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From the New York Post in 2015:

The comments that became a reporter’s death sentence

By Marisa Schultz and Frank Rosario
August 28, 2015 1:01am

ROANOKE, Va. — The words are a part of everyday conversation — “swinging” by an address and going out in the “field.”

But in the twisted mind of Virginia gunman Vester Lee Flanagan II, they were pure racism — and saying them became a death sentence for Alison Parker.

The 24-year-old white reporter, who was murdered on live TV along with her cameraman, used the phrases as an intern at ­WDBJ TV in Roanoke in 2012, according to an internal complaint filed by Flanagan, who was black.

“One was something about ‘swinging’ by some place; the other was out in the ‘field,’ ” said the Jan. 21 report by assistant news director Greg Baldwin, which refers to Parker as Alison Bailey (her middle name).

Parker was never disciplined over the remarks, but Flanagan never forgot them.

Hours after gunning her and Adam Ward down during their broadcast Wednesday, Flanagan revealed in tweets that the comments were still fresh in his mind.

“Alison made racist comments,” Flanagan posted while he was on the run from cops.

“They hired her after that??” he wrote.

But colleagues said that it was all in Flanagan’s head and that Parker was as far from racist as they come.

When blacks get fired and then murder their former white co-workers (as at the two beer company mass murders in 2010 and 2020), these days people feel it important to clear the names of the white victims from the charge of racism, which, apparently, would mean they had it coming.

… Flanagan made the accusations a month before he was fired in February 2013. The document was part of his unsuccessful discrimination lawsuit against the television station.

Trevor Fair, a 33-year-old cameraman at WDBJ for six years, said that the words Parker used are commonplace but that they would routinely set Flanagan off.

“We would say stuff like, ‘The reporter’s out in the field.’ And he would look at us and say, ‘What are you saying, cotton fields? That’s racist,’ ” Fair recounted.

“We’d be like, ‘What?’ We all know what that means, but he took it as cotton fields, and therefore we’re all racists.”

 
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  1. Which is more likely: that this is a legitimate reading of this phrase, or that the guman was both crazy and looking for something to be angry about?

    • Agree: Renard
    • Replies: @Mike Tre
    @J.Ross

    Negroes and homosexuals have both been conditioned to believe that they are entitled to power over social discourse that they did not earn. This is evident in the way both groups aggressively work to control language. Being able to tell others what they can and cannot say is pretty powerful.

    Both negroes and homosexuals are in general pretty emotionally unstable people. But a homosexual negro? Off the hook, yo. And they will not take well to having their ever increasingly wacky demands dismissed. The results are evident.

    Older homosexuals had the benefit of needing to be a little more careful and disciplined about their words and actions as it pertained to their "lifestyle choices,", but younger homosexuals have not, and the results are pretty clear. 95% of homos under the age of 30 are a complete disaster psychologically. Diseased, drug dependent, entitled, aggressive, promiscuous, irresponsible.

    Replies: @ginger bread man, @Liberty Mike, @JohnnyWalker123, @dcthrowback, @Feryl

    , @Jack D
    @J.Ross

    Crazy people will do crazy things. But the fact that a crazy man's delusions from 2013 are now mainstream thinking in an American university is sort of troubling, wouldn't you say?

    It's not unusual for crazy people to latch onto some mainstream (if perhaps radical) meme and use that as a reason to do crazy stuff, but the arrow usually runs in that direction and not vice versa.

    I'm betting though that Flanagan didn't come up with this himself. Who was the FIRST person who said that the word "field" should no longer be used because slaves worked in cotton fields? We know now that it was before 2013.

    Replies: @Anonymous

    , @TelfoedJohn
    @J.Ross

    A whole society telling you you’re a victim can easily turn you into a deluded psychopath: https://youtube.com/watch?v=p-NCkF2OQJI

    , @Shamu
    @J.Ross

    He is a Negro, a Bantu. The odds of him being both crazy and a violent barbarian just looking for a reason to strike are quite high.

  2. Some Indian nationalists believe there is going to be a baklash against Indian Americans for their success from jealous far right as well as liberal whites.

    • Replies: @Colin Wright
    @Dream

    We definitely need to address this.

    ...sooner rather than later.

    Replies: @Loyalty Over IQ Worship, @Vito Klein

    , @Anon
    @Dream

    Isn't much of this SMB success that the brown people get government grants, aid, loans, etc while whites do not.

    Replies: @Skyler the Weird, @Ron Mexico

    , @JR Ewing
    @Dream

    I don't begrudge our local Indians because I'm jealous of them.

    I don't like them because they drive up real estate prices with their ugly gargantuan McMansions, they smell bad, and they're bad drivers. That's reason enough.

    Replies: @Anon, @Colin Wright, @Renard, @SOL

    , @Almost Missouri
    @Dream

    To be fair to the "Far Right", when your organization is taken over by a subcon with vague CV and a warbling accent, it usually is a sign that your organization has jumped the shark and its best days are now behind it. This is not necessarily the fault of the subcon. It's just that the circumstances that allowed him or her to get into control are the circumstance constellation of an organization in decline. That said, the subcon often will implement policies that accelerate/aggravate the decline, but the org had already peaked either way.

    As in the beforetime, so also now: when the White settlers are driven off their farm, they sell to the Indian merchants, who in turn asset-strip everything and sell the scraps to the highest bidders:

    https://youtu.be/GIw50ntRpps?t=44

    ---------

    *This doesn't necessarily apply to a Hindu born and bred in the West among Westerners with a Western peer group.

    , @beavertales
    @Dream

    I'm seeing this up close and personal. In a majority white city, the new hires at our transportation company are overwhelmingly from the Indian sub continent.

    These are secure jobs that will withstand an economic crisis.

    One thing I remember hearing about the Great Depression: if you were one of the lucky ones to have a job, it wasn't so bad. When the hard times come, it will be unjust to see or own people out of work while migrants who came from the other side of the planet reap the fruits of our ancestor's labor.

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon

    , @Sparkling Wiggle
    @Dream

    Others have listed the reasons for Indian success in America: clannishness, the fact their top .1% is still a big number, and of course the fact that our system selects for basically everything other than merit in non-whites.

    Indian success has to be due to something other than competence for the simple reason that no one ever looks forward to dealing with an Indian. There is no scenario in which you discover that you must interact with an Indian and you breathe a sigh of relief, “thank goodness, someone competent.”

    Replies: @Anon87

    , @bomag
    @Dream

    I sense some insecurity from our FOB friends.

    They're ascending the heights of US society alongside reports of declining ability to innovate and get anything done in said society. Explaining all that away may be beyond even their verbal ability.

    , @lavoisier
    @Dream

    I think a large number of the Indian migrants to the West come from the upper caste system of India. These groups often have very high average IQ. Sure clannishness and nepotism help out, but the truth is that a lot of these Indian migrants are very hard working and intelligent people.

    Replies: @Old Prude, @Mike Tre, @Mr. Anon

    , @Louis renault
    @Dream

    Sitting Bull would beg to differ.

    , @Pastit
    @Dream

    Indians are extremely racist. They only hire and promote their own. They need to be checked.

  3. these days people feel it important to clear the names of the white victims from the charge of racism, which, apparently, would mean they had it coming.

    Of course. That’s why they wrote the piece.

    Like when beggars explain, in a gently threatening way, that you should give them money so they can “stay out of trouble.”

  4. You’ve got a lot going on here, there’s depths of pathos that have plumbed bathos.

    Just this week I had my first grandchild born and this weekend my sweet colleen, get married who’ll bring me so many boys, for sure.

    Steve, do you ever wish you paid heed to the lessons you taught or were you appealing to a higher authority when you allowed yourself to get outbred by the Irish?

    I understand you’ve only had one child. Is that right?

    Seems somewhat, inept.

    Especially given what you’ve had to say. You’ve had the best of times to chuck out at least 10 or more, yet, only one?

    • Replies: @Pixo
    @Pat Hannagan

    I think he has two, which would be higher than the TFR of either insular Irish or Irish-Americans.

    Congratulations to you. And to me. My third is on the way. Mother has partial mickie ancestry and I have ulster, the kids will be raised orange.

    https://img.favpng.com/1/12/8/flag-of-northern-ireland-ulster-banner-flag-of-ireland-red-hand-of-ulster-png-favpng-w2kDFehbjJY8KLCf4SHdRiiqL.jpg

    Replies: @Rohirrimborn

  5. When blacks get fired and then murder their former white co-workers … these days people feel it important to clear the names of the white victims from the charge of racism, which, apparently, would mean they had it coming.

    Electing Obama The Racial Healer really worked out well. Heckuva job Libbies!

    Why does every decision made by liberals turn out to be catastrophically wrong? It’s like a superpower, but in a bad way.

    • Replies: @J.Ross
    @Almost Missouri

    Their starting point is rejecting that objective reality exists and is knowable. From there, they reject time-validated principles and traditions. By the stage of action they seek to use power to bend things against themselves.

    , @bomag
    @Almost Missouri

    I'm thinking it's related to the thrill of playing with danger: off the cliff on a dive; out of the plane with a parachute that maybe works; the lure of the tightrope; etc.

    That they are taking a larger society along for a splat with their political decisions just adds to the frisson.

  6. Murdered by a Black Gay Crazyman

    In retrospect, it was probably a mistake for WDBJ to hire a Black Gay Crazyman. 🤔

  7. This is absolutely retarded. It has to be some sort of “dog ate my homework” kind of excuse with something else being the trigger.

    • Replies: @Redneck farmer
    @Romanian

    No, there really are blacks that weird about certain words.

  8. @Dream
    Some Indian nationalists believe there is going to be a baklash against Indian Americans for their success from jealous far right as well as liberal whites.

    https://twitter.com/TheEmissaryCo/status/1614525579100823553?t=TvXFfw7x8XaV5uz7kZtNnA&s=19

    https://twitter.com/TheEmissaryCo/status/1614525583530115074?t=11W-9FR6stwHP3LpBpMWzg&s=19

    https://twitter.com/TheEmissaryCo/status/1614525586503786496?t=1JB3hap0dKDz5WSrBg5kBw&s=19

    Replies: @Colin Wright, @Anon, @JR Ewing, @Almost Missouri, @beavertales, @Sparkling Wiggle, @bomag, @lavoisier, @Louis renault, @Pastit

    We definitely need to address this.

    …sooner rather than later.

    • Agree: Pastit
    • Replies: @Loyalty Over IQ Worship
    @Colin Wright


    We definitely need to address this.
     
    Who is the "we" that needs to address it? On whose behalf? I mean, according to this blog, whites being on their own side is forbidden.

    Let's stop pretending anyone here would ever do anything to help whites.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @bomag, @Anonymous

    , @Vito Klein
    @Colin Wright


    We definitely need to address this
     
    Don't hold your breath. That would require white cohesion and the ability to shrug off being called a hurty word.

    Take the current anti-immigration movement. They'll take a loss every year for 30 straight years rather than state the fact that immigration policy is a Jewish policy, created and maintained by Jews for Jews and an existential threat to white people.
  9. @Romanian
    This is absolutely retarded. It has to be some sort of "dog ate my homework" kind of excuse with something else being the trigger.

    Replies: @Redneck farmer

    No, there really are blacks that weird about certain words.

    • Thanks: Kylie
  10. OT, but it looks as if Poland have taken back Galicia, a sneaky move – in fact a right dolchstoss.

    https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dolchstoss-im-Rucken

    TVP1 is state television, BBC equivalent.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVP1

    TVP1 (TVP Jeden, Program I Telewizji Polskiej, “Jedynka”) is the main public television channel of TVP (Telewizja Polska S.A.), Poland’s national television broadcaster. It was the first Polish channel to be broadcast and remains one of the most popular today. TVP1 was launched 25 October 1952.

    • Replies: @Cagey Beast
    @YetAnotherAnon

    Last week I was listening to William Shirer's book on the collapse of the French Third Republic. At one point, a French general proposed sending French troops to assist Poland via Romania. I thought "Poland shares a border with Romania?". Well it did back in 1939 and maybe it will again.

    Replies: @CJ, @Bill Jones

    , @Almost Missouri
    @YetAnotherAnon


    Poland have taken back Galicia
     
    I support this. Poland gets a measure of their former glory, Western Ukraine gets better, less corrupt government, NATO gets its desired expansion without nakedly breaking its own rules, and since Poland and Russia are not at war, everyone can stop fighting.

    I know, I know, the Poles and their neocon backers would find some way to restart hostilities as a straight NATO-on-Russia fight. But a man can dream.

    Replies: @Inquiring Mind, @JoaoAlfaiate

    , @polaco
    @YetAnotherAnon

    Who's this weather woman? A Russian face like that is unmistakable at 200 yards. Funny, and part of the same narrative where the soviets are telling their soldiers they're actually fighting against Poland and her regular army units in Ukraine, and that there is a universal draft in our country. A NATO country openly fighting them and they're not frantically calling for a UN security council meeting to demand explanations- soviet citizens seem to swallow everything line hook and sinker, with no second thoughts.

    I don't mind reclaiming those lost territories, but Russia must first take all those Rusyns (aka Ukrainians), who hate us passionately back.

    , @Pixo
    @YetAnotherAnon

    I remember 10 months ago the Pootiebots telling us that Poland and Hungary would imminently invade a prostrate surrendered Ukraine.

    The reality is Poland is much wealthier and more advanced than any part of Western Ukraine. It would be like the US annexing Puerto Rico: a bad idea. Sure in theory the Ukes have a higher genetic potential than PRs, but communism and brain drain haven’t left behind the best.

    , @Jack D
    @YetAnotherAnon

    This is some kind of Russian disinformation bullshit that is circulating on Telegram. I don't know who or what that lady is but it's not TVP1. What Polish weather forecast would show only 2 cities in the entire country (just one of which happens to be Lviv)?

    You can go to the TVP1 website itself and see for yourself. Here is their actual weather forecast:

    https://www.tvp.info/65332338/17012023-0654

    You probably won't be able to play the video but you can see the opening still which shows what the real TVP1 weather map looks like. Don't assume that everything you see on Russian Telegram is true. In fact, don't assume that ANYTHING you see on Russian Telegram is true.

    Replies: @International Jew, @YetAnotherAnon

    , @Reg Cæsar
    @YetAnotherAnon


    OT, but it looks as if Poland have taken back Galicia...
     
    A Coruña is nice in the summer, much more comfortable than the East Coast of Iberia.


    https://i0.wp.com/www.galiciatips.com/nl/files/2018/08/kaart-galicie-150x150.gif

    https://www.pilgrimagetraveler.com/images/la-coruna-22-playa-del-orzan.jpg

    , @Lex
    @YetAnotherAnon

    Polish TV not using Polish letters(Slowacja instead of Słowacja, Bialorus instead of Białoruś, Minsk instead of Mińsk, Lwow instead of Lwów). Sure.

  11. OT — ESG helps the CCP, but did you know it’s also illegal?
    https://archive.ph/OZRAD

  12. So now I guess, in deference to imaginary black hyper-feelings, “Baba O’Riley” is also off the table. Try not to get shot, Roger….

    Be sure to stay late, for Katie Jacoby’s awesome take on the famous violon solo at the end.

    • Troll: Mike Tre
    • Replies: @Herbert R. Tarlek, Jr.
    @The Germ Theory of Disease

    They already have PC radio edits of "Money for Nothing" and "Take a Walk on the Wild Side". Please don't give them any more ideas.

  13. @Almost Missouri

    When blacks get fired and then murder their former white co-workers ... these days people feel it important to clear the names of the white victims from the charge of racism, which, apparently, would mean they had it coming.
     
    Electing Obama The Racial Healer really worked out well. Heckuva job Libbies!

    Why does every decision made by liberals turn out to be catastrophically wrong? It's like a superpower, but in a bad way.

    Replies: @J.Ross, @bomag

    Their starting point is rejecting that objective reality exists and is knowable. From there, they reject time-validated principles and traditions. By the stage of action they seek to use power to bend things against themselves.

  14. @Dream
    Some Indian nationalists believe there is going to be a baklash against Indian Americans for their success from jealous far right as well as liberal whites.

    https://twitter.com/TheEmissaryCo/status/1614525579100823553?t=TvXFfw7x8XaV5uz7kZtNnA&s=19

    https://twitter.com/TheEmissaryCo/status/1614525583530115074?t=11W-9FR6stwHP3LpBpMWzg&s=19

    https://twitter.com/TheEmissaryCo/status/1614525586503786496?t=1JB3hap0dKDz5WSrBg5kBw&s=19

    Replies: @Colin Wright, @Anon, @JR Ewing, @Almost Missouri, @beavertales, @Sparkling Wiggle, @bomag, @lavoisier, @Louis renault, @Pastit

    Isn’t much of this SMB success that the brown people get government grants, aid, loans, etc while whites do not.

    • Replies: @Skyler the Weird
    @Anon

    .....plus Nepotism. You need to take care of your extended family including in laws.

    And Remember to these Brahmins, both far right and far left whites and blacks are Dalits, untouchables.

    Replies: @Hope, @Anonymous

    , @Ron Mexico
    @Anon

    Bingo! I've seen this firsthand with regards to 2 local motels. Indians purchase, bring over "family members", put on payroll, eventually one of them takes over management while original owner purchases another motel, starts process over.

    Replies: @Jim Don Bob

  15. Vester Lee Flanagan II certainly wasn’t outstanding in his field.


    He never would have made a good farmer.

    • Replies: @Kylie
    @Buzz Mohawk

    "Vester Lee Flanagan II certainly wasn’t outstanding in his field.


    He never would have made a good farmer."

    Yep, he wouldn't have cottoned to the idea of being a farmer. He would have picked some other occupation.

    , @stari_momak
    @Buzz Mohawk

    Vester Lee does sound like a pretty good title for a folk song tho' .

  16. I wondered what happened to the shooter so I looked Vester Lee Flanagan up. Not a happy tale, to say the least. He worked at about half a dozen on air TV jobs. Wouldn’t you figure HR would check him out, asking him for references and calling old bosses? Well, if they did I guess people didn’t talk or sugar coated things.

    If there was a “blacklist” his name would have been on it. In such a competitive field, I just don’t understand how he kept getting jobs. Just being black wouldn’t have been enough.

    https://heavy.com/news/2015/08/lester-lee-flanagan-flanighan-flanigan-wdbj-tv-disgruntled-employee-virginia-shooting-suspect-cameraman-photos-video-chase-gun-gunman-arrested/

    • Agree: AceDeuce
    • Replies: @Alec Leamas (working from home)
    @notsaying

    The standard practice to avoid lawsuits or additional claims from an employee who parts on bad terms is to offer a "neutral reference" if contacted by a prospective employer of the former employee. Typically this means confirming the dates of employment without anything else.

    But now the "neutral reference" is understood by employers to mean "don't hire this guy/gal" so I imagine that it won't be long until the neutral reference itself is interpreted by a Court or legislature to be defamatory, discriminatory against the Vester Flanagans of the world, and grounds for a lawsuit.

    In the future you will be compelled to give false, positive references for black former employees who parted on bad terms in order to avoid providing them grounds for a lawsuit. "What I can say is that Jamal was punctual, gave maximum effort, was always cheerful and definitely DID NOT steal from us just before he separated employment."

    Replies: @Anon

  17. @YetAnotherAnon
    OT, but it looks as if Poland have taken back Galicia, a sneaky move - in fact a right dolchstoss.

    https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dolchstoss-im-Rucken


    https://i.postimg.cc/cCzBfb7K/tvp1.jpg

    TVP1 is state television, BBC equivalent.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVP1

    TVP1 (TVP Jeden, Program I Telewizji Polskiej, "Jedynka") is the main public television channel of TVP (Telewizja Polska S.A.), Poland's national television broadcaster. It was the first Polish channel to be broadcast and remains one of the most popular today. TVP1 was launched 25 October 1952.
     

    Replies: @Cagey Beast, @Almost Missouri, @polaco, @Pixo, @Jack D, @Reg Cæsar, @Lex

    Last week I was listening to William Shirer’s book on the collapse of the French Third Republic. At one point, a French general proposed sending French troops to assist Poland via Romania. I thought “Poland shares a border with Romania?”. Well it did back in 1939 and maybe it will again.

    • Replies: @CJ
    @Cagey Beast

    When Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia and occupied the Sudetenland in 1938, Poland's military dictatorship took advantage and occupied the Teschen (Tesin in Polish) region. Hungary did likewise with a piece of Ruthenia. Poland itself was of course invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union one year later.

    https://www.lewrockwell.com/2003/08/thomas-m-sipos/poland-joined-hitler-in-dismembering-czechoslovakia/

    Look for the same thing to happen with some of the current Ukrainian territory. The western part around Lviv (or if you prefer, Lvov) used to be in Poland. Other pieces used to be bits of Hungary and Romania. They'd probably all be better off if they weren't under Ukraine.

    Replies: @Bill Jones

    , @Bill Jones
    @Cagey Beast

    From Wikivoyage (who knew there was such a thing?).



    Due to its history as part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and later, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the westernmost part of Ukraine has a Catholic majority, in contrast to the rest of majority-Eastern Orthodox Ukraine.
     
    The summary about voyages is or should be: Don't.

    I think there are a lot of people in eastern Europe with memories of things past.
  18. The station manager said later that Flanagan had had so many conflicts with so many people, it was a mystery as to why he’d fastened on Alison Parker and Adam Ward among all of them.

    Vester Flanagan’s career was riddled with departures and dismissals consequent to chickensh!t conflicts with co-workers. The stations hiring him were in progressively smaller markets and he’d found himself unemployable after the station in Roanoke gave him the gate. There was some evidence that he’d been making rent as a gay prostitute during the period running from 2013 to 2015. Law enforcement found a lot of dirty sex toys in his apartment. (He’d also had conflicts with some of his neighbors).

    Parker and Ward were early in their careers, she recently married and he with a fiancee. One of the horrors of the whole affair is that Ward’s fiancee worked at the station and saw the feed of him being gunned down in real time.

    The man was a raging narcissist, not, strictly speaking, crazy.

    • Replies: @JR Ewing
    @Art Deco

    The thing I remember most about that story was that he threw cat shit at his neighbors and would leave it outside their doors on the porch. I think he also killed his cats in his apartment before he left to go kill the reporter girl.

    Just a crazy guy.

    Replies: @Poirot, @Herbert R. Tarlek, Jr.

  19. Flanagan joins the Troy O’Leary Non-Black Sounding Names Hall of Fame

    • Replies: @Brutusale
    @Jake Barnes

    The original:

    https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kellypa01.shtml

    Larry Bird really surprised Nolan Richardson.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5Zs-1LufzM

    Replies: @KenH

  20. @Anon
    @Dream

    Isn't much of this SMB success that the brown people get government grants, aid, loans, etc while whites do not.

    Replies: @Skyler the Weird, @Ron Mexico

    …..plus Nepotism. You need to take care of your extended family including in laws.

    And Remember to these Brahmins, both far right and far left whites and blacks are Dalits, untouchables.

    • Agree: Renard
    • Replies: @Hope
    @Skyler the Weird

    Brahmins are only minority among indian Americans.

    Replies: @CCG

    , @Anonymous
    @Skyler the Weird


    …..plus Nepotism. You need to take care of your extended family including in laws.
     
    Like the Turkish guy said about democracy: Meritocracy is like a train, which you ride until you get to where you want to go, and then get off.
  21. @Dream
    Some Indian nationalists believe there is going to be a baklash against Indian Americans for their success from jealous far right as well as liberal whites.

    https://twitter.com/TheEmissaryCo/status/1614525579100823553?t=TvXFfw7x8XaV5uz7kZtNnA&s=19

    https://twitter.com/TheEmissaryCo/status/1614525583530115074?t=11W-9FR6stwHP3LpBpMWzg&s=19

    https://twitter.com/TheEmissaryCo/status/1614525586503786496?t=1JB3hap0dKDz5WSrBg5kBw&s=19

    Replies: @Colin Wright, @Anon, @JR Ewing, @Almost Missouri, @beavertales, @Sparkling Wiggle, @bomag, @lavoisier, @Louis renault, @Pastit

    I don’t begrudge our local Indians because I’m jealous of them.

    I don’t like them because they drive up real estate prices with their ugly gargantuan McMansions, they smell bad, and they’re bad drivers. That’s reason enough.

    • Agree: Old Prude
    • Replies: @Anon
    @JR Ewing

    Indians didn't drive up the price of homes in America. Boomers and Gen X did.


    Real estate is overpriced out in the sticks as well. It's not just in cities where Indians live. In fact, reoative to actual value and quality, land and homes in rural areas are even more overpriced than in cities.

    Nothing does greed like a redneck Christian MFer.

    Replies: @JR Ewing, @Buzz Mohawk, @AceDeuce, @Jack D, @AnotherDad

    , @Colin Wright
    @JR Ewing

    'I don’t like them because they drive up real estate prices with their ugly gargantuan McMansions, they smell bad, and they’re bad drivers. That’s reason enough.'

    I don't need to prove they're worse than us. For me, the fact that they're different is entirely sufficient.

    After we left the Old Country (California), my wife and I tried Hawaii for a year and a half.

    It definitely has its points -- but people are just too different from each other. Even the 'locals' are riven into various very separate ethnic groups. There is no single community.

    We wound up settling here in provincial Oregon four years ago. This too has its drawbacks, but everyone is the same. They're all white, and if you didn't vote for Trump, you'd best be tactful about admitting it.

    ...and this is good. You have a clear idea what to expect from people, and you usually guess right. You wind up helping each other -- as a matter of course.

    Hispanics are kind of iffy -- but I definitely don't want frigging Indians. The more aliens we admit, and the more alien they are, the less hope we have of retaining the kind of community I've discovered I like.

    Replies: @Corvinus

    , @Renard
    @JR Ewing

    And because there are a billion and a half of them, which would cause problems even if they weren't so objectionable and aggressive.

    Sort of like the four billion Africans on the way. Even if they weren't (fill in the blank), four billion Africans can and will wreck every civilized society on the planet.

    , @SOL
    @JR Ewing

    And they ruined Scooby-Doo!

  22. @J.Ross
    Which is more likely: that this is a legitimate reading of this phrase, or that the guman was both crazy and looking for something to be angry about?

    Replies: @Mike Tre, @Jack D, @TelfoedJohn, @Shamu

    Negroes and homosexuals have both been conditioned to believe that they are entitled to power over social discourse that they did not earn. This is evident in the way both groups aggressively work to control language. Being able to tell others what they can and cannot say is pretty powerful.

    Both negroes and homosexuals are in general pretty emotionally unstable people. But a homosexual negro? Off the hook, yo. And they will not take well to having their ever increasingly wacky demands dismissed. The results are evident.

    Older homosexuals had the benefit of needing to be a little more careful and disciplined about their words and actions as it pertained to their “lifestyle choices,”, but younger homosexuals have not, and the results are pretty clear. 95% of homos under the age of 30 are a complete disaster psychologically. Diseased, drug dependent, entitled, aggressive, promiscuous, irresponsible.

    • Thanks: Je Suis Omar Mateen
    • Replies: @ginger bread man
    @Mike Tre

    What about the trifecta?

    https://www.jewishtimes.com/black-jewish-and-gay-rapper-y-love-speaks-about-jews-of-color-reacts-to-kyrie-and-kanye/

    Black, Jewish and gay: Rapper Y-Love speaks about Jews of Color, reacts to Kyrie and Kanye
    By JT Staff - November 30, 2022

    , @Liberty Mike
    @Mike Tre

    Howard Cossell learned that a three-letter descriptor may be fine for diminutive white running backs but cancellable for diminutive negro running backs.

    , @JohnnyWalker123
    @Mike Tre

    Good points.

    , @dcthrowback
    @Mike Tre

    Fwiw, Flanagan appears to have a high %age of euro admixture, and as Jason Whitlock and others have noticed, the higher the admixture, the more important it is to show that one is truly "black".

    "Real" blacks don't usually care about such things as "field" and "swinging by", but half (give or take) ones tend to be more sensitive about such things. (I have a belief that the less attractive they are, the more they care, but I think that's secondary to the original hypothesis.)

    Replies: @Mike Tre

    , @Feryl
    @Mike Tre

    So you mean all those Boomer gays slaughtered by AIDS in the 80's and 90's were perfectly well-adjusted? Come on, man. Gay guys have always been a mess, but it started getting worse in the 70's (just like so many other things did).

    Replies: @Mike Tre

  23. @Colin Wright
    @Dream

    We definitely need to address this.

    ...sooner rather than later.

    Replies: @Loyalty Over IQ Worship, @Vito Klein

    We definitely need to address this.

    Who is the “we” that needs to address it? On whose behalf? I mean, according to this blog, whites being on their own side is forbidden.

    Let’s stop pretending anyone here would ever do anything to help whites.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @Loyalty Over IQ Worship

    https://www.unz.com/isteve/a-white-woman-was-murdered-by-a-black-gay-crazyman-for-saying-she-was-going-out-in-the-field/#comment-5763782

    , @bomag
    @Loyalty Over IQ Worship

    Looks like we're getting the current three step replacement narrative:

    1) It's not happening.

    2) It's happening, but it's good for you.'

    3) It's happening, it's bad for you, but it's too late to do anything about it.

    Replies: @Sgt. Joe Friday

    , @Anonymous
    @Loyalty Over IQ Worship


    I mean, according to this blog, whites being on their own side is forbidden.
     
    Whites being on their own side is not forbidden. It is simply illegal, under the 1964 Civil Rights Act as subsequently interpreted. See Caldwell's book, The Age of Entitlement: America since the Sixties, 2020-01-21

    Gareth Davies, From Opportunity to Entitlement: The Transformation and Decline of Great Society Liberalism, 1996-08-21, describes the transformation of the 1964 CRA legislation from its original (perhaps ostensible) intent to the "entitlement" interpretation, but does not discuss the CRA's transformation into an attempt to end "Whiteness".
  24. @Art Deco
    The station manager said later that Flanagan had had so many conflicts with so many people, it was a mystery as to why he'd fastened on Alison Parker and Adam Ward among all of them.

    Vester Flanagan's career was riddled with departures and dismissals consequent to chickensh!t conflicts with co-workers. The stations hiring him were in progressively smaller markets and he'd found himself unemployable after the station in Roanoke gave him the gate. There was some evidence that he'd been making rent as a gay prostitute during the period running from 2013 to 2015. Law enforcement found a lot of dirty sex toys in his apartment. (He'd also had conflicts with some of his neighbors).

    Parker and Ward were early in their careers, she recently married and he with a fiancee. One of the horrors of the whole affair is that Ward's fiancee worked at the station and saw the feed of him being gunned down in real time.

    The man was a raging narcissist, not, strictly speaking, crazy.

    Replies: @JR Ewing

    The thing I remember most about that story was that he threw cat shit at his neighbors and would leave it outside their doors on the porch. I think he also killed his cats in his apartment before he left to go kill the reporter girl.

    Just a crazy guy.

    • Replies: @Poirot
    @JR Ewing

    John Derbyshire talked about this back then: (transcript) https://johnderbyshire.com/Opinions/RadioDerb/2015-08-28.html#02

    , @Herbert R. Tarlek, Jr.
    @JR Ewing

    I think he also killed his cats in his apartment before he left to go kill the reporter girl.

    Can confirm. I distinctly remember that about the story. They also found dildoes in his house with "human material" on them.

    He was a pretty interesting character, and not in a good way.

    Replies: @Rusty Tailgate

  25. Anonymous[239] • Disclaimer says:

    It was Nietzsche who said that “insanity is rare in the individual, but common in the collective”.
    In the case illustrated here, Vester Lee Flanagan was clearly a paranoid schizophrenic displaying obvious paranoid schizophrenic symptoms. The only surprise is that Flanagan’s delusions and distortions are now the accepted lefty orthodoxy.

    • Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic
    @Anonymous

    I wonder how black predilection for schizophrenia is going to work out with de facto legal weed. I'd hate to see things like black strippers-turned-ICU-nurses start doing crazy stuff, like driving their Mercedes that some dealership obligingly leased to them 100 mph through intersections.

    Our society has gotten incredibly scaled and precarious, and full of guns and other dangerous instruments. And crazy child-adults, by no means limited to blacks, are allowed to wander freely through it. And via unlimited immigration and other means, we insist on increasing scale and atomization. Like hoarders and compulsive eaters, American society wallows in the behaviors that will destroy it.

    Replies: @Alec Leamas (working from home)

    , @Prester John
    @Anonymous

    I remember reading an article years ago by a research psychologist who found that most of the 60s left-wing "activists" whom he studied were either chronic neurotics or borderline psychos.

    , @Mike Tre
    @Anonymous

    Was he a paranoid schizophrenic? Or was he merely a learned self entitled narcissist with the all too common predilection for violence that negroes inherently possess? I've looked up the symptoms of schizophrenia; Vester doesn't really fit the description of the former, but does of the latter.

    Here's the problem. Assigning a mental illness label to adults who aren't capable of functioning in a high trust, advanced society eliminates any responsibility for that one's own actions. So the assignment actually enables or excuses the behavior.

    Replies: @LP5

  26. Crazy? Yes. Catch this video from South Africa in 2019. A white student assumes the duty to clean up campus during a protest. Two of the protesters – black women – actively thwart his cleanup efforts.

    https://mobile.twitter.com/eclipsethis2003/status/1615133125042122752

    The empowering of a antisocial behavior is now mainstream in American schools. The wake of destruction is immense but the insanity continues. Why? It is because base human instinct is to calculate the least personal pain to survive the day. Don’t make waves. Snitches get stitches. Those are not just words. They are reality in cultures that have broken down the “white man” rules of civility and cultural elevation.

  27. When blacks get fired and then murder their former white co-workers (as at the two beer company mass murders in 2010 and 2020),

    Oh yes, good old Omar Thornton. Googling his name, a CBS headline comes up: “I killed five racists!”

    Sadly for Omar, his victims were later exonerated (as one wag put it in the isteve comments at the time).

  28. @Jake Barnes
    Flanagan joins the Troy O’Leary Non-Black Sounding Names Hall of Fame

    Replies: @Brutusale

    The original:

    https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kellypa01.shtml

    Larry Bird really surprised Nolan Richardson.

    • Replies: @KenH
    @Brutusale

    The moral of the story is that blacks are shocked when a white person is great at basketball. If a white person expressed public shock at a black person scoring near perfect on their college entrance exam or LSAT they would have to apologize and grovel for "racist stereotyping" of blacks as dumb.

    This is just like Isaiah Thomas saying that if Larry Bird was black he'd just be another good black player. But that's just negro babble as Bird was better than any almost every black player in the NBA except for Magic Johnson and those two were considered equals on the court.

    Bird and Johnson were about equal and Michael Jordan was arguably better and the best player in NBA history.

    Replies: @Mike Tre

  29. Even taking into account the historical treatment of blacks in this country, it’s insane how much political and cultural deference they still get. They have been granted all sorts of exemptions from the standards of behavior everyone else is subject to on the theory it will help them flourish, but that hasn’t been proved out in any way. Society has paid a steep cost for this.

    A healthy culture would essentially ignore the demands of a dysfunctional minority and impose its standards on them for the greater good, instead we are forced to kowtow to political/cultural tantrums, write off huge sections of our largest cities, and participate in a massive annual transfer of wealth via our tax and social welfare system.

    • Replies: @ginger bread man
    @Arclight

    The ironic thing is that when you treat everyone like a victim, the prevailing ideology among local liberals, is that if you just give them what they say they want, they will stop whatever negative behaviors they have.

    To make a example practical, if there is a white lady who experienced “trauma” and is suffering from PTSD in her stressful work environment, she might claim she needs a “mental health day” off from work. The logic goes that if you as a white male just give her the “mental health day”, then she will come back refreshed, healed and ready to work. Problem solved

    The only problem is, in reality. Once you give somebody one mental health day, they think they are entitled to many many more.

    Now replace the white women with and mental health day with “undocumented shopping spree”. The theory is that if we just give them what they are asking for, that they will get it out of their system, and never do it again. The only problem is, that’s not how it works. That’s why schools punish behaviors they don’t want rather than allow them.

    Replies: @Arclight, @Almost Missouri, @Prester John, @usNthem, @silviosilver, @Coemgen, @kaganovitch

  30. @Mike Tre
    @J.Ross

    Negroes and homosexuals have both been conditioned to believe that they are entitled to power over social discourse that they did not earn. This is evident in the way both groups aggressively work to control language. Being able to tell others what they can and cannot say is pretty powerful.

    Both negroes and homosexuals are in general pretty emotionally unstable people. But a homosexual negro? Off the hook, yo. And they will not take well to having their ever increasingly wacky demands dismissed. The results are evident.

    Older homosexuals had the benefit of needing to be a little more careful and disciplined about their words and actions as it pertained to their "lifestyle choices,", but younger homosexuals have not, and the results are pretty clear. 95% of homos under the age of 30 are a complete disaster psychologically. Diseased, drug dependent, entitled, aggressive, promiscuous, irresponsible.

    Replies: @ginger bread man, @Liberty Mike, @JohnnyWalker123, @dcthrowback, @Feryl

    What about the trifecta?

    https://www.jewishtimes.com/black-jewish-and-gay-rapper-y-love-speaks-about-jews-of-color-reacts-to-kyrie-and-kanye/

    Black, Jewish and gay: Rapper Y-Love speaks about Jews of Color, reacts to Kyrie and Kanye
    By JT Staff – November 30, 2022

  31. @Arclight
    Even taking into account the historical treatment of blacks in this country, it's insane how much political and cultural deference they still get. They have been granted all sorts of exemptions from the standards of behavior everyone else is subject to on the theory it will help them flourish, but that hasn't been proved out in any way. Society has paid a steep cost for this.

    A healthy culture would essentially ignore the demands of a dysfunctional minority and impose its standards on them for the greater good, instead we are forced to kowtow to political/cultural tantrums, write off huge sections of our largest cities, and participate in a massive annual transfer of wealth via our tax and social welfare system.

    Replies: @ginger bread man

    The ironic thing is that when you treat everyone like a victim, the prevailing ideology among local liberals, is that if you just give them what they say they want, they will stop whatever negative behaviors they have.

    To make a example practical, if there is a white lady who experienced “trauma” and is suffering from PTSD in her stressful work environment, she might claim she needs a “mental health day” off from work. The logic goes that if you as a white male just give her the “mental health day”, then she will come back refreshed, healed and ready to work. Problem solved

    The only problem is, in reality. Once you give somebody one mental health day, they think they are entitled to many many more.

    Now replace the white women with and mental health day with “undocumented shopping spree”. The theory is that if we just give them what they are asking for, that they will get it out of their system, and never do it again. The only problem is, that’s not how it works. That’s why schools punish behaviors they don’t want rather than allow them.

    • Replies: @Arclight
    @ginger bread man

    Agree - the social conditioning of always looking for offense and expecting to be given what you want rather than what you have earned has been a total disaster. And by making a huge share of the black population wards of the state for generation after generation, we have eliminated any tradition or memory of self-sufficiency for millions upon millions.

    Replies: @Poirot, @bomag

    , @Almost Missouri
    @ginger bread man

    Can confirm.

    In this case, however, I eventually realized that this woman was so toxic that it was preferable for me too if she took as many "mental health breaks" as possible, so I tried to encourage her to spend as much time away from work (and me) as possible. Eventually, she realized she preferred not working there to working there and left completely.

    , @Prester John
    @ginger bread man

    This is the same reasoning behind turning MLK's birthday into a legal holiday (which, tellingly, is not observed by most of the business community in this country).

    Replies: @Renard, @CalCooledge, @possumman

    , @usNthem
    @ginger bread man

    There’s a reason we’re always told not to feed the animals…

    , @silviosilver
    @ginger bread man

    But can you really claim to be surprised? After all, these are the same people who can with complete seriousness maintain that "from each according to his ability to each according to his need" is a perfectly sound basis for an economic system. (The cleverer ones have all manner of defenses of the"oh, nobody ever believed that" variety prepared for those awkward moments in which their preposterous foundational beliefs are brought to light.) Attempting to preach reality to people so monumentally detached from it has always been an exercise in futility. Pain and nothing else but pain is the only way these slobs ever learn, and even then the lessons are only ever temporary.

    , @Coemgen
    @ginger bread man

    Yeah, that's similar to the situation we've seen these past thirty years or so where successful engineers - men who are very exacting and perhaps persnickety - have sons who are just like their fathers except - the sons have been conditioned to think of themselves as suffering from the disease of ASD (often with secondary dx's of OCD and ADHD).

    My anecdotal experience is that these chips-off-the-block are a lot less successful as adults than are their fathers - both professionally and socially.

    The diagnosis of normal or mildly aberrant behavior as some disease that requires endless treatment is demoralizing. It's no wonder so many boys just give up trying to be adults.

    , @kaganovitch
    @ginger bread man

    That’s why schools punish behaviors they don’t want rather than allow them.

    That's why schools used to punish behaviors they don’t want rather than allow them. Fify

  32. No white person ever worked in agriculture? Or was hung in an execution or lynching?

  33. That whole thing was a complete scam. There were two videos of the same “crime” showing different things. That was all lies like everything else on the evil liebox. The chemtrails are hiding Planet X. Planet X ends WW3. America is Armageddon.

  34. @ginger bread man
    @Arclight

    The ironic thing is that when you treat everyone like a victim, the prevailing ideology among local liberals, is that if you just give them what they say they want, they will stop whatever negative behaviors they have.

    To make a example practical, if there is a white lady who experienced “trauma” and is suffering from PTSD in her stressful work environment, she might claim she needs a “mental health day” off from work. The logic goes that if you as a white male just give her the “mental health day”, then she will come back refreshed, healed and ready to work. Problem solved

    The only problem is, in reality. Once you give somebody one mental health day, they think they are entitled to many many more.

    Now replace the white women with and mental health day with “undocumented shopping spree”. The theory is that if we just give them what they are asking for, that they will get it out of their system, and never do it again. The only problem is, that’s not how it works. That’s why schools punish behaviors they don’t want rather than allow them.

    Replies: @Arclight, @Almost Missouri, @Prester John, @usNthem, @silviosilver, @Coemgen, @kaganovitch

    Agree – the social conditioning of always looking for offense and expecting to be given what you want rather than what you have earned has been a total disaster. And by making a huge share of the black population wards of the state for generation after generation, we have eliminated any tradition or memory of self-sufficiency for millions upon millions.

    • Replies: @Poirot
    @Arclight

    “always looking for offence”

    In his latest Radio Derb, John Derbyshire quoted the phrase “recreational offence takers”.

    , @bomag
    @Arclight

    Fed by our political class having access to huge sums of money they can waste on such damaging ideas.

    Thanks, economic growth and attendant social decline.

  35. @ginger bread man
    @Arclight

    The ironic thing is that when you treat everyone like a victim, the prevailing ideology among local liberals, is that if you just give them what they say they want, they will stop whatever negative behaviors they have.

    To make a example practical, if there is a white lady who experienced “trauma” and is suffering from PTSD in her stressful work environment, she might claim she needs a “mental health day” off from work. The logic goes that if you as a white male just give her the “mental health day”, then she will come back refreshed, healed and ready to work. Problem solved

    The only problem is, in reality. Once you give somebody one mental health day, they think they are entitled to many many more.

    Now replace the white women with and mental health day with “undocumented shopping spree”. The theory is that if we just give them what they are asking for, that they will get it out of their system, and never do it again. The only problem is, that’s not how it works. That’s why schools punish behaviors they don’t want rather than allow them.

    Replies: @Arclight, @Almost Missouri, @Prester John, @usNthem, @silviosilver, @Coemgen, @kaganovitch

    Can confirm.

    In this case, however, I eventually realized that this woman was so toxic that it was preferable for me too if she took as many “mental health breaks” as possible, so I tried to encourage her to spend as much time away from work (and me) as possible. Eventually, she realized she preferred not working there to working there and left completely.

  36. Wait a minute! This guy didn’t go to Yale did he?

  37. ” . . . [T]hese days people feel it important to clear the names of the white victims from the charge of racism, which, apparently, would mean they had it coming.”

    This to me is an extremely important “noticing”, Steve. It points to some pathology among some Blacks that appears to be justified by White apologists. We need someone with the right chops (Nicholas Stix?) to examine how this connects to our misbegotten civil rights laws and Black Supremacy.

    • Agree: Gordo
    • Replies: @Nicholas Stix
    @JackOH

    "This to me is an extremely important 'noticing,' Steve. It points to some pathology among some blacks that appears to be justified by White apologists. We need someone with the right chops (Nicholas Stix?) to examine how this connects to our misbegotten civil rights laws and black Supremacy."

    Thanks for your kind words, Jack. I believe I've done the heavy lifting in scores of reports, and am working on a comp book, but it'll take several volumes to cover the whole canvas. However, the most succinct explanation came from our host, many years ago: "black megalomania" (which is extremely common).

    https://vdare.com/writers/nicholas-stix

    “Vester Flanagan’s American Dream has come true! black supremacist, affirmative action ‘journalist’ murdered two White colleagues (and wounded another woman) for speaking of ‘the field’ at work; he insisted that they were invoking slavery; college social work programs agree with him, and have now eliminated the word ‘field,’ vindicating the racist killer!”

    https://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2023/01/vester-flanagans-american-dream-has.html

    Replies: @JackOH, @Art Deco

  38. @Anonymous
    It was Nietzsche who said that "insanity is rare in the individual, but common in the collective".
    In the case illustrated here, Vester Lee Flanagan was clearly a paranoid schizophrenic displaying obvious paranoid schizophrenic symptoms. The only surprise is that Flanagan's delusions and distortions are now the accepted lefty orthodoxy.

    Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic, @Prester John, @Mike Tre

    I wonder how black predilection for schizophrenia is going to work out with de facto legal weed. I’d hate to see things like black strippers-turned-ICU-nurses start doing crazy stuff, like driving their Mercedes that some dealership obligingly leased to them 100 mph through intersections.

