Not only agree but have to point out two things;


1. Asians test so well because Asians cheat so well

2. In IT anyway, not only is the Asian/dot Indian work routinely below average, the workers are viciously prejudiced against Whites. I find it interesting that the "high achieving Asians" are just like other non-Whites in the USA: inferior workers, hateful and resentful, thieving at every turn, and topping it all off with expectations of special privilege.


And Race Traitors, treason on genetic level. What punishment is sufficient?

@136 Alden: Fatal flaw of anyone like Sailer and so many of his commentariat who prioritize IQ over race. Those who think a society of all the putatively clever people of every ethnicity and race would be some sort of magic paradise, where the garbage would be collected by robots and the power lines never need repairing. They value intangibles over having a people, so they have no future.

hahahaha!

Uh, no.
You've got it backwards. I'm pretty disdainful of 4.6 GPAs and a host of 5 AP scores.

Replies: @Alden

the currency is collapsing.

Institutional epic fail, accelerating and irreversible. Most of the Universities will burn.
 

Even for an iSteve pessimist this is terrible.

Either up that antidepressant dose or find a tall parking garage to uh, fall off from.

Just sayin'...

The Russians have been very restrained in use of firepower, so far. If they chose, they could simply obliterate Ukraine in days

Not true. Putin is hamstrung by his own propaganda proclaiming Russia as the true spiritual and cultural heir of Kievan Rus. There are holy Christian churches and monasteries in downtown Kiev that Russia cannot touch. Zelensky knows this which is why we he feels fairly safe where he is. This is also why the Polish, Czech and Slovenian Presidents were confident they could go to Kiev a few weeks ago.

Less sacred, but still culturally important to any Russian older than 40 is Odessa, one of the jewels of the Soviet Union. If Russia does to Odessa what Russia has done to Kharkov Putin will have a hard time explaining that back home.

Replies: @Felix Keverich, @nebulafox

Yglesias manages to be perfectly wrong.
 

Replies: @Hunsdon, @Abe

Yglesias knows exactly what he is doing. Page 1 of the far left playbook is to control the language by the carte blanche redefining of terms as necessary to support whatever the current narrative is at that moment. Page 2 is "When in doubt, lie your ass off."

He went to Harvard, so he probably never read it.

Indeed, he probably only learned who Orwell is by losing arguments on Twitter.

Yglesias manages to be perfectly wrong. The basis of sanity is clarity in words.
 

The story goes: During a lecture, Bertrand Russell said that if he was given a false proposition, he could prove the truth of any falsehood, because an illogical proposition implies any proposition. He was promptly interrupted by a student who said: “2+2=5. Now prove that you are the pope.” Russell remained silent, and thought for a few moments. He then replied: “If 2+2=5, then 4=5. Subtract 3 from both, and you get 1=2. The pope and I are 2 persons, and 2=1, therefore the pope and I are 1/one.”
 

You could go to Mass in Gernan there when I was young.
 

Replies: @OFWHAP

Step 1: let the federal government arrogate to itself the right to insert human traffick into your neighbourhood

Step 2: what did you think would happen

I would agree that "conservative" and " liberal" are highly nebulous and subject to change. After all, even the most hardcore liberal of the 1980's would not have even considered something like gay marriage or state support of trans issues a conceivable possibility within their lifetime (and the more moderate liberals back then did not support such things anyway). And back in the 80's that era of conservatives were largely correct about the road we were headed down, yet today's conservatives largely are afraid to voice opinions that 75% of Americans shared in the 80's regarding many issues.

Discourse changes, goals change. Moods change. I think "conservatives" have been exposed as useless and cowardly fools, time and time again. They rarely succeed at preserving the ostensibly positive traits of the past (or even persuasively arguing why such a thing should be done). And it's hard to figure just what conservatives want or stand for, since when exactly has a society been able to re-capture and continuously duplicate a particular culture or set of standards? For various ethnic groups it seems like ethnic solidarity is the most realistic, desirable, and pursued conservative virtue, yet white Westerners have increasingly bristled at such things, to the point that white Western conservatives have said that "self-reliance" or "freedom from the state" are the exalted conservative virtues.

