Eurasian Economic Union. It is a European/Intermarium state just like Poland, Ukraine, and the Baltic countries are, after all. It has nothing in common with Central Asia–well, not right now, that is! Their common history is gradually fading into the background, after all.

These women are pretty presumptuous and lacking in self-awareness, given what fat tubs they are at a young age these days.

“Women who weigh more than their men — it’s not just for Mexicans anymore!”

I’d be delighted if I could engage in debate and discussion in a foreign language as well as you do in English.

It’s weird how many seem to call the Czech Republic “Czechia” in English these days, which sounds awkward and strange to me as a British person.

In British English it is always the “Czech Republic”, or just “Czech” for short even though that’s technically grammatically incorrect. Personally I think I would find it very difficult to convert to saying “Czechia”, even though that’s what they officially call the country now, it just sounds odd to me.

It seems odd to me why they insisted on “Czechia” when “Czech Republic” is a very established term in English. Do they not realise that the “-ia” suffix in English has connotations of third world shithole?

California?

Right.

I’m not so sure about the “3rd world shithole” connotation, but it does take some getting used to. That’s only because people got used to calling it Czech Republic first. If they’d gone with Czechia right out of the gates, it would have been much easier to swallow.

Ashli Babbitt news

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9147335/Dead-MAGA-mobster-Ashli-Babbitt-Marine-ex-husband-THROUPLE-bartender.html

Thats fair.

I’ve noticed that Americans seem to have taken to “Czechia” somewhat easier than the British have.

I wonder if that’s because Americans were less familiar with the country to begin with, obviously being geographically much more distant, so perhaps the term “Czech Republic” wasn’t so ingrained in American English and less resistant to change?

Je vous en supplie, arretez d’excuser vos fautes grammaticales, ça ne me interesse pas, c’est simplement inacceptable!

Excellent, especially the “I’m not interested” part.

Although I am nearly certain that you are not French, Canadian maybe?

😄

Thanks for the other pointers. My first language is Russian. I’m a Moscovite, born and raised.

Thanks, but I’ve no merit really. English is overwhelming nowadays, it has become what Latin was in the Middle Ages and Silviosilver is right -people who have not mastered English are clearly disadvantaged. I learned English on my own in my mid twenties, but my teenage kids are already quite fluent and my adult daughter is bilingual in French and English on top of speaking some decent Spanish. The ability to speak more than one language is among the (few ?) good sides of the globalization. I wish I knew Mandarin though, it’s probably the language of the future. But it sounds absolutely alien…

I wonder how much of an advantage it would have been to control a source of obsidian. Perhaps, that might might explain part of it – limited availability paired with a shorter lifespan than metal.

Agreed. Most of our children are learning Mandarin from an early age, at my insistence, but it’s not exactly euphonic to my ears.

An insane number of helicopters flying into DC:

https://rumble.com/vd04q5-troops-into-dc.html

An insane number of helicopters flying into DC:

https://rumble.com/vd04q5-troops-into-dc.html

People also say “oh man” when excited.

Women’s standards tend to lower as they get older. Comparing male and female peers is highly misleading. A much older man can still be desirable to women. The reverse is usually not the case.

A much older man can still be desirable to women. The reverse is usually not the case.

Yes, but this just reinforces my point about how different the two sexes view each other. Women look at more non-physical attributes. Men generally get richer and more socially dominant (compared to their youth) when they age.

Since women view men as pretty ugly from the outset, age is much less of an issue. Ugly when young, ugly when old. By contrast, men are much more shallow in their selection for mates. If manoids could, most of them would have a dating pattern similar to DiCaprio:

Among beautiful and high-status women in their 40s, you rarely see such behaviour. But it is commong among high-status men in that age group.

Curiously, this even extends to gays. Gay men are notoriously shallow in their physical criteria. It’s not a coincidence that gays tend to be very fit and well-dressed. Lesbians are far less discerning in these matters. The exact same underlying patterns play out in heterosexual or homosexual relationships, just directed at different people.

Yes, but this just reinforces my point about how different the two sexes view each other. Women look at more non-physical attributes. Men generally get richer and more socially dominant (compared to their youth) when they age.

Since women view men as pretty ugly from the outset, age is much less of an issue. Ugly when young, ugly when old. By contrast, men are much more shallow in their selection for mates. If manoids could, most of them would have a dating pattern similar to DiCaprio:

There’s nothing shallow about preferring youth. Marrying an older, richer woman is a poor reproductive strategy. George Washington did that, and he got 0 children out of it. Serves him right.

Men are on average horny bastards and have lower overall standards because of this. But women certainly care very much about physical features. Your post on height is an example.

Australian, actually. I took French at university in my 20s, but I feel like most of what I have learnt has been self-taught. I don’t think I’ll ever succeed in thinking in French – I find French sentence construction too non-intuitive. (The amount of times I’ve thought “why the fuck would they say that like that”…) I wish I had focused on German instead. German sentence construction differs considerably from English too, yet even though my German is minimal, everything I’ve encountered so far “feels right” in a way that French never has.

(I’ve referred to “sentence construction” rather than grammar, because your grammar can be correct but your sentences can still sound very “off” to a native speaker. Indian English-speakers often demonstrate this failing.)

I am afraid Johnny Cabs are as far away today as they were when Total Recall was made.

By contrast, men are much more shallow in their selection for mates.

Women only find a minority of men physically attractive, but the ones they do find attractive they are prepared to invest a lot purely on that basis. If you have a muscular physique as well as height that makes a difference, I remember that when I was in my 20s and started weight lifting. That led me think that women are pretty superficial as well.

An example of a soft sugar coated imperialism against pro-Russian sentiment:

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/pivot-west-problem-why-belarus-needs-balanced-relationship-russia-176527

French is basically a Latin-Celtic creole tainted by a homeopathic amount of German. It is an artificial language with an arbitrary grammar and orthography standardized in the sixteenth century and completely normalized for the whole of the territory of France in the nineteenth century. If a modern day Frenchman tries to read the original of Rabelais “Gargantua”, there is a strong probability he will not understand that much and will need a translation.

