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    There's an interesting debate at Marginal Revolution over the patterns of extinction of big game around the world as humans show up over the last 100,000 years. Here's my super-stylized (i.e., not terribly well-informed) model: - Africa was at one extreme. Humans largely evolved there, so megafauna co-evolved alongside us to not trust humans and...
  • @AnotherDad
    @Colin Wright


    Bison have proven to be perfectly domesticable. Perhaps it was merely a matter of the American Indians not having advanced as far as Eurasians.
     
    I 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.

    And at least one of those--bison--would seem to be a really good target for domestication and the transition to herding and agriculture.

    Replies: @theMann

    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.

    • Replies: @Corn
    @theMann


    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.
    Also remember a guy writing in a gun or outdoors magazine saying he was given bear meat tacos once. Recalled the meat was quite greasy
  • Back on August 15, 2019, managing editor Dean Baquet apologized to the New York Times staff for the ignominious failure of the Times' management's Plan A to push Trump out of office -- RussiaGate -- and promised the Times was now going all in on their Plan B to get rid of Trump -- nonstop...
  • @The Anti-Gnostic
    @Diversity Heretic

    Three Dog Night was one of those solid journeyman bands that cranked out consistent hit singles. Really nice compositions.

    Americans voted for population stability with their family planning practices in 1970. The government and corporations vetoed it. I can't imagine the mentality that looks at a greenspace and thinks about how many more apartments and drugstores you could fit there.

    Replies: @Hhsiii, @Curle, @Ralph L, @theMann

    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.

    • Replies: @deep anonymous
    @theMann

    "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."

    The worst example has to be "Black and White."

    Replies: @Colin Wright

    , @Mike Tre
    @theMann

    "their music was the worst kind of propagandistic drivel"

    Please elaborate.

    , @The Anti-Gnostic
    @theMann

    So you were fighting the power back in the day, grampa? The Man, man?

    Three Dog Night had a good ride and never pretended to be anything but a 70s pop rock band. They earned a living and passed on into retirement and death, like we all do. A reminder to concentrate on having fun and being around good people who love you in this too-short life.

    Replies: @Curle

    , @Old Virginia
    @theMann

    Three Dog Night versus what oracle? Neil Young? Robert Zimmerman? Mick Jagger? Leonard Cohen?
    No offense intended but I cringe at anybody taking any popular music seriously to inform about anything of gravity.

    I'm a junky with personal favorites, even some from the same place as me, none of whom have ever told me anything I didn't already know.

  • Somebody worked fanatically hard at concocting the coloring of this world map of the mythical Female Hotness Index: I haven't traveled that much, but my impression in 1980 from 6 weeks in Western Europe (never getting to Iberia or Scandinavia) was that Milan was clearly #1. Indeed, this map suggests a north to south decline...
  • @Intelligent Dasein
    @Jim Don Bob

    I'm always surprised when I see that people have strong, negative opinions about poutine. I mean, doesn't everybody have some version of this dish? Isn't poutine basically just the "refrigerator casserole" you would make out of assorted leftovers when you're hungry and don't feel like cooking? I've eaten "poutine" a thousand times in my life without ever consciously setting out to make it.

    Poutine is good, rib-sticking, working class food, and anybody who turns their nose up at it is not okay in my book.

    Replies: @Charlotte Allen, @Peter Akuleyev, @theMann, @Jim Don Bob

    The only interesting thing about poutine is that it looks exactly the same coming up as it did going down.

  • If you build it, they will come. That’s the message of Richard Hanania’s The Origins of Woke. It’s not that power defeats ideology, but that power, as expressed through laws, regulations, and court decisions, can spawn ideology. It’s a message American conservatives won’t like, and it’s therefore something they need to hear. The American Right...
  • @obwandiyag
    This is stupid. This guy doesn't understand that the powers that be support both sides of woke. They don't care which side you're on. Just as long as you fight against woke--or for woke--or about woke--or over woke--instead of asking where all the money went. Because the only thing that matters is money. And as long as you bitch and moan and analyze the shit out of anything else other than money, you are doing the job they have assigned to you. Suckers.

    Replies: @Wokechoke, @theMann, @JPS

    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.

  • It’s no secret that Hollywood over the past three decades has not been kind to the South or to the Confederacy. The last major films that have in any way been fair or which attempted to be objective about the Confederacy were, probably, “Gettysburg” (in 1993) and “Gods and Generals” (in 2003). But despite general...
  • @Tucker
    @Voltarde

    Yes, Hell on Wheels was largely a very well made, sympathetic to the South and the Confederacy's struggle for independence - but, notice how the jews who produced it had to shove black male, white female race mixing into it. They just cannot resist their hate driven urges to rub the White man's nose in the racial defilement of his females. And, in the end, Cullen Bohannon succumbs to 'Yellow Fever' and hops on a ship heading to China to chase after the Chinese girl he had been playing hide the salami with after two unsuccessful relationships with two White women, one of whom was killed by the Big Swede for no discernible reason. This character was played by Dominique McElligott, an incredibly beautiful and talented actress and I read that she asked to be written out of the series because of the hardships she had to endure for weeks and months on end, filming on location; she was apparently a city-girl and not accustomed to the harsh natural elements at the filming locations. I was sorry to see her character killed off.

    I was really impressed by the performance of Anson Mount in the role of Cullen Bohannon. I expected him to appear in many more high caliber movies after he finished Hell on Wheels, but I've only seen him cast in small and relatively minor roles since. I think he would excel as a Western character, a.k.a., with Clint Eastwood no longer a viable Western star due to age and poor health, Anson Mount has a niche just begging to be filled.

    Replies: @theMann, @Looger

    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?)

  • An interesting question is why such a disproportionate fraction of affirmative action cheaters in this century have been women. Let's focus on whites who claim American Indian status: Pretendians. Was the gender gap always like this? I don't think so. American Indian culture tended to be extremely masculine. So in the past it appealed more...
  • 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.

  • Similarly, I'd always been puzzled by how Charles Schulz's Snoopy didn't seem to look much like beagles I'd seen. By the way, when I was a kid a relative always gave me for Christmas the latest annual Peanuts anthology. Around 1971 or 1972 when my critical instincts were blossoming, I went back through the last...
  • @Jim Don Bob
    @Wendy K. Kroy

    I can still sing the Underdog song. I thought it was a great cartoon along with George of the Jungle (I can sing that too), and the race car driver Tom Slick whose car was Thunderbolt Grease Slapper.

    Replies: @theMann

    “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.

    • Replies: @Wendy K. Kroy
    @theMann

    Re. "Fractured Fairy Tales", you may also remember R&B's continuing skit "Bullwinkle's Corner." It would be reasonable to assume that today's aliterate young scholars wouldn't have heard of a now-illegal packing material. But is it as astonishing as I think it is that in its run from 1959 through 1964 the show's producers expected that many, let alone most, of its focus audience of K-8th Graders had been exposed to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDYeav3nQEg

  • 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”

    • Replies: @jb
    @theMann

    If you like Eyebeam you might appreciate Odd Bodkins. Very weird, and very 60s.

    , @Prester John
    @theMann

    I enjoyed C&H. Didn't realize 'till years later that they were named after John and Thomas. Nevertheless, Larson was the king. No strip better exemplified the virtues of sardonic humor than "The Far Side."

    , @anonymous
    @theMann

    Regarding limited distribution comic strips, all my relatives who served in Viet Nam loved Corky Trinidad's Nguyen Charlie, which appeared in the Pacific edition of Stars & Stripes --

    https://i.imgur.com/kKzIqES.gif

    For my grandparents and their generation who served in World War II, their favorite cartoon was Bill Mauldin's Up Front with Willie and Joe, Willie being a Choctaw Indian and Joe his everyman pal. It also appeared in Stars & Stripes.

    https://i.imgur.com/c7BBTUI.jpg

    , @obwandiyag
    @theMann

    What kind of idiot says "bored of."

  • A reader writes: Hey Steve, Just read your latest on doctors and race. As always, great work. You also might want to take a look at how often South Asian physicians get arrested for things like sexual assault and medicare crime. A good test of this is to plug a typical south asian surname, like...
  • @The Germ Theory of Disease
    @Mark G.

    "It started going up after the introduction of Medicare and Medicaid."

    I used to work in hospital emergency rooms in a few large cities, and you know what drives up costs?

    Latinos! Latinos and their ninos! Inmigrantes, y indocumentados, y mas ninos, y mas, y mas!

    You break your finger and go to the ER to get it set. Then you get billed $3,000 for a fifteen minute procedure that really only cost $125. The rest of it is you paying for Yolanda and her six ninos to get free treatment for their sore throats. Lather, rinse, repeat 39 million times.