Liberals never pretend to have consistency, doing whatever feels right at the moment and often stepping on skulls go get what they want. But the conservatives delude themselves on preserving moral principles and tradition, ending up like rambling street derelicts preaching to the wind in lieu of actually doing anything (the 2020 poll watchers being kicked out of voting precincts without an inch of self-defense says it all). The individualist Western conservative is hopeless. All talk, no action, and apologizes for the rare instances when they actually did do something. Ethnic solidarity is far more effective than appeals to lofty principles*.

*Liberals more or less openly admit that they are hedonistic and fashionable, willing to go with whatever the crowd is doing and making excuses for sin and deviancy. It's difficult for the individualist Western conservative to fight that argument by saying "it makes you a bad person", since liberals don't concern themselves with morality to begin with. Saying to whites that they are degrading their entire ethnic group when they misbehave is quite powerful and used to be common. But these days Western conservatives side-step ethnic identity altogether.

Replies: @Matt Buckalew

The only real question is: do you worship God, or the State?
 

The correct answer is, of course, neither.

Responsible cooperation, also known as [property rights], is not inherently pious or impious, merely prudent. Neither Christians nor Statists support it. Both are very interested in obedience, not cooperation.

Piety is noting that God can take care of Himself. If someone sins, it's absolutely none of your business unless they're sinning at you specifically. Meddling is irresponsible.

Can you prevent folk from sinning at you specifically? Even in this particularly fallen modern world? If you give up busybodying, you absolutely can.

The entire US Congress (save Tulsi Gabbard) belongs to gallows for the betrayal of humanity and the spread of mass murders, tortures, destruction, and lies for the profits and power of corporate fascism that owns the US.
The Empire of Lies indeed.

Replies: @profnasty

Who’s the undesirable, you racist scum? Ukrainians must be welcomed into America, not Africans or Latinos, as is happening in Europe now.

Will see how many Ukrainians America takes in for resettlement compared to Syrians.

Replies: @JewSA

I entirely agree with the spirit of your comment. Americans are so brainwashed about so very many things, that the few people who actually care to think and spend some time to honestly question the things that happen in the U.S., would probably fill no more than a minor league baseball stadium. This, out of hundreds of millions of people. At least to my way of thinking, Trump has done real service to this country, both directly and indirectly, if only because his very existence has caused all the machinations of the democrat party and its RINO enablers to be exposed as a one party system.

Just one example. How many years, (50-60) have neither of these two major political parties cared to stop the illegal immigration of tens of millions of people on who hundreds of billions of Americans taxes have been spent? Instead, both parties blamed each other in a game of good cop bad cop. There are of course hundreds of examples that illustrate the absolute disregard for American citizens and legal residents, that continue to go on today, and in spades.

US farmers should go back to using manure rather than commercial fertilizers, the environment would be much healthier. While stinky, manure breaks down gradually and enhances the soil and promotes a healthy balance between microbes. Working with nature, instead of working against it would also increase the quality of our produce. Big agricultural companies are naturally against this as they want to sell you the overpriced commercial fertilizers to go with their patented GMO seeds, herbicides and pesticides. Our cancer rates go higher every year, which is great for big pharma, which are tied in with big agribusiness to maximize profits at any cost.

Replies: @The Alarmist, @Ex Farmer, @GeologyAnonMk5

Pure drivel. The Russians are planning for more cities in southern siberia. There are vast, not very glamorous resources that need extraction. The incoming china Russia cooperation, etc. Read Putin's speeches, he says it all, and does it!

Indeed, Arctic Ice has been expanding for a couple of years, and cooling always accompanies a solar minimum...

cock-fighting championship in the Philippines
 

I haven't watched a football game in 3 years and that includes college. Look at the stands. Ninety five per cent of the geeks in the stands are White and probably never even played football beyond junior high school level. Reminds me of when Muhammad Ali told (((Howard Cosell))), look Howard you know everything about football and boxing yet you don't have a muscle on your body. Haha. Any gutless White who wastes 4 to even 5 hours watching a football game be it college or pro is a complete tool. Both the NCAA and NFL are anti White to the core.

