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    From the New York state Department of Health: Don't trust my medical judgment, but I have to say that verbal descriptions of Merck's molnupiravir have always struck me as, well, terrifying: e.g., it works by "garbling the DNA" of the virus. That sounds good, as long as it doesn't garble any other DNA, such as...
  • We need to start shopping for counterfeit vax certs.

    • Agree: Gordo
    • Replies: @The Wild Geese Howard
    @Rob McX


    We need to start shopping for counterfeit vax certs.
     
    Hochul just signed a bill making that a felony in the state of NY.

    The Feeb has made noise about, "severe punishment," for this sort of thing.
    , @Jim Don Bob
    @Rob McX

    You can find pdfs of the CDC vaccine card on line. At least that's what a friend told me.

  • From a New York Times news article: Britain’s Crossbow Rules in the Cross Hairs After Windsor Castle Breach Britain’s Home Office said it was “considering options to strengthen controls” on the weapons, part of a continuing review, after a man was arrested in castle grounds with one. By Isabella Kwai Dec. 28, 2021, 11:45 a.m....
  • @John Johnson
    @Jack D

    For a while at least, it looked like the colonization of Africa (certainly S. Africa) was going to work out and be just as successful as other Western colonial endeavors.

    South Africa suffered the British invasion and then later the wrath of the entire world.

    Even under sanctions they still had a stronger currency than any African country.

    One mistake they made was assuming the world would value their patronage of the Bantu. In their minds by elevating the standard of living for Africans in their borders the world wouldn't care if they had racial separation. Hitler was correct in that the world forgets where countries come from. If you carve out a country and push out the natives the world will treat you like any other country a hundred years later. South Africa tried to be nice and create homelands for everyone which actually later incurred the wrath of the world powers. US/UK decided that race doth not exist and the USSR opposed them for obvious political reasons.

    Imagine a world without WWI and WWII. One where there was no USSR acting as a thorn in the size of colonialism (not because they really gave a damn about Africans but as a way of countering the West). One in which maybe the colonial powers took action to ensure that the benefits of Western medicine would not create a population explosion among the natives. It might have turned out quite differently.

    The worst aspect of WW1 was that it killed off so many strong minded Europeans while the weak and cowardly stayed home to breed. The British undoubtedly suffered the worst as their upper class military families were basically fed to machine guns. Most of their Viking and Germanic warriors were cut down in battles where they didn't even see the enemy. Machine guns and artillery ended thousands of years of natural selection.

    Britain had major dysgenic drain after WW1 and then along comes WW2.

    There is really little hope for them. They bow to US egalitarian race delusions and also the relics of their class system. They can't even admit that trying to turn London into NYC was a dumb idea.

    Replies: @Rob McX

    If you carve out a country and push out the natives the world will treat you like any other country a hundred years later. South Africa tried to be nice and create homelands for everyone which actually later incurred the wrath of the world powers.

    True. And the story continues everywhere else. Whites might as well set about forming separate nations for themselves. Instead, they try to make life better for the nonwhites in their societies. The harder they try, the more they are despised, but they can’t or won’t see that. It’s totally futile.

  • @Jack D
    @Almost Missouri

    But I assume you would agree that the discovery of the Americas was a good thing? Australia too?

    So you have a sort of hindsight is 20-20 thing. For a while at least, it looked like the colonization of Africa (certainly S. Africa) was going to work out and be just as successful as other Western colonial endeavors.

    In the end, it came down to population. Maybe if European man hadn't spent the 1st half of the 20th century killing each other they would have had the population and civilizational energy to complete the colonization of Africa.

    Imagine a world without WWI and WWII. One where there was no USSR acting as a thorn in the size of colonialism (not because they really gave a damn about Africans but as a way of countering the West). One in which maybe the colonial powers took action to ensure that the benefits of Western medicine would not create a population explosion among the natives. It might have turned out quite differently.

    Replies: @Almost Missouri, @John Johnson

    For a while at least, it looked like the colonization of Africa (certainly S. Africa) was going to work out and be just as successful as other Western colonial endeavors.

    South Africa suffered the British invasion and then later the wrath of the entire world.

    Even under sanctions they still had a stronger currency than any African country.

    One mistake they made was assuming the world would value their patronage of the Bantu. In their minds by elevating the standard of living for Africans in their borders the world wouldn’t care if they had racial separation. Hitler was correct in that the world forgets where countries come from. If you carve out a country and push out the natives the world will treat you like any other country a hundred years later. South Africa tried to be nice and create homelands for everyone which actually later incurred the wrath of the world powers. US/UK decided that race doth not exist and the USSR opposed them for obvious political reasons.

    Imagine a world without WWI and WWII. One where there was no USSR acting as a thorn in the size of colonialism (not because they really gave a damn about Africans but as a way of countering the West). One in which maybe the colonial powers took action to ensure that the benefits of Western medicine would not create a population explosion among the natives. It might have turned out quite differently.

    The worst aspect of WW1 was that it killed off so many strong minded Europeans while the weak and cowardly stayed home to breed. The British undoubtedly suffered the worst as their upper class military families were basically fed to machine guns. Most of their Viking and Germanic warriors were cut down in battles where they didn’t even see the enemy. Machine guns and artillery ended thousands of years of natural selection.

    Britain had major dysgenic drain after WW1 and then along comes WW2.

    There is really little hope for them. They bow to US egalitarian race delusions and also the relics of their class system. They can’t even admit that trying to turn London into NYC was a dumb idea.

    • Agree: Rob McX
    • Replies: @Rob McX
    @John Johnson


    If you carve out a country and push out the natives the world will treat you like any other country a hundred years later. South Africa tried to be nice and create homelands for everyone which actually later incurred the wrath of the world powers.
     
    True. And the story continues everywhere else. Whites might as well set about forming separate nations for themselves. Instead, they try to make life better for the nonwhites in their societies. The harder they try, the more they are despised, but they can't or won't see that. It's totally futile.
  • An opinion piece from Scientific American: The Complicated Legacy of E.O. Wilson We must reckon with his and other scientists’ racist ideas if we want an equitable future December 29, 2021 Monica R. McLemore is an associate professor in the Family Health Care Nursing Department and a clinician-scientist at Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health...
  • @S
    Hmmm...I wonder what the founder of Scientific American, Rufus Porter (1792 -1884), might of thought about all of this?

    Anyhow, the guy was a real genius.

    In 1849, at a time when they had had things like public air shows with 'aeronauts' doing parachute jumps from hot air balloons for well nigh 50 plus years, Porter was taking things to a whole new level with his 'aeroport' and air ship designs.

    If it hadn't been for a string of some really bad luck, who knows what might of been?

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/1849_ad_for_Rufus_Porter%27s_New-York-to-California_transport.jpg


    In 1849 Porter planned to build an 800-foot steam-powered airship with accommodations for 50 to 100 passengers, aiming to convey miners to the California Gold Rush. He had already built and flown several scale models in Boston and New York. He advertised New York-to-California service, asking a $50 down payment for a $200 fare, and began building immediately. His first "aeroport" was 240 feet long; it was destroyed by a tornado. Later that year, he began a 700-foot version with new backers, but during a showing of the almost-complete dirigible on Thanksgiving Day, rowdy visitors tore the hydrogen bag and destroyed it. In 1854 his third attempt ended with technical troubles.

     

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus_Porter_(inventor)

    Replies: @El Dato, @Rob McX

    Later that year, he began a 700-foot version with new backers, but during a showing of the almost-complete dirigible on Thanksgiving Day, rowdy visitors tore the hydrogen bag and destroyed it.

    Kind of a metaphorical premonition?

    • Agree: S
  • From Nature: Too many scientists still say Caucasian WORLD VIEW 24 August 2021 Racist ideas of categories for human identity continue to warp research and medicine. Alice B. Popejoy Of the ten clinical genetics labs in the United States that share the most data with the research community, seven include ‘Caucasian’ as a multiple-choice category...
  • @The Anti-Gnostic
    OT: Have another blue pill Steve-o.

    Amy Schneider continues streak as most successful female "Jeopardy!" champ


    https://i.imgur.com/Of2LUO1.png


    This is a female, bigots.

    Replies: @Rob McX, @Muggles, @Alden, @duncsbaby

    That’s a useful picture for anyone who accidentally ingests a tab of Viagra.

  • Well, not from me ... I don't make a lot of short-term predictions with expirations dates because I'd probably be wrong, which would be embarrassing. Besides most of the most interesting events of an upcoming year will turn out to be the ones that nobody sees coming right now. But this is your chance to...
  • @Jack Armstrong
    Wishing You All the iSteveiest NEW YEAR!

    NEW YORK (AP) — Amanda Gorman is ending her extraordinary year on a hopeful note.

    The 23-year-old poet, whose reading of her own “The Hill We Climb” at President Joe Biden’s inauguration made her an international sensation, posted a new work and accompanying video Wednesday on Instagram to mark the end of 2021. “New Day’s Lyric” is a five-stanza, 48-line resolution with themes of struggle and healing known to admirers of “The Hill We Climb” and of her bestselling collection “Call Us What We Carry,” which came out in early December:
     

    “What was cursed, we will cure.

    What was plagued, we will prove pure.

    Where we tend to argue, we will try to agree,

    Those fortunes we forswore, now the future we foresee,

    Where we weren’t aware, we’re now awake;

    Those moments we missed

    Are now these moments we make,

    The moments we meet,

    And our hearts, once all together beaten,

    Now all together beat.”

    Poets rarely enjoy the kind of attention Gorman received in 2021, but in an email to The Associated Press she reflected less on her own success than on the state of the country. Gorman wrote that the “chaos and instability” of the past year had made her reject the idea of going “back to normal” and instead fight to “move beyond it.” She mentioned Maya Angelou’s poem “Human Family” and added, “To be a family, a country, doesn’t necessitate that we be the same or agree on everything, only that we continue to try to see the best in each other and move forward into a shared future. Whether we like it or not, we are in this together.”

    Gorman offered an alliterative response when asked what inspired “New Day’s Lyric,” telling the AP that she “wanted to write a lyric to honor the hardships, hurt, hope and healing of 2021 while also harkening the potential of 2022.”

    “This is such a unique New Year’s Day, because even as we toast our glasses to the future, we still have our heads bowed for what has been lost,” she wrote. “I think one of the most important things the new year reminds us is of that old adage: This too shall pass. You can’t relive the same day twice — meaning every dawn is a new one, and every year an opportunity to step into the light.”

    In her Instagram post, Gorman urged readers to donate money to the International Rescue Committee to help those affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Instagram’s parent company, Meta, has pledged $50,000.
     
    Love, Jack

    Replies: @additionalMike, @Jenner Ickham Errican, @duncsbaby, @Barnard, @Possumman, @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Sue D. Nim

    Roses be red-Violets be blue-Newports be menthol-Swisher Sweets be too.

    • Thanks: Jack Armstrong
    • LOL: Rob McX
  • An opinion piece from Scientific American: The Complicated Legacy of E.O. Wilson We must reckon with his and other scientists’ racist ideas if we want an equitable future December 29, 2021 Monica R. McLemore is an associate professor in the Family Health Care Nursing Department and a clinician-scientist at Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health...
  • @Ed
    Scientific American is letting registered nurses write opinion pieces now?

    Replies: @Russ, @Rob McX

    Ooh, Matron!

  • Well, not from me ... I don't make a lot of short-term predictions with expirations dates because I'd probably be wrong, which would be embarrassing. Besides most of the most interesting events of an upcoming year will turn out to be the ones that nobody sees coming right now. But this is your chance to...
  • @AnotherDad
    @Jack Armstrong


    A USN carrier strike group will come under attack by Chinese or Russian aircraft.
     
    One the weirder forms of weird is all the people guys--yeah this one is a guy thing--prattling on about great power wars.

    Seriously 1945 happened--before i was born even! Ever heard of "nuclear weapons".

    We haven't had direct great power conflict since then. (You can argue that the Chinese and Americans were a bit reckless in 1950. But the Chicoms were newly in power and not nuclear armed.)

    Sorry war geeks there isn't going to be direct great power conflict anytime soon for obvious reasons. Someone would have to be ridiculously stupid. It's not 1914 anymore.

    Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Rob McX, @silviosilver, @Jack Armstrong, @ic1000, @Colin Wright

    You have to remember that history is full of surprises though. But I do hope you’re right about this.

  • Washington watchers will become alarmed when the the director of Weekend at Bernie’s is seen moving into the West Wing to perform unspecified duties.

    • LOL: Alden
  • From Nature: Too many scientists still say Caucasian WORLD VIEW 24 August 2021 Racist ideas of categories for human identity continue to warp research and medicine. Alice B. Popejoy Of the ten clinical genetics labs in the United States that share the most data with the research community, seven include ‘Caucasian’ as a multiple-choice category...
  • I work at the intersection of statistics, evolutionary genomics and bioethics.

    Well, I work at the intersection of Lexington and 42nd St., but nobody publishes my thoughts in Nature magazine.

    • Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
    @Achmed E. Newman

    a) Reg Caesar, you let us down this morning. Why do I gotta be the one to pick up all the slack?

    b) For NYC dwellers, Gary and others, yeah, I know this is not likely the intersection of Lexington and 42nd. That comes from an Elton John song. Hey, there are 2 puzzles for y'all: 1) the easy one - which song? and 2) which intersection?

    Replies: @Technite78, @nebulafox, @Gary in Gramercy

  • The United States military has many problems. It just lost a 20-year in Afghanistan that ended in a disastrous withdrawal and the deaths of 13 Marines. No one was punished except for a military officer who criticized his superiors’ incompetence. Last year, a sailor set fire to some cardboard boxes in an amphibious assault ship,...
  • The US military has been working to make America weaker as a nation for…how long? Opinions vary. Maybe close to a century.

  • From Nature: Too many scientists still say Caucasian WORLD VIEW 24 August 2021 Racist ideas of categories for human identity continue to warp research and medicine. Alice B. Popejoy Of the ten clinical genetics labs in the United States that share the most data with the research community, seven include ‘Caucasian’ as a multiple-choice category...
  • Still, I have been dismayed by how often the academics and clinicians I’ve encountered shy away from examining, or even acknowledging, how racism warps science.

    Anti-white racism is warping science, and this article of hers is a good example of that.

  • She’s got something against Caucasians? Let’s hope this guy doesn’t find out.

    • Agree: AKAHorace
    • LOL: kaganovitch
    • Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard
    @Rob McX

    I think it's still PC to call this guy a Caucasian:

    https://idsb.tmgrup.com.tr/ly/uploads/images/2020/10/30/68794.jpg

  • An opinion piece from Scientific American: The Complicated Legacy of E.O. Wilson We must reckon with his and other scientists’ racist ideas if we want an equitable future December 29, 2021 Monica R. McLemore is an associate professor in the Family Health Care Nursing Department and a clinician-scientist at Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health...
  • What next, George Floyd will get a posthumous PhD from Caltech?

    • LOL: Kylie
  • Well, not from me ... I don't make a lot of short-term predictions with expirations dates because I'd probably be wrong, which would be embarrassing. Besides most of the most interesting events of an upcoming year will turn out to be the ones that nobody sees coming right now. But this is your chance to...
  • Not sure if it’ll happen in the next year, but I can see the morpheme trans being cancelled. It suggests a barrier that has to be crossed to go from one “gender” to another, a relic from the bad old days when people thought there were just two sexes with a clear dividing line.

    • Replies: @James N. Kennett
    @Rob McX


    I can see the morpheme trans being cancelled.
     
    Good prediction. We have already gone from "transsexual" to "transgender" with hardly anybody noticing. Now we only have to replace "trans", and the whole of the dirty old word is gone.

    Replies: @animalogic

  • Were the top movies of 2007 aimed solely at male audiences? Were there any good date movies that both sexes would enjoy? (Suggestions for 2007 include Once, Juno. Waitress, and Hairspray.) In general, males tend to be more nostalgic and backward looking in their tastes. They are also much more into rankings and the general...
  • On Christmas and Die Hard, I feel I have to link to this. I’ve never included a Tweet in a comment, so here we go!

  • Last Thursday in the Burlington Coat Factory store in North Hollywood, CA (which has taken over part of the old Sears building that was my Dad's favorite store), a crazy man randomly attacked multiple women with his bike lock chain. The LAPD was called and found him beating a woman. A cop shot him dead...
  • @Rob
    @Rob McX

    A few years ago there was a mass murder of Illegal Cambodian(?) migrants at a grow house (maybe greenhouse) in Blimey. Not sure if anyone was ever convicted, or even arrested. They suspected organized crime. New Scotland Yard, they are.

    Replies: @Rob McX

    I’ve never heard of that. Are you sure you’re not confusing it with the deaths of 39 Vietnamese stowaways on a lorry in Essex two years ago? It seems some of them were destined for work in the cannabis growing industry.