Until the second half of the nineteenth century, there were several distinct dialects in France (Normand, Picard…) and a few regional languages (Occitan, Basque and Breton), which do not even belong to the same language family. French is a construct, but it has a rich cultural and historical record leading to an extensive vocabulary.

English is also a creole but it’s a simpler one and given the important impact that the Normand French dialect and Latin both had on English, it is not that difficult to learn for a French speaking person. Although English pronunciation is quite unique and to have the right British, American or Aussie accent, one probably would need to live among native speakers for some time. Interestingly enough, when I travel to English speaking countries people have no difficulty finding out that I am Russian, which French people usually don’t find out if I don’t tell them.

I have studied German for one year in the secondary school and have found its sentence structure a little bit odd. I don’t really recall that much about it, but it probably had a more natural grammar than French. Its orthography was strange though, with the w pronounced as v and v pronounced as f, while f is also pronounced as f, and the ß versus s thing, it seemed a little eccentric. I didn’t really like it back then, but I wish I would have persevered at studying it because of the rich intellectual heritage it gives access to.

Is French any more Celtic than English? It seems to me that neither French or English have many words of Celtic origin.

I’ve seen some linguists make the argument that some features of English grammar are Celtic in origin.

As I mentioned, there were many dialects in French, which did not disappear until the end of the nineteenth century or even the beginning of the twentieth century. Some of these patois were probably more Celtic-loaded, while others were more Vasconic-loaded (the Gascon dialect certainly was). These dialects probably allowed for survival and transmission of the ancestral linguistic substrate(s) to the Francilien dialect, which became the standard French.

I am not a linguist by any means, but I would believe that French is indeed more impacted by the Celtic than British English. I think this might be simply explained through historical developments: Gaul being conquered by Rome did not lead to population replacement and neither did Frankish conquest. Franks were few in numbers compared to the Gallo-Roman native population and rapidly adopted the local culture and language. The only place where the Germanic invaders had somewhat of a lasting impact was la Bourgogne, but even there it only led to forming of a local dialect which disappeared by the end of the Middle Ages. The Normandy Norse also rapidly adopted local culture of the northern Gaul, which might have been somewhat more Celtic.

Basically, France largely kept the same mix of Western European Mediterranean and Nordic populations that it had since the Bronze Age. On the opposite, the Anglo- Saxon invasion led to a significant population replacement in Britain, pushing the Celtic people to Wales, Cornwall and even leading some British Celts to flee to French Brittany. Saxons and other German settlers did not feel the slightest need to learn the local language and most probably completely erased it in the areas they colonized. The Norse also added to the Germanic influence (Scandinavian languages being of German origin). And then the Normands conquered Britain, replaced the Saxon elites and imposed their French dialect as the language of the elite for some four to five hundred years. That is why the Celtic languages of England probably have not impacted the British English as much as they did impact French.

But again, this is just the impression that I have and I might be wrong about it.

This is the opposite of my experience. German feels much more unnatural because of the strange word order, which is completely different from English. It gets worse when you add in additional clauses. By contrast, French word order is very similar to English. ‘Ich will das sagen’ vs. ‘Je veux dire ça’.

French also has the advantage that the vocabulary is more similar to English (outside of a few basic words).

On the opposite, the Anglo- Saxon invasion led to a significant population replacement in Britain, pushing the Celtic people to Wales, Cornwall and even leading some British Celts to flee to French Brittany. Saxons and other German settlers did not feel the slightest need to learn the local language and most probably completely erased it in the areas they colonized.

It seems that it has been established that the Welsh are not Celts but a Brythonic people, they used to trade a lot with the Celts and finding Celtic artifacts in graves led to the misattribution.

There are also a lot of questions about how many Anglo-Saxons arrived in England, I remember some more recent genetic studies being discussed that showed a maximum of 50% Germanic DNA in the core areas of Anglo-Saxon settlement in places like East Anglia, and 10-20% in the other areas of England, apart from Yorkshire where this German influence was replaced by Danish. If this is true it would mean that the English would still be a significantly Brythonic people as well.

You do have a high level of English Bashibuzuk, equal to or above a lot of the graduates of the Linguistic University in Minsk, at least in terms of writing. I used to help my wife correct students’ work sometimes so saw a fair amount of material written by Russian speaking students of English.

One of the big reasons that Chinese movies/tv shows seem to be focused on “swords” is that the directors have much more creative freedom when setting plots in this time period.

To make a really compelling plot (especially for action flicks) set in the present you usually need a few grey-zone type characters and in China you can’t portray the police, the military or other organs of the current state leadership as corrupt or evil or even just plain incompetant. If you do so, even if your good guy is also part of the CCP and cleaning up the corruption of the bad guys, you can never be certain a censor on some level won’t take issue with it and shut your entire production down.

There are plenty shows set in or just before the second world war, especially centered around the Sanghai of the time because in that period you can have underdogs fighting against oppressive state structures (Japan, KMT) without attracting the attention of the censors (and even get subsidies/praise for telling patriotic stories).

I think it’s just basic risk avoidance that has so many Chinese (action/drama) movies and shows set in the past. There are btw lots of romance/comedy shows/movies set in the present, if that’s your thing.

The really disappointing thing about the Chinese entertainment industry is that they seem unable to make good fantasy movies. Officially 5000 years of history, folklore, traditions and stories and all they come up with is the 500th variation of Sun Wukong/the monkey king.

Brythonic people

My understanding was that the Brythonic was just a subset of the Insular Celtic which was closely related to Breton due to population exchanges during the migration period. I read that with the probable exception of Picts, all the populations of British Isles were speaking some Celtic languages by the time of Roman conquest.

Also, my understanding is that Celtic was already quite fragmented at the times of the Roman conquest of the Western Europe. And Latin and Celtic belong to the same branch of the Indo-European languages. Therefore it is quite possible that the integration of fragmented Celtic languages with Latin in Gaul and British Isles might have lead to some regional differences in Vulgar Latin.

It would make sense if the impact of Latin on native languages would have been modulated not only by the importance of Roman settler presence, but perhaps also by the differentiation of the language spoken by this particular conquered population from the ancestral Italo-Celtic. That is, perhaps Latin might have impacted some Celtic languages more than others simply because they were more compatible.

