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Folks complaining about the Hobbits in Amazon’s Rings of Power being multiracial on the grounds that that doesn’t make any sense need to realize that most Americans today know that The Science has proven that race is just a fantasy with no biological reality to it.
You people who think that race has something to do with who your ancestors were are living in an outdated fantasy world. The Science proves that a white is less genetically similar to another white than to a black (who is the most diverse of all).
Read a book.
Genetics has disproved wrong old racist stereotypes such as that individuals tend to be more closely related to some people than to other people. What does who you are related to have to do with race, anyway? Race is just skin deep.
The Science has demonstrated that white people don’t exist. People who believe they are white are just a social construct gaslit by whiteness, which somebody ought to do something about, if you know what I mean.
The problem is that today’s audiences only like intellectual property that’s older than they are, like Lord of the Rings or Batman or Lovecraft. But everything old was written by a white man who probably didn’t have the proper indoctrination on the Whiteness Question.
I got an idea! How many years until Nation of Islam founder W.D. Fard’s pamphlet “Lost Found Muslim Lesson No. 2“–the story of the evil eugenicist Dr. Yacub inventing the devilish white race–goes into public domain? Fard disappeared in 1934, so not many can be left.
Somebody should pitch the Dr. Yacub Story to Bezos.
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One of my grandfathers was Irish so I must have a little Leprechaun blood. Match that, Africans!
As for the silly dogma about African diversity, if Subsaharan Africans don’t have any Neanderthal genes doesn’t that mean they lack diversity?
this may explain one reason Negroids are so different from the Caucasoid and Mongoloid races....Negroids were isolated from the other races and also contain DNA from a mystery archaic hominin species. The data suggests this introgression may have happened recently.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aax5097
Ya’quwb. End the Frankish spelling tyranny.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-09-06-guardian-says-gardening-noninclusive-loaded-cultural-baggage.htmlMore depop psyop agitprop: Return to hunter-gatherer, Westerners! Eat bugs. Self-reliant agriculture be raycis.
Today’s audiences didn’t like any recent bastardizations from those properties. It didn’t help that they were made unrecognizable.
There’s probably good new stuff out there being excluded out of politics or caution. As seen in the tweet I recently linked, a lawsuit found that almost nobody reads anything published, and of course publishing reads nothing politically incorrect.
They call race a social construct until a white person does something they don’t like, at which point his white genetics become the reason he’s a bad person. The rejection of transracialism by the same people who promote transgenderism proves that the new left has no real principles above “death to whitey”
Don’t worry. The way things are going, whiteness will disappear into the mass of Default Humans soon enough.
The worst part is not that it will be made, but that people will think it’s a documentary.
The problem with forced diversity isn’t that the presence of Black actors is offensive. I’ve been desensitized by the constant onslaught that Idris Elba, Beyonce, and Lizzo are the most beautiful humans ever to walk this Earth.
No, the problem is that affirmative action characters cannot have any depth. You can’t cast an actor to represent the entire Black race only to slander them by him being dumb, buffoonish, greedy, cruel, or having any other moral failing. He must be wise, strong, powerful, loyal, and most importantly FIERCE. The only faults he can have are being too loyal, too moral, too smart for his own good, and most importantly other characters discounting him due to their racism. Damn legacy of antebellum slavery being so powerful that it poisons the minds of Middle Earth and Westeros!
So, you’re left with stupid characters with no depth. The Black Targaryen has no purpose other than to look cool and FIERCE. I refuse to watch Rings of Power, but I imagine Negrolas the Elf and Black Dwarf Woman are the same.
There are other corollaries to this rule, also. Because you can’t punch down, no Hollywood screenplay will ever again be written with a villain who is not a white, 100% straight, right-wing man. Every movie will basically be a mashup of Sum of All Fears and Selma, with a European aristocrat trying to bring back fascism and denying little Black girls fair educational opportunities along the way.
female tennis player of all-timePED-enhanced freak since the East German ex-woman swimmers and shot putters of the 80s.Normies were beside themselves as xe retired from tennis this past weekend.
Sadly, it appears that they are going to double down forcing Coco on us.
If it's the ubiquitous salt and pepper team hunting down the bad guys in an American city, it's not offensive--just routine Hollyweird schlock.
But if it's black popping up in 19th century English drama--worse as gentry and friends of gentry--then it is jarring--and offensive. Click.
If it's this every white woman--and now white men--routinely having a black spouse--like that's remotely typical instead of really bad decision making, then yeah, that's offensive--very offensive. Click.
If it's a white single mom, struggling to raise her mulatto children ... ok that's a believable story.Replies: @Harry Baldwin
Was it written earlier or later than 1928?
1928 was when Steamboat Willie came out. It will be interesting to see how long Disney can continue to justify keeping The Mouse out of the public domain (to complicate things, it is both a copyright and a trademark matter).
Apparently, the original copyright for material dating from 1928 should have run out nearly 40 years ago in 1984.
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-05-11/mickey-mouse-copyright-expiration-disney-under-attack-republicans
(You now have me wondering if the Nation of Islam can copyright their religious works in the same way Scientology did.)
The whole idea of copyright was to protect the author's exclusive right to publish for a limited period of time. Its a balance between rewarding the creator and benefiting the public.Replies: @Nervous in Stalingrad
They keep saying this is to cater for the world market, yet they only have black characters represented, I don’t see any part of Asia represented, that alone is a huge world population ignored, many other population groups are also never going to be shown. It is clearly a lie that they are catering for a wider audience, this is in fact catering for a relatively small audience (the amount of blacks that really care about this is never going to be significant) and is only about pumping out ideological correct propaganda.
I wonder how the NOI is doing these days…a lot of the appeal of them, the Black Hebrew Israelites, 5 Percenters, etc. is that they centered black people as the the most consequential group in America – nay, the world – and provided the necessary mythology.
Today we have virtually every institution in society doing the same thing, only with more sophistication and the veneer of respectability from academia, entertainment, etc. so maybe recruitment is suffering for the usual suspects as black veneration has gone totally mainstream.
I'm so disappointed though. I was hoping that the headline was of a real Amazon show....
You forgot Serena, the greatest
female tennis player of all-timePED-enhanced freak since the East German ex-woman swimmers and shot putters of the 80s.Normies were beside themselves as xe retired from tennis this past weekend.
Sadly, it appears that they are going to double down forcing Coco on us.
My response to this problem: modern entertainment media is dead to me; I will stick with older movies, or simply read books.
This made me think about various cultures’ profiles.
Yacub story could be interesting -for someone, even without politics (which is, of course, impossible).
From what I know, various American culture products met unpredictable fate in parts of Europe (I don’t know about Asia, Middle East or Latin America).
For instance, the 60s soap “Long, Hot Summer” was a smashing hit in ex-Yugoslavia & Roy Thinnes a superstar (his more important TV shows nobody cared about); Peter Falk & “Columbo” were super-success in Bulgaria and Romania (https://www.avclub.com/romania-asked-peter-falk-to-help-prevent-an-uprising-af-1847093587:
Romania asked Peter Falk to help prevent an uprising after the country ran out of Columbo episodes
The actor delivered a speech to the Romanian people to assure them that a new season was on the way); it was similar with Aaron Spelling’s “Dynasty”.