    Replies: @Jim Don Bob, @theMann

    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.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @theMann


    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.
     
    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.

  • Yeah, it's pretty obvious that the Ferguson Effect contributed to pedestrian fatalities skyrocketing between 2014 and 2016 and the Floyd Effect doing the same in 2020-2022. As a frequent pedestrian, I'm against pedestrians being run over by motorists. It's quite possible that there are long-term high-tech ways to prevent pedestrians beings flattened. But, as this...
  • @FPD72
    @theMann


    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.

    I always felt bad for well servicing crews on days like today. Unlike roughnecks on drilling rigs, they’re constantly tripping in and out of the hole if they’re not working with a reverse unit, with little time to rest. Even their doghouse has only one door and thus no cross ventilation. Add fire retardant clothing required by OSHA and it’s a wonder we don’t see more heat strokes.

    Replies: @theMann

    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.

    • Replies: @FPD72
    @theMann


    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.

    I always felt bad for well servicing crews on days like today. Unlike roughnecks on drilling rigs, they’re constantly tripping in and out of the hole if they’re not working with a reverse unit, with little time to rest. Even their doghouse has only one door and thus no cross ventilation. Add fire retardant clothing required by OSHA and it’s a wonder we don’t see more heat strokes.

    Replies: @theMann

  • From my new column in Taki's Magazine: Read
  • 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.

    • Replies: @Bill Jones
    @theMann

    Slavery in America has been far more disastrous for Whites than blacks.

  • At least the movie "Hidden Figures" claimed that blacks got America into outer space, which would be cool if true. In contrast, the current film "Flamin' Hot" claims (dubiously) that a Latino invented a junk food brand extension.
  • @Reg Cæsar
    @Jack D


    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.
     
    But the Left wants and needs the police. For when they're back in power.

    Someone has to collect the guns. And enforce the Race Relations Act.

    Replies: @theMann

    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.

    • Replies: @Nicholas Stix
    @theMann


    “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.”
     
    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.
    During the regime of the John Doe calling himself “Barack Obama,” “Obama” sent officers from the VA to confiscate the firearms of an elderly veteran. That action failed, due to local sheriff’s deputies interceding on behalf of the veteran. So, that’s the way that works.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

  • From the Financial Times: You can tell if an author is serious about statistical correlations with gun homicides by doing a CTRL-F on "black" and "African" -- this article doesn't include any text strings. It also doesn't list examples of high and low social trust places in the U.S. Journalists who aren't trying to jerk...
  • @Ebony Obelisk
    We have low social trust because white people (mostly males) refuse to assimilate to American values (equity, diversity, democracy, decency). Just look at the obsession with guns, the bullying of homosexuals, and the rampant racism.

    Thankfully demographics are changing and we can take the steps necessary to achieve a good society.

    Replies: @Joe Stalin, @Corpse Tooth, @theMann, @Mike Tre, @bomag, @John Milton's Ghost

    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.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @theMann

    You must be tired, being about 200 years old and all...

  • From the New York Times news section: California Panel Calls for Billions in Reparations for Black Residents A task force recommended that legislators enact a sweeping program to compensate for the economic harm from racism in the state’s history. By Kurtis Lee Reporting from Oakland, Calif. May 6, 2023 A California panel approved recommendations on...
  • 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.

    • Agree: Gamecock, Renard
    • Replies: @Art Deco
    @theMann

    We have already thrown Trillions at the Negro population of this country, and it has made Negro behavior worse on every level.
    ==
    In your imagination only. The bulk of the spending on common provision and transfers has been for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, public schools, and veterans benefits. Blacks are notably less likely than the generic person to be drawing Social Security and Medicare, slightly less likely to be drawing veterans benefits, and slightly more likely to have children enrolled in public schools. Medicaid is the only program on the list to have a disproportionately black clientele (blacks are about 4x as likely to be enrolled as other); still, > 60% of those on Medicaid are not black. Smaller programs (SNAP / Food Stamps, SSI, TANF, and various housing subsidies) do have a disproportionately black clientele (20% to 45% of the whole), but the sums spent on all together are a fraction of the sums spent on Medicaid. None of these are specifically black programs. They are means-tested programs which are disproportionately black because blacks are more likely to qualify for them (and, in the case of SNAP, more likely to sign up when they do qualify). The one black majority welfare program was AFDC. AFDC was replaced by TANF 25 years ago; the TANF rolls have generally had about 1/3 the number of people on them as the old AFDC rolls and the beneficiaries have been 1/3 black rather than 1/2.

    Replies: @bomag

  • While the left is busy hating on Tucker Carlson, and not without reason, it is missing the bigger picture. Carlson was a genuine aberration in US corporate media. Which is why he is gone – sacked by media “titan” Rupert Murdoch. Yes, over the years Carlson played on white fears, placing him firmly on the...
  • @Carlton Meyer
    Carlson attacked Big Pharma, the main funder of major media.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjw9m1cG5S8

    Replies: @theMann, @Emil Nikola Richard

    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.

  • Actuary Mary Pat Campbell has been giving talks on causes of death trends in this decade to actuary clubs, such as the important one in Hartford: For 2021, the worst relative increase in mortality, compared to 2019, was for ages 30-44. [I have called it the Millennial Massacre, but it obviously overlaps with Gen X…....
  • 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.

    • LOL: VinnyVette
  • David Pinsen at @PortfolioArmor lands the Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities joke:
  • 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?

  • Even in the New York Times comment section, a lot of people pointed out to the lesbian sportswriter that the reason more people are nostalgic about, say, Muhammad Ali than about Pat Summitt, a lady basketball coach of the past, is became Ali was vastly, colossally more famous than what's her name, because men like...
  • @Steve Sailer
    @Verymuchalive

    Lot of guys are nostalgic about Joe, while I'm nostalgic about nobodies from the later 1970s.

    Replies: @BB753, @theMann, @Verymuchalive, @Curle

    I don’t have a nostalgic bone in my body (or a romantic one – different defect?) but I did like the Plimsouls.

  • OK, I've finally figured out what's going on with U. of California San Diego admissions since the UC Board of Regents banned the use of of the SAT or ACT admissions tests in 2021: Read the whole thing there.
  • 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?

    • Replies: @Guest007
    @theMann

    One needs to look up the history of aviation accidents before one refuses to get on an aircraft. Also, one needs to look up the risk of driving cross country.

    Replies: @VinnyVette

    , @Colin Wright
    @theMann


    '...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.
    , @CalCooledge
    @theMann

    "How many people have to die before ..."

    No limit. Omelets, eggs.

    , @Almost Missouri
    @theMann


    How many people have to die before we reject Racial Equality bullshit?
     
    All of them.
  • From a 2022 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration report recounting 2017 data (i.e., during the Ferguson Effect, but not yet during the Floyd Effect): American Indians ("AIAN") are, by far, the worst drivers per mile and Asians are the best, dying about 1/8th as often per mile driven as American Indians. Hispanics are equal to...
  • 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.

  • Baseball is a very traditional game, so it seldom tinkers with its rules. But the Moneyball revolution in analytics encouraged all sorts of deleterious trends encouraging the Three True Outcomes -- homer, walk, or strikeout -- above anything involving fielders and runners actually, you know, running. So, this season, MLB has introduced some changes. First,...
  • 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.

    • Replies: @Buzz Mohawk
    @theMann

    Agree. And make the baselines slightly longer too. Scale the whole field up, because men have scaled up since the dimensions were established.

    Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Reg Cæsar, @Chriscom

    , @Hank Archer
    @theMann

    The fences don't have to be moved out, just made higher. Even now, balls ricocheting off the wall create some of the most memorable moments. Many observers say that the triple and the inside-the-park home run are the most exciting moments in baseball.

    Replies: @ScarletNumber

  • My new column in Taki's Magazine is about how the single data point of the Trans School Shooter exemplifies a medium size trend, the F to M mania, which is the craziest illustration of a large trend: the rise in mental illness among young women. Seeds of Discontent Steve Sailer March 29, 2023 Mass shootings...
  • There is no “rise” in mental illness among young women, only better diagnoses combined with lack of physical exercise.

    • Agree: Paleo Retiree
  • So, the past few years of America’s dark descent have come down to this? After the manufactured hysteria and authoritarian power grabs of COVID, after the fraudulent presidential election of 2020, amid the continuing persecution of hundreds of January 6 protestors, and amid the continuing censorship, warmongering, political and financial corruption, racial and gender obsessions,...
  • 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.

    • Agree: Durruti
  • From The Guardian: It's dumb to change the title of paintings because then there's a disconnection from 123 years of written references to Degas's Russian Dancer. It's like when they washed all the soot off Rembrandt's famous Night Watch and then they got worried about whether it was set in the night or not: Should...
  • 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.

