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    In recent decades, medical science has discovered a certain number of situations in which the race of the patient is relevant to how doctors should interpret test results, prescribe medications, and the like, findings that usually benefit people of sub-Saharan descent the most. But the Race Does Not Exist creed has meant that a lot...
  • @Dan Hayes
    These Black health professionals are on a much higher moral plane than most Black politicians who in their blind adherence to the current zeitgeist have sold out their constituents!

    Replies: @wren, @Gary in Gramercy

    The Hippocratic Oath seems to be a good antidote to all the social/political science proposals and policies that would appear to be causing much worse outcomes, up to and including death for the people they claim to want to help.

    I believe Steve is on the same moral plane as the doctors in that, at risk to himself in the current environment, he is attempting to help people think clearly about the ultimate outcomes of what they promote.

  • I have referred to this one article about dermatologists recommending sunscreen to black folks too many times here, but the implications are important.

    [MORE]

    People of color rarely get melanoma. The rate is 26 per 100,000 in Caucasians, 5 per 100,000 in Hispanics, and 1 per 100,000 in African Americans. On the rare occasion when African Americans do get melanoma, it’s particularly lethal—but it’s mostly a kind that occurs on the palms, soles, or under the nails and is not caused by sun exposure.

    How did we get through the Neolithic Era without sunscreen? Actually, perfectly well. What’s counterintuitive is that dermatologists run around saying, ‘Don’t go outside, you might die.’

    At the same time, African Americans suffer high rates of diabetes, heart disease, stroke, internal cancers, and other diseases that seem to improve in the presence of sunlight, of which they may well not be getting enough. Because of their genetically higher levels of melanin, they require more sun exposure to produce compounds like vitamin D, and they are less able to store that vitamin for darker days. They have much to gain from the sun and little to fear.

    And yet they are being told a very different story, misled into believing that sunscreen can prevent their melanomas, which Weller finds exasperating. “The cosmetic industry is now trying to push sunscreen at dark-skinned people,” he says. “At dermatology meetings, you get people standing up and saying, ‘We have to adapt products for this market.’ Well, no we don’t. This is a marketing ploy.”

    When I asked the American Academy of Dermatology for clarification on its position on dark-skinned people and the sun, it pointed me back to the official line on its website: “The American Academy of Dermatology recommends that all people, regardless of skin color, protect themselves from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet rays by seeking shade, wearing protective clothing, and using a broad-spectrum, water-resistant sunscreen with an SPF of 30 or higher.”

    https://www.outsideonline.com/2380751/sunscreen-sun-exposure-skin-cancer-science

    While most whites tan in the summer to protect from sun, most blacks don’t lighten in the winter to get more sunlight.

    Living in northern latitudes may be unhealthy for people with dark skin unless they are using sun lamps. The article indicates vitamin D supplements may not help.

    More people should be looking into this.

    Perhaps they are but don’t want to be cancelled, so don’t publish.

    • Thanks: Polistra
    • Replies: @Lockean Proviso
    @wren

    Vitamin D deficiency as well as excess obesity are contributing factors to the greater COVID death rate among blacks, so reducing this would take away from the anti-white narrative. Therefore this information is hush-hush and must not be discussed.

  • From the Washington Examiner: Giving away billions to mini-caudillos in Central American sounds dreary, but at least more enjoyable than trying to deal with actual migrants at the actual border.
  • BTW, here is a photo of Kamala’s ‘deputy’ who said she ain’t doin no border..

    She’ll probably be Kamala’s Chief of Staff, or maybe Secy of State.

    Or maybe vice-president.

    Her website claims:

    In 2016, at the age of 25, Sanders became the youngest presidential press secretary on record.

    If you object to this–because, for example, it’s not factual–we know what you are.

    • Thanks: wren
    • Replies: @Luzzatto
    @Polistra

    Symone Sanders looks like Magic Johnson's Transgender "daughter"!

  • @Bill Jones
    @Anonymous

    Could you show me where Unz ever claimed that each contributor would allow unlimited commenting?

    I've looked but can't see it.

    Sailer regularly vanishes some of my stuff.

    As is his right.

    Replies: @SunBakedSuburb

    “Sailer regularly vanishes some of my stuff”

    Sailer sends your stuff to me, I transmit it to Jerry’s Rancheria. The decision regarding what to do with your stuff is made there. But not by Jerry.

    • LOL: wren
  • @Paul Mendez
    @Nikolai Vladivostok

    I’m afraid no one is in charge.

    Just a bunch of uncoordinated leftists, each ruling over their own little fiefdoms, trying to advance their own agendas. Harris, Pelosi, McConnell, The Squad, senior staff of the IC and the more powerful Departments all taking advantage of Joe’s senility to vie for power and accomplish what they’ve always dreamed of accomplishing.

    Imagine Nazi Germany without a Fuhrer.

    While this situation might be able to muddle along during times of stability, it will fall apart at the first national crisis. War with China. Financial meltdown. Major natural disaster like an LA earthquake. Any one of these would tip the nation into anarchy.

    A secret cabal of puppet masters would be preferable.

    Replies: @Kronos, @Whiskey

    Yes, and this was basically Biden and Kamala each trying to gift the other with basket of turds. The fix for the border is simple but politically impossible — just do what Trump did. Deport a lot of illegals, toughen up work enforcement, jail executives for employing illegals (with FBI SWAT raids at dawn), build more border fence, and beef up the border patrol and let them do what they need to do in order to keep the rush to the border down.

    No one can do that because Trump did it. And therefore they have to do the opposite.

    So we will soon have 45 million at the border, turning California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas immediately into Greater El Salvador. With cartels ruling. Not the US. Not the State governments. Not Biden. CARTELS.

    Collecting taxes, enforcing regulations, doing shakedowns, etc. Whites will be an easy and first target but blacks being a violent threat to Cartels will be dealt with. Some Whites will find accomodations as chemists, logistical people, etc. for the ruling Cartels. As people in Mexico find accomodation. The US government will not control great parts of the US anymore.

    As the various power players in the Biden Admin fight each other: Susan Rice and the Obamaites, Buttgig and the gay mafia, the Sanders Communist crowd, the remnants of the Clinton machine (Look Upon My stained blue dress, ye mighty, and despair!) the Cartels will seize more and more territory until the fleeing Whites start to fight back on their own; and the US just collapses as China invades Taiwan, possibly Japan and who knows, maybe Russia invades Alaska. It must be tempting for Putin. The US is completely weak, besotten with tranny tyranny because that’s half the weirdos in Silicon Valley. Any nation that has some mentally ill Jewish man in a dress and a wig as a serious official is easy prey for other ambitious and dangerous enemies.

    • LOL: wren
  • @wren
    I'm biased, but the harris biden administration seems to be imploding in front of us.

    What's next?

    Replies: @El Dato, @SunBakedSuburb

    “the harris [sic] biden [sic] administration [sic] seems to be imploding in front of us”

    I wonder if the Obama mafia is regretting its choice for shadow president. These rancid people have thoroughly seeded the national security state with their agents; they’re not stupid, at least not conventionally. Their obliviousness to Kamala’s sheer awfulness can only be explained by elite-bubble mentality or their ownership of the security state.

    • Agree: wren
  • @wren
    I'm biased, but the harris biden administration seems to be imploding in front of us.

    What's next?

    Replies: @El Dato, @SunBakedSuburb

    Evidently a “Black Hole”

    • LOL: wren
  • @Polistra

    “The vice president is not doing the border,” Harris’s senior adviser and chief spokeswoman Symone Sanders told reporters on Friday.
     
    Doing the border? Huh? No, she's doing her hair.

    Replies: @wren

    Doing the border? Huh? No, she’s doing her hair.

    Hopefully she doesn’t do the border the way she did Willie Brown.

    Cue Perot!

    Hear that giant sucking sound down south?

    Yup, kamala’s doing the border after all.

    Open up america, kamala’s taking them all in!

    She’s insatiable!

  • I’m biased, but the harris biden administration seems to be imploding in front of us.

    What’s next?

    • Replies: @El Dato
    @wren

    Evidently a "Black Hole"

    , @SunBakedSuburb
    @wren

    "the harris [sic] biden [sic] administration [sic] seems to be imploding in front of us"

    I wonder if the Obama mafia is regretting its choice for shadow president. These rancid people have thoroughly seeded the national security state with their agents; they're not stupid, at least not conventionally. Their obliviousness to Kamala's sheer awfulness can only be explained by elite-bubble mentality or their ownership of the security state.

  • Oh, yeah, well, my mom was that really racist white woman portrayed in Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman and in 1981 she massacred 40 Tibetan monks in a Colorado Springs lamasery with just a set of corncob skewers. Try to top that! Judging from the comments on Twitter, a large fraction of Americans today automatically believe these...
  • Wait until she regales twitter with all the stories of her pop’s deep and long friendship with joe Biden. They could have been brothers! That summer she sat on Joe’s lap as he shot the breeze with her dad out on the porch… That time she and hunter wondered off alone into the moonlight as their dads did some bonding of their own raising cash for the democrats, etc., etc..

  • From Taki's Magazine: Asian Women Are Too Damn Hot! Ann Coulter March 25, 2021 Does anyone else find it odd that so many Asian activists reacted to the mass murder of (mostly) Asian women last week by talking about how smoking hot they are? I was at law school when I first noticed the phenomenon...
  • I am not aware of any trick outside of fetishization of women that allows one to stand being with them.

    The same likely goes the other way. The moment a girl stops perceiving a guy as a sex object her whatever dries up like the whatever.

    Now with various mating and marriage rituals successfully deconstructed, this ability to objectivize each other and get horny from this, is the last thing standing between us and total atomization.

    Keeping in mind that the biochemical emotional firestorms arising at certain times in one’s lifecycle, which used to be encoded culturally “OMG I must be madly in love with X”, and “OMG I’m heartbroken” are now being aggressively reencoded into “OMG I must be gay” and “OMG I must be trans” (plus “OMG my brain chemistry must be all wrong save me big pharma!”), harnessing the same energy but funneling it into new “identities” and “conditions”, basic fetishization and objectivization of each other is all that’s left to keep the boinking alive.

    These days even the older “just let’s all bang each other” agenda, now that it’s served it’s purpose in dismantling older social structures, is now being phased out and replaced with “let’s just all sit at home and use sex toys stoned while we watch porn/camwhores”, we ain’t seen nothing yet about what real atomization is.

    Fetishization and objectivization (in real time, face to boobs) is the last fence they need to beak down.

    To summarize:

    • Replies: @Jonathan Mason
    @Rahan

    She is pretty attractive from the neck up. But from the neck down she is udderly.

    , @freedom-cat
    @Rahan


    I am not aware of any trick outside of fetishization of women that allows one to stand being with them.

    The same likely goes the other way. The moment a girl stops perceiving a guy as a sex object her whatever dries up like the whatever.
     
    You're looking at it from one perspective; from an internet perspective, where one sees all this kind of stuff constantly, along with constant verbal assaults directed at one another, and thinks that's all there is.

    I just visited Florida and there was masses of people everywhere and tons of man/woman couples holding hands, strolling along, laughing together, and being together.

    They can't kill nature; not entirely. They think they can, but they can't. It's not possible. The internet has it's own culture, where everyone is yelling and getting things off their chest. The anonymity adds to people's breakdown of civility. It is what it is, but it's not nature or natural.
  • @Father O'Hara
    @Bardon Kaldian

    Who-who's there??

    Sorry, I just had a thought about golf courses...

    Replies: @wren

    When the reply is “Who, whom?” you can assume it isn’t Stalin.

  • Oh, yeah, well, my mom was that really racist white woman portrayed in Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman and in 1981 she massacred 40 Tibetan monks in a Colorado Springs lamasery with just a set of corncob skewers. Try to top that! Judging from the comments on Twitter, a large fraction of Americans today automatically believe these...
  • I bought some frozen mackerel the other day, caught off Norway, but a product of Vietnam.

    Btw, have the Chinese fished out all the world’s fish yet?

    I sometimes expect to read more about this, but rarely do, so either they aren’t or the media is not doing its job.

    • Replies: @peterike
    @wren


    Btw, have the Chinese fished out all the world’s fish yet? I sometimes expect to read more about this, but rarely do, so either they aren’t or the media is not doing its job.
     
    This is one of the real-world consequences of the "global warming because of CO2" con job. Billions of dollars a year now go into "climate change" phoney-balony research, the media speaks of nothing else, while real world ecological problems like massive over-fishing are ignored. Whenever you do hear about problems in the oceans, it's due to..... drum roll.... climate change! Never the predatory behavior of parasitical Asians.
  • Congressman Ted Lieu (D-Beverly Hills) blows his stack at black conservative Peter Kirsanow for mentioning a massive example of anti-Asian discrimination (college admissions) that isn't part of The Narrative. But back in 2018, Lieu himself got Off-Narrative: "Oh, and do you like my personality traits?" To be frank, no. But it's not racial, I just...
  • Someone needs to make some average household income memes for when kamala starts emphasizing her indian american or “asian” heritage to complain about the white supremacists holding her down.

    • Agree: Spect3r
  • Thanks to the Devil, Ted now has a congressional seat in Lieu of a soul.

    • LOL: wren, Nicholas Stix
    • Replies: @Polistra
    @JimDandy

    I'd forgotten all about Ted Lieu. Mercifully enough.

    Does it occur to anyone that some group has to be at the bottom of any metric you choose to consider?

    And that it can't always be white people? Not yet anyway.

    Replies: @JimDandy

  • Two years ago in Virginia Beach, a municipal worker resigned from his job and then immediately murdered 12 of his now ex-coworkers and wounded five others before the cops killed him. This case didn't get all that much publicity from the mainstream media because the shooter was black. (This case is an exception to Sailer's...
  • OT: I don’t know what to make of the poetry by the mayor of Charlottesville.

    Instapundit thinks she may be trying to escape a corruption investigation.

    • Replies: @El Dato
    @wren

    RT has this:

    Charlottesville mayor posts bizarre X-rated ‘poem’ saying city ‘rapes’ its residents


    The mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia has turned heads after posting graphic poetry on her social media accounts, with lines about how the city “rapes” its citizens condemned as “X-rated” and inappropriate for a public official.

    Mayor Nikuyah Walker took to her Facebook page on Wednesday with a poem – apparently her own work – describing the city with bizarre, sexually-explicit metaphors.
     
    Being mayor must be a hard slog.

    The post soon caused a stir, not only with netizens but with Facebook itself, which promptly deleted the poem for violating the platform’s standards “on adult sexual exploitation,” and temporarily locked Walker out of her account.

    However, the platform inexplicably reversed the move soon thereafter. The mayor quickly declared she was “out of FB jail,” adding “I guess my post didn’t violate their policies.” The original post was reinstated.

     

    Well, it's not a "poem", just the usual black explainer.

