The marriage of European tonal theory and structural theory, with African rhythmic theory and African-American ideas about vocal and instrumental texture, is the genius of the 20th-century musical moment, soon to be forever lost in a vast pit of roiling auto-tune pop and garbage hip-hop.

While I agree with most of your profound and eloquent comment, including the pessimistic outlook for Western civilization, I believe all is not lost. Maybe the internet arrived just in time to conserve and make ultra-accessible the artefacts of a culture in (temporary?) decline. (Maybe the internet, and not the end of the Cold War, or de-industrialization, or what have you, also sorta initiated said decline) What’s important is that there is both a classical tradition and an avantgarde that survive and thrive in the digital era of downloads and live-streams and continue to produce outstanding quality. As long as the very ideas of quality, of excellence, of real progress exist, I feel confident some people will strive to achieve them. There will probably never be a ‘cultural mainstream’ again, but then, the best artists of the 20th century were not exactly mainstream either.

I can’t think of any non-Anglo country that has had as much success at “exporting” its music as SK has.

Really.
France (Chopin – Ravel. Gainsbourg.) Italy (basically all Opera) Germany (Bach. Beethoven. Mozart. etc. Kraftwerk-Rammstein.) Sweden (ABBA-Avicii) Brazil. etc. South Korea is certainly one of the least influential countries in global musical culture. It’s an exotic fad that has no legs. American and European girls are not interested in East Asian boys, so no dice with the boy-bands.

As Europe becomes more vibrantized, their roads will deteriorate, though. Count on it.

I would take that bet.
Road maintenance is a highly profitable business that creates a considerable number of well-paid blue-collar jobs. Northern-European politicians are all Keynesianists in multi-party democracies with well-informed and fickle voters. All three countries you mentioned are transit countries, massive investments in infrastructure are good politics and good policy. Also, European cars are built for well-maintained roads and could not withstand American conditions (hence the high maintenance costs for esp German cars in the US?), which means there’s pressure both from angry car-owners and car-makers to keep the roads up to standards.

the national drink, the super sugary Irn-Bru

Love it. It also has (or used to have) unusually high levels of caffeine, which is why it is the original energy-drink, long before RedBull, which tastes like a cheap knock-off once you tried Irn-Bru. (Red Bull Cola, on the other hand, is the best cola in the world)

In Scotland, as almost everywhere outside the US, wokeness is an urban phenomenon, while everyone outside of Glasgow and Edinburgh is pretty based. The MSP knows he doesn’t represent his voters here, hence the over-hysterical, Orwellian reaction. Why not say: “Of course it’s OK to be white?” Because he has to signal to his people that any positive affirmation of their identity is actually excluded from the officially accepted narrative.

How about: “It’s OK to be Scottish.” as a follow-up? Make him call this ‘atrocious’ ‘unacceptable material’. Then follow this up with “Scottish National Party.” in the exact same design.

It follows that advantage will decrease in a field the more it becomes saturated with “family”

No, that does not follow. Quite to the contrary, especially from the perspective of someone in that field not benefitting from tribal nepotism.
Nepotism means unfair preference for your own people when preference can be given, it doesn’t apply to explicitly competitive situations, nepotism and competition co-exist, you can prefer your talented cousin over equally qualified competitors and compete for clients with people from your “family”.

Someone named Sebastian Jean is unfamiliar with social behavior in Western cultures?

The name is Sebastien, and therein lies the rub.

assuming I got the Latin correct

E ūnī plures.

(Actually, E ūnī multi)

Correlation does not eqal causation.

Just because the most activist Democrats also happen to be the wokest doesn’t mean wokeness is the driving force. These people were probably always contacting officials and donating to campaigns, way before the current fad. (Does anyone still bring up ‘cultural appropriation’? Not after even the slowest have realized who is really appropriating whose culture.)

Wokeness is a power-game in media and politics, not a functioning cult or ideology.

a smart kid will one way or another get ahold of books, whatever the home situation is

Possible, perhaps probable, by no means certain. Early childhood is an especially important time for conditioning, which is why culture matters. Intellectual potential has to be formed and nurtured, not all cultures do that.

a dumb kid will ignore books if they are not shoved down his throat, and if shoved down his throat, any effect will fade out within two years

Maybe, but reading a book is also training to read and comprehend, analyze and critique, and this methodical knowledge is valuable even for non-readers.

Just goes to show that data without context can be misleading. Both combinations are highly ridiculous.
What would Yang contribute to the Biden ticket? Which demographic does he deliver that Biden the nominee couldn’t already rely on? Can you imagine what Trump does with those two?
Klobuchar would actually immediately decrease Bernie’s chances: she hates Bernie, and, more importantly, the Bernie bros hate her with a vengeance. Klobuchar represents voters who chose Hillary over Trump, so Bernie can probably count on their dislike of the President, anyway, and doesn’t need what she has.

Biden / Klobuchar (or Biden with a minority woman)
Sanders / Warren? (Sanders / Gabbard would be the only plausible threat for Trump)

Democratic Farmer-Labor
Christlich-Soziale Union

baseball shouldn’t start in April, if i’m to believe the Democrats. will it? should all preseason games be cancelled? if not, why should a single Trump rally.