I agree that the whole Anglo-Saxon invasion is perhaps a little overrated. That is, both the Celts and the Germans being largely Bell Beaker derived on their male side, the invasion did not alter much the genetics of the British populations.

Again it’s just me making (uneducated) guesses about all this complex and very interesting topic. Perhaps someone with more knowledge about it could add a more informed response to this discussion.

And thank you for your kind appreciation of my level of udertanding of English language.

Franks were few in numbers compared to the Gallo-Roman native population and rapidly adopted the local culture and language.

I wouldnt say that they rapidly adopted local language, Charlemagne was still a native Germanic speaker, three or four centuries after the Franks came to Gallia. In comparison Manchus and Mughals lost their original languages in a much shorter time period.

It seem that there is barrier of 10% variance explained that can’t be crossed

Well, 10% is not nothing…

This study shows a higher percentage of variance when it comes to specific components of IQ. Thirty percent of the variance in Working Memory and 19% in Processing Speed was accounted for by genetic variants:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/mbe.12198

Individual differences in executive functions (EF) are heritable and predictive of academic attainment (AA). However, little is known about genetic contributions to EFs or their genetic relationship with AA and intelligence. We conducted genome‐wide association analyses for processing speed (PS) and the latent EF measures of working memory (WM) and inhibitory control (IC) in 4,611 adolescents from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. While no loci reached genome‐wide significance, common genetic variants explained 30% of the variance in WM and 19% in PS. In contrast, we failed to find common genetic contributions to IC. Finally, we examined shared genetic effects between EFs and general intelligence, AA and ADHD. We identified significant genetic correlations between WM, intelligence, and AA. A more specific pattern was observed for PS, with modest genetic overlap with intelligence. Together these findings highlight diversity in the genetic contributions to specific cognitive functions and their genetic relationship with educational and psychiatric outcomes.

I agree. Frankish aristocracy still spoke their native German dialect at the times of Charlemagne. Although one should keep in mind that more than half of the Carolingian empire was outside modern day France and Roman era Gaul, mostly in German speaking areas. Aachen, the Capital of Charlemagne was in North Rhine-Westphalia. It makes sense to be bilingual if your loyal subjects speak two languages.

OTOH by the time of the Crusades, the French aristocracy was only speaking French and Latin even though Arabs still called all the Western Europeans Frendj or Firendji (that is Frank and Frankish) even if these Crusaders were English or German.

Is there any real translation of Dugin’s meme book? There is a comically bad and mostly completely incoherent translation sold in e-book format on Amazon, almost assuredly a machine translation. It has one review. Has anyone who fear mongers about it actually read it?

Marrying an older, richer woman is a poor reproductive strategy. George Washington did that, and he got 0 children out of it. Serves him right.

Martha was, what? 28 (fairly typical age in England, I might add) when she married George, and she had already had children before.

I’m afraid that leaves George as the most likely explanation. Probably mumps. Used to sterilize a sizable portion of men before the vaccine. Though, you were safe, if you got it as a prepubescent.

Thanks. N=4,611 is rather small so there might be overfitting problem. Is the heritability (explained variance) a fraction of sample variance or was it corrected for the full range variance? If so, what correction scheme was used?

And then the Normands conquered Britain, replaced the Saxon elites and imposed their French dialect as the language of the elite for some four to five hundred years

Interestingly, a form of this French dialect remained in wide written use in the English legal system until Cromwell’s time, long after it had ceased being a commonly spoken language:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_French

Form of French spoken in Channel Islands is a direct descendant of Norman French.

I’ve referred to “sentence construction” rather than grammar, because your grammar can be correct but your sentences can still sound very “off” to a native speaker. Indian English-speakers often demonstrate this failing.

You have a point. I remember editing a paper written by German collaborators in English. To their surprise, I had to change a lot. The grammar was impeccable, but it was Queen Victoria English, rather than contemporary English. Same with educated Indian “English-speakers”: their language is so nineteenth century.

There are in fact a couple of dialects in the Channel islands. Nomand French has also influenced the pronunciation of French spoken in Canada because the majority of the French colonists were from the Atlantic coast of Normandy and Brittany.

Even today, Northern French, spoken in rural areas, is somewhat different from common literary (Parisian) French and of course is very different from southern (Marseillais) French. The patois from Marseilles (derived from Provensal parlance and Occitan substrate) and Chti patois from Pas de Calais and Lille (derived from Picard parlance) are as distinct as Russian and Ukrainian.

are as distinct as Russian and Ukrainian.

Yes I know, I have repeatedly mentioned the fact to AP in our endless Ukraine debates. Italians, Germans, Spanish and French are all civilized people, who dont let small linguistic differences to stand in their way, unlike the Slavs who like to have a country for each tribal division, just like Bantus and Arabs. Wait a minute? Arabs and Bantus were colonised by different European great powers, which is the primary reason why they have so many different nations. Heh, truly Slavs are the POC of Europe!

Truth be told, the Western countries are famous for their strict sexual hierarchies. Where else would a strong beautiful stud like Weinstein or Boris Johnson get sexual favors from hundreds of twentysomething young women, despite any money changing hands at the time of the act? The Western woman doesn’t give boob and vagene to passers-by, unless he happen to be as tall as Strauss-Kahn.

I am pretty sure men trying to get laid in India have it so much easier. Nothing like the Western standards, I tell you. You can have all the money in the world, you never have a woman like Stormy if you are not True Western Blood.

Boris’ women are quite plain. He is whipped by the below. Go to any upper-middle class party in London and you will meet ten women of exactly the same type but prettier and younger. Tory activist women do tend to be relatively less attractive for their type though.

The patois from Marseilles (derived from Provensal parlance and Occitan substrate) and Chti patois from Pas de Calais and Lille (derived from Picard parlance) are as distinct as Russian and Ukrainian.

In that case standard French and Marseilles patois are more distinct than Danish and Swedish (which are closer to each other than are Russian and Ukrainian) and about as distinct as Dutch and German (which are roughly about as distinct from one another as Russian and Ukrainian). Is that really so?

