Wow, that Dylan Matthews guy is definitely a “Clever Silly”: https://www.unz.com/jthompson/are-we-cleverer-than-the-ancients/#comment-1925418

How Clever-sillies Might Thwart the Singularity – Michael Woodley [UKH+] (1/2)

How Clever-sillies Might Thwart the Singularity – Michael Woodley [UKH+] (2/2)

Clever sillies: why high IQ people tend to be deficient in common sense.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19733444

I further suggest that this random silliness of the most intelligent people may be amplified to generate systematic wrongness when intellectuals are in addition ‘advertising’ their own high intelligence in the evolutionarily novel context of a modern IQ meritocracy. The cognitively-stratified context of communicating almost-exclusively with others of similar intelligence, generates opinions and behaviours among the highest IQ people which are not just lacking in common sense but perversely wrong. Hence the phenomenon of ‘political correctness’ (PC); whereby false and foolish ideas have come to dominate, and moralistically be enforced upon, the ruling elites of whole nations.

Bernie Sanders: “Open borders? That’s a Koch brothers proposal”

This is some additional interesting research:

Another, surprising, trend in the data may also warrant further investigation. While the trend seen in the atheist/agnostic/no reli- gion groups not only offers tangential support to the primary hypothesis (i.e., GFP differences are not simply an artifact of differ- ences in intelligence), it is also interesting in and of itself. The athe- ist/agnostic/no religion groups exhibited high levels of intelligence, but low GFP scores. Thus, it appears that while atheists and agnos- tics are intelligent, they are less socially effective. Is this social inef- fectiveness born out of being intellectually incongruent with others? What form does the social ineffectiveness take; abrasive- ness, passivity? The GFP and GFP-intelligence relationship in athe- ists and agnostics could be a fruitful topic for future research.

– A comparative study of the general factor of personality in Jewish and non-Jewish populations Dunkel et al. (2015) http://midus.wisc.edu/findings/pdfs/1488.pdf

This topic of racial differences in inherited personality traits is gonna be the next big frontier in LoveFacts, and it will cause even more hysteria from the equalist crowd than does the topic of IQ when it becomes common knowledge that characteristics like propensity to violence, sociopathy, conscientiousness, trustworthiness, and kindness are NOT equally and randomly distributed among the world’s races of people. […] This gene combination appears to be stunningly effective at boosting IQ test scores and presumably the material success (and possibly sexual success, at least for the males — any reader have a study I could cite here?) of the people possessing it, but it comes at a great cost to the society in which this kind of person is numerically and socially significant.

The personality trait combination of high anxiety with high aggression/psychopathy is rare among human groups, and really deserves its own categorization

– https://heartiste.wordpress.com/2017/06/19/ashkepathy/

We continued the discussion over in the other comment thread and I think it is relevant to this comment thread, as well:

What I like about Mr. Woodley’s talk, is that he points out that “clever sillies” can be found on the left side of the political spectrum, as well as on the right side of the political spectrum. He points specifically to certain libertarians displaying high levels of “clever silliness.”

I always felt this way about the infamous, multi-billionaire, libertarian Koch Brothers, for example, who I think are highly intelligent, but whom I consider to be a menace to society (see video titled “Bernie Sanders: “Open borders? That’s a Koch brothers proposal” ” in the comment about Dylan Matthews, I linked to above).

– https://www.unz.com/jthompson/are-we-cleverer-than-the-ancients/#comment-1927899

This paper by Dutton and van der Linden (2014) might be interesting to you:

Who are the “Clever Sillies”? The intelligence, personality, and motives of clever silly originators and those who follow them
[…]
European Romantic nationalism could be seen as problematic from a Jewish perspective. Both thinkers may have been motivated by the good of their group.
[…]
neo-liberal “Chicago School”-style economics, also known as “Freshwater” economics, promoted by Milton Friedman
[…]
Western mind seducer and manipulator, “Objectivist” Ayn Rand
[…]
The Refutation of Libertarianism
[…]
But the competition for global domination is rarely honest. Thus when Western individualist societies conquered and absorbed collectivist ones, it was only a matter of time before the more intelligent tribes learned how to cheat.