    • Replies: @Rob
    @Rob McX

    Huh. I coulda sworn. A quick googling did not bring it up. Even tried google.co.uk, but only got American results.

  • @Chris Mallory
    @Diversity Heretic

    Interior walls are not resistant to anything except for birdshot. All centerfire rounds, including buckshot and slugs, will penetrate multiple sheetrock walls.

    Yes I do acknowledge the existence of exotic, boutique rounds that do not overpenetrate, like Glaser safety slugs. But those rounds are typically not used by anyone but Air Marshals.

    Replies: @Rob McX

    Yes I do acknowledge the existence of exotic, boutique rounds that do not overpenetrate, like Glaser safety slugs. But those rounds are typically not used by anyone but Air Marshals.

    It was this type of round that John Hinckley used in his assassination attempt, a .22LR with aluminium and lead azide in the bullet, which was designed to explode on impact with the target. This was supposed to stop it from ricocheting or penetrating the fuselage of an aircraft. Only the one that hit James Brady actually exploded, which probably saved his life.

  • @Rob McX
    @prosa123

    In the past, police had access to high powered weapons locked away in preparation for a worst case scenario, but nowadays they have them in the squad car ready to use. What's strange about the Miami case is how ill-equipped the police and FBI were, considering that they knew they were hunting a pair of criminals who had already committed several murders.

    Replies: @Prosa123, @Chris Mallory

    Under the FBI’s rules at the time of the Miami Shootout the agents in the task force were required to have at least one machine gun. Unfortunately, the rules as then written called for a machine gun in the task force, not in each vehicle comprising the task force. The agents who had the machine gun were some distance away from the shootout, and didn’t arrive on the scene until it was over.

    That being said, the shootout was a prime example of Murphy’s Law, when everything possible went wrong. For example, one agent lost his glasses when the agents’ car rammed the criminals’ car and couldn’t see well enough to aim without them. Another agent had a shotgun loaded with buckshot, which could have been decisive, but a bullet shattered his arm and despite a valiant attempt was able to get off only one shot. And then there’s the fact that the criminals were in deep shade under a huge tree while the agents were exposed in the blazing Florida sun.

    • Thanks: Rob McX
  • @prosa123
    @Alfa158

    More than any another single factor the 1986 Miami Shootout led to a major upgrade in police weaponry.

    Replies: @Rob McX

    In the past, police had access to high powered weapons locked away in preparation for a worst case scenario, but nowadays they have them in the squad car ready to use. What’s strange about the Miami case is how ill-equipped the police and FBI were, considering that they knew they were hunting a pair of criminals who had already committed several murders.

    • Replies: @Prosa123
    @Rob McX

    Under the FBI's rules at the time of the Miami Shootout the agents in the task force were required to have at least one machine gun. Unfortunately, the rules as then written called for a machine gun in the task force, not in each vehicle comprising the task force. The agents who had the machine gun were some distance away from the shootout, and didn't arrive on the scene until it was over.

    That being said, the shootout was a prime example of Murphy's Law, when everything possible went wrong. For example, one agent lost his glasses when the agents' car rammed the criminals' car and couldn't see well enough to aim without them. Another agent had a shotgun loaded with buckshot, which could have been decisive, but a bullet shattered his arm and despite a valiant attempt was able to get off only one shot. And then there's the fact that the criminals were in deep shade under a huge tree while the agents were exposed in the blazing Florida sun.

    , @Chris Mallory
    @Rob McX

    This video is well worth a person's time in understanding the Miami Shootout.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv8cByaVyNQ

  • @Rob
    @Brutusale

    Yeah, legalizing it and taxing the crap out of it did not make much sense when there’s a well-developed black market in both production and distribution. Pretty much everyone who wants pot can get it. But it’d be nice to just pop by the weed store on the way home instead of waiting hours for a hella unreliable dealer. They’re all unreliable. If they weren’t, they wouldn’t be selling pot!

    Federal legalization/letting states decide will help the legal weed industry. Right now, there are expenses that retailers cannot count against income tax. They have trouble getting banks to deal with them.

    What happens with the legal pot market depends on prices, I think. If there’s no profit selling to high school kids, which is what happened with alcohol, then newly-minted potheads might prefer the legal market. Of course, being a freelance pot dealer is easier than being an alcohol dealer. Pot’s lighter, your coat doesn’t clink. On the production side, alcohol takes some processing, put pot just takes trimming and drying. Pretty sure most people don’t cure it. Moonshine might make you go blind, but weed is weed.

    On the gripping hand, moonshine was a serious business in some areas of the country for a long time. Still is a small industry near where I live.

    Maybe the black market will keep the government from raising taxes too much. Oh! They will want legal weed to be expensive so they can still arrest poor blacks for pot when they can’t prove serious charges.

    Replies: @Bill Jones, @Anon, @Rob McX

    I know that homegrown weed (legal or otherwise) has spawned a whole new type of burglary and home invasion in Britain, where domestic cultivation of cannabis is relatively new. Off the top of my head I can think of two murders in England and Wales that were committed during the theft of cannabis plants from growers’ houses.

    • Replies: @Rob
    @Rob McX

    A few years ago there was a mass murder of Illegal Cambodian(?) migrants at a grow house (maybe greenhouse) in Blimey. Not sure if anyone was ever convicted, or even arrested. They suspected organized crime. New Scotland Yard, they are.

    Replies: @Rob McX

  • @George
    "A cop shot him dead with a rifle, " Well, there's your problem. "A cop shot him dead with a pistol" would have worked out much better IMO.

    Replies: @Rob McX, @jb, @Paul Mendez

    That’s how it seems to me too. The cop could have got close enough not to miss, as the perp only had a chain, and there’d be far less chance of the bullet going through its target and hitting an innocent victim.

  • From a New York Times news article: Britain’s Crossbow Rules in the Cross Hairs After Windsor Castle Breach Britain’s Home Office said it was “considering options to strengthen controls” on the weapons, part of a continuing review, after a man was arrested in castle grounds with one. By Isabella Kwai Dec. 28, 2021, 11:45 a.m....
  • In 1940, Sir Michael Francis O’Dwyer, Lieutenant-Governor of Punjab at the time of the Amritsar massacre, was assassinated in London by Udham Singh. I don’t know the rights or wrongs of his cause, but it’s hard not to respect Singh, who made no attempt to escape or to deny the killing.

    In the court that sentenced him to be hanged, he was asked what his motive was, and he replied:

    I did it because I had a grudge against him. He deserved it. He was the real culprit. He wanted to crush the spirit of my people, so I have crushed him. For full 21 years, I have been trying to seek vengeance. I am happy that I have done the job. I am not scared of death. I am dying for my country. I have seen my people starving in India under the British rule. I have protested against this, it was my duty.

    • Replies: @Jack D
    @Rob McX

    Marx's observation that history repeats itself, the 1st time as tragedy and the 2nd time as farce, comes to mind.

    Crossbow Singh also made some statement about how he expected to die for his mission, except in his case he never got within 500 yards of the Queen and didn't die, just bought himself a ticket to the looney bin.

  • “We are considering options to strengthen controls on crossbows,” a spokesman for Britain’s Home Office said in a statement Tuesday, as part of a continuing review of rules on lethal weapons ordered this year by Priti Patel, the home secretary.

    In 1842 a would-be assassin tried to shoot Queen Victoria as she rode through The Mall in London. His gun misfired, but he escaped.

    So what was the response of the most powerful government and monarch in the world?

    Leave guns legal, but the Queen should ride the same route the next day to see if she can bait shooter back out into the open!

    She did.

    It worked.

    He reappeared, shot at her again, but missed, upon which he was caught.

    The supposedly archaic Victorians were in fact far more tolerant, liberal (in the old sense), and brave than the modern woke police state tyranny that inherited their country.

    • Agree: Rob McX
  • “Britain doesn’t need crossbow control. We need Jasbir Singh Chail control.”

    – Would-be slogan of the British X-bow Association, were it legal to have such an organization with such a slogan.

  • @Almost Missouri
    @AnotherDad

    Arguably, the British improved India: railroads, printing presses, modern medicine, suppressing thuggee and suttee, etv.

    Can the converse be said to be true?

    Anyone wanna take a bet on what Jasbir Singh Chail, Sr.'s "IT company" he runs from his £500,000 four-bed home on a private estate actaully does?

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @Redneck farmer, @Wade Hampton, @HammerJack, @sher singh, @Bill B., @AnotherDad, @Mike Tre

    Anyone who has a mother-in-law living with them knows banning suttee is the REAL crime of the British Empire.

  • From Wikipedia: I want to thank everybody who has contributed to this Christmas 2021 iSteve fundraiser to allow me to get cataract surgery on my eyes in 2022. For those who haven’t yet, here are nine ways for you to contribute to the December fundraiser: First: Most banks now allow fee-free money transfers via Zelle....
  • @Buffalo Joe
    @John

    John, my daughter deals with lots of black mothers through her job. Young boy named Whatever Whatever III. My daughter asked if the boy's dad and grandfather were both named Whatever Whatever and the mother replied, no, why did you ask. Or maybe, why did you axed. And Whatever is because I don't recall the boy's real name, just the story. Stay safe.

    Replies: @Ghost of Bull Moose

    Next you’ll tell me Dr. Dre is not actually a physician!

    • LOL: Rob McX
  • @JimDandy
    @AceDeuce

    I think he did get shot in the nuts once. But if he had lived long enough, he would have ended up trans, anyway.

    Replies: @Rob McX

    “My Generation” needs to be updated: “Hope I die before I go trans…”

    • LOL: JimDandy
  • @John
    I am enjoying this list too much. I like to click the sorting icons - age descending, then age ascending, then back! Not much of a range, I do admit. And clicking 'em for cause of death shows even less: given the other possibilities, "lynching" ought to go right to the top or the bottom, only it's just not there.

    I did click on the Mexican and the Brazilian ones, but their entries are unremarkable. I clicked on an American one and found his real name ended with "III" and I thought: this guy KNEW his father AND his GRANDfather? Wow. But what I really liked was just seeing what other Wikipedias have articles for any given guy. The Brazilian ones have Portuguese articles, of course, but none really adding value. One guy is in the Arabic, and another is in the Czech. Fans are where you find 'em, I guess...or for all I know, professors in Arabian and Czech universities can pad their CVs with "publications" like these. Oddly, only one that I clicked had a parallel entry in Simple English Wikipedia. That is the most underrated or underutilized Wikipedia. Evel Knievel is in it, and that is so right.

    Replies: @Buffalo Joe

    John, my daughter deals with lots of black mothers through her job. Young boy named Whatever Whatever III. My daughter asked if the boy’s dad and grandfather were both named Whatever Whatever and the mother replied, no, why did you ask. Or maybe, why did you axed. And Whatever is because I don’t recall the boy’s real name, just the story. Stay safe.

    • Replies: @Ghost of Bull Moose
    @Buffalo Joe

    Next you’ll tell me Dr. Dre is not actually a physician!

  • @Jack D
    @Charlotte

    Or else she realized from her perch in Montreal that her best future career path would be as an exceptional black person in America rather than as a mediocre Indian anywhere.

    Replies: @Rob McX, @Alden

    Yes. And to Indians, she’d never be a true Indian anyway.

  • @SaneClownPosse
    @Auld Alliance

    Macron is married to an older woman, a mother figure. He is either gay and she is his beard, or he's off in the head in another way sexually.

    Replies: @Rob McX

    Yes, definitely something not quite right there. Lots of 15-year-olds have the hots for their 40-year-old teachers in a Beavis and Butthead sort of way, but they don’t end up married to them nearly 30 years later. As the TikTok generation would say, it’s creepy.

    • Disagree: TTSSYF
  • Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s founding father and long-time prime minister (1959–1990), should be a role model for nationalists across the West. Lee was not a philosopher but a practical politician, so his insights are not theoretical but the product of three decades of leadership. Lee was able to adapt to changing circumstances, eliminate Communist threats,...
  • I lived in Singapore for four years (then retired back to the US). I was warned they were a draconian state, gum and most non-prescription drugs verboten. Shi-sha (hookah, waterpipe) a mainstay of Muslim restaurants where people would go and have long discussions daily (once every three weeks or so for me!) was abolished while I was there, for “health reasons”, although cigarettes were not touched (Chinese men smoke). Alcohol was heavily taxed, so expensive (most Chinese don’t drink). Cars were also heavily taxed and regulated (not even needed– they are a status symbol ONLY– the whole country is 30 miles by 10 miles and easily circumnavigated by a bicycle or the excellent public transportation. There are sidewalks and public restrooms everywhere, great for morning walking but too hot and humid in the afternoons. Taxes are extremely low and except for hotels and touristy areas, taxes and tips are included in all stated prices.
    When I first started working there, my computer connections were slow. When I complained to my Singaporean friends, they all laughed– “you are being watched. But you are boring, so they’ll stop soon”, and they did. There is almost no violent crime in Singapore, and like Nordic countries, corruption is not tolerated. Singaporeans love to travel, and are open to new ideas, but follow Asian ways. Lots of entrepreneurs. Spectacular architecture and green parks everywhere (for over 5.9 million people). People are welcoming and hardworking.
    They have infinitely more trust in their government agencies than we have in the US, as their more competent Covid response showed. Covid death rate in Singapore: 139 per million; in the US: 2509 per million.
    The negative aspects of Singapore are subtle and hidden. Super competitive, most moms are Tiger Moms and there are no “late bloomers” allowed; a kid’s life is charted out before they are 12. The Elderly who proudly built Singapore are frequently exasperated with the Youth (even more so than elsewhere)– “they won’t sweat, won’t do hard physical work” (but all males serve two years of military service, though Singapore since independence has never been attacked. There is barbed wire fencing everywhere, and signs implying you will be shot if you enter). Singapore is CLEAN and beautiful (due to day labor from Malaysia constantly cleaning). There is an obvious hierarchy throughout Singapore (maybe just not as obvious as in the US where the wealthy do not mix with the poorest). Food is incredible!
    Probably their biggest weakness is they don’t have much of a history of innovation. May change, as they love technology, and bring in outsiders for expertise. When asked What are Singaporeans best at? They invariably reply “Following the Rules!”

    • Thanks: JackOH, nokangaroos, Rob McX
    • Replies: @anon
    @michael888

    Singapore handled the possibilities corruption of the politicians by giving them exorbitant salaries compared to any other nation.

    A small country size of less than NY City is not a comparison for the rest of the world .

    Replies: @littlereddot

    , @littlereddot
    @michael888


    although cigarettes were not touched (Chinese men smoke).
     

    Alcohol was heavily taxed, so expensive (most Chinese don’t drink).
     
    All tobacco is heavily taxed. This is to discourage the habit
    Chinese are not culturally inclined to hang out at the pub after a day at the office. That is what the white foreigners do. (I do dislike the elitist term "expat")

    They may not hang out at Clarke Quay drinking their "liquid bread" at 6 in the evening, they just feel awkward doing that. It is just not part of their culture. But go to a night club or wedding dinner, or a dinner party with a generous host, and see if the Chinese drink.

    I don't know what you are insinuating, but the Singapore government takes pains not to show favour to the Chinese community. They know that they would have race riots again it that happens.


    (but all males serve two years of military service, though Singapore since independence has never been attacked.
     
    It is because of a credible defence, that is why "Singapore has never been attacked".
    You do not seem to know that at Singapore's birth, Indonesian marines planted bombs in parts of the island, killing a few people? They were caught and executed despite threats by Indonesia which is hundreds of times larger than Singapore? This act saved Singapore from being swallowed up by Indonesia.

    For decades every time there were bilateral spats with Malaysia, they would threaten to "turn off the water"....thereby consigning Singapore to death by thirst? Why do you think Singapore now goes through so much trouble and expense to recycle its water? If not, then the only option left to Singapore should Malaysia cut off water was immediate war to secure the water supplies.

    Singapore never forgot these lessons, that is why every male still sacrifices two years of his life in full time military plus 10+ years in the reserves. Why do you think they are willing to do this? Because they know that they do not have the luxury of a big land mass, big populations where you could absorb the defeat and start over. In Singapore, any threat is existential. This is why they take things so seriously.

    Why do you think Singapore even exists as a country on its own? Because Malaysia threw Singapore out of the Federation of Malaysia expecting it to collapse and come crawling back and accept whatever terms they had. They were wrong. And Singaporeans have been on perpetual siege mentality ever since.


    There is barbed wire fencing everywhere, and signs implying you will be shot if you enter).
     
    If you had had a closer look at the signs you would have seen "Protected Place". These are critical infrastructure like power stations, water pumping stations, military bases etc. In your country, your military bases and critical installations are located away from your major population centres. That is why you do not notice them. Singapore does not have that luxury. I am sure if attempt to enter a military base in your country you will also be confronted with the threat of being shot.

