RSSI was going to mention bison. I'd call them "megafauna" and they were not hunted to extinction. So some animals had characteristics to keep on going even with the human hunters around.
Bison have proven to be perfectly domesticable. Perhaps it was merely a matter of the American Indians not having advanced as far as Eurasians.
Actually Bison are a terrible choice for domestication for two reasons:
1. They are extremely herd oriented animals (Not the Athabascan Bison, but the Plains Bison we think of when we hear “bison”) that are panicy and belligerent. Just dangerous to work with, much more so than cattle.
2. They have a several foot vertical jump that makes them hard to fence in, or out. You can’t have domestic crops near Bison, they clear any fence and eat them.
Best to just let them run as large free ranging herds and manage culling. And they are delicious, not quite as much as Moose, Blacktail, or even Pronghorn, but good.
And nobody hunts Bear for food. They are the definition of Dangerous Game; and, in the Pacific NW where they feed on fish, they taste absolutely vile.
Never eaten bear, but I’m told one must be particularly thorough cooking it because bear meat tends to harbor parasites like pork.
And nobody hunts Bear for food. They are the definition of Dangerous Game; and, in the Pacific NW where they feed on fish, they taste absolutely vile.
Those of us around in the 60’s and 70’s, and possessed the slightest amount of common sense, understood that their music was the worst kind of propagandistic drivel. Of course they popularized other writer’s songs, they were mouthpieces for the Man.
I cringe at the idea of anybody taking Three Dog Night seriously.
The only interesting thing about poutine is that it looks exactly the same coming up as it did going down.
A succinct analysis of our current situation.
Universities: hey, where did the money go.
Hospitals: hey, where idd the money go.
Banks: hey, where did the money go.
Illegals: hey, where did the money go.
And so forth. Take a look at every public contract, and follow the money. Revelational, I would imagine.
He plays Captain Pike in Strange New Worlds.
Btw, the only new Star Trek Paramount has gotten right. (Aside from the ST musical – ok, the singing Klingons were hilarious, but what were they thinking?)
Men lie about sex.
Women lie about eveything.
Not going to bother a woman to play make believe about anything if it gets her what she wants.
Sheesh.
“Roger Ramjet he’s our man the hero of our nation” the frantic pacing of which makes Guy Richie look tame.
The one television comic I remember best from childhood is Beany and Cecil, which I might add holds up petty well; and, for some reason, the “interior” cartoons from Rocky and Bullwinkle, especially Fractured Fairy Tales.
Sam Hurt’s “Eyebeam” was better than any of them.
Darby Conley’s “Get Fuzzy” also deserves consideration, although he is less into the occasional philosophical rumination and just sticks to funny.
Personally, I think Peanuts peaked around 1960 or so, but it kept churning along for four more decades of declining mediocrity. Watterson had sense enough to end things when he ran out of ideas, as a consequence, Calvin and Hobbes remains brilliant from beginning to end – the norm is to keep taking the money while the quality decines.
If you are wondering why Eyebeam was the GOAT, you have to look at the actual panels as drawn. Hurt always kept in mind that he was drawing a comic strip, and the flights of artistic whimsy slipped into the panels were always something to look for.
“I’m getting sick of cow chow
I’m growing bored with sex
I’m indisposed to plow now
Tyrannnosaurus Rex”
Not just in medicine – Los illegales are breaking the budgets of Schools, Courts, Sheriff’s Departments, Mass Transit, etc; basically, every public service provided at the State and Local level.
Not to mention the eventual destruction of Water Resources throughout the Southwest.
Punish Black criminals, kick the Illegals out, 90% of America’s problems disappear. This is doable, it is basically the problem of Government not doing basic jobs; but, neither Republicans nor Democrats will fix the problems which they created.
All of this was planned by smart academics decades ago, going back to at least 1966. It even has a name: the "Cloward-Piven Strategy" - collapsing social support systems by intentionally overwhelming them with third-worlders.https://www.theglobaldispatch.com/collapsing-system-on-purpose-cloward-piven-61127/#:~:text=First%20proposed%20in%201966%20and%20named%20after%20Columbia,thus%20pushing%20society%20into%20crisis%20and%20economic%20collapse.
Not just in medicine – Los illegales are breaking the budgets of Schools, Courts, Sheriff’s Departments, Mass Transit, etc; basically, every public service provided at the State and Local level.
With town names such as Brownfield, Levelland, and No Trees, what shade? I ask that as someone who lived in West Texas for 14 years and traveled there extensively the last 17 years of my career and who would gladly move there were it not for kids and grandkids all living near Austin. At least the humidity is low, it usually cools off at night, and there is always a breeze.
BTW, it is 110 bleeping degrees out here in West Texas right now, and you will see jaywalkers. (See rule number one.) And cutting corners to stay in the shade.
Shade from the downtown buildings, shade from the serious money neighborhoods that water however much they want from their privately drilled wells.
Rule # 1: pedestrians are stupid.
Rule #2: More pedestrian deaths due to bad drivers, see rule number 1.
I would love to see a far more systematic, even ruthless, enforcement of traffic laws. By all means, squinch every bad driver off the roads, fewer deaths, lower insurance, win win But….. in the meantime, don’t lose sight of the fact that most pedestrians are idiots, and I would really like to see a breakdown of deaths by Race and Inebriation. And possibly IQ, but we may already have that one measured. At the very least, separate out the pedestrian deaths by jaywalking, drunkenness, and my personal favorite, wearing dark clothes on an unlit street after dark, and then get back to me about the increased deaths.
BTW, it is 110 bleeping degrees out here in West Texas right now, and you will see jaywalkers. (See rule number one.) And cutting corners to stay in the shade.
With town names such as Brownfield, Levelland, and No Trees, what shade? I ask that as someone who lived in West Texas for 14 years and traveled there extensively the last 17 years of my career and who would gladly move there were it not for kids and grandkids all living near Austin. At least the humidity is low, it usually cools off at night, and there is always a breeze.
BTW, it is 110 bleeping degrees out here in West Texas right now, and you will see jaywalkers. (See rule number one.) And cutting corners to stay in the shade.
If no Black person had ever set foot on North Anerica, would we better off or worse off?
A question polite society cannot even contemplate.
But the Left wants and needs the police. For when they're back in power.
Yes, some wanted to completely abolish the police and others thought that they should just be crippled. Now that it has turned into a complete fiasco, we are told that not all Leftists were on board. You could have fooled me.
