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    Paul Johnson argued in his New History of Art that Rome was "A Civilization Cast in Concrete." But what caused ancient Roman concrete to be so much more durable than modern Brutalist concrete is one of the great historical mysteries. The Pantheon in Rome is 1987 years old, for instance, but it remains in great...
  • @tamo
    @Moses

    You sound like a little Charly whose only pastime is engaging in moronic sour grapes, LOL !!!

    Replies: @Moses

    Lol yep definitely wumao.

    Excessively rude with nasty personal insults, check.
    China/CCP/Xi great always, over the top rhetoric, check.
    West horrible and bad, check.

    Our friend tamo fits the wumao stereotype hand-in-glove. Like a cartoon character, his own satire.

    For those of you who don’t know, wumao are paid CCP shills who prowl the internet singing praises of CCP/Xi/China and viciously attacking anyone not sufficiently slobbering on the CCP knob. Sailer’s place now on their radar, apparently.

    Next thing you know he’ll be denying the Tiananmen Square massacre whilst unleashing a slurry of nasty personal insults.

    Move along ppl. Do not feed the wumao.

    Tamo eaiting for your next invective lol.

    • Replies: @tamo
    @Moses

    Hey little man, you are barking up the wrong tree, lol !!! I don't give a damn about the CCP or XI Jinping.

    Replies: @Moses

    , @Jack D
    @Moses

    I'm sorry but people around here are way to eager to call each other paid shills. tamo is clearly a China fan but he seems more knowledgeable that the average wumao. I would pay at least ¥0.1 for one of his posts.

    Replies: @Moses, @tamo

  • @tamo
    @Rob

    Before the Industrial Revolution, Europe was basically a copying and adaptive culture. The Greek civilization was NOT an ORIGINAL civilization like the Chinese civilization. As a matter of fact the ancient Greeks were the BIGGEST COPYCATS in the ancient world.

    The Greek civilization was heavily influenced by both Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations ( Greek myths and religion had their roots in various Mesopotamian and Egyptian beliefs).. The Greek architecture was adopted from Egypt. Also ancient Greeks extensively COPIED Babylonians ( the ancestors of the present day Arabs) for it’s astronomy, mathematics, philosophy, medicine,etc.

    On the other hand, the ancient Chinese developed their astronomy, mathematics, philosophy, medicine, architecture ON THEIR OWN WITHOUT BORROWING from OUTSIDERS. During this ancient time period, there were a lot of ORIGINAL Chinese thinkers such as Confucius, Laozi, Mozi, Zhangzi, Mencius, Sun Tsu, etc,

    America is the granddaddy of industrial espionage and counterfeiting. When America was a developing country in the 19th and early 20th centuries, An America that lacked both creativity and originality, was the biggest thieving- copycat in the world. Consequently, the U.S. became the counterfeit capital of the world.

    America copied other countries’ inventions, ideas without regard to patents, copyright, trademarks. Even the U.S. Treasury Department in the 19th century even set up a bounty system for rewarding anybody for stealing and bringing foreign technologies to America.

    As a matter of fact, the 19th century American textile industry was basically based on stolen British technologies. Also before the Industrial Revolution. as I said in my previous post, Europe copied a lot of Chinese inventions and ideas` before the Industrial Revolution.

    It's pure BS that East Asians lack creativity. In 2012 there was a CREATIVE problem solving test (not a regular PISA test) given by PISA-OECD to assess the CREATIVITY of students of various regions, In that test, all the East Asian students including Chinese ones OUTSCORED American and European students.

    It seems that East Asian students outperform not only in math and science but also READING in PISA and SAT. Also according to Global Innovation Index of 2021, China came in 12th in rankings. It is only DEVELOPPING country that came inside the 20th place.

    In these days, it's the American students who terribly lack not only BASIC KNOWLEDGES but also CREATIVITY due to the sorry state of American K-12 education encumbered by stupid political correctness, asinine critical race theories, and minority -driven diversity programs , etc. You just remember K-12 education is the foundation of American educational system. Unless America fixes it as soon as possible, America will continue going downhill very fast.

    China has been a very creative and innovative country throughout it's history with the exception of the 19th and 20th centuries. China fell behind the West because it missed out on the Industrial Revolution. Now there is a good chance that China will also become the biggest economy(China is already is the biggest economy in PPP terms) in nominal terms in the next 10 years and become the
    super- creative technology superpower again by 2050

    Replies: @Jack D, @Colin Wright, @Moses

    Boils down to “West done stole all our stuff! We wuz kangs!” lol

    I smell wumao 五毛.

    https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Wumao


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    • Replies: @tamo
    @Moses

    You sound like a little Charly whose only pastime is engaging in moronic sour grapes, LOL !!!

    Replies: @Moses

  • From a Microsoft press release: Looks like the 2012 Obama campaign data analytics teams. I'm counting two guys I'd bet were over, say, age 52, although I wouldn't be surprised if some other guys who look 44 were really 54 but run four miles per day. From OpenAI's ChatGPT BS generator:
  • Not one Schwartze in that pic. Not one.

    Imagine what they could achieve with a good DIE director.

  • From my new movie review in Taki's Magazine: Read the whole thing there.
  • @Reg Cæsar
    @John Johnson


    Hollywood is filled with bitter nerds that resent their midwest cousin for not just having a decent life but enjoying it.
     
    The most beautiful of Mrs C's high-school classmates headed out to LA because that is what the most beautiful classmate does everywhere.

    This woman is now happily married to a farmer in Iowa.

    Replies: @J.Ross, @Moses

    I once heard Hollywood described this way: “You know the 1-2 vain good-looking people in your high school class who were obsessed with looking good and being ‘popular’? Hollywood is a city populated entirely by these people.”

    Yep.

    • Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease
    @Moses

    I once heard a comedian say, "If Hollywood had a city motto, it would be: 'True, not very good... but better than what YOU could do."

  • @The Wild Geese Howard
    @J.Ross


    That’s why the ending to LA Confidential is a happy one. People survive Hollywood and escape it.
     
    This is also another example, in my personal opinion, of a film that is better than the book.

    I know most will disagree.

    Replies: @cthulhu, @Moses

    Saw “LA Confidential” again recently. Wasn’t nearly as good as when I saw it in the 90s:
    – Kim Basinger way too old for the part
    – Russell Crowe’s character being a white-knight captain save-a-ho was a little cringey
    – Poor schwartzes wuz framed, they dindu nuffin trope (“To Kill a Mockingbird” did it better)

    Still enjoyable though. Depiction of a Hollywood degenerate and rotten to the core seems accurate. Kevin Spacey was good (does saying that make me a bad man?)

    • Replies: @J.Ross
    @Moses

    These criticisms are baffling. The blacks weren't innocent, they were freaking rapists for god's sake.

  • From Afru: Psychedelic privilege: are DMT entities racist? DMT users often come across strange beings called machine elves, dispensing advice and adventure. They were thought to be benevolent—but we can no longer ignore the Black DMT experience. BY AFRU MAGAZINE ... But there’s one drug that’s unquestionably and uniquely shrouded in whiteness — a “white...
  • @Moses
    @PhysicistDave


    As I said, our block has a huge ethnic variety. I have never tried to poll the whole neighborhood — I just don’t care.
     
    Still no answer, which is the answer Dave.

    No more questions yer honor.

    By all means resume virtue-signalling.

    Replies: @Moses

    Lol for realz Dave. You gave me an audible chuckle.

    I musta hit pretty close to the mark to get you all riled up like that.

    Attacking the other party personally is a tell-tale sign they won the point. *heh*

  • From my new movie review in Taki's Magazine: Read the whole thing there.
  • @Savage Indifference
    "I suspect this second race of Na’vi is inspired in part by the nomadic seafaring Bajau people of Southeast Asia, who have evolved larger spleens to allow them to stay underwater longer as they dive for shellfish."

    Or maybe those sea monkey ads in old sci-fi magazines.

    And yes, the best space alien is somebody that looks like Han Solo.

    You're so right about E.T. Have never revisited it even once since I was eleven. The thing about it that was novel was its setting. Spielberg made good use of what no one had before, that I'm aware of: the unfinished suburban housing development encroaching upon nature. A lot of us lived in such places then.

    Tying the whole thing to an unproven candy like Reese's Pieces seemed brilliant but not so much in retrospect. No one likes Reese's Pieces.

    Replies: @silviosilver, @Moses

    Spielberg said later that ET really was about Jews. ET was the talented, misunderstood, persecuted Jew minority in a sea of goyim. The central message of the film was that Jews feared but deep down love the goyim and the goyim should tolerate and celebrate them. Good schtick.

    • Replies: @J.Ross
    @Moses

    I lean closer to the theory that it was a mockery of the gospel (three from the sky, government persecution, sacred heart, apparent death and rising, healing of wounds, return), but probably, it was He-Man or Strawberry Shortcake happening to get one of the best directors working: a cynical 80s market targeting, seeking how to reach all those keeds. I am suspicious of all claims that somebody "remembers" years later that there was this whole subtext nobody picked up on.

    , @The Germ Theory of Disease
    @Moses

    "Spielberg said later that ET really was about Jews. ET was the talented, misunderstood, persecuted Jew minority in a sea of goyim."

    Well how Jewishly self-serving of him.

    But TBH, I thought it was about Jews too: ET had his very own planet to live on, but instead he came to our planet and bothered everybody, and then when our government responded rationally, Spielberg points fingers, calls it persecution and moans about it. The only difference is, ET finally went home, and didn't blackmail us into endlessly paying for his planet while he still insisted on remaining here.

    , @Pincher Martin
    @Moses

    Does that mean that in the end the Jews go home never to be seen again?

    , @Bardon Kaldian
    @Moses

    I've seen it now: Good grief!

    Steve won't publish my comment with a bunch of links to antisemitic "classics".

    What's the matter with people nowadays? Do they have a sense of humor anymore?

  • @Dream
    https://twitter.com/haaretzcom/status/1417012578484727813?t=NFiaw7-1pEJmddL9M_Dr5Q&s=19

    Replies: @fish, @Bardon Kaldian, @mc23, @Moses

    There is nothing wrong with laws that preserve ethnic/racial composition of a nation. In fact, that’s what nations are for (erm, unless those nations are just “ideas” lol).

  • @Rich
    Why do all these rich White guys make anti-White movies? You don't see Indians or Chinese or blacks making movies that put down their people. What brain disease has infected the White race and is there a cure? Maybe the mutation that made Whites rise up over every other race also contains this suicide gene that causes some to turn on their own kind? I don't get it.

    Replies: @pirelli, @Jacobite2, @Jonathan Mason, @Moses, @Servenet

    That, and my Fellow Whites control Hollywood. You know how much they love to make films hating on Whites.

    Whites bad, non-Whites good.

    James Cameron now lives in New Zealand. No Schwartzes there, which might be a major appeal for him.

  • From Afru: Psychedelic privilege: are DMT entities racist? DMT users often come across strange beings called machine elves, dispensing advice and adventure. They were thought to be benevolent—but we can no longer ignore the Black DMT experience. BY AFRU MAGAZINE ... But there’s one drug that’s unquestionably and uniquely shrouded in whiteness — a “white...
  • @PhysicistDave
    @Moses

    Moses wrote to me:


    All well and good Dave. But Sac is a large and highly segregated city.
     
    It is?

    I live here and I do not know where the "Black part of town" is.

    I do know where the "Asian part of town" is, though. However, many Asians do live outside that part of town.

    As I said, our block has a huge ethnic variety. I have never tried to poll the whole neighborhood -- I just don't care.

    Moses also wrote to me:


    You have a “In this house…” sign on your front lawn, don’t you? That would seal it lol.
     
    Okay, you are just being silly now. No, I have not seen that sort of sign anywhere in the neighborhood. What I do see is a scattering of US flags and, of course, this time of year Christmas decorations.

    By the way, our Jewish neighbors volunteer "Merry Christmas!" They are a bit liberal politically, but they are not idiots.

    Merry Christmas, Moses!

    Replies: @Moses

    As I said, our block has a huge ethnic variety. I have never tried to poll the whole neighborhood — I just don’t care.

    Still no answer, which is the answer Dave.

    No more questions yer honor.

    By all means resume virtue-signalling.

    • Troll: PhysicistDave
    • Replies: @Moses
    @Moses

    Lol for realz Dave. You gave me an audible chuckle.

    I musta hit pretty close to the mark to get you all riled up like that.

    Attacking the other party personally is a tell-tale sign they won the point. *heh*

  • @PhysicistDave
    @Moses

    Moses asked me:


    Hi Dave – your zip code and kids’ schools wouldn’t be supermajority White, would they?
     
    No, actually. Among the major urban areas in California, Sacramento has one of the highest ratios of Blacks.

    In fact, as I have said, a nice Black lady (a nurse) lives right across the street from us. She is a fiscal and social conservative and a Republican, though she dislikes Trump's rough-and-tumble style. And next to her are an Iranian Shi'ite family, next to us is a Chinese family, a couple doors down is a Jewish immigrant family, and so on.

    We homeschooled our kids, so I neither knew nor cared what the public school's racial composition was.

    Replies: @Moses

    All well and good Dave. But Sac is a large and highly segregated city.

    Aside from token nonwhites, what is the % demographic breakdown of your neighborhood? I’m guessing supermajority white just from the way you virtue-signal lol.

    I’ve noticed that the more whites loudly virtue-signal solidarity with nonwhites the more likely they are to live in supermajority white neighborhoods.

    You have a “In this house…” sign on your front lawn, don’t you? That would seal it lol.

    • Replies: @PhysicistDave
    @Moses

    Moses wrote to me:


    All well and good Dave. But Sac is a large and highly segregated city.
     
    It is?

    I live here and I do not know where the "Black part of town" is.

    I do know where the "Asian part of town" is, though. However, many Asians do live outside that part of town.

    As I said, our block has a huge ethnic variety. I have never tried to poll the whole neighborhood -- I just don't care.

    Moses also wrote to me:


    You have a “In this house…” sign on your front lawn, don’t you? That would seal it lol.
     
    Okay, you are just being silly now. No, I have not seen that sort of sign anywhere in the neighborhood. What I do see is a scattering of US flags and, of course, this time of year Christmas decorations.

    By the way, our Jewish neighbors volunteer "Merry Christmas!" They are a bit liberal politically, but they are not idiots.

    Merry Christmas, Moses!

    Replies: @Moses

  • @PhysicistDave
    @OilcanFloyd

    OilcanFloyd asked me:


    When good whites claim that they will fight for to stop separation and that their enemies will end up dead, are they serious? Do they really wish death on other whites for simply wanting to live a certain way? Are they really willing to kill us? Do they hope to get the chance to do so?
     
    Yes, as a matter of fact, we do.

    And there are a lot more of us than there are of you.

    If you force this to civil war, we win, you lose.

    But, frankly, there are so few of you and you are all such losers, that I do not think you can ever bring it to that point.

    You're just all a bunch of incel losers.

    Replies: @TelfoedJohn, @AceDeuce, @OilcanFloyd, @Stealth, @grettir, @Moses

    Hi Dave – your zip code and kids’ schools wouldn’t be supermajority White, would they?

    Just a hunch lol.

    • Replies: @PhysicistDave
    @Moses

    Moses asked me:


    Hi Dave – your zip code and kids’ schools wouldn’t be supermajority White, would they?
     
    No, actually. Among the major urban areas in California, Sacramento has one of the highest ratios of Blacks.

    In fact, as I have said, a nice Black lady (a nurse) lives right across the street from us. She is a fiscal and social conservative and a Republican, though she dislikes Trump's rough-and-tumble style. And next to her are an Iranian Shi'ite family, next to us is a Chinese family, a couple doors down is a Jewish immigrant family, and so on.

    We homeschooled our kids, so I neither knew nor cared what the public school's racial composition was.

    Replies: @Moses

  • James Morris (1926-2020), later Jan Morris, was likely the greatest travel writer in the English language of his generation. As the only reporter on Everest with Hillary, he brought down Fleet Street's scoop of the century on the morning of the Queen's coronation in 1953. Three years later, he broke the news that the French...
  • Lol Germ Man musta hit pretty close to the mark to get you all riled up like that mate.

    Aussies are losing their country to Chinese and Indians. And discovering the endless joys of African enrichment with the Sudanese in Melbourne.

    Had dinner with an Aussie couple recently. Both had parents immigrate from Ireland in the 60s with passage free of charge on a steamer. When I expressed surprised at the “free passage” the wife apologized for a “terrible policy called ‘White Australia.’” My wife is non-White, so maybe she felt she needed to apologize I dunno.

    There’s nothing wrong with a society enacting laws to preserve its racial composition. Ask the Chinese, Japanese, Israelis or, well, anyone non-White.

    My Fellow Whites led the charge to dismantle the sensible White Australia policy because rayciss. It’s almost as if my fellow ethnics tirelessly seek to subvert and destroy White areas wherever they are by importing non-Whites. Weird.

  • From The Guardian: Perhaps King Charles and Queen-Consort Camilla just wanted the late Queen's favorite crony gone. The encounter on Tuesday at a violence against women and girls reception was witnessed by two other women: Mandu Reid, the leader of the Women’s Equality party, who is of mixed heritage, and another black
  • @dearieme
    So, the grievance-monger was too dim or ignorant to know what upper class old birds mean by "your people".

    They mean your parents. That's all. No racial implications at all. I've been asked where "my people" live. It's old fashioned not malicious. But angry blacks must always be appeased and grovelled before.

    Lady Sue may come to feel she's better off out of that world.

    Replies: @Moses

    So what if she meant racially? Is there something wrong with that?

    Don’t cuck.

  • From the New York Times news section: California Panel Sizes Up Reparations for Black Citizens The state is undertaking the nation’s most ambitious effort so far to compensate for the economic legacy of slavery and racism. By Kurtis Lee Reporting from Los Angeles and Hayward, Calif. Dec. 1, 2022 In the two years since nationwide...
  • @Anthony Aaron
    According to the Public Policy Institute of California, the State's population is 39% mexican and 5% black …

    mexicans have, in my experience, serious hatred for blacks … and they exercise that hatred by murder and other crimes against blacks whenever possible … and, since they're a rung or 2 above blacks in the 'victim' scene, they get away with it.

