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    From Fox Business: Facebook Employees Try to Censor Trump By Deepa Seetharaman Published October 21, 2016 Election Dow Jones Newswires Some of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's posts on Facebook have set off an intense debate inside the social media company over the past year, with some employees arguing certain posts about banning Muslims from...
  • @Numinous
    @Questionator

    Hindus, in my experience, have a remarkable amount of antipathy toward Whites.

    I'm Indian, and I don't see any such thing. There's a lot of lingering anti-colonial/anti-imperial feeling from the British rule (which lasted almost 2 centuries, probably the longest a white country has dominated a non-white country without completely colonizing and transforming it.) So if you go tell an Indian how wonderful British rule was for them or how fortunate they are to know English because of their rule, etc., you are going to get hell from them. We do have our own languages, and a long (albeit at this point, decayed) culture.

    Apart from this, Indians bear no animus towards individual white people. In the US, they are overwhelmingly likely to be liberal, but that's a social phenomenon; they happen to be well-off and live in liberal enclaves, so they end up thinking and acting like their white liberal neighbors.

    Replies: @Opinionator, @J.Ross, @Anon

    Maybe not clearly verbalized animus toward whites with a convenient timestamp in three languages, but I have encounteted enough categoric anti-assimilationist hostility from Indians that I refuse to benefit from an Indian doctor. I had met an Indian psychiatrist who rather conveniently considered the desire to own firearms to be itself enough proof of mental illness to invalidate the eligibility to realize that desire. Indian Republican officials are consistently globalist and Indians themselves are often overwhelmingly Democrat. Indians who ought to know better are often the most inveterate naive statists on Earth, even Chinese are more honest about the limitations of state power.
    I am delighted to be corrected but I can assure you, this is not an impression and not a matter of slinging slurs.

    • Replies: @Numinous
    @J.Ross

    I don't disagree, but all of what you describe can simply be attributed to the fact that Indian-Americans (whether Democrat or Republican) overwhelmingly live in liberal cosmopolitan parts of America. How many (if any) Indians inhabit backwoods Kentucky or West Virginia?

    Personally (as I have strong libertarian tendencies), I appreciate why many Americans are fond of their Second Amendment rights. But fondness for the gun culture seems to be strongly rooted in geography. If you grew up in the country, practicing shooting and hunting, you are likely to look upon the firearm as your friend. But if you grow up in a city, never touch (or even look at) a gun while growing up, and keep hearing of shootings in the news, you are likely to look at a firearm as a disgusting thing to be feared.

  • From the New York Times: Huh? Especially if she makes up realistic details about a gang rape on broken glass. He said that while the magazine rightly retracted “the Jackie stuff,” he disagreed with the decision to retract the entire article in the wake of a damning report on it in April 2015 by The...
  • Astro-Glide is like five hundred euros for one serving.
    You try out the one dollar stuff at Walmart (which is actually pretty good tbqh fam desu, it has a slightly different texture than the dollar store Sheffield’s lube so you can alternate).
    Then one night you forget that earlier that evening you chopped up some poblanos for dinner. ¡Viva el Sabor!
    You find yourself experimenting with Icy-Hot.
    But you’re not really far gone into self-love until your lubricant of choice is fragments of shattered plate glass.

  • From the Podesta emails: Michael Werz is a German academic at Podesta's old Center for American Progress. From the CAP website: I don't know why Werz didn't want to talk to Podesta about
  • “Valley of the Wolves: Palestine” is one of the most unintentionally hilarious action movies since MCBAIN.
    (If you haven’t seen that, it will McCool you back to the late eighties and early nineties so thoroughly, you’ll hum tunes from Oliver And Company, and volunteer to strangers that you are curious but not sold on rap songs.)
    The Jewish Plot in VotWP is not to use bizarrely constant security crises to illegally seize foreign land. That’s the Jewish plot in real life. The movie shows the Jews plotting to create a bullet that can be fired from any gun.
    That made me scratch my head. Not exactly baby crackers now is it? Furthermore, as a firearms enthusiast with a Jungle Enfield, a K-31 and a Mauser — all historically significant and uniquely interesting rifles chambered in increasingly rare and expensive calibers — I speak for many in promising eternal gratitude were they to do this. PLEASE ELDERS OF ZION, PLEASE DO THIS, WE’LL LET YOU HAVE RAMALLAH.
    There is an action sequence in VotWP that might be the highest concentration of firearms ignorance outside of American journalism. Our hero runs past Israelis, who are wearing armor, at night, in and out of the glare of streetlights, and gets perfect bull’seyes, holding a small pistol in one hand. That’s some Virginia Tech level marksmanship.
    But there is also a brief scene right before this, which might clarify the appeal of these movies. Our Turanic hero walks right up to an Israeli border guard and calmly “declares” that he will not play the Man’s paperwotk game, that he is not entering Israel at all but occupied Palestine. It’s like a Soviet movie with a tall Stakhanovite telling off a top hat sporting Klansman.

    • Replies: @Randal
    @J.Ross


    There is an action sequence in VotWP that might be the highest concentration of firearms ignorance outside of American journalism. Our hero runs past Israelis, who are wearing armor, at night, in and out of the glare of streetlights, and gets perfect bull’seyes, holding a small pistol in one hand.
     
    Sounds like one of the Schwarzenegger films (I don't recall which), in which there was a particularly egregious extended scene of Arnie wandering about a big house and grounds getting shot at continuously by full auto fire and never gets hit. And he's not even a robot killing machine - just a former member of the US military (aka superhuman because of the rightness of his cause, according to Hollywood principles).

    On second thoughts, perhaps that scene's in all Schwarzenegger's films - I don't recall now.

    And having said that, I have to confess to having watched most of his films and enjoyed most of the ones I've watched. Escapist crap is fun even when you know it's poisoning your mind, a bit like sugary food.


    But there is also a brief scene right before this, which might clarify the appeal of these movies. Our Turanic hero walks right up to an Israeli border guard and calmly “declares” that he will not play the Man’s paperwotk game, that he is not entering Israel at all but occupied Palestine. It’s like a Soviet movie with a tall Stakhanovite telling off a top hat sporting Klansman.
     
    Now you know how many foreigners feel watching the kind of nonsense US studios put out, especially about the Holy Second World War.
  • From The Conversation: Donald Trump and the rise of white identity in politics October 20, 2016 9.46pm EDT Eric D. Knowles Associate Professor of Psychology, New York University Linda R. Tropp Professor of Social Psychology, University of Massachusetts Amherst Many political commentators credit Donald Trump’s rise to white voters’ antipathy toward racial and ethnic minorities....
  • Just posted at 4chan and relevant to this post:
    Binyamin Appelbaum tweeted:
    the FBI just happens to be largely a lot of white [gentile] men.
    An anonymous poster who shall remained unnamed with average-sized hands:
    So are our Special Forces, our inventors, and our Founding Fathers.

    • Replies: @Opinionator
    @J.Ross

    Someone needs to be logging all of this ugly anti-Gentilism.

  • What's up? - It's been a fun election, hasn't it? - And it's been the most serious Presidential election in recent years in terms of massively important issues about the future of America finally being aired by one of the candidates. - Here's Florida with 70% counted: - Here's my conspiracy theory about rigging elections...
  • The vote-receiving machine at my polling place was proctored by a nice volunteer mom who had no idea what was happening. It spat out two ballots ahead of me, but swallowed both of mine, without doing the partial regurgitation to scan the other side of the first sheet. I have asked in previous elections to check that it went through and been told there is no way to do that. I didn’t bother the nice volunteer mom who clearly was just there to help the elderly. Supposedly Soros works his magic at the actual totalling, far from the polling stations. We will absolutely have third world problems if Clinton tries to steal it.
    I trust that if anything is irregular, aggressively litigious Trump in 2016 will not be like Alpha Al and Dolchstoss Joe in 2000.
    I have been hearing whispers in the palace to the effect that Hillary Clinton is determined to start a war with Russia. She has a retarded plan that depends on Russia losing all its airstrips in the first hour — thus, for this plan to work, Russia needs to lack rocketry or large areas of flat undeveloped land — and she confidently dismisses everyone who tries to explain to her why this is not a “plan.”

  • @Reg Cæsar
    @Patrick in SC


    I think the sudden skyrocketing of Obamacare premiums, combined with the last minute email stuff, has driven the undecided herd in Trump’s direction.
     
    Or at least in Jill Stein's or Gary Johnson's or the living room couch. Which is almost as good.

    I've always thought it hopeless to get blacks to vote Republican, but quite feasible to get many of them to stop voting Democratic. Worked for James Hahn. (Yes, I know the ballot was "non-partisan".)

    Replies: @J.Ross

    Shaq and Dave Chappelle have endorsed Trump, and here in Detroit I saw a sign: “Hillary used a hammer, but Kwame got the slammer?????”

  • Arrival is a girl sci-fi movie in the tradition of Jody Foster's Contact. Amy Adams plays a linguist (or some other kind of language-related academic) with a sad back story much like Sandra Bullock's in Gravity. She is hired by the US Army to try to communicate with the aliens inside the giant flying saucer...
  • Yesterday a visitor to pol claimed to be a screenwriter and asked what kind of movies pol wants to see Hollywood focus on. Subtracting unsupported minority positions and impossible or joshing submissions, a clear majority asked for:
    — a return to Story, especially at the expense of ideology, nudging and virtue signalling.
    — renewed respect and attention to great but under-exploited authors like HP Lovecraft or his pen pal Robert E Howard. One anon said just buy up all the mid-century pulps in a used book shop, read them all, and rework the details. I remember reading a never-filmed Dashiell Hammett short story I had never heard of, that could easily become a multi-year TV series, in which a swank forties Southern Californian gambling racket is rolled up because of a careless mistake.
    — by a large margin the majority wanted well done intellectually respectable science fiction, with “real” special effects instead of CGI.

  • From NBC News: In a highly unusual move, President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday night left his Manhattan residence without notifying the reporters covering him or giving any indication of where he was going. The maneuver seemed to deliberately limit access to the media. The only way the press eventually ascertained his whereabouts was after a...
  • If Gary Trudeau was the guy he thinks he is, he would [direct his staff to] depict the Washington Press Corps in the costume of the court of Louis XVI.

    • Replies: @Crawfurdmuir
    @J.Ross


    If Gary Trudeau was the guy he thinks he is, he would [direct his staff to] depict the Washington Press Corps in the costume of the court of Louis XVI.
     
    You remind me that at the court of his predecessor Louis XIV, the king was surrounded by his courtiers from the moment he arose from bed in the morning until he retired to it at night - and even while sitting on his chaise percée. It was, if I recall correctly, an honor reserved to the highest nobility to attend the monarch at his stool.

    If the Washington press corps wants to be treated according to such strict protocol regarding the movements (shall we say) of the president, perhaps this custom could be revived. The ceremonial duty of bearing the presidential chamber pot could be placed on a rota, with the New York Times correspondent given it on Monday, the Washington Post reporter on Tuesday, then CNN, NBC, and so on...

  • I coined the term the White Death last year when attention finally turned to a remarkable fall in life expectancy among some white populations due to the lucky coincidence of economist Angus Deaton and his wife publishing a paper on the subject just days after he was awarded the new quasi-Nobel Laureate in economics. From...
  • I don’t know who “donut” really is, but he just happens to precisely follow patterns that became noxiously common on 4chan after David Brock’s Correct The Record paid trolls showed up.

  • Back on November 16, I joked that California would finish counting its votes "by, at the latest, Thanksgiving. Or, worst case scenario, by Cyber Monday. Tops." But, Cyber Monday has come and gone. Yet, from the New York Times: I'm troubled that California's government can't get the vote counted by Thanksgiving.
  • Padilla illustrates one of the worst archetypes of his people, which surely comes from imitating their awful ruling caste: the lazy, stupid, or otherwise useless person, whose idea of dealing with the world is to lift one eyebrow and attempt a feminine bon mot so passive you would half expect that it was translated from Japanese.
    This is the latest in one of the most significant themes of this period, where their own arguments and gestures serve, without editing, as our arguments. We have seen how the La Raza affiliated San Jose police chief unapologetically expects people to accept public violence and now we hear how seriously the Californian upper bureaucracy takes their duties.

  • The current rumor is that the CEO of ExxonMobil, Rex Tillerson, will be nominated for Secretary of State. One of the less unhinged reactions came from Nate Silver: Nate Silver is a sensible guy, but there's nothing that triggers atavistic, unexamined emotions of fear and loathing more in Jewish-American pundits than: A) Texas oilmen B)...
  • I was going to post something really brilliant, but then there were these Russian hackers, and I was all like, “NO!” and they were all like “XA xa XA xa XA XA xa XAAAA!”

  • Judging from the reaction to Trump's arrival at today's Army / Navy football game among military cadets, young military officers wouldn't be on board.
  • NO COMMENTS = FAKE NEWS
    This is how we take over the “fake news” forced-meme and turn it true.
    Remember when every mainstream news site had a comments section? Remember disrespectful peanut gallery denizens pointing out that the story they were commenting on was a lie? And then proving it with a hyperlink.
    And then no mainstream news site had a comments section.
    NO COMMENTS = FAKE NEWS
    Next time an office-mate tries to tell you about a “trending” story, ask if the site he or she got it from allows comments, then explain why that matters.
    NO COMMENTS = FAKE NEWS

    • Agree: Almost Missouri, TWS
    • Replies: @Almost Missouri
    @J.Ross

    But of course the Left has used and still uses Potemkin comments section where dissent is quickly deleted, but the appearance of a legitimate comments section remains. Fake Comments for Fake News, one might say.

    , @Chief Seattle
    @J.Ross

    Agree completely. No Comments = Fake News.

    If the management isn't confident enough to get feedback from readers then it's just propaganda. Exhibit A is how the NYT only allows comments for a few "pile on the evil republican" stories, and even then they sometimes get burned by the independence of their readers.

    Say what you will about WaPo, but at least they allow comments. And if you read those comments during the election, you could see clearly the strength of the support for Trump, even among the somewhat limited demographic of readers of a legacy prestige publication.

  • @Cagey Beast
    David Frum and the crowd at the Army/Navy game differ on Trump's Americanness:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS8iNaFKxt4

    https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/807455330066202624

    https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/807463790736347136

    https://twitter.com/EmilyEab1998/status/807759145327792132

    Replies: @oh its just me too, @SFG, @J.Ross, @Almost Missouri, @Ed

    Frum is, in keeing with tradition, using the idea of “American” and “an intelligence community worthy of the name” to very specifically mean “happily carrying water for a certain illegitimate statelet.”

  • From The Guardian: 'High social cost' adults can be predicted from as young as three, says study 20% of population uses majority of public services, research shows, indicating long-term importance of early years investment for disadvantaged children By looking at socioeconomic background, experience of maltreatment, IQ and self-control it was possible to predict which children...
  • Yes … the light-diffraction of the fingernail clippings … the scent of the hair … the cladistics … the Chinese Zodiac sign, subtracted from the Western Zodiac sign, then multiplied by the age … and the shape of the earlobe … the word associations … favorite Iggy Pop song … shoe size … oh and one last thing, how would you describe the color of the subject’s skin?
    Very scientific and therefore inexplicable, but nevertheless somehow able to predict likelihood of use of public services.

