You’re a pretty excitable guy but the point stands, Cockburn is just an msnbc lib with nothing to say.

There is not a single thought (if I’m allowed to embellish) expressed here that wouldn’t seem anodyne in Chris Matthews’ Twitter feed. Cockburn is entirely clueless about the state of the middle and working classes in the United States, and should stick to mourning various expired Iranians.

Why he is published here is beyond me.

These obviously stupid takes are actually quite sinister.

Since essentially nothing happened but a symbolic incursion with some light brawling and heavy leaping, the universal take is a psyop that:

a. rewrites BLM riots as exceptionally repressive of blacks instead of exceptionally indulgent of rioters, and

b.explicitly associates through linguistic programming the Capitol protest with violence against black people when there was precisely none of that.

So the mind-fogged masses will now forever associate the protest with violence against blacks, which then justifies any totalitarian response.

It’s a dumb message obviously and only a moron like Evans or Kamala would believe it, but this engine runs on morons.

So what is the executive arm of Globocorp? I know I use the phrase and similar ones all the time, but are these explicit decisions made in the Platinum Lounge at Davos or is this some kind of emergent governing intelligence?

I like this piece a lot, but there are a lot of takes like this lately without the question of globalist agency ever being addressed. You hear about Soros, Gates, the Clinton Foundation, sometimes it’s the PRC. Sometimes Satan himself. Always very vague about how/if they coordinate amongst themselves.

It seems like it’s long past time to admit the existence of globo-totalitarianism and start identifying the agents and actual organizational structure that’s pulling the levers.

I like the way you say that nobody has ever heard the narrative you propound right at the point that the reader is wondering what is the point of yet more warmed-over Howard Zinn. It gets them to read on a few paragraphs before they realize Lucy has snatched away the football once again.

Serious question: if currency depreciates drastically then there is hyper-inflation. Is property not affected by this inflation?

Cook has a wishful IdPol perspective that breaks apart on the usual fault lines of immigration and racial spoils.

Even from his own POV, a non-fascist right wing populism that pushed hard on anti-trust and breaking up big tech is actually preferable to anything the actual left is capable of achieving.

Thank you for that blinding insight. I tip my fedora to you good sir. That quote by this “Diderot” will surely rile up some around here. So provocative.

Feed themselves? Have you seen the #CHAZ garden?

“He covers immigration… and other national security threats.” NYT’s post-literate zoomer editorial staff accidentally gets something right.

French was born in 1969 so is squarely GenX. Peterson is cusp GenX, 1962. And Steve and Scott Adams are both pretty late boomers. IOW, the perception of boomers appears to be expanding so it’s more about a type than a generational cohort.

I predict that as they age some Millennials will start to find themselves labeled/accused of being boomers.

What have you done to end the wars? Do you discuss the wars with people around you? Do you donate to anti-war organizations? Do you participate in politics beyond casting a vote by getting involved in the political parties and shifting it from the inside to become more anti-war?

He probably didn’t tweet hard enough. Look at Andre, he tweeted so hard he stopped Venezuela from being destroyed and now the good people there can enjoy all the peace and prosperity that 10,000% inflation brings. Just remember, as hard as you think you’re tweeting, you will never tweet that hard.

I always enjoy watching a dumb person pretending to be a smart person pretending to be a dumb person.

“Obviously, black students march into classrooms all over this country and blow physical concepts out of the water with their individual intellects.”

This sentence by Jedidah Isler, astrophysicist, may be the stupidest sentence I have ever read. And I strongly suspect Jedidah Isler, astrophysicist, may not even be bright enough to understand why.

A similar thing happened in Seattle. After they put I5 through in the early sixties, the city’s fabric was hopelessly torn apart, and it’s never really recovered.

TNC’s style is all bombastic moping. It’s as hard to take as Nickelback.

I thought it meant “sit there while I yell at you.”

“Crimes against Whites will be swept under the rug.”


Actually, the media covers criminal activity regardless of race.

Sorry, you don’t pass the Turing test.

LaFond is almost always worth reading. His characterization of “absence of ownership” as a defining quality of the urban feral is spot on. Whenever I get close to some kind of gnarly encounter I remind myself that they have nothing to lose, I have everything to lose. That will really tie a hand behind your back, but it’s the way it is.