Slavs who like to have a country for each tribal division, just like Bantus and Arabs

And Scandinavians. And Balts. And Iberians (Portugal was never integrated into Spain).

Germany hasn’t integrated Austria, parts of Switzerland, Netherlands, and parts of Belgium (latter two speak languages about as distinct from German as Ukrainian is from Russian).

Latin-Americans all speak the same language (other than Brazilians and some minor exceptions like Guyana) and yet they have numerous countries.

Anglo world is divided into multiple countries.

France and Italy are exceptions. Slavs fall into the norms for European culture.

Even today, Northern French, spoken in rural areas, is somewhat different from common literary (Parisian) French and of course is very different from southern (Marseillais) French. The patois from Marseilles (derived from Provensal parlance and Occitan substrate) and Chti patois from Pas de Calais and Lille (derived from Picard parlance) are as distinct as Russian and Ukrainian.

I believe that the point that Bashibuzuk is trying to make is that the Marselles patoit is quite a bit different than the Chti patois spoken in Pas de Calais and Lille, not that they’re real similar.

How you try and make some kind of analogy between Ukraine/Russia and Italy/Germany/Spain/France is really nonsensical and shows somebody who’s really grasping at some kind of imaginary straws to make a strange point? All of the countries in Western Europe that you’ve mentioned use mostly one language at the national level, that is all that Ukraine aspires for itself. Also, all of these countries have been at each others throats since long, long ago. So to hold them up as some kind of paragon of virtue for Ukraine and Russia to follow is quite an amusing idea. Perhaps, you’re trying to indicate that Ukrainians don’t deserve to have a country of their own? Whatever it is you’re trying to impress us with here, you need to keep on trying, because it just doesn’t make much sense? What are you really getting at?

What’s new with “Putin’s palace” this time?

Not sure. This might not have been mentioned.

And people believe that there is no magic? Just look what kind of agitated spirits I conjured here by writing down the word of mysterious and occult power.

The Ukraine

Crowleys Thelema does not have anything comparable in power to such magic incantantions as The Ukraine. But yes I should stop playing with such unholy and dark crafts, who knows what kind of madness we will descend if I once again utter the word.

What’s new with “Putin’s palace” this time?

Same old, same old. Yet another “comrade Ogilvy” story. Just ask the Ministry of Truth.

And Scandinavians. And Balts. And Iberians (Portugal was never integrated into Spain).

Norway, Denmark and Sweden have each over one thousand years of history as separate countries.

Spain is a nation of nations, as they call themselves. An union of Galicia, Navarre, Leon, Castile, Aragon and Catalonia, each with their own literary traditions and languages.

Latin-Americans all speak the same language (other than Brazilians and some minor exceptions like Guyana) and yet they have numerous countries.

Just like Arabs and Bantus!

Anglo world is divided into multiple countries.

United Kingdom is an union of different, but closely related nations, with other Anglo nations there is a good reason for divisions, you know that thing called the ocean. There are transcontinental nations, but is there even one truly trans-oceanic nation existent nowadays? Small dependencies like French Polynesia or American Guam dont count, oh well maybe France is the best example, substantial part of their population lives outside of the metropolitan France, maybe something like 10-5%? Do you know Bashibuzuk?

somebody who’s really grasping at some kind of imaginary straws

Arent we all Mr. Hack, arent we all? Such is life…

I dunno, this powerful take is one of my favorite “stances” of Thulean

For a British woman, Carrie is very beautiful. Most of them looked like Emma Nicholson or Joan Sims. I am not sure if the new blood is going to create something better.

The point was few women care about height when a Boris Johnson approaches them. I am pretty sure Johnson or Trump could marry an 18-year old Thai this week, but they set their own limits. Every once in a while, even Trump talks to his wives.

Norway, Denmark and Sweden have each over one thousand years of history as separate countries.

No they do not. They have been united with one another at various times, as you well know. Denmark and Norway were united from 1537 to 1814. Norway then entered a union with Sweden until 1905.

And even if they had not been united in 1000 years, this would only proved how powerful of a trait tribalism is for Europeans – that nations whose languages and cultures are more similar than Ukraine and Russia have been separate countries for so long.

Spain is a nation of nations, as they call themselves

Which doesn’t include Portugal.

United Kingdom is an union of different, but closely related nations, with other Anglo nations there is a good reason for divisions, you know that thing called the ocean

There is no ocean between USA and Canada, and in the modern world oceanic distances are krgely irrelevant. It is quicker to travel between Canada and England now, than between London and Scotland a few centuries ago, not to mention instant communication.

Other than France and Italy, Europeans (including Slavs) divide. We are not the Chinese. Or people with a Tatar-Mongolian political instinct. 🙂

By the way, off-topic, but I want to ask you: Do you believe that it was a blessing in disguise for the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) to lose Ukraine? After all, with Ukraine, this union could not be genuinely Eurasian since its European element would overwhelm its Asian element and thus create a feeling of Slavic domination just like in the Soviet Union.

The Glorious Leader has recently (November 2019) made known his opinion on this subject:

“Pragmatic cooperation between the Eurasian Economic Union, the European Union, the SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation), ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) and the Belt and Road Initiative will give a powerful impetus to the formation of Greater Eurasia, stabilising the entire political space of the largest continent in the world. I consider this an unacceptable situation, when a full-fledged dialogue between the EU and the Eurasian Economic Union is still not achieved,” Nazarbayev said during his speech to open the plenary meeting.

In the reality of increased interdependence, countries should stop pursuing “narrow regionalism and bloc thinking, but reveal new cooperation opportunities in the Greater Eurasia. Only in this way will we be able to realise the huge potential that the Eurasian supercontinent possesses and I am pleased to note that it is our club that acts today as the ideological platform of a new geopolitical construction called Greater Eurasia,” he added.

Nazarbayev stressed the importance of building the mechanism to support dialogue between the EU and EAEU in addressing the key risks to Eurasian geopolitics and world as a whole.

[…]

Nazarbayev proposed combining the potentials of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA) and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

The new arrangement, known as Greater Eurasia, could “form a single community of Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian security” as stated in the OSCE’s Astana Declaration adopted nine years ago, he said .