Anyone who thinks there is a cop in the entire USA who would volunteer to go around attempting to collect guns from ordinary citizens just won grand prize in the Galactic Fucktard contest.
Sheesh.
It’s already happened. At the height of the black anarchy in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, NOLA cops knocked on at least one door, and confiscated the White owner’s firearms.
“Anyone who thinks there is a cop in the entire USA who would volunteer to go around attempting to collect guns from ordinary citizens just won grand prize in the Galactic Fucktard contest.”
I am old enough to remember an America that had a fair number of no-shit, nastier than
Klansmen level Racists in it. Pray you never run in to one of them (assuming any even remain) because you would then learn the difference between bleating about “wa wa wa, the Racism”, and dealing with a no-shit Racist.
With over 25 years worth of charitable aid activity, through a variety of Catholic aid organizations, under my belt, I can definitively tell you the act of aiding any Black:
In general, they will waste 100% of it in a day, a week, or a month, and then be right back at you with hand out, only more aggressively. Every act of helping Blacks is an act of cosmic futility, and if some insane type of ‘reparations” were enacted, all of the money would flow through Black hands and right back into White hands – the hands of politically connected White grifters.
We have already thrown Trillions at the Negro population of this country, and it has made Negro behavior worse on every level. This is the behavior of a literally insane society.
Precisely.
In a just world, these goons know they are looking at war crimes/crimes against humanity trials, and they will do anything to stop that process.
I would avoid standing next to RFK Jr.
I spent half of my stimulus checks on wine and Hookers. I mean, it was in the name, right?
The other half I just wasted.
What is the real point of this three ring circle jerk?
The statute of limitations is in play, and worst case, the whole thing gets thrown out by some Appellate Court, or the Supremes if it goes that far. And everybody knows, or should know, this.
What insanity is going on here, trying to force ordinary people to start playing Chicago Rules against public officials?
I don’t have a nostalgic bone in my body (or a romantic one – different defect?) but I did like the Plimsouls.
In the fullness of time, this will lead to an enormous degradation in the quality of both public and private work – eventually, technological society will stop functioning.
In the meantime, I am already not getting on an airplane – SADS + unqualified mechanics + unqualified airport workers = unacceptable risk. Probably already reached a tipping point for medical workers as well, and just wait until it reaches power and IT workers.
How many people have to die before we reject Racial Equality bullshit?
It'll be like the continued presence of the appendix in the human body. As long as the fatalities don't become grossly excessive, Racial equality bullshit will continue.
'...How many people have to die before we reject Racial Equality bullshit?'
All of them.
How many people have to die before we reject Racial Equality bullshit?
You think you have it tough where you are driving?
All I can say about Texas drivers is that they have definitely taught me to look both ways……before crossing a one-way street. And anybody who thinks that “Hispanic” drivers are now as safe as “White” drivers is an imbecile. I live in a place where the death rate from accidents is FOUR TIMES the national average – 50-60 KIAs per year in a county of maybe 140,000 population – and probably 75% of the accidents involve “:Hispanics”. And in a place where the weather, terrain, and space all favor bicycling, you couldn’t pay met to get on a bike.
Having to force the players to speed up the game was an unfortunate necessity, but banning extreme defensive shifts is egregiously awful. Teams should have a right to get players out however they want to try, and I have no sympathy for a player who can’t learn to slap the ball the other way – I mean, sometimes they could literally bunt for a double!
You really want to generate excitement on the basepads? Move the fences back just a little bit, and a whole lot of HRs become doubles and triples. Or fly ball outs, you just can’t get around the fact that top athletes today are just faster than 100 years ago.
There is no “rise” in mental illness among young women, only better diagnoses combined with lack of physical exercise.
I don’t think the question is:
Why are Conservatives so stupid, but
Why are Americans so cowardly?
The entire Covid scam, a Big Lie in service to a massive transfer of wealth and power, was done done with an assured, brazen , confidence. Americans, who claim not to believe anything the Media tells them, immediately and consistently began cower under their beds when the obviously false narrative of Pandemic was unleashed. American, who claim to be Christians, immediately embraced the ritually Satanic behavior of masking, walking past signs that literally read 6-6-6, and ritual washing. Americans, who claim to be free, immediately embraced the fundamentally voluntary regime of self- imprisonment via the lockdowns.
The powers that be observed every iota of the actual behavior, not the rhetoric, of the American people. And one of the tremendous effects of the masking regime is that it let them easily separate the few men from the mass of compliant masked cowards through the two years of the Big Lie.
The last full measure of the character of the American people has already been taken, and it is wanting in the extreme.
When I first glanced at this post, I thought it meant the Met Opera, which could hardly de-Russify any further. As far as I know, they have never done any Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov, or Prokofiev opera; one production ever of Knazh Igor (Borodin) grotesquely modernized, and quite a few others I could list.
But I got to thinking about it, and anti -Russian bigotry has been a norm in America my whole life. Because I learned the language in college, I was aware early of the sheer degree of lying the US media has engaged in. Decades later, when I realized who owns the Media, and how much they hate Russia for throwing off the Bolsheviks, it….well, anti-Russian bigotry doesn’t surprise me.
In the meantime, let’s identify Texans as Texans, not Americans, because that day is coming.
Cities empty as Civilizations collapse. This has been true for all of known human history.
Off topic: seriously Steve, no thread on the great Faggot Paean known as the 2023 Oscars?
The first rule of Economic Predictions: all Economic Predictions are wrong. Fine, not absolutely all of them, but in general. So take my analysis with that in mind.
I begin with the assertion that nothing can cure the American Economy until Congress reigns in about 2 Trillion dollars of Federal Spending, which would have to start with a huge cut to DOD and the Alphabet agencies. And since Democrats + Republicans = Permanent War Party, that will not happen. So, deficits forever, demanding money creation forever.
So here is Satan’s catch-22. Either; the money creation fuels permanent Inflation, destroying the Economy (and ruining election chances) or; 15 years of zero (really , negative) interest rates are ended, ratcheting up rates to try to stop inflation. Ratchet up interest rates and banks fail as mortgages go bad AND people pull their money out to get better rates from bonds and treasuries. Which is clearly happening now, that much of my analysis is correct. End the rate increases, the rate of Inflation goes up, along with food prices, and that ends…..badly. For everybody.
Clearly, the powers that be will allow a lot of banks to fail to force us into a CBDC system, it is the absolute lust of the War Party, the only going concern in Washington. That system will make slaves of us all, which is why it is so valued by the folks in DC.