Really can’t recommend him highly enough.

http://www.jameslafond.com/

Coates is the most overrated writer in the US today, and it’s not even close. He’s a ponderous fraud full of fake erudition, his writing is painfully overwrought and pretentious, and as far as I can tell he hasn’t had one interesting thought or even observation.

You have to wonder how long such a mediocrity can hold up under the strain of having to pretend he’s a genius, but as long as people who never read anything longer than a blog post are in positions of critical authority, it might be a long time before anyone forces him to face it.

Whole new genre even: Bijan parody.

Well then if Bernie doesn’t get the nomination he can run as a third party candidate. National Socialist or something.

Fersguson, as the entire country now knows, is the great counter-argument to Section 8 type desegregation plans. So what cities does Castro use as his examples of places in need of this type of plan? Why, Baltimore and … Ferguson!

You’d think he’d be mindful of conjuring fears of public housing voucher-holders moving locust-like from neighborhood to neighborhood, razing one after another and then moving on. Maybe he’s just that clueless though.

I’m old enough to remember when the unsophisticated and obvious inference – that most of those caught were of color because most of perps were – would at least need to be hand-waved away. Now it’s assumed that this explanation is a priori invalid. Fairly amazing, even for a Hamline Professor.

We can thank our nice refugee resettlement church ladies for supplying the nice Somalis to the nice white lady teachers.

O/T, there seem to be a fair number of Seattle residents reading iSteve. Must be because we can’t head down to the bar for a little realtalk, since even tattooed bikers around here have pure SWPL filters on.

I’m with @George on “Immigration Sanity.” Force them into accusing their opponents of using a smear — “They say it’s insane to keep a child with its parents! I can’t even!!” — which will let opponents make the simple, cogent argument that Open Borders + Massive Welfare is impossible and insane.

It’s only two words, and it puts them on the defensive. Win-win.

Three transsexuals murdered in the last year? Out of around 16000 murders total? Factor in that they tend to be mentally unstable inhabitants of the demimonde and I think they’re actually underrepresented on the homicide rolls.

Prefacing your point with personal history really doesn’t do a lot to help your argument.

I hope they don’t loot all the bleach or they’ll never get the bombing site cleaned up.

Story is obviously false in every particular, but Sabrina Rubin Ederly has a future in fiction of the bodice-ripper variety. Selected almost at random:

“The University of Virginia freshman wasn’t a drinker, but she didn’t want to seem like a goody-goody at her very first frat party – and she especially wanted to impress her date, the handsome Phi Kappa Psi brother who’d brought her here.”

I was certain at that point that his name would be Chad, it turned out to be Drew. But close enough.

Jason Statham is definitely working class. Daniel Craig at least looks and moves like he’s held a shovel at some point in his life.

I don’t believe that the fact that catcallers are all NAMs is an accident. SWPLs, progs and hipsters all secretly loathe/fear street NAMs, want them eradicated or displaced, and this video is part of the campaign. Increases in NAM power and numbers will continue to deepen this fault line, and our thought leaders are getting nervous.

As Mr. Burns would say, “Exxxcellent.”

“I wonder if we would have ended up having a “Biggie Smalls” day…”

We’re actually not very far off from a Tupac Day. He’s Malcolm X to young race warriors, and given the demographics of our near future, it’s inevitable that it will at least be proposed.

This account seems largely plausible for tropical Africa, but there are vast swathes of the continent that are nearly Edenic. Leaving aside possible climate shifts over the past 10000 years, Southern Africa from Lake Victoria to Capetown isn’t tropical, and has a super-abundance of terrific topsoil and natural resources.

Were the animals really that much more fearsome and numerous that they prevented civilization from developing? Didn’t seem to obstruct the Boers. And the co-evolution notion providing advantages to animals seems sketchy anyway.

Isn’t the central point of the now-derided but nevertheless true account of man’s conquest of nature, that it was a struggle? To cite difficulties in that endeavor as explanation for failing is really begging the question.

Caplan, as befits his lazy extremist intellectual tendencies…

“Lazy extremist” is an excellent term. It accurately characterizes the intellectual gestalt of the modern Social Justice Warrior in a way that denotes both their craven morals and their total lack of mental rigor.