– https://www.unz.com/jthompson/are-we-cleverer-than-the-ancients/#comment-1928063

In my opinion, even more important than to attack the hostile, mostly liberal media is for Trump to distance himself not just form the Neocon wing of the Republican party, but also to keep a healthy distance from and even attack Ayn Rand fanboys like Paul Ryan and other lackeys of the Koch Brothers:

Fountainhead of bad ideas: Ayn Rand’s fanboys take the reins of power
No, Donald Trump hasn’t really read “Atlas Shrugged.” Sad! But he’s surrounding himself with Ayn Rand superfans
http://www.salon.com/2016/12/14/fountainhead-of-bad-ideas-ayn-rands-fanboys-take-the-reins-of-power/

Never forget the Never Trumpers, Mr. President:

Charles Koch Snubs Trump, Prefers Hillary

Besides being a propagandist for the impossible ‘6M Jews’ scam, who is the cited Sarah Wildman?

When Bush jr was in Vilnius he was also cheered, by 30.000 carefully selected Lithuanians.
If Warschau did the same, I do not know.
However, Poles still seem afraid of Russia, and they resist the Muslim immigration Brussels tries to force on them.
The crash of the Polish aircraft with nearly the whole Polish establishment on board on its way to Katyn still is blamed on Russia, while it was Polish stupidity, and too much liquor.
So maybe this was a spontaneous crowd.

Why is Israel and the Jews trying to wipe the white race out of existence?

“A now, Europe is losing its identity in favor of another people and another religion, and there will be no remnants and survivors from the impurity of Christianity, which shed a lot of blood it won’t be able to atone for.” Rabbi Baruch Efrati

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFE0qAiofMQ

“Indeed being an “American” (which would simply mean owning a certain kind of passport) would be an active disadvantage, as you would simply exist to be tax-farmed for the benefit of an ever growing number of hostile and hapless Third Worlders.”

Indeed, if you plan on making a run for it, you’d better give up or lose your US citizenship, because Uncle Sam’s IRS and Treasury Department follow you and your money wherever you go in the world.

The sensation: https://consortiumnews.com/2017/07/07/hiding-us-lies-about-libyan-invasion/
http://viableopposition.blogspot.ca/2016/06/hillary-clinton-and-libya-sending.html

“Libyans enjoyed the highest quality of life in all of Africa. Libyan citizens enjoyed free universal health care from prenatal to geriatric, free education from elementary school to post-graduate studies and free or subsidized housing. We were told that Gaddafi ripped off the nation’s oil wealth for himself when in reality Libya’s oil wealth was used to improve the quality of life for all Libyans. We were told that Libya had to be rebuilt from scratch because Gaddafi had not allowed the development of national institutions. If we knew that infant mortality had been seriously reduced, life expectancy increased and health care and education made available to everyone, we might have asked, “How could all that be accomplished without the existence of national institutions?” Knowledge is the antidote to propaganda and brainwashing which is exactly why it is being increasingly controlled and restricted.”

What’s all the yapping about common sense?

Common sense is rarely good sense. I’d think that good sense would be highly preferable to the common variety and anyone with good sense could see that, but the observation is hardly common and that ain’t good.

Vice President Pence is quoted by the Guardian as saying that the Trump regime plans to put “American boots on the face of Mars”.

This has remarkable echoes of George Orwell’s famous line: “If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.”

What was Pence thinking? Attacking Mars! Firstly Mars does not have a face, it is the Old Man in the Moon who has a face. Secondly, probably most of us are all for making America great again, but is this really going to be done by putting boots on faces? Why not put American feet on the surface of Mars and prepare to shake hands with Martians, our fellow inhabitants of the solar system.

As far as the Republican health plan, which is turning out to be a bloody abortion, whatever happened to the plan that Trump was promising both before and after his election that would cover everyone beautifully, reduce premiums, and lower deductibles?