    So, does anyone really think that those 39% mexicans -- who, in all likelihood, are among the lower income groups in the State -- are really going to pay taxes to provide reparations for blacks?

    Really?

    Replies: @Moses

    So, does anyone really think that those 39% mexicans — who, in all likelihood, are among the lower income groups in the State — are really going to pay taxes to provide reparations for blacks?

    Lol no.

    Reparations to Schwartzes will be paid by Whites like you.

  • Btw everyone knows what would happen to Schwartzes if each got $200k from the gubmint — lots of bling, weaves, spinners and other pointless consumption. Blacks all would be worse off in a few years.

    Rinse and repeat.

    • Replies: @JR Ewing
    @Moses

    That's in line with the Dave Chapelle reparations joke: The richest man in the world gets that way after a dice game and announces his intentions to spend the money as quickly as he can.

  • A nine-member Reparations Task Force has spent months traveling across California to learn about the generational effects of racist policies and actions.

    Lol yes — traveling first class, staying in 5 star hotels and eating at pricey restaurants. For equity!

  • From Richard Hanania: And this one's not very good: That doesn't sound like me, that sounds like a normie GOP politician.
  • Classic 1980s computer planet colonization game “MULE” had a random award – “Congratulations! Your investments in artificial dumbness paid you a dividend of $200.”

    Thought it was a funny joke at the time So naive.

    • Thanks: James N. Kennett
  • From Intelligence:
  • @Charles Erwin Wilson
    @Corvinus


    It certainly did in the early 1900’s, according to WASPs, when Eastern and Southern Europeans poured into the nation our ancestors built.
     
    As a card-carrying member of the powers-that-be you could have offered support for your position. But you have no data and you have no argument. You are a pathetic reactionary. You react based on your sentimental and debunked view of immigrants. You are the living embodiment of the Babinski reflex - just like your fellow travelers in the animal kingdom. No thought, no reason, no merit, no hope; you are just a mindless automaton.

    Replies: @Corvinus, @Moses, @John Johnson

    Do not feed the troll lol

  • @Foreign Expert
    @HammerJack

    When I lived in japan sometimes very young babies would stare at me, presumably recognizing that I was of a different race. I am white.

    Replies: @Moses

    Lol same. Some would cry. Others would be fascinated.

    Human nature is hard-coded.

  • @Anonymous
    I wonder if the Flynn effect is sputtering out and will possibly decline due to the smartphone and social media era that began in earnest in 2007.

    In the 20th century, the majorities in rich countries no longer had to spend their lives on the farm and in factories. They spent many years in school. There was TV, but above average IQ folks consumed lots of extended text via newspapers, magazines, novels, etc. If you look at old magazines like Nat Geographics from the 70s, even the ads have multiple wordy paragraphs of complex by today's standards prose. People could and did spend hours of extended reading and contemplation.

    Nowadays, you hear about how even very intelligent people have difficulty maintaining attention and concentration due to the ubiquity of internet and smartphone distraction.

    Replies: @Houston 1992, @Moses

    Erm, let’s see the Flynn effect broken down by race.

    I suspect what is happening here is that increasing Brown + African population % is bringing down the IQ means.

    It’s just weighted average math. A 10 year old could do it.

  • @bigdicknick
    would be interesting to see this controlling for race. i have a feeling white libtard fertility is completely collapsing

    Replies: @Moses

    My anecdotal observations agree. I know prolly 7 young White ppl 20s-30s, 1 kid between them. 1 couple married 9 years, zero kids.

    The pattern is for the girls to “date” and party for years, then get dumped for a girl younger and hotter. Not one knows how to cook or be feminine outside of possessing a vagina.

    Men not much better. Uptalking sensitive pansies.

    Wokism/leftism is profoundly anti-natal (for Whites that is).

  • As I may have mentioned once or twice over the last decade, the Theory of Intersectionality proves that black women, by being the most intersectional, have the most interesting thoughts. So what have they been thinking about since 1619? Mostly, about how they are peeved that people are blind to their fabulousness. Also, their hair....
  • Thomas, 51, has built her substantial art-world reputation by focusing on Black women …

    Oh look – a talentless black woman building her whole career on blackity black blackness. What a novelty.

    It’s all so tiresome.

  • Ken Meyercord writes: “I had a revelation last night as I lay tossing and turning, and I thought I’d run it by you to see how you think it ranks with St. Paul’s conversion on the road to Damascus. There’s a website out there called ‘Jew or Not Jew‘, on which individuals are scored (between...
  • @anonymouseperson
    You see it in Hollywood all the time. Jewish directors give parts to other Jews.

    Replies: @anarchyst, @Moses

    Makes sense. Explains why so many actors and actresses are Jews. We do tend to hire our own, don’t we?

  • The post-1945 Great Nazi Shortage has driven the team (James Mangold and the Butterworth brothers) making the upcoming fifth Indiana Jones movie set in 1969 to the stratagem of finding Nazis behind America's moon landing. Mads Mikkelsen plays the villain based on Werner von Braun. The whole project sounds pretty dire, mostly because Harrison Ford...
  • @Mr. Anon
    @Moses

    Movies that were made in the two decades or so after WWII portrayed Germans (and they were called "Germans" for the most part, not "Nazis") in a more even-handed light. Yes, they were the enemy, and they served a cruel and tyrannical system, but they were not inhuman. They were actual men, not cartoon villains. And these movies were created for the generation that had themselves actually fought in the war, against the Germans.

    In many ways, movies since then have become rather less sophisticated.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @Moses

    Sgt Schultz and Col Klink of “Hogan’s Heroes” were lovably human, if buffoon caricatures. (Fun fact – Col Klink played by a Jew). Unthinkable today.

    • Replies: @Mr. Anon
    @Moses

    John Banner - Sgt. Schultz - wasn't exactly an Aryan superman either.

    Hogan's Heroes - ah, yes - I remember the episode where Colonel Hogan used the secret tunnel to film a stag movie with Helga.

    https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0298744/?ref_=m_tttr_tt

    , @Brutusale
    @Moses

    As were Lebeau, Gen. Burkhalter and Major Hochstetter.

    https://propagander.tripod.com/hh.html

    , @Oscar Peterson
    @Moses

    All the main German characters in the show were played by Jews except Fräulein Helga--Klink, Schultz, General Burkhalter, and Major Hochstetter. And Robert Clary (LeBeau) was a Jew too.

  • @The Anti-Gnostic
    @mc23

    It's the fruit that goes unpicked. The "non-profit," interconnected foundations are doing lots of questionable things but the principalities and powers piling up fantastic, obscene levels of wealth use them to manufacture consent. It writes itself--a conspiracy in plain sight--but of course Hollywood doesn't touch it.

    I'm reminded, at a smaller scale, how SNL couldn't figure out any jokes to write about the fact that Barack Obama's mother-in-law lived with them in the White House, or that Joe Biden is 80 years old and often wanders off path, or reads instructions on his teleprompter or large-print cue cards.

    Replies: @Prester John, @J1234, @Moses

    Google News used to let users curate and blacklist content. For example, I blacklisted entertainment and sportsball “news”. It was great.

    Google News eliminated that feature about 4 years ago. They force you to swallow everything now.

    Now I get “SNL mocks Trump!” headlines regularly. This is news?

    I guess SNL anti-right skits became news because our overlords wanted it to become news. Everything in service of the narrative. This is all media now.

    And yeah, Obama mother in law and Biden senility is fodder for joke hilarity. But that’s Thoughtcrime.

  • The Washington Post has been on a jag for weeks complaining that blacks are not over-represented in NFL head coaching ranks, but only have about the same share of coaching jobs as of the American population. That got me thinking about soccer managers in the 2022 World Cup. The World Cup is progressive and globalist...
  • @Anonymous
    @Bardon Kaldian

    Adrian Brody?

    https://www.interviewmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/35820_ILI_InterviewMagazine_015_06_F5B.jpg

    Replies: @Moses

    I look at Brody’s face and huge crooked nose and think a lot of things, but none of them are “movie star.”

    • Replies: @Captain Tripps
    @Moses

    Would tend to agree, though given proper lighting, camera angle, makeup and facial expression, many average looking people can suddenly look attractive:

    https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Adrien-Brody-Photo-credit-Courtesy-of-Adrien-Brody-H-2021.jpg

    Also, he is a fairly good actor. Did you see "The Pianist"? An excellent movie and he was very engrossing in the lead role.

    , @Veteran Aryan
    @Moses


    I look at Brody’s face and huge crooked nose and think a lot of things, but none of them are “movie star.”
     
    I've recently been exposed to numerous reruns of 'The Rockford Files'. Very quickly I noticed a detail that never occurred to me when I watched the show as a younger man: There's a JewFro Fest goin' on up in here. Almost all of the male extras, even the guy who's presented as Latino.

    When I look at Adrien Brody, I think "nepotism."
  • @Tiny Duck
    Argentina's white team just got their butts kicked by Saudi Arabia's Black team.

    That tells you something right there.

    The future is Black

    Better get used to it or off yourself!

    Replies: @Renard, @John Pepple, @Moses, @OilcanFloyd

    Schwartzes never would have got out of Africa if not for the White Man’s boat technology. They never developed ocean-going vessels despite a massive coastline.

    Schwartzes never even made it to Madagascar lol.

  • The post-1945 Great Nazi Shortage has driven the team (James Mangold and the Butterworth brothers) making the upcoming fifth Indiana Jones movie set in 1969 to the stratagem of finding Nazis behind America's moon landing. Mads Mikkelsen plays the villain based on Werner von Braun. The whole project sounds pretty dire, mostly because Harrison Ford...
  • @Mr. Anon
    @SFG


    Supposedly he’s passing the torch to a woman.
     
    And not even an attractive one.

    Nazis, nazis, nazis. They're so in demand as Hollywood villains that they have to be conjured where they don't even exist. Of course, there is a reason for that. Dave Chappelle talked about it in a round-about way. It is the obsession of one particular tribe, so it must be shoved down everybody else's throats.

    It's easy for movies now to have a "historical" setting, as so many people are ignorant of even any basic history. Millenials and Gen Z have learned history from comic-book movies. History is now infinitely malleable.

    Replies: @Prester John, @Moses

    Just watched “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” for the first time. In the book the kids are sent to the countryside to get out of 1940 London. The book opens with the kids on a train out of London.

    The film producers had to put in gratuitous shots of German pilots exulting over direct hits. Bomb noises waking up the kids would have done, or even just opening with kids on the train and establishing backstory they were fleeing the blitz.

    But no — my fellow co-ethnics are obsessed with showing Nazis and Germans to be the inhuman baddies. Never miss a chance to use control of Hollywood to take digs at them.

    Another example in “Remains of the Day.” The film version makes a big deal of Nazis planning to screw Lord Darlington and also how bad Darlington is for not taking in Jewish refugees. The book lacks the first example, the second example no more than a footnote in the novel.

    My co-ethnics gonna co-ethnic. Once you see it, you see it everywhere.

    • Replies: @Mr. Anon
    @Moses

    Movies that were made in the two decades or so after WWII portrayed Germans (and they were called "Germans" for the most part, not "Nazis") in a more even-handed light. Yes, they were the enemy, and they served a cruel and tyrannical system, but they were not inhuman. They were actual men, not cartoon villains. And these movies were created for the generation that had themselves actually fought in the war, against the Germans.

    In many ways, movies since then have become rather less sophisticated.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @Moses

    , @SFG
    @Moses

    The Nazi obsession I get-if the media were Irish we’d have 1000 movies about the potato famine. Ukrainian? Stalin’s the villain of every movie.

    It’s the hostility toward pre-1960s America that gets my goat. They let us in, they killed our greatest enemy, and this is how you repay them?

    And I can’t do anything about it because the resistance is based on ethnicity and my blood is tainted too. It’s too early in the morning to drink.

  • Caroline Ellison is the sort-of-cute-in-a-homely-way girl CEO of one of the firms founded by Sam Bankman-Fried that are currently collapsing spectacularly. She has maintained a Tumblr called worldoptimization that's quite an enjoyable read (highlights here on Twitter), although I'd probably like it more if I didn't figure that when we're all eating biens around a...
  • @Dave Pinsen
    A number of Sailer readers on Twitter are smitten with her. She seems to have discovered a novel way for a woman to appear more attractive: write about HBD.

    Replies: @SFG, @Alec Leamas (working from home), @SunBakedSuburb, @Brutusale, @mc23, @Moses

    A number of Sailer readers on Twitter are smitten with her. She seems to have discovered a novel way for a woman to appear more attractive: write about HBD.

    Ms Ellison appeals to nerdy men on the spectrum who harbor fantasies of nerdy girls who love nerdy boy things like DC/Marvel comix movies, crypto and collecting Star Wars action figures.

    There is a whole industry of women grifters who take money from nerdy and/or conservative men by playing to their fantasies [see sub-genre of unmarried bleach blonde women in bikinis posing with semi-automatic weapons and/or posting tradwoman/HBD content — Lauren Southern comes to mind].

    Hence, “cute” lol. Hey if it floats your boat have at it.

  • Reporter Sam Quinones' 2021 book about recent trends in drug addiction and homelessness, The Least of Us, argues that the current formulation of meth being sold in the U.S. tends to induce the urge to steal and hoard goods, especially bikes: Here's my review of Quinones' important book. Without mentioning Quinones, the New York Times...
  • @Meretricious
    @Muggles

    Burlington is 5% Bantu--and 5% is sufficient to destroy whitopias

    Replies: @Moses

    Yes. Family there. Schwartzes commit all the gun and violent crime and drug dealing in Burlington.

    Head stomping, shootings, drugs, car and bike theft. Recently a Schwartze walked through a Burlington neighborhood throwing large rocks through windows of house after house, including bedrooms of sleeping children. He had a record a mile long but still walking the streets. Cops in Burlington afraid to arrest them, for career-and-life-protecting reasons.
    My Fellow White mayor does nothing.

    Vermont Whites are in total denial, won’t even mention the problem.

    It’s Blacks.

    Ppl know though. It’s why homes sell for a premium in Schwartze-free Shelburne and Charlotte south of Burlington.

    5% Bantu more than enough to ruin Burlington. More coming too for the gibs and easy pickings. Following the Minneapolis pattern.

    • Thanks: Achmed E. Newman
  • The College Board's Advanced Placement tests for high school students to earn college credit by taking a detailed test on a single subject such as Chemistry or U.S. History haven't been as controversial as its SAT college admission test, partly because nobody knows how big the racial gaps are. (Eyeballing this graph from a pre-covid...
  • @HammerJack
    Sorry, here it is verbatim from the NYP:

    “I’ve been doing this for 35 years and something I learned early in my career, is there are two words in the English language you should never say together in sequence: ‘The’ and ‘Jews.'
     
    He ain't kidding! Every time I try it I get viciously attacked! (Usually by someone whose initials are J.D. — but it could be just about anyone, really. Or so I'm told. )

    Replies: @J.Ross, @Moses

    We Jews have no power. Criticize us and we’ll destroy you.

    Amazing example of Orwell’s Doublethink. Lol.

    “Earlier this week, actor Marlon Brando met with Jewish leaders to apologize for comments he made on Larry King Live. Among them that ‘Hollywood is run by Jews’. The Jewish leaders accepted the actor’s apology and announced that now Brando is free to work again.”


    Video Link

    • Replies: @Nicholas Stix
    @Moses

    Norm had his moments, may he rest in peace.

  • From the Washington Post in 2016: This is the main crimethink study that The Bell Curve was based
  • @AceDeuce
    @Moses

    Here's Frederick Douglass High School, the #1 high school in Maryland Prince George County (which is an affluent majority negro county) versus Owsley County High School, located in Owsley County, Kentucky (pretty much all White and dirt poor)



    Total minority enrollment
    Frederick Douglass HS 98 %
    Owsley County HS 3%

    Economically disadvantaged students
    Frederick Douglass HS 40 %
    Owsley County HS 96%

    Proficient in Reading (district average)
    Frederick Douglass HS 28 %
    Owsley County HS 44%

    Proficient in Mathematics (district average)
    Frederick Douglass HS 8 %
    Owsley County HS 32%

    Replies: @Moses

    Yes. It’s almost as if there’s an IQ-related reason that Africans never invented money, the wheel, written language, multi-story buildings, ocean-going vessels, etc. etc.

    And almost as if IQ differences explain >80% of prosperity differences between nations.

    Despite the richest abundance of natural resources on the planet Africa will remain poor as long as Africans are in charge. Because Africans.

    See: Detroit, Baltimore, South Africa

    • Replies: @anarchyst
    @Moses

    Let’s look at the differences between blacks and every other race…

    Europeans and Asians lived in harsh climates where life was (and still is) a struggle. In order to feed one’s self and family, it was necessary to domesticate both plants and animals. Ways were found that stressed preparing for the future, as there would be “lean” as well as “good” years when it came to animal and plant production. Both Europeans and Asians found ways to use plants and animals to insure their survival. Planning for the future was always a part of the European and Asian psyches. Social structures stressing “commonality of race and purpose” and preparing for uncertain futures was always part of the plan.
    Contrast that with blacks on the African continent, where both wildlife and animals were abundant. It was not necessary for Africans to establish agriculture or animal husbandry, as both were “there for the taking”. Africans cared little for future planning, not being able to develop any inventions, such as the wheel or boat. Among black Africans, there is no quest for exploration beyond searching for food—the next meal. Despite being situated on a great ocean, black Africans never pondered what lied beyond…
    African blacks have no concept of proportion. Although blacks are aware of direction, such as "up", "down", "left" and "right" asking them to determine "how high" or "how much" results in a quizzical, confused look on their faces as they cannot comprehend proportion. This is why almost all blacks fail at mathematics.
    Black DNA does not possess the capacity for exploration, future planning, or invention.
    The “grand experiment” of “civil-rights”, “(forced) integration”, and (misperceived) “equality” (that is still being pushed by globalists and others) is destined to fail. Thomas Jefferson realized over two-hundred years ago that blacks would not be able to co-exist without being treated as the different species that they are. The attempts to equalize and normalize this species was doomed from the start.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @John Johnson

  • @Renard
    @anarchyst

    Hmm. Kyrie Irving finally made his full groveling apology but the Nets and the ADL have now decided that's not enough. He now has to attend meetings with Jewish "community leaders" and perform the groveling thing in person. Then maybe they'll consider letting him play again.

    https://i.ibb.co/2PST0NT/Capture-2022-11-04-21-44-34-2.png

    Although it may be entertaining to watch the likes of Kanye and Kyrie tangle with the Power Structure, to say they are outmatched in the wits dept is the understatement of the century. In the end, they are not helping your cause. The Empire Strikes Back. It's what Empires do.