    Though the mayor has not backed down amid the criticism, she did post a longer, marginally less vulgar version of her poem in apparent bid to appease her detractors – or at least “the person who reported my short poem to FB.”

     

    Sorry, Madame Mayor. That was a "flitering algorithm", or "AI" in marketing-speak.

    Not exactly Samuel Delany writing Dhalgren

    to wound the autumnal city.
    So howled out for the world to give him a name.
    The in-dark answered with wind.
    All you know I know: careening astronauts and bank clerks glancing at the clock before lunch; actresses cowling at light-ringed mirrors and freight elevator operators grinding a thumbful of grease on a steel handle; student riots; know that dark women in bodegas shook their heads last week because in six months prices have risen outlandishly; how coffee tastes after you've held it in your mouth, cold, a whole minute.
    A whole minute he squatted, pebbles clutched with his left foot (the bare one), listening to his breath sound tumble down the ledges.
    Beyond a leafy arras, reflected moonlight flittered.
    He rubbed his palms against denim. Where he was, was still. Somewhere else, wind whined.
    The leaves winked.
    What had been wind was a motion in brush below. His hand went to the rock behind.
    She stood up, two dozen feet down and away, wearing only shadows the moon dropped from the viney maple; moved, and the shadows moved on her.

    ...

    This hand full of crumpled leaves.
    It would be better than here. Just in the like that, if you can't remember any more if. I want to know but I can't see are you up there. I don't have a lot of strength now. The sky is stripped. I am too weak to write much. But I still hear them walking in the trees; not speaking. Waiting here, away from the terrifying weaponry, out of the halls of vapor and light, beyond holland and into the hills, I have come to

     

    Replies: @Polistra, @iDeplorable

    , @ic1000
    @wren

    Charlottesville (pop. 47,000) is about 71% white, 19% black, and 7% Asian.

    These folks elected Nikuyah Walker as their Poet Laureate, so that she can lead their struggle sessions. Good for them. Within the week, Lester Holt will feed this story to Flyover Country as an Inspiring America segment.

    , @Jim Bob Lassiter
    @wren

    Wow, that's David Allan Coe level poetry.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/OutlawCountry/comments/jzuehm/david_allan_coe_cum_stains_on_the_pillow/

    , @Redman
    @wren

    Well, I always heard that “Virginia is for lovers.” Sounds like the fine mayor was just expanding on a successful marketing campaign in her own way.

  • From the Denver Post: Boulder shooting suspect Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa was short-tempered, violent, former teammates say The 21-year-old Arvada man has been charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder Suspected shooter Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa ... By SHELLY BRADBURY | [email protected], CONRAD SWANSON and JOHN MEYER | [email protected] | The Denver Post PUBLISHED: March...
  • Allow me to quote myself yet again: https://www.unz.com/isteve/can-you-guess-the-race-of-this-mass-shooting-of-15/#comment-4532844

    It appears that – among mass shooters – whites and Hispanics are underrepresented while blacks, Asians, Middle Easterners, and American Indians are overrepresented. It appears, though, that the the black and Asian overrepresentation is relatively minor. The two categories that are massively overrepresented are Middle Easterners – only 0.4% of the population, but 7.6% of the mass shooters, meaning overrepresented by 19x – and American Indians – 1% of the population and 3.8% of the mass shooters.

    Similarly, Christians and Jews are underrepresented while Muslims are vastly overrepresented – 0.8% of the population, yet 9% of the mass shooters or 11.25x the population share.

    • Thanks: JohnnyWalker123, wren
    • Replies: @mark green
    @Twinkie


    It appears that – among mass shooters – whites and Hispanics are underrepresented while blacks, Asians, Middle Easterners, and American Indians are overrepresented.
     
    Thank you for the data. As a pro-White American who believes that rising heterogeneity poses a long-term existential threat to our civilization, I strongly support a nationwide immigration moratorium--at least from Third World regions. At the same time, it does not surprise me that a Syrian refugee living in America might be full of rage.

    After all, Zionist-friendly Washington has been undermining, subverting, and intermittently bombing Syria for years. Decades.

    Problem is, repeated, unjustified mass killings often make people mad. Crazy mad.

    As a generic, unaffiliated, US-born white guy, it even bugs the shit out of me.

    Obviously, no policies out of Washington--no matter how barbaric--justify the mass murder of innocents. At the same time, does it not interest you that there might be a connection?

    Why does the world's greatest military power find it necessary to repeatedly destabilize/annihilate small and distant Mideast nations? (This is a rhetorical question. Most UNZ readers know precisely WHY.)

    Think for a moment: What would happen if the roles were reversed?

    Don't worry. It could never happen. Not here. (America is still too useful.)

    But it does happen. To Arabs and Persians.

    Sanctioned, subsidized, and sanitized immoral conduct sometimes drives people bat-shit crazy.

    Then there's blowback.

    , @Genrick Yagoda
    @Twinkie

    I tried following the link, and then the other link, then the other link, and then the other link, and then....... At no point do they state where they obtained their data.

    Most mass shootings are committed by blacks. Per the New York Times article below, in the study the conducted in 2016 they found that 75% of all mass shooters were black. And of course there are many more, because a lot of the mass shootings in the ghetto never get solved.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/23/us/americas-overlooked-gun-violence.html

    Replies: @Twinkie

  • libel
    [ˈlībəl]
    NOUN
    law
    a published false statement that is damaging to a person’s reputation; a written defamation.Compare with slander.

    SPLC:

    The VDARE story by Steve Sailer, an anti-immigration activist who traffics in discredited race science, focused on instances in which the United States offered refugees temporary protected status. The article was posted the same day Miller shared it with McHugh.

    https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/11/12/stephen-millers-affinity-white-nationalism-revealed-leaked-emails

  • If you look at a map of Lake Superior, you'll see the U.S. - Canada border runs down the middle of the lake, except it loops north to put Isle Royale in the U.S.. That's because when negotiating the peace treaty at the end of the war of US independence, Ben Franklin had heard that...
  • @JMcG
    @wren

    I thought Homer Simpson worked in a nuclear power station?

    Replies: @wren

    I thought Homer Simpson worked in a nuclear power station?

    Yeah, that was the “lost ancient ancient high technology.” The pyramids were power stations. The metal brackets between megalithic blocks were electrical connectors, etc., etc.

    😉

  • @JMcG
    This subject has come up here before, which led me down quite a rabbit hole. Basically, the Indians didn’t have the technology to smelt copper. The ore deposits on aisle Royals are unusually pure and could be worked by hammering.
    There seem to be signs that much more copper was mined there than can be explained by what’s been found as artifacts. This has led some to conclude that the Phoenicians were hauling it back to Europe. Like I said, quite a rabbit hole.

    Replies: @wren, @SimpleSong, @Rob, @johnm33

    This is a pretty interesting distinction that you point out, the copper around the Great Lakes is frequently native copper, that is, it’s just chunks of pure copper, not various oxides or compounds of copper like you see in most places. So there’s no smelting that needs to be done, you just hammer the copper into the shape that you want–in that respect it’s not really any different from chipping a piece of obsidian or flint into the shape that you want.

    In contrast the old world developed smelting, that is, getting the metal from its ores; typically this was done by placing copper oxides in a flame of incompletely combusted wood; the carbon monoxide would pull of the oxygen to make carbon dioxide, leaving pure copper. (Of course this is a vast oversimplification but Youtube is full of primitive technology videos that illustrate the basic process.)

    Smelting is much harder than just picking up copper off the ground, but it’s also a much more powerful technology. You can use a wide variety of ores rather than relying on the rare deposits of native copper. You can also use the same technique to purify other metals. Actually pretty much any common metal other than aluminum and titanium can be reduced by carbon monoxide. So you can keep the same basic process for different ores.

    It even works for iron, the only issue for iron is that the melting point is higher and usually wood fires don’t get hot enough. So instead of dripping into a nice chunk of solid copper, you have itty bitty iron prills mixed with silicates and other junk and you have to pound the red hot ‘bloom’, as its called, to mechanically crush and squeeze out all the silicates and other slag. So iron technology took a little longer to develop.

    Anyway, tl;dr; Native Americans were never really in the metal age, they were just a special case of the stone age.

    • Agree: JMcG, Daniel Chieh, Jack D
    • Replies: @SimpleSong
    @SimpleSong

    This seems like an analogous situation to the presence of iron artifacts from ancient Egypt--there were iron knives but they were extremely high value objects buried with Pharaohs and whatnot, not everyday tools. The consensus is that they had not mastered iron smelting but rather this was meteoric iron; iron rich meteorites take a long time to oxidize (although they eventually do) so this was the only source of metallic iron on earth's crust prior to the iron age. (How surprised they would have been if they realized that this incredibly strong metal that fell from the heavens was actually one of the most common substances on earth.) Regardless, despite the presence of these artifacts, we don't usually call ancient Egypt an iron age civilization because it doesn't appear that they had mastered the smelting part.

    Replies: @johnm33

    , @AnotherDad
    @SimpleSong

    Thanks Simple Song, your comment was a good clear explanation of the difference.


    I do think there is huge contingency in how the human drama unfolded. The North American continent in fact is really quite an awesome patch of real estate and could have hosted the development of civilization.

    Folks here tend to piss on Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs and Steel" thesis, but i think it is more or less correct in broadest outline. You could call it a tautology, but civilization really ramped up where the geography provided the best inputs for it to ramp up. And i think he's right that what hindered that in the Americas was lack of a draft animal--lack of either horses or cattle. Without that the whole agricultural "package" is incomplete and much less effective. In another few thousand years some tribes might have done some domestication of buffalo, had corn, evolved lactose tolerance ... been off to the races.

    The bogus part of his book--it's been a long time, memory fades--was the latter part full of all sorts of leftist PC and apologetics.

    And, of course, what the book skips is "and then what?" Geography, including the plants and animals at hand, get you going ... but then settlement and civilization energizes evolution. I am--my many manifest flaws and all--a product of thousands of years of gene-culture co-evolution, mostly in NW Europe. Other folks are the product of different gene-culture evolutionary histories and as a result are somewhat, to quite a bit, different.

    Replies: @Jack D

  • @wren
    @JMcG

    Yeah, I'm still down that rabbit hole.

    Check out this skull found near the Lake Superior copper mines, if the info is correct:

    https://www.galacticfacets.com/uploads/9/4/8/8/9488982/elongated-skul-wisconsin_orig.jpg

    Here is the soul guidance (whatever that is) on that:

    http://www.soul-guidance.com/houseofthesun/elongatedskulls/elongatedskullsnorthamerica.html

    Looks like those Paracas skulls in Peru. A "lost ancient high technology" guy did a dna test to find no native American dna in those ancient skulls I think. I don't think he found any alien DNA, either. He is quite convincing that the shape is not due to head binding in most of the skulls though.

    Replies: @wren, @JMcG, @anon

    Yup, it was the moon-eyed people. They were demographically replaced.

    [MORE]

    This skull (above) was considered a non-aboriginal skull, in other words not a Native Person. Why was this non-native person sporting an elongated skull in Michigan at Copper Island?

    An elongated skull, not a Native, who has rather enormous eye sockets. This sounds a bit like the Cherokee tribes’ description of the moon-eyed people.

    LINK: The Moon-Eyed people were first mentioned in a 1797 book by Benjamin Smith Barton. Later documentation tells of similar accounts, such as an 1823 book, The Natural and Aboriginal History of Tennessee, which tells of a band of white people who were killed or driven out of Kentucky and West Tennessee.

    These people were described as being there first when the Cherokee arrived in the area and also living in caverns and underground, preferring darkness and sensitive to light.

    The Chippewa Tribe has a legend from the Keweenaw Peninsula of a white race that was mining there first in prehistoric times. They were said to have driven out these ancient miners from the area. Interestingly, the Natives had no mention in their legends of their own mining and did not seem to know where they were located. (LINK)

    Who was this elongated skull person? As incredible as this find was, we have yet to really hear a word on its history and happy parading by archaeologists to show off a find that puts history on its ear.

    http://www.ghosthuntingtheories.com/2019/01/elongated-head-found-in-michigan.html?m=1

  • @JMcG
    This subject has come up here before, which led me down quite a rabbit hole. Basically, the Indians didn’t have the technology to smelt copper. The ore deposits on aisle Royals are unusually pure and could be worked by hammering.
    There seem to be signs that much more copper was mined there than can be explained by what’s been found as artifacts. This has led some to conclude that the Phoenicians were hauling it back to Europe. Like I said, quite a rabbit hole.

    Replies: @wren, @SimpleSong, @Rob, @johnm33

    Yeah, I’m still down that rabbit hole.

    Check out this skull found near the Lake Superior copper mines, if the info is correct:

    Here is the soul guidance (whatever that is) on that:

    http://www.soul-guidance.com/houseofthesun/elongatedskulls/elongatedskullsnorthamerica.html

    Looks like those Paracas skulls in Peru. A “lost ancient high technology” guy did a dna test to find no native American dna in those ancient skulls I think. I don’t think he found any alien DNA, either. He is quite convincing that the shape is not due to head binding in most of the skulls though.

    • Replies: @wren
    @wren

    Yup, it was the moon-eyed people. They were demographically replaced.

    This skull (above) was considered a non-aboriginal skull, in other words not a Native Person. Why was this non-native person sporting an elongated skull in Michigan at Copper Island?

    An elongated skull, not a Native, who has rather enormous eye sockets. This sounds a bit like the Cherokee tribes' description of the moon-eyed people.

    LINK: The Moon-Eyed people were first mentioned in a 1797 book by Benjamin Smith Barton. Later documentation tells of similar accounts, such as an 1823 book, The Natural and Aboriginal History of Tennessee, which tells of a band of white people who were killed or driven out of Kentucky and West Tennessee.

    These people were described as being there first when the Cherokee arrived in the area and also living in caverns and underground, preferring darkness and sensitive to light.

    The Chippewa Tribe has a legend from the Keweenaw Peninsula of a white race that was mining there first in prehistoric times. They were said to have driven out these ancient miners from the area. Interestingly, the Natives had no mention in their legends of their own mining and did not seem to know where they were located. (LINK)

    Who was this elongated skull person? As incredible as this find was, we have yet to really hear a word on its history and happy parading by archaeologists to show off a find that puts history on its ear.

    http://www.ghosthuntingtheories.com/2019/01/elongated-head-found-in-michigan.html?m=1

    , @JMcG
    @wren

    I thought Homer Simpson worked in a nuclear power station?