Trump needs to come up with a convincing response re: Corona, his doubts notwithstanding.

Bernie will make this about the health care system, while Biden may ridiculously try the leadership angle – and if too many people get infected/ die*, they will succeed. Pence admitting a shortage of test kits on TV is very bad, for instance. Fear is a primal response, Trump is usually instinctively handling those very well, his response so far is surpringly ill-advised.

*If CNN gets to report rising infection and death rates for a number of weeks, this will feel threatening to an increasing number of people

they gave the example of an 85 year old advanced Alzheimer’s patient and should she get the ventilator if it was needed for a previously healthy 25 year old?

Ridiculous example. How about a healthy 65-year old vs a sickly, obese 55-year old? Or your mother vs some young homeless dude on hard drugs?

On the left is written in German: “Books of the Old Testament. END.” The right page says: “The New Testament, translated by Doctor Martin Luther.”

Wasn’t aware such a figure existed. Immediately ordered one on eBay, couple of bucks. This will go on my eclecticist altar.

‘taking a crap’ or a ‘taking a sh-t’ is quite commonly said by adults even in front of small children.

Since when are crime reports written for children?
Do you see a connection between not calling a poop a poop and not being able to call a spade a spade? (Ridiculous Anglo-Saxon prudishness – hate and shame for the body and its functions – as a precursor for Political Correctness – hate and shame for the truth)

In USSR, every school had a nuclear evacuation plan, every new block building had a fallout shelter with supplies, suits, masks etc., every factory was decorated with posters of organized evacuation to some predefined location.

That’s just bullshit. You are re-inventing a USSR that never existed. Several of my friends are kids of Russian emigrants. In the eighties, they used the notoriously long summer vacations (at least eight weeks) in the USSR to visit their relatives. They took home toilet paper, margarine, and bars of soap, because people could not get those items in the shabby third-world Soviet Union of the ’80s. Soviet troops in the Warsaw pact countries were bartering for basic supplies.
Why would you lie to gullible Americans about stocks of masks etc.? I mean, everybody knows Russians like to boast (they have not much else going) but this is ridiculous…yours is a dirt-poor and run-down country despite all its natural resources, and everybody besides Russians has a hunch why that is (pssst…bears, bosses, and balalaikas are cliché, but Vodka is a real problem, and you know it!)

Thank you for this superb comment. I feel educated after reading it.

I’m dubious of either the solution that somehow makes the nuclear family sacrosanct and I’m equally dubious of early childhood education.

Concur. Many families are hell. And ‘early childhood education’ (i.e. systematically getting kids out of unhealthy, abusive, dangerous situations) cannot repair the damage done by non-loving/ dysfunctional/absent parents. Or bad genes.
A happy childhood is not and has never been the default option. You could say a happy childhood for your kids used to be the main object of societal struggle up until ca. 40 years ago and is still an aim many struggle to achieve, but there have always been losers in that struggle (say, the remorseful, but relapsing alcoholic) and there have always been people who procreate rather thoughtlessly, and they create a lot of misery. There’s people who deliberately take out their own childhood on their kids, and others who don’t know why they’re abusing their offspring. Some single-moms treat their kids as a pet, a statement, a project, a substitute for a partner etc. There are so many different kinds of wrong people who still have children and would probably claim they love them with all their heart. Not sure society can fix all this. Not sure it should try.
Liberalism is a sickness that promises a solution to every problem and has no room for suffering. For the reality of human failure, and, since ‘erare humanum est’, for humans.

First, we must fight the lying, everything else falls into place. If we can’t fight it by open opposition, we have to ridicule it, satirize it, make it embarrassing.

“to a movie I never bothered to see (The Hateful Eight).” – You missed his best work. I divide his movies into 2 groups. Classic Tarantino (RD, PF, HE) and Weird Tarantino (KB I & II, IB). I find them all to be weirdly entertaining in a mindless way but I’m firmly in the classic camp.

Hateful Eight was his best work IMHO.

“Communism was quite stupid too, after all, but it reliably produced dystopias all over the globe.”

Um. Well. Consider this:

The old Soviet Union, produced a standard of living at least an order of magnitude greater than modern “free market” countries like Mexico, India, Bangladesh, etc.etc.etc.

Compare old movies of 1970’s East Germany, with the slums of the modern third-world. No comparison, is there?

Oh, but you say that India is “socialist?” Excuse me: a society where you need to work like a dog for pennies a day, or you and your family go hungry? Where exactly did Karl Marx define that as “socialism?”

Orthodox communism was not the answer to all of man’s problems. But it was far, far from the worst that humankind has to offer. At the current time, the vast majority of the human race would KILL to have the standard of living of 1970 East Germany…

You are entitled to your own opinion, of course. But if it was obvious I would think the author would have mentioned it.