This could all be rejected quite easily: End the Fed and reject the War Party. Which we already know will not, and cannot happen. My memory of US politics goes back pretty far: Eugene McCarthy, Peace candidate, rejected. Nixon, sort of Peace candidate, impeached. Perot, Peace candidate, rejected. Ron Paul, Peace candidate, rejected. And so on. The fact is, Americans have had 60 years of Peace candidates whom they ferociously reject, and we have gotten the result the large Majority of Americans prefer: never ending war.
So by all means, embrace war, embrace the Economic wreckage, and may God Damn each and every person who does so.
It is, in general terms, an incoherent piece of offensive garbage on every level. Specifically, its plot is : be nice to queer girls or they might create a psychic rage monster that will destroy across multiple universes. Insofar as there is a plot, review the incoherent garbage warning.
Seriously, seven Oscars for a laughably bad film? Even by the standards of Queer Cinema?
Hollywood’s degeneracy really is such that they should burn.
Hollyweird's propaganda has probably the most influential and successful of all the attacks upon America, white men and the West.
Hollywood’s degeneracy really is such that they should burn.
Dude, if you re that concerned about air pollution, get out and start walking. Or take the bus, especially in Inglewood.
Dumbphuck Savings Time is exhibit number 1 as to why we will never again have limited Government in the USA.
If we can’t even get rid of that fucking idiocy, how are we ever going to get rid of anything else the Government chain-yanks us over?
I don't have strong feelings about Daylight Savings Time, but I have very strong feelings about people who have strong feelings about Daylight Savings Time. I think they're mostly crazy.Replies: @Daniel Williams
Dumbphuck Savings Time is exhibit number 1 as to why we will never again have limited Government in the USA. If we can’t even get rid of that fucking idiocy, how are we ever going to get rid of anything else the Government chain-yanks us over?
Lied about COVID origins. Lied about masks. Lied about lockdown measures. Lied about vaccines.
Lied about Russiagate. Lied about January 6.
Lied about GOF. Lied about Nordstream.
At this point, I think the sensible position is they’re lying about everything.
I have a friend who actually played for P. J. Carlisemo in College (the coach in question) , and his observation was “well, I don’t condone choking a coach, but if there was ever a coach who should get choked, it would be him”.
I'm sure that's statistically untrue.Replies: @theMann, @Rooster16, @Nicholas Stix
Blacks eventually behave poorly by civilized standards regardless of upbringing.
By all means, let’s collate the stats long term on that.
Oh, third rail, third rail!!
Anything dumber than your average mulatto/ mestizo/whatever crossbreed? Or more neurotic?
The scary part is that this isn’t an absolutely definitive list.
1. Covid was a preplanned fraud.
2. The response was a preplanned wealth grab.
3. The quackcine was a preplanned bioweapon.
The people who are still arguing against these irrefutable facts should be treated as hostis humani generis.
Absent fathers have to play into this somewhere. Thousands of girls exploited?
After one girl, somebody should have died. I just don’t have the words to be censorious enough – what kind of garbage let this go on?
Abd now this POS Ella Cockbain is worried about fueling more “hate”? The problem is that there wasn’t near enough rage directed in the right direction in the first place.
https://archive.ph/KUiiNReplies: @bomag
A literature review just published in January in the journal Infant and Child Development looked at nearly four dozen studies on father-child relationships and highlighted the role that dads play in building a child’s skills in regulating emotions. Fathers who were involved in caregiving and play, and who reacted with warmth and greater sensitivity to a child who expressed emotions, were significantly more likely to have children with better emotional balance from infancy to adolescence. Those skills in children are linked, in turn, with higher levels of social competence, peer relationships, academic achievement and resilience, while poor emotional regulation skills are linked with anxiety, depression and behavioral problems.
A lot of these girls are from the most vulnerable parts of Britain's underclass, like the girl mentioned in this video with an IQ in the 50s. A lot of those fathers are not in the picture. Quite a few are girls from children's homes, i.e. in state care. But some come from intact, seemingly functional working class families that are just... odd.I've read several testimonials along similar odd lines, but it was pretty striking actually seeing it in a documentary a year or two ago. It was about the mixed race daughter of a working class English girl who was burned to death in her family home, along with her mother (and I think maybe her sister?) by the Pakistani who'd gotten her pregnant at age 13, after starting the relationship when she was 12, if I recall correctly. The daughter, now in her 20s, was supposed to let the court know her opinion about whether she thought her father should get paroled. She'd been raised by her English grandfather, and visited him during the documentary to help her make up her mind. The guy had no anger, no palpable regret, no life in him at all. Not because he seemed crushed by having his family murdered (and almost being murdered himself) by the Islamist criminal he'd given full access to his daughter in her pre-teens of anything like that. He just didn't seem engaged at all, almost disinterested. Shit just happens. Halfheartedly offering stuff like "Well, what was I supposed to do?" or "How was I supposed to know he shouldn't be trusted?"Surreal.
Absent fathers have to play into this somewhere. Thousands of girls exploited?After one girl, somebody should have died. I just don’t have the words to be censorious enough – what kind of garbage let this go on?
Not only do we have a ” dysgenic generation”, but much worse than the general lowering of intelligence is the fact that an entire generation has been born without an identifiable backbone. Smarts are great, but nothing replaces grit and determination.
Though the genetic decline is obvious, the saturation drug use of generation pothead is catastrophic. Watch some teenage genetic loser stare at themselves in the mirror for 10 minutes, adjust one hair, then stare for another 10 minutes sometime and you begin to realize the depth of the problem. They are pathetic and ghastly, and that is on them; but whom their Mommas chose to breed with, that is not their fault.
There is no fixing this.
No big shock, have you seen how many mutant, too ugly to be a Mad Max extra, type people there are in Gen Z? the tattoos/piercings/poor physical conditioning are unhelpful, but even without those things it would still be apparent that their bodies and brains are inferior to previous generations.
I know Ed Dutton says we’ve had dysgenics for a long time, but it seems to me that the pre-1940 generations largely avoided the mental and physical degeneration that the War babies (1940-1945) and true Boomers (1946-1964) started*, and has been increasing with each subsequent generation
*People born before 1940 had far fewer problems with drug abuse, crime, obesity, mental illness, etc. than later generations. What changed? Not so much that the culture forced changes on people as much as the declining quality of people caused the culture to change. And nobody forces you to over-eat or do drugs, but a lack of brains means that you will have less ability to have discerning judgment**. Also note that those born in 1940 turned 30 in 1970, in other words the 70’s really were the point at which the degenerate generations really began to exert a lot of influence and the results of that speak for themselves.