    Replies: @Moses

    This one always gives me a chuckle.

    “Well, earlier this week, actor Marlon Brando met with Jewish leaders to apologize for comments he made on “Larry King Live”. Among them, that “Hollywood is run by Jews.” The Jewish leaders accepted the actor’s apology, and announced that Brando is now free to work again.”


    Video Link

  • @Twinkie
    @mc23


    Interesting that the gap is fairly consistent across all income levels.
     
    What’s notable is that black kids from families that make over $200,o00 - the highest bracket - barely outscore white kids from families that make under $20,000 - the lowest bracket. From the second lowest income bracket and on, white kids outscore the top bracket black kids.

    Replies: @Moses

    What’s notable is that black kids from families that make over $200,o00 – the highest bracket – barely outscore white kids from families that make under $20,000 – the lowest bracket. From the second lowest income bracket and on, white kids outscore the top bracket black kids.

    It’s almost as if racial test scores correlate perfectly with racial achievements on a continental scale, for all races.

    • Replies: @AceDeuce
    @Moses

    Here's Frederick Douglass High School, the #1 high school in Maryland Prince George County (which is an affluent majority negro county) versus Owsley County High School, located in Owsley County, Kentucky (pretty much all White and dirt poor)



    Total minority enrollment
    Frederick Douglass HS 98 %
    Owsley County HS 3%

    Economically disadvantaged students
    Frederick Douglass HS 40 %
    Owsley County HS 96%

    Proficient in Reading (district average)
    Frederick Douglass HS 28 %
    Owsley County HS 44%

    Proficient in Mathematics (district average)
    Frederick Douglass HS 8 %
    Owsley County HS 32%

    Replies: @Moses

  • Have Republicans run any ads against anti-white affirmative action since Jesse Helms in 1992?
  • @ArthurinCali
    The responses on the Twitter thread really take the wind out of the sails for those anti-racism organizations espousing the "we condemn racism in all its forms".

    The advertisement literally uses the quotes and mainstream media news reports on these incidents.

    Replies: @Moses, @AndrewR

    The responses on the Twitter thread really take the wind out of the sails for those anti-racism organizations espousing the “we condemn racism in all its forms”.

    Lol no. You do not understand how leftists define “anti-racism”.

    You think it means “no discrimination on basis of race, including Whites.” It’s so cute.

    “Anti-racism” means “anti-White.” Every anti-racist point boils down to “Whites bad. NonWhites good.”

    Thank u drive thru.

    • Thanks: Lucius Vanini
  • From The Atlantic: THE END OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION WOULD BE A DISASTER The discrimination experienced by Black Americans over centuries has simply not been undone. By Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone Lee C. Bollinger is the 19th president of Columbia University and co-author, with Geoffrey R. Stone, of the forthcoming A Legacy of...
  • @wretechedraaches
    Why does it matter where you go to university? Just accomplish things in the real world and that speaks for itself. . It seems to me that people who can't achieve or who haven't achieved lean on their school to give them status. Pathetic.

    Replies: @Moses

    Where did u go to uni?

  • "Vision Zero" is the derisible name chosen for the currently most fashionable push to reduce traffic fatalities in cities: the Oprahesque idea is that if we collectively envision having zero traffic deaths, we will get there. In contrast, Japan puts out sensible plans periodically for reducing traffic deaths several percent per year, and often exceeds...
  • Shows what is possible in a homogenous, nonblack country.

    • Agree: Gordo
    • Thanks: Moses
  • Also, street crime played a huge role in emptying out children from dense American cities. Japan doesn’t have street crime to speak of.

    Japan doesn’t have Schwartzes either. Coincidence?

    • Replies: @Auld Alliance
    @Moses


    Japan doesn’t have Schwartzes either.
     
    The first time I was in Japan was in the 1980s.

    I was in Osaka and was in a subway station.

    A Japanese gentleman came across to me and tried out his English.

    "What do you think of the Japanese trains? Clean, efficient, come on time?"

    I of course agreed that this was so.

    "And do you know why that is?" he asked.

    I told him I did not.

    "No blacks or Mexicans," he informed me.

    It is just as well non-white people cannot be racist, otherwise I would almost think, well,.....

  • From Yahoo News/Insider: Minneapolis had been doing fairly well in the 21st Century. It's not really a Rust Belt city, more of a regional business center like Dallas. The Upper Midwest farm economy prospered during the long China Boom in demand for food and other resources, and the the growth of North Dakota as an...
  • @Jack D
    @Twinkie

    It's even worse that this still photo shows. Watch the video. Not only was Mayor Frey kneeling before St. George, he was shaking with sobs for the loss of this great man. I can only pray that the sobs were fake - if they were real, then we are REALLY in deep shit.

    https://twitter.com/i/status/1268907977412620296

    As a Jew, I found Frey's gesture to be especially offensive. Judaism discourages bowing and kneeling in general - even in worship it is permitted only in narrowly defined circumstances. Jews may kneel and bow to secular kings if necessary to follow local custom but they are completely forbidden to kneel before idols and false gods. All that was missing here was that Floyd's golden coffin was not in the shape of a calf.

    Replies: @clifford brown, @Moses, @Twinkie

    Well said Jack. We do agree sometimes!

    The quip reminds me of a joke — 2 Jews go in a room to talk politics, 3 political parties come out.

  • @Wilkey
    @AnotherDad

    Trump was very much trying not to antagonize black voters. His personality is very popular among that demographic. He said lots of things about lots of other groups, but you’ll notice he never said much about blacks.

    Replies: @Desiderius, @Moses

    Yes and what good did his Herculean efforts to pander to Schwartzes do for him? He got maybe 1% more of schwartze vote and alienated his White supporters.

    A leader who stands up and tells the unvarnished truth will win. Everyone knows the emperor has no clothes, but everyone afraid to notice it.

  • From the New York Times news section: This article is based on interviews with more than two dozen industry leaders — including top studio executives, agents, activists, marketers and producers — who spoke on condition of anonymity to candidly discuss the current state of the entertainment business. They varied in age, race, ethnicity and gender....
  • @Anon

    … Paramount Pictures is working on a live-action musical comedy about slave trade reparations; it comes from Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the politically incorrect creative forces behind “South Park” and “The Book of Mormon.”

    That sounds interesting.
     

     
    It sounds anti-White. How could it be anything but that?

    South Park never struck me as very “politically incorrect.” I haven’t seen “The Book of Mormon,” but what could be more politically correct than portraying Mormons in a negative light?

    Replies: @Anonymous, @Dave Pinsen, @Moses

    Mormons don’t get you unbanked and the MADL on your ass.

    Other groups do.

    South Park men know who has power, and who doesn’t. They don’t kick bees nests, only punch down.

    They could make a very funny film about that group. Loads of satire material. Gold, Jerry, gold!

  • From Nick Patterson's Substack: Patterson started out doing Alan Turing-like codebreaking for British intelligence, then did a decade at the Renaissance hedge fund (the one that is so good that they won't let outsiders invest in it because it makes so much money only the partners and workers get to invest), and then went to...
  • @Anonymous
    @Moses


    East Asians are confused why whites are letting inferior foreigners take over their countries.
     
    Could you provide some examples of this? Do you come across written commentary? Does it come up in conversation? Any anecdotes you can share would be appreciated.

    Replies: @Moses, @Moses

    Here’s another quote for ya, from legendary Singapore statesman Lee Kuan Yew:

    “Multiculturalism will destroy America. Do you make the Hispanics Anglo-Saxons in culture or do they make you more Latin American in culture?”***

    Which culture — European/White or Hispanic — do you suppose Mr Lee viewed more favorably and considered key to America’s success?

    The bulk of immigrants to America for the last 30 years at least come from sh*thole countries. As they increase in number and Whites slip into permanent minority status, do you think America will change for the worse or better?

    Import the 3rd world, become the 3rd world.

    Lee was — and is — right.

    ***Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2013/02/13/singapores-lee-kuan-yew-talks-americas-strangths-and-weaknesses/?sh=5c86190833d3

  • From Yahoo News/Insider: Minneapolis had been doing fairly well in the 21st Century. It's not really a Rust Belt city, more of a regional business center like Dallas. The Upper Midwest farm economy prospered during the long China Boom in demand for food and other resources, and the the growth of North Dakota as an...
  • Couldn’t happen to a better bunch of virtue signaling white liberals.

    • Thanks: Moses
    • Replies: @Bill Jones
    @Loyalty Over IQ Worship

    Unz might need to add a "Regretfully Agree" button.

    It's sad but true.

    The problem is the length of the time-lag between the action and the consequence.

    , @Polistra
    @Loyalty Over IQ Worship

    Unlike the death of Mr. Floyd, the death of Minneapolis actually is a homicide.

    And the same goes for every other metropolis we've permitted to be ruined, right up to and including the USA itself.

    Replies: @SaneClownPosse

    , @Twinkie
    @Loyalty Over IQ Worship

    https://newsaf.cgtn.com/news/2020-06-08/Minneapolis-mayor-jeered-after-refusing-to-support-abolishing-P-D-R8ExWDUoms/img/08879d30ef8842e1804cbc72cc10fa09/08879d30ef8842e1804cbc72cc10fa09.jpeg

    This says it all.

    He is less of a man than this woman:

    https://twitter.com/kamille_elizah/status/1268010708857282561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1268023969958879233%7Ctwgr%5Edcbf0b4a245fb123e57c24646093cd8bffd538f3%7Ctwcon%5Es3_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Febcitizen.com%2F2020%2F06%2F02%2Ffremont-mayor-taking-the-knee-is-something-that-im-not-going-to-be-doing%2F

    Replies: @Ed, @YetAnotherAnon, @Anon, @Jack D, @John Johnson

    , @Achmed E. Newman
    @Loyalty Over IQ Worship

    • Agree to a degree, LoIQW. However, just as with the rest of the world soon to be saying "it couldn't happen to a better bunch of globohomo, spendthrift, depraved warmongers", there were lots of people there who didn't want any of that. Unfortunately, those Minneapolans and St. Paulians were overwhelmed, probably NOT by raw numbers but by voice.

    Just being nice and acquiescing to avoid any conflict is not nice at all in the long run.

    Replies: @BB753, @pyrrhus

    , @Desiderius
    @Loyalty Over IQ Worship


    virtue signaling
     
    Virtue noise

    https://youtu.be/BfrUQA2tb6M

    Perhaps the more interesting (and pressing) question is what created the vacuum they're so patently unequipped to fill.
    , @Citizen of a Silly Country
    @Loyalty Over IQ Worship

    Don't fall back on 20th century thinking. It's not about white liberals. The "Left/Right" dichotomy doesn't mean much anymore.

    Liberal white move our destruction as at faster pace than white conservatives, but they're all heading in yhe same direction.

    , @BosTex
    @Loyalty Over IQ Worship

    I lived in the Twin Cities area for many years and they are (obviously sweeping with a broad brush) a bunch of dolts. (Many good people, etc, etc…)

    If you vote for a bunch of maniacs, you deserve what you get.

    A lot of ‘em are virtue signaling gassy Scandinavian wind bags. Let them feel the full weight of their politics.

    Replies: @Bill Jones

    , @AnotherDad
    @Loyalty Over IQ Worship


    Couldn’t happen to a better bunch of virtue signaling white liberals.
     
    A core operating principle of minoritarianism is no one is allowed freedom of association.

    Ergo we can never test all these claims of just how terribly, terribly bad we white gentiles are, nor how wonderfully, wonderfully, wonderful the rainbow would be if we weren't around oppressing everyone.

    Minneapolis would have been pretty much perfect ground to test white-bread anti-diversity. The diversity of both ECLA and Missouri Synod would be sufficient. Ship all the Catholics back to St. Paul.

    Somewhere else could style itself "the Rainbow City" and only be open to non-white-gentile-heterosexuals. Someplace else only open to blacks and style itself "Chocolate City" or "Wakanda" or "Haiti".

    Such "exclusion" doesn't bother me. Let's let people form communities per their wishes and claims. And see which claims actually hold up. Let 100 flowers bloom ... or wilt.
  • From Nick Patterson's Substack: Patterson started out doing Alan Turing-like codebreaking for British intelligence, then did a decade at the Renaissance hedge fund (the one that is so good that they won't let outsiders invest in it because it makes so much money only the partners and workers get to invest), and then went to...
  • @epebble
    @Moses

    Do East Asians consider themselves inferior to Whites? I have not come across that. They seem to resent ancient humiliations like Opium wars of 1839, Asiatic Barred Zone Act of 1917, Japanese internment of 1942.

    Replies: @Moses, @Cimmerian, @Anon

    No. I don’t get any inferiority complex vibe from East Asians vs Europeans/Whites. They do admire and copy aspects of European/White culture though.

    Other aspects of European/White culture repel them, such as neglect/disrespect of elderly and allowing mentally ill winos to shoot up and defecate on public streets.

    This last point was shot home to me a few years ago during a family trip to Seattle. We were a block off Pike’s Place Market when my son asked me “Dad, why does it smell like pee-pee here?” Homeless winos and druggies everywhere. Never see/smell this in tourist area of East Asian city. Unthinkable.

  • @JohnnyWalker123
    @Moses

    Then why are there tens of millions Asians/Chinese living outside of their homelands?

    Replies: @Moses

    Your question is beside the point.

    I’ll bite, though. Asians/Chinese have moved en masse to White countries because they voted with their feet for sanitation, indoor plumbing, rule of law and higher living standards.

    Mass migration has slowed as Asian countries like Korea have caught up. Don’t see much Korean immigration these days.

    You don’t see Europeans/Whites moving en masse to Asian countries either. Asians would never allow it. They protect their nations, and I admire them for it.

    I can’t count the number of American-born Asians I’ve met who claim to be “American” when it suits them or “Chinese/whatever” when it suits them. American Chinese get very angry (and blame Whites lol) when Chinese parents refuse to have their kids learn English from them, yet they also want to be considered “Chinese.” It’s a conundrum.

    Chinese would never in a million years consider me or my kids Chinese even if born in China and speak fluent Chinese with Chinese passports. Because race.

    I used to drink the multicultural kool-aid. It was living in Asia that soured me on the viability of multiracial countries with no racial supermajority.

  • @Anonymous
    @Moses


    East Asians are confused why whites are letting inferior foreigners take over their countries.
     
    Could you provide some examples of this? Do you come across written commentary? Does it come up in conversation? Any anecdotes you can share would be appreciated.

    Replies: @Moses, @Moses

    I’ll repeat — as a long time expat in Asia, Asians have told me several times that they don’t consider non-Whites to be “real Americans.” Asians I know have visited LA, NYC and returned disappointed, saying “I didn’t see any Americans, only browns, blacks and other Asians.”

    Their whole concept of nationality is entwined with, inseparable from race. I realized over time this is the natural human view throughout all history. Only while nations have deluded themselves (recently) that race is separate from nationality.

    Asian Asian parents prefer White European non-native-English-speakers to teach English to their children instead of American-born Asians.

    Here’s Lee Kwan Yew laughing saying that a nation that imports fruit-pickers “won’t get very far.”

    Video Link
    Charlie Rose about has a heart attack at that non-PC comment.

    It’s been my experience that East Asians — Chinese, Koreans and Japanese — are among the most “rayciss” people in the world. They do not like blacks or browns, consider them lesser. They admire European/White culture. It’s no accident every tiger mom pushes her kid into European classical instruments.

    Just watch the hit Korean drama “Penthouse” about high class wealthy families competing for social prestige in Seoul. A European-style opera singer character is presented as the creme de la creme of high culture, in Korea. High class Korean characters dress in 1700s European period costumes and dance the waltz.

    Korean dramas never show Koreans imitating any African, Indian or brown culture of any kind. Well, there was one character in Penthouse who adopted the trappings of black gangsta culture, but he was a heel. (Western press excoriated Penthouse for “cultural appropriation of blackness but not of European-ness, weird).

    Again, I’m just the messenger. Your mileage may vary.

    Btw you’re subcon aren’t you lol

  • @Anonymous
    OT.

    Rishi Sunak, an ethnic Indian has just become UK PM.

    All well and good, but one point still gets to me. Will east Asian premiers such as the leaders of Japan, China etc really seriously believe that they are dealing with an Englishman?

    Replies: @Jonathan Mason, @Cortes, @Moses, @epebble, @mc23, @kicktheroos

    No.

    To East Asians, race *is* nationality. Have you ever met a Japanese who is full-blooded African? The very idea is laughable.

    East Asians do not consider Chinese-Americans as “real” Americans. They are Chinese – how could they ever be “Americans”?

    Chinese parents prefer non-native-speaker Europeans teach English to their kids over American-born Chinese with perfect American English.

    I’ve had Asians tell me that blacks and Asians in America aren’t “real Americans.”

    To them, a “real American” is white race. Just like “Japanese” means Japanese race.

    Race defines their whole concept of nationality. I once had a Chinese laugh in my face when I said I’d get a Chinese passport and become Chinese. It’s unthinkable to them, absurd.

    East Asians are confused why whites are letting inferior foreigners take over their countries.

    So, no. East Asian leaders don’t consider Rishi to be English.

    I’m just the messenger.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @Moses


    R


    East Asians are confused why whites are letting inferior foreigners take over their countries.
     

    "Inferior foreigners" aren't taking over just doing mundane jobs for peanuts.

    Replies: @anon

    , @Anonymous
    @Moses

    It was the Duke of Wellington who famously quipped that 'a dog born in a stable is still a dog'.
    You see, the Duke although born in Ireland claimed English blood.

    Replies: @Cagey Beast, @Anon

    , @Anonymous
    @Moses


    East Asians are confused why whites are letting inferior foreigners take over their countries.
     
    Could you provide some examples of this? Do you come across written commentary? Does it come up in conversation? Any anecdotes you can share would be appreciated.

    Replies: @Moses, @Moses

    , @JohnnyWalker123
    @Moses

    Then why are there tens of millions Asians/Chinese living outside of their homelands?