    I do appreciate that you have made many observations about Singapore. What seems lacking, is asking the question "why are they that way?"

    Replies: @jeff stryker

    , @Arthur MacBride
    @michael888

    Thanks, Michael.
    Unlike you I didn't live in Spore but visited perhaps 12 or 15 times while based in Asia. An excellent place and tribute to LKY and others who follow his ideas.

    In conversations with local businessmen, ministers/others in the city-centre Anglican church, casual chats on the street (I like street food) etc I was always impressed with (what to call it?) the moral fibre of the people. Some stand out, like the employer of guest workers concerned that many spent their wages on "vice" as he called it, drink and illegal gambling, little/nothing to take back to the village in Thailand or wherever; an elderly Chinese who was present as a boy in the Japanese conquest and occupation, parents with children re school/study, stark warnings on entry abt drug importation ...

    One time there was a scandal about a teenage boy who had maliciously damaged the paintwork of a parked car, arrested, youth court; much questioning of him and parents/teachers -- how to account for him going so wrong so early in life ?? He was sentenced to be caned b/c his truculence and defiance in Court iirc ... hopes he would turn around ... I left, lost track of the story but did see something elsewhere abt western "liberals" shrieking about this.

    So just some snapshots to agree with your picture.

    Replies: @Poupon Marx

  • @Sarah
    @showmethereal


    Even France with so much maternity leave can’t solve it.
     
    The fertility rate of France is 1.8, so already clearly below what it would take to maintain the population.

    In reality this rate is due to the high birth rate of millions of North African, Black African and Arab immigrants, most of them Muslims. When the majority of the natives have 0, 1 or at best 2 children, the aforementioned immigrants often have 3 or 4.

    The real birth rate, that of the native white European Caucasians, is estimated at 1.5, difficult to know precisely because the French government forbids racial statistics.
    But in spite of that, it can be measured when you read the birth and death records and what is on the streets and in the transportation.

    Replies: @Rob McX, @showmethereal

    Steve Sailer looked into the various birthrates by race in France a few years ago in Takimag. He tried to come up with an estimate based on the number of tests for sickle-cell disease in newborns. Generally speaking, only ethnic groups originating in Africa, the Subcontinent and parts of the Middle East are screened. Chinese and other East Asians are excluded. And only those babies with both parents originating from the affected regions are tested.

    His conclusion:

    After all those preliminaries, here are the unadjusted percentages of newborns targeted for testing in France because both parents come from the Global South:

    2005: 25.6 percent
    2010: 31.5 percent
    2015: 38.9 percent

    And Paris in 2015 was 73.4 percent, up from 54.2 percent just a decade earlier.

    Wow.

    Just wow.

    • Thanks: Sarah
    • Replies: @Sarah
    @Rob McX

    I know.
    However, the French government has, for the last 10 years or so, limited the sickle cell test to newborns from TWO parents from countries at risk.
    The test is not done if only one parent is from a risk country or if the father is unknown.

    This is absurd since it is sufficient for one parent to come from a country at risk, since this serious disease is hereditary.

    The government restricted the test when it realized that the results could be used to determine the percentage of newborns of African or Middle Eastern origin.

  • From the December, 1900 issue of Ladies Home Journal: Watkins was a technologist as well as the experts he talked to, so he tended to get quite a few things right, such as: In other words, central heating and air conditioning, which, indeed, was common by 2000. On the other hand, the assumption of centralized...
  • Years before the Battle of the Little Big Horn (1876) and the Lincoln County War (1881) in the Montana and New Mexico territories out West, the progs circa 1870 were quietly and diligently working behind the scenes in the United States on ideas and plans for the distant future, naturally for everyone else’s own good.

    One Hundred Years Progress of the United States would be published in 1871. A section of the book entitled ‘One Hundred Years Progress in the Future’, or ‘Marvels That Our Grandchildren Will See’, starting on pg 460, tells what life is to be like in the United States in June, 1970.

    On pg 496 ‘pneumatic tubes for railways’ is lauded, but, as is known, didn’t quite pan out.

    Pg 462, linked below, shows a map of the future United States of [North] America in 1970, the US having become a true continental super-state, the whole of North America, Canada and Mexico included, being under Washington DC’s overt direct control.

    Pg 467 gives a population projection of almost five hundred million US population in 1970. This is a direct result of completely open borders and the importation of many tens of millions of wage slaves (ie so called ‘cheap labor’/’immigrants’) from all over the planet over the course of a hundred years.

    This section of the book makes its very plain that in the prog’s world view, whether this prog is a Mitt Romney or Susan Warren of today or yesteryear, the ‘immigrant’ is the slave, and they ‘care’ about the wage slave in the same way and for the same reasons the masters of old ‘cared’ about their slaves.

    ‘From 1960 to 1970, the increase is estimated on a ratio of 21 percent., giving [the United States] a population in 1970 of 474,011,000.’

    On, pg 515, a fundamental change projected for the American citizen of 1970, for better or worse, in not only physical appearance, but in intellect and character as well. Again, a direct result of the uncontrolled mass immigration.

    ‘But the future man of the American Republic will be a thoroughly composite being. It is not simply the union of the Mongolian, and Caucasian types to which we are to look forward, but an agglomeration of almost all races and nationalities to make up the coming man…will give to the average American of a hundred years hence, a darker complexion and very different intellectual and moral characteristics from those which we possess today.’

    Pg 526 describes quite vividly one of the ‘marvels which our grandchildren will see’ in 1970, ie the few pure blooded Anglo-Saxons left in the future, presumably the writer’s own hypothetical grandchildren, being routinely murdered in the streets in acts of ultra-violence by the angry, hatred driven, and drug crazed, discarded inner city descendants of the imported wage slaves (ie the so called ‘cheap labor’/’immigrants’).

    But hey, the writer already ‘got his’ and will be long gone by the time any of this might roll around.

    On pg 527, a little after dinner music to end the day, played by the very progressive, but also quite racially and ethnically mixed, Marston family.

    ‘The evening would have been dull had music been wanting; but in this the Marston family are adepts. All joined in some sweet, new songs, while Madame accompanied them on the organ-
    piano, a new combination of string, reed and wind instruments, whose soft and delicious tones delighted all ears. So ends a day in June, 1970.’

    https://archive.org/details/onehundredyearsp00flinrich/page/462/mode/2up

    • Thanks: Rob McX
  • From Wikipedia: I want to thank everybody who has contributed to this Christmas 2021 iSteve fundraiser to allow me to get cataract surgery on my eyes in 2022. For those who haven’t yet, here are nine ways for you to contribute to the December fundraiser: First: Most banks now allow fee-free money transfers via Zelle....
  • @kaganovitch
    @Anon

    It’s the end of an era, and that’s usually accompanied by piles of dead people.

    Indeed, who could forget Glenn Miller and his Band tommygunning Bill Haley and the Comets back in the day? That Buddy Holly plane crash? Enemy action , my friend. Good times.

    Replies: @Rob McX, @Truth, @Jim Bob Lassiter

    Indeed, who could forget Glenn Miller and his Band tommygunning Bill Haley and the Comets back in the day? That Buddy Holly plane crash? Enemy action , my friend. Good times.

    That was a smart move for Miller, who’d been pretending to be dead for years. Just wait till Elvis comes out of hiding and wipes out Coldplay with an AR-15.

    • Replies: @Brutusale
    @Rob McX

    How do I know you're gay?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6iFAF55ojA

  • @Dmon
    So, Kwanzaa was Willie's pet name for it, huh?

    Replies: @Rob McX

    Or maybe Kwanzaa was the “safe word” for when she was beginning to choke: “Mmf..kwamfaa!”.

    Strangely, neither the Chrome nor Microsoft Edge spellcheck on my computer recognises Kwanzaa as a word.

    • LOL: Jim Bob Lassiter
  • “During the madness of the _____s, the FBI encouraged the most extreme _______ organizations in order to discredit and split the ____.”

    Fill in the blanks. It’s a perennial!

    • Agree: Rob McX, Buffalo Joe
    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @Harry Baldwin


    “During the madness of the _____s, the FBI encouraged the most extreme _______ organizations in order to discredit and split the ____.”

    Fill in the blanks. It’s a perennial!
     
    And the FBI is a full-owned subsidiary of the ADL.
  • @Altai
    Steve has spilled a bit of binary on Kamala being too stupid to be vice-president but the public have very low standards for their politicians at this stage in terms of their personal attributes. (Not a bad thing if it means they are more concerned about what political platform they stand for, let the policy wonks figure out how to get their for you)

    The reason I think she seems out of place is just her uncanny lack of integrity or sincerity. You could say this has been a problem for politicians for a long time in the US but Kamala brings things to breaking point. She is the uber Hollowman, exhibiting a level of total indifference to what does or doesn't happen under her leadership that is scarcely possible to imagine before her. What is the point of a Kamala Harris? Nobody can tell you. When you combine that with the fact that she is always 'on', anytime you see her she is inhumanly smiling and joking it's very unnerving. You can tell she is attempting to cultivate positive rapport for something but you're also aware that she has no something to curry rapport for...

    The Western world is running out of politicians, people with any positive purpose either don't think there is any point in going into politics or are actively removed from the political machine. It's just an increasing array of purposeless psychopaths. We're reaching the end of that lag effect. The sentiment that politics is a cesspool and the parties make anyone with an ounce of cynicism or integrity leave is total for anyone born after 1980 and now we're at the end of the lag effect of this.

    I've posted this before but the time they tried to get some blood from the Kamala stone in terms of black affinity or support by having her do a 'Complex Sneaker Shopping' video was hilarious. So full of try-hard stereotypes. In and of itself the idea that such a video was a way to get the young black men onboard is funny. Really exemplifies her trying to do a Hilary Clinton impression with an affected African-American accent despite growing up nowhere near an accent like that. It's creepy and uncanny.

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

    https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&geo=US&q=kwanzaa

    It's interesting that Kwanzaa has conspicuously declined on Google trends since 2019 despite peaking that year compared to previous ones. Did BLM and Juneteenth suck up some of the oxygen in terms of African-American cultural separatism and ethnocentrism? Or did BLM mean a lot of young students were firmly made aware of things like Kwanzaa by their teachers and so didn't search on Google about it as much? Or did a lack of in-person classes mean stuff like Kwanzaa wasn't really dug into by young students drawing pictures to celebrate and causing murmurs of curiosity among the students and children?

    Replies: @Thomm, @Yancey Ward, @Harpagornis, @Reg Cæsar, @Rob McX, @Prester John, @SteveRogers42, @TWS

    • Replies: @The Ringmaster
    @Rob McX

    Kamala badly needs a stylist. Hillary was positively gilfy compared to KH's frumpy-past-it-secretary-power-walking-on-her-lunch-break look.

    , @Old Prude
    @Rob McX

    I never could have conceived such a sight. I know it's really White of me to try to figure the logic, but I can't help myself: What is the idea behind the mattock (it's not a pick-ax, but I wouldn't expect some soft-handed journalist to know the difference)? It would make a clumsy weapon, unless the target of one's anger is a dirt-clod.

    Where did she get that thing? Why aren't the illegal immigrants to whom it belonged pursuing her?

    And what are those faggy little pull-behind things? What happened to an honest shopping cart? Or are these the latest version of a carry-basket that our lazy limp society has decided are too exhausting to actually carry?

    More questions than answers in this video, but it's a nice artifact of the end-times.

  • If the Democrats lose to Trump in 2024, they would have plenty of support from the press and deep state to pull off a Color Revolution. But the one thing the might stop them would be that they could never come to an agreement on what their Color Revolution's color would be.
  • @Bill Jones
    Black of course, it's already underway.
    Ask this woman (If you have the testicular fortitude, I don't)

    Shocking video shows woman armed with a PICKAXE shoplifting in broad daylight at a Rite Aid in crime-ridden Los Angeles
     
    http://www.stationgossip.com/2021/12/shocking-video-shows-woman-armed-with.html

    Replies: @Rob McX

    I was looking at that earlier. I bet she made sure her haul was worth less than \$950.

  • From the December, 1900 issue of Ladies Home Journal: Watkins was a technologist as well as the experts he talked to, so he tended to get quite a few things right, such as: In other words, central heating and air conditioning, which, indeed, was common by 2000. On the other hand, the assumption of centralized...
  • @Reg Cæsar
    @Rosie


    single-mather household statistics
     
    Do these distinguish between riding, walk-behind, and reel?


    https://www.deere.com/assets/images/region-4/products/mowers/lawn-tractors/lawn-tractor-hero-image-r4g074715_rrd-1366x398.jpg

    https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71If9PkMhPL._AC_SX425_.jpg

    https://imgc.artprintimages.com/img/print/suspicious-man-with-a-push-reel-lawn-mower_u-l-q1bwmkb0.jpg?artHeight=900&artPerspective=n&artWidth=900&background=fbfbfb

    Replies: @Rob McX

    What the hell is that? Looks like some 1950s homoerotic photography.

  • @Rob McX
    @Almost Missouri

    The greatest genius who ever lived couldn't have foreseen the current Diversity worship. It's relatively easy to chart the path of future progress. It's human stupidity and irrationality that defy all efforts at prediction or prognostication.

    Replies: @J.Ross, @res, @kaganovitch

    It’s relatively easy to chart the path of future progress. It’s human stupidity and irrationality that defy all efforts at prediction or prognostication.

    As Schiller has it “Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.” =”With stupidity, Gods themselves contend in vain.”

    • Agree: Rob McX
  • Was it Yogi Berra who’s credited with: “Predictions are hard, especially about the future”?

    Random, but I hope apposite thoughts, on the topic this early Christmas morning before dinner with family and a woman friend.

    Physicists successfully predicted the possibility of an atomic bomb almost immediately after that paper on fission was published in the late 1930s.

    As a sales manager, my sales estimates, i. e., predictions, got to be good enough once I reasonably understood my product, the capabilities of my sales force, the market, etc.

    Minatory dystopian fiction—We, 1984, Brave New World, City, etc.—never dissuades people or nations from engaging in the very things those fictions were warning against.

    Predictions that one makes about the course of one’s own life, or the lives of people you presume are close to you, are mostly bosh.

    Dire predictions offered by American conservatives regarding our government’s military interventions, market interventions, and social interventions are usually right and usually ignored. Those interventions create factions that, once created, snuff out the oxygen in the room so those factions can maintain their unearned advantage over their fellow Americans.

    Well, that’s it. Brain cells exhausted; morning coffee’s working.

    Merry Christmas to all, and many thanks to our host, Ron Unz, and his writers.

    • Thanks: Rob McX
    • Replies: @JackOH
    @JackOH

    Still have time to try a rough of a prediction as though made in 1900. Here goes:


    In 2021, the well-paid senior functionary of a giant economic corporation, earning many thousands of times what an ordinary laborer of middling talent earns today [in 1900], and enjoying luxuries as commonplaces that would be the envy of Midas, shall nonetheless find his moral ambit smaller than that of our common workmen.

    While today's skilled machine operators [in 1900] may earn enough to marry a suitable woman and found a family, and rely with confidence upon our schools, churches, and institutions of governance to offer guidance in accord with well-established standards, the captains and lieutenants of tomorrow's world [2021] will find themselves in a mean world.

    The authority and influence disposed of naturally by our menfolk [in 1900] shall be denied the men of 2021, by virtue of the rising of women, as can be seen among the suffragists, and the pressing of Negroes, some of no little talent, who will seek to establish their own ambit of authority by agitation and law where their own natural abilities find little purchase in tradition or the blessings of Providence.
     
    Well, I gave it a shot, hey. Best wishes to all.
  • @Rob McX
    @Almost Missouri

    The greatest genius who ever lived couldn't have foreseen the current Diversity worship. It's relatively easy to chart the path of future progress. It's human stupidity and irrationality that defy all efforts at prediction or prognostication.

    Replies: @J.Ross, @res, @kaganovitch

    It’s human stupidity and irrationality that defy all efforts at prediction or prognostication.

    Except to note that there will be plenty of it. What form it takes–who knows.

    • Agree: Rob McX
  • @Adept
    @PhysicistDave

    Transhumanism is nothing more than the realization that we don't need to leave the development of the human species to the vagaries of chance and the dysgenic trends that are so apparent today. Eugenics is transhumanist. Genetic modification for improved mental or physical traits is transhumanist. Any drug or device that can improve those traits -- from steroids to stimulants to anti-aging treatments -- is basically, though usually weakly, transhumanist.

    Transhumanism is the great project of this century. It counters the problems of our age. For instance, the proper response to falling and catastrophically low birthrates must, necessarily, be transhumanist --- either in lifespan extension or in artificial wombs.