  • Science book agent John Brockman has up his annual Edge list of his clients' responses to a highbrow question. This year it's "What scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known?" I'm probably just getting older and dumber, but I found this year's Edge list to be particularly baffling. Part of the problem...
  • @Patrick Harris
    OT, but notable: Anybody seen this piece by Tablet? This is probably the best explanation of the Alt-Right from an intellectual perspective, including in its relationship to paleoconservatism and movement conservatism, that I've seen in a mainstream publication. It's hostile, of course, but it's very well-researched and nuanced. Steve gets a name-check, of course.

    http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/218712/spencer-gottfried-alt-right

    Replies: @Autochthon, @J.Ross

    Would you have time for an “explanation” of Jews?
    These people are the third generation that cannot retain the family wealth. They are the arrogant aristocrats who cannot imagine failure even after the guillotine has liberated their powdered heads. I have yet to see one of these incoherent, arguing-in-bad-faith and dishonest “explanations” that was anything more than mean-spirited darkness-cursing. Giving attention to this encourages one of their worst problems. They are a self-sustaining cult of pedants. They need to explain less and understand more.

    • Replies: @Patrick Harris
    @J.Ross

    Jews and dedicated anti-Semites always seem to be in a competition to see who can be the most neurotic. Give up, you won't win.

  • From the New York Times: Bernard-Henri Lévy: Jews, Be Wary of Trump Bernard-Henri Lévy THE STONE JAN. 19, 2017 ... There is a law that governs the relations between the Jews and the rest of the world. That law was articulated in one form at the time of the trial of Adolf Eichmann, when the...
  • Remember “some of my best friends” from the seventies? At the same time Abe Foxman was coming up and antiSemitism accusations were being politically weaponized, clueless normies tried to defend themselves with such typical Hitlerite wrecker reasoning as “but I married a Jew!”
    Inasmuch as Jews enjoy unquestionable Star Chamber privilege to permanently, unappeallably and illogically declare anyone at any time an unperson, nothing else is possible.
    We need to lovingly reply to their face that they have over-used their favorite toy and it does not work any more. I have been trying especially to communicate this to Germans. Right now almost all Germans at pol are always sagely chanting that no change is possible, and if you try something, you will be called an antiSemite, and after all, thoughtcrime does not cause death, thoughtcrime is death. It really is like a cartoon of a hypnotized bear who is scared to paralysis of a random object. If we can get the Kraut to stop caring about what the State presumes to think about his thoughts, then we can say we have won.

  • Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution has an informative post about China's internal (?) hasbara system: Authoritarians Distract Rather than Debate by Alex Tabarrok on January 17, 2017 at 7:22 am It’s long been known that the Chinese government hires people to support the government with fabricated posts on social media. In China these people are...
  • @International Jew

    It would be interesting to compare China’s hasbara system to Israel’s pretty public online hasbara set-up.
     
    Compare them? Well, I can see right off the bat that China's system is run by the government of China. Whereas this "hasbara" organization is a privately-run US-based organization closely linked to Habad (which is a Jewish missionary organization aimed at Jews). In other words, it's part of American civil society. And no, it's not treasonous for Americans to take an interest in foreign policy.

    As for the term "hasbara", it's funny how it's acquired dark sinister connotations solely as a result of a few bloggers deciding to flog it.

    Replies: @J.Ross

    Yeah, there’s nothing dark or passive-aggressive or arrogant about naming propaganda “explanation.”

  • An American president has become a cartoon hero or villain. Like Obama, Trump is an inconsequential yet lurid target for worshippers and detractors to unload emotions. As we rejoice or rage at this figurehead, the Military Banking Complex will continue to serve the elites at our expense. Our economy will keep cratering, and our poor...
  • I value your contributions and think I understand what you’re trying to say, but amid the sponsored astroturf panic (“we outnumber him — resist!” or “legitimacy”), this first paragraph is not acceptable.
    Trump didn’t promise dogs and cats living together. Trump is from the clique opposing the completely insane globalists (we could call them the sane globalists or the not completely insane globalists). Thus he will — uncomplicatedly and without hypocrisy or pretense — stop the wars that are the pet projects of that clique. That is good because those projects were abnormally bad and completely open-ended. Trump still totally has full license to start his own and that’s not a contradiction. If you think that the Neocon project to repair the world with cleansing fire and Soros terrorism is interchangeable with something like Granada or the First Gulf War, that is if what you object to is war itself, any war, period, then you are using childish expectations to fuel childish self-righteousness. One day you will look back at your efforts and see that they were selfish. This is a terrible and avoidable thing. Touch the hem of General Mattis’s marpat surplice and admit that war is both unavoidable, but an unacceptable evil if pursued stupidly or gratuitously as Power and Clinton and Perle and Wolfowitz did.

  • Here's front and center right now on NYTimes.com. I'm struck by the use of red to identify the bad guys. Is there anybody on Team Democrats who has yet noticed that the huge growth in how blatant their anti-white menism has become since 2012 is a big reason why they're now on the outside looking...
  • It is not a consensus but a respectable share at pol that we would have accepted Jim Webb, and without holding noses, and in many cases over Trump. The democrats are crazy brats who have everything they need and then throw it away because they want an impossible ideal.
    Jim Webb:
    Democrat
    Southern white male
    credible on Labor issues
    Combat vet who joked at an early debate about killing people — excuse me, he joked about killing Communists
    Alpha, the only guy who could share a stage with Trump without ceding every floorboard regarding alphisme
    He could have won but would never have been given a chance by the blue-haired cat collecting college students

    • Replies: @Barnard
    @J.Ross

    Webb never would have won, the coalition of the fringes never would have supported him. They either would have run their own minority version of Evan McMullin or voted for Jill Stein, or split between those two options. The Democrats are not about to nominate a white alpha male for President.

    , @Harry Baldwin
    @J.Ross

    I have a lot of respect for Jim Webb, but he was very low energy at the debate in which he participated. He didn't make much of an impression.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer

    , @Tom-in-VA
    @J.Ross

    It would be great if Trump would adopt one of Webb's key policies...effectively ending affirmative action for anyone other than African Americans and Native Americans.
    http://www.jameswebb.com/news/the-promise-of-trump

    Replies: @Kyle McKenna, @Dr. X

    , @27 year old
    @J.Ross

    Webb/Sanders would have been a good ticket

  • “social fabric” => social contract?

  • See Also: Hyped Figures: John Glenn And the PC Myth of Katherine Johnson —Unsung Black Women Were NOT What Got US To The Moon; Why Not A Movie About Jack Crenshaw—The White Man Who Actually Did What HIDDEN FIGURES Credits To Black Women; America Should Be Ashamed: Why Isn’t HIDDEN FIGURES About “Nazi Scientist” Arthur...
  • @Anonymous
    I came here to read Israel Shamir, whom I found after a long time, and stayed to peruse the site. Glad I did but apart from Shamir I am disgusted with UNZ and I wont be back. I find this site to be totally focused on black americans in a negative way. almost every article deals with blacks as the cause and source of all america's problems, which of course is totally ridiculous.

    the world is faced with the collapse of capitalism and must find a new way of organizing life and earning a living off nature. black people do not own the system and are not responsible for this systemic failure, but are the chief victims of it, along with the white working classes. apparently the white working classes do not see things this way and are even greater victims of divide and rule racial politics than black are.

    I have seen no discussion here yet relative to this fact but I have stopped looking and I am leaving, never to return. I will find Shamir elsewhere I am sure. I don't have to come here at all.

    Replies: @Anon, @syonredux, @1rw, @Anonymous, @Wizard of Oz, @JackOH, @jacques sheete, @Che Guava, @Rich, @J.Ross, @Jim Christian, @joef, @Anonymous

    Please cite all the times that the Saker has talked about black Americans. Take as much time as you need.

    • Replies: @Dissident
    @J.Ross

    Are you affiliated with 4Chan in an official capacity?

    (If not, then was it appropriate to put its URL in the "Optional Website or Link" field for your post?)

  • A major London bookmaker, Ladbrokes, has given odds of 11–10 that Trump will resign or be impeached — almost even money. Of course, this is not in the least surprising given that Trump is loathed by the entire Establishment, Left to Right and is now being victimized by “Deep State” operatives in the intelligence community...
  • When I found “The Flight 93 Election,” I immediately sent both url’s and entire copy-and-paste transfers to friends, explaining in the e-mail subject line that this was the most important written piece of that period.

  • In the New York Times, David Brooks responds to, I would guess, my February 22nd Taki's Magazine column "Undocumented Irrigation" about what we can learn about immigration policy from California's troubled history with water projects: The National Death Wish David Brooks FEB. 24, 2017 A few weeks ago, Tom Cotton and David Perdue, Republican senators...
  • Of course he thinks it’s a river: he’s used to panning for gold, minstrel song, and never dealing with his own detritus.

  • Here's a good data graphic article from the NYT: The article comes with full sizes maps for each movie. Although county-level maps are best for showing off the tastes of rural people in different parts of the country because so much of the area is devoted to thinly populated areas, the results seem pretty reasonable....
  • Contact Remake = wierdly the most popular or the one with the widest popularity
    Hacksaw Ridge = America
    Fences = Blacks
    Hidden Figures = ”
    Moonlight = A Small Number Of Blacks
    LaLaLand = Secretly Gay Mormons
    Manchester By The Sea = Literally Mamchester By The Sea

  • A. Yes, science is racist according to a new book. From Amazon: Dr. Marks invented the term "human biodiversity" in
  • If science wasn’t racist then how would rav Marks explain goyishe kopp?

  • I believe, following a CIA-defending shill who accused me of being a Russian on the grounds that my word choice “revealed Russian language structures,” that this is the real basis to the Trump-Putin fantasy. Their “evidence” is coincidental overlap of opinion and wording.
    These people live in an echo chamber and have no exposure to dissent. They have “thought leaders” instead of thoughts. They look at a coincidental overlap of opinion as being all the proof you ever needed that something must have originated in the place you associate it with.
    In other words, in their minds, they are in a cartoon East Berlin. Shoes come from the shoe factory, there’s only one shoe factory, and if you have shoes, you must have gotten them from there. The idea that multiple, different, independent people could look at the situation in Europe and arrive at the same conclusion without any help or collusion is not something they have considered.
    Remember, after McMullin left his job as a lying neocon warmonger, he started a profitable refugee storage and exploitation business. He personally profits from the migration scam. If refugees are so bad, why is he making so much money?

  • From the Anti-Defamation League: From The Tablet: YES, THE JEW WHO CALLED IN BOMB THREATS WAS ANTI-SEMITIC Being Jewish doesn’t immunize a person from being anti-Semitic. It just fuses their bigotry with betrayal. By David Schraub March 23, 2017 • 5:00 PM On March 1, I penned a column excoriating Donald Trump and other mainstream...
  • Drawing a blank on specifics, but didn’t they nudge through a hate crimes law or something on restricting internet speech, specifically in reaction to this particular wave of hoaxes?

  • From Bloomberg: INEQUALITY How Utah Keeps the American Dream Alive MARCH 28, 2017 6:00 AM EDT By Megan McArdle There’s no getting around it: For a girl raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Salt Lake City is a very weird place. I went to Utah precisely because it’s weird. More specifically, because economic...
  • An enormous and relevant issue has gone unexplored here: Mormonism is exploding in the Spanish-speaking world and Utah is rapidly diversifying. Every Mormon I talk to talks about Mexicans in Utah and many of them are happy about it.
    Traitor Evan McMullin profitedly handsomely from his neocon crimes by following up terror sponsorship and nation destabilization with an undeniably smart investment in refugee warehousing. You could say he gets them coming and going.
    Yes, we all have this cartoon of white Utah emerging into modernity from a 50s bomb shelter, and it’s a funny cartoon, but there are numerous facts complicating it.
    An arguably not-enormous and irrelevant issue, and something a “[journalist] from Manhattan” would never pick up on, is the presupposition that a Satanic parody of Freemasonry, which decorates its crossless temples with images of the planet Saturn, and which does not believe in inalienable rights or free will, and which has literally totalitarian structures, rigid information control, a habit of casting rebellious youth out into homelessness, a history of brutal thought policing and secret purges, and which operates both as a for-profit corporation and a church, has any meaningful connection to any version of the United States under the Constitution.
    They weren’t driven to Utah by the Spanish Inquisition. They were driven out of earlier settlements because they are literally the Christian Taliban, secretly took over political power, and attempted to impose Mormonism by force on the native citizens, who properly revolted.
    Individual Mormons I have met are the nicest, friendliest, hardest-working people in any given group. They are also consistently credulous people and share characteristics with victims of childhood abuse. The Mormons are wonderful but the Church is scum.
    (If you visit 4chan’s politics board today, please be sure to check the calendar.)

  • The undeniable success of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez must have been especially aggravating to the world’s oldest billionaire, David Rockefeller, who died in his sleep last week at 101. The Rockefellers and their Standard Oil essentially ran Venezuela for decades, deciding on not just US ambassadors but Venezuela’s national policies. Until 1951 Standard Oil’s Venezuela branch...
  • This piece is very valuable as an illustration of leftist cognitive dissonance.
    I always admire the confidence of foreigners, who want to talk about what American values are really about, but have never heard of English common law tradition or negative rights.

  • As I mentioned, yesterday the top story in the L.A. Times was about a new study that showed: The same day the L.A. Times reported that traffic fatalities in Los Angeles had sky rocketed. But ... from the comments of Andrew Gelman's statistics blog about the hit-and-run study: That's not a fall, that's an 11.6%...
  • Even before we get to the completely shocking and unforeseeable revelation that politicized scientistic con artists mishandled their own data, the essential premise of their argument is a concession to controlled borders, that is, they are admitting that law enforcement systems work better with visibility and criteria rather than, say, if we just accepted the inevitability of undocumented driving.
    We are a nation of speeders. No human is over the limit.

  • From The Telegraph: Soaring house prices reduce number of babies born in England by Sarah Knapton, science editor 12 APRIL 2017 • 4:19PM Soaring house prices are reducing the number of babies born in England because fewer people can afford their own home and so delay starting a family, a new study suggests. The European...
  • @biz
    @Opinionator

    That's silly. For a genocide to be happening, a population needs to decline at a rapid rate, not grow at a slower rate than it otherwise would have due to individuals' personal and economic choices.

    Why not just say what is true, which iSteve basically did?

    Replies: @anon, @Opinionator, @J.Ross, @Wilkey

    Genocide is extremely clearly defined as setting policies to bring about such a result regardless of their efficacy. This, from the inventor of the term. It was defined this way to be able to stop it.