Replies: @duncsbaby

If Olympics and other TV sports would only show sports and not stupid "human interest" (sic) stories, and repellent twisted advertisements, I would watch again. But they won't and I don't.

And, seriously, there is a polite word for [email protected]@king ?
 

In Ancient Rome, irrumation was considered a masculine act, a form of psychological beat down given to a social inferior. One might punish a male slave or a boy you caught stealing apples from your orchard by humiliating them with irrumation.

Fellatio was considered a feminine act. Men who performed fellatio on other men were despised. The men they fellated, however, were not considered effeminate.

Replies: @Reg Cæsar

the story of the tenured professor who wants to blast clouds of sulfuric acid into the low atmosphere to render CO2 into carbon, water and sulfate. He admits some people will die.
 

Replies: @Reg Cæsar

Men and women can't work together. If they're together it's a mating lek, not a workplace. If the idea isn't to marry them off you're doing it wrong.

Camille Paglia said something to the effect that men should be out hunting and women should be out gathering or child-rearing, and the two are simply not meant to be working side-by-side

Journalism, by the way -- and calling CNN journalism is a big stretch, I know -- is an especially incestuous business. Everybody is banging each other, and reporters who get outside the building are also banging the people on their beat. I met my wife on the job, but fortunately our department was fun and easy-going, no back-stabbing type drama, and she had found a much better job anyway by the time things got really serious.

I agree with you here.

It all boils down to one thing: Work is about work. It's not about hooking up, or joking around, or idle talk about football games, or anything else. It doesn't have to be all grim and grey, but it needs to be serious.

We actually need this. Both psychologically and economically, we need a space where we can just be productive and focused and not have to be distracted by a social drama. When the drama invades every area of life, you don't have a society anymore, you have a jungle.

It would be better if men and women didn't work together at all. But if they must work together, they should follow professional standards of dress and behavior that make it absolutely clear that the workplace is not a nightclub. There is a separate place for socializing after work. Work needs to be as free from distraction as possible.

Replies: @Ghost of Bull Moose, @raga10

I agree with what you're saying, but women will never willingly clarify any of the rules surrounding workplace romance. For a very simple reason.

Women LOVE romance, women LOVE drama, women LOVE being able to cause problems for other women and especially men in the workplace, just like they LOVE doing it in any other place. They LOVE gossiping about it and judging each other for what they say and do.

Women are what they are. The "workplace" was invented by men and populated by men for millennia. Men have an understanding of what to do in hierarchies that is now at least partly biological in nature.

Women also don't want to let go of their power by clarifying the rules. They love men who break the rules to be with women. They have a different kind of love for men who are white knights who come to the rescue. It's all good!

They also love the long history of the guilt and uncertainty when men don't know what to do with women in the workplace. Silly men! Don't they know what life is all about? Women play ingenue today, play feminist tomorrow - equally fun! Nothing bad will happen (to them).

Manosphere videos are full of such stuff. I've skimmed through many of their videos (read mostly the comments section), and big topics seem to be:

* wife proposing "open marriage"

* office "romance"

* cheating because she's met on the FB an old flame & couldn't resist

* most things about money and status

* wife "fell in love" with some guy, went off with him & after 2-4 years is trying to go back because new "true love" collapsed

Strangely, so many women, if these stories are true, don't care for their children ...

The only proper rule of Office “Romance” is: ZERO TOLERANCE.
 

Replies: @Jack D

I think @Rex Little got there first but yeah, I met my wife at work, and I'm thankful every day for her. And we still work at the same place.

To hell with you and your policy.

I'm sorry to nitpick your post (I completely agree) but in descending order of mental state, it goes moron - imbecile - idiot. Idiot is the dumbest

One of my favorite tiktoks is the witch who assures the general public that witches are "working behind the scenes" [sic] to solve social justice issues.