**Also, the decline in character quality means that victim narratives are much more attractive, so each generation is filled with more and more sad-sack losers who blame their parents, blame their friends, blame society etc. instead of taking responsibility for their choices. While modern conservatives claim that everyone (bar the extremely disabled) is essentially equal in their ability and opportunity to succeed if they so choose, and Leftists say that irrational discrimination (based on race, gender, social class or whatever) causes inequality, both are wrong. The reality is that nobody can choose the genetic hand they are dealt (particularly WRT the key factors of IQ and conscientiousness, sorry conservatives***), but it’s also true that it is not “irrational” to avoid certain groups of people who are disproportionately dangerous and/or stupid (sorry Leftists).
In modern discourse, the debate has become whether the government should regulate both opportunities and outcomes and to what degree. But conservatives used to say that some people are essentially born to be underclassmen mutants and are hopeless. In modern PC terms, mainstream conservatives essentially act like their enemies chose to be crappy. PC regarding discussion of eugenics means that conservatives have to default to a narrative of free-will.
***In the same way that some people are just born ugly, some people are also born stupid and/or evil. Not much you can do about it. Once these people are created all society can do is set-up guard-rails to minimize the chance these people have at flying over the edge. But we also need to recalibrate things to discourage women from reproducing with scoundrels and idiots, which we used to do.
Physical fit people on average tend to be more intelligent or vice versa. Being fitter didn’t necessarily make them more intelligent but being intelligent made them more physically fit.
poor physical conditioning are unhelpful, but even without those things it would still be apparent that their bodies and brains are inferior to previous generations
But here’s the problem. It’s a vicious cycle. Regular physical exercise, eating healthy, and reading books requires disciple which is more common in smarter people. So the smarter get smarter and the dumber get dumber.
“In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means: education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these two means, man can attain perfection.” (Plato, Republic 411e)
Question: how was Chicago founded?
Answer: a group of New Yorkers got together and said” we love the crime, pollution, and racism, but it just isn’t cold enough here!”.
So if you are mayor of Chicago, do you have to live in Chicago?
It all comes down to this:
What you do privately, and what you Advocate publicly, are two different things. Any advanced society can tolerate a lot of “strange” when done in private. But an advanced technological society, dependent on multiple overlapping sensitive systems, MUST have near zero tolerance for advocating against public order.
Society can suffer very rapidly when strange gets the upper hand – Weimar Germany birthed Hitler, what will Weimar America give birth to?
- George Carlin, "Real Time With Bill Maher" Sep. 9, 2005
When fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jack-boots. It will be Nike sneakers and Smiley shirts. Germany lost the Second World War. Fascism won it. Believe me, my friend.”
One reason our discovery is exciting is because it hints at ways to work through specific political deadlocks.
Almost nobody is interested in taking thesis vs. antithesis to the level of synthesis.
Come on, now, the both of you! One side does not WANT to settle these divides.
That itself is the REAL divide. One side wants to destroy traditional society, and one would be happy being left alone to live in traditional society. The divide will be end up being solved with violence by the latter, as the former will have it no other way.
There’s your divide, bitchez.
I was about to hit a big, hearty "• Agree" click, but then
Come on, now, the both of you! One side does not WANT to settle these divides.
That itself is the REAL divide. One side wants to destroy traditional society, and one would be happy being left alone to live in traditional society.
Whoa, hey, the divide is already being solved (in a bad way) by violence by the former.
The divide will be end up being solved with violence by the latter
Yeah.To expand on that, most of us who are anti-Leftists do not really care that some people are gay, that a few guys strangely want to dress up in dresses, etc.What we object to is that they demand that we celebrate it, that we go to training seminars to force us to say how great it is, that we exert great effort to promote and reward such people simply because of their perversion, independent of their skills or competence.In short, they just will not leave us alone.There are aspects of traditional society I strongly dislike (such as organized religion). There are aspects I like. But I do not like being told that I must like things that I find annoying.They are pushy, nosy, annoying totalitarians, and most of us just want them to wallow in their own excrement and leave the rest of us the hell alone.Replies: @Technite78, @Prester John, @Liza
That itself is the REAL divide. One side wants to destroy traditional society, and one would be happy being left alone to live in traditional society.
Here's a hint how it works: They love, love, love diversity--they demand conformity.
One reason our discovery is exciting is because it hints at ways to work through specific political deadlocks.
Indeed. This is not a war, in which one side declares victory and hostilities cease. This is a grift. Actually solving a problem will end the grift.
Come on, now, the both of you! One side does not WANT to settle these divides.
Because the process is endless and ideology is about ending process.
Almost nobody is interested in taking thesis vs. antithesis to the level of synthesis.
The more they push, the more risible they become.
And good news, when they become laughable, they are done for. One of these days, our society will explosively decompress with what will seem like extreme suddenness.
I just hope I am out in the country somewhere when it starts.
When Camp Adair USAF was retired, it’s infrastructure was eventually handed over to Indians. The Base Housing, which as a small boy I remembered as very nice, had a wild creek running behind it. It was magical. In two years it was trashed beyond pigsty by the lovely Native Americans. I remember in my high school days working with various Modocs, Klamaths, and so forth, and I never saw one get trash in a can. (Plus they spent most of their time stoned out of their minds) somehow I find it hilarious that they used a fake Indian in an ad portraying Indian concern over the environment, because Indians dont give a shit about the environment.
I hope he doesn’t linger to any degree, he will end up being paired with Francisco Franco – which would be hilariously awful even for a goober like Carter.
Could not agree more – how are people supposed to be responsible adults if they dont start trying to connect to adult life as teenagers? So, never have so much as a glass of cider and then go off to college to …… learn to drink responsibly? As unfondly as I remember my teenage years I remember a lot of effort into ( trying) to get a girl naked. Seriously, how messed up does a teenager have to be not to be making major effort in that area?
Now, as to pot use being down – let me tell you, bullshit. Schools nowadays vaguely reek of pot, about on a par with apartment complexes. Add the whole pharmucopia of mood altering drugs they are prescribed and you have a collection of drugged out zombies.
I would pity how sad, passive, and genuinely pathetic teenagers are nowadays, but since none of them have, or are able to grow, a backbone, it is hard to care.
The NFL fixes games with the brazenness of Olympic Boxing or South American soccer; and throws in a hefty dose of rah rah pseudo patriotism and crass commercialism – faux tribalism for morons.