  • From the New York Times opinion section: It's common to the
  • 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?

    • Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic
    @theMann

    LOL. Including the Racist Crime Of The Century in not just giving Angela Bassett Best Actor, Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress, and just giving Wakanda Forever Best Picture, forever. And Jamie Lee Curtis calling her Oscar trophy "them" and parading her awkward, mentally ill, and heavily-whiskered son around, to ward off all the racism curses for being a white woman who got an award.

    https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIF.cIAnYy091sTnpoDly0IzZA?pid=ImgDet&rs=1

    Replies: @Kylie

  • Here's History's Longest Tweet by a Silicon Valley insider about how he and a few hundred other bright, energetic, plugged-in, decisive guys just like him managed to set off a catastrophic bank run that wouldn't have happened if Silicon Valley Bank had catered instead to run-of-the-mill 106 IQ depositors:
  • 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.

    • Replies: @Paul Jolliffe
    @theMann

    If you back a little further, Kennedy wanted to end the Cold War and wanted out of Vietnam -assassinated.

    https://youtu.be/O7GfnzjO2Js

    Eisenhower’s Peace Summit with Khrushchev in June of 1960 (opposed by both Allen Dulles and the Joint Chiefs) was wrecked by the still unexplained U-2 crash in May.

  • From the London Telegraph: Picton, the highest ranking British officer to die at Waterloo, and Stanley, the African explorer who the first to cross Africa from east to west, were Welshmen. Nelson and Wellington, the sea and land commanders who won the Napoleonic Wars, were not. Re: "able-bodied:" various commenters have reminded me tha
  • @SafeNow
    OT. EEAAO (the title, like the movie, is too long) won seven Oscars, including best picture. The Bridge on the River Kwai, widely recognized as one of the greatest movies ever made, likewise won seven. I have not seen EEAAO, but from reading several reviews, I think I know what it is like. My message to The Academy is the same as what the podiatrist told the moth: You’re in trouble, man.

    Replies: @J.Ross, @theMann, @pyrrhus, @Reg Cæsar

    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.

    • Replies: @AnotherDad
    @theMann


    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.

    There's a lesson in there for every other nation/culture.
  • From the Los Angeles Times: How white and affluent drivers are polluting the air breathed by L.A.’s people of color BY SAMMY ROTH STAFF WRITER MARCH 9, 2023 6 AM PT ... So I couldn’t help but consider my own complicity while reading a new study from USC researchers, finding that Angelenos who drive more...
  • Dude, if you re that concerned about air pollution, get out and start walking. Or take the bus, especially in Inglewood.

  • Because you'll hear a lot of complaints Daylight Savings Time costing us an hour over the weekend, let me point out again that this is the last issue that elicits some fervent opinions without being tied into a general culture war. Views appear to be wholly idiosyncratic, without noticeable ties to party or even place....
  • 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?

    • Troll: ScarletNumber
    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @theMann

    Agreed. But we did get rid of 55 mph limit.

    And for that matter, it's still a state decision. I think HI and AZ don't have it. They like being tied to the sun. Maybe IN also.

    , @Wilkey
    @theMann


    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

  • From National Review: Nicholas Wade was the genetics reporter for the New York Times' excellent Science section for the first decade of this century. He waged gallant war for years on the Race Does Not Exist conventional wisdom that sprouted, so far as I can tell, from entrepreneur Craig Venter's disingenuous speech at the 2000...
  • 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.

    • Thanks: Bill Jones, Coemgen, Brutusale
    • Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
    @The Anti-Gnostic

    Agreed but wanted to add: It's also at this point that we Americans should realize who that government is in Washington, FS. I don't consider it "my" government in any sense anymore. Besides the lies you mention, this is a government that has held nearly 1,000 Political Prisoners for over 2 years now.

    It's the Potomac Regime we're living under now. It's up to us to be rid of it, one way or another.

    , @Corvinus
    @The Anti-Gnostic

    The one lying is YOU.

    Replies: @PhysicistDave, @res

  • From CNN: The 53 year old Kemp was, briefly, a superstar, leading the Seattle SuperSonics to the NBA finals against Michael Jordan's Bulls in 1996. But poor character led to weight problems. From sportswriter Ethan Strauss' House of Strauss substack about Ja Morant, a young NBA star who is averaging 27 points per game: According...
  • @Mike Tre
    Ron Artest (aka World Meta Peace) was starting brawls with fans 20 years ago and that other ugly goof Latrell Spreewell was assaulting his head coach 20 years ago.

    This is nothing new.

    Replies: @Another Canadian, @Barnard, @theMann, @Prester John

    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”.

  • @IHTG
    @anon


    Blacks eventually behave poorly by civilized standards regardless of upbringing.
     
    I'm sure that's statistically untrue.

    Replies: @theMann, @Rooster16, @Nicholas Stix

    By all means, let’s collate the stats long term on that.

  • A little under a century ago, the late philosopher James Flynn wrote to the late Arthur Jensen that raw IQ test scores were consistently increasing. Jensen was skeptical, but Flynn was able to meet most of his challenges. In The Bell Curve, Herrnstein and Murray labeled this phenomenon of rising raw test scores the Flynn...
  • @Evan Drince
    It could just be that there are fewer whites as a percentage of the overall population. I'd like to see this broken down by race and see where that leads.

    Replies: @theMann

    Oh, third rail, third rail!!

    Anything dumber than your average mulatto/ mestizo/whatever crossbreed? Or more neurotic?

  • 1-- In COVID hearing, #Pfizer director admits: #vaccine was never tested on preventing transmission. "Get vaccinated for others" was always a lie. The only purpose of the #COVID passport: forcing people to get vaccinated. The world needs to know. Share this video @Rob_Roos 2 minute video 2-- Nat @Arwenstar French MP Jean Lassalle who had...
  • 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.

    • Replies: @ariadna
    @theMann

    Thanks for the most succinct expression of the three-pronged attack on humanity whose aim is terrorize, pauperize, cull.

  • What terrifies me is if Pakistani grooming gangs were to rape thousands of adolescent English working class girls and somebody made a documentary about it. Imagine the backlash against guilty Muslims. -- Norm MacDonald's ghost
  • 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.

    • Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
    @theMann

    "Absent fathers have to play into this somewhere. Thousands of girls exploited?"

    I remember, a long time ago (maybe 25 years) a case in Oxford where the parents were threatened with arrest if they continued to make complaints against the people who were exploiting their daughter.

    TBF to the police 15 year olds are pretty damn naive. My vague memory is that the girl

    a) thought that her pimp was her TRUE LOVE and her parents were just like the evil racists she'd been taught about at school and on the TV.

    b) believed his tale that he was being threatened by another gang and that only she could save him - by sleeping with various random older Asian guys who paid her pimp for the privilege.

    But as noted above, kids from care homes were the easiest targets.

    Replies: @AnotherDad

    , @ic1000
    @theMann

    > Absent fathers have to play into this somewhere.

    Yes but. There are accounts from Rotherham and elsewhere of concerned (presumably absent from the household but maybe not) fathers being threatened by the police and by social workers with arrest and jail, were they to continue with their racist complaints. Not only whites, Sikhs as well.

    Replies: @Harry Baldwin

    , @HammerJack
    @theMann

    Why Children Need Nurturing Fathers
    Research shows that a strong paternal connection helps young people to manage their emotions and deal with mental-health crises

    In today's WSJ

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-children-need-nurturing-fathers-e7d84db8


    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.
     
    https://archive.ph/KUiiN

    Replies: @bomag

    , @Dream, @Anonymous
    @theMann


    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?

     

    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.

    , @lavoisier
    @theMann

    Excellent comment. Hate can be a very positive thing in the cause of justice.

    Turning the other cheek is a formula for servitude and the annihilation of your culture and your people.

    I look forward to the day when white people decide to fight back.

    That these criminals were allowed to rape young girls and get away with it for years is an indictment of the people who allowed this to happen. Cucks like Cockbain who are more concerned with stereotyping rapist immigrants than they are with the well-being of young girls being raped are beyond the pale.

    DISGUSTING!!!

    Replies: @lavoisier

  • A little under a century ago, the late philosopher James Flynn wrote to the late Arthur Jensen that raw IQ test scores were consistently increasing. Jensen was skeptical, but Flynn was able to meet most of his challenges. In The Bell Curve, Herrnstein and Murray labeled this phenomenon of rising raw test scores the Flynn...
  • 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.

    • Agree: AceDeuce
  • 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.

    • Agree: theMann
    • Replies: @Redneck farmer
    @Feryl

    Tbf to GenZ, they have less ink than Xers and millennials. About the same number of piercings.