    ...There's a lot more to it than the whole business of transsexual nonsense -- which is, in truth, not really "transhumanist" at all.

    Replies: @Alrenous, @mc23, @PhysicistDave

    Technically, eyeglasses, note paper, and telephones are transhumanist. Normally it implies more invasive procedures, but there’s nothing inherently invasive about the idea. Anything which makes the human super-human is transhumanism.

    Evolution will make humans trans-human whether we want it to or not, exactly the way sapiens is trans-erectus. Or make it go extinct, if you prefer to interpret it that way. However, will this next species in fact have “expanded” abilities? Or merely different ones? It’s an open question. We already know that significantly expanding IQ tends to lead to be sharply limited by disorders. This could be an overtraining issue, or it could be inherent limitations of carbohydrate engineering.

    Eugenics doesn’t need to be invasive either. Eyeglasses release certain evolutionary pressures, and similarly non-invasive techniques could be used to increase them instead. Though admittedly my favourite intervention is fairly invasive.

    You don’t need transhumanism to fix the birth rates. Re-legalize marriage, that will solve 90% of the problem. Probably best not to re-criminalize fornication, since that will only lead to another round of re-criminalizing marriage. Don’t actually outlaw living in sin, but allow it to be called “living in sin” again. A light touch is called for; the heavy hand already failed.
    SSC carefully summed this up: nearly every modern problem is a mere “stop digging” problem. It’s caused by bad policy and the solution is to give up the bad policy. Literally cheaper than free…in a budgetary sense, anyway. The other side is a bunch of sinecures that form ferocious special interests.

    • Agree: Rob McX
    • Replies: @Adept
    @Alrenous

    This is going to sound trite, but it's a spectrum. On the one end, glasses and contact lenses. A bit further down the line, this guy:

    https://i.imgur.com/a5p3M0P.jpg

    Further than that, genetically-engineered or wholly artificial eyes that pick up the ultraviolet and near infrared, can record at any time for an artificial "photographic memory," and so forth.

    The pacemaker is one step down the line. The fully artificial heart, another. An artificial or bioengineered heart that is better in every way than our natural heart, a third step down the line. Then toss in the entire circulatory system, which has a habit of failing at bad times, with fatal results.

    Transhumanism is, in truth, little more than applying technology to the human itself. But, in particular, it refers to enhancements -- and most particularly to heritable enhancements. Eventually I believe that it will result in something much like speciation, orders of magnitude more quickly than the hand of Gnon would go about it.

    (For what it's worth, I remember you from Xenosystems, and I think that your blog is a good one. Enjoying your reading of Plato.)

    In any case, I don't know if the bad policies that afflict us are fixable. But technological solutions are attractive enough to most, and can be done from the bottom-up rather than the top-down. Healthspan extension neatly solves the declining population problem -- and when it becomes possible, there will be no stopping it; it is perfectly in sync with the modern psyche.

  • @Anonymous
    @Rob McX


    I was looking at these reports of Officer Potter being convicted. The only consolation is that a violent and dangerous thug is dead, something that can’t be reversed no matter how vindictive the sentence that’s handed down
     
    Agreed. Thank god that black psychopath is dead. Highly likely that her actions saved some innocent lives.

    Regarding the officer, intent matters in this case. Her stated intent was to taser. She accidentally shot him instead. Involuntary manslaughter must be the verdict. No more, or less. Such is the destiny of excitable little fat chicks, way in over their heads. I’m guessing she’ll do better on appeal. Black people aren’t so good with the perception of time. By the time the case gets retried, most of the thugs family will be on to other things. Much less negro hoopla.

    This incompetence problem for the local police could certainly be mitigated on a vetting process based on solely on intellectual, emotional, and physical merit, but that would mean America’s "Jabari's" would be inadvertently spared. The little piece of shit is off the face of the planet forever. That’s a very good thing.

    I’ll take the underqualified diversity hires. Saves court time, taxes, and lives.

    Sitting her fat little ass in jail for a year or so is a small price to pay for the good of modern civilization.

    Replies: @Rob McX

    By the time the case gets retried, most of the thugs family will be on to other things. Much less negro hoopla.

    Yes, by that time they’ll have got their hands on the compensation millions, so they’re unlikely to be distracted by judicial matters.

  • @Mr. Anon
    Who could have forseen this new California trend...........Liquor Mining:

    https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/woman-with-giant-pickaxe-casually-steals-liquor-from-rite-aid/

    Replies: @Rob McX

    A new awakening – the spirit of 1848.

  • @James N. Kennett
    OT: reporting Daunte Wright

    Many US newspapers, including the NYT, have presented a sanitised account of the life of Daunte Wright. This is their right. However, the BBC has done exactly the same, although its charter requires it


    To provide impartial news and information to help people understand and engage with the world around them: the BBC should provide duly accurate and impartial news, current affairs and factual programming to build people’s understanding of all parts of the United Kingdom and of the wider world.
     
    The BBC's hagiography of Wright is titled "One of those kids everybody looked up to", and does not disclose his criminal past except to say that the police tried to arrest him on an outstanding warrant.

    The Daily Mail tells it like it is, in a story with the headline "EXCLUSIVE: 'He was either going to be imprisoned, kill someone, or be killed.' How Daunte Wright led a life of crime and violence before his death and shot his own friend in the head, broke into a neighbor's home, and robbed a woman at gunpoint".

    In unrelated news, large numbers of British people despise the Daily Mail as a racist, fascist rag produced from beyond the grave by Julius Streicher and Joseph Goebbels.

    Replies: @Rob McX, @AnotherDad

    I was looking at these reports of Officer Potter being convicted. The only consolation is that a violent and dangerous thug is dead, something that can’t be reversed no matter how vindictive the sentence that’s handed down.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @Rob McX


    I was looking at these reports of Officer Potter being convicted. The only consolation is that a violent and dangerous thug is dead, something that can’t be reversed no matter how vindictive the sentence that’s handed down
     
    Agreed. Thank god that black psychopath is dead. Highly likely that her actions saved some innocent lives.

    Regarding the officer, intent matters in this case. Her stated intent was to taser. She accidentally shot him instead. Involuntary manslaughter must be the verdict. No more, or less. Such is the destiny of excitable little fat chicks, way in over their heads. I’m guessing she’ll do better on appeal. Black people aren’t so good with the perception of time. By the time the case gets retried, most of the thugs family will be on to other things. Much less negro hoopla.

    This incompetence problem for the local police could certainly be mitigated on a vetting process based on solely on intellectual, emotional, and physical merit, but that would mean America’s "Jabari's" would be inadvertently spared. The little piece of shit is off the face of the planet forever. That’s a very good thing.

    I’ll take the underqualified diversity hires. Saves court time, taxes, and lives.

    Sitting her fat little ass in jail for a year or so is a small price to pay for the good of modern civilization.

    Replies: @Rob McX

  • @S

    In general, it’s hard to get the details right about the future.
     
    Too true!

    When projecting the future, one detail they often don't even bother trying to get right is hair and clothing styles. Typically they'll just present what is the height of fashion at the particular time the projection is made, such as the short hair and mini-skirts of pre-hippiedom 1964 when the original (though not broadcast initially) Star Trek series pilot ('The Menagerie' in a later bastardized form) starring Jeffrey Hunter was filmed.


    https://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/1x00hd/thecagehd0077.jpg

    Replies: @Rob McX, @Jack D

    Judging by SF fashions, it seems they all thought the days of shirt collars were numbered.

    • Agree: S
  • In February 2013 I wrote the above paragraph and, like many paragraphs I’ve written in the years since then, I find myself drawn back to it time and time again. The most recent prompting occurred a week ago, when news emerged from London’s Royal Court theater that an undoubtedly virulent form of anti-Semitism was once...
  • The anti-hero of the 1949 film Kind Hearts and Coronets, played by Alec Guinness, is Louis D’Ascoyne Mazzini, the son of an Italian opera singer who married a duke’s daughter, thus causing her family to disown her. But in in the book on which it’s based, he’s called Israel Rank, son of a Jewish father and an English aristocrat mother.

    Citing a book on the subject published by the British Film Institute, Wikipedia says, “The change from Israel Rank to Louis Mazzini was brought about by the ‘post-war sensitivity about anti-Semitism’, and the moral stance of the films produced by Ealing”.

    • Thanks: Arthur MacBride
    • Replies: @traducteur
    @Rob McX

    A correction: the character Louis d'Ascoyne Mazzini is played by Dennis Price. Alec Guinness plays all nine of his victims! Kind Hearts and Coronets is a wonderful film, one of the best ever.

    , @Arthur MacBride
    @Rob McX


    “The change from Israel Rank to Louis Mazzini was brought about by the ‘post-war sensitivity about anti-Semitism’, and the moral stance of the films produced by Ealing”.

     

    The "post-war sensitivity about 'anti-semitism'" is entirely the product of zionist Jews (ref Arnold Leese trial etc) and their servitors, who are instructed to divert any criticism, however valid, from any Jew, no matter the cost to anyone else.
    Obvious hypersensitivity to the long history of rapacity, murder, deceit of certain type of Jew and the very real fear of the repercussions that will follow, as they have in the past and, as the full story comes out in the internet age of continued disgusting conduct, are very likely to happen again, perhaps with renewed fury.
    E.g. it seems Israel opened the New Year with another barrage on Gaza ...

    The book author is Roy Horniman (1874 - 1930) and his book (one of several) was "Israel Rank: the Autobiography of a Criminal" (1907). He ran London's Criterion Theatre and was a member of the Indian National Congress.

    https://archive.org/details/IsraelRank

    This is the film adaption "Kind Hearts and Coronets"

    https://ww1.www-123movies.com/kind-hearts-and-coronets/

    Arnold Leese trial transcript (Jewish Ritual Murder)

    http://www.mourningtheancient.com/truth3zzx4--08.pdf

    https://jrbooksonline.com/leese.htm
  • From the December, 1900 issue of Ladies Home Journal: Watkins was a technologist as well as the experts he talked to, so he tended to get quite a few things right, such as: In other words, central heating and air conditioning, which, indeed, was common by 2000. On the other hand, the assumption of centralized...
  • @Almost Missouri

    Pneumatic tubes are the great lost steampunk technology
     
    Pneumatic tubes were essentially a form of public transport, and as such, suffered the same fate as all public goods in Diversity regimes.


    Several great national university will have been established.
     
    Oddly enough, we more or less stopped establishing new great national universities as the 20th Century progressed.
     
    Another public good. Same fate.


    Time will be saved by grouping like studies.
     
    Tracking, I believe, which is probably headed toward being abolished in the name of equity.
     
    Yeah...


    Etiquette and housekeeping will be important studies in the public schools.
     
    The last sentence, no.
     
    Because it would be Systemic Racism, of course...

    Some things that were common in much of the world never happened in the USA:

    Trains one Hundred and Fifty miles an Hour. Trains will run two miles a minute, normally; express trains one hundred and fifty miles an hour.
     

     
    USA leads in Diversity, therefore also leads in sacrifices to the Diversity god.

    A thread (not golden) runs through these failed futures.

    The Future: undone by Diversity.

    Or in other words,

    Progress or Diversity, choose One.

    China has chosen.

    Russia is choosing.

    The West must choose too, and soon.

    Replies: @Rob McX, @Muggles

    The greatest genius who ever lived couldn’t have foreseen the current Diversity worship. It’s relatively easy to chart the path of future progress. It’s human stupidity and irrationality that defy all efforts at prediction or prognostication.

    • Agree: Buffalo Joe, HammerJack
    • Replies: @J.Ross
    @Rob McX

    Y'ALL UNSHAVEN PERSIAN SLAVES NEED ARISTOTLE.
    What did Aristotle say was the final misguided virtue of a dying civilization?

    , @res
    @Rob McX


    It’s human stupidity and irrationality that defy all efforts at prediction or prognostication.
     
    Except to note that there will be plenty of it. What form it takes--who knows.
    , @kaganovitch
    @Rob McX

    It’s relatively easy to chart the path of future progress. It’s human stupidity and irrationality that defy all efforts at prediction or prognostication.

    As Schiller has it "Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.” ="With stupidity, Gods themselves contend in vain."

  • Pneumatic tubes are the great lost steampunk technology

    Pneumatic tubes were essentially a form of public transport, and as such, suffered the same fate as all public goods in Diversity regimes.

    Several great national university will have been established.

    Oddly enough, we more or less stopped establishing new great national universities as the 20th Century progressed.

    Another public good. Same fate.

    Time will be saved by grouping like studies.

    Tracking, I believe, which is probably headed toward being abolished in the name of equity.

    Yeah…

    Etiquette and housekeeping will be important studies in the public schools.

    The last sentence, no.

    Because it would be Systemic Racism, of course…

    Some things that were common in much of the world never happened in the USA:

    Trains one Hundred and Fifty miles an Hour. Trains will run two miles a minute, normally; express trains one hundred and fifty miles an hour.

    USA leads in Diversity, therefore also leads in sacrifices to the Diversity god.

    A thread (not golden) runs through these failed futures.

    The Future: undone by Diversity.

    Or in other words,

    Progress or Diversity, choose One.

    China has chosen.

    Russia is choosing.

    The West must choose too, and soon.

    • Agree: Rob McX
    • Replies: @Rob McX
    @Almost Missouri

    The greatest genius who ever lived couldn't have foreseen the current Diversity worship. It's relatively easy to chart the path of future progress. It's human stupidity and irrationality that defy all efforts at prediction or prognostication.

    Replies: @J.Ross, @res, @kaganovitch

    , @Muggles
    @Almost Missouri

    The large very nice downtown department store in the town I grew up in had a big plastic pneumatic tube system. (That's now gone of course.)

    When you purchased something (pre credit card, etc.) they put in a set of invoices and your folding money/coins. That was zipped off to someplace upstairs (so it seemed) and later, in a minute or two, your change would be returned via tube along with a stamped "paid" receipt.

    It was a lot of fun to see these things work. So 'sales associates' didn't have cash registers or even keep your money.

    There is a bank I use that uses pneumatic tubes to take in deposits, dispense money for their car teller lines. They have TV screens and microphones. So pneumatics are still being used.

    Not quite the Wave of the Future though.

    It is fun to look at old back issues of publications (now websites if available) to read their breathless and confident predictions of the future. Good for a laugh.

    Who knew that Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged would be the most accurate depiction of future America only 65 years hence? Just try to avoid those dropping Boeing aircraft...

    Replies: @Buffalo Joe, @Jack D, @mc23, @ScarletNumber, @cityview

  • @Jack D
    "Feral Negroes armed with semi-automatic pistols will roam the streets, demanding that people turn over to them their Japanese made automobiles."

    Didn't see that one coming.

    A local TV station talked to the father and step mother of Josiah Brown, the 19-year-old man who’s now facing federal charges in connection with carjacking the liberal congresswoman's car.

    https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2021/12/24/josiah-brown-congressmember-mary-gay-scanlon-carjacking-fdr-park/

    It turns out that (surprise, surprise) Josiah dindu nuffin in his parents' opinion. When asked where he was on the day of the carjacking, they said that they believed that he was taking care of his two sons. Besides, carjacking was not his usual MO.

    Josiah, meanwhile, has written a letter of apology to the Congresswoman. He says that the guy wasn't even loaded. I'm sure they are going to forget all about those Federal charges now. Maybe they can bring in a social worker to teach Josiah not to do carjackings and stick to just breaking into cars as usual.

    Replies: @Buffalo Joe, @Rob McX, @Buffalo Joe, @Mike Tre, @Inquiring Mind, @Reg Cæsar

    But a 19-year-old black with two sons, has no car but wants one, you don’t have to be Nostradamus to foresee that kind of thing.

    • Replies: @Possumman
    @Rob McX

    If he has 2 sons chances are they have 2 different mommas--so how was he in 2 places at once---powers of bi-location?

  • Trends in science and technology were easy to predict, relatively speaking. Trains would get faster (in some countries, anyway). Cooking and serving food would be done on the macro scale, and so on. Many of these developments follow naturally from scientific progress and advances in management techniques pioneered by people such as Frederick Winslow Taylor. What’s impossible to forecast is social trends. Imagine picking up a book written a hundred years ago that predicted all the LGBTQ stuff of the last decade.

    • Replies: @Thea
    @Rob McX

    Huxley understood to some degree sexual licensciousness would be widespread.


    William F. Ogburn said that social trends are downstream of technology. So women working more was downstream of easier housekeeping with dishwashers and such. LGBT++ is down stream of expanded access to psychological services, particularly outpatient and accompanying destygmatizing of mental illness.


    Marketers now look to social media to predict social trends. It will probably get sharper as advertisers fine tune it.

    , @Justvisiting
    @Rob McX

    Who knew that Orwell's "1984" would become a training manual for leaders of the "democracies"?