  • From The Guardian: AI programs exhibit racial and gender biases, research reveals Machine learning algorithms are picking up deeply ingrained race and gender prejudices concealed within the patterns of language use, scientists say AI has the potential to reinforce existing biases because, unlike humans, algorithms are unequipped to consciously counteract learned biases, researchers warn. Thursday...
  • http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/120980403

    In a completely unrelated story, Baltimore emergency responders complain that they are routinely physically attacked when attempting to help others for laughable pay, after most recently an off-duty fireman attempted to give medical assistance (to a thief, who had crashed someone else’s car) and got shot at for his trouble. Their solution is to continue to give the fruits of civilization to violent ingrates who clearly do not want any — but they hope that the government (which drops the pensions of firemen and EMTs whenever convenient) will buy some bullet-proof vests.
    See, this would be totally different with robots. Provided they aren’t racist robots. We could workshop an artificial anti-racist feel-up at SXSW in partnerment to NPR, featuring the latest fake musician, and then ghetto denizens would not view future emergency responder robots as even more fair game than they now view humans.

    • Replies: @Lurker
    @J.Ross

    We'd then be hearing how unfair it was that in the future current year NAMs are forced to live in the areas with the most shot-up robo EMTs.

    , @Shitposter
    @J.Ross

    /pol/ thread archived for posterity

    http://archive.is/bgbeD

  • From the Sacramento Bee: Obviously, it's only right and proper for the media to confuse the public over how many desperate killers on the loose to be on the lookout for. What matters more: informing the public accurately or winning World War T? ... About six months ago, when my partner told me that a...
  • There are already specific cases but there is an overdue “supercut” or master bracket technique juxtaposition, of all the times feminists demanded an end to rape and the murder of women when the attacker was white, versus all the times they were blithely okay with it when the attacker was not.
    But I wonder how much of leftist pablum could either be Markov chains or replaceable with something like that. The hic-a-doola tone the writer strikes early and carries through seems like it could be more explanatory than ideology. Woud it be possible for a flesh and blood female journalist to write in this tone had they not already decided that this was a non-issue?

  • Eye-opener of the week for me: A Center For Immigration Studies talk I attended in New York City, given by political scientist Hans von Spakovsky. Title: “How noncitizen voting threatens our democracy.” Von Spakovsky [Tweet him] toils in the vineyards of what we on the Dissident Right refer to dismissively as “Conservatism, Inc.” He held...
  • The hostility to law which characterized the Obama administration (and specifically the unforgivable Goldershchina) was not just a matter of sentiment. I have tried clumsily formulating, on an unnamed anonymous online Mongolian finger-painting roundtable, that Obama was always “introducing Chinese law,” as was especially visible in immigration and marijuana, but was also policy as widely as it could be spread. The same pattern could be seen:
    >Oh no! Look at this modern global problem! So big! So uncontrollable! So outside the grasp of previous efforts!
    >Well, I guess the only reasonable solution is to stop trying to enforce these outdated laws.
    >But at the same time, y’all folks have gotta unnerstan, it would be too hard to repeal existing law. It will remain on the books and we will reserve the right to enforce it should we see some special case.
    Thus Guatemalans let in, Cubans kept out.
    A great illustration of the only development in Chinese legal philosophy which need be remembered by the non-specialist is “Inside The Red Mansion:”
    >Chinese realize that they want globalization.
    >Then they discover they don’t know how.
    >New feelings emerge: smugglers teem at every port and they know how to do import-export better than anyone.
    >They find a master smuggler and convince him to set up a legitimate modern port operation, verbally promising that he is in an amnesty status.
    >He sets up the port.
    >New discoveries bubble to the fore of the ever-active Mandarin’s mind: the Chinese have never had any meaningful concept of “no ex post facto.”
    >The bureaucrats are shocked, shocked to discover their legalized smuggler’s past.
    >He flees to Vancouver.
    Future epilogue, not in the book:
    >That’s the last place to flee if you want to escape Beijing.
    The human norm is that the State is God and can do whatever it wants. The English stumbled across civilization by accident. If we whites could have had a great centralized Qin burying all intellectuals alive, we surely would have. Surely Longshanks and James and Richelieu wanted that. We lucked into superiority through inferiority, we have ethical government only because we were too quarrellous for a real continental empire. And without that, we are an inferior version of Mexico.

  • From the NYT Op-Ed page: Sure, maybe America's pre-Trump elites messed up now and then, like "9/11, the bloody stalemates in Iraq and Afghanistan or the worst economic crisis since the Depression," but they let in Fareed Zakaria and Barack Obama Sr. And, to Pankaj Mishra, that's what really counts. What finally shattered such Panglossian...
  • I despise a model minority immigrant who thinks America is a material standard of living, and believes the Constitution to be more or less interchangeable with any other basic law (say that of France or Mexico or China), far more than I hate any shaheed or narco. A shaheed kills himself, but a Zakaria permanently erases unique human achievement and wants to plunge the entire world into third world squalor.
    This is the same thing or worse as some English mine owner lamenting that Africa would be a beautiful place if only you could get rid of the Africans.

  • Marge's pill bottle says "Prozac" rather than "Vicodin," but we get the message: the last decade and a half of rising white death rates without anybody paying attention has been Trump fault's.
  • J.Ross says: • Website

    I’m asking this informationally: why are you paying attention to new Simpsons episodes?
    We need to withdraw from this poisonous and alien culture that hates us so much. This is already largly underway, helped by the fact that the current population of entertainment industry leaders are effectively the third generation that cannot retain the family wealth from the Chinese proverb.
    We need to not even know who the hot new celebrity is. I would give an example but I’m already following my own advice. By all means watch a good entertainment that is worth your time (if you can find it), but never allow the glowing idol to take your attention for granted.

  • Farming in South Africa is the most dangerous occupation in the world. Farmers there suffer more murders per-capita than any other community on earth outside a war zone. Since the dawn of democracy in the country, farming South Africa has been slaughtered by black South Africans in ways that would do Shaka Zulu[*] proud. The...
  • J.Ross says: • Website

    At the White House site I started an online petition to recognize Afrikaners as a persecuted group with prioritized refugee processing, like the fast-tracking of immigration by Soviet Jews in the seventies. It got about a hundred signatures in a month. This is less than I would expect if I tried it away from keyboard around three blocks. This message must get beyond the gates and gatekeepers that have censored it. We have got to batter and guilt-trip the selective-empathy media controllers and the self-appointed arbitrators of what is and is not a tragedy.
    There is absolutely nothing about this in American media, but there are extended babblings about what remarkably stupid people think being black feels like (normally offered at the same time they reassure us that there is no point in trying to understand what being black really feels like). There is snide and totally unjustified smugness. There is inexplicably triumphalism over the doddering fool who merely won the election, who is really very unattractive if you ignore the top shelf female company, and no good at business once you get past the ziggurats of cash and gratuitous gold plating. There is a maddeningly fake inquiry in which they pretend to be open to new ideas while demanding that some Trump supporter, properly introduced as an inbred relic, scientifically prove things that should already be known beyond dispute — and when he cannot, well, you know, that just reaffirms our self-concept: us as reasonable people who listen, them as inarticulate morons who stumble over the details of phantom crime sprees we’ve never heard of. And if we’ve never heard of them, and the only source is that inbred relic, well, there’s no need to waste time seeing if there’s anything to it.

  • From The Intercept: BIRTH OF A RADICAL White Fear in the White House: Young Bannon Disciple Julia Hahn Is a Case Study in Extremism Peter Maass May 7 2017, 6:45 a.m. STEVE BANNON, WHO is no stranger to controversy, faced a torrent of reproval when it was revealed not long ago that he had praised...
  • So what this hysterical condemnation is granting is that David Cole was right after all, and the revivification of the cultural and political right comes from Southern California?

  • I have mixed feelings over expressing my disappointments with the Trump administration. I voted for the guy; I’d vote for him again against any Democrat I can think of, and most Republicans. And hey: We got Jeff Sessions at Justice, and a Supreme Court Appointee who isn’t an anti-white, man-hating Social Justice radical. So I’m...
  • J.Ross says: • Website
    @Zogby
    Trump's plan was to build a wall and get Mexico to pay for it. Not to hit Congress for the money. If Trump doesn't get Mexico to pay it, he doesn't get his wall. Period.

    For the rest of the agenda other than the wall - I agree, but... Trump was elected as the lesser evil of two. Not because his agenda is supported by a majority. The 40% approval rating Trump enjoys - that's how many support his agenda. It's not a majority. The other 10% that gave Trump an electoral college victory voted because they wanted to keep Hillary away from the levers of power. Not because they care for Trump's agenda. Mission accomplished on dodging the danger of a Hillary presidency. Now Trump is evaluated on his own dangerousness and needs to be reigned in. His agenda is not particulary popular among people that voted against Hillary, not for Trump. Support for it is soft, and as Trump continues a divisive agenda push that creates too much opposition - soft support withers away.

    Replies: @J.Ross

    If there is any real opposition to Trump then why do paid, organized, and scripted disruption agents have to be bused in to universities and town hall meetings?
    Trump is maligned with simple lying in every mainstream media broadcast longer than thirty seconds. That’s media lying, not Trump dividing. I recognized Trump’s case against the F-35 fighter as being exactly the same as Rachel Maddow’s. (I used to be a leftoid and watched Maddow nightly.) The leftist response to Maddow’s case against the F-35, when made by Trump, was incoherent insults about his maturity and masculinity. That’s not division or opposition. That’s not anything political.

  • From the NYT: In other words, this isn't a new idea. They'd tried it a decade ago and gave up. There are lots of awards that don't separate the sexes, such as the Nobel Prizes. What happens is that men usually win. I'm sure there will be a big push in the op-ed columns for...
  • J.Ross says: • Website

    In the commentay track to Rocky Horror Picture Show, Riffraff says something about thespians regardless of gender (he’s bi and trans but married with kids [and lately somewhat redpilled regarding Islam]), and Miranda Richardson instantly and passionately cuts him off, and insists that being an actress is objectively different than being an actor.

    • Replies: @Dave Pinsen
    @J.Ross

    Riff Raff = Richard O'Brien, who also wrote the musical.

    Related, transgenderism came up in the FT interview with Debbie Harry and Chris Stein of Blondie over the weekend.
    https://twitter.com/dpinsen/status/861716795119607810

    Replies: @Curle, @J.Ross, @Anonymous, @Brutusale

  • One of the funnier things in movies is how actors who have zero interest in science-fiction get typecast into sci-fi roles: e.g., Sigourney Weaver, Jeff Goldblum, John Lithgow, etc. (Conversely, are there any actors who would have liked sci-fi roles but didn't get them? Maybe Alan Alda?) Goldblum, for example, has devoted countless hours of...
  • J.Ross says: • Website

    I like Paul Verhoeven’s Dutch movies (his morally ambiguous WWII epic Soldier of Orange is consistently polled as one of the most popular among Dutch movie watchers; the story behind Turk’s Fruit has to be heard to be believed [Verhoeven and his writer unintentionally outed the Dutch JD Salinger as a phoney]), but in the US, he is pretty solidly known for the trashiest possible blockbuster big-effect sci-fi. This is funny because he hates sci-fi. He really hates it: his initial reaction to the RoboCop script was to throw it out. This is funnier, considering the popular conflation of all fantasy with hard or data-justified sci-fi, because Verhoeven has a physics degree from Leyden. Possibly he was able to bring something that would be unavailable to a lifetime fan blinded by memories.

    • Replies: @Mr. Anon
    @J.Ross

    Soldier of Orange was a good movie. Depressing as Hell, of course.

    I never thought of RoboCop as sci-fi, per se. I always just thought of it as a shlocky B-grade action movie of the type that was often made - and made so well - in the 80s. Incidentally, RoboCop has to be the quintessential 80s movie.

    You are right that Verhoeven doesn't seem to like sci-fi, which is why he purposefully trashed "Starship Troopers", turning it into something that Heinlein wouldn't even recognize.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @J.Ross

    , @Thrasymachus
    @J.Ross

    "The Black Book" is also great.

    Replies: @J.Ross

  • J.Ross says: • Website
    @Dave Pinsen
    @Steve Sailer

    Denis Villeneuve really wants to be a sci-fi director. Arrival, this, and he's going to make a Dune movie too.

    Replies: @J.Ross

    >new Dune looms

    The fulcrum of prejudice: is it “unauthorized” or have they sought to comply with Brian Herbert’s Oedipidal quest to destroy his father’s work?

    Will they dramatically rewrite the Fremen now that US audiences have more familiarity with the Middle East, to say nothing about certain unambiguous religious commandments limiting speech?
    Once you know a little more about Islam or read some Burton, it’s a bit rough to put up with “the space-ghazzis cultivating their space-kayf with payments of space-bakshiysh before going on space-jihad to save the space-Hijaz.”
    And that Sci-Fi channel remake a few years back demonstrated two important things. One is that being truer to the source material does not necessarily help. Lynch was totally correct to replace “kung fu on sand dunes” with a mysterious sound weapon. The other is that David Lynch’s Dune is a lot better than anyone gave it credit for so long as you’re not looking at it as the next Star Wars. The costumes and set design are staggering, they succeed in creating a credible reality with distinct internal divisions, and in capturing the feel of a proper Hollywood epic Selznick might sign off on. This success is all the more apparent next to the aggressively cheap TV miniseries, which relied heavily on greenscreens and computer animation.

    • Replies: @Dave Pinsen
    @J.Ross

    I agree that the David Lynch version is tremendously underrated.

    The Dune series shares something in common with Clarke's Space Odyssey series in that there's not enough story to flesh out the later books. The most interesting of the Frank Herbert sequels is closer to a 2 person play.

    , @JohnnyGeo
    @J.Ross

    Agree (I wasted my shot disagreeing about Joss Whedon above)

    , @Melendwyr
    @J.Ross

    It's possible to stay true to the themes of a work you're adapting while still making changes necessary to the adaptation to a different medium.

    Lynch's Dune did not stay true to the themes of the novel. While it had some interesting bits, it was a disaster.

  • From the NYT: In other words, this isn't a new idea. They'd tried it a decade ago and gave up. There are lots of awards that don't separate the sexes, such as the Nobel Prizes. What happens is that men usually win. I'm sure there will be a big push in the op-ed columns for...
  • @Dave Pinsen
    @J.Ross

    Riff Raff = Richard O'Brien, who also wrote the musical.

    Related, transgenderism came up in the FT interview with Debbie Harry and Chris Stein of Blondie over the weekend.
    https://twitter.com/dpinsen/status/861716795119607810

    Replies: @Curle, @J.Ross, @Anonymous, @Brutusale

    Thank you, I can never remember his name.

  • One of the funnier things in movies is how actors who have zero interest in science-fiction get typecast into sci-fi roles: e.g., Sigourney Weaver, Jeff Goldblum, John Lithgow, etc. (Conversely, are there any actors who would have liked sci-fi roles but didn't get them? Maybe Alan Alda?) Goldblum, for example, has devoted countless hours of...
  • J.Ross says: • Website
    @Thrasymachus
    @J.Ross

    "The Black Book" is also great.

    Replies: @J.Ross

    Black Book speaks directly to the experience of being on the wrong end of the (((self-appointed cultural commissars))), following Verhoeven getting caught (but not as punished as would be normative) allowing himself to think thoughts about a certain middle eastern country. It also directly mocks the reparations racket and maintains the liberal understanding of nazism in an atmosphere of consolidating Spielbergish brainlessness (this, nazism as reflexive legalistic rule-following versus nazism as Amalek).

