LoL- deh battle against poverty in Africa is lost, and the only question now is the terms of the population reduction.

Ol’ Malthus is making a comeback:

http://www.fao.org/3/I9553EN/i9553en.pdf#page=22

Looky here- it has been sliding in places since 2005!

Low point for Africa was 2014- now comes doom.

The South African destruction of the large farms is the death knell for South Africa as a viable nation, baaaaby.

And now comes the end- a whole lot of hungry people- guess Europe had better get their act together before 100 million show up next, lolol…..

As a very large man, I think the entire topic is essentially bunk. When I was 21, 6’2 and 245 pounds of fit muscle and strength, less than 1% of men could have beaten me. Yes, a bunch of them tried- and small tough drunk guys were the worst- going to for the sucker punch knock out.

Those I usually hurt- one guy had to have his orbital socket rebuilt after I hit him back with my right fist- just one shot back and he was done- 5’11 and 180. If you have done serious physical labor, your hands are hard. You hit really hard. You drink a bit, and people think you are soft. Smaller ones were funny- one called the cops on me after he came to- witnesses said he put his head down and charged at me- I just picked him up off the ground and swung his head into a steel door frame- out for fifteen minutes. The cops asked if I wanted him arrested for assault, I laughed.

I would never try to hurt friends- that was for fun, like wrestling and losing because I was drunk.

But I could flip the switch in a heartbeat- and very few understood that I was would get very angry very fast- just knock my glasses off and hit me, it comes back instantly.

I would note that my son has the same set of reactions, all good until you hit him in anger- then the Irish is up and ready to go. That is the hard part of this stuff, if you are hardwired that way, you try to avoid the conflicts.

Loving the fight? A bit, but the aftermath, not at all. My favorite trick got to be getting them to take a swing and pushing them through the back door of the bar and pulling it shut. By the time they ran all the way around the building they would either start with the bouncers or would begin to think twice about going another round.

Girls were never even a challenge. Had a black belt karate girl hit me. I laughed, a small bruise was it. She tried to throw me, no dice. I did wrestle in high school, so I just sagged when she went to throw me.

Physical conflict exists when you drop below the WEIRD horizon, and you are either ready for it, or it will scare you into a gun or avoidance.

LoL,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsley_massacre

Geez, we should just sit here and allow everyone to show up.

Then they will find out how tough this place is from the bottom.

The smartest Mexicans I have been watching get a house or two, fill ’em with suckerz working the American Dream, and as soon as they get serious equity, when they want to retire, they go and sell out and move back to Mexico.

Why? Because it is soooo cheap, or it was… and now it is getting crowded as well. Believe it or not, but Hermosillo has nearly a million people living in the desert- of course, those jobs supporting it all come from manufacturing for El Norte…

One forgets that Hitler not only managed to unite all of Germany, repel the French out of occupying the Saar, and integrate Austria and Sudeten into a Germany larger than any in history.

And yes, his propaganda was about as bad as much of the screed published today- but he was a master orator, and a master of the political rally.

The movie made by Leni Riefenstahl is still shown as a master stroke of propaganda.

The popular support from his base appeals and results shown in his economic program further pushed his support among the masses.

In contrast, as pointed out above, the English ruling class was so damned idiotic that they began to fear their own little homegrown fascists- who were totally ineffective in reality.

But the Empire was going to end because of the fiscal mismanagement of 1925 that stuck all the way until 1931- the revaluation of the pound.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill_in_politics,_1900%E2%80%931939#Chancellor_of_the_Exchequer

Baldwin’s Government was a great example of Imperial idiocy, complete with the strengthening of the labor movement through total tone deaf reactionary policies.

I don’t think that she is going to be happy in America. We are not going to really put her into a place of safety and security. Her children are going to be fed into the maw of American poverty.

The girl is lost, but she might come to her senses. Her story arc resembles that of the young girl in Traffic.

Now, why do we import refugees into a country that is about to blow apart from our own problems?

Cannon fodder for the next wars?

Her sons can die for the American way.

We will give her a nice flag for each of them.

So whose name gets to be the last American killed in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, etc?

Dying for a place on the memorial, boys.

