You gotta be a socialist to believe in such nonsense.

Yes, that is very “Labor Theory of Value” thinking Hudson’s displaying there. Apparently the time value of money (and assets) doesn’t figure into his view of economics.

That’s why Henry Ford paid his workers $5.00 a day, so that they could afford to buy cars.

What is it about economic myths like this that makes them almost unkillable (hello, “gender pay gap”)? Is it because so many people don’t really grasp economic basics? Ford paid his workers well to cut turnover, which is the lesson that need to be emphasized today, rather than the garbage about Ford “wanting them to be able to buy his cards.”

The causation is pretty clear, if you were to cross-reference this analysis with one examining the voting patterns based on the level of income disparity in a state, i.e. enclave rich libs and poor vibrants voting together, but not actually living close together.

http://www.cbsnews.com/media/9-u-s-states-with-the-highest-income-inequality/10/

Assuredly coming soon from a “progressive thought leader”:

“Can Technology Finally Put White Brains In Brown Bodies?”

The progtards ape the Nazis in more ways than just their irrational stridency.

There’s already a good deal of loud moaning in Italy that there aren’t enough “jobs programs” for newly-arrived “immigrants” and because of that, “they’re turning to crime”. Expect such kvetching to grow in volume in Germany soon too (along with the crime, of course).

The key to the German system is moderate, at best, population growth. They’re trying to ramp up the quantity of the inputs and expecting to match the quality of the previous output. Seems unlikely.

The main reason it is unlikely to work in the US is the intransigence of pretty much anyone who would be required to change what they’re currently doing to make it work: the schools, the businesses, the bureaucrats, even many of the potential employees. Let’s be honest: anybody who currently has a good job can’t be bothered to give a wet slap about anybody who doesn’t. They may talk about it, but they’ll undertake not the slightest risk to do anything about it.

But imagine the awesome power that would come with being able to turn off the taps.

The NYTimes writes with disdain about those schools which become “enclaves of affluence.”

Funny how they have to go all the way to Texas to find the problem. Maybe they could share the solutions that NYC apparently used to solve the problem, since it appears all their schools have replaced the Pledge of Allegiance with “It’s A Small World” for their happy happy happy and very productive “diverse” schools. Or are they hiding something?

Magic dirt isn’t magic dirt. It’s magic skin.

Great. That means the next solution will be to hire Jame Gumb as school superintendent. “Today, class, our craft project is to make yourself a ‘white person suit’. Now, has everyone picked out their white person?”

“Power Ultra Lounge”? Was it a gay club, where alpha tops can find their power bottoms? That would make the situation even more volatile, and the aim even worse.

How is he a genius? He has cunning, some marketing skill, and an good eye for the main chance but beyond that, he’s nothing special.

@AM

Niger is already something like 80% desert. Unless they all take jobs digging sand pits then filling them back in, they’ve got nothing. This is not a coherent strategy. “They might have more hands to make things better 30 years from now” is simply ridiculous; they’re merely setting the stage for mass starvation.

fostered a workplace in which employees warred with Nerf guns, proudly brandished Captain America socks and chanted the company’s name like a rally cry.

Entrepreneurial LARPing.

Mexicans (and other immigrants, for that matter) can simultaneously be American yet have another country on their mind, and not be disloyal to the Stars and Stripes.

“Multitasking” is a lie, and multitasking citizenship is doubly so.

Passive voice: These Somalis happened to show up in the coldest big city in America because they happened to show up there. Why are you asking?

Where else in the US is the climate more like Somalia than in the upper Midwest? Really, Mr. Sailer, your tinfoil conspiracy theories are beneath mention.

they’re both going to flame out in the quarterfinals of el Mundial next year,

Quarterfinals would be a grand achievement for either of these shit squads. Falling at the first knockout hurdle is more usual, if not group stage failure.

Buddha didn’t have dick to do with Buddhism. He had no interest in metaphysics, he was just searching for the right way to live this life.

All the metaphysical tomfoolery only came about much later, when later “Buddhists” got involved in the competition for followers in the crowded religious field of the subcontinent and greater Asia, and the detached arhats didn’t have much to offer the general public, so it was transformed into another “salvation” religion.