As far as oldies go, I don’t think that “Star Trek ” fired anyone’s imagination in central & eastern Europe (TV series was simply dismissed as silly); “Dallas’ ‘ (wicked J.R. Ewing) was a moderate success; while the 90s & early 2000s more ambitious shows (Homicide: Life on the Streets; The Sopranos; Breaking Bad) were very successful.
I don’t know about “Star Trek” in Spain or Sweden or Germany.
Most vampire shows were watched only by teen girls.
On the other hand, “The Phantom of the Opera” was/is very successful in the Anglosphere, while in the eastern Europe, it is a non-entity.
Regarding more recent events- nobody I know is aware of Wakanda & not a single person watched that movie.
So, it depends….
How the 'Slender Man' urban legend inspired two 12-year-old girls to stab their classmate NINETEEN times
'Heavenly creatures' found guilty of murder
28 August 1954Replies: @SFG
I recall that the French did have special bus tours of Harlem, long before any "gentrification," much to the puzzlement, I suppose, of the natives.
Based on my experience, SF, Horror, any material that is slightly outre doesn't fly in the coldly rational and materialist Nordic countries. They have abandoned their wonderful folklore and mythology for a sterile atheism which displays itself in the much ballyhooed Scandinavian minimalist design schemes. I tried to interest a couple of producers there in a filmed version of Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness, which is in the public domain. They didn't express interest. Sure, my vision of Madness would start at the 1oo million mark, but I tried to convince them that Lovecraft's pseudoscience was much more interesting than their Science. Blank faces. Before I left their office I remarked upon their obvious imagination deficits. Back at the apartment I lamented to my reddish blonde Scandinavian wife that I should probably trade her for a dark haired woman in Spain or Italy. One of the Catholic countries. Say what you will about European Catholics, their cultures are steeped in gothic imagination.
Star Trek (aka "Raumschiff Enterprise") was very popular in West Germany in the 1980s. Don't know about earlier.
I remember in the mid 1990s that you could find badly dubbed pirated VHS tapes of episodes of the X-Files in street kiosks anywhere from Bishkek Kyrgyzstan to Chisinau Moldova. That show was very popular in the ex-USSR at its peak.
...except that they were there because of "T.J. Hooker".Replies: @Mark Grainger
“Whiteness will disappear into the mass of Default Humans soon enough.” – A commenter
I will suggest one way to view the “Default Humans.” There’s a reptilian brain, the 3-brain template goes, which does primitive things and automatic, unthinking, default things. Two mammalian brains keep it in check – – until, uh oh, these two fail. Dementia causes such failure. For example Alzheimer’s patient makes lewd remarks to his daughter-in-law. Biden‘s speech, I eould argue, was an example of the reptilian brain at work. I think that wokeism has done the same thing, dialing-down the higher-level brains, and thus letting loose the reptilian brains of wokesters.
My Dragon Queen Wife’s black son. Looks like their breeding project had a setback.
And “they call race a social construct until” they realize that blacks are underrepresented in positions they covet. Then, blackness becomes an all-day pass.
Sooner or later some group of North American whites will be smart enough to figure it out…
1) Quietly buy a huge tract of land and make it self-sufficient;
2) Tell all non-whites that they’re self-segregating to a reservation so as to not infect others with their evil whiteness. Make sure the outside looks all District-9ish;
3) Paradise!
(And this time, FFS don’t let anyone in!)
How is Orania doing these days, anyway?
OT: When was the last time someone was imprisoned for denying transubstantiation?
We tell our 3 year old he’s the fastest runner, the smartest, the best at jumping. Why? I dunno, I guess we want him to have self-esteem.
We don’t tell our 5 year old that. She knows better.
Surely there are some self-aware black people who are embarrassed by all the relentless flattery. Obviously if they were so impressive in every way they wouldn’t have to be constantly reassured.
As for being embarrassed by flattery, the woke seem to like it in industrial quantities.
“Whiteness will disappear into the mass of Default Humans soon enough.” - A commenterI will suggest one way to view the “Default Humans.” There’s a reptilian brain, the 3-brain template goes, which does primitive things and automatic, unthinking, default things. Two mammalian brains keep it in check - - until, uh oh, these two fail. Dementia causes such failure. For example Alzheimer’s patient makes lewd remarks to his daughter-in-law. Biden‘s speech, I eould argue, was an example of the reptilian brain at work. I think that wokeism has done the same thing, dialing-down the higher-level brains, and thus letting loose the reptilian brains of wokesters.Replies: @ThreeCranes
In the brain of Leftoids, the Rational Brain is given over to moralizing, which is directly wired to the emotional brain in a closed, self-reinforcing, positive feedback loop. There is no possibility of interdiction by the Intellect.
Higher thinking, such as that demonstrated by we here at Unz, involves considerations of probabilities, judiciously weighing alternatives and use of synthetic judgement which takes into account and remains cognizant of many factors. We are literally open minded. Our judgement is not usurped by the clamor of an internal paragon to cast himself in the bright white light of moral perfection. So we see things as they are and accept the world as it is.
Leftoids always say, “Why not? Why can’t the world be as I wish it to be? I am aspirational.” And then they set about trying to reprogram Nature. This is an endless, thankless task, which is why they so often claim to be “tired”. This would be okay if that’s where they left matters, but they don’t. Instead, they become irate with those whom they regard as standing in the way of their Utopia. As their anger builds, they begin to persecute those whom they regard as slackers and resisters. When these measures fail to bring about the desired change, they go full bore homicidal and murder the bastards who won’t accept the benefits of their good intentions. They have become “intolerant of intolerance”. This is the acme of their moral development.
Communists haven't believed in "utopia" for over 30 years. Being "intolerant of intolerance" is over 30 years old. The White communists who sought to get my grad school logic professor, Michael Levin, fired and Whitelisted, beginning in 1989, used to say that.
These people have no utopian hopes; they're just evil, and have to be wiped out.
I call it a murder-suicide-martyrdom complex.
If Race isn’t real….then why has the Biden Administration targeted working class Native White Americans for RACIAL EXTERMINATION?
If Race isn’t real…then why has MSBC AND CNN…it’s negro talking heads…targeted us FOR RACIAL EXTERMINATION?
Steve
You heard of Shankar Singham and Cal Exit?
Perhaps White Folks should be as racial as Leftists….all you do is yap about the more “rational” Muh Constitution Worship…..Nothing wrong with White Power Politics in a closed loop kind of way…
OT Sailerbait:
Ethiope in The Atlantic says that the evil gentrification narrative is wrong.
Maybe gentrification is good, actually.
Also, segregation had certain upsides.
Is the solution to ¡B!lack problems to escape from ¡B!lackness?