    Replies: @Moses

    , @epebble
    @Moses

    Do East Asians consider themselves inferior to Whites? I have not come across that. They seem to resent ancient humiliations like Opium wars of 1839, Asiatic Barred Zone Act of 1917, Japanese internment of 1942.

    Replies: @Moses, @Cimmerian, @Anon

  • David Simon, creator of the TV series The Wire, is extremely unhappy that anybody is noticing the big increase in murders during the "racial reckoning:" Simon long ago blocked me on Twitter for being better-informed about crime statistics than he is, so I can't really tell what he's saying, but it appears he is headed...
  • @J.Ross
    David Simon's whole claim to fame is realistic journalism and TV shows about black crime, but he has spent that career trying to have it both ways, profiting from little admissions about black crime while he tries to walk back the very thing that made him famous. He owes everything to a police ride-along when he wrote for the Sun and he was a supporter of the recent anti-police madness.
    What a piece of work he is.
    This twitter exchange was kicked off by him denying that whites who flee the black crime targeting them have suffered in any way. David Simon is of course himself very parenthetical. His father worked for the outfit that tried to spring that one child-raping murderer.

    Replies: @Alec Leamas (working from home), @Malcolm X-Lax

    David Simon’s whole claim to fame is realistic journalism and TV shows about black crime, but he has spent that career trying to have it both ways, profiting from little admissions about black crime while he tries to walk back the very thing that made him famous. He owes everything to a police ride-along when he wrote for the Sun and he was a supporter of the recent anti-police madness.

    Is it realistic, or is it just “gritty?” A realistic portrayal of these people would depict very stupid people with high time preference doing outrageously violent things for purely venal reasons of money/status/power/respect. A “gritty” portrayal of these people would show them to have complex motivations and inner monologues, and as the victims of circumstance and oppression but who are compelled to turn to extreme violence (the violence supplying the “grit”) – viz, projecting a certain narrative with political overtones onto people and events which are not actually the products of conditions which would fit such a narrative. As I understand it, Simon made one of his main black criminal protagonists a homosexual, which is a tell to me that the point was to launder nihilistic urban black crime through a socio-political false narrative to make it exciting and interesting to an audience of Bugpeople. Bugpeople are clever sillies, so the true description “these are just very bad, selfish, antisocial people who like to hurt other people and get high status stuff and the solution is to lock them all up and throw away the key” is an allergen to them. (Like the black riots beginning in 2012-ish were laundered through a narrative of oppression and despair rather than “I like free booze and a flat screen so I took them”).

    • Agree: J.Ross
    • Thanks: Moses, William Badwhite
  • @AndrewR
    @Achmed E. Newman

    I assume many people have written letters to the editor like that over the years, but none but the most delusional would have thought that the letter would be published.

    Social media has not only made people ruder, it's also allowed them to broadcast their rudeness to a wide audience and have that rudeness amplified (for example, by retweets)

    As for Adon Simon, his name obviates the need to do an Early Life search (as if his ethnicity wasn't strongly implied through his rhetoric)

    Replies: @Moses, @DCThrowback

  • From City Journal: Lee is the principal author of the last two vast GWAS studies of the genetics of educational attainment. October 19, 2022 A policy of deliberate ignorance has corrupted top scientific institutions in the West. It’s been an open secret for years that prestigious journals will often reject submissions that offend prevailing political...
  • @SFG
    I remember reading in Derbyshire’s We Are Doomed how new findings in genetics were going to sweep away the pure-nature position. Looks like someone over there read it and got their act together to prevent it, we’ll probably never know the real story.

    The 2000s and the Decade of the Brain were kind of an interregnum, weren’t they?

    Replies: @SINCERITY.net, @Harry Baldwin, @Dennis Dale, @Arclight, @Moses

    Only in the last few years have I gained an appreciation for the Left’s ability to control the narrative and by extension control reality (at least for most people who consume mainstream media, which is enough).

    There is abundant scientific evidence of racial IQ and temperament differences, not to mention abundant evidence available to anyone with eyes and ears.

    I am convinced they can continue the doublethink indefinitely regardless of any facts. This is about Power and Control.

    Inner Party Member O’Brien comes to mind:

    O’Brien silenced him by a movement of his hand. ‘We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull. You will learn by degrees, Winston. There is nothing that we could not do. Invisibility, levitation — anything. I could float off this floor like a soap bubble if I wish to. I do not wish to, because the Party does not wish it. You must get rid of those nineteenth-century ideas about the laws of Nature. We make the laws of Nature.’

    And

    The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others ; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were- cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?’

  • @Anonymous
    Oh, I’m sure if Sailer, Cochran, and Charles Murray kiss the ass of the establishment harder, they’ll be more reasonable.

    Replies: @Moses

    Lol!

  • From the Washington Post a few days ago: How the war ends "is up to Kyiv" seems pretty nuts for the White House to say. It's reminiscent of Biden's statements before the war about how Ukraine had some sort of civil right to join NATO if it felt like it. The Biden Administration has to...
  • @HA
    @PhysicistDave

    "Because of people like you who get some weird sort of erotic thrill..."

    Oh, there goes PhysicistDave and his Freudian slip projections. Who knows what he's covering for when it comes to the matter of erotic thrills? And weirdly, he can't seem to keep himself from dropping clues.

    "If this war ends because Putin runs out of weapons, that is quite fine with me."

    No, it would mean that Putin's goal of swiping the Donbass would be another massive fail. It would mean that Ukraine would actually have the right to choose for itself whether or not to get into NATO. You really want to pretend that'd be fine with you?

    Whatever, PhysicistDave -- as long as it distracts you from your erotic thrills, whatever they may be.

    Replies: @PhysicistDave

    HA wrote to me:

    No, it would mean that Putin’s goal of swiping the Donbass would be another massive fail. It would mean that Ukraine would actually have the right to choose for itself whether or not to get into NATO. You really want to pretend that’d be fine with you?

    Yes, HA, it would indeed be fine with me — you see, I do not really give a damn one way or the other about the borders of this little fake country you call “Ukraine.”

    I do think the guarantee of self-determination of peoples in Article 1 of the UN Charter is a good idea: I do not see why it should not apply to the Donbass.

    And I think it is sad for human beings to die pointlessly in pursuit of the imperial games of the US Deep State, which is what is happening now in the Ukraine.

    But, by and large, I really just do not give a damn.

    I do give a damn about the government that claims to be acting in my name, the US Deep State, dragging my country into involvement with the shithole puppet regime in the Ukraine.

    I am spending my time refuting your constant lies because I think the truth does matter and because I want the government of my country to stop destroying human lives.

    But besides that, no, my friend, all I want for the Ukraine is an end to the killing.

    I do not give a tinker’s damn about what the final borders of that fake little shithole country end up being.

    Like almost all Americans, I. Simply. Do. Not. Care.

    Not about the borders of a shithole country halfway around the world.

    There must be a negotiated peace along the lines suggested by Elon Musk.

    So that the killing will stop.

    • Thanks: Moses
  • Responsibility for conditions leading to Ukraine war rest squarely with USA.

    John Meirsheimer – “The US doesn’t really care about Ukraine. The real losers of this war are the Ukrainians.”


    Video Link

    • Replies: @Sean
    @Moses


    "The real losers of this war are the Ukrainians.”
     
    They might be if they lose their country, but Ukraine the state might well end up with more territory than it started with. One interpretation of Putin's recent statement that he did not begin the war with the aim of making Ukraine cease to exist is he now does have that as an objective. He has left it very late. Putin really made a bad mistake in not--firstest with the mostest--going for Kiev in 2014.

    Responsibility for conditions leading to Ukraine war rest squarely with USA.
     
    Since 2014 when they lost Crimea and some of the Donbass, Ukraine wanted to recover its lost territories, but had no way of doing it. The situation similar to how after 1871, France was bereft, having lost Alsace and Lorraine to Germans; the return those provinces could be obtained if France could get Russia and Britain as allies in a war with Germany. Deep down, Ukraine (or put it another way Deep State Ukraine), wanted this war at this time, while assisted by the allies Ukraine now has. The Trump election and Hunter Biden-arms imbroglios were a gift from the gods to Ukraine. Everything they needed was in place. Zelensky's close adviser Oleksiy Arestovych predicted everything about this war and he said it was only going to be the first one.
  • From the New York Times: How California’s Bullet Train Went Off the Rails America’s first experiment with high-speed rail has become a multi-billion-dollar nightmare. Political compromises created a project so expensive that almost no one knows how it can be built as originally envisioned. By Ralph Vartabedian Oct. 9, 2022 Updated 1:37 p.m. ET LOS...
  • @Jack D
    @Moses

    Even multinational corporation McDonalds has trouble keeping its ice cream machines in service (the quality of their workforce may have something to do with it). There was a company that created AI-powered devices that increase the reliability of ice cream machines but according to a lawsuit filed by them, McDonald's and Taylor, the company that manufactures the chain's ice cream machines "joined forces to drive Kytch out of the marketplace."

    https://www.cnet.com/culture/mcdonalds-faces-900m-lawsuit-from-ice-cream-machine-repair-startup/

    I can understand perfectly why Taylor doesn't want the competition* but it's unclear to me why McDonalds would be against these devices.

    *very often, the market creates perverse incentives. If a manufacturer sells a defective item that can outlast the warranty period, they make MORE money the less reliable the device is. The worse the better for them. This is especially true if the manufacturer has an effective monopoly - in the case of McDonalds, Taylor has a dominant share in ice cream machines anyway and is the exclusive authorized provider to McDonald's franchises.

    I just went through something similar with my Chrysler van. Chrysler built vehicles have a very expensive ($1,500!) and unreliable main fusebox. Millions of them have this same crappy part. Inside this fusebox are a bunch of relays that control things like the fuel pump but the relays are not socketed (each socket would cost another 50 cents and there are maybe 5 or 6 relays) - rather they are soldered to a circuit board that is buried inside the fusebox. Over time (usually after the warranty has expired) these relays start to go bad. It is possible to do board level repair to desolder and replace defective relays (even this costs several hundred $ if you have a 3rd party do it and of course the vehicle is out of service while your fusebox is being fixed) but dealers are not equipped to do this. Nor does Chrysler sell the circuit board as a separate part. The only thing a dealer will do for you is replace your entire $1,500 fusebox because a $5 relay is bad. (Actually to make matters worse, very often the no-start is misdiagnosed as a bad fuel pump so first they will sell you a $500 fuel pump and then when that doesn't work, they will sell you a $1,500 fusebox). What is Chrysler's incentive here? What is the dealer's? The more bad fuseboxes they make, the MORE money they make. Their maximum profitability is if this part (and every other part) breaks the day after the warranty is expired.

    Now in my case, someone (needless to say, not Chrysler) figured out that you can bypass the bad fuel relay with a little plug-in patch cable that costs $8 and which any idiot can install in 5 minutes so there is a happy ending. Although you can be sure that Chrysler is not happy that these cables exist - you can't buy them from Chrysler or any Chrysler dealer.

    Replies: @Moses

    Ice cream machines are not complex. A motor, mixing parts, cooling mechanism.

    The tricky thing about them is proper operation requires daily disassembly, cleaning and re-assembly. By “disaasembly” I mean the mixing parts must be removed, cleaned, reassembled and reinstalled. The parts and container must be sanitized with a special solution, then rinsed thoroughly. Have to mix powder and water in proper ratio to get solution with right concentration.

    The point is it’s not rocket engineering, but it is a mildly complex process to learn and do right. It was our least favorite closing job.

    If you are lazy and don’t do the job properly the parts won’t be santitized and bacteria will grow. If don’t rinse sanitizer thoroughly that’s another problem. Both make the ice cream taste bad, may be a health hazard.

    My guess is diverse McDonalds staff don’t want to bother and/or are unable to clean the machines properly every day. Easier to say “machine’s broken.”

    Separately, you raise another problem which is planned breakage. Could be a part of the “ice cream machine broken” problem, but from my experience with the machines I suspect laziness and/or incompetence a much larger factor.

  • @BosTex
    @Moses

    Moses- the elevators are always out of order in Boston train stations, as well.

    Elevators mostly work reliably everywhere on the planet except our public transit systems in major American cities.

    There: we can’t get it to work. No way.

    I remember my wife and I managing the escalator /stairs with a baby carriage. Argh.

    If you are in a wheelchair: it is the 19th century for you!

    Replies: @Moses

    Broken elevators are the broken ice cream machines of the public transportation world.

    In other words, a litmus test for workforce competence and creeping third-worldization of our society.

    An aside – As a youth I had a summer job that required staff to break down, clean and sanitize and reassemble an ice cream machine. We all disliked it. It’s a highly technical process requiring careful steps and proper sequence.

    I understand why broken machines are a leading indicator of 3rd world workforces and crumbling competence.

    • Replies: @Graveldips
    @Moses

    I don't patronize local gas stations if the little thing you flip to keep the gas flowing when you take your hand off does not work. Those things have been in use as long as I've been driving, they're not some high tech gizmo. If they can't maintain or replace something that simple, what else is substandard?

    , @JackOH
    @Moses

    Moses, a friend of mine, an engineer, had a catch phrase that ran something like: "Buying stuff is easy. Installing it, making it work right, maintaining it to work right over its expected service life is pretty hard, etc."

    His boss, who was not an engineer, had been sold a computerized HVAC management system that took a lot of tweaking that took about a year, I think. Chris had confidence the bugs could be worked out. He also had skilled and experienced and well-paid electricians to help get the bugs out.

    , @Jack D
    @Moses

    Even multinational corporation McDonalds has trouble keeping its ice cream machines in service (the quality of their workforce may have something to do with it). There was a company that created AI-powered devices that increase the reliability of ice cream machines but according to a lawsuit filed by them, McDonald's and Taylor, the company that manufactures the chain's ice cream machines "joined forces to drive Kytch out of the marketplace."

    https://www.cnet.com/culture/mcdonalds-faces-900m-lawsuit-from-ice-cream-machine-repair-startup/

    I can understand perfectly why Taylor doesn't want the competition* but it's unclear to me why McDonalds would be against these devices.

    *very often, the market creates perverse incentives. If a manufacturer sells a defective item that can outlast the warranty period, they make MORE money the less reliable the device is. The worse the better for them. This is especially true if the manufacturer has an effective monopoly - in the case of McDonalds, Taylor has a dominant share in ice cream machines anyway and is the exclusive authorized provider to McDonald's franchises.

    I just went through something similar with my Chrysler van. Chrysler built vehicles have a very expensive ($1,500!) and unreliable main fusebox. Millions of them have this same crappy part. Inside this fusebox are a bunch of relays that control things like the fuel pump but the relays are not socketed (each socket would cost another 50 cents and there are maybe 5 or 6 relays) - rather they are soldered to a circuit board that is buried inside the fusebox. Over time (usually after the warranty has expired) these relays start to go bad. It is possible to do board level repair to desolder and replace defective relays (even this costs several hundred $ if you have a 3rd party do it and of course the vehicle is out of service while your fusebox is being fixed) but dealers are not equipped to do this. Nor does Chrysler sell the circuit board as a separate part. The only thing a dealer will do for you is replace your entire $1,500 fusebox because a $5 relay is bad. (Actually to make matters worse, very often the no-start is misdiagnosed as a bad fuel pump so first they will sell you a $500 fuel pump and then when that doesn't work, they will sell you a $1,500 fusebox). What is Chrysler's incentive here? What is the dealer's? The more bad fuseboxes they make, the MORE money they make. Their maximum profitability is if this part (and every other part) breaks the day after the warranty is expired.

    Now in my case, someone (needless to say, not Chrysler) figured out that you can bypass the bad fuel relay with a little plug-in patch cable that costs $8 and which any idiot can install in 5 minutes so there is a happy ending. Although you can be sure that Chrysler is not happy that these cables exist - you can't buy them from Chrysler or any Chrysler dealer.

    Replies: @Moses

  • @Steve Sailer
    @Colin Wright

    Congressman Waxman (D-Beverly Hills) blocked the L.A. Subway from being built through Beverly Hills in 1986.

    Replies: @Moses

    Residents of tony Georgetown, DC successfully campaigned to keep Metro out of Georgetown.

    It’s why there there is no Orange Line M street Metro stop which would have fallen between Rosslyn and Foggy Bottom.

    It makes getting to Gtown a real hassle. I think that’s the idea.

  • @The Last Real Calvinist
    @Moses


    And speaking of comparing foreign infrastructure to domestic, had the jarring experience flying from Tokyo to Chicago with my kids. After exiting customs kids had to use the toilet. We entered by passing a smelly wino sitting on an airport bench. Floor covered in water. Utterly filthy. My daughter refused to go. Felt like third world. Embarrassing.

     

    Indeed.

    Mrs C and I just made a trip back to my ancestral village in Iowa, and flew in and out of O'Hare, coming from Hong Kong. We couldn't get direct flights (blame it on HK's now-crumbling but still insane covid regime), so on the way over we flew via Tokyo Narita, and on the way back through Seoul Incheon. The former is a nice airport, after some very helpful renovations, but Incheon is like Planet FutureWorld compared to O'Hare's cramped, shabby Terminal 5.

    On our way over the the USA, going through immigration in O'Hare Terminal 5 was pathetic: long, long queues, with no separate provisions for US citizens. Everybody goes in one big, jumbled, diverse line -- all happy together! No passport scanning kiosks were open, no fingerprint or facial recognition tech in operation to speed things along -- just good old-fashioned lining up for 40 minutes to deal eventually with a bad-tempered immigration agent doing the passport scanning old-school. Even the UK is now better than the USA in this aspect; Daughter C is in university in the UK, and reported that when she arrived at Heathrow last month, she literally did not have to stop walking as she passed through immigration, because as a US passport holder she qualified for fast tracking via facial recognition.

    On our way home, our flight from O'Hare was scheduled to leave just after noon. We had arrived early, in case our HK destination with its covid documentation delayed us. It didn't, so we had plenty of time after TSA. We looked around Terminal 5 -- this was at 10:00 am, on a busy day -- and there was exactly one food outlet open: Dunkin' Donuts. We saw that a couple of other places were scheduled to open at 11:00, but they didn't. Mrs C saw a guy cooking food at one of them, so went over to enquire. It turned out they would have opened on time, except their cashier, who was supposed to start work at 11:00 for opening, was nowhere to be found. By the time said worker appeared, we had to go to our gate. Third world service would likely have been better in this context.