    Replies: @wren

    , @anon
    @wren

    My first was born with his head like that. I asked the nurse what happened to his head and is that normal, will it stay that way? They said my cervix must have closed during contractions and caused his head to look that way but don't worry it should go back to normal. His head did go back to normal and went back down, of course it did look unusually large on top for a while but then he was a baby and no one really notice :0. I probably could have just bandaged him up and left it hahahaha.
    But I watched a show where they found some of those skulls in Europe but they thought that the practice came from Asia.

    https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/can-dna-solve-mystery-europe-pointy-skulls

  • Maybe they got woke and went broke. I have plenty of ancestors in that region, and according to 23andme, native American dna in the mix, so hopefully an ancestor was a wisconsin miner.

    I always enjoy the “lost ancient high technology” youtube videos with nice shots of the amazing megalithic stone work in Peru, Egypt and other places around the world. They don’t seem to want to radiocarbon date any surrounding organic material (like in the cracks or under it) unfortunately, but often claim a “cataclysmic event” 12,000 years ago that led to those society’s downfall.

    The usual thesis is that the incas or Egyptians or others built their great works on the ruins of pre-existing structures, but could never match the quality of the originals. Once you see the the videos though you can’t unsee it. The high quality work is always underneath the lower quality, newer work.

    • Replies: @Morton's toes
    @wren


    often claim a “cataclysmic event” 12,000 years ago that led to those society’s downfall.
     
    The evidence for the Missoula flood is pretty unambiguous. There is a huge area of arid exposed terrain much bigger than the grand canyon. Geology is not the most exact science but it's not like psychology.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missoula_floods

    The earth was rockin' and rollin' back then for sure. A modern just-in-time supply chain delivering bananas and milk to your front door would really have a hard time surviving it.
    , @Hannah Katz
    @wren

    That would be consistent with Goebekli Tepi, where the later constructions were of lesser quality than the more ancient ones. Interesting.

  • From Vox: I presume "lock-in" means, in effect, monopoly. YouTube's near monopoly is why YouTube stars tend to make less money than podcast stars, even though that sounds backwards: TV stars generally make more than radio stars who make more than journalist stars. The 2.9% fee that payment companies like Stripe and Paypal charge is...
  • It dangerous to use the internet to send money. Someone in the Philippines managed to enroll me in Zelle and “I” sent them $5200 before I discovered my new ‘friend’. When I called my bank ( Chase ) to complain, I asked the girl requesting my ‘password’ where she was located she reluctantly told me. The Philippines!!! I immediately asked her to transfer my call to someone in the United States.

    • Thanks: wren
  • As I pointed out in my review of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Prey, Northern Europe has a major problem with growing harassment and criminality against women walking down the street. But nobody was supposed to talk about it because the harassers aren't Northern Europeans. But then a white policeman was arrested for the London murder of...
  • @Steve Sailer
    @anon

    Asian massage parlors -- a job that Mexican maids just won't do.

    Replies: @anon, @Kibernetika

    Asian massage parlors — a job that Mexican maids just won’t do.

    Eh, you’d have to ask Ahnold about that one.

    • LOL: wren
  • @Luzzatto
    @syonredux

    We know the White mass shooter Robert Aaron Long does not hate Black people because he chose one of the Blackest cities in The U.S Blacklanta to commit his mass shooting and he did not murder a single Black person even though they are the demographic majority!

    Blacklanta is so Black that every fast food restaurant that I saw at the airport there has a 100% all Black staff!

    Replies: @iDeplorable, @syonredux, @Adam Smith

    For that matter, what kind of “White supremacist” targets Asian girls? Cruise around the Alt-Right sites, and you’ll swiftly notice that, barring the incels, something like a quarter to one-third of the goons who frequent them have Asian girlfriends…..

    • Agree: wren, HammerJack
    • Replies: @anon
    @syonredux

    Stephen Paddocks girlfriend Marilou Danley, was Filipino. He was giving her thousands of dollars.

    "Stephen Paddock was a 64-year-old former auditor and real estate businessman who had been living 80 miles (130 km) northeast of Las Vegas in a retirement community in Mesquite, Nevada.[8] He was twice divorced, had a long-term girlfriend, and had no known children.[9] He was a son of Benjamin Paddock, a bank robber who was on the FBI's most-wanted list between 1969 and 1977.[9] Paddock's only recorded interactions with law enforcement were traffic citations.[10]+

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Las_Vegas_shooting

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/04/us/marilou-danley-stephen-paddock.html

  • Narrative: White male motivated by Trump’s hateful rhetoric murders Asians.

    Truth: White male sex addict feels so much anger and shame at using Asian prostitutes to satisfy his desires that he murders them.

    • LOL: wren
    • Replies: @Known Fact
    @TTT55

    On Hawaii 5-0 the twist was a disturbed young Asian man going around murdering innocent white women because his favorite white call girl had gone straight to become a suburban mom and housewife. Twist two: police detective who knew the detailed MO murders his own troublesome wife and makes her look like the nutjob's umpteenth victim. (Note BTW that this is a 1970 episode).

    But back in real life even NYPD yesterday announced they were upping security at Asian "spas" etc. out of an abundance of anti-white supremacist caution

  • @Truth
    I don't know Steve, I think the Waat Rice is striking back at it's overseers... Sometimes even successfully...

    https://worldstar.com/video.php?v=wshhO59R70O7zPgsApfn

    Replies: @wren

    Lol, that guy deserves a beat down by scary tiger mother in law.

  • The Atlanta massage parlors massacre is, racially, the kind of man-bites-dog story the media love. With 200 million white Americans, every so often one is going to do something extremely bad, and the press can then keep the story in the headlines long enough to trick a whole bunch of people into thinking it represents...
  • @photondancer
    @Achmed E. Newman

    Not really: the writers still present it in a "Look how awful white people are, not caring about our death rates from mass shootings" way rather than a "Look how awful our people are, doing all this shooting" way.

    Offtopic: thanks for recommending The Mandibles. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

    More offtopic: The Atlantic actually has an article admitting Trump may have got it right about the border with Mexico. Better read it fast before they cancel it with grovelling apologies.

    Replies: @wren, @Achmed E. Newman, @Charlesz Martel, @Nicholas Stix

    The Atlantic actually has an article admitting Trump may have got it right about the border with Mexico.

    I saw this today:

    Trump has crafted a well oiled machine that pumps out vindication. Which is fueled by time. And time is something that will just keep coming.

    • Replies: @AceDeuce
    @wren

    Especially in contrast with Joseph Robinette Coyote, Genius at Work at the helm.

    In a year or two, when gas is 4.35 a gallon, and a cheese omelet and coffee at the local diner is $20, and the Black KGB cancels Winne the Pooh because Tigger, and after St, Paul burns in honor of Fentanyl Floyd, methinks Trump will be looking pretty good to the "moderate" mouthbreathers gazing wistfully in the rear view mirror. Especially once the "smarter" ones realize that, demographically, 2020 was White peoples' last hope. YT is the nursing home patient, and the blacks and browns are poised to put the pillow over his face fce once and for all.

    Nighty Nite.

  • I remember this image from last year.

    I didn’t see a similar image for 2020.

    • Thanks: vhrm
    • Replies: @Buffalo Joe
    @wren

    wren, somewhere some one thinks that looks like their HS Senior Class photo.

  • As I pointed out in my review of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Prey, Northern Europe has a major problem with growing harassment and criminality against women walking down the street. But nobody was supposed to talk about it because the harassers aren't Northern Europeans. But then a white policeman was arrested for the London murder of...
  • @Anonymous

    Similarly, the ongoing attacks on Asians in America could be talked about
     
    False premise. There aren’t “ongoing attacks on Asians in America.”

    Replies: @Colin Wright, @Paul Jolliffe, @DextersLabRat, @El Dato

    I predicted months ago (right here!) that as soon as Biden was safely in the White House we’d soon see a horrific shooting with a white guy perp.

    As a bonus, guess what?

    It turns out Mr. Long spent many, many months last year at a mysterious clinic in which “therapists” spent much time working on 20 year old Mr. Long’s mind, supposedly to cure his “sex addiction”.
    (Evidently they failed . . .)

    An unnamed “roommate” who had not seen Mr. Long in months, alerted the cops as to Mr. Long’s identity, before any public identification was possible. On the basis of this secretive ex-“roommate”, the cops then set up the roadblock on I-75 and captured Long.

    I know one thing:
    We will not hear anything further about the clinic, the “roommate”, the doctors/therapists, the “treatment”, Long’s “recovery”, follow-up visits with the clinic, the “transition house”, or anything else which might actually have something to do with these awful murders. Especially if that clinic was doing “research” that was of interest to any three-letter federal agencies . . .

    No, both the legacy press and social media will focus solely on the Crabapple Baptist Church, guns, “anti-Asian attacks”, and “toxic white racism.” (Never mind that two of the victims were white!)

    Bet on it.

    • Thanks: wren
    • Replies: @Steve Sailer
    @Paul Jolliffe

    "We will not hear anything further about the clinic, the “roommate”, the doctors/therapists, the “treatment”, Long’s “recovery”, follow-up visits with the clinic, the “transition house”, or anything else which might actually have something to do with these awful murders."

    What if the clinic was some kind of Christian thing? Then you'll hear about it.

    Replies: @Barack Obama's secret Unz account, @Paperback Writer

    , @anon
    @Paul Jolliffe

    Here is an interesting one, this a Vietnamese guy, Jiverly Antares Wong , who shot up a place in New York, 2009, killed 13 wounded 4.

    A note he sent to the news.

    "DATE: MARCH – 18 – 2009

    DEAR: NEW TEN NOW

    I AM JiVERLY WONG SHOOTING THE PEOPLE

    THE FiRST I WANT TO SAY SORRY I KNOW A LiTTLE ENGLiSH I HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND ALL OF THiS. OF COURSE YOU NEED TO KNOW WHY I SHOOTING? BECAUSE UNDERCOVER COP GAVE ME A LOT OF ASS DURiNG EiGHTEEN YEARS. I GOT SEVEN YEARS AND EiGHT MONTH DELiVERY TO GROCERY IN THE CALiFORNiA. CAME BACK NEW YORK ON THE AUGUST – 2007. LET TALK ABOUT WHEN I LiVE IN CALiFORNiA. SUCH AS. . .COP USED 24 HOURS THE TECHNiQUE OF ULTRAMODERN AND CAMERA FOR BURN THE CHEMiCAL IN MY HOUSE. FOR SWiTCH THE CHANNEL Ti.Vi. FOR ADJUST THE FAN. FOR MADE ME UNBREATHBLE. FOR MADE ME VOMiT. FOR CONNECT THE MUSiC INTO MY EAR.

    UNDERCOVER COP USUAL COiNED SOME NASTY WAS NOT TRUE ABOUT ME AND SPREAD A RUMOUR TO THE RECEiVER AND SOME PEOPLE KNOW ME CONDUCE TOWARD MANY PEOPLE PREJUDiCED AND SELFiSH TO ME . . . COP MADE ME LOST MY JOB . . . COP PUT ME BECAME POOR."
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binghamton_shootings

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman

    , @Paperback Writer
    @Paul Jolliffe

    There's a thing in the world called a hyperlink.

  • wren says:

    From the nyt:

    Behind Illicit Massage Parlors Lie a Vast Crime Network and Modern Indentured Servitude

    [MORE]

    She was 49, a recent immigrant and deeply in debt to a loan shark back home in China when she answered an employment ad three years ago that promised thousands of dollars a month, but offered no job description. She realized too late that she had been tricked into working at a massage parlor in Flushing, Queens, where besides kneading backs, she was expected to sexually service up to a dozen men a day.

    Some of the clients were violent, and the boss charged $10 a day for her to sleep on a sofa in a room at the parlor where rats nibbled on her food. “The customers were very terrible,” said the woman, who, ashamed of the stigma of her former profession, asked that her name not be used. “After you perform a service, they would find an excuse to take the money away.” They would, she said, “do even worse things.”
    In strip malls across the country, neon signs and brightly colored placards promise hot stones, acupuncture and shiatsu with photos of women or couples receiving relaxing shoulder rubs. But a traditionally Asian form of therapeutic relaxation with deep roots in big-city Chinatowns has spun off a different kind of massage parlor that has little to do with traditional remedies. It has exploded into a $3 billion-a-year sex industry that relies on pervasive secrecy, close-knit ownership rings and tens of thousands of mostly foreign women ensnared in a form of modern indentured servitude.

    [Read more about a thriving sex trafficking trade in Florida.]
    The frequently middle-aged women who work in parlors with names like Orchids of Asia and Rainbow Spa are often struggling to pay off high debts to family members, loan sharks, labor traffickers and lawyers who help them file phony asylum claims. In some cases, their passports are taken and their illegal immigration status keeps them further in the shadows, with some of them rotated every 10 days to two weeks between spas operated by the same owners. Forced to pay for their own supplies and even their own condoms, many women must sleep on the same massage tables where they service customers and cook on hot plates in cramped kitchens or on back steps.

    © Saul Martinez for The New York Times The massage parlor in Jupiter, Fla., where the New England Patriots owner, Robert Kraft, was charged for soliciting prostitution.

    [MORE]

    “We stopped thinking about just cages, bars and chains as the means of coercion,” said John Richmond, the State Department’s top anti-trafficking official. “They are using nonviolent forms of coercion.”

    The recent arrest warrant filed against Robert K. Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots — and the solicitation charges filed against nearly 300 men in multiple jurisdictions as part of the same case — riveted national attention to a stretch of Highway 1 along Florida’s Treasure Coast dotted with strip malls, gas stations and sapphire ocean views. Across the region, parlors were empty and many frequent clients were phoning their lawyers, wondering if more warrants were going to drop.

    Law enforcement officials said there were an estimated 9,000 illicit massage parlors across the country, from Orlando to Los Angeles. The epicenter of this national underground is the bustling Chinatown in Flushing, in the New York City borough of Queens. Women — typically Chinese, but also Korean, Thai and East European — arrive at Kennedy International Airport, learn the trade and are sent out to places like Virginia, Iowa, Texas and Florida. Women are recruited locally through ads in Chinese-language newspapers or over the social network WeChat.
    “Flushing is the center of this network,” said Lori Cohen, the director of Sanctuary for Families’ Anti-Trafficking Initiative, which has interviewed around 1,000 massage workers over the past five years and helped the 49-year-old immigrant who was sexually assaulted leave the business after she was arrested. “They are showing up in different parts of the country, but all of them have addresses in Flushing, Queens,” she said.

    The women are paid just a sliver of the $60 or more the client pays for an hourlong massage. Their real money — and chance at a better life — comes in the form of tips, which they are encouraged or forced to amplify through illegal means.

    A 60-year-old former massage worker from Taiwan, who agreed to be identified only by the nickname she commonly uses, Tina, said she was lured into working at a massage parlor in New York a decade ago by the travel agency broker who helped secure her visa to travel to the United States. “People come here and don’t have a place to live,” she said. “These places offer a place to live, and it seems like a nice idea. They say, ‘It’s not safe to keep your passport on hand,’ and they will ask to hold the passport.”