    Replies: @Intelligent Dasein, @Inquiring Mind

    , @Rosie
    @Rob McX


    Cooking and serving food would be done on the macro scale, and so on.
     
    Eating out is still surprisingly expensive. The economies of scale really don't work out, and cooking from home is still very economical by comparison. There are some things I buy prepared, though, because the ingredients are so expensive, that it's cheaper to buy in a jar, e.g. pesto.

    Replies: @JMcG, @AnotherDad, @Anonymous Jew

    , @FKI
    @Rob McX

    Good point about the LBGXYZ stuff. But you know subversive tactics to disrupt and destroy countries were all ways being schemed. They probably didn't think of that perverse idea yet!

    Funny thing is - for the life of me, I cannot find the lone "boogie man" that was behind this methodology of society destruction. Some say it was the communists. Others have different "bad guys."

    I wonder sometimes how big the operation really is.

    Replies: @PhysicistDave

  • From The Guardian: I was going to make fun of this. But on second thought, it sounds like it might turn out okay. We live in an era of diminished creativity when 20th Century intellectual property (e.g., Spider-Man
  • @AnotherDad
    @Captain Tripps


    Then there’s this: Julia will be published after Granta releases Newman’s new novel The Men – in which every single person with a Y chromosome vanishes from the world – next June.
     
    A month or two of starvation in the cold and dark--sped up for some by dysentery--doesn't really make a great story overall, but the first few chapters of this could be quite entertaining.

    Some well armed--mostly Christian conservative--farm families into self-sufficiency, would make a go of this with the background issue of whether God was going to come along and do his business like with Mary.

    But the first few days for the "proud women of color", the academic feminists, the yard sign virtue signalers would be hilarious. Especially at the very beginning when their cell phones stop working.

    Replies: @Rob McX

    But the first few days for the “proud women of color”, the academic feminists, the yard sign virtue signalers would be hilarious. Especially at the very beginning when their cell phones stop working.

    They’ll serve as a good source of protein for the Disproportionately-Represented-Americans.

  • Julia will be published after Granta releases Newman’s new novel The Men – in which every single person with a Y chromosome vanishes from the world – next June.

    Note how she says “every person with a Y chromosome”, just in case we think she’s referring to those insane people with a phantom Y chromosome who “identify” as men. I think they’ll find them a poor substitute.

    • Replies: @Jack D
    @Rob McX

    We need a new word for men, since men no longer means just men and "person with a Y chromosome" is kind of awkward. I propose Pway, pronounced pee way.

    Replies: @kaganovitch, @Rob, @mc23

  • From an Australian National University press release: "Based on this logic, there is also just as great a chance of having a similar number of men and women that are low achievers." The ANU team reviewed more than 10,000 biological studies
  • @Rob McX
    Anyone else find this as funny as I do? There's an awkward gap in achievement and test scores between men and women, so what do you do to "debunk" it? Go off and study 200 other animal species. Then people can urge for millions more to be spent getting women into STEM because of what dolphins or owls or snakes do.

    Replies: @Rob McX

    Sorry, the LOL was meant for Nikolai Vladivostok, “Look, a squirrel!”

  • Anyone else find this as funny as I do? There’s an awkward gap in achievement and test scores between men and women, so what do you do to “debunk” it? Go off and study 200 other animal species. Then people can urge for millions more to be spent getting women into STEM because of what dolphins or owls or snakes do.

    • LOL: Rob McX
    • Replies: @Rob McX
    @Rob McX

    Sorry, the LOL was meant for Nikolai Vladivostok, "Look, a squirrel!"

  • The Swiss, famously efficient at everything, managed to fuck up rodeos.

    Eh, I guess everyone has to have a weakness.

    • LOL: Rob McX
  • “But our research in over 200 animal species shows variation in male and female behaviour is very similar. Therefore, there is no reason to invoke this argument based on biology to explain why more men than women are Nobel laureates, for example, which we associate with high IQ.”

    We looked at 200 animal species and found that none of them are capable of complex language.

    Therefore we conclude that human beings aren’t capable of complex language either. That whole talking/reading/writing thing? Turns out, it doesn’t actually exist.

    Science is dying.

    • Replies: @Nicholas Stix
    @Mr. Anon

    The Antiversity now issues Ph.D.s in non sequiturs and ad hominems.

    Replies: @Wade Hampton, @Mr. Anon, @J.Ross

    , @Anonymous
    @Mr. Anon


    Science is dying.
     
    Indeed. Today, people's feelings are more important than measurements and theories, and pointing out that something else might exist ("two plus two is four") is considered to be evidence of wrongdoing ("Two plus two is not four, it is oppression!")

    This nystified the Hell out of me, too, once, years ago, so I looked into it, took some courses, read a bit. Hold on to your hats, we're going to look at intellectual history. It's a wild ride, and I've left out the nuances, but what's left is considered orthodox.

    The Greeks invented the idea that some things are true whether people believe them or not back in their golden age, about 400 BC. "Invented?". Yes. Other peoples believed in some version of animism or of anthropomorphic and somewhat hostile gods or of politics. The idea that things run according to rules that are fixed and independent of humans seemed nonsensical, counter to actual human experience, and at best restricted to empirical rules such as "water falls from a cup if you hold it upside down" or "you need seeds to grow crops".

    Christianity added the supernatural idea that there is a God who created everything, who is bound by His words, and who made a universe run by God's Word and a humanity in His image, hence capable of understanding the universe. Without such special creation, it is no more plausible that Man would be able to understand the universe as that any other creature (a termite, for example) would be able to understand the universe.

    Further, with St. Augustine, Christianity made understanding the universe a religious duty.

    The result was Western science, the intellectual edifice that appears to be dying.

    First crack was the French Revolution, which tried to replace Christianity with Reason and science. The Revolutionary government at one point tried to replace Catholicism with a Church of Reason, and changed their system of measurement to the Newtonian metric system in which "Force = Mass times Acceleration" is a simple truism. This put science directly into politics, and since then politicians have been trying to claim that their politics is really science.

    Second crack was more serious -- Popper's work: https://descartesagonistes.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/schuster-scirev-ch-10.pdf

    Popper tried to put the scientific method on a firm base -- rather as Russel tried to do the same for mathematics. Both efforts ended by showing that there was no firm base, no foundation, for either. Popper ended up reducing science to politics (the opinion of most living scientists) and Russel ended up showing that the foundation of mathematics is meaningless symbol manipulation, with Gödel showing that even Russel's system is cannot produce all true theorems.



    And that's where things stand today. Christianity was the only religious system that considered science in the sense of understanding God's universe as more important then stability, and the Augustinian synthesis is not considered as governing in Christianity today. Few enter science as a religious calling, and those few tend to be forced out of the field for being politically incorrect. Science is just another career, one with frequently impossible commands ("publish or perish"), and if politicians want papers, they get something that looks much like papers but don't describe any part of the universe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis)

    We're left with a strange result: science only produces valid results when staffed by mystics (believers in the Augustinian Synthesis, https://www.wilmingtonfavs.com/western-christianity/caritas-the-augustinian-synthesis-of-biblical-agape-and-hellenistic-eros.html) and a civil institution whose dominant faction is also composed of mystics. Even the Catholic Church couldn't do that consistently, hence Galileo and the Inquisition, and the subsequent migration of science to Protestant countries.

    So: if you want science, you have to take the Augustinian Synthesis more or less undiluted. From this, you get science and engineering in its full Industrial Revolution glory. Reject it, and you get the USSR, the PRC, etc. In such societies, Western equipment, and even Western organizational forms, can be used, but the lack of belief in the dominant existence of non-political reality makes it impossible to support an industrial society over the long term. Examples being the fall of the USSR, the failure of the PRC's Great Leap Forward, and the current property sector failure and groundwater pollution catastrophe in the PRC.

    Since today (2021) nobody believes in Christianity ("Is the Pope Catholic?" used to be answered "Yes", and the Seven Sisters in the US used to be Christian), very few believe in science. We're back to the old Irrigation Empires where reality is what whoever controls the political system (hence the irrigation and the food) say that reality is. We're losing the remnants of science, and losing the wonderful (literally full of wonders) engineering of the Industrial Revolution. As a secondary result, we're also getting the absolute ("Woke") rulers of the Bronze Age, complete with harems.

    Fun times, no? You have to be a religious mystic to be a rational thinker.

    The above has an "Alice in Wonderland" feel to it. That's because Lewis Carrol, a logician, wrote the Alice books as a comment on the above process. Carrol was pre-Popper, but he could easily see that the "rationality" of Natural Selection (which became the Red Queen) and the abstraction of reducing nature to differential equations (which is what Newtonian science had become, and what "The Hunting of the Snark" was about, www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43909/the-hunting-of-the-sna ) was becoming separated from the Augustinian Synthesis and human feeling. Science and rationality was drifting off into the air like a hot air balloon or a half remembered dream. Carrol was a master of capturing this feeling.

    Replies: @Sean, @ziggurat, @Anonymous

    , @Hangnail Hans
    @Mr. Anon


    Science is dying.
     
    Science is forever!

    It's just...that old kind of science was, on occasion, somewhat inconvenient. The new kind tells us whatever we want to hear!

    How is that not an improvement?!

    Replies: @Mr. Anon

    , @Mike Tre
    @Mr. Anon

    Was one of those species the black widow spider?

    , @Alfa158
    @Mr. Anon

    Science might be dying in the West but that’s because the West is in decay. Science will likely continue elsewhere.

    Replies: @Jack D

    , @Julian of Norwich
    @Mr. Anon

    A brazenly stupid example of begging the question. Indeed, we don't even need to consider the question, and are free to look for explanations that reflect the authors' preconceptions. No doubt they will go far.

    , @Alden
    @Mr. Anon

    What I noticed most was the incredible news that in 146 years of the Kentucky Derby fillies won a whooping 3 times. Wow, just wow!!! I know just 2 things about gambling.

    1 Poker is a game of skill and it’s really possible for a skilled player to win consistently.

    2 Never bet on a filly

    Some wild animals both sexes are equally good at hunting and fighting. Dogs bears wolves coyotes leopards lions tigers cougars probably foxes minks other weasel critters. Raccoons the boys are a bit bigger and nastier than the girls.

    This is typical liberal fake propaganda. Now that the laws and cultures have changed to favor women things will possibly change in the next 100 years or so. In medieval and early modern Europe the convents run by nuns were equal in farming business manufacturing and building local infrastructure to the monasteries run by men. We can’t predict what will happen.

    In America the entire men vs women thing is greatly complicated by the preference given to black women the dumbest laziest and least functional women.

  • From Review of Democracy, a very clear statement of where the conventional wisdom is headed, due to Lenin's "He who says A must say B" reasons. Personally, I think the essence of sanity is to say: "I say A but not B, because B is disastrous," but then I'm a crazed extremist. So I would...
  • @Unit472
    Kochenov makes a valid point that there is an element of luck in life's lottery. But citizenship isn't a ''right'' because it comes with an obligation. Being born to a wealthy aristocratic British family in 1895 was to seemingly have won life's lottery. Fast forward 21 years and instead of having servants serving you dinner in your family mansion you are a subaltern in the British Army going " over the top " leading your men into German machine gun fire at the Battle of the Somme. Given a choice when the whistle blew sending you into harm's way you might have preferred to renounce your privilege but you can't because the former led you, ineluctably, to your present situation and your younger brother will inherit your title and position in life.

    Kochenov ignores this part of the bargain of ''citizenship'' even if it isn't always that severe though, over the course of a lifetime it usually will be to at least one member of a family ''endowed" with citizenship in a privileged country. It is this for this reason we need to stop treating being a holder of passport or residency in a nation as the equivalent of being a genuine ''citizen'' of a nation. Some Hindu or Muslim emigre with a US passport and residency permit for the United States is likely to want to get the ''hell out of Dodge" if the US gets in a shooting war with China. The oath of allegiance they took to the United States of America will not be honored as soon as a ''Greetings from the President'' letter arrives in their mailbox ordering them or their son to appear for induction into the American armed forces.

    I actually have a lot more confidence in Latino and East Asian immigrants remaining loyal in such a crisis than Hindus, Muslims or even our own negroes. The latter have become accustomed to only being the beneficiaries of government programs and the former only showed up to enrich themselves.

    Replies: @Thelma Ringbaum, @AnotherDad

    Kochenov makes a valid point that there is an element of luck in life’s lottery. But citizenship isn’t a ”right” because it comes with an obligation.

    Sure, but it is not “luck” in any normal sense of drawing a card from the deck.

    There is no “me” that pops to life in Japan or Bangladesh or Nigeria. There is no “me” that is black or Mexican or Chinese. There is no “me” that is born crippled or blind or ugly or stupid. All those other people–maybe be wonderful people, or not–are not “me”.

    There is only this “me”–born to my American midwestern parents. And so i inherit America–not those other folks. My ancestors worked to make their community nation, great and i inherit that.

    There is nothing the least bit “unfair” about it. Even though there may be millions of people out there who are “better people” than i am, born in shittier nations. They needed to pick their parents more carefully. (Except then they would not be the people they are.)

    ~~

    And it is ongoing–forever. My kids are inheriting an America that is not as nice as it should be because me, my parents, and our fellow Americans in our generation did not do a good job policing our joint. We didn’t confront and destroy the minoritarians as they spewed their toxic ideas and policies. That’s our failure … and my kids inherit that. They don’t have any claim on Japan or China or even Hungary or Poland or anywhere else where the people may be doing better on rejecting toxic ideas and practicing “demographic hygiene”.

    • Agree: Rob McX
  • Judging from the dark blue line, Danes appear to be net tax contributors from their later 20s to their later 60s. They get very expensive in terms of tax consumption in their 80s because, I'm guessing, they less often have family taking care of them. People of Middle Eastern, North African, Pakistani, and Turkish descent...
  • @Zero Philosopher
    @Rob McX

    Actually, he is. He is a *god* of classic blues-inspired rock. There are very, very few celebrities in the World that have the status in their field that Clapton has in classic rock. As a guitarrist, he might be the greatest ever. Certainly for virtuosity.

    The other reason why he gets away with it is because of the "cranky old man act". People are more forgiving of old men saying offensive things because the pain they they experience from the chronic diseases of ageing puts them in a bad mood and they understand that. It's the whole "old man yelling at clouds" meme. From a different generation, etc. Also, Clapton lost his 4 year-old son in tragic circumstances, so people feel very sorry for him and don't want to appear like the ahole picking on a man that went through such personal tragedy.

    Replies: @Rob McX

    But he’s been saying these things for nearly half a century. Here’s what he said at a concert in 1976:

    Do we have any foreigners in the audience tonight? If so, please put up your hands. So where are you? Well wherever you all are, I think you should all just leave. Not just leave the hall, leave our country. I don’t want you here, in the room or in my country. Listen to me, man! I think we should vote for Enoch Powell. Enoch’s our man. I think Enoch’s right, I think we should send them all back. Stop Britain from becoming a black colony. Get the foreigners out. Get the wogs out. Get the coons out. Keep Britain white. I used to be into dope, now I’m into racism. It’s much heavier, man. Fucking wogs, man. Fucking Saudis taking over London. Bastard wogs. Britain is becoming overcrowded and Enoch will stop it and send them all back. The black wogs and coons and Arabs and fucking Jamaicans don’t belong here, we don’t want them here. This is England, this is a white country, we don’t want any black wogs and coons living here. We need to make clear to them they are not welcome. England is for white people, man. This is Great Britain, a white country, what is happening to us, for fuck’s sake? Throw the wogs out! Keep Britain white!

    • Replies: @LondonBob
    @Rob McX

    Eric Clapton has now written an anti-mRNA song with Robin Monotti, 'Heart of a Child', the smear pieces have been duly rolled out in Rolling Stone etc.

  • @Achmed E. Newman
    @Reg Cæsar

    Reg, if you read my post, almost solely a repeat of an extinct Conservative Heritage Times article, Edwin Meese said that Mr. Reagan was at least honest in explicitly using the word "amnesty". I don't know if it was a gamble. Mr. Reagan was simply too trusting of the US Congress to not be a bunch of liars. He got reneged on on this one, along with the deal for the cutting of domestic spending to match the increase in defense spending to win the Cold War.

    On that latter, I think Reagan did get convinced by his people and the Beltway crowd in the end that "deficits don't matter". They don't. Until they do. That's about now!

    Thanks for the info. on his regrets from his time as CA Governor.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @JerseyJeffersonian

    …Mr. Reagan was at least honest in explicitly using the word “amnesty”.

    But it wasn’t an amnesty, it was a welfare check. Deportation is amnesty.