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/09/black-families-leaving-cities-suburbs/671331/
Anyway, the upshot is that no one wants to live in a neighborhood dominated by the black lower class if they can help it. Unfortunately, the suburban black middle class has retained its political solidarity with the lower class - probably because they still have a lot of relatives that fit into that category - and the result is that black political preferences are geared towards the lowest common denominator to an extent no other group does. When people on the left bemoan the paucity of blacks who have achieved governorships or Senate seats, they seem to overlook the fact that black Dem politics are tailored for a pretty narrow band of the population and do not have broad appeal outside of that. So you have blacks that are mayors or members of the House where there is a community of interest, but whose politics generally make them unacceptable to an entire state. Obama is basically the only exception to that but his path was very carefully designed, plus he's not really 'black' in the way most people are from a cultural or ancestral sense.Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Reg Cæsar, @Alden
We don’t tell our 5 year old that. She knows better.
Surely there are some self-aware black people who are embarrassed by all the relentless flattery. Obviously if they were so impressive in every way they wouldn’t have to be constantly reassured.Replies: @Joe S.Walker
If you were in a movie your daughter would demonstrate she was all those things and you were dumb. You, of course, would be dumber and more grudging to accept the fact than your wife.
As for being embarrassed by flattery, the woke seem to like it in industrial quantities.
Aye. Utopia always ends in camps and mass graves.
Today we have virtually every institution in society doing the same thing, only with more sophistication and the veneer of respectability from academia, entertainment, etc. so maybe recruitment is suffering for the usual suspects as black veneration has gone totally mainstream.Replies: @Barbarossa
I don’t think the NOI has any traction in the fashionable progressive academia which is driving Woke. The don’t like Jews or homos and utilize religion, so they are de-facto bad. BLM seems to be significantly about getting the blacks to love buggery and transsexualism; topics on which they are embarrassingly retrograde to their boosters.
I’m so disappointed though. I was hoping that the headline was of a real Amazon show….
I notice that the Billion Dollar LOTR series is to be shown in Prime, which is therefore bundled with everything else on Prime including its Free Delivery service – so it is in many ways insulated from the market. You can’t punish Prime unless you want to forego all the rest of it, and unfortunately people depend upon Prime Delivery for all manner of things now from toiletries to school supplies and books and everything between. If you have young kids and one of them needs a pair of safety scissors or crayons or something for class you can get them delivered and spare a few hours and the gas running out on a special trip with kids in tow to get them. Amazon is more or less the only toy store left, with minimal brick and mortar competition from Target and Barnes & Noble. Bezos has you cornered. There is no “market” to speak of when you’re talking about consumer choices now – most everything is bundled with a lot of other things.
LOTR is supposed to be folklore of Britain, with the races representing various Celtic or Germanic populations (query: who are the short, bearded folks who love gold and precious gems and long for a lost homeland supposed to represent?). It’s preposterous that grafting blacks into these races isn’t an act of vandalism.
The thing about the Game of Thrones Universe is that in the first go-round they were able to seamlessly incorporate plenty of swarthy and non-white characters into the show by demonstrating that they were from other continents or extreme reaches of the known world. So they could have quasi-Persians and quasi-Arabs and quasi-Mongols or whatever with important characters but it didn’t seem like an imposition. Forcing a few blacks into roles of fair-skinned, platinum haired peoples just seems like ostentatious current year-ism.
Perhaps the only antecedent I can recall is Ivan Dixon as Kinchloe getting dressed in SS garb to perform undercover operations with the boys outside of Stalag 13. But of course in Hogan’s Heroes we’re all in on the gag, and the brunt of the joke are the Germans and not the audience itself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxe8n-nfsEs
The black Hobbit actor who said that people accept dragons so why not a ¡B!lack Hobbit (Nobbit?) was unintentionally making a good point. If Amazon had inserted Chinese-style dragons or cartoon dragons into Middle Earth instead of traditional European dragons, the entire audience would jeer: why are they deliberately ruining the aesthetic? But in the current year, a large part of the audience is brainwashed/browbeaten into accepting this kind of vandalism as normal or at least "just" so long as it serves to displace whites.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Chinese_dragon_asset_heraldry.svg/1920px-Chinese_dragon_asset_heraldry.svg.png
https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/pictures/150000/velka/cartoon-dragon-1452990625Kmh.jpg
https://images-cdn.ispot.tv/ad/qfgc/default-large.jpg
There are other websites you can buy your gear from, too (eBay for one, though it has its own set of problems). Granted, perhaps the other sites are not as convenient as Amazon, but they do exist and a bit of research may repay itself.
Consumers have been treating Bezos as though he is the only game in town for years. Not surprisingly, he acts like it, too. And while I am trying to empathise with my fellow consumers, it isn't easy when just about anyone could have seen this coming from quite a long way away.
If you don't like what Bezos does (and many do not; I can't say I blame them), then wouldn't now be a good time to stop handing him your money? Otherwise, consumers can look forward to more of the exact same behaviour from him in the future.Replies: @Alec Leamas (working from home)
Ethiope in The Atlantic says that the evil gentrification narrative is wrong.Maybe gentrification is good, actually.Also, segregation had certain upsides.Is the solution to ¡B!lack problems to escape from ¡B!lackness?https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/09/black-families-leaving-cities-suburbs/671331/Replies: @Arclight
A pretty level piece, especially considering the publication. I believe Steve has previously commented that the elimination of de jure segregation and the flight to the suburbs of the black middle class probably explains a lot of how the remaining black lower class has degenerated into what it is today in the absence of the stabilizing force the black merchant and professional class used to provide.
Anyway, the upshot is that no one wants to live in a neighborhood dominated by the black lower class if they can help it. Unfortunately, the suburban black middle class has retained its political solidarity with the lower class – probably because they still have a lot of relatives that fit into that category – and the result is that black political preferences are geared towards the lowest common denominator to an extent no other group does. When people on the left bemoan the paucity of blacks who have achieved governorships or Senate seats, they seem to overlook the fact that black Dem politics are tailored for a pretty narrow band of the population and do not have broad appeal outside of that. So you have blacks that are mayors or members of the House where there is a community of interest, but whose politics generally make them unacceptable to an entire state. Obama is basically the only exception to that but his path was very carefully designed, plus he’s not really ‘black’ in the way most people are from a cultural or ancestral sense.
“Folks complaining about the Hobbits in Amazon’s Rings of Power being multiracial on the grounds that that doesn’t make any sense…”
Come on, man, the hobbits were Tolkien’s nod to the humble rural English people. And weren’t there black people in England in Tolkien’s time?
As it turns out, in 1950 there were about fifty million white people in England and about twenty thousand PoCs, which included people from the Indian subcontinent. But sure, Barbados was an English colony until 1966, so there might have been a couple of blacks in London then.
Amazon is just using the same playbook as the BBC and other woke content creators. In the new series Grantchester, a tiny English village in 1950 has black characters, as does the new remake of All Creatures Great and Small which took place in the 1940’s. Because you see, there were black people in England in 1950! So there, racists.
It’s not like they’re purposely giving today’s young people a false impression… just for propaganda purposes.
Just to help you Tolkien purists feel better, I’ve tucked Peter Jackson’s version of Bilbo’s birthday party discreetly below the fold. Don’t tell the wokesters!
I want to see a diverse cast in
“Fiddler on the Roof”,
“Mulan”,
“Black Panther”
It makes at least much sense as a diverse cast of Vikings.