    Our society has gotten incredibly scaled and precarious, and full of guns and other dangerous instruments. And crazy child-adults, by no means limited to blacks, are allowed to wander freely through it. And via unlimited immigration and other means, we insist on increasing scale and atomization. Like hoarders and compulsive eaters, American society wallows in the behaviors that will destroy it.

    • Agree: Almost Missouri
    • Replies: @Alec Leamas (working from home)
    @The Anti-Gnostic


    I wonder how black predilection for schizophrenia is going to work out with de facto legal weed. I’d hate to see things like black strippers-turned-ICU-nurses start doing crazy stuff, like driving their Mercedes that some dealership obligingly leased to them 100 mph through intersections.
     
    I think for all intents and purposes weed has been de facto legal in the 'hood for at least a decade - at least in quantities which are plausibly for personal consumption. So de jure legalization probably wouldn't make much of a dent in the effects.

    It's particularly correlated with the later emergence of schizophrenia when male teens smoke cannabis. We're probably beginning to see the effects of teens, particularly black teens, habitually using cannabis already.

    Replies: @Feryl

  39. Another side effect of this unfortunate event is the emergence of the reporter’s father as a D-list performer for the anti-gun crowd.
    “A gun killed my daughter.” It’s his story, and he’s sticking to it.
    What other choice does he have? Crazy people are so wonderful that large chunks of of our New Urbanist utopias have been ceded to them. Homosexuals are so noble that 1/12 of the year must be given over to the celebration of the pride the rest of feel regarding their proclivities. And Blacks? How dare you? You racist!
    Yup. It was the gun that killed her.

  40. @ginger bread man
    @Arclight

    The ironic thing is that when you treat everyone like a victim, the prevailing ideology among local liberals, is that if you just give them what they say they want, they will stop whatever negative behaviors they have.

    To make a example practical, if there is a white lady who experienced “trauma” and is suffering from PTSD in her stressful work environment, she might claim she needs a “mental health day” off from work. The logic goes that if you as a white male just give her the “mental health day”, then she will come back refreshed, healed and ready to work. Problem solved

    The only problem is, in reality. Once you give somebody one mental health day, they think they are entitled to many many more.

    Now replace the white women with and mental health day with “undocumented shopping spree”. The theory is that if we just give them what they are asking for, that they will get it out of their system, and never do it again. The only problem is, that’s not how it works. That’s why schools punish behaviors they don’t want rather than allow them.

    Replies: @Arclight, @Almost Missouri, @Prester John, @usNthem, @silviosilver, @Coemgen, @kaganovitch

    This is the same reasoning behind turning MLK’s birthday into a legal holiday (which, tellingly, is not observed by most of the business community in this country).

    • Replies: @Renard
    @Prester John

    Ahem. Juneteenth is now a federal holiday, and my Android spell check isn't up to date, it turns out.

    But yes, to Arclight's point: the endless pandering makes blacks happy on the surface, but even they (well, many of them) can tell that it undermines rather than supports genuine self-esteem.

    Someone here put it well: hard work, self-discipline, and solid values make for healthy self-regard. They're getting further and further away from this.

    , @CalCooledge
    @Prester John

    The WokeCorp where I am employed gave us the day off, but I worked a full 8 hours. I don't observe propaganda holidays.

    Replies: @Renard

    , @possumman
    @Prester John

    Actually more people celebrate Toyotathon than celebrate MLK Day and Kwanza put together

  41. @ginger bread man
    @Arclight

    The ironic thing is that when you treat everyone like a victim, the prevailing ideology among local liberals, is that if you just give them what they say they want, they will stop whatever negative behaviors they have.

    To make a example practical, if there is a white lady who experienced “trauma” and is suffering from PTSD in her stressful work environment, she might claim she needs a “mental health day” off from work. The logic goes that if you as a white male just give her the “mental health day”, then she will come back refreshed, healed and ready to work. Problem solved

    The only problem is, in reality. Once you give somebody one mental health day, they think they are entitled to many many more.

    Now replace the white women with and mental health day with “undocumented shopping spree”. The theory is that if we just give them what they are asking for, that they will get it out of their system, and never do it again. The only problem is, that’s not how it works. That’s why schools punish behaviors they don’t want rather than allow them.

    Replies: @Arclight, @Almost Missouri, @Prester John, @usNthem, @silviosilver, @Coemgen, @kaganovitch

    There’s a reason we’re always told not to feed the animals…

    • Agree: Mike Tre
  42. @Dream
    Some Indian nationalists believe there is going to be a baklash against Indian Americans for their success from jealous far right as well as liberal whites.

    https://twitter.com/TheEmissaryCo/status/1614525579100823553?t=TvXFfw7x8XaV5uz7kZtNnA&s=19

    https://twitter.com/TheEmissaryCo/status/1614525583530115074?t=11W-9FR6stwHP3LpBpMWzg&s=19

    https://twitter.com/TheEmissaryCo/status/1614525586503786496?t=1JB3hap0dKDz5WSrBg5kBw&s=19

    Replies: @Colin Wright, @Anon, @JR Ewing, @Almost Missouri, @beavertales, @Sparkling Wiggle, @bomag, @lavoisier, @Louis renault, @Pastit

    To be fair to the “Far Right”, when your organization is taken over by a subcon with vague CV and a warbling accent, it usually is a sign that your organization has jumped the shark and its best days are now behind it. This is not necessarily the fault of the subcon. It’s just that the circumstances that allowed him or her to get into control are the circumstance constellation of an organization in decline. That said, the subcon often will implement policies that accelerate/aggravate the decline, but the org had already peaked either way.

    As in the beforetime, so also now: when the White settlers are driven off their farm, they sell to the Indian merchants, who in turn asset-strip everything and sell the scraps to the highest bidders:

    ———

    *This doesn’t necessarily apply to a Hindu born and bred in the West among Westerners with a Western peer group.

  43. OT – the UGA pro football team suffered a loss after the College Super Bowl. One of its giant black linemen was killed in a single car accident after partying past 2 a.m. The other fatality was a UGA “staff member.” Apparently these programs really do supply girls for the team to party with. They call them “recruiting analysts.” They also apparently get big, top-heavy SUV’s to drive around.

    One day we are going to find out that so much s*** goes on in these programs.

    • Agree: Gordo
    • Replies: @Alec Leamas (working from home)
    @The Anti-Gnostic

    We've all heard the rumors but it's somewhat likely that they're intended as adult babysitters who keep the players out of legal trouble by acting as designated drivers, fixers, etc. They probably need a title other than "team gofer" for NCAA rules purposes. The "recruiting analyst" was the operator of the vehicle in question.

    Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic, @Mike Tre, @Herbert R. Tarlek, Jr., @duncsbaby, @Coemgen

    , @Anonymous
    @The Anti-Gnostic

    Just when will the 'me-too' inspired retrospective whining start? You know, big money and therefore big 'compensation' claims are tied up with college football.

    Of course, an inhibiting factor is that blacks rate higher on the sacred Totem Pole than white women.

    , @The Wild Geese Howard
    @The Anti-Gnostic


    Apparently these programs really do supply girls for the team to party with.
     
    This has been happening at every significant college football program for decades.

    Decades.

    Then consider all the informal jersey chasing that happens on the late-era GAE campus...
    , @Pastit
    @The Anti-Gnostic

    College promoted prostitution.

    , @Anonymous
    @The Anti-Gnostic

    It should not be "Virginia gunman" it should be "Virginia Negro" or "Negro gunman".

    Given opportunity and consent I would make the sexual intercourse many times with that "recruiting analyst". Stealing from Donald Trump, I would make so much sexual intercourse. But unlike winning, I would not get tired of sexual intercourse. Like Smoove B, I would cook all of her favorite dishes, including corn. When I left in the morning I would blow off the workday and come back for more sexual intercourse. Any bejeebers she might have in her I would bang out.

    That Who clip was just painful. They really need to hang it up.

  44. @Anonymous
    It was Nietzsche who said that "insanity is rare in the individual, but common in the collective".
    In the case illustrated here, Vester Lee Flanagan was clearly a paranoid schizophrenic displaying obvious paranoid schizophrenic symptoms. The only surprise is that Flanagan's delusions and distortions are now the accepted lefty orthodoxy.

    Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic, @Prester John, @Mike Tre

    I remember reading an article years ago by a research psychologist who found that most of the 60s left-wing “activists” whom he studied were either chronic neurotics or borderline psychos.

  45. @ginger bread man
    @Arclight

    The ironic thing is that when you treat everyone like a victim, the prevailing ideology among local liberals, is that if you just give them what they say they want, they will stop whatever negative behaviors they have.

    To make a example practical, if there is a white lady who experienced “trauma” and is suffering from PTSD in her stressful work environment, she might claim she needs a “mental health day” off from work. The logic goes that if you as a white male just give her the “mental health day”, then she will come back refreshed, healed and ready to work. Problem solved

    The only problem is, in reality. Once you give somebody one mental health day, they think they are entitled to many many more.

    Now replace the white women with and mental health day with “undocumented shopping spree”. The theory is that if we just give them what they are asking for, that they will get it out of their system, and never do it again. The only problem is, that’s not how it works. That’s why schools punish behaviors they don’t want rather than allow them.

    Replies: @Arclight, @Almost Missouri, @Prester John, @usNthem, @silviosilver, @Coemgen, @kaganovitch

    But can you really claim to be surprised? After all, these are the same people who can with complete seriousness maintain that “from each according to his ability to each according to his need” is a perfectly sound basis for an economic system. (The cleverer ones have all manner of defenses of the”oh, nobody ever believed that” variety prepared for those awkward moments in which their preposterous foundational beliefs are brought to light.) Attempting to preach reality to people so monumentally detached from it has always been an exercise in futility. Pain and nothing else but pain is the only way these slobs ever learn, and even then the lessons are only ever temporary.

    • Agree: Mark G.
  46. @YetAnotherAnon
    OT, but it looks as if Poland have taken back Galicia, a sneaky move - in fact a right dolchstoss.

    https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dolchstoss-im-Rucken


    https://i.postimg.cc/cCzBfb7K/tvp1.jpg

    TVP1 is state television, BBC equivalent.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVP1

    TVP1 (TVP Jeden, Program I Telewizji Polskiej, "Jedynka") is the main public television channel of TVP (Telewizja Polska S.A.), Poland's national television broadcaster. It was the first Polish channel to be broadcast and remains one of the most popular today. TVP1 was launched 25 October 1952.
     

    Replies: @Cagey Beast, @Almost Missouri, @polaco, @Pixo, @Jack D, @Reg Cæsar, @Lex

    Poland have taken back Galicia

    I support this. Poland gets a measure of their former glory, Western Ukraine gets better, less corrupt government, NATO gets its desired expansion without nakedly breaking its own rules, and since Poland and Russia are not at war, everyone can stop fighting.

    I know, I know, the Poles and their neocon backers would find some way to restart hostilities as a straight NATO-on-Russia fight. But a man can dream.

    • Replies: @Inquiring Mind
    @Almost Missouri

    Can't some kind of deal be struck to end the Ukraine war, something along the lines of Don Corleone reaching a face-saving accomodation with the Five Families that wanted to deal drugs.

    Don't know about the real Mafia bosses, but the fictional ones fought each other over honor but they made peace when there was money to be made.

    Not that Don Corleone gave up on honor, but he took a long view. He pledged peace with the other dons, and he worked out a deal to get his son Michael back from hiding in Sicily, but he did not reveal his long-term plan that some day, after the Don's passing, Michael would strike down the bosses of the Five Families. In a way it is ironic that the Don himself escaped Sicily to America because the Sicilian bosses took such a long view of the child Vito Andolini growing up to seek revenge on them, but the lesson was lost on the American dons of the threat Michael posed.

    Mr. Putin has backed himself into a corner of a long war that is Bad for Business worldwide. Any movement on a settlement will have to come from the West.

    But do the neocons/deep staters/Obama proteges/Victoria Nulands really think they can end this war with an outright Russian defeat? Are they so wedded to the Climate Change ideology that they think that starving the world of oil, gas, fertilizer and grain is a Good Thing? Do they take such a short-range view that after Russia has shown their military, logistical and organizational weaknesses that the they couldn't settle this war and wait Mr. Putin out for the final victory over Russia that they seek.

    Yeah, yeah and yeah (Physicist Dave), Putin is the defender of the Resistance to the New Global Order and NATO is a threat to his borders and all of that. But putting yourself in the role of a Neocon with the long term goal of punishing Russia for what they did to your ancestors, what realistic policy would you pursue?

    Replies: @That Would Be Telling

    , @JoaoAlfaiate
    @Almost Missouri

    Instead of dividing the Ukraine won't it make more sense to partition Poland-for its own good-so it doesn't provoke a hopeless war with Russia or Germany? I understand continental statesmen have made dividing Poland something of a European tradition.

    Replies: @Almost Missouri

  47. @Dream
    Some Indian nationalists believe there is going to be a baklash against Indian Americans for their success from jealous far right as well as liberal whites.

    https://twitter.com/TheEmissaryCo/status/1614525579100823553?t=TvXFfw7x8XaV5uz7kZtNnA&s=19

    https://twitter.com/TheEmissaryCo/status/1614525583530115074?t=11W-9FR6stwHP3LpBpMWzg&s=19

    https://twitter.com/TheEmissaryCo/status/1614525586503786496?t=1JB3hap0dKDz5WSrBg5kBw&s=19

    Replies: @Colin Wright, @Anon, @JR Ewing, @Almost Missouri, @beavertales, @Sparkling Wiggle, @bomag, @lavoisier, @Louis renault, @Pastit

    I’m seeing this up close and personal. In a majority white city, the new hires at our transportation company are overwhelmingly from the Indian sub continent.

    These are secure jobs that will withstand an economic crisis.

    One thing I remember hearing about the Great Depression: if you were one of the lucky ones to have a job, it wasn’t so bad. When the hard times come, it will be unjust to see or own people out of work while migrants who came from the other side of the planet reap the fruits of our ancestor’s labor.

    • Agree: JR Ewing
    • Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
    @beavertales

    Once they get into hiring positions, fuggedabouttit - they will probably only hire from their caste group.

  48. @Loyalty Over IQ Worship
    @Colin Wright


    We definitely need to address this.
     
    Who is the "we" that needs to address it? On whose behalf? I mean, according to this blog, whites being on their own side is forbidden.

    Let's stop pretending anyone here would ever do anything to help whites.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @bomag, @Anonymous

  49. @beavertales
    @Dream

    I'm seeing this up close and personal. In a majority white city, the new hires at our transportation company are overwhelmingly from the Indian sub continent.

    These are secure jobs that will withstand an economic crisis.

    One thing I remember hearing about the Great Depression: if you were one of the lucky ones to have a job, it wasn't so bad. When the hard times come, it will be unjust to see or own people out of work while migrants who came from the other side of the planet reap the fruits of our ancestor's labor.

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon

    Once they get into hiring positions, fuggedabouttit – they will probably only hire from their caste group.

  50. Anon[785] • Disclaimer says:

    Sounds like schizophrenia. A college friend who overindulged in pot went schizo in his early 20s and interpreted everything in a paranoid way. A mailing label left off a couple of letters of his name?: It was a message from the sender who was out to get him. And so on, never ending. Smart guy, but completely unemployable. Luckily his family was wealthy. And luckily he wasn’t violent.

    • Replies: @Steve Sailer
    @Anon

    Blacks suffer schizophrenia at a higher rate than other races.

    Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Poirot, @kaganovitch, @Corvinus

  51. I’m the same way about “potato”. Baked, fried, even the clever euphemistic “French Fries”, when I hear it, I know what you are doing. You are mocking the suffering of my people, and want us all dead.

  52. The words are a part of everyday conversation — “swinging” by an address and going out in the “field.”

    But in the twisted mind of Virginia gunman Vester Lee Flanagan II, they were pure racism — and saying them became a death sentence for Alison Parker.

    Yet the father of the victim demanded gun control, not Negro control. (Or word control).

    Wonder what he would have done if Flanagan had stabbed his daughter to death instead?

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-shooting-virginia/father-of-virginia-tv-reporter-slain-on-air-vows-to-fight-for-gun-control-idUSKCN0QW1LE20150827

    • Replies: @Liberty Mike
    @Dr. X

    He would have demanded cutlery control.

  53. Unz.com just had a headfit and posted my comment in triplicate, I could only delete the last one.

    https://nypost.com/2023/01/16/ex-top-intel-official-douglas-wise-knew-hunter-biden-laptop-had-to-be-real-but-signed-disinfo-letter/

    WASHINGTON – A former top intelligence official who signed on to a letter attacking The Post’s bombshell 2020 reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop as Russian disinformation has now admitted he knew a “significant portion” of the recovered files “had to be real” – but doesn’t regret dismissing the exposé.

    Douglas Wise, a former Defense Intelligence Agency deputy director, was one of 51 erstwhile intelligence brass who issued the public letter on Oct. 19, 2020 — five days after The Post began a series of reports on the now-first son’s shady overseas business dealings.

    “All of us figured that a significant portion of that content had to be real to make any Russian disinformation credible,” said Wise — who didn’t respond when The Post reached out for an explanation in March of last year, but found his tongue when he spoke to The Australian.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11642215/Former-intelligence-chief-admits-significant-parts-Hunter-Bidens-laptop-REAL.html

    ‘The letter said it had the earmarks of Russian deceit and we should consider that as a possibility; it did not say Hunter Biden was a good guy, it didn’t say what he did was right and it wasn’t exculpatory, it was just a cautionary letter.’

    He went on: ‘I don’t regret signing it because the context is important.’

    ‘Remember Giuliani had just been in Ukraine trying to dig up evidence on the Bidens and he met with a known Russian intelligence official,’ he said, apparently referring to pro-Moscow Ukrainian politician Andriy Derkach.

    The letter came five days after the New York Post first reported on the laptop’s contents, which contained lewd photos documenting Hunter’s drug-fueled benders, details of his shady international business dealings and emails where Hunter appeared to be selling access to his then-vice president father.

  54. @Anon
    Sounds like schizophrenia. A college friend who overindulged in pot went schizo in his early 20s and interpreted everything in a paranoid way. A mailing label left off a couple of letters of his name?: It was a message from the sender who was out to get him. And so on, never ending. Smart guy, but completely unemployable. Luckily his family was wealthy. And luckily he wasn’t violent.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer

    Blacks suffer schizophrenia at a higher rate than other races.

    • Replies: @Buzz Mohawk
    @Steve Sailer

    I think they're all out to get us. I see them everywhere.

    Replies: @Anonymous

    , @Poirot
    @Steve Sailer

    Just to add: Ian Buruma in his book “Murder in Amsterdam” mentioned that muslims in the Netherlands were something like ten times more likely to have schizophrenia, and that this was a second-generation phenomenon.

    , @kaganovitch
    @Steve Sailer

    Blacks suffer schizophrenia at a higher rate than other races.

    Or rather they would, if only race weren't a social construct.

    , @Corvinus
    @Steve Sailer

    You are way beyond your skis here, Mr. Sailer. Stay on the novice hill.

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29094963/

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4274585/

    https://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ps.

    —“Clinicians must rule out other potential causes of symptoms, including mood disorders, before the diagnosis of schizophrenia is given," said Michael Gara, a professor of psychiatry at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and a faculty member at Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care. "However, there has been a tendency for clinicians to overemphasize the relevance of psychotic symptoms and overlook symptoms of major depression in African-Americans compared with other racial or ethnic groups. No studies show that African-Americans with schizophrenia are more likely to also have major depression."—

    “these days people feel it important to clear the names of the white victims from the charge of racism, which, apparently, would mean they had it coming”

    False conclusion.

    Replies: @rebel yell

  55. @Brutusale
    @Jake Barnes

    The original:

    https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kellypa01.shtml

    Larry Bird really surprised Nolan Richardson.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5Zs-1LufzM

    Replies: @KenH

    The moral of the story is that blacks are shocked when a white person is great at basketball. If a white person expressed public shock at a black person scoring near perfect on their college entrance exam or LSAT they would have to apologize and grovel for “racist stereotyping” of blacks as dumb.

    This is just like Isaiah Thomas saying that if Larry Bird was black he’d just be another good black player. But that’s just negro babble as Bird was better than any almost every black player in the NBA except for Magic Johnson and those two were considered equals on the court.

    Bird and Johnson were about equal and Michael Jordan was arguably better and the best player in NBA history.

    • Replies: @Mike Tre
    @KenH

    Larry Bird once played an entire game left handed just to amuse himself, and still scored 27 points. As a kid I was a fan of the Bulls and Jordan, but there was no one like Bird, before or since.

    Replies: @KenH

  56. Anon[422] • Disclaimer says:
    @JR Ewing
    @Dream

    I don't begrudge our local Indians because I'm jealous of them.

    I don't like them because they drive up real estate prices with their ugly gargantuan McMansions, they smell bad, and they're bad drivers. That's reason enough.

    Replies: @Anon, @Colin Wright, @Renard, @SOL

    Indians didn’t drive up the price of homes in America. Boomers and Gen X did.

    Real estate is overpriced out in the sticks as well. It’s not just in cities where Indians live. In fact, reoative to actual value and quality, land and homes in rural areas are even more overpriced than in cities.

    Nothing does greed like a redneck Christian MFer.

    • Troll: YetAnotherAnon, JR Ewing, SOL
    • Replies: @JR Ewing
    @Anon

    Tell me you're a resentful liberal renter in a big city without telling me you're a resentful liberal renter in a big city.

    My guess is that you also justify income taxes by telling us how much you "love roads and civilization" because you never have to pay them.

    Replies: @Anon

    , @Buzz Mohawk
    @Anon

    Population growth exacerbated by stupid immigration policies.

    Inflation.

    Easy credit.

    Stupid-high Loan-To-Value lending practices.

    Stupid buyers willing to mortgage themselves to the hilt to own more house than they should.

    Those are a few of the things that actually drove real estate prices up. Similar things caused college tuition to rise to ridiculous levels -- and that's probably your generation.

    Stupid humans do shit like this, no matter what generation they come from. They also tend to blame boomers for everything.

    Replies: @Anon

    , @AceDeuce
    @Anon


    Indians didn’t drive up the price of homes in America. Boomers and Gen X did.
     
    That's suspect--and you leave out the destructive effects of White flight due to black/brown blight.

    In any event it's our (Whites) country to do with as we please. Go schitt in someone else's street.

    Replies: @Anon

    , @Jack D
    @Anon


    Real estate is overpriced out in the sticks as well. It’s not just in cities where Indians live. In fact, reoative to actual value and quality, land and homes in rural areas are even more overpriced than in cities.
     
    How do you determine "actual value" and "overpriced"? I think you are full of crap, to put it politely.

    Here is a 1,200 sf house in Jefferson, Iowa. It recently sold for $160,000:

    https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1201-Riverside-Dr-Jefferson-IA-50129/86945128_zpid/?

    Here is a similar home in Mountain View, CA:

    https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1642-Morgan-St-Mountain-View-CA-94043/19512990_zpid/

    It's listed at $1,688,000 or over 10x the price. Are you saying that the IA home is overpriced in relation to the CA house? By what standard? BTW, the lot size in IA is bigger and the house is slightly newer and looks to be in better condition.

    Replies: @Anon

    , @AnotherDad
    @Anon


    Indians didn’t drive up the price of homes in America. Boomers and Gen X did.
     
    Even on Sailer's site we get theese "geniuses".

    What drives real estate is supply and demand. The supply side includes things like building materials, construction labor costs and development overhead (satisfying the bureaucrats), as well--the biggie in expensive areas--"what does a lot cost in that area"

    The later is set by demand.

    The demand side is affected by peoples' incomes, interest rates and ... how many people there are in the market. And it's the later that's been the driver of unaffordability. (No one cares about the absolute change in prices--yeah, the dollar isn't worth what it was in 1965, so what. It's that housing has become much more expensive relative to working people's incomes.)

    Sure, if Boomers and GexX had never been born--all Americans just died off--real estate would be cheaper for the immigrants showing up here. But, of course, immigrants don't show up here to farm, they show up here because Americans--white people--built richer, more prosperous, less corrupt ... just all around better--nation than where they are from and so they'd rather be here.

    So yes, relative to a "normally operating country"--where people have children and those children are the ones who need housing, not "the world"--it is precisely immigration that has driven up housing prices. Huge swathes of the country--particularly large coastal metros--are occupied by significant numbers of immigrants. America in the last couple decades has simply flipped from its historic "cheap land, dear labor" heritage to an Asiatic housing market. And it isn't because Americans are having too many kids.

    And yes, if all 3 million Indians--with generally high incomes--were not here that would depressurize the UMC "good schools" part of the market quite a bit. I'd guess it would drop the whole market maybe 5%. If all 60 million "Hispanics" where not here it dramatically depressurize the market--particularly California--and drop overall prices probably over a quarter. If all post-1965 immigrants and their children were not here, housing would be near half what it is and back to America's historic housing affordability.

    Native American fertility is sub-replacement and in a properly run nation without our treasonous "elite" Americans would be reaping the benefits of that--uncrowded, affordable living.

    Replies: @Jack D, @Anon

  57. @Mike Tre
    @J.Ross

    Negroes and homosexuals have both been conditioned to believe that they are entitled to power over social discourse that they did not earn. This is evident in the way both groups aggressively work to control language. Being able to tell others what they can and cannot say is pretty powerful.

    Both negroes and homosexuals are in general pretty emotionally unstable people. But a homosexual negro? Off the hook, yo. And they will not take well to having their ever increasingly wacky demands dismissed. The results are evident.

    Older homosexuals had the benefit of needing to be a little more careful and disciplined about their words and actions as it pertained to their "lifestyle choices,", but younger homosexuals have not, and the results are pretty clear. 95% of homos under the age of 30 are a complete disaster psychologically. Diseased, drug dependent, entitled, aggressive, promiscuous, irresponsible.

    Replies: @ginger bread man, @Liberty Mike, @JohnnyWalker123, @dcthrowback, @Feryl

    Howard Cossell learned that a three-letter descriptor may be fine for diminutive white running backs but cancellable for diminutive negro running backs.

  58. @Dr. X

    The words are a part of everyday conversation — “swinging” by an address and going out in the “field.”

    But in the twisted mind of Virginia gunman Vester Lee Flanagan II, they were pure racism — and saying them became a death sentence for Alison Parker.
     
    Yet the father of the victim demanded gun control, not Negro control. (Or word control).

    Wonder what he would have done if Flanagan had stabbed his daughter to death instead?

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-shooting-virginia/father-of-virginia-tv-reporter-slain-on-air-vows-to-fight-for-gun-control-idUSKCN0QW1LE20150827

    Replies: @Liberty Mike

    He would have demanded cutlery control.

  59. Parker was never disciplined over the remarks, but Flanagan never forgot them.

    See? White villainy, after all.

  60. @ginger bread man
    @Arclight

    The ironic thing is that when you treat everyone like a victim, the prevailing ideology among local liberals, is that if you just give them what they say they want, they will stop whatever negative behaviors they have.

    To make a example practical, if there is a white lady who experienced “trauma” and is suffering from PTSD in her stressful work environment, she might claim she needs a “mental health day” off from work. The logic goes that if you as a white male just give her the “mental health day”, then she will come back refreshed, healed and ready to work. Problem solved

    The only problem is, in reality. Once you give somebody one mental health day, they think they are entitled to many many more.

    Now replace the white women with and mental health day with “undocumented shopping spree”. The theory is that if we just give them what they are asking for, that they will get it out of their system, and never do it again. The only problem is, that’s not how it works. That’s why schools punish behaviors they don’t want rather than allow them.

    Replies: @Arclight, @Almost Missouri, @Prester John, @usNthem, @silviosilver, @Coemgen, @kaganovitch

    Yeah, that’s similar to the situation we’ve seen these past thirty years or so where successful engineers – men who are very exacting and perhaps persnickety – have sons who are just like their fathers except – the sons have been conditioned to think of themselves as suffering from the disease of ASD (often with secondary dx’s of OCD and ADHD).

    My anecdotal experience is that these chips-off-the-block are a lot less successful as adults than are their fathers – both professionally and socially.

    The diagnosis of normal or mildly aberrant behavior as some disease that requires endless treatment is demoralizing. It’s no wonder so many boys just give up trying to be adults.

  61. @Anon
    @JR Ewing

    Indians didn't drive up the price of homes in America. Boomers and Gen X did.


    Real estate is overpriced out in the sticks as well. It's not just in cities where Indians live. In fact, reoative to actual value and quality, land and homes in rural areas are even more overpriced than in cities.

    Nothing does greed like a redneck Christian MFer.

    Replies: @JR Ewing, @Buzz Mohawk, @AceDeuce, @Jack D, @AnotherDad

    Tell me you’re a resentful liberal renter in a big city without telling me you’re a resentful liberal renter in a big city.

    My guess is that you also justify income taxes by telling us how much you “love roads and civilization” because you never have to pay them.

    • Replies: @Anon
    @JR Ewing

    Resentful liberal city renter? How's that work out? Nobody in liberal cities is resentful. Resentment is what rednecks feel. Always complaining about how they can't win elections, can't get their dicks hard because they have inhaled lead vapors from firearms exhaust all their lives, can't get a girlfriend because rural girls want to move to the liberal cities, can't get a job because Mexicans stole it even though there are no jobs and no Mexicans because no one in your community can create jobs, because they're all bedridden fat fucks with atherosclerosis.

    Always complaining about transsexuals even though they've never seen a legitimate one in their entire lives, even though your average middle aged country woman could qualify as a trannie. Always complaining about "child grooming" even though there are no kids to groom. Always complaining about black people even though they've never seen a black person in their entire life and never will.

    Always complaining about taxes and welfare even though rural America consumes an outsized share of federal tax dollars and its shit-tier agricultural economy is subsidized by the federal government.

    https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/states-federal-taxes-spending-charts-maps/


    Most Red States Take More Money From Washington Than They Put In

    Even as Republicans gripe about deficit spending, their states get 30 cents more federal spending per tax dollar than their Democratic neighbors.
     
    Just another case of rednecks biting the hand that feeds them.

    Replies: @Rusty Tailgate, @Renard, @bomag, @Reg Cæsar

  62. @notsaying
    I wondered what happened to the shooter so I looked Vester Lee Flanagan up. Not a happy tale, to say the least. He worked at about half a dozen on air TV jobs. Wouldn't you figure HR would check him out, asking him for references and calling old bosses? Well, if they did I guess people didn't talk or sugar coated things.

    If there was a "blacklist" his name would have been on it. In such a competitive field, I just don't understand how he kept getting jobs. Just being black wouldn't have been enough.

    https://heavy.com/news/2015/08/lester-lee-flanagan-flanighan-flanigan-wdbj-tv-disgruntled-employee-virginia-shooting-suspect-cameraman-photos-video-chase-gun-gunman-arrested/

    Replies: @Alec Leamas (working from home)

    The standard practice to avoid lawsuits or additional claims from an employee who parts on bad terms is to offer a “neutral reference” if contacted by a prospective employer of the former employee. Typically this means confirming the dates of employment without anything else.

    But now the “neutral reference” is understood by employers to mean “don’t hire this guy/gal” so I imagine that it won’t be long until the neutral reference itself is interpreted by a Court or legislature to be defamatory, discriminatory against the Vester Flanagans of the world, and grounds for a lawsuit.

    In the future you will be compelled to give false, positive references for black former employees who parted on bad terms in order to avoid providing them grounds for a lawsuit. “What I can say is that Jamal was punctual, gave maximum effort, was always cheerful and definitely DID NOT steal from us just before he separated employment.”

    • Replies: @Anon
    @Alec Leamas (working from home)


    In the future you will be compelled to give false, positive references for black former employees who parted on bad terms in order to avoid providing them grounds for a lawsuit.
     
    Which will result in employers ignoring references. They already assume all black men are felons, since "Ban the Box" took over and you can't ask about a criminal record ... and one in three black men are felons anyway, so it's a reasonable assumption. And probably another one in three would be felons had they been caught, or had the overworked prosecutor not let them cop a plea that reduced the charges.

    College degrees and transcripts are already assumed to be unreliable in the case of blacks, since universities "see to it" that blacks pass classes and graduate, as long as they sort of show up from time to time.
  63. @Dream
    Some Indian nationalists believe there is going to be a baklash against Indian Americans for their success from jealous far right as well as liberal whites.

    https://twitter.com/TheEmissaryCo/status/1614525579100823553?t=TvXFfw7x8XaV5uz7kZtNnA&s=19

    https://twitter.com/TheEmissaryCo/status/1614525583530115074?t=11W-9FR6stwHP3LpBpMWzg&s=19

    https://twitter.com/TheEmissaryCo/status/1614525586503786496?t=1JB3hap0dKDz5WSrBg5kBw&s=19

    Replies: @Colin Wright, @Anon, @JR Ewing, @Almost Missouri, @beavertales, @Sparkling Wiggle, @bomag, @lavoisier, @Louis renault, @Pastit

    Others have listed the reasons for Indian success in America: clannishness, the fact their top .1% is still a big number, and of course the fact that our system selects for basically everything other than merit in non-whites.

    Indian success has to be due to something other than competence for the simple reason that no one ever looks forward to dealing with an Indian. There is no scenario in which you discover that you must interact with an Indian and you breathe a sigh of relief, “thank goodness, someone competent.”

    • Agree: William Badwhite
    • Replies: @Anon87
    @Sparkling Wiggle

    Companies need to show they are diverse, but know it would be risky to fast track a black to run the show ( exhibit A is Xerox rolling the dice and losing with Ursula Burns). High caste Indians check a POC box but you also can assume they aren't total morons.

    It is the same with right wing parties now. "Hey look, we are diverse and promote coloreds! (browns, not black)"

  64. Australia’s newest super sire is gonna need more security, or perhaps a name change to Deep Practicum.

  65. @The Anti-Gnostic
    @Anonymous

    I wonder how black predilection for schizophrenia is going to work out with de facto legal weed. I'd hate to see things like black strippers-turned-ICU-nurses start doing crazy stuff, like driving their Mercedes that some dealership obligingly leased to them 100 mph through intersections.

    Our society has gotten incredibly scaled and precarious, and full of guns and other dangerous instruments. And crazy child-adults, by no means limited to blacks, are allowed to wander freely through it. And via unlimited immigration and other means, we insist on increasing scale and atomization. Like hoarders and compulsive eaters, American society wallows in the behaviors that will destroy it.

    Replies: @Alec Leamas (working from home)

    I wonder how black predilection for schizophrenia is going to work out with de facto legal weed. I’d hate to see things like black strippers-turned-ICU-nurses start doing crazy stuff, like driving their Mercedes that some dealership obligingly leased to them 100 mph through intersections.

    I think for all intents and purposes weed has been de facto legal in the ‘hood for at least a decade – at least in quantities which are plausibly for personal consumption. So de jure legalization probably wouldn’t make much of a dent in the effects.

    It’s particularly correlated with the later emergence of schizophrenia when male teens smoke cannabis. We’re probably beginning to see the effects of teens, particularly black teens, habitually using cannabis already.

    • Replies: @Feryl
    @Alec Leamas (working from home)

    When I smell the reek of of a pot user out in the wild, 75% of the time it's a black guy under 25 (there are older potheads but most of them have the discretion to not get high in their vehicles or while walking the streets).

    Before circa 2020, it was exceedingly rare to publicly encounter a malodorous pothead.

    Replies: @Rooster16

  66. @Loyalty Over IQ Worship
    @Colin Wright


    We definitely need to address this.
     
    Who is the "we" that needs to address it? On whose behalf? I mean, according to this blog, whites being on their own side is forbidden.

    Let's stop pretending anyone here would ever do anything to help whites.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @bomag, @Anonymous

    Looks like we’re getting the current three step replacement narrative:

    1) It’s not happening.

    2) It’s happening, but it’s good for you.’

    3) It’s happening, it’s bad for you, but it’s too late to do anything about it.

    • Agree: Renard
    • Replies: @Sgt. Joe Friday
    @bomag

    You forgot step 4: "You deserve it, bigot."

  67. Shots ring out at MLK Family Fun Day — This fits so many iSteve angles I hardly know where to begin

    https://abcnews.go.com/US/8-shot-massive-mlk-day-celebration-florida-authorities/story?id=96474810

    • Replies: @a reader
    @Known Fact

    Thanks !

  68. @The Anti-Gnostic
    OT - the UGA pro football team suffered a loss after the College Super Bowl. One of its giant black linemen was killed in a single car accident after partying past 2 a.m. The other fatality was a UGA "staff member." Apparently these programs really do supply girls for the team to party with. They call them "recruiting analysts." They also apparently get big, top-heavy SUV's to drive around.

    https://twitter.com/jordanxdavis99/status/1614643630316163072

    One day we are going to find out that so much s*** goes on in these programs.

    Replies: @Alec Leamas (working from home), @Anonymous, @The Wild Geese Howard, @Pastit, @Anonymous

    We’ve all heard the rumors but it’s somewhat likely that they’re intended as adult babysitters who keep the players out of legal trouble by acting as designated drivers, fixers, etc. They probably need a title other than “team gofer” for NCAA rules purposes. The “recruiting analyst” was the operator of the vehicle in question.

    • Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic
    @Alec Leamas (working from home)

    I wouldn't put this person in an adult babysitting role for large, high-T men, driving them around in an SUV past 2:30 in the freaking a.m. (Those things have awful handling btw).



    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fmhd0pAWAAYdVVX?format=jpg&name=small

    , @Mike Tre
    @Alec Leamas (working from home)

    How come these handlers are always hot blondes? Maybe the coaches should have blue haired land whales keeping these negroes out of trouble.

    , @Herbert R. Tarlek, Jr.
    @Alec Leamas (working from home)

    Yeah, I've read that sex between them doesn't happen as often as you'd think. These girls are more like a showcase than actual merchandise.

    , @duncsbaby
    @Alec Leamas (working from home)

    Adult babysitter is a quaint term for it.

    , @Coemgen
    @Alec Leamas (working from home)


    ...We’ve all heard the rumors but...
     
    Hm, I've never heard of this college athlete handler racket before but, I am well acquainted with this:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_test
  69. @Dream
    Some Indian nationalists believe there is going to be a baklash against Indian Americans for their success from jealous far right as well as liberal whites.

    https://twitter.com/TheEmissaryCo/status/1614525579100823553?t=TvXFfw7x8XaV5uz7kZtNnA&s=19

    https://twitter.com/TheEmissaryCo/status/1614525583530115074?t=11W-9FR6stwHP3LpBpMWzg&s=19

    https://twitter.com/TheEmissaryCo/status/1614525586503786496?t=1JB3hap0dKDz5WSrBg5kBw&s=19

    Replies: @Colin Wright, @Anon, @JR Ewing, @Almost Missouri, @beavertales, @Sparkling Wiggle, @bomag, @lavoisier, @Louis renault, @Pastit

    I sense some insecurity from our FOB friends.

    They’re ascending the heights of US society alongside reports of declining ability to innovate and get anything done in said society. Explaining all that away may be beyond even their verbal ability.

  70. @Anon
    @JR Ewing

    Indians didn't drive up the price of homes in America. Boomers and Gen X did.


    Real estate is overpriced out in the sticks as well. It's not just in cities where Indians live. In fact, reoative to actual value and quality, land and homes in rural areas are even more overpriced than in cities.

    Nothing does greed like a redneck Christian MFer.

    Replies: @JR Ewing, @Buzz Mohawk, @AceDeuce, @Jack D, @AnotherDad

    Population growth exacerbated by stupid immigration policies.

    Inflation.

    Easy credit.

    Stupid-high Loan-To-Value lending practices.

    Stupid buyers willing to mortgage themselves to the hilt to own more house than they should.

    Those are a few of the things that actually drove real estate prices up. Similar things caused college tuition to rise to ridiculous levels — and that’s probably your generation.

    Stupid humans do shit like this, no matter what generation they come from. They also tend to blame boomers for everything.

    • Agree: AnotherDad
    • Replies: @Anon
    @Buzz Mohawk

    Rural America has seen zero inflation or population growth. In most areas it has seen population decline.

    Yet rural real estate values have also risen to unaffordable levels (relative to local incomes).

    That's why your side keeps getting raped in the polls and tbe news cycles. Stupid is as stupid does.

    Replies: @Buzz Mohawk

  71. @The Anti-Gnostic
    OT - the UGA pro football team suffered a loss after the College Super Bowl. One of its giant black linemen was killed in a single car accident after partying past 2 a.m. The other fatality was a UGA "staff member." Apparently these programs really do supply girls for the team to party with. They call them "recruiting analysts." They also apparently get big, top-heavy SUV's to drive around.

    https://twitter.com/jordanxdavis99/status/1614643630316163072

    One day we are going to find out that so much s*** goes on in these programs.

    Replies: @Alec Leamas (working from home), @Anonymous, @The Wild Geese Howard, @Pastit, @Anonymous

    Just when will the ‘me-too’ inspired retrospective whining start? You know, big money and therefore big ‘compensation’ claims are tied up with college football.

    Of course, an inhibiting factor is that blacks rate higher on the sacred Totem Pole than white women.

  72. Our King Day roundup continues …

    A San Francisco government advisory committee on reparations has recommended the city pay eligible black residents age 18 years and older $5 million apiece. “Centuries of harm and destruction of black lives, black bodies and black communities should be met with centuries of repair,” AARAC chair Eric McDonnell told the San Francisco Chronicle.

    https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/justinphillips/article/sf-reparations-black-17716918.php

  73. @Almost Missouri
    @YetAnotherAnon


    Poland have taken back Galicia
     
    I support this. Poland gets a measure of their former glory, Western Ukraine gets better, less corrupt government, NATO gets its desired expansion without nakedly breaking its own rules, and since Poland and Russia are not at war, everyone can stop fighting.

    I know, I know, the Poles and their neocon backers would find some way to restart hostilities as a straight NATO-on-Russia fight. But a man can dream.

    Replies: @Inquiring Mind, @JoaoAlfaiate

    Can’t some kind of deal be struck to end the Ukraine war, something along the lines of Don Corleone reaching a face-saving accomodation with the Five Families that wanted to deal drugs.

    Don’t know about the real Mafia bosses, but the fictional ones fought each other over honor but they made peace when there was money to be made.

    Not that Don Corleone gave up on honor, but he took a long view. He pledged peace with the other dons, and he worked out a deal to get his son Michael back from hiding in Sicily, but he did not reveal his long-term plan that some day, after the Don’s passing, Michael would strike down the bosses of the Five Families. In a way it is ironic that the Don himself escaped Sicily to America because the Sicilian bosses took such a long view of the child Vito Andolini growing up to seek revenge on them, but the lesson was lost on the American dons of the threat Michael posed.

    Mr. Putin has backed himself into a corner of a long war that is Bad for Business worldwide. Any movement on a settlement will have to come from the West.

    But do the neocons/deep staters/Obama proteges/Victoria Nulands really think they can end this war with an outright Russian defeat? Are they so wedded to the Climate Change ideology that they think that starving the world of oil, gas, fertilizer and grain is a Good Thing? Do they take such a short-range view that after Russia has shown their military, logistical and organizational weaknesses that the they couldn’t settle this war and wait Mr. Putin out for the final victory over Russia that they seek.

    Yeah, yeah and yeah (Physicist Dave), Putin is the defender of the Resistance to the New Global Order and NATO is a threat to his borders and all of that. But putting yourself in the role of a Neocon with the long term goal of punishing Russia for what they did to your ancestors, what realistic policy would you pursue?

    • Replies: @That Would Be Telling
    @Inquiring Mind


    Are [neocons/deep staters/Obama proteges/Victoria Nulands] so wedded to the Climate Change ideology that they think that starving the world of oil, gas, fertilizer and grain [through sanctions on Russia] is a Good Thing?
     
    Their ilk haven't stopped saying there are too many people on the Earth for decades and decades.

    On the other hand there will be quite an interval where the not so poor are getting crushed instead of immediately dying off that will put their enterprise in danger. Another question I have, although it again at least in part speaks to their thirst for revenge you mention is what appears to be the impending deindustrialization of much of Western Europe which will then not be able to afford to pay for all of the above.

    It's fun to see the dismantling of German windmills so they can dig more of their brown coal, but it sure looks like the Morgenthau Plan Mark 2 as for example our E. Michael Jones and others have noted, first thing that came to my mind for Germany's designated role in this drama. France might do OK if they get their nuclear power mojo back, but the smaller countries...? Note also the U.K. was in a crisis state with natural gas and nitrogen fertilizer in September 2021, long before the start of the special military operation war.
  74. @J.Ross
    Which is more likely: that this is a legitimate reading of this phrase, or that the guman was both crazy and looking for something to be angry about?

    Replies: @Mike Tre, @Jack D, @TelfoedJohn, @Shamu

    Crazy people will do crazy things. But the fact that a crazy man’s delusions from 2013 are now mainstream thinking in an American university is sort of troubling, wouldn’t you say?

    It’s not unusual for crazy people to latch onto some mainstream (if perhaps radical) meme and use that as a reason to do crazy stuff, but the arrow usually runs in that direction and not vice versa.

    I’m betting though that Flanagan didn’t come up with this himself. Who was the FIRST person who said that the word “field” should no longer be used because slaves worked in cotton fields? We know now that it was before 2013.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @Jack D

    I've heard of all sorts of ridiculous tales - common folklore amongst blacks - which blacks believe explain some typical American phrases and customs, even though these false explanations are obviously and blatantly incorrect. Black narcissism at it's best.
    Some examples:

    The custom of the Christmas Tree is a reproduction in miniature of a 'lynching' with baubles and ornaments represented hanged black men.
    'To bust a cap', meaning to fire a bullet really means killing a black slave wearing a cap on his head for misbehaviour.
    'Down to the nitty gritty' really means rape of black female slaves by white sailors in slave ship holds.

    Doubtless, there are countless other examples, some even more ridiculous, some even more unpleasant circulating amongst blacks which I've never overheard.
    Doubtless, too, they are actually believed.