Riyadh should have been bombed to a cinder decades ago. If the problem is related to Islam, the Wahhabists of Saudi Barbaria are always at the root.

What a shock: a paean to one of the most odious men to ever be elected to office in the US (and that’s a VERY crowded field) comes from the spineless chuckleheads at the National Review, who have become nothing less a fifth column, promoting a brand of “conservatism” that is obsessed with proving they’re “the non-racist, non-Islamophobe, civic-nationalism-is-awesome good guys” to leftists who will always hate them anyway.

I wish I could put a big flashing neon border around Carlton Meyer’s post, because he nails it. Fortunately, it’s right at the top, so it will be hard to miss regardless.

Actually looking at the “alien’ faces used, and the computer generated “mens” faces, and this was less a test of prejudices and more a modernized version of the old game Memory. It also proves, once again, that sociology isn’t a science.

I’m also always highly entertained by the human obsession with intelligence, who has it, whose is highest, how do you measure it, when a strong case could be made that the only things that actually matter in our short existence betwixt two yawning black abysses are emotional events.

There’s taking liberties with history, then there’s this:

“Jewish underdog in 1936 Hollywood”

If the Nazis were running Hollywood in the mid-thirties, they were some damn fast workers, and efficient, too, what with undertaking a crash rearmament program AND running the American studio system, in the days before jet airliners, fax machines, and the internet, or even RF video transmission, all within 3 short years of coming into power.

That’s been the America’s (and most of the rest of the West’s) most successful export: pollution. If folks think coal mining is a n ecological disaster, they should take a tour of a Chinese rare earth pit.

@(((They))) Live

it looks to me that the Saudis are finished, they run out of cash sometime around 2020, Yuge war on the way when that happens, I hope the US stays out of it

How can the Saudis have a war if Americans aren’t fighting it for them? Besides ramping up the terrorism, of course. The house of Saud certainly has that down to a deadly science.

Do people in foreign countries think the US is 40% black?

Don’t go all xenophobe: plenty of Americans believe it’s that percentage or higher, but also believe all of the “blacks” live somewhere else, likely in a rundown portion of a large city.

Forty Years a Child?

as a way of creating a mixed society

“Mixed society”? Is Beard positing that the Sabines were black?

“Man, the classics were fascist before fascism was even conceived. That’s how awful these people are!”

If POC can’t feel included among the SWPLs of Portland, then there is no place in this country for them to go.

Because the spineless poltroons that were his predecessors in office already gave away the store in order to make the Norks some future sucker’s problem.

Damn that’s a long story. Does it ever come to any sort of conclusion other than “things are different now, and we should fix them! Somehow.”? Maybe $150/hr for everyone and “let the Fed fix the inflation problem”?

Because they’re not evil white men who all Nazis, some just more openly than others.

This really isn’t that difficult to understand, Steve-O.

Next up: reparations for rivers that have been enslaved by dam building.

Just wait until the air finally gets the legal representation it deserves!

I didn’t have the unit cohesion with her that I wanted to have.

Sounds like it might have been something viral.

Am I allowed to get offended, even if she meant well?

Yes, of course, you’re “allowed” to get offended but, wait for it … wait for it … THAT’S YOUR PROBLEM, NOT OURS.

College sports are as corrupt and disgraceful as the NFL. Why do people pretend it is otherwise?

Some quick back-of-the-envelope calcs, taking the 30 million number and say, the first five years of a child’s life, and I come up with roughly 17 words a minute for 16 continuous hours every single day, for those five years. And that’s the difference, not the total. Did the original ‘study’ only use the middle class children of auctioneers?

I thought Steve’s Twitter avi was to ensure we all knew exactly which lawn to stay off.

Emilia might have been of color, might have had a mixed heritage. There is just no evidence of that, because people had no interest in recording it.

“She may have been from Venus or straight out of Pluto’s ass, but white people were too damn busy burnishing their paleness to incandescence to write about anything important!”

Stanford and Son = Steptoe and Son “but black! and American!”

Archie Bunker = Alf Garnett in concept, but executed as a satire because that’s what Hollywood’s liberal-ass do-gooders do.

Though they don’t have as long as a filmography as Lear, the true comedy greats of American TV are Glen and Les Charles.