  • @Mr. Anon
    @J.Ross

    Soldier of Orange was a good movie. Depressing as Hell, of course.

    I never thought of RoboCop as sci-fi, per se. I always just thought of it as a shlocky B-grade action movie of the type that was often made - and made so well - in the 80s. Incidentally, RoboCop has to be the quintessential 80s movie.

    You are right that Verhoeven doesn't seem to like sci-fi, which is why he purposefully trashed "Starship Troopers", turning it into something that Heinlein wouldn't even recognize.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @J.Ross

    Check out the book if you have not done so.

  • I have mixed feelings over expressing my disappointments with the Trump administration. I voted for the guy; I’d vote for him again against any Democrat I can think of, and most Republicans. And hey: We got Jeff Sessions at Justice, and a Supreme Court Appointee who isn’t an anti-white, man-hating Social Justice radical. So I’m...
  • J.Ross says: • Website
    @Alden
    @reiner Tor

    General Franco and his troops are my great heroes of the 20th century. They and later the Greek royalists after WW2 were the only forces that won resounding victories against the communists..

    Replies: @J.Ross

    And Rhodesia and the SADF, and Pinochet, and really even Chiang Kai-Shek up until Bill Donovan decided that he wanted to screw over East Asia. In fact Commies lose every time they cannot rely on zerg-rushing. Guevara’s guerrilla text has an anecdote about a position being bloodlessly overrun because all of the brave and dedicated revolutionaries fell asleep.

  • The Sicario/Arrival director's sequel to Blade Runner, which was set in an Asian-overrun Los Angeles in 2019, looks like La La Land the Sci-Fi Movie: in the future, apparently, white people will still make up most of the cinematically interesting Angelenos. Judging by the IMDB cast list, Edward James Olmos will be the only Chicano...
  • J.Ross says: • Website
    @Michaeloh59
    Have enjoyed the commentary regarding films and literature. Can anyone suggest films or literature that teaches pride in Western, British, and American Civilization? I'm thinking of the vivid historical novels that our fathers and grandfathers were given, and any non-cultural Marxist non-hate whitey film adaptations? I am particularly interested in material for girls and young ladies which encourage them to develop healthy ideas about themselves, their tribe, and their history as well as material giving them an alternative model to the fame whore Kardashian/slut type.

    Or maybe a better way to ask my question is this: what would you recommend for your kids and grandkids, in the way of reading, tv, films, or other activities to red pill them and develop and alternative personality to the toxic, self hating magical thinking morons our culture aims to produce? I am going to start spending a couple hours a week with the grandkids 7,10,12 and wonder how best to utilize this time with children of conventional, non red pulled parents. So, suggestions please!

    Replies: @owen, @Almost Missouri, @J.Ross, @Almost Missouri, @Autochthon, @Alden, @The Last Real Calvinist, @Alden, @Whoever, @FPD72

    Objectively superb and criminally underappreciated:
    “White Hunter, Black Heart.”
    Clint Eastwood directs and stars as infamous director John Huston, preparing for the on-location shooting of The African Queen. A true story minimally embellished.
    It happens to have two of the best critiques of leftist arrogance and virtue signalling. It doesn’t feel political but raises the right questions.
    In one, Huston starts a gratuitous fight with the white hotel manager after an African employee spills food on a guest. This lets Huston feel good about himself for an evening, but either accomplishes nothing or makes life worse for the Africans.
    In the other, a woman contrasts a good Jew to criminals she had known during the war, whereupon the Jew insists that they be conflated. If you’re keeping track, the anti-Semite is judging individuals by their merits, and the Jew, as a good tribalist, is lumping disparate elements together. The woman cannot grasp that she must judge different peoples categorically despite the Jew’s articulately illogical arguments. So Huston pointedly hurts her feelings and she never shows her face again. This is deeply relevant to the “punch a Nazi” fad of effortless, feel-good hate.

    In a similar vein, by the author of the Flashman papers, and starring Sean Connery and Diana Rigg: “A Good Man in Africa.”

  • J.Ross says: • Website

    1) I want to see Tanit Phoenix play Gwendolyn Ingolfsdottir in a production of SM Stirling’s novel “Drakon.”

    2) I know objectively and instantly that this will never happen. The production will not be made with her or anyone else, not as a film and not as a miniseries. It will never be discussed. It is pointless to bring up, except to illustrate the new distance of Hollywood, which was formerly fixated upon by everyone as if they lived there.

    3) Hollywood might collapse or restore itself or scud along in its committed incompetence, and it might as well be a food additive factory in Laos.

    • Replies: @Jack Hanson
    @J.Ross

    The entire Domination series makes Stirling persona non grata to a bunch of SJWs. While Drakon really showed its age (or editing), the bones there are sound. I wish he would have characterized Ken the Cyborg Warrior a little better, but what was unsaid about Samothrace and discussed with little context made it that much more interesting. I really wish he would have had Ken accept Gwen's offer on the bench and spun a series off of THAT.

    Sadly, Stirling seems like he's going to be cranking out Change novels until he does a Robert Jordan on us. Id love a continuation of The Peshawar Lancers but instead its gonna be more SCA LARPers save the world.

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  • J.Ross says: • Website
    @Jack Hanson
    @J.Ross

    The entire Domination series makes Stirling persona non grata to a bunch of SJWs. While Drakon really showed its age (or editing), the bones there are sound. I wish he would have characterized Ken the Cyborg Warrior a little better, but what was unsaid about Samothrace and discussed with little context made it that much more interesting. I really wish he would have had Ken accept Gwen's offer on the bench and spun a series off of THAT.

    Sadly, Stirling seems like he's going to be cranking out Change novels until he does a Robert Jordan on us. Id love a continuation of The Peshawar Lancers but instead its gonna be more SCA LARPers save the world.

    Replies: @syonredux, @J.Ross

    One of the best things about it is how all the elitist leftists start to nod along with what she proposes. Notably an environmentalist excited about Africa turned into a huge game preserve, without any of those pesky Africans. That’s not going to be on film any time soon, because that would depict real racism, and Hollywood is currently dedicated to constantly adapting the Haman strawman to other ethnies, so it frequently depicts racism but never anything recognizable to nature or history.

  • J.Ross says: • Website
    @syonredux
    @Jack Hanson

    Never cared for the Draka series (the Draka were too Mary Sue-ish for my tastes). I did like his aborted Lords of Creation series, though. For those who haven't read it, it takes place in an alternate reality where the '30s pulp versions of Mars and Venus are real. So, Mars is inhabited by an incredibly ancient civilization, while Venus is a jungle-world populated by savages. Lots of fun:

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

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

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    >Mary Sue

    I haven’t read the rest of the series but the great thing about Drakon was the logical explanations. [tldr — long term advanced genetic engineering and very high metabolism, requiring a comical caloric intake.] A fantasy is legitimate if you reverse engineer it and show your work, and only a failure for these purposes if you leave everything “just because.” The snu snu played no part in my judgment (or in my lack of interest in a Draka story with a male protagonist).

    Stirling apparently got in “trouble” a few years back for talking coherently about Islam. Tom Kratzman has a novel (Caliphate) which might be added to the list of redpilled movies and books above. It’s about an Islamified Europe and, while not all if it has come true, yet, it’s still unnerving.

    • Replies: @Alfa158
    @J.Ross

    I don't know if Stirling is all that happy from a political standpoint about the reception the Draka series received. I read at least one comment from him about how appalled he was over the number of fans of the books he has met who think the Drakans were the coolest thing, would love to be one, and assumed that Stirling is on the same wavelength. He seems to think that people in the genre have become suspicious of where his sympathies are.

    , @syonredux
    @J.Ross


    >Mary Sue

    I haven’t read the rest of the series but the great thing about Drakon was the logical explanations. [tldr -- long term advanced genetic engineering and very high metabolism, requiring a comical caloric intake.] A fantasy is legitimate if you reverse engineer it and show your work, and only a failure for these purposes if you leave everything “just because.” The snu snu played no part in my judgment (or in my lack of interest in a Draka story with a male protagonist).
     
    That's my problem. How Stirling got to the "Final Society" in Drakon. He had to put his authorial thumb on a lot of scales to deliver the Draka victory in The Stone Dogs.....

    And, as I mentioned elsewhere, I also don't care for his creepy interest in butch Lesbians....

    Replies: @Jack Hanson

  • From Scott Adams:
  • I guess it would be the history of every place that let Muslims in, notably Lebanon. The difference between Muslims and the worst haredi Zionist settlers is scale and gang colors.

  • I have never learned which one is which among "trans women" vs. "trans men," but why do they stereotype male-to-females as underrepresented in the open source software movement? It seems likely, judging from patterns, that there would be a disproportionate number of high IQ computer geeks who decide they've always been a girl on the...
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    Ed Boland’s maddening and unintentionally hilarious “Battle For Room 314,” when not illustrating the difference between phronesis and booksmarts, gives the best cartoon send-up of cut-off elites who would bet everything on a Hillary landslide. Before Boland tried to be a massively incompetent and unprofessional teacher, his “job” was organizing and administering soirees, celebrating wealthy philanthropists who gave to a kind of private not-for-profit affirmative action agency. They identify poor minority kids and helped them through Ivy League level education.

    • Replies: @Difference Maker
    @J.Ross

    I have encountered this type of person before. How convenient for them that they are assisted by a favorable climate at the Ivy League

  • @Steve Sailer
    @Anon

    I wonder if there are any fields where trans outnumber genuine women? Perhaps sabermetrics?

    Replies: @J.Ross, @Lot, @JW Bell, @TelfoedJohn, @NickG

    Female kickboxing champions?

    • LOL: Harry Baldwin
  • From Scott Adams:
  • J.Ross says: • Website
    @Ohioan
    In public administration literature there's the concept known as "counting as". Where in, the government only counts what matters to it.

    If Muslim immigration mattered to the Deep State, we'd have predictive models to infinity detailing probable individual behaviors to statistical reliability, readily duplicated. It'd be "settled science".

    You can tell a lot about a people by what they keep in a ledger.

    Moreover, this calls into question the reliability of government statistics. If the Powers That Be desire a certain outcome, and said Betters control the levers of billions in grant dollars, what would stop money hungry researchers from developing models the Deep State would not only find palatable, but would desire because their implication results in ever more expansion of its purview.

    But, there I go again, thinking too much.

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    There’s an unsubstantiated rumor going around 4chan that massive Muslim immigration is a way for the Establishment to correct the mistake that is Feminism without admitting to any fault. Comparable to driving out blacks with mestizos. One of the reliably frequent self-caricatures of the left is the outspoken feminist leader wearing a headscarf and self-segregating apart from the men, like Toronto mayor Kathleen Wynne or the Swedish politiciennes who visited Iran.

    • Replies: @Ohioan
    @J.Ross

    If so, the treatment is worse than the disease.

    , @Alden
    @J.Ross

    Going Islamic would be a sure way to end feminism. But feminism was a project of the elite so why would they want to get rid of it? Maybe it's become too powerful and reaching into the boardrooms?

    Replies: @J.Ross

    , @NOTA
    @J.Ross

    Our elites aren't up to that kind of triple-bankshot social engineering. Probably nobody is, but certainly not our unimpressive elites.

    , @International Jew
    @J.Ross


    Muslim immigration is a way for the Establishment to correct the mistake that is Feminism
     
    That would be on par with Principal Skinner's plan for combating Tree Lizards with Needle Snakes etc https://youtu.be/P9yruQM1ggc

    Replies: @Frau Katze

    , @Regor
    @J.Ross

    I guess that's one optimistic view.

    My own optimistic view is that, since mass immigration is premised on the belief that everyone is equal (nevermind the diversity shibboleth) the elites can't afford to single out any group for discrimination, especially one group who is more determined than most to displace Europeans.

    I suspect the elites who joined this project for the cheap labor, social status and other banal reasons might be starting to have doubts considering how difficult it's becoming to rationalize the whole thing. Some of them might even be wondering if the ideologues and their enablers who spearheaded this increasingly undeniable calamity might not have their best interests in mind.

  • @Alden
    @J.Ross

    Going Islamic would be a sure way to end feminism. But feminism was a project of the elite so why would they want to get rid of it? Maybe it's become too powerful and reaching into the boardrooms?

    Replies: @J.Ross

    Functionality is functionality. Feminism is civilizational death.

  • J.Ross says: • Website
    @Yan Shen
    I've heard estimates that roughly 8% of Europe, however that's defined, will become Muslim by 2030. Kudos to Scott Adams for contemplating what effects that may have upon the traditional culture of Western nations.

    Ultimately, the problem isn't immigration per se. Rather, immigration is only part of the much larger problem of postmodern leftism infecting the non-Confucian world. Let me offer up what may be the most important sociological thesis of the 21st century, which I call the Great Cultural Divergence. Increasingly in the 21st century, the most important and salient cultural distinction is that between Confucian and non-Confucian cultures. In particular, the insidious and parasitic memes of postmodern leftism have hijacked and colonized the minds of non-Confucian cultures in a way that Confucian cultures have largely been immune to. When sociologists decades on down the line attempt to understand the way the world evolved and the possibility diverging fortunes of different nation states, this may be one of the salient facts that they retrospectively come to appreciate.

    Thus, what we really need is a model of social memetics, because the underlying destructive ideas themselves are the real disease, increasing Muslim immigration merely one of the symptoms. When does a society reach a tipping point beyond which there is no hope of return?

    http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/04/globalization-japan-terror-insularity-213807

    Michael Auslin in the article above points out that Japan seems to be developing in an entirely different way from the contemporary West, arguing that "what has been lost in the West is the understanding that openness and globalization are only a means, not an end. Japan’s different approach to both ideas goes back to its profoundly different view of modernity". In addressing the issue of radical Islam, Auslin points out that "[Japanese] people live in a reality entirely different from that of the West, spared from a seemingly endless fight against an implacable enemy who now lives among them." Although Auslin focuses specifically on Japan, one can make the argument that much of the same holds for South Korea and increasingly so for China as well, with the caveat that yes the Japanese are somewhat more insular compared to say the Chinese.



    The core insight here is that Confucian East Asia seems to be modernizing in the 21st century in a way very different from the postmodern non-Confucian world, be it the Western countries, Islamic countries, or whoever else. In virtually all non-Confucian cultures, insidious and parasitic memes have hijacked and colonized the minds not only of the governing elites, but also of many of the masses. This infection, if you will, has given rise to such postmodern concepts as multiculturalism, safe spaces, trigger warnings, and check your privilege, amongst many others. Alas, these ideas are foreign to the Confucian mindset and anathema to an ethos that embraces ethnic homogeneity, self dedication, and the willingness to sacrifice and "eat bitterness" for the sake of the individual and societal good.