    Replies: @jinkforp, @al gore rhythms

  75. @Anon
    @JR Ewing

    Indians didn't drive up the price of homes in America. Boomers and Gen X did.


    Real estate is overpriced out in the sticks as well. It's not just in cities where Indians live. In fact, reoative to actual value and quality, land and homes in rural areas are even more overpriced than in cities.

    Nothing does greed like a redneck Christian MFer.

    Replies: @JR Ewing, @Buzz Mohawk, @AceDeuce, @Jack D, @AnotherDad

    Indians didn’t drive up the price of homes in America. Boomers and Gen X did.

    That’s suspect–and you leave out the destructive effects of White flight due to black/brown blight.

    In any event it’s our (Whites) country to do with as we please. Go schitt in someone else’s street.

    • Agree: Pastit
    • Replies: @Anon
    @AceDeuce

    White flight? Are you huffing glue, or snorting lead? Which one is it? White flight is what happened back in the 50s and 60s and 70s, and home values were affordable back then. Today's headline is blaci flight and white gentrification. It's associated with skyrocketing home values.


    Just face it you're nothing but a national socialist piece of shit whose only trick is to bitch about colored people in perpetuity. You don't have a clue what you're talking about and you're a dopamine addict who gets a rush from blaming minorities for all the problems in the world.

    Replies: @bomag

  76. @J.Ross
    Which is more likely: that this is a legitimate reading of this phrase, or that the guman was both crazy and looking for something to be angry about?

    Replies: @Mike Tre, @Jack D, @TelfoedJohn, @Shamu

    A whole society telling you you’re a victim can easily turn you into a deluded psychopath: https://youtube.com/watch?v=p-NCkF2OQJI

  77. @Steve Sailer
    @Anon

    Blacks suffer schizophrenia at a higher rate than other races.

    Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Poirot, @kaganovitch, @Corvinus

    I think they’re all out to get us. I see them everywhere.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @Buzz Mohawk

    Poor baby, must live in the ghetto. I havent seen a black person in years.

    I feel sorry for all the unz commenters who hate black people but live in the ghetto. How did they ever fall in to the ghetto? LOL!!!!!

  78. @Anonymous
    It was Nietzsche who said that "insanity is rare in the individual, but common in the collective".
    In the case illustrated here, Vester Lee Flanagan was clearly a paranoid schizophrenic displaying obvious paranoid schizophrenic symptoms. The only surprise is that Flanagan's delusions and distortions are now the accepted lefty orthodoxy.

    Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic, @Prester John, @Mike Tre

    Was he a paranoid schizophrenic? Or was he merely a learned self entitled narcissist with the all too common predilection for violence that negroes inherently possess? I’ve looked up the symptoms of schizophrenia; Vester doesn’t really fit the description of the former, but does of the latter.

    Here’s the problem. Assigning a mental illness label to adults who aren’t capable of functioning in a high trust, advanced society eliminates any responsibility for that one’s own actions. So the assignment actually enables or excuses the behavior.

    • Replies: @LP5
    @Mike Tre

    Mike Tre writes:


    Here’s the problem. Assigning a mental illness label to adults who aren’t capable of functioning in a high trust, advanced society eliminates any responsibility for that one’s own actions. So the assignment actually enables or excuses the behavior.
     
    Solution: Make it a low trust society. That will retard the advancements and increase the opportunities for functioning without responsibility, making everyone, or everyone else, more equal. Seems to be working so far, although those who can are voting with their feet.
  79. @JR Ewing
    @Art Deco

    The thing I remember most about that story was that he threw cat shit at his neighbors and would leave it outside their doors on the porch. I think he also killed his cats in his apartment before he left to go kill the reporter girl.

    Just a crazy guy.

    Replies: @Poirot, @Herbert R. Tarlek, Jr.

    John Derbyshire talked about this back then: (transcript) https://johnderbyshire.com/Opinions/RadioDerb/2015-08-28.html#02

  80. @Anon
    @JR Ewing

    Indians didn't drive up the price of homes in America. Boomers and Gen X did.


    Real estate is overpriced out in the sticks as well. It's not just in cities where Indians live. In fact, reoative to actual value and quality, land and homes in rural areas are even more overpriced than in cities.

    Nothing does greed like a redneck Christian MFer.

    Replies: @JR Ewing, @Buzz Mohawk, @AceDeuce, @Jack D, @AnotherDad

    Real estate is overpriced out in the sticks as well. It’s not just in cities where Indians live. In fact, reoative to actual value and quality, land and homes in rural areas are even more overpriced than in cities.

    How do you determine “actual value” and “overpriced”? I think you are full of crap, to put it politely.

    Here is a 1,200 sf house in Jefferson, Iowa. It recently sold for $160,000:

    https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1201-Riverside-Dr-Jefferson-IA-50129/86945128_zpid/?

    Here is a similar home in Mountain View, CA:

    https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1642-Morgan-St-Mountain-View-CA-94043/19512990_zpid/

    It’s listed at $1,688,000 or over 10x the price. Are you saying that the IA home is overpriced in relation to the CA house? By what standard? BTW, the lot size in IA is bigger and the house is slightly newer and looks to be in better condition.

    • Replies: @Anon
    @Jack D

    160,000 is outrageously overpriced for Jefferson, Iowa. It's Jefferson, Iowa. Let's not even pretend Jefferson, Iowa has anything near what Mountain View, California has to offer.

    Furthermore, you have extremely poor judgment. The interior of the Jefferson house is clearly inferior to the one in Mountain View. Doesn't explain the price difference, but these houses are clearly not equal.

    The funny thing is that they both would have been affordable 50,000 dollar homes 40 years ago. Arguing over which one is more affordable is pointless when they're both overpriced; young people in Iowa can't afford that house. But the Iowa house is egregiously overpriced considering that it's in rural fucking Iowa in the middle of nowhere. They should be paying young people 150k just to move in to the house, but no... Christians are fucking Jews.

    And this is why rural America is dying.

    Replies: @Sparkling Wiggle, @Jack D, @Muggles

  81. @Steve Sailer
    @Anon

    Blacks suffer schizophrenia at a higher rate than other races.

    Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Poirot, @kaganovitch, @Corvinus

    Just to add: Ian Buruma in his book “Murder in Amsterdam” mentioned that muslims in the Netherlands were something like ten times more likely to have schizophrenia, and that this was a second-generation phenomenon.

  82. @ginger bread man
    @Arclight

    The ironic thing is that when you treat everyone like a victim, the prevailing ideology among local liberals, is that if you just give them what they say they want, they will stop whatever negative behaviors they have.

    To make a example practical, if there is a white lady who experienced “trauma” and is suffering from PTSD in her stressful work environment, she might claim she needs a “mental health day” off from work. The logic goes that if you as a white male just give her the “mental health day”, then she will come back refreshed, healed and ready to work. Problem solved

    The only problem is, in reality. Once you give somebody one mental health day, they think they are entitled to many many more.

    Now replace the white women with and mental health day with “undocumented shopping spree”. The theory is that if we just give them what they are asking for, that they will get it out of their system, and never do it again. The only problem is, that’s not how it works. That’s why schools punish behaviors they don’t want rather than allow them.

    Replies: @Arclight, @Almost Missouri, @Prester John, @usNthem, @silviosilver, @Coemgen, @kaganovitch

    That’s why schools punish behaviors they don’t want rather than allow them.

    That’s why schools used to punish behaviors they don’t want rather than allow them. Fify

    • Agree: bomag, Gordo
  83. @J.Ross
    Which is more likely: that this is a legitimate reading of this phrase, or that the guman was both crazy and looking for something to be angry about?

    Replies: @Mike Tre, @Jack D, @TelfoedJohn, @Shamu

    He is a Negro, a Bantu. The odds of him being both crazy and a violent barbarian just looking for a reason to strike are quite high.

  84. Anon[422] • Disclaimer says:
    @Jack D
    @Anon


    Real estate is overpriced out in the sticks as well. It’s not just in cities where Indians live. In fact, reoative to actual value and quality, land and homes in rural areas are even more overpriced than in cities.
     
    How do you determine "actual value" and "overpriced"? I think you are full of crap, to put it politely.

    Here is a 1,200 sf house in Jefferson, Iowa. It recently sold for $160,000:

    https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1201-Riverside-Dr-Jefferson-IA-50129/86945128_zpid/?

    Here is a similar home in Mountain View, CA:

    https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1642-Morgan-St-Mountain-View-CA-94043/19512990_zpid/

    It's listed at $1,688,000 or over 10x the price. Are you saying that the IA home is overpriced in relation to the CA house? By what standard? BTW, the lot size in IA is bigger and the house is slightly newer and looks to be in better condition.

    Replies: @Anon

    160,000 is outrageously overpriced for Jefferson, Iowa. It’s Jefferson, Iowa. Let’s not even pretend Jefferson, Iowa has anything near what Mountain View, California has to offer.

    Furthermore, you have extremely poor judgment. The interior of the Jefferson house is clearly inferior to the one in Mountain View. Doesn’t explain the price difference, but these houses are clearly not equal.

    The funny thing is that they both would have been affordable 50,000 dollar homes 40 years ago. Arguing over which one is more affordable is pointless when they’re both overpriced; young people in Iowa can’t afford that house. But the Iowa house is egregiously overpriced considering that it’s in rural fucking Iowa in the middle of nowhere. They should be paying young people 150k just to move in to the house, but no… Christians are fucking Jews.

    And this is why rural America is dying.

    • Replies: @Sparkling Wiggle
    @Anon


    The funny thing is that they both would have been affordable 50,000 dollar homes 40 years ago. Arguing over which one is more affordable is pointless when they’re both overpriced
     
    50,0000 dollars 40 years ago would be 149,442 today.

    Replies: @Anon

    , @Jack D
    @Anon


    50,000 dollar homes 40 years ago
     
    First of all, they would have been $20,000 homes 40 years ago, at least in Iowa.

    2nd, $50k 40 years ago is more than $160k today.

    3rd, you're an idiot. There's something called the housing affordability index. People make less in Iowa than they do in CA but not 10x less. It's the % of avg. household income you would have to spend on housing. In a place like Jefferson, it's under 20%. In Silicon Valley it's more like 85%.

    As far as "rural fucking Iowa", the price of a 2x4 or a HW heater in Iowa is about the same as the price of a 2x4 or a HW heater in CA. Even if the land is free and labor is cheaper, there's going to be some minimum that it's going to cost to build even in Iowa.

    Who is "they" who is supposed to pay you to move into that house? There is no they. Apparently THEY don't need to pay you because someone actually voluntarily paid the current owner $160k for that house. Maybe it's less than worthless to you , but someone thought it was worth that. That's how it works in a market system instead of your crazy world where you are the personal judge of all values and this somehow has something to do with Jews.

    Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Anon, @obwandiyag, @hhsiii

    , @Muggles
    @Anon


    And this is why rural America is dying.
     
    This is a common belief and yes, many small rural towns have lost most of their population. Farming and ranching takes far fewer people now and more capital. Also brains and tech.

    However, thanks to the Summer of George (Floyd) recent national real estate trends show relatively small western, mid western and southern towns have the largest percentages of home price increases and floods of new residents. From older "diverse" big cities now mostly run by the Comrades.

    The highest home cost increases are in places like Boise ID or Bozeman MT. Many other mid sized places with some jobs and actual growth.

    Yes, tiny two grain silo towns are dying off but nearby, larger places attract new residents. Fleeing bad politics often. Whitopias often.

    With remote jobs still often viable, you no longer need to be attached to Baltimore or Philly, Boston or San Francisco.

    People with families prefer safer places where they are not preyed upon by moochers.

    Replies: @Anon, @John Johnson

  85. @Steve Sailer
    @Anon

    Blacks suffer schizophrenia at a higher rate than other races.

    Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Poirot, @kaganovitch, @Corvinus

    Blacks suffer schizophrenia at a higher rate than other races.

    Or rather they would, if only race weren’t a social construct.

  86. Anon[327] • Disclaimer says:
    @Buzz Mohawk
    @Anon

    Population growth exacerbated by stupid immigration policies.

    Inflation.

    Easy credit.

    Stupid-high Loan-To-Value lending practices.

    Stupid buyers willing to mortgage themselves to the hilt to own more house than they should.

    Those are a few of the things that actually drove real estate prices up. Similar things caused college tuition to rise to ridiculous levels -- and that's probably your generation.

    Stupid humans do shit like this, no matter what generation they come from. They also tend to blame boomers for everything.

    Replies: @Anon

    Rural America has seen zero inflation or population growth. In most areas it has seen population decline.

    Yet rural real estate values have also risen to unaffordable levels (relative to local incomes).

    That’s why your side keeps getting raped in the polls and tbe news cycles. Stupid is as stupid does.

    • Replies: @Buzz Mohawk
    @Anon

    Rural America has seen zero inflation?! Fuel prices, food prices, everything prices are everywhere. You don't escape them in Rural America, and you need more of things like gas and diesel to move you and your stuff around. Inflation is a nationwide phenomenon as the dollar loses purchasing power. It's a fact of life for everyone.

    Easy credit creates more cheap dollars chasing properties everywhere. Rural Americans take out mortgages like everybody else, and that easy money pushes prices higher.

    Somebody is paying those "unaffordable" prices, otherwise they wouldn't be the prices. If you say rural real estate is unaffordable to the locals, I believe you, but I also know prices don't exist without buyers and sellers determining them. Somebody is buying your local real estate with money you don't have.

    Replies: @Anon

  87. @The Germ Theory of Disease
    So now I guess, in deference to imaginary black hyper-feelings, "Baba O'Riley" is also off the table. Try not to get shot, Roger....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4GW_4Cb-fo

    Be sure to stay late, for Katie Jacoby's awesome take on the famous violon solo at the end.

    Replies: @Herbert R. Tarlek, Jr.

    They already have PC radio edits of “Money for Nothing” and “Take a Walk on the Wild Side”. Please don’t give them any more ideas.

  88. Anon[327] • Disclaimer says:
    @AceDeuce
    @Anon


    Indians didn’t drive up the price of homes in America. Boomers and Gen X did.
     
    That's suspect--and you leave out the destructive effects of White flight due to black/brown blight.

    In any event it's our (Whites) country to do with as we please. Go schitt in someone else's street.

    Replies: @Anon

    White flight? Are you huffing glue, or snorting lead? Which one is it? White flight is what happened back in the 50s and 60s and 70s, and home values were affordable back then. Today’s headline is blaci flight and white gentrification. It’s associated with skyrocketing home values.

    Just face it you’re nothing but a national socialist piece of shit whose only trick is to bitch about colored people in perpetuity. You don’t have a clue what you’re talking about and you’re a dopamine addict who gets a rush from blaming minorities for all the problems in the world.

    • Troll: AceDeuce
    • Replies: @bomag
    @Anon

    And you get a rush from blaming whites who blame minorities...

    At least we can agree that cataloging what race does what is a salient feature of today's world.

    And that the price of a multi-racial society is eternal racial vigilance.

  89. @Arclight
    @ginger bread man

    Agree - the social conditioning of always looking for offense and expecting to be given what you want rather than what you have earned has been a total disaster. And by making a huge share of the black population wards of the state for generation after generation, we have eliminated any tradition or memory of self-sufficiency for millions upon millions.

    Replies: @Poirot, @bomag

    “always looking for offence”

    In his latest Radio Derb, John Derbyshire quoted the phrase “recreational offence takers”.

  90. @JR Ewing
    @Art Deco

    The thing I remember most about that story was that he threw cat shit at his neighbors and would leave it outside their doors on the porch. I think he also killed his cats in his apartment before he left to go kill the reporter girl.

    Just a crazy guy.

    Replies: @Poirot, @Herbert R. Tarlek, Jr.

    I think he also killed his cats in his apartment before he left to go kill the reporter girl.

    Can confirm. I distinctly remember that about the story. They also found dildoes in his house with “human material” on them.

    He was a pretty interesting character, and not in a good way.

    • Replies: @Rusty Tailgate
    @Herbert R. Tarlek, Jr.


    They also found dildoes in his house with “human material” on them.
     
    Got to imagine the vast majority of guys who shove dildos up their dumpers are not going around killing people.
  91. Anon[130] • Disclaimer says:
    @Alec Leamas (working from home)
    @notsaying

    The standard practice to avoid lawsuits or additional claims from an employee who parts on bad terms is to offer a "neutral reference" if contacted by a prospective employer of the former employee. Typically this means confirming the dates of employment without anything else.

    But now the "neutral reference" is understood by employers to mean "don't hire this guy/gal" so I imagine that it won't be long until the neutral reference itself is interpreted by a Court or legislature to be defamatory, discriminatory against the Vester Flanagans of the world, and grounds for a lawsuit.

    In the future you will be compelled to give false, positive references for black former employees who parted on bad terms in order to avoid providing them grounds for a lawsuit. "What I can say is that Jamal was punctual, gave maximum effort, was always cheerful and definitely DID NOT steal from us just before he separated employment."

    Replies: @Anon

    In the future you will be compelled to give false, positive references for black former employees who parted on bad terms in order to avoid providing them grounds for a lawsuit.

    Which will result in employers ignoring references. They already assume all black men are felons, since “Ban the Box” took over and you can’t ask about a criminal record … and one in three black men are felons anyway, so it’s a reasonable assumption. And probably another one in three would be felons had they been caught, or had the overworked prosecutor not let them cop a plea that reduced the charges.

    College degrees and transcripts are already assumed to be unreliable in the case of blacks, since universities “see to it” that blacks pass classes and graduate, as long as they sort of show up from time to time.

    • Agree: Renard
  92. @Anon
    @Buzz Mohawk

    Rural America has seen zero inflation or population growth. In most areas it has seen population decline.

    Yet rural real estate values have also risen to unaffordable levels (relative to local incomes).

    That's why your side keeps getting raped in the polls and tbe news cycles. Stupid is as stupid does.

    Replies: @Buzz Mohawk

    Rural America has seen zero inflation?! Fuel prices, food prices, everything prices are everywhere. You don’t escape them in Rural America, and you need more of things like gas and diesel to move you and your stuff around. Inflation is a nationwide phenomenon as the dollar loses purchasing power. It’s a fact of life for everyone.

    Easy credit creates more cheap dollars chasing properties everywhere. Rural Americans take out mortgages like everybody else, and that easy money pushes prices higher.

    Somebody is paying those “unaffordable” prices, otherwise they wouldn’t be the prices. If you say rural real estate is unaffordable to the locals, I believe you, but I also know prices don’t exist without buyers and sellers determining them. Somebody is buying your local real estate with money you don’t have.

    • Replies: @Anon
    @Buzz Mohawk

    Gas prices and food prices are ridiculously low in rural America. You people are just the ultimate Jews (without fhe associated IQs).

    Think the prices are being driven by consumer activity? Wrong. Hardly anybody is buying these houses, it's working from home and boomers with pensions driving up the prices:

    https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/infrastructure/3518838-remote-work-has-caused-housing-prices-to-shoot-up-study/

    Replies: @Jack D, @Rob

  93. @Anon
    @Jack D

    160,000 is outrageously overpriced for Jefferson, Iowa. It's Jefferson, Iowa. Let's not even pretend Jefferson, Iowa has anything near what Mountain View, California has to offer.

    Furthermore, you have extremely poor judgment. The interior of the Jefferson house is clearly inferior to the one in Mountain View. Doesn't explain the price difference, but these houses are clearly not equal.

    The funny thing is that they both would have been affordable 50,000 dollar homes 40 years ago. Arguing over which one is more affordable is pointless when they're both overpriced; young people in Iowa can't afford that house. But the Iowa house is egregiously overpriced considering that it's in rural fucking Iowa in the middle of nowhere. They should be paying young people 150k just to move in to the house, but no... Christians are fucking Jews.

    And this is why rural America is dying.

    Replies: @Sparkling Wiggle, @Jack D, @Muggles

    The funny thing is that they both would have been affordable 50,000 dollar homes 40 years ago. Arguing over which one is more affordable is pointless when they’re both overpriced

    50,0000 dollars 40 years ago would be 149,442 today.

    • Replies: @Anon
    @Sparkling Wiggle

    50,000 was more affordable 40 years ago than 149,000 is today. Remember wage growth has stagnated reeeeetard.


    https://wolfstreet.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/US-income-v-housing-1-nationwide-.png

  94. @JR Ewing
    @Dream

    I don't begrudge our local Indians because I'm jealous of them.

    I don't like them because they drive up real estate prices with their ugly gargantuan McMansions, they smell bad, and they're bad drivers. That's reason enough.

    Replies: @Anon, @Colin Wright, @Renard, @SOL

    ‘I don’t like them because they drive up real estate prices with their ugly gargantuan McMansions, they smell bad, and they’re bad drivers. That’s reason enough.’

    I don’t need to prove they’re worse than us. For me, the fact that they’re different is entirely sufficient.

    After we left the Old Country (California), my wife and I tried Hawaii for a year and a half.

    It definitely has its points — but people are just too different from each other. Even the ‘locals’ are riven into various very separate ethnic groups. There is no single community.

    We wound up settling here in provincial Oregon four years ago. This too has its drawbacks, but everyone is the same. They’re all white, and if you didn’t vote for Trump, you’d best be tactful about admitting it.

    …and this is good. You have a clear idea what to expect from people, and you usually guess right. You wind up helping each other — as a matter of course.

    Hispanics are kind of iffy — but I definitely don’t want frigging Indians. The more aliens we admit, and the more alien they are, the less hope we have of retaining the kind of community I’ve discovered I like.

    • Thanks: JR Ewing
    • Replies: @Corvinus
    @Colin Wright

    People aren’t as different as you believe. But I get it. You’d rather live in a bubble than understand reality.

    Replies: @Colin Wright

  95. @Alec Leamas (working from home)
    @The Anti-Gnostic

    We've all heard the rumors but it's somewhat likely that they're intended as adult babysitters who keep the players out of legal trouble by acting as designated drivers, fixers, etc. They probably need a title other than "team gofer" for NCAA rules purposes. The "recruiting analyst" was the operator of the vehicle in question.

    Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic, @Mike Tre, @Herbert R. Tarlek, Jr., @duncsbaby, @Coemgen

    I wouldn’t put this person in an adult babysitting role for large, high-T men, driving them around in an SUV past 2:30 in the freaking a.m. (Those things have awful handling btw).

  96. OT:

    Meta’s oversight board calls for a more inclusive adult nudity policy:

    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/metas-oversight-board-calls-more-154322481.html

    “The restrictions and exceptions to the rules on female nipples are extensive and confusing, particularly as they apply to transgender and non-binary people,” the board said.

    It added that “this creates confusion for users and moderators and, as Meta has recognized, leads to content being wrongly removed.”

    I’m sure it is confusing.

  97. @KenH
    @Brutusale

    The moral of the story is that blacks are shocked when a white person is great at basketball. If a white person expressed public shock at a black person scoring near perfect on their college entrance exam or LSAT they would have to apologize and grovel for "racist stereotyping" of blacks as dumb.

    This is just like Isaiah Thomas saying that if Larry Bird was black he'd just be another good black player. But that's just negro babble as Bird was better than any almost every black player in the NBA except for Magic Johnson and those two were considered equals on the court.

    Bird and Johnson were about equal and Michael Jordan was arguably better and the best player in NBA history.

    Replies: @Mike Tre

    Larry Bird once played an entire game left handed just to amuse himself, and still scored 27 points. As a kid I was a fan of the Bulls and Jordan, but there was no one like Bird, before or since.

    • Replies: @KenH
    @Mike Tre

    Bird was amazing. For just being "another good player if he was black" most of the black players struggled to defend him and since Bird seemed to have eyes in the back and on the side of his head he would pass the ball behind his back, over his shoulder or between a black player's legs and they were often none the wiser until it was too late.

    Bird sometimes looked like a Harlem Globetrotter against a fair number of the black players trying to guard him.

  98. Anon[396] • Disclaimer says:
    @JR Ewing
    @Anon

    Tell me you're a resentful liberal renter in a big city without telling me you're a resentful liberal renter in a big city.

    My guess is that you also justify income taxes by telling us how much you "love roads and civilization" because you never have to pay them.

    Replies: @Anon

    Resentful liberal city renter? How’s that work out? Nobody in liberal cities is resentful. Resentment is what rednecks feel. Always complaining about how they can’t win elections, can’t get their dicks hard because they have inhaled lead vapors from firearms exhaust all their lives, can’t get a girlfriend because rural girls want to move to the liberal cities, can’t get a job because Mexicans stole it even though there are no jobs and no Mexicans because no one in your community can create jobs, because they’re all bedridden fat fucks with atherosclerosis.

    Always complaining about transsexuals even though they’ve never seen a legitimate one in their entire lives, even though your average middle aged country woman could qualify as a trannie. Always complaining about “child grooming” even though there are no kids to groom. Always complaining about black people even though they’ve never seen a black person in their entire life and never will.

    Always complaining about taxes and welfare even though rural America consumes an outsized share of federal tax dollars and its shit-tier agricultural economy is subsidized by the federal government.

    https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/states-federal-taxes-spending-charts-maps/

    Most Red States Take More Money From Washington Than They Put In

    Even as Republicans gripe about deficit spending, their states get 30 cents more federal spending per tax dollar than their Democratic neighbors.

    Just another case of rednecks biting the hand that feeds them.

    • Replies: @Rusty Tailgate
    @Anon

    The main attraction of living in the country is that you do not. It easily makes up for the lack of Thai restaurants.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

    , @Renard
    @Anon

    Not aimed at anon, but at anyone who's actually interested. The facts of the matter are much more complex than outlets like Mother Jones (or CNN etc) would ever admit.

    Most of the liberal agitprop on this topic is fairly turned on its head upon closer examination. For example, where do billionaires live? NY and Calif. Where are military bases [defense expenditures] located? Red states. Obviously there are exceptions but this is just one example.

    https://thefederalist.com/2017/11/17/red-states-tax-takers-blue-states-tax-makers/

    Replies: @Anon

    , @bomag
    @Anon


    Nobody in liberal cities is resentful.
     
    A lot of false things are said on the internet.

    This is near the top for utter egregiousness.
    , @Reg Cæsar
    @Anon


    Always complaining about taxes and welfare even though rural America consumes an outsized share of federal tax dollars and its 💩-tier* agricultural economy is subsidized by the federal government.
     
    How much of that is food stamps "electronic benefits transfer" cards, which just reroute suburb-to-inner city funds through the countryside, to keep food cheap?


    *We call that smell "fertilizer". You might catch a whiff at your community garden. (Or, in San Francisco, on a public sidewalk.)
  99. @Alec Leamas (working from home)
    @The Anti-Gnostic

    We've all heard the rumors but it's somewhat likely that they're intended as adult babysitters who keep the players out of legal trouble by acting as designated drivers, fixers, etc. They probably need a title other than "team gofer" for NCAA rules purposes. The "recruiting analyst" was the operator of the vehicle in question.

    Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic, @Mike Tre, @Herbert R. Tarlek, Jr., @duncsbaby, @Coemgen

    How come these handlers are always hot blondes? Maybe the coaches should have blue haired land whales keeping these negroes out of trouble.

  100. @Almost Missouri

    When blacks get fired and then murder their former white co-workers ... these days people feel it important to clear the names of the white victims from the charge of racism, which, apparently, would mean they had it coming.
     
    Electing Obama The Racial Healer really worked out well. Heckuva job Libbies!

    Why does every decision made by liberals turn out to be catastrophically wrong? It's like a superpower, but in a bad way.

    Replies: @J.Ross, @bomag

    I’m thinking it’s related to the thrill of playing with danger: off the cliff on a dive; out of the plane with a parachute that maybe works; the lure of the tightrope; etc.

    That they are taking a larger society along for a splat with their political decisions just adds to the frisson.

  101. Anonymous[102] • Disclaimer says:
    @Jack D
    @J.Ross

    Crazy people will do crazy things. But the fact that a crazy man's delusions from 2013 are now mainstream thinking in an American university is sort of troubling, wouldn't you say?

    It's not unusual for crazy people to latch onto some mainstream (if perhaps radical) meme and use that as a reason to do crazy stuff, but the arrow usually runs in that direction and not vice versa.

    I'm betting though that Flanagan didn't come up with this himself. Who was the FIRST person who said that the word "field" should no longer be used because slaves worked in cotton fields? We know now that it was before 2013.

    Replies: @Anonymous

    I’ve heard of all sorts of ridiculous tales – common folklore amongst blacks – which blacks believe explain some typical American phrases and customs, even though these false explanations are obviously and blatantly incorrect. Black narcissism at it’s best.
    Some examples:

    The custom of the Christmas Tree is a reproduction in miniature of a ‘lynching’ with baubles and ornaments represented hanged black men.
    ‘To bust a cap’, meaning to fire a bullet really means killing a black slave wearing a cap on his head for misbehaviour.
    ‘Down to the nitty gritty’ really means rape of black female slaves by white sailors in slave ship holds.

    Doubtless, there are countless other examples, some even more ridiculous, some even more unpleasant circulating amongst blacks which I’ve never overheard.
    Doubtless, too, they are actually believed.

    • Replies: @jinkforp
    @Anonymous

    Many Blacks believe that women put their menstrual blood in food in order to hex men. That's likely why Jesse Jackson, when invited to Michael Dukakis' House, declined to eat the pasta dish that Dukakis' wife had prepared. None of that red sauce for him. He sent out for fried chicken.

    For you younger people, Dukakis was the former governor of Massachusetts and Democrat nominee for president in 1988. Inviting Jesse Jackson over was a grovel to Black voters, and an attempt to keep Jesse from pissing on the parade.

    I am not inventing this, I read it in the mainstream papers. Even the press was appalled by this egregious behavior by a Black.

    , @al gore rhythms
    @Anonymous

    "even though these false explanations are obviously and blatantly incorrect. Black narcissism at it’s best.
    Some examples:

    The custom of the Christmas Tree is a reproduction in miniature of a ‘lynching’ with baubles and ornaments represented hanged black men"

    Thanks for ruining the last vestiges of Christmas for me.

    Replies: @AceDeuce

  102. Anon[396] • Disclaimer says:
    @Buzz Mohawk
    @Anon

    Rural America has seen zero inflation?! Fuel prices, food prices, everything prices are everywhere. You don't escape them in Rural America, and you need more of things like gas and diesel to move you and your stuff around. Inflation is a nationwide phenomenon as the dollar loses purchasing power. It's a fact of life for everyone.

    Easy credit creates more cheap dollars chasing properties everywhere. Rural Americans take out mortgages like everybody else, and that easy money pushes prices higher.

    Somebody is paying those "unaffordable" prices, otherwise they wouldn't be the prices. If you say rural real estate is unaffordable to the locals, I believe you, but I also know prices don't exist without buyers and sellers determining them. Somebody is buying your local real estate with money you don't have.

    Replies: @Anon

    Gas prices and food prices are ridiculously low in rural America. You people are just the ultimate Jews (without fhe associated IQs).

    Think the prices are being driven by consumer activity? Wrong. Hardly anybody is buying these houses, it’s working from home and boomers with pensions driving up the prices:

    https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/infrastructure/3518838-remote-work-has-caused-housing-prices-to-shoot-up-study/

    • Replies: @Jack D
    @Anon


    Think the prices are being driven by consumer activity? Wrong. Hardly anybody is buying these houses,
     
    You must be friends with Yogi Berra. Yogi was once asked whether he wished to go to a certain nightclub and he replied that he didn't for the following reason:


    Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.
     

    Replies: @Art Deco

    , @Rob
    @Anon

    This comment section was better without you.

  103. @Buzz Mohawk
    Vester Lee Flanagan II certainly wasn't outstanding in his field.


    https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/senior-farmer-standing-corn-field-examining-crop-harvesting-senior-farmer-standing-corn-field-examining-crop-134285767.jpg
    He never would have made a good farmer.

    Replies: @Kylie, @stari_momak

    “Vester Lee Flanagan II certainly wasn’t outstanding in his field.

    He never would have made a good farmer.”

    Yep, he wouldn’t have cottoned to the idea of being a farmer. He would have picked some other occupation.

    • LOL: Buzz Mohawk
  104. @Buzz Mohawk
    @Steve Sailer

    I think they're all out to get us. I see them everywhere.

    Replies: @Anonymous

    Poor baby, must live in the ghetto. I havent seen a black person in years.

    I feel sorry for all the unz commenters who hate black people but live in the ghetto. How did they ever fall in to the ghetto? LOL!!!!!

  105. @Arclight
    @ginger bread man

    Agree - the social conditioning of always looking for offense and expecting to be given what you want rather than what you have earned has been a total disaster. And by making a huge share of the black population wards of the state for generation after generation, we have eliminated any tradition or memory of self-sufficiency for millions upon millions.

    Replies: @Poirot, @bomag

    Fed by our political class having access to huge sums of money they can waste on such damaging ideas.

    Thanks, economic growth and attendant social decline.

  106. @Cagey Beast
    @YetAnotherAnon

    Last week I was listening to William Shirer's book on the collapse of the French Third Republic. At one point, a French general proposed sending French troops to assist Poland via Romania. I thought "Poland shares a border with Romania?". Well it did back in 1939 and maybe it will again.

    Replies: @CJ, @Bill Jones

    When Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia and occupied the Sudetenland in 1938, Poland’s military dictatorship took advantage and occupied the Teschen (Tesin in Polish) region. Hungary did likewise with a piece of Ruthenia. Poland itself was of course invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union one year later.

    https://www.lewrockwell.com/2003/08/thomas-m-sipos/poland-joined-hitler-in-dismembering-czechoslovakia/

    Look for the same thing to happen with some of the current Ukrainian territory. The western part around Lviv (or if you prefer, Lvov) used to be in Poland. Other pieces used to be bits of Hungary and Romania. They’d probably all be better off if they weren’t under Ukraine.

    • Agree: Gordo
    • Replies: @Bill Jones
    @CJ

    There's a reason The Ukraine had the definitive article. The root of the word Ukraine means rim or edge or Border, The Borderlands borders, slapped together in the last century like the Sykes-Picot fuck-ups in the Middle East are going to get redrawn.

    Replies: @Art Deco

  107. @bomag
    @Loyalty Over IQ Worship

    Looks like we're getting the current three step replacement narrative:

    1) It's not happening.

    2) It's happening, but it's good for you.'

    3) It's happening, it's bad for you, but it's too late to do anything about it.

    Replies: @Sgt. Joe Friday

    You forgot step 4: “You deserve it, bigot.”

  108. @Inquiring Mind
    @Almost Missouri

    Can't some kind of deal be struck to end the Ukraine war, something along the lines of Don Corleone reaching a face-saving accomodation with the Five Families that wanted to deal drugs.

    Don't know about the real Mafia bosses, but the fictional ones fought each other over honor but they made peace when there was money to be made.

    Not that Don Corleone gave up on honor, but he took a long view. He pledged peace with the other dons, and he worked out a deal to get his son Michael back from hiding in Sicily, but he did not reveal his long-term plan that some day, after the Don's passing, Michael would strike down the bosses of the Five Families. In a way it is ironic that the Don himself escaped Sicily to America because the Sicilian bosses took such a long view of the child Vito Andolini growing up to seek revenge on them, but the lesson was lost on the American dons of the threat Michael posed.

    Mr. Putin has backed himself into a corner of a long war that is Bad for Business worldwide. Any movement on a settlement will have to come from the West.

    But do the neocons/deep staters/Obama proteges/Victoria Nulands really think they can end this war with an outright Russian defeat? Are they so wedded to the Climate Change ideology that they think that starving the world of oil, gas, fertilizer and grain is a Good Thing? Do they take such a short-range view that after Russia has shown their military, logistical and organizational weaknesses that the they couldn't settle this war and wait Mr. Putin out for the final victory over Russia that they seek.

    Yeah, yeah and yeah (Physicist Dave), Putin is the defender of the Resistance to the New Global Order and NATO is a threat to his borders and all of that. But putting yourself in the role of a Neocon with the long term goal of punishing Russia for what they did to your ancestors, what realistic policy would you pursue?

    Replies: @That Would Be Telling

    Are [neocons/deep staters/Obama proteges/Victoria Nulands] so wedded to the Climate Change ideology that they think that starving the world of oil, gas, fertilizer and grain [through sanctions on Russia] is a Good Thing?

    Their ilk haven’t stopped saying there are too many people on the Earth for decades and decades.

    On the other hand there will be quite an interval where the not so poor are getting crushed instead of immediately dying off that will put their enterprise in danger. Another question I have, although it again at least in part speaks to their thirst for revenge you mention is what appears to be the impending deindustrialization of much of Western Europe which will then not be able to afford to pay for all of the above.

    It’s fun to see the dismantling of German windmills so they can dig more of their brown coal, but it sure looks like the Morgenthau Plan Mark 2 as for example our E. Michael Jones and others have noted, first thing that came to my mind for Germany’s designated role in this drama. France might do OK if they get their nuclear power mojo back, but the smaller countries…? Note also the U.K. was in a crisis state with natural gas and nitrogen fertilizer in September 2021, long before the start of the special military operation war.

  109. Back in 1987 PSA fired a black ramp worker. He decided he was going to settle that score by boarding a flight from LAX to SFO, shooting both pilots to death and sending the plane into a 700 MPH nosedive, crashing near San Luis Obispo. 43 people in all killed.

    • Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
    @Sgt. Joe Friday

    That "black ramp worker" was a true-born Englishman, I'll have you know.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1771

    (The crash site was located by that aggressive tranny helicopter guy).


    David Augustus Burke (18 May 1952 – 7 December 1987) was born in Croydon, England, to Jamaican parents. Burke later emigrated to the United States with his parents. He had previously worked for USAir in Rochester, New York, where he was a suspect in a drug-smuggling ring that was bringing cocaine from Jamaica to Rochester via the airline. Never officially charged, he reportedly relocated to Los Angeles to avoid future suspicions. Some former girlfriends, neighbors, and law enforcement officials described him as a violent man before the events of Flight 1771. He had seven children from four women, but never married.
     
    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/David_A._Burke.png

    Replies: @Renard, @AceDeuce

  110. @Anon
    @Jack D

    160,000 is outrageously overpriced for Jefferson, Iowa. It's Jefferson, Iowa. Let's not even pretend Jefferson, Iowa has anything near what Mountain View, California has to offer.

    Furthermore, you have extremely poor judgment. The interior of the Jefferson house is clearly inferior to the one in Mountain View. Doesn't explain the price difference, but these houses are clearly not equal.

    The funny thing is that they both would have been affordable 50,000 dollar homes 40 years ago. Arguing over which one is more affordable is pointless when they're both overpriced; young people in Iowa can't afford that house. But the Iowa house is egregiously overpriced considering that it's in rural fucking Iowa in the middle of nowhere. They should be paying young people 150k just to move in to the house, but no... Christians are fucking Jews.

    And this is why rural America is dying.

    Replies: @Sparkling Wiggle, @Jack D, @Muggles

    50,000 dollar homes 40 years ago

    First of all, they would have been $20,000 homes 40 years ago, at least in Iowa.

    2nd, $50k 40 years ago is more than $160k today.

    3rd, you’re an idiot. There’s something called the housing affordability index. People make less in Iowa than they do in CA but not 10x less. It’s the % of avg. household income you would have to spend on housing. In a place like Jefferson, it’s under 20%. In Silicon Valley it’s more like 85%.

    As far as “rural fucking Iowa”, the price of a 2×4 or a HW heater in Iowa is about the same as the price of a 2×4 or a HW heater in CA. Even if the land is free and labor is cheaper, there’s going to be some minimum that it’s going to cost to build even in Iowa.

    Who is “they” who is supposed to pay you to move into that house? There is no they. Apparently THEY don’t need to pay you because someone actually voluntarily paid the current owner $160k for that house. Maybe it’s less than worthless to you , but someone thought it was worth that. That’s how it works in a market system instead of your crazy world where you are the personal judge of all values and this somehow has something to do with Jews.

    • Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease
    @Jack D

    "Maybe it’s less than worthless to you, but someone thought it was worth that."

    No, someone just needed a damn place to live, and paying extortionists seemed like a better idea than freezing to death. Why were the extortionists demanding such a price? Like you say yourself,

    "That’s how it works in a market system... and this somehow has something to do with Jews."


    anyone lived in a pretty cow town... (apologies to cummings)

    , @Anon
    @Jack D


    2nd, $50k 40 years ago is more than $160k today.
     
    WTF? No it isn't you god damed redneck idiot, it's 148,000. Just go to https://www.usinflationcalculator.com and punch in the numbers 1983 and 2023.

    3rd, you’re an idiot. There’s something called the housing affordability index. People make less in Iowa than they do in CA but not 10x less.
     
    Yeah and there are other things like views, proximity to businesses, infrastructure, etc. You absolute fucking moron. Look up where Jefferson, iowa is on a map. It's literally in the middle of nowhere 3G country.

    As far as “rural fucking Iowa”, the price of a 2×4 or a HW heater in Iowa is about the same as the price of a 2×4 or a HW heater in CA. Even if the land is free and labor is cheaper, there’s going to be some minimum that it’s going to cost to build even in Iowa.
     
    Holy fucking shit, you simple minded gentile abomination. My comments have nothing to do with the cost of building materials or any other such frivolous shit. It has to do with the fact that JEFFERSON, IOWA has nothing in the way of attraction, amenities, businesses or infrastructure that would justify a 160,000 price tag for a small house. Literally NO ONE wants to live in this USELESS, DYING VILLAGE:


    https://pics4.city-data.com/sgraphs/city/historical_population-Jefferson-IA.png

    With a 2023 population of 4,134, it is the 101st largest city in Iowa and the 7432nd largest city in the United States. Jefferson is currently declining at a rate of -0.39% annually and its population has decreased by -1.15% since the most recent census, which recorded a population of 4,182 in 2020.
     

    Who is “they” who is supposed to pay you to move into that house? There is no they.
     
    Wrong. "They" are the residents of Jefferson, Iowa and the city council.

    Apparently THEY don’t need to pay you because someone actually voluntarily paid the current owner $160k for that house. Maybe it’s less than worthless to you , but someone thought it was worth that. That’s how it works in a market system instead of your crazy world where you are the personal judge of all values and this somehow has something to do with Jews.
     
    I hope don't actually believe this unfathomably retarded Disney channel bullshit. We have no idea who bought that house. For all we know it was somebody in China who never intends to live in it and is just using America's grossly overinflated housing market as an offshore investment.

    Just because someone bought the house does't mean they think it's actually worth living in. Again Jefferson, Iowa is a dying community (partially because its real estate is in a Twilight Zone of overvaluation).


    Selling houses to investors won't save the community of Jefferson, Iowa from entropy.

    Replies: @William Badwhite, @bomag

    , @obwandiyag
    @Jack D

    "Market system"

    Hardehar. You are an idiot.

    There is no "market system." There is a crooked system. And that's all.

    , @hhsiii
    @Jack D

    Maybe some residual hangover from the low interest environment. An 80% mortgage on a 160k house at 3%, which is about where rates were at the beginning of 2021 (I locked at 3.25% and closed in March) is about $539 a month; at 6.25%, it's $788 a month. Over 45% higher. Although that's 30 year fixed. Maybe people are taking out ARMs. In any event that 30 year fixed monthly is a bit harder at Jefferson median icome of about $32k.

    A couple of public school teachers there, median salary $53k, that isn't a bad starter home price, I guess. Abolish Public Education would tell you that's a pretty good living in Jefferson.

    Replies: @Jack D

  111. @Jack D
    @Anon


    50,000 dollar homes 40 years ago
     
    First of all, they would have been $20,000 homes 40 years ago, at least in Iowa.

    2nd, $50k 40 years ago is more than $160k today.

    3rd, you're an idiot. There's something called the housing affordability index. People make less in Iowa than they do in CA but not 10x less. It's the % of avg. household income you would have to spend on housing. In a place like Jefferson, it's under 20%. In Silicon Valley it's more like 85%.

    As far as "rural fucking Iowa", the price of a 2x4 or a HW heater in Iowa is about the same as the price of a 2x4 or a HW heater in CA. Even if the land is free and labor is cheaper, there's going to be some minimum that it's going to cost to build even in Iowa.

    Who is "they" who is supposed to pay you to move into that house? There is no they. Apparently THEY don't need to pay you because someone actually voluntarily paid the current owner $160k for that house. Maybe it's less than worthless to you , but someone thought it was worth that. That's how it works in a market system instead of your crazy world where you are the personal judge of all values and this somehow has something to do with Jews.

    Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Anon, @obwandiyag, @hhsiii

    “Maybe it’s less than worthless to you, but someone thought it was worth that.”

    No, someone just needed a damn place to live, and paying extortionists seemed like a better idea than freezing to death. Why were the extortionists demanding such a price? Like you say yourself,

    “That’s how it works in a market system… and this somehow has something to do with Jews.”

    anyone lived in a pretty cow town… (apologies to cummings)

  112. @Alec Leamas (working from home)
    @The Anti-Gnostic

    We've all heard the rumors but it's somewhat likely that they're intended as adult babysitters who keep the players out of legal trouble by acting as designated drivers, fixers, etc. They probably need a title other than "team gofer" for NCAA rules purposes. The "recruiting analyst" was the operator of the vehicle in question.

    Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic, @Mike Tre, @Herbert R. Tarlek, Jr., @duncsbaby, @Coemgen

    Yeah, I’ve read that sex between them doesn’t happen as often as you’d think. These girls are more like a showcase than actual merchandise.

  113. @Anon
    @Jack D

    160,000 is outrageously overpriced for Jefferson, Iowa. It's Jefferson, Iowa. Let's not even pretend Jefferson, Iowa has anything near what Mountain View, California has to offer.

    Furthermore, you have extremely poor judgment. The interior of the Jefferson house is clearly inferior to the one in Mountain View. Doesn't explain the price difference, but these houses are clearly not equal.