    • Agree: Rob McX
  • From the San Francisco Examiner: Breed declares state of emergency to clean up the Tenderloin’s ‘nasty streets’ Action allows city to cut through red tape and increase police funding December 17, 2021 1:30 am - Updated December 17, 2021 3:57 pm By Examiner staff and wire reports The mayor on Friday declared a state of...
  • @Skyler the Weird
    @PhysicistDave

    I hope the GOP has the 2022 election stolen again. The Bubble is about to burst and I want the Democrats in charge of everything when it does.

    Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic

    At this point “US President” is just a game of hot potato. The best part about being President is being an ex-President so you can rake in all those back-ended bribes and set your family and friends up. Nobody wants actually to be occupying the office when the flaming turd blows up.

    • Agree: Rob McX
    • Replies: @Bill Jones
    @The Anti-Gnostic


    Nobody wants actually to be occupying the office when the flaming turd blows up.
     
    That's why they installed Resident Biden. He won't notice,
  • Judging from the dark blue line, Danes appear to be net tax contributors from their later 20s to their later 60s. They get very expensive in terms of tax consumption in their 80s because, I'm guessing, they less often have family taking care of them. People of Middle Eastern, North African, Pakistani, and Turkish descent...
  • I’ll phrase it simply.

    It is not primarily about economy.

    It is about identity.

    Muslims and blacks and (choose other groups) are not Danes and will never become.

    So- Danes don’t want them.

    To each their own.

    • Agree: Rob McX
  • Certain truths are eternal:

    Import the Third World, become the Third World.

    • Agree: Rob McX
  • @Zero Philosopher
    Eric Clapton has had enough of COVID, breathing through diapers and state-sponsored intimidation and coercion for vaccination, and he wants everybody to know it. Clapton is not exactly Nature's most delicate rose, so this song is not suprising at all. Want to hear an opinion on any subject? Just ask Eric Clapton. From manure to the atom bomb, Clapton will have an opinion for you no matter the chosen topic.

    What is amazing about Clapton is that he says anything that he wants, and he *truly* doesn't give a damn about repercussions. Among otther things, he has called Prince Charles an inbred monkey, said that he doesn't like immigrants because they smell really bad and he is allergic to the smell of curry, and that he only hires female chorus singers for his shows to "stand there and look pretty", and that "women make terrible musicians". Most recently, Clapton has been denounced publicly for this statement:

    "london is a ST hole. I see all of these brown people, black people, they smell bad, they defecate in the streets. How tdid they get here? Who opened the door for them? English people are white, so how did all these brown people from some ST hole in Africa and Asia get here?" https://www.news9live.com/art-culture/eric-clapton-covid-19-anti-vaxxer-legacy-racism-126609

    I think the reason why Clapton says these things is because he is such a *supreme* icon of classic rock and because he is so old now that he feels like his legacy is set in stone. But people that like him should subscribe to his YT channel because he lost all his endorsers and they are trying to bankrupt him with lawsuits. But the part of him not liking immigrants because "they smell bad", that is exactly the kind of stuff that an artist would say.😂 Here is his anti-COVID song.
    https://youtu.be/dNt4NIQ7FTA

    Replies: @Rob McX

    I’ve wondered about that for a long time. How does Clapton get away with saying stuff that would have other public figures consigned to oblivion for life? I don’t think it’s because he’s such a supreme icon of rock. A lot of people of equal status had their careers ruined within hours of making far less extreme statements.

    • Replies: @Zero Philosopher
    @Rob McX

    Actually, he is. He is a *god* of classic blues-inspired rock. There are very, very few celebrities in the World that have the status in their field that Clapton has in classic rock. As a guitarrist, he might be the greatest ever. Certainly for virtuosity.

    The other reason why he gets away with it is because of the "cranky old man act". People are more forgiving of old men saying offensive things because the pain they they experience from the chronic diseases of ageing puts them in a bad mood and they understand that. It's the whole "old man yelling at clouds" meme. From a different generation, etc. Also, Clapton lost his 4 year-old son in tragic circumstances, so people feel very sorry for him and don't want to appear like the ahole picking on a man that went through such personal tragedy.

    Replies: @Rob McX

    , @Reg Cæsar
    @Rob McX


    I’ve wondered about that for a long time. How does Clapton get away with saying stuff that would have other public figures consigned to oblivion for life?
     
    https://p1.music.126.net/3L0MJpwtvo5vEOj6WPhXsA==/109951163978775004.jpg
    , @Bragadocious
    @Rob McX


    How does Clapton get away with saying stuff that would have other public figures consigned to oblivion for life?

     

    I would say 2 reasons.

    One, he was awarded a "CBE" by the monarchy, a piece of metal in a velvet box showing that you're part of the same mafia gang that burned the city of Cork to the ground.

    This honor may seem silly, but actually immunizes him. The Brits see him as a national asset, and won't turn on him.

    Two, the American media looks inward for its monsters, Putin being the lone exception to that rule. And even that is the result of British influence in America.
  • Look what they do to heritage. This video is available on BitChute and Odysee. Do you remember the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan? They were carved out of the stone of a cliffside in central Afghanistan more than 1,400 years ago. The Taliban blew them up in 2001. Here is the larger of the two, which...
  • @Getaclue
    @R.C.

    Always a plague of chubby/fat ass White girls at the forefront of this and Antifa etc....

    Replies: @Jim Christian, @RadicalCenter, @TKK, @Fart Blossom, @Vinnyvette, @White Monkey, @TruthRevolution.net

    Lee’s boys wouldn’t have banged those slobs with LINCOLN’S dick.

  • Judging from the dark blue line, Danes appear to be net tax contributors from their later 20s to their later 60s. They get very expensive in terms of tax consumption in their 80s because, I'm guessing, they less often have family taking care of them. People of Middle Eastern, North African, Pakistani, and Turkish descent...
  • @Altai
    @Dieter Kief

    What's more telling is how Denmark, a rich liberal progressive country with near 100% English fluency and massive consumption of American media and consciousness of Anglosphere morality, is just... getting away with it so to speak.

    Even if some of the announced policies seem unworkable, they're designed to signal unwelcoming conditions that will deter immigration. (Far from the notion of valiant individuals battling the elements, immigrants have always been people moving from a less favourable environment to a more favourable one, doing work they either wouldn't do in their own country or work they were doing but for lower pay.)

    The EU and Sweden sometimes grumble but the EU doesn't seem interested in stopping them. The reality is every country could do what Denmark is doing. What stops them is not external reproach, it's internal reproach. That's why I keep using the term 'immigrant veto'. Distant EU authorities won't get in your face but immigrants be they highly educated Western ones or poor antisocial MENA ones, will get in your face and get offended that the natural functioning of society doesn't stop to soothe their neuroses of not truly belonging. Maybe Denmark gets away with it because outside of Sweden and Norway, most countries don't really think about Denmark or really have it in their mental space but at some level they must get away with it because nobody really thinks what they're doing is wrong.

    If some of the Danish policies were announced in say the UK, there would be war and the media would sabotage it and make everyone involved into social pariahs.

    A lot of hipsters in the US and UK look on admiringly at Denmark, even the ones who have never been there. They never allow themselves to wonder if the homogeneity of this small flat country might have something to do with it's social democracy and how it's more diligent immigration policies might have something to do with why it's still so nice. Though I do enjoy how Anglosphere people admire say ethnic Swedes appearance but don't dare to wonder what their immigration policies mean for that. A country of Zlatans...

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Dieter Kief, @Rob McX

    The reality is every country could do what Denmark is doing. What stops them is not external reproach, it’s internal reproach.

    Yes, but from the media and governing class, for the most part, not from their own citizens.

    • Replies: @HammerJack
    @Rob McX

    And consider how the US "prestige media" have declared war on Hungary — Hungary! And upon anyone who dares to say a good word about Hungary.

  • @Anonymous
    @Anon

    It's cargo cultism. Europeans looked to America, saw that it was rich and successful and had lots of blacks, so imported blacks so they would be rich and successful too.

    Replies: @Rob McX

    It’s a bit more complicated than that. A lot of Europeans look down on Americans, seeing them as backward when it comes to views on race. They believe all or most of America’s race problems are caused by ignorant and intransigent whites. The idea that the same problems will be repeated in Europe never occurs to them, despite all the evidence to the contrary.

    • Replies: @Dieter Kief
    @Rob McX


    They believe all or most of America’s race problems are caused by ignorant and intransigent whites.

     

    Yeah, ca. like that. - Even in rather highbrow publications like The Guardian or Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung or DIE ZEIT. Not so much in the swiss NZZ. The Siwss debate Robert Plomin and Charles Murray openly and reasonably. Somehthing that hardly happens in Germany (it does, but rather shy and defensive. The best one in the last years was Max von Tiltzer about race and IQ. His brilliant article is still online at Tichy' Einblick - a moderately off-mainstream German liberal-conservative publication, which intensely cooperates with David Murray).

    It would be the easiest way out for us Europeans if the root cause of all race problems would be white ignorance in the US. Because then the problem could be solved overseas, and would be none of our business!

    Replies: @Peter Akuleyev

    , @Wokechoke
    @Rob McX

    Most whites in Europe understand that the blacks America imported are the problem.

    Replies: @Professional Slav

  • Non-white immigration to Europe is pure insanity and racial suicide.

    • Agree: Rob McX, J.Ross
  • From Review of Democracy, a very clear statement of where the conventional wisdom is headed, due to Lenin's "He who says A must say B" reasons. Personally, I think the essence of sanity is to say: "I say A but not B, because B is disastrous," but then I'm a crazed extremist. So I would...
  • @Rob McX
    @Thrallman

    Steve mentioned somewhere that the computer scientist John McCarthy said that maybe Jefferson inadvertently left out a vital word in the Declaration of Independence: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, [in] that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights..." Quite a difference.

    Replies: @Bill

    Not really. He goes on to say that “among these are …” Jeff didn’t claim that his list was complete. So, the introductory clause is still going to guide what gets added to the list.

    • Thanks: Rob McX
  • Judging from the dark blue line, Danes appear to be net tax contributors from their later 20s to their later 60s. They get very expensive in terms of tax consumption in their 80s because, I'm guessing, they less often have family taking care of them. People of Middle Eastern, North African, Pakistani, and Turkish descent...
  • @theMann
    In Milton Freidman's time, a rich country had to be adjacent to a poor country for its welfare system to be eventually overwhelmed. Now, with cell phones, every grifter in every third world shithole knows where the promised land is.

    The only ways to stop being inundated are to either stop people from getting in, or end the welfare State on a conceptual level.

    Current Western Governments lack the will for either solution.

    Replies: @Rob McX

    True. Distance is nothing now. Sweden’s benefits exert a pull that can be felt in Zimbabwe or Bangladesh. I don’t believe ending the welfare state is the right solution. Why should you refuse to help the genuinely needy in your own country when the problem could be solved by closing the border? It would amount to making no distinction between your own people and alien freeloaders.

    • Agree: Rosie
    • Replies: @theMann
    @Rob McX

    I can think of any number of reasons to end the Welfare State, some moral, some practical, but let me point out just one:

    When A uses the power of the State to take money from B, while claiming Altruism as a reason to reward C, that isnt altruism, it is armed robbery. It is also, in virtually every case, futile.


    An observation from a 25 years experience case worker for SVDP, who knows vastly more about helping the poor than any of you ever will: never help Anyone who wont help themselves. And never, ever, help anyone by giving them cash.

  • The most Denmark or any EU country can do is slow down or postpone the destruction of the entire continent. Europe’s rulers need to start governing on the principle that indigenous Europeans need their own countries, inhabited and ruled by their own people. If not, they will be gradually destroyed by immigration. Even countries like Denmark and Hungary have open borders with the rest of the EU, and their ability to govern themselves is being progressively curtailed by the EU government and EU court rulings.

    • Agree: ziggurat, Kylie
  • The Economist: Muslims in Denmark Are a Life-Long Burden on the Budget

    While this is true, it seems a bit narrow-minded in terms of the impacts of immigration. If we flicked a switch and replaced say Jeff Bezos with an immigrant he would be classed as ‘productive’ but infact what you’ve done is just increase the population of the US by one extra person without them doing anything productive that somebody else (Let’s pretend that Bezos and Amazon are a net gain for a moment) couldn’t do.

    Has the per capita GDP gone up from the presence of immigrant A? Almost certainly no and almost certainly no for the vast majority of ‘net tax payers’. Has that person produced more land? Has that person produced more housing to offset their needs? No.

    The truth is that virtually all immigration is a burden to the pre-existing society in terms of resources. The right just focuses on ‘net tax payers’ but this obfuscates far bigger issues and far easier talking points against immigration and in far greater scope.

    The numbers of immigrants who are truly essential and produce addition productivity or capital retention is vanishingly small. (And perhaps impossible to even identify)

    The reason Denmark turned against immigration is actually quite simple it didn’t immigration was unpopular like everywhere in Western Europe, while anti-immigration parties were at similar levels in Denmark as elsewhere in terms of votes, the Danish Peoples Party managed to get into a coalition government and was given the immigration brief. They succeeded in staving off a lot of immigration in the key period of the late 90s/early 2000s when things turned up with both the internet making dissemination of asylum tricks and the massive wave of Balkaners who were given and abused asylum in many countries created the template which has been abused since. (Rule number of immigration: Immigration begets more immigration through diasporas, through transformation of the low wage economy to become ‘addicted’ to immigration and through the inhibition and displacement of the native population and it’s ability to argue against it) The idea that Sweden gripes about ‘racist’ (There are few places less ‘racist’ in the world) Denmark because it just wants company in misery is quite apparent to most Danes.

    In Denmark now there are far fewer immigrants and people descended from immigrants. In Copenhagen it’s the immigrants who are surrounded. The Danes are free to talk amongst themselves in a super majority. There is no ‘immigrant veto’ from having a critical mass of non-Danes everywhere, making people bide their tongue. People freely put up flag poles. But just over the bridge in Malmo…

    I’m serious, one of the remarkable things about Copenhagen is just how Danish it is. There is sadly no longer any equivalent in any capital city in Western Europe. As time has gone on Malmo and Sweden more generally has become a useful comparison to keep the policies in place too. Denmark and Sweden had similar rates of immigration until the early 2000s. Sweden has a much larger whole extra generation of mass migration that Denmark more or less doesn’t have. The riots and unrest that goes on in places like Malmo, Gothenburg and even parts of Stockholm is something the Danes can safely point out as problems they’d have if immigration wasn’t tightened when it was. (To add insult to injury the almost entirely ethnic Danish national team is now far better than Sweden even at the height of the Neanderthal-looking Ibrahimovic)

    But make no mistake, just because somebody is a ‘net tax payer’ doesn’t mean they aren’t a burden on their host society. The real question is does somebody increase per capita GDP and the vast majority of immigrants don’t. And even among the ones who do, there are some things money just can’t buy, like housing and other public infrastructure that isn’t easily scaled to unnatural growth.

    • Replies: @Skyler the Weird
    @Altai

    I got off the train in Odense in 2008 and thought I was in Casablanca or Algiers. Every group of kindergartners I saw in Copenhagen and Helsignor were North African. They have a long way to go in controlling immigration but are better than Londonistan or the Paris no go zone.

    , @Dieter Kief
    @Altai

    Denmark puts immigrant criminals in jail in Kosovo:

    https://www.rt.com/news/543429-denmark-kosovo-criminals-jail/

    They start to work on the hardest problem with ragard to immigration (Thilo Sarrazin): How to send immigants back,in case their foreign stay is no longer appropriate and / or in case they became serious offenders of the rules of the host-country.

    Btw. - the Danish Social Democrat Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, who majored in African studies and sociology - is one of the best pupils of the German (until recently...) Social Democratic immigration critic Thilo Sarrazin. Thilo Sarrazin time and time again pointed out, that lots of immigrants from Africa and Islamic countries are socially a burden/ threat to society and economically a loss. And, Sarrazin said: It is a very hard task, to send those people back, once they are in the EU. - But Mette Frederiksen is trying hard it seems, to find ways: See the RT article sabove.

    Replies: @Altai

    , @Peter Lund
    @Altai

    No, Dansk Folkeparti was never in government. The party supported the government in parliament from November 2001, that’s all. We have negative parliamentarism, which means a government that gets a parliamentary majority against it falls.

    They also had close to zero influence in the 90’s and were mainly considered silly clowns everybody would laugh at.

    No, Copenhagen does not look Danish at all. Minor towns and villages still do, if they are far enough from an immigrant nest (big city or “flygtningecenter”/refugee camp).

    Nothing about this graph is new. It was widely known in the 90’s, despite very active efforts by most of the press to suppress it.

    The new rules will solve nothing. It will just spread the misery around a bit. What we need is to send them to camps in Northeast Greenland... and of course stop giving them money.