    She was arrested several times before getting out of the business, and feels comparatively lucky. One close friend was spirited to Texas by traffickers, she said, had her passport taken and was forced to see eight to 12 customers a day. One day the tearful calls she often received from her friend came to an abrupt halt.

    “A lot of the businesses that look like either nail salons or massage places, especially the places that offer massage, there are bad things happening there,” she said. “It’s 100 percent organized crime.”
    The ubiquity of the massage parlors offers an accessibility and sheen of normalcy not offered by traditional brothels. And as the massage parlors have expanded even into small-town America in recent years, meticulously detailed review sites like Rubmaps have served as the Yelp and Foursquare of the illicit parlor business, with graphic anatomical descriptions of the women and explicit breakdowns of the sexual services proffered.

    Even at illicit parlors, owners and managers can claim ignorance of the additional services offered by employees behind closed doors. The evidence gathered during raids and searches often tells a far different tale. The police say it is common to find ledgers tracking the number of “dates” women have had, as was found in a bust in Dallas, Tex., in 2016. In one case in Kansas, a search of the premises yielded a notebook with handwritten Chinese-English translations that “included sexually explicit phrases such as ‘did you bring condom’ and ‘happy ending.’”

    A federal law enforcement official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because this person is involved in active cases, said that the most common method for smuggling women from Asian countries was either a fraudulent tourist visa or a fraudulent work visa, such as for nursing work. Many came as students, then overstayed to work in the sex industry.

    Many women arrive in the United States from China bearing heavy debt burdens and try to find work in restaurants or nail salons. But the money isn’t good enough for the five-figure debts weighing them down. The massage jobs are presented as opportunities for fast, easy money.
    “They will talk about how they used to work in a restaurant and it was really hard physically and they couldn’t make that much money, and then they heard from somebody or saw an ad saying they could make a lot more money in a massage parlor,” said Leigh Latimer, a supervising attorney at the Legal Aid Society’s exploitation intervention project in New York.

    One reason the Asian massage parlors remain so poorly understood is the extreme reluctance of the women to speak with the police and even with their own lawyers.

    “Even though I’ve represented many, many women arrested in unlicensed massage parlors, because of the level of distrust of people working, almost all immigrants, almost all undocumented, they don’t trust even their attorneys enough to let them know what’s happened to them,” Ms. Latimer said.

    Some fear retaliation by traffickers to their families in China and some feel morally indebted to those who helped find them a job, said Chris Muller, the director of training and external affairs at Restore NYC, an anti-sex-trafficking organization.

    “This is a powerful exploitation tactic,” he said. “Any favor is implied there is going to be a payment back. ‘Look at what I have done for you. I found you a job. I found you a place to live and this is how you repay me?’”

    Small networks of spas are also common, and their ownership structures are complex and opaque. “It’s rare that you have a mom-and-pop business where they’re just running one,” said Lt. Christopher Sharpe of the New York Police Department’s vice section. “Usually if they’re running one they have a second or a third business.”

    Bradley Myles, chief executive of Polaris Project, a nonprofit that works to combat human trafficking, said that the madams arrested on big raids like the recent ones in Florida — known as “mamasans” — are often women in their 60s and 70s who have spent decades in the sex trade but are usually pretty far down in the organization.

    Above these site managers is usually a person who appears on paperwork as the massage parlor owner, but is often just a frontman running a shell company. The payouts from the shell company go to what is legally known as the “beneficial owner.”

    “Very little is known of the behind-the-scene owners,” Mr. Myles said. “They are hiding behind shell companies, hiding behind mamasans. They are hiding behind fake people.”
    In addition, the networks have groups of drivers that help move the women from place to place. Some networks are only two or three layers deep, others four or five.

    “I’ve certainly seen indicia of larger networks and indicia of powerful transporters,” said the federal law enforcement official.

    • Replies: @HA
    @wren

    "In addition, the networks have groups of drivers that help move the women from place to place. "

    In both Operation Cathedral (international pedophilia ring) and Rotherham, a significant fraction of those arrested were either taxi drivers or computer techs. ("Sometimes they were afraid of being accused of racism if they talked openly about the perpetrators in [Rotherham] mostly being Pakistani taxi drivers.")

    Evidently, being able to securely transport your "product" -- be it across the web or from one parlor to another -- is a very useful skill for a sex trafficker.

    , @Achmed E. Newman
    @wren

    Thank you for that story, Wren. So, Mr. Anon was on the right track up here.

  • @wren
    The Root's got a fever and the only thing that will cure it is genocide.

    White supremacy is a virus that, like other viruses, will not die until there are no bodies left for it to infect. Which means the only way to stop it is to locate it, isolate it, extract it, and kill it. I guess a vaccine could work, too. But we’ve had 400 years to develop one, so I won’t hold my breath.
     
    https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/whiteness-is-a-pandemic-1846494770/

    Replies: @Winston Timothy, @Luzzatto, @Paperback Writer, @Gary in Gramercy, @syonredux, @Macumazahn

    The guys over there are evil. Damon Young is one of the worst.

    He’s the black Andrew Anglin. The difference between the two is that Anglin writes from a hole in Moldova, and Young is rewarded.

    • Agree: AndrewR
    • Thanks: wren
  • The massage parlors were in the red light district. Perhaps red/purple/blue.

    • Replies: @clifford brown
    @wren

    When did our society accept open prostitution? Was there a vote on this matter?

    Maybe we should ban the sex trade.

    Replies: @James J O'Meara

    , @Alec Leamas (hard at work)
    @wren

    "Young's Asian Massage" is a little too on the nose, don't you think?

    Replies: @black sea

  • Most surprising to me is the fact that prostitution is so “legal” in the USA. And lax enforcement of immigration laws enables all of it.

    • Agree: wren
    • Replies: @Luzzatto
    @Kibernetika

    Prostitution between consenting adults is treated as the equivalent of jaywalking in all Non Muslim countries on the planet not just The U.S!

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @(((They))) Live

    , @Almost Missouri
    @Kibernetika

    Like most "crimes" nowadays, it's okay when illegal aliens do it.

    , @anon
    @Kibernetika

    Most surprising to me is the fact that prostitution is so “legal” in the USA.

    It is and it isn't. From time to time a city or county will go on a crackdown, arresting massage employees and customers alike.

    Anyway, remember this from just a bit over a year ago?

    https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/patriots-owner-robert-kraft-charged-with-two-counts-of-soliciting-prostitution-at-massage-parlor-in-florida/

    He wasn't the only one busted, there was a fair crowd of men swept up in that action.

    Of course, in September...

    https://www.nbcsports.com/boston/patriots/robert-kraft-solicitation-charges-dropped-patriots-owners-prostitution-case

    The massage parlor in Florida where Kraft was busted had cameras all over the place. For sure some of them were placed there by cops - because Kraft was just one of a crowd of busts that month. But such places offer opportunities for other activities, so there might be cameras placed by other groups.

    And lax enforcement of immigration laws enables all of it.

    Plus it's really expanded in the last 5 - 10 years. In any city of any size just look around and you'll see some Asian massage place, often in a strip mall. Or pull up Google Maps for your town and do a search on "massage", then narrow it to "asian massage". Some cities go on a crackdown from time to time and arrest customers and employees - all the employee arrest pix I've seen have been pretty ordinary looking middle aged East Asian women. Not exactly the human trafficking one might see on a TV show, but there it is.

    I mean it's really become obvious, do the Google map search on any town you know of, not just the ones near military bases, even boring farming towns with 50,000 people have at least one. It's weird, frankly, like having a whole crop of toadstools fill up your yard one night. Just *poof*.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer

    , @Jonathan Mason
    @Kibernetika

    Prostitution is not illegal at a federal level, and in fact it is legal in Nevada, albeit only in certain counties, and only in licensed brothels.

    In the rest of the states it is illegal, however penalties and enforcement vary quite a bit.

    The point about prostitution being legal in Nevada is quite significant, because it means that the federal government cannot make it illegal for Americans to travel overseas to avail themselves of legal prostitution in other countries.

    Most prostitution is already off the streets in the US since the dawning of the age of the internet.

    Prostitution is legal in most non-muslim countries, notably kk Germany, The Netherlands, Britain, Spain, Greece, Czechoslovakia, Australia, and all of South America and Central America., though most countries have laws forbidding pimping, or "living off immoral earnings".

    Prostitution is technically illegal, but extremely widely and openly practiced in far Eastern countries like Thailand, India, and the Philippines.

    It seems very unlikely that any additional States in the US will relax anti-prostitution laws, because of the difficulty for either of the main political parties in making a cogent and popular case that would get widespread voter support.

    As far as local law enforcement is concerned in the US, one gets the impression that it is rather profitable and enjoyable, but rarely dangerous for the police to hound prostitutes and their clients, and that elected sheriffs like to have this kind of thing on their resumes.

    Americans who are better off financially and single tend to travel to overseas sex tourism destinations like Thailand, the Philippines, Germany, Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic or to use online apps like Seeking Arrangements to dodge legal issues of prostitution and to meet women in the United States for compensated companionship.

    One of the perks of the job of being a member of the secret service protecting the president of the United States seems to be the opportunity for foreign travel without spouses two places where women may be available for recreational sex.

    This means that prostitution in so-called "gentlemen's clubs" aka strip clubs or on the street in the United States tends to be more of a low income issue and may also be associated with drug addiction.

    Actor Hugh Grant was once arrested for soliciting a black street prostitute in Hollywood, but I suspect that he was new to the United States, lonely living in a hotel, and assumed that since it was pretty much out in the open, that it must be widely tolerated as part of the general tourism experience and American Dream in Hollywood.

    Prostitution "escort" agencies run by madames like the Happy Hooker are probably on the way out, Eliot Spitzer notwithstanding, but seem to persist in certain metropolises such as New York and Los Angeles where there are many wealthy men and visiting businessman from overseas who are willing to pay high prices for sex with women who are marketed as "upscale."

    Replies: @Kibernetika, @syonredux

  • @wren

    But, now, some white guy has murdered 6 Asian women (plus two whites, and wounded a Latino man), so everybody can safely talk about the crisis of violence against Asians because we have our Great White Defendant.
     
    So let's talk about the crisis of violence against Asians.

    Bring out the hatefacts.

    In addition to that, I understand that the guy claims those women caused his "sex addiction."

    Were they "sex workers?" Were they legal immigrants? Were they trafficked at the border?

    There is a lot to talk about here.

    Replies: @wren, @syonredux

    Apparently a lot of folks used to go in to the doctor’s office for some physical pain issue and came out addicted to oxycontin or something like that.

    I wonder if this guy went in for a massage and came out with incurable yellow fever.

    What a mess.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @wren


    I wonder if this guy went in for a massage and came out with incurable yellow fever.
     
    Apparently doing qualitative research in Amsterdam can also lead to yellow fever

    https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51en-iZlmyL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
    , @Hapalong Cassidy
    @wren

    These massage parlors have been here in Atlanta forever. When I first moved here in the 90’s my coworkers jokingly referred to them as “Jack Shacks”.

    , @Chrisnonymous
    @wren

    He probably could have gotten laid if he had shaved his stupid little beard, hit the gym a bit, and worn decent clothes.

    Ultimately, about lots of these shootings, the main takeaway is "shooters gonna shoot".

    Replies: @S. Anonyia

    , @Elmer T. Jones
    @wren

    Not to be crass but premature ejac syndrome plus sex workers cuffing him vigorously to complete the transactions may have fueled his rage.

  • But, now, some white guy has murdered 6 Asian women (plus two whites, and wounded a Latino man), so everybody can safely talk about the crisis of violence against Asians because we have our Great White Defendant.

    So let’s talk about the crisis of violence against Asians.

    Bring out the hatefacts.

    In addition to that, I understand that the guy claims those women caused his “sex addiction.”

    Were they “sex workers?” Were they legal immigrants? Were they trafficked at the border?

    There is a lot to talk about here.

    • Replies: @wren
    @wren

    Apparently a lot of folks used to go in to the doctor's office for some physical pain issue and came out addicted to oxycontin or something like that.

    I wonder if this guy went in for a massage and came out with incurable yellow fever.

    What a mess.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @Hapalong Cassidy, @Chrisnonymous, @Elmer T. Jones

    , @syonredux
    @wren

    The moment that I heard that the victims worked in a massage parlor, I knew that the MSM were almost certainly wrong in suggesting a racial motive.

    Replies: @Luzzatto

  • The Root’s got a fever and the only thing that will cure it is genocide.

    White supremacy is a virus that, like other viruses, will not die until there are no bodies left for it to infect. Which means the only way to stop it is to locate it, isolate it, extract it, and kill it. I guess a vaccine could work, too. But we’ve had 400 years to develop one, so I won’t hold my breath.

    https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/whiteness-is-a-pandemic-1846494770/

    • Replies: @Winston Timothy
    @wren

    Oh shut up

    He doesn't mean to hurt white people

    He means kill metaphorically

    We do this through education voting reform hate speech laws and gun regulations

    You do the know that People of Colour the ascendant majority agree the white supremacy is the great evil of our time don't you?

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @syonredux, @Adam Smith

    , @Luzzatto
    @wren

    The problem with The Root is their definition of White Supremacist is extremely broad. So that means The Root would have to commit genocide against the over 74 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump plus commit genocide against the 10s of millions of American voters who decided to sit out this election and not vote at all because they hate Joe Biden just as equally as they hate Donald Trump and thought the 2 choices available was like having to decide between dying in a hurricane and dying in a tornado!

    Replies: @Redneck farmer

    , @Paperback Writer
    @wren

    The guys over there are evil. Damon Young is one of the worst.

    He's the black Andrew Anglin. The difference between the two is that Anglin writes from a hole in Moldova, and Young is rewarded.

    , @Gary in Gramercy
    @wren

    "The Root's got a fever and the only thing that will cure it is genocide."

    What about more cowbell?

    Replies: @Luzzatto

    , @syonredux
    @wren


    The Root’s got a fever and the only thing that will cure it is genocide.

    White supremacy is a virus that, like other viruses, will not die until there are no bodies left for it to infect. Which means the only way to stop it is to locate it, isolate it, extract it, and kill it. I guess a vaccine could work, too. But we’ve had 400 years to develop one, so I won’t hold my breath.
     
    In the mind of the Woke, it's always 1913, with White Supremacy dominant everywhere....


    Of course, their very rhetoric reveals the hollowness of their claims. "White Supremacy" can be safely attacked by all and sundry because it is a spent force, as obsolete as a Pickelhaube.....
    , @Macumazahn
    @wren

    If we're waiting for some PoC to develop a pathogen that'll kill Whites while leaving PoC unscathed, I for one am not losing sleep over it; any more than I lose sleep worrying that my dog is going to steal my credit cards and buy a new BMW.