    The funny thing is that they both would have been affordable 50,000 dollar homes 40 years ago. Arguing over which one is more affordable is pointless when they're both overpriced; young people in Iowa can't afford that house. But the Iowa house is egregiously overpriced considering that it's in rural fucking Iowa in the middle of nowhere. They should be paying young people 150k just to move in to the house, but no... Christians are fucking Jews.

    And this is why rural America is dying.

    Replies: @Sparkling Wiggle, @Jack D, @Muggles

    And this is why rural America is dying.

    This is a common belief and yes, many small rural towns have lost most of their population. Farming and ranching takes far fewer people now and more capital. Also brains and tech.

    However, thanks to the Summer of George (Floyd) recent national real estate trends show relatively small western, mid western and southern towns have the largest percentages of home price increases and floods of new residents. From older “diverse” big cities now mostly run by the Comrades.

    The highest home cost increases are in places like Boise ID or Bozeman MT. Many other mid sized places with some jobs and actual growth.

    Yes, tiny two grain silo towns are dying off but nearby, larger places attract new residents. Fleeing bad politics often. Whitopias often.

    With remote jobs still often viable, you no longer need to be attached to Baltimore or Philly, Boston or San Francisco.

    People with families prefer safer places where they are not preyed upon by moochers.

    • Thanks: Mark G., Redneck farmer
    • Replies: @Anon
    @Muggles

    It was Covid-19 restrictions that boosted rural property values not the George Floyd incident. But keep blaming black people for everything. 3 years later people are moving back to NYC again. Turns out people would rather have a minimal risk of getting mauled by a criminal than lead plumbing fixtures and 3G wireless internet. Most regular people do not have a paranoid fear of blacks.

    Also, even rural towns with lots of blacks have seen this weird overvaluation of real estate.

    Liberal homebuyers aren't worried about black crime they're worried about this:


    https://beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/glyphosate-map.jpg


    This alone ought to reduce rural property values to the price of a nickel.

    Replies: @lavoisier

    , @John Johnson
    @Muggles

    Yes and my property tax bill keeps going up thanks to all the fleeing Whites that were so certain in their liberal beliefs that they up and left.

    The worst is when these Whites talk about moving to rural America as if they only did so because of some job or relative.

    It's just "by chance" that they had to move from LA to the midwest when little Nathan was turning school age.

    Has nothing to do with race.

    They love diversity. You see Joleen's Grandma really needed someone nearby and Craig just happened to spot a job opening at the power plant. It's a really good job with benefits. They really, really wanted to stay in LA. They really miss the diversity, their old friends and the burritos. Oh and the nightlife that they pretended to take part in.

    Liberals will actually get in a group and exchange similar stories. It's unreal.

    Replies: @anonnona

  114. Anon[994] • Disclaimer says:
    @Jack D
    @Anon


    50,000 dollar homes 40 years ago
     
    First of all, they would have been $20,000 homes 40 years ago, at least in Iowa.

    2nd, $50k 40 years ago is more than $160k today.

    3rd, you're an idiot. There's something called the housing affordability index. People make less in Iowa than they do in CA but not 10x less. It's the % of avg. household income you would have to spend on housing. In a place like Jefferson, it's under 20%. In Silicon Valley it's more like 85%.

    As far as "rural fucking Iowa", the price of a 2x4 or a HW heater in Iowa is about the same as the price of a 2x4 or a HW heater in CA. Even if the land is free and labor is cheaper, there's going to be some minimum that it's going to cost to build even in Iowa.

    Who is "they" who is supposed to pay you to move into that house? There is no they. Apparently THEY don't need to pay you because someone actually voluntarily paid the current owner $160k for that house. Maybe it's less than worthless to you , but someone thought it was worth that. That's how it works in a market system instead of your crazy world where you are the personal judge of all values and this somehow has something to do with Jews.

    Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Anon, @obwandiyag, @hhsiii

    2nd, $50k 40 years ago is more than $160k today.

    WTF? No it isn’t you god damed redneck idiot, it’s 148,000. Just go to https://www.usinflationcalculator.com and punch in the numbers 1983 and 2023.

    3rd, you’re an idiot. There’s something called the housing affordability index. People make less in Iowa than they do in CA but not 10x less.

    Yeah and there are other things like views, proximity to businesses, infrastructure, etc. You absolute fucking moron. Look up where Jefferson, iowa is on a map. It’s literally in the middle of nowhere 3G country.

    As far as “rural fucking Iowa”, the price of a 2×4 or a HW heater in Iowa is about the same as the price of a 2×4 or a HW heater in CA. Even if the land is free and labor is cheaper, there’s going to be some minimum that it’s going to cost to build even in Iowa.

    Holy fucking shit, you simple minded gentile abomination. My comments have nothing to do with the cost of building materials or any other such frivolous shit. It has to do with the fact that JEFFERSON, IOWA has nothing in the way of attraction, amenities, businesses or infrastructure that would justify a 160,000 price tag for a small house. Literally NO ONE wants to live in this USELESS, DYING VILLAGE:

    With a 2023 population of 4,134, it is the 101st largest city in Iowa and the 7432nd largest city in the United States. Jefferson is currently declining at a rate of -0.39% annually and its population has decreased by -1.15% since the most recent census, which recorded a population of 4,182 in 2020.

    Who is “they” who is supposed to pay you to move into that house? There is no they.

    Wrong. “They” are the residents of Jefferson, Iowa and the city council.

    Apparently THEY don’t need to pay you because someone actually voluntarily paid the current owner $160k for that house. Maybe it’s less than worthless to you , but someone thought it was worth that. That’s how it works in a market system instead of your crazy world where you are the personal judge of all values and this somehow has something to do with Jews.

    I hope don’t actually believe this unfathomably retarded Disney channel bullshit. We have no idea who bought that house. For all we know it was somebody in China who never intends to live in it and is just using America’s grossly overinflated housing market as an offshore investment.

    Just because someone bought the house does’t mean they think it’s actually worth living in. Again Jefferson, Iowa is a dying community (partially because its real estate is in a Twilight Zone of overvaluation).

    Selling houses to investors won’t save the community of Jefferson, Iowa from entropy.

    • Replies: @William Badwhite
    @Anon


    WTF? No it isn’t you god damed redneck idiot
     
    You seem like a charming fellow. I bet you're a ton of fun to hang around. It easy to see why Steve approves these comments.


    You absolute fucking moron..as far as “rural fucking Iowa”...Holy fucking shit... ...or any other such frivolous shit.
     
    You should fit some more profanity in your posts. Nothing screams "thoughtful person whose views I should reflect upon" than somebody who actually takes the time to TYPE profanity.


    you simple minded gentile abomination
     
    Jack is one of you people.

    Replies: @Anon

    , @bomag
    @Anon

    LOL.

    The usual insecure Californian; stuck in traffic; reading his crap-app; contemplating his over-priced housing; so he dumps on Iowa to make himself feel better.

    I know plenty from both states. Iowans have a natural happiness; Californians have an edgy happiness; they have a good state, but it could be a lot better; nothing to be done 'cause one must worship the Narrative.

    Replies: @Brutusale

  115. Anon[994] • Disclaimer says:
    @Muggles
    @Anon


    And this is why rural America is dying.
     
    This is a common belief and yes, many small rural towns have lost most of their population. Farming and ranching takes far fewer people now and more capital. Also brains and tech.

    However, thanks to the Summer of George (Floyd) recent national real estate trends show relatively small western, mid western and southern towns have the largest percentages of home price increases and floods of new residents. From older "diverse" big cities now mostly run by the Comrades.

    The highest home cost increases are in places like Boise ID or Bozeman MT. Many other mid sized places with some jobs and actual growth.

    Yes, tiny two grain silo towns are dying off but nearby, larger places attract new residents. Fleeing bad politics often. Whitopias often.

    With remote jobs still often viable, you no longer need to be attached to Baltimore or Philly, Boston or San Francisco.

    People with families prefer safer places where they are not preyed upon by moochers.

    Replies: @Anon, @John Johnson

    It was Covid-19 restrictions that boosted rural property values not the George Floyd incident. But keep blaming black people for everything. 3 years later people are moving back to NYC again. Turns out people would rather have a minimal risk of getting mauled by a criminal than lead plumbing fixtures and 3G wireless internet. Most regular people do not have a paranoid fear of blacks.

    Also, even rural towns with lots of blacks have seen this weird overvaluation of real estate.

    Liberal homebuyers aren’t worried about black crime they’re worried about this:

    This alone ought to reduce rural property values to the price of a nickel.

    • Replies: @lavoisier
    @Anon


    Most regular people do not have a paranoid fear of blacks.
     
    The rational response to mind blowing levels of black criminality is to have a very healthy fear of blacks and to avoid them as much as possible.

    Vastly disproportionate levels of black criminality has doomed the dream of a racially blind society where we can peacefully co-exist with each other.

  116. @YetAnotherAnon
    OT, but it looks as if Poland have taken back Galicia, a sneaky move - in fact a right dolchstoss.

    https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dolchstoss-im-Rucken


    https://i.postimg.cc/cCzBfb7K/tvp1.jpg

    TVP1 is state television, BBC equivalent.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVP1

    TVP1 (TVP Jeden, Program I Telewizji Polskiej, "Jedynka") is the main public television channel of TVP (Telewizja Polska S.A.), Poland's national television broadcaster. It was the first Polish channel to be broadcast and remains one of the most popular today. TVP1 was launched 25 October 1952.
     

    Replies: @Cagey Beast, @Almost Missouri, @polaco, @Pixo, @Jack D, @Reg Cæsar, @Lex

    Who’s this weather woman? A Russian face like that is unmistakable at 200 yards. Funny, and part of the same narrative where the soviets are telling their soldiers they’re actually fighting against Poland and her regular army units in Ukraine, and that there is a universal draft in our country. A NATO country openly fighting them and they’re not frantically calling for a UN security council meeting to demand explanations- soviet citizens seem to swallow everything line hook and sinker, with no second thoughts.

    I don’t mind reclaiming those lost territories, but Russia must first take all those Rusyns (aka Ukrainians), who hate us passionately back.

  117. @The Anti-Gnostic
    OT - the UGA pro football team suffered a loss after the College Super Bowl. One of its giant black linemen was killed in a single car accident after partying past 2 a.m. The other fatality was a UGA "staff member." Apparently these programs really do supply girls for the team to party with. They call them "recruiting analysts." They also apparently get big, top-heavy SUV's to drive around.

    https://twitter.com/jordanxdavis99/status/1614643630316163072

    One day we are going to find out that so much s*** goes on in these programs.

    Replies: @Alec Leamas (working from home), @Anonymous, @The Wild Geese Howard, @Pastit, @Anonymous

    Apparently these programs really do supply girls for the team to party with.

    This has been happening at every significant college football program for decades.

    Decades.

    Then consider all the informal jersey chasing that happens on the late-era GAE campus…

  118. @Muggles
    @Anon


    And this is why rural America is dying.
     
    This is a common belief and yes, many small rural towns have lost most of their population. Farming and ranching takes far fewer people now and more capital. Also brains and tech.

    However, thanks to the Summer of George (Floyd) recent national real estate trends show relatively small western, mid western and southern towns have the largest percentages of home price increases and floods of new residents. From older "diverse" big cities now mostly run by the Comrades.

    The highest home cost increases are in places like Boise ID or Bozeman MT. Many other mid sized places with some jobs and actual growth.

    Yes, tiny two grain silo towns are dying off but nearby, larger places attract new residents. Fleeing bad politics often. Whitopias often.

    With remote jobs still often viable, you no longer need to be attached to Baltimore or Philly, Boston or San Francisco.

    People with families prefer safer places where they are not preyed upon by moochers.

    Replies: @Anon, @John Johnson

    Yes and my property tax bill keeps going up thanks to all the fleeing Whites that were so certain in their liberal beliefs that they up and left.

    The worst is when these Whites talk about moving to rural America as if they only did so because of some job or relative.

    It’s just “by chance” that they had to move from LA to the midwest when little Nathan was turning school age.

    Has nothing to do with race.

    They love diversity. You see Joleen’s Grandma really needed someone nearby and Craig just happened to spot a job opening at the power plant. It’s a really good job with benefits. They really, really wanted to stay in LA. They really miss the diversity, their old friends and the burritos. Oh and the nightlife that they pretended to take part in.

    Liberals will actually get in a group and exchange similar stories. It’s unreal.

    • Replies: @anonnona
    @John Johnson

    Well I'm not sure about liberals, but Southern California used to be Republican. California churned out politicians like Reagan and Nixon, regardless of what leftists think about Reagan and Nixon they were good Republicans. The place is all blue now and of course so many can't afford to live there. Even the military there is all blue and has been for quite awhile just no one wanted to say so. I never feel bad about seeing military men wearing high heels, they wanted it that way, they deserve it. I never feel bad about the gay/tran stuff in the military, they wanted it that way they deserve it. To say they didn't/don't want it that way is to lie to yourself. The same with the police departments and so on. I don't feel bad that "white guys" are treated in any kind of way, because the most hated is the white woman who feels bad for the straight white guys. They all hate white women and especially republican/libertarian white women, even more so if they are successful. I don't feel for them and I don't feel bad for you, you all wanted it this way. They will wreck a white women's career in a moment for saying anything about anything. You wanted it this way, you deserve it and I for one white woman don't feel bad.

  119. @Jack D
    @Anon


    50,000 dollar homes 40 years ago
     
    First of all, they would have been $20,000 homes 40 years ago, at least in Iowa.

    2nd, $50k 40 years ago is more than $160k today.

    3rd, you're an idiot. There's something called the housing affordability index. People make less in Iowa than they do in CA but not 10x less. It's the % of avg. household income you would have to spend on housing. In a place like Jefferson, it's under 20%. In Silicon Valley it's more like 85%.

    As far as "rural fucking Iowa", the price of a 2x4 or a HW heater in Iowa is about the same as the price of a 2x4 or a HW heater in CA. Even if the land is free and labor is cheaper, there's going to be some minimum that it's going to cost to build even in Iowa.

    Who is "they" who is supposed to pay you to move into that house? There is no they. Apparently THEY don't need to pay you because someone actually voluntarily paid the current owner $160k for that house. Maybe it's less than worthless to you , but someone thought it was worth that. That's how it works in a market system instead of your crazy world where you are the personal judge of all values and this somehow has something to do with Jews.

    Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Anon, @obwandiyag, @hhsiii

    “Market system”

    Hardehar. You are an idiot.

    There is no “market system.” There is a crooked system. And that’s all.

  120. @Sparkling Wiggle
    @Anon


    The funny thing is that they both would have been affordable 50,000 dollar homes 40 years ago. Arguing over which one is more affordable is pointless when they’re both overpriced
     
    50,0000 dollars 40 years ago would be 149,442 today.

    Replies: @Anon

    50,000 was more affordable 40 years ago than 149,000 is today. Remember wage growth has stagnated reeeeetard.

  121. @Pat Hannagan
    You've got a lot going on here, there's depths of pathos that have plumbed bathos.

    Just this week I had my first grandchild born and this weekend my sweet colleen, get married who'll bring me so many boys, for sure.

    Steve, do you ever wish you paid heed to the lessons you taught or were you appealing to a higher authority when you allowed yourself to get outbred by the Irish?

    I understand you've only had one child. Is that right?

    Seems somewhat, inept.

    Especially given what you've had to say. You've had the best of times to chuck out at least 10 or more, yet, only one?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR9c8EwBAY4

    Replies: @Pixo

    I think he has two, which would be higher than the TFR of either insular Irish or Irish-Americans.

    Congratulations to you. And to me. My third is on the way. Mother has partial mickie ancestry and I have ulster, the kids will be raised orange.

    • Replies: @Rohirrimborn
    @Pixo

    That banner is correct. All of Northern Ireland is in Ulster. What many don't know is that not all of Ulster is in Northern Ireland. My orange ancestors are from Donegal in Ulster but also the Republic of Ireland.

  122. @Jack D
    @Anon


    50,000 dollar homes 40 years ago
     
    First of all, they would have been $20,000 homes 40 years ago, at least in Iowa.

    2nd, $50k 40 years ago is more than $160k today.

    3rd, you're an idiot. There's something called the housing affordability index. People make less in Iowa than they do in CA but not 10x less. It's the % of avg. household income you would have to spend on housing. In a place like Jefferson, it's under 20%. In Silicon Valley it's more like 85%.

    As far as "rural fucking Iowa", the price of a 2x4 or a HW heater in Iowa is about the same as the price of a 2x4 or a HW heater in CA. Even if the land is free and labor is cheaper, there's going to be some minimum that it's going to cost to build even in Iowa.

    Who is "they" who is supposed to pay you to move into that house? There is no they. Apparently THEY don't need to pay you because someone actually voluntarily paid the current owner $160k for that house. Maybe it's less than worthless to you , but someone thought it was worth that. That's how it works in a market system instead of your crazy world where you are the personal judge of all values and this somehow has something to do with Jews.

    Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Anon, @obwandiyag, @hhsiii

    Maybe some residual hangover from the low interest environment. An 80% mortgage on a 160k house at 3%, which is about where rates were at the beginning of 2021 (I locked at 3.25% and closed in March) is about $539 a month; at 6.25%, it’s $788 a month. Over 45% higher. Although that’s 30 year fixed. Maybe people are taking out ARMs. In any event that 30 year fixed monthly is a bit harder at Jefferson median icome of about $32k.

    A couple of public school teachers there, median salary $53k, that isn’t a bad starter home price, I guess. Abolish Public Education would tell you that’s a pretty good living in Jefferson.

    • Replies: @Jack D
    @hhsiii

    Whether it's good or bad, it's a lot better than the $7,800 monthly payment that you would have in Mountain View. And if you are a public school teacher in Mountain View, no one is going to pay you $530k in salary. Even if you work at Google, they are not going to pay you that unless you are a fairly high ranking exec. Aside from the fact that you have to live in Jefferson, which is presumably to your liking in the 1st place or else you wouldn't be buying a house there, it's actually a pretty good deal.

    Replies: @Anon, @hhsiii

  123. @Cagey Beast
    @YetAnotherAnon

    Last week I was listening to William Shirer's book on the collapse of the French Third Republic. At one point, a French general proposed sending French troops to assist Poland via Romania. I thought "Poland shares a border with Romania?". Well it did back in 1939 and maybe it will again.

    Replies: @CJ, @Bill Jones

    From Wikivoyage (who knew there was such a thing?).

    Due to its history as part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and later, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the westernmost part of Ukraine has a Catholic majority, in contrast to the rest of majority-Eastern Orthodox Ukraine.

    The summary about voyages is or should be: Don’t.

    I think there are a lot of people in eastern Europe with memories of things past.

  124. @YetAnotherAnon
    OT, but it looks as if Poland have taken back Galicia, a sneaky move - in fact a right dolchstoss.

    https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dolchstoss-im-Rucken


    https://i.postimg.cc/cCzBfb7K/tvp1.jpg

    TVP1 is state television, BBC equivalent.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVP1

    TVP1 (TVP Jeden, Program I Telewizji Polskiej, "Jedynka") is the main public television channel of TVP (Telewizja Polska S.A.), Poland's national television broadcaster. It was the first Polish channel to be broadcast and remains one of the most popular today. TVP1 was launched 25 October 1952.
     

    Replies: @Cagey Beast, @Almost Missouri, @polaco, @Pixo, @Jack D, @Reg Cæsar, @Lex

    I remember 10 months ago the Pootiebots telling us that Poland and Hungary would imminently invade a prostrate surrendered Ukraine.

    The reality is Poland is much wealthier and more advanced than any part of Western Ukraine. It would be like the US annexing Puerto Rico: a bad idea. Sure in theory the Ukes have a higher genetic potential than PRs, but communism and brain drain haven’t left behind the best.

  125. @Anon
    @Jack D


    2nd, $50k 40 years ago is more than $160k today.
     
    WTF? No it isn't you god damed redneck idiot, it's 148,000. Just go to https://www.usinflationcalculator.com and punch in the numbers 1983 and 2023.

    3rd, you’re an idiot. There’s something called the housing affordability index. People make less in Iowa than they do in CA but not 10x less.
     
    Yeah and there are other things like views, proximity to businesses, infrastructure, etc. You absolute fucking moron. Look up where Jefferson, iowa is on a map. It's literally in the middle of nowhere 3G country.

    As far as “rural fucking Iowa”, the price of a 2×4 or a HW heater in Iowa is about the same as the price of a 2×4 or a HW heater in CA. Even if the land is free and labor is cheaper, there’s going to be some minimum that it’s going to cost to build even in Iowa.
     
    Holy fucking shit, you simple minded gentile abomination. My comments have nothing to do with the cost of building materials or any other such frivolous shit. It has to do with the fact that JEFFERSON, IOWA has nothing in the way of attraction, amenities, businesses or infrastructure that would justify a 160,000 price tag for a small house. Literally NO ONE wants to live in this USELESS, DYING VILLAGE:


    https://pics4.city-data.com/sgraphs/city/historical_population-Jefferson-IA.png

    With a 2023 population of 4,134, it is the 101st largest city in Iowa and the 7432nd largest city in the United States. Jefferson is currently declining at a rate of -0.39% annually and its population has decreased by -1.15% since the most recent census, which recorded a population of 4,182 in 2020.
     

    Who is “they” who is supposed to pay you to move into that house? There is no they.
     
    Wrong. "They" are the residents of Jefferson, Iowa and the city council.

    Apparently THEY don’t need to pay you because someone actually voluntarily paid the current owner $160k for that house. Maybe it’s less than worthless to you , but someone thought it was worth that. That’s how it works in a market system instead of your crazy world where you are the personal judge of all values and this somehow has something to do with Jews.
     
    I hope don't actually believe this unfathomably retarded Disney channel bullshit. We have no idea who bought that house. For all we know it was somebody in China who never intends to live in it and is just using America's grossly overinflated housing market as an offshore investment.

    Just because someone bought the house does't mean they think it's actually worth living in. Again Jefferson, Iowa is a dying community (partially because its real estate is in a Twilight Zone of overvaluation).


    Selling houses to investors won't save the community of Jefferson, Iowa from entropy.

    Replies: @William Badwhite, @bomag

    WTF? No it isn’t you god damed redneck idiot

    You seem like a charming fellow. I bet you’re a ton of fun to hang around. It easy to see why Steve approves these comments.

    You absolute fucking moron..as far as “rural fucking Iowa”…Holy fucking shit… …or any other such frivolous shit.

    You should fit some more profanity in your posts. Nothing screams “thoughtful person whose views I should reflect upon” than somebody who actually takes the time to TYPE profanity.

    you simple minded gentile abomination

    Jack is one of you people.

    • Replies: @Anon
    @William Badwhite

    Hey look it's another Unz commenter whose circulating testosterone levels are so low he woke up one morning and forgot that he isn't middle aged suburban soccer mom. Keep crying about profanity and using it as an excuse to run away from an argument. Just put me on ignore if you don't like it... Oh wait, you can't do that... I'm an anon commenter.

    Replies: @jinkforp, @anon

  126. Poor fellow, gay, Black and crazy is no way to go through life.

  127. @Mike Tre
    @J.Ross

    Negroes and homosexuals have both been conditioned to believe that they are entitled to power over social discourse that they did not earn. This is evident in the way both groups aggressively work to control language. Being able to tell others what they can and cannot say is pretty powerful.

    Both negroes and homosexuals are in general pretty emotionally unstable people. But a homosexual negro? Off the hook, yo. And they will not take well to having their ever increasingly wacky demands dismissed. The results are evident.

    Older homosexuals had the benefit of needing to be a little more careful and disciplined about their words and actions as it pertained to their "lifestyle choices,", but younger homosexuals have not, and the results are pretty clear. 95% of homos under the age of 30 are a complete disaster psychologically. Diseased, drug dependent, entitled, aggressive, promiscuous, irresponsible.

    Replies: @ginger bread man, @Liberty Mike, @JohnnyWalker123, @dcthrowback, @Feryl

    Good points.

    • Thanks: Mike Tre
  128. @Dream
    Some Indian nationalists believe there is going to be a baklash against Indian Americans for their success from jealous far right as well as liberal whites.

    https://twitter.com/TheEmissaryCo/status/1614525579100823553?t=TvXFfw7x8XaV5uz7kZtNnA&s=19

    https://twitter.com/TheEmissaryCo/status/1614525583530115074?t=11W-9FR6stwHP3LpBpMWzg&s=19

    https://twitter.com/TheEmissaryCo/status/1614525586503786496?t=1JB3hap0dKDz5WSrBg5kBw&s=19

    Replies: @Colin Wright, @Anon, @JR Ewing, @Almost Missouri, @beavertales, @Sparkling Wiggle, @bomag, @lavoisier, @Louis renault, @Pastit

    I think a large number of the Indian migrants to the West come from the upper caste system of India. These groups often have very high average IQ. Sure clannishness and nepotism help out, but the truth is that a lot of these Indian migrants are very hard working and intelligent people.

    • Disagree: Old Prude
    • Replies: @Old Prude
    @lavoisier

    Hard working to screw you over..conniving and dishonest.

    , @Mike Tre
    @lavoisier

    Even if you are correct, it doesn't justify their arrival in the West. If they were as hard working and intelligent as you say (combined with how ethnically proud they behave once here) then they should stay in India and use their intelligence to make India a place at least fit for human habitation.

    But they don't. They bail out and come here and exploit the system in one way or another while acting superior. They are pushy, loud, ignorant. Not a shred of humbleness or humility to be found. To hell with them.

    , @Mr. Anon
    @lavoisier


    I think a large number of the Indian migrants to the West come from the upper caste system of India. These groups often have very high average IQ. Sure clannishness and nepotism help out, but the truth is that a lot of these Indian migrants are very hard working and intelligent people.
     
    The German army that occupied France during WWIII were also hard working and intelligent people. Hard working and intelligent are not plusses when it comes to occupiers.
  129. I’m old enough to remember when “swingers” were couples who went to sex parties. I miss the good old days.

  130. @YetAnotherAnon
    OT, but it looks as if Poland have taken back Galicia, a sneaky move - in fact a right dolchstoss.

    https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dolchstoss-im-Rucken


    https://i.postimg.cc/cCzBfb7K/tvp1.jpg

    TVP1 is state television, BBC equivalent.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVP1

    TVP1 (TVP Jeden, Program I Telewizji Polskiej, "Jedynka") is the main public television channel of TVP (Telewizja Polska S.A.), Poland's national television broadcaster. It was the first Polish channel to be broadcast and remains one of the most popular today. TVP1 was launched 25 October 1952.
     

    Replies: @Cagey Beast, @Almost Missouri, @polaco, @Pixo, @Jack D, @Reg Cæsar, @Lex

    This is some kind of Russian disinformation bullshit that is circulating on Telegram. I don’t know who or what that lady is but it’s not TVP1. What Polish weather forecast would show only 2 cities in the entire country (just one of which happens to be Lviv)?

    You can go to the TVP1 website itself and see for yourself. Here is their actual weather forecast:

    https://www.tvp.info/65332338/17012023-0654

    You probably won’t be able to play the video but you can see the opening still which shows what the real TVP1 weather map looks like. Don’t assume that everything you see on Russian Telegram is true. In fact, don’t assume that ANYTHING you see on Russian Telegram is true.

    • Replies: @International Jew
    @Jack D

    Thanks. That map did look pretty weird.

    , @YetAnotherAnon
    @Jack D


    "Don’t assume that everything you see on Russian Telegram is true. In fact, don’t assume that ANYTHING you see on Russian Telegram is true."
     
    Thank you for your concern ;-)

    You'll be pleased to know I apply that principle to most English language "news" sites. As Mr Sailer has pointed out in the case of WaPo and NYT, there are usually some nuggets of truth to be found, but a discriminating eye is necessary.

    Alas in this sceptic isle our government has chosen to protect us from Russian misinformation and ensure we are only exposed to US/UK/NATO misinformation. The broadcaster Russia Today has been closed down, and UK web providers, while still happy to give Brits a plentiful diet of pornography, won't serve Russian news sites.

    "This site can’t be reached www.sputniknews.com’s DNS address could not be found. Diagnosing the problem."

    The Great Firewall of Westminster at work. Oddly, our NATO allies in Europe don't seem to be so afraid, as I can access the sites from European servers.

    Replies: @Jack D

  131. @Mike Tre
    @J.Ross

    Negroes and homosexuals have both been conditioned to believe that they are entitled to power over social discourse that they did not earn. This is evident in the way both groups aggressively work to control language. Being able to tell others what they can and cannot say is pretty powerful.

    Both negroes and homosexuals are in general pretty emotionally unstable people. But a homosexual negro? Off the hook, yo. And they will not take well to having their ever increasingly wacky demands dismissed. The results are evident.

    Older homosexuals had the benefit of needing to be a little more careful and disciplined about their words and actions as it pertained to their "lifestyle choices,", but younger homosexuals have not, and the results are pretty clear. 95% of homos under the age of 30 are a complete disaster psychologically. Diseased, drug dependent, entitled, aggressive, promiscuous, irresponsible.

    Replies: @ginger bread man, @Liberty Mike, @JohnnyWalker123, @dcthrowback, @Feryl

    Fwiw, Flanagan appears to have a high %age of euro admixture, and as Jason Whitlock and others have noticed, the higher the admixture, the more important it is to show that one is truly “black”.

    “Real” blacks don’t usually care about such things as “field” and “swinging by”, but half (give or take) ones tend to be more sensitive about such things. (I have a belief that the less attractive they are, the more they care, but I think that’s secondary to the original hypothesis.)

    • Replies: @Mike Tre
    @dcthrowback

    Great point.

  132. @Anon
    @Buzz Mohawk

    Gas prices and food prices are ridiculously low in rural America. You people are just the ultimate Jews (without fhe associated IQs).

    Think the prices are being driven by consumer activity? Wrong. Hardly anybody is buying these houses, it's working from home and boomers with pensions driving up the prices:

    https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/infrastructure/3518838-remote-work-has-caused-housing-prices-to-shoot-up-study/

    Replies: @Jack D, @Rob

    Think the prices are being driven by consumer activity? Wrong. Hardly anybody is buying these houses,

    You must be friends with Yogi Berra. Yogi was once asked whether he wished to go to a certain nightclub and he replied that he didn’t for the following reason:

    Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.

    • Replies: @Art Deco
    @Jack D

    My favorite Yogi Berra quote. "I never said half the things I said".

    Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Kylie, @Mike Tre

  133. @hhsiii
    @Jack D

    Maybe some residual hangover from the low interest environment. An 80% mortgage on a 160k house at 3%, which is about where rates were at the beginning of 2021 (I locked at 3.25% and closed in March) is about $539 a month; at 6.25%, it's $788 a month. Over 45% higher. Although that's 30 year fixed. Maybe people are taking out ARMs. In any event that 30 year fixed monthly is a bit harder at Jefferson median icome of about $32k.

    A couple of public school teachers there, median salary $53k, that isn't a bad starter home price, I guess. Abolish Public Education would tell you that's a pretty good living in Jefferson.

    Replies: @Jack D

    Whether it’s good or bad, it’s a lot better than the $7,800 monthly payment that you would have in Mountain View. And if you are a public school teacher in Mountain View, no one is going to pay you $530k in salary. Even if you work at Google, they are not going to pay you that unless you are a fairly high ranking exec. Aside from the fact that you have to live in Jefferson, which is presumably to your liking in the 1st place or else you wouldn’t be buying a house there, it’s actually a pretty good deal.

    • Replies: @Anon
    @Jack D

    How hard headed are you to not realize that income in Mountain View is higher than in Jefferson, iowa?


    Lol. You have some sort of weird attachment to this house in Mountain View. You're sooooo mad it costs 1 million dollars. And you're still not comprehending how superior Mountain View is to Jefferson. Do you actually think girls are prettier in Jefferson than in Mountain View?

    , @hhsiii
    @Jack D

    Agreed. It's not gonna break them, and in 30 years we'll see. I was trying to seee if there was a Tractor Supply store nearby.

    Replies: @Jack D

  134. @Jack D
    @Anon


    Think the prices are being driven by consumer activity? Wrong. Hardly anybody is buying these houses,
     
    You must be friends with Yogi Berra. Yogi was once asked whether he wished to go to a certain nightclub and he replied that he didn't for the following reason:


    Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.
     

    Replies: @Art Deco

    My favorite Yogi Berra quote. “I never said half the things I said”.

    • Replies: @Buzz Mohawk
    @Art Deco

    My favorite Yogi Berra quote: "You can observe a lot by watching."

    What I like most about that comment from that Anon [396] is that he has made me a Jew:


    You people are just the ultimate Jews.

     

    I gladly accept the honor.


    You see, the anti-Semites here think I'm a Jew, and the Jews here think I'm an anti-Semite. It's the story of my life*

    *My paternal grandfather is rumored to have been a Jew. Certainly our family name was adopted by some Jewish families, though it is thoroughly English. I never got the opportunity to know him well, and our family doesn't seem to know him any better, but he fit the stereotype in that he did own a grocery store in San Francisco for a time, and he did work in California politics, etc.

    I surely hope he was, even though I don't look the least bit the part of a Jewish grandson.

    Replies: @Anon, @hhsiii

    , @Kylie
    @Art Deco

    The favorite Yogi Berra quotation in my family was, "Include me out."

    Replies: @AceDeuce, @Rusty Tailgate

    , @Mike Tre
    @Art Deco

    Makes sense. That's kind of your excuse when you get called out for the silly claims you make.

  135. Anon[851] • Disclaimer says:
    @Jack D
    @hhsiii

    Whether it's good or bad, it's a lot better than the $7,800 monthly payment that you would have in Mountain View. And if you are a public school teacher in Mountain View, no one is going to pay you $530k in salary. Even if you work at Google, they are not going to pay you that unless you are a fairly high ranking exec. Aside from the fact that you have to live in Jefferson, which is presumably to your liking in the 1st place or else you wouldn't be buying a house there, it's actually a pretty good deal.

    Replies: @Anon, @hhsiii

    How hard headed are you to not realize that income in Mountain View is higher than in Jefferson, iowa?

    Lol. You have some sort of weird attachment to this house in Mountain View. You’re sooooo mad it costs 1 million dollars. And you’re still not comprehending how superior Mountain View is to Jefferson. Do you actually think girls are prettier in Jefferson than in Mountain View?

  136. @Anon
    @Muggles

    It was Covid-19 restrictions that boosted rural property values not the George Floyd incident. But keep blaming black people for everything. 3 years later people are moving back to NYC again. Turns out people would rather have a minimal risk of getting mauled by a criminal than lead plumbing fixtures and 3G wireless internet. Most regular people do not have a paranoid fear of blacks.

    Also, even rural towns with lots of blacks have seen this weird overvaluation of real estate.

    Liberal homebuyers aren't worried about black crime they're worried about this:


    https://beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/glyphosate-map.jpg


    This alone ought to reduce rural property values to the price of a nickel.

    Replies: @lavoisier

    Most regular people do not have a paranoid fear of blacks.

    The rational response to mind blowing levels of black criminality is to have a very healthy fear of blacks and to avoid them as much as possible.

    Vastly disproportionate levels of black criminality has doomed the dream of a racially blind society where we can peacefully co-exist with each other.

  137. Anon[851] • Disclaimer says:
    @William Badwhite
    @Anon


    WTF? No it isn’t you god damed redneck idiot
     
    You seem like a charming fellow. I bet you're a ton of fun to hang around. It easy to see why Steve approves these comments.


    You absolute fucking moron..as far as “rural fucking Iowa”...Holy fucking shit... ...or any other such frivolous shit.
     
    You should fit some more profanity in your posts. Nothing screams "thoughtful person whose views I should reflect upon" than somebody who actually takes the time to TYPE profanity.


    you simple minded gentile abomination
     
    Jack is one of you people.

    Replies: @Anon

    Hey look it’s another Unz commenter whose circulating testosterone levels are so low he woke up one morning and forgot that he isn’t middle aged suburban soccer mom. Keep crying about profanity and using it as an excuse to run away from an argument. Just put me on ignore if you don’t like it… Oh wait, you can’t do that… I’m an anon commenter.

    • Replies: @jinkforp
    @Anon

    Discard here. Disclaimer, what college did you flunk out of?

    , @anon
    @Anon

    And you're crying and whining and jeering back at him as any self-respecting adolescent would do.
    Are you not gentile then? Funny, I just read another article on this site about a well-known, non-gentile group, and their inclination toward obscenity that seems to pretty much describe the media and the "entertainment industry" of the past 70 years.
    I've actually known quite a few Jews who objected to filth and obscenity, but it's always the loud and obscene these days who get heard, hence your defensiveness.
    Just another anon.

  138. @Steve Sailer
    @Anon

    Blacks suffer schizophrenia at a higher rate than other races.

    Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Poirot, @kaganovitch, @Corvinus

    You are way beyond your skis here, Mr. Sailer. Stay on the novice hill.

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29094963/

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4274585/

    https://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ps.

    —“Clinicians must rule out other potential causes of symptoms, including mood disorders, before the diagnosis of schizophrenia is given,” said Michael Gara, a professor of psychiatry at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and a faculty member at Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care. “However, there has been a tendency for clinicians to overemphasize the relevance of psychotic symptoms and overlook symptoms of major depression in African-Americans compared with other racial or ethnic groups. No studies show that African-Americans with schizophrenia are more likely to also have major depression.”—

    “these days people feel it important to clear the names of the white victims from the charge of racism, which, apparently, would mean they had it coming”

    False conclusion.

    • Replies: @rebel yell
    @Corvinus

    "Schizophrenia: Long known to be heritable (twins & adoptees). Now, some genes & neuro mechanisms are being found." - Steven Pinker
    Sorry Corvinus, but Schizophrenia is another example that blacks are more dysfunctional than everyone else and that it is due to genetics. You might as well accept reality - you won't have to wring your hands and clutch your pearls so much.

    Replies: @Corvinus

  139. @CJ
    @Cagey Beast

    When Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia and occupied the Sudetenland in 1938, Poland's military dictatorship took advantage and occupied the Teschen (Tesin in Polish) region. Hungary did likewise with a piece of Ruthenia. Poland itself was of course invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union one year later.

    https://www.lewrockwell.com/2003/08/thomas-m-sipos/poland-joined-hitler-in-dismembering-czechoslovakia/

    Look for the same thing to happen with some of the current Ukrainian territory. The western part around Lviv (or if you prefer, Lvov) used to be in Poland. Other pieces used to be bits of Hungary and Romania. They'd probably all be better off if they weren't under Ukraine.

    Replies: @Bill Jones

    There’s a reason The Ukraine had the definitive article. The root of the word Ukraine means rim or edge or Border, The Borderlands borders, slapped together in the last century like the Sykes-Picot fuck-ups in the Middle East are going to get redrawn.

    • Replies: @Art Deco
    @Bill Jones

    You are not going to find any evidence of popular interest in merging with Russia in any component of the Ukraine outside of the Crimea, the Donetsk oblast, and the Lukhansk oblast. Only in the Crimea are you going to find indications that that is the majority sentiment. NB, every region in the Ukraine voted in favor of the declaration of sovereignty in the 1991 referendum, even the Crimea.

    Replies: @Jack D

  140. @Anonymous
    @Jack D

    I've heard of all sorts of ridiculous tales - common folklore amongst blacks - which blacks believe explain some typical American phrases and customs, even though these false explanations are obviously and blatantly incorrect. Black narcissism at it's best.
    Some examples:

    The custom of the Christmas Tree is a reproduction in miniature of a 'lynching' with baubles and ornaments represented hanged black men.
    'To bust a cap', meaning to fire a bullet really means killing a black slave wearing a cap on his head for misbehaviour.
    'Down to the nitty gritty' really means rape of black female slaves by white sailors in slave ship holds.

    Doubtless, there are countless other examples, some even more ridiculous, some even more unpleasant circulating amongst blacks which I've never overheard.
    Doubtless, too, they are actually believed.

    Replies: @jinkforp, @al gore rhythms

    Many Blacks believe that women put their menstrual blood in food in order to hex men. That’s likely why Jesse Jackson, when invited to Michael Dukakis’ House, declined to eat the pasta dish that Dukakis’ wife had prepared. None of that red sauce for him. He sent out for fried chicken.

    For you younger people, Dukakis was the former governor of Massachusetts and Democrat nominee for president in 1988. Inviting Jesse Jackson over was a grovel to Black voters, and an attempt to keep Jesse from pissing on the parade.

    I am not inventing this, I read it in the mainstream papers. Even the press was appalled by this egregious behavior by a Black.

  141. @Art Deco
    @Jack D

    My favorite Yogi Berra quote. "I never said half the things I said".

    Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Kylie, @Mike Tre

    My favorite Yogi Berra quote: “You can observe a lot by watching.”

    What I like most about that comment from that Anon [396] is that he has made me a Jew:

    You people are just the ultimate Jews.

    I gladly accept the honor.

    You see, the anti-Semites here think I’m a Jew, and the Jews here think I’m an anti-Semite. It’s the story of my life*

    *My paternal grandfather is rumored to have been a Jew. Certainly our family name was adopted by some Jewish families, though it is thoroughly English. I never got the opportunity to know him well, and our family doesn’t seem to know him any better, but he fit the stereotype in that he did own a grocery store in San Francisco for a time, and he did work in California politics, etc.

    I surely hope he was, even though I don’t look the least bit the part of a Jewish grandson.

    • Replies: @Anon
    @Buzz Mohawk

    Damn, imagine having a whore for a grandmother and not knowing who your grandfather really was. Sucks to be you.

    , @hhsiii
    @Buzz Mohawk

    My 3 favorite Yogi Berra quotes (he lived about a 1/2 mile from me in Montclair, NJ; the first 2 may be apocryphal):

    We're here for the venetian blinds: I gave at the office;

    [upon receiving a check made to bearer]: You'd think they'd get my name right;

    and, when I asked him when I was 9 at the local skating rink why he didn't play Cleon Jones more: "You too, kid?"

  142. @Art Deco
    @Jack D

    My favorite Yogi Berra quote. "I never said half the things I said".

    Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Kylie, @Mike Tre

    The favorite Yogi Berra quotation in my family was, “Include me out.”

    • Replies: @AceDeuce
    @Kylie

    My favorite Yogi-ism is "It's hard to make predictions, especially about the future."

    , @Rusty Tailgate
    @Kylie

    That was Sam Goldwyn.

    Replies: @Kylie

  143. @Buzz Mohawk
    @Art Deco

    My favorite Yogi Berra quote: "You can observe a lot by watching."

    What I like most about that comment from that Anon [396] is that he has made me a Jew:


    You people are just the ultimate Jews.

     

    I gladly accept the honor.


    You see, the anti-Semites here think I'm a Jew, and the Jews here think I'm an anti-Semite. It's the story of my life*

    *My paternal grandfather is rumored to have been a Jew. Certainly our family name was adopted by some Jewish families, though it is thoroughly English. I never got the opportunity to know him well, and our family doesn't seem to know him any better, but he fit the stereotype in that he did own a grocery store in San Francisco for a time, and he did work in California politics, etc.

    I surely hope he was, even though I don't look the least bit the part of a Jewish grandson.

    Replies: @Anon, @hhsiii

    Damn, imagine having a whore for a grandmother and not knowing who your grandfather really was. Sucks to be you.

  144. @Anon
    @Buzz Mohawk

    Gas prices and food prices are ridiculously low in rural America. You people are just the ultimate Jews (without fhe associated IQs).

    Think the prices are being driven by consumer activity? Wrong. Hardly anybody is buying these houses, it's working from home and boomers with pensions driving up the prices:

    https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/infrastructure/3518838-remote-work-has-caused-housing-prices-to-shoot-up-study/

    Replies: @Jack D, @Rob

    This comment section was better without you.

    • Agree: YetAnotherAnon
    • Thanks: JR Ewing
  145. If only the nutter had moved to San Francisco.

    In a spectacular display of what happens when woke politics intersects utter financial illiteracy, a San Francisco government advisory committee on reparations has recommended the city pay eligible black residents age 18 years and older $5 million apiece. 

    That’s just the headline recommendation of the San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee (AARAC), which was created by the city’s board of supervisors amid 2020’s nationwide racial tumult. 

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/san-fran-city-panel-urges-reparations-5-million-black-adult

    • Replies: @AceDeuce
    @Bill Jones


    a San Francisco government advisory committee on reparations has recommended the city pay eligible black residents age 18 years and older $5 million apiece.
     
    O.J. was born and grew up in post WWII Frisco. That would be a nice windfall. $ 5 mil might allow him to murder one, maybe two more White girls....
    , @Art Deco
    @Bill Jones

    He started out in northern California, IIRC.

  146. @John Johnson
    @Muggles

    Yes and my property tax bill keeps going up thanks to all the fleeing Whites that were so certain in their liberal beliefs that they up and left.

    The worst is when these Whites talk about moving to rural America as if they only did so because of some job or relative.

    It's just "by chance" that they had to move from LA to the midwest when little Nathan was turning school age.

    Has nothing to do with race.

    They love diversity. You see Joleen's Grandma really needed someone nearby and Craig just happened to spot a job opening at the power plant. It's a really good job with benefits. They really, really wanted to stay in LA. They really miss the diversity, their old friends and the burritos. Oh and the nightlife that they pretended to take part in.

    Liberals will actually get in a group and exchange similar stories. It's unreal.

    Replies: @anonnona

    Well I’m not sure about liberals, but Southern California used to be Republican. California churned out politicians like Reagan and Nixon, regardless of what leftists think about Reagan and Nixon they were good Republicans. The place is all blue now and of course so many can’t afford to live there. Even the military there is all blue and has been for quite awhile just no one wanted to say so. I never feel bad about seeing military men wearing high heels, they wanted it that way, they deserve it. I never feel bad about the gay/tran stuff in the military, they wanted it that way they deserve it. To say they didn’t/don’t want it that way is to lie to yourself. The same with the police departments and so on. I don’t feel bad that “white guys” are treated in any kind of way, because the most hated is the white woman who feels bad for the straight white guys. They all hate white women and especially republican/libertarian white women, even more so if they are successful. I don’t feel for them and I don’t feel bad for you, you all wanted it this way. They will wreck a white women’s career in a moment for saying anything about anything. You wanted it this way, you deserve it and I for one white woman don’t feel bad.