I can think offhand of a dozen lazy extremists that I know personally, not to mention hundreds more online.

But the reason is obvious: Munchausen’s 350-years-of-slavery-and-Jim-Crow by proxy.

The “you just don’t get it” formulation is so passive-agressive, snide and patronizing that it almost always signals the death of any possible debate. Typically it’s also a sign that SWPL sclerosis has set in, though I’ve seen some dumber reactionaries use it as well.

In Kristof’s case, it’s a little unfortunate, since despite the fact that he’s basically a flag-bearer for correct thinking, he was always a little better than your typical Daily Kos micro-journal screecher. Looks like the tension got to him. I’ll be surprised if he ever writes anything interesting again.

With his small-sample regressions, how is Brat going to cope with the likes of Sheila Jackson Lee?

Althusser is a really really big gun in population genetics. Easily the most knowledgeable person whose review I’ve read of Wade’s book, and I’ve read a score or more. I’m frankly surprised he signed off on some of it, but unlike Gates, he can’t be hand-waved away by referring to his expertise is in Signifying Monkeyes. He was one of leaders of the HapMap project, among many other sterling credentials.

Feedly is fine, but Unz is very bad on mobile devices. It’s just a super-shrunken website and font is close to illegibly small.

Holy cow — just sort comments on that moronic Ngai piece by "Reader's Picks." The top comments are not only overwhelmingly against amnesty, but totally, no exceptions, against it.

This is the freaking New York Times. Could there be any greater indication that the elites are united in complete contempt and disregard for the wishes of the populace?

Tried to read the comments on DeLong's post but what's the point? They're saying things like "I’d like to see Dreher sit-down and explain his opinion/theory about this subject with either Neil deGrasse Tyson and/or Richard Sherman." What the hell? How can they get so excited about the fact that a black football player is reasonably intelligent? They're like children.

"The sheer instability and potential for misinterpretation render race useless as a scientific concept. Inventing new vocabularies of human diversity and inequity won't be easy, but is necessary."

Translation from Newspeak:

"We don't control how people use the word 'race,' so we need a new word that means the same thing, but with the added connotation that anyone who employs the word agrees with that diversity is the greatest good."

So, they come up with some ungainly neologism like Ancestral Grouping, or A-Grouping, and everyone who uses it is automatically extended good faith anti-racist credit, same as people who use African-American signal their anti-racism. It's all about the creation of shibboleths to identify you as one of the elect. "Suspect was in CEPH A-Grouping with short dark hair and white t-shirt, last seen headed north on Flatbush in a black sedan."

Moral complexity is racist. End of story.

Conclusion of Antonioni's La Notte rivals Melancholi for use of golf course aesthetics. Marcello Mastroianni and Jeanne Moreau rolling around in a sand trap. The Mickelson shot itself could easily be an Antonioni still.

This whole pain study strikes me as pointless. What I'd like to see: a study of who is more willing to inflict pain, and upon whom. Not that I ever expect to see such a study.

What's becoming the norm for these pieces of ruling class agitprop is that even in their own comments sections, there's palpable disgust at this stupid, venal crap. HuffPo, Atlantic, Slate, Salon have a lot of regular commenters who appear to have reached limit of their tolerance for propaganda.

It's kind of like what you'd expect if Pravda and Isvestia had had open, anonymous comments sections in 1975: an even split between humorless Commie media-enforcers and dissidents/critics.

Math is hard, statistics is harder, there's no point paying attention to either one, especially if you're counting white people. Plus numbers aren't really real, you can't touch them or eat them or anything, so would you already just shut up already?

Article on WashPost about riots has comments section running a 10-1 iSteve-to-Cathedral ratio. Impressive.

http://tinyurl.com/pxb5oxv

As the US continues to transmogrify into Brazil Norte, we can expect more of this. Mostly plutocratic rulers punctuated by a term here or there for some populist to blow off the rabble's steam. The good government types will largely disappear.

Comments at HuffPo are refreshingly skeptical.

On a side note, being a comments moderator at HuffPo has got to be the ultimate Cathedral drone job.