  • From my new book review in Taki's Magazine: Read the whole thing there.
  • @Ghost of Bull Moose
    @Anon

    Kamala Harris doesn’t have any children. Too busy polishing Willie Brown’s knob.

    Replies: @wren

    Too busy polishing Willie Brown’s knob.

    Is that Willie’s brown knob or Willie Brown’s brown willie?

    Actually, thinking about the Vice President of tge United State’s descent and ascent to the position too much might cause Irreversible Damage.

  • @Altai
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EvtCQ4VWEAEw-De?format=jpg

    'Keep out of reach of parents'. Anorexic sites were places where the same kinds of girls went to learn how to hide their activities from parents.

    https://twitter.com/ripx4nutmeg/status/1367759789481222145

    https://twitter.com/ripx4nutmeg/status/1367806583267332097

    Replies: @wren

    Yikes! Poison, in more ways than one. If this product is real, it appears to be one more way in which China is killing the world.

    https://www.twitter.com/ripx4nutmeg/status/1367766101472448514

  • @Anonymous
    @Nick Diaz

    American high school is disgusting but the 'rona shock therapy has done more to fix it than Lifelong Gender Learning ever could. Your idea that the happiness of the child "matters" is what the society has been doing, i.e. self-regarding adolescence on steroids. I was unsure if the comment wasn't taking the mickey, it sounded so much like the climactic monologue from a CW or Freeform show.

    Obviously, social competition hurts females on average more than it does males on average -- this is common sense, however dicey to concede in front of the e-fellas. Nonetheless, some really irresponsible reactions to that fact have included pandering to feminine insecurity and also encouraging them not only to throw away their peak fertility years on pseudo-professionalism but to apply their sexuality to torts and boardroom battles or, failing that, mundane office politics and village witch-hunts. Rather than quixotically socially engineering the meat-market sociology out of ages 13-18 we should accept that education funding is 90% wasted and put the entire adolescent economy on a diet.

    Paying for your daughter to embark on a 10-15 year credentialing vision quest after 8th grade is arguably misguided. Parking either your daughter or son in 4-year college directly following on do-nothing busy-work secondary ed is just conspicuous consumption of a positional good, no longer a credible step in adulthood preparation. There are ample commenters on Unz dot com proud of alma mater's high U.S. News & World Report ranking this year mostly because it's a psychologically placating myth for never getting laid when they attended. The Z Man did a good column last week about Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts, a truer and more characteristic product of the ivy-sniffing edifice than anything out of the FAANG menagerie, i.e. digital Democrats.

    You did not address late-onset GD, a concrete if oblique contributor to the unhappiness explosion. To illustrate the Top Gun maternity clothes crisis Dreher recently used the AEI headshot photo of Giselle Donnelly (née Thomas). Don't you think calling socially constructed identity maneuvering what it is, a class weapon and a crappy thing to do to one's family, could make for a decent start? Conservatives would finangle some agreement on that point, much more than they'd win from your insinuated program of packing the sex idiots into anti-conservative monasteries (which the alpha jocks are unlikely to go along with, for one thing).

    Replies: @Paul Mendez, @Alexander Turok

    Paying for your daughter to embark on a 10-15 year credentialing vision quest after 8th grade is arguably misguided.

    A relative wanted to be a ballerina since she was three. Her parents encouraged her “dream” to the extent of allowing her to get an online GED so she could study dance full time in her teens. She eventually got a spot in professional ballet just in time for the WuFlu to shut performances down. Now, at 20, she’s broke and being treated for depression.

    Even before The Plague I maintained this was child abuse. Ballerinas are risking anorexia and crippling injuries for what is, for most, a brief and low-paying career. Best case scenario is they become ballet teachers and continue the scam.

    I don’t know how many $100,000’s they spent to encourage a pre-schooler’s “dream.”

    • Agree: R.G. Camara
    • Replies: @R.G. Camara
    @Paul Mendez

    Following a "childhood dream" is such a crock, its one of the many stupid, harmful cultural memes pushed upon us. Children have no concept of the world or what will make them happy; parents should be parents and protect them. Imagine shackling yourself to something you thought would make you happy at 8 or 10 or 12! Back then I wanted to eat chocolate cake for dinner and marry the girl next door (who turned out to be a druggie and a ho) be an astronaut/rockstar. Idiocy for an adult!

    That said, a ballerina isn't' a bad career if the woman chooses it at 18 and doesn't get an eating disorder from it (a big IF, of course, but it can be done successfully). As Steve has mentioned, ballerinas have access to lots of rich, nerdy, awkward, sweet male admirers who would gladly marry them and keep their post-dancing career comfortable, with their only trouble being a few children. As ballerinas post-25 tend to be pretty exhausted, its a good deal.

    Replies: @Mike Tre, @James J. O'Meara

    , @Bardon Kaldian
    @Paul Mendez


    Even before The Plague I maintained this was child abuse. Ballerinas are risking anorexia and crippling injuries for what is, for most, a brief and low-paying career.
     
    I wouldn't agree. Follow your bliss, as Joe Campbell used to say.

    Even if it means you're not just broke, but broken by life.

    Replies: @njguy73

    , @Buzz Mohawk
    @Paul Mendez

    My wife wanted to be a ballerina in Romania. She worked at that until her grandmother warned her that ballerinas are like prostitutes.* Then she switched to mathematics. Now she is a mathematician married to me and making good money in the United States.

    *I didn't know it, but ballerinas indeed in the old days, and in the old countries, did indeed many times become essentially prostitutes to well-to-do men. That was how they lived, and my wife's grandmother knew this. Recently I read the news that this was still going on in Russia. For all I know it is still happening in my wife's home country too. Her grandmother gave her good advice.

    Replies: @JohnnyWalker123, @R.G. Camara, @Jonathan Mason, @Paul Mendez, @YetAnotherAnon, @Steve Sailer, @nebulafox

    , @AShartIsBorn
    @Paul Mendez

    Better to shine bright for a few years than a whole life in the dusk.

    , @YetAnotherAnon
    @Paul Mendez

    "Ballerinas are risking anorexia and crippling injuries for what is, for most, a brief and low-paying career."

    I worked for years alongside a former ballerina who'd dropped out from injury (her best friend at ballet school became world famous). She was one of the three or four women I've known who would cause every male head to turn when she walked through a room.

    Don't know what her coding was like, but it would have to be actually dangerous to have caused any male to want to dismiss her. She raised morale and testosterone by her very existence.

    , @Alden
    @Paul Mendez

    Ballet classes are fun. In some ways it’s like jogging striving for more and more. But as a career it’s useless. Low pay and retire with a bone injury at 30. Really really low pay. Except in Los Angeles for music videos. Still low pay and part time work.

    Best place to end up is Vegas. It’s about the only town in the country with consistent decently paid work for a dancer that doesn’t cause disabling injuries. Vegas dancers aren’t ballet dancers. But ballet training is necessary to get a job as any kind of dancer. Jazz, tap and the rest aren’t disabling.

  • Many traditional cultures have means by which pubescent girls can somewhat de-emphasize their sexuality for a few years until they make their debut in society in their later teens as a lovely young woman ready to be wooed. Maybe what our adolescent girls need is less gender-bending and more gender-pending in which anxious adolescent girls get to escape the social media spotlight until they are more ready.

    This is why Billie Eilish is a phenomenon with that age group, she made it acceptable for teenage girls to wear really baggy clothing. In the age of Instagram prostitute Kardashian clones, she presented a socially cool alternative for tween girls that allows them to de-sexualize themselves.

    • Agree: sayless
    • Thanks: wren
  • @Cloudbuster
    I just saw an article saying that Ellen Page had "top surgery." I find it tragic that popular culture and medical professionals we're supposed to be able to trust went along with the mutilation of this obviously disturbed woman's body and are enabling her delusion.

    https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/elliot-page-talks-top-surgery-after-coming-out-as-transgender/amp/

    Replies: @RadicalCenter, @El Dato

    “Who is looking after our women?”
    “Top Surgeons”
    “Who??”
    “TOP. SURGEONS.”

    https://www.unz.com/isteve/who-is-elliot-page/

  • From Time Magazine:
  • @El Dato
    @wren

    My thought "What is that? She looks like that now? Am I that old?"

    https://i.postimg.cc/T37c6gqr/the-last-of-us.jpg

    I guess she wasn't resistant after all.

    Replies: @wren

    Now she is demanding that the world live in her her dream, but as leonardo says to her, when you change too much people resist and you’ll lose your grasp on what’s real and what’s a dream.

    Video Link
    I hope ariadne/ellen/elliot doesn’t end up like mal.

  • • Agree: Dutch Boy, AceDeuce
    • Replies: @Mike Tre
    @wren

    It looks like a Harvey Weinstein progression sequence.

    , @El Dato
    @wren

    My thought "What is that? She looks like that now? Am I that old?"

    https://i.postimg.cc/T37c6gqr/the-last-of-us.jpg

    I guess she wasn't resistant after all.

    Replies: @wren

    , @El Dato
    @wren

    Vaguely looks like "The Grand Duduche", the 70's high schooler by Charlie-Hebdoed Cabu

    https://i.postimg.cc/6pHvvcFP/passe-ton-bac.jpg

    , @Alec Leamas (hard at work)
    @wren

    She was a pretty, gamine girl and is becoming a 90s era 14 year old skater who hangs out at the mall. I have to say that this is quite disappointing.

    This video of Bolsonaro hitting on her never gets old:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOSmhDYEXu0

    Replies: @Cloudbuster, @Richard York, @El Dato

    , @Anonymouys
    @wren

    This is horrific evil.
    It is not about "children" being too young to consent, as some courage-deficient but sort-of-right libertarians might put it.
    "A time to love, and a time to hate..."
    HATE is a basic human option and it is warranted against those who foster such abomination.
    They seek to delegitimize hate so none might call them what they are.
    I am not at all in any normal sense a religious person, but I hope that God might reach out to this girl.

  • From CNN: Can you estimate the race of most of the people involved? My recent Takimag.com column "Black Lives Murdered" explains how. If the final toll were 13 dead and 2 wounded, the shooter would likely be a lone white or Asian male, who is either dead or in custody because he hung around to...
  • This particular incident was not mostly peaceful. Very sad, in fact.

    https://nypost.com/2021/03/16/stimulus-check-argument-prompted-quadruple-murder-family/amp/

    He had good aim and was determined to get his cut of that stimulus check.

  • A friend writes: QAnon is partially the fallout of #MeToo #MeToo was allowed to happen, in large part to take down Trump and get the old guard taken out so the younger generations could move on up the ladder. This is the key: The media, and Hollywood in particular, would for the first time *not...
  • @wren
    @Jonathan Mason

    The guy who coined the term paraphilia clearly suffered from quite a few himself.

    It's a shame he didn't get #MeTooed before he destroyed lives.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Money

    "Recent academic studies have criticized Money's work in many respects, particularly in regard to his involvement with the involuntary sex-reassignment of the child David Reimer,[3] his forcing this child and his brother to simulate sex acts which Money photographed[4] and the adult suicides of both brothers.[4]"

    Replies: @wren

    *Popularized, not coined.

  • From the New Zealand Herald: Who could have seen that coming? Congress has now declared that the test in its current form should not be a factor in deciding whether someone gets promoted. Expected changes include how core body strength is tested in the leg tuck. Instead of hanging from a b
  • The fundamental dilemma of domestic vs. foreign policy facing the Biden Administration is that they want to geld the US military at home with intersectionality so it can’t get uppity … but they also want to use Special Forces trigger-pullers overseas a lot.

    This is merely one aspect of a broader phenomenon: they want to geld all of US society with their ideology but somehow still be able to be an important and powerful country abroad. This won’t work any more than it did for the Soviet Union, the last superpower that got hollowed out by an irrational and unworkable ideology.

    • Thanks: Polistra
    • Replies: @Harry Baldwin
    @Thomas

    This won’t work any more than it did for the Soviet Union, the last superpower that got hollowed out by an irrational and unworkable ideology.

    I agree with your general point, but must add that wokeness is even more irreconcilable with reality than is communism. Our wokeness, hand-in-hand with the drive to reduce whites to a minority in our country, will destroy us.

    Replies: @guest, @bro3886

    , @Prof. Woland
    @Thomas

    Rumors were always that Military Intelligence sided with Trump and that the CIA-DOJ-FBI with the Democrats. In an increasingly flattened world where being on top of the information hierarchy no longer insured secrecy, the military became a threat to all the corruption and political manipulation that was going on. While ostensibly Biden's stand down was to look for white nationals but I have a sneaking suspicion that what they were really looking for were pro-MAGA types that could spill the beans and replace them with loyal hacks. The problem is that there is not a deep bench of super women / poc / diversity people to plug in those spots so they have to do it under the guise of diversity. After all, who knew that having too many smart loyal patriots would be a detriment to the armed forces?

  • A friend writes: QAnon is partially the fallout of #MeToo #MeToo was allowed to happen, in large part to take down Trump and get the old guard taken out so the younger generations could move on up the ladder. This is the key: The media, and Hollywood in particular, would for the first time *not...
  • @Jonathan Mason
    @Reg Cæsar

    Actually -philia literally means 'love of'. So Philadelphia means brotherly love, not sex between brothers.

    Paraphilias are the medical name for sexual perversions in which people are intensely aroused by unusual stimuli, such as children, other members of the same sex, watching other people or pornography, cucumbers, donkeys, and so on.

    Replies: @wren, @Reg Cæsar

    The guy who coined the term paraphilia clearly suffered from quite a few himself.

    It’s a shame he didn’t get #MeTooed before he destroyed lives.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Money

    “Recent academic studies have criticized Money’s work in many respects, particularly in regard to his involvement with the involuntary sex-reassignment of the child David Reimer,[3] his forcing this child and his brother to simulate sex acts which Money photographed[4] and the adult suicides of both brothers.[4]”

    • Replies: @wren
    @wren

    *Popularized, not coined.

  • @Jonathan Mason
    Even the first paragraph of the quoted passage shows a conspiracy theory mindset.

    So #MeToo was "allowed" to happen so that the young guns could displace the ancien regime in Hollywood?

    Precisely who allowed this? Could it have been The Wizard of Oz behind the curtain deciding what was allowed?

    Even 50 years or more ago the scandalous stories about the real Hollywood behind the facade were well known. Nobody thought that Fatty Arbuckle was a one-off. Didn't Marilyn Monroe have affairs with the Kennedys, and wasn't Doris Day the best f****** Hollywood? Wasn't the term "casting couch" well known?

    An interesting question would be whether Marilyn Monroe was paid for her affairs or whether she just contributed them voluntarily as campaign donations.

    The difference today, as we are seeing with the Harry and Meghan story, for example, is that stories on social media like Twitter are picked up and amplified by mass media to an extent there was never the case before and that predatory lawyers are always looking for chinks in the armor of wealthy men and opportunities to blackmail them for sexual indiscretions in which their clients were originally willing and enthusiastic participants, but have now fallen on hard times.