  147. @Anon
    @JR Ewing

    Indians didn't drive up the price of homes in America. Boomers and Gen X did.


    Real estate is overpriced out in the sticks as well. It's not just in cities where Indians live. In fact, reoative to actual value and quality, land and homes in rural areas are even more overpriced than in cities.

    Nothing does greed like a redneck Christian MFer.

    Replies: @JR Ewing, @Buzz Mohawk, @AceDeuce, @Jack D, @AnotherDad

    Indians didn’t drive up the price of homes in America. Boomers and Gen X did.

    Even on Sailer’s site we get theese “geniuses”.

    What drives real estate is supply and demand. The supply side includes things like building materials, construction labor costs and development overhead (satisfying the bureaucrats), as well–the biggie in expensive areas–“what does a lot cost in that area”

    The later is set by demand.

    The demand side is affected by peoples’ incomes, interest rates and … how many people there are in the market. And it’s the later that’s been the driver of unaffordability. (No one cares about the absolute change in prices–yeah, the dollar isn’t worth what it was in 1965, so what. It’s that housing has become much more expensive relative to working people’s incomes.)

    Sure, if Boomers and GexX had never been born–all Americans just died off–real estate would be cheaper for the immigrants showing up here. But, of course, immigrants don’t show up here to farm, they show up here because Americans–white people–built richer, more prosperous, less corrupt … just all around better–nation than where they are from and so they’d rather be here.

    So yes, relative to a “normally operating country”–where people have children and those children are the ones who need housing, not “the world”–it is precisely immigration that has driven up housing prices. Huge swathes of the country–particularly large coastal metros–are occupied by significant numbers of immigrants. America in the last couple decades has simply flipped from its historic “cheap land, dear labor” heritage to an Asiatic housing market. And it isn’t because Americans are having too many kids.

    And yes, if all 3 million Indians–with generally high incomes–were not here that would depressurize the UMC “good schools” part of the market quite a bit. I’d guess it would drop the whole market maybe 5%. If all 60 million “Hispanics” where not here it dramatically depressurize the market–particularly California–and drop overall prices probably over a quarter. If all post-1965 immigrants and their children were not here, housing would be near half what it is and back to America’s historic housing affordability.

    Native American fertility is sub-replacement and in a properly run nation without our treasonous “elite” Americans would be reaping the benefits of that–uncrowded, affordable living.

    • Agree: Old Prude
    • Replies: @Jack D
    @AnotherDad

    You start off right. The price of housing, like that of everything, is based on supply and demand and some of the idiotic posters seem to have no understanding of markets.

    But then you get off on your immigration tack. Since immigration is just one component of demand, you can't rightfully assign 100% of the increase in demand JUST to immigration. Nevertheless, it's not wrong to say that immigration has contributed to demand.

    By contrast, Japan, which has very little immigration and a declining population, also has very little housing demand. Japanese housing was never built to a high standard (they always figured it would get destroyed in the next earthquake/fire/tsunami anyway plus it was a poor country) and nowadays when old people die, especially out in the countryside, their houses just get abandoned because there are no buyers. The same thing happens in small rural towns in Italy. If you are a Japanese home owner or heir, it probably doesn't make you happy that something that would be a valuable asset in other countries is worthless in your country.

    I think that worse things could happen to your country than having really valuable real estate. This is a sort of zero sum game - if housing is "affordable" to buyers that means that sellers aren't getting much for their property. Generally speaking, economists don't think that deflation is a good thing.

    Replies: @Anon, @The Anti-Gnostic, @AnotherDad

    , @Anon
    @AnotherDad

    Oh my God you are so retarded, somebody needs to get you institutionalized. The cost of building a house has absolutely nothing to do with its price. The cost of the wood thst went in to building these 70 year old houses has nothing to do with their price in 2023. If houses were valued based on materials or workmanship, they would be valued at less than zero dollars, because they wilo invariably be declared toxic waste products due to the mold, lead, copper arsenate, asbestos, and other sorts of materials now declared illegal carcinogens, that are ubiquitous in mid-20th century construction. If houses in America were appraised based on material value, 99% of them would be worth less than zero, and many of them would be condemned as unsafe and destroyed. You may have heard of the lead poisoning crisis in American cities like Flint, MI (I guarantee you the Jefferson, Iowa house has the same lead plumbing fixtures and that its residents have comparable blood lead levels).

    You have done absolutely nothing to substantiate that the puny number of immigrants this country receives are inflating housing prices. This is nothing more than a right wing fantasy easily disproven by the fact that home prices skyrocketed in 2020-2021 despite immigration falling to the lowest levels in decades. Clearly lowering immigration is going to do jack shit to bring home prices down; immigration is a drop in the bucket but we all know how alt-right idiots are obsessed with drops.


    Native American fertility is sub-replacement and in a properly run nation without our treasonous “elite” Americans would be reaping the benefits of that–uncrowded, affordable living.
     
    There is no benefit to population decline and America's population density remains far lower than anywhere in Europe, yet housing prices are comparable.

    Replies: @Old Prude

  148. @Dream
    Some Indian nationalists believe there is going to be a baklash against Indian Americans for their success from jealous far right as well as liberal whites.

    https://twitter.com/TheEmissaryCo/status/1614525579100823553?t=TvXFfw7x8XaV5uz7kZtNnA&s=19

    https://twitter.com/TheEmissaryCo/status/1614525583530115074?t=11W-9FR6stwHP3LpBpMWzg&s=19

    https://twitter.com/TheEmissaryCo/status/1614525586503786496?t=1JB3hap0dKDz5WSrBg5kBw&s=19

    Replies: @Colin Wright, @Anon, @JR Ewing, @Almost Missouri, @beavertales, @Sparkling Wiggle, @bomag, @lavoisier, @Louis renault, @Pastit

    Sitting Bull would beg to differ.

  149. Speaking of white women…. I saw Greta Thunberg at some rally in Germany.

    She’s now 20. And looks like she’s 12.

    ?

  150. @AnotherDad
    @Anon


    Indians didn’t drive up the price of homes in America. Boomers and Gen X did.
     
    Even on Sailer's site we get theese "geniuses".

    What drives real estate is supply and demand. The supply side includes things like building materials, construction labor costs and development overhead (satisfying the bureaucrats), as well--the biggie in expensive areas--"what does a lot cost in that area"

    The later is set by demand.

    The demand side is affected by peoples' incomes, interest rates and ... how many people there are in the market. And it's the later that's been the driver of unaffordability. (No one cares about the absolute change in prices--yeah, the dollar isn't worth what it was in 1965, so what. It's that housing has become much more expensive relative to working people's incomes.)

    Sure, if Boomers and GexX had never been born--all Americans just died off--real estate would be cheaper for the immigrants showing up here. But, of course, immigrants don't show up here to farm, they show up here because Americans--white people--built richer, more prosperous, less corrupt ... just all around better--nation than where they are from and so they'd rather be here.

    So yes, relative to a "normally operating country"--where people have children and those children are the ones who need housing, not "the world"--it is precisely immigration that has driven up housing prices. Huge swathes of the country--particularly large coastal metros--are occupied by significant numbers of immigrants. America in the last couple decades has simply flipped from its historic "cheap land, dear labor" heritage to an Asiatic housing market. And it isn't because Americans are having too many kids.

    And yes, if all 3 million Indians--with generally high incomes--were not here that would depressurize the UMC "good schools" part of the market quite a bit. I'd guess it would drop the whole market maybe 5%. If all 60 million "Hispanics" where not here it dramatically depressurize the market--particularly California--and drop overall prices probably over a quarter. If all post-1965 immigrants and their children were not here, housing would be near half what it is and back to America's historic housing affordability.

    Native American fertility is sub-replacement and in a properly run nation without our treasonous "elite" Americans would be reaping the benefits of that--uncrowded, affordable living.

    Replies: @Jack D, @Anon

    You start off right. The price of housing, like that of everything, is based on supply and demand and some of the idiotic posters seem to have no understanding of markets.

    But then you get off on your immigration tack. Since immigration is just one component of demand, you can’t rightfully assign 100% of the increase in demand JUST to immigration. Nevertheless, it’s not wrong to say that immigration has contributed to demand.

    By contrast, Japan, which has very little immigration and a declining population, also has very little housing demand. Japanese housing was never built to a high standard (they always figured it would get destroyed in the next earthquake/fire/tsunami anyway plus it was a poor country) and nowadays when old people die, especially out in the countryside, their houses just get abandoned because there are no buyers. The same thing happens in small rural towns in Italy. If you are a Japanese home owner or heir, it probably doesn’t make you happy that something that would be a valuable asset in other countries is worthless in your country.

    I think that worse things could happen to your country than having really valuable real estate. This is a sort of zero sum game – if housing is “affordable” to buyers that means that sellers aren’t getting much for their property. Generally speaking, economists don’t think that deflation is a good thing.

    • Replies: @Anon
    @Jack D

    Supply and demand has absolutely nothing to do with the housing market. The housing market is based on pure speculation and estrogen, not economic theory or logistics. It's an industry run by middle aged white women. There is not an even a photon of reason or theory involved, all of it boils down to whatever some woman thinks. If supply and demand were involved, American houses would have to be sold to the government for dismantling, because most of these homes are illegal and should be condemned by law.

    , @The Anti-Gnostic
    @Jack D

    if housing is “affordable” to buyers that means that sellers aren’t getting much for their property. Generally speaking, economists don’t think that deflation is a good thing.

    Right. We all remember the disaster that ensued when personal computers got affordable for the average household.

    Replies: @Jack D

    , @AnotherDad
    @Jack D


    But then you get off on your immigration tack. Since immigration is just one component of demand, you can’t rightfully assign 100% of the increase in demand JUST to immigration. Nevertheless, it’s not wrong to say that immigration has contributed to demand.
     
    Immigration is the salient factor in increased demand. This is not complicated. Not the least bit complicated.

    The rise in income obviously increases the demand for square footage and quality of housing. It is one of the things that people with higher incomes like to consume more of. But it's a factor that works--by definition--in parallel with income. What people are reacting to is the rise in housing compared to income--affordability.

    If--if--people were out buying bigger lots, that would pressurize land price. But that's not what's happening. Lot sizes in the coastal metros are going down. The land is so expensive builders jam more--but bigger--houses into an acre. No our waistlines are blowing up, but increasing lot sizes gobbling up more real estate is not what's driving this.

    ~~

    No the culprit is simply more demand from more people.

    Back 30-something years ago when I was buying my first house, price pressure could legimately be "Boomers!" All these damn boomers in their 30s buying houses, starting families.

    But that's simply not true, anymore. GenX was in the net--year by year--a smaller generation. Native American fertility has been sub-replacement for almost two generations now.

    No, the extra people that are fueling demand are no longer from births of native Americans. They are the extra 80 million odd people that are in America due to huge, post-1965 immigration wave. 60 millions Hispanics and 20 million Asians--groups that had basically negligible American populations when I was born.

    Would Silly Valley still have expensive real estate? Sure. Because of a boom in tech jobs and limited real estate. The same with several other areas. But America as a whole would not. There would not be a shortage of housing in "neighborhoods" with good schools in every major metro. That simply does not happen when a population is not producing larger and larger generations. (As your Japan example makes clear.)

    Replies: @Joe Stalin

  151. @Kylie
    @Art Deco

    The favorite Yogi Berra quotation in my family was, "Include me out."

    Replies: @AceDeuce, @Rusty Tailgate

    My favorite Yogi-ism is “It’s hard to make predictions, especially about the future.”

    • LOL: Kylie
  152. Anon[589] • Disclaimer says:
    @AnotherDad
    @Anon


    Indians didn’t drive up the price of homes in America. Boomers and Gen X did.
     
    Even on Sailer's site we get theese "geniuses".

    What drives real estate is supply and demand. The supply side includes things like building materials, construction labor costs and development overhead (satisfying the bureaucrats), as well--the biggie in expensive areas--"what does a lot cost in that area"

    The later is set by demand.

    The demand side is affected by peoples' incomes, interest rates and ... how many people there are in the market. And it's the later that's been the driver of unaffordability. (No one cares about the absolute change in prices--yeah, the dollar isn't worth what it was in 1965, so what. It's that housing has become much more expensive relative to working people's incomes.)

    Sure, if Boomers and GexX had never been born--all Americans just died off--real estate would be cheaper for the immigrants showing up here. But, of course, immigrants don't show up here to farm, they show up here because Americans--white people--built richer, more prosperous, less corrupt ... just all around better--nation than where they are from and so they'd rather be here.

    So yes, relative to a "normally operating country"--where people have children and those children are the ones who need housing, not "the world"--it is precisely immigration that has driven up housing prices. Huge swathes of the country--particularly large coastal metros--are occupied by significant numbers of immigrants. America in the last couple decades has simply flipped from its historic "cheap land, dear labor" heritage to an Asiatic housing market. And it isn't because Americans are having too many kids.

    And yes, if all 3 million Indians--with generally high incomes--were not here that would depressurize the UMC "good schools" part of the market quite a bit. I'd guess it would drop the whole market maybe 5%. If all 60 million "Hispanics" where not here it dramatically depressurize the market--particularly California--and drop overall prices probably over a quarter. If all post-1965 immigrants and their children were not here, housing would be near half what it is and back to America's historic housing affordability.

    Native American fertility is sub-replacement and in a properly run nation without our treasonous "elite" Americans would be reaping the benefits of that--uncrowded, affordable living.

    Replies: @Jack D, @Anon

    Oh my God you are so retarded, somebody needs to get you institutionalized. The cost of building a house has absolutely nothing to do with its price. The cost of the wood thst went in to building these 70 year old houses has nothing to do with their price in 2023. If houses were valued based on materials or workmanship, they would be valued at less than zero dollars, because they wilo invariably be declared toxic waste products due to the mold, lead, copper arsenate, asbestos, and other sorts of materials now declared illegal carcinogens, that are ubiquitous in mid-20th century construction. If houses in America were appraised based on material value, 99% of them would be worth less than zero, and many of them would be condemned as unsafe and destroyed. You may have heard of the lead poisoning crisis in American cities like Flint, MI (I guarantee you the Jefferson, Iowa house has the same lead plumbing fixtures and that its residents have comparable blood lead levels).

    You have done absolutely nothing to substantiate that the puny number of immigrants this country receives are inflating housing prices. This is nothing more than a right wing fantasy easily disproven by the fact that home prices skyrocketed in 2020-2021 despite immigration falling to the lowest levels in decades. Clearly lowering immigration is going to do jack shit to bring home prices down; immigration is a drop in the bucket but we all know how alt-right idiots are obsessed with drops.

    Native American fertility is sub-replacement and in a properly run nation without our treasonous “elite” Americans would be reaping the benefits of that–uncrowded, affordable living.

    There is no benefit to population decline and America’s population density remains far lower than anywhere in Europe, yet housing prices are comparable.

    • Disagree: Old Prude
    • Replies: @Old Prude
    @Anon

    Anon, you really are special. I was about to type "Supply and Demand", but you beat me to it with your next post: "Supply and demand has absolutely nothing to do with the housing market"

    Why is waterfront property so expensive?

    You sir, are an ass.

    Replies: @Anon

  153. Anon[589] • Disclaimer says:
    @Jack D
    @AnotherDad

    You start off right. The price of housing, like that of everything, is based on supply and demand and some of the idiotic posters seem to have no understanding of markets.

    But then you get off on your immigration tack. Since immigration is just one component of demand, you can't rightfully assign 100% of the increase in demand JUST to immigration. Nevertheless, it's not wrong to say that immigration has contributed to demand.

    By contrast, Japan, which has very little immigration and a declining population, also has very little housing demand. Japanese housing was never built to a high standard (they always figured it would get destroyed in the next earthquake/fire/tsunami anyway plus it was a poor country) and nowadays when old people die, especially out in the countryside, their houses just get abandoned because there are no buyers. The same thing happens in small rural towns in Italy. If you are a Japanese home owner or heir, it probably doesn't make you happy that something that would be a valuable asset in other countries is worthless in your country.

    I think that worse things could happen to your country than having really valuable real estate. This is a sort of zero sum game - if housing is "affordable" to buyers that means that sellers aren't getting much for their property. Generally speaking, economists don't think that deflation is a good thing.

    Replies: @Anon, @The Anti-Gnostic, @AnotherDad

    Supply and demand has absolutely nothing to do with the housing market. The housing market is based on pure speculation and estrogen, not economic theory or logistics. It’s an industry run by middle aged white women. There is not an even a photon of reason or theory involved, all of it boils down to whatever some woman thinks. If supply and demand were involved, American houses would have to be sold to the government for dismantling, because most of these homes are illegal and should be condemned by law.

  154. @Jack D
    @AnotherDad

    You start off right. The price of housing, like that of everything, is based on supply and demand and some of the idiotic posters seem to have no understanding of markets.

    But then you get off on your immigration tack. Since immigration is just one component of demand, you can't rightfully assign 100% of the increase in demand JUST to immigration. Nevertheless, it's not wrong to say that immigration has contributed to demand.

    By contrast, Japan, which has very little immigration and a declining population, also has very little housing demand. Japanese housing was never built to a high standard (they always figured it would get destroyed in the next earthquake/fire/tsunami anyway plus it was a poor country) and nowadays when old people die, especially out in the countryside, their houses just get abandoned because there are no buyers. The same thing happens in small rural towns in Italy. If you are a Japanese home owner or heir, it probably doesn't make you happy that something that would be a valuable asset in other countries is worthless in your country.

    I think that worse things could happen to your country than having really valuable real estate. This is a sort of zero sum game - if housing is "affordable" to buyers that means that sellers aren't getting much for their property. Generally speaking, economists don't think that deflation is a good thing.

    Replies: @Anon, @The Anti-Gnostic, @AnotherDad

    if housing is “affordable” to buyers that means that sellers aren’t getting much for their property. Generally speaking, economists don’t think that deflation is a good thing.

    Right. We all remember the disaster that ensued when personal computers got affordable for the average household.

    • Replies: @Jack D
    @The Anti-Gnostic

    Not the same thing at all. A computer is not very expensive and was always understood to be a rapidly depreciating asset. A house is usually people's most valuable asset and one that they expect (or at least) hope will at least retain and hopefully increase in value over time. If houses depreciated like computers no lender would loan you money for them, at least not on a 30 yr schedule and that would make housing even less affordable.

    You're right though that computers are crazy cheap. I just bought a 3 yr old Dell laptop on ebay for $100 (it's also going to need another $50 in parts) with a respectably fast i5 cpu. I use it mainly for web browsing and word processing so it is more than fast enough. You could easily spend $150 on dinner for two in a mediocre restaurant. $150 today is nothing for a machine with those capabilities.

    Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic, @AnotherDad, @Anonymous

  155. @JR Ewing
    @Dream

    I don't begrudge our local Indians because I'm jealous of them.

    I don't like them because they drive up real estate prices with their ugly gargantuan McMansions, they smell bad, and they're bad drivers. That's reason enough.

    Replies: @Anon, @Colin Wright, @Renard, @SOL

    And because there are a billion and a half of them, which would cause problems even if they weren’t so objectionable and aggressive.

    Sort of like the four billion Africans on the way. Even if they weren’t (fill in the blank), four billion Africans can and will wreck every civilized society on the planet.

  156. @Pixo
    @Pat Hannagan

    I think he has two, which would be higher than the TFR of either insular Irish or Irish-Americans.

    Congratulations to you. And to me. My third is on the way. Mother has partial mickie ancestry and I have ulster, the kids will be raised orange.

    https://img.favpng.com/1/12/8/flag-of-northern-ireland-ulster-banner-flag-of-ireland-red-hand-of-ulster-png-favpng-w2kDFehbjJY8KLCf4SHdRiiqL.jpg

    Replies: @Rohirrimborn

    That banner is correct. All of Northern Ireland is in Ulster. What many don’t know is that not all of Ulster is in Northern Ireland. My orange ancestors are from Donegal in Ulster but also the Republic of Ireland.

  157. @The Anti-Gnostic
    @Jack D

    if housing is “affordable” to buyers that means that sellers aren’t getting much for their property. Generally speaking, economists don’t think that deflation is a good thing.

    Right. We all remember the disaster that ensued when personal computers got affordable for the average household.

    Replies: @Jack D

    Not the same thing at all. A computer is not very expensive and was always understood to be a rapidly depreciating asset. A house is usually people’s most valuable asset and one that they expect (or at least) hope will at least retain and hopefully increase in value over time. If houses depreciated like computers no lender would loan you money for them, at least not on a 30 yr schedule and that would make housing even less affordable.

    You’re right though that computers are crazy cheap. I just bought a 3 yr old Dell laptop on ebay for $100 (it’s also going to need another $50 in parts) with a respectably fast i5 cpu. I use it mainly for web browsing and word processing so it is more than fast enough. You could easily spend $150 on dinner for two in a mediocre restaurant. $150 today is nothing for a machine with those capabilities.

    • Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic
    @Jack D

    If houses depreciated like computers no lender would loan you money for them, at least not on a 30 yr schedule and that would make housing even less affordable.

    It's the other way around. If houses depreciated like computers, they would be more affordable and you wouldn't need a 30-year mortgage to get one.

    Of course, this doesn't happen because as everyone knows you're also buying land, which is a non-renewable. And when you add at least 1 million people a year all looking for a place to live, and the Eloi tax as everyone bids for white neighbors, then land starts getting very expensive indeed.

    A final note: inflation is running around 8%, mortgage rates are around 5% and buyers are spotting the arbitrage and still buying housing in the Sunbelt. Wells Fargo now says they'll only make home loans to existing customers, wealthy customers and negroes (which is illegal but oh well).

    Replies: @Brutusale, @Jack D

    , @AnotherDad
    @Jack D


    A house is usually people’s most valuable asset ,,,
     
    No, most American's most valuable asset is being Americans.

    Living in a place, built by Western Christian Euros, with rule-of-law, freedom, good social trust, prosperity and lots and of available land for themselves and their children to live--and not competing in the world labor market, but the prosperous American one.

    Or at least it was. That asset is being intentionally pissed away by our traitorous elites.

    Replies: @Jack D

    , @Anonymous
    @Jack D

    Computer prices were crazy a couple of years ago. This is a necessary correction. If you need a computer now is the time to buy.

  158. @Herbert R. Tarlek, Jr.
    @JR Ewing

    I think he also killed his cats in his apartment before he left to go kill the reporter girl.

    Can confirm. I distinctly remember that about the story. They also found dildoes in his house with "human material" on them.

    He was a pretty interesting character, and not in a good way.

    Replies: @Rusty Tailgate

    They also found dildoes in his house with “human material” on them.

    Got to imagine the vast majority of guys who shove dildos up their dumpers are not going around killing people.

  159. @Prester John
    @ginger bread man

    This is the same reasoning behind turning MLK's birthday into a legal holiday (which, tellingly, is not observed by most of the business community in this country).

    Replies: @Renard, @CalCooledge, @possumman

    Ahem. Juneteenth is now a federal holiday, and my Android spell check isn’t up to date, it turns out.

    But yes, to Arclight’s point: the endless pandering makes blacks happy on the surface, but even they (well, many of them) can tell that it undermines rather than supports genuine self-esteem.

    Someone here put it well: hard work, self-discipline, and solid values make for healthy self-regard. They’re getting further and further away from this.

  160. @Corvinus
    @Steve Sailer

    You are way beyond your skis here, Mr. Sailer. Stay on the novice hill.

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29094963/

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4274585/

    https://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ps.

    —“Clinicians must rule out other potential causes of symptoms, including mood disorders, before the diagnosis of schizophrenia is given," said Michael Gara, a professor of psychiatry at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and a faculty member at Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care. "However, there has been a tendency for clinicians to overemphasize the relevance of psychotic symptoms and overlook symptoms of major depression in African-Americans compared with other racial or ethnic groups. No studies show that African-Americans with schizophrenia are more likely to also have major depression."—

    “these days people feel it important to clear the names of the white victims from the charge of racism, which, apparently, would mean they had it coming”

    False conclusion.

    Replies: @rebel yell

    “Schizophrenia: Long known to be heritable (twins & adoptees). Now, some genes & neuro mechanisms are being found.” – Steven Pinker
    Sorry Corvinus, but Schizophrenia is another example that blacks are more dysfunctional than everyone else and that it is due to genetics. You might as well accept reality – you won’t have to wring your hands and clutch your pearls so much.

    • Replies: @Corvinus
    @rebel yell

    You clearly didn’t read the sources. I get it. Way past your pay grade.

  161. @Anon
    @JR Ewing

    Resentful liberal city renter? How's that work out? Nobody in liberal cities is resentful. Resentment is what rednecks feel. Always complaining about how they can't win elections, can't get their dicks hard because they have inhaled lead vapors from firearms exhaust all their lives, can't get a girlfriend because rural girls want to move to the liberal cities, can't get a job because Mexicans stole it even though there are no jobs and no Mexicans because no one in your community can create jobs, because they're all bedridden fat fucks with atherosclerosis.

    Always complaining about transsexuals even though they've never seen a legitimate one in their entire lives, even though your average middle aged country woman could qualify as a trannie. Always complaining about "child grooming" even though there are no kids to groom. Always complaining about black people even though they've never seen a black person in their entire life and never will.

    Always complaining about taxes and welfare even though rural America consumes an outsized share of federal tax dollars and its shit-tier agricultural economy is subsidized by the federal government.

    https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/states-federal-taxes-spending-charts-maps/


    Most Red States Take More Money From Washington Than They Put In

    Even as Republicans gripe about deficit spending, their states get 30 cents more federal spending per tax dollar than their Democratic neighbors.
     
    Just another case of rednecks biting the hand that feeds them.

    Replies: @Rusty Tailgate, @Renard, @bomag, @Reg Cæsar

    The main attraction of living in the country is that you do not. It easily makes up for the lack of Thai restaurants.

    • Thanks: That Would Be Telling
    • LOL: JR Ewing
    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @Rusty Tailgate


    The main attraction of living in the country is that you do not. It easily makes up for the lack of Thai restaurants.
     
    The great thing about Thai restaurants is that they demonstrate that you do not need more than a few immigrants to establish a cuisine here. Afghan (until recently) and Nepali eateries are other examples.

    Many, probably most, immigrants from Thailand are ethnic Hmong and other refugees, whose own parents were born in neighboring countries. They are not restaurateurs! (Though I do recommend Hmong sausage-- weirdly European for Asia. Maybe their legends about originating in Europe have some merit. The occasional baby is born blond.)
  162. @Jack D
    @hhsiii

    Whether it's good or bad, it's a lot better than the $7,800 monthly payment that you would have in Mountain View. And if you are a public school teacher in Mountain View, no one is going to pay you $530k in salary. Even if you work at Google, they are not going to pay you that unless you are a fairly high ranking exec. Aside from the fact that you have to live in Jefferson, which is presumably to your liking in the 1st place or else you wouldn't be buying a house there, it's actually a pretty good deal.

    Replies: @Anon, @hhsiii

    Agreed. It’s not gonna break them, and in 30 years we’ll see. I was trying to seee if there was a Tractor Supply store nearby.

    • Replies: @Jack D
    @hhsiii

    I think the nearest Tractor Supply is 50 miles away on the I-80 on the western fringes of Des Moines. Tractor Supply nowadays is yuppified and not a real feed store. There is a real feed store in Ogden which is like 20 mi./20 min. from Jefferson, which is nothing in local terms.

    Replies: @hhsiii

  163. @Kylie
    @Art Deco

    The favorite Yogi Berra quotation in my family was, "Include me out."

    Replies: @AceDeuce, @Rusty Tailgate

    That was Sam Goldwyn.

    • Replies: @Kylie
    @Rusty Tailgate

    "@Kylie
    That was Sam Goldwyn."

    Was it really? I'm not surprised. My dad, a big fan of the movie "Acropolis Now", said it was Yogi Berra.

  164. @Buzz Mohawk
    @Art Deco

    My favorite Yogi Berra quote: "You can observe a lot by watching."

    What I like most about that comment from that Anon [396] is that he has made me a Jew:


    You people are just the ultimate Jews.

     

    I gladly accept the honor.


    You see, the anti-Semites here think I'm a Jew, and the Jews here think I'm an anti-Semite. It's the story of my life*

    *My paternal grandfather is rumored to have been a Jew. Certainly our family name was adopted by some Jewish families, though it is thoroughly English. I never got the opportunity to know him well, and our family doesn't seem to know him any better, but he fit the stereotype in that he did own a grocery store in San Francisco for a time, and he did work in California politics, etc.

    I surely hope he was, even though I don't look the least bit the part of a Jewish grandson.

    Replies: @Anon, @hhsiii

    My 3 favorite Yogi Berra quotes (he lived about a 1/2 mile from me in Montclair, NJ; the first 2 may be apocryphal):

    We’re here for the venetian blinds: I gave at the office;

    [upon receiving a check made to bearer]: You’d think they’d get my name right;

    and, when I asked him when I was 9 at the local skating rink why he didn’t play Cleon Jones more: “You too, kid?”

    • Thanks: Buzz Mohawk
  165. • Replies: @Renard
    @JohnnyWalker123

    Thanks for posting these. People here need to know what's going on among normies. I try to avoid them and their antics as much as possible, but I need to be reminded.

  166. @hhsiii
    @Jack D

    Agreed. It's not gonna break them, and in 30 years we'll see. I was trying to seee if there was a Tractor Supply store nearby.

    Replies: @Jack D

    I think the nearest Tractor Supply is 50 miles away on the I-80 on the western fringes of Des Moines. Tractor Supply nowadays is yuppified and not a real feed store. There is a real feed store in Ogden which is like 20 mi./20 min. from Jefferson, which is nothing in local terms.

    • Replies: @hhsiii
    @Jack D

    I was thinking how much a store manager at Tractor Supply could pay for a house in Jefferson. I get that it’s yuppafied. My wife picked up a box of peanut brittle once on a road trip. I guess Jefferson is more real feed store territory.

  167. Does this mean they’ll have to rename the Fields Medal?

    • Agree: bomag
  168. @YetAnotherAnon
    OT, but it looks as if Poland have taken back Galicia, a sneaky move - in fact a right dolchstoss.

    https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dolchstoss-im-Rucken


    https://i.postimg.cc/cCzBfb7K/tvp1.jpg

    TVP1 is state television, BBC equivalent.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVP1

    TVP1 (TVP Jeden, Program I Telewizji Polskiej, "Jedynka") is the main public television channel of TVP (Telewizja Polska S.A.), Poland's national television broadcaster. It was the first Polish channel to be broadcast and remains one of the most popular today. TVP1 was launched 25 October 1952.
     

    Replies: @Cagey Beast, @Almost Missouri, @polaco, @Pixo, @Jack D, @Reg Cæsar, @Lex

    OT, but it looks as if Poland have taken back Galicia…

    A Coruña is nice in the summer, much more comfortable than the East Coast of Iberia.

  169. @Jack D
    @The Anti-Gnostic

    Not the same thing at all. A computer is not very expensive and was always understood to be a rapidly depreciating asset. A house is usually people's most valuable asset and one that they expect (or at least) hope will at least retain and hopefully increase in value over time. If houses depreciated like computers no lender would loan you money for them, at least not on a 30 yr schedule and that would make housing even less affordable.

    You're right though that computers are crazy cheap. I just bought a 3 yr old Dell laptop on ebay for $100 (it's also going to need another $50 in parts) with a respectably fast i5 cpu. I use it mainly for web browsing and word processing so it is more than fast enough. You could easily spend $150 on dinner for two in a mediocre restaurant. $150 today is nothing for a machine with those capabilities.

    Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic, @AnotherDad, @Anonymous

    If houses depreciated like computers no lender would loan you money for them, at least not on a 30 yr schedule and that would make housing even less affordable.

    It’s the other way around. If houses depreciated like computers, they would be more affordable and you wouldn’t need a 30-year mortgage to get one.

    Of course, this doesn’t happen because as everyone knows you’re also buying land, which is a non-renewable. And when you add at least 1 million people a year all looking for a place to live, and the Eloi tax as everyone bids for white neighbors, then land starts getting very expensive indeed.

    A final note: inflation is running around 8%, mortgage rates are around 5% and buyers are spotting the arbitrage and still buying housing in the Sunbelt. Wells Fargo now says they’ll only make home loans to existing customers, wealthy customers and negroes (which is illegal but oh well).

    • Replies: @Brutusale
    @The Anti-Gnostic

    Wells Fargo is led by geniuses!

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/airline-news/2023/01/08/wells-fargo-shankar-mishra-arrested-peeing-flight/11013050002/

    , @Jack D
    @The Anti-Gnostic

    Houses don't depreciate like computers because not only is the land indestructible but the other improvements have long useful lives. Your Chinese laptop motherboard is going to fry itself in 3 years even if Intel did not introduce 13th generation processors that are 10x faster than 11th generation ones but the roof on your house is going to last 30 years and at the end of 30 years, roof shingles will still be about the same as they were 30 years ago.

    Also there have been no technological breakthrus that have reduced the cost of housing. If the way that you bought a car was that a crew came to your driveway and built it there, cars would be really expensive too. For various reasons, factory built housing has not caught on.

    Replies: @Art Deco

  170. @Prester John
    @ginger bread man

    This is the same reasoning behind turning MLK's birthday into a legal holiday (which, tellingly, is not observed by most of the business community in this country).

    Replies: @Renard, @CalCooledge, @possumman

    The WokeCorp where I am employed gave us the day off, but I worked a full 8 hours. I don’t observe propaganda holidays.

    • Replies: @Renard
    @CalCooledge

    In my office, the blacks take black holidays off, just as jews take jewish holidays. Everyone else works.

    Yes, there are also a few holidays that everyone gets off, but that's beside the point. There certainly aren't any white or christian holidays where nonwhites and nonchristians work!

  171. @Jack D
    @AnotherDad

    You start off right. The price of housing, like that of everything, is based on supply and demand and some of the idiotic posters seem to have no understanding of markets.

    But then you get off on your immigration tack. Since immigration is just one component of demand, you can't rightfully assign 100% of the increase in demand JUST to immigration. Nevertheless, it's not wrong to say that immigration has contributed to demand.

    By contrast, Japan, which has very little immigration and a declining population, also has very little housing demand. Japanese housing was never built to a high standard (they always figured it would get destroyed in the next earthquake/fire/tsunami anyway plus it was a poor country) and nowadays when old people die, especially out in the countryside, their houses just get abandoned because there are no buyers. The same thing happens in small rural towns in Italy. If you are a Japanese home owner or heir, it probably doesn't make you happy that something that would be a valuable asset in other countries is worthless in your country.

    I think that worse things could happen to your country than having really valuable real estate. This is a sort of zero sum game - if housing is "affordable" to buyers that means that sellers aren't getting much for their property. Generally speaking, economists don't think that deflation is a good thing.

    Replies: @Anon, @The Anti-Gnostic, @AnotherDad

    But then you get off on your immigration tack. Since immigration is just one component of demand, you can’t rightfully assign 100% of the increase in demand JUST to immigration. Nevertheless, it’s not wrong to say that immigration has contributed to demand.

    Immigration is the salient factor in increased demand. This is not complicated. Not the least bit complicated.

    The rise in income obviously increases the demand for square footage and quality of housing. It is one of the things that people with higher incomes like to consume more of. But it’s a factor that works–by definition–in parallel with income. What people are reacting to is the rise in housing compared to income–affordability.

    If–if–people were out buying bigger lots, that would pressurize land price. But that’s not what’s happening. Lot sizes in the coastal metros are going down. The land is so expensive builders jam more–but bigger–houses into an acre. No our waistlines are blowing up, but increasing lot sizes gobbling up more real estate is not what’s driving this.

    ~~

    No the culprit is simply more demand from more people.

    Back 30-something years ago when I was buying my first house, price pressure could legimately be “Boomers!” All these damn boomers in their 30s buying houses, starting families.

    But that’s simply not true, anymore. GenX was in the net–year by year–a smaller generation. Native American fertility has been sub-replacement for almost two generations now.

    No, the extra people that are fueling demand are no longer from births of native Americans. They are the extra 80 million odd people that are in America due to huge, post-1965 immigration wave. 60 millions Hispanics and 20 million Asians–groups that had basically negligible American populations when I was born.

    Would Silly Valley still have expensive real estate? Sure. Because of a boom in tech jobs and limited real estate. The same with several other areas. But America as a whole would not. There would not be a shortage of housing in “neighborhoods” with good schools in every major metro. That simply does not happen when a population is not producing larger and larger generations. (As your Japan example makes clear.)

    • Replies: @Joe Stalin
    @AnotherDad


    No, the extra people that are fueling demand are no longer from births of native Americans.

    Would Silly Valley still have expensive real estate? Sure. Because of a boom in tech jobs and limited real estate. The same with several other areas. But America as a whole would not.

     
    US business making the pitch here to insconce tech foreigners in America and to put STEM natives in their place.

    DON’T DRIVE AWAY SMART STUDENTS

    Since 2000, over 50,000 Chinese Ph.D. students in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math have remained in the United States following their studies at American universities, generating cutting-edge research and founding start-ups valued collectively at $100 billion. For example, Yi Cui, after completing his undergraduate degree in China, came to Harvard University to pursue a Ph.D. in physical chemistry. Since graduating in 2002, he went on to become one of the world’s leading experts in nanotechnology at Stanford University and founded Amprius, a $600 million company that was recently awarded a contract by the U.S. Army to power next-generation tactical gear.

    Outcompeting China for talent like Cui is key to preserving American techno-scientific primacy. But winning this competition is becoming more difficult due to restrictive U.S. visa policies and worsening relations between the two countries. Despite this, we believe that the time is ripe for the United States to redouble its efforts. In recent years Chinese leader Xi Jinping has made a strategic error, undermining the sources of Chinese economic growth and innovation by seeking greater control over universities and private markets. Xi’s policies of centralizing power are pushing away scientists and entrepreneurs, who the United States should be eager to recruit. By embracing policies to attract and retain disaffected Chinese talent — such as creating a more targeted migration screening process and providing green cards for Ph.D. students graduating from U.S. universities — Washington can continue to out-innovate its opponents in Beijing.

    Brain Gain

    Chinese nationals coming to the United States for higher education and research have been a core part of the U.S.-Chinese relationship for nearly 50 years. Beginning in the late 1970s, China’s leaders began to send scholars overseas for academic and scientific exchanges based on Deng Xiaoping’s “Open Door” policy to rebuild the country’s economy following the Cultural Revolution. These exchanges were carefully controlled by the national government and limited to a few years abroad for established, mid-career scholars. However, by the 1980s scholars were allowed greater independence in arranging and self-funding travel, resulting in explosive growth in the number and type of exchanges taking place.

    https://warontherocks.com/2023/01/dont-drive-away-smart-students/
     
    Notice BRAIN GAIN to replace BRAIN CIRCULATION from two decades back by American industry.

    Replies: @Jim Don Bob, @bomag

  172. @Jack D
    @The Anti-Gnostic

    Not the same thing at all. A computer is not very expensive and was always understood to be a rapidly depreciating asset. A house is usually people's most valuable asset and one that they expect (or at least) hope will at least retain and hopefully increase in value over time. If houses depreciated like computers no lender would loan you money for them, at least not on a 30 yr schedule and that would make housing even less affordable.

    You're right though that computers are crazy cheap. I just bought a 3 yr old Dell laptop on ebay for $100 (it's also going to need another $50 in parts) with a respectably fast i5 cpu. I use it mainly for web browsing and word processing so it is more than fast enough. You could easily spend $150 on dinner for two in a mediocre restaurant. $150 today is nothing for a machine with those capabilities.

    Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic, @AnotherDad, @Anonymous

    A house is usually people’s most valuable asset ,,,

    No, most American’s most valuable asset is being Americans.

    Living in a place, built by Western Christian Euros, with rule-of-law, freedom, good social trust, prosperity and lots and of available land for themselves and their children to live–and not competing in the world labor market, but the prosperous American one.

    Or at least it was. That asset is being intentionally pissed away by our traitorous elites.

    • Replies: @Jack D
    @AnotherDad

    I see AD reciting this in front of a giant American flag while patriotic music plays in the background. Like the opening scene of Patton:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS5yfhPGaWE

    OK, cut the patriotic speech with the guarantied applause lines and get back to the real world. Their home equity is most people's #1 financial asset.

    Replies: @Old Prude

  173. More divershitty:
    This is the official government website for Medicare and Medicaid. Top of main page. CMS.gov. Is this China Medicaid or American Medicaid? And do they actually fight disease .. or inequity?

    View post on imgur.com

    • Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
    @Father Coughlin

    You should see the NHS websites in the UK! Especially Scotland, which while having the least diversity goes for it big-time.

    https://www.nhsinform.scot/

    There seems to be a mindset among middle class nationalists in Scotland/Wales/Ireland that if England makes x gestures towards "diversity", then they must make 2x or 3x gestures, given that England is "conservative" and Scotland/Wales/Ireland are "progressive".

    Replies: @Father Coughlin

  174. @Anon
    @Dream

    Isn't much of this SMB success that the brown people get government grants, aid, loans, etc while whites do not.

    Replies: @Skyler the Weird, @Ron Mexico

    Bingo! I’ve seen this firsthand with regards to 2 local motels. Indians purchase, bring over “family members”, put on payroll, eventually one of them takes over management while original owner purchases another motel, starts process over.

    • Replies: @Jim Don Bob
    @Ron Mexico

    They get low rate loans from the Small Business Administration because they are disadvantaged minorities.

  175. OT – The Sicario lifestyle, now available in Anytown, USA:

    California murder of six, including teenage mother and infant, likely gang or cartel related: sheriff

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-murder-of-six-including-teenage-mother-and-infant-likely-gang-or-cartel-related-sheriff

    “Boudreaux said the attack was targeted and the victims were shot in the head or other places the shooter knew would result in a quick death.”

    Muy Vibrante!!

  176. Intersectionality – A double murder at the corner of Crazy Black Boulevard and Gay Rage Way.

  177. @Dream
    Some Indian nationalists believe there is going to be a baklash against Indian Americans for their success from jealous far right as well as liberal whites.

    https://twitter.com/TheEmissaryCo/status/1614525579100823553?t=TvXFfw7x8XaV5uz7kZtNnA&s=19

    https://twitter.com/TheEmissaryCo/status/1614525583530115074?t=11W-9FR6stwHP3LpBpMWzg&s=19

    https://twitter.com/TheEmissaryCo/status/1614525586503786496?t=1JB3hap0dKDz5WSrBg5kBw&s=19

    Replies: @Colin Wright, @Anon, @JR Ewing, @Almost Missouri, @beavertales, @Sparkling Wiggle, @bomag, @lavoisier, @Louis renault, @Pastit

    Indians are extremely racist. They only hire and promote their own. They need to be checked.

  178. @Almost Missouri
    @YetAnotherAnon


    Poland have taken back Galicia
     
    I support this. Poland gets a measure of their former glory, Western Ukraine gets better, less corrupt government, NATO gets its desired expansion without nakedly breaking its own rules, and since Poland and Russia are not at war, everyone can stop fighting.

    I know, I know, the Poles and their neocon backers would find some way to restart hostilities as a straight NATO-on-Russia fight. But a man can dream.

    Replies: @Inquiring Mind, @JoaoAlfaiate

    Instead of dividing the Ukraine won’t it make more sense to partition Poland-for its own good-so it doesn’t provoke a hopeless war with Russia or Germany? I understand continental statesmen have made dividing Poland something of a European tradition.

    • Replies: @Almost Missouri
    @JoaoAlfaiate

    Yes, now that Poland has turned out to be another political factional tail agitating to wag the larger geopolitical dog into biting the tail's factional enemy, it makes one wonder if the old Hapsburg, Romanov, and Hohenzollern empires weren't so bad after all.

  179. @The Anti-Gnostic
    OT - the UGA pro football team suffered a loss after the College Super Bowl. One of its giant black linemen was killed in a single car accident after partying past 2 a.m. The other fatality was a UGA "staff member." Apparently these programs really do supply girls for the team to party with. They call them "recruiting analysts." They also apparently get big, top-heavy SUV's to drive around.

    https://twitter.com/jordanxdavis99/status/1614643630316163072

    One day we are going to find out that so much s*** goes on in these programs.

    Replies: @Alec Leamas (working from home), @Anonymous, @The Wild Geese Howard, @Pastit, @Anonymous

    College promoted prostitution.

  180. @Rusty Tailgate
    @Kylie

    That was Sam Goldwyn.

    Replies: @Kylie


    That was Sam Goldwyn.”

    Was it really? I’m not surprised. My dad, a big fan of the movie “Acropolis Now”, said it was Yogi Berra.

  181. @Jack D
    @YetAnotherAnon

    This is some kind of Russian disinformation bullshit that is circulating on Telegram. I don't know who or what that lady is but it's not TVP1. What Polish weather forecast would show only 2 cities in the entire country (just one of which happens to be Lviv)?

    You can go to the TVP1 website itself and see for yourself. Here is their actual weather forecast:

    https://www.tvp.info/65332338/17012023-0654

    You probably won't be able to play the video but you can see the opening still which shows what the real TVP1 weather map looks like. Don't assume that everything you see on Russian Telegram is true. In fact, don't assume that ANYTHING you see on Russian Telegram is true.

    Replies: @International Jew, @YetAnotherAnon

    Thanks. That map did look pretty weird.

  182. @Skyler the Weird
    @Anon

    .....plus Nepotism. You need to take care of your extended family including in laws.

    And Remember to these Brahmins, both far right and far left whites and blacks are Dalits, untouchables.

    Replies: @Hope, @Anonymous

    Brahmins are only minority among indian Americans.