    Replies: @Feryl

    , @Anon
    @Feryl

    I recently had a long conversation with my incarcerated relative and he said almost none of the guys there have finished HS, or even gotten a GED. These are all white/Hispanic guys who come from the CA lower classes (blacks are largely housed separately). Yes, plenty were born south of the US border.

    But it's more than that they're not student-material. They also aren't work material. They refuse responsibility, they defy all authority, they are touchy and petty. If they do acquire any position in the prison at all, they immediately become tyrants. Bullying is normal to them. They steal and lie reflexively. They all take drugs, legally or illegally. Suboxone is handed out right and left and they cook it or mix it to make it more potent and then get... whatever you get off a heroin analogue. Prison wine and smuggled pot are ubiquitous.

    Honestly, after talking with him my only conclusion is that these people belong in prison, or something very much like it. They are incapable of functioning in normal society and will be a burden from A to Z. I don't like that feeling at all because it's all so helpless. Were they born that way? Well they certainly were born with the all the arrows lined up, pointing to life in prison. Is there anything that could be done to resuce them while they were still young? Probably, but the effort would likely be better spent improving the live and futures of higher-promise youngsters.

    My relative, whose own situation is quite complicated, just works to bring them spiritual healing. They aren't "fixable" in a normal sense. They can be forgiven and made to do their time, but they will never be contributors to anything but everybody's misery.

    Replies: @Lockean Proviso

    , @Anonymous
    @Feryl


    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
     
    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.

    Exercise optimizes brain function and releases BNDF protein in the brain which grows/repairs brain cells. John Ratey, M.D., professor at psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, says serious cardio exercise (heart rate at 75%-90% of maximum) releases BNDF (“Miracle-Gro for the brain”) and it’s really the only thing someone can do to both improve brain functioning and stave off things likes dementia (nb: while exercise is the sine qua non it must be combined with mental activity). And according to Ratey regular strenuous physical exercise is also the best treatment for ADHD, anxiety, depression, et al.).

    https://www.amazon.com/Spark-Revolutionary-Science-Exercise-Brain/dp/0316113514/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1677943695&sr=1-3

    “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)
     
    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.

    https://www.zastavki.com/pictures/originals/2014/_Jogging_and_sports_089861_.jpg

    Replies: @Feryl

    , @Anonymous
    @Feryl

    Is the implication that monogamy is dysgenic?

  • Who can forget Chicago's Covid Riots on the weekend after George Floyd died ... of covid, I guess.
  • 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?

    • Replies: @Hibernian
    @theMann

    Chicago was founded in the 1830's by New Yorkers and New Englanders who wanted to get rich.

  • An opinion piece in Scientific American by a researcher at Penn (I previously wrote about his study last year): Many Differences Between Liberals and Conservatives May Boil Down to One Belief Conservatives tend to believe that strict divisions are an inherent part of life. Liberals do not By Jer Clifton on March 1, 2023 ......
  • 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?

    • Replies: @Corpse Tooth
    @theMann

    "Weimar Germany birthed Hitler, what will Weimar America give birth to?"

    Both Weimars contain the same Judaic-adjacent agitating revolutionary religious/philosophical undercurrent. It's not a novel phenomenon. It's a cycle. So my guess would be Black Hitler.

    , @njguy73
    @theMann


    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.”
     
    - George Carlin, "Real Time With Bill Maher" Sep. 9, 2005

    Go to 5:45

    https://youtu.be/Uvd68ovD68s
  • 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.

    • Replies: @Almost Missouri
    @Achmed E. Newman


    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.
     
    I was about to hit a big, hearty "• Agree" click, but then

    The divide will be end up being solved with violence by the latter
     
    Whoa, hey, the divide is already being solved (in a bad way) by violence by the former.

    The chance for the latter to solve anything by any means—violent or otherwise—seems likely to slip away unused, if it's not already gone.

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman

    , @PhysicistDave
    @Achmed E. Newman

    Achmed E. Newman wrote:


    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.
     
    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

    , @Forbes
    @Achmed E. Newman


    One reason our discovery is exciting is because it hints at ways to work through specific political deadlocks.
     
    Here's a hint how it works: They love, love, love diversity--they demand conformity.

    Next question...
    , @Dr. DoomnGloom
    @Achmed E. Newman


    Come on, now, the both of you! One side does not WANT to settle these divides.
     
    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.

    We are dealing with a set of new age vampires who figured out that keeping their victims alive in perpetuity is the only way they can survive long term.
    , @Richard B
    @Achmed E. Newman


    Almost nobody is interested in taking thesis vs. antithesis to the level of synthesis.
     
    Because the process is endless and ideology is about ending process.
    That way both can live in their ideological heavens. But that is one heaven too many.
    It's never occurred to either side that their belief in Heaven (ideology as a Salvation System, or final answer) is the problem.

    Hi Steve.
    Just thought I'd try again and ask, since it's entirely relevant to this dicussion:
    What's the primary attribute of the human brain?
    Not the Conservative brain, not the Liberal brain, not the Jewish brain, not the Gentile brain, not the African brain, not the Asian brain, etc. etc. The human brain.

    You touch on it indirectly in your response to the article by Jer The Midwit Clifton.
    The first reason the question is relevant is because it has to do with human adaptation.
    The second reason is because it would expose ideological thinking as maladaptive.

    Thanks in advance for your kind attention.

    Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease

  • Back in the 1970s, white Americans were successfully racially shamed into cutting down on their littering by the famous "Crying Indian" public service announcement on TV. Anyway, from the Associated Press: Rights to ‘Crying Indian’ ad to go to Native American group By TERRY TANG Since its debut in 1971, an anti-pollution ad showing a...
  • @Dan Smith
    Speaking of PSAs, is anyone else sick and tired of seeing Potemkin Villages on TV that are populated with ethnic mixtures that do not appear in reality? Family gatherings with multi colored skin tones and gay/lesbian couple making out at the table, Obama clone dad in huge house driving 100 miles and blowing off a business phone call to take his kindergarten aged daughter to see the ocean? Others too numerous to mention.

    Replies: @theMann, @Harry Baldwin, @JimDandy, @Rusty Tailgate, @Alden

    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.

    • Thanks: Old Prude
    • Replies: @Jack D
    @theMann

    The reason traditional societies didn't have things like candy wrappers and water bottles littering their roadsides (aside from the fact that they didn't have roads) was that they were incredibly poor in material goods. Creating a water bottle basket involved hours of time and effort and once you had done so you weren't just going to throw it away. One water bottle blow molding machine can make as many water bottles in a day as an Indian tribe could make in a decade.

    To the extent that they did throw stuff away once it was completely worn out, it was all organic material and would just degrade back into the surroundings anyway.

    So this was all due to their extreme poverty and low technological level and had nothing to do with any spiritual commitment to a clean environment. Once they were able to afford (or get food stamps) for Western consumer products they had no qualms about just chucking the stuff at their feet as soon as they were done with it, the same way they would have discarded corn husks or animal bones or whatever in the past.

    The myth of the primitive man being somehow better or purer than the civilized man is deeply rooted in Western culture, going back at least to Rousseau if not earlier. Such imaginary primitives have nothing to do with actual indigenous people - they are just projections of white people's fantasies.

    Replies: @AnotherDad, @ThreeCranes, @Achmed E. Newman

    , @Dani
    @theMann

    I was intrigued reading your account of Camp Adair USAF and did a quick Wiki on it. The majority of what is contained in it goes into specific detail of the area when it was being fully utilized and it sounds like it was truly amazing - a great place to live, really - 2nd largest city in Oregon, had it been incorporated. I took note of this particular paragraph, however, which I've included. I went on to try and find a bit more info on this "occupation" time frame, and I am having no luck in doing so? It's almost as if they have scrubbed this portion, even if it is still alive in Wiki-world. I was outraged to read this. Even though very few details are provided, and I know Wiki needs to be taken with a grain of salt, I have no reason to not believe something like this did happen. I can definitely imagine ALL kinds of funds being solicited from "private, federal, and state sources to refurbish the campus" - for something that appears to have not lasted even 5 years? Just more FAILURE, like the whole Great Society thing that was going full steam ahead by this same time period? The more I learn, the sicker I become by all of this. The one thing that remains consistent now that I am about 11 years into my research of our deceptive reality - as bad as I think it is, it is far worse.

    Chicano-Indian Study Center of Oregon
    In 1971, Chicano and Native activists proposed that the vacant base be used for a new Chicano Indian Study Center of Oregon (CISCO), to provide high school and college-level courses, vocational training, child care, and health care. In 1972, after their requests for the site met deaf ears, the CISCO leaders led a group of 200 people from Portland through the Chemawa Indian School to Camp Adair, where they occupied one of the buildings. They eventually acquired ten buildings and solicited funding from private, federal, and state sources to refurbish the campus. The center included an alcohol and drug treatment center that used traditional Native spiritual practices, particularly a daily sweat lodge ceremony. In 1974, CISCO began work on an oral history and library project. The study center closed on March 31, 1977.