The tolerance so many Americans have for obvious BS swirls around the NFL, propaganda as a sporting event. Good to know most Unz commenters are extremely resistant to it.
Oooooh, I just got labeled a troll by the single most obnoxious troll on this site. Oh, muh feeelings…….
Keep carrying water for the Covid genocidalists, That Would Be Lying, because the rest of us enjoy laughing at you.
I posit two suppositions:
1. Intelligence never made any good person better, but it makes every bad person worse. So if you value intelligence, at what cost?
2. Half the world has been gene-jacked on the mRNA destroyer, and are permanently genetically polluted.
And add two facts :
1. Eugenics hasn’t even started heating up yet, and for the sake of their posterity, pure-bloods are going to get a whole lot meaner.
2. Nature is brutal and wasteful of progeny, the human experiment of keeping every child alive has been a genetic disaster.
Conclusion: purebloods will not only demand breeding with purebloods, but also the best conceivable match of sperm to egg, and this will truly be Childhoods End for humanity; or if you are religiously minded, the Apocalypse, the uncovering of a better future beginning with genetics, or a worse one, depending on supposition number 1
Btw, the1/3 of the country that already approve genetically improving their children, that is the 1/3 wealthiest part of the country. Which long run won’t be destabilizing at all, no doubt.
I doubt popular music is condusive to long careers for either performers or composers, although one could hardly generalize by citing a few examples. It would be interesting to determine statistically if pop music does suffer from burnout in a way classical/jazz music doesn’t. But as an example, Rossini was done when he was 30, Verdi wrote masterpieces to the end of his life; such examples tell us very little.
Ultimately, I think creativity is an unsolvable mystery. Plus, I really dont care about “popular” music, it has no legs; and whether days, months, or very rarely decades, it all ends up down the same memory hole.
The Grammys? Aren’t they that annual televised satanic black mass?
You all do realize that HR departments, by their very nature, do nothing but make enemies? Innocent behavior wrung through a wringer, white males attacked because they are white males, the elevation of unsubstantiated accusations to primacy, it is a feedback loop for generating hatred.
Well, Economic Reality is bitch-slapping us all ever harder, and people whose whole job is fucking with other people; they are lucky they are just getting fired.
As the Economy continues to contract, anybody who doesn’t generate real value is going away. And good riddance.
In all seriousness, can anyone think of a group of people more likely to ” malfunction” in the heat of the moment? Very, very, few people are psychologically suited to police work, I would think among Blacks even fewer, and a group of Black Officers – that should never happen.
I never could stand the Beatles. Their lyrics seldom went beyond the banal or pretentious. Lennon’s voice was grating. The best of their work was mediocre. They could never hold a candle to the Beach Boys. George was the exception. George could have been okay if he had been with a different group.
Oh brother, throw a dart at any song on the White Album and it will likely be complete garbage.
Lowlights include:
Savoy Truffle
Rocky Raccoon
Why don’t we do it in the road
The Beatles are 10-15% of the reason I do not remember the 60’s fondly.
Follow the Fleet
All that Jazz
A funny thing happened on the way to the Forum
Kiss me Kate
Carousel
Bye Bye Birdie
And if 4 musical song and or dance numbers make it a musical:
Zulu
Btw, I think giving everybody until 25 to get married, then,if still single, marching them in big circles until the music stops and that is who you just got hitched to, a la the Zulus is a truly great idea.
Lest us assume:
India is sending us their best.
Just how scary an observation is that?
A very good point well made but not as much comfort as you might think.
The issue here is not whether a nuclear first strike on the RF could succeed but whether our deluded and desperate overlords believe it could succeed. Groupthink is a very dangerous thing, how many people have been sacked for being ‘off message’ over the past few decades? I have the distinct impression that most of the sane or realistic advisors are long gone. I reckon the biggest danger is that, faced with defeat, some idiot will decide the nuclear option is worth a shot. Those people all have bunkers to hide in. Their incompetence is paraded every day, they can’t even make up believable lies, nor can they keep the lies straight afterwards.
God help us all if that is what all this is really about. To be honest I am not sure what would traumatize me more; nuclear weapons being detonated in US cities or waking up to learn we have completely obliterated Russia?Replies: @Anymike
The point is to have a credible excuse for a first strike; without the Ukraine War, credibility would have been problematic — or at least more problematic; I have no doubt that, in a pinch, the same agile novelists who gave us the Kennedy Assassination and 9-11 could come up with a vivid tale. Whatever it is, the public will accept it, for they have been carefully cultivated by media stories about Russia: how Putin has turned into a dictator, how the LGBT community is persecuted, how Russian men fled the country to avoid conscription, and especially, repeatedly, poundingly like the drumming on a heavy-metal tune, that Vladimir Putin is a madman, a megalomaniac.
Oh no! 82 degrees during the month of August? Try Texas some time – after your 90th consecutive day of 100 degree weather, you will have a better appreciation of what hot feels like.
Helpful tip : you can dissolve kidney stones with two tablespoons of lemon juice each morning and evening. It is a subset of the interesting question of how PH relates to health.
They are known as exceptional horse trainers as well.
Laughably false and ridiculous to boot. Two examples from my own experience:
1. A relative’s husband is a noted Physicist, who spent years pointing out obvious basic errors to the local news outlets, who never corrected and never learned to check first.
2. My own ( first) degree was in Economics, the amount of basic errors the Media gets on that subject approach 100%.
Anybody with an area of expertise will tell you the same thing about the Media: wrong, sloppily incompetent, and they never meaningfully correct.
Then add in their dishonest and thoroughly malevolent agenda.
The “News” is garbage, period.
How about a good education? You know, a proper grounding in chemistry, physics and biology. Math through Calculus including statistics. History of Human Ideas from the Greeks to the present. Study of Chinese and Indian cultural traditions. History of Western Civ from Greeks on down. American history. Macroeconomics. Some study in formal Christian theology and modern psychology, ethology. Now, go to the library and check out some books covering current economics and politics.Armed with the above, a reader doesn't need a modestly-educated reporter to interpret a newsworthy item for them any more than a person who could read the Bible in the vernacular needed a Latin-speaking clergy to interpret the Word of God. From this perspective, disbelief in the MSM is not a "nihilistic posture"."nothing to replace it with".....for those whose intellectual life revolves around the media, this would appear to be true. An inadvertent confession, an own goal.
"The problem with taking a nihilistic posture towards the MSM is that there’s nothing to replace it with."