    • Replies: @CCG
    @Hope

    He got the words wrong. Replace "Brahmins" with "Dharmics" and "Dalits" with "mlecchas".

  183. @CalCooledge
    @Prester John

    The WokeCorp where I am employed gave us the day off, but I worked a full 8 hours. I don't observe propaganda holidays.

    Replies: @Renard

    In my office, the blacks take black holidays off, just as jews take jewish holidays. Everyone else works.

    Yes, there are also a few holidays that everyone gets off, but that’s beside the point. There certainly aren’t any white or christian holidays where nonwhites and nonchristians work!

  184. @Anon
    @JR Ewing

    Resentful liberal city renter? How's that work out? Nobody in liberal cities is resentful. Resentment is what rednecks feel. Always complaining about how they can't win elections, can't get their dicks hard because they have inhaled lead vapors from firearms exhaust all their lives, can't get a girlfriend because rural girls want to move to the liberal cities, can't get a job because Mexicans stole it even though there are no jobs and no Mexicans because no one in your community can create jobs, because they're all bedridden fat fucks with atherosclerosis.

    Always complaining about transsexuals even though they've never seen a legitimate one in their entire lives, even though your average middle aged country woman could qualify as a trannie. Always complaining about "child grooming" even though there are no kids to groom. Always complaining about black people even though they've never seen a black person in their entire life and never will.

    Always complaining about taxes and welfare even though rural America consumes an outsized share of federal tax dollars and its shit-tier agricultural economy is subsidized by the federal government.

    https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/states-federal-taxes-spending-charts-maps/


    Most Red States Take More Money From Washington Than They Put In

    Even as Republicans gripe about deficit spending, their states get 30 cents more federal spending per tax dollar than their Democratic neighbors.
     
    Just another case of rednecks biting the hand that feeds them.

    Replies: @Rusty Tailgate, @Renard, @bomag, @Reg Cæsar

    Not aimed at anon, but at anyone who’s actually interested. The facts of the matter are much more complex than outlets like Mother Jones (or CNN etc) would ever admit.

    Most of the liberal agitprop on this topic is fairly turned on its head upon closer examination. For example, where do billionaires live? NY and Calif. Where are military bases [defense expenditures] located? Red states. Obviously there are exceptions but this is just one example.

    https://thefederalist.com/2017/11/17/red-states-tax-takers-blue-states-tax-makers/

    • Agree: HammerJack
    • Replies: @Anon
    @Renard

    Mitary bases are a drop in the bucket for tax expenditures.

    Replies: @Renard, @Brutusale, @Joe Stalin, @Reg Cæsar, @Jack D

  185. @Alec Leamas (working from home)
    @The Anti-Gnostic

    We've all heard the rumors but it's somewhat likely that they're intended as adult babysitters who keep the players out of legal trouble by acting as designated drivers, fixers, etc. They probably need a title other than "team gofer" for NCAA rules purposes. The "recruiting analyst" was the operator of the vehicle in question.

    Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic, @Mike Tre, @Herbert R. Tarlek, Jr., @duncsbaby, @Coemgen

    Adult babysitter is a quaint term for it.

  186. @Bill Jones
    If only the nutter had moved to San Francisco.




    In a spectacular display of what happens when woke politics intersects utter financial illiteracy, a San Francisco government advisory committee on reparations has recommended the city pay eligible black residents age 18 years and older $5 million apiece. 

    That's just the headline recommendation of the San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee (AARAC), which was created by the city's board of supervisors amid 2020's nationwide racial tumult. 
     
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/san-fran-city-panel-urges-reparations-5-million-black-adult

    Replies: @AceDeuce, @Art Deco

    a San Francisco government advisory committee on reparations has recommended the city pay eligible black residents age 18 years and older $5 million apiece.

    O.J. was born and grew up in post WWII Frisco. That would be a nice windfall. $ 5 mil might allow him to murder one, maybe two more White girls….

  187. @Father Coughlin
    More divershitty:
    This is the official government website for Medicare and Medicaid. Top of main page. CMS.gov. Is this China Medicaid or American Medicaid? And do they actually fight disease .. or inequity?

    https://imgur.com/a/vhRFQWn

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon

    You should see the NHS websites in the UK! Especially Scotland, which while having the least diversity goes for it big-time.

    https://www.nhsinform.scot/

    There seems to be a mindset among middle class nationalists in Scotland/Wales/Ireland that if England makes x gestures towards “diversity”, then they must make 2x or 3x gestures, given that England is “conservative” and Scotland/Wales/Ireland are “progressive”.

    • Replies: @Father Coughlin
    @YetAnotherAnon

    Interesting post about the provinces beyond the pale. I wonder if they're low-key trying to support the demographic destruction of the hated English by "pressuring" England to get further and further woke? Of course they're not doing their own nations any favors either.

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon

  188. @Sgt. Joe Friday
    Back in 1987 PSA fired a black ramp worker. He decided he was going to settle that score by boarding a flight from LAX to SFO, shooting both pilots to death and sending the plane into a 700 MPH nosedive, crashing near San Luis Obispo. 43 people in all killed.

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon

    That “black ramp worker” was a true-born Englishman, I’ll have you know.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1771

    (The crash site was located by that aggressive tranny helicopter guy).

    David Augustus Burke (18 May 1952 – 7 December 1987) was born in Croydon, England, to Jamaican parents. Burke later emigrated to the United States with his parents. He had previously worked for USAir in Rochester, New York, where he was a suspect in a drug-smuggling ring that was bringing cocaine from Jamaica to Rochester via the airline. Never officially charged, he reportedly relocated to Los Angeles to avoid future suspicions. Some former girlfriends, neighbors, and law enforcement officials described him as a violent man before the events of Flight 1771. He had seven children from four women, but never married.

    • Replies: @Renard
    @YetAnotherAnon


    He had seven children from four women
     
    Correction: seven he admitted to.

    PS: imagine if a white guy brought down a plane full of black people.

    PPS: looks like Richard Pryor.

    , @AceDeuce
    @YetAnotherAnon

    That filthy schitt-colored evil niggwar was responsible for sweeping changes behind the scenes--even if there was little media coverage. The FAA instituted 10 year mandatory background checks for all airport workers (this criminal piece of dogschitt would have been rejected by any sane organization) They also tightened up on the handling of ramp passes and other credentials big time, and they caused pretty much every big company to mandate that key employees traveling together to a conference, etc. had to separate onto different aircraft to and from the destination--several high ranking execs for both Pacific Bell and Chevron were on that flight.

  189. @Renard
    @Anon

    Not aimed at anon, but at anyone who's actually interested. The facts of the matter are much more complex than outlets like Mother Jones (or CNN etc) would ever admit.

    Most of the liberal agitprop on this topic is fairly turned on its head upon closer examination. For example, where do billionaires live? NY and Calif. Where are military bases [defense expenditures] located? Red states. Obviously there are exceptions but this is just one example.

    https://thefederalist.com/2017/11/17/red-states-tax-takers-blue-states-tax-makers/

    Replies: @Anon

    Mitary bases are a drop in the bucket for tax expenditures.

    • Replies: @Renard
    @Anon

    IKR? The military ("defense") budget is totally trivial. Like a rounding error or something.

    , @Brutusale
    @Anon

    Yeah, 750 bases in 80 countries, can't cost much, right?

    https://www.thesoldiersproject.org/how-many-us-military-bases-are-there-in-the-world/

    , @Joe Stalin
    @Anon


    Mitary bases are a drop in the bucket for tax expenditures.
     
    We got a LOT of US bases.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YR2TxHkb4c
    , @Reg Cæsar
    @Anon


    Mitary [sic] bases are a drop in the bucket for tax expenditures.
     
    Funny, that's not what the left has been telling us for years:



    https://blog.usni.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/bake_sale1.jpg

    Replies: @Anon, @Brutusale

    , @Jack D
    @Anon

    It depends what you mean. Yes, most of the cost is for the personnel so if you closed all the foreign bases and moved the military home then the costs would not go down much. Might even go up because on some foreign bases local service workers are paid in lower local wages. A lot of American bases are kept open to please influential Congressmen but if they close them and move the troops elsewhere you don't really save that much. Shrinking the military would save $ but that's not happenin' any more, what with Russia and China making trouble.

    BTW, that "80 countries" thing is exaggerated - a lot of those 80 are not significant facilities. We have a maybe 100 American soldiers in Canada and that's one of the 80. The #15th largest # of troops is in Cuba with 700 troops at Gitmo and from #16 to 80 the number is all below 700 in each country so we could make it 15 countries instead of 80 and it wouldn't move the needle on the defense budget. The largest # are right where they have been since WWII and the Korean War - Japan, Germany and S. Korea. Out of the 173,000 troops overseas, 112,000 are in just those 3 countries.

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/10/infographic-us-military-presence-around-the-world-interactive

  190. @Anon
    @Renard

    Mitary bases are a drop in the bucket for tax expenditures.

    Replies: @Renard, @Brutusale, @Joe Stalin, @Reg Cæsar, @Jack D

    IKR? The military (“defense”) budget is totally trivial. Like a rounding error or something.

  191. @YetAnotherAnon
    @Sgt. Joe Friday

    That "black ramp worker" was a true-born Englishman, I'll have you know.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1771

    (The crash site was located by that aggressive tranny helicopter guy).


    David Augustus Burke (18 May 1952 – 7 December 1987) was born in Croydon, England, to Jamaican parents. Burke later emigrated to the United States with his parents. He had previously worked for USAir in Rochester, New York, where he was a suspect in a drug-smuggling ring that was bringing cocaine from Jamaica to Rochester via the airline. Never officially charged, he reportedly relocated to Los Angeles to avoid future suspicions. Some former girlfriends, neighbors, and law enforcement officials described him as a violent man before the events of Flight 1771. He had seven children from four women, but never married.
     
    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/David_A._Burke.png

    Replies: @Renard, @AceDeuce

    He had seven children from four women

    Correction: seven he admitted to.

    PS: imagine if a white guy brought down a plane full of black people.

    PPS: looks like Richard Pryor.

  192. @lavoisier
    @Dream

    I think a large number of the Indian migrants to the West come from the upper caste system of India. These groups often have very high average IQ. Sure clannishness and nepotism help out, but the truth is that a lot of these Indian migrants are very hard working and intelligent people.

    Replies: @Old Prude, @Mike Tre, @Mr. Anon

    Hard working to screw you over..conniving and dishonest.

  193. @JohnnyWalker123
    https://twitter.com/abughazalehkat/status/1615517043557822464

    Replies: @Renard

    Thanks for posting these. People here need to know what’s going on among normies. I try to avoid them and their antics as much as possible, but I need to be reminded.

    • Agree: JR Ewing
  194. @Anon
    @JR Ewing

    Resentful liberal city renter? How's that work out? Nobody in liberal cities is resentful. Resentment is what rednecks feel. Always complaining about how they can't win elections, can't get their dicks hard because they have inhaled lead vapors from firearms exhaust all their lives, can't get a girlfriend because rural girls want to move to the liberal cities, can't get a job because Mexicans stole it even though there are no jobs and no Mexicans because no one in your community can create jobs, because they're all bedridden fat fucks with atherosclerosis.

    Always complaining about transsexuals even though they've never seen a legitimate one in their entire lives, even though your average middle aged country woman could qualify as a trannie. Always complaining about "child grooming" even though there are no kids to groom. Always complaining about black people even though they've never seen a black person in their entire life and never will.

    Always complaining about taxes and welfare even though rural America consumes an outsized share of federal tax dollars and its shit-tier agricultural economy is subsidized by the federal government.

    https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/states-federal-taxes-spending-charts-maps/


    Most Red States Take More Money From Washington Than They Put In

    Even as Republicans gripe about deficit spending, their states get 30 cents more federal spending per tax dollar than their Democratic neighbors.
     
    Just another case of rednecks biting the hand that feeds them.

    Replies: @Rusty Tailgate, @Renard, @bomag, @Reg Cæsar

    Nobody in liberal cities is resentful.

    A lot of false things are said on the internet.

    This is near the top for utter egregiousness.

  195. @Mike Tre
    @J.Ross

    Negroes and homosexuals have both been conditioned to believe that they are entitled to power over social discourse that they did not earn. This is evident in the way both groups aggressively work to control language. Being able to tell others what they can and cannot say is pretty powerful.

    Both negroes and homosexuals are in general pretty emotionally unstable people. But a homosexual negro? Off the hook, yo. And they will not take well to having their ever increasingly wacky demands dismissed. The results are evident.

    Older homosexuals had the benefit of needing to be a little more careful and disciplined about their words and actions as it pertained to their "lifestyle choices,", but younger homosexuals have not, and the results are pretty clear. 95% of homos under the age of 30 are a complete disaster psychologically. Diseased, drug dependent, entitled, aggressive, promiscuous, irresponsible.

    Replies: @ginger bread man, @Liberty Mike, @JohnnyWalker123, @dcthrowback, @Feryl

    So you mean all those Boomer gays slaughtered by AIDS in the 80’s and 90’s were perfectly well-adjusted? Come on, man. Gay guys have always been a mess, but it started getting worse in the 70’s (just like so many other things did).

    • Replies: @Mike Tre
    @Feryl

    I’m speaking relatively of course. Those boomer homosexuals couldn’t just come out say “I’m coming for your children” like they can now. But you’re certainly correct.

  196. @Alec Leamas (working from home)
    @The Anti-Gnostic


    I wonder how black predilection for schizophrenia is going to work out with de facto legal weed. I’d hate to see things like black strippers-turned-ICU-nurses start doing crazy stuff, like driving their Mercedes that some dealership obligingly leased to them 100 mph through intersections.
     
    I think for all intents and purposes weed has been de facto legal in the 'hood for at least a decade - at least in quantities which are plausibly for personal consumption. So de jure legalization probably wouldn't make much of a dent in the effects.

    It's particularly correlated with the later emergence of schizophrenia when male teens smoke cannabis. We're probably beginning to see the effects of teens, particularly black teens, habitually using cannabis already.

    Replies: @Feryl

    When I smell the reek of of a pot user out in the wild, 75% of the time it’s a black guy under 25 (there are older potheads but most of them have the discretion to not get high in their vehicles or while walking the streets).

    Before circa 2020, it was exceedingly rare to publicly encounter a malodorous pothead.

    • Replies: @Rooster16
    @Feryl

    I’m not kidding when I tell you that I occasionally can smell black people driving ahead of me on the beltline because if the vast amounts weed emanating from their vehicle. Nothing visible, but a faint smell, I might not even be able to see their car, but sure enough as I pass by… thar blows the American Negro!!

  197. @Anon
    @AceDeuce

    White flight? Are you huffing glue, or snorting lead? Which one is it? White flight is what happened back in the 50s and 60s and 70s, and home values were affordable back then. Today's headline is blaci flight and white gentrification. It's associated with skyrocketing home values.


    Just face it you're nothing but a national socialist piece of shit whose only trick is to bitch about colored people in perpetuity. You don't have a clue what you're talking about and you're a dopamine addict who gets a rush from blaming minorities for all the problems in the world.

    Replies: @bomag

    And you get a rush from blaming whites who blame minorities…

    At least we can agree that cataloging what race does what is a salient feature of today’s world.

    And that the price of a multi-racial society is eternal racial vigilance.

  198. @Alec Leamas (working from home)
    @The Anti-Gnostic

    We've all heard the rumors but it's somewhat likely that they're intended as adult babysitters who keep the players out of legal trouble by acting as designated drivers, fixers, etc. They probably need a title other than "team gofer" for NCAA rules purposes. The "recruiting analyst" was the operator of the vehicle in question.

    Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic, @Mike Tre, @Herbert R. Tarlek, Jr., @duncsbaby, @Coemgen

    …We’ve all heard the rumors but…

    Hm, I’ve never heard of this college athlete handler racket before but, I am well acquainted with this:

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

  199. @dcthrowback
    @Mike Tre

    Fwiw, Flanagan appears to have a high %age of euro admixture, and as Jason Whitlock and others have noticed, the higher the admixture, the more important it is to show that one is truly "black".

    "Real" blacks don't usually care about such things as "field" and "swinging by", but half (give or take) ones tend to be more sensitive about such things. (I have a belief that the less attractive they are, the more they care, but I think that's secondary to the original hypothesis.)

    Replies: @Mike Tre

    Great point.

  200. @Feryl
    @Mike Tre

    So you mean all those Boomer gays slaughtered by AIDS in the 80's and 90's were perfectly well-adjusted? Come on, man. Gay guys have always been a mess, but it started getting worse in the 70's (just like so many other things did).

    Replies: @Mike Tre

    I’m speaking relatively of course. Those boomer homosexuals couldn’t just come out say “I’m coming for your children” like they can now. But you’re certainly correct.

  201. @The Anti-Gnostic
    @Jack D

    If houses depreciated like computers no lender would loan you money for them, at least not on a 30 yr schedule and that would make housing even less affordable.

    It's the other way around. If houses depreciated like computers, they would be more affordable and you wouldn't need a 30-year mortgage to get one.

    Of course, this doesn't happen because as everyone knows you're also buying land, which is a non-renewable. And when you add at least 1 million people a year all looking for a place to live, and the Eloi tax as everyone bids for white neighbors, then land starts getting very expensive indeed.

    A final note: inflation is running around 8%, mortgage rates are around 5% and buyers are spotting the arbitrage and still buying housing in the Sunbelt. Wells Fargo now says they'll only make home loans to existing customers, wealthy customers and negroes (which is illegal but oh well).

    Replies: @Brutusale, @Jack D

  202. @Anon
    @Renard

    Mitary bases are a drop in the bucket for tax expenditures.

    Replies: @Renard, @Brutusale, @Joe Stalin, @Reg Cæsar, @Jack D

    Yeah, 750 bases in 80 countries, can’t cost much, right?

    https://www.thesoldiersproject.org/how-many-us-military-bases-are-there-in-the-world/

  203. @lavoisier
    @Dream

    I think a large number of the Indian migrants to the West come from the upper caste system of India. These groups often have very high average IQ. Sure clannishness and nepotism help out, but the truth is that a lot of these Indian migrants are very hard working and intelligent people.

    Replies: @Old Prude, @Mike Tre, @Mr. Anon

    Even if you are correct, it doesn’t justify their arrival in the West. If they were as hard working and intelligent as you say (combined with how ethnically proud they behave once here) then they should stay in India and use their intelligence to make India a place at least fit for human habitation.

    But they don’t. They bail out and come here and exploit the system in one way or another while acting superior. They are pushy, loud, ignorant. Not a shred of humbleness or humility to be found. To hell with them.

    • Agree: Kylie, OilcanFloyd
  204. @Art Deco
    @Jack D

    My favorite Yogi Berra quote. "I never said half the things I said".

    Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Kylie, @Mike Tre

    Makes sense. That’s kind of your excuse when you get called out for the silly claims you make.

  205. @Bill Jones
    @CJ

    There's a reason The Ukraine had the definitive article. The root of the word Ukraine means rim or edge or Border, The Borderlands borders, slapped together in the last century like the Sykes-Picot fuck-ups in the Middle East are going to get redrawn.

    Replies: @Art Deco

    You are not going to find any evidence of popular interest in merging with Russia in any component of the Ukraine outside of the Crimea, the Donetsk oblast, and the Lukhansk oblast. Only in the Crimea are you going to find indications that that is the majority sentiment. NB, every region in the Ukraine voted in favor of the declaration of sovereignty in the 1991 referendum, even the Crimea.

    • Replies: @Jack D
    @Art Deco

    You are certainly correct today. If Ukraine didn't have a national consciousness before this war started, it does today. This is just one more way in which Putin's 3 day coup has spectacularly backfired on him. See also Sweden and Finland joining NATO and many other unintended consequences.

    Lots of modern countries started out as "artificial" constructs as a result of treaties, wars, etc. Germany, Italy, Canada, etc. don't go back much further in history as political entities than Ukraine. (BTW, "the" Bronx and "the" Netherlands would like to have a word with Bill about drawing political conclusions from the use of the definite article. And BTW, Russian doesn't even have a definite article.) But over time and as a result of events, a national consciousness emerges. For that matter, before the Revolution, many colonists in America regarded their identity either as British or as citizens of their respective colonies but there was no such thing as an "American" identity.

    That being said, before say 2014 (and even to some extent up until this war began), there were many parts of Ukraine (and not just the Donbass - e.g. Odessa and even to some extent Kyiv) where people thought of themselves as having a primarily Russian cultural identity (without necessarily desiring to reunify with Russia). French speakers in Quebec have a very strong cultural identification with the French language but AFAIK there is zero sentiment for rejoining France. And when the Americans invaded Canada during the Revolution (much to the surprise of the Americans) the French speakers of Quebec did not support the American invasion.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

  206. @Bill Jones
    If only the nutter had moved to San Francisco.




    In a spectacular display of what happens when woke politics intersects utter financial illiteracy, a San Francisco government advisory committee on reparations has recommended the city pay eligible black residents age 18 years and older $5 million apiece. 

    That's just the headline recommendation of the San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee (AARAC), which was created by the city's board of supervisors amid 2020's nationwide racial tumult. 
     
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/san-fran-city-panel-urges-reparations-5-million-black-adult

    Replies: @AceDeuce, @Art Deco

    He started out in northern California, IIRC.

  207. @Colin Wright
    @Dream

    We definitely need to address this.

    ...sooner rather than later.

    Replies: @Loyalty Over IQ Worship, @Vito Klein

    We definitely need to address this

    Don’t hold your breath. That would require white cohesion and the ability to shrug off being called a hurty word.

    Take the current anti-immigration movement. They’ll take a loss every year for 30 straight years rather than state the fact that immigration policy is a Jewish policy, created and maintained by Jews for Jews and an existential threat to white people.

  208. @The Anti-Gnostic
    @Jack D

    If houses depreciated like computers no lender would loan you money for them, at least not on a 30 yr schedule and that would make housing even less affordable.

    It's the other way around. If houses depreciated like computers, they would be more affordable and you wouldn't need a 30-year mortgage to get one.

    Of course, this doesn't happen because as everyone knows you're also buying land, which is a non-renewable. And when you add at least 1 million people a year all looking for a place to live, and the Eloi tax as everyone bids for white neighbors, then land starts getting very expensive indeed.

    A final note: inflation is running around 8%, mortgage rates are around 5% and buyers are spotting the arbitrage and still buying housing in the Sunbelt. Wells Fargo now says they'll only make home loans to existing customers, wealthy customers and negroes (which is illegal but oh well).

    Replies: @Brutusale, @Jack D

    Houses don’t depreciate like computers because not only is the land indestructible but the other improvements have long useful lives. Your Chinese laptop motherboard is going to fry itself in 3 years even if Intel did not introduce 13th generation processors that are 10x faster than 11th generation ones but the roof on your house is going to last 30 years and at the end of 30 years, roof shingles will still be about the same as they were 30 years ago.

    Also there have been no technological breakthrus that have reduced the cost of housing. If the way that you bought a car was that a crew came to your driveway and built it there, cars would be really expensive too. For various reasons, factory built housing has not caught on.

    • Replies: @Art Deco
    @Jack D

    For various reasons, factory built housing has not caught on.

    I had a co-worker trying unsuccessfully to sell her house. Part of the impediment was that people looking at it (including real estate agents) got the idea it was a manufactured house. (It was not). Hard to move one of those.

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @Jack D

  209. Anonymous[391] • Disclaimer says:
    @The Anti-Gnostic
    OT - the UGA pro football team suffered a loss after the College Super Bowl. One of its giant black linemen was killed in a single car accident after partying past 2 a.m. The other fatality was a UGA "staff member." Apparently these programs really do supply girls for the team to party with. They call them "recruiting analysts." They also apparently get big, top-heavy SUV's to drive around.

    https://twitter.com/jordanxdavis99/status/1614643630316163072

    One day we are going to find out that so much s*** goes on in these programs.

    Replies: @Alec Leamas (working from home), @Anonymous, @The Wild Geese Howard, @Pastit, @Anonymous

    It should not be “Virginia gunman” it should be “Virginia Negro” or “Negro gunman”.

    Given opportunity and consent I would make the sexual intercourse many times with that “recruiting analyst”. Stealing from Donald Trump, I would make so much sexual intercourse. But unlike winning, I would not get tired of sexual intercourse. Like Smoove B, I would cook all of her favorite dishes, including corn. When I left in the morning I would blow off the workday and come back for more sexual intercourse. Any bejeebers she might have in her I would bang out.

    That Who clip was just painful. They really need to hang it up.

  210. @Skyler the Weird
    @Anon

    .....plus Nepotism. You need to take care of your extended family including in laws.

    And Remember to these Brahmins, both far right and far left whites and blacks are Dalits, untouchables.

    Replies: @Hope, @Anonymous

    …..plus Nepotism. You need to take care of your extended family including in laws.

    Like the Turkish guy said about democracy: Meritocracy is like a train, which you ride until you get to where you want to go, and then get off.

  211. @Jack D
    @The Anti-Gnostic

    Houses don't depreciate like computers because not only is the land indestructible but the other improvements have long useful lives. Your Chinese laptop motherboard is going to fry itself in 3 years even if Intel did not introduce 13th generation processors that are 10x faster than 11th generation ones but the roof on your house is going to last 30 years and at the end of 30 years, roof shingles will still be about the same as they were 30 years ago.

    Also there have been no technological breakthrus that have reduced the cost of housing. If the way that you bought a car was that a crew came to your driveway and built it there, cars would be really expensive too. For various reasons, factory built housing has not caught on.

    Replies: @Art Deco

    For various reasons, factory built housing has not caught on.

    I had a co-worker trying unsuccessfully to sell her house. Part of the impediment was that people looking at it (including real estate agents) got the idea it was a manufactured house. (It was not). Hard to move one of those.

    • Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
    @Art Deco

    In the UK factory built Passivhauses are all the rage among the better off liberal classes.

    https://www.houseplanninghelp.com/how-bespoke-can-a-factory-built-passivhaus-be/

    , @Jack D
    @Art Deco

    In housing, pre-fab is associated with the low end of the market ("trailers"), which is not a good thing to be associated with in the consumer mind.

    In other products consumers decided a century ago or more that factory made products were superior to hand made. Quite often the well off made the transition to the factory made product BEFORE the poor. The rich could afford factory made cigarettes while the poor where still rolling their own. This was very good for marketing - ideally you want your product to be aspirational and trickle down until everyone can enjoy what was once (cars, microwave ovens, etc.) a plaything of the rich. (Rich people then have to find something else to be the new status symbol.) Stainless steel appliances were once found only in high end kitchens and then manufacturers found ways to make it such that even cheaper appliances could have stainless skins. Better off people don't usually aspire to the possessions of the yucky people below them in the social scale (with rare exceptions such as blue jeans).

    This was the fatal error of manufactured housing. It should have started off as something that only rich people could afford and then everyone would have aspired to have a factory built house like their richer neighbors. But for various reasons (mainly because it was cheaper) it started at the low end and therefore stayed there.

    Replies: @jinkforp

  212. @lavoisier
    @Dream

    I think a large number of the Indian migrants to the West come from the upper caste system of India. These groups often have very high average IQ. Sure clannishness and nepotism help out, but the truth is that a lot of these Indian migrants are very hard working and intelligent people.

    Replies: @Old Prude, @Mike Tre, @Mr. Anon

    I think a large number of the Indian migrants to the West come from the upper caste system of India. These groups often have very high average IQ. Sure clannishness and nepotism help out, but the truth is that a lot of these Indian migrants are very hard working and intelligent people.

    The German army that occupied France during WWIII were also hard working and intelligent people. Hard working and intelligent are not plusses when it comes to occupiers.

  213. @Jack D
    @The Anti-Gnostic

    Not the same thing at all. A computer is not very expensive and was always understood to be a rapidly depreciating asset. A house is usually people's most valuable asset and one that they expect (or at least) hope will at least retain and hopefully increase in value over time. If houses depreciated like computers no lender would loan you money for them, at least not on a 30 yr schedule and that would make housing even less affordable.

    You're right though that computers are crazy cheap. I just bought a 3 yr old Dell laptop on ebay for $100 (it's also going to need another $50 in parts) with a respectably fast i5 cpu. I use it mainly for web browsing and word processing so it is more than fast enough. You could easily spend $150 on dinner for two in a mediocre restaurant. $150 today is nothing for a machine with those capabilities.

    Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic, @AnotherDad, @Anonymous

    Computer prices were crazy a couple of years ago. This is a necessary correction. If you need a computer now is the time to buy.

  214. @Prester John
    @ginger bread man

    This is the same reasoning behind turning MLK's birthday into a legal holiday (which, tellingly, is not observed by most of the business community in this country).

    Replies: @Renard, @CalCooledge, @possumman

    Actually more people celebrate Toyotathon than celebrate MLK Day and Kwanza put together

  215. @Jack D
    @YetAnotherAnon

    This is some kind of Russian disinformation bullshit that is circulating on Telegram. I don't know who or what that lady is but it's not TVP1. What Polish weather forecast would show only 2 cities in the entire country (just one of which happens to be Lviv)?

    You can go to the TVP1 website itself and see for yourself. Here is their actual weather forecast:

    https://www.tvp.info/65332338/17012023-0654

    You probably won't be able to play the video but you can see the opening still which shows what the real TVP1 weather map looks like. Don't assume that everything you see on Russian Telegram is true. In fact, don't assume that ANYTHING you see on Russian Telegram is true.

    Replies: @International Jew, @YetAnotherAnon

    “Don’t assume that everything you see on Russian Telegram is true. In fact, don’t assume that ANYTHING you see on Russian Telegram is true.”

    Thank you for your concern 😉

    You’ll be pleased to know I apply that principle to most English language “news” sites. As Mr Sailer has pointed out in the case of WaPo and NYT, there are usually some nuggets of truth to be found, but a discriminating eye is necessary.

    Alas in this sceptic isle our government has chosen to protect us from Russian misinformation and ensure we are only exposed to US/UK/NATO misinformation. The broadcaster Russia Today has been closed down, and UK web providers, while still happy to give Brits a plentiful diet of pornography, won’t serve Russian news sites.

    “This site can’t be reached http://www.sputniknews.com’s DNS address could not be found. Diagnosing the problem.”

    The Great Firewall of Westminster at work. Oddly, our NATO allies in Europe don’t seem to be so afraid, as I can access the sites from European servers.

    • Replies: @Jack D
    @YetAnotherAnon

    Something is weird about your url. The real url https://sputniknews.com/ works just fine but the one that you give http://www.sputniknews.xn--coms-x96a/ not surprisingly doesn't work.

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon

  216. @Art Deco
    @Jack D

    For various reasons, factory built housing has not caught on.

    I had a co-worker trying unsuccessfully to sell her house. Part of the impediment was that people looking at it (including real estate agents) got the idea it was a manufactured house. (It was not). Hard to move one of those.

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @Jack D

    In the UK factory built Passivhauses are all the rage among the better off liberal classes.

    https://www.houseplanninghelp.com/how-bespoke-can-a-factory-built-passivhaus-be/

  217. @YetAnotherAnon
    @Sgt. Joe Friday

    That "black ramp worker" was a true-born Englishman, I'll have you know.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1771

    (The crash site was located by that aggressive tranny helicopter guy).


    David Augustus Burke (18 May 1952 – 7 December 1987) was born in Croydon, England, to Jamaican parents. Burke later emigrated to the United States with his parents. He had previously worked for USAir in Rochester, New York, where he was a suspect in a drug-smuggling ring that was bringing cocaine from Jamaica to Rochester via the airline. Never officially charged, he reportedly relocated to Los Angeles to avoid future suspicions. Some former girlfriends, neighbors, and law enforcement officials described him as a violent man before the events of Flight 1771. He had seven children from four women, but never married.
     
    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/David_A._Burke.png

    Replies: @Renard, @AceDeuce

    That filthy schitt-colored evil niggwar was responsible for sweeping changes behind the scenes–even if there was little media coverage. The FAA instituted 10 year mandatory background checks for all airport workers (this criminal piece of dogschitt would have been rejected by any sane organization) They also tightened up on the handling of ramp passes and other credentials big time, and they caused pretty much every big company to mandate that key employees traveling together to a conference, etc. had to separate onto different aircraft to and from the destination–several high ranking execs for both Pacific Bell and Chevron were on that flight.

  218. @Art Deco
    @Jack D

    For various reasons, factory built housing has not caught on.

    I had a co-worker trying unsuccessfully to sell her house. Part of the impediment was that people looking at it (including real estate agents) got the idea it was a manufactured house. (It was not). Hard to move one of those.

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @Jack D

    In housing, pre-fab is associated with the low end of the market (“trailers”), which is not a good thing to be associated with in the consumer mind.

    In other products consumers decided a century ago or more that factory made products were superior to hand made. Quite often the well off made the transition to the factory made product BEFORE the poor. The rich could afford factory made cigarettes while the poor where still rolling their own. This was very good for marketing – ideally you want your product to be aspirational and trickle down until everyone can enjoy what was once (cars, microwave ovens, etc.) a plaything of the rich. (Rich people then have to find something else to be the new status symbol.) Stainless steel appliances were once found only in high end kitchens and then manufacturers found ways to make it such that even cheaper appliances could have stainless skins. Better off people don’t usually aspire to the possessions of the yucky people below them in the social scale (with rare exceptions such as blue jeans).

    This was the fatal error of manufactured housing. It should have started off as something that only rich people could afford and then everyone would have aspired to have a factory built house like their richer neighbors. But for various reasons (mainly because it was cheaper) it started at the low end and therefore stayed there.

    • Replies: @jinkforp
    @Jack D

    Discard here. Manufactured housing doesn't have to be crappy. A century ago you could order a house from Sears, Montgomery Ward, or companies who specialized in that product. They were known as kit houses, a thousand pieces of wood, cut to size, on a railroad flatcar. You could put it together yourself or hire a carpenter. Cheaper than doing everything on site.

    Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Jack D

  219. @Mike Tre
    @Anonymous

    Was he a paranoid schizophrenic? Or was he merely a learned self entitled narcissist with the all too common predilection for violence that negroes inherently possess? I've looked up the symptoms of schizophrenia; Vester doesn't really fit the description of the former, but does of the latter.

    Here's the problem. Assigning a mental illness label to adults who aren't capable of functioning in a high trust, advanced society eliminates any responsibility for that one's own actions. So the assignment actually enables or excuses the behavior.

    Replies: @LP5

    Mike Tre writes:

    Here’s the problem. Assigning a mental illness label to adults who aren’t capable of functioning in a high trust, advanced society eliminates any responsibility for that one’s own actions. So the assignment actually enables or excuses the behavior.

    Solution: Make it a low trust society. That will retard the advancements and increase the opportunities for functioning without responsibility, making everyone, or everyone else, more equal. Seems to be working so far, although those who can are voting with their feet.

  220. @YetAnotherAnon
    @Father Coughlin

    You should see the NHS websites in the UK! Especially Scotland, which while having the least diversity goes for it big-time.

    https://www.nhsinform.scot/

    There seems to be a mindset among middle class nationalists in Scotland/Wales/Ireland that if England makes x gestures towards "diversity", then they must make 2x or 3x gestures, given that England is "conservative" and Scotland/Wales/Ireland are "progressive".

    Replies: @Father Coughlin

    Interesting post about the provinces beyond the pale. I wonder if they’re low-key trying to support the demographic destruction of the hated English by “pressuring” England to get further and further woke? Of course they’re not doing their own nations any favors either.

    • Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
    @Father Coughlin

    "I wonder if they’re low-key trying to support the demographic destruction of the hated English by “pressuring” England to get further and further woke? "

    No, I think they are true believers. Scotland have just passed a law by which anyone of 16 or over can "transition" on their own say-so. And the leader of Scottish Labour is called Anas Sarwar.

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/22/scotland-passes-bill-making-it-easier-for-people-to-legally-change-gender

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

  221. Anonymous[251] • Disclaimer says:

    Remember the iron rule of residential snobbery:

    People who live in stone houses look down on people who live in brick houses
    People who live in brick houses look down on people who live in concrete houses
    People who live in concrete houses look down on people who live in mobile homes
    People who live in mobiles look down on tent-dwelling street people

  222. @AnotherDad
    @Jack D


    A house is usually people’s most valuable asset ,,,
     
    No, most American's most valuable asset is being Americans.

    Living in a place, built by Western Christian Euros, with rule-of-law, freedom, good social trust, prosperity and lots and of available land for themselves and their children to live--and not competing in the world labor market, but the prosperous American one.

    Or at least it was. That asset is being intentionally pissed away by our traitorous elites.

    Replies: @Jack D

    I see AD reciting this in front of a giant American flag while patriotic music plays in the background. Like the opening scene of Patton:

    OK, cut the patriotic speech with the guarantied applause lines and get back to the real world. Their home equity is most people’s #1 financial asset.

    • Replies: @Old Prude
    @Jack D

    Their home equity is most people’s #1 financial asset.

    Until their neighborhood is taken over by imports: Happened to my grandparents and my mother-in-law. South Bend, Indiana and Summit NJ. Cities trashed by third world immigration. Every place it touches, it ruins.

    Replies: @Jack D

  223. Anonymous[420] • Disclaimer says:
    @Loyalty Over IQ Worship
    @Colin Wright


    We definitely need to address this.
     
    Who is the "we" that needs to address it? On whose behalf? I mean, according to this blog, whites being on their own side is forbidden.

    Let's stop pretending anyone here would ever do anything to help whites.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @bomag, @Anonymous

    I mean, according to this blog, whites being on their own side is forbidden.

    Whites being on their own side is not forbidden. It is simply illegal, under the 1964 Civil Rights Act as subsequently interpreted. See Caldwell’s book, The Age of Entitlement: America since the Sixties, 2020-01-21

    Gareth Davies, From Opportunity to Entitlement: The Transformation and Decline of Great Society Liberalism, 1996-08-21, describes the transformation of the 1964 CRA legislation from its original (perhaps ostensible) intent to the “entitlement” interpretation, but does not discuss the CRA’s transformation into an attempt to end “Whiteness”.

  224. @Anon
    @Jack D


    2nd, $50k 40 years ago is more than $160k today.
     
    WTF? No it isn't you god damed redneck idiot, it's 148,000. Just go to https://www.usinflationcalculator.com and punch in the numbers 1983 and 2023.

    3rd, you’re an idiot. There’s something called the housing affordability index. People make less in Iowa than they do in CA but not 10x less.
     
    Yeah and there are other things like views, proximity to businesses, infrastructure, etc. You absolute fucking moron. Look up where Jefferson, iowa is on a map. It's literally in the middle of nowhere 3G country.

    As far as “rural fucking Iowa”, the price of a 2×4 or a HW heater in Iowa is about the same as the price of a 2×4 or a HW heater in CA. Even if the land is free and labor is cheaper, there’s going to be some minimum that it’s going to cost to build even in Iowa.
     
    Holy fucking shit, you simple minded gentile abomination. My comments have nothing to do with the cost of building materials or any other such frivolous shit. It has to do with the fact that JEFFERSON, IOWA has nothing in the way of attraction, amenities, businesses or infrastructure that would justify a 160,000 price tag for a small house. Literally NO ONE wants to live in this USELESS, DYING VILLAGE:


    https://pics4.city-data.com/sgraphs/city/historical_population-Jefferson-IA.png

    With a 2023 population of 4,134, it is the 101st largest city in Iowa and the 7432nd largest city in the United States. Jefferson is currently declining at a rate of -0.39% annually and its population has decreased by -1.15% since the most recent census, which recorded a population of 4,182 in 2020.
     

    Who is “they” who is supposed to pay you to move into that house? There is no they.
     
    Wrong. "They" are the residents of Jefferson, Iowa and the city council.

    Apparently THEY don’t need to pay you because someone actually voluntarily paid the current owner $160k for that house. Maybe it’s less than worthless to you , but someone thought it was worth that. That’s how it works in a market system instead of your crazy world where you are the personal judge of all values and this somehow has something to do with Jews.
     
    I hope don't actually believe this unfathomably retarded Disney channel bullshit. We have no idea who bought that house. For all we know it was somebody in China who never intends to live in it and is just using America's grossly overinflated housing market as an offshore investment.

    Just because someone bought the house does't mean they think it's actually worth living in. Again Jefferson, Iowa is a dying community (partially because its real estate is in a Twilight Zone of overvaluation).


    Selling houses to investors won't save the community of Jefferson, Iowa from entropy.

    Replies: @William Badwhite, @bomag

    LOL.

    The usual insecure Californian; stuck in traffic; reading his crap-app; contemplating his over-priced housing; so he dumps on Iowa to make himself feel better.

    I know plenty from both states. Iowans have a natural happiness; Californians have an edgy happiness; they have a good state, but it could be a lot better; nothing to be done ’cause one must worship the Narrative.

    • Replies: @Brutusale
    @bomag

    It's like my newish neighbors here in Whitopia, Massachusetts, looking at the $2.2 million that the schools spent that wasn't budgeted, the house they bought 3 years ago is teetering on the edge of upside down, all the apartment/condos that have been built over the past 10 years leading to congestion worse than they experienced back in Cambridge/Somerville/Arlington, etc. It's that teeth-clenched smile/grimace they have when the are saying that all is well. It makes them feel better to denigrated their supposed inferiors.

  225. @Anon
    @AnotherDad

    Oh my God you are so retarded, somebody needs to get you institutionalized. The cost of building a house has absolutely nothing to do with its price. The cost of the wood thst went in to building these 70 year old houses has nothing to do with their price in 2023. If houses were valued based on materials or workmanship, they would be valued at less than zero dollars, because they wilo invariably be declared toxic waste products due to the mold, lead, copper arsenate, asbestos, and other sorts of materials now declared illegal carcinogens, that are ubiquitous in mid-20th century construction. If houses in America were appraised based on material value, 99% of them would be worth less than zero, and many of them would be condemned as unsafe and destroyed. You may have heard of the lead poisoning crisis in American cities like Flint, MI (I guarantee you the Jefferson, Iowa house has the same lead plumbing fixtures and that its residents have comparable blood lead levels).

    You have done absolutely nothing to substantiate that the puny number of immigrants this country receives are inflating housing prices. This is nothing more than a right wing fantasy easily disproven by the fact that home prices skyrocketed in 2020-2021 despite immigration falling to the lowest levels in decades. Clearly lowering immigration is going to do jack shit to bring home prices down; immigration is a drop in the bucket but we all know how alt-right idiots are obsessed with drops.


    Native American fertility is sub-replacement and in a properly run nation without our treasonous “elite” Americans would be reaping the benefits of that–uncrowded, affordable living.
     
    There is no benefit to population decline and America's population density remains far lower than anywhere in Europe, yet housing prices are comparable.

    Replies: @Old Prude

    Anon, you really are special. I was about to type “Supply and Demand”, but you beat me to it with your next post: “Supply and demand has absolutely nothing to do with the housing market”

    Why is waterfront property so expensive?

    You sir, are an ass.

    • Replies: @Anon
    @Old Prude

    Waterfront property has absolutely nothing to do with the housing market.


    When will you dogs ever learn to resist the temptation to bark over the microscopic things in life as if they explain the whole?

  226. @Jack D
    @AnotherDad

    I see AD reciting this in front of a giant American flag while patriotic music plays in the background. Like the opening scene of Patton:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS5yfhPGaWE

    OK, cut the patriotic speech with the guarantied applause lines and get back to the real world. Their home equity is most people's #1 financial asset.

    Replies: @Old Prude

    Their home equity is most people’s #1 financial asset.

    Until their neighborhood is taken over by imports: Happened to my grandparents and my mother-in-law. South Bend, Indiana and Summit NJ. Cities trashed by third world immigration. Every place it touches, it ruins.

    • Agree: AceDeuce
    • Replies: @Jack D
    @Old Prude

    IDK about South Bend, but Summit seems to be doing ok:

    https://www.zillow.com/summit-nj/?searchQueryState=%7B%22pagination%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22usersSearchTerm%22%3A%22Summit%2C%20NJ%22%2C%22mapBounds%22%3A%7B%22west%22%3A-74.41388520410156%2C%22east%22%3A-74.30814179589844%2C%22south%22%3A40.68106316262463%2C%22north%22%3A40.74378008512513%7D%2C%22regionSelection%22%3A%5B%7B%22regionId%22%3A27319%2C%22regionType%22%3A6%7D%5D%2C%22isMapVisible%22%3Atrue%2C%22filterState%22%3A%7B%22sort%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3A%22globalrelevanceex%22%7D%2C%22ah%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Atrue%7D%7D%2C%22isListVisible%22%3Atrue%2C%22mapZoom%22%3A13%7D

    I see lots of houses in the $1M range.

    Immigrants are magic. They can make your neighborhood both too expensive AND too cheap. You and Another Dad should get together and get your stories straight.

    Replies: @jinkforp

  227. @Art Deco
    @Bill Jones

    You are not going to find any evidence of popular interest in merging with Russia in any component of the Ukraine outside of the Crimea, the Donetsk oblast, and the Lukhansk oblast. Only in the Crimea are you going to find indications that that is the majority sentiment. NB, every region in the Ukraine voted in favor of the declaration of sovereignty in the 1991 referendum, even the Crimea.

    Replies: @Jack D

    You are certainly correct today. If Ukraine didn’t have a national consciousness before this war started, it does today. This is just one more way in which Putin’s 3 day coup has spectacularly backfired on him. See also Sweden and Finland joining NATO and many other unintended consequences.

    Lots of modern countries started out as “artificial” constructs as a result of treaties, wars, etc. Germany, Italy, Canada, etc. don’t go back much further in history as political entities than Ukraine. (BTW, “the” Bronx and “the” Netherlands would like to have a word with Bill about drawing political conclusions from the use of the definite article. And BTW, Russian doesn’t even have a definite article.) But over time and as a result of events, a national consciousness emerges. For that matter, before the Revolution, many colonists in America regarded their identity either as British or as citizens of their respective colonies but there was no such thing as an “American” identity.