Every single last female without exception that I have made the comparison to has instantaneously replied “There was too such a thing as Witchcraft. It was a serious problem” (etc).
 

Replies: @J.Ross, @theMann

There was such a thing as witchcraft. It didn't work, but people definitely practiced it.

Replies: @martin_2

You’re lying that every female you’ve spoken to believes witchcraft is a serious problem. You’re just an incel woman hater. And black only blacks use the term female. It’s a jail and prison term. And majority of prisoners are black do are the guards.

Go make up a nasty comment about women that isn’t such a blatant untruth.

Modern American women believe witchcraft was a serious problem yeah right. The modern view of witchcraft is that there were no witches Just honest upright herbal healers midwives amateur Drs as good as the men Drs. And it was just persecution of strong independent feminist women by the evil Christian clergy.

Next time make up a more believable lie about women.

''My wife, are you kiddin'? I called her from work - I said 'Honey I love ya, I can't wait to see ya.' She said, 'Who is this?'" - Rodney Dangerfield

Replies: @slumber_j

I, for one, am using the Booster as my excuse to miss work tomorrow. I am going to lie that my reaction (non-existent) to the Booster has made me unwell.

I am calling in "sick" from work to celebrate black culture on MLK day. POW! The Bird to two birds with one stone.

"They" also aggressively bun, slander, and destroy anyone who presents truthful information inconvenient for Big Pharma profiteers.

Malone, an mRNA platform inventor, was permanently banned from Twitter, likely triggered by a post that included a video by the Canadian COVID Care Alliance, which reviewed Pfizer data showing the COVID jab causes more illness than it prevents, and that the Pfizer trial was flawed both in design and construction. https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2022/January/PDF/censored-mrna-vaccine-inventor-tells-all-pdf.pdf

Pfizer 6-month data show that Pfizer's Covid-19 inoculations cause more illness than they prevent.
 

Malone believes the U.S. government is “out of control” and “lawless” in their COVID response and that their actions have resulted in, probably, half a million excess deaths. COVID jab mandates are “explicitly illegal” as the shots are experimental.
 

When it comes to reproductive health, he warns that the lipid nanoparticles in the COVID shots can have adverse effects on the ovaries. He also reviews how the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein can cause blood clots, regardless of whether they come from natural infection or the COVID jab, and how the spike protein can disrupt the blood-brain-barrier..
 

Early treatment with drugs such as hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin is very effective and both drugs have also been safely administered for several decades. ...

The Trusted News Initiative led by the BBC [chairperson 'sir' David Clementi] is central to the censorship campaign... It labels anyone who disagrees with the social narrative on vaccines as an “anti-vaxxer,” and suppresses anything that goes against “approved” sources such as Anthony Fauci and the World Health Organization. ...

Thomson-Reuters, which has ties to Pfizer, is a primary fact-checker of Twitter. ... not to mention that James C. Smith, chairman of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, also has been a director at Pfizer and chair of their compensation committee since 2014.
 

Following the money is usually not “simple”. The Purdue/Sackler instance excepted.

The Hurt Locker was extremely overrated, District 9 is a masterpiece and far better than most sci-fi movies (Alien is a similar masterpiece) made in the last 20 years, and only for a fraction of the price ($30 million budget).

In the old days, citizens got out of the way the moment they heard/saw gunshots. In recent times, they haul out their cell phones and try to get close to film, and narcissistic left-wingers even try to interfere with the arrest.

Steve, you have to understand, among “gun guys” modern cops are held with scorn and ridicule for being piss poor shots, dangerous firearm handlers by ignoring the 4 rules, and ignorant of firearms and how to safely operate them.
 

Replies: @anarchyst

"A cop shot him dead with a rifle" presumably an AR-15. Totally inappropriate weapon for this situation.

If you think that cops are good shots and are weapons knowledgeable, you are wrong. I say this as a competitive shooter who has repeatedly observed the mediocre performance of cops who, rarely, shoot with us (a few notable exceptions, of course).

The gun was probably in the squad car rack, was grabbed by the cop and used with no thought (or, more likely, no knowledge) as to the penetration and velocity of the 5.56 round.