“The war was being run by a bunch of four-star clowns who were going to end up giving the whole circus away.”

Some things don’t change- I wonder if Rand has a new copy of the Pentagon Papers regarding post 9/11.

And a new Nixon in office….he vowed to get out too- and yet pushed more into it…simply amazing.

What a buffoon, what if that was simply because of greater reward here for genius types?

And our bottom barrel immigration sure looks pretty bad from a viewpoint of overall intelligence, but I guess Frank isn’t too concerned as long as they are his short order cook, maid, and dishwasher crew.

Why don’t American young and undereducated get employment, because the economic bottom rungs are inhabited by tons of recent illegal immigrants.

I am tired of the obvious not being stated, and our schools are now being overrun by anchor babies and children illegally brought by their parents.

So Trump promised to fix this, and he sure is failing.

Our elites are failing the common people of America, and yet they continue to think that unlimited immigration is a good idea.

So, we import our new underclass, and the old ones can just starve.

Utter fools.

Dinh, you are a fool. The Spanish police until the last two decades were always a bit trigger happy. And then you forget the Guardia Civil. They were the people in charge of keeping Franco’s Spain quiet, and it was quiet like the grave.

The really funny part is the Arab folks are brimming with anger that is now being met by the anger of the natives.

Read the Blood of Spain, and see the complicated relationship between Franco’s Moros and how they ravaged parts of Spain during the Civil War.

The really ironic part is these “radicalized” kids are simply fodder for the papers back home, and an excuse to begin the round ups and mass deportations.

Fascism is now returning to Europe because of the liberal insanity of open borders and mass immigration.

Go see this in Spain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valle_de_los_Ca%C3%ADdos

Built by the prisoners of France, and then ponder what it means when a people get tired of too much change.

Once again, wasted time talking about a conspiracy for 9/11.

Instead, take the actors at their word.

Rumsfeld stopped fighting the pentagon waste machine, because his power group of neocons were going to swing for the fences with the giant opportunity that landed on the Pentagon.

And Cheney was the visionary who seized the opportunity and spun it into war upon war that made him and his former company vast amounts of wealth.

Evil opportunists who used the dead as a shield against anything opposing their war plans.

Iraq is the sign they went for everything they thought they could get- and if it had gone well they would have taken on Iran, but Iraq utterly failed.

Effing morons, the conspiracy was getting rid of Saddam to serve Israel and Saudi Arabia.

We pulled troops out of Afpak to start the invasion bullshit and didn’t finish off the Taliban or OBL.

They are the true war criminals- they should be tried for all of the dead, our own first and foremost.

And Bremer is the best example of incompetence that I could conceive of as proof they were and are idiots in the service of our allies and their wealth.

Haliburton alone should be enough evidence of all of my comments.

Nice article- Fred is making sense.

Double plus moment: https://www.unz.com/gnxp/the-dead-weight-of-culture/

We have a definite dead weight of our idiot culture moment.

Trump should basically play this meme and get us out of our international morass.

WW2 was a long damned time ago- now it is the war of culture and economics.

Finally a columnist that realizes that neither Putin, Erdy, or Obama controls anything in Syria, they just send more bombs and money down that rathole.

What a bunch of tribal comments= huge timewaster.

I stand by my earlier comments, just issue passports to anyone that wants one.

Russia should concentrate on their future, not this mess of a place with a coal mine and a rusted out factory base.

So much to do in Russia, and yet they worry about control and looting instead of development and progress.

Deliver progress and much repression is forgiven, that is the true lesson of the 1950s, and yet everyone wants glory instead of a new car.

Or an apartment where everything works, or a governing system that works well.

What a bunch of twaddle.

The west has been butchering the middle east for two hundred years.

With minimal effort.

It is with damn near ridicule I note that Israel dominates the neighbors in military and economic terms despite being outnumbered 100-1.

The idiots who think Europe will continue to be dominated by Merkel Mommy are sooo wrong.

As for the islamic state fools, they are simply dead pawns. Now that Erdy has the upper hand, well they are totally superfluous to his dominance of the middle east- and note he made nicey nice with Netanyahoo.

As for the fluffbucket’s cry that westerners are soft, uh we just killed how many in Iraq?

