RSSThey hate anyone who believes in traditional values and is against degeneracy and perversion whether it be Putin or countries in Europe like Hungary and Poland.
The Americans will avoid any type of serious conventional engagement with even a second rate adversary due to the simple fact that they lack the fortitude and willingness to absorb significant casualties. Washington can’t rely on the American people to join up and the last thing they want to do is draft anyone. That will start an uprising in the U.S which is the last thing they want
The soft gentle character of the U.S politically correct military simply isn’t up to the job of slugging it out with a determined enemy who could care less about losses. Combine that with a significant number of the U.S population overweight , consumers of all types of junk and porn and mentally warped in idolatry of sick entertainment figures. If the Pentagon can’t employ special ops teams, drones or a air attack in countries with no air defenses to obtain their goals then they’ll turn tail and run or avoid a fight all together.
Don’t blame me — I didn’t ride a horse down south in a blue uniform with a sword.
The problem is are they going to assimilate or come here and continue to live like back in Afghanistan?
The south has reaped considerable financial benefits from northern investment and southern bred enticements designed to lure northern companies and workers to move there. Well it might be true that there’s considerable number of northerners living/moving there you have to take the good with the bad.
These people whether you like having them or not are people that came there to work in jobs that locals couldn’t satisfy the demand set. They also make up a large part of your tax base and you should thank them for covering the tax tab since they pay a considerable amount of your state, local, school taxes that fund your public services. They are doing nothing different than the people from down south who rode the hillbilly highway north to work in car plants. They all responded to an opportunity afforded by business.
You can also bet that there’s not a southern state that doesn’t take in much more money from Washington d than than it sends to the federal treasury. Factor in military bases alone, states such as Georgia among other states down south receive much more federal money than it remits back.
Hot air balloons and submarine monitor were good examples of how the south was forced to be creative when possible because it was consistently behind the eight ball throughout the war.
The south relied heavily on captured artillery pieces because the Confederacy lacked the ability to produce enough of them. Confederates who came north to Gettysburg were barefoot and were searchin for shoes and provisions and were scavenging local towns in the Gettysburg area for anything that wasn’t nailed down. Farmers hid livestock , forks and spoons, anything because the confederates would run off with it. Got to admire their determination in the face of overwhelming odds.
Robin Hanson once wrote a blog post about how reasonably intelligent people (for instance, the sort of people who read his blog) tend to overestimate how smart everyone else is.
I for one never make this mistake! For example, I knew that blocking Telegram was going to stifle its user growth in Russia, because most people are too dumb and too lazy to figure out how to use VPN.
In my observation people who overstimate intelligence in others are themselves somewhat limited in their mental capacity – think of a typical college-educated Western liberal, who is reasonably “smart”, and thinks that African immigrants are smart people just like him.
It takes a special kind of intelligence to see limitations in others, and some people are even smart enough to aknowledge their own limitations.
Because in Brazil, only a tiny fraction of high school students can do anything much more complex than a simple, single-step arithmetic operation.
That’s an interesting finding and a bit unexpected, because Brazil has a substantial white population, who enjoy access to superior schooling. This massive gap in performance cannot be explained solely by race.
Can we expect that whites in USA will grow dumber as the country becomes more disfunctional and more “diverse”? I questioned America’s ability to sustain its techological edge in the future, and now there is some empirical data that might support my thesis.
I think this is a bit different since the average Telegram user is more sophisticated than the average. Now yes, if say odnoklassniki was blocked, then usage would plummet. But I haven't noticed any major decline in usage amongst the people who were using it, e.g. people at a state-owned company that I was doing contract work for when the ban went into effect. Also, as I'm sure you well known, the actual blocking has been highly ineffective. I don't even have to use VPN to access it 99% of the time.
For example, I knew that blocking Telegram was going to stifle its user growth in Russia...
In Hive Mind, Garett Jones mentions the peer effect - studies showing people work harder when they are observed by hard workers. It's highly plausible that the same goes for intellectual achievement. Not much point in working your brain off when surrounded by dumbos, since most success is relative, not absolute.Replies: @Wizard of Oz, @Felix Keverich, @KDM
Can we expect that whites in USA will grow dumber as the country becomes more disfunctional and more “diverse”? I questioned America’s ability to sustain its techological edge in the future, and now there is some empirical data that might support my thesis.
We are getting dumber as a country. It's not just the huge influx of immigrants from lower IQ black and brown countries, the increasing inter-marriage rate between whites and blacks/browns, but also a failing education system. Our schools care more about indoctrination than actual education these days. Elementary math is often taught by teachers who flunked algebra in high school. By the time most kids get to middle school, they've fallen too far behind.
Can we expect that whites in USA will grow dumber as the country becomes more disfunctional and more “diverse”? I questioned America’s ability to sustain its techological edge in the future, and now there is some empirical data that might support my thesis.
Either build more prisons with considerable penalties or legalize it
Your not old enough to remember all that. If you’d put down the ‘Farmers Almanac’ and take a little time to watch the History Channel or pick up an Encyclopedia and read about the history of labor unions in the U.S you might be able to say something that made sense.
John Adams and Alexander Hamilton were from the North and were instrumental in writing the Declaration of Independence. The Constitution has a mix of both southerners and Northerners and they all did a brilliant job in creating the document.
Since when do Northerners go south to look for jobs ?
You got it backward ; did you ever hear of the “Hillbilly Highway” ? That was route that ran northbound from down south into Ohio and Michigan and into the rust-belt states where plenty of southerners (too many) came up here to take advantage of those “artificially high” UAW wages and benefits. Those wages and benefits didn’t exist down south because southerners refused to establish unions and set the table for those jobs and associated prosperity in their own region. Another factor was a poorly educated population in the south that was ill-suited for advanced technical work in manufacturing and at that time industries needed a capable highly skilled workforce. I don’t blame them for wanting to migrate up here but the problem is that their infectious anti-union attitudes came with them and they helped to ruin the Northern economy. Now we got a situation in which the poverty is the same no matter where your at whether it be up North or down south.
That’s why cutting-edge R&D has been done for several generations at Oak Ridge and Eastman Chemical. Wernher Von Braun was also pretty successful in Huntsville with his Alabama Redneck crew. Piss off Yankee troll.
Another factor was a poorly educated population in the south that was ill-suited for advanced technical work in manufacturing and at that time industries needed a capable highly skilled workforce.
Send them to Midland Texas. Set up an extra-large tent city on the Bush ranch then Dick Cheney’s house.
Yesterday during an interview the CEO of GM stated “diversity and inclusion” are critical to General Motors future development and success. Nah, after all we don’t need the most capable engineering teams. Beyond asinine and hard to comprehend the thought processes of such people. It would be fun to see who volunteers for spaceflight missions in spacecraft in which the engineers were selected based on inclusion and diversity versus skill and talent.
It has risen and has sadly reared it’s ugly head well beyond the south with a dumb redneck culture saturating the entire country along with low paying non-union jobs giving the entire nation southern style wages and poverty.
The south is Walmart and Walmart style business practices and union busting has destroyed what made America great which was a strong middle class forged in the solidarity of union membership. The dumb southerner can feel free to run in front a cannon to take one for the plantation owners.