Shotgun is the correct choice here.

Shotgun with turkey shot at a close distance with lead pellets: lots of stopping power and less chance of background damage. 00 buckshot could have gone through the wall and killed. why not pepper gas and beat him down with a baseball bat? My opinion is that the cops are not trained well enough, and should have more training with tazers, etc., and consider that certain ethnicities tend to lose control and screw up under pressure. Being stupid and sure of yourself is a bad combo.

Replies: @Jim Bob Lassiter

The only thing behind Lopez was a wall. No way the cop would know there were people on the other side of the wall. And the situation was very very different from being on a range or perusing a manual. A total tragedy.

Replies: @Inquiring Mind

Agree. Any field that requires a licensing exam of some kind could dispense with college degree requirements altogether. Cambridge (and other universities?) even has a system in which applicants can submit independent work to be assessed for a PhD. This is how Aubrey de Grey, the longevity researcher, got his.

The sclerotic education system is currently benefiting public school teachers and college administrators. Break the public school system and reduce the number of universities substantially. There would be massive economic benefits as well as reducing leftist influence on society.

Replies: @guest007

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.

Replies: @theMann

Not in a positive way.

 

Replies: @theMann, @Ben tillman

White men live lives of isolation. It’s by design.

Replies: @Maddaugh

I agree with you. There really is no one size fits all in any aspect of this life. Your approach and outlook will always be the best for you. Each and everyone of us acts in ways reflecting our upbringing and environment, you with yours and me with mine.

In any interaction I always ask myself how are my interests affected. The other man can believe or do as he pleases as long as it does not affect me. I dont have the time or energy to get into a pissing contest besides the fact that I dont really care.

In reality I think we both have the same approach. You say FUCK THEM aloud and move on I dont even bother to waste my breath. Its devastating to stare at someone as they mouth off and walk away without saying a word.

Social Media has perverted society. People employed it as their servant and made it their pimp. These days there are endless irritations and folks who get upset about everyone and everything. I have no desire to get sucked into their world of never ending gripes.

The wisdom of the sages and all the proverbs favour SILENCE. A blank face and reserved manner is MY seal of talent. Others must choose their own manifesto and techniques for dealing with the world as it has evolved and will continue to evolve and the people (most of them irrelevant) who float in and out of our lives.

Replies: @Achmed E. Newman

…..and rest assured that if they have something that they think is even slightly more important to do they will challenge, minimize, or flat out ignore exculpatory evidence in order to hurry things along.

I saw that when I was a jury foreman on a trial I sat for.

" the whole point of a Jury trial is to determine the facts.

Women should not be allowed to sit on juries, period. "

What we really need is a way of screening the jury pool with some kind of test to prove they have at least a minimal ability to reason. Considering the state of our society currently, choosing random people off the voter rolls is not likely to yield a good result. Look how many people voted for Biden!

Replies: @Rex Little

Women should not be allowed to sit on juries, period.
 

(especially in rape trials, amazing how routinely they will not guilty an obviously guilty Rapist.)
 

Not that much changes- it was overwhelmingly females accusing other females of Witchcraft that lit up the countryside for a couple of centuries.
 

And the whole point of a Jury trial is to determine the facts.
 

This article is about a mixed race woman Puerto Rican juror with a who objected to black jurors refusing to convict a black murderer because they didn’t want to send a brother to life in prison for murder.

And from that you conclude that woman should not be on juries.

This jury should have had more non black women and fewer black men.

The McMartin jury convicted the McMartin’s. Therefore you conclude women jurors bad.

This jury refused to convict a vicious murderer of murder and let him off with manslaughter. Punishment will be time served early parole. Therefore you conclude women jurors bad.

Women should not be allowed to sit on juries, period.
 

Boomers were the first generation, as far as I know, to continue to listen to teenage music (what Tom Lehrer called "rock n' roll and other children's records") into adulthood and old age.

I listened to the Beatles when I was 15. By the time I was seventeen, I was working on listening to all of Beethoven's symphonies. At one time, that would have been the normal course of events.