A million? A million in Afpak at least- and we are still not done.

The biggest winners in the middle east are the Iranians and the Turks.

Saudi wah wah aside, they are sooo ineffective they could not fight their way out of a paper bag- and when Iran comes for them I will applaud- they are dead as soon as Ghawar drops production.

Europe is slowly beginning to bury the liberal consensus, and we really have buried it outside of our own class problems that are always pandering fodder during every election.

I really laugh at the thought of the idiot Trump thinking he can bridle our military so casually and get elected.

Pfft, already we are installing Hillary and the war machine continues to wreak havoc.

Consider we have wasted a TRILLION DOLLARS on IRAQ AND AFPAK, and still think we can make them into peaceful democratic consumers.

We incarcerate more men than anyone in the world, and you think we are peaceful?

What a laugh, outside of suburban burbclaves we are as violent as the middle east.

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

And here it is!

A perfect example of inbreeding depression in so many ways.

Most of the town is a bit sloooow.

Huge founder effects now apparent after 5 or 6 effective generations.

Let us state the obvious- there are plenty of Mexican Nationals in American Jails.
https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_citizenship.jsp

They can build a wall, one day at a time, 20 feet high- across the southern border- there are 25,000 inmates subject to the ability to work on this wall. We could easily scrape another 100k of them out of our state prisons.

Now, who say’s Mexico won’t build a wall?

Reduce the sentence by two days for each day worked, and when the sentence is over, out they go.

The inability to see that we have plenty of laws that are simply being ignored shows how dumb the media has become in this country.

For instance, a real national ID rollout timed to the 2020 census would be the final part of the solution- with genetic databank.

No real ID, then you must be investigated and deported, or given a real id upon contact with the government.

It is orwellian, but it will end so much scamming and corruption here.

Deporting millions can happen, and when Europe burns from their idiot level stance on immigration of the third world, we will shut the doors.

As for our multicultural elite morons, well, they can sit there in San Francisco and complain, but the fact is this country is going to turn to internal problems and stop policing the world.

America, always taking in these hard working immigrants who think they can reap the rewards from the system, and not end up supporting it and becoming part of it.

The only way the East Asian bunch don’t end up like everybody else is if they maintain exclusivity based on their genetic endowment. On the other hand, the great mixing bowl of America tends to suck in all minorities and blend them into America over time. After all, aside from the hardcore Amish, Hassidic, and a few other communities, most of America in four generations of city life ends up extremely sorted by genetic ability (which may end up replicating the Indian caste experience).

The really funny part is the predominant upper class mostly maintains their position, but Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending’s boiling off theories apply to all populations- so what are we selecting for in America?

It appears we are selecting for meritocratic entrance to various levels of society through educational selection- which explicitly discriminates against those who lack genetic ability or the cultural package to meet those hurdles- I would note that many outsider groups explicitly discriminate internally against participation in the predominant system (do well in school, you are ostracized by the social structure of the community).

Now looking at Tiger Mother’s cultural package- gee are we set up for our https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine-rank_system examinations to preserve our place in society, or what? And when those children fall out of that rigid system into the predominant culture, they will rise or sink based on the class based cultural package, plus their genetic advantage in exploiting that package.

One of the problems of large scale immigration is the belief that the cultural package from the old country will thrive and survive the predominant culture- when almost all evidence from America indicates the primary culture will imprint on immigrants.

For good or bad.

I find that racism is really discrimination against substandard cultural packages by the predominant part of the culture that actually rules America- in short, if you are a gang member, low education, then you get fed into the criminal justice machine- and guess what, that applies if you are black, white (look at the educational attainment of white prisoners), native American, etc.

While we seem to want to blame genetics and implicitly race for so much, the cultural package that comes with various parts of society is also complicit in individual and collective outcomes.

I guess the part that makes it all difficult is one realizes that the choice to participate in various cultural packages is free and open, but the nurture part of upbringing will be so strong in most that they will never exit their predominant social milieu during their lifetimes.

What a f$cking joke.

America is about to turn into a cornpone dictatorship due to the failure of our f$cking elites, and she thinks we won’t do anything about the flood of illegals that have come to this country?