Now, the school has a faculty conscious of diversity and reflective about bias.

Well, I’ve spotted the source of the problem.

Whew, that was easy. Who do I see about geting my Doctor of Education sheepskin?

“You know, to shanghai someone? How can you not know this?”

Chiang Kai-shek got run completely out of China, so his plan sucked, and his analogy is stupid, because melanoma is as deadly as any other cancer, smallpox is a disease of the skin, and for that matter, staph can kill too.

And please to be explaining exactly how firing Sessions would suddenly halt these changes to immigration. Is there no other man to rid us of these troublesome illegals? Could there not be someone *gasp* who is even better for the role?

an expert on information warfare and the narrative architect

So the author bio flat-out tells us that this is nothing but counter-agitprop against Kavanaugh? That’s very thoughtful of Wired to share this with us so openly.

Seriously, who would trust anything suppurating from the mouthparts of someone unironically labeling themselves a “narrative architect”?

1. IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE Wong Kar-wai (not seen – should probably watch)

If pretentiousness irritates you, you should not watch this film. If you want to see a good WKW film, watch CHUNGKING EXPRESS.

3. YI YI Edward Yang (not seen)

Is actually quite good, if a bit slow, and not very pretentious.

But has the FBI answered the biggest question about the whole Kavanaugh farce: will the left ever get over their butthurt about Merrick Garland?

There’s only one death during a performance that matters:

1995: Beat Farmers singer/drummer/guitarist Country Dick Montana suffered a massive heart attack and died three songs into the band’s set at the Long Horn in Whistler, BC, Canada.

He died a happy boy.

The two lists the south Central Valley always dominates: unemployment and car theft. They’re also contenders in the Tweakerlympics and poor healthcare outcomes.

How the hell did I waste 30 years of my life there?

And Reg Cæsar, not even a hat tip for George Lucas?

Royal Society got Hugo-ed.

i.e., that white deplorables are just too stupid to vote their interests.

This position, commonly expressed as perplexity about poor white voting patterns, is quite revealing on its own: Dems cannot conceive of anyone voting for anything except their own short-term personal gain.

Do people not know the flatlands of Berzerkeley, especially around *shudder* Berkeley High, have always been “diverse” and therefore dangerous?

It’s an interesting cross-section of loons that the Kavanaugh hearings riled up. The “muh Handmaid’s Taille!!!” point and shriekers are to be expected in every such mess now, but their shtick is dull and played out. The ones I found most entertaining and fun to incite were those who are still chapped to the fat over Merrick Garland. Just the mention of his name threatened coronary health in so many lefty circles!

Jesus and the apostles were renowned for the slaughter of their enemies too, right?

The battle also established the position of Ali ibn Abi Talib as the best fighter among the Muslims, as he alone killed 22 Meccans, while the rest of the Muslims combined killed 27 Meccans.

https://infogalactic.com/info/Battle_of_Badr

I’m guessing the ‘peace’ Muhammad was ‘prophesying’ was the same as the one Tacitus lamented in Agricola.

So Trump invented being an inconsiderate asshole in public? Hope he got a patent: Hollywood alone owes him a bundle!

They’re worse than welfare: they’re federal employees. Welfare is a friggin’ bargain compared to them.

What if it is too late to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution? What do we do about it?

Ask Lysander Spooner.

Dr. Ford subjected herself to the public humiliation of revealing an intimate and horrific event

The human mind is unable to differentiate between a real event and a vividly imagined one.

That violent crime escalated after [Freddie] Gray’s arrest, death, and the subsequent riots [in March 2015] is irrefutable

a number of recent, inspiring events: the bringing down of Confederate monuments, the ousting of Chicago’s police chief, or the recent Chicago protests that forced Donald Trump to cancel a rally

So, in short, more dead hood rats ain’t a problem as long as they can hang some politico’s pelt on the wall. “Dead where it doesn’t count” could be another Sailer law of journalism.

Astrology is for wannabe astronomers who can’t hack the math.