Replies: @Aeronerauk

The common characteristic of Boomers: lock and load on the mediocre and pretend it is excellence.
 

The common characteristic of Boomers: lock and load on the mediocre and pretend it is excellence.
 

"It was the first time I’d been to see a primary care physician in over two decades."

This may also have something to do with lifespan. Doctors can be difficult and harmful, but they sometimes discover and treat the chronic illnesses which are a much more common, if less dramatic, cause of death.

'...Zulu is the greatest musical of them all...'

Alexander Nevsky? I still watch that.

https://youtu.be/1REYcSiiwXg

Replies: @theMann

” Everybody ought to have a maid “.

That's a good one.

I really don't see how the US can be described as a "stable" country. It's already a falling tower everywhere I look. Your immediate environment might appear more stable but that's just a dangerous illusion. Just stand back and look at the tower.

Taken altogether, America is a very rich and stable country. Venezuela it is not.
 

Replies: @Wyatt

"This experiment to create a multiracial society is a failure". For ((those)) who opened the borders I imagine it's a great success, going exactly as planned.

Replies: @Richard B

Biden = Andropov

Get out while you still can.

Replies: @Baxter, @Redman, @MLK

It seems that WHITE (nonjews) do not want to face reality ..There is a low intensity Racial Civil War against whites/christian/Western peoples. Blacks and other minorities had become the shock troops for the Talmudic replacement CRT forces. The fewer WHITES demographics the harder it will become to fight back, peacefully, legally and otherwise. In another 20yrs into the future a case/verdict like Kyles RittenHouse will be impossible to achieve. Many other countries that were facing dwindling native/racial populations instituted open borders for their REturning diasporas, racial exiles...for Example Spain, Italy, Japan, Germany, welcome expats living abroad to return. Japan open its borders to any emigrant residing/born abroad at least having ONE japanese ancestor...Now the liberal open borders DEM/LEFT are protesting/blocking open borders/HB visas in Misssissippi,AK,TN... for poor displaced White Boers/SAfricans, Australians, NZealenders, and open borders for ANGLOS from Latin America..DEMOGRAPHICS is destiny...WHITES???? Natalism??? OPEN BORDERS NO VISA requierements for any White/ANGLOS from all over the world...TOO Late..???

Replies: @anon

I don't see that we're rich or stable. Too many people in this country, including those ruling over us, are disconnected from reality. We're broke and increasingly unstable. We're living on borrowed time.

A very rich and very stable country can conceal a lot of problems.

I agree with you although many others dont. Stability is relative. The US is stable compared to many other countries. If it were not, the exodus would be in the opposite direction.

it isn’t going to be long until Americans can no longer “bury their head in the sand.”

Well, eternally ignorant blacks dont believe this will never happen. When the pent up rage explodes, blacks will find that every other race will turn on them. Then they will fold as they always do.

I see the sixth person, a child has died. Mr. Tough Convict, cried like a bitch at his bail hearing. The black man is always a toasted marshmallow when he is at a disadvantage.

Exactly what they want. The violence will escalate to the point the idiot population of this nation will be for a totalitarian state, giving up their guns and other rights in the process. Bottom line is that the average American is a non thinking moron, and sadly it is by their choice for the most part. Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, but that is what they want to do.

There is no such thing as a multi-racial society in history that ever succeeded without the constraints of the host society.

Rome for example did not care what ethnicities their peoples were as long as they paid homage to Rome. Non-Romans could never become citizens until the latter part of the empire's history. And nor could non-citizens join the regular Roman Army for quite some time. Instead they had to join the auxiliary forces (or were conscripted).

The Ottoman Empire was ruled by a Muslim leadership and non-Muslims could not hold high office among other constraints.

The Austro-Hungarian Empire allowed their various peoples to retain their own regions and many were very loyal to the empire. However, primarily the Germans and later the Hungarians during the "Dual Monarchy" ran the empire.

All of these empires had various constraints upon all their peoples that kept the host societies in power for centuries. As a result, it was not multi-culturalism that destroyed these entities but instead corruption and rising nationalism.