  • The 98-year-old former President has left the hospital to die at home. A life well lived. My view is that Carter was lucky to become President, but then was an unlucky President. 1979, like 1968-1969, but in an opposite direction, was a turning point in history: e.g., rebuilding the military, such as the development of...
  • 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.

  • The CDC has published its biennial Youth Risk Behavior Survey for 2021. The government asks a whole bunch of high school students a lot of personal questions about sex and drugs and the like. Who knows how honestly they answer, but we now have six data points from 2011 to 2021. In summary, the kids...
  • @Pixo
    @Dumbo

    You think it’s good for a boy to graduate HS without ever touching a beer or beaver? Not me.

    I will be disappointed if my sons turn out that way.

    Now if you’re part of a conservative religious group that marries off its virgins around age 20, that’s great I support you.

    But that’s not what’s happening here.

    Demonizing heterosexual late-teen sex and drinking is part of the corporate-tranny-Karen agenda. The attacks on Brett Kavanaugh for his HS hijinks should be a wakeup call.

    Replies: @theMann, @Legba, @Corvinus

    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.

  • I may tweet out some comments on the Super Bowl commercials at @steve_sailer. Feel free to add comments here or on Twitter. Update: Well, I completely failed to multitask: it turns out I can't socialize and do social media at the same time. But I had a nice time. By the way, Kansas City coach...
  • 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.

    • Replies: @fish
    @theMann

    It is my fervent hope that someday the NFL can raise itself to the same level of respectability as professional wrestling.

    Replies: @J.Ross

    , @Liger
    @theMann

    A Raiders fan, I see.

  • From Palo Alto Online: What hath Palo Alto wrought? New book examines troubled legacy of Silicon Valley capitalism by Gennady Sheyner / Palo Alto Weekly Uploaded: Fri, Feb 10, 2023, 5:17 pm 4 Time to read: about 10 minutes A review of Malcolm Harris' new book, "Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the...
  • 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.

  • Bacharach-David's ridiculously popular hit "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" in 1969 from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was the moment when the two songwriters suddenly passed their 1963-1968 peak. It's not a terribly good melody compared to the superlative stuff they were composing a few years before. Still, Bacharach-David's peak era was about...
  • 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.

  • From The Washington Post pop culture section: In the future, would the Grammy Awards please just give all the Grammys to Beyonce? Judging from the many articles exactly like this that appear in the MSM whenever Beyonce doesn't win all the Grammys, Beyonce winning some but not every Grammy is simply too much heartbreak for...
  • The Grammys? Aren’t they that annual televised satanic black mass?

    • Agree: Achmed E. Newman
    • LOL: bomag, theMann
  • From now woke Forbes: The Real Reasons For Big Tech Layoffs At Google, Microsoft, Meta, And Amazon Bernard Marr Contributor Jan 30, 2023,01:57am EST Between them, some of the world’s biggest tech companies have collectively laid off more than 150,000 workers in recent months. ... So, what is the true reason for these mass cuts...
  • 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.

  • iSteve commenter Twinkie asks about the Memphis police scandal in which five black cops beat a black motorists resisting arrest to death: Charles Murray's 2021 book Two Truths features many examples of how black affirmative action hires tend to get in serious trouble for screwing up, just as The Bell Curve would predict. The population...
  • 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.

  • OK, everybody, you got the message: "the French" don't exist anymore. Now there are just people with Frenchness. Same with "whites." They are now people with whiteness. So when the Diversity Inclusion Equity movement say "Abolish whiteness" they don't mean abolish white people, just what makes them white, like their home equity.
  • Baisez une canard, salope!

    That enough Frenchness for you?

  • Looking through a comments section, I stumbled upon a one line comment: I could hear the melody in my mind, but where was it from? Electric Light Orchestra? No, after searching, I discovered it's John Lennon's song "Across the Universe" from the first album I ever bought in 1970, Let It Be. "Across the Universe"...
  • 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.

    • Agree: theMann
    • Disagree: PiltdownMan
  • 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.

    • Disagree: Dnought, RadicalCenter
    • Replies: @Yojimbo/Zatoichi
    @theMann

    Agreed. A very uneven album

    Piggies
    Mr Moonlight
    Martha My Dear
    Sexy Sadie
    Yer Blues

    Not exactly setting the world on fire with tracks like those.

  • My wife has decided to watch classic movie musicals that have gotten even more entertaining over the decades because they are now so sexist that they'd make most Current Year people's heads explode. So far, she has watched Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, in which an 1850s Oregon mountain man reads Plutarch's chapter The Rape...
  • 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.

  • [Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] Martin Luther King Day, just passed, is depressing because it reminds us of a thing that we—especially we of the Silent and Boomer cohorts—would rather not be reminded of. We remember the hopes of sixty years ago: the hopes that MLK allegedly represented. We...
  • @SafeNow
    Mr. Derb observes that India is apparently sending their best. This reminded me of Mr. Trump’s observation that Mexico was NOT sending their best - - for which he was excoriated by liberals.

    Replies: @theMann

    Lest us assume:

    India is sending us their best.

    Just how scary an observation is that?

  • Amidst indignant reactions to ex-Chancellor Angela Merkel’s revelations about the Minsk accords, worry about Americans “advising” Ukrainians en situ, and the back-and-forth of battle lines, it’s easy to forget what the Ukraine War is all about: the struggle of the United States to maintain its status as the world’s only superpower. More exactly, America’s attempt...
  • @Kevin Barrett
    @anonymous

    Excellent article, but what it misses is that Russia has been busy since 2014 beefing up its nuclear deterrent. So although the neocons have undoubtedly been angling for a surprise nuclear attack on Russia, that project may have become a non-starter.

    Replies: @MarkU, @nos1, @EddieSpaghetti, @Liosnagcat, @Poupon Marx, @Quartermaster, @Shamu, @Anon

    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.

    • Replies: @Poupon Marx
    @MarkU

    Very few people have the background and knowledge gained through sustained endeavors to opine on this subject. This is not Jung-Freud’s strong suit.

    Russia has the most advanced and numerous anti-missile systems in the world. In a nuclear exchange, Russia is likely to partially survive, while the JUSA is not.

    , @Shamu
    @MarkU

    They are evil, and many are plain stupid, even more are just totally delusional. And they would not care a tiny bit if 90% of the whites of the world were killed by their fun and games.

    , @Luke45
    @MarkU

    My first comment on Unz. Feel like I owe you one MarkU. The articles on this site are good but sometimes your analysis in the comments are better.

    This point from the author is logical and alarming.


    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.
     
    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

  • A commenter calls attention to this New Yorker article: A Hotter Planet Takes Another Toll on Human Health: A new hypothesis about heat waves, redlining, and kidney stones. For reasons that remain unclear, kidney stones have traditionally been more common among white people, but, in recent years, doctors have noted huge increases among Black Americans...
  • 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.

  • From NBC San Diego: San Diego Police Hunting Dozens Connected to Crime Ring That Targets Asian Elders By Dave Summers • Published January 18, 2023 • ... The San Diego Police Department is asking for the public’s help taking down what investigators call an international organized theft ring that has been operating in San Diego...
  • @Steve Sailer
    @Anonymous

    They used to have the legit job of itinerant knife sharpeners.

    Replies: @Pers(on)ephone, @Liger, @Jack D, @theMann, @Reg Cæsar, @Prester John

    They are known as exceptional horse trainers as well.

  • From Richard Hanania's Substack: Why the Media is Honest and Good How to critique the press without devolving into nihilism Richard Hanania Jan 17 I tend to get annoyed by those around me. Most of my adult life I’ve spent in academic institutions, and this has created a revulsion towards the woke. As my writing...
  • 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.

    • Replies: @ThreeCranes
    @theMann

    Agree.


    "The problem with taking a nihilistic posture towards the MSM is that there’s nothing to replace it with."
     
    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.

  • Although much of my research and writing over the last three years has been devoted to the global Covid epidemic, I've paradoxically paid very little attention to most of the various Covid-oriented websites. That's because I have narrowly concentrated on the origins of the epidemic while they have focused almost entirely upon the details of...
  • @Tom Welsh
    It has been public knowledge for many years, but seems to be little mentioned nowadays, that China has suffered a whole series of unexplained virus outbreaks. Most of those afflicted animals - pigs, birds, etc. - that Chinese people rely on for food.

    Now we have seen a similar outbreak in humans. To my mind, it is quite likely that the outbreaks have been the visible signs of biological warfare.