By the way, I know my I.Q. I am in the top 2%. I also have two bachelor degrees, one of them being in science. I considered staying in academia and pursuing my Phd in Geology but I was young and hormonally driven and it seemed a lot more reasonably back then to travel the world, scuba dive, and screw beautiful women. Which I did for about 20 years. I managed to squeeze in getting my pilot’s license though. Just what are your qualifications smart guy?

And just for the record I think it was an intelligent movie and I don’t have any black friends. Plus Uma Thurman was easy to look at in 97.

Since I addressed my post to the author, and since you are posting anonymously and appear to have your feathers ruffled I wonder what the odds are that you are the author of the article and your ire stems from the fact that you didn’t understand the significance of the movie title and have come to the unsettling epiphany that you are not quite as smart as you thought?

Sulu

And, if you are male but didn’t find Uma Thurman attractive, you might as well admit you are a fag

De gustibus non est disputandum. (I exclusively like Nordic beauty, but never found Uma pretty.)

Your behavior here suggests you’re not as smart as they told you…

“And I care not one particle…”

“Judging by your writing skill, or lack thereof…”

I’m just gonna let those two little gems sparkle quietly in the sunlight for a bit.

“You might as well admit you are a fag and go have the operation.”

OK, which one of you knuckleheads fell asleep and left the GammaTron-9000 running all night? You know how that thing overheats if you don’t keep an eye on it. Somebody could wind up burning this whole blog down if you’re not careful.

signed,
Chester the Fire-safety Gorilla

London is undoubtedly the culture capital for Europe and much of the world.

London isn’t even the cultural capital of the UK. Nobody on the continent knows or cares about what London does. Europe is very nationalistic and decidedly not anglophile (with the exception of Scandinavia) It is also not anglophone, which seems hard to grasp for Americans and Brits. The vast majority of people (again, excluding Scandinavians, but not Finns) is out of the reach of BBC and CNN because they simply do not speak English (well enough)

why Germany produced maybe 2% as much music as the UK did after 1950.

You are wrong if you are talking about music in general. German Thrash and Death metal is internationally successful (Morgoth, Sodom, Atrocity, Kreator, Rammstein, as is electronical music (Paul Kalkbrenner, Westbam, Scooter) or film music (Hans Zimmer, Djamin Rawadi) Techno is basically a German musical style.
Pop and rock’n’roll are lyrics-centered musical genres, and Germans are not successful, because 1) pop music in German doesn’t sell internationally, and 2) the artists who would switch to English are inferior to their American, British counterparts – and they wouldn’t sell in Germany.
If you don’t speak German, there is simply a lot of music you are totally unaware of.

How can the “discovery” of the spike protein in COV2 be an achievement? You had the sequence of the spike in the other coronaviruses. The Chinese handed you the full sequence of COV2. You just have to copy/paste them into BLAST, which is an ubiquitous software, to learn where these align. There even a BLAST on Pubmed.

I tried once to take a bioinformatics class, and dropped out since it was a waste of time for me, and the classmates were American slowpokes. It’s not like the Kizzmekias were designing these algorithms. It was just copy/pasting into various forms.

But if I would have done a BLAST alignment test in Bucharest, who would have published it? There’s a bunch of Romanian geniuses at the University of Timisoara, who make the rounds on TV complaining about how some Chinese researchers stole their “discoveries”. They were all BLAST-ing the shit out of the sequence, but the Chinese had a better system, and got their stuff in Chinese “peer-reviewed” journals earlier.

It’s worse, because the Romanians and the Chinese claim they “discovered” the immunogenic regions. That is supposedly more relevant than the spike protein, because that s what you need for making a vaccine. But there will never be a vaccine, so you can shove the spike protein and the “immunogenic” regions where the sun never shines.

By that same token, any brain fart from Kissmekia will be published before everyone else’s, at least in the Amerosphere. But it’s only an Amerosphere brain fart. It has zero diagnostic value and zero curative value, if only because there is no cure, there is no prevention, and the antibody diagnistoc tests are all low-quality on a par with coin-flipping.

Not looking forward to being fleeced through insurance for a vaccine pushed by these geniuses.

Somalis, Ethiopians, Eritreans all hate each other. Within each group there are sub groups who again all hate each other. The same situation exists in the rest of Africa. In the South:
-South Africa: The Zulus and Xhosa hate each other
-Mozambique: The Makua and Sena hate each other
-Zimbabwe: The Ndebele is a splinter group of the Zulus. One can only wonder why they splintered but they hate the other major tribe the Shona and are despised in return
-Uganda: The Ovimbindu, Mbundu and Bakongo hate each other

And the tribes in each country not only detest the other tribes in their country but also the other tribes in other countries. So for example an Ndebele from Zimbabwe, even though somewhere in the past he was a Zulu, will have no use for the Zulus, the Xhosa or the Venda which is another smaller tribe in South Africa. The same applies to all the other African countries except those with predominantly Moslem populations. There, the Moslems hate all non-Moslem Africans and are hated in return.

Now when I say hate, I mean hate ! The whole continent is a witches brew of tribal hate and conflict surfacing from time to time as it did in Rwanda with 500K killed. The Somalis and Ethiopians, in my opinion consider themselves superior to each other and to all other African tribes because they are fairer !? And so it goes for one reason or the other…….