“There is a need to critically rethink the approaches to the formation of continental security architecture… There is a need to create a full-fledged Eurasian security model that will combine the European, Asian and regional systems,” he added.

The majority of experts think unifying the institutions will resolve key Eurasian issues, said Nazarbayev, who proposed using the Astana Club as a preliminary stage to prepare higher-level negotiations. As Honorary Chair of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council, he stressed his readiness to provide comprehensive support in building the European Union (EU) – Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) partnership dialogue mechanism.

https://astanatimes.com/2019/11/nazarbayev-proposes-way-to-create-greater-eurasia/

(Though from a more cynical perspective it is likely that he calls for more EU engagement in Eurasia as a form of geopolitical hedging)

Don’t seem to be a lot of safe villains in Chinese movies. Can’t offend other countries, except WW2-era Japan. I’m not sure that they can really make up a country either, since they don’t want to be seen as pursuing an aggressive foreign policy. Certain supernatural beings seem off the table. What’s left? Druglords/international mercenaries/period villains.

Only saw one Chinese WW2 film. Thought it was interesting how comedic it was. Probably such a tone would be forbidden in a mainstream movie in the West, by now.

I wonder how much perceived Chinese problems about originality might be symptomatic of the presses being controlled, and thus leading to a lack of feeder material. More the bureaucracy and atmosphere of it, than anything about pushing boundaries.

That’s possible. Although I don’t know much about the level of linguistic relatedness between German and Dutch or Danish and Swedish. An interesting aspect of the comparatively different Picard and Provensal dialects, which existed until the end of the nineteenth century is that they might be seen as the surviving remnants of the Langue d’Oïl and Langue d’Oc (Occitan) the two Northern and Southern regional French languages’ ensembles which existed in the Middle Ages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langues_d%27o%C3%AFl

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

The Occitan was probably most closely related to Vulgar Latin and more evolved and refined. Southern France was also wealthier than the northern part.

Until the North unleashed the Albigean Crusade against the Cathars.

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

After more than a 100 years of Inquisition, the weakened Occitan region was completely submitted to King of France. This was the beginning of a truly unified French state.

France Départements d’outre-mer and Territoires d’outre-mer (DOMs & TOMs) are the remnants of the French colonial empire. There was a time when the whole of Algeria was a French département:

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

It had a population of around 10 million people.

Today the DOM TOM population is around 2 million people, close to 3% of the total French population.

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

So, once again, what really was the point of your comment #136? If you elaborate and make it clearer, maybe I’ll even agree with some of it (all of it would be asking too much, eh?)?

I like your laisses faire attitude this time, though. 🙂

Bashibuzuk found something of value with it, and I often value his opinions…

Denmark and Norway were united from 1537 to 1814. Norway then entered a union with Sweden until 1905.

So to make a rough analogy:

Denmark = Poland
Sweden = Russia
Norway (minus oil) = Ukraine

I suspect that if Russia had left the other Slavic countries alone after 1917, they would enjoy friendly relations with one another as the Scandinavian countries do.

Only saw one Chinese WW2 film. Thought it was interesting how comedic it was. Probably such a tone would be forbidden in a mainstream movie in the West, by now.

There is a Sixth Tone article discussing the changing depiction of Japanese soldiers, ranging from comedic and buffoonish to mindless killers to sophisticated villains to primitive spiritualists. Since my only exposure to Chinese WW2 films and series is passive I don’t know how accurate the portrayal is, but the writer provides various examples of films.

https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1006166/devils-on-the-silver-screen

I would recommend Sixth Tone as an overall guide to Chinese cultural and ideological events, although since most of the writers are Liberals or, to a lesser extent, New Leftists it doesn’t give a full perspective of all cultural-ideological factions in China. However, because they are usually academics the articles are often written in a more intellectual tone.

I wonder how much perceived Chinese problems about originality might be symptomatic of the presses being controlled, and thus leading to a lack of feeder material. More the bureaucracy and atmosphere of it, than anything about pushing boundaries.

I have come to the conclusion that China’s lack of soft power suffers significantly compared to Japan and South Korea due to censorship (both in modification of the source material and in blacklisting).

It doesn’t help that the censors’ powers are rather arbitrary in their treatment of producers ex. for cinema the censors can intervene at any time leading to delays or even outright cancellation of finished films. I would guess that in addition to the known censored products there is also hidden creativity that never gets expressed due to caution over avoiding lost sunk production costs.

For one example for a show that got popular outside China:

https://mothership.sg/2019/02/why-china-censor-yanxi-palace/

https://mothership.sg/2019/02/yanxi-palace-cancelled-china-censorship/

Navalny just went full kinetic against Putin’s inner circle and family.

I watched about 45 minutes after it was posted on YouTube and there were 2,5 million views, two and half hours later there were 8,5 million views.

English subtitles are available.

Even if Putin did not want Navalny dead before, he would want him dead now.

My understanding was that the Brythonic was just a subset of the Insular Celtic which was closely related to Breton due to population exchanges during the migration period. I read that with the probable exception of Picts, all the populations of British Isles were speaking some Celtic languages by the time of Roman conquest.

Yes, you are right. I listened to a Youtube discussion on Wales the other week and they were talking about this point, they were trying to emphasise the difference between the Irish and Scottish groups of Celts and the ones in England and Wales and I misunderstood.

The idea that the local Celtic languages in France and Iberia were already more similar to Latin before Roman settlement is definitely interesting.

I suspect that if Russia had left the other Slavic countries alone after 1917, they would enjoy friendly relations with one another as the Scandinavian countries do.

Agreed. But what’s Belarus?

Also, could you please respond to my post #96 here? Thank you.

Who is that hot bitch?

For that matter, Romanians and Moldovans are one people (ein volk) that’s split into two separate countries. So are Albanians and Kosovars. So are Bulgarians and Macedonians. So are Thais and Laotians. So are Serbs and Montenegrins.

Judging by the known zionist anons on unz, they are pretty stupid. There is no intelligence, just an annoying and retarded persistence.

And the west got taken over by them. I have no hopes for the west.

If they were as smart as Sam Harris, I would gladly let them run the country.

