RSSMaybe 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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
Now you know how many foreigners feel watching the kind of nonsense US studios put out, especially about the Holy Second World War.
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.
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.
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.”
Or at least in Jill Stein's or Gary Johnson's or the living room couch. Which is almost as good.
I think the sudden skyrocketing of Obamacare premiums, combined with the last minute email stuff, has driven the undecided herd in Trump’s direction.
Shaq and Dave Chappelle have endorsed Trump, and here in Detroit I saw a sign: “Hillary used a hammer, but Kwame got the slammer?????”
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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!”
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
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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
It would be interesting to compare China’s hasbara system to Israel’s pretty public online hasbara set-up.
Yeah, there’s nothing dark or passive-aggressive or arrogant about naming propaganda “explanation.”
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.
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
Please cite all the times that the Saker has talked about black Americans. Take as much time as you need.
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.
Of course he thinks it’s a river: he’s used to panning for gold, minstrel song, and never dealing with his own detritus.
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
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?
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?
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
>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.
Thank you, I can never remember his name.
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).
Check out the book if you have not done so.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
>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.
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.....
>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).
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.
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.
Female kickboxing champions?
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.
That would be on par with Principal Skinner's plan for combating Tree Lizards with Needle Snakes etc https://youtu.be/P9yruQM1ggcReplies: @Frau Katze
Muslim immigration is a way for the Establishment to correct the mistake that is Feminism
Functionality is functionality. Feminism is civilizational death.
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.”
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
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
Oh, if only the Ford family had retained control of the Ford Foundation!
Chutzpah, but maybe that’s too on-the-nose.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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?
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
That's laughable. If politicians repeal welfare benefits for unwed mothers, the "trend" will end immediately.Replies: @J.Ross, @NOTA
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.
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 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.
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.
http://deadline.com/2017/05/jordan-peele-lovecraft-country-hbo-series-misha-green-1202095066/Replies: @syonredux, @Jefferson, @J.Ross
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.
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
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.
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.
It's badly written, too. I read the first section of Lovecraft Country, and it was a slog.Replies: @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.
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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!”
“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.
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.
Reads like a eulogy written by a Southern slave-owner after the death of his mammy......
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.
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."
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/05/the-mammy-washington-almost-had/276431/Replies: @J.Ross, @27 year old
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."
That famous lawn jockey statue was derived from one commissioned by Washington to memorialize a slave who died keeping horses warm at Valley Forge.
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.
Total agreement. The voices which are thought of as discredited are actually vindicated.
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.
Are these questions you would ask if Tizon was Donald Trump?
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.
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.
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.
>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.
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.
>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.
>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.
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.
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.
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!”]
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.
@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.
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.
So it's kind of a utopian novel?
Gilead ... had expressly medieval imagery, like the hanging of parts of executed criminals, high on city walls
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.
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.