When these characters come to the west they bring all their tribal beliefs and prejudices with them. Here they consider all American blacks as lacking a culture, with no traditions or foundational beliefs, stupid and assholes. A South African black for example whether Zulu or Xhosa is more refined than a US Black. US blacks of course love their black brothers in Africa, their “roots brothers” and all that drivel even though few US blacks have ever been to the continent. I remember during the struggle to abolish apartheid in South Africa, American blacks would come down to South Africa, never go into any of the Townships, take out a few photos here and there with leaders and sub-leaders of the struggle, put on a T-shirt emblazoned with some struggle propaganda and fly back to the states. “Yo Bro, I was there man, supporting the Brothers”. LOL

Long story short, US blacks while deeply in love with their “roots” brothers are considered idiots in return. The few American blacks who visit Africa soon discover than ghettos in Africa make the US projects look like Buckingham Palace. As for the white Police in the States gunning down blacks, an Ndebele for example who falls into the hands of a Shona policeman can expect no mercy. THOSE few US blacks who visit Africa soon come to realise how good they have it here. Then again, the few who immigrate to Africa find it is a very long and tedious process to get their papers and when they finally get there are outcasts. Which tribe do they belong to ?? I remember when Oprah had her genes tested and found out she was from some African tribe, I was in South Africa at the time. Her “roots” discovery, tears and emotional outburst generated great mirth and some not so polite comments among whites, blacks and coloureds.

I will say this from my own experience and I submit that others may have had a different experience. African blacks hold whites in greater esteem than they do other blacks whether American or other African blacks. Hence, your experience as you described it is no surprise to me.!!

The one valid argument against capital punishment is that possibility of executing the wrong person. A few people were imprisoned and later released because it was discovered that they were innocent. The authorities can provide financial compensation to the victim of an unjust imprisonment, but not bring a victim back to life.

…most women life scientists are admirably stepping up during this emergency…

It’s panicking women and men acting like women who turned this fairly minor event into an “emergency.”

it almost makes me want to order some Chinese food!

The Chinese hate you just the same.

How hard is it to prepare your own food? This (Anglo-Saxon) insistence on living like gentry, namely having other people do your household chores (food preparation, cleaning, laundry, gardening, childcare, etc.) will be the cause of America’s downfall. Because you cannot afford to pay American servants, foreigners are brought in and you effectively subsidize the peoples eager to replace you.

Joe Biden is not touching black girls at the same rate as he is touching white girls. Uncle Joe’s racist beauty standards are hurting black girls’ self esteem. The fact that he won’t even grope Stacey Abrams with a six foot pole is in itself racist. Everything is racist.

If in a hole, stop digging. You have egg on your face because you panicked like all the old people. Your reputation as a noticer is severely and lastingly damaged.

A mea culpa would be in order, not snark towards those who tell you the brutal truth. We criticize with love, your ad hominem only makes you look like a sore loser.

How did they drive these fathers away–with a bayonet?

The modern welfare state incentivizes single-mom households. Some benefits can only be received by single moms, so when your partner is unemployed or in a low-income job, you’re better off without him financially, and the next fight may always be the final reason to kick him out and gain an extra room, the rent gets paid by someone else anyway.

CNBC Reporter-nerd: “I want to be clear on how I characterize this. This is mostly a protest. It is not generally speaking unruly.”

I wish someone had run in from stage right, snatched his glasses off, and ran away laughing. That would have been unruly.

Nah, he had the concept of the lumpenproletariat.

“Grindr will soon not allow filtering by race, because … they want to trick you into dating black women? “

I thought Grindr was a gay app. Tinder basically cloned it for heterosexuals.

Europeans are imbeciles.
Always have been.

I assume the european press is lying about Floyd same as the american press does. Floyd was convicted in 2007 of robbing a woman at gun point. Sentenced to 5 years. But the fake news press won’t mention that.

Anyway, as in america, the european protesters are like .000001% of the population.

Liberals are good, kind-hearted people. Liberals are the people who, in pre-historic times, pointed out that some members of the tribe were having more of their fair share of the hunt and that they should divide their lot. But they have been duped by a super-smart and very radical liberal elite, most of whom are Marxist Jews.

If conservatives could even begin to understand the emotional distress that liberals feel about rhe existence of inequality, they would gain invaluable insight into the liberal mindset. Liberals will always fight for the underdog. It’s in their DNA. It’s who they are. These instincts are noble and salutary; the problem is the manipulation of those instincts on the part of radical liberal elites that see as the solution of inequality not creating more rooms for others, but birning the whole house to the ground and rebuilding it with just one room for all. They see equality as a goal that is best achieved not by uplifting the weak, but by destroying the strong.