Most if the animal outbreaks are the visible sign of
LACK OF SANITATION.
Animal husbandry exists in an appalling state of filth and mistreatment in any number of the countries, including the USA.
Well said - although the word "husbandry" might better be reserved for more civilised behaviour. Factory farming and mass slaughter of sentient animals is abusive behaviour on a truly horrific scale - only possible in a society that's become desensitised towards and cynical about the suffering of others.
Animal husbandry exists in an appalling state of filth and mistreatment in any number of the countries, including the USA.
Torturing language into nonsense is the most obvious action of an insane person.
Insanity is neither curable nor negotiable, it can only be cauterized.
Texas is an open carry State, and you will see people carrying. The Police may or may not have ARs with them, but do have access to much more. So in the several mass shootings in Texas the last few years, only the Dallas sniper gunning for policemen was stopped by law enforcement. Ulvalde conclusively proved that the Police are truly useless in any situation, so if anything, the armed citizens are not armed enough. Unfortunate, but true.
I have no idea if the PoPo are concerned about the citizenry, but I guarantee you the people in Texas aren’t especially afraid of the Police. As it should be. In any case, doubtful you will see many armed guards at businesses, just armed people.
I knew somebody would beat me to that observation. I moved there for a year and my first and last impression of Chicago is the same:
How can one place have sh!tty weather 365 days of the year?
Throw in the big city noise, pollution, and rudeness and you have a real non-charmer of a place. Even NYC and Atlanta have ( mostly older) charming neighborhoods, and one of them is full of nice people.
The two substantial successes of “the Right”, abortion and Gun Control, occured only because of massive grass roots activity by millions of Americans. The Republican party pissed out verbiage, but actually did nothing other than take contributor’s money. Democrats are vicious, evil, and committed idealists; Republicans thieves and cowards. Not much of a fight there. There is no real Party of the Right, and that is why the Left wins until they eat their own.
Well, there is this:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/cdc-finally-releases-vaers-safety-monitoring-analyses-covid-vaccines
Oh lovers of government stats.
This is the de facto purpose of “undocumented” immigration. How low can real wages be driven? Approaching zero if you keep pouring more people into the labor pool.
As usual, Unz bases everything he says on govt data. You can’t do that. These are the crazies who tell us men can get pregnant and math is racist.
And then there is this:
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/01/joseph-mercola/shocking-lab-investigation-of-covid-vaccines/
Short version – the manufacturing process for the vaccines is so polluted you would be insane to get one. Oh, and they cause cancer.
If we are to believe the official statistics, the USA has had well over 1,000,000 “Covid” deaths, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam combined maybe 50,000. That would seem to indicate that the statistics are, well, bullshit.
We have no reliable data whatsoever where “the Covid” is concerned.
We do have some indications from the data that the mRNA poison is killing people, and harming more.
Florida has authorized discovery for criminal prosecutions, other jurisdictions will follow, and Civil Suits will become a tidal wave.
I notice Mr. Unz has tortured explanations for increased heart disease, but has completely ignored how live births have fallen off a cliff post “vaccine”.
The fact is that “the Covid” scam is”
1. A transnational medical tyranny designed to destroy national governments, via uunprecedented and wholly illegal Actions.
2. A massive act of theft of private property following the lockdowns ( which in and of themselves, are a war crime).
3. A biowarfare event through the application of the ” vaccines”.
Keep in mind those who are still defending this event.
Btw everybody, the masking, the walking past signs reading literally 6-6-6, the hand washing, the isolation
This was all ritual Satanic behavior.
1. The slow Economic collapse of our country will drastically accelerate in 2023. The times, they be a changin’ , and not in a good way for anybody.
2. This may be the year when those who have been victimized by quackcine side effects realize just how victimized they have been, especially as it dawns on women just how many of them have been sterilized through trickery. Not sure how it plays out, but I am going with “ugly”.
3. Europe’s map gets redrawn all the time, so it is possible to really overstate the current Ukrainian kerfuffle; on the other hand, the Jewish Bolshevik filth in Washington, combine with JBF in Ukraine, combined with the JBF in Western Europe/NATO, are trying awfully hard to start world war III, so the potential for things spinning out of control is measurable.
4. Since the Federal Government will not stop, or even slow, the continued destruction of our nation by the waves of invaders pouring into the country, the armed citizens of the Republic will eventually take matters into their own hands. Could be 2023, could be a little later, but it is going to happen.
Potential for “ugly”, 100%.
Every Tarzan film comes to mind ; indeed, everything E. R. Burroughs ever wrote comes to mind. Musical people who could actually act could do a lot of remakes; historically, Hollywood’s method of good actors faking music has always grated on me.
The paradigm is ridiculous though – why put effort into turning crap into something somehow less crappy, when you could just go out and tell a story from something previously unfilmed? Every Hugo/Nebula award winner and every Dick Francis novel would give a film studio about a 200 movie start, and I am sure any of us could come up with hundreds of other stories as well.
Seven Samurai
The Right Stuff
Lawrence of Arabia
Dr Zhivago
The Leopard
Godfather part 2
Gone with the Wind
Ben-Hur
Off the top of my head.
Or maybe the Na’vi are just so fundamentally silly that no adult would sit through three hours of nonsense.
I believe Hitchcock observed that no film should be longer than the capacity of the human bladder, or words to that effect, and we have two 3+ hour movies released the same week. The absolutely moronic Avatar add on, and the genuinely disgusting Babylon. (Seriously, I expected way more from Damien Chamelle).
I hope at least some of you saved three to six hours of bladder discomfort Christmas Day and rented the greatest of Christmas Classics:
Die Hard
Strap a parachute on their asses and shove them out of a low flying plane over Kinshasa or Lagos. These creatures are not just traitors to their countries, but traitors on a genetic level, and their punishment should fit the enormity their crime.
The most common hallucinogenic used by Whites is microdosing LSD in the belief that it will increase one’s powers of imagination. And LSD truly is a White Person’s drug – the Swiss ( I believe) Scientist who invented it was trying to make people smarter. Half the people I know in IT have tried it, by my observation without success.
Perhaps Blacks should give it a try, they could imagine more ways everybody else is Racist towards them.
What will it take for Joe Normie to realize there is literally no way of living with these people.
During a Congressional hearing on ‘anti-LGBTQ violence,’ a Democratic Representative parroted the same claim as several LGBTQ activists that the terms ‘groomer’ and ‘pedophile’ are discriminatory against sexual preferences and gender identity.