Man that guy really is dumb as a post. The strained yet over-simple syntax, the cowering before punctuation– all the linguistic hallmarks of the popular frat guy who decided too late in life for it to be possible that he had *something to say.* And by God we were going to hear it!

Though I have to say, I prefer my total frauds to be as patently fake as Ricky.

Latest count of comment at WaPo is over 5000. Of the 10 most 'liked' comments, six are critical of the article, four are supportive.

Looks like the red pill tide has started to seep into the inner sanctum.

The entire Grantland piece in four words and a symbol:

Christian Lander > Christian Laettner

On some blog, some guy called me a crybaby! For complaining about being called a crybaby on a different blog! This is meta-micro-aggression and nobody's doing anything about it! I just feel so invalidated. SIGH.

I'm trying to imagine Bob Dylan walking around Long Island and getting picked up by the cops. But the very idea is so absurd, I find myself laughing. I try to imagine a white president being impeached for a minor romantic indiscretion, but incredulity overwhelms me, and I laugh in the dark. These these things, they can only happen to black men. For justice is a one way street in the directionhog white privilege. Thus I, TaNeshi Coates, affirm it to be, and thus it is.

Pretty frightening. A false flag provocation used to require an action — a Reichstag fire, say. Now it doesn't even requires a specific accusation, but just some vague report. "I s-s-saw someone in a K-k-k-klaaannn h-h-h-hoood!" Tears and trembling count more than facts.

And no matter how definitive the retraction, the balance of evil always tilts against the side of the initially accused. It's win-win. No wonder it's happening more and more.

Looks like the more important campaign has already been lost. I mean, of course, CAIR's campaign against the AP's recklessly racist use of the term, "Islamist."

It's Eliois and Morlochs all the way down.

Doris Lessing's under-appreciated sci-fi novel Shikasta draws out implications for Euros of Chinese domination. Been decades since I read it but if I remember right they put the white race on trial for legacy of oppression. Whites are caught off-guard by the combination of competence and coldness displayed by their Chinese overlords. Probably worth re-reading today.

Colin, that's a nice theory but I don't think it accords with reality. For example, such nebulous, decidedly unempirical concepts as 'racism' and 'diversity' are at the front and center of Anglo-American political discourse. No one is ever expected to define them in any meaningful way, but their central importance is never questioned by any respectable person.

No, Colin is right–the larger point here is that nominalism is wrong, which is proved by the fact that unwitting nominalists, for instance the "race is a social construct" folks, cannot make their arguments without referring to generalities like "racism."

America's greatest philosopher, Charles Peirce, demonstrated conclusively that generalising–which includes "stereotyping"– is at the root of all thought, and in fact at the root of reality (which I can't go into here obviously). To attempt to think without generalising is the hallmark of a fool.

If "he's undertaking the rearing of 23 children", why the fuck is he in court? How blind to the obvious do you have be not to see that this lowlife is not doing his fucking job? There is no way on earth to raise 23 kids by umpteen different mamas on a bouncer's wages. Not even close. He can't afford the kids–probably couldn't after number 3. If you insist that I don't know this, then you're just playing the fool.

So we– taxpayers, disproportionately white– have to pay for his monkeyshines. What a piece of shit this guy is. And what makes it so revolting is that you, and a large number of your self-identified community, refuse to admit it. It's bad to be retarded, worse to act even more retarded than you already are.

Funniest thing is that of the forty or so stories I scrolled down, exactly ZERO featured white-on-black violence. Most of them seemed to be about whites caught with child porn, which seems to be a point of focus for this kind of negro, as if the ghetto weren't full of Daphonsos banging their baby momma's little sisters. Pretty lame but totally predictable.

I might vote for Palin, but the problem is I can’t. She’s not running for president. Four years of McCain seems like a guarantee of hell on earth. He is a complete idiot in economics, I mean he doesn’t have a clue. He doesn’t even have enough of a clue to pick economic advisors who do have a clue. His position on Georgia is cynical or moronic or both, and his alleged foreign policy expertise just doesn’t exist. On top of that, he looks like a Sleestak from Land of the Lost.

If he wins, I hope he dies quick–and I say this as a hater of fundamentalists. I’d rather have a non-corrupt fundie leading me than a tired old reptile like McCain.