When white liberals cry over a black man being strangled to death by a police officer, it is genuine. This instinct, that the happiness of the group is equal to the happiness of the least happy member of the group, is a huge part of the liberal mindset. And “group” to liberals is not race, or nation, or even family: it is people that they see, and interact with. White liberals were the first ones that cared about the plight of working-class white people, and they pretty much did all the job of raising their living standards through unions, the creation of the income tax, better working condition, pay leave, etc. And the fact is that most working-class white peole back in those days voted conservative didn’t matter to them. Thye fought for the white working class because they were the underdogs against white plutocrats, and now they champion black people because they are seen as the underdogs kept down by white institutions,

What happens to liberals is that there is a radical wing of the liberal elite that knows that the bulk of liberals would not follow them if they were honest about their intentions. This elite is tiny, but they are extremely intelligent and intellectual, skilled at activism, and they have a deep hatred for Western Civilization They are almost entirely intellectual successors of the French thinkers, Derrida and Sartre, who proposed that the only concrete structure of human interaction are relations of power, and that government, institutions and laws are just proxies that exist to enforce the moral will of those in power. They believe that White Western Man is the only true source of relevant inequality, and that by eliminating this the prolem of inequality would be mostly solved. Salvery was not invented by White Western Man, but he enforced it on a scale never seen before. Some nations being more powerful than other is not something created by White Western Man, but with his technology the gap in power between those who have his technology ans those who not is exponentially larger. White Western Man didn’t invent sexism but he raped and seduced women on an unprecendented scale, from the mass rape of brown women by Conquistadors, to making non-Western Man feel emasculated, leading to abuse of women Worldwide as a compensatory mechanism. Whatever evil there, White Western Man amplifies it. They have identified White Western Man as The Ultimate Evil of All Existence, which must be extirpated from the face of the Earth.

But they know white liberals would never follow them. White liberals don’t actually have a “beef” with other white people; the beef they have is with inequality. They support a white person when that person is in a position of weakness and distress, like a poor white wairtress that got abused by her rich boss, and they oppose the white person when they are in a position of being an oppressor, like whites in the South lynching black back in the 1950’s, or Wall Street brokers stealing money from middle-classs people(both white and black) through government bailouts.

If white liberals understood that this post-modern liberal elite of neo-Marxists actually wanted to exterminate white people, and all the individual freedoms of the West and replace it with a bureacratic dictatorship ruling over amorphous masses of colored people with white people and their culture exterminated, they would never support it. Not only because all true liberals strongly oppose genocide of any people, but also because white liberals have families that are white like them. Even when it comes to white conservatives, the same. White liberals were the first ones who exposed the fact that corporations and the Federal Government were poisoning the water systems of the Appalachians back in the 1960’s and making people sick. Those people were over 90% white and voted mostly Republican. The rich white conservatives who owned the chemical plants couldn’t care less about those poor white conservatives. Funny how the white liberals from the coasts were the only ones that cared about them.

Also, there has been enough interbreeding between liberals and conservatives over the generations that almost no families are entirely liberal or conservative. Most white liberals have conservative relatives, and they certainly don’t want them to be exterminated, or raped by black criminals or murdered. Liberals are your brothers, sisters, sons, spouses, etc. You know, the whole story of not bringing up politics at dinner table. It’s just that it is very distressing and confusing for liberals to exercise their pursue of equality when it is not clear who is the strong and who is the weak, and who is friend or foe.

They have been duped. They think they are pursuing equality by enfranchising blacks and rioters, but they are just “useful idiots” to an extremely intelligent and hostile radical liberal elite, mostly Marxist Jews, who use them and the rioters alike as tools in accomplishing what they really want: the fall of Western Civilization, namely European Civilization and it’s satellites, like the U.S.A, and the replacement of it with a one-World amorphous “nation” where everyone will be equal except fpr themselves, who will rule all from the top. This radical liberal elite is tiny, no more than a few hundred individuals, but they are exceptionally clver, most of the them with PhDs in philisophy, professors of linguistic, editorial publishers, etc. Not only that, they have trememdous energy and motivation to work to bring about their goals, and are very diligent and patient. The old story, “steady pace wins the race”

White liberals would never support the rioting and mayhem if they knew the grand scheme behind it all, and that their loved ones, including their conservative loved ones, are targeted for disenfranchisement and extermination. Believe it, your liberal relatives love you. The reason why they do this is not because they want to harm you, but exactly because they think nothing of this will harm you, and that you are already well off and that there are other people in distress that need their help.

What is happening is an unspeakable crime. White liberals are being taken advantage off, having their most noble and most emotionally fulfilling instincts perverted and corrupted into a force of chaos by an elite that sees them as the enemy to be destroyed: they willingly do the biding of those that want to destroy them,

I predict a wave of mass suicide of white liberals in the ensuing yearas as they realize they destroyed everything they loved pursuing an equality that doesn’t exist, that cannot exist, and that was created as a phantom to manipulate them into not uplifting the weak, but destroying the strong. Even when the “strong” are not strong at all, but just their friends and relatives alike, including their conservative relatives, just ordinary people trying to live their lives, lives now ruined because of their folly.

Media will defeat Trump.

Unprecedented support for Mr. Biden in the Midwest.

Moreover, this time Arizona, Georgia and Texas are also in play.
No way Mr. Biden is gonna lose.

I’d like to see that happen in Bristol and Liverpool England

Seems like your wish was granted. Just an hour ago, the news showed a mob tossing a ‘slaver’s statue’ off the quay in Bristol, England.