Just saying that Trump did not expect to be elected, and then once elected, still did not really believe that he had been elected, is ridiculous. Whatever happened to healthcare think tanks, consultancy firms and academic experts? The GOP, not liking certain aspects of Obamacare, has had years to study how to make the American system of financing health care for people who do not get it through their job or through Medicare or the VA the best in the world.

Now we have a right to expect them to damn well do what they were elected to do.

What was Pence thinking? Attacking Mars!

Well for a start there are probably racial minorities and groups of sexual deviants in Martian society that are discriminated against. Did you even consider that? Clearly the Martians will have to be liberated and educated in universal American values.

Second, there might be oil there. If there is, then clearly it’s vital for US national security to have control of it and to be able both to keep the profits and to use it as a weapon against potential rivals. Obviously.

Finally did you even consider the potential for an unacceptable potential threat to Israel on Mars if it is not safely under US control?

Seriously, I don’t think you’ve really thought this through.

Seriously, I don’t think you’ve really thought this through.

No I guess not.

I also heard that the Martians have chemical weapons, don’t practice American style democracy, refuse to build holocaust memorials and don’t wish Bibs Netanyahu happy birthday. Clearly they are a threat not only to Israel but to planet earth and must be dealt with.

Remember, instability on Mars can cause instability here on earth, so we need to deal with Martian Hitlers now.

“Trump Turns the Corner and Goes On the Attack. Will He Make the GOP Follow?”

Not much chance.

Fight them there, so we don’t have to fight them here.

Hell, yeah!

What was Pence thinking? Attacking Mars! Firstly Mars does not have a face…

Perhaps he wants to be a St George type hero and get our boys to slay the dragon, which in this case would be Mars, the god of war. 🙂

Critically, the president identified border security as one of the most important issues during his speech, declaring that the will to enforce immigration laws is synonymous with the will to defend Western Civilization.

IMO, Trump’s deeds rarely match the words written for him by his speechwriter(s). There’s been little progress on our Southern border wall and his administration only marginally decreased refugees to 50K for 2018. I want zero or only white refugees from S. Africa – not racial, cultural and religious aliens from the third world.

The increasing willingness of the President’s team to seek the advice of Senator Tom Cotton, who seems to have succeeded Jeff Sessions as the greatest immigration patriot in the upper chamber,

Cotton has a proposed immigration bill that reduces legal immigration from 1.1 million to 700K. It also takes aim at some chain migration mechanisms which is a positive step, but overall immigration still overwhelmingly favors the third world. Some “immigration patriot”.

Even if this miraculously passes this does nothing to arrest the pro-third world demographic trends that ensures white go from majority to plurality by 2040 and America is still on a path to become Brazil Norte.

The House Republicans have proven they will go along with a Trump immigration agenda, provided the president leads the way.

That remains to be seen as Trump has drifted towards the center on immigration since his inauguration. He kept DACA in place and hasn’t uttered one negative word on the presumption of birthright citizenship or implored Congress to pass legislation clarifying that the 14th amendment only applied to descendants of blacks slaves and not every person who sneaks across the border and drops an anchor baby or two or eight. The same applies to visa holders and “maternity tourists”.

Poland and the CIA – what memories, what a work over! Lech Walesa and Solidarność. No wonder they cheer Trump, but they might as well be cheering any US President and that’s the point.

Americans are long worked over – they are led to believe in some fictional mass of opposition “that hates white people so they oppose Trump” and the standard false equivalence of a “main stream media” that isn’t themselves to begin with! The so-called left are the dancing partners who play their part in this fraud – put up targets so the other team can shoot at them, that isn’t left, and that isn’t right.

There is no real opposition to Trump. He’s a walking clown, pay attention if you must. But the mainstream media includes Kirkpatrick as much as it does The Atlantic and Vox and Fox and CNN. Super national corporations delivering control over your lives. When they tell you who, what and when you should foam at mouth you’ll obey – ‘those damn other guys!’