However, in the United States, the radical Left is attempting, and in many ways succeeding, in destroying the basis of the host society. This is not to say that most Americans do not realize that some changes are very much needed. However, not to the extent that is now being fostered on our nation.

And the rest, everyone already knows...

Replies: @Baxter

“The media clowns are completely uneducated, and know nothing about the physical sciences, the biological sciences, History, Economics, Mathematics, you name it.“

Citations required.

half of Americans aren’t
 

Also, you can walk around after dark by yourself in European cities without taking your life in your hands. Exercise, it is underrated.
 

"almost everyone" is not fit in France, Italy or (especially) Spain. They are way fitter than Americans on average, but then again if you compare white and Asian Americans to the people other than the African immigrants in those countries, the comparison is a lot closer. The other thing to realize is that if you are a tourist and "France" = "Paris" etc., a better comparison would be to whites and Asians in say NY or LA, which would make it even closer.

The food is undeniably a way, way better however.

Also, prior to BLM / "let's forget the 60s ever lead to a massive urban crime wave for 30 years" changes of the last 2 years or so, I felt at least as safe walking around most parts of New York at night as I did in most parts of Madrid or Rome (Paris still felt safer).

Also, you can walk around after dark by yourself in European cities without taking your life in your hands.
 

The music is pretty good though.

Actually, I liked the film and watched it quite a few times over the years.

From a moral standpoint, it is quite obviously questionable. If it was made today probably wouldn't be a big deal, but the fact that it was made in the mid 70's did, no doubt, have a negative effect on morality.

But, again, I liked the movie primarily for the music, and not for any morality (or immorality) message.

Purely meant as a promotional for the rimming and felching crowd. The #1 vectors of infectious diseases.

Susan Sarandon in her underwear
 

Pretty much.

I would add that all pure race people, when they embrace their Genuine Selves, are psychologically healthy.

Lupita Nyongo strikes me as being very happy being herself. Why wouldn't she be happy, she's the definition of perfection.

Mixed race people as a general rule are pulled in two directions and they can't 'rest' and just 'be' who they were made to be.

Replies: @Thoughts

Uh, that's not what science said. All the studies on the matter have shown thst men find Asian (and half-Asian) women prettier than white women.

These women also have lower rates of divorce than white women -- indicating lower neuroticism.

Replies: @Bardon Kaldian, @ArthurBiggs

Well, 100% White girls are plenty neurotic.

Can reliably be found downtown in some symbolic protest with the underlying theme that non-White girls are pretty too.

Replies: @Anon

An hour spent in a suburb or an office will disabuse you of this belief.

Agree that it wasn't that bad, but for some people it was very scary and they've continued to stay irrationally scared for 18 months now.

Normally shouldn't be my problem, but they let themselves be scared into literal totalitarian bullshit "fixes" from politicians - masks, school closures, "social distancing" (barf) - and that has now progressed to vaccine mandates and boosters, which affects everyone.

I argued at the time that masks were the new "Greengrocer's Sign" (ala Havel) and now I have to add these useless "vaccines" to that definition, or more specifically, carrying proof of said "vaccines" in order to participate in normal society.

Very early in March 2020, when there were as yet very few cases in the United States, I knew already that it was far from being a dire threat. For the past couple of weeks there had been breathless news reports about how Covid was tearing through northern Italy with a rapidly rising death toll. Way down in some of these reports, though not mentioned at all in most of them, was the line that the average age of death was 82. A few reports also noted that many of the dead had had multiple comorbidities. Right then and there I realized that Covid was not some end-of-civilization death ray.

Replies: @JR Ewing

Treadon
 

All the whinging about the out of place racial stereotypes is like complaining about water being wet.
 

Sulu

Water went out in my building so I just caught the matinee showing on the big Epic screen. The film is not that bad, and really, it has to do two things:

1. Be entertaining on it's own, which it is.
2. Be better than the Lynch version (admittedly a very low bar, the Lynch version is so bad it heads into Myra Breckinridge territory).
Which it is: much better acted, better visually, the story line isnt incoherent gibberish.