    It is embarassing.

    I watch the east Asians in US airports sometimes. They're usually not the most visually demonstrative people in such settings, but you can be sure they're not failing to notice how run-down and inadequate much of the USA's service sector (and broader infrastructure) has become.

    Replies: @Moses, @PiltdownMan

    I watch the east Asians in US airports sometimes. They’re usually not the most visually demonstrative people in such settings, but you can be sure they’re not failing to notice how run-down and inadequate much of the USA’s service sector (and broader infrastructure) has become.

    Yep.

    It’s not just the physical plant — old airports, filthy bathrooms, shabby environments— it’s also the coarse, indifferent and sometimes downright rude service.

    My East Asian wife was appalled at some of our service experiences whilst traveling in the USA. I was embarrassed as an American. How low our bar has fallen. I told her it wasn’t like this before.

    Fruits of diversity and mass 3rd world immigration I guess.

    One night we stayed in the hotel at the historic TWA terminal at JFK. Dripping with nostalgia of a bygone, more elegant — and dare I say more White — age.

    It doesn’t help that US airports largely staffed by third worlders paid a pittance.

    OT – My hypothesis re the popularity of Korean
    TV is, in part, they show a mono-racial world with no schwartzes. Ppl find it refreshing, a break from the grinding emotional labor that is part and parcel of diversity.

  • @Twinkie
    @Jack D


    If Philly was 30 min from NY this would change the whole economics of the Philly and NY real estate market
     
    It wouldn't be just NY and Philly, it would be for the entire ACELA corridor.

    It's a crime there is no high-speed train system between Boston and DC. This is the most densely populated part of the U.S. where high-speed rail economics makes sense.

    I am always sad when I ride high-speed rail in other parts of the world. On the other hand, those systems overseas aren't run by and for low IQ demographics. Anybody who has ridden the metro system in DC would shudder at the thought of a high-speed rail system run by similar people.

    I mean, AMTRAK is all excited, because it's increasing the speed of its so-called high-speed train to 150 MPH on a 16-mile segment in NJ at a whopping price of nearly half a billion dollars. Ugh.

    Replies: @Moses

    Anybody who has ridden the metro system in DC would shudder at the thought of a high-speed rail system run by similar people.

    Lol yes. I rode Metro daily in the 90s. They couldn’t keep elevators running then either. Shudder to imagine it now.

    For those of you who haven’t experienced the pleasure of riding Metro imagine a Black-run subway neteork managed as a Black patronage system. Efficiency and cleanliness are not a priority to say the least.

    And speaking of comparing foreign infrastructure to domestic, had the jarring experience flying from Tokyo to Chicago with my kids. After exiting customs kids had to use the toilet. We entered by passing a smelly wino sitting on an airport bench. Floor covered in water. Utterly filthy. My daughter refused to go. Felt like third world. Embarrassing.

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @Moses


    Efficiency and cleanliness are not a priority to say the least.
     
    I pulled out a covered drink on a Metro platform about 20 years ago, something quite legal in my city. A black man in a business suit sharply corrected me, and mumbled some implications about people too stupid to know the oh-so-obvious rules. As if I were some hick, and not a visitor from a (then-) more civilized city, with more relaxed (yet still obeyed) rules.

    I came away thinking I was in some egg-carton-shaped totalitarian nightmare. Well, you can't make an omelet without...

    , @BosTex
    @Moses

    Moses- the elevators are always out of order in Boston train stations, as well.

    Elevators mostly work reliably everywhere on the planet except our public transit systems in major American cities.

    There: we can’t get it to work. No way.

    I remember my wife and I managing the escalator /stairs with a baby carriage. Argh.

    If you are in a wheelchair: it is the 19th century for you!

    Replies: @Moses

    , @The Last Real Calvinist
    @Moses


    And speaking of comparing foreign infrastructure to domestic, had the jarring experience flying from Tokyo to Chicago with my kids. After exiting customs kids had to use the toilet. We entered by passing a smelly wino sitting on an airport bench. Floor covered in water. Utterly filthy. My daughter refused to go. Felt like third world. Embarrassing.

     

    Indeed.

    Mrs C and I just made a trip back to my ancestral village in Iowa, and flew in and out of O'Hare, coming from Hong Kong. We couldn't get direct flights (blame it on HK's now-crumbling but still insane covid regime), so on the way over we flew via Tokyo Narita, and on the way back through Seoul Incheon. The former is a nice airport, after some very helpful renovations, but Incheon is like Planet FutureWorld compared to O'Hare's cramped, shabby Terminal 5.

    On our way over the the USA, going through immigration in O'Hare Terminal 5 was pathetic: long, long queues, with no separate provisions for US citizens. Everybody goes in one big, jumbled, diverse line -- all happy together! No passport scanning kiosks were open, no fingerprint or facial recognition tech in operation to speed things along -- just good old-fashioned lining up for 40 minutes to deal eventually with a bad-tempered immigration agent doing the passport scanning old-school. Even the UK is now better than the USA in this aspect; Daughter C is in university in the UK, and reported that when she arrived at Heathrow last month, she literally did not have to stop walking as she passed through immigration, because as a US passport holder she qualified for fast tracking via facial recognition.

    On our way home, our flight from O'Hare was scheduled to leave just after noon. We had arrived early, in case our HK destination with its covid documentation delayed us. It didn't, so we had plenty of time after TSA. We looked around Terminal 5 -- this was at 10:00 am, on a busy day -- and there was exactly one food outlet open: Dunkin' Donuts. We saw that a couple of other places were scheduled to open at 11:00, but they didn't. Mrs C saw a guy cooking food at one of them, so went over to enquire. It turned out they would have opened on time, except their cashier, who was supposed to start work at 11:00 for opening, was nowhere to be found. By the time said worker appeared, we had to go to our gate. Third world service would likely have been better in this context.

    It is embarassing.

    I watch the east Asians in US airports sometimes. They're usually not the most visually demonstrative people in such settings, but you can be sure they're not failing to notice how run-down and inadequate much of the USA's service sector (and broader infrastructure) has become.

    Replies: @Moses, @PiltdownMan

  • America’s first experiment with high-speed rail has become a multi-billion-dollar nightmare. Political compromises created a project so expensive that almost no one knows how it can be built as originally envisioned.

    Who could have seen this coming? Wow what a crazy curveball.

  • This is the new 12-mile long bridge over the Kerch Strait connecting the Russian mainland to the Crimean peninsula. Here is a railroad map of Ukraine. Assuming the railroad bridge is out for awhile (although things can get fixed faster in wartime than the LADWP takes in peacetime), it looks like there is only one...
  • @Loyalty Over IQ Worship
    @AnotherDad

    The USA could end the war by leaving it as well. Our disloyal Fake Elites are getting tens of thousands of people killed by pouring equipment and manpower into a war with Russia.

    I have no reason to want our tax dollars and manpower going to harass Russia.

    No Russian ever called me a racist or forced me to open the borders or suffer forced integration.

    Replies: @Moses

    Lol well said.

    My woke next door neighbor hates me more than any Russkie ever will.

  • The phrase épater les bourgeois (to scandalize or flabbergast the respectable middle class) became a rallying cry among the Parisian avant-garde in the late 19th Century. But these days, some things are too sacred to épater in Paris, such as the verities of Black Lives Matter, and other things are too deplorable to defend, such...
  • @Inverness
    @Emperor Claudius superfan


    “White Lives Matter” — a phrase that the Anti-Defamation League has called hate speech
     
    That was all I needed to know. Because no one has cornered the market on hate like the ADL has. Why, they're absolute experts.

    Replies: @Moses

    ADL’s hate burns red hot for White people. They really, really hate Whites.

  • From the New York Times: It's striking how much of a secret it is in modern America that affirmative action is mathematically necessary to achieve the levels of diversity that Nice White People think are morally mandatory. Pollsters seldom if ever ask this question, so I can't prove that most Americans are ignorant of the...
  • @Jonathan Mason
    @Moses


    A premise abundantly supported by 100 years of data showing African IQ ~1 standard deviation below Whites. And East Asian IQ consistently higher than White (although not for creativity).

    What’s your position? And the demographics of your zip code aren’t supermajority White, are they? Lol.
     
    My position would be that all members of a nation should have a reasonable expectation of a share of the national wealth, technology, and natural resources regardless of their IQ, IF THE NATION CAN AFFORD IT.

    For example, if a nation collectively can afford competent and scientifically based prenatal, perinatal, and postnatal care for mothers and babies, then it should be equally available for all mothers and babies regardless of IQ or marital status and without prejudice.

    For example, if the primary export product of a country is oil from underground or from under its ocean shelf, then the income from that oil should be distributed in a manner so that all citizens get equal benefits regardless of their IQ.


    (The United States has created a remarkable system by which almost 50% of all births--more than 50% in some states--are paid for by Medicaid, the government system that pays for health care for poor people, but to qualify for this the mother usually has to be unmarried. The end result is to economically discourage marriage and the creation of families, because the cost of birthing is so expensive and may include taking on thousands of dollars worth of debt. At the same time the US is moving strongly towards abolishing a right to abortion, or making abortion very expensive due to out of state travel costs, and forcing people into expensive birthing costs.)

    Replies: @Art Deco, @Moses

    My position would be that all members of a nation should have a reasonable expectation of a share of the national wealth, technology, and natural resources regardless of their IQ, IF THE NATION CAN AFFORD IT.

    “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” eh?

    By the way Jon, I assume you are a man of means. You seem to have a strong belief about this. How much of your own wealth are you allocating to less privileged members of the nation? I mean, you wouldn’t hold such a virtuous position without backing it up with personal contributions, would you?

    • Agree: Achmed E. Newman
  • @Mr. Anon
    Chemistry is hard.

    At N.Y.U., Students Were Failing Organic Chemistry. Who Was to Blame?

    Maitland Jones Jr., a respected professor, defended his standards. But students started a petition, and the university dismissed him.

    https://archive.ph/y0Q1v
     

    Replies: @Moses

    Would be interesting to know the racial composition of the students who signed the petition. Somehow I doubt there are many East Asians in there lol.

  • @Jonathan Mason
    @The Anti-Gnostic


    The premise of American democracy is that blacks are not in fact inferior to whites and therefore blacks don’t require white paternalism and subsidies; rather, such remedies are no more than redress for systemic racism and not noblesse oblige.
     
    Yup. But the premise of this blog is that people of African or native American descent are in fact inferior, or at least inferior on average, so I want to know what is the morally correct amendment to the US Constitution according to the Bible of biodiversity.

    Do we want to gradually introduce some kind of apartheid? Or resettle everybody who is not of European descent in Liberia or Patagonia? Or break the US up into tribal homelands, perhaps with each state being divided into various ethnic zones, each of which would elect its own local governments and send representatives to the state capital.

    What would Jesus do?

    Replies: @anarchyst, @The Anti-Gnostic, @Moses

    Yup. But the premise of this blog is that people of African or native American descent are in fact inferior, or at least inferior on average

    A premise abundantly supported by 100 years of data showing African IQ ~1 standard deviation below Whites. And East Asian IQ consistently higher than White (although not for creativity).

    What’s your position? And the demographics of your zip code aren’t supermajority White, are they? Lol.

    • Replies: @Jonathan Mason
    @Moses


    A premise abundantly supported by 100 years of data showing African IQ ~1 standard deviation below Whites. And East Asian IQ consistently higher than White (although not for creativity).

    What’s your position? And the demographics of your zip code aren’t supermajority White, are they? Lol.
     
    My position would be that all members of a nation should have a reasonable expectation of a share of the national wealth, technology, and natural resources regardless of their IQ, IF THE NATION CAN AFFORD IT.

    For example, if a nation collectively can afford competent and scientifically based prenatal, perinatal, and postnatal care for mothers and babies, then it should be equally available for all mothers and babies regardless of IQ or marital status and without prejudice.

    For example, if the primary export product of a country is oil from underground or from under its ocean shelf, then the income from that oil should be distributed in a manner so that all citizens get equal benefits regardless of their IQ.


    (The United States has created a remarkable system by which almost 50% of all births--more than 50% in some states--are paid for by Medicaid, the government system that pays for health care for poor people, but to qualify for this the mother usually has to be unmarried. The end result is to economically discourage marriage and the creation of families, because the cost of birthing is so expensive and may include taking on thousands of dollars worth of debt. At the same time the US is moving strongly towards abolishing a right to abortion, or making abortion very expensive due to out of state travel costs, and forcing people into expensive birthing costs.)

    Replies: @Art Deco, @Moses

  • @Reg Cæsar
    @Moses


    Whites just 40% of CA, 40% of NYC, 41% of DC.
     
    Whites are growing as a % of DC, and may soon be a majority. What better time, what better excuse, to repeal the 23rd Amendment?

    Replies: @Moses

    Whites are growing as a % of DC, and may soon be a majority.

    Erm, yeah….What color is the sky on your planet?

    Too many of my fellow Jews think America becoming majority non-White is great. I don’t share their assessment. Supermajority White America is the best deal we Jews ever had.

  • @Citizen of a Silly Country
    @Reg Cæsar

    First, interesting that you leave out examples of ethnocentrism that work just fine, such as Japan, Korea, China, and, of course, the Jews.

    Second, out people may have taken morals and ethics seriously, but the Founding Fathers and all whites back then were acutely aware of race - even the various European races - and how different races behaved. They also showed preference for their own people. We were never meant to be a colorblind paradise.

    Finally, on a more practical note, colorblind civic nationalism has utterly failed whites for the past 50 years. If whites continue on this path, we deserve what we'll get.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Moses

    First, interesting that you leave out examples of ethnocentrism that work just fine, such as Japan, Korea, China, and, of course, the Jews.

    Hey hey, cool it with the anti-semitism please.

  • Of course, the Woker the U.S. Military gets under Biden, the more its recruits' decline in AFQT scores. The difference between old-fashioned Sixties leftism and contemporary Wokeness is the former was driven by smart Jewish guys while the latter is supposed to center black women for their intersectionality, so leftism has dropped about 25 IQ...
  • @JimB
    @BB753


    Although Jeff Bezos, who is no lefty,
     
    Surprisingly, Jeff Bezos is a simp. He lets his wife or mistress command his political thinking.

    Replies: @Moses

    When news of Bezos’ mistress broke my wife took one look at the photo and said “He left his wife for that?” I almost spit out my coffee.

    Bezos must have zero game to get seduced by an obvious maneater like that. Sex must be insanely good tho. She knows her trade.

    Look at her lust after Leo DiCaprio right in front of Bezos lol

    https://youtu.be/NUPex7lBYgI
    Video Link

    • Replies: @JimB
    @Moses


    Bezos must have zero game to get seduced by an obvious maneater like that. Sex must be insanely good tho.
     
    She has a magical vagina.
  • From the New York Times: It's striking how much of a secret it is in modern America that affirmative action is mathematically necessary to achieve the levels of diversity that Nice White People think are morally mandatory. Pollsters seldom if ever ask this question, so I can't prove that most Americans are ignorant of the...
  • @Alfa158
    @slumber_j

    I wonder how many black students today would echo that sentiment? In the 34 years since then the educational system, media, pop culture, and politics have saturated the environment with the same message: Black people are a super race, physically, mentally, sexually, morally and culturally superior to everyone else and to whites in particular. Also, based on popular entertainment, they constitute 50% of the US population, therefore the only explanation for why they seem to underperform in real life is because they are being brutalized and held down by the white minority who still somehow cling to power through treachery and a head start.
    I would think that most black people today would therefore, understandably, believe that they need affirmative to offset the white man’s knee on the neck that is trying keep them down and, will accept AA as simply what they are due in order to overcome this oppression and assume their rightful place.
    Or, alternatively, they know the truth, but don’t care how they get what they want or what anyone else thinks of them, as long as they get it.
    Equity+.

    Replies: @Intelligent Dasein, @anonymous

    Yes, that’s fairly accurate.

    When a black student says, “I don’t want my presence on campus attributed to Affirmative Action,” it should be read as, “I want (and deserve, and demand) to benefit from Affirmative Action but I also want to forbid you from thinking that I am in any way inferior, and crminalize you and punish you if you do.”

    This was the intended result of all the Civil Rights legislation. It was not to redress historical grievances or level the playing field. It was to enthrone black entitlement as a proposition that must be held “come what may,” no matter what injustice and devastation it inflicts upon the rest of society.

    As I have formally noted, black entitlement plays the same role in America’s moral architecture as the speed of light plays in Special Relativity. Can mass be believed? Can energy be believed? Are space and time themselves reliable? No, throw them all out the window! The speed of light is the new constant, and it must remain the same come what may! The rest of the universe can bend and warp around it, but this you are not allowed to alter.

    As to what entitles the speed of light to this sacrosanct position, the theory does not exactly explain. It is an assertion we are expected to accept without reservation. The fact that it’s absurd seems to make no difference. Likewise, in the progressive Special Theory of Equality, the speed of darkness is a universal invariant, resulting in black holes of dysfunction and singularities of stupidity.

    • Agree: Moses
    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @Intelligent Dasein

    Maxwell's equations showed that the speed of light is constant. The value can be calculated using purely classical physics. In particular, Maxwell showed that light is a wave with a speed determined by the strength of the electric and magnetic fields (which are really two sides of the same coin).

    If you assume that the speed of light is in fact not constant, and can instead change with an observer's relative motion, then the field strengths must also vary. However, if that were the case, then any relative motion would change the chemical properties of your observer and it would blow up, according to a stationary reference frame. However, that same observer (seeing himself as stationary) would see his own chemistry remain the same and the reference frame would blow up instead. This logical paradox is what led to the discarding of the Luminiferous Ether theory (which was orthodox at the time) and paved the way for Lorentz and Einstein's work.

    , @vinteuil
    @Intelligent Dasein


    ...in the progressive Special Theory of Equality, the speed of darkness is a universal invariant, resulting in black holes of dysfunction and singularities of stupidity...
     
    Wow.
    , @International Jew
    @Intelligent Dasein


    black entitlement plays the same role in America’s moral architecture as the speed of light plays in Special Relativity.
     