Utter bs.

Looks is almost everything.

If 27 is too old, fuck Matt indeed.

The volume of WW2 dramas seems simply incredible, to have its own fashions and cycles. IMO, the fixation on Japan just seems like wasted opportunity to create more relevant, future-orientated propaganda. They would be better off trying to court the Japanese, by producing propaganda of the two countries working together.

Quite interesting. Hadn’t realized they cancelled Yanxi Palace. Chinese censorship seems pretty capricious – doesn’t seem to have a strong, consistent moral tone. They already push a lot of boundaries past what would have been acceptable on US TV back in the early ’70s. Showing a lot of blood, contemplation of suicide, mention of out of wedlock pregnancy. Some of the humor I find so unsophisticated (to play it safe, no doubt) that it seems inconsistent with Chinese IQ – perhaps, like something one would see on Mexican TV. I used to blame it on people coming off the farms – but now I think it might have more to do with the CCP.

Though, lately trying to look at Chinese stuff, I’ve been wondering if their cultural output is a sort of mirror to the West’s, meaning that government policy affects Western art in a similarly profound way. It is easy to see Hollywood pushing boundaries, but, at the same time, maybe, the mass of it is only a support chorus to the prevailing ideology of the state.

RFE/RL BS:

https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-olympics-doping-ban-anthem-katyusha-soviet-war-ballad/31052062.html

But other teams might not love it as an anthem for a country that is not supposed to have one played at the ceremonies, and an effort to win approval might spark further disputes.

Screw those who selectively oppose some forms of intolerance, while hypocritically supporting a collective punishment against an entire national grouping.

If the Russians are so guilty (which they of course aren’t), they’d not be allowed to compete en masse at major sporting events.

Of your examples (at least he European ones), the Macedonian-Bulgarian divide is greatest.

On this great date, 20.1.2021

Congratulations to all americanoids from Northern Americanistan.

What’s up with the insane number of comments?

Carrie Symonds

If 27 is too old, fuck Matt indeed.

Quite interesting the number of people (mostly women) calling “Matt” a paedophile in the replies, how many of these women do you bet dated an older guy in their youth?

Why Are Some Men Obsessed With Barely Legal Girls?

When I was younger, I thought it was a status symbol to be with an older man. Now that I’m the age of some of the men I dated in my teens, I feel very differently.

Once I was interested in the Celtic expansion into Ukrainian lands, and found some interesting articles on the subject. You don’t read too much if anything about this in Western written history books, for some odd reason? These Celtic settlements within Ukraine extended all the way into Central Ukraine, but most of them were located in Western Ukraine. There’s even a Ukrainian ethnic sub-group, the Boikos, that to this day maintain that they are the direct descendants of Celtic peoples that stayed in the Carpathin mouintains, or Zakarpattya. I don’t recall if any such settlements were ever found within Russia?

https://archaeology.com.ua/?p=1455

https://shron1.chtyvo.org.ua/Kazakevych_Hennadii/Keltskyi_komponent_v_etnichnykh_protsesakh_na_terytorii_Ukrainy_u_druhii_polovyni_I_tys_do_ne.pdf?PHPSESSID=jkvekkvfufr4biufju8ucbmp46

There is actually a larger body of work now available through the internet than I remember. A lot of new finds included too.

I think most people are kind of amazed by some of the details. Like the insane price of a toilet brush, costing the equivalent of an average Russian monthly salary. As one viewer commented: “TIL that my appartment costs 50 Putin’s toilet brushes “. The excess of it all triggers a lot of people.

I was aware of that and the fact that Galicia/Halychina is named that way exactly for this reason. The Celts originated as a Central European tribal ensemble before expanding through Europe. Some of them migrated East. I don’t think they moved further east beyond the Carpathian mountains. On the eastern side was the Scythian land and Scythians were excellent warriors. I am not aware of Celts moving to modern day Russian territory. OTOH they probably reached Baltic shores and interacted with (proto) Balto-Slavic tribes living there.

Cool crib! I really like Dance Dance Revolution setup. What’s Putins’ top score?

I suspect that if Russia had left the other Slavic countries alone after 1917, they would enjoy friendly relations with one another as the Scandinavian countries do.

RFE/RL svido preferred BS. Poland didn’t leave Russia alone after 1917.

https://www.eurasiareview.com/08042016-fuzzy-history-how-poland-saved-the-world-from-russia-analysis/

After 1917, Russia/Russians weren’t seen negatively in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and the Serb and Montenegrin components of Yugoslavia.

Shortly after WW II, the USSR legacy (not exclusively Russian and at times anti-Russian) was to noticeably sour Russian-Czech relations:

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/12/14/czech-russian-relations-and-the-roa-conflicting-historical-narratives/

Regarding Ukraine:

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/joe-biden-and-challenge-ukraine-176086

I wish I could sample some of the wine they produce there. Especially the one for which they play the classic music as it ages. I would like to compare it with some 6 € Beaujolais nouveau.

Also the hookah lounge with the pole-dancer podium look like a nice place to discuss business. I imagine sitting there with some Arab Sheikhs and discussing OPEC matters, while Kabayeva makes a little presentation.

All in all, grandpa Volodya had to build his own Peterhof, but instead of the orange trees at the Oranienbaum greenhouse, he opted for vineyards and instead of fountains he invested in a jacuzzi disco and a hookah lounge.

It’s a shame though that the HVAC system screwed up and the whole palace became mouldy. Probably happens in the richest mansions…

Avi Loeb is a national treasure and an example of why fiesty Jews win every time. And even if you don’t care about my space program obsession, he is worthwhile listening to on the subject of cowardly science.

Ano4/ Mr Alefantis/Bashibuzuk / Avi Chongstein / J’aime l’enfants / rat

You cretinous imbecile, these are just irrelevant, fake views, fraudulently counted by the American company and further inflated by Americans, ukrops and Liberasts in Belarus and through all ex USSR repeat clicking. None of them have actually watched it and extracted anything to discredit Putin with.

You know this is just a repeat “report” you cretin of some already discredited nonsense.