    The most interesting case of a survivor is Donald Trump, who seems to have been blackmailed by various women, but more-or-less rebuffed the advances of their lawyers, and lived to fight another day, while his own attorney was sent to prison full paying off blackmailers, and the attorney of one of his blackmailers has also (I think) ended up in prison!

    Replies: @J.Ross, @kpkinsunnyphiladelphia, @Curle, @wren

    Fatty Arbuckle was very likely innocent. He had a famous three million dollar contract in hollywood and a lot of folks wanted a piece of it.

    Video Link

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe_Arbuckle

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Rappe

    • Replies: @Jonathan Mason
    @wren

    I agree completely, and in fact the chief witness against Arbuckle was a notorious madam and blackmailer, which is why at the third trial the jury completely exonerated him.

    And this is what is going on now too. The people who are accused in #Metoo are invariably very wealthy, and the accusers not. The predatory attorneys get a healthy cut of the damages.

    Now figure out what is going on here.

  • South Park covered it the other day. YouTube takes clips down unless they are altered somehow, like this sped up clip:

    https://youtu.be/EdOx14o6mOs

    Video Link

    In typical South Park style, The Whites who follow Q turn into giant penises by the end of the show.

    The whole episode is here:

    https://www.humorousmathematics.com/post/south-parq-vaccination-special-bringing-mainstream-attention-to-adrenochrome-qanon

  • If you are interested in the Derek Chauvin trial, from anosognosic: I don't know much about law or medicine, but, for whatever it's worth, I'm guessing the case will depend upon: How much sheer racial bias, fear of violent retribution against jurors, and fear of riots is at work. Upon whom the burden of proof...
  • Justice for Chauvin!

    And justice for Floyd!

    He was a bad guy in the past. Was he trying to turn his life around? I don’t know. But who started the pandemic that cost him his job? Who made the counterfeit bills that he was arrested for passing? Who made the fentanyl that killed him during that arrest?

  • As we all know in the United States, conspiracies couldn't possibly happen because of Reasons, so anybody accused of being a conspiracy theorist must be low class (unless you are black, such as Ta-Nehisi Coates, whose conspiracy theory about why his having been beaten up so much by the other black boys was actually the...
  • @Hypnotoad666
    @wren


    I’m all aboard and full steam ahead with the conspiracies and the conspirers!
     
    We do seem to be entering a golden age of conspiracy theories. My current favorite is the conspiracy to fake a conspiracy to stage an "insurrection." The FBI is currently pretending in all seriousness to be looking for a guy who left bi-partisan "pipe bombs" at both the RNC and DNC. The "bombs" themselves are hilariously fake looking, with a big egg timer attached to a pipe, but no apparent detonation device. The pipes supposedly contained "homemade blackpowder," which I suppose the FBI would define as any powder that is black (maybe crushed up charcoal briquettes, who knows).

    https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fbi-releases-images-dc-pipe-bomb-suspect/story?id=76341036

    Replies: @wren

    Yeah!

  • @Peterike
    Istanbul was Constantinople
    Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
    Been a long time gone, Constantinople
    Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night

    Every gal in Constantinople
    Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople
    So if you've a date in Constantinople
    She'll be waiting in Istanbul

    Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
    Why they changed it I can't say
    People just liked it better that way
    So, take me back to Constantinople

    No, you can't go back to Constantinople
    Been a long time gone, Constantinople
    Why did Constantinople get the works?
    That's nobody's business but the Turks

    Replies: @John Up North, @wren, @R.G. Camara

    Shhh. Don’t tell anyone. Secret info from patriots.win:

    When Rome collapsed, the empire split. The new capitol survived, while the old empire crumbled.

    • LOL: Almost Missouri
  • @Anonymous
    Off topic but I-Stevey:

    The Los Angeles County Bar Association today issued a press release condemning the rise in attacks on Asian-Americans.

    You'll never guess what's missing from the release. Apparently, these attacks have no known perpetrators.

    LACBA Statement On Increase In Hate Incidents

    Replies: @Wilkey, @Pericles

    And in Utah today one of our major news orgs warned us that Asians are “wary” that Asian-targeted violence could be starting up any minute now.

    Golly, I wonder why it hasn’t happened yet? It’s a riddle wrapped inside an engima wrapped inside a mystery wrapped inside a thought crime.

    • LOL: wren
    • Replies: @Cortes
    @Wilkey

    Superb!

    Many thanks.

  • I’m all aboard and full steam ahead with the conspiracies and the conspirers!

    I was bummed out when I watched all the swing state blue city polls shut down in the middle of the night when Trump was so far ahead, and when twitter shut me down for sharing non-fake news about hunter, etc. Here we go, I thought.

    But now I’m psyched that Trump conspired first with operations Octagon, Freejack and Zodiac, and that we are in a period of clandestine military control devolution.

    This was what Chris Miller was talking about with Pence as “the most complex military operations in history,” that they had worked on together. This is why I now see humvees driving around town here all the time and military helicopters flying overhead in formations of five regularly.

    I’ve never seen this kind of thing in decades of living here.

    I have no idea why the capitol looks like the Baghdad green zone, but suspect it is connected.

    I’m hoping to laugh last, but this is all soooo clandestine that the world may never know that it even took place.

    So I will have to laugh clandestinely and conspiratorially, secretly knowing that I got the last laugh.

    And I will never love big brother.

    • Replies: @Hypnotoad666
    @wren


    I’m all aboard and full steam ahead with the conspiracies and the conspirers!
     
    We do seem to be entering a golden age of conspiracy theories. My current favorite is the conspiracy to fake a conspiracy to stage an "insurrection." The FBI is currently pretending in all seriousness to be looking for a guy who left bi-partisan "pipe bombs" at both the RNC and DNC. The "bombs" themselves are hilariously fake looking, with a big egg timer attached to a pipe, but no apparent detonation device. The pipes supposedly contained "homemade blackpowder," which I suppose the FBI would define as any powder that is black (maybe crushed up charcoal briquettes, who knows).

    https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fbi-releases-images-dc-pipe-bomb-suspect/story?id=76341036

    Replies: @wren

  • From my new book review in Taki's Magazine: Read the whole thing there.
  • Pepé Le Pew…perpetually frustrated French skunk

    Shouldn’t that be French-Canadian?

    Hasn’t anybody noticed that M Le Pew is an invasive species?

    Hirsi Ali seems to latch onto the trope of men of color threatening virtuous white women, a particular kind of fearmongering with a long and ugly history.

    Bill Cosby, OJ Simpson…

    Hirsi Ali seems to latch onto the trope

    Kind of like how Southerners “latch onto the trope” that you shouldn’t put postage stamps in your shirt pocket at the height of summer. Or how Yoopers and Buffalonians “latch onto the trope” that you shouldn’t wait till the storm ends to start shoveling.

    74% of gang rapists in Sweden were born outside Europe

    Which means, by definition, a lot more than 74% of total rapes were performed by those born outside of Europe. And let’s not forget those born in Europe to parents born outside of Europe. And grandparents– gästarbetare have been coming for generations. Their generations.

    Islamic Somalia’s maltreatment of women… another fearless (if much less intelligent) Somali woman

    Somali women in general are fearless. They are not the doormats of Araby. You mess with them at your risk.

    New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow announced

    The way to deal with a Charles M Blow is to wet his lips and stick him to Leonard Pitts.

    • Agree: Polistra
    • LOL: wren, TWS
    • Replies: @JohnPlywood
    @Reg Cæsar

    Less than 50% of ordinary rapists in Sweden were born outside of Europe, you smarmy little menstrual fuck.

    Replies: @bispora, @anon, @Jacques Strappe, @Pericles, @Mike Tre, @Reg Cæsar

    , @J.Ross
    @Reg Cæsar

    Le Pew has a French accent because he's satiring then-well-known French actor Jean Gabin, who had a reputation for being able to seduce women with a glance in, say, the 30s. I think in the first iteration they actually "explain" his out-of-place origin but I forget how.

    Replies: @Jack D, @AndrewR, @kihowi

    , @Sultan
    @Reg Cæsar

    9,000 children died in Ireland's brutal homes for unmarried mothers and babies run by the Catholic Church in the 20th century, damning report reveals
    In total, 15 percent of the 57,000 children at the 18 institutions investigated by the Mother and Baby Home Commission died between 1922 and 1998
    The report published yesterday said the homes 'provided refuge' for the mothers when they had nowhere else to turn and found that blame 'rests mainly with the fathers of their children and their own immediate families'
    But the women faced appalling emotional torment at the hands of the nuns - forced to work scrubbing floors while being called 'fallen,' 'sinner', 'dirt' and 'spawn of Satan'
    Commission said high death rates among infants 'probably the most disquieting feature of these institutions'

    Replies: @J.Ross, @HA

  • March 5, 2011. I remember the moment like it was yesterday when my family contacted me in a panic to let me know that my 18-year-old cousin and goddaughter, Marizela "EmEm" Perez, had gone missing. "Help." It's the text you get in the middle of the night that doesn't seem real. Ten years ago this...
  • I don’t know if you read these comments Michelle, but I do remember when that happened and, as a parent, have thought about her often since. I still pray that there is a positive outcome.

    March 2011 was a very bad month. I have many Japanese friends, and what they went through was terrible too.

  • From The Atlantic: As all good white people who read The Atlantic believe, black people have incredibly low self-esteems. If anybody ever mentions a less than ecstatic word about blacks, they will suddenly realize the truth about themselves and simply die of embarrassment. MARCH 6, 2021 Michael Harriot Senior Writer at The Root ... One...
  • @wren
    @Buffalo Joe

    IIRC, The Root was started by Donald Graham and Jacob Weisberg. They brought Henry Louis Gates in after they had decided what they wanted to do.

    In my mind it's kinda like Stan Lee and Jacob Kurtzberg creating The Black Panther and Wakanda.

    Replies: @wren

    Oops, I meant Stanley Martin Lieber, not Stan Lee.

    It looks like the origin of The Root is getting memory holed though. Pretty sure I read an article by Weisberg himself about starting it, but I can no longer find it.

    • Replies: @res
    @wren


    It looks like the origin of The Root is getting memory holed though. Pretty sure I read an article by Weisberg himself about starting it, but I can no longer find it.
     
    This?
    https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2008/06/david-plotz-succeeds-jacob-weisberg-as-slate-s-editor.html

    In January, I helped launch The Root, under the editorial direction of Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Lynette Clemetson.
     
    This article talks about Donald Graham's involvement:
    https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/28/business/media/28post.html
  • @Buffalo Joe
    Ah, guys, we are being trolled. Harriot is a Senior Writer at the "Root" web site. Single most racist site on the internet,

    Replies: @anon, @Paperback Writer, @wren, @James Forrestal

    IIRC, The Root was started by Donald Graham and Jacob Weisberg. They brought Henry Louis Gates in after they had decided what they wanted to do.

    In my mind it’s kinda like Stan Lee and Jacob Kurtzberg creating The Black Panther and Wakanda.

    • Replies: @wren
    @wren

    Oops, I meant Stanley Martin Lieber, not Stan Lee.

    It looks like the origin of The Root is getting memory holed though. Pretty sure I read an article by Weisberg himself about starting it, but I can no longer find it.

    Replies: @res

  • A reader comments on starchitect Frank Gehry's brain damage-inducing Lou Ruvo Brain Health Center in Las Vegas, which looks like a cross between Salvador Dali's melting watches and the latest Elon Musk rocket ship to blow up: Apparently, the full-on Gehry part of the building that is seen in the al
  • @Anon
    OT: Mackenzie Bezos just married a Seattle high school Chemistry teacher. Hubby number 2 is taller than her ex and looks a lot more masculine, and even has a scar on his face. That must secretly annoy Jeff.

    It looks like Mackenzie, after marrying a Martian, decided to try an Earthling this time. Whereas Jeff, who was married to an Earthling, decided to try God-Knows-What.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer

    Jeff Bezos’s girlfriend’s baby-daddy ex is Tony Gonzales, perhaps the NFL’s all time greatest tight end. I need to work on my sitcom pitch: Bryan Cranston plays the World’s Richest Man who has recently and expensively remarried, but his new wife’s ex, NFL all-time great Tony Garcia (played by Duane The Rock Johnson) is always dropping by to throw the football around with Cranston’s new stepson.

    • LOL: wren
  • From NPR: From NBC News: Un-ques-tion-a-bly. And if you question its unquestionability, well, that just shows you are one of the infiltrators. From the Washington Post: From the New York Times: Capitol Police Warn of Threat on Thursday, and House Cancels the Day’s Session The agency, responding to what the force called “a possible plot...
  • @wren
    @Muggles

    Wait, you weren't joking.

    https://www.twitter.com/dave_brown24/status/1367819126224347136

    Replies: @Muggles

    Yes, in Clown World you can’t make stuff up that’s any more absurd than Woke reality.

    • Agree: wren
  • @Muggles
    All of this invented QAnon 'conspiracy' being peddled by the usual morons reminds me of Junior High "rumors" that would spread via small crumpled notes laying around.

    Along the lines of "everyone who is queer will wear blue on Thursday."

    Ha! Yet most avoided blue on Thursday.

    These Dem agitprop types relying on fake news will invent it out of whole cloth if necessary. Their next step will be to authorize special medals and bonuses for "heroism" for anyone on the government payroll who was anywhere near the Capitol during the "riot", a/k/a peaceful protest. Of course cops will not be eligible.

    The Swalwell/Pelosi Medal of Enormous Courage Under Fire.


    The Chinese are shipping them to DC as you read this. Soon the entire House Dem leadership will be strutting around with more dazzling medals on their chests than the May Day Soviet Politburo.

    Replies: @wren

    • LOL: Old Prude
    • Replies: @Muggles
    @wren

    Yes, in Clown World you can't make stuff up that's any more absurd than Woke reality.

  • @wren
    @Whiskey

    "As thieves get more and more brazen they do more and more brazenly things. I'm not making that up."

    No description of the thieves, other than they came out of a white luxury car.

    https://youtu.be/5RpIHYZ2JNA

    Replies: @wren, @El Dato

    Odd editing by KPIX. Almost exactly as the announcer say “A white luxury sedan with four men inside pulled up” the video cuts to an image of security cameras, and as soon as the reporter finishes that phrase, the video goes back to interviewing the reporter/victim.

  • @Whiskey
    Nothing happened on March 4 and nothing will continue to happen.

    Meanwhile, we are seeing a pattern emerge in Los Angeles (and likely elsewhere):

    Groups of two or more armed black men stage take-over robberies aimed at wealthy people, using extreme violence, willingness to shoot, and quick getaways.