The unelected mob with their clowns on podiums doesn’t concern themselves with borders, security and punishment the way their controlled minions are programmed to. These are there weapons – they’ll publish every op-ed online if need be for you to cheer on the use of these weapons. Wear your weblinks like Solidarnosc buttons. You love Lockheed and you hate the others.

“American boots on the face of Mars”, doesn’t mean “American Army boots on the face of Mars”. It more probably implies, “Americans will walk on the surface of Mars.” A significant percentage of Americans need metaphors and comparisons to develop a mental / emotional picture of future possibilities so they can support them. Pence gave them this. Of course, any country with a presence on Mars will also have a military presence.
AND …. I understand Your take on Pence’s quote though, as military references often use the “boots on the ground” term.

Berlin Expects Up to 300,000 Refugees to Arrive in Germany in 2017

https://sputniknews.com/europe/201707091055389025-germany-refugees-foreign-ministry/

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/countryjoeandthefish/ifeellikeimfixintodieragtake1.html

And it’s five, six, seven hundred thousand
Open up the western gates,
Well there ain’t no time to wonder why,
Whoopee! we’re all gonna die.

” There is no real opposition to Trump”

Okay so your behind is still in pain because HC lost, well just settle down and prepare yourself for three or seven more years of “Opposition” to your nut-case democrat buddies.

Your purple-haired lunatic friends and hollywood crazies will have to wait it out and suffer through it such as we did

Authenticjazzman “Mensa” society member since 1973, airborne qualified US army vet and pro jazz musician.

“IMO, Trump’s deeds rarely match the words written for him by his speechwriter(s).”

This seems so across the board. The man has proven to be the blowhard windsock that some of us foresaw. He is eloquent and principled only when behind a podium, giving a prepared speech, and appears never to have understood a word he said once back to his office.

I also believe that many of his enthusiasts, deep down, know this to be the case. The occasional Miller/Bannon speech is the oxygen that keeps their “4-D chess” fantasies on life support.

A significant percentage of Americans need metaphors and comparisons to develop a mental / emotional picture of future possibilities so they can support them.

No doubt, but “American boots on the face of Mars” does not seem to provide that. They might not be military boots, they might be cowboy boots, fisherman’s boots, soccer boots, or boots designed by Ivanka Trump, but face is not really a synonym for surface, except possibly in the Old Testament.

Anyway, on further research I see that I was wrong and that Mars DOES have a face, kind of. https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/ast24may_1/ So perhaps that is what Mr. Pence was referring to, although it is rather obscure and the face is not something that can be seen from earth with the naked eye. If this is the case and the face of Mars is a kind of mesa rock formation with shadows, perhaps he was referring to rock-climbing boots.

This is funny.

Things are so out-of-control that a negro is beginning to feel sorry for the Germs.

http://gatesofvienna.net/2017/07/goodbye-germany/

This is good stuff.

“Douglas Murray – Europe Belongs to Europeans”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHVdm-4tdwU

A decade ago was 2007 and liberals were madly extolling non White immigration of everything from doctors to dishwashers.

I think the last liberal to have reservations about immigration was Cesear Chavez who claimed illegal immigrant farm workers drove wages down for American farm workers. When was that? 50 years ago?
Barbara Jordan made that speech just once when she was in congress sometime in the 1970s. The Democratic Party swiftly shut her up and found another candidate for her seat.

She disappeared after she left congress. She died about 20 years ago.

This is 2017. Liberals have been extreme advocates for affirmative action for legal and illegal non White immigration for 50 years.

Proof it was alcohol and stupidity that caused the crash?
Poles are supremely intelligent compared to the Dutch. Proof is that Poles refuse to import Muslims but the Dutch started importing them 60 years ago and you are now overrun with them.

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/why-people-hate-the-media-washington-post/

Dreher: Let that sink in: the Washington Post blames right-wing talk radio for a left-winger’s assassination attempt on Republican politicians.