You know this “poisoning” has been a massive ridicule for Navalny for the last few months

You know that after many years he is totally NOT popular in Russia or his “investigations” treated seriously, which makes it the very definition of insanity to keep on repeating the idea that this one will “remove Putin”

…… but you STILL write demented garbage as this:

Even if Putin did not want Navalny dead before, he would want him dead now

LOL. The idiotic creep Navalny who can’t even be more popular on social media than Medvedev and is a total irrelevance is important to VVP?

Putin not holding an umbrella has 10million+ views on YouTube alone you idiot!

Putin epiphany baptism with that ice crucifix is much more popular and rated thing today you dummy. Wow what a nice ice-sculpted crucifix.

Clown

And when I’m not obsessing over space program, I enjoy KAMAZ super truck racing. KAMAZ is awesome.

You are just bitter and jealous because Navalny has larger breasts than you do.

Agreed. But what’s Belarus?

Scania?

Also, could you please respond to my post #96 here? Thank you.

Do you believe that it was a blessing in disguise for the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) to lose Ukraine? After all, with Ukraine, this union could not be genuinely Eurasian since its European element would overwhelm its Asian element and thus create a feeling of Slavic domination just like in the Soviet Union. In contrast, the loss of Ukraine combined with the population decline in Russia and the population growth in Central Asia allows Slavs and Muslims to be in this union on a more equal footing and to have a relationship that it more akin to that of genuine equals.

This is certainly not something I would want if I were a Russian. But I suppose it’s good for Central Asians.

I just consumed 25 lamb Buuz, all home made. I should be ashamed but I’m not!

I know what you mean and I thought somebody might bring that up. But to me that is a mechanical rule that, although it’s an oddity at first, is fairly easy to learn. I had two things in mind with my statement, both of them personal to me rather than some objective claim about the languages themselves.

Perhaps it’s a vestige of having been introduced to German at a younger age (12), but German words have always seemed easier to me, both to read and to pronounce, and the sound of a completed sentence (as a native speaker might say it) easier to reproduce – easier in the sense of requiring less effort, ie coming more “naturally” to me.

Secondly, expressing more complex thoughts in French than the example you gave (“je veux dire ça”), and in a way that sounds authentically French, has been a real struggle. For example, if I read a French translation of a book originally in English, I’m often surprised at how it’s rendered in French. That could simply mean I need more practice, but for now it’s hard. Of course, I can’t really compare this aspect in German because I don’t know nearly enough German yet, but if I was going to bet, I would go with German proving easier (for me).

Same with educated Indian “English-speakers”: their language is so nineteenth century.

I don’t know if I’d describe it as 19th century, but it can be funny the way they sometime come up with saying things. Eg “wanna dance?” –> “would you like to be going for a dance?” That’s not a literal example, but an example of the sort of degree to which they often differ from standard expressions, despite remaining grammatically inbounds.

I never said wealth and status couldn’t get you pussy, just that these women aren’t spreading their legs for these guys cos they find them hawt.

And when it’s a hindoo with the dollaz, they have to hold their noses, and grin and bear it.

I’m not trying to make light of Geraldine’s phobias/jealousies etc. But I think that you’ve uncovered something here, and that is that Geraldine has had a long unresolved case of “breast envy” whenever any male that has large boobs is anywhere in her vicinity. It seems that this malady has been going on for a long time. Notice, on the cover of one of Geraldine’s fan magazines of the 1950’s, he/she is involved in some sort of an altercation with “The Wizard, the Man with the Super-Bra”? 🙂

But does Navalny have bigger trucks?

Well I guess this is it.

Arabs and Bantus were colonised by different European great powers, which is the primary reason why they have so many different nations.

They probably would have ended up with different countries anyway. When I read histories of the Reconquista (try to anyway – I never finish them), I get lost in all the Arab dynasties just in Spain and the Maghreb.

Something similar happened in depictions of Nazis. In earlier post-war films they are depicted sometimes as honourable opponents in dramas or as comical buffoonish figures in comedies. But recently they are presented as being literally demonic and the audience is encouraged to take sadistic pleasure in seeing them killed.

I was astonished watching a film last week called ‘It Happened Here’ made in the 1960s about a Britain occupied by Nazis. The Nazi occupation was depicted as unpleasant and there was one scene in which they euthanised incurable TB patients and took away a rebel and the family harbouring him. But more atrocities were committed by the British resistance who were shown attacking a convoy and killing civilians and murdering surrendering SS soldiers. There are also several incredible scenes of British Fascists playing themselves discussing their opinions.The film was made by two English teenagers (outside of the Jewish studio system) and Jews have complained about it a lot and tried to undermine it.

I’ve seen this briefly discussed in books about the Celts, the ones in the Eastern area of Europe and the Middle East used to be called Galatians in Anglo books.

I am guessing that because not that many Western Westerners (i.e. Westerners other than Germans) visited these areas until recently these topics remained more abstract. I remember being surprised when I arrived in Moldova, this was one of those places that used to be perceived as mysterious in Britain, and found out that Romanian sounds like Portuguese. And that if you already know, say French or Portuguese you can read Moldovan newspapers and books and start speaking it with small amounts of additional study. The relationship in terms of phonology between Portuguese and Romanian might indicate some common Celtic element in the history of these two peoples, and Ukraine is just beside Romanian/Moldova so from this angle some Celtic presence in Ukraine also doesn’t sound implausible.

You are correct. Some place the original place of birth of all the Italo-Celtic languages in the south-eastern Europe. Possibly in the lower Danube region among the so-called eastern Bell Beaker folks. That is, proto- Italo-Celtic would have appeared during the late bronze age somewhere around modern day south-wester Ukraine and/or Romania and Moldova.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo-Celtic

https://en.google-info.org/2112509/1/italo-celtic.html

This ancestral linguistic continuum would later separate during Iron Age into Celtic in Hallstatt / La Tene culture and Latin in the Italic peninsula.

We know that typical Celts were later present in Romania proper:

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

https://balkancelts.wordpress.com/tag/celts-in-romania/

It appears that Celts intermarried with other local populations. I would think that Dacians would have later on formed through the co-existence and intermixing of Celts with Thracians.