As for the silly dogma about African diversity, if Subsaharan Africans don't have any Neanderthal genes doesn't that mean they lack diversity?Replies: @Hernan Pizzaro del Blanco, @The Cruncher
Sub-Saharan Africans may lack Neanderthal Ancestry but they have DNA from a different archaic hominin species that diverged before the split of modern humans and Neanderthals. https://www.sci.news/genetics/west-africans-dna-archaic-hominin-08123.html
this may explain one reason Negroids are so different from the Caucasoid and Mongoloid races….Negroids were isolated from the other races and also contain DNA from a mystery archaic hominin species. The data suggests this introgression may have happened recently.
From what I know, various American culture products met unpredictable fate in parts of Europe (I don't know about Asia, Middle East or Latin America).For instance, the 60s soap "Long, Hot Summer" was a smashing hit in ex-Yugoslavia & Roy Thinnes a superstar (his more important TV shows nobody cared about); Peter Falk & "Columbo" were super-success in Bulgaria and Romania (https://www.avclub.com/romania-asked-peter-falk-to-help-prevent-an-uprising-af-1847093587:
Romania asked Peter Falk to help prevent an uprising after the country ran out of Columbo episodes
The actor delivered a speech to the Romanian people to assure them that a new season was on the way); it was similar with Aaron Spelling's "Dynasty".As far as oldies go, I don't think that "Star Trek '' fired anyone's imagination in central & eastern Europe (TV series was simply dismissed as silly); "Dallas' ' (wicked J.R. Ewing) was a moderate success; while the 90s & early 2000s more ambitious shows (Homicide: Life on the Streets; The Sopranos; Breaking Bad) were very successful. I don't know about "Star Trek" in Spain or Sweden or Germany.Most vampire shows were watched only by teen girls.On the other hand, "The Phantom of the Opera" was/is very successful in the Anglosphere, while in the eastern Europe, it is a non-entity.Regarding more recent events- nobody I know is aware of Wakanda & not a single person watched that movie.So, it depends....Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @James J. O'Meara, @SunBakedSuburb, @R.G. Camara, @Peter Akuleyev, @Anonymous
A demographic more dangerous than you’d imagine:
How the ‘Slender Man’ urban legend inspired two 12-year-old girls to stab their classmate NINETEEN times
‘Heavenly creatures’ found guilty of murder
28 August 1954
The ‘I don’t like Mondays’ school shooter a while ago was female, but I can’t think of any others. (Yes, I know the song.)
Women do a lot of bad things, but usually use relational aggression and, if anything, get a man to do the dirty work.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
1) Quietly buy a huge tract of land and make it self-sufficient;
2) Tell all non-whites that they're self-segregating to a reservation so as to not infect others with their evil whiteness. Make sure the outside looks all District-9ish;
3) Paradise!
(And this time, FFS don't let anyone in!)
How is Orania doing these days, anyway?Replies: @SFG
Orania was still hiring black labor as I recall.
A problem with “white power” is that half of our race is 💩. We need a 🪠, not a catch basin.
Black flight escapes the black underclass. Whites have to flee the white overclass.
Yes. But then you run into the problem of them controlling all the good countries which they are methodically turning into shiteholes. We are not quite the Great Satan that the Persians have said we are, but we're only a couple of miles away.
How the 'Slender Man' urban legend inspired two 12-year-old girls to stab their classmate NINETEEN times
'Heavenly creatures' found guilty of murder
28 August 1954Replies: @SFG
So you found two examples 65 years apart?
The ‘I don’t like Mondays’ school shooter a while ago was female, but I can’t think of any others. (Yes, I know the song.)
Women do a lot of bad things, but usually use relational aggression and, if anything, get a man to do the dirty work.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christchurch_mosque_shootings
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waukesha_Christmas_parade_attack
What the hell is a mosque doing in a place called Christchurch, anyway? Somebody is unclear on the concept.
From what I know, various American culture products met unpredictable fate in parts of Europe (I don't know about Asia, Middle East or Latin America).For instance, the 60s soap "Long, Hot Summer" was a smashing hit in ex-Yugoslavia & Roy Thinnes a superstar (his more important TV shows nobody cared about); Peter Falk & "Columbo" were super-success in Bulgaria and Romania (https://www.avclub.com/romania-asked-peter-falk-to-help-prevent-an-uprising-af-1847093587:
Romania asked Peter Falk to help prevent an uprising after the country ran out of Columbo episodes
The actor delivered a speech to the Romanian people to assure them that a new season was on the way); it was similar with Aaron Spelling's "Dynasty".As far as oldies go, I don't think that "Star Trek '' fired anyone's imagination in central & eastern Europe (TV series was simply dismissed as silly); "Dallas' ' (wicked J.R. Ewing) was a moderate success; while the 90s & early 2000s more ambitious shows (Homicide: Life on the Streets; The Sopranos; Breaking Bad) were very successful. I don't know about "Star Trek" in Spain or Sweden or Germany.Most vampire shows were watched only by teen girls.On the other hand, "The Phantom of the Opera" was/is very successful in the Anglosphere, while in the eastern Europe, it is a non-entity.Regarding more recent events- nobody I know is aware of Wakanda & not a single person watched that movie.So, it depends....Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @James J. O'Meara, @SunBakedSuburb, @R.G. Camara, @Peter Akuleyev, @Anonymous
Reminds me of a joke, possibly National Lampoon, about how the French only know 4 places in the USA: Harlem, New Orleans, Dallas (where J. R. lives), and “‘Ollywood” which is the home of Le Jerry.
I recall that the French did have special bus tours of Harlem, long before any “gentrification,” much to the puzzlement, I suppose, of the natives.
1928 was when Steamboat Willie came out. It will be interesting to see how long Disney can continue to justify keeping The Mouse out of the public domain (to complicate things, it is both a copyright and a trademark matter).
Apparently, the original copyright for material dating from 1928 should have run out nearly 40 years ago in 1984.
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-05-11/mickey-mouse-copyright-expiration-disney-under-attack-republicans
(You now have me wondering if the Nation of Islam can copyright their religious works in the same way Scientology did.)Replies: @scrivener3
Think how many other things are kept from falling into the public domain by the endless extension of copyright by the US congress at the behest of Disney.
The whole idea of copyright was to protect the author’s exclusive right to publish for a limited period of time. Its a balance between rewarding the creator and benefiting the public.
On the plus side, there are no longer any lingering doubts about whose interests the US Congress truly represents. It will be interesting to see whether Disney really has managed to burn its bridges with conservative politicians, or if this is simply more of the cheap talk that is politicians' stock in trade and they will roll over for Disney (again).Replies: @Anonymous
What’s the percentage on non-Whites? 95% 💩 ?
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correction: of non-Whites
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LOTR is supposed to be folklore of Britain, with the races representing various Celtic or Germanic populations (query: who are the short, bearded folks who love gold and precious gems and long for a lost homeland supposed to represent?). It's preposterous that grafting blacks into these races isn't an act of vandalism.