And a line so predictable Vegas refused to take any betting action on it:

“which was started by her wife Sonya Passi”

Also highly predictable, terrible editing by RS:

“think that my interest in star signs is ludacris and laughable”

The story of AC Milan, mentioned only in passing here, is instructive: he doesn’t know when to walk away. This can be viewed as positive (tenacity!) or negative (blatant egotism!), but the fact is his inability to let go means his hand gets forced and in the case of both Italy and Milan, everybody ends up with a completely crap deal.

Everywhere you look on the big ol’ internet, everyone’s got their own pet panacea. “Debt Jubilee from Yehua Ha-Nozri” is hardly a new idea, but the forces arrayed against it make it one of the most pipe-dreamy.

The real hazard to every economy is the tendency for debts to grow beyond the ability of debtors to pay.

Yes, imagine the chaos and fragility of a system that let “someone” run up a debt of, say, $21 trillion dollars! Get that man debt forgiveness stat!

In ancient Mesopotamian societies it was understood that freedom was preserved by protecting debtors.

So the steppe hordes on their chariots were just Bronze Age repo men? The only thing more absurd than belief in a monocausal cure is a belief in a monocausal disease.

Blair’s response offers a perfect “answer” for “why their brand of politics appears to be failing”: he’s certain that “you’ve got to deal with the legitimate grievances”, yet while repeating that point often, he never actually says what his “answer” would be, because he’s not sure which special interest group he needs to be bowing to at the given moment.

“how the white category was in fact getting bigger by absorbing multiracial young people through intermarriage” That “absorption” worked out great with Colin Kaepernick, didn’t it?

That’s one great trick: Not just moving the goalpost, but claiming it was actually a telephone pole all along. If concerns about a white decline “were largely erased when the same people read” about this, people are even more addlepated and gullible than I’d ever believed.

Hey, wait a minute, isn’t their approved authority to whom to appeal refuting the whole notion?

“The one group that was never allowed to cross the line into whiteness was African-Americans, he said — the long-term legacy of slavery.”

Seems like he’s saying there’s no dual citizens allowed when it comes to American blackness.

An appeal to the example of a purely fictional force is very apt for this discussion, with the delusions of competence being expressed by the supporters of women in combat.

Speaking of delusions, “With the American Empire foreseeing no serious challenge to its global hegemony” is a real doozy.

http://voxday.blogspot.com/2018/11/global-superpower-no-more.html

Much of SoCal’s historic high standard of living for factory workers and engineers had been subsidized by taxpayers in other states.

This is the most outrageous slander against the beautiful blue folk of California who I am repeatedly and loudly assured have been keeping all these craptastic red states afloat economically for decades.

Or Uruguayan writer Eduardo Hughes Galeano.

It’s in Emma Lazarus’ Zeroeth Amendment to the Ret-Connedstitution.

There’s no proof chain-smoking hamplanet Heyer was hit by anything other than early onset congestive heart failure.

You can use it (your score) when you’re dealing with others to know who’s more marginalized instead of getting to know them as individuals.

Sans mandatory face tattoos, how can I know how my score compares to others, and more importantly, how do I live with burden of this uncertainty?

Dr. Quentin Q. Quinn: You can’t test drugs on humans! There are rules, procedures. It has to be tested on animals first.

Sparks: WHY? Why does all the crap we consume have to be tested on animals first?

Dr. Quentin Q. Quinn: Because that’s…

Sparks: Et-hey! A rat doesn’t wear lipstick okay? A rabbit doesn’t use hairspray! A monkey doesn’t need pills, to get ramped up for hot monkey sex! It’s people, man! We’re miserable! So why shouldn’t we try it all first?

Dr. Quentin Q. Quinn: Well… you’ve got a point there actually. I’ll try it.

Yes, that’s exactly what I said, cigarettes did it. Moron.

Sounds reasonable, if you ignore the extreme fragility of the current system, floating along on a sea of cheap oil. “Money” is proxy for energy, but only a proxy. It wouldn’t take much at all for the “unproductive masses” to banjax the supply chains necessary for our current hip and modren lifestyles, and there’s nothing the elites can do about it (especially as many are elite in name only, having no practical skills or knowledge).

relative to an identical home in an identical all-white neighborhood once you properly adjust for all the other structural and neighborhood characteristics that could plausibly affect that number.