Also, traditionally Slavs have called both the Moldovan and Romanian people Vlakhs, which is a Slavic cognate to Welsh in Germanic languages. Therefore they identified Moldovan and Romanian people as Romanised Celts.

People spam comments to get the video trending. I have no idea if it works. But people are urging each other to post as many comments as possible to get it trend higher.

Celtic presence in Ukraine is well attested, and one can find many articles about it through internet resources. Here’s one of the better ones that I’ve located, in English:
https://balkancelts.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/gallo-scythians.pdf

The article mainly discusses the Celtic influences in the Zakarpattya region and Western Ukraine and also the North Pontic Black Sea area. Celtic history in the Black Sea area is somewhat complicated and includes close interactions between Celts, Scythians and the Bosporan kingdom too. There’s also some information about Celtic finds in Central Ukraine too, including an interesting map. Throughout the article is weaved a description of the relations between the “Ukrainian Celts” with their Romanian and Bulgarian cousins too. Enjoy!

Romania and Ukraine also share a common historical civilizational pull within the large Trypillian-Cuceteni culture.

The video has already accumulated 24 million views.

The clear majority of the most commonly used words in English are Germanic, not French / Latinate. Here is a helpful presentation by linguistics professor Paul Jensen a few years ago:

And for linguistics buffs or German fans, here is Mr. Jensen’s attempt to speak “Anglish” using only Germanic words (making up a few as necessary):

I already said you traitorous cretin that 3 million ukrops (most popular person search on ukrop Internet lady year, lol) and North American Banderetards clicking on the video 8 times is sufficient to get this result.

There is no tangible outcome for any of this idiot’s videos because its garbage and nobody actually watches them.

Also, as I said before – Putin not holding an umbrella for 10 seconds has 10 million + views on YouTube.

The fake American YouTube counter also has very early morning in far east region as busy time for watching Navalny LOL.

How dumb are you?

IVECO trucks fly…

PEACE 😇
 

Almost every German word has a direct English cognate, the meanings are often different or archaic in modern English and many have been replaced in common speech by Latin words, but English is definitely a Germanic language structurally and lexically.

It would be a relatively easy task to linguistically purify English if there was the desire to do so, because a complete set of Germanic cognates already exists natively in the language. However the reality is there is no political or social desire to linguistically purify English, if anything quite the opposite, academia and English-speaking elites tend to favour words of Latin and Greek origin and like to give English an artificially Latin flavour.

Were you able to handle “the Wizard, the Man with the Super Bra “? 🙂

Consider getting a ‘Bro” yet?

Due to its nasty screeching, I have put Gerard.Gerard and all its sockpuppet profiles at ignore.

This thing rarely contributes anything valuable and its constant flow of insults and incoherent Sovok ramblings are annoying.

Each time I try to find anything rational in its comments, I end up thinking of Charles Stross’ experimental Soviet era lobster-derived neural network based IA trying to communicate by using Fidonet.

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelerando/accelerando.html#Lobsters

Perhaps Gerard.Gerard is one such pseudosentient data-mining algorithm? Hormonal imbalances alone cannot explain its commenting patterns.

Just saying…

It used to be a common belief that the English are of Jewish/Israelite origin. Apparently “British Israelism” was almost mainstream in Britain in the late 1800s – early 1900s.

I’m convinced that the “Eternal Anglo” meme is partially based on that line of thought.

You know that you are upsetting ThuFri with these videos? Stop being such a “manoid”…

🙂

Interesting. The Slavic languages are closer to Latin languages than they are to Germanic ones.

I think that British Israelism does not explain everything. We must probably go back further in time to understand what exactly went wrong with British nation-building.

My personal belief is that the English are to be divided into normal British people and their predatorial Anglo – Normand aristocratic elites. I have the feeling that British aristocracy has rarely, if ever self-identified with the British commoners. The commoners were exploited and used as tools and weapons in an Empire-building process.

Something similar occurred in Russia starting from the seventeenth century onwards. Peter the Great derived great inspiration from the Dutch and the British. Russian elites became more cosmopolitan (in fact increasingly Germanic), while the Russian populace was used as serfs and cannon fodder in Empire-building.

The Russian project was of course less refined and more brutal, while the British was more manipulative in its essence. When the two projects collided in the nineteenth century Great Game, the perfidious British aristocracy won by manipulating the less evolved Russian society towards self-destruction.

After age 40, everybody has sex for nonsexual reasons (intimacy, power trips, iconoclasm as in swingers or Rochdale / Outreau, monetary reasons). People who “live more intensely” actually get there sooner. I don’t think Indians are particularly worse in that field.

That may be, but the difficulty in learning a language comes from learning all the other words not the most commonly used ones, and of those very few come from German.

What are the direct English cognates for Bewussenheit, gemein or Wissenschaft.

Agree with your posts in this topic but:

Something similar occurred in Russia starting from the seventeenth century onwards. Peter the Great derived great inspiration from the Dutch and the British. Russian elites became more cosmopolitan (in fact increasingly Germanic

Peter exacerbated the divide greatly, by making the elite Westernized in habits and appearances and thus visibly alien in comparison to those whom he ruled. They often didn’t even speak the same language anymore. But a divide – the colonial relationship between rulers and ruled in Russia – was ancient and long preceded Peter.

The Scandinavian/Wendish Rus invaded, took over, and ran the East Slavic lands in an analogous way to the how the British East India Company ran India, forcing the locals to give them furs, honey and even slaves to sell to the Arabs (sure the Rus were based locally rather than across the ocean but their ties to the East Slavic lands were light enough that Sviatoslav had no problems wanting to transfer the capital to Bulgaria). During the era of the Mongol yoke, the Rus lords were motivated to compete with each other to better exploit the locals, to gain advantage over other lords vis a vis the Asian masters. The ones who delivered the most goods did better, and the thereby accumulated the most power. The Rus-era “colonial” relationship was retained, there was just a new boss taking his cut of the action.

Did this relationship with the ruled change much after the Tsars gained full independence?

Wisthood/bewisthood, mean and witship I guess. Obviously these cognates have a completely different meaning in English, or are meaningless practically speaking. I’m just saying that most German words do exist as hypothetical cognates in English.