The thing about the Game of Thrones Universe is that in the first go-round they were able to seamlessly incorporate plenty of swarthy and non-white characters into the show by demonstrating that they were from other continents or extreme reaches of the known world. So they could have quasi-Persians and quasi-Arabs and quasi-Mongols or whatever with important characters but it didn't seem like an imposition. Forcing a few blacks into roles of fair-skinned, platinum haired peoples just seems like ostentatious current year-ism.
Perhaps the only antecedent I can recall is Ivan Dixon as Kinchloe getting dressed in SS garb to perform undercover operations with the boys outside of Stalag 13. But of course in Hogan's Heroes we're all in on the gag, and the brunt of the joke are the Germans and not the audience itself.Replies: @Joe Stalin, @Almost Missouri, @the one they call Desanex, @Nervous in Stalingrad, @Corvinus
From what I know, various American culture products met unpredictable fate in parts of Europe (I don't know about Asia, Middle East or Latin America).For instance, the 60s soap "Long, Hot Summer" was a smashing hit in ex-Yugoslavia & Roy Thinnes a superstar (his more important TV shows nobody cared about); Peter Falk & "Columbo" were super-success in Bulgaria and Romania (https://www.avclub.com/romania-asked-peter-falk-to-help-prevent-an-uprising-af-1847093587:
Romania asked Peter Falk to help prevent an uprising after the country ran out of Columbo episodes
The actor delivered a speech to the Romanian people to assure them that a new season was on the way); it was similar with Aaron Spelling's "Dynasty".As far as oldies go, I don't think that "Star Trek '' fired anyone's imagination in central & eastern Europe (TV series was simply dismissed as silly); "Dallas' ' (wicked J.R. Ewing) was a moderate success; while the 90s & early 2000s more ambitious shows (Homicide: Life on the Streets; The Sopranos; Breaking Bad) were very successful. I don't know about "Star Trek" in Spain or Sweden or Germany.Most vampire shows were watched only by teen girls.On the other hand, "The Phantom of the Opera" was/is very successful in the Anglosphere, while in the eastern Europe, it is a non-entity.Regarding more recent events- nobody I know is aware of Wakanda & not a single person watched that movie.So, it depends....Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @James J. O'Meara, @SunBakedSuburb, @R.G. Camara, @Peter Akuleyev, @Anonymous
“I don’t know about ‘Star Trek’ in Spain or Sweden or Germany.”
Based on my experience, SF, Horror, any material that is slightly outre doesn’t fly in the coldly rational and materialist Nordic countries. They have abandoned their wonderful folklore and mythology for a sterile atheism which displays itself in the much ballyhooed Scandinavian minimalist design schemes. I tried to interest a couple of producers there in a filmed version of Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness, which is in the public domain. They didn’t express interest. Sure, my vision of Madness would start at the 1oo million mark, but I tried to convince them that Lovecraft’s pseudoscience was much more interesting than their Science. Blank faces. Before I left their office I remarked upon their obvious imagination deficits. Back at the apartment I lamented to my reddish blonde Scandinavian wife that I should probably trade her for a dark haired woman in Spain or Italy. One of the Catholic countries. Say what you will about European Catholics, their cultures are steeped in gothic imagination.
“Whites have to flee the white overclass.”
Yes. But then you run into the problem of them controlling all the good countries which they are methodically turning into shiteholes. We are not quite the Great Satan that the Persians have said we are, but we’re only a couple of miles away.
I think half is being overly generous.
While waiting at a stop light the other day, the “white” girl in front of me lowered her driver’s side window and started yelling something to the driver of the car beside her, who was in the turn lane.
I couldn’t tell the race of the other driver, but when the “white” girl started listening to some sort of LOUD discordant noise, and gesticulating in odd patterns with her hands — all the while bouncing and yelling back-and-forth — I realized it had to have been urban music, and the other driver a blek guy.
I was truly disgusted.
Young “white” girls these days are nothing but vile mudsharks.
From what I know, various American culture products met unpredictable fate in parts of Europe (I don't know about Asia, Middle East or Latin America).For instance, the 60s soap "Long, Hot Summer" was a smashing hit in ex-Yugoslavia & Roy Thinnes a superstar (his more important TV shows nobody cared about); Peter Falk & "Columbo" were super-success in Bulgaria and Romania (https://www.avclub.com/romania-asked-peter-falk-to-help-prevent-an-uprising-af-1847093587:
Romania asked Peter Falk to help prevent an uprising after the country ran out of Columbo episodes
The actor delivered a speech to the Romanian people to assure them that a new season was on the way); it was similar with Aaron Spelling's "Dynasty".As far as oldies go, I don't think that "Star Trek '' fired anyone's imagination in central & eastern Europe (TV series was simply dismissed as silly); "Dallas' ' (wicked J.R. Ewing) was a moderate success; while the 90s & early 2000s more ambitious shows (Homicide: Life on the Streets; The Sopranos; Breaking Bad) were very successful. I don't know about "Star Trek" in Spain or Sweden or Germany.Most vampire shows were watched only by teen girls.On the other hand, "The Phantom of the Opera" was/is very successful in the Anglosphere, while in the eastern Europe, it is a non-entity.Regarding more recent events- nobody I know is aware of Wakanda & not a single person watched that movie.So, it depends....Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @James J. O'Meara, @SunBakedSuburb, @R.G. Camara, @Peter Akuleyev, @Anonymous
My favorite marketing/show-is-big-overseas story was how Dallas was supposedly so popular in the UK that, when the episode answering the question “Who shot JR?” was delivered to London via flight (on VHS!), the pickup of the tape at the airport was filmed by the BBC.
OT: National Review comes out in favor of a nationwide ban on late-term abortion. There is absolutely no mention of constitutional issues. Where in the constitution does it give the federal government the right to ban abortion? I guess they forgot about the two months they spent talking about the rights of the states to regulate abortion.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/09/end-infanticide/
Almost as if “muh constitution” never mattered at all and it was all just virtue-signaling.
Whether abortion should be governed by a federal law or a state law is a policy issue. A states' rightist like a Ron Paul could argue that the federal government lacks the authority regulate abortion, but this is not a broadly accepted position even on the conservative Supreme Court. The decision overturning Roe specifically acknowledged that Congress could restrict or expand abortion access through its lawmaking powers. The Democrats are currently running congressional campaigns on the very issue of liberalizing abortion rights on the national level.Replies: @AnotherDad
On a related note…a rhetorical question: What happened to that movie Jamie Foxx was supposedly making about the Zebra murders? That story about two plucky Black detectives fighting a systemically racist San Francisco Police Department to solve the murders amidst a climate of hate and anti-Blackness? I can’t find any info more recent than 2007. P.S. I wonder if when Amazon buys the rights to the Eliza Fletcher story, they reverse the races and turn it into a 5-part series.
the first and I hope only black affirmative police Chief of San Francisco. The book was OK just the basic facts of the case. As I remember, every detective and DA who worked on the case was White and middle aged. Got their jobs before affirmative action.