My math ain’t great, but it doesn’t take any arithmetic to recognize these are at best subjective assumptions and at worst (and most likely) fantastic notions pulled straight from a statistician’s southernmost orifice.

we can begin to address bigotry principally by giving black homeowners and policymakers a target price for redress

Batant, undisguised poverty pimping. Is this study sponsored by the American Bar Association?

@ ThirdWorldSteveReader – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuDx6_PLIVk
Video Link

their prejudice and insularity

Foer seems really hung up on the “insularity” of others. I wonder why that is? Psychologists have a name for this sort of behavior, and it’s right on the tip of my tongue . . .

Awesome, so they’ll all be pulling stakes and heading home soon? A plan with no drawbacks!

As in crop breeding, the best chance of producing smart, healthy, beautiful children is from smart, healthy, beautiful parents. Our society hasn’t even come to terms with that simple message. Good luck with getting much out of genetic engineering.

Who says producing “smart, healthy, beautiful children” is the goal? If you’re a true megalomaniac (or vainglorious junta) bent on world domination, a horde of physically powerful, easily-led dullards is the way to go. Probably easily to achieve through genetic manipulation too, and history has demonstrated there’s a nearly endless supply of folks who would have no moral qualm about culling their failures in pursuit of their visions of absolute power.

Were the Red Guard this unbelievably infantile and whiny? Jao must have found sitting through any set distressing with all the butthurt she’s saddled with, not to mention with the epic delusions of control.

It’s pronounced “bollix”.

the rest of the planet isn’t this awful prison where mean Americans keep everybody else locked up.

Well then, what would it take to make it so?

how to market this very same stuff to 10 y/o boys

Easy, just crank that ““spaceship” that travels around the store via a pneumatic tube” up to warp 10. You’ll sell crash test dolls by the dozen.

Pewor t00 teh peopoe!

Can We Finally Stop Talking About ‘Male’ and ‘Female’ Brains?

Who’s ‘we’, chuckle buddies? You can stop prattling any old time now.

New York is awash in pretentious, self-important mountebanks posing as cultural gatekeepers? Paint me a shocked face!

The blue-wave centrists put real issues front and center: housing, wages, access to health care, basic fairness and opportunity for working people.

In what universe does Ben live where this is true? His hysteria about “antisemitism” is much more accurate as to what the Dems were really selling: “NAZZZZZIIIS! NAZIS EVERYWHERE! VOTE FOR US OR WE ALL GONNA DIE! And, of course, borderz r mean, and more free stuff for everyone except people who have private sector jobs.”

Doesn’t matter how many whites there are, the stench of “hyper-whiteness” means all antisemitism is their fault. All of it and all of them.

Jeffy’s second tweet projects at 10 million candlepower the deepest fantasy of many
“diverse” people towards whites (“to live and exist separately, in marginalized and diminished circumstances”). The fact that such an approach is suicidal is starting to matter less and less to them as the emotional need for “revenge” takes hold.

Except that same sort of noblesse oblige elides right into typical TruCon “We must be NICE!” inaction and bowtie polishing.

“Race is a true third rail in American politics, and you can make a lot of mistakes when we don’t have a diverse set of folks who are in the room and empowered to make decisions,” said Eric Lundy, program director of Inclusv, a group that pushes for more diversity in political campaign staffs.

Always be talking your book, and Always Be Closing!

Mr. Trump was not seeking to make a factual claim against Ms. Warren but to brand her as an outsider, Mr. López said.

Say Wha!? Being an “outsider” is Trump’s main selling point, why would he want to give that power to Warren? Lopez is even more ignorant than his body of work suggests.

Democrats and the Crocodile of Race:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Large-Crocodile-Jokes-Mouth-Dentist-Bite-Finger-Game-Joke-Fun-Funny-Crocodile-Toys-Antistress-For-Gift/32826993047.html

Her television series earned a 100 per cent approval rating from critics (according to Rotten Tomatoes), which says far more about the critics than it does about her talent.

It says they’re up to their pencil necks in salty fear sweat, praying to whatever deity might have them “Pleasedontletmewritethewrongthingpleasedontletmewritethewrongthing because even movie critic gotta eat!”