    Replies: @LondonBob

    , @SunBakedSuburb
    @Altai

    "They succeeded in staving off a lot of immigration in the key period of the late 90s/early 2ooos ... massive wave of Balkaners"

    I lived in the Norrebro section of Copenhagen during that period. At that time it had the cheapest rents in town and was populated by Turks, Poles, and working class Danes. I shared a small one bedroom apartment with my Danish wife and our baby. It was safe and clean but still considered dicey by some in the city. And then one day my Polish bus driver friend and I noticed bearded Eastern European types in the neighborhood; tough looking dudes sizing up the competition and finding it lacking. It turned out they were Bosnians, soldiers who fought with NATO forces in the Kosovo War. They disappeared a few weeks later, much to my delight. And soon after were arrested by Danish police for trafficking in illegal narcotics. I suppose Denmark being a NATO country was at that time obliged to take in a few of these ruffians seeking the fabled Sailer Magic Dirt.

    , @Ganderson
    @Altai

    “ To add insult to injury the almost entirely ethnic Danish national team is now far better than Sweden even at the height of the Neanderthal-looking Ibrahimovic”

    Zlatan would look better but for the greasy mane and the ugly tattoos; although what pro sportsballer doesn’t have ugly tattoos?

    The Danish hockey team still sucks, even though they beat the Swedes in the round robin portion of the World Championships last spring.

    Once again my immigration plan: hockey players and their WAGS. No one else.

    , @Chrisnonymous
    @Altai

    I saw a TV show about a Swedish prison recently. Looked to be >50% brownies.

  • From Review of Democracy, a very clear statement of where the conventional wisdom is headed, due to Lenin's "He who says A must say B" reasons. Personally, I think the essence of sanity is to say: "I say A but not B, because B is disastrous," but then I'm a crazed extremist. So I would...
  • The alternative to citizenship is subjugation. Before we were citizens we were subjects.

    If those in power can just simply import millions of people who will vote for them, then there is no longer any such thing as democracy. The people who control the spigot of immigration control the country in perpetuity.

    Just consider that the last two presidential elections have been decided by less than 100,000 votes total, and that twice that many people have been illegally entering the United States every single month since President Ron Klain’s inauguration.

    • Agree: Ben tillman, Rob McX
    • Replies: @Thelma Ringbaum
    @Wilkey

    Are we not subjects? Any country on Earth handling Covid differently? This level of uniformity of response should tell us something.

    Now, if the world is this uniform, what about the citizenship? Tell us the reason , except "we used to have this thing when our country was an undependent power, before the Great War".

  • @Mr. Anon

    From Review of Democracy, a very clear statement of where the conventional wisdom is headed, due to Lenin’s “He who says A must say B” reasons.

    Personally, I think the essence of sanity is to say: “I say A but not B, because B is disastrous,” but then I’m a crazed extremist. So I would say that, wouldn’t I?
     
    Perhaps the proper corollary to “He who says A must say B” is "He who does not wish to say B should not say A".

    Replies: @Hypnotoad666, @Almost Missouri, @pyrrhus, @Richard B

    Lenin’s “He who says A must say B”

    Personally, I’ve always preferred Kipling’s “If you take the first step, you will take the last!” But no matter, as the sentiment surely predates both Lenin and Kipling.

    And yes,

    Perhaps the proper corollary to “He who says A must say B” is “He who does not wish to say B should not say A”.

    This is the the crux of it. Seemingly inconsequential philosophical concessions build up until horrifying consequences become inevitable. (“No one thinks of winter when the grass is green!” —from that same Kipling poem.)

    And in this case, Prof. Kochenov conveniently puts his errors right at the beginning:

    he believes citizenship is a “perpetuation of the ideas of aristocracy,” sexism, and racism;

    Sex is real. Race is real. And aristocracy is real too. By assuming they don’t exist, and/or do exist but are bad, Prof. Kochenov makes his entire train of subsequent reasoning inevitable, and inevitably wrong.

    Presumably, no one here needs convincing that sex and race are real, but aristocracy may be a stretch for people raised amidst the yammering of “democracy” (a word that does not appear in the US Constitution). But aristos is simply the Greek word for “best”. Who wouldn’t want government by the best? Indeed, it is so obvious, it is almost tautological.

    Ah, but how do we know who is best? Traditionally, this was decided by combat. Stronger = better = aristos. Since firearms have now empowered anyone who can pull a trigger (still well short of everyone) as compared to the old warrior elite, the combat-determined aristos expanded to include the citizen-soldier, a trend which reached its high-water mark around the middle of last century. Since then, the citizen-soldiery itself has been in decline, while the democracy-concept that they enabled has carried on expanding in a ghost-life unmoored from its underlying reality. This ungrounded concept of “democracy = good” enables delusions like those professed by Professor Kochenov. But he is only saying plainly what many people now believe in a much less articulate way. And yes, this belief is mistaken and will usher in many disasters. Heading off these disasters can ultimately only be done at the source: the false beliefs of equalism. If only Thomas Jefferson had remembered to use the word “in”

    HBD, sexual dimorphism, Nietzsche and freedom aren’t just good ideas, they are literally the antidote to catastrophe.

    • Agree: Rob McX
    • Replies: @Thelma Ringbaum
    @Almost Missouri

    This is a good argument, HBD, Aristocracy etc., but why does it defend Citizenship? Citizenship in a modern welfare state , is something very opposite to aristocracy. And HBD.

    Why Dimitri, the professor, has , to americans, a lower value , in HBD sense, than certain minority of their citizens, whose lives matter? Or white single mothers who are super brave to get payments for beung single? Or gays who became old without progeny.

    I think your idea and others here idea of aristocracy need a correction. The Bridge on the River Kwai could pehaps help. As an example. Theres one British Aristocrate, he is ready to stand torture to stay the aristocrate, but has no qualms at all at entering Japanese service as long as his personal dignity is kept. For aristocracy is a personal trait, not citizenship papers. For an aristocrate, other classes are scum.

    So, abolishing citizenship may ehnance performance of the best people, by removing the artificial barriers. It will likely also improve morale by killing welfare state.

    Replies: @Almost Missouri, @AnotherDad

  • It makes you wonder what this guy is doing in Europe, a place where countries so cruelly restrict their citizenship. He could practise what he preaches about citizenship of the world and relocate to Mogadishu or Kabul.

    • Replies: @Thelma Ringbaum
    @Rob McX

    Looks like he was putting his ideas in practice by participating somehow in a scheme of selling Maltese passports. Wikipedia says his European host were not amused.

    The guy isnt a hypocrite , hes a nihilist.

  • Also, Lia Thomas of the University of Pennsylvania set US women's swimming records in the 200 and 500 yard freestyles. But for some sexist reason, the New York Times and Washington Post haven't mentioned her stunning feats. And the top female sci-fi directors, the Wachowski Sisters, have a Matrix sequel coming out! Women should be...
  • When did locking up your bike become standard operating procedure for you? In Los Angeles' suburban San Fernando Valley, I'd say maybe 1973 ... (This picture looks like it's from fairly recent decades because the style in vogue is mountain bikeish.) Many of my memories of the late 1970s involve the pursuit of ever-more uncuttable...
  • @Bill Jones
    @SafeNow

    Burglaries in London in the 80's were often a two act play.

    a 6 week intermission was usually enough to get the new stuff.

    People usually upped the security after that one. I did hear of one guy who discovered the dead bolts had had the #10 screws replaced with #6 so a gentle boot opened the door.

    Replies: @Rob McX

    I’ve heard all kinds of crazy advice in the British media about staying safe from burglars, e.g. not marking dates on your calendar when you’ll be away, because that’ll tell them when to come back. Think of all the sorrow and hardship a 12-gauge shotgun could prevent.

  • From Review of Democracy, a very clear statement of where the conventional wisdom is headed, due to Lenin's "He who says A must say B" reasons. Personally, I think the essence of sanity is to say: "I say A but not B, because B is disastrous," but then I'm a crazed extremist. So I would...
  • @Rob McX

    Somehow, the absolute majority of states in the world failed to produce a citizenship which is similar in its quality and appeal to the citizenship of the United States.
     
    No, they failed to produce people that are similar in "quality and appeal" to those of the United States. He's trying to disguise genetics as "citizenship", as if it could be changed at the stroke of a pen. Abolishing the concept of citizenship (which is Kochenov's way of saying open the borders) will just reduce white countries to African levels.

    Replies: @Moses

    Abolishing the concept of citizenship (which is Kochenov’s way of saying open the borders) will just reduce white countries to African levels.

    I think that is the idea.

    • Agree: Rob McX
  • @Thrallman

    “He who says A must say B”
     
    Once you accept that "All men are created equal," the logical consequence is world Communism. You have to reject the absurd premise from the beginning. All else is cuckservatism and defeat.

    Replies: @Rob McX, @Ben tillman, @ic1000

    Steve mentioned somewhere that the computer scientist John McCarthy said that maybe Jefferson inadvertently left out a vital word in the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, [in] that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights…” Quite a difference.

    • Replies: @Bill
    @Rob McX

    Not really. He goes on to say that "among these are ..." Jeff didn't claim that his list was complete. So, the introductory clause is still going to guide what gets added to the list.

  • People want to be separate from other races and tribes. Forcing them together by means of immigration won’t change that. All that happens is they go from separating at the macro level to separating at the micro level, i.e. white flight, etc. and all the hardship and expense that entails. No punishment is cruel enough for nation-wreckers like Kochenov.

    • Replies: @Thelma Ringbaum
    @Rob McX

    And, hows it been working for you? How well did your state, your citizenship helped you to segregate yourself?

    The question of living with whom you like to live does not necessarily leads to the answer "i want my own and everyone elses Freedom of movement be limited by Governments because of bloodlines".

    It is very easy to imagine your own government forcing you to live together with certain bloodlines you disapprove of, in the name of Equity and being good citizen. Why preserve the institute of the citizenship then?

    Replies: @AnotherDad

  • @Reg Cæsar
    @Ian Smith

    At least that's a genuine smile? What is this?


    https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2021/08/04/PDTN/e69af215-c62d-46a5-83d9-12b34c5d90c5-Ghalib_Majewski_2up.jpg


    Michigan city gets ready to inaugurate all-Muslim government

    Hamtramck was once heavily Polish. One of the councilors is a Polish convert.

    Replies: @Mr. Anon, @Ian Smith

    Michigan city gets ready to inaugurate all-Muslim government

    Hamtramck was once heavily Polish. One of the councilors is a Polish convert.

    Jan Sobieski’s 1683 victory before Vienna ……………….. undone in Michigan in 2021.

    • Agree: Rob McX
    • Thanks: Hibernian
  • @JohnnyWalker123
    https://ghum.kuleuven.be/ggs/fallectures2017/dimitry-kochenov.jpg

    Professor Dimitry Vladimirovich Kochenov

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Moses, @El Dato, @AnotherDad, @Jim Bob Lassiter

    Ed Sheeran should hire this guy to stand next to him on stage.

    • LOL: Rob McX
  • @AnotherDad


    When you look at the world from the perspective of two, five, one hundred, two hundred states and territories, then all these gains that we associate with the term “citizenship” disappear because as citizenship functions today, it’s basically a tool to instill absolute inequality between the possessors of different statuses under the guise of the promotion of democratic inclusion, liberation, and fairness.
     
    The most fundamental freedom is not your personal freedom of speech, press, religion, it is the freedom to associate with the people you want, so that can you live in a community with your norms, values, traditions, culture. (We are a social species.)

    Minoritarianism--and globohomo--are a war against that. A war specifically against a nation's people being able to have their nation and live as they wish according to their national norms and culture.

    You must be jammed cheek to jowl with ... whomever. You have no right to your community, your nation. You are just a serf.

    Replies: @ben tillman, @SafeNow, @Glaivester, @Ian M.

    The most fundamental freedom is not your personal freedom of speech, press, religion, it is the freedom to associate with the people you want, so that can you live in a community with your norms, values, traditions, culture. (We are a social species.)

    The most fundamental freedom is self-ownership, which applies both to one’s personal self and to any expanded selves that one has become part of through association with others.

    Kochenov wants to enslave the best humans and enforce dysgenics (which ultimately means extinction) on the entire human race. He is a nihilistic, genocidal psychopath.

    • Agree: Rob McX, Polistra
    • Replies: @Thelma Ringbaum
    @ben tillman

    He is a nihilistic guy, a proper russian, this Dimitri. But he comes from a different prospective that you and Sailer assume. Afrika is just a convenient target , because rasssizzzm. And indeed, US is rasist, it just cannot live out this black-white guilt ridden pathology,

    But what is the reason to have the classes of citizenships existing between white countries? Why this Dimitri the russian needs to lick boots of US embassy officials (who are a pond scum compared to him, intellectually and often , well, racially as well) to get in, and then suffer slavery under your HIV visas, or what you call them, while Haitian peasants seem to have it as the aristicratic blood right for them to come and stay illegally?

    Why denying comservative Hungarians and Poles the same status as American /Israeli Jews have in US? Whats your game, whites?

    Hence the nigilism: the thing is failed, citizenship is no barrier for migration of havenots from Africa, but it really hurts people from Middle Income, white countries which are, well White and skilled. Argentinians have more white blood than many many of an american mutt.

    Think about it, before going for your knee jerk reactions.

    , @Rosie
    @ben tillman


    Feminization of the world means “no differentiating.” Friend/foe. Rich/poor. Polite/rude.
     
    IMO, dysgenics = human extinction.

    I will never forget the horror I felt the first time I contemplated the idea of a world with theology, philosophy, poetry, pure science, art... even if there remain pockets of homo sapiens about the place, it would amount to human extinction in the most important sense.

    As for the abolition of citizenship, I have been saying for some time that civic nationalism is an untenable compromise, because if "skin color" is thin gruel, a piece of paper is even thinner.

    Replies: @Stan Adams, @ben tillman

    , @Ian M.
    @ben tillman

    "Self-ownership" is false. It cannot be fundamental, because it presupposes a right to ownership in the first place, in which case the right to ownership is a more fundamental 'freedom'. But self-ownership is typically used to justify a right to ownership, so then the whole thing becomes circular.

    The thesis of self-ownership is typically used to justify the idea that any obligation not consented to is unjust, being a violation of self-ownership. But at the same time, advocates of self-ownership think that consent ought to be binding, yet this is not itself something consented to, and so ought to be regarded as a violation of self-ownership but isn't. So the whole thing becomes an exercise in self-refutation or special pleading.

    https://collapsetheblog.typepad.com/blog/2011/10/whence-rights-ii-libertarianism.html

    A pox on libertarianism.

  • Somehow, the absolute majority of states in the world failed to produce a citizenship which is similar in its quality and appeal to the citizenship of the United States.

    No, they failed to produce people that are similar in “quality and appeal” to those of the United States. He’s trying to disguise genetics as “citizenship”, as if it could be changed at the stroke of a pen. Abolishing the concept of citizenship (which is Kochenov’s way of saying open the borders) will just reduce white countries to African levels.

    • Replies: @Moses
    @Rob McX


    Abolishing the concept of citizenship (which is Kochenov’s way of saying open the borders) will just reduce white countries to African levels.

     

    I think that is the idea.
  • But if you are a white or Asian without a hook, you'd be smart to still send in your 1600 on the SAT or 36 on ACT. From the Washington Post: The Not So Great Reset in action: because the pandemic got in the way of taking the SAT or ACT, institutions had to improvise,...
  • @Mr. Anon
    @Buzz Mohawk


    In fact, I worry that all this is turning Harvard into the college equivalent of a Louis Vuitton handbag or a Bentley, or a Rolex watch: something aspirational people want that’s increasingly valued only for status.
     
    Perhaps some enterprising hoodlums could stage a smash-and-grab flash mob robbery at Harvard and boost some degrees.

    Replies: @Rob McX

    “Police are asking the public’s help to track down some [ahem] hooded males who may be practicing law/medicine/rocket science with their stolen degrees”.

  • Application by DNA sample would save everyone a lot of time.

    • Agree: Patrick in SC
    • Replies: @Polistra
    @Dave Pinsen

    All in good time, my pretty! All in good time.

    , @El Dato
    @Dave Pinsen

    "23and...No"

    Meanwhile, on the question of Intelligence, Artificial or otherwise, researchers are trying to weed out the Alicebots, as currently implemented by massive artificial neural networks, by word tests:

    What Does It Mean for AI to Understand? (written by Melanie Mitchell, who knows her stuff)

    In a 2012 paper (PDF), the computer scientists Hector Levesque, Ernest Davis and Leora Morgenstern proposed a more objective test [than Alan Turing's "imitation game"], which they called the Winograd schema challenge. This test has since been adopted in the AI language community as one way, and perhaps the best way, to assess machine understanding — though as we’ll see, it is not perfect. A Winograd schema, named for the language researcher Terry Winograd, consists of a pair of sentences, differing by exactly one word, each followed by a question. Here are two examples:

    Sentence 1: I poured water from the bottle into the cup until it was full.
    Question: What was full, the bottle or the cup?