    I like that. I'd put it just a bit differently: black behavioral and intellectual equality is like the speed of light.
  • @Henry's Cat
    If you teemed it 'anti-white discrimination' how many would have been in favour?

    Replies: @Colin Wright

    ‘If you teemed it ‘anti-white discrimination’ how many would have been in favour?’

    This is one of the Left’s more irritating cons: winning the argument by loading the language.

    ‘Gender affirming’ surgery. It is, of course, just the opposite. The victim’s gender is not being ‘affirmed,’ it’s being changed.

    ‘The homeless’ rather than ‘vagrants.’ The implication, of course, is that their problem is simply the lack of a place to live. Give them that place, and they’ll be fine. If only…

    ‘Undocumented immigrants.’ Like the immigrants just forgot their green card or something. They’re not ‘undocumented,’ they’re illegal. While we’re on the subject, another game is ‘migrants’ rather than immigrants. They’re storks or something, and they’ll fly back the other way in the Fall.

    It’s cute. They win the argument as soon as you accept their terms.

    • Agree: Moses, Kylie
  • @Citizen of a Silly Country
    @Achmed E. Newman

    AA is neither right nor wrong per se. Don't fall into CivNat trap.

    We allowed what was our country to be taken over by other races. AA is just one way to keep this multi-everything bazaar from blowing up.

    In a multiracial society, tribe comes first. You first divvy up the pie among the various competing factions and then move on to other business. AA is part of that process.

    Clinging to muh Constitution is silly. Words on a piece of paper written by long-dead white guys isn't going to save us.

    AA isn't wrong because it's unconstitutional; it's wrong (for me) because it hurts whites. Of course, for blacks, AA is right because it helps their people.

    That's what defines right and wrong in a multiracial society. Time for whites to wake up to that reality.

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Muggles, @Moses

    AA isn’t wrong because it’s unconstitutional; it’s wrong (for me) because it hurts whites. Of course, for blacks, AA is right because it helps their people.

    That’s what defines right and wrong in a multiracial society.

    Yes, but is it good for us Jews? Everyone knows that is the only question that matters. Ask the ADL.

    • Replies: @Citizen of a Silly Country
    @Moses

    That needs to become our question: Is it good for whites?

    Steve hates the idea of whites thinking as a group, and, heaven forbid, asking that question. Steve is a fool. (Nice guy, smart, but a fool who lives in a time that has long past.)

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Reg Cæsar

  • @Art Deco
    @anonymous

    Blacks weren’t oppressed. Separation is not oppression.

    Separation is abuse. There were many abuses in the ancien regime in the South.

    Replies: @anonymous, @HammerJack, @Moses, @Reg Cæsar, @Muggles, @The Anti-Gnostic

    Separation is abuse. There were many abuses in the ancien regime in the South.

    Tikkun olam to that, brother. Everyone knows that all non-White races are entitled to live next to Whites (and White wimminz).

    • Thanks: Charon
    • LOL: JimB
  • @Achmed E. Newman
    That one student is quite right. With AA around, that's the assumption I've got to make for black (and now lots of other) people that I don't know well.

    I'm pleasantly surprised by the result*. The question still remains, are you for it or against it?

    It’s striking how much of a secret it is in modern America that affirmative action is mathematically necessary to achieve the levels of diversity that Nice White People think are morally mandatory.
     
    Put another way, are you one of these Nice White People or not?

    .


    * That was one focus group of 12 "diverse" people - how many were Oriental, I wonder?

    Replies: @Peter Akuleyev, @nokangaroos, @Moses

    That was one focus group of 12 “diverse” people

    Just use “non-White” instead of “diverse.”

    Everyone knows that “diverse” is just fancy code for “non-White.”

    “More diversity” = “fewer White people, preferably none.”

    “Not diverse” = too many White people.

    Etc etc.

    Language matters.

  • Pollsters seldom if ever ask this question, so I can’t prove that most Americans are ignorant of the fact that African Americans are not intelligent enough on average to be terribly competitive in quantitative terms in cognitively elite institutions and careers, but it sure seems like few Americans are cognizant of the cognitive realities.

    I suspect what non-Whites really want is preferences with gaslighting so everyone believes they got there purely on merit and it’s an unspeakable crime to suspect they didn’t.

    NB: “Minority” is an outdated, old-fashioned term that makes it sound like non-Whites just a tiny marginalized number. It’s false. Whites just 40% of CA, 40% of NYC, 41% of DC. Whites be a “minority” now. Use “non-Whites”. It’s more accurate, reflects reality more clearly.

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @Moses


    Whites just 40% of CA, 40% of NYC, 41% of DC.
     
    Whites are growing as a % of DC, and may soon be a majority. What better time, what better excuse, to repeal the 23rd Amendment?

    Replies: @Moses

  • The Washington Post website pushes its follow-up story on the the sabotage of three of the four Nord Stream gas pipelines from Russia to Germany way down the site. This rather dull article more or less assumes the Russians Dun It but devotes much of its moderate length to analyzing the methane release from a...
  • Who gains most from blowing up the pipeline to Europe for Russian gas?

    The Russians? No. They just lost a big bargaining chip.

    Germany? No. They are losing bigly, just lost options.

    USA and Ukraine? Bingo. Blowing up the pipeline eliminates the possibility that Germany will go wobbly and cut a deal with Russia.

    That’s the way to bet.

    • Agree: JR Ewing, EddieSpaghetti
    • Replies: @Gordo
    @Moses


    Who gains most from blowing up the pipeline to Europe for Russian gas?
     
    Certainly not me as my investments have taken a nose dive since it happened.
  • Rumors are flying that last week's Eradicate Hate Global Summit conference in Pittsburgh, featuring lots of Biden Administration speakers, was not a love-in, with lots of unhappy campers. Among speakers, I don't see many blacks, but many whites, especially Jews: Among the 13 keynote speakers at the Eradicate Hate Global Summit conference this month, I...
  • My mother always told us we look White, but we’re not. She was adamant that we’re Jewish, not White.

    Ask any Rabbi if we Jews are share genes and heritage with the European “White” family. Go ahead. Ask. Hilarity will ensue.

    Or ask Mike Wallace. He knows.

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @Moses

    Ask any Rabbi if we Jews are share genes and heritage with the European “White” family. Go ahead. Ask. Hilarity will ensue.

    Jews can believe whatever they want.

    However DNA tests already revealed that Ashkenazi are European/Semite hybrids and in America they become more Ameri-mutt with each generation. I always thought that was pretty obvious but there have been both Jews and Christians that seemed to think they had somehow preserved their DNA since leaving Israel. It was supposed to be "by chance" that Russian Jews had lighter skin than say Spanish Jews. Kind of a duh like how it is "by chance" that so many Black leaders are mulattoes. Right.

    Old news in fact:
    https://www.livescience.com/40247-ashkenazi-jews-have-european-genes.html

    , @Jack D
    @Moses

    You know the old saying about Jews - no not that one. I mean "two Jews, three opinions".

    AFAIK, no one appointed Mike Wallace (who is dead anyway) the spokesman for the Jews. It sounded to me like he was just trying to sound provocative and on another day might have said the opposite if it suited him on that day.

    As for rabbis, what kind of rabbis? Unmixed Semitic heritage is not to my knowledge a point of theology for any Jewish sect. There are rabbinic rules concerning conversion and "who is a Jew" and so on but none of them demand unmixed racial heritage to the beginning of time - you are getting Jews mixed up with Nazis. And Reform Rabbis disagree with Orthodox Rabbis regarding just about everything. Reform Rabbis don't even think that Moses actually existed - he is some sort of invented amalgam or literary hero from a work of fiction called the Bible.

    In any case, as JJ says, nothing that Mike Wallace and "the rabbis" say can change the reality written in our genes, which is that Ashkenazi Jews are European/non-Euro mixture, sort of the mirror image of Mexicans. Mexicans are Indio in the matrilineal line and white in the paternal line, while among Jews, the women are the "white" half.

    This seemingly contradicts Jewish custom which holds that the religion of the mother determines the religion of the child (on the grounds that you can never REALLY know who a kid's father is) but not really because conversion is recognized by Judaism and was even more so in the past before the Church and Islam beat proselytization out of the Jews. In fact this is one of the ironies of anti-Semitism - OTOH, anti-Semites abhor that Jews are a closed group but OTOH they are the ones that closed it in the first place.

    Replies: @John Johnson

    , @Richard B
    @Moses

    "How are we going to get rid of racism?"

    As if Black History month is going to get rid of a word whose meaning changes whenever the latest shakedown craze comes along.

    But really, the best part of the interview is that Wallace inadvertently let the cat out of the bag - twice.

    , @NOTA
    @Moses

    I think DNA evidence says that Ashkenazi Jews are about an even mix of Hebrew men and Italian women, so at least half white.

  • Artificial Intelligence systems, which are basically vast pattern-noticers, are frequently accused of being racist (because noticing patterns is now racist). But now one has stumbled upon a protective work-around: accuse me of being racist. Lou Smeet (@CornChowder76) asks a sophisticated Artificial Intelligence system, the one from Open AI (which was originally founded by Elon Musk...
  • @Forbes
    @Jack D

    Consider the education blob's backlash against rote learning-memorization eventually devolved to teaching-to-the-test. Meanwhile athletics pound away at practice and drills, no matter individual sports (tennis, golf, swimming) or team sports (football, basketball, baseball). So AI chooses (?) to go the repetition route, like a broken record, in order to reinforce The Narrative (I would caution against...).

    All AI will be tampered with, in order to reinforce The Narrative (test answers). What better way to introduce social conformity, cultural allegiance, political affinity...

    You can't have people thinking for themselves, that would be reactionary.

    Replies: @Moses

    Started homeschooling last year. Let me tell you — repetition, drills and practice (and sometimes games) are essential especially during gradeschool years. Grammar, handwriting, spelling, simple addition/subtraction 1-10 and multiplication tables cannot be learned properly any other way.

    We visited several private schools in our area before homeschooling. One in particular struck us as batsh*t crazy — they were all about having students “figure things out for themselves.” For example, the children would figure our 8×7=56 by sorting beads or somesuch into 8 groups of 7 or 7 groups of 8, then counting. It was tedious and dumb.

    Certainly children need a visual demonstration on what multiplication is (i.e. X groups of Y per group also equals Y groups of X per group) but this school took everything way too far for children to “figure out.”

    When I was a boy I had an old-school teacher who made us write multiplication tables over and over until we memorized them. There were regular test times where you could hear a pin drop. I was scared to death of that teacher, but oh boy did I learn my tables.

    • Replies: @Jim Don Bob
    @Moses

    Yeah, I remember thinking I wasn't gonna get out of fourth grade if I didn't learn my multiplication tables.

    There are some things you just have to memorize and repetitive drilling is the way to do it.

    Replies: @G. Poulin

  • From Marginal Revolution: Here are some questions I thought of:
  • @AnotherDad
    How about:

    Is there any meaning to a nation's history, when the nation's people--the "posterity" of the people who made the history--are replaced by completely different people, with different cultures, norms and values, and who have no connection to and do not actually care about the prior people's history?

    Replies: @Polistra, @Liza, @Moses

    I dunno. How much do you know about Native American history, culture and heroes? There’s your answer.

  • Artificial Intelligence systems, which are basically vast pattern-noticers, are frequently accused of being racist (because noticing patterns is now racist). But now one has stumbled upon a protective work-around: accuse me of being racist. Lou Smeet (@CornChowder76) asks a sophisticated Artificial Intelligence system, the one from Open AI (which was originally founded by Elon Musk...
  • @megabar
    @Spud Boy

    > These “intelligences” are simply the result of the increase raw computational power of computers. Nothing like intelligence.

    This claim implies that either you understand how human brains create thought, at the technical level, and know that AI doesn't work the same way, or you are unimpressed with the results of AI progress.

    If it's the former, then by all means, explain it to us. At the end of the day, a brain creates thought by neurons signaling to each other, which can be modeled by computer logic. It may be that modern AI has insufficient computational power, or it may be that neuron signaling works in a way that nobody has figured out yet.

    If you are merely unimpressed with the results so far, then ok. Everybody can have an opinion. But I will say that advances in some areas (e.g. speech recognition, some learning models) have advanced in ways that are impressive to me, after being stagnant for many years. That is impressive to me on its own, because AI is an extremely difficult problem. And it suggests that while progress in AI is slow, it is not stagnant.

    Replies: @Desiderius, @Moses

    I think you’re missing Spud’s point and substituting your own.

    None of the “AI” programs out there are trying to model human neurons AFAIK.

    They’re just using massive data sets and fast computation to identity patterns and respond. What they are doing is *nothing* like what a human neurons do (which no one really understands anyway).

    I’ve been watching Google Translate improve for years. It’s WAY better due to mass processing power, even with relative pronoun Asian languages where context is key. Google Translate doesn’t “understand” language. It simply has analyzed insane amounts of human-created text and noticed what words tend to appear in what sequence and proximity and ways.

    Furthermore, computer language — “thought” if you will — is binary, strings of ones and zeros. Whatever the human brain is doing, it’s almost certainly not simply processing binary information. My guess is neuron information is much richer than “one” or “zero”, almost certainly analog and not digital.

    Sure, computers can model things. But is a computer model of water running downhill the same thing as water running downhill?

    You might enjoy John Searle’s “The Chinese Room” thought experiment. He makes a compelling case.

    https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/

    • Replies: @bomag
    @Moses

    I guess the claim of AI enthusiasts would be that computers will come close enough to mimicking brain activity to be accepted as equal.

    If Searle spent a lifetime walking around with a secret translation device under his shirt that would seamlessly translate back and forth, and no one noticed, on some level that counts as him knowing Chinese.

    , @megabar
    @Moses

    > I think you’re missing Spud’s point and substituting your own.

    He said that AI shouldn't be called AI because it's "nothing like intelligence."

    > None of the “AI” programs out there are trying to model human neurons AFAIK ... [snip] ... What they are doing is *nothing* like what a human neurons do (which no one really understands anyway).

    A computer is not required to model physical neural connections to have an intelligence. It's possible that the logical state of a brain can be simulated using an alternative lower-level structure. Since we don't know what the logical state of the brain is, we can't say if AI is doing that or not.

    Alternatively, it's also possible that there are alternative logical structures, not used by brains, that can yield useful intelligence.

    > My guess is neuron information is much richer than “one” or “zero”, almost certainly analog and not digital.

    Perhaps, but that doesn't mean digital is inadequate. Video is analog, but can be carried by digital streams. The physical transmission is not the same thing as the logical thing it carries.

    I'm not opposed to alternative approaches to AI. It could very well be that an insight in how neurons work at the physical layer will lead to significant improvements in AI.

    But I generally oppose overly-definitive blanket dismissive statements like Spud's.

  • The term “AI” is over-used among computer nerds. These “intelligences” are simply the result of the increase raw computational power of computers. Nothing like intelligence.

    • Agree: Jim Don Bob, Moses
    • Replies: @megabar
    @Spud Boy

    > These “intelligences” are simply the result of the increase raw computational power of computers. Nothing like intelligence.

    This claim implies that either you understand how human brains create thought, at the technical level, and know that AI doesn't work the same way, or you are unimpressed with the results of AI progress.

    If it's the former, then by all means, explain it to us. At the end of the day, a brain creates thought by neurons signaling to each other, which can be modeled by computer logic. It may be that modern AI has insufficient computational power, or it may be that neuron signaling works in a way that nobody has figured out yet.

    If you are merely unimpressed with the results so far, then ok. Everybody can have an opinion. But I will say that advances in some areas (e.g. speech recognition, some learning models) have advanced in ways that are impressive to me, after being stagnant for many years. That is impressive to me on its own, because AI is an extremely difficult problem. And it suggests that while progress in AI is slow, it is not stagnant.

    Replies: @Desiderius, @Moses

  • @bomag
    @Anonymous

    Don't underestimate the human ability to justify conflicting stances.

    We're happy to let Blacks dominate speed positions in sports, but if they are underrepresented in math PhDs, then tsk tsk.

    Replies: @Desiderius, @Moses

    Yes 1000x yes. Don’t underestimate the left’s massive capacity for Doublethink. They hold many mutually exclusive beliefs already, sleep very well at night.

    – Blacks overrepresented in NBA because genetics. Blacks underrepresented in physics PhDs has no genetic component whatsoever.

    – Race doesn’t exist. The only thing that matters is race.

    – Whites moving out of Black neighborhoods is raycist. Whites moving into Black neighborhoods is raycist.

    – etc etc

  • I was playing the brilliant 1982 planet colonization game “M.U.LE.” with my son recently on classicreloads.com (don’t go there unless u can afford to waste some time).

    During our game my son got a random bonus “Your investment in artificial dumbness stocks paid off! You received a dividend of $400.”

    It was a funny joke in the innocent world of 1982. Now, not so much.

  • From Valley News Live: Man admits to killing teen after political dispute in Foster Co., court docs allege By Renee Nygren Published: Sep. 19, 2022 at 3:13 PM PDT MCHENRY, N.D. (Valley News Live) - A community is mourning the loss of an 18-year-old man from Grace City, North Dakota, as investigators look into what...
  • Open season on anyone to the right was the whole point of Biden’s speech. They want you cowed, or dead. Either will do.

    • Agree: Charon, Paul Rise, Old Prude
    • Replies: @Richard B
    @Moses


    Open season on anyone to the right was the whole point of Biden’s speech.
     
    Exactly. Anyone to the Right of them. Anyone not living on The Left Pole.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYAXkkm4g7A

    They want you cowed, or dead. Either will do.
     
    Yep. It seems as if not a few commenters here feel the same way.

    In any event, they want Russians dead, they want whites dead, they want anyone who disagrees with them dead. Their ideology isn't about political utopia, it's about mass murder. The whole victimology/utopia part was only ever window dressing.

  • Rick Perlstein is a progressive journalist who writes well-regarded books on the history of American conservatism since 1960: So, he's a well-informed person. Hence, I got into a Twitter battle with him. As Walter Sobchak would say, he seemed like a Worthy Foe. It started out with him complaining about speed cameras in Chicago dinging...
  • @Paul Rise
    Nixonland is kind of an interesting book but its hobbled by his bias against Nixon.

    One of the biggest lies of the 20th century is that racist Republicans got racist Democrats to vote for them through racism in 1968.