Many black cops, police clerks dispatchers District attorney clerks who gave investigative information to black Muslims who passed the information on to the killers
A better book isReplies: @Alden
Anyway, the upshot is that no one wants to live in a neighborhood dominated by the black lower class if they can help it. Unfortunately, the suburban black middle class has retained its political solidarity with the lower class - probably because they still have a lot of relatives that fit into that category - and the result is that black political preferences are geared towards the lowest common denominator to an extent no other group does. When people on the left bemoan the paucity of blacks who have achieved governorships or Senate seats, they seem to overlook the fact that black Dem politics are tailored for a pretty narrow band of the population and do not have broad appeal outside of that. So you have blacks that are mayors or members of the House where there is a community of interest, but whose politics generally make them unacceptable to an entire state. Obama is basically the only exception to that but his path was very carefully designed, plus he's not really 'black' in the way most people are from a cultural or ancestral sense.Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Reg Cæsar, @Alden
Indeed. It just goes to show that the MSM is not so far gone that they can’t publish true insights provided that they are verbose, vague, and stated by darkies.
Yes. Steve often comments mildly when the Prestige Press steals his insights and publishes them in the mouth of someone they consider more handshake-worthy. Such melanin-washing/truth-laundering would annoy me mightily but Steve usually handles it with supreme grace.
That's the view from Steve's front lawn, by the way.Replies: @kaganovitch, @Pixo
I’d like to see a movie about savvy, wealthy, powerful Americans played by an all-black cast, and with all the background characters also being black, all without the bother of any explanation. Furthermore, everyone should be gay, again without explanation, as if it were all normal and natural. Can’t imagine any woke reason to object to such a project.
LOTR is supposed to be folklore of Britain, with the races representing various Celtic or Germanic populations (query: who are the short, bearded folks who love gold and precious gems and long for a lost homeland supposed to represent?). It's preposterous that grafting blacks into these races isn't an act of vandalism.
The thing about the Game of Thrones Universe is that in the first go-round they were able to seamlessly incorporate plenty of swarthy and non-white characters into the show by demonstrating that they were from other continents or extreme reaches of the known world. So they could have quasi-Persians and quasi-Arabs and quasi-Mongols or whatever with important characters but it didn't seem like an imposition. Forcing a few blacks into roles of fair-skinned, platinum haired peoples just seems like ostentatious current year-ism.
Perhaps the only antecedent I can recall is Ivan Dixon as Kinchloe getting dressed in SS garb to perform undercover operations with the boys outside of Stalag 13. But of course in Hogan's Heroes we're all in on the gag, and the brunt of the joke are the Germans and not the audience itself.Replies: @Joe Stalin, @Almost Missouri, @the one they call Desanex, @Nervous in Stalingrad, @Corvinus
Agree.
I dunno man: unerring navigation in dark? Fearless and indestructible in battle? Also different kind of beards. I think Jackson was reasonable to give them Scottish accents.
Agree.
Agree.
The black Hobbit actor who said that people accept dragons so why not a ¡B!lack Hobbit (Nobbit?) was unintentionally making a good point. If Amazon had inserted Chinese-style dragons or cartoon dragons into Middle Earth instead of traditional European dragons, the entire audience would jeer: why are they deliberately ruining the aesthetic? But in the current year, a large part of the audience is brainwashed/browbeaten into accepting this kind of vandalism as normal or at least “just” so long as it serves to displace whites.
The ‘I don’t like Mondays’ school shooter a while ago was female, but I can’t think of any others. (Yes, I know the song.)
Women do a lot of bad things, but usually use relational aggression and, if anything, get a man to do the dirty work.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
And 8,500 miles! Christchurch to Waukesha. Hey, wait a minute… those cities sound familiar:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christchurch_mosque_shootings
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waukesha_Christmas_parade_attack
What the hell is a mosque doing in a place called Christchurch, anyway? Somebody is unclear on the concept.
Anyway, the upshot is that no one wants to live in a neighborhood dominated by the black lower class if they can help it. Unfortunately, the suburban black middle class has retained its political solidarity with the lower class - probably because they still have a lot of relatives that fit into that category - and the result is that black political preferences are geared towards the lowest common denominator to an extent no other group does. When people on the left bemoan the paucity of blacks who have achieved governorships or Senate seats, they seem to overlook the fact that black Dem politics are tailored for a pretty narrow band of the population and do not have broad appeal outside of that. So you have blacks that are mayors or members of the House where there is a community of interest, but whose politics generally make them unacceptable to an entire state. Obama is basically the only exception to that but his path was very carefully designed, plus he's not really 'black' in the way most people are from a cultural or ancestral sense.Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Reg Cæsar, @Alden
Racial discrimination is still perfectly legal in gun shops. A curious exception, don’t you think?
https://www.rochesterfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/66/2021/04/Kyle-Rittenhouse-Kenosha-2.jpgReplies: @Charles Pewitt, @AnotherDad
I have seen no evidence of this and on the contrary, a "diverse" clientele in such places. Even in MAGA gun shops.
I have seen a gun shop bar customers of an adjacent head shop if they smelled like they'd been in there. Sign on the door...Replies: @Harry Baldwin, @Reg Cæsar
That’s the view from Steve’s front lawn, by the way.
It's a shame he spends all his time in the closet, though.Replies: @Bardon Kaldian
Is not doing well. The high today in the southern San Fernando Valley is 100, and will be that hot for another 3 days.
I am getting ready for my 3rd shower today. It isn’t even a dry heat!
Happened already in the Peter Jackson Hobbit films, quite a few of the residents of Laketown were non-white. (Weirdly enough despite filming in New Zealand, I don’t think any of them were Maori though, I think they were black and Chinese.)
What’s funnier is the situation in the competing ‘House of the Dragon’ Game of Thrones prequel. Despite (Like the LoTR) non-white races living in similar ecological and geographic positions to the whites in Game of Thrones and being seen, they have inserted some black actors (Only black ones as is now tradition, to the point that I’d actually find other non-whites way more jarring at this point and do when they appear.) to play some of the aristocratic Targaryens who are descendants of more Northern Nordic people who conquered the place the new show takes place in a long time ago. In the books they have not had complete endogamy and over centuries their recessive light features dwindled and are even more prized (Like the high castes in India) but the people they conquered are analogous to Mediterranean people not blacks.
But in the TV show they are shown to be completely endogamous and ethnically distinct with all of them having light hair and blue eyes. The black characters aren’t supposed to be outsiders who’ve been adopted or intermarried, they have their hair dyed white (Because otherwise again you might not realise what group they’re supposed to be) as if they are part of the same inbred aristocratic ethnicity. There isn’t even an ‘out’ in terms of pretending they’re dying their hair to fit in or something, they are playing characters who are high ranking members in this lineage. It’s surreal and can only be explained by the new explicit contractual quotas on non-white main characters in new series.
LOTR is supposed to be folklore of Britain, with the races representing various Celtic or Germanic populations (query: who are the short, bearded folks who love gold and precious gems and long for a lost homeland supposed to represent?). It's preposterous that grafting blacks into these races isn't an act of vandalism.
The thing about the Game of Thrones Universe is that in the first go-round they were able to seamlessly incorporate plenty of swarthy and non-white characters into the show by demonstrating that they were from other continents or extreme reaches of the known world. So they could have quasi-Persians and quasi-Arabs and quasi-Mongols or whatever with important characters but it didn't seem like an imposition. Forcing a few blacks into roles of fair-skinned, platinum haired peoples just seems like ostentatious current year-ism.