Nothing new here. The Glob controls the media narrative, and they will always spin it to blame the ‘right’ no matter what happens.

It’s like Marxist Oswald killed Kennedy(based on evidence so far), but the media blamed Dallas as ‘city of hate’.

It’s like blacks go around attacking and killing, but media promoted BLM as ‘civil rights’ struggle. Of course, proggy urbanites who increased police power to deal with black crime were trying to shift all the blame on the ‘pigs’. “We libby-dibs love blacks.. it’s those ‘racist’ cops who are to blame.”

It’s like homos spread AIDS by mega-buggery in the 80s, but the Media Narrative blame it all on “Reagan’s Indifference.”

And the US has been provoking Russia, but Russia is the aggressor.

Not only does the Glob have monopoly control over the media but it also controls the New Official Faith of PC.
So, if you want to feel self-righteous and sanctimonious, the thing is to scream about ‘racism’, ‘homophobia’, and antisemitism’. Such piousness has the blessing of the Powers That Be in Media, Academia, Government, Courts, Law Firms, Hollywood, Deep State, and etc.

Progs are so addicted to self-righteous supermacism that, regardless of what happens, the ‘bad guys’ are always the ‘right’, and the ‘good guys’ are always whatever happens to be the ‘new left’.

Scalise shooting is especially odd because the shooter looks like a red-blooded American. Scalise was for the interests of exactly that kind of demographic.
But the shooter attacked the very people who care about his kind the most.

PC is so ingrained in our culture that even Angry White Males end up shooting other white males in the name of justice.

You would need to comb the pc commie ranks for years to locate a more vile specimen of sanctimonious humanity than your quoted boyfriend, the holier-than-thou Dreher. When not banning commenters from TAC and worshipping the omnipitent christian sky fag, he doles out inedibles to starving 300 pound swamp denizens at his local food bank. You see, he is “religious” and “charitable”, and better than you and everyone else.

You would need to comb the pc commie ranks for years to locate a more vile specimen of sanctimonious humanity than your quoted boyfriend, the holier-than-thou Dreher. When not banning commenters from TAC and worshipping the omnipitent christian sky fag

I’m not fan of Dreher the Oscar-muppet-faced dork.
But when he’s right, he’s right.

He banned me too from his TAC site, but then entire TAC banned me long time ago. It’s a fuddy-dud site.

Muppet Cons.

Trump seems somewhat like FDR:

The speeches were wholly different, different in their approach and their philosophy. Moley showed both drafts to Roosevelt. Roosevelt read them over, handed them back to Moley and said: ‘Weave the two together”—no comment on the economic contents, no opinions on the contradictory views or which one should prevail, just “weave the two together.”
– Country Squire in the White House, by John T. Flynn

FDR’s actions, though foolish, had the full support of Washington. Thus his actions had effect in reality.

Trump is finding that his actions are routinely blunted, slow-footed, filed in a drawer, etc. Trump already has shown the disastrous Nixon habit of trading domestic policy priorities for foreign policy priorities. Domestic policies are the only ones that matter.

Trump will have the choice of recognizing reality (that his actions are not taking effect) or not (bluster).

If Jeff Flake does not vote for the Wall, will Trump support a primary challenger, e.g. Jan Brewer?

If Congress does not fund the wall, will Trump command the Army Corps of Engineers to build it anyway?

If Congress does not restrict immigration, will Trump give up and satisfy himself with enforcement (action that can be reversed by the next President)?

Anyone paying close attention to D.C. should be able to reflect over the last quarter of century and realize the truth’s being mentioned here in this video.

Mar 2, 2014 Jeremy Scahill: The One Party State, The War Party

Is the United States of America an Oligarchy? During the 2014 ISFLC, Jeremy Scahill speaks on the fact that in today’s world behemoth corporations are able to buy off politicians and pull the strings to impact legislature.