Ha. Here is a comment for you, yon well employed chica hanging out in America’s lux educrat system: Figure out how angry working class America is at how the elites of both parties have screwed them, how the R party Chamber of Greed turfed the Tea Party, and how the unions sold out to Wall Street, and shudder for your future.

If you are lucky, you might just avoid the re-education camps.

For the cost of two F35 fighters, everyone will be in the system, registered, and either deported or taxed extra for living here.

The really funny part is so many have volunteered their existence through the executive programs- programs that can easily be turned into deportation orders.

Effing dumb. Like most of our f$cking elites.

Trump is the first real candidate who isn’t from the political system, and he won’t be the last.

Soon we will get the full fascist playbook, with real promises to the masses that have real benefits.

Look at what Haider said 20 years ago- at least the National Socialists had a real employment policy- and that is the key- real payoffs to the bottom half of society.

10 million deported- it can happen. And quite a few will flee as fast as possible.

Convicted of a crime and illegal- your wall building labor camp awaits…then deportation.

Our elites are clueless f$cks who thinks they know it all, they know nothing.

Well, if you accept that populations differ greatly in genetic components, then you have to accept that the nature part of the genetics may lead to different social outcomes.

After all, we are finding that extrapolation of WEIRD dynamics to populations outside of western civilization does not work. See all the economics research on group dynamics.

Of course, saying it makes one a racist, not a realist.

But given how people turn into tribal idiots at the first real threat to their settled worldview, well, humanity has a long way to go to understand itself.

Ahilan, how much damage would it do to your viewpoint of humanity to accept what Fisher wrote?

The really funny part is how difficult it is to accept that you are simply a random outcome of sperm vs egg competition, and your success is dependent on the survival of your dependents.

As a male, think of the number of men of each generation that did not have children. They are the genetic branches that have been pruned from humanity- stretching back to the first bands of humans to leave Africa. The fact we prune so many from each generation means evolution is still measuring fitness, unlike a lot of animals with fairly stable dna.

So, while race is a handy construct, the interesting part is Fisher is even hinting at better combinations producing humans which will be even more successful.

We are the neanderthals, and in twenty generations humanity will look back and wonder what we were thinking.

Here, read some of the real history of our “militia” and the rights of the people to keep popguns.

http://www.thomhartmann.com/forum/2013/04/regarding-pesky-%E2%80%9Cwell-regulated-militia%E2%80%9D-2nd-amendment-what-exactly-did-it-mean

As far as I am concerned, the odds of successful rebellion are near to zero- only in the wide open and empty spaces of the American West does anyone think there is a real chance.

Too much heroic media- or as a vet told me a few years ago- “Our fledgling rebels play act at it, they should see how nasty it really is in Iraq, with the torture, killings, ethnic cleansing, and true hatred that has happened since we knocked off Saddam and let loose what was already there in terms of underlying hatreds.” In short, we coddle our kiddies, unlike what has happened in the past where previous rebels were basically shot dead by the state. See SLA, MOVE, etc.

Now, when families are involved, it is probably a good idea to not push it too hard, the lessons of MOVE and Waco show that dead wimmin and chillens is bad pr.

Another good example is the low level conflict dissolution of the FLDS hegemony in Arizona/Utah. It had to happen, and btw the Bundy’s are related to a lot of folks in the area who are FLDS- so rebellion against the state is a natural thing for them.

It all goes along until the old guys in SLC First Presidency decide it is causing entirely too much fuss, and they should behave or else. The or else is exactly how Mitt Romney’s family choose exile for a while until they reconciled with SLC.

Tie ’em to the LDS community and the old guys will make it quiet- after all have to keep the skeletons from Mountain Meadows firmly in the closet of Deseret.

In short, thinking this kind of crazy is a mass movement is like discussing the clans fighting in Dagestan having a real affect on Putin’s geostrategy- same thing, no real deal.

Bushwa!!!

Scamming LDS sinners are not the best of the country!!!

They grazed the land under rent- not as owners- I am an owner of that land as a citizen, and they scammed me.

Period. End of story.

As for their occupation- eff em- arrest them, and take away their rights to their toy guns.