    Indeed, the populist backlash in the West is in many ways the body politic attempting to utilize its own defense mechanisms to fight the encroaching viral disease threatening its very survival. In East Asia, there is no such internal turmoil because there is no such fundamental sickness, a sickness I argued of the mind that's every bit as potent and devastating as the worst viruses that infect the human body. The bitter struggles that one sees in America or France for instance have no real parallel in East Asia. There is no debate over the future of the country and how to best ensure its survival because in essence the rulers and the ruled are both of one mind on these core issues. Hence, Auslin remarks that in Japan " different segments of society rarely seem to be at one another’s throats".

    We're often fascinated by how the fortunes of different nations diverge and evolve. As I stated earlier, I want to offer up what I call the Great Cultural Divergence , a 21st phenomenon that had its roots perhaps as early as the 1960s, that decades on down the road from today we may come to appreciate as being one of the fundamental factors explaining why postmodern East Asia differs from the rest of the non-Confucian world.

    Replies: @J.Ross, @Johan Schmidt, @AnotherDad

    What (((religio-ethnic group))) that starts all the wars in the world completely took over the intellectual, academic, cultural and discursive reins of the West, but still struggles to kibbitz the East?
    I love David Gelernter, but his “America Lite” was ruined by his refusal to discuss his tribe, in a book expressly about subversive academics aggressively overhauling the national culture in the mid-twentieth century. It’s like discussing hockey but refusing to say the word “Canada.”

  • The Sicario/Arrival director's sequel to Blade Runner, which was set in an Asian-overrun Los Angeles in 2019, looks like La La Land the Sci-Fi Movie: in the future, apparently, white people will still make up most of the cinematically interesting Angelenos. Judging by the IMDB cast list, Edward James Olmos will be the only Chicano...
  • @Clyde
    @Ray P


    Aliens features the same inconsistency: salvagers use a remotely operated drone to inspect Ripley’s shuttle for threats before entering; marines do nothing like this later at the colony in a more dangerous situation.
     
    I saw "Alien" and "Aliens" when they first came out, and the first thought I had w "Aliens" was how crappy and dumbed down it was compared to "Alien". "Alien" (1979) will always be the best of the lot. It had such horror in it that for the only time in my life I had to look at some scenes through my fingers. Good times!

    Replies: @J.Ross, @Anonymous

    The studio made him adopt a “happy” ending, but originally, Scott had the alien kill Ripley, sit in her chair — and then speak English in her voice to bypass Earth security. This would have been consistent with the theme that it was always one step ahead.

  • From ScienceDirect: Journal of Criminal Justice Available online 10 May 2017 The prevalence of fatal police shootings by U.S. police, 2015–2016: Patterns and answers from a new data set Jon M. Shane, Brian Lawton, Zoë Swenson This is the first analysis of its type to rely on incident-level national data and to establish base rates...
  • J.Ross says: • Website
    @utu
    @JerryC

    So what are the cops supposed to do if some crazy guy is running around waving a gun or knife?

    Most cases are not like this. Shooting is usually the first and the only option. Police officers do not try anything else. Perhaps you should look at some videos of actual shootings and you will see how many other option they had but never tried. You will see that in most cases the shooting was not necessary. But in the case you outlined very vaguely it all depends on what are the chances of this person hurting somebody. If for example it is a policemen only that can be hurt then the policeman should partly disengage by making few steps back and give space to the person but they never do it because of the rules of engagement they er brainwashed by and their false pride (as well as peer pressure). In some police department a shooting of a civilian is an opportunity for a party and celebration and some cops keep the score tattooed on their arms. It is sick. Anyway, the fact that the suicide by police exists is a disgrace.

    Under this Fred Free's article I linked several articles and videos of shootings by police.
    https://www.unz.com/freed/virtue-and-the-streets-a-dummys-guide-to-police-work/

    Replies: @J.Ross, @TWS, @LSWCHP

    Combat is always phronesis and never theoretical book smarts that made sense inside your head ten minutes ago. The penalty for trying other things is the total abdication of the police officer’s defining function of maintaining public order. That’s on top of innocent bystanders getting killed because you wanted to give peace a chance.
    I will never forget trying to talk to a brainwashed leftoid relative when the Zimmerman thing first happened. I asked him under what circumstances it would be acceptable to shoot an attacker and he brought up Reginald Denny. So if you’re unconcious, feel free to load and charge your weapon, once you retrieve it from the centralized state armory.
    They are looking at this solely in terms of a caricature of Christian morality, in which you must protect your honor as a trans-lamb at every physical expense: their goal is to lose because that way at least they didn’t do anything racist.

    • Replies: @utu
    @J.Ross

    Combat is - You can't even start right. If your premises are false you can derive any outcome. Go back and write down: POLICING IS NOT COMBAT and only then try to make your point.

    Replies: @TWS, @guest

  • From the Washington Post on May 2, 2017 (keep in mind that the Washington Post building is 1,102 miles from St. Olaf College): Protests erupt, classes canceled after racist notes enrage a Minnesota college By Lindsey Bever May 1 Following days of demonstrations against hate speech at a liberal arts college in Minnesota, the school...
  • “You have spoken up too much.”

    Cf the scene in “The Believer” where the protagonist starts praising Jews to his klan meeting. These people are the self-destructing delusional bad guys from a Seinfeld episode.

  • J.Ross says: • Website
    @Chrisnonymous
    When I was a university freshman back in the '90s, every room in my dorm had a small whiteboard hanging on the wall outside the door. One of my black hallmates drew a black power fist rising up from the bottom border of his whiteboard. This was about the time Steve was getting defenestrated by National Review, and I was a loyal cover-to-cover reader with "goodwhite" beliefs. So, it really was more thoughtless needling than "racism" that caused me to draw a foot coming down from the top border of the whiteboard to crush the fist.

    That incident was resolved within our dorm through high-trust, adult discussion overseen just by our dorm RA.

    I often think of that incident nowadays. If it had happened yesterday, no doubt it would have become a campus-wide scandal, and maybe I'd be kicked out of the school.

    The irony is that now, when I have actual "racist" beliefs, I would be much less likely to needle a black hallmate (i.e., to leave "racism" graffiti) for a variety of reasons extending from Murray-esque racial noblesse oblige to fear to a more serious attitude toward the whole issue of race in America.

    Replies: @Chrisnonymous, @Anon, @J.Ross

    In the archives of the short-lived but necessary Voice of Reason Radio is a call from a guy describing how, in a dorm with a black roommate who partied noisily all night, he complained to the floor manager whateveritscalled, and was admonished that partying all night is “black culture,” and so far more legitimate and respectable than merely studying or sleeping.

    • Replies: @Flip
    @J.Ross

    I remember long ago at my Ivy League college that the proctors putting closing times on student parties was called racist as blacks liked to stay up later than whites.

  • About two thirds of the USSR's 27 million casualties were civilians - that is, almost 10% of its prewar population. Had those percentages been applied to Nazi Germany, it would lost 8 million people - an order of magnitude than the 400,000 civilians it lost due to Allied strategic bombing, and the 600,000 who died...
  • What is the philosophical achievement in using moral relativism to justify the conflation of power with authority?
    Surely anyone hoping to justify Hitler in terms of anything Stalin did is guilty of a less effective variant of the same thing, and a douchenozzle. But doing whatever you want because you won is the abdication of humanity, it’s behaving like an animal, and animals don’t analyze statistics.

  • With talk of Russian influence in the news, from the New York Times: Of course, Henry A. Wallace, the only geneticist to rise high in American politics, was pretty much of a tool of the Kremlin for much of the 1940s. The Democratic Party's big city bosses forced FDR to drop him from the ticket...
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    The wartime propaganda gem “Mission To Moscow” is not about Wallace per se but illustrates the later-inconceivable penetration of Stalinism in the American government and media, and so breaks the false image of McCarthyism as hysterical. In particular it aggressively advocates for show trials and mass purges in the United States. I fell out of my seat when I saw that: they wanted gulags here. The viewer is assured by American technical advisors who have gone “beyond the Urals” to help production that Hitlerites infest every US factory, that only KGB methods can bring security, and that show trials are entirely respectable.

    • Replies: @nebulafox
    @J.Ross

    This is something of a rambling comment, I hope it doesn't annoy you...

    I've always been of the opinion that the American intellectual hatred and disdain for the petty bourgeois class stems not as much from the typical Marxist hatred that stems from their unreliable class struggle status, but from the fact that they are the quintessential backbone of America, as Ben Franklin aptly put it. America is a fundamentally petty bourgeois nation in a way European nations aren't. That they were paranoid that they'd bring fascism, as in Europe, and that they sensed the fact, America's petty bourgeois class didn't particularly fear or respect them. That's why you constantly see the "we need Plato style gatekeepers" undercurrent among American intellectuals-just look at Gopnik's recent rubbish in the New Yorker. Journalists and intellectuals only tend to want democracy insofar as it results in outcomes that are pleasing to them.

    Anyway, more on topic: there's a big difference between making a deal with the devil to prevent Generalplan Ost, and making the devil out to be any sort of idol. A lot of lefties in the 1940s confused the two, with varying degrees of consciousness. (Wallace, to his credit, recognized his mistakes later on.) Switching gears to modern day America, I don't think your typical bien-pensant American left-winger necessary wants violence, given that the Left would probably lose in a civil conflict since the right-wingers would inherit the ex-Marines, cops, prison guards, etc, but I do think they are emphatically authoritarian on groupthink, and increasingly brook no dissent. Radicalization breeds counter-radicalization, hence, Trump shifting the Overton Window. Anyway, it's not particularly shocking that certain sectors of intellectuals tend to be attracted to utopian authoritarian movements. This isn't limited to Stalinism-just look at the profiles of the leaders of the Einsatzgruppen in the East. Parade of doctorates. Cambodia's Khmer Rouge is arguably the closest regime that has come to being dominated by intellectuals.

    As for Tailgunner Joe, I've already mentioned in another thread that he was an utter gift to the Kremlin. People don't often grasped how deeply the Soviets penetrated our government by 1945-Harry Dexter White is a prominent example of how high up it went sometimes. By the early 1950s, the Soviet espionage network in the US was under serious strain-the convictions of prominent spies such as Alger Hiss and Julius Rosenberg was only the tip of the iceberg. Truman had cleaned out the pro-Moscow Left from the Democratic Party and, through the good and willing graces of J. Edgar Hoover and his merry men, cracked down very, very hard on Soviet intelligence activities. On the foreign front, Stalin's plans to intervene in Yugoslavia went down the drain the moment the US intervened in Korea, and the Marshall Plan was taking off in Western Europe, making it clear that the US had the superior model to anyone with a semi-functioning brain. McCarthy and his blindingly obvious violations of civil liberties and exploitation of public fear more or less rescued them.

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  • @unit472
    Perhaps off topic but it irks me to see a non profit foundation being headed by the grandson of its founder. Non profits should be required to disburse their assets within a reasonable period of time after the bequest or donation and not be a sinecure for the founders progeny. Wallace died over half a century ago. Surely whatever it was that Wallace's foundation intended to do could have been done by now and Wallace's grandson could devote himself to something more fruitful.

    Replies: @J.Ross

    Oh, if only the Ford family had retained control of the Ford Foundation!

  • @John Gruskos
    Wallace supported the Soviet Union while Stalin was murdering millions, but turned against the Soviet Union when Khrushchev turned towards moderatism.

    Wallace was never "pro-Russian", he was pro-Bolshevik. Not the same thing - opposite, in fact.

    The same people who today shed crocodile tears over Putin's handful of alleged victims cheered themselves hoarse when Warren Beatty's Reds showered accolades on history's most bloodthirsty monster, Trotsky. To be fair, Reds did critique Zinoviev - for being too pro-Christian! Is there any word which can adequately describe such brazen effrontery?

    Replies: @J.Ross, @Peripatetic commenter, @Jake

    Chutzpah, but maybe that’s too on-the-nose.

  • The large number of fraudulent false flag hate incidents in the news over the last 30 years, which have perhaps crested since the rise of Trump, needs to be combatted on several levels: 1. Raising awareness that Hate Hoaxes are a Thing, a conceptual category that you need to keep in mind when following the...
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    Hate crime enhancements are not “a bad idea,” they are an anti-Constitutional political criterion attached to law that guarantees government support on one side of tribal squabbles. Thus asking that they be applied “fairly” and for the benefit of the “bad guys” is incoherent. The only answer is to clear out the kritarchy and return to English common law tradition.

  • J.Ross says: • Website
    @Joe Schmoe
    @Steve Sailer

    The question still in my mind is whether any of the incidents on these expensive private colleges have been real vs. hoax in the past 5 years or so.

    obviously none of the lame incidents that turned out to be hoaxes deserve much attention even if real as opposed to a heinous crime like murdering a stranger regardless of motive.

    Replies: @J.Ross

    I followed every report I saw about anti-Semitic incidents following IX/XI and never found one real one. In general they’re self-annoucing, they are too perfect, too flamboyant, use terminology or tactics that give them away, and always have this bizarre worldview that the United States in the present day is Germany during Kristallacht. Main illustration I use is a kid at MSU in East Lansing who claimed to have been attacked in the face with carpenter staples amid anti-Semitic slurs at a party. As in all these things, “nobody helped.” Police reported that they were not pursuing charges a few days later, in spite of the overwhelming physical eidence that carpenter staples would surely leave.
    Ask yourself if you could honestly expect to hear a coworker or fellow cafe-goer burst out loud in classic anti-Semitic slurs without surprise or some special expanation. The US is the most philosemitic society in history, Israel is rougher on its Jews.

    • Replies: @Opinionator
    @J.Ross

    this bizarre worldview that the United States in the present day is Germany during Kristallacht.

    Kristallnacht was itself retaliation for a hate crime that had been perpetrated by a Jew against a German. Few know this.

  • About two thirds of the USSR's 27 million casualties were civilians - that is, almost 10% of its prewar population. Had those percentages been applied to Nazi Germany, it would lost 8 million people - an order of magnitude than the 400,000 civilians it lost due to Allied strategic bombing, and the 600,000 who died...
  • J.Ross says: • Website
    @German_reader
    @L.K

    I don't think I've ever written anything that would indicate I'm in favour of Holocaust deniers being fined or jailed. I'm actually very much against free speech restrictions. However your "logic" ("The Holocaust has become sacralized in western discourse, and people denying it are even punished by law in some countries...that must mean it's a hoax, upheld only by the threat of punishment!") isn't very convincing imo.

    Replies: @J.Ross

    I have heard from two lefty voices, an academic friend and a black activist on the radio, about how gratuitous Holocaust educational units crowd school programs at too young an age and to the exclusion of essentials like our own civil war. The speakers here are not what you would call deniers.
    Right now Jewish philanthropy has such a glut of unearned money that there are actually articles and discussions on what should be done with it — and nobody is ever going to say “no” to one more Holocaust lecture, presentation, or museum.
    But by all means, name for me one other historical event where the discussion of it will get you jailed amid international mass media condemnation and the loss of all your respectable friends.
    It’s not like they let us have our own memorials. PR chainsawed a monument to Christian victims of the Gulag, topless, like the executions in Alphaville that confound moral outrage with cheap media titillation, and were either undiscussed or celebrated in the West. KMFDM made it an album cover. Warren Beatty’s “Reds” criticized revolutionary leaders for not being tough enough on Christians. In the Trumpening a major undiscussed issue was the massive spike in racist anti-white violence, which is either terrifying and real or nothing to see here, depending where you get your news. Besides the fact that these hucksters are thoroughly debunked laughable con artists depending on totalitarianism, they have meanwhile created a situation that guarantees their defeat. People will publicly pretend to support them to appear respectable but, in the face of media-censored violence, will quietly and permanently convert.