    The US government has the means - the knowledge, the experience, and the equipment. It also confronts a stubborn obstacle in China, which will not yield to economic, financial, or military pressure. What could be more natural for an unscupulous group of power-hungry criminals than to resort clandestinely to biological warfare?

    It would be hardly surprising, too, if they bungled the attack so severely as to inflict more harm on their own people.

    Replies: @theMann, @How do you know its a real Durer, @Emslander, @I'm still Goygeous, @Anon

    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.

    • Replies: @Syd Walker
    @theMann


    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.
  • I had been wondering whether an office at the USC school of social work canceling "field work" in favor of "practicum" was a hoax, but a Daily Trojan article confirms it and points to this earlier announcement from Cal State Northridge in the San Fernando Valley, which offers a particularly enthusiastic explanation:
  • Torturing language into nonsense is the most obvious action of an insane person.

    Insanity is neither curable nor negotiable, it can only be cauterized.

  • A reader in downtown L.A. writes:
  • 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.

    • Agree: Muggles
  • From the Chicago Tribune: Park Tower is an 800 foot-tall building that went up in 2000 at 800 N. Michigan Avenue next to the Water Tower. This would have struck me in the 1980s-1990s when I lived in Chicago, as close to being the single most rock-solid location in Chicago, other than perhaps the east...
  • 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.

  • Many people think I'm just making up the term "racial reckoning" for describing the mainstream media's enthusiasm for promoting riot and crime following the death of George Floyd. But, though in decline during the 2022 election season when it suddenly became the conventional wisdom that the racial reckoning never happened, it is still being used....
  • @Arclight
    Yet another example of the general uselessness of the GOP is the lack of action on bringing the universities to heel, even just a little bit. There are plenty of potential levers, from taxing endowments, making them partially responsible for student loan repayments, prohibiting loyalty oaths, banning affirmative action, etc.

    Although I loathe the Democrats, they at least have the guts to go all in on big legislation (Obamacare, the Orwellian Inflation Reduction Act) that lacks broad public support to get it enacted knowing it will never be repealed. I cannot think of anything the GOP has done that was intended to alter the trajectory of our culture in the last 20 years.

    Replies: @theMann, @DCThrowback, @additionalMike

    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.

    • Agree: Prester John
    • Replies: @mikeInThe716
    @theMann

    Excellent points. Those successes were surprising. The Legal Right outside of academia is not weak.

    Although the party stumbled to victory thanks to Trump's court picks.

    And Cocaine-Mitch's ruthlessness in getting them through.

    And notorious RGB's psychotic stubborn insistence on not resigning when the Dems had power.

    Maybe Law Schools are so captured by the Woke-Marxist left that otherwise moderate dems just say f*ck it and join the Federalist Society. So they can at least hear a different point of view.

  • Over the last couple of years, our alternative media website has been flooded by a vast number of zealous anti-vaxxers, promoting their fears of the Covid vaccines with tremendous energy and commitment. On its face, such concerns with the Covid vaccination drive hardly seem unreasonable. The vaccines used in most Western countries have been based...
  • From CWBChicago:
  • @Redneck farmer
    @Achmed E. Newman

    Bloomberg keeps worrying about rising wages. Frankly, I am waiting for them to argue for the repeal of the 13th amendment.

    Replies: @theMann

    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.

    • Replies: @VivaLaMigra
    @theMann

    Sure, if you merely apply a mathematical formula to the artificially induced [via mass immigration] Cheap Labor situation, the Supply and Demand Curve THEORETICALLY "approaches zero" on the Wage axis. However, that's not the way the Real World behaves. As things get leaner and leaner, the Collective does not sit around and agree to share the scarcity. If there are only 800 calories available per day per capita, and it's clear that the shortage is permanent, well, not everyone will sing Kumbaya! and happily agree to slowly starve to death out of any sense of "fairness." The young and the strong are going to take from the old and the infirm. They'll get not just their 2,000 calories per day, but three or four thousand, so that they have the resources available to take even MORE stuff they want. Any "extra" food, fuel, cash income, etc. can be bartered, especially for sex. As wages deteriorate, it won't be the criminally-inclined who trade their labor for low wages. No, they'll simply enslave others and expropriate the meager fruits of their labor. And, seeing that poverty is going to exist and indeed greatly increase whether there's exploitation or not, there is less and less reason to feel personally responsible for participating in the exploitation.

    Something has gone seriously wrong when, five or six decades ago, your town had a couple of doctors and dentists who made four or five times the average person's annual income and were perfectly content to live in one of the community's nicer homes and send their kids to the same schools, while no self-respecting MD or DDS today pulls down less than ten times the median income. In fact, twenty times more is probably a lot closer to the truth.

  • Until the last couple of years, I doubt whether I'd ever spent even ten minutes thinking about vaccination issues, and probably a large majority of ordinary Americans fell into the same category. I'd had a few rounds of shots as a young child, supplemented by boosters every ten or fifteen years and an annual flu...
  • 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.

    • Agree: theMann
  • 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.

    • Agree: Pierre de Craon
    • Thanks: Sulu
    • Replies: @Sulu
    @theMann

    Part of the problem the pro vax people have with admitting that they might be wrong is the near certainty that most of them have taken the vax. They are heavily emotionally invested because if they admit they are wrong about the vax it's not just their ego that takes a hit. The next question is what negative outcome can they expect from taking the vax. Heart attack, blood clots, cancer, death? They don't even want to consider the possibility that they were stupid enough to be conned into taking something that might kill them. So they bury their heads in the sand. But the problem with burying your head in the sand is it means your ass is up in the air.

    Sulu

  • @Anon
    There was no covid pandemic. There was, however, a pandemic of faked trials, media hype, gerrymandered data, falsified death certificates, non-tests, bogus cases and useless, wholly dangerous, injections.

    In the spring of 2020, the increased death rate was iatrogenically driven. When these harmful measures were relaxed in the summer and the death toll dropped, it was all about masking theatrics and bogus 'cases' creating the illusion of an epidemic by use fabricated testing protocols. By the winter of 20/21 the euthanasia tactics of the spring were repeated and then came the release of the real bioweapon. In the absense of autopsies, all subsequent deaths and illness were, with the sweep of a hand, attibuted to covid.

    Astra Zeneca and Pfizer are criminal organisations with a history of bribing medical professionals and falsifying drug trials. Pfizer kept the devastating bioweapon injury list hidden until a judge forced its release - but it was too late for the billions who had already received the toxic sludge.

    In Sep 2020 reputable scientific journal Nature warned that the injections would cause ADE therby exacerbating respiratory illness. In Nov 2020 the BMJ reported that the Pfizer claims to 100 % efficacy were wholly false and in fact the real efficacy was zero. In April 2021 the Lancet also reported that the injections were wholly useless. The European Medical Agency warned that repeat injections will result in VAIDs that destroys peoples immune system. The UK HSA has repeatedy released figures showing that the injected are dying at a much higher rate than the uninjected.

    Yet still people repeat the myth and the injections are 'safe and effective'.

    Replies: @H. L. M, @theMann

    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.

    • Replies: @Adam Smith
    @theMann

    This was all ritual Satanic behavior.

    Agree! & Thanks! ☮

  • This is your chance to put down on the record in the comments your predictions for 2023 so you can brag about the ones that come true. My prediction is that for most things, 2023 will be much like 2022, only more so. On the other hand, for some things, 2023 will be very different.
  • 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%.

    • Agree: Achmed E. Newman
  • Hollywood usually remakes movies that worked surprisingly well the first time (e.g., 1962's Manchurian Candidate, a miracle of style), so they tend to regress toward the mean the second time. Instead, they should remake potentially strong movies that failed for identifiable reasons. Let me illustrate using three Frank Sinatra movies: For the Bush Era Manchurian...
  • 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.

    • Replies: @Guest007
    @theMann

    Novellas make better movies. They are short enough and with a limited number of characters. When one wants to make a movie out of a novel, the issue is what to leave out and what to focus on.

    Replies: @The Wild Geese Howard

    , @G. Poulin
    @theMann

    Tarzan, conceived in the late Victorian era, is even more out of fashion than Dick Tracy. I don't think many people would go to see a remake, unless it was another kiddie cartoon. Disney tried hard to do a live-action update of ERB's other Victorian hero, John Carter, but it failed to find much of an audience. People had seen this sort of thing before, perhaps not realizing that John Carter was the original space opera shlock that everyone else had been ripping off. Maybe a cartoon would have done better.

    , @Tex
    @theMann

    I liked John Carter. It just couldn't make back the money invested. I think the "tent pole" strategy did it in.