That would serve them right- no more popguns.

Post constitutional my ass- they have more rights to guns than folks did 200 years ago- after all they can go and buy them for dang near nothing, whereas 200 years ago it took 3-6 months wages to buy a decent used gun.

Well regulated militia clause is of course, totally ignored- and these morons are certainly not regulated.

Just more idiots like Shay- which our founding fathers promptly put down after trying to talk sense into them.

The frontiers are always full of idiots- we need a new frontier to send them out to settle and get rid of them from civilization. Because they can’t handle civilization- it requires following the rules and living within boundaries.

I particularly like the native americans telling them to get out of the wildlife refuge- it was ours before you came to complain the feds stole it from you ‘uns!

Dang Rancher is a dumb$ss- he should be hiring paroled felons over the age of 35.

Then he gets his law enforcement of cheap wages, plus he gets them to behave well until their probation or parole is up.

He could have his pick, plus they would actually be grateful for better food and some freedom.

They might whine a bit about the cold, but they also know the alternative can be much worse.

Funny how they really don’t think much out there in the boondocks, and really funny considering how many of their imports are also probably criminals.

Deport them all. It will come down to that.

And it will happen, because Americans are fed up with the social costs.

And their kids can go with and show up when they are 18.

It is amazing to see how things change, and not for the better.

Those illegal Honduran Immigrants should go home and take back their country.

It is theirs. They can do it, and drown those gangs in the blood they want to shed.

If they so loved America, then make their own country work.

LoL, Razib, thanks to the media, women have long thought they are now the equals of men.

On the other hand, I see in watching youth basketball the exit of all the girls after age 12 from the basketball teams, where before that age they can play with the boys. They physically can not compete with most of the boys after the beginning of puberty. Indeed most of them are shocked by the rough and tumble in basketball, let alone football or wrestling.

I further recall in my college days a young lady hitting me with all her strength in my chest, and my laughter at her actions- she stopped when I grabbed her and lifted her off the ground while holding her arms. She was shocked at how easily I stopped her attacks. I weighed twice her weight (1.8 m, 125kg), , and lifted iron at the time. Quite simply 99% of women are overmatched by the same sized man, let alone one larger- and the size disparity can be tremendous.

Yet the fantasy is played out on a daily basis. Another young lady was quite proud of her black belt, but even then said that she would lose if someone larger managed to grapple with her.

One of the most interesting things is the realization as a larger youth when my mother the nurse told me that I would have to be careful because I could literally knock out or kill with one blow, and that the number of women seriously hurt fighting with men coming to the Emergency Room was far larger than the number of men.

The only thing that equalizes in a fight is Mr. Colt’s product.

Upon reflection, I think the problem is related to the desire for safety as mentioned above- the fact that the institution is not guaranteeing a fair and safe life off campus is seen as “failing”. The reality is that today’s children do not seem to be raised with any awareness of how life is dangerous, and actions like roving around drunk may have serious long term consequences beyond a silly wascist comment by drunken frat boys.

The coddling of today’s children starts at a young age, when any physical contact is instantly reported, and schools can not even provide minimal discipline to students without parental reaction. Forty years ago as a public student in Texas, physical discipline was regularly used on elementary students, including the use of a wooden paddle. Violence between students was often met with a trip to the vice principle and immediate use of that paddle.

And today, we have a social justice model where higher institutions are swayed by protests, while young adults raised in educational institutions of permissive tolerance soon find the police don’t care and will administer corrective violence at the drop of a hat.

Is it better to teach the condign power of the state at a young age, or to allow it only to be used on “adults” in a random fashion? The really funny part is the sheer amount of privilege being used by the young woman shrieking at the Professor, with no apparent fear of retribution. The really funny part is in a fairly small institution, notice is taken of her willingness to attack, and all kinds of bureaucratic notes are taken to “dox” her if she steps over a line that she will not even be aware of the existence unless she consults the fine print of the student manual. The she will find out the power of the bureaucracy, which is slow in response, but will wait until she does not have her crowd backing her up.

Then when she gets to the real world, and some mean old boss lady gets that treatment of protest, the response may well be the security guard walk of shame with her box of desk clutter.