Perhaps the only antecedent I can recall is Ivan Dixon as Kinchloe getting dressed in SS garb to perform undercover operations with the boys outside of Stalag 13. But of course in Hogan's Heroes we're all in on the gag, and the brunt of the joke are the Germans and not the audience itself.Replies: @Joe Stalin, @Almost Missouri, @the one they call Desanex, @Nervous in Stalingrad, @Corvinus
If this guy played an elf in Lord of the Rings, I’d believe it.
Are there figures for where blacks, subcontinentals and East Asians were distributed? My guess would be that until recently the bulk of all non-whites (as the joke goes, excluding the Irish) would have been in cosmopolitan, Imperial Capital of London with only a smattering in other enclaves in the larger cities of Britain. In South Westyorkfordshire on Trent you’d likely sooner see an elephant drinking tea from chintz china.
LOTR is supposed to be folklore of Britain, with the races representing various Celtic or Germanic populations (query: who are the short, bearded folks who love gold and precious gems and long for a lost homeland supposed to represent?). It's preposterous that grafting blacks into these races isn't an act of vandalism.
The thing about the Game of Thrones Universe is that in the first go-round they were able to seamlessly incorporate plenty of swarthy and non-white characters into the show by demonstrating that they were from other continents or extreme reaches of the known world. So they could have quasi-Persians and quasi-Arabs and quasi-Mongols or whatever with important characters but it didn't seem like an imposition. Forcing a few blacks into roles of fair-skinned, platinum haired peoples just seems like ostentatious current year-ism.
Perhaps the only antecedent I can recall is Ivan Dixon as Kinchloe getting dressed in SS garb to perform undercover operations with the boys outside of Stalag 13. But of course in Hogan's Heroes we're all in on the gag, and the brunt of the joke are the Germans and not the audience itself.Replies: @Joe Stalin, @Almost Missouri, @the one they call Desanex, @Nervous in Stalingrad, @Corvinus
Perhaps it is just me, but I never cease to marvel at how many people (not just you by any means) treat Amazon as though it is the only game in town when it comes to obtaining household and school supplies.
There are other websites you can buy your gear from, too (eBay for one, though it has its own set of problems). Granted, perhaps the other sites are not as convenient as Amazon, but they do exist and a bit of research may repay itself.
Consumers have been treating Bezos as though he is the only game in town for years. Not surprisingly, he acts like it, too. And while I am trying to empathise with my fellow consumers, it isn’t easy when just about anyone could have seen this coming from quite a long way away.
If you don’t like what Bezos does (and many do not; I can’t say I blame them), then wouldn’t now be a good time to stop handing him your money? Otherwise, consumers can look forward to more of the exact same behaviour from him in the future.
Well, to be fair, how do you go back to making all-white movies, when now multiculti casting is the norm, and also the population, and everybody or at least a significant part of the audience will complain about the lack of a Black-Asian-Jewish Disabled Lesbian in at least one of the roles?
Also, there are now several Black and Asian actors in Hollywood and they need jobs and they want roles in prestigious films and series too.
I think the only solution is to expel all other races from European countries. Then racism and representation “according to the demographics” will no longer be a problem, and we will be able to make all-white films again.
End Euro-imperialist gardening tyranny, while yer at it:
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-09-06-guardian-says-gardening-noninclusive-loaded-cultural-baggage.html
More depop psyop agitprop: Return to hunter-gatherer, Westerners! Eat bugs. Self-reliant agriculture be raycis.
I read some of the Elijah Muhammad document, describing how Yacub first made brown people by debasing Black people (upper case in original), then further debased the brown people to create whites. This sounds like quite the screed against Planned Parenthood!
Note to health food freaks who think white eggs are sinful. The real reason consumers always always preferred white eggs is because of the manure. Back in the good old days before evil 👿 evil 👿 factory farming eggs arrived at the market covered with small and not so small specks of manure. They had to be carefully washed before cracking. It’s much easier to see specks of manure on white eggs. So when people discovered that manure carries germs white eggs became more and more popular.Replies: @Anonymous
Sometimes it is.
If it’s the ubiquitous salt and pepper team hunting down the bad guys in an American city, it’s not offensive–just routine Hollyweird schlock.
But if it’s black popping up in 19th century English drama–worse as gentry and friends of gentry–then it is jarring–and offensive. Click.
If it’s this every white woman–and now white men–routinely having a black spouse–like that’s remotely typical instead of really bad decision making, then yeah, that’s offensive–very offensive. Click.
If it’s a white single mom, struggling to raise her mulatto children … ok that’s a believable story.
From what I know, various American culture products met unpredictable fate in parts of Europe (I don't know about Asia, Middle East or Latin America).For instance, the 60s soap "Long, Hot Summer" was a smashing hit in ex-Yugoslavia & Roy Thinnes a superstar (his more important TV shows nobody cared about); Peter Falk & "Columbo" were super-success in Bulgaria and Romania (https://www.avclub.com/romania-asked-peter-falk-to-help-prevent-an-uprising-af-1847093587:
Romania asked Peter Falk to help prevent an uprising after the country ran out of Columbo episodes
The actor delivered a speech to the Romanian people to assure them that a new season was on the way); it was similar with Aaron Spelling's "Dynasty".As far as oldies go, I don't think that "Star Trek '' fired anyone's imagination in central & eastern Europe (TV series was simply dismissed as silly); "Dallas' ' (wicked J.R. Ewing) was a moderate success; while the 90s & early 2000s more ambitious shows (Homicide: Life on the Streets; The Sopranos; Breaking Bad) were very successful. I don't know about "Star Trek" in Spain or Sweden or Germany.Most vampire shows were watched only by teen girls.On the other hand, "The Phantom of the Opera" was/is very successful in the Anglosphere, while in the eastern Europe, it is a non-entity.Regarding more recent events- nobody I know is aware of Wakanda & not a single person watched that movie.So, it depends....Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @James J. O'Meara, @SunBakedSuburb, @R.G. Camara, @Peter Akuleyev, @Anonymous
I don’t know about “Star Trek” in Spain or Sweden or Germany.
Star Trek (aka “Raumschiff Enterprise”) was very popular in West Germany in the 1980s. Don’t know about earlier.
I remember in the mid 1990s that you could find badly dubbed pirated VHS tapes of episodes of the X-Files in street kiosks anywhere from Bishkek Kyrgyzstan to Chisinau Moldova. That show was very popular in the ex-USSR at its peak.
Dr Yacub is essentially an antis*mitic narrative transmogrified into anti-wh*te. Its genetics “basis” is that Jacob was empowered by G*d to change the appearance of sheep progeny and thus become wealthy (Gen 30:25-43).
The whole idea of copyright was to protect the author's exclusive right to publish for a limited period of time. Its a balance between rewarding the creator and benefiting the public.Replies: @Nervous in Stalingrad
I try not to. It is far too exasperating (though it is worth noting that US laws may not always work outside the US).