The paleontologists found evidence of cannibalism.

… for Homo sapiens s. as well. Maybe, that doesn’t mean what you think it means.

There can be no other possible explanation,

Cops used marijuana-related charges against thugs who they knew were guilty of more serious stuff but lacked the evidence to prove.

What makes you think there’s hatred between Russians and Germans? The opposite may be true, i.e. they’re probably each other’s favorite country right now. Germany is generally pretty popular and Russians love it, and Germans, especially Easterners, are notoriously Russo-phile.

The first sociologist, ie the guy they think of as their patron saint, was Emil Durkheim, and he was more of a philosopher. The scientistic bogosity came, I think, on the heals of the field’s professionalization.

Speaking here as an economist.

In 20-30 years entire world will have to come together to fend off China. US may capitalize on that movement to reinvent itself as the leader of the good guys.

Not from the Onion: Lady Antebellum Makes Name Change in Response to Black Lives Matter Movement

The BBC has taken an episode of ‘Fawlty Towers’ (‘The Germans’) off its streaming service which had already been censored (in the original version, John Cleese talks incorrectly about the people from the West Indies, including either a word that rhymes on bigger or one that rhymes on re-grow – the report wasn’t clear on that), but is now deemed too racist.
‘Little Britain’ has been cancelled, as well. (Apparently, blackface in one episode was enough)

the spirit of revived pagan Germanic lust for perpetual war

This sounds like British wartime propaganda. Germanic people are the most peaceful on earth. This excludes Britons, but includes white Americans by virtue of the Germanic component (USA was an isolationist country without colonies until 1917)

The leftist mob says kneel and the CEO kneels. That’s power.

No. Power is holding the megaphone and deciding whose voices to amplify.

This whole thing has been a 1.5B dollar DNC fund raiser.

Strange. It looks like a massive GOTV for the Republicans from my neck of the woods…

Wow. A black female mayor and a white lesbian police chief. What could go wrong?

Whiskey perhaps exaggerates too much, but he is essentially correct that having women in charge of anything more consequential than a PTA bake sale is generally a disaster.

Meanwhile, ENTIRE SWAT TEAM IN FLORIDA CITY RESIGNS AFTER (Female) POLICE CHIEF KNEELS WITH PROTESTERS. https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/379940/

If civilization had been left in female hands, we would still be living in grass huts.”
– Camille Paglia

It does not follow from that that, God forbid, should something happen to Mr. Rosie, the lawn would go unmowed.

Strawman.

There’s stuff only women can do (giving birth, mainly), stuff only men can do (building civilizations including the unpleasant tasks like distributing resources effectively, kicking out undesirables) and stuff both sexes can do (mowing the lawn comes to mind)

You would have to find a successful matriarchy to prove your point, and there just aren’t any this side of the Neolithic…

When craven elites do the craven things that craven elites do, the misogynists point out the female ones and say, “We told you so!”

Can you point us to one, just ONE woman who was not the opportunistic tool everybody and the “craven elites” expected her to be?
There are examples for male bravery (few and far between, I’ll give you that) The FOP came out against kneeling. Where’s the female equivalent? (And don’t give me professional reactionaries like Coulter or Malkin. They’re not brave, they’re shrewd and don’t risk anything)

Is Google laughing at us?

They’re definitely not laughing with you.

Why do so many people these days film everything in profile orientation, rather than landscape?

Twitter, Instagram, TicToc etc. All the apps the kids are taping their clips for are optimized for phone mode.

the number of track suit pants in that video is genuinely hilarious.

Wearing regular clothes is considered acting white. Already, laws prohibiting the wearing of all sports apparel in schools are under consideration. Or were, before black lives mattered again.

Teutoberger Wald

It’s Teutoburger Wald. A ‘Burg’ is a castle, while a ‘Berg’ is a mountain. ‘Wald’ is forest.
The name goes back to Tacitus who called the region ‘teutoburgiensis saltus’ in his account of the Varus battle.

You can keep some people from noticing some of the time, but you cannot keep all people from noticing all of the time.
Every step of wokeness is a step towards the collective realization that it’s all not true, quite probably a calculated lie.

Ethnic and national descriptive words should vary in size according to their respective loudness.

“The BLACKS and ITALIANS argued, while the ˢʷᵉᵈᵉˢ and ʲᵃᵖᵃⁿᵉˢᵉ kept quiet”

Wag the dog.

Scott’s the pro-worker kind of Leftist, not the anti-White kind. I’d bet Steve’s traffic comes disproportionately from the Bay Area.

I always find it funny when people sneer at Jews and atheists in the very same breath, unable to see the irony in implicitly demanding belief in a Jewish-originating religion. It’s true the Left is always purging it’s own, but being a professed Leftist at least provides some protection. The Right doesn’t do anything, so why should anyone identify as right-wing?