Note on Zendaya- all she would need to pass as a guy is a haircut and a change of clothes. She is one of the few biologically female performers able to give the Prancing Faggots in Hollywood even half a chubby. I expect to see her in a lot more films.

Firefly was a great show with some of the best dialog I have ever heard on a TV show.

Altuve was an undrafted free agent. He cost the Astros $15,000.

I never really considered Texas a true Southern state though. Big difference between the Deep South and Texas. And there is a big difference between Atlanta and Dallas, never been to Htown, so cannot comment on that one. Texas is much more of a Western state. Okies from Oklahoma? I almost consider them closer to Kansans and Nebraskans and Texans are not about to claim Oklahoma in no way, shape or form.

Everybody knows the proper question is:
Zoe, Inara, Kaylee, or River Tam?
 

Replies: @theMann, @res

No contest.

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Replies: @theMann

"German Catholics"

A significant amount of German Catholics settled in Texas after the Scots-Irish cleared out the Mexicans and Comanche for them. Another migration of Germans landed at Fort Bliss in the late 1940s. They helped von Braun win the war for Hitler.

Replies: @Not Raul

I believe that a large number of German Catholics settled in Texas to escape Bismarck’s persecutions.
 

Speaking of Loons, perhaps a listen to John O'Looney will help out any doubters. https://www.bitchute.com/video/9qR3YxmCPk6G/
As for those determined that their government would never betray their best interests, well we all must reach second dentition sometime.

Replies: @JimDandy, @Pamela, @The King is a Fink

Thanks for a great laugh - I'm signing up for the loon club.

Everything surrounding COVID has been poisoned by politics in the USA.

The mask is now a virtue signal that you are a Democratic Leftist Woke true believer.
It is the opposite of the MAGA hat. Two symbols that define a big, dumb country that is slipping down, down, down.

Therefore, do not look to any US data for public health guidance. No country is as suicidal as America.

Look to saner countries like: Japan, Finland, Malaysia, South Korea. They have robust vaccination campaigns. I do not believe these countries would inoculate their citizens with a death shot.

The coordination that a global conspiracy of this magnitude would entail is staggering. Iran has vaccinated over 40 million people. Are the Theological Cops there also planning mass homicide?

We know the Western Elites are capable of depraved, disgusting acts of treason against their own people.

Do we believe every single country is as repellent as the West? Planning to cull millions? I deeply hope not.

Replies: @Truth, @Rahan, @peterrabbit, @calling out insanity

Coming round to the idea that life in South Africa at this point is better then in my first world european home, definitely I am a loon.
So much so that it still costs me an effort to fully understand. There is some divine justice in this, so I am perfectly fine with it.

Replies: @Craig Nelsen

The "First wave" was dying down quietly, when TPTB forced many vaccines on the population. Bang came the Second Wave, which really killed at least ten times more people than the first one. But if you try to draw any conclusions linking the mass-vaccinations and the Second Wave, you are a Conspiracy theorist. You can't even tell people that some of these vaccines had whole Corona virus; that the quantum of virus injected through vaccine is not adequate to trigger immune system of the body; that therefore the virus multiplies inside your body, and only after that the immune system is triggered; that during this period, a vaccinated person is a carrier and spreader of the same virus; that even if the vaccinated person survives due to the vaccine, his family members who are not vaccinated would be infected; and that was the "Second Wave" - believe me, many a medical professional had melt-downs when this was explained. They just could not accept this simple explanation.

Replies: @Weaver, @Wade

Who's to say that when Xiden was injected at that recent staged photo-op that he wasn't simply injected with SALINE?

Nobody knows what the hell is in these potions being injected into the population. The nurses and doctors that are refusing the "Jab", even with peril to their careers, must suspect SOMETHING.

Replies: @nosquat loquat, @RogerL

Perfectly stated.

I must be a loon too because none of this makes sense.

In times like these, we should put our trust in the eternal:
Let go, Let God, Let’s Go Dodgers.