Apparently losing to the wholly unlikable Ted Cruz has given Beto a huge amount of momentum that’s going to carry him straight into the White House. And who can argue; it’s not like Obama actually achieved anything as a Senator, so why not skip that step altogether?

Because the glorious earthly imperium of black Jesus was a got-damn utopia, racist! He saved us from the Greatest Depression (even though all the associated costs and many failures of his resplendent rescue somehow fall on GWB), and as for those drone strikes and the failed “Arab Spring”, well, some people just need killin’ (only Chicagoans can really understand).

the states of the EU more united than ever before

Is this cockwomble serious? Has he simply ignored the heated debate over uncontrolled turd world immigration, especially in eastern Europe?

He also makes heavy going over the loss of the PoW and Repulse, but the real lesson here wasn’t specific to the British: as the sinking of the Bismarck, the Battle of Taranto, and Pearl Harbor had already decisively proven, the era of the battleship was over, and the era of the airplane had begun. The parallels to Brexit are forced, as nothing in the conditions are really similar, and if we’re going to look back through history for comparisons, how about the Hoare–Laval Pact and the failure of the League of Nations?

Wow, Lemoore! Did they get the land for free? Was Kettleman City too upscale?

Seventy-four comments and nobody said “What mind?”

I weep for the future of vaudeville-level snark.

Do they make available even the most absurd explanation of how NBA fans have any real influence over contracts? That’s like arguing cows have power over the price of cheese.

Think I found the problem:

Pictures from NBA player bios on the NBA’s official website and basketball-reference.com are examined to determine whether a player appears to be black or non-black.

Those are Argentina national team jerseys. By the way something, Boca is the working class club (River is the rich man’s side), and league tickets in Argentina are relatively cheap. That’s why they have a lot of stadium violence (and their teams are often on the verge of bankruptcy).

what happened to Argentina’s involuntary immigrants, those African slaves and their mulatto descendants who once outnumbered whites five to one

Simple, there are no plantations in Argentina, it’s cattle country, thus no continued importation of “involuntary immigrants”. The only regions in South America with a significant black population are the tropical nations (Suriname, Guyana, Brazil, and to a lesser extent Venezuela), where were once vast sugar, banana, then rubber plantations.

Another important factor is, unlike the norte Americanos, the colonizers of Latin America enslaved the native population.

“To be fair, though, to Mrs. Wantanabe & Gal Pals, it might be the ChiComs up
to their dirty tricks, that I’ve outlined before on the blog, that’s at play here.
Briefly to summarize, they buy in Asia on Pacific Rim futures exchanges, intent
on taking delivery, and then use useless dollars gained via their trade surplus
[$1.5 billion dollars per day] to sell in New York via their BFF’s the bullion
banks, to suppress price lower … they don’t really care about paper losses in
New York, cuz that to them is simply a cost of doing biz, and besides, it’s in
practically worthless dollars so who gives a shit? … no, the aim is to suppress
price to buy physical metal via delivery without causing a panic price move
higher … they simply do this up and until they control most of the world’s gold
supply … at that point, the Yuan gets gold backing and the U.S. is burnt toast
with their petrodollar hegemony … and in essence, this is how you defeat the
U.S. without firing a single shot, and making them a third world nation
shithole like Britain and/or France. “Them that has the gold makes the rules”!
[And just as a side note, Russia & India have joined them, so the Chicoms got
some company.]”

And these same people, having spent so much of their time around whites (why don’t they ever want to move to South Chicago?) are always convinced “that white people are just as bad, or usually worse!”, because they have experienced interactions with whites from all over the socio-economic and genetic map.

Are you arguing that “Slavic-Americans” and “Italian-Americans” are not white? Or are you just subdividing whites to make that number, very close to the actual proportion of black males in the US population, look like it’s something special?

By the way somethin’, never heard of the Talented Tenth?

Census Bureau, huh? What do the geneticists say?

Obsessing over white dudes is Valenti’s raison d’être.

Donate a kidney to Ruth Bader Ginsburg?

No, Steve, you take organs from a corpse, you don’t give them to one.

If a woman gets a dumb gene from one parent and a smart gene from the other it’ll have a cancelling/moderating effect.

Not even remotely how it works. One X is inactive.

https://infogalactic.com/info/X-inactivation