“You know, this allegation of ‘groomer’ and ‘pedophile,’ it is alleging that a person is criminal somehow and engaged in criminal acts merely because of their gender identity, their sexual orientation, their gender identity,” Porter claimed.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-dem-rep-says-term-pedophile-discriminatory
Fuck the Quality of Mercy.
Boy, did I read that wrong the first time...
What will it take for Joe Normie to realize there is literally no way of living with these people.
A funny example of a double standard:
Being 6’4″, I rarely get out of the grocery store without getting things off the top shelf for other shoppers. Which is fine, I dont mind at all. But, if I asked a short person to get me something off the bottom shelf, at best I’d get the finger, and they might call security on me.
I think the greatest American sci-fi writer was Frank Herbert.Replies: @American Citizen, @Almost Missouri, @ic1000, @Prester John, @theMann, @The Germ Theory of Disease, @TelfoedJohn, @J.Ross
the greatest American science fiction writer, Robert A. Heinlein
H. G. Wells is the greatest scifi author, I would put Philip K. Dick as the best American scifi author.
Heinlien may gave been great early on, but Heinlein’s later writing approached flat out moral degeneracy, and Herbert’s eco-warrior pantheon is ridiculous. I think maybe Frederic Pohl is number two, but opinions differ.
Arabic, for instance, writes right to left, much easier for a lefthander to do. Makes you wonder if the first person or persons to invent a script just go with the hand they were using.
In any case, prejudice against Lefties can be mild or extreme, but it is always there. In the past I guess it was mitigated by left handed being a real advantage in hand to hand combat. Post modern plumbing, not much of an issue either, but I have into people who really didn’t like it.
This concise observation bears repeating, yet it does fail to acknowledge that there are millions of 'serious' adults in very high places who will vehemently deny the very existence of 'densely networked' Jewish power no matter how much evidence is marshalled to back up the claim. This damaged and craven mind-set is the product of meticulous Jewish propaganda, Jewish censorship, and Jewish narrative control.The widespread, modern fear of being tarred as a 'racist' or 'anti-Semite' has engulfed and overwhelmed the American mind. This debased mental condition has been achieved using the same nefarious methods.Replies: @animalogic, @theMann, @Rev. Spooner
Every serious person in America today knows that Jews are the most powerful and privileged group in society, but if you openly acknowledge that fact, they will destroy you. Jews are one of the most densely networked and collectivist groups in America today, but you aren’t allowed to notice that fact. They can act as a team, but we have to pretend that they are just individuals.
If people are so afraid of being called names that they are paralyzed into being unable to state simple truths, then they are in fact:
Low grade cowards worthless in all things.
Period.
If Moulin Rouge is highbrow in any way, shape, or form whatsoever then I’m Mr. Personality.
Any show with an arc would do well to get an idea of what the overall trajectory is meant to be ahead of time.
One problem shows with complex interpersonal drama run into is becoming convoluted messes which is why Soap Operas learned early on to churn through characters.
Lost. Coulda used a story Arc. Or ended in season 4.
A thousand shows collapse because they just dont have a well thought out story to tell.
Then again, TBBT creaked along with a weak story Arc (nerds get girls, eventually, and keep them, somehow.) For 12 seasons.
First, to be perfectly clear:
The tragedy of the Ukraine conflict is White people killing each other, a process which the White Race can no longer afford. The cold reality of that conflict is that unwilling Christians throughout the West are being robbed by Jewish, and Jewish aaslicker, politicians, to support the Jewish gangster regime in Ukraine, a place whose monumental corruption may even exceed Washington’s.
In the meantime, escalating a conflict against a country with both nukes and submarines, whose worldview runs to extremely paranoid, is complete insanity.
It is time for millions of people throughout the West to lose the fear of being labeled AntiSemites and start identifying our gangster overlords by name.
The better question is how often they play the works of a particular composer. Something by Mahler, for example, gets played every year by the San Francisco Symphony. This year the schedule has two of his symphonies - the No. 1 and No. 5.
How many times does a given symphony publicly perform any given piece of classical music? Once every five years?
That may be true, but those small outfits don't set any repertoire but their own.Replies: @theMann, @Mr. Anon
A regional podunk symphony now is as likely to play something by John Williams, or Bernard Herrmann as they are to play something by Haydn. Maybe more likely.
Indeed, I do not know wtf the deal is with Mahler lately. The West Texas Symphony premiered their season with the symphony # 1 this year – I skipped that garbage.
They kind of made up for it with the next performance of Mendelsdohn Violin concerto and Sibelius second symphony.
But seriously, ugh, what is the deal with Mahler symphonies? The man who wrote ” the symphony of a thousand” so named because that is how many times you will consider suicide if forced to listen to it.
Somewhere between full up Holocaustianity and complete Holicaust denial exists an ocean of facts; and, these facts are a subset of the entire “who, whom” of the Eastern Front 1914-1980’s.
I can’t think of an historical subject offering a more fertile field for scholarship. Oh but wait, that is actually illegal in Europe and extremely frowned upon here. Telling, to say the least. Seriously , criminalizing scholarship is itself a crime.
In the meantime, when I ask people what is the first crime that enables all the others, they are without exception dumbfounded and cannot answer “mass roundup, relocation, or incarceration without trial”, a war crime/crime against Humanity.
I f they could figure that out they would begin to understand what the Covid was all about.
That's true. So it's important for the arts that this small but important class not get distracted.
Wealthy patricians are a small class, always and everywhere.
I bet most of those orchestras are undersized, underfunded and their members underpaid. Their venues are most likely filled with tattered and uncomfortable seats which need replacement.
As we speak, every concentrated settlement in Ohio with a population of 150,000 or more has a resident symphony or philharmonic.
The West Texas Symphony Orchestra plays at Wagner-Noel Center, which is State of the Art and was built only a few years ago. Typical performances bring in about 1200 or so paying customers.( The only sell out I have been to at Wagner-Noel was for Alison Kraus, but I went to a near sell out for a Christmas time Beethoven concert). WTSO also supports a Chorale, string quartet, Pops concert series, and other events.
Ok, so oil money is great, but in fact Classical Music performances are well attended…. in West Texas. So I wont let anybody hand me any crap about how there is no interest in Classical music, because in fact there is, at least throughout Texas.