“… The personality trait combination of high anxiety with high aggression/psychopathy is rare among human groups, and really deserves its own categorization

– https://heartiste.wordpress.com/2017/06/19/ashkepathy/

…”

As I’ve been telling you people for a while now we already have a name for this. It’s called psychopaths. The Jews are a tribe of psychopaths. Certainly not all but a great deal and their kin that are not refuse to do anything about it as they see themselves enriched at the expense of the Whites in this nation.

You may quibble with my notions but the long term effects of Jews on any society where they reside long enough and in sufficient numbers has the same effect as if it were invaded by a tribe of psychopaths. Even if the Jews aren’t a tribe of psychopaths there seems to be no difference and if you assume they are then a great deal of what goes on in society starts to make sense.

Even if it’s wrong, if you assume the Jews are a tribe of psychopaths you will never be surprised and the Jew’s behavior will make sense.

It’s dead simple how they do what they do and it follows exactly the same play book that psychopaths play. They say they are abused by whomever the last victim was, gain your trust then take control of your life. For individuals they take control of the finances and then isolate you from family and others.

In a countries case they take control of the banks and the media. Here’s what’s going on in our country and EXACTLY how they control us and stay in power.

1. They control the FED which can make money out of nothing. This gives them the power to preferentially give money to their kin and supporters.
2. With this money they bought the media and probably most of our industry. Remember the junk bond buy outs in the 1980’s? They are able to harness huge sums of capital channeled into their friends pockets which they use to purchase our industries built up over decades and decades. All they did was sign papers for these, over stress the workers, steal their pensions and then move the businesses to China. Now they own them. Remember the bank bail outs? What do you think all this money was used for? It wasn’t to bail out housing. I bet they bought the whole entire economy with this money. We’re talking possibly as much as \$30 Trillion. A limited audit years ago counted \$16 Trillion.
3. Once you have this much money then you can bribe Congress to get more or do whatever else you want.
4. If the Congressman won’t play then during the primaries in their State a well funded opponent pops up and the press savages you beyond repair.
5. If that doesn’t work then they redistrict you.
6. If that doesn’t work then well, remember Ohio Rep. James Traficant that somehow got in front of his own tractor and ran over himself?
7. The parallel track is they have is they have video of you with underage kids having sex. Epstein?

That’s most of their whole play book there.

I was very heartened by one of the commenters on that blog post:

BrachaBenedicta

Long-time lurker and bona-fide woke skypess here. Wow, CH, thank you for this very informative post! Can’t say I am enjoying the process of gradual awakening to my own tribe’s glaring faults, but facts are facts. It also explains so much of my family issues.

Very depressing, indeed. All I can say is, I am sorry and embarrassed for my people’s ridiculous antics. Please be aware that there are more and more of us who are voicing our discomfort with our atrocious collective behavior. Slowly, one step at a time, we are changing minds and hearts within our communities as best we can.

Not sure how else to put it, except that this Jewish person does recognize your civilizational superiority.

Bret Stephens is going to get a nasty little nastygram soon.

God bless you CH! Continue your amazing work.

– https://heartiste.wordpress.com/2017/06/19/ashkepathy/#comment-888753

BrachaBenedicta

Gentle gentiles, thank you for the welcome!
Jurist – funny you should mention the messianic movement. Their mere existence throws American Jewry into a tizzy (full disclosure: I was not born here). I’m part of a local FB group where people regularly announce that they received missionary junk mail and they are going to burn it. It’s unreal.

Anyway, too cynical and atheist to join any type of faith group. Also, I cannot decouple myself from that community because of my young children, who would suffer devastatingly.

Greg: I’m quite real. Not a trap at all. We do exist. We seethe in silence as our in-laws bash Trump supporters, reform Sunday school teachers solemnly declare that we MUST let in “Syrian refugees”, and well-meaning social workers…ah, never mind, you get the point. You think there is only one Stephen Miller?