    That being said, before say 2014 (and even to some extent up until this war began), there were many parts of Ukraine (and not just the Donbass – e.g. Odessa and even to some extent Kyiv) where people thought of themselves as having a primarily Russian cultural identity (without necessarily desiring to reunify with Russia). French speakers in Quebec have a very strong cultural identification with the French language but AFAIK there is zero sentiment for rejoining France. And when the Americans invaded Canada during the Revolution (much to the surprise of the Americans) the French speakers of Quebec did not support the American invasion.

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @Jack D


    If Ukraine didn’t have a national consciousness before this war started, it does today
     
    Same with Palestinians. The original Zionists* set out to create (or re-create) a nation in the desert. They inadvertently created two.


    *For the record, this term is used here in the literal sense, absent any intent of negative or positive connotations.

    BTW, “the” Bronx and “the” Netherlands would like to have a word with Bill about drawing political conclusions from the use of the definite article.
     
    Good point, but poor examples. Both of these are, or were, plurals, as with the Philippines, the Grenadines, and the Falklands. More analogous are the Lebanon and the Argentine-- has anyone called it that since Johnny Mercer in "Tangerine" 82 years ago?

    Ukrainians complain about the the but are in a weak position to do so. No Slavic language (save mother Bulgarian) uses articles.

    Replies: @Art Deco

  228. @Anon
    @William Badwhite

    Hey look it's another Unz commenter whose circulating testosterone levels are so low he woke up one morning and forgot that he isn't middle aged suburban soccer mom. Keep crying about profanity and using it as an excuse to run away from an argument. Just put me on ignore if you don't like it... Oh wait, you can't do that... I'm an anon commenter.

    Replies: @jinkforp, @anon

    Discard here. Disclaimer, what college did you flunk out of?

  229. @YetAnotherAnon
    OT, but it looks as if Poland have taken back Galicia, a sneaky move - in fact a right dolchstoss.

    https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dolchstoss-im-Rucken


    https://i.postimg.cc/cCzBfb7K/tvp1.jpg

    TVP1 is state television, BBC equivalent.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVP1

    TVP1 (TVP Jeden, Program I Telewizji Polskiej, "Jedynka") is the main public television channel of TVP (Telewizja Polska S.A.), Poland's national television broadcaster. It was the first Polish channel to be broadcast and remains one of the most popular today. TVP1 was launched 25 October 1952.
     

    Replies: @Cagey Beast, @Almost Missouri, @polaco, @Pixo, @Jack D, @Reg Cæsar, @Lex

    Polish TV not using Polish letters(Slowacja instead of Słowacja, Bialorus instead of Białoruś, Minsk instead of Mińsk, Lwow instead of Lwów). Sure.

  230. @Jack D
    @Art Deco

    In housing, pre-fab is associated with the low end of the market ("trailers"), which is not a good thing to be associated with in the consumer mind.

    In other products consumers decided a century ago or more that factory made products were superior to hand made. Quite often the well off made the transition to the factory made product BEFORE the poor. The rich could afford factory made cigarettes while the poor where still rolling their own. This was very good for marketing - ideally you want your product to be aspirational and trickle down until everyone can enjoy what was once (cars, microwave ovens, etc.) a plaything of the rich. (Rich people then have to find something else to be the new status symbol.) Stainless steel appliances were once found only in high end kitchens and then manufacturers found ways to make it such that even cheaper appliances could have stainless skins. Better off people don't usually aspire to the possessions of the yucky people below them in the social scale (with rare exceptions such as blue jeans).

    This was the fatal error of manufactured housing. It should have started off as something that only rich people could afford and then everyone would have aspired to have a factory built house like their richer neighbors. But for various reasons (mainly because it was cheaper) it started at the low end and therefore stayed there.

    Replies: @jinkforp

    Discard here. Manufactured housing doesn’t have to be crappy. A century ago you could order a house from Sears, Montgomery Ward, or companies who specialized in that product. They were known as kit houses, a thousand pieces of wood, cut to size, on a railroad flatcar. You could put it together yourself or hire a carpenter. Cheaper than doing everything on site.

    • Replies: @Buzz Mohawk
    @jinkforp

    Bucky Fuller thought modern homes would be better and more affordable if they were built on assembly lines using aircraft manufacturing techniques, and so he invented his Dymaxion House:


    https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0c/f9/57/0cf957bf8382d932d639033ca62ccabf.jpg

    Sort of resembles an Airstream camper in materials and craftsmanship, or maybe a diner. It was a gee-whiz idea of the time that never went anywhere. All mechanicals were in a core section from the factory, so no installation was required. Just put the house in place and plug it into the utilities.

    Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic, @Joe Stalin, @Jack D, @Corn, @Tex

    , @Jack D
    @jinkforp

    A lot of tract housing is more prefab than you think. A lot of stuff is precut and sometimes even brought to site already formed in panels. However, there's not that much labor savings possible in framing. A half a dozen Guatemalans can frame a house in a day. It's the other stuff where the cost and expensive labor is - plumbing, electrical, HVAC, cabinets and trim, tiling, flooring, painting, etc. The real savings is if you can do all of that in a factory and not just the framing.

  231. @Ron Mexico
    @Anon

    Bingo! I've seen this firsthand with regards to 2 local motels. Indians purchase, bring over "family members", put on payroll, eventually one of them takes over management while original owner purchases another motel, starts process over.

    Replies: @Jim Don Bob

    They get low rate loans from the Small Business Administration because they are disadvantaged minorities.

  232. @Known Fact
    Shots ring out at MLK Family Fun Day -- This fits so many iSteve angles I hardly know where to begin

    https://abcnews.go.com/US/8-shot-massive-mlk-day-celebration-florida-authorities/story?id=96474810

    Replies: @a reader

    Thanks !

  233. @Jack D
    @hhsiii

    I think the nearest Tractor Supply is 50 miles away on the I-80 on the western fringes of Des Moines. Tractor Supply nowadays is yuppified and not a real feed store. There is a real feed store in Ogden which is like 20 mi./20 min. from Jefferson, which is nothing in local terms.

    Replies: @hhsiii

    I was thinking how much a store manager at Tractor Supply could pay for a house in Jefferson. I get that it’s yuppafied. My wife picked up a box of peanut brittle once on a road trip. I guess Jefferson is more real feed store territory.

  234. @Anon
    @Renard

    Mitary bases are a drop in the bucket for tax expenditures.

    Replies: @Renard, @Brutusale, @Joe Stalin, @Reg Cæsar, @Jack D

    Mitary bases are a drop in the bucket for tax expenditures.

    We got a LOT of US bases.

  235. @AnotherDad
    @Jack D


    But then you get off on your immigration tack. Since immigration is just one component of demand, you can’t rightfully assign 100% of the increase in demand JUST to immigration. Nevertheless, it’s not wrong to say that immigration has contributed to demand.
     
    Immigration is the salient factor in increased demand. This is not complicated. Not the least bit complicated.

    The rise in income obviously increases the demand for square footage and quality of housing. It is one of the things that people with higher incomes like to consume more of. But it's a factor that works--by definition--in parallel with income. What people are reacting to is the rise in housing compared to income--affordability.

    If--if--people were out buying bigger lots, that would pressurize land price. But that's not what's happening. Lot sizes in the coastal metros are going down. The land is so expensive builders jam more--but bigger--houses into an acre. No our waistlines are blowing up, but increasing lot sizes gobbling up more real estate is not what's driving this.

    ~~

    No the culprit is simply more demand from more people.

    Back 30-something years ago when I was buying my first house, price pressure could legimately be "Boomers!" All these damn boomers in their 30s buying houses, starting families.

    But that's simply not true, anymore. GenX was in the net--year by year--a smaller generation. Native American fertility has been sub-replacement for almost two generations now.

    No, the extra people that are fueling demand are no longer from births of native Americans. They are the extra 80 million odd people that are in America due to huge, post-1965 immigration wave. 60 millions Hispanics and 20 million Asians--groups that had basically negligible American populations when I was born.

    Would Silly Valley still have expensive real estate? Sure. Because of a boom in tech jobs and limited real estate. The same with several other areas. But America as a whole would not. There would not be a shortage of housing in "neighborhoods" with good schools in every major metro. That simply does not happen when a population is not producing larger and larger generations. (As your Japan example makes clear.)

    Replies: @Joe Stalin

    No, the extra people that are fueling demand are no longer from births of native Americans.

    Would Silly Valley still have expensive real estate? Sure. Because of a boom in tech jobs and limited real estate. The same with several other areas. But America as a whole would not.

    US business making the pitch here to insconce tech foreigners in America and to put STEM natives in their place.

    DON’T DRIVE AWAY SMART STUDENTS

    Since 2000, over 50,000 Chinese Ph.D. students in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math have remained in the United States following their studies at American universities, generating cutting-edge research and founding start-ups valued collectively at $100 billion. For example, Yi Cui, after completing his undergraduate degree in China, came to Harvard University to pursue a Ph.D. in physical chemistry. Since graduating in 2002, he went on to become one of the world’s leading experts in nanotechnology at Stanford University and founded Amprius, a $600 million company that was recently awarded a contract by the U.S. Army to power next-generation tactical gear.

    Outcompeting China for talent like Cui is key to preserving American techno-scientific primacy. But winning this competition is becoming more difficult due to restrictive U.S. visa policies and worsening relations between the two countries. Despite this, we believe that the time is ripe for the United States to redouble its efforts. In recent years Chinese leader Xi Jinping has made a strategic error, undermining the sources of Chinese economic growth and innovation by seeking greater control over universities and private markets. Xi’s policies of centralizing power are pushing away scientists and entrepreneurs, who the United States should be eager to recruit. By embracing policies to attract and retain disaffected Chinese talent — such as creating a more targeted migration screening process and providing green cards for Ph.D. students graduating from U.S. universities — Washington can continue to out-innovate its opponents in Beijing.

    Brain Gain

    Chinese nationals coming to the United States for higher education and research have been a core part of the U.S.-Chinese relationship for nearly 50 years. Beginning in the late 1970s, China’s leaders began to send scholars overseas for academic and scientific exchanges based on Deng Xiaoping’s “Open Door” policy to rebuild the country’s economy following the Cultural Revolution. These exchanges were carefully controlled by the national government and limited to a few years abroad for established, mid-career scholars. However, by the 1980s scholars were allowed greater independence in arranging and self-funding travel, resulting in explosive growth in the number and type of exchanges taking place.

    https://warontherocks.com/2023/01/dont-drive-away-smart-students/

    Notice BRAIN GAIN to replace BRAIN CIRCULATION from two decades back by American industry.

    • Replies: @Jim Don Bob
    @Joe Stalin

    The Chinese are all spies, whether they want to be or not.

    , @bomag
    @Joe Stalin

    Thanks for the quote. Highlights the mixed message: enjoy the nice immigrants and let them all in; but economics is a fierce competition, so protect what you've got.

  236. @jinkforp
    @Jack D

    Discard here. Manufactured housing doesn't have to be crappy. A century ago you could order a house from Sears, Montgomery Ward, or companies who specialized in that product. They were known as kit houses, a thousand pieces of wood, cut to size, on a railroad flatcar. You could put it together yourself or hire a carpenter. Cheaper than doing everything on site.

    Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Jack D

    Bucky Fuller thought modern homes would be better and more affordable if they were built on assembly lines using aircraft manufacturing techniques, and so he invented his Dymaxion House:


    Sort of resembles an Airstream camper in materials and craftsmanship, or maybe a diner. It was a gee-whiz idea of the time that never went anywhere. All mechanicals were in a core section from the factory, so no installation was required. Just put the house in place and plug it into the utilities.

    • Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic
    @Buzz Mohawk

    It's kind of a shame this never took off. But I think younger generations without the baggage of "mobile homes" and looking at prohibitive starter home costs could easily hop on this bandwagon. Most of them don't want to remodel a kitchen or hang wallpaper; just plop the house down, wire it to the grid, connect the pipes, and they'll change out components as necessary or desired.

    A civil engineer friend in a large firm tells me some well-funded tech types are sniffing around the house-building industry for opportunities for disruption and profit. Given the advancements in materials science and tool-making this is long overdue; residential construction should be more productive and efficient than it is.

    Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Corn, @Jim Don Bob

    , @Joe Stalin
    @Buzz Mohawk

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdkGBm1K6Uw
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHqc5hbIMxE
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0YOpBH14DM

    Replies: @Buzz Mohawk

    , @Jack D
    @Buzz Mohawk

    It's tough to fit a square bed in a pie shaped room.

    BTW, the Dymaxion house was 1,000 square (round?) ft. or about the size of the entrance hall of today's McMansions. However, the Tiny House crowd might like them.

    Housing design has gotten more conservative as everything else has become more radical. Houses today are "colonial" as far as the eye can see. No more 1960s Jetsons looking houses with asymmetrical roof lines, flat roofs, etc. Buyers are extremely conservative in their tastes. Nothing that speaks of modernity.

    Replies: @silviosilver

    , @Corn
    @Buzz Mohawk

    I always wanted to live in one of these

    , @Tex
    @Buzz Mohawk

    It looks like a beer brewing vat with windows. I consider that a compliment.

  237. @Rusty Tailgate
    @Anon

    The main attraction of living in the country is that you do not. It easily makes up for the lack of Thai restaurants.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

    The main attraction of living in the country is that you do not. It easily makes up for the lack of Thai restaurants.

    The great thing about Thai restaurants is that they demonstrate that you do not need more than a few immigrants to establish a cuisine here. Afghan (until recently) and Nepali eateries are other examples.

    Many, probably most, immigrants from Thailand are ethnic Hmong and other refugees, whose own parents were born in neighboring countries. They are not restaurateurs! (Though I do recommend Hmong sausage– weirdly European for Asia. Maybe their legends about originating in Europe have some merit. The occasional baby is born blond.)

  238. @Anon
    @JR Ewing

    Resentful liberal city renter? How's that work out? Nobody in liberal cities is resentful. Resentment is what rednecks feel. Always complaining about how they can't win elections, can't get their dicks hard because they have inhaled lead vapors from firearms exhaust all their lives, can't get a girlfriend because rural girls want to move to the liberal cities, can't get a job because Mexicans stole it even though there are no jobs and no Mexicans because no one in your community can create jobs, because they're all bedridden fat fucks with atherosclerosis.

    Always complaining about transsexuals even though they've never seen a legitimate one in their entire lives, even though your average middle aged country woman could qualify as a trannie. Always complaining about "child grooming" even though there are no kids to groom. Always complaining about black people even though they've never seen a black person in their entire life and never will.

    Always complaining about taxes and welfare even though rural America consumes an outsized share of federal tax dollars and its shit-tier agricultural economy is subsidized by the federal government.

    https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/states-federal-taxes-spending-charts-maps/


    Most Red States Take More Money From Washington Than They Put In

    Even as Republicans gripe about deficit spending, their states get 30 cents more federal spending per tax dollar than their Democratic neighbors.
     
    Just another case of rednecks biting the hand that feeds them.

    Replies: @Rusty Tailgate, @Renard, @bomag, @Reg Cæsar

    Always complaining about taxes and welfare even though rural America consumes an outsized share of federal tax dollars and its 💩-tier* agricultural economy is subsidized by the federal government.

    How much of that is food stamps “electronic benefits transfer” cards, which just reroute suburb-to-inner city funds through the countryside, to keep food cheap?

    *We call that smell “fertilizer”. You might catch a whiff at your community garden. (Or, in San Francisco, on a public sidewalk.)

  239. @Anon
    @Renard

    Mitary bases are a drop in the bucket for tax expenditures.

    Replies: @Renard, @Brutusale, @Joe Stalin, @Reg Cæsar, @Jack D

    Mitary [sic] bases are a drop in the bucket for tax expenditures.

    Funny, that’s not what the left has been telling us for years:

    • Replies: @Anon
    @Reg Cæsar

    That's not what the liberals have been telling you it's what post-menopausal middle aged women have been telling you. Man up, stop listening them, inject some testosterone, and look at a chart instead of a picture of a meme. Military is just 10% of the US budget.


    https://www.gao.gov/assets/extracts/410c00f0d45fd9cfa13b610db3fbb183/Fast_Facts_v2_105122_mr.png

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Bill Jones

    , @Brutusale
    @Reg Cæsar

    I'd be hard-pressed to decide which, the DOD or the DOE, was a bigger waster of funds.

  240. @Feryl
    @Alec Leamas (working from home)

    When I smell the reek of of a pot user out in the wild, 75% of the time it's a black guy under 25 (there are older potheads but most of them have the discretion to not get high in their vehicles or while walking the streets).

    Before circa 2020, it was exceedingly rare to publicly encounter a malodorous pothead.

    Replies: @Rooster16

    I’m not kidding when I tell you that I occasionally can smell black people driving ahead of me on the beltline because if the vast amounts weed emanating from their vehicle. Nothing visible, but a faint smell, I might not even be able to see their car, but sure enough as I pass by… thar blows the American Negro!!

    • LOL: silviosilver
  241. @Buzz Mohawk
    @jinkforp

    Bucky Fuller thought modern homes would be better and more affordable if they were built on assembly lines using aircraft manufacturing techniques, and so he invented his Dymaxion House:


    https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0c/f9/57/0cf957bf8382d932d639033ca62ccabf.jpg

    Sort of resembles an Airstream camper in materials and craftsmanship, or maybe a diner. It was a gee-whiz idea of the time that never went anywhere. All mechanicals were in a core section from the factory, so no installation was required. Just put the house in place and plug it into the utilities.

    Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic, @Joe Stalin, @Jack D, @Corn, @Tex

    It’s kind of a shame this never took off. But I think younger generations without the baggage of “mobile homes” and looking at prohibitive starter home costs could easily hop on this bandwagon. Most of them don’t want to remodel a kitchen or hang wallpaper; just plop the house down, wire it to the grid, connect the pipes, and they’ll change out components as necessary or desired.

    A civil engineer friend in a large firm tells me some well-funded tech types are sniffing around the house-building industry for opportunities for disruption and profit. Given the advancements in materials science and tool-making this is long overdue; residential construction should be more productive and efficient than it is.

    • Replies: @Buzz Mohawk
    @The Anti-Gnostic

    I think you might be right that younger generations now might be ready for something like this. Maybe the folks you mention will have some success.

    , @Corn
    @The Anti-Gnostic

    In one of his collections of short stories, Robert Heinlein said with modern manufacturing technology a new home shouldn’t be more expensive than a new car.

    Like Jack said though, manufactured housing is seen as downscale.

    , @Jim Don Bob
    @The Anti-Gnostic

    Some years ago, the guys at This Old House built a prefab house and found that the transportation costs ate up all the factory savings.

  242. @Buzz Mohawk
    @jinkforp

    Bucky Fuller thought modern homes would be better and more affordable if they were built on assembly lines using aircraft manufacturing techniques, and so he invented his Dymaxion House:


    https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0c/f9/57/0cf957bf8382d932d639033ca62ccabf.jpg

    Sort of resembles an Airstream camper in materials and craftsmanship, or maybe a diner. It was a gee-whiz idea of the time that never went anywhere. All mechanicals were in a core section from the factory, so no installation was required. Just put the house in place and plug it into the utilities.

    Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic, @Joe Stalin, @Jack D, @Corn, @Tex

    • Thanks: bomag
    • Replies: @Buzz Mohawk
    @Joe Stalin

    Thanks. Very interesting, and I'd never heard of this.

  243. @jinkforp
    @Jack D

    Discard here. Manufactured housing doesn't have to be crappy. A century ago you could order a house from Sears, Montgomery Ward, or companies who specialized in that product. They were known as kit houses, a thousand pieces of wood, cut to size, on a railroad flatcar. You could put it together yourself or hire a carpenter. Cheaper than doing everything on site.

    Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Jack D

    A lot of tract housing is more prefab than you think. A lot of stuff is precut and sometimes even brought to site already formed in panels. However, there’s not that much labor savings possible in framing. A half a dozen Guatemalans can frame a house in a day. It’s the other stuff where the cost and expensive labor is – plumbing, electrical, HVAC, cabinets and trim, tiling, flooring, painting, etc. The real savings is if you can do all of that in a factory and not just the framing.

  244. @Buzz Mohawk
    @jinkforp

    Bucky Fuller thought modern homes would be better and more affordable if they were built on assembly lines using aircraft manufacturing techniques, and so he invented his Dymaxion House:


    https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0c/f9/57/0cf957bf8382d932d639033ca62ccabf.jpg

    Sort of resembles an Airstream camper in materials and craftsmanship, or maybe a diner. It was a gee-whiz idea of the time that never went anywhere. All mechanicals were in a core section from the factory, so no installation was required. Just put the house in place and plug it into the utilities.

    Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic, @Joe Stalin, @Jack D, @Corn, @Tex

    It’s tough to fit a square bed in a pie shaped room.

    BTW, the Dymaxion house was 1,000 square (round?) ft. or about the size of the entrance hall of today’s McMansions. However, the Tiny House crowd might like them.

    Housing design has gotten more conservative as everything else has become more radical. Houses today are “colonial” as far as the eye can see. No more 1960s Jetsons looking houses with asymmetrical roof lines, flat roofs, etc. Buyers are extremely conservative in their tastes. Nothing that speaks of modernity.

    • Replies: @silviosilver
    @Jack D


    TW, the Dymaxion house was 1,000 square (round?) ft. or about the size of the entrance hall of today’s McMansions. However, the Tiny House crowd might like them.
     
    In most of the world, 1000 sq ft is above average. Even in America, a 1000 sq ft apartment isn't considered "tiny."

    Replies: @bomag

  245. @Old Prude
    @Anon

    Anon, you really are special. I was about to type "Supply and Demand", but you beat me to it with your next post: "Supply and demand has absolutely nothing to do with the housing market"

    Why is waterfront property so expensive?

    You sir, are an ass.

    Replies: @Anon

    Waterfront property has absolutely nothing to do with the housing market.

    When will you dogs ever learn to resist the temptation to bark over the microscopic things in life as if they explain the whole?

  246. Anon[396] • Disclaimer says:
    @Reg Cæsar
    @Anon


    Mitary [sic] bases are a drop in the bucket for tax expenditures.
     
    Funny, that's not what the left has been telling us for years:



    https://blog.usni.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/bake_sale1.jpg

    Replies: @Anon, @Brutusale

    That’s not what the liberals have been telling you it’s what post-menopausal middle aged women have been telling you. Man up, stop listening them, inject some testosterone, and look at a chart instead of a picture of a meme. Military is just 10% of the US budget.

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @Anon

    Are you man enough to break it down by counties? For some reason, right-wing rural states such as Idaho and Mississippi differ greatly on all sorts of metrics. What could be the reason for this? And what would a breakdown-by-county or municipality tell us?

    Also, the combined budget for defense and veterans' services add up to 22%, or two in every nine dollars. Much of our military is abroad, but almost all veterans are here. And concentrated guess-where:


    Here are the 10 states with the most veterans:

    Alaska - 8,748 per 100k
    Montana - 7,675 per 100k
    Wyoming - 7,645 per 100k
    Virginia - 7,644 per 100k
    Maine - 7,406 per 100k
    West Virginia - 7,043 per 100k
    South Carolina - 6,843 per 100k
    New Hampshire - 6,686 per 100k
    Arizona - 6,657 per 100k
    Oklahoma - 6,636 per 100k


    https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/veterans-by-state
     

    Replies: @Anon

    , @Bill Jones
    @Anon

    I hate to point out the blindingly fucking obvious but don't you think "Veterans Affairs" might have something to do with the Military?

    Replies: @Anon

  247. @Anon
    @Renard

    Mitary bases are a drop in the bucket for tax expenditures.

    Replies: @Renard, @Brutusale, @Joe Stalin, @Reg Cæsar, @Jack D

    It depends what you mean. Yes, most of the cost is for the personnel so if you closed all the foreign bases and moved the military home then the costs would not go down much. Might even go up because on some foreign bases local service workers are paid in lower local wages. A lot of American bases are kept open to please influential Congressmen but if they close them and move the troops elsewhere you don’t really save that much. Shrinking the military would save $ but that’s not happenin’ any more, what with Russia and China making trouble.

    BTW, that “80 countries” thing is exaggerated – a lot of those 80 are not significant facilities. We have a maybe 100 American soldiers in Canada and that’s one of the 80. The #15th largest # of troops is in Cuba with 700 troops at Gitmo and from #16 to 80 the number is all below 700 in each country so we could make it 15 countries instead of 80 and it wouldn’t move the needle on the defense budget. The largest # are right where they have been since WWII and the Korean War – Japan, Germany and S. Korea. Out of the 173,000 troops overseas, 112,000 are in just those 3 countries.

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/10/infographic-us-military-presence-around-the-world-interactive

  248. @Jack D
    @Art Deco

    You are certainly correct today. If Ukraine didn't have a national consciousness before this war started, it does today. This is just one more way in which Putin's 3 day coup has spectacularly backfired on him. See also Sweden and Finland joining NATO and many other unintended consequences.

    Lots of modern countries started out as "artificial" constructs as a result of treaties, wars, etc. Germany, Italy, Canada, etc. don't go back much further in history as political entities than Ukraine. (BTW, "the" Bronx and "the" Netherlands would like to have a word with Bill about drawing political conclusions from the use of the definite article. And BTW, Russian doesn't even have a definite article.) But over time and as a result of events, a national consciousness emerges. For that matter, before the Revolution, many colonists in America regarded their identity either as British or as citizens of their respective colonies but there was no such thing as an "American" identity.

    That being said, before say 2014 (and even to some extent up until this war began), there were many parts of Ukraine (and not just the Donbass - e.g. Odessa and even to some extent Kyiv) where people thought of themselves as having a primarily Russian cultural identity (without necessarily desiring to reunify with Russia). French speakers in Quebec have a very strong cultural identification with the French language but AFAIK there is zero sentiment for rejoining France. And when the Americans invaded Canada during the Revolution (much to the surprise of the Americans) the French speakers of Quebec did not support the American invasion.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

    If Ukraine didn’t have a national consciousness before this war started, it does today

    Same with Palestinians. The original Zionists* set out to create (or re-create) a nation in the desert. They inadvertently created two.

    *For the record, this term is used here in the literal sense, absent any intent of negative or positive connotations.

    BTW, “the” Bronx and “the” Netherlands would like to have a word with Bill about drawing political conclusions from the use of the definite article.

    Good point, but poor examples. Both of these are, or were, plurals, as with the Philippines, the Grenadines, and the Falklands. More analogous are the Lebanon and the Argentine– has anyone called it that since Johnny Mercer in “Tangerine” 82 years ago?

    Ukrainians complain about the the but are in a weak position to do so. No Slavic language (save mother Bulgarian) uses articles.

    • Replies: @Art Deco
    @Reg Cæsar

    They inadvertently created two.

    No, UNRWA did that.

  249. @Reg Cæsar
    @Jack D


    If Ukraine didn’t have a national consciousness before this war started, it does today
     
    Same with Palestinians. The original Zionists* set out to create (or re-create) a nation in the desert. They inadvertently created two.


    *For the record, this term is used here in the literal sense, absent any intent of negative or positive connotations.

    BTW, “the” Bronx and “the” Netherlands would like to have a word with Bill about drawing political conclusions from the use of the definite article.
     
    Good point, but poor examples. Both of these are, or were, plurals, as with the Philippines, the Grenadines, and the Falklands. More analogous are the Lebanon and the Argentine-- has anyone called it that since Johnny Mercer in "Tangerine" 82 years ago?

    Ukrainians complain about the the but are in a weak position to do so. No Slavic language (save mother Bulgarian) uses articles.

    Replies: @Art Deco

    They inadvertently created two.

    No, UNRWA did that.

  250. @rebel yell
    @Corvinus

    "Schizophrenia: Long known to be heritable (twins & adoptees). Now, some genes & neuro mechanisms are being found." - Steven Pinker
    Sorry Corvinus, but Schizophrenia is another example that blacks are more dysfunctional than everyone else and that it is due to genetics. You might as well accept reality - you won't have to wring your hands and clutch your pearls so much.

    Replies: @Corvinus

    You clearly didn’t read the sources. I get it. Way past your pay grade.

  251. @Hope
    @Skyler the Weird

    Brahmins are only minority among indian Americans.

    Replies: @CCG

    He got the words wrong. Replace “Brahmins” with “Dharmics” and “Dalits” with “mlecchas”.

  252. @Father Coughlin
    @YetAnotherAnon

    Interesting post about the provinces beyond the pale. I wonder if they're low-key trying to support the demographic destruction of the hated English by "pressuring" England to get further and further woke? Of course they're not doing their own nations any favors either.

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon

    “I wonder if they’re low-key trying to support the demographic destruction of the hated English by “pressuring” England to get further and further woke? “

    No, I think they are true believers. Scotland have just passed a law by which anyone of 16 or over can “transition” on their own say-so. And the leader of Scottish Labour is called Anas Sarwar.

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/22/scotland-passes-bill-making-it-easier-for-people-to-legally-change-gender

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @YetAnotherAnon


    And the leader of Scottish Labour is called Anas Sarwar.
     
    Who neither looks nor worships anything like Anas Todkill of Jamestown.



    https://www.wikitree.com/photo.php/thumb/2/29/Todkill-62.jpg/300px-Todkill-62.jpg


    https://www.visitwilliamsburg.com/events/meet-anas-todkill


    https://historicjamestowne.org/visit/calendar/meet-anas-todkill-a-tractable-trade-3/
  253. @YetAnotherAnon
    @Jack D


    "Don’t assume that everything you see on Russian Telegram is true. In fact, don’t assume that ANYTHING you see on Russian Telegram is true."
     
    Thank you for your concern ;-)

    You'll be pleased to know I apply that principle to most English language "news" sites. As Mr Sailer has pointed out in the case of WaPo and NYT, there are usually some nuggets of truth to be found, but a discriminating eye is necessary.

    Alas in this sceptic isle our government has chosen to protect us from Russian misinformation and ensure we are only exposed to US/UK/NATO misinformation. The broadcaster Russia Today has been closed down, and UK web providers, while still happy to give Brits a plentiful diet of pornography, won't serve Russian news sites.

    "This site can’t be reached www.sputniknews.com’s DNS address could not be found. Diagnosing the problem."

    The Great Firewall of Westminster at work. Oddly, our NATO allies in Europe don't seem to be so afraid, as I can access the sites from European servers.

    Replies: @Jack D

    Something is weird about your url. The real url https://sputniknews.com/ works just fine but the one that you give http://www.sputniknews.xn--coms-x96a/ not surprisingly doesn’t work.

    • Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
    @Jack D

    "Something is weird about your url. "

    I pasted the error message as it appeared, but Ron's software linkified it and seemingly added a few "extras".

    Almost Missouri - Churchill on Poland, 1938, after Munich.


    “The Germans were not the only vultures upon the carcass. Immediately after the Munich Agreement on September 30, the Polish Government sent a twenty-four-hour ultimatum to the Czechs demanding the immediate handing-over of the frontier district of Teschen. There was no means of resisting this harsh demand.

    The heroic characteristics of the Polish race must not blind us to their errors, which over centuries have led them through measureless suffering…it is a mystery and tragedy of European history that a people capable of every heroic virtue, gifted, valiant, charming, as individuals, should repeatedly show such inveterate faults in almost every aspect of their governmental life.”


    Replies: @Steve Sailer

  254. @Colin Wright
    @JR Ewing

    'I don’t like them because they drive up real estate prices with their ugly gargantuan McMansions, they smell bad, and they’re bad drivers. That’s reason enough.'

    I don't need to prove they're worse than us. For me, the fact that they're different is entirely sufficient.

    After we left the Old Country (California), my wife and I tried Hawaii for a year and a half.

    It definitely has its points -- but people are just too different from each other. Even the 'locals' are riven into various very separate ethnic groups. There is no single community.

    We wound up settling here in provincial Oregon four years ago. This too has its drawbacks, but everyone is the same. They're all white, and if you didn't vote for Trump, you'd best be tactful about admitting it.

    ...and this is good. You have a clear idea what to expect from people, and you usually guess right. You wind up helping each other -- as a matter of course.

    Hispanics are kind of iffy -- but I definitely don't want frigging Indians. The more aliens we admit, and the more alien they are, the less hope we have of retaining the kind of community I've discovered I like.

    Replies: @Corvinus

    People aren’t as different as you believe. But I get it. You’d rather live in a bubble than understand reality.

    • Replies: @Colin Wright
    @Corvinus


    People aren’t as different as you believe. But I get it. You’d rather live in a bubble than understand reality.
     
    I wonder if you even know any people. They're very different from each other -- and the less they share, the more misunderstandings and hurt feelings there are. I saw this very clearly in Hawaii.

    Replies: @Corvinus

  255. @Old Prude
    @Jack D

    Their home equity is most people’s #1 financial asset.

    Until their neighborhood is taken over by imports: Happened to my grandparents and my mother-in-law. South Bend, Indiana and Summit NJ. Cities trashed by third world immigration. Every place it touches, it ruins.

    Replies: @Jack D

    • LOL: Old Prude
    • Replies: @jinkforp
    @Jack D

    Discard here. Different foreigners affect real estate in different ways. Moneyed Hindus and Chinamen will drive up prices, outbidding Whites in our own neighborhoods. After a while, Whites don't want to live there and the Asians will only have to bid against each other.

    Mexicans will depress prices when they move in next door, but drive up prices elsewhere because you have to move away and your new neighborhood prices are rising because you're not the only White trying to escape the diversity.

    Replies: @Old Prude

  256. @Joe Stalin
    @Buzz Mohawk

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdkGBm1K6Uw
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHqc5hbIMxE
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0YOpBH14DM

    Replies: @Buzz Mohawk

    Thanks. Very interesting, and I’d never heard of this.

  257. @The Anti-Gnostic
    @Buzz Mohawk

    It's kind of a shame this never took off. But I think younger generations without the baggage of "mobile homes" and looking at prohibitive starter home costs could easily hop on this bandwagon. Most of them don't want to remodel a kitchen or hang wallpaper; just plop the house down, wire it to the grid, connect the pipes, and they'll change out components as necessary or desired.

    A civil engineer friend in a large firm tells me some well-funded tech types are sniffing around the house-building industry for opportunities for disruption and profit. Given the advancements in materials science and tool-making this is long overdue; residential construction should be more productive and efficient than it is.

    Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Corn, @Jim Don Bob

    I think you might be right that younger generations now might be ready for something like this. Maybe the folks you mention will have some success.

  258. @JackOH

    " . . . [T]hese days people feel it important to clear the names of the white victims from the charge of racism, which, apparently, would mean they had it coming."
     
    This to me is an extremely important "noticing", Steve. It points to some pathology among some Blacks that appears to be justified by White apologists. We need someone with the right chops (Nicholas Stix?) to examine how this connects to our misbegotten civil rights laws and Black Supremacy.

    Replies: @Nicholas Stix

    “This to me is an extremely important ‘noticing,’ Steve. It points to some pathology among some blacks that appears to be justified by White apologists. We need someone with the right chops (Nicholas Stix?) to examine how this connects to our misbegotten civil rights laws and black Supremacy.”

    Thanks for your kind words, Jack. I believe I’ve done the heavy lifting in scores of reports, and am working on a comp book, but it’ll take several volumes to cover the whole canvas. However, the most succinct explanation came from our host, many years ago: “black megalomania” (which is extremely common).

    https://vdare.com/writers/nicholas-stix

    “Vester Flanagan’s American Dream has come true! black supremacist, affirmative action ‘journalist’ murdered two White colleagues (and wounded another woman) for speaking of ‘the field’ at work; he insisted that they were invoking slavery; college social work programs agree with him, and have now eliminated the word ‘field,’ vindicating the racist killer!”

    https://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2023/01/vester-flanagans-american-dream-has.html

    • Replies: @JackOH
    @Nicholas Stix

    Nicholas, thanks for your good work, buddy.

    I can't get around it---White "over-accommodationism" (or undue appeasement, Chamberlain-style) of Blacks has been a catastrophe for America. By "over-accommodationism" I mean inept and cowardly and cruel (to Whites) laws and policies.

    You can damn near hear the cries of pain from individual Whites in the occasional comments here under relevant articles. Flight at great expense from cities and schools for fear of unprovoked violence by Blacks. Abridged career, income, and social opportunities. The whole nine yards. Plus, there's no possibility of redress in either major party.

    You're doing good work, and I really do believe, as I mention in a comment elsewhere here, we've been propelled into an America characterized by Black Supremacism, Jim Snow, and early stage White Genocide. At least we ought to examine the evidence for that.

    Thanks again, buddy.

    , @Art Deco
    @Nicholas Stix

    The station manager said he'd had so many conflicts with so many people it was a mystery as to why he'd selected these two. The smart money says he got wind that they'd be reporting from a convenient location at a time he was in extremis due to some other matter or due to those episodic realizations you have about the general state of your life. (They had good lives and his was in the toilet).

    He shot Vicki Gardner because she was there.

  259. @YetAnotherAnon
    @Father Coughlin

    "I wonder if they’re low-key trying to support the demographic destruction of the hated English by “pressuring” England to get further and further woke? "

    No, I think they are true believers. Scotland have just passed a law by which anyone of 16 or over can "transition" on their own say-so. And the leader of Scottish Labour is called Anas Sarwar.

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/22/scotland-passes-bill-making-it-easier-for-people-to-legally-change-gender

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

    And the leader of Scottish Labour is called Anas Sarwar.

    Who neither looks nor worships anything like Anas Todkill of Jamestown.

    https://www.visitwilliamsburg.com/events/meet-anas-todkill

    https://historicjamestowne.org/visit/calendar/meet-anas-todkill-a-tractable-trade-3/

  260. @Anon
    @Reg Cæsar

    That's not what the liberals have been telling you it's what post-menopausal middle aged women have been telling you. Man up, stop listening them, inject some testosterone, and look at a chart instead of a picture of a meme. Military is just 10% of the US budget.


    https://www.gao.gov/assets/extracts/410c00f0d45fd9cfa13b610db3fbb183/Fast_Facts_v2_105122_mr.png

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Bill Jones

    Are you man enough to break it down by counties? For some reason, right-wing rural states such as Idaho and Mississippi differ greatly on all sorts of metrics. What could be the reason for this? And what would a breakdown-by-county or municipality tell us?

    Also, the combined budget for defense and veterans’ services add up to 22%, or two in every nine dollars. Much of our military is abroad, but almost all veterans are here. And concentrated guess-where:

    Here are the 10 states with the most veterans:

    Alaska – 8,748 per 100k
    Montana – 7,675 per 100k
    Wyoming – 7,645 per 100k
    Virginia – 7,644 per 100k
    Maine – 7,406 per 100k
    West Virginia – 7,043 per 100k
    South Carolina – 6,843 per 100k
    New Hampshire – 6,686 per 100k
    Arizona – 6,657 per 100k
    Oklahoma – 6,636 per 100k

    https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/veterans-by-state

    • Replies: @Anon
    @Reg Cæsar

    You are an idiot if you think there are more veterans in Wyoming and Maine based on per capita veteran residence.

    Combining VA benefits with bases is dishonest. I said military bases are a tiny part of the budget; I did not say bases combined with the veteran entitlement spending and neither did my opponents.

    Most govement spending is various forms of entitlement spending. Paying for healthcare and pensions is what is driving our debt. Our war machine is very affordable and cost efficient. In fact it is profitable. War is always profitable and good.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

  261. @Buzz Mohawk
    @jinkforp

    Bucky Fuller thought modern homes would be better and more affordable if they were built on assembly lines using aircraft manufacturing techniques, and so he invented his Dymaxion House:


    https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0c/f9/57/0cf957bf8382d932d639033ca62ccabf.jpg

    Sort of resembles an Airstream camper in materials and craftsmanship, or maybe a diner. It was a gee-whiz idea of the time that never went anywhere. All mechanicals were in a core section from the factory, so no installation was required. Just put the house in place and plug it into the utilities.

    Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic, @Joe Stalin, @Jack D, @Corn, @Tex

    I always wanted to live in one of these

  262. @The Anti-Gnostic
    @Buzz Mohawk

    It's kind of a shame this never took off. But I think younger generations without the baggage of "mobile homes" and looking at prohibitive starter home costs could easily hop on this bandwagon. Most of them don't want to remodel a kitchen or hang wallpaper; just plop the house down, wire it to the grid, connect the pipes, and they'll change out components as necessary or desired.

    A civil engineer friend in a large firm tells me some well-funded tech types are sniffing around the house-building industry for opportunities for disruption and profit. Given the advancements in materials science and tool-making this is long overdue; residential construction should be more productive and efficient than it is.

    Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Corn, @Jim Don Bob

    In one of his collections of short stories, Robert Heinlein said with modern manufacturing technology a new home shouldn’t be more expensive than a new car.

    Like Jack said though, manufactured housing is seen as downscale.

  263. @Jack D
    @Buzz Mohawk

    It's tough to fit a square bed in a pie shaped room.

    BTW, the Dymaxion house was 1,000 square (round?) ft. or about the size of the entrance hall of today's McMansions. However, the Tiny House crowd might like them.

    Housing design has gotten more conservative as everything else has become more radical. Houses today are "colonial" as far as the eye can see. No more 1960s Jetsons looking houses with asymmetrical roof lines, flat roofs, etc. Buyers are extremely conservative in their tastes. Nothing that speaks of modernity.

    Replies: @silviosilver

    TW, the Dymaxion house was 1,000 square (round?) ft. or about the size of the entrance hall of today’s McMansions. However, the Tiny House crowd might like them.

    In most of the world, 1000 sq ft is above average. Even in America, a 1000 sq ft apartment isn’t considered “tiny.”

    • Replies: @bomag
    @silviosilver

    Larger trailer houses are around 1000 (ft2), of which they are many many in this country, quite a few raising large families.

    Replies: @Jack D

  264. @JR Ewing
    @Dream

    I don't begrudge our local Indians because I'm jealous of them.

    I don't like them because they drive up real estate prices with their ugly gargantuan McMansions, they smell bad, and they're bad drivers. That's reason enough.

    Replies: @Anon, @Colin Wright, @Renard, @SOL

    And they ruined Scooby-Doo!

  265. It’s amazing that on an article about the murder of a white woman, driven by anti-whitism, all the comments revolve around financing real estate, Buckminster Fuller’s home design concepts , factory homes, the nature of semiconductors, military budgets and Thai restaurants.

    You spend so much energy to make sure you don’t engage the topic of anti-whitism.

    • Agree: Odyssey, AceDeuce
    • Replies: @JackOH
    @Loyalty Over IQ Worship

    Good point, Loyalty. There are strong and relevant comments above, though, which I think wouldn't survive moderation on mainstream sites at all.

    Plus, I think UR may be one of the few sites that has tentatively put out the idea(s) that the misbegotten Civil Rights Act and its sequelae have pushed mainstream American Whites into a hostile America characterized by Black Supremacism-Jim Snow-White Genocide.

    (I'm only suggesting that we look at some of these ideas as tentative hypotheses to be examined. Thanks to Nicholas Stix and a few other writers here for their thinking.)

    , @bomag
    @Loyalty Over IQ Worship

    "Come for the food; stay for the conversation."

    , @Anon
    @Loyalty Over IQ Worship

    Nobody gives a shit about random black on white homicides or a murderer's feelings; the white murder rate is like 2.2 per 100,000. Go find a daytime television show to get your daily dose of irrational bullshit. I rekomend The View.


    The pertinent issue in America is that the average home price is over 500,000 dollars and rising, even as population growth slows to a trickle and with extremely low population density compared to Europe and Asia:


    https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ASPUS


    Not the minimal crime rate or black people.

    , @Corvinus
    @Loyalty Over IQ Worship

    How about clearly defining anti-whitish for starters. What metrics are involved? Is a white person able to be a friend to a non-white? Sell stuff to them? Marry them?

    Do tell.

    Replies: @Anonymous

  266. @Corvinus
    @Colin Wright

    People aren’t as different as you believe. But I get it. You’d rather live in a bubble than understand reality.

    Replies: @Colin Wright

    People aren’t as different as you believe. But I get it. You’d rather live in a bubble than understand reality.

    I wonder if you even know any people. They’re very different from each other — and the less they share, the more misunderstandings and hurt feelings there are. I saw this very clearly in Hawaii.

    • Agree: bomag
    • Replies: @Corvinus
    @Colin Wright

    What you saw was one or two instances, so you then made a sweeping generalization. The result? Ignoring the countless interactions that contradicted that position.

    That’s ok, since younger people see right through your b.s.

    Replies: @Anglomania, @Colin Wright

  267. Anon[227] • Disclaimer says:
    @Reg Cæsar
    @Anon

    Are you man enough to break it down by counties? For some reason, right-wing rural states such as Idaho and Mississippi differ greatly on all sorts of metrics. What could be the reason for this? And what would a breakdown-by-county or municipality tell us?

    Also, the combined budget for defense and veterans' services add up to 22%, or two in every nine dollars. Much of our military is abroad, but almost all veterans are here. And concentrated guess-where:


    Here are the 10 states with the most veterans:

    Alaska - 8,748 per 100k
    Montana - 7,675 per 100k
    Wyoming - 7,645 per 100k
    Virginia - 7,644 per 100k
    Maine - 7,406 per 100k
    West Virginia - 7,043 per 100k
    South Carolina - 6,843 per 100k
    New Hampshire - 6,686 per 100k
    Arizona - 6,657 per 100k
    Oklahoma - 6,636 per 100k


    https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/veterans-by-state
     

    Replies: @Anon

    You are an idiot if you think there are more veterans in Wyoming and Maine based on per capita veteran residence.

    Combining VA benefits with bases is dishonest. I said military bases are a tiny part of the budget; I did not say bases combined with the veteran entitlement spending and neither did my opponents.

    Most govement spending is various forms of entitlement spending. Paying for healthcare and pensions is what is driving our debt. Our war machine is very affordable and cost efficient. In fact it is profitable. War is always profitable and good.