    Obviously, this is highly organized. Like the SUV looting of luxury stores in Fifth Avenue in NYC and Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. We can likely expect quite a bit more of it. Cops will have to back off questioning inside people, because of accusations of racism. With the Biden Police Reform bill set to pass, there will be strict racial quotas limiting police stops, interviews, and arrests of black people.

    Very, very rapidly our society will have the ultra wealthy and powerful protected by the Federal Goon Squad and everyone else at the mercy of the Purge, Reality edition. Anyone with anything will be beaten and robbed with impunity because it will be legal. That's the dream. After the uber wealthy all have Feds as their daily bodyguards (Lady Gaga reportedly now has an FBI detail assigned to they) the organized gangs facing no police opposition will move into the suburbs and even rural areas. This is by design. Don't think for a moment that this has not been lovingly planned for half a century.

    Replies: @wren, @SunBakedSuburb, @Luzzatto

    “As thieves get more and more brazen they do more and more brazenly things. I’m not making that up.”

    No description of the thieves, other than they came out of a white luxury car.


    Video Link

    • Replies: @wren
    @wren

    Odd editing by KPIX. Almost exactly as the announcer say "A white luxury sedan with four men inside pulled up" the video cuts to an image of security cameras, and as soon as the reporter finishes that phrase, the video goes back to interviewing the reporter/victim.

    , @El Dato
    @wren

    Special Agent Dale Cooper is onto those White Supremacists

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0YWYbrz0jI

    Replies: @Dieter Kief

  • Well, this happened on March 4:

    https://www.twitter.com/abigailmarone/status/1367637351766384647

    March 3 was the day that Luke Wilson discovered he was in idiocracy.

    Yup, we’re there.

    At least Camacho was in charge and looking for good advisors.

    Joe Biden seems to be caught on camera every day asking what he is supposed to do next.

    Yesterday he asked if anyone had any questions, which was apparently the cue to cut his mic and camera feed.

  • All of this invented QAnon ‘conspiracy’ being peddled by the usual morons reminds me of Junior High “rumors” that would spread via small crumpled notes laying around.

    Along the lines of “everyone who is queer will wear blue on Thursday.”

    Ha! Yet most avoided blue on Thursday.

    These Dem agitprop types relying on fake news will invent it out of whole cloth if necessary. Their next step will be to authorize special medals and bonuses for “heroism” for anyone on the government payroll who was anywhere near the Capitol during the “riot”, a/k/a peaceful protest. Of course cops will not be eligible.

    The Swalwell/Pelosi Medal of Enormous Courage Under Fire.

    The Chinese are shipping them to DC as you read this. Soon the entire House Dem leadership will be strutting around with more dazzling medals on their chests than the May Day Soviet Politburo.

    • LOL: wren
    • Replies: @wren
    @Muggles

    Wait, you weren't joking.

    https://www.twitter.com/dave_brown24/status/1367819126224347136

    Replies: @Muggles

  • You keep pretending that QAnon is not a threat but in fact these dangerous insurrectionists showed up in Washington today intending to overthrow our government. Had not the Capitol been protected by 11,000 National Guard troops and the Congress in hiding, they might well have succeeded. You are treating this as if it’s all a big joke and something ginned up by Democrats to excite their base and take away more of our civil liberties, but people, this is REAL. Look at the dangerous mob in the photo below. That woman probably has bear spray in her purse which she is intending to use to murder Federal agents.

    • Agree: ic1000, wren
    • Replies: @Colin Wright
    @Jack D

    Stealing your post and image. Classic...

    , @Ron Mexico
    @Jack D

    "Look at the dangerous mob", yes, that would make a great meme!

    I am sure the short guy was planning on helping Ted Cruz rape and murder AOC. Darn barbed-wire fence...

    , @International Jew
    @Jack D

    Where is that picture taken?

    Replies: @Jack D

    , @Corvinus
    @Jack D

    You meant to have these images, Jack D.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/06/trump-supporters-rally-in-washington-to-protest-election-results.html

    https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-donald-trump-electoral-college-elections-de812995a8c7cbea5c1de56a3d1aa007

    Replies: @Jack D

  • From the New York Post:
  • If BLM is responsible for getting an extra 2,000 Black Lives Murdered last year, that works out to $45,000 per life that BLM owes to the victims’ families from their $90 million haul. Of course, which were the excess deaths and which were not….

    BLM should hope that the victims’ families don’t read Steve.

    However, if Mr. Brown’s charging at the police car was the impetus for BLM, then perhaps he is indirectly responsible for all those thousands of extra deaths.

    Who was responsible for raising him to rob cigars from liquor stores in the first place?

    Regardless, all the murders are a real tragedy, and it is very sad that they are increasing and will likely continue increasing with current policies.

    • Replies: @jon
    @wren


    all the murders are a real tragedy, and it is very sad
     
    Are they? Is it? I'd go with 'real predictable' and 'very tiring' myself
  • The New York Times' lead pandemic reporter Donald G. McNeil Jr. got forced out of his 45-year-career over, more or less, the high crime of being an Old White Man With a Good Job Who Acts Like He Deserves It. He answers back here: I’m publishing my thoughts here on Medium because I know journalists....
  • @Reg Cæsar
    @El Dato


    John Brennan is the only man in the world who shows a coat can be turned in multiple dimensions at once.

     

    Now I understand the baggy pants of the ghetto. Besides concealing a sawn-off shotgun, they can be turned inside-out without lifting your feet from the pavement. Just in case you cross some gang's territorial line and have to change colors quickly.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8qwqGjOlSE&t=7m20s

    Replies: @wren

    That must have been Hansel’s trick.


    Video Link

  • @Harry Baldwin
    @wren

    If John Brennan were in SAG, he'd probably get a lot of work. He 'd be typecast as the corrupt, thuggish police commissioner, CEO, military general, or CIA head.

    Replies: @Clyde

    If John Brennan were in SAG, he’d probably get a lot of work. He ‘d be typecast as the corrupt, thuggish police commissioner, CEO, military general, or CIA head.

    Now Brennan is just a thug who allegedly took a pledge to Islam. Give him two years to come out as a trans-thug. Just going with the flow. Brennan was a prime architect of the Russia hoax. Susan Rice is a Mocha Mafia thug but being female she tones down her act to be very slippery. She is the power behind the throne along with Mocha Mafia Obama. Valerie Jarret and Kamala round out this DC based Mafia.

    Kamala just arrived in DC so she is a junior member of this Mafia and will follow directions from Rice and Obama once they get rid of that annoying stale pale male Biden. Jill Biden will try to keep her husband propped up Weekend at Bernie’s style for as long as possible, counter acting the Mocha Mafia.

    • Thanks: wren
    • Replies: @sayless
    @Clyde

    Jill Biden looks miserable in every photograph I've seen of her, including after the inauguration.

  • @Daniel H
    @wren

    Brennan talks like a fag.

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @wren

    Especially when he speaks in his beloved Arabic.

  • @Achmed E. Newman
    @Daniel H

    and his shit's all fucked up.

    Replies: @wren

    March 3rd!

    Just a day away!

    Just thinking about
    Tomorrow
    Clears away the cobwebs,
    And the sorrow
    ‘Til there’s none!

  • An interesting track from a great album:

    Golem II: Bionic Vapour Boy

    (Golem)
    Self-organized, wrought from the clay
    (Golem)
    Our king by night, our slave by the day
    (Giga-giga-gilgamesh)

    Spirit lifting
    Master of shape-shifting
    Seamless drifting

    Shining spotlight
    Screaming mobs and stage fright
    You get it right

    Building a new zion
    “Golem II: The Bionic Vapour Boy”

    War-directing
    Mind-infecting
    Man-correcting

    Our instructions:
    His induction
    Big production

  • @El Dato
    @wren

    John Brennan is the only man in the world who shows a coat can be turned in multiple dimensions at once.

    Replies: @kaganovitch, @Muggles, @wren, @Reg Cæsar

    The depth and breadth of colors in his coat are dizzying. From communist student radical to islam lover to cia officer to corrupt defense contractor CEO to cia chief, and all the while screwing the country.

    Still at it too.

  • @wren
    OT: I really don't like this guy.

    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/john-brennan-embarrassed-white-male

    https://www.twitter.com/danielchaitin7/status/1366498703452872704

    Replies: @The Alarmist, @El Dato, @Harry Baldwin, @Rich, @Daniel H, @Dan Hayes

    John Brennan is the only man in the world who shows a coat can be turned in multiple dimensions at once.

    • Agree: wren
    • LOL: kaganovitch
    • Replies: @kaganovitch
    @El Dato

    Outstanding!

    , @Muggles
    @El Dato

    Yes, Brennan wears that Biblical "coat of many colors."

    , @wren
    @El Dato

    The depth and breadth of colors in his coat are dizzying. From communist student radical to islam lover to cia officer to corrupt defense contractor CEO to cia chief, and all the while screwing the country.

    Still at it too.

    , @Reg Cæsar
    @El Dato


    John Brennan is the only man in the world who shows a coat can be turned in multiple dimensions at once.

     

    Now I understand the baggy pants of the ghetto. Besides concealing a sawn-off shotgun, they can be turned inside-out without lifting your feet from the pavement. Just in case you cross some gang's territorial line and have to change colors quickly.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8qwqGjOlSE&t=7m20s

    Replies: @wren

  • @wren
    OT: I really don't like this guy.

    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/john-brennan-embarrassed-white-male

    https://www.twitter.com/danielchaitin7/status/1366498703452872704

    Replies: @The Alarmist, @El Dato, @Harry Baldwin, @Rich, @Daniel H, @Dan Hayes

    If John Brennan were in SAG, he’d probably get a lot of work. He ‘d be typecast as the corrupt, thuggish police commissioner, CEO, military general, or CIA head.

    • Agree: wren
    • Replies: @Clyde
    @Harry Baldwin


    If John Brennan were in SAG, he’d probably get a lot of work. He ‘d be typecast as the corrupt, thuggish police commissioner, CEO, military general, or CIA head.
     
    Now Brennan is just a thug who allegedly took a pledge to Islam. Give him two years to come out as a trans-thug. Just going with the flow. Brennan was a prime architect of the Russia hoax. Susan Rice is a Mocha Mafia thug but being female she tones down her act to be very slippery. She is the power behind the throne along with Mocha Mafia Obama. Valerie Jarret and Kamala round out this DC based Mafia.

    Kamala just arrived in DC so she is a junior member of this Mafia and will follow directions from Rice and Obama once they get rid of that annoying stale pale male Biden. Jill Biden will try to keep her husband propped up Weekend at Bernie's style for as long as possible, counter acting the Mocha Mafia.

    Replies: @sayless

  • @wren
    OT: I really don't like this guy.

    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/john-brennan-embarrassed-white-male

    https://www.twitter.com/danielchaitin7/status/1366498703452872704

    Replies: @The Alarmist, @El Dato, @Harry Baldwin, @Rich, @Daniel H, @Dan Hayes

    So why doesn’t Brennan start to transition already … he can take beauty tips from that Levine thingy.

  • • Replies: @The Alarmist
    @wren

    So why doesn’t Brennan start to transition already ... he can take beauty tips from that Levine thingy.

    , @El Dato
    @wren

    John Brennan is the only man in the world who shows a coat can be turned in multiple dimensions at once.

    Replies: @kaganovitch, @Muggles, @wren, @Reg Cæsar

    , @Harry Baldwin
    @wren

    If John Brennan were in SAG, he'd probably get a lot of work. He 'd be typecast as the corrupt, thuggish police commissioner, CEO, military general, or CIA head.

    Replies: @Clyde

    , @Rich
    @wren

    We're pretty embarrassed to have people consider him to be a White male. There must be a Negro somewhere in the woodpile. Maybe Grampa Brensky changed the family name when he escaped his shtetl?

    , @Daniel H
    @wren

    Brennan talks like a fag.

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @wren

    , @Dan Hayes
    @wren

    I'm ashamed to admit it but Brennan has the physiognomy of Paddy's Pig!

  • Let’s begin by acknowledging a couple of kind (re)tweets from the hereditarian-HBD side on my last Unz article on IQ and race (Why Do Blacks Outperform Whites in UK Schools?): Murray tweet: Sailer tweet: After the recent death of the great James Flynn, I thought I should finally get back to writing some updated articles...
  • Judging by the wonderfully verbose emails that I used to regularly receive from the Nigerian elite — both in government and royalty — I’m actually not so surprised about this.

    Further, I have personally witnessed Nigerians cleverness in business on trips to Asia, when I figured out that the African Americans selling all the expensive hip hop clothing to the Japanese kids were in fact all Nigerians. I also saw them promoting their nightclubs there, but never dared enter any, lest I be outsmarted and lose all of my money, which I had heard happened to some of their customers somehow.

    I have heard similar stories of Nigerians in China, and in fact sometimes read about Nigerians in other African countries running into problems one way or another. They do seem to succeed all over the world, and, like in Scrabble, their reputation seems to precede them in many places.

    I once looked at a Nigerian website trying to figure something else out and there seemed to be a lot of discussion about the Igbo. Lots and lots of verbosity in fact.

    So I perhaps this all makes sense.

    • Replies: @nokangaroos
    @wren

    Beat me to it - even District 9 acknowledged that truism :D

    ... though you have to be at least a child sex trafficker or Nazi fugitive to be denied
    a French visa.

    , @anon
    @wren

    "Judging by the wonderfully verbose emails that I used to regularly receive from the Nigerian elite — both in government and royalty — I’m actually not so surprised about this.

    Further, I have personally witnessed Nigerians cleverness in business on trips to Asia, when I figured out that the African Americans selling all the expensive hip hop clothing to the Japanese kids were in fact all Nigerians. I also saw them promoting their nightclubs there, but never dared enter any, lest I be outsmarted and lose all of my money, which I had heard happened to some of their customers somehow."

    Typical talk from a liberal that is always hoping.

    Grand verbosity in emails does not equate with intelligence. All it tells you is that they are the owners of a dictionary and maybe a thesaurus.

    Negroes with their aggressive and pushy selling techniques and endless confidence in a land where people are naturally polite and non-aggressive doesn't equate to smarts. Gypsies are experts at this and are not renowned for their intellect.

    An inability to see one's shortcomings and imagine that one might fail in the future, can be a short-term advantage in business as one is willing to take more risks, but when one does fail, the financial hardship is worse than that of a more intelligent, conservative business owner who doesn't put all their eggs in one basket.

    Nigeria is a nasty, dirty, brutish place to live and most of the population would leave and go to the white or oriental countries if given the chance. Africans have no ability to create a just, attractive society to live in. All they can do is go to good societies and drag them down.

    Replies: @Ray Caruso, @acementhead

  • Very interesting! I had no idea about this, thanks!