  • From the NYT on the ongoing evolution of the Democrats into the Black Party: Young Black Democrats, Eager to Lead From the Left, Eye Runs in 2018 By ALEXANDER BURNS MAY 15, 2017 MACON, Ga. — In Georgia, a Democratic lawmaker planning a run for governor promises to confront President Trump and what she calls...
  • Perhaps the more relevant questions are
    >how much do they hate us (whites)?
    and
    >how confident are they that they can effectively buy off or ignore black leadership?

  • From the NYT: "Culprits" is a dysphemism for the uprooted victims. In the case of my liberal inlaws on the West Side of Chicago in 1968-1970, the culprits wh
  • If I was writing a cheesy novel with a third-rank bad guy minion, who exists to sew up one plot point and suffer an entertaining death well before the climax, I would have him natter about the excellent classic novels he digests, as he ignorantly doubted the well-documented physical suffering of others.
    Is this Leah person real or a satire, like when HuffPo published a South African analyst pretending to be an literal feminazi?

  • That's not a common saying, but maybe it should be: Perhaps in Turkey, disgraced executives and politicians announce, "I'm resigning to spend more time with my TV" ...
  • J.Ross says: • Website

    Could this be a result of TV being a safe option rather than the correct answer? Would you tell a Turkish survey-solicitor thst you liked activities associated with apostasy, Kurdish nationalism, or criticizing Ankara? One of Jakob Marian’s maps has Turkey far higher than any Europeans for washing their hands every time they use the bathroom. I am tempted to call that either lying or over-crediting wudu (Muslim ritual cleaning).

    • Replies: @Pericles
    @J.Ross

    I've heard that hand rubbing comes very naturally to those in the Middle East.

  • From the National Bureau of Economic Research: Male Earnings, Marriageable Men, and Nonmarital Fertility: Evidence from the Fracking Boom Melissa S. Kearney, Riley Wilson Issued in May 2017 There has been a well-documented retreat from marriage among less educated individuals in the U.S. and non-marital childbearing has become the norm among young mothers and mothers...
  • J.Ross says: • Website

    Even if your name is Charles “DaBraynzMasstah” Murray, even if you have a billion data points and a column in the best newspapers, all discussion of the collapse of marriage, *all of it*, that lacks mention of *no-fault divorce* or predatory judges, is a dishonest waste of time which contributes nothing and lowers your reputation. Discuss this issue in terms of no-fault divorce or find another topic.
    The entirety of this issue is no-fault divorce. Women are being bombarded from every influence to view marriage as a shopping expedition and that position is getting facilitated by government at every level. Men are not allowed to even complain about it.
    I would much rather give up sex altogether than have everything stolen from me by one forgettable whore who was never serious about raising children, and so would everyone else who thinks about this, even Charles Murray. If Amber Heard didn’t persuade you then look into the ease with which women decide that their children were getting abused, the discussions they have on how to accomplish this on social media, and how simple it can be to persuade a child to say the right thngs.

    • Agree: dfordoom
  • @whiskey
    It's women. Don't need or want a husband if he's not an Alpha. Will have kids with upper earning man.

    Women choose. That simple.

    Replies: @J.Ross, @dfordoom, @Daniel Chieh

    True for present circumstances, but: brainless female sexuality is a scary monster to the ignorant only. We contained it for generations and we can contain it again, especially on the other side of the gruesome spectacle that’s coming and which is already being quietly discussed. I refer to the autoholocaust of the Eat-Pray-Love set.

    • Replies: @jjbees
    @J.Ross

    Generation Z is known for its conservatism.

    The shrews have refused to be tamed, they cling to their birth control and leftism, and thus cede the future to us.

  • @Flip
    @NOTA

    I think you need to make women more financially dependent on men, which is not likely to happen in the current environment.

    Replies: @J.Ross

    I can count the women I have worked with, who actually worked, on one hand. When Bill Gates talks about a coming white collar automation wipe-out, he’s largely talking about women.
    The way for us to think about this stuff is not as idealistic counter-revolutionaries who have to completely re-educate the world, but as farmers observing the clouds and setting out extra rain barrels.

  • From The Atlantic: My Family’s Slave She lived with us for 56 years. She raised me and my siblings without pay. I was 11, a typical American kid, before I realized who she was. ALEX TIZON JUNE 2017 ISSUE GLOBAL Alex Tizon passed away in March. He was a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and the author...
  • @AndrewR
    Jesus Christ. That story made me cry. Very good writing. The author seems like a wonderful person. As did Lola.

    This story could have many lessons to teach us but your sarcastic title to this story seems like you either didn't read the whole piece or you're dishonest. The most obvious lesson from this story is how people who grow up in the US can reject their barbaric ancestral customs. Obviously we know this doesn't always happen, and probably this happens more with some ethnicities than others, but I think most sane people would see this as an immigrant success story. The American-raised kids give their sweet slave a happy life and a loving send-off. I don't know how anyone could read this piece as an argument against immigration. Perhaps if the parents had never had children, that story would be good anti-immigration fodder. But this story does seem to support the Magic Dirt theory.

    Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic, @Anonymous, @Dave Pinsen, @J.Ross, @Hunsdon, @Erik L, @Robert the Wise

    When I briefly resided and read newspapers in the Arabian Gulf, I never saw any of the naked and medieval anti-Semitism which various non-profit organizations would like to bother you about, but every single damned day there was a human interest piece about a mistreated “servant:” a suicide, a foiled suicide, an escape, an escape stopped by police (who are always on the side of the owners), an abuse claim. By far the most common was attempted suicide. In our press, every now and then you will see South Asians in the news because they were rubbing ground chili peppers into a slave’s eyes.

    • Replies: @FredS
    @J.Ross

    The Berber use heated copper coins.
    Paul Bowles wrote a fictional piece about it and Tom Russell put it to song:
    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zGQ9z7rbn7zufjEjhB-WM4o3I2AwKWgWxBrB0AwqY0w/edit
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ha_4kpT3IU

  • From the National Bureau of Economic Research: Male Earnings, Marriageable Men, and Nonmarital Fertility: Evidence from the Fracking Boom Melissa S. Kearney, Riley Wilson Issued in May 2017 There has been a well-documented retreat from marriage among less educated individuals in the U.S. and non-marital childbearing has become the norm among young mothers and mothers...
  • @ben tillman
    @Barnard

    From the Houston Chronicle article:


    Since neither improving economic prospects for men nor pro-marriage social engineering makes a dent in the rate of out-of-wedlock births, the trend may be beyond the ability of politicians to influence.
     
    That's laughable. If politicians repeal welfare benefits for unwed mothers, the "trend" will end immediately.

    Replies: @J.Ross, @NOTA

    Heather MacDonald has some of the best material to this point. Her book “The Burden of Bad Ideas” is a foundational text. Almost everything she warned about in the 90s has come true or gone worse than she feared.

  • You aren't supposed to use the term "deep state" to refer to organs of the federal government and associated entities that are difficult for elected officials to control. Instead, you are now supposed to use the cozy term "intelligence community," since they presumably finance their operations with bakes sales and paper drives.
  • @Art Deco
    "Intelligence Community" has been for about 15 years the official term for a collecting pool of 16 agencies which have a common clearinghouse. It was in newspaper use for decades prior to that. "Deep state" is a fairly recent contrivance made use of by people with an affinity for conspiracy theories.

    Replies: @mukat, @yaqub the mad scientist, @anonymous, @guest, @guest, @candid_observer, @Discard, @J.Ross, @Glossy, @SteveRogers42, @Bill

    You are simply wrong, “deep state” has been a normal and respectable term among area specialists studying Turkey for decades, are clearly applies to a number of situations without stretching.
    But tell me again how an Israeli Christian who gets spat upon in the face can take comfort in a statistic about average income.

    • Replies: @Art Deco
    @J.Ross

    among area specialists studying Turkey for decades,

    Area specialists studying Turkey are a contextually tiny population in American academe. By way of example, the Digest of Education Statistics reports that there was some school somewhere which had a degree-option in "Turkish Language and Literature" in 2013-14. However, no degrees in that subject were awarded anywhere. I once attempted to identify through searches of monographic and social-research databases a list of scholars who had published in English or in French on late Ottoman / early Kemalist Turkey. IIRC, I came up with a list of names in the low two digits. People like Heath Lowry and Justin McCarthy speak with great authority because they're one of just a few score occidental academics who are steeped in the history and culture of the place.

    , @Art Deco
    @J.Ross

    But tell me again how an Israeli Christian who gets spat upon in the face can take comfort in a statistic about average income.

    You think the Israeli Christian is going to find some country somewhere where no one gets into fights in bars or schoolyards?

  • From The Atlantic: My Family’s Slave She lived with us for 56 years. She raised me and my siblings without pay. I was 11, a typical American kid, before I realized who she was. ALEX TIZON JUNE 2017 ISSUE GLOBAL Alex Tizon passed away in March. He was a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and the author...
  • @syonredux
    Off-topic,

    Jordan Peele's next opus:

    ‘Get Out’s Jordan Peele Teams With WBTV, HBO & Bad Robot For ‘Lovecraft Country’ Drama Series; Misha Green Writing

    EXCLUSIVE: Get Out writer-director Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions is teaming with J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot and Warner Bros Television on Lovecraft Country, a one-hour drama that has been given a straight-to-series order by HBO. The pilot will be written by Underground executive producer/showrunner/writer Misha Green. Peele will be exec producer along with Green, Abrams and Ben Stephenson. Green will be showrunner.
     

    There is connective tissue to Peele’s breakout genre feature Get Out, which brought a Black Lives Matter theme to the horror genre. Lovecraft Country, the 2016 novel from Matt Ruff, focuses on 25-year-old Atticus Black. After his father goes missing, Black joins up with his friend Letitia and his Uncle George to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America to find him. This begins a struggle to survive and overcome both the racist terrors of white America and the malevolent spirits that could be ripped from a Lovecraft paperback. The goal is an anthological horror series that reclaims genre storytelling from the African-American perspective.
     
    http://deadline.com/2017/05/jordan-peele-lovecraft-country-hbo-series-misha-green-1202095066/

    Replies: @syonredux, @Jefferson, @J.Ross

    So Lovecraft’s complexity is compressed into a Klansman cartoon, by the same tribe that completely flubbed every significant detail of the life of Alan Turing. I am missing absolutely nothing by rejecting Hollywood.

    • Replies: @syonredux
    @J.Ross


    So Lovecraft’s complexity is compressed into a Klansman cartoon, by the same tribe that completely flubbed every significant detail of the life of Alan Turing. I am missing absolutely nothing by rejecting Hollywood.
     
    It's badly written, too. I read the first section of Lovecraft Country, and it was a slog.

    Replies: @J.Ross

  • @Jefferson
    @syonredux

    "There is connective tissue to Peele’s breakout genre feature Get Out, which brought a Black Lives Matter theme to the horror genre. Lovecraft Country, the 2016 novel from Matt Ruff, focuses on 25-year-old Atticus Black. After his father goes missing, Black joins up with his friend Letitia and his Uncle George to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America to find him. This begins a struggle to survive and overcome both the racist terrors of white America and the malevolent spirits that could be ripped from a Lovecraft paperback. The goal is an anthological horror series that reclaims genre storytelling from the African-American perspective."

    Another Jordan Peele movie that is about Blackity Black Black Black Black Blackity. Will Jordan Peele ever direct a movie where the central theme is not about Blackness? Is he even capable of that or is he a one trick pony as a director? Jordan Peele is the new Ta-Nehisi Coates.

    Even Spike Lee will once in awhile will make a film that is not about Blackness like The Summer Of Sam and Inside Man for example.

    By the way Jordan Peele is half White, yet his first 2 movies are already about how evil White people are. Jordan is really trying to be a militant Black in order to compensate for his half Whiteness.

    Replies: @syonredux, @J.Ross, @Lurker, @Clyde

    Summer of Sam was “look at dese freakishly crazy white folk, I mean god damn, dey is crazy for real.”
    24 Hours was “look how scared dat pussy ass white boy is, he know he goan get raped.” The opening sequence however was like something a real director would do (the spotlights memorializing the Twin Towers are very carefully and solemnly activated and turned skyward).
    For Inside Man I knew Christopher Plummer’s character was a Nazi without watching the half the movie and I correctly guessed that the scary-perfect robbers were Mossad because only Israelis are ever depicted as righteously frightening, and because Mossad hunting Nazis is a more plausible and compelling story to any Hollywood money-loser than say oh I don’t know what normally goes on in large New York City banks, especially in that time period. This is honestly like watching some Arab or Turkish movie where the Jews are so unquestionably set as The Bad Guys that their badness becomes surreal and incomprehensible. Even if white people really were as bad as Spike Lee sees us, these movies would still be artistically indefensible.

  • J.Ross says: • Website
    @syonredux
    @J.Ross


    So Lovecraft’s complexity is compressed into a Klansman cartoon, by the same tribe that completely flubbed every significant detail of the life of Alan Turing. I am missing absolutely nothing by rejecting Hollywood.
     
    It's badly written, too. I read the first section of Lovecraft Country, and it was a slog.

    Replies: @J.Ross

    PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
    RELATE EXAMPLES OF THIS
    TEACHABLE MOMENT
    I will never forget reading the first review of the Bionic Woman reboot at Television Without Pity. It must be read to be believed, but I have not seen it since then, and fear it was taken down. Does anyone remember the hoax script mocking Michael Bay back when he was getting rich by making Transformers a teenage soap opera for meth addicts? “We have to hack into … the internet!”

  • J.Ross says: • Website
    @donut
    @Steve Sailer

    Are you serious Sailer , you nitwit ? WTF do you think open borders are about ? The difference and advantage for our masters is that internally American citizens since the 70's have paid their own way to be relocated and now where once slavers had to go to Africa and risk their lives and treasure to bring slaves here , the Negros for the most part compete for the opportunity and pay their own way . The Latinos risk life and limb to enslave themselves here far from their homes . I haven't lived in 14 states because I like to travel . I like so many others was driven from place to place by Arithmetic . You , you fortunate bastard can live where you chose by pumping out great volumes of gas to keep you afloat in Sunny Southern California . "The advantage of being a serf over being a slave" what would you know about either you conceited tosser ?

    Replies: @JohnnyWalker123, @J.Ross, @slumber_j, @Paul Walker - Most beautiful man ever...

    “The Negros pay their own way.”
    Okay.
    I like how, as at 4chan, you people believe your own caricature about teenagers in basements, so that’s what you prepare for. But hey, at least there aren’t twenty of you appearing at the same instant, and thanks for taking the time to Correct The Record.

    • Replies: @donut
    @J.Ross

    What's 4chan ?