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @Anon


    You are an idiot if you think there are more veterans in Wyoming and Maine based on per capita veteran residence.
     
    Posting as "Anon" is the hallmark of an idiot at this site. If you're a serious person,, choose a screen name.

    These states are being judged per capita.

    War is always profitable and good.
     
    It is never good.


    https://www.azquotes.com/picture-quotes/quote-i-am-tired-and-sick-of-war-its-glory-is-all-moonshine-it-is-only-those-who-have-neither-william-tecumseh-sherman-27-1-0114.jpg

    Replies: @Anon, @Colin Wright

  268. @silviosilver
    @Jack D


    TW, the Dymaxion house was 1,000 square (round?) ft. or about the size of the entrance hall of today’s McMansions. However, the Tiny House crowd might like them.
     
    In most of the world, 1000 sq ft is above average. Even in America, a 1000 sq ft apartment isn't considered "tiny."

    Replies: @bomag

    Larger trailer houses are around 1000 (ft2), of which they are many many in this country, quite a few raising large families.

    • Replies: @Jack D
    @bomag

    The Dymaxion was essentially a large trailer (although it was not equipped with wheels - Fuller never got far enough in production to figure out how they would have transported these things). But trailers are considered downscale and the Dymaxion (like an Airstream which it in some respects resembles) was supposed to be upscale. If you want to bring an item that is associated with the lower classes to the upper classes you have to somehow re-imagine it and make it different ("designer blue jeans"), maybe execute it in a different material (unpainted aluminum instead of painted) or change the shape (round instead of rectangular).

    Replies: @bomag, @Corn

  269. @Loyalty Over IQ Worship
    It's amazing that on an article about the murder of a white woman, driven by anti-whitism, all the comments revolve around financing real estate, Buckminster Fuller's home design concepts , factory homes, the nature of semiconductors, military budgets and Thai restaurants.

    You spend so much energy to make sure you don't engage the topic of anti-whitism.

    Replies: @JackOH, @bomag, @Anon, @Corvinus

    Good point, Loyalty. There are strong and relevant comments above, though, which I think wouldn’t survive moderation on mainstream sites at all.

    Plus, I think UR may be one of the few sites that has tentatively put out the idea(s) that the misbegotten Civil Rights Act and its sequelae have pushed mainstream American Whites into a hostile America characterized by Black Supremacism-Jim Snow-White Genocide.

    (I’m only suggesting that we look at some of these ideas as tentative hypotheses to be examined. Thanks to Nicholas Stix and a few other writers here for their thinking.)

    • Troll: Corvinus
  270. @Jack D
    @Old Prude

    IDK about South Bend, but Summit seems to be doing ok:

    https://www.zillow.com/summit-nj/?searchQueryState=%7B%22pagination%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22usersSearchTerm%22%3A%22Summit%2C%20NJ%22%2C%22mapBounds%22%3A%7B%22west%22%3A-74.41388520410156%2C%22east%22%3A-74.30814179589844%2C%22south%22%3A40.68106316262463%2C%22north%22%3A40.74378008512513%7D%2C%22regionSelection%22%3A%5B%7B%22regionId%22%3A27319%2C%22regionType%22%3A6%7D%5D%2C%22isMapVisible%22%3Atrue%2C%22filterState%22%3A%7B%22sort%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3A%22globalrelevanceex%22%7D%2C%22ah%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Atrue%7D%7D%2C%22isListVisible%22%3Atrue%2C%22mapZoom%22%3A13%7D

    I see lots of houses in the $1M range.

    Immigrants are magic. They can make your neighborhood both too expensive AND too cheap. You and Another Dad should get together and get your stories straight.

    Replies: @jinkforp

    Discard here. Different foreigners affect real estate in different ways. Moneyed Hindus and Chinamen will drive up prices, outbidding Whites in our own neighborhoods. After a while, Whites don’t want to live there and the Asians will only have to bid against each other.

    Mexicans will depress prices when they move in next door, but drive up prices elsewhere because you have to move away and your new neighborhood prices are rising because you’re not the only White trying to escape the diversity.

    • Agree: AceDeuce
    • Replies: @Old Prude
    @jinkforp

    Thanks, jinkforp, you took the words right out of my fingertips.

  271. @Loyalty Over IQ Worship
    It's amazing that on an article about the murder of a white woman, driven by anti-whitism, all the comments revolve around financing real estate, Buckminster Fuller's home design concepts , factory homes, the nature of semiconductors, military budgets and Thai restaurants.

    You spend so much energy to make sure you don't engage the topic of anti-whitism.

    Replies: @JackOH, @bomag, @Anon, @Corvinus

    “Come for the food; stay for the conversation.”

    • LOL: Corn
  272. @Nicholas Stix
    @JackOH

    "This to me is an extremely important 'noticing,' Steve. It points to some pathology among some blacks that appears to be justified by White apologists. We need someone with the right chops (Nicholas Stix?) to examine how this connects to our misbegotten civil rights laws and black Supremacy."

    Thanks for your kind words, Jack. I believe I've done the heavy lifting in scores of reports, and am working on a comp book, but it'll take several volumes to cover the whole canvas. However, the most succinct explanation came from our host, many years ago: "black megalomania" (which is extremely common).

    https://vdare.com/writers/nicholas-stix

    “Vester Flanagan’s American Dream has come true! black supremacist, affirmative action ‘journalist’ murdered two White colleagues (and wounded another woman) for speaking of ‘the field’ at work; he insisted that they were invoking slavery; college social work programs agree with him, and have now eliminated the word ‘field,’ vindicating the racist killer!”

    https://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2023/01/vester-flanagans-american-dream-has.html

    Replies: @JackOH, @Art Deco

    Nicholas, thanks for your good work, buddy.

    I can’t get around it—White “over-accommodationism” (or undue appeasement, Chamberlain-style) of Blacks has been a catastrophe for America. By “over-accommodationism” I mean inept and cowardly and cruel (to Whites) laws and policies.

    You can damn near hear the cries of pain from individual Whites in the occasional comments here under relevant articles. Flight at great expense from cities and schools for fear of unprovoked violence by Blacks. Abridged career, income, and social opportunities. The whole nine yards. Plus, there’s no possibility of redress in either major party.

    You’re doing good work, and I really do believe, as I mention in a comment elsewhere here, we’ve been propelled into an America characterized by Black Supremacism, Jim Snow, and early stage White Genocide. At least we ought to examine the evidence for that.

    Thanks again, buddy.

    • Agree: HammerJack
  273. @Colin Wright
    @Corvinus


    People aren’t as different as you believe. But I get it. You’d rather live in a bubble than understand reality.
     
    I wonder if you even know any people. They're very different from each other -- and the less they share, the more misunderstandings and hurt feelings there are. I saw this very clearly in Hawaii.

    Replies: @Corvinus

    What you saw was one or two instances, so you then made a sweeping generalization. The result? Ignoring the countless interactions that contradicted that position.

    That’s ok, since younger people see right through your b.s.

    • Replies: @Anglomania
    @Corvinus

    As others have stated prior, the kind of voluntary racial segregation amongst the youngsters seems to still be in force, not that you care much for it.

    Also, an instance of a group doing something is a fair indicator of a number of that group... doing something. Doesn't matter, what he says is backed by polls from ABC and Census data.

    Replies: @Corvinus

    , @Colin Wright
    @Corvinus


    What you saw was one or two instances, so you then made a sweeping generalization. The result? Ignoring the countless interactions that contradicted that position.
     
    You know all about every interaction I had for the year and a half we lived on Hawaii? I did not realize you had psychic powers.

    That’s ok, since younger people see right through your b.s.
     
    I've noticed all the people here who are impressed by your arguments. Maybe you could point me to where your fans are.

    Replies: @Corvinus

  274. @Corvinus
    @Colin Wright

    What you saw was one or two instances, so you then made a sweeping generalization. The result? Ignoring the countless interactions that contradicted that position.

    That’s ok, since younger people see right through your b.s.

    Replies: @Anglomania, @Colin Wright

    As others have stated prior, the kind of voluntary racial segregation amongst the youngsters seems to still be in force, not that you care much for it.

    Also, an instance of a group doing something is a fair indicator of a number of that group… doing something. Doesn’t matter, what he says is backed by polls from ABC and Census data.

    • Replies: @Corvinus
    @Anglomania

    “As others have stated prior, the kind of voluntary racial segregation amongst the youngsters seems to still be in force, not that you care much for it.”

    That’s fake news. Generation Z is the most diverse and inclusive of all the generations. Stop lying.

    “Also, an instance of a group doing something is a fair indicator of a number of that group… doing something. Doesn’t matter, what he says is backed by polls from ABC and Census data”

    Wait, I thought we shouldn’t trust the media and government for anything. What gives?

  275. @Nicholas Stix
    @JackOH

    "This to me is an extremely important 'noticing,' Steve. It points to some pathology among some blacks that appears to be justified by White apologists. We need someone with the right chops (Nicholas Stix?) to examine how this connects to our misbegotten civil rights laws and black Supremacy."

    Thanks for your kind words, Jack. I believe I've done the heavy lifting in scores of reports, and am working on a comp book, but it'll take several volumes to cover the whole canvas. However, the most succinct explanation came from our host, many years ago: "black megalomania" (which is extremely common).

    https://vdare.com/writers/nicholas-stix

    “Vester Flanagan’s American Dream has come true! black supremacist, affirmative action ‘journalist’ murdered two White colleagues (and wounded another woman) for speaking of ‘the field’ at work; he insisted that they were invoking slavery; college social work programs agree with him, and have now eliminated the word ‘field,’ vindicating the racist killer!”

    https://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2023/01/vester-flanagans-american-dream-has.html

    Replies: @JackOH, @Art Deco

    The station manager said he’d had so many conflicts with so many people it was a mystery as to why he’d selected these two. The smart money says he got wind that they’d be reporting from a convenient location at a time he was in extremis due to some other matter or due to those episodic realizations you have about the general state of your life. (They had good lives and his was in the toilet).

    He shot Vicki Gardner because she was there.

  276. @Loyalty Over IQ Worship
    It's amazing that on an article about the murder of a white woman, driven by anti-whitism, all the comments revolve around financing real estate, Buckminster Fuller's home design concepts , factory homes, the nature of semiconductors, military budgets and Thai restaurants.

    You spend so much energy to make sure you don't engage the topic of anti-whitism.

    Replies: @JackOH, @bomag, @Anon, @Corvinus

    Nobody gives a shit about random black on white homicides or a murderer’s feelings; the white murder rate is like 2.2 per 100,000. Go find a daytime television show to get your daily dose of irrational bullshit. I rekomend The View.

    The pertinent issue in America is that the average home price is over 500,000 dollars and rising, even as population growth slows to a trickle and with extremely low population density compared to Europe and Asia:

    https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ASPUS

    Not the minimal crime rate or black people.

  277. @bomag
    @Anon

    LOL.

    The usual insecure Californian; stuck in traffic; reading his crap-app; contemplating his over-priced housing; so he dumps on Iowa to make himself feel better.

    I know plenty from both states. Iowans have a natural happiness; Californians have an edgy happiness; they have a good state, but it could be a lot better; nothing to be done 'cause one must worship the Narrative.

    Replies: @Brutusale

    It’s like my newish neighbors here in Whitopia, Massachusetts, looking at the $2.2 million that the schools spent that wasn’t budgeted, the house they bought 3 years ago is teetering on the edge of upside down, all the apartment/condos that have been built over the past 10 years leading to congestion worse than they experienced back in Cambridge/Somerville/Arlington, etc. It’s that teeth-clenched smile/grimace they have when the are saying that all is well. It makes them feel better to denigrated their supposed inferiors.

    • Thanks: bomag
  278. @Reg Cæsar
    @Anon


    Mitary [sic] bases are a drop in the bucket for tax expenditures.
     
    Funny, that's not what the left has been telling us for years:



    https://blog.usni.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/bake_sale1.jpg

    Replies: @Anon, @Brutusale

    I’d be hard-pressed to decide which, the DOD or the DOE, was a bigger waster of funds.

  279. @bomag
    @silviosilver

    Larger trailer houses are around 1000 (ft2), of which they are many many in this country, quite a few raising large families.

    Replies: @Jack D

    The Dymaxion was essentially a large trailer (although it was not equipped with wheels – Fuller never got far enough in production to figure out how they would have transported these things). But trailers are considered downscale and the Dymaxion (like an Airstream which it in some respects resembles) was supposed to be upscale. If you want to bring an item that is associated with the lower classes to the upper classes you have to somehow re-imagine it and make it different (“designer blue jeans”), maybe execute it in a different material (unpainted aluminum instead of painted) or change the shape (round instead of rectangular).

    • Replies: @bomag
    @Jack D

    Thanks for the flesh-out.

    Reminds me of the cringe when Andrew Yang proposed re-purposing shipping containers as low cost housing. Something you probably do quietly, after getting elected, rather than saying it loudly in the campaign. No one wants to be told (reminded?) of such downscaling in the future.

    , @Corn
    @Jack D

    People had so many flights of fancy in the ‘30s and ‘40s. I believe Fuller claimed the Dymaxion house could be dropped somewhere by airship

  280. @Buzz Mohawk
    @jinkforp

    Bucky Fuller thought modern homes would be better and more affordable if they were built on assembly lines using aircraft manufacturing techniques, and so he invented his Dymaxion House:


    https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0c/f9/57/0cf957bf8382d932d639033ca62ccabf.jpg

    Sort of resembles an Airstream camper in materials and craftsmanship, or maybe a diner. It was a gee-whiz idea of the time that never went anywhere. All mechanicals were in a core section from the factory, so no installation was required. Just put the house in place and plug it into the utilities.

    Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic, @Joe Stalin, @Jack D, @Corn, @Tex

    It looks like a beer brewing vat with windows. I consider that a compliment.

  281. @jinkforp
    @Jack D

    Discard here. Different foreigners affect real estate in different ways. Moneyed Hindus and Chinamen will drive up prices, outbidding Whites in our own neighborhoods. After a while, Whites don't want to live there and the Asians will only have to bid against each other.

    Mexicans will depress prices when they move in next door, but drive up prices elsewhere because you have to move away and your new neighborhood prices are rising because you're not the only White trying to escape the diversity.

    Replies: @Old Prude

    Thanks, jinkforp, you took the words right out of my fingertips.

  282. @Corvinus
    @Colin Wright

    What you saw was one or two instances, so you then made a sweeping generalization. The result? Ignoring the countless interactions that contradicted that position.

    That’s ok, since younger people see right through your b.s.

    Replies: @Anglomania, @Colin Wright

    What you saw was one or two instances, so you then made a sweeping generalization. The result? Ignoring the countless interactions that contradicted that position.

    You know all about every interaction I had for the year and a half we lived on Hawaii? I did not realize you had psychic powers.

    That’s ok, since younger people see right through your b.s.

    I’ve noticed all the people here who are impressed by your arguments. Maybe you could point me to where your fans are.

    • Replies: @Corvinus
    @Colin Wright

    I know that you are a slave to confirmation bias, my white friend.

    Replies: @Colin Wright

  283. @JoaoAlfaiate
    @Almost Missouri

    Instead of dividing the Ukraine won't it make more sense to partition Poland-for its own good-so it doesn't provoke a hopeless war with Russia or Germany? I understand continental statesmen have made dividing Poland something of a European tradition.

    Replies: @Almost Missouri

    Yes, now that Poland has turned out to be another political factional tail agitating to wag the larger geopolitical dog into biting the tail’s factional enemy, it makes one wonder if the old Hapsburg, Romanov, and Hohenzollern empires weren’t so bad after all.

  284. @Jack D
    @YetAnotherAnon

    Something is weird about your url. The real url https://sputniknews.com/ works just fine but the one that you give http://www.sputniknews.xn--coms-x96a/ not surprisingly doesn't work.

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon

    “Something is weird about your url. “

    I pasted the error message as it appeared, but Ron’s software linkified it and seemingly added a few “extras”.

    Almost Missouri – Churchill on Poland, 1938, after Munich.

    “The Germans were not the only vultures upon the carcass. Immediately after the Munich Agreement on September 30, the Polish Government sent a twenty-four-hour ultimatum to the Czechs demanding the immediate handing-over of the frontier district of Teschen. There was no means of resisting this harsh demand.

    The heroic characteristics of the Polish race must not blind us to their errors, which over centuries have led them through measureless suffering…it is a mystery and tragedy of European history that a people capable of every heroic virtue, gifted, valiant, charming, as individuals, should repeatedly show such inveterate faults in almost every aspect of their governmental life.”

    • Thanks: JackOH
    • Replies: @Steve Sailer
    @YetAnotherAnon

    Poland has mostly gotten kicked around for the last quarter millennium, but, because of that, do not blindly trust Poles with international schemes. A few exiled Poles like Retzinger and Brezinzki (sp?) have been master manipulators of foreign affairs.

    Replies: @Art Deco, @Colin Wright

  285. @Anon
    @Reg Cæsar

    You are an idiot if you think there are more veterans in Wyoming and Maine based on per capita veteran residence.

    Combining VA benefits with bases is dishonest. I said military bases are a tiny part of the budget; I did not say bases combined with the veteran entitlement spending and neither did my opponents.

    Most govement spending is various forms of entitlement spending. Paying for healthcare and pensions is what is driving our debt. Our war machine is very affordable and cost efficient. In fact it is profitable. War is always profitable and good.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

    You are an idiot if you think there are more veterans in Wyoming and Maine based on per capita veteran residence.

    Posting as “Anon” is the hallmark of an idiot at this site. If you’re a serious person,, choose a screen name.

    These states are being judged per capita.

    War is always profitable and good.

    It is never good.

    • Replies: @Anon
    @Reg Cæsar

    And guess what, you flacking E-Diote? Wyoming has like 560,000 people in it. It doesn't matter if it has a high per capita veteran population BECAUSE NOBODY FUCKING LIVES THERE.

    General Sherman was a pansy. I'm not suprised that an extremely low IQ individual admires him. Using motivational posters as an argument is zoomer tier intelligence.

    Also, you are against anon commenting because you are a Federal informant. The only reason someone would be against anon comments is because anon commenting makes it more diffcult to track commenters ans report them to homeland security data processing centers. I suggest that everyone here to give friendly reminders to eachother that this swine Reg Caesar is a snitch bitch.

    , @Colin Wright
    @Reg Cæsar


    'It is never good.'
     
    Meh. On the other hand, see Oliver Wendell Holme's 'Snowy Heights of Honor' Speech.

    ...and look up Holmes' service record. He definitely knew whereof he spoke.

    ...we always try to simplify, to make it all black or all white. Having decided at some point between the Somme and Tet that war wasn't so great after all, we now claim it's all bad.

    ...whilst egging on the combatants in the Ukraine. Give me a break.
  286. @Loyalty Over IQ Worship
    It's amazing that on an article about the murder of a white woman, driven by anti-whitism, all the comments revolve around financing real estate, Buckminster Fuller's home design concepts , factory homes, the nature of semiconductors, military budgets and Thai restaurants.

    You spend so much energy to make sure you don't engage the topic of anti-whitism.

    Replies: @JackOH, @bomag, @Anon, @Corvinus

    How about clearly defining anti-whitish for starters. What metrics are involved? Is a white person able to be a friend to a non-white? Sell stuff to them? Marry them?

    Do tell.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @Corvinus

    Why is there any confusion over what anti-whitism means?

    Do you have the same confusion about antisemitism or anti-black or anti-Asian? Do you pester them to define exactly what they mean?

    Replies: @Corvinus

  287. @Anglomania
    @Corvinus

    As others have stated prior, the kind of voluntary racial segregation amongst the youngsters seems to still be in force, not that you care much for it.

    Also, an instance of a group doing something is a fair indicator of a number of that group... doing something. Doesn't matter, what he says is backed by polls from ABC and Census data.

    Replies: @Corvinus

    “As others have stated prior, the kind of voluntary racial segregation amongst the youngsters seems to still be in force, not that you care much for it.”

    That’s fake news. Generation Z is the most diverse and inclusive of all the generations. Stop lying.

    “Also, an instance of a group doing something is a fair indicator of a number of that group… doing something. Doesn’t matter, what he says is backed by polls from ABC and Census data”

    Wait, I thought we shouldn’t trust the media and government for anything. What gives?

  288. @Colin Wright
    @Corvinus


    What you saw was one or two instances, so you then made a sweeping generalization. The result? Ignoring the countless interactions that contradicted that position.
     
    You know all about every interaction I had for the year and a half we lived on Hawaii? I did not realize you had psychic powers.

    That’s ok, since younger people see right through your b.s.
     
    I've noticed all the people here who are impressed by your arguments. Maybe you could point me to where your fans are.

    Replies: @Corvinus

    I know that you are a slave to confirmation bias, my white friend.

    • Replies: @Colin Wright
    @Corvinus


    'I know that you are a slave to confirmation bias, my white friend.'
     
    Gotta have the last word, don't you?

    Replies: @Bill Jones

  289. @Jack D
    @bomag

    The Dymaxion was essentially a large trailer (although it was not equipped with wheels - Fuller never got far enough in production to figure out how they would have transported these things). But trailers are considered downscale and the Dymaxion (like an Airstream which it in some respects resembles) was supposed to be upscale. If you want to bring an item that is associated with the lower classes to the upper classes you have to somehow re-imagine it and make it different ("designer blue jeans"), maybe execute it in a different material (unpainted aluminum instead of painted) or change the shape (round instead of rectangular).

    Replies: @bomag, @Corn

    Thanks for the flesh-out.

    Reminds me of the cringe when Andrew Yang proposed re-purposing shipping containers as low cost housing. Something you probably do quietly, after getting elected, rather than saying it loudly in the campaign. No one wants to be told (reminded?) of such downscaling in the future.

  290. @YetAnotherAnon
    @Jack D

    "Something is weird about your url. "

    I pasted the error message as it appeared, but Ron's software linkified it and seemingly added a few "extras".

    Almost Missouri - Churchill on Poland, 1938, after Munich.


    “The Germans were not the only vultures upon the carcass. Immediately after the Munich Agreement on September 30, the Polish Government sent a twenty-four-hour ultimatum to the Czechs demanding the immediate handing-over of the frontier district of Teschen. There was no means of resisting this harsh demand.

    The heroic characteristics of the Polish race must not blind us to their errors, which over centuries have led them through measureless suffering…it is a mystery and tragedy of European history that a people capable of every heroic virtue, gifted, valiant, charming, as individuals, should repeatedly show such inveterate faults in almost every aspect of their governmental life.”


    Replies: @Steve Sailer

    Poland has mostly gotten kicked around for the last quarter millennium, but, because of that, do not blindly trust Poles with international schemes. A few exiled Poles like Retzinger and Brezinzki (sp?) have been master manipulators of foreign affairs.

    • Replies: @Art Deco
    @Steve Sailer

    Brzezinski was a professor who made friends with Jimmy Carter, landed a job on the White House staff he retained for four years, and got the better of the argument with Cyrus Vance. Not seeing how he was a master manipulator. (Hendrick Hertzberg, then working in Carter's pr apparat, found Brzezinski intimidating, not manipulative).

    , @Colin Wright
    @Steve Sailer

    'Poland has mostly gotten kicked around for the last quarter millennium, but, because of that, do not blindly trust Poles with international schemes. '

    Indeed.

  291. @Steve Sailer
    @YetAnotherAnon

    Poland has mostly gotten kicked around for the last quarter millennium, but, because of that, do not blindly trust Poles with international schemes. A few exiled Poles like Retzinger and Brezinzki (sp?) have been master manipulators of foreign affairs.

    Replies: @Art Deco, @Colin Wright

    Brzezinski was a professor who made friends with Jimmy Carter, landed a job on the White House staff he retained for four years, and got the better of the argument with Cyrus Vance. Not seeing how he was a master manipulator. (Hendrick Hertzberg, then working in Carter’s pr apparat, found Brzezinski intimidating, not manipulative).

  292. Anon[363] • Disclaimer says:
    @Reg Cæsar
    @Anon


    You are an idiot if you think there are more veterans in Wyoming and Maine based on per capita veteran residence.
     
    Posting as "Anon" is the hallmark of an idiot at this site. If you're a serious person,, choose a screen name.

    These states are being judged per capita.

    War is always profitable and good.
     
    It is never good.


    https://www.azquotes.com/picture-quotes/quote-i-am-tired-and-sick-of-war-its-glory-is-all-moonshine-it-is-only-those-who-have-neither-william-tecumseh-sherman-27-1-0114.jpg

    Replies: @Anon, @Colin Wright

    And guess what, you flacking E-Diote? Wyoming has like 560,000 people in it. It doesn’t matter if it has a high per capita veteran population BECAUSE NOBODY FUCKING LIVES THERE.

    General Sherman was a pansy. I’m not suprised that an extremely low IQ individual admires him. Using motivational posters as an argument is zoomer tier intelligence.

    Also, you are against anon commenting because you are a Federal informant. The only reason someone would be against anon comments is because anon commenting makes it more diffcult to track commenters ans report them to homeland security data processing centers. I suggest that everyone here to give friendly reminders to eachother that this swine Reg Caesar is a snitch bitch.

    • Troll: Colin Wright, Renard
  293. @Corvinus
    @Loyalty Over IQ Worship

    How about clearly defining anti-whitish for starters. What metrics are involved? Is a white person able to be a friend to a non-white? Sell stuff to them? Marry them?

    Do tell.

    Replies: @Anonymous

    Why is there any confusion over what anti-whitism means?

    Do you have the same confusion about antisemitism or anti-black or anti-Asian? Do you pester them to define exactly what they mean?

    • Replies: @Corvinus
    @Anonymous

    Hotshot, why don’t you define it and offer specific examples? I mean, if you are hell bent on unifying U.S. whites, why not provide insight? Or you just a poser?

    Replies: @bomag

  294. @Anonymous
    @Corvinus

    Why is there any confusion over what anti-whitism means?

    Do you have the same confusion about antisemitism or anti-black or anti-Asian? Do you pester them to define exactly what they mean?

    Replies: @Corvinus

    Hotshot, why don’t you define it and offer specific examples? I mean, if you are hell bent on unifying U.S. whites, why not provide insight? Or you just a poser?

    • Troll: Renard
    • Replies: @bomag
    @Corvinus

    You were asked first, so why don't you drop your 100% pure definitions of all these anti_____ terms so we can share your enlightenment?

    Replies: @Corvinus

  295. @Corvinus
    @Colin Wright

    I know that you are a slave to confirmation bias, my white friend.

    Replies: @Colin Wright

    ‘I know that you are a slave to confirmation bias, my white friend.’

    Gotta have the last word, don’t you?

    • Replies: @Bill Jones
    @Colin Wright

    That C is the reason Ron thoughtfully included the option to ignore any given commenter.
    I don't see his stuff.

  296. @Reg Cæsar
    @Anon


    You are an idiot if you think there are more veterans in Wyoming and Maine based on per capita veteran residence.
     
    Posting as "Anon" is the hallmark of an idiot at this site. If you're a serious person,, choose a screen name.

    These states are being judged per capita.

    War is always profitable and good.
     
    It is never good.


    https://www.azquotes.com/picture-quotes/quote-i-am-tired-and-sick-of-war-its-glory-is-all-moonshine-it-is-only-those-who-have-neither-william-tecumseh-sherman-27-1-0114.jpg

    Replies: @Anon, @Colin Wright

    ‘It is never good.’

    Meh. On the other hand, see Oliver Wendell Holme’s ‘Snowy Heights of Honor’ Speech.

    …and look up Holmes’ service record. He definitely knew whereof he spoke.

    …we always try to simplify, to make it all black or all white. Having decided at some point between the Somme and Tet that war wasn’t so great after all, we now claim it’s all bad.

    …whilst egging on the combatants in the Ukraine. Give me a break.

    • Agree: bomag
  297. @Steve Sailer
    @YetAnotherAnon

    Poland has mostly gotten kicked around for the last quarter millennium, but, because of that, do not blindly trust Poles with international schemes. A few exiled Poles like Retzinger and Brezinzki (sp?) have been master manipulators of foreign affairs.

    Replies: @Art Deco, @Colin Wright

    ‘Poland has mostly gotten kicked around for the last quarter millennium, but, because of that, do not blindly trust Poles with international schemes. ‘

    Indeed.

    • Thanks: JackOH
  298. @Anonymous
    @Jack D

    I've heard of all sorts of ridiculous tales - common folklore amongst blacks - which blacks believe explain some typical American phrases and customs, even though these false explanations are obviously and blatantly incorrect. Black narcissism at it's best.
    Some examples:

    The custom of the Christmas Tree is a reproduction in miniature of a 'lynching' with baubles and ornaments represented hanged black men.
    'To bust a cap', meaning to fire a bullet really means killing a black slave wearing a cap on his head for misbehaviour.
    'Down to the nitty gritty' really means rape of black female slaves by white sailors in slave ship holds.

    Doubtless, there are countless other examples, some even more ridiculous, some even more unpleasant circulating amongst blacks which I've never overheard.
    Doubtless, too, they are actually believed.

    Replies: @jinkforp, @al gore rhythms

    “even though these false explanations are obviously and blatantly incorrect. Black narcissism at it’s best.
    Some examples:

    The custom of the Christmas Tree is a reproduction in miniature of a ‘lynching’ with baubles and ornaments represented hanged black men”

    Thanks for ruining the last vestiges of Christmas for me.

    • Replies: @AceDeuce
    @al gore rhythms


    “even though these false explanations are obviously and blatantly incorrect. Black narcissism at it’s best.
    Some examples:

    The custom of the Christmas Tree is a reproduction in miniature of a ‘lynching’ with baubles and ornaments represented hanged black men”
     

    Thanks for ruining the last vestiges of Christmas for me.
     
    "Ruining"? WTF? Makes me wish that I'd put up a tree last month. LOL.
  299. @Anon
    @Reg Cæsar

    That's not what the liberals have been telling you it's what post-menopausal middle aged women have been telling you. Man up, stop listening them, inject some testosterone, and look at a chart instead of a picture of a meme. Military is just 10% of the US budget.


    https://www.gao.gov/assets/extracts/410c00f0d45fd9cfa13b610db3fbb183/Fast_Facts_v2_105122_mr.png

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Bill Jones

    I hate to point out the blindingly fucking obvious but don’t you think “Veterans Affairs” might have something to do with the Military?

    • Replies: @Anon
    @Bill Jones

    It has nothing to do with military bases, idiot. Veterans Affairs is just entitlement spending for old people like Social Security. Entlement spending, not the Armed Forces, makes up most of the American budget.

    Replies: @bomag

  300. @Colin Wright
    @Corvinus


    'I know that you are a slave to confirmation bias, my white friend.'
     
    Gotta have the last word, don't you?

    Replies: @Bill Jones

    That C is the reason Ron thoughtfully included the option to ignore any given commenter.
    I don’t see his stuff.

  301. @Bill Jones
    @Anon

    I hate to point out the blindingly fucking obvious but don't you think "Veterans Affairs" might have something to do with the Military?

    Replies: @Anon

    It has nothing to do with military bases, idiot. Veterans Affairs is just entitlement spending for old people like Social Security. Entlement spending, not the Armed Forces, makes up most of the American budget.

    • Replies: @bomag
    @Anon

    Without the bases, you have no Veterans Affairs.

    I suppose it would make HHS etc. larger, but it would be a percentage thing, now that the non-servicemen have some private sector healthcare and pensions.

    Point being that military spending is not "a drop in the bucket."

    Replies: @Anon

  302. @Jack D
    @bomag

    The Dymaxion was essentially a large trailer (although it was not equipped with wheels - Fuller never got far enough in production to figure out how they would have transported these things). But trailers are considered downscale and the Dymaxion (like an Airstream which it in some respects resembles) was supposed to be upscale. If you want to bring an item that is associated with the lower classes to the upper classes you have to somehow re-imagine it and make it different ("designer blue jeans"), maybe execute it in a different material (unpainted aluminum instead of painted) or change the shape (round instead of rectangular).

    Replies: @bomag, @Corn

    People had so many flights of fancy in the ‘30s and ‘40s. I believe Fuller claimed the Dymaxion house could be dropped somewhere by airship

  303. @al gore rhythms
    @Anonymous

    "even though these false explanations are obviously and blatantly incorrect. Black narcissism at it’s best.
    Some examples:

    The custom of the Christmas Tree is a reproduction in miniature of a ‘lynching’ with baubles and ornaments represented hanged black men"

    Thanks for ruining the last vestiges of Christmas for me.

    Replies: @AceDeuce

    “even though these false explanations are obviously and blatantly incorrect. Black narcissism at it’s best.
    Some examples:

    The custom of the Christmas Tree is a reproduction in miniature of a ‘lynching’ with baubles and ornaments represented hanged black men”

    Thanks for ruining the last vestiges of Christmas for me.

    “Ruining”? WTF? Makes me wish that I’d put up a tree last month. LOL.

    • LOL: bomag
  304. @Anon
    @Bill Jones

    It has nothing to do with military bases, idiot. Veterans Affairs is just entitlement spending for old people like Social Security. Entlement spending, not the Armed Forces, makes up most of the American budget.

    Replies: @bomag

    Without the bases, you have no Veterans Affairs.

    I suppose it would make HHS etc. larger, but it would be a percentage thing, now that the non-servicemen have some private sector healthcare and pensions.

    Point being that military spending is not “a drop in the bucket.”

    • Replies: @Anon
    @bomag

    VA is not military spending and has been grossly expanded in recent years. Dum fuck. The US military is obscenely profitable and produces more wealth than it takes away.

    Replies: @bomag

  305. @Corvinus
    @Anonymous

    Hotshot, why don’t you define it and offer specific examples? I mean, if you are hell bent on unifying U.S. whites, why not provide insight? Or you just a poser?

    Replies: @bomag

    You were asked first, so why don’t you drop your 100% pure definitions of all these anti_____ terms so we can share your enlightenment?

    • Replies: @Corvinus
    @bomag

    I wasn’t asked to define anti-whitisn. He was the one to infer what it all entails.

    Perhaps you could put your brain to use and respond yourself. I know it’s a huge ask, but just try.

    Replies: @bomag

  306. anon[303] • Disclaimer says:
    @Anon
    @William Badwhite

    Hey look it's another Unz commenter whose circulating testosterone levels are so low he woke up one morning and forgot that he isn't middle aged suburban soccer mom. Keep crying about profanity and using it as an excuse to run away from an argument. Just put me on ignore if you don't like it... Oh wait, you can't do that... I'm an anon commenter.

    Replies: @jinkforp, @anon

    And you’re crying and whining and jeering back at him as any self-respecting adolescent would do.
    Are you not gentile then? Funny, I just read another article on this site about a well-known, non-gentile group, and their inclination toward obscenity that seems to pretty much describe the media and the “entertainment industry” of the past 70 years.
    I’ve actually known quite a few Jews who objected to filth and obscenity, but it’s always the loud and obscene these days who get heard, hence your defensiveness.
    Just another anon.

  307. @Mike Tre
    @KenH

    Larry Bird once played an entire game left handed just to amuse himself, and still scored 27 points. As a kid I was a fan of the Bulls and Jordan, but there was no one like Bird, before or since.

    Replies: @KenH

    Bird was amazing. For just being “another good player if he was black” most of the black players struggled to defend him and since Bird seemed to have eyes in the back and on the side of his head he would pass the ball behind his back, over his shoulder or between a black player’s legs and they were often none the wiser until it was too late.

    Bird sometimes looked like a Harlem Globetrotter against a fair number of the black players trying to guard him.

  308. @bomag
    @Corvinus

    You were asked first, so why don't you drop your 100% pure definitions of all these anti_____ terms so we can share your enlightenment?

    Replies: @Corvinus

    I wasn’t asked to define anti-whitisn. He was the one to infer what it all entails.

    Perhaps you could put your brain to use and respond yourself. I know it’s a huge ask, but just try.

    • Replies: @bomag
    @Corvinus

    You're the cosmic genius here, with your devastatingly convincing arguments and technical parsing of all the needed details. After one of your expositions, nothing more needs to be said, so please just fill us in on what is Whiteness; Asianness; Blackness; Semiteness and we can be done with it. While you're at it, you can define "woman" for Ketanji Brown Jackson and improve her life.

    Replies: @Corvinus

  309. @Sparkling Wiggle
    @Dream

    Others have listed the reasons for Indian success in America: clannishness, the fact their top .1% is still a big number, and of course the fact that our system selects for basically everything other than merit in non-whites.

    Indian success has to be due to something other than competence for the simple reason that no one ever looks forward to dealing with an Indian. There is no scenario in which you discover that you must interact with an Indian and you breathe a sigh of relief, “thank goodness, someone competent.”

    Replies: @Anon87

    Companies need to show they are diverse, but know it would be risky to fast track a black to run the show ( exhibit A is Xerox rolling the dice and losing with Ursula Burns). High caste Indians check a POC box but you also can assume they aren’t total morons.

    It is the same with right wing parties now. “Hey look, we are diverse and promote coloreds! (browns, not black)”

  310. @Joe Stalin
    @AnotherDad


    No, the extra people that are fueling demand are no longer from births of native Americans.

    Would Silly Valley still have expensive real estate? Sure. Because of a boom in tech jobs and limited real estate. The same with several other areas. But America as a whole would not.

     
    US business making the pitch here to insconce tech foreigners in America and to put STEM natives in their place.

    DON’T DRIVE AWAY SMART STUDENTS

    Since 2000, over 50,000 Chinese Ph.D. students in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math have remained in the United States following their studies at American universities, generating cutting-edge research and founding start-ups valued collectively at $100 billion. For example, Yi Cui, after completing his undergraduate degree in China, came to Harvard University to pursue a Ph.D. in physical chemistry. Since graduating in 2002, he went on to become one of the world’s leading experts in nanotechnology at Stanford University and founded Amprius, a $600 million company that was recently awarded a contract by the U.S. Army to power next-generation tactical gear.

    Outcompeting China for talent like Cui is key to preserving American techno-scientific primacy. But winning this competition is becoming more difficult due to restrictive U.S. visa policies and worsening relations between the two countries. Despite this, we believe that the time is ripe for the United States to redouble its efforts. In recent years Chinese leader Xi Jinping has made a strategic error, undermining the sources of Chinese economic growth and innovation by seeking greater control over universities and private markets. Xi’s policies of centralizing power are pushing away scientists and entrepreneurs, who the United States should be eager to recruit. By embracing policies to attract and retain disaffected Chinese talent — such as creating a more targeted migration screening process and providing green cards for Ph.D. students graduating from U.S. universities — Washington can continue to out-innovate its opponents in Beijing.

    Brain Gain

    Chinese nationals coming to the United States for higher education and research have been a core part of the U.S.-Chinese relationship for nearly 50 years. Beginning in the late 1970s, China’s leaders began to send scholars overseas for academic and scientific exchanges based on Deng Xiaoping’s “Open Door” policy to rebuild the country’s economy following the Cultural Revolution. These exchanges were carefully controlled by the national government and limited to a few years abroad for established, mid-career scholars. However, by the 1980s scholars were allowed greater independence in arranging and self-funding travel, resulting in explosive growth in the number and type of exchanges taking place.

    https://warontherocks.com/2023/01/dont-drive-away-smart-students/
     
    Notice BRAIN GAIN to replace BRAIN CIRCULATION from two decades back by American industry.

    Replies: @Jim Don Bob, @bomag

    The Chinese are all spies, whether they want to be or not.

  311. @The Anti-Gnostic
    @Buzz Mohawk

    It's kind of a shame this never took off. But I think younger generations without the baggage of "mobile homes" and looking at prohibitive starter home costs could easily hop on this bandwagon. Most of them don't want to remodel a kitchen or hang wallpaper; just plop the house down, wire it to the grid, connect the pipes, and they'll change out components as necessary or desired.

    A civil engineer friend in a large firm tells me some well-funded tech types are sniffing around the house-building industry for opportunities for disruption and profit. Given the advancements in materials science and tool-making this is long overdue; residential construction should be more productive and efficient than it is.

    Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Corn, @Jim Don Bob

    Some years ago, the guys at This Old House built a prefab house and found that the transportation costs ate up all the factory savings.

  312. @Corvinus
    @bomag

    I wasn’t asked to define anti-whitisn. He was the one to infer what it all entails.

    Perhaps you could put your brain to use and respond yourself. I know it’s a huge ask, but just try.

    Replies: @bomag

    You’re the cosmic genius here, with your devastatingly convincing arguments and technical parsing of all the needed details. After one of your expositions, nothing more needs to be said, so please just fill us in on what is Whiteness; Asianness; Blackness; Semiteness and we can be done with it. While you’re at it, you can define “woman” for Ketanji Brown Jackson and improve her life.

    • Replies: @Corvinus
    @bomag

    No, dude. Put up or shut up. You come here all hot and bothered about anti white this and anti white that, and yet you can’t even offer a clear definition with examples. You’re a poser.

    Replies: @bomag

  313. @bomag
    @Anon

    Without the bases, you have no Veterans Affairs.

    I suppose it would make HHS etc. larger, but it would be a percentage thing, now that the non-servicemen have some private sector healthcare and pensions.

    Point being that military spending is not "a drop in the bucket."

    Replies: @Anon

    VA is not military spending and has been grossly expanded in recent years. Dum fuck. The US military is obscenely profitable and produces more wealth than it takes away.

    • Replies: @bomag
    @Anon

    Sorry for your problems.

    Would it be more clear if veteran costs were funded at the brigade level? Probably not.

    Military spending is an example of the broken windows fallacy.

  314. @Anon
    @bomag

    VA is not military spending and has been grossly expanded in recent years. Dum fuck. The US military is obscenely profitable and produces more wealth than it takes away.

    Replies: @bomag

    Sorry for your problems.

    Would it be more clear if veteran costs were funded at the brigade level? Probably not.

    Military spending is an example of the broken windows fallacy.

  315. @Joe Stalin
    @AnotherDad


    No, the extra people that are fueling demand are no longer from births of native Americans.

    Would Silly Valley still have expensive real estate? Sure. Because of a boom in tech jobs and limited real estate. The same with several other areas. But America as a whole would not.

     
    US business making the pitch here to insconce tech foreigners in America and to put STEM natives in their place.

    DON’T DRIVE AWAY SMART STUDENTS

    Since 2000, over 50,000 Chinese Ph.D. students in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math have remained in the United States following their studies at American universities, generating cutting-edge research and founding start-ups valued collectively at $100 billion. For example, Yi Cui, after completing his undergraduate degree in China, came to Harvard University to pursue a Ph.D. in physical chemistry. Since graduating in 2002, he went on to become one of the world’s leading experts in nanotechnology at Stanford University and founded Amprius, a $600 million company that was recently awarded a contract by the U.S. Army to power next-generation tactical gear.

    Outcompeting China for talent like Cui is key to preserving American techno-scientific primacy. But winning this competition is becoming more difficult due to restrictive U.S. visa policies and worsening relations between the two countries. Despite this, we believe that the time is ripe for the United States to redouble its efforts. In recent years Chinese leader Xi Jinping has made a strategic error, undermining the sources of Chinese economic growth and innovation by seeking greater control over universities and private markets. Xi’s policies of centralizing power are pushing away scientists and entrepreneurs, who the United States should be eager to recruit. By embracing policies to attract and retain disaffected Chinese talent — such as creating a more targeted migration screening process and providing green cards for Ph.D. students graduating from U.S. universities — Washington can continue to out-innovate its opponents in Beijing.

    Brain Gain

    Chinese nationals coming to the United States for higher education and research have been a core part of the U.S.-Chinese relationship for nearly 50 years. Beginning in the late 1970s, China’s leaders began to send scholars overseas for academic and scientific exchanges based on Deng Xiaoping’s “Open Door” policy to rebuild the country’s economy following the Cultural Revolution. These exchanges were carefully controlled by the national government and limited to a few years abroad for established, mid-career scholars. However, by the 1980s scholars were allowed greater independence in arranging and self-funding travel, resulting in explosive growth in the number and type of exchanges taking place.

    https://warontherocks.com/2023/01/dont-drive-away-smart-students/
     
    Notice BRAIN GAIN to replace BRAIN CIRCULATION from two decades back by American industry.

    Replies: @Jim Don Bob, @bomag

    Thanks for the quote. Highlights the mixed message: enjoy the nice immigrants and let them all in; but economics is a fierce competition, so protect what you’ve got.

  316. @bomag
    @Corvinus

    You're the cosmic genius here, with your devastatingly convincing arguments and technical parsing of all the needed details. After one of your expositions, nothing more needs to be said, so please just fill us in on what is Whiteness; Asianness; Blackness; Semiteness and we can be done with it. While you're at it, you can define "woman" for Ketanji Brown Jackson and improve her life.

    Replies: @Corvinus

    No, dude. Put up or shut up. You come here all hot and bothered about anti white this and anti white that, and yet you can’t even offer a clear definition with examples. You’re a poser.

    • Replies: @bomag
    @Corvinus

    So what's the difference, Mr. moral equivalency? You come here all hot and bothered because we're getting it all wrong, and yet you can't even offer a clear definition with examples that support your contentions.

  317. @Buzz Mohawk
    Vester Lee Flanagan II certainly wasn't outstanding in his field.


    https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/senior-farmer-standing-corn-field-examining-crop-harvesting-senior-farmer-standing-corn-field-examining-crop-134285767.jpg
    He never would have made a good farmer.

    Replies: @Kylie, @stari_momak

    Vester Lee does sound like a pretty good title for a folk song tho’ .

  318. @Corvinus
    @bomag

    No, dude. Put up or shut up. You come here all hot and bothered about anti white this and anti white that, and yet you can’t even offer a clear definition with examples. You’re a poser.

    Replies: @bomag

    So what’s the difference, Mr. moral equivalency? You come here all hot and bothered because we’re getting it all wrong, and yet you can’t even offer a clear definition with examples that support your contentions.

  319. one word………………. SEGREGATION

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