  • From my new movie review in Taki's Magazine: Read the whole thing there.
  • @alaska3636
    I mentioned Babylon's 3 hour run time the other day and how it effectively ended any chance I'd check out the movie. I looked at 3 hour movies in this century to see if I was being short-sighted and basically the only good movie was Magnolia. Anything else longer than 3 hours worth watching is a documentary.

    Replies: @theMann, @Colin Wright

    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.

    • Replies: @kaganovitch
    @theMann

    Part of Alaska's point was since 2000. He's not saying that 3 hour movies can't be good he's saying recent ones should be presumed not good. What he wrote was "I looked at 3 hour movies in this century to see if I was being short-sighted and basically the only good movie was Magnolia."

  • 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

    • Replies: @SteveRogers42
    @theMann

    I'll take that under advisement, Mister Cowboy.

    Replies: @The Wild Geese Howard

    , @Dave Pinsen
    @theMann

    Intermissions should be brought back. Let people urinate and then hit the concessions again.

    Replies: @Hypnotoad666, @Pincher Martin

    , @cool daddy jimbo
    @theMann

    "Die Hard"

    I proudly watched the ultimate Christmas movie while wearing my "Nakatomi Plaza Christmas Party 1988" Sweatshirt.

    , @Kim
    @theMann

    I might rewatch that sci fi classic, "Alien", recently re-released as "Undocumented".

    , @Kim
    @theMann

    For some reason, all Korean movies run at least two hours. Larger bladders?

  • From The Economist news section, some Christmastime wishful thinking by an anonymous Brit or Indian or British Indian journalist: Back in the late 1970s at Rice U., I watched cricket matches out my dorm window played by immigrants, grad students, and doctors at the Texas Medical Center across Main St. I was initially fairly interested...
  • @Kylie
    @Loyalty Over IQ Worship

    I will never ever feel any loyalty whatsoever to leftists whites--from any country-- all of whom are traitors to Western civilization and have therefore forfeited their right to live in it.

    If I had my way, they'd all be deported to SSA, which admittedly is kind of unfair to Africans. Maybe from there, the Africans can send them on to some destination other than Western countries.

    Replies: @theMann, @Loyalty Over IQ Worship

    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.

    • Agree: Kylie
  • 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...
  • 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.

    • LOL: JR Ewing
    • Replies: @Jim Bob Lassiter
    @theMann

    LSD was accidentally discovered in a Swiss Sandoz lab by some pharma guy working on an artificial sweetener project using a wheat mold as part of the formula. The wheat mold had a semi-ancient history of causing entire French villages to trip out whenever they accidentally ingested slightly moldy bread from local bakery.

    Replies: @Ghost of Bull Moose

  • From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Reminds me of the defendant convicted of murdering his parents who begged the judge for mercy because he was an orphan.
  • 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.

    • Agree: theMann
    • Thanks: PhysicistDave
    • Replies: @Inverness
    @Bill Jones

    Considering all of the other things theyre doing with respect to children (not a single one of which is actually good for children), normalizing pedophilia can't be far off.

    If Republicans weren't quite so stupid they could capitalize on all this insanity.

    Replies: @bomag

    , @Reg Cæsar
    @Bill Jones


    What will it take for Joe Normie to realize there is literally no way of living with these people.
     
    Boy, did I read that wrong the first time...



    https://youtu.be/_BCWvH2ISyI
  • I was discussing the recent wholly socially constructed rise of Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria among female children, and somebody pointed out the 19th Century push to force left-handed children to be right-handed. For instance, Ronald Reagan was a natural lefty trained to be a righty, but all 3 candidates in 1992 Presidential debate, Clinton, Bush,...
  • @prime noticer
    "Lefties aren’t an official identity politics group"

    but old people are, and now fat people are too.

    time for short people to rise up and assume their rightful place among the protected classes.

    short, bald men could could get the 2 for 1 deal if they play their political cards right.

    Replies: @theMann

    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.

    • Replies: @Jim Don Bob
    @theMann

    Thanks, Michelle!

  • From my Taki's Magazine review of Avatar in January 2010: Like many guys of a certain age, I've nurtured a love-hate attitude toward James Cameron that goes back a quarter of a century to a point about five minutes into Terminator. That’s when it started to dawn upon me that the man behind this cheesy,...
  • @Twinkie

    the greatest American science fiction writer, Robert A. Heinlein
     
    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

    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.

    • Agree: Che Guava
    • Replies: @G. Poulin
    @theMann

    I discovered Poul Anderson a while back. Found a good deal to like about his stories. But he never wrote a truly great science fiction novel, just lots of good stories. Unlike, say, Frank Herbert who wrote one great novel followed by a lot of pot-boilers.

    , @Fluesterwitz
    @theMann

    You are right about Frederic Pohl.

  • I was discussing the recent wholly socially constructed rise of Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria among female children, and somebody pointed out the 19th Century push to force left-handed children to be right-handed. For instance, Ronald Reagan was a natural lefty trained to be a righty, but all 3 candidates in 1992 Presidential debate, Clinton, Bush,...
  • 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.

  • I don’t really have a dog in the fight between Kanye West and America’s Jewish power structure, so I am just sitting back and enjoying the show. But I am pretty much certain that, no matter what the outcome for Mr. West, whites in America and around the world will benefit, and for that I...
  • @mark green

    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.
     
    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

    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.

    • Agree: Weave
    • Replies: @Dave Bowman
    @theMann

    You're being far too simplistic - to the point of factual dishonesty.

    For most normal people, it's not about "being called names". It's the little problem that you seem to be forgetting - which perhaps means that they are considerably more far-sighted, intelligent and honest than you - simply because it's NOT about "today". They fully understand that those who are called names TODAY start to pay the REAL price tomorrow - by seeing what the following day and the future hold. They see their jobs removed, their bank accounts closed, their societal and political profiles raised, their friends and social contacts restricted due to "wrong association", their children taken away and taught to hate them - and their lives slowly, methodically, relentlessly and sadistically destroyed at every level by the all-reaching power of international Jewry. That's the day after TOMORROW.

    Just out of sight - but so, SO close !

    It's not about TODAY, friend. It's about the day after TOMORROW.

  • White Lotus is a slow-paced but well-written comedy-drama TV show about rich people on vacation at resort hotels, the first season in Hawaii, the second in Sicily. It's created by a rich guy named Mike White who presumably takes a lot of vacations and takes insightful notes on the people he meets. White is adept...
  • @Steve Sailer
    @Guest007

    I dunno, but not necessarily a bad thing. For instance, Baz Luhrmann's "Moulin Rouge" is intentionally a high brow version of a Bollywood movie. It's intended for anybody who is familiar with "Le Boheme" and/or "Camille."

    Heck, "Rosecrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" is probably a highbrow version of "Hamlet."

    Replies: @theMann

    If Moulin Rouge is highbrow in any way, shape, or form whatsoever then I’m Mr. Personality.

  • @Glaivester
    @Altai


    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.
     
    Any show with an arc would do well to get an idea of what the overall trajectory is meant to be ahead of time.

    Both the US and UK versions of Being Human had strong first seasons (both were basically the same plot) and then both sort of fell apart starting with season two, although they diverged at this point so both fell apart in different ways.

    Replies: @AnotherDad, @theMann

    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.

    • Replies: @Harry Baldwin
    @theMann

    A thousand shows collapse because they just don't have a well thought out story to tell.

    We watched the first season of "Severance." Like "Lost," it keeps you interested by introducing strange mysteries. My problem with this sort of show is that, while the mysteries may be intriguing, I suspect that in the end the payoff won't be that satisfying. It's a lot easier to tease viewers with a lot of mysterious events than it is to come up with an explanation that isn't an anticlimax. "Game of Thrones" is another show that fell flat at the end. I don't believe it would have been possible to bring it to a truly satisfying conclusion--there were too many plot threads.

    Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @SFG

  • So, a clever old crony of the late Queen Elizabeth II noticed that a guest at Buckingham Palace was a conventional West Indian Brit, birth name Marlene Headley, but instead claimed a fake African name, Ngozi Fulani. Rather than being praised for her sensitivity to the diversity of black cultures, she was condemned for racism...
  • 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.

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @theMann

    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.

    So if Zelensky wasn't Jewish then it wouldn't be a Jewish war? Would Putin be to blame in that case?

    Replies: @J.Ross, @PhysicistDave

    , @AndrewR
    @theMann

    Can you even find Ukraine on a map? Lmao. Clearly basic arithmetic isn't your forte.

  • The most prestigious poll of serious movie aficionados is Sight & Sound's, which tends to formulate the slow-moving canon of Cinema 101 canon of Citizen Kane, Vertigo, Rules of the Game, Persona, etc. Personally, I was enthralled by Citizen Kane the first two times I saw it, but kinda bored the last two times. My...
  • @Pincher Martin
    @Mr. Anon


    How many times does a given symphony publicly perform any given piece of classical music? Once every five years?
     