  • From USA Today, we learn of another way that whites are racist: by not doing those things often enough that would provoke other people to murder them: The CDC's homicide stats do a better job of straightening out the race/ethnicity of victims than do the FBI's stats, in which 93% of Hispanics are lumped in...
  • @wren

    Whites just aren’t doing their fair share for equity in getting themselves shot enough.
     
    Please don't give anyone any ideas, Steve. Firing squads in the name of DIE wouldn't be fun.

    Replies: @wren

    Ready.

    Aim.

    Diversity, Inclusion, Equity!

  • Whites just aren’t doing their fair share for equity in getting themselves shot enough.

    Please don’t give anyone any ideas, Steve. Firing squads in the name of DIE wouldn’t be fun.

    • Replies: @wren
    @wren

    Ready.

    Aim.

    Diversity, Inclusion, Equity!

  • From the New York Times sports section: I reviewed Kahneman's bestseller in 2012. Thinking, Fast and Slow’s basic idea is helpful, if not terribly startling: Acts of human cognition can be pictured as falling along a continuum from intuition (which is fast and fun) to logic (which is slow and tiring). Snap judgments work well...
  • @Chrisnonymous
    @wren

    Please don't use "fast twitch" in this way. The phrase fast twitch comes from the physiology of skeletal muscle, but people often erroneously assume fast twitch means those fibers are recruited first, as in "fast reaction", but actually they are recruited after slow twitch muscle fibers, and in response to overload. This is easy to understand if you consider bodybuilders doing common activities like lifting a pencil. If a bodybuilder's fast twitch fibers were recruited first, lifting a pencil would require all their huge biceps to contract strongly. Walking up stairs would utterly exhausting.

    Replies: @wren

    Well, auto response thinking. Our intuition is being driven by someone else. Maybe that is what Kahneman was talking about in the first place.

    I may have lost track of the original post.

  • @vhrm
    @wren

    Ah, i see what you mean. I guess "manners" IS an example of this system 1 thinking, but i think that's fine. I don't want to have to ponder how i should behave in public from scratch every time, though i fully agree w/ you that i like the simpler American (and specifically Nor Cal slacker easy mode rules) over even NYC, let alone more complex high society or historical ones.


    The twitter sensitivity and SJW stuff... i think goes deeper. The knee jerk reaction certainly qualifies, but these people have been defending the stuff in think piece essays, books and whole university departments and education schools. That's all very "system 2" deliberate slow stuff.

    Replies: @wren

    Maybe if they can get people to behave that way automatically without thinking they know that they then have them all the way due to cognitive dissonance, etc. Classical persuasion.

    Once you put your gender pronouns down somewhere when asked you are signing your name to the whole program.

  • @vhrm
    @wren


    Sometimes I think culture sits on top of all of this, especially at the fast thinking level. When I watch Japanese people interact with each other or to some situation and then compare them to Japanese Americans, I see how thinking is affected by culture.
     
    i'd love to hear some examples or expansion on this.

    To me there's no question that culture has an impact. i mean just look at things even within subcultures in the US e.g. academia vs business . Or even "startup business" vs "highly optimized mature business" in one case you just wing it half the time, in the other if your projection is wrong by more than 0.3% the company goes out of business. Or level of precision in planning / designing / building some random software vs a high rise building vs airliner vs nuclear reactor.

    Replies: @wren

    i’d love to hear some examples or expansion on this.

    To generalize, and of course imho, from a young age there is a huge oppressive (and beautiful) Japanese culture smothering everything that informs people’s reactions and thinking right off the bat. Who is above or below whom, who owes whom what, what is the proper protocol in this precise, exact situation in this particular season, etc, etc., etc. I last lived there over 20 years ago, and of course I could avoid it (and was expected to avoid it) not being Japanese. But even gaijin start to feel that stuff after being there for a while. I vaguely remember once going to a traditional style Japanese restaurant with some friends who were visiting from the US. Somehow one of our party had forgotten to take off their shoes and was traipsing all over the tatami in his wet outdoor shoes. Horrors!!! Catastrophe!!! My shame was instantaneous and heart-felt. How could I have allowed such a thing without noticing! He didn’t really care so much. “Oops! No one told me I had to!”

    I feel bad when I see Japanese people visit the US, and they have to spend all of their time and money getting souvenirs for all of their friends and acquaintances back home. And if they can’t do that they feel terrible. Maybe it is not as bad as it used to be though.

    In the US cultural norms and taboos are changing, and we are starting to see something similar, imo. Like if someone called someone a ni**er or someone else a fa**ot or something, those might have been rude fighting words in the past, but now seem to be the worst thing ever. Like wearing wet shoes on tatami. People’s reactions are immediate. To a lesser extent, discussing iSteve-type stuff in public is also very quickly frowned on by many wearing their fast thinking on their sleeves, and you might find yourself outed on social media or something, and soon out of a job. Imagine if some comedian from the 70’s got in a time machine and tried out his shtick today. Very problematic!

    Like being a gaijin in Japan, being ASD in America might provide some relief.

    I need an official ASD card on a lanyard around my neck.

    • Replies: @vhrm
    @wren

    Ah, i see what you mean. I guess "manners" IS an example of this system 1 thinking, but i think that's fine. I don't want to have to ponder how i should behave in public from scratch every time, though i fully agree w/ you that i like the simpler American (and specifically Nor Cal slacker easy mode rules) over even NYC, let alone more complex high society or historical ones.


    The twitter sensitivity and SJW stuff... i think goes deeper. The knee jerk reaction certainly qualifies, but these people have been defending the stuff in think piece essays, books and whole university departments and education schools. That's all very "system 2" deliberate slow stuff.

    Replies: @wren

  • Why Do Smart Guys Love Kahneman’s “Thinking, Fast and Slow”?

    Dopamine hits from bias confirmation.

    • LOL: wren
  • @Chrisnonymous
    @Bill P

    You are posing the question as fast processes vs slow processes, but this is a mistake. Machines perform logical operations at speed. The question is why the mind evolved to do logic slowly, and the answer is that it evolved to do Kahnemann's system 1, not logic. But why? What evolutionary advantage was there in narrative thinking that promoted it over logic? Or is it an artifact of accident?

    Replies: @wren, @El Dato

    My new theory is that twitter/sjw/cancel culture is a virus that has infected the social fast twitch thinking center of people’s brains. It could get in so easily because that area is pre-logic. Like toxoplasmosis or something, this sets people up to be taken advantage of.

    We need some operation warp speed meme vaccine asap.

    Or maybe it’s already too late.

    • Replies: @Chrisnonymous
    @wren

    Please don't use "fast twitch" in this way. The phrase fast twitch comes from the physiology of skeletal muscle, but people often erroneously assume fast twitch means those fibers are recruited first, as in "fast reaction", but actually they are recruited after slow twitch muscle fibers, and in response to overload. This is easy to understand if you consider bodybuilders doing common activities like lifting a pencil. If a bodybuilder's fast twitch fibers were recruited first, lifting a pencil would require all their huge biceps to contract strongly. Walking up stairs would utterly exhausting.

    Replies: @wren

  • @Bill P
    @candid_observer


    The point isn’t whether Kahneman is “tricking” us into coming to the wrong conclusion in cases like Linda the bank teller. It is that we seem to have an extraordinary and powerful attraction to thinking in terms of representativeness rather than of pure logic. In this sense, Kahneman’s results might be understood as demonstrating just how easy it is for people to be tricked in this particular way — how much more inclined we are on average to leap to the intuitive, but wrong, conclusion rather than the logical one.
     
    There's a good reason for that. Reasoning is slow, inefficient and often clumsy. If you're playing a sport and your opponent has to stop to think about something, nine times out of ten you've got him beat. The same applies in many intellectual tasks such as law. The lawyer who knows stuff will usually beat the one who has to figure it out even if their IQ is comparable.

    What Kahneman is writing about is the distinction between reasoning and learned response. Ideally, in a competitive environment reasoning should be one's last resort. Athletes are often told not to "overthink" and to use "muscle memory." Sounds dumb, but it's good advice (even though "muscle memory" is a misleading term). In fact, the main benefit of reasoning is to prevent the reasoner from having to use reason for the same task the next time. It is something one uses in novel situations.

    So what Kahneman is doing to trick people is dressing up novel situations as routine ones. Novel situations occur in day-to-day life, but not in the contexts Kahneman presents. For most people, novel situations are mainly social. Abstract reasoning tasks involving numbers or formal logic rarely present themselves. However, reasoning about other people's behavior and thoughts occupies enormous bandwidth.

    This is why nerds like Kahneman's book: it makes them feel good about themselves by leaving out the majority of reasoning while emphasizing the kind they happen to be relatively good at. I'd go so far as to say that Kahneman is pulling a fast one on the nerds. He's disguising one of their shortcomings as a superior trait to flatter them and get them to buy his book. Pretty clever.

    Say we presented a bunch of quant types with Jane Austen-like social quandaries. Most of them would be confused. If forced to face these in real life, many would feel great distress, and probably show it physiologically. It would make a funny skit.

    Kahneman isn't coming up with anything new at all here. His distinction between "fast" and "slow" thinking is facile and doesn't explain the real difference between the two. Even worse, it muddies the waters.

    Replies: @vhrm, @Reg Cæsar, @Known Fact, @Chrisnonymous, @wren, @El Dato

    I read “Mindblindness” by Borat’s cousin about 20 years ago (a reader here clued me in to the fact that he’s a schmuck too) and one of the things that stuck with me from that book is that while animals evolve various advantages, like speed, claws, sharp teeth, wings or whatever, ancestors to humans evolved a big social brain that could very quickly discern friend from foe (prey from predator) before one became the prey due to a slow response. The large social group of allies became the evolved evolutionary advantage, or something lile that. He argued that huge brain resources are devoted to this, without most people being aware of it at all.

    Of course, autistic folks don’t process things the same way, and their brains end up having to use logic to figure out why someone is staring at something, etc and why their fast twitch social skills are so poor, but their pattern recognition might be superior.

  • @Anon 2
    OT: With the Polish teenager Iga Swiatek winning her second major
    tennis title at the Adelaide International (Iga won the French Open
    last fall), Slavic women are crushing black women in world-class
    tennis. 9 out of top 20 singles tennis ranks are occupied by
    Slavic women

    Replies: @wren

    I think that Thomas Sowell said that the word “slave” came from the word “Slav,” but I don’t think he is correct about that.

    Anyway, it’s nice to see the Slavs clean up in the court I suppose.

    • Replies: @Anon 2
    @wren

    It’s been noted that only the Americans are afraid of blacks, and of
    black women specifically. Fear of blacks (and fear of being
    called racist) is probably the dominant fear in the U.S. The
    first thing that black women notice (with surprise) when they visit the
    European continent is, “They’re not afraid of us here.”
    Europeans have thousands of years of experience in dealing
    with blacks, so they are race realists by definition.

    Replies: @Muggles

  • OT: I have no idea what to think of this, fast or slow, other than looking forward to Steve’s post on the finished product.

    https://nypost.com/2021/02/26/superman-reboot-planned-by-j-j-abrams-ta-nehisi-coates/

    Thinking a little more slowly, I suppose it will be interesting to see the genius addition to the body of the superman canon, and am sure the film will embody the essence of the true SuperMan such that everybody will be left in awe at this reembodiment of this up to now clearly disembodied concept of the one true SuperMan

  • Sometimes I think culture sits on top of all of this, especially at the fast thinking level. When I watch Japanese people interact with each other or to some situation and then compare them to Japanese Americans, I see how thinking is affected by culture.

    I also think twitter/sjw/cancel culture is starting to do something similar to Americans. Conversations with coworkers show me that lots of strange stuff is getting ingrained at the fast thinking level because people need to stay employed. At some level they are starting to get dumber though.

    Maybe Steve can write a less Aspergery book that starts with real-world mistakes that people commonly make because their fast twitch thinking has been contaminated by twitter/sjw etc. culture. Maybe their slow thinking too, because ideas are getting cancelled too.

    • Agree: Chrisnonymous
    • Replies: @vhrm
    @wren


    Sometimes I think culture sits on top of all of this, especially at the fast thinking level. When I watch Japanese people interact with each other or to some situation and then compare them to Japanese Americans, I see how thinking is affected by culture.
     
    i'd love to hear some examples or expansion on this.

    To me there's no question that culture has an impact. i mean just look at things even within subcultures in the US e.g. academia vs business . Or even "startup business" vs "highly optimized mature business" in one case you just wing it half the time, in the other if your projection is wrong by more than 0.3% the company goes out of business. Or level of precision in planning / designing / building some random software vs a high rise building vs airliner vs nuclear reactor.

    Replies: @wren

  • From The Independent, reporting on the first Barack Obama-Bruce Springsteen podcast: How much? More likely, almost none. I've been asking for some time for examples of Southern dynastic wealth that survived the Civil War and Reconstruction, and have gotten very, very few responses. Where did all the money go? Well, two famous quotes sum it...
  • I wonder if joebama will propose that folks like barak, whose one black parent was flown over to the US for grad school in Hawaii (and the 17 year old undergrads there) and then offered a spot at harvard deserve these reparations too?

    I have met a few black Americans who have no American slave ancestors, but I didn’t ask them for their opinions on reparations.

  • From the New York Times news section: With New Grand Jury, Justice Department Revives Investigation Into Death of George Floyd As the state murder trial of Derek Chauvin, the former officer charged in the death of George Floyd, approaches, the federal government has accelerated its own investigation. By Tim Arango and Katie Benner Feb. 23,...
  • @Achmed E. Newman
    @wren

    Now there's another guy that knows how to spell it. That's at least 2.

    Replies: @wren

    The other guy probably learned from Steve too.

    Recently I was looking into supreme court justices and was reading about the origins of “falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic” (the original wording.

    It seems to me that this kind of thing is very similar to that situation.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_theater

    There should be extra penalties for doing so in our current tinderbox of a society.

  • @wren
    OT: If no one mentioned this:

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9297475/Black-student-not-victim-racism-eating-black-80k-Smith-College.html

    The whole brouhaha started with a hoax.

    Replies: @wren, @Achmed E. Newman

    Oops. That was mentioned.

  • • Replies: @wren
    @wren

    Oops. That was mentioned.

    , @Achmed E. Newman
    @wren

    Now there's another guy that knows how to spell it. That's at least 2.

    Replies: @wren

  • A reader writes: What's an easy to use source from the 21st Century?
  • @Rich
    @very old statistician

    How did you decide Thomas was smarter than Scalia? Do you mean his clerks were smarter than Scalia's clerks? Thomas has always been a mediocre mind, advanced solely because of affirmative action. In a normal world he'd be working traffic court in Atlanta.

    Replies: @wren, @very old statistician

    Thomas is still alive and Scalia isn’t.

    Here’s a link to Thomas’s dissent.

    https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/22/politics/thomas-dissent-in-pa-election/index.html