It’s not even like that at all. You make these wild generalizations to confirm your own biases. No one is being “programmed”.Most college educated Whites believe that race is an artificial social construct and yet the racial profile of a suspect can be identified through DNA. That's a contradiction that results from programming. This belief leads to all kinds of distorted and destructive polices whereby Whites on both sides are trying to fix what they believe to be artificial. For example the education system has in fact embraced slowing down smarter kids through Common Core as a solution to fixing what is perceived as an artificial gap. There is also a trend in suppressing the data as their egalitarian theories have in fact worsened the gap in some areas. Hundreds of billions have been spent on liberal egalitarian theories and the new trend in education is to bury the data. This doesn't seem like a problem to you? Lying does not improve society and our society has swallowed a massive lie and is trying to live with the poison. White people are not generically nor behaviorally predisposed compared to non white people to “fall for” ensuring everyone deserving equal rights and opportunities. That’s what you are seeming to imply.I'm not trying to imply anything. I am saying they are more genetically prone to egalitarian emotional appeals and specifically where group equality is held over realistic analysis of unfortunate truths. Of course this isn't studied as egalitarian views are just assumed to be learned values. Well the same was once said about self-control and we now know that it is highly heritable.
“White people are too vulnerable to egalitarian programming“
Dude, Corvy’s a paid fed troll, chillax. Ignore him. He’s Tiny Duck but less pithy and way less entertaining.
According to some here, so is Johnson.
Dude, Corvy’s a paid fed troll, chillax. Ignore him. He’s Tiny Duck but less pithy and way less entertaining.
1. Seven Samurai
2. Dr. Strangelove
3. Duck Soup
And an honorable mention to “Up”.
Not only are the current crop of films twisted, they run hysterical Feminist ad nauseam. If women in our society are “oppressed” then I suggest a move to Iran, Ethiopia, or Myanmar.
Well it certainly is now. Interesting question: is the fall of film in our lifetimes a reflection of the collapse of Culture in our society, or an instigator?
The rural Oregon I grew up in was genuinely isolated from the rest of the World – pre-cable, no one had TV reception without running up a long tower. We had Radio, The Newspaper (I remember the Albany Democrat-Herold as a supremely excellent paper, I wonder if it is complete trash now), and film.
Film was really important to us as it was a series of magic mirrors into other places and people. So many of the films I saw during my teens – Amarcord, Enter the Dragon, The Godfather, What’s Up Doc, Seven Samurai- I still view with real affection. But I now realize even then the rot a setting in. The 70’s was also the first time I walked out of a film, and that film was Pink Flamingos. At that time, simply because it was disgusting, only years later did I realize it was a faggot director (quiet literally) shitting all over normal America. In general, I would say know the Director, know the Film, and since most Directors nowadays are degenerate garbage, their films are sick trash. You can still pick your films – for every Tarantino there is a Damien Chazelle or Edgar Wright. AND, you don’t have to get sucked into seeing a sick piece of trash because the Internet offers pretty good evaluations of objectionable content.
Caveat: the Internet isn’t always the accurate evaluator of movies. I was looking forward to Everything Everywhere All at Once, which as it turned out was two hours of pro-lesbian propaganda masquerading as a SciFi film. And oddly enough, there isn’t a review anywhere that mentions that. But at least now I have Kwan and Scheinert marked and won’t get sucked in again to se any more of their garbage.
Man oh man, is that the most trenchant observation about film ever.
This needs to be posted ahead of the article to save people time reading a whole lot of nothing.
Given the rainbow flag and BLM redesign of the US logo, I hope the US team loses by record margins.
Something has gone very wrong in America, the West. Even beyond failing at job #1–keeping invaders out, keeping your turf for yourself.
What sort of society embraces these queers? I realize they hopped onto minoritarian train where the nations core of normal productive people sit in 3rd class.
Still what sort of a joint literally celebrates sexual deviance, wraps itself in the flag of these sad pathetic queers and yells this is who we are?
Normal healthy people do not do this. I want no part in it whatsoever. And I very much doubt I’m alone in that feeling.
Michigan:
What sort of society embraces these queers? ...what sort of a joint literally celebrates sexual deviance, wraps itself in the flag of these sad pathetic queers and yells this is who we are?
One of the things I noticed in the Club Q shooting is that several of the victims were heterosexuals there to see a drag show.
Still what sort of a joint literally celebrates sexual deviance, wraps itself in the flag of these sad pathetic queers and yells this is who we are?
Normal healthy people do not do this.
You are thinking of “Iron Sky” a film so bad it doesn’t even make cult status of so bad, its good. And it had a sequel…planned anyway. I am not wasting my time.
But don’t sell it out – Indiana Jones and Nazis on the moon certainly sound like it could be worse.
Hilarious all the comments about how “regulated” the banks are. No comments about how corrupt they are – seriously, just how does all that drug money get laundered?
Banks, and their captured governments, will go after crypto with maniacal fury precisely because they don’t control it, and that threatens their legal monopoly on fiat money.
Oh boy! Another Hollywood film about Nazis. Hollywood would not exist if Hitler had never been born.
Get back to me when they go after the Jews:
Raiders of the Lost Banking System.
Texas will go it’s own way sooner or later; basically when people at or near SS checks become a smaller minority.
A giant step has been take by declaring the Alien invasion a, well, invasion, and taking steps to stop it.
Texans, doing jobs Americans wont do.
Any of you who think that girl is cute need to borrow her birth control glasses. She doesn’t quite have a face that would make a freight train take a dirt road, but her ears would.
And the trying to look like a 14 year old girl thing……. either she really wants guys to underestimate her, or she is flat out chain yanking them. The rest of you really need to see that giant neon warning sign pointing at her head.
Critics in any field are pretentious buffoons at best, hardcore gay/lefty/anti-American/ anti-good taste filth at worst . In addition, music critics are simply irrelevant where YouTube, among others, allows endless free sampling.
Musician’s musical taste tends towards lotus eating, so I don’t see how their opinions matter much either. Did any Critic or Musician have anything but scorn for the Monkees? Because three of them are having the last laugh in heaven now, aren’t they?
Well, this is iSteve. I think most of the readers here appreciate the fact that he made Republican pols and voters sit up and realize that our issues aren’t as toxic as RINOs and the media want to convince us they are. They really are winning issues. Few if us here deny that. But the rest of his personality is toxic.Replies: @Inverness, @Desiderius, @Curle
How was the GOP doing before Trump?
“But the rest of his personality is toxic.”
No. He calls out people who aren’t used to being criticized and they don’t like it. For them it is toxic, for the rest of the population he’s denying the Left’s legitimacy and calling them out for the frauds that they are. That’s not toxic, it’s liberating.