    Sentence 2: I poured water from the bottle into the cup until it was empty.
    Question: What was empty, the bottle or the cup?

    Sentence 1: Joe’s uncle can still beat him at tennis, even though he is 30 years older.
    Question: Who is older, Joe or Joe’s uncle?

    Sentence 2: Joe’s uncle can still beat him at tennis, even though he is 30 years younger.
    Question: Who is younger, Joe or Joe’s uncle?

     However, the ANNs keep progressing even on these, and so...


    Rather than give up on the Winograd schemas as a test of understanding, a group of researchers from the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence decided instead to try to fix some of their problems. In 2019 they created WinoGrande, a much larger set of Winograd schemas. Instead of several hundred examples, WinoGrande contains a whopping 44,000 sentences. To obtain that many examples, the researchers turned to Amazon Mechanical Turk, a popular platform for crowdsourcing work. Each (human) worker was asked to write several sentence pairs, with some constraints to ensure that the collection would contain diverse topics, though now the sentences in each pair could differ by more than one word.
     
    Still, the statistical compressors are reaching good levels:

    However, another surprise was in store. In the almost two years since the WinoGrande collection was published, neural network language models have grown ever larger, and the larger they get, the better they seem to score on this new challenge. At the time of this writing, the current best programs — which have been trained on terabytes of text and then further trained on thousands of WinoGrande examples — get close to 90% correct (humans get about 94% correct). This increase in performance is due almost entirely to the increased size of the neural network language models and their training data.
     
    Maybe we can attain JOI artificial girlfriend which still staying a lot below the actual "I".
    , @Tiny Duck
    @Dave Pinsen

    Why?

    It seems like it is the white kids who do not have to work hard and meet the requirements that everyone else does.

    , @Father O'Hara
    @Dave Pinsen

    How many courses on black studies can they offer?

    , @Richard Munro
    @Dave Pinsen

    interesting to know this piece and all the comments are prohibited and block on FB as SPAM I read the article it is reasoned and factual. But non PC . This is censorship. I only can read Steve Sailor because I have email.

    , @Twinkie
    @Dave Pinsen

    I think someone did an analysis of SAT scores and such a while back and found that, if elite college admissions were strictly based on standardized scores, the black and Hispanic percentages would fall greatly (black numbers in particular would collapse), Asians would increase and white percentages would stay the same, but that different kinds of whites would go up in number while other whites would fall, compared to today's numbers.

    Guess what respective kinds of whites these would be.

  • From the Washington Examiner: When firms use the word "reimagine" they're usually up to no good. ... On the same day that Realtor.com announced that it was removing its crime data, Redfin came out with a full-throated denunciation of crime data being included on real estate websites. Redfin’s chief growth officer Christian Taubman announced that,...
  • You don’t need crime data. You just need demographics.

    • Agree: Kylie, mc23, Rob McX, Polistra
    • LOL: PaceLaw
    • Replies: @Kylie
    @Wade Hampton

    "You don’t need crime data. You just need demographics."

    Agreed. Apparently some people don't realize that. Facebook has pages of old houses for sale. You'll see some gorgeous old Victorian priced very low. Good whites drool over it and wonder why it's priced so low and has been on the market so long. They just can't figure it out. I just google the zip code. Demographics. Every single time.

    , @Wilkey
    @Wade Hampton

    Black population % of the countties in which Redfin and Realtor.com are based:

    Redfin (King County, WA): 6.7% black.


    Realtor.com (Santa Clara County, CA): 2.4% black.

    Likely black percentage of the 100 closest neighbors of Taubman and Doctorow: 0.0%

    Basically if crime and demographic data isn't available, people will just drive by the local schools as the school day is starting. It ain't that hard. It may take a little more of their time, but people will do it. The result will be that even safe neighborhoods with lots of blacks (yes, I suppose there may actually be a few) will be avoided. Remove solid data and people w.ill go with the next best thing they can find.

    Unless you start requiring Americans to all walk around in burquas, people are going to use their eyes to notice who lives where, and base their buying decisions on it.

    , @Ben tillman
    @Wade Hampton

    Good point, sir.

    , @Jim Bob Lassiter
    @Wade Hampton

    And that is available at ten year intervals, mapped census tract by mapped census tract, from the US Census Bureau. Urban and suburban census tracts are not geographically large either.

  • @Reg Cæsar

    ...on the mean culdesacs of Chevy Chase, Lexington, and Scarsdale.
     
    Culs-des-sacs. If you're going to use pretentious French, at least do it right. The English is dead end, which is more appropriate for this post anyway.

    Anyone else struck by how faggoty those neighborhoods look from the sky? It was quite noticeable on the approach to the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky airport. The map shows Transparent Court, Delicious Court, and Apple Cider Drive. But the delicious kind of apple cider isn't transparent.


    https://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large-5/residential-cul-de-sac-in-snohomish-andrew-buchananslp.jpg

    https://ak.picdn.net/shutterstock/videos/26279165/thumb/1.jpg

    https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2ETG84T/aerial-view-of-a-double-cul-de-sac-lined-with-single-family-houses-in-an-american-real-estate-development-2ETG84T.jpg

    An alternate view:
    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-10-17/the-case-for-cul-de-sacs

    Replies: @RonaldReagansLoveChildWithMadonna2, @Ralph L, @Rob McX, @duncsbaby, @Ben tillman

    Plural is culs-de-sac in French. Anglophones have been using it for so long that they’re probably justified in dropping the French plural and saying cul-de-sacs.

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @Rob McX


    Plural is culs-de-sac in French.
     
    But a sac can only have one cul! My 9th-grade French teacher, a saucy type, liked to translate it literally, as "ass of the bag".


    https://miro.medium.com/max/1400/0*tt9Nnp9kVZnKTdFk.jpeg

    https://99percentinvisible.org/app/uploads/2013/08/va_culdesac_prohib2.jpg

    Replies: @Ben tillman

  • “And the fact that most reported crimes go unsolved means that some of the crimes being reported in fact may not be crimes.”

    That’s a distinct possibility if you live near Jussie Smollett.

    • Replies: @Hypnotoad666
    @Rob McX

    By the way, where is this actual "MAGA country"? It sounds nice. I'd like to visit sometime.

    Replies: @Rob, @Ben tillman

  • On the tenth anniversary of Christopher Hitchens' death, here's my obituary in Taki's Magazine: Nature’s Tory Steve Sailer December 21, 2011 There wouldn’t seem to be much left to say about the late Christopher Hitchens after the countless tributes paid by other journalists about the night (or afternoon or morning) they got drunk with Hitch....
  • @Rob McX
    Media personalities often seem the most important people in the world when they're alive, and then shoot into oblivion once they've died. The broadcaster Gilbert Harding was probably the most famous man in England in the 1950s. Then he dropped dead in the street in 1960 and was instantly forgotten, the more so because most broadcasts couldn't be repeated, as they weren't recorded. But he apparently enjoys a kind of surreal afterlife in that recognition of his name is part of the longterm memory test for Alzheimer's. Whoever devised the test must have figured he'd be the ideal choice, his name being ubiquitous in his lifetime but rarely mentioned since.

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon

    In late 60s Britain a former pirate DJ called Simon Dee (not his birth name) was ubiquitous on the BBC. His early evening show sometimes had 18 million viewers – about a third of the entire country. His style was that of a hipper David Frost.

    He moved to the commercial ITV in 1970, his show was canceled and, from being perhaps the most high-profile figure in media, he fell almost overnight into total obscurity – so much so that I wonder who he offended.

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

    Dee fell out with the station management and they terminated his contract after only a few months. There was friction between Dee and David Frost, part-owner of London Weekend, after whose show Dee’s was broadcast. Both were talk shows, and Frost thought that some of Dee’s items would make the shows too similar. Dee felt that Frost was deliberately sabotaging his show. After a bizarre interview with actor George Lazenby, who outlined at length his theories about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the show was dropped.

    Hmm. I wonder what those theories were? Frost was a piece of work, and a very successful one – a TV “rebel” in the satire days who knew just how far to go and when to stop, who had power and who didn’t. I often wondered if he was a role model for Tony Blair.

    In June 1970, Dee joined his former Radio Caroline boss, Ronan O’Rahilly, to campaign for pirate radio and against the Labour government’s Marine Broadcasting Offences Act, issuing a poster of Prime Minister Harold Wilson dressed as Chinese dictator Mao Tse-tung. Pirate radio remained a political issue and, in the run up to the 1970 general election that summer, Radio Caroline International launched a campaign in support of the Conservative Party, which supported commercial radio. Dee later claimed that there was an Establishment plot against him because of his open opposition to Wilson: government files were later released showing that he was being monitored by the Security Service. Dee also believed that his phone had been tapped because of his opposition to Britain’s mooted membership of the Common Market.

    He ended up as a bus driver.

    Establishment: “So Perish Those Who Defy Me!

    • Thanks: Rob McX
  • In his memoir/”novel” Inside Story, Martin Amis tells of a conversation he had about Israel with Hitchens. Amis asks him was there any place that might have made a better homeland for the Jews after WWII. Hitchens replied Bavaria, in a demilitarised and deindustrialised Germany, where the helpless natives would make futile attempts to attack them with poison arrows.

  • @Mr. Anon
    @Anon


    Many such cases. When, for example, did you last hear anyone cite something written by Charles Krauthammer? Once all of the glowing obits faded from the front pages, his relevance to the commentary class seemingly vanished. William F. Buckley is another one.
     
    And George F. Will will follow them into oblivion.

    Replies: @Harry Baldwin, @Chriscom, @Art Deco

    And George F. Will will follow them into oblivion.

    I think George, the chinless wonder, achieved oblivion at least five years ago.

    • Agree: Goddard
    • LOL: Rob McX
  • From Stat News: At $511,000 in 2020, orthopedic specialists rank at the top of the medical pay charts, along with plastic surgeons, according to Dark Daily for pathologists. They averaged the highest bonus at $116,000. Orthopedics is also the most male of specialties: Medscape found that women MDs chose certain medical specialties more often than...
  • …orthopedics’ numbers have barely budged. Less than 2% of those practicing in the field are Black…

    Good news for anyone facing a hip replacement, for instance. There’s only a 2 percent chance they’ll panic and have the urge to run out the door when they meet the surgeon and he looks like George Floyd.

    • LOL: Realist, Kylie
    • Replies: @Clyde
    @Rob McX


    Good news for anyone facing a hip replacement, for instance. There’s only a 2 percent chance they’ll panic and have the urge to run out the door when they meet the surgeon and he looks like George Floyd.
     
    And holding a hacksaw and pliers.
    , @Brutusale
    @Rob McX

    I just had my knee replaced 5 weeks ago, and I'll be having my hip replaced next month, both by the same surgeon. He's 6'6" tall and looks like Howdy Doody. More important, though, are his degrees from Duke and Johns Hopkins and his position as a staff orthopod at Mass General.

    He cracked me up on my follow up. He was inspecting my well-healed incision and he turned to his PA to ask "That's real nice. Did we do that?"!

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Deckin

    , @Colin Wright
    @Rob McX

    'Good news for anyone facing a hip replacement, for instance. There’s only a 2 percent chance they’ll panic and have the urge to run out the door when they meet the surgeon and he looks like George Floyd.'

    Given that they need a hip replacement, the odds of them running out the door would seem pretty small regardless.

  • On the tenth anniversary of Christopher Hitchens' death, here's my obituary in Taki's Magazine: Nature’s Tory Steve Sailer December 21, 2011 There wouldn’t seem to be much left to say about the late Christopher Hitchens after the countless tributes paid by other journalists about the night (or afternoon or morning) they got drunk with Hitch....
  • @Hangnail Hans
    https://i.ibb.co/TtMXpF8/Capture-2021-12-15-23-47-07-2.png

    Replies: @Rob McX

    …casting a Jewish individual as a puppet master as a puppet master who manipulates national events for malign purposes conjures up longstanding antisemitic tropes about Jewish power…

    How do they think it became a “trope”? Some basis in fact, maybe?

  • Anon[718] • Disclaimer says:
    @Rob McX
    What I found funny about Hitchens was his claim to be a "contrarian", some kind of iconoclast that those in power seek to silence. I think you can calibrate anyone's credibility as a contrarian by the number of times you see them in MSM. How often do you see anyone who contributes to the Unz Review on TV? Or someone from Vdare, or American Renaissance, just to mention two of the more moderate websites? On the other hand, MSM couldn't get enough of Hitchens. He was constantly invited on TV shows and commissioned to write articles for mainstream publications. Like a fish not seeing the water it's swimming in, he couldn't see that he was part of the establishment, their pet renegade. Or he pretended not to see it.

    Replies: @Anon, @John Johnson

    Contrarianism is psychologically attractive to some people because it lets them avoid growing up. It’s the personality type of those with Oppositional Defiant Personality Disorder.

    Symptoms of Oppositional Defiant Personality Disorder include:

    Often loses temper
    Is often touchy or easily annoyed
    Is often angry and resentful
    Often argues with authority figures or for children and adolescents, with adults
    Often actively defies or refuses to comply with requests from authority figures or with rules
    Often deliberately annoys others
    Often blames others for his or her mistakes or misbehavior
    Has been spiteful or vindictive at least twice within the past 6 months.

    That’s Hitchens exactly. He just tried to do it in a more suave manner.

    Everyone has met people like this. They like to proclaim they’re against The System or The Man.

    • Thanks: Rob McX
  • From the Washington Post news section: Whereas all other black children born in the 1980s grew up to love jazz and blues. Okay, this is a long article, so I'll just focus on one topic in it, but it's the Big One: ... Classmates’ racist comments about their hair and eyes were dismissed as harmless...
  • @Rob McX
    @MEH 0910

    Remember this is the guy who claims New Guinea headhunters are the smartest people in the world.

    Replies: @John Johnson, @MEH 0910

    Gregory Cochran:
    https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2017/09/04/guns-germs-and-steel-revisited/

    Jared Diamond’s thesis, in Guns, Germs, and Steel, is that regional differences in civilizational achievement are entirely caused by biogeographical factors, while regional differences in ability have had no effect. It isn’t that he believes that there are no such regional differences: he argues that the populations with the fewest achievements are the most intelligent !

    In particular, Diamond argues that people in PNG (Papua New Guinea), are significantly smarter than the average bear. “in mental ability, New Guineans are probably genetically superior [my emphasis] to Westerners”: p21. “Modern ‘Stone Age’ peoples are on the average probably more intelligent, not less intelligent, than industrialized peoples. ” p 21.

    This is sufficiently odd that readers of GGS often refuse to admit that Diamond ever said it. They’ll deny that it’s even in the book. They tend to replace this meme with another of their own device: you see, hunter-gatherers are innately better at hunting and gathering – at their own way of life – than developed peoples would be. Of course that doesn’t really work either, since innate superiority at obsolete tasks ( a born buggy-whip maker?) doesn’t necessarily translate to modern superiority, or even adequacy.

    [MORE]

    […]
    Conclusion
    We could use more serious work on macrohistory and the rise of civilization: it’s an interesting and important subject. In particular I’d like to see a really smart and detailed comparison of the two totally independent births of civilization in the Old and New Worlds. But this book isn’t serious. The thesis is a joke, and most of the supporting arguments are forced ( i.e. wrong). Perhaps the most important thing we can learn from Guns, Germs, and Steel is that most people are suckers, eager to sign on to ridiculous theories as long as they have the right political implications.

    • Thanks: Rob McX
  • @John Johnson
    @Jack D

    Sad but true. Blood (especially blood of a different race) is thicker than water. A certain % of adopted children will utterly reject their adoptive parents no matter what they do for them.

    You get the bird out of the nest problem even if the race is the same. It happens more often than adoption agencies would like to admit. If you are adopting a White kid then he most likely has problems because usually a relative will take them. It isn't hard to find parents for White or Asian kids. Liberals talk a good game but you never see a lib couple with adopted Black kids. You only see the single White woman with the one mulatto. Never two, always one so I assume lesson learned.

    I once knew a "do-gooder" couple that tried adopting a bunch of kids of various ages and then quietly gave up. They made a large family the old fashioned way and I guess hoped everyone just forgot about their grand social experiment.

    I also knew a pro-adoption White hippie looking guy who had a bunch of Black kids. I suspected that him and his wife were with some weird Christian sect but I never asked. He always looked stressed and frustrated. A real endorsement.

    Replies: @Colin Wright, @Carol, @Rob McX, @Dieter Kief

    You only see the single White woman with the one mulatto. Never two, always one so I assume lesson learned.

    I wish!