    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.

    Do you see John Williams' opuses getting played every year? Perhaps you believe that one year they'll play STAR WARS and the next they'll play CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND and the year after that, they'll play E.T., and so forth.

    I don't see it happening.

    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.
     
    That may be true, but those small outfits don't set any repertoire but their own.

    Replies: @theMann, @Mr. Anon

    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.

    • Replies: @Pincher Martin
    @theMann

    I can't be sure, but I suspect the high number of Jews in San Francisco contribute to why the two most famous classical Jewish composers, Mahler and Mendelssohn, get so much play (and Wagner so little).

  • The malignant and malicious “right-wing Jew” Dennis Prager has penned a syndicated op-ed claiming that belief in the Holocaust is what determines if a person goes to Heaven. You know the verse, Jew 3:16: “For Hitler so hated the Jews (for no reason) that he gassed the six million, and whosoever believes in homicidal masturbation...
  • 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.

  • The most prestigious poll of serious movie aficionados is Sight & Sound's, which tends to formulate the slow-moving canon of Cinema 101 canon of Citizen Kane, Vertigo, Rules of the Game, Persona, etc. Personally, I was enthralled by Citizen Kane the first two times I saw it, but kinda bored the last two times. My...
  • @Pincher Martin
    @Art Deco


    Wealthy patricians are a small class, always and everywhere.
     
    That's true. So it's important for the arts that this small but important class not get distracted.

    A hundred years ago, movies and radio were just beginning to take off, and so the distractions were still small.

    Now those distractions are overwhelming.

    Carnegie Hall was built in the late 19th century. It was funded, of course, by Andrew Carnegie, who wasn't particularly interested in classical music, but was talked into funding the building.

    I can't imagine the mega-wealthy today being talked into supporting the building of a new concert hall venue dedicated to classical music. The closest would be the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, but even that was primarily funded by Walt Disney's wife, a woman born in the 19th century. The project still ran into funding difficulties.

    As we speak, every concentrated settlement in Ohio with a population of 150,000 or more has a resident symphony or philharmonic.
     
    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.

    I live in the Bay Area, and so my wife and I occasionally frequent the San Francisco Symphony which plays at the Davies Symphony Hall. The hall was completed in 1980, but it's ugly and already needs renovation. The seats are uncomfortable. The musicians are reportedly the highest paid of any symphony in the country, but still only make around 15oK a year on average, which is starvation wages in San Francisco.

    That's the state of classical music in one of the most highly-educated metropolitan areas in the U.S.

    Replies: @theMann

    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.

    • Replies: @Pincher Martin
    @theMann

    Glad to hear it. Let's hope that as West Texas goes, so goes the nation.

    The venue certainly looks beautiful:

    http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rDptijBnMn4/URogQlJfFnI/AAAAAAAAYVc/aF9IxrQm3MA/s1600/Wagner+Noel+Performing+Arts+Center+by+Boora+Architects+%252B+Rhotenberry+Wellen10.jpg

  • @John Johnson
    @Corvinus


    “White people are too vulnerable to egalitarian programming“
     
    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.
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763418307905

    Liberalism will slowly deteriorate as more "common sense values" are in fact shown to be genetic in origin and not distributed equally. Whether or not Western society can be saved by then is the question.

    Replies: @R.G. Camara, @Corvinus, @Jack D

    Dude, Corvy’s a paid fed troll, chillax. Ignore him. He’s Tiny Duck but less pithy and way less entertaining.

    • Agree: theMann
    • Replies: @Jack D
    @R.G. Camara

    See this is the difference between the dope smoking left and the coked up paranoid right.
    The Left says hey man, you're a freak but come join our mellow party along with all the other freaks and we'll take over.

    The paranoid Right says that unless you agree with me 100% (even then you are probably faking it) you must be a Fed - get out of my clubhouse. By the time you are done chasing everyone who doesn't agree 1000% with you on every issue and who doesn't look exactly like you and worship the same deity and eat the same food and like the same music from your clubhouse, you are the only one left who's good enough to be a member of your club.

    Replies: @R.G. Camara, @Curle

    , @Reg Cæsar
    @R.G. Camara


    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.

    There are all kinds of organizations that could and would pay someone to troll here. And many will do it for free. Did you know that the Milwaukee DA who let Darrell Brooks off without bail was not a Soros pick? He was already doing György's thing on his own.

    It's hard to imagine the Crow's relentless scolding being done for free. But maybe psychological issues are involved.
  • 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.

  • "I’m practically crying, and I haven’t even read it." – Trudi Fraser It’s almost as if Terry Gilliam believes ignorance is knowledge, or a kind of creative strength. While directing BRAZIL, he insisted on not having read George Orwell’s 1984 and only having heard of it. So, the movie is essentially Gilliam going off tangents...
  • @P. Cleburne
    Intelligent people don't give a flip about movies or hollywood. It's all cultural degeneracy and anti white propaganda.

    Replies: @Renard, @theMann

    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.

  • @obwandiyag
    I forgot how many shitty movies there are. And how many assholes like them.

    Replies: @theMann

    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.

  • 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...
  • @AndrewR
    The middle eastern teams are all whiter than the "historically white countries'" teams.

    Given the rainbow flag and BLM redesign of the US logo, I hope the US team loses by record margins.

    Replies: @tyrone, @AnotherDad, @John Pepple

    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.

    • Replies: @Jim Bob Lassiter
    @AnotherDad

    And Canadian Norm MacDonald also agrees with you:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7PFdF3J0TE

    , @Reg Cæsar
    @AnotherDad


    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?
     
    Michigan:


    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OjQBc3fqvZg


    Two states defaulted to their pre-Roe laws when that decision was overturned, Michigan and Wisconsin. Michigan voters just transferred Roe to the state constitution.

    No coincidence here. It's precisely what you'd expect from a state run by drag queens. Cheeseheads are holding out.

    Replies: @CCG, @Ron Mexico

    , @rebel yell
    @AnotherDad


    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.
     
    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.
    A woman killed there was a mom, married to a man, but was at the club with a friend to see the show.
    The man who disarmed the shooter was at the club with his wife and daughter, to see a drag show.
    I am at a complete loss to understand the appeal of a drag show for adult heterosexuals with families. The culture and character of normal people has really sunk.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

  • 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...
  • @SFG
    There was a movie where the Nazis take over the moon, I think. Didn’t it have a sequel?

    Supposedly he’s passing the torch to a woman. My (middle aged) female friend commented the eye candy aspect of it was over for women then. I said their political projects were much more important to them now.

    Replies: @Joe S.Walker, @Jon, @theMann, @Cutter, @Mr. Anon

    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.

  • I don't know nothin' about cryptocurrency, but this takedown of the "stablecoin" Tether, the third biggest type of cryptocurrency, in Revolver is a good read:
  • 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.

    • Replies: @Anon
    @theMann

    Basically true. The Obama regime killed off tax havens and financial privacy. Now the nice and the good want to track money on the transaction level because like terrorism money laundering and ooga booga. It's not surprising that there is an official maniacal fury about crypto.

  • 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...
  • 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.

    • Thanks: anonymouseperson
  • When I wrote this, six full days after the 2022 midterm election, the situation was still undecided. The Senate is apparently in Democrat hands again, and the House was “leaning” Republican , although some 19 (!) races are still undetermined. [Editor’s note: The Democrats have indeed held the Senate, and the Republicans now have been...
  • 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.

    • Agree: P. Cleburne, Agent76
    • Replies: @P. Cleburne
    @theMann

    Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee would probably follow in pretty short order.

    , @Agent76
    @theMann

    You know it Mann! Nov 15, 2022 Gov. Greg Abbott declares migration to Texas through US-Mexico border to be invasion

    Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted that he was invoking Invasion Clauses of the U.S. and Texas Constitutions to "fully authorize Texas to take unprecedented measures to defend our state against an invasion." He went on to mention specific action the National Guard and DPS are taking at the border.

    https://youtu.be/Gg_27596vS0

  • 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...
  • 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.

    • Agree: Kylie, Bill Jones, Cutter
  • I've been thinking some more about a book by Susan Rogers, who was Prince's sound engineer on Purple Rain and then got a cognitive science Ph.D., called This Is What It Sounds Like about the appeal of popular music. I feel like I didn't give enough examples from the 1970s when I reviewed it awhile...
  • 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?

  • What's happening?
  • @Wilkey
    @Ron Mexico


    How was the GOP doing before Trump?
     
    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

    “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.

    • Agree: PhysicistDave, theMann