  • Obituary from the Seattle Times in 2011: ‘Lola’ Pulido lived life of devotion to family Originally published November 19, 2011 at 9:49 pm Updated May 17, 2017 at 10:43 am Eudocia Tomas Pulido promised to take care of a 12-year-old girl, and ended up taking care of three generations of her family. (Alan Berner) By...
  • This is the future. Our incoming middle and upper class has no concept of freedom of speech, no version of constructive criticism, and honestly thinks that censorship works and is moral.
    The entirety of the Asian intellectual promise can be threatened with the question, what would Europeans have innovated if they had the Asian understanding of information? Herodotus contrasted the Greeks, who thought of reality and information about it as outside us, and concluded that no one has perfect authority over information, with the Persians, who looked at information like the modern Chinese government: even math bows to ostensible authority. The formulation was that the Persians were comfortable dismissing anything they could not believe, and naturally, anything that contradicts one’s elders or power structures is hard to believe. The Greeks on the other hand, presupposing that they did not have all the answers and had to go find them when confronted with things that did not already make sense, became what we think of as “The Greeks.” The illustration he gives is a child who killed his parents, set free by a Persian court because nobody could accept that the child might have done it.
    Think of that Japanese officer in “The World At War” smiling and praising Korean comfort women (“No one else could have done that job”). That and Tizon praising his slave’s strong back and lack of complaining is the closest anyone in power will come to admitting to wrongdoing unless whites can hold on to civilization.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @J.Ross

    cf. also the entry for "Common sense" in Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary

    , @Anonymous
    @J.Ross

    Personally I find fortune cookies a marker of an inferior civilization

  • @syonredux

    Miss Pulido would live a different kind of love story, one marked by a devotion so rare that even those closest to her still struggle to comprehend it.

    As a teenager in the Philippines, Miss Pulido was asked to care for a young girl whose mother had died. When a relative asked Miss Pulido to always look after the girl, she gave her word.

    Miss Pulido not only raised that girl, but the girl’s children and their children — cooking, cleaning and caring for three generations that came to know her as “Lola,” grandmother in her native Tagalog tongue. She asked for nothing in return, said her grandson [sic], Alex Tizon, a former Seattle Times reporter, with whom she lived in Edmonds for nearly 12 years.
     
    Reads like a eulogy written by a Southern slave-owner after the death of his mammy......

    Say, since the Monument to Southern Slave Mammies never got built*, maybe we should erect one to all the POC slaves serving POC masters.....


    *

    The Mammy Washington Almost Had
    In 1923, the U.S. Senate approved a new monument in D.C. "in memory of the faithful slave mammies of the South."
     

    Yet in 1923, the U.S. Senate authorized such a statue, "in memory of the faithful slave mammies of the South."

    As a Southern Congressman stated in support of the monument: "The traveler, as he passes by, will recall that epoch of southern civilization" when "fidelity and loyalty" prevailed. "No class of any race of people held in bondage could be found anywhere who lived more free from care or distress."

     

    https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/05/the-mammy-washington-almost-had/276431/

    Replies: @J.Ross, @27 year old

    That famous lawn jockey statue was derived from one commissioned by Washington to memorialize a slave who died keeping horses warm at Valley Forge.

  • From The Atlantic: My Family’s Slave She lived with us for 56 years. She raised me and my siblings without pay. I was 11, a typical American kid, before I realized who she was. ALEX TIZON JUNE 2017 ISSUE GLOBAL Alex Tizon passed away in March. He was a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and the author...
  • @Corvinus
    @biz

    "The way things are moving, I now think it will be within 7-10 years – significant numbers of white feminists and white leftists of various stripes in North America and Western Europe will begin converting to Islam in that period."

    I thought feminists and leftists are generally atheists. Yet, you are convinced they will have a conversion experience and become a Muslim. Wow, just wow.

    Replies: @J.Ross

    This is already happening but not in significant numbers.
    Also, “atheist” doesn’t really mean anything. It’s not a position in itself but a failure to hold a position, unless you’re half of Penn and Teller. If you’re a ordinary person you will eventually succumb to some sort of religious thinking. Where they do not convert, feminists are already happy to wear the hijab, sit in the segregated women’s corner, and babble about how the call to prayer is beautiful.

    • Replies: @Corvinus
    @J.Ross

    "This is already happening but not in significant numbers."

    Do you have any sources that describe how feminists and atheists are converting to Islam?

    "Also, “atheist” doesn’t really mean anything. It’s not a position in itself but a failure to hold a position, unless you’re half of Penn and Teller."

    Of course "atheist" means something. There are a number of people who disbelieve in the existence of God, and have written books on the subject outlining their perspectives.

    "If you’re a ordinary person you will eventually succumb to some sort of religious thinking."

    Non sequitur.

    If you are ordinary, you will have religion in your life.
    You have religion in your life.
    Therefore, you are ordinary.

    Except there are ordinary, i.e. normal, people who are not religious or do not believe in a religion.

    "Where they do not convert, feminists are already happy to wear the hijab, sit in the segregated women’s corner, and babble about how the call to prayer is beautiful."

    Perhaps based on your experiences. But that would only be anecdotal evidence.

  • From the National Bureau of Economic Research: Male Earnings, Marriageable Men, and Nonmarital Fertility: Evidence from the Fracking Boom Melissa S. Kearney, Riley Wilson Issued in May 2017 There has been a well-documented retreat from marriage among less educated individuals in the U.S. and non-marital childbearing has become the norm among young mothers and mothers...
  • @Sam the Man
    It seems to this older chap that a lot has to do with the absolute loss of a Christian world view in the west, both outside of conventional religious communities and also within the same.

    The societal model used to be, and was supported by law, that the husband was the head of the household. Children outside of marriage was punished both by poverty and loss of social standing to women and men both (but mostly to women). while not best for each individual's immediate desires, it produced stable children and rewarded positive behavior. This was the Christian world view. seemed to work for the last 500 years when the west grew to dominate the world and basically was the most successful social pattern seen in that time.

    Starting in the 1870s with various acts that removed the position of the husband as the head of household under the law, things started to change. Intellectuals thought they had that G-d like ability to engineer something better, believing they could undo human faults and create utopia.

    It came to a head between 1962 and 1972, with the male-female egalitarian acts, abortion on demand, no fault divorce, feminism breeding resentment towards men and the pill, which eliminate done of the primary limits of female sexual activity, as well as apparently affecting their mental state by manipulation of hormones. That and the continued state of law which in essence which almost never requires females to face the consequences of bad decisions.

    The end result was a society that in essence rejected the last 2000 years of Christian social order. The results 2 generations later are pretty clear: disaster with no clear path back to a functional society.

    There does not seem to be a way to go back within the framework of existing institutions. The various sects of Christianity, form mainstream protestant, catholic and most charismatic faiths seem to pretty much go along with the egalitarian model. They are in many ways furthering the emasculation of the men of the west, teaching them that modest stillness, submission and humility is what G-D wants, while encouraging importation of a predator class of men not so inclined. The end result will be the abandonment of Christianity by the men lied too, they will return to European pre Christian barbarism. One can see it already in young men.

    The only way out is a new Christian revival of the west, which does not embrace pagan barbarism but which rejects the traitorous teachings of a eunuch class of ministers, priests and religious leaders who have gone as far off the mark as their Jewish brethren did around 29 AD. Which will not happen with out a man like Franco, Pinochet or Salazar in charge. Part of that will mean the end of the constitutional system as we know it, likely until such time as the traditional social structure that allowed for real representative democracy to exist is reestablished. Meaning folks having sufficient inward morality and self-control that they can be trusted with power. That takes a generation and will involve most women losing the vote.

    The alternative is a Brazil like corruption multi ethnic state dominated by elites with a veneer of representative rule that every one knows is false (like Mexico or the soviet union). That is the best one can hope for, and such a society will not last, as there is nothing to say such a society can maintain the level of technology the west has produced. far more likely is a period of absolute collapse, if the left gets its way and manages to impose some kind of Stalinist/Maoist state on their way to a supposed utopia. That will result in the US going thorough what Russia did in 1917 to 1957 or China from 1948 to 1978. 30 to 40 years of pure hell.

    In 500 years if the Christian west still exists they will look back on this much as we look on the collapse of Judah from 29 to 135 AD or the collapse of the catholic hegemony between 1290 to 1648. Pure societal insanity.

    Replies: @Intelligent Dasein, @J.Ross, @Anonymous Nephew

    Total agreement. The voices which are thought of as discredited are actually vindicated.

  • What's up?
  • @Arclight
    @white trash

    Struggling with this myself - on the one hand, I am eternally grateful that Hilary Clinton will never be president, and all I wanted out of Trump was a) a hard line on immigration and b) conservative SCOTUS nominees.

    But it looks like he is not only in over his head but he is remarkably bad at forecasting the consequences of his shoot-from-the-mouth style, not to mention he was dumb enough to allow the GOP (and by extension himself) to burn precious political capital on repealing Obamacare.

    It looks to me like he literally has no plan on anything...

    Replies: @J.Ross, @Olorin

    The mainstream media is non-stop brainwashing and emotional babbling to create the impression you just related. There is no substance whatsoever. There is no real criticism of Trump anywhere. One guy flew overseas and offered a thousand dollars for a tip that turned out to be bogus, because he thought he was buying a Trump scandal.
    There are no “real” politicians who never misspeak or who get every desired appointment, and normally these professional political parasites are the beneficiaries of a certain media threshold which has been thrown aside in Trump’s case.
    Stop giving attention to people who hate you and want you to die violently as every tradition of your people is burned to ashes. You will not miss anything: these people know nothing and have nothing to say. They are not “the news.” Robert Siegel spent almost a minute of his Hate Trump report a week ago laughing. Just him laughing at what a dumb goy Trump is on air. Where would I be without such thoroughly sourced and relevant analysis? I’d be reading real news in the new media instead of listening to Robert Siegel laugh like a child.

  • Obituary from the Seattle Times in 2011: ‘Lola’ Pulido lived life of devotion to family Originally published November 19, 2011 at 9:49 pm Updated May 17, 2017 at 10:43 am Eudocia Tomas Pulido promised to take care of a 12-year-old girl, and ended up taking care of three generations of her family. (Alan Berner) By...
  • @Flip
    I don't know. Is slave the right word? If she said she was going back to the Philippines, could they have stopped her? Could they have "sold" her to someone else against her will? Maybe she just worked for room and board since it was her best alternative.

    Replies: @J.Ross

    Are these questions you would ask if Tizon was Donald Trump?

    • Replies: @Flip
    @J.Ross

    I am sure I am more in favor of Trump than a lefty writer.

    Replies: @J.Ross

  • What's up?
  • @nglaer
    What are the chances that Trump's mental state is failing, like recently. He obviously wasn't impaired during the campaign, but there seems some decline, no? My daughter who is in this field says a colleague of hers notes striking difference in Trump vocabulary, eloquence since the 90's.

    Replies: @Olorin, @J.Ross, @for-the-record

    This is not something that should be tolerated unless you’re being satirical. This “Trump is crazy” stuff is a well-established MSM talking point which has no basis in reality and which represents a lowering of standards. My second cousin has a chance meeting who has a pet who has a Phillipino slave who says that your friend’s daughter is not a source, and if she has real qualifications, they cannot enable her to diagnose through the TV. Real health professionals have no time for diagnosis through the TV and licenses can be revoked if it is attempted.
    If you are not with ShareBlue please consider that if the media successfully gaslit a US president, there would be absolutely nothing to stop them from gettng rid of you if they ever wanted to.

  • Obituary from the Seattle Times in 2011: ‘Lola’ Pulido lived life of devotion to family Originally published November 19, 2011 at 9:49 pm Updated May 17, 2017 at 10:43 am Eudocia Tomas Pulido promised to take care of a 12-year-old girl, and ended up taking care of three generations of her family. (Alan Berner) By...
  • J.Ross says: • Website
    @Flip
    @J.Ross

    I am sure I am more in favor of Trump than a lefty writer.

    Replies: @J.Ross

    I might be wrong but my understanding of the basis of American slavery was that it grew gradually out of debt to be paid in labor like in feudalism, rather than springing forth fully formed like Tennessee Totes would babble about. In other words, at the very beginning, these debts were theoretically dischargeable, but piled up company store style.

    • Replies: @guest
    @J.Ross

    You are wrong, about both feudalism and American slavery. Though there were various kinds of bondage found in both systems, and some of them may resemble what you're talking about. (Lingering indentured servitude?)

    Multi-generational slavery isn't something you back into like that, generally.

    , @Marina
    @J.Ross

    My vague memory from school was that African slavery started with indenture terms to pay for passage, under similar terms as white indentured servants from the British Isles: 7 years, and about a 50-50 chance of living to the end of your indenture. But African indentures were always coercive and British ones sometimes were (indentured servitude to the New World or imprisonment, forcible impressment, etc.) and sometimes weren't. Actual enslavement followed as it became clear that Africans could survive tropical diseases that killed indentured Europeans and because it was much harder for them to run away and fade into the surrounding society due to a different skin color. That's also when the whole idea of generational enslavement happened: the children of white indentured servants were always born free. Does that match anybody else's recollections?

    Replies: @guest, @Sammler

    , @anonymous coward
    @J.Ross

    Not true, the first American slaveowner was an immigrant from Africa. Slavery was, in fact, imported wholesale by the 'diverse' folk. (And black ones, no less!)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Johnson_(colonist)


    This was the first instance of a judicial determination in the Thirteen Colonies holding that a person who had committed no crime could be held in servitude for life.
     
    , @iffen
    @J.Ross

    Your understanding is incorrect.

  • What's up?
  • J.Ross says: • Website
    @AaronNYC
    I have an honest question for Trump supporters.

    If all of the allegations turn out to be true that:

    Trump asked for a "loyalty oath" from Comey>>>Trump asked for Comey to stop the Flynn investigation >>>>Trump fired Comey because he was rejected on both counts

    Would this make any difference in your support for Trump? Or is it not a big deal?

    Replies: @anon, @anon, @barbicane, @ziel, @Mikeja, @Vinteuil, @27 year old, @J.Ross, @J.Ross, @Federalist, @Dieter Kief, @Ron Mexico

    >I have an honest queation

    Because we’re liars? Or you were, up to this point? This insulting, market-tested script language is the hallmark of ShareBlue. Why don’t you just talk like a person instead if trying to telegraph and control?

    >What if Trump really is the devil?

    What if Jews really do enjoy the crunch of baby crackers? You really honestly don’t do any analysis or reading, do you? You think it’s the Red Team and the Blue Team reflexively yelling at each other. There’s no evidence, no witnesses, no logic, no undeniable benefit to Putin, no tapes, no reason to believe, no mechanism of action: in fact, I have yet to hear what even the “story” was of this Russian nonsense. What did they do? Tamper with vote tallies? Hack machines not connected to the internet? Bribe a billionaire? Receive uranium from Hilary to make her look bad?
    This story is Charles Schumer repeating over and over that there might be a story. That’s the entirety of it. And you have had a year to provide one data point to the contrary.