Our salvation is more likely to come from intelligent atheists in the Bay Area than dumb bible thumpers in Missouri.

https://www.counter-currents.com/2020/06/st-george-floyd-a-modern-christian-martyr/

If every corporation in America and Western Europe has to waste time on Let’s Talk About My Hair training run by aggrieved black ladies, then no corporation falls behind any other. Sure, maybe some firm in Gdansk gets a leg up, but the Poles can be dealt with.

You and Douhat have opposite POVs on this. According to Douhat, the diversity training GIVES your corporation a leg up, because now they can work together without microaggressing each other (or more particularly so that the white male employees won’t microagress the others, especially the blacks). I tend to doubt this, but that’s his pitch – diversity training just helps to keep the profit machine oiled.

Too many White women started thinking they could have their own separate deal apart from the fate of their White men. And it’s backfiring big time.

What makes you think any White woman on the face of the Earth has ever thought such a thing?

Why are you acting so surprised and personally offended ?

Gaslighting. Drives them crazy to see so many men wake up and smell the Soy Latte.

A lot of white women have tried to tag along with the non-white victim complex, and join in with the anti-white male rhetoric

Nah, they didn’t just “tag along”, they were the original victims. Remember the ‘patriarchy’?

Her use of archaic/poetic terms like “hath” suggests she has a better grasp of English than most Americans to be honest.

Her use of archaic/poetic terms like “hath” suggests she has a better grasp of English than most Americans to be honest.

Pretty sure she copied that from an impressive tweet, or some headline in yesterday’s WaPo. If you think ‘Karen’ needs an apostrophe in the plural form, your grasp of English is tenuous, fancy Shakespeare words or not.

Mansa Musa made pilgrimage to Mecca with, among others, 12,000 slaves. Excellent starting point for black history.

Carlson didn’t say that socialist or dictatorial systems are less efficient (which they are). He said that they were impossible – that you COULDN’T build a safe plane under those conditions. This is false. Soviet planes had a reasonably good safety record. Not perfect but neither is Boeing. On the one hand, the Socialist economy was slow to respond so you had a lot of outdated and inefficient products – turbojets after the West had switched to more fuel efficient and quieter fanjets, etc. OTOH, the lack of a market pricing mechanism meant that the Soviets could sometimes use high quality materials (titanium) that would have been cost prohibitive to use in the West.

As for E. Germany, many of the E. German products were quite good, perhaps even better than their modern Western counterparts that had been cheapened while the E. German item was still made in the old fashioned solid way – metal gears instead of plastic, etc. However, the E. German product often appeared stodgy and out of date – the graphics on the package were poorly done and out of style. The logos looked like something from the 1950s. E. German brands did not have slick marketing with TV commercials and jingles. The management of these factories had no idea on how to sell a product in a market economy – in E. Germany you just had to make the stuff and you didn’t have to worry about selling it . So these products had no chance in a market economy for reasons often having absolutely nothing to do with the inherent quality of the products themselves.

I was at the dem convention in philly in 2016. I held up a giant sign that said let them eat cake, alluding to the dem establishment railroading Bernie for Hillary. I don’t think many people got it. There was a woman who took the stage in FDR park while the convention was going on across the street. Her speech was rambling but the conclusion was she would rather vote for trump than Hillary, and that got massive cheers from the assembled crowd. This was a crowd of liberals, the people who were shut of of the convention by the massive police barricades. Trump will win in a landslide, again. He doesn’t need to be sitting on his hands right now. He could roll the marines into downtown CHAZ and execute all the anarchist by firing squad and he’d win in an even bigger landslide.

the E. Germans went for 40 years without seeing a banana

This statement proves you know nothing about the GDR and/or are not ashamed to repeat ludicrous Cold War propaganda. Just like West Germany was and is the strongest economy in the West, East Germany led the COMECON countries in economical prowess. Standard of living in East Germany was always higher than Israel’s, for instance.

Next, Jack will break into a rousing rendition of “Little Boxes.”

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The Godfather is fiction. Make-believe. It carries no weight in any serious discussion concerning reality.
We cannot allow Hollywood to be the starting point for any discussion about where we are, or where we are going as a society.

our America figures prominently in human history

As a cautionary tale. ‘Americanization’ is a threat, not a promise.

I’d say Ann Coulter but she’s been banished to obscurity. You legitimately might have more influence than ol’ Ironsides Ann. She’s evidence of what happens when you push a little too hard with the iSteve/paleocon views.

Give it up, middle-aged incel!

Ann is as popular as ever, especially amongst men who love slender, hot blondes chock full of intelligent sass. The line of men who would like to marry her, and women who wish they were her, would stretch to the moon and back, with plenty to spare!

I’d argue that the riots of 2020 are more of a response to preserve the existing status quo established in 1968. With the continued demise of the Boomer Yuppies, issues that were once sacrosanct (abortion, free trade) are now potentially in peril. 2020 might become the Battle of Stalingrad for the cultural revolutionaries and financial elites. That they’ll actually decline in terms of political clout.

1968 seemed like a masterstroke covert operation to destroy the New Deal coalition that provided high paying jobs for both blue collar and white collar workers alike. Elites collaborated with demographic groups like Blacks and Women to destroy the economic gains made under FDR. Both Blacks and Women are entirely dependent on aggressive government programs that provide “protected group” status and thus superior citizenship.