And sorry, I can’t row…but I can sing very droll Russian songs:)

– https://heartiste.wordpress.com/2017/06/19/ashkepathy/#comment-889207

A very good example of “Ashkepathy”, in my opinion, is Eli Roth:

Roth was born in Newton, Massachusetts, to Dr. Sheldon Roth, a psychiatrist/psychoanalyst and clinical professor at Harvard Medical School, and Cora Roth, a painter.[2] Roth was raised Jewish (his family is from Austria, Hungary, Russia, and Poland).[3][4][5] Besides English, he speaks French, Italian and Russian.[6][7]
[…]
Roth hosted and executive-produced an episode of Discovery Channel’s series “Curiosity”, called “How Evil Are You?” The episode explored the scientific aspects of evil, with Roth undergoing a brain scan and DNA sequencing at U.C. Davis with neuropsychiatrist Dr. James Fallon. Roth also re-created the infamous Milgram experiments for the documentary, with results identical to those from 50 years earlier.

– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Roth

Eli Roth is a [temporary] psychopath

At least we’ve still got Jim Brown — and Slim Whitman’s rendition of “Indian Love Call”:

Let’s fight them over there… ’cause Murrica!

This is way late, but just reading the comments, PF. Great Country Joe and the Fish reference there!

… but face is not really a synonym for surface, except possibly in the Old Testament.

Not true, Jonathan. “Face” is a term from way back in observational astronomy. What you see in the telescope is the “face” of the moon, the “face” of Mars, etc.

I don’t expect too many people still recognize the expression, and that’s including Pence – he probably knows dick-all about astronomy or space exploration, but someone told him to say that.

Politicians are not bright; they are just good at recognizing faces, haha, of people, not planets, so they can make you feel that they remember all about you from 2 years back to make you feel like they REALLY CARE! They are really good at this until they get to a high level, at which point whatever they say is just based on what they were told to say by the people that have the pictures of them snorting coke/ molesting children / running drug operations, etc.

Interesting article from antiwar.com:

Russophobia Hits the Libertarian Movement
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2017/07/09/russophobia-hits-libertarian-movement/

Isn’t it odd that Reason opposes economic sanctions on Communist Cuba, but wants them slapped on Russia – which is just emerging from 70-some years of its Marxist nightmare? Perhaps one explanation is that the magazine is funded in large part by oil oligarch Charles Koch, of Koch Industries, who stands to make billions if Russian energy exports are blocked by government action.

While ascribing this motivation to the editors of Reason may seem uncharitable, it is the least uncharitable explanation for publishing Young’s farrago of falsehood, innuendo, and neo-McCarthyite rubbish. Far worse would be an ideological motivation: that they actually believe the pathetic conspiracy theory Young cobbles together out of the imaginings of various professional Russophobes.

While distancing herself from the “more extreme” anti-Russian narratives, which she admits are conspiracy theories with little evidence to support them, Young weaves a “moderate” conspiracy theory of her own – with just as little evidence to support it.

The following is exactly my position, too. I am by no means a fan of Vladimir Putin and the Russian elites, but it is my hope to find some common ground with the Russians on certain issues where and when possible:

Opponents of a new cold war with Russia are neither pro-Russian nor fans of Vladimir Putin. They are simply advocates of a common sense approach to Russia, and to US foreign policy in general, which holds that America’s real interests lie in cooperation with the world’s largest nation insofar as that is possible.

If you oppose Cold War II, you are siding with Russia – this is the assumption at the heart of Young’s argument, and it is, simply put, a primitive lie.

P.s.: I noticed that the feature which indicates that new comments have been posted on articles seems to have been disabled. Has anyone else noticed this?

P.s.: I noticed that the feature which indicates that new comments have been posted on articles seems to have been disabled. Has anyone else noticed this?

Also, when one hovers over replies to comments with one’s mouse pointer/cursor, these are not displayed in a separate pop-up window anymore, how they used to be, and I think the 5 minute comment editing feature also disappeared.

Thank you, Mr. Unz.

Firefox on a very old ThinkPad laptop and I just tried a very new Dell desktop with Inter Explorer, and it appears that it has the same issue also.