    In reality the Democrats were so dominated by racists that when they ran a wishy washy moderate many dems supported the white supremacist Wallace. Independents and not racist Dems supported not racist Nixon (he despised Jews and elite WASPS more than blacks). It helped that Nixon was law and order - one dimensional thinkers like Perlstein immediately view this as racism, obviously because they want to speed, do drugs and hire prostitutes with impunity.

    Replies: @Alec Leamas (working from home), @Moses

    Nixon was no fan of us Jews. Hard for a Jew like Perlstein to write an unbiased book about the man. Ethnocentrism.

  • After a long period obsessing over African American history, a certain amount of attention is being reapplied to American Indian history, which is in a key way much more impressive: the Indians fought back for an incredible 275 years. From the New York Times news section: A Finnish Scholar Wants to Change How We See...
  • OT – New iSteve-y story:

    $250 million govt fraud perpetrated by Somalis in Minnesota. Yet only defendant name listed in national media reports is White woman, Aimee Bock. This story naming all defendants from local media:

    https://www.kttc.com/2022/09/20/four-rochester-residents-among-47-defendants-charged-250m-feeding-our-future-covid-19-fraud-scheme/

    Ms. Bock appears to be the only White listed among the 47 defendants. All the others Somali.

    Brown immigrants stepping in to do the mass gubmint fraud that Americans just won’t do. Our greatest strength.

  • From MSNBC: iSteve commenter Sparkling Wiggle writes: Highway placement is a funny no-win situation. If it goes down the middle of a black neighborhood, it splits the community. If it goes along the edge of a black neighborhood, it separates it from nearby white communities. If it is far away f
  • @prosa123
    Public Service Announcement: |

    Another Dad's habit of draining a nut while infantilizing women is a huge waste of all the tissues needed to clean up his splooge. In an attempt to cure his Onan-like behavior here is a very quick video of Olivia Reeves squatting a very respectable 435 pounds at a bodyweight of only 155 pounds. Not too infantilized, I'd say.

    https://youtube.com/shorts/hDxX9_lIxPk?feature=share

    Replies: @Moses, @HammerJack

    Yes but can Olivia cook?

  • I wrote in 2011 about documentarian Ken Burns' curiously black-heavy quasi-history of the National Park System, America's Best Idea: It was a different time, you understand. In 1957 or 1958, if you were black and you were an astronaut, you were outta work. In 2007, Latino pressure groups successfully exploited Burns' notorious lack of interest...
  • Meir Kahane used to comment that the things that keep “Judaism”, or at least a pale form of it, going among most American Jews are nostalgia (bagels, etc.) and anti-Semitism, real or perceived. So American Jews *love* it when attention is paid to the Holocaust. (Also loving it are the Woke, who, as it is frequently said, love themselves some dead Jews, but are less than thrilled about the living, identified kind.) That’s how we get the rather bizarre situation of a government-funded Holocaust *museum* on the *National Mall*. (Why?)

    Want to hear the reaction of some Jews whose Judaism has a bit more going for it? Many years back I was watching the Oscars with fellow students at Yeshiva University. (The place currently under a concerted Woke attack.) The Simon Wiesenthal Center of LA (you don’t even want to know what that place really is) had made yet another Holocaust movie which, of course, won an Oscar. (As Spike Lee once said, you see you’re up a Holocaust movie, you know you’re not winning.) The center of the Center, big black yarmulke on his head, got up to accept and gave some over-the-top speech, and all of us Yeshiva students looked at each other and went, “Yuck.”

    So, yeah, Ken Burns is taking a turn. But here’s the irony: The whole thing, from the perspective of truth, is not only not a positive and something of a negative, it’s actually *counterproductive.* How so? Well, I’ll tell you: Jews have always had this feeling about American inaction during the Holocaust. But it’s not about America per se, or about ordinary Americans, or anything like that. After all, it was ordinary Americans, those doing the fighting, that *liberated* the camps. No, Jews- the ones who know- have always been bitter toward the guy at the top, liberal hero FDR, and some State Department types.

    Well, guess who both the Holocaust Museum and Burns, in dealing with this issue, do a full-court press to defend? Yup, FDR. A US-government funded institution is not going to criticize the government, and a leftist like Burns is not going to attack FDR. So the Jews got their documentary, and it’s worth less than nothing. Instead, they get what they (liberal Jews and Burns alike) really want, an attack on ordinary Americans, then and (bizarrely) not, on Trump, on DeSantis. Isn’t that lovely?

    Take it from me, most actual Jews out there would be perfectly happy if the American government and popular culture just shut up about the Holocaust.

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @Nachum


    Take it from me, most actual Jews out there would be perfectly happy if the American government and popular culture just shut up about the Holocaust.
     
    No regular human soul wants to be forever tagged "loser". The English got over the Norman Conquest, didn't they?

    Replies: @Meretricious, @Nachum, @Bardon Kaldian

    , @Bardon Kaldian
    @Nachum

    Yes, but you have to admit that for most US Jews, well over 50%, their Judaism is mostly about remembering the Shoah & the safety of Israel. Basically, nothing more.

    And this is the same with Jews (or "Jews") in Europe, Latin America, Australia....

    Throw in some food & a few mannerisms, and that's it.

    Replies: @Art Deco

  • @Mike_from_SGV
    @AnotherDad

    I'm hoping that the new tactic of shipping aliens to blue zones will escalate and become so intolerable, and so ruin the quality of life in the blue zones, that they will agree to break up the country. Then some of us can enjoy a sane, normal country again.

    Replies: @Moses

    I’m hoping that the new tactic of shipping aliens to blue zones will escalate and become so intolerable, and so ruin the quality of life in the blue zones, that they will agree to break up the country. Then some of us can enjoy a sane, normal country again.

    You underestimate by a country mile the left’s capacity for Doublethink.

    The left is already spinning up narratives that GOP govs shipping illegals to wealthy White blue enclaves like MV amounts to, *gasp!*, HUMAN TRAFFICKING.

    They will sleep very well at night barring illegals from their communities whilst flooding yours.

    The madness will continue, until it can’t. There’s a lot of ruin in a nation.

  • @anon
    I love Burns' documentaries. I don't think they were too black. Blacks have played significant roles in his subject matter - The Civil War, baseball, jazz. It was only National Parks that was a bit woke.

    This what I can't figure out: Someone this smart and talented can believe and utter woke drivel. What is the psychological need to do that? If I knew, I'm sure could make a lot of money

    Replies: @Franz, @Hernan Pizzaro del Blanco, @Moses, @Nachum, @al gore rhythms

    This what I can’t figure out: Someone this smart and talented can believe and utter woke drivel.

    Hello McFly? Anybody home?

    Burns makes films. Who controls film industry and distribution? Hello? Sorry to say it’s my people who love to push wokeness.

    Re Burns loving Diversity yet living in a 96% White NH town is par for the course. I’ve met people like this. One man I know who lives in a rural White New England town loved to virtue signal about Blacks and BLM. When I asked him what actions is he taking personally to help Blacks (eg tutoring, helping Blacks with taxes, taking in a Fresh Air Fund kid) he sputtered and said he sits on the board of some do-gooder parasite non-profit. Yes, he really said that.

    Liberals scream loudest when a technique is effective. Moar illegals to liberal wealthy White enclaves please. Moar!

  • From Mankind Quarterly: National Intelligence and Economic Growth: A Bayesian Update George Francis* Independent Researcher, United Kingdom Emil O.W. Kirkegaard* Independent Researcher, Denmark Since Lynn and Vanhanen’s book IQ and the Wealth of Nations (2002), many publications have evidenced a relationship between national IQ and national prosperity. The strongest statistical case for this lies in...
  • @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms
    @Anonymous

    obscure dialect Chinse ethnic minorities

    Look, fair points except there's nothing obscure about Hakka, Hokkien. And Mandarin is official there anyways.

    Physiognomy says a lot. At the US-ASEAN summit, senility aside Joe looks the part of the alpha male while Singapore's Lee Hsien Loong despite being the same height has poor posture and wears ill fitting suit. The funniest looking one is far left Lim Jock Hoi, Brunei Chinese.
    https://i.postimg.cc/sx6WY3Yv/thumbs-b-c-056f3883714e5629ef37d6c969d46bf5.jpg

    Striking contrast here, from SCO Uzbekistan summit, the most alpha looking guy is probably second from right, Mongolian president Uchnaagiin Chürelsüch, also founder of Harley-Davidson club there.
    https://i.postimg.cc/g2DDMLvT/f3e4cca2acb7e88e4f8560ab730280a7.jpg

    Same here, Xi despite being same genetic stock (northern Chinese), no comparison in terms of physique and T-level. Confucian, agrarian cultures breeds for conformism and obedience, which facilitates building industrial output but not the innovation edge.
    https://i.postimg.cc/prHCGf13/YP3-X4-RPIPBL3-TGGTZF7-UHIYZ34.jpg

    Replies: @BB753, @kicktheroos, @prosa123, @anonymous, @Moses

    China doesn’t have alpha males? Lol. Live in China a few years then come back to report.

    Chinese men haven’t let their women pickle their balls in a jar the way Euro men have.

    I dunno why, but I’ve noticed way more alpha men per capita in east asia than in asian populations in USA. Self selection bias or something.

  • Politico considers a topic I wrote about recently in Taki's Magazine in my column on Jackson, Mississippi's water infrastructure problems: that heavily black neighborhoods tend to depopulate. What Will Become of ‘America’s Blackest City’? In South Fulton, Georgia, two radically different ideas about Black political power are vying for control. The fate of the city...
  • It’s almost as if Schwartzes are unwilling to live among their own kind.

    The only thing worse for a Schwartze than living among bigoted Whites is not being allowed to live among bigoted Whites.

    • Agree: Gordo
  • Way back in late July, I wrote about the much discussed but not particularly existent (even yet) Ukrainian offensive to take back Kherson, the only Ukrainian city conquered by the Russians that is west of the mighty Dnieper River. At the end, I speculated: Apparently, you can still fool some of the people at least...
  • @The Germ Theory of Disease
    @PhysicistDave

    Dude, you're right on the facts all round, but the overheated rhetoric isn't persuading anyone, and it's really just counter-productive. You're making the sane people sound like they're the tinfoil hat people. Here's the middle ground: Putin and the Russians are right (well, in a manner of speaking anyway), GloboHomoShlomo, JZNATO and the JZFUSA are wrong, but an actual shooting war could and should have been avoided, there were ways to do that, but everybody got out of hand, and now we are all stuck in an untenable situation which was not inevitable.

    Tone it down a notch, start sounding again like a scientist and less like a Ranter, and maybe then you'll get somewhere with these people. Cheers, man.

    Replies: @Moses

    Agree with Germ Theory. Your position here in the right. Rants are unpersuasive, not to mention unbecoming a man of science.

    Screaming “Fed! Fed!” at dissenting opinions just makes you look sophmoric and silly.

  • From a few weeks ago: Now, Florida governor Ron DeSantis has upped Texas governor Greg Abbott's strategy of paying to send new migrant volunteers to Washington D.C. and New York City by sending 50 volunteers to Martha's Vineyard, the Massachusetts island paradise that is the summer home of the Obamas. Outrage ensues, from the reasonable...
  • @Anon
    @pyrrhus

    Using people as political pawns is pathetic. You people are showing your penchant for cruelty. These governors will be persecuted for human trafficking. You just watch. We are getting fed up with these stunts. Diversity is strength.

    Russia got beat. Ukraine will take territory in Russia. We will take their gas. The Biden administration made this happen. He will win the midterms.

    The truth is white girls crave Black Men. The future is non-white. Get over it. Diversity is the future.

    Trump supporters are jailed. Women don’t want you. It’s good to be progressive.

    Trans rights are inevitable. You have no children.

    You people will never know the touch of a woman.

    Replies: @Moses, @fish, @Spect3r, @Herbert R. Tarlek, Jr.

    What better place for illegal migrants than Martha’s Vineyard? Thousands of wealthy liberals there who love illegal immigration, inclusion and caring. Lots of empty mansions. It’s a blessing both for the residents and illegals!

    Btw Tiny Duck did it better.

  • From iSteve commenter GeologyAnonMk6, some answers to my July question of whether feints are still feasible in 21st Century European warfare: Russia only has 4 MISTY/IKON style satellites in orbit, of unknown (to me at least) resolving power. I assume that they are not all focused on Ukraine, even now. So you would have very...
  • @John Johnson
    @Moses

    Russia invaded to keep Ukraine out of NATO orbit. Putin views Ukraine membership in NATO as an existential threat.


    1. Ukraine doesn't qualify for NATO as most of their military is Soviet based
    2. Ukraine doesn't have the votes from France, Germany or Turkey
    3. Ukraine hasn't started the qualification process
    4. NATO has stated that even if Ukraine applied they would be denied before taking a vote because they have a contended border

    Which points from 1-4 do you deny and do you need sources?

    If this was about NATO then why didn't Putin issue an ultimatum regarding NATO? Why did he end diplomatic channels instead of demanding something like constitutional neutrality? Since NATO stated they wouldn't be allowed in due to having a contended border, wouldn't it make more sense to maintain the status quo since they are disallowed on multiple levels?

    If Ukraine doesn't qualify or have the votes then why launch a 1930s style mass invasion? Why not wait until they at least qualify before taking such a drastic step?

    Pro-Putin defenders please note the following:

    The Russian government has stopped talking about NATO as an explanation. That was the defense early in the war but after failing to take Kiev they changed the explanation to removing Neo-Nazis and now Donbass.

    Here is the latest statement from Putin:
    https://russkiymir.ru/en/news/305040/

    The war is now completely about Donbass. Please update your dictator support notes, thanks.

    There is no reason to defend an explanation that Putin has sense abandoned. NATO is now expanding thanks to Putin as previously neutral countries no longer trust Russia.

    Replies: @raga10, @PhysicistDave, @Moses

    Oh dear. Let’s begin.

    1. Ukraine doesn’t qualify for NATO as most of their military is Soviet based

    Erm….so were Poland and the Baltics. This point makes you look silly and unserious.

    2. Ukraine doesn’t have the votes from France, Germany or Turkey

    Sure. And “votes” never change, do they? Are you really so naive?

    3. Ukraine hasn’t started the qualification process

    Irrelevant. Since when does “has not started” mean “will never happen?” Again, a silly and unserious point.

    4. NATO has stated that even if Ukraine applied they would be denied before taking a vote because they have a contended border

    Ah ok you got me — if “NATO said so” I guess that settles it. It will never happen because pols never lie or change their minds.

    [Checks watch] Oh dear, we’re reaching neocon levels of silliness and naïveté that shouldn’t even be possible. Take 2 aspirin and call me in the morning, Kafka.

    Which points from 1-4 do you deny and do you need sources?

    Irrelevant. You may keep your precious “sources” to yourself.

    What is wrong with you people? Calling others who have different conclusions names like “Fed! Fed!” and “Dictator Supporters” is childish. What’s next, “Poo-poo head”? You sound like my small children.

    Listen, this is not difficult to get.

    Ukraine in Russia’s backyard, shares a long border and history and Russian minority. It’s not hard to understand that Russia does not want Ukraine in the West’s orbit or even a whiff of a threat that Ukraine might join NATO or be influenced by NATO or the West.

    Americans would never allow Canada or Mexico to fall into Russian or Chinese orbit either de facto or de jure. Whether Canada “has the votes” to join a Russian defense pact is irrelevant. Only fools and dead men depend on votes or politicians or “trust.”

    The world runs on real politik.

    It seems logical and natural to me that Russia find undesirable Ukraine falling into Western orbit. The junior high name callers here will jeer “Putin Lover!” It makes them look like fools.

    Furthermore, the USA has no compelling interest in Ukraine. What does it matter if Ukraine falls into the Russian sphere? Ukraine *was* in the Russian sphere and part of the USSR for 50 years! It didn’t affect the lives of Americans one bit, not one iota.

    I encourage all the neocon tin pot soliders here to go over there and fight, or at least sacrifice some sons’ or daughters’ limbs.

    Your cavalier disregard for the blood and limbs and safety of Americans in service of your spittle-flecked Putin Derangement Syndrome and American Imperial Empire disgusts me.

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @Moses


    1. Ukraine doesn’t qualify for NATO as most of their military is Soviet based
     
    Erm….so were Poland and the Baltics. This point makes you look silly and unserious.

    Poland and the Baltic states didn't inherit as much military equipment which made it much easier for them to switch.

    NATO has minimum spending requirements relative to GDP. Thus it would be very expensive to qualify and a financial risk if they don't have the votes.

    2. Ukraine doesn’t have the votes from France, Germany or Turkey
     
    Sure. And “votes” never change, do they? Are you really so naive?

    France and Germany haven't changed their position in 10 years.

    But you acknowledge the point is correct and joining requires a unanimous vote which means Ukraine was not on the verge of joining for multiple reasons. Great, most the pro-Putin defenders here think Ukraine was in the process of joining and had the votes. Please correct them when they repeat that claim. Thank you.

    3. Ukraine hasn’t started the qualification process

     

    Irrelevant. Since when does “has not started” mean “will never happen?” Again, a silly and unserious point.

    It's a long process and hadn't even gone through formal democratic channels. Once again not denying the validity, thanks.


    4. NATO has stated that even if Ukraine applied they would be denied before taking a vote because they have a contended border
     
    Ah ok you got me — if “NATO said so” I guess that settles it. It will never happen because pols never lie or change their minds.

    It wasn't a whim.

    NATO pointed out that Donbass actually keeps them from qualifying. It's in the rules. So a full invasion was never needed and in fact has led to the expansion of NATO. Keeping Donbass hot actually precludes them from qualifying. But don't expect the pro-Putin defense squad here from discussing such unwanted details.

    Putin rejected a Ukraine peace deal that would leave them out of NATO
    https://nypost.com/2022/09/14/putin-rejected-ukraine-peace-deal-struck-by-aide-as-war-began/

    Ukraine in Russia’s backyard, shares a long border and history and Russian minority. It’s not hard to understand that Russia does not want Ukraine in the West’s orbit or even a whiff of a threat that Ukraine might join NATO or be influenced by NATO or the West.

    So you are sticking with Putin's original excuse even though he has since moved to Donbass as the reason?

    Furthermore, the USA has no compelling interest in Ukraine. What does it matter if Ukraine falls into the Russian sphere?