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

Feminism destroyed the living wage and elites are still pleased with that. Blacks drove out the pesky Catholic ethnics and their political machinery (unions.) Blacks were consequently granted special respect and privileges. Both are groups that can’t function independently and thus viable political pawns.

Thus 2020 is a battle for keeps. The “revolutionaries” are in fact highly reactionary. The rise of Trump and Sanders are testaments to that political development.

Isn’t it set in Australia? If anything they should have Aborigines.

It would be nice if ethnic groups that hate each other in the Old Country would at least move to different parts of the country in the U.S. so they wouldn’t get on each others nerves so much. But, my impression is that feuding ethnic groups tend to move to the same neighborhoods in the U.S. so they can shop at the same grocery stores because they like, pretty much, the same types of food.

Actually, not to worry, there are not too many Amharas in Minnesota. Minnesota is an Oromo stronghold because that’s where Oromo refugees were settled. The Amhara stronghold is Washington DC.

The good folks in Minnesota are being inconvenienced because of a conflict that is thousands of years old over the control of the Nile waters. Remember in the Bible when Pharaoh sent an army led by Moses to Nubia because Black people (Nubians) threatened to cut off the Nile’s water supply?

Jawar Mohammed, an Oromo living in Minnesota single-handedly founded the Oromo Media Network with money provided by EGYPT. Egypt is a a key player in all this because they are trying to destabilize Ethiopia. Egypt is panicking because they are loosing control of the Nile- their ONLY source of water. Most of the Nile water originates in the Amhara highlands and Ethiopia is building a HUGE dam. No Nile, no Egypt.

Anyway, using OMN satellite TV beaming from Egypt, Jawar instigated and led an Oromo youth movement (know as the Queero) to overthrow the Ethiopian government dominated by the Tigray. He also used Facebook to reach his million followers.

The Tigray, like the Amharas are Abyssinians (northern Ethiopians). But Queero had the tactical support to the Amharas because the latter had become embitterd by their fellow Abyssinian Tigray cousins. The Tigray had refused to share power with the Amhara. In fact, the Tigray worked to undermine Amharas.

The Tigray’s, who are only 6% of the population, had managed to stay in power from 1992 to recently using divide and rule by taking advantage of the animosity between Oromos (34%) and Amharas (27%). In fact they encouraged this Oromo hostility with constant propoganda of how Amhara kings had colonized them (true) and humiliated them culturally (true). However, their strategy blew up their face when the unthinkable happened. Amharas and Oromos formed an alliance and overthrow the Tigray govt.

A new prime minister , Abiye Ahmed came to power and he promised a new dawn of Oromo-Amhara reconciliation, a new Ethiopia. Abiye was perfect for the job. His mother is an Amhara Orthodox Christian, his father an Oromo Muslim, and he himself a convert, a Protestant. He preached of love, unity, forgiveness and most of all unity. He released thousands of Oromo and Amhara political prisoners. He made peace with Eritrea, and before you know it Ethiopians and Eritreans in Chicago embraced each other as long lost brother.

Love was in the air.

Amhara and Oromo leaders in exile went back home, including Jawar. OMN opened an office in Addis Ababa. Abiye won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Alas, the honeymoon between Amharas and Oromos did not last. Soon Oromo activists started attacking Amharas about past grievances, and demanded that the statues of the Amhara king that had conquered them come down. The Amharas refused and instead demanded that the Oromo destroy their graphic statue of a hand holding a cut-off breast. This statue commemorates a mass mutilation incident when Amhara conquistadors allegedly cutoff the breasts of conquered Oromo women. Amharas deny any breast cutting happened and reminded Oromo activists of the nasty Cushitic tradition of their warriors who used to cut off the penises of POWs.

A few days ago, someone murdered an important Oromo protest singer (Haccallu) and all hell broke loose in Ethiopia and Minnesota. Jawar started making trouble again and and Abiye had no choice to arrest him and shut down OMN in Addis Ababa. Oromos shut down I-94 in St. Paul and toppled Haile Sellassie’s (an Amhara king) statue in England.

Egypt probably had Haccallu assassinated.

Linguistic. On the back of food packages, ingredients have to be listed in the different European languages, which usually looks like this:

UK:…
NL/BG:…
F/BG/CH:…
D/A/CH:…
I/CH:…
etc

Looks like Ringo has developed quite the proboscis since his Abbey Road days, which is probably the last time I thought of him. Can we get a profile shot of that?

implying the post-Christian Europe is an ‘advanced society’

Lol. The Europe of the future will put Papua New Guinea to shame in its primitive barbarism.

But when the inventor Benjamin Franklin came up with the idea of adding a wick to the wax, home illumination was transformed.

Not so. Having just visited a number of medieval castles in Central Europe, I can assure you that wicks were used long before Franklin. This tendency to make ridiculous boasts of American ingenuity (people had been burning wax, fat, and oil for millenia, of course they found myriad ways to keep the lights on) betrays a lack of self-esteem vis-a-vis the old continent, no?