    Notice also the insulting implication that we are not only dumb cultists, but simple-minded enough to tell this guy to his face “I will support a proven traitor out of contrarianism.”
    How about instead of proactively reaching out to challenge the conversation with honest questions, you do some reading?
    Read about the media bombarding their audience with a dishonest movie, advocating for a black serial killer who made his victims drink bleach, to try to save him from execution. Read about the media changing the race of the bad guy time and again to create certainty in the minds of TV watchers that whites are directly responsible for black crime. Read about how the Hilary campaign felt about Sanders and his supporters. Read what Hilary’s campaign did, in the California primary, to Sanders. Read about Seth Rich. Read something other than a legacy media inheritor laughing at his betters.

  • J.Ross says: • Website
    @AaronNYC
    I have an honest question for Trump supporters.

    If all of the allegations turn out to be true that:

    Trump asked for a "loyalty oath" from Comey>>>Trump asked for Comey to stop the Flynn investigation >>>>Trump fired Comey because he was rejected on both counts

    Would this make any difference in your support for Trump? Or is it not a big deal?

    Replies: @anon, @anon, @barbicane, @ziel, @Mikeja, @Vinteuil, @27 year old, @J.Ross, @J.Ross, @Federalist, @Dieter Kief, @Ron Mexico

    To reply more directly, you seem to be under the impression that everything was fine until Putin deployed Kommissar Trumpovich. This is very much not the case. It is not Trump who threatens you. It is Trump who saved people like you from physical violence and that is still very much on the table if anything happens to him. Our society has been taken in a direction of accelerated collapse and non-functionality. There is a tiny clique who likes this and wants us to be Northern Mexico. No one else supports this. The people are either distracted by immediate problems (which generally come from the policies of the decaying globalist gerontocracy) or they’re angry enough to vote Trump. Nobody apart from paid employees actually wants Sorosworld. It’s like Obama thinking that he can normalize black crime by hamstringing his own police — in a country with mass gun ownership and a tradition of property rights.

  • From Vox: Getting worked up over Charles Murray being allowed on a podcast seems a little bizarre. (Here's the podcast.) Under the faux indignation and clickbait headline, however, this is about as good an attempt as any to shore up the Conventional Wisdom that the racial differences in average intel
  • J.Ross says: • Website

    >and one of his hosts was hurt in a scuffle
    It was a woman, who disagrees with Murray but thinks he has the right to speak, who was physically attacked and hospitalized by an irrational and violent mob of military-age men, and that mob probably targeted her in part because she was a woman.
    Ask Colin Flaherty, the number one fuel of the current political zeitgeist is getting punched in the face and then getting told by every respectable media outlet that you were not punched in the face.

  • Obituary from the Seattle Times in 2011: ‘Lola’ Pulido lived life of devotion to family Originally published November 19, 2011 at 9:49 pm Updated May 17, 2017 at 10:43 am Eudocia Tomas Pulido promised to take care of a 12-year-old girl, and ended up taking care of three generations of her family. (Alan Berner) By...
  • J.Ross says: • Website
    @Kyle Searle
    People are being a little duplicitous with regards to the origins of slavery here. Slavery was extremely widespread throughout ancient history, such as Rome, and prior to the introduction of feudalism. Republican Greece, for example, was full of slaves, and should be considered to be an oligarchic republic.

    Feudalism simply changed slaves to serfs, by assigning them to some tiny parcel of land. In regions that did not develop feudalism, such as Africa, slavery was still widespread. Which is basically the issue, slaves were the losers in African wars who were sold by the victors to Muslims and Christians. Arabs/Turks were the biggest importers of slaves for a long time for well over a thousand years, but they had some nasty revolts in Iraq so they shifted from labor slavery to house servants. Technically it's illegal in Islam to own slaves, unless they aren't Muslim of course. Which is why Saudi Arabia was the last non-third-world country to 'officially' outlaw slavery.

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

    Anyway a big reason for the push around the Cape Horn of Africa by the Portuguese was to interdict the Ottoman supply of slaves from Zanzibar (although they still had their Caucasus and Balkan recruiting grounds). It just so happened that they couldn't resist the economic pull of plantation farming with forced labor, and neither could anyone else until the Dutch outlawed it and eventually the British followed suit.

    Replies: @J.Ross

    >duplicitous
    Is it anything but dishonest to take a discussion of specifics into Ultimate Origins? Yes, it’s also sophomoric.
    >Slavery is illegal in Islam.
    No. Read Coughlin’s book Catastrophic Failure. Trust no explanations until you read Coughlin. Consider the structuring of Islamic law to heavily incentivize conversion. Consider the normality of slave-like conditions and the conflation of power with authority and the total lack of checks and balances which define the Orient. Given all this, saying that slavery is even technically illegal in Islam is duplicitous.

  • From Vox: Getting worked up over Charles Murray being allowed on a podcast seems a little bizarre. (Here's the podcast.) Under the faux indignation and clickbait headline, however, this is about as good an attempt as any to shore up the Conventional Wisdom that the racial differences in average intel
  • @Dave Pinsen
    Murray gets no credit for this?
    https://twitter.com/mksheikh/status/744909255338262528

    Replies: @J.Ross, @Buck Turgidson, @Forbes, @unpc downunder, @Jack Hanson, @Anonymous

    MURRAY UNPERSON
    THOUGHTCRIME IS DEATH
    THOUGHTCRIME DOES NOT ENTAIL DEATH
    Or just remember Trump criticizing the F-35 program for the same reasons Rachel Maddow cited. The goal is tribalism, not discussion.

  • @Seth Largo
    @eah

    Poe's Law certainly at work here, particularly in the third sentence. That sentence makes me think funny troll.

    Replies: @J.Ross, @eah

    Have you seen this?

    http://whatishappeninginsouthafrica.blogspot.com/2013/03/racist-tornados.html?m=1

    http://whatishappeninginsouthafrica.blogspot.com/2012/05/lightening-is-racism.html?m=1

    Originally seen at Mike Smith’s place but I cannot find that link because of its defiant organization style. And a minister named Dube lends herself to accusations of dubiousness.

    • Replies: @Yak-15
    @J.Ross

    I imagine if blacks were disproportionate victims of tornadoes they would protest about the institutional racism of wind.

  • Apple hasn't had too many knockout new products in this decade, but, then, they've been busy, building a $5 billion headquarters for themselves in Cupertino, CA in fulfillment of Jobs' last vision. Steven Levy takes the tour of the nearly completed circular main building in Wired. It's kind of a Hank Scorpio campus as in...
  • @Jack D
    @27 year old

    BTW, the places with the "good" schools are now often heavily Asian (both East and South). Those schools are so "good" that white people sometime avoid them because the atmosphere is too competitive. White people are like Goldilocks - they want their schools not too hard and not too soft.

    People here make fun of Asians as being mindless drones without creativity but the next generation of soft, lazy white people are going to get their lunch eaten by Asians, both here and abroad. People have NO idea what China is planning, nor do the Chinese want you to know. It will make what Japan did in the '30s look like a joke. And this time the Asians have their own nukes. The Chinese would much rather that America destroy itself with political infighting and worrying about whether Trump is Putin's gay lover and whether Black Lives Matter. For now they are biding their time because they still need trade with the West. By the time people realize what hit them, it will be too late.

    Replies: @J.Ross, @anonymous coward, @JohnnyWalker123

    It’s not a cop out to remind people that the Asian almost always chooses well-established stability over chaos because that’s really their only salient target.
    [Now visualize all white people represented by an image of Charlie Day shouting the word “WILDCARD!”]

    • Replies: @guest
    @J.Ross

    As I recall, Charlie tried to pull the same "Wildcard, bitches!" trick twice, and the second time his friends were able to anticipate him. Perhaps the Yellow Peril has learned to anticipate Whitey, who is in a rut lately.

  • From Vox: Getting worked up over Charles Murray being allowed on a podcast seems a little bizarre. (Here's the podcast.) Under the faux indignation and clickbait headline, however, this is about as good an attempt as any to shore up the Conventional Wisdom that the racial differences in average intel
  • @EdwardM
    @Charles Pewitt

    I am waiting for the day when the left acknowledges innate racial differences in ability as a rationale for more redistribution to compensate. That could sort of end a lot of arguments and obviate the need for other flim-flam rationales they adopt -- historical discrimination, benefits of diversity for its own sake, institutional racism, temporary redress, etc.

    Replies: @J.Ross, @Logan

    Not strategic enough. The current explanation accomplishes many things and prepares more, notably setting up the basis of a grievance-cult. Flat out admitting inferiority doesn’t get you anything but actual aid to the poor, which is the last thing they care about.
    I don’t want to bring in the Old Testament but there’s an enormous and vulnerable pattern involving Semitic tribalist grievance reasoning, which connects almost every leftoid program.
    (This is highly developed and documented among a certain religio-ethnic group, but I use the word “Semitic” deliberately because it is not unique to them. It is probably an inescapable result of tribalism and diversity. There are many “convenient grievances” in Islam, notably Palestine and Shi’ism.)
    Their story, for every case from blacks to mestizos to (at one time) blue collar workers to women, is always an adaptation of Exodus or Esther, and this both cuts off some options and sets up others. Once you learn the myths (which in this case means seeing the fallacies vindicated by tradition and why they are necessary) and start to look for the patterns, their words and actions have a visible logic and can be predicted. Or at least you can see what they won’t do and why.
    They are not normal people in a political discussion looking for a policy solution. They are wronged superior beings, held back by a nefarious conspiracy, itself only made possible by their own failure to maintain traditions and respect their prophets.

  • J.Ross says: • Website
    @Alfa158
    @Kit

    "If Murray is correct and people with significant sub-Saharan ancestry really do have less cognitive ability than those of European or Asian, the smarter groups will start imposing painful legal restrictions on the dumber groups."
    No they won't. They'll just stop expecting those groups to perform at the same level and forcing equal outcomes. The brightest would still succeed, society would simply stop forcing artificial equal outcomes above the abilities of the mediocre and the slow.

    "He’s writing the script for the reintroduction of Jim Crow laws."
    No he's not. Jim Crow was used for the purpose of restricting criminal behavior. Compare and contrast Selma Alabama, or any of a hundred other cities, in 1962 and today. Your statement

    "The Handmaid’s Tale,” as his views of women are, if anything, worse than his views of blacks. We’re only good as breeders and floor-scrubbers and not one other thing. If you read the end of Atwood’s novel, she describes a character based on Murray as one of the architects of Gilead. "
    Read the book again. The society is indistinguishable from those run by Islamic fundamentalists like ISIS and the Taliban except without the violence, but Muslims tend to be browner than Europeans, so Atwood made them Christians in a fine display of Crimestop.

    You are projecting your own pathologies and misanthropy on other people.

    Replies: @J.Ross, @Corvinus

    @Kit

    I might be totally wrong about this but I would bet money without looking it up that Margaret Atwood did not base any character in “The Handmaid’s Tale” — a very Early Eighties story reacting to Reagan, televangelism, nuclear waste, late feminist sex horror and other Early Eighties staples — on Charles Murray, although it is vaguely possible because of his Vietnam War era work on counterinsurgency in Thailand. Vaguely possible. I haven’t re-read it in years but certain parts are properly rooted in my memory and I do not recall anything that could possibly be Murray. I will check this now.

    • Replies: @J.Ross
    @J.Ross

    Follow-up: THT published 1985, Bell Curve published 1994.
    I am not able to find anything about Charles Murray inspiring any character in Handmaid. I'm not even sure how that would work. Like I said, it was about being mad at televangelists, not "racist pseudoscienists." Gilead was thoroughly anti-science and had expressly medieval imagery, like the hanging of parts of executed criminals, high on city walls.
    Barring a musing reconsideration by Atwood in a subsequent and much later interview, I think this is a great illustration of the sloppy herd-think lefties have in place of our humbly tended memes. It's like a target being a "Nazi" because he might as well be one or because he would be one if he was born at the right time and place.

    Replies: @Hippopotamusdrome

  • J.Ross says: • Website
    @J.Ross
    @Alfa158

    @Kit

    I might be totally wrong about this but I would bet money without looking it up that Margaret Atwood did not base any character in "The Handmaid's Tale" -- a very Early Eighties story reacting to Reagan, televangelism, nuclear waste, late feminist sex horror and other Early Eighties staples -- on Charles Murray, although it is vaguely possible because of his Vietnam War era work on counterinsurgency in Thailand. Vaguely possible. I haven't re-read it in years but certain parts are properly rooted in my memory and I do not recall anything that could possibly be Murray. I will check this now.

    Replies: @J.Ross

    Follow-up: THT published 1985, Bell Curve published 1994.
    I am not able to find anything about Charles Murray inspiring any character in Handmaid. I’m not even sure how that would work. Like I said, it was about being mad at televangelists, not “racist pseudoscienists.” Gilead was thoroughly anti-science and had expressly medieval imagery, like the hanging of parts of executed criminals, high on city walls.
    Barring a musing reconsideration by Atwood in a subsequent and much later interview, I think this is a great illustration of the sloppy herd-think lefties have in place of our humbly tended memes. It’s like a target being a “Nazi” because he might as well be one or because he would be one if he was born at the right time and place.

    • Replies: @Hippopotamusdrome
    @J.Ross



    Gilead ... had expressly medieval imagery, like the hanging of parts of executed criminals, high on city walls

     

    So it's kind of a utopian novel?
  • From the Chronicle of Higher Education: Another good quote from Dean Chu: Okay, it's not exactly surprising that a diversicrat like
  • Their fault. She is allowed to do it when I am. Not before. This is the only way. They want to get rid of free speech and inherent rights, let that be their end.

  • J.Ross says: • Website
    @Cagey Beast
    @anon

    The evidence is growing that liberalism only works amongst White men or at least with White men setting the tone and being the final arbiter. We can never go back to the way it was before we unilaterally disarmed but we might be able to earn the grudging respect of the other squabbling factions by being the fairest and most cool-headed in the Blade Runner dystopia of our near future. We might get enough of the others to agree things work better when we run things. The future's going to be a huge pain in the ass for Whitey either way.

    Replies: @J.Ross

    Liberalism yes and at the same time homogeneity allowing reliability of expectations to justify relaxing rules or going by the spirit rather than the letter of the law.
    We had a library where people would bring in whole meals to eat as they browsed online. There was never a problem. Noise was minimized and all messes were completely cleaned up, automatically, without a specific command. It was against posted rules to eat but no harm was being done so it was tolerated.
    Enter diversity. Whereas before people respected and obeyed the librarians, even though there was little to obey, whenever the new breed of patron required intervention (which was often) they would reflexively resist. An emerging theme of this resistance was sealawyering. Nobody ever apologized or admitted to wrongdoing, no matter how obvious. It was expected that TV courtroom rules applied and all claims had to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. At all times they demanded to “know exactly where it said” (in official rules) they could not record their mixtape next to the children’s section.
    The diversity led quickly and consciously to a rigid, by-the-book regime, in what had been a culturally ordered (and very orderly!) space, but of course without effect on the consistently resistant newcomers.
    Diversity kills culture and replaces it with codes of conduct, diversity kills community and replaces it with random groupings.