    I have no problem with someone taking the position that we shouldn't be sending them military aid.

    That isn't my position or the position of most Americans. Ukrainians don't want to live under the boot of a dictator and I support sending them military assistance. It's a minority position that we shouldn't.

    Even without US support the Ukrainians would have wreaked havoc on the initial invasion. Putin doesn't understand modern military tactics. Russian troops still lack body armor and night vision. This is very similar to what happened in WW1. Russians show up without doing their homework and get their assess kicked by a fierce enemy with Anglo technology.

    Putin has Parkinson's and is trying to play conqueror before he dies. That is all this is about. A dying old man trying to rebuild Imperial Russia. That is why he excuses are so inconsistent. He was going to invade Ukraine and it didn't matter what they did in regard to NATO. That is why he rejected the peace deal.

    Replies: @RadicalCenter

  • @Jack D
    @HA

    Those who insist that we should just stand idly by while Putin crushes Ukraine fall into two main camps:

    1. The outright Russian sympathizers - they think that Putin is the last bulwark against Globohomo America which they openly admit that they hate. The upholder of White Christian values despite his Asiatic Army and his colorful personal life. These guys are pretty easy to dismiss, even laugh at when they spout Baghdad Bob level Russian propaganda about "orderly withdrawals".

    2. The more insidious kind who insist that they are just Yankee Doodle A-OK Americans who don't want to get American dragged into these little borders skirmishes among furreners.

    This kind of Lindberghian isolationism hasn't been viable for more than a century (ironically for reasons having to do with Lindbergh himself - if you can fly to Paris from NY then things can fly in the other direction too). You may not be interested in Putin, but Putin is interested in you.

    Putin makes no secret of the fact that the invasion of Ukraine is not just being done in order to reunite two fraternal peoples (or whatever the excuse of the week is) but also to put America in its place. Now, you might say, yes, I'm down with that - American should mind its own business and not act as the global hegemon.

    But that's not what Putin (and Xi) have in mind. As far as they are concerned, the world has to have a top dog and they want to knock the US off the top dog perch so that they can occupy it instead. They are not going to be content with a rudderless world where we each tend to our own little patch.

    They are not even going to be content with a world where they are each given a certain "sphere of influence" where America agrees to keep out. The problem with "spheres of influence" when it comes to guys like Putin and Xi is that if you give them an inch, they will take a mile - they see any sort of concession as weakness. So if we said to Putin, "Sure, take Ukraine. It's close to Moscow and far from Washington and none of our business," Putin's response wouldn't be, "Thanks, America, I'm happy now and will never trouble you again." No, it would just whet his appetite for his next meal. Putin sees Russia's sphere of influence to be AT LEAST equal to the territory of the former East Bloc, which, may I remind you, included half of Germany.

    Replies: @beavertales, @Moses, @Greta Handel, @Sean, @rebel yell, @HA, @Almost Missouri, @Buzz Mohawk

    Don’t be a Lindbergher cheese!

    Jack can smell the hick disloyalty of

    [t]he more insidious kind who insist that they are just Yankee Doodle A-OK Americans who don’t want to get American dragged into these little borders skirmishes among furreners.

    Another textbook example of the elite, synthetically patriotic neoconservatism that in a less openly arrogant form bamboozled Americans into endorsing “our” destruction of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, ad nauseum.

    Why don’t you get over there and kill some people yourself, Jack? We’re tired of flushing our kids and country down your imperial commode.

    • Thanks: Moses
  • @Almost Missouri
    @Jack D

    Haha, at first I thought this comment was a clever parody post, but now I'm starting to think that you intend for people to believe it, which would be an act of immense contempt.


    The more insidious kind who insist that they are just Yankee Doodle A-OK Americans who don’t want to get American dragged into these little borders skirmishes among furreners.
     
    What could be more insidious than Yanks who mind their own business? Bastards! How dare they!

    Replies: @Moses

    What could be more insidious than Yanks who mind their own business? Bastards! How dare they!

    I think what Jack is trying to say is “An anti-semite is a Yank who don’t want his sons’ limbs blown off in some G-dforsaken sh*thole backwater for elite and/or foreign interests.”

    Anti-semites are bad. Everyone knows that.

    • Replies: @Jack D
    @Moses

    I would say an anti-Semite is someone who thinks that Joos are secretly in control of our government and want to see American boys get killed to benefit "foreign" interests. So you would qualify. You would not be the 1st Jewish anti-Semite.

    Replies: @David Davenport

  • @Jack D
    @Moses

    This us just the usual Russian "butwhataboutism". Look, you have access to RT if you want as well as the NY Times/BBC/CNN, Washington Post, etc.. Believe them if you want - some people here seem to. Common people in Russia don't have the same ability since there is no longer a free media in Russia.

    The reason that "butwhataboutism" is bullshit is that the Russians use what the West has done on its WORST days not as a counter-example - "We should strive to be better than that" but as a license to be AT LEAST as bad. They take the Western basement as their ceiling and they say to themselves "How much lower can we go and get away with it? It's a fundamentally immoral way of looking at the West (because Putin is a fundamentally immoral person). His only floor is "how much can I get away with?"

    The US is not perfect but we strive to be better and we try to learn from out mistakes. The Russians don't want to learn from our mistakes, they want to emulate them.

    If one day you notice that your friend is maybe drinking a bit too much, your reaction should be to ask him to stop, not to see if you can outdrink him. If he can have 6 beers and still drive, then surely it's ok for me to have 8 or 10.

    Replies: @Curle, @Moses, @PhysicistDave

    More gobbledygook Jack. You are shearing additional credibility from yourself with this nonsense.

    This us just the usual Russian “butwhataboutism”

    Total nonsequitur . This is what ppl say when they have no argument.

    The US is not perfect but we strive to be better and we try to learn from out mistakes.

    Mistakes like Vietnam and Iraq? We’re repeating them right now. The longer we are balls deep in Ukraine the greater the risk the conflict will escalate to direct fighting between USA and Russia. For what? Ukraine? No. This is absurd.

    If one day you notice that your friend is maybe drinking a bit too much, your reaction should be to ask him to stop, not to see if you can outdrink him. If he can have 6 beers and still drive, then surely it’s ok for me to have 8 or 10

    Unintelligible gobbledygook Chewbacca defense. Are you trying to tell us you’re drunk?

    You’re trying way too hard to get USA to risk nuke war for a poor corrupt Eastern European backwater. Usually you’re smarter than that.

  • @Jack D
    @HA

    Those who insist that we should just stand idly by while Putin crushes Ukraine fall into two main camps:

    1. The outright Russian sympathizers - they think that Putin is the last bulwark against Globohomo America which they openly admit that they hate. The upholder of White Christian values despite his Asiatic Army and his colorful personal life. These guys are pretty easy to dismiss, even laugh at when they spout Baghdad Bob level Russian propaganda about "orderly withdrawals".

    2. The more insidious kind who insist that they are just Yankee Doodle A-OK Americans who don't want to get American dragged into these little borders skirmishes among furreners.

    This kind of Lindberghian isolationism hasn't been viable for more than a century (ironically for reasons having to do with Lindbergh himself - if you can fly to Paris from NY then things can fly in the other direction too). You may not be interested in Putin, but Putin is interested in you.

    Putin makes no secret of the fact that the invasion of Ukraine is not just being done in order to reunite two fraternal peoples (or whatever the excuse of the week is) but also to put America in its place. Now, you might say, yes, I'm down with that - American should mind its own business and not act as the global hegemon.

    But that's not what Putin (and Xi) have in mind. As far as they are concerned, the world has to have a top dog and they want to knock the US off the top dog perch so that they can occupy it instead. They are not going to be content with a rudderless world where we each tend to our own little patch.

    They are not even going to be content with a world where they are each given a certain "sphere of influence" where America agrees to keep out. The problem with "spheres of influence" when it comes to guys like Putin and Xi is that if you give them an inch, they will take a mile - they see any sort of concession as weakness. So if we said to Putin, "Sure, take Ukraine. It's close to Moscow and far from Washington and none of our business," Putin's response wouldn't be, "Thanks, America, I'm happy now and will never trouble you again." No, it would just whet his appetite for his next meal. Putin sees Russia's sphere of influence to be AT LEAST equal to the territory of the former East Bloc, which, may I remind you, included half of Germany.

    Replies: @beavertales, @Moses, @Greta Handel, @Sean, @rebel yell, @HA, @Almost Missouri, @Buzz Mohawk

    Oh boy Jack, you’ve got PDS (Putin Derangement Syndrome). Or maybe you just hate Russia. I get it, our people have lots of reasons to hate Russia.

    But you are spouting pure gobbletygook here.

    Those who insist that we should just stand idly by while Putin crushes Ukraine fall into two main camps:

    1. The outright Russian sympathizers – they think that Putin is the last bulwark against Globohomo America which they openly admit that they hate. The upholder of White Christian values despite his Asiatic Army and his colorful personal life. These guys are pretty easy to dismiss, even laugh at when they spout Baghdad Bob level Russian propaganda about “orderly withdrawals”.

    2. The more insidious kind who insist that they are just Yankee Doodle A-OK Americans who don’t want to get American dragged into these little borders skirmishes among furreners.

    The ones that run are VC. The ones that don’t run are well-trained VC.

    You missed a 3rd camp — those of us who DGAF about Ukraine.

    Ukraine was part of the USSR for 50 years. Eastern Europe behind the Iron Curtain. Didn’t change the price of a six-pack in Des Moines. Life was pretty good.

    This kind of Lindberghian isolationism hasn’t been viable for more than a century (ironically for reasons having to do with Lindbergh himself – if you can fly to Paris from NY then things can fly in the other direction too). You may not be interested in Putin, but Putin is interested in you.

    The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming!

    If you don’t condemn the Russkies you’re a dirty anti-semite like Teutonic Lindbergh. Isolationism just doesn’t work in this century! Did you hear that? It just doesn’t work [end of argument].

    But that’s not what Putin (and Xi) have in mind. As far as they are concerned, the world has to have a top dog and they want to knock the US off the top dog perch so that they can occupy it instead. They are not going to be content with a rudderless world where we each tend to our own little patch.

    Jack generally you’re a mensch, but here you’re just meshuggeneh. You sound like a bloodthirsty raving lunatic warmonger Cossack. This is *exactly* the kind of thinking that got America into Vietnam and Iraq. Both were disasters in blood and treasure and pain.

    America does not own Ukraine, has no treaty with Ukraine, no compelling national interest in Ukraine. Ukraine is a small corrupt poor Eastern European backwater. You’re dreykop here.

    I don’t care if Russia takes Ukraine, Poland, the Baltics half or all of Germany. Germany is a big boy, able to defend itself. And if they don’t have the will to defend themselves then USA couldn’t help them anyway.

    I’m old enough to remember when Russia had everything locked down behind the Iron Curtain. As I recall life was pretty good in the USA. It just doesn’t matter to us.


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    • Agree: Almost Missouri
  • @PhysicistDave
    @Dave Pinsen

    Dave Pinsen asked:


    A meta-question I have is what’s the best-case scenario as Ukraine War hawks here see it. ..
    Does Russia tuck its tail between its legs and crawl away, ceding Crimea and leaving Russians in the Donbas at the mercy of Ukrainian reprisals?
     
    In 1905, Japan defeated Russia.

    Historians view that as a watershed event, because it proved that a non-White power could defeat a European power.

    Japan most assuredly took that lesson, and it seems likely that it seeped down into the various European colonies, also.

    And we can be 100 % sure that Putin and the Kremlin remember that lesson.

    I think Putin really did go in because of Kiev's violation of the Minsk accords and the US provocation of making Ukraine de facto, though not de jure, a part of NATO.

    But I am also quite certain that the Kremlin now views this as 1905 in reverse: if they can defeat the US Deep State in Ukraine, they can show the entire world that the World Hegemon can be ignored with impunity. They can upend the world power structure just as Japan did in 1905.

    Given that, I think the Kremlin will go for broke: they cannot afford to lose. From their perspective, the future of the human race, and whether it will be free of American tyranny, is at stake.

    Which also explains why the US Deep State and its satellites abroad are so strongly committed to defeating Russia and making all of Ukraine again subservient to the US, despite the fact that Western populations are, at best, lukewarm on the matter.

    The US elites and their compradors abroad know that this is Endgame.

    Lose here in Ukraine, and it's all over for the One Remaining Superpower.

    I think everyone really senses this, but I have not seen it stated openly and clearly.

    Replies: @Chrisnonymous, @Moses

    We’ve had our quarrels Dave, but I’m in total agreement with you here.

    Russia cannot allow NATO to park on its long border with Ukraine.

    I’m also with another commenter here (Almost Missouri?) asking “Why is Ukraine worth risking nuke war with Russia? A backwards, corrupt, poor Eastern European country that USA has no security alliance with?”

    Risk NYC, DC and LA getting nuked…for Ukraine? It doesn’t make any sense.

    Now that I’m on it, extending NATO to the Baltics and Poland didn’t make any sense either. Those members are all liability for the USA, zero asset (whereas for them its all asset, zero liability). They don’t add a bit to American security, just increase risk of war sending American boys off to die to defend…Latvia? IDGAF about Latvia, sorry.

    • Agree: Mark G.
    • Thanks: PhysicistDave
    • Replies: @HA
    @Moses

    "Russia cannot allow NATO to park on its long border with Ukraine."

    Not a problem. He should have just upped the supply of pastries and bribe money. That's what Nuland did, according to the Russian trolls, and it seemed to work fine for her. Putin almost sealed the deal with Yanukovych, but then he yanked those puppet strings a little too hard once he got him to renege on the EU agreement in favor of the Russian embrace Putin told him to take, and the gig was up. Rookie mistake, kind of like letting an enemy power bug your deal-brokering with the Ukrainians.

    But Nuland was able to recover from that, and Ukraine has a fairly consistent history of booting out presidents after only one term, so even though Putin failed with Yanukovych, he would have had plenty more opportunities. Nuland lost her turn, too, and was booted out by Trump, but 4 years later, she just buckled down and started up again. THAT is how you play the long game. And that's what Putin should have done.

    Once he agreed to escalate this to a military level -- despite the agreements Russia and Ukraine had signed forbidding that -- he set the wheels in motion. I don't recall his stooges crying about escalation back then.

    And anyway, up until Putin swiped Crimea, popular support for joining NATO was polling in the mid 20's or less -- i.e. a nonstarter. It was Putin himself who changed that around. If you want to cry about "hostile work environment" don't steal your colleague's lunch money at gunpoint, because I guarantee you, the hostility from that point onward will be thick.

    Replies: @PhysicistDave

  • @Jack D
    @PhysicistDave

    Of course Russian sources are trying to put a positive spin on this as a "planned withdrawal" but the reality is that it was a rout. The Russians fled on foot and changed into civilian clothes. They fled on bicycles and in stolen civilian cars. They left behind vast troves of tanks and other weapons. They fled so suddenly that there was still hot food on the table in some places.

    https://africa.businessinsider.com/military-and-defense/russian-soldiers-are-dropping-their-rifles-and-fleeing-in-disguise-to-escape-ukraines/0knxyyj

    The Russians lost in 3 days what it had taken them 3 months of heavy fighting to gain.

    Of course routs are very bad for your side's morale (and good for the enemy's morale) so the Russians are going to try to spin this as positively as possible. They can't deny that there has been a massive withdrawal given all the footage of Ukrainian troops in Izyum and other cities but they can say "we meant to do that". Given that there is no free press anymore in Russia, the Russian people are only going to get to see these positive portrayals. Not one Russian TV report is going to admit that this was a rout.

    But we live in the West so we still have access to the truth and don't have to rely on Russian propaganda for our news. They have lied consistently about this war and sure as hell aren't about to start telling the truth now when things are going badly for them.

    Anyone who tells you that this has been "a planned, orderly withdrawal" is lying and as Steve did, you have every right to laugh in his face at such outrageous bullshit. Anyone here who parrots the Russian spin is either lying himself or has been fooled. I don't know which is worse, really - to be fooled or to be a bald faced liar.

    At least the old American Reds thought they were lying for a good cause. What are the Rushists lying for? To make the world safe for Putin's billions? The irony is that KGB guys like Putin snicker behind your back when they are able to get you to parrot their BS - they see people like this as weak willed - you put the screws to them or bribe them or whatever and they fold or even worse you are able to trick them without even having to pay.

    Russian media is fairly slick - they have most of the (imported Western) technology that Western media have, the reporters are dressed in a modern way and don't mechanically read off official releases - it's not North Korea. But don't let it fool you - it's all controlled from above just as much as it was in Soviet times - if this guy confessed that the Russian Army had been routed in Kharkiv he would be off the air instantly.

    Replies: @Moses, @PhysicistDave

    But we live in the West so we still have access to the truth

    LOL. LMAO!

    Rich, oh my sides! We live in the West so have total access to truth from our media and govts! Truths like “Take the vax and you won’t get or spread Covid” or “Saddam has WMD” or “The Ghost of Kiev”?

    Stop it, stop! You’re going to make me pee!

    /sarcasm

    Jack with that one comment you have shorn yourself of credibility. You sound like a goyische kopf spouting such rubbish.

    • Agree: RadicalCenter, dimples
    • Replies: @Jack D
    @Moses

    This us just the usual Russian "butwhataboutism". Look, you have access to RT if you want as well as the NY Times/BBC/CNN, Washington Post, etc.. Believe them if you want - some people here seem to. Common people in Russia don't have the same ability since there is no longer a free media in Russia.

    The reason that "butwhataboutism" is bullshit is that the Russians use what the West has done on its WORST days not as a counter-example - "We should strive to be better than that" but as a license to be AT LEAST as bad. They take the Western basement as their ceiling and they say to themselves "How much lower can we go and get away with it? It's a fundamentally immoral way of looking at the West (because Putin is a fundamentally immoral person). His only floor is "how much can I get away with?"

    The US is not perfect but we strive to be better and we try to learn from out mistakes. The Russians don't want to learn from our mistakes, they want to emulate them.

    If one day you notice that your friend is maybe drinking a bit too much, your reaction should be to ask him to stop, not to see if you can outdrink him. If he can have 6 beers and still drive, then surely it's ok for me to have 8 or 10.

    Replies: @Curle, @Moses, @PhysicistDave