The University does no favors to encourage the thought of “home”, when in fact these children, for they act as children, are not being prepared for the real world. In loco parentis is dead, the age of majority is 18, and parents should train their children to be functional adults at that age, and not children shrieking for Mommy and Daddy to helicopter in and keep them safe.

http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/tempe/breaking/2015/09/08/tempe-asu-report-kidnapping-sex-abuse/71885182/

Real life bad consequences from drunken vulnerability.

Har, so the kiddies are drunk and turned away because the party is full, and the first thought is wacism. Humph.

Guess we need a Dean Wormer here: “Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.”

Well, the son is patronizing, and fat shaming is not allowed- so that leaves stupid.

But she got into Yale- ok, so elitist and stupid.

That shrieking crap was soooo emotional, she just needed some validation.

I would have said go home if you want home, this ain’t it, baaaby.

The real world will be much crueler to her than the University would ever dare because she will cry wascist. Lol.

Victim crying by people who are manifestly not victims.

Arrgh- missed the edit- only 1,000 of the primitives are left.

Further comments would include checking the pastoralists for milk compatability versus the hunter/gatherers.

We probably should start collecting dna from disappearing tribes to bank for posterity.

After all, they might have a mutation or two that could be adaptive in some other circumstance.

Like the seed bank in Svalbaard.

The other interesting thinking is the replacement of lower levels of the population by the elites through out competition over the long run. The Son Also Rises has shown the elites downward mobility still pushes the bottom into extinction. Is the average level of intelligence in China greater now than 2,000 years ago after ruthless selection by the scholar tests?

The comment about HG Wells is just the start, what happens when the rich can better select actual traits for their children.

The really funny part is nobody has commented on the really interesting part of the entire analysis: The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadza_people are essentially dying off rapidly (only 1,0000 left) as they are being destroyed by the neighboring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datooga_people, (est. at 90k and growing rapidly)who are themselves a branch of the Nilotic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilotic_peoples people with significant genetic flow back into Africa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_E-M215_%28Y-DNA%29 .

The really funny part is this essentially shows modern genes replacing older genes in a rapid fashion, all the while people are arguing about the European replacement now evident in the gene records regarding Bell Beaker, etc.

What this really shows is that social genetics is especially ruthless in weeding out less competitive populations, even from marginal spaces.

That is the true lesson of science and while everyone likes to “preserve” primitive cultures, they are just going to be destroyed in competition with the most advanced cultures, including those cultures that have undergone past selections for traits that lead to more success in the modern setting.

How about someone who doesn’t give a shit about the middle east, and thinks we have been damned fools led into a sticky morass for decades.

You know what? I don’t like Hillary, and I don’t like Netanyahoo, and I don’t like most of the shit I read about how we are responsible for everything in the Middle East since fricking 1900.

Screw ’em. They are responsible for their own mess, and the fact that we meddle means we are damned stupid. But meddling isn’t control.

But then I see the big ass mosque that was built on I-17 in Phoenix every damned day, and realize we are importing this tribal bullshit here, and that pisses me off too.

If you are Jewish and support Israel, more power to ya, and good luck with the neighbors.

As for wanting my tax dollars, I vote no.

Fix our own messes, and if people think our government should be Islamic, then maybe they shouldn’t move here.

The rest of your beltway blather is boring.

Why do we own this shit?

Are these people in Libya incapable of doing anything without Hillary’s instigation?

How damned immature of us to conclude everything flows from our clown politicians.

As for Syria, that storm has been brewing for 50 flipping years, and you want to blame the politician who last stirred in some more arms?

Geez, what about Putin or Iran?

In short, stop simplistic cause and effect, and realize the rest of the world has real agency in their own damned countries.

Ron Unz should police this crap better- most of the Ron Paul stuff is designed to help his inept idiot son attempt to tea party the republican party.

Flipping boring.

As for the torture, Gee Saif busted a lot of folks into submission for daddy and himself, and now payback is here.

What a surprise. Surprise is they haven’t brought out the sword and done the execution in the square yet.

Nothing has changed since the Ottoman Empire ran most of the middle east, including the playbook on payback and repression, yet we are to blame?

Har.