On the plus side, there are no longer any lingering doubts about whose interests the US Congress truly represents. It will be interesting to see whether Disney really has managed to burn its bridges with conservative politicians, or if this is simply more of the cheap talk that is politicians’ stock in trade and they will roll over for Disney (again).
Fard was (probably) white himself, though.
Sorry, but this is material I read many years ago.
I doubt most people really know anything more than a couple names and a vague outline of the WD Fard mythology. If you don’t know about Yakub, Yashmal, the tribes of the inner earth or Tricknology 120°, you should watch this concise yet in depth summary of the real story, which I would hope any big budget adaptation would remain completely faithful to .
Age discrimination, also.
With some rights, biology leads to ‘disparate impact’ and is the bane of ‘equality’.
And rightly so.
Yet some individuals may acquit themselves quite handily:
Great Lakes German Americans.
KRAUTS
Give the Krauts in Germany a nuke deterrent and the means to deliver them and get the US military out of Germany. Last beer party for the last plane to leave Ramstein Air Force Base before the Krauts officially take sovereignty back.
GERMAN STRATEGY:
The GERMAN STRATEGY is to win the votes of German Americans in the Great Lakes states in combination with the votes of Anglo-Celts in the Southern states. In 2016, Trumpy put the cherry on top of the GERMAN STRATEGY by winning Florida with the votes of Anglo-Celts in the Northern portion of Florida in combination with the votes of the snowbirds from the Great Lakes states and the Northeast.
Anyway, the upshot is that no one wants to live in a neighborhood dominated by the black lower class if they can help it. Unfortunately, the suburban black middle class has retained its political solidarity with the lower class - probably because they still have a lot of relatives that fit into that category - and the result is that black political preferences are geared towards the lowest common denominator to an extent no other group does. When people on the left bemoan the paucity of blacks who have achieved governorships or Senate seats, they seem to overlook the fact that black Dem politics are tailored for a pretty narrow band of the population and do not have broad appeal outside of that. So you have blacks that are mayors or members of the House where there is a community of interest, but whose politics generally make them unacceptable to an entire state. Obama is basically the only exception to that but his path was very carefully designed, plus he's not really 'black' in the way most people are from a cultural or ancestral sense.Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Reg Cæsar, @Alden
All this concern and obsession with blacks. Well, I guess it’s a living. Studying blacks is a major industry. Has been for a long time.
Biden and Trump Are Weak And Cowardly On Black Criminal Violence
Is this supposed to be a joke? I don’t get it.
I have seen no evidence of this and on the contrary, a “diverse” clientele in such places. Even in MAGA gun shops.
I have seen a gun shop bar customers of an adjacent head shop if they smelled like they’d been in there. Sign on the door…
Dealer's Choice: Gun Store Owners Can Deny Anyone They WantMan denied gun sale claims racial discriminationExperts explain when a business can deny a firearm saleBlack Americans flock to gun stores and clubs: 'I needed to protect myself'Dallas Morning News: They spoke Arabic while gun shopping in North Texas and ended up behind barsDo you have any evidence of a gun dealer punished for turning away a black customer? Or is it another case of "No Irish Need Apply" notices which nobody seems able to locate?Replies: @Muggles
Standard breeding practice. Create flocks of white chickens who will lay white eggs by eating the brown chickens and leaving the white ones to lay white eggs.
Note to health food freaks who think white eggs are sinful. The real reason consumers always always preferred white eggs is because of the manure. Back in the good old days before evil 👿 evil 👿 factory farming eggs arrived at the market covered with small and not so small specks of manure. They had to be carefully washed before cracking. It’s much easier to see specks of manure on white eggs. So when people discovered that manure carries germs white eggs became more and more popular.
https://www.rochesterfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/66/2021/04/Kyle-Rittenhouse-Kenosha-2.jpgReplies: @Charles Pewitt, @AnotherDad
Rittenhouse tripoded himself pretty good when he needed a stable platform on his can to defend himself.
Great Lakes German Americans.
KRAUTS
Give the Krauts in Germany a nuke deterrent and the means to deliver them and get the US military out of Germany. Last beer party for the last plane to leave Ramstein Air Force Base before the Krauts officially take sovereignty back.
GERMAN STRATEGY:
The GERMAN STRATEGY is to win the votes of German Americans in the Great Lakes states in combination with the votes of Anglo-Celts in the Southern states. In 2016, Trumpy put the cherry on top of the GERMAN STRATEGY by winning Florida with the votes of Anglo-Celts in the Northern portion of Florida in combination with the votes of the snowbirds from the Great Lakes states and the Northeast.
The black so called middle class is a racial preference affirmative action middle class. And their relatives are often criminals school dropouts etc. it’s not just the welfare black women who have criminal bastards.
When I was a probation officer so many of the 20 to 35 black career criminals had moms who worked in the federal building.
Jesse Jackson’s brother raised middle class college education murdered a tenant about some routine shopping mall problem. Mayor of San Francisco London Breed’s brother convicted of murder. Any Monday morning in government offices people chat about the weekend. The black women chat about their visits to various prisons and jails to visit boyfriends sons brothers. Not fathers so much.
Blacks are blacks. No matter what their job.
If we’re not white,dare I ask,what are we?😮
OT — iSteve favorite Zack Goldberg found some findings, tldr Biden voters doubling down on stupid.
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=63315
https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/09/end-infanticide/
Almost as if "muh constitution" never mattered at all and it was all just virtue-signaling.Replies: @J.Ross, @clifford brown, @epebble
It’s like a decrepit relative sat silent in a corner who occasionally yields outbursts about how God talks to him.
Folks complaining about the Hobbits in Amazon’s Rings of Power being multiracial on the grounds that that doesn’t make any sense need to realize that most Americans today seek to be entertained. Remember, the humans, the Dwarves, and the Elves—all from different races—figured out a way to get along with not another in the end in their fight against evil.
OT — Anon at 4chan makes a very good comment about a looming issue the newsmedia is not really discussing. We are about to find out how serious Europeans are about indulging neocon Russophobia.
LOTR is supposed to be folklore of Britain, with the races representing various Celtic or Germanic populations (query: who are the short, bearded folks who love gold and precious gems and long for a lost homeland supposed to represent?). It's preposterous that grafting blacks into these races isn't an act of vandalism.
The thing about the Game of Thrones Universe is that in the first go-round they were able to seamlessly incorporate plenty of swarthy and non-white characters into the show by demonstrating that they were from other continents or extreme reaches of the known world. So they could have quasi-Persians and quasi-Arabs and quasi-Mongols or whatever with important characters but it didn't seem like an imposition. Forcing a few blacks into roles of fair-skinned, platinum haired peoples just seems like ostentatious current year-ism.
Perhaps the only antecedent I can recall is Ivan Dixon as Kinchloe getting dressed in SS garb to perform undercover operations with the boys outside of Stalag 13. But of course in Hogan's Heroes we're all in on the gag, and the brunt of the joke are the Germans and not the audience itself.Replies: @Joe Stalin, @Almost Missouri, @the one they call Desanex, @Nervous in Stalingrad, @Corvinus
“LOTR is supposed to be folklore of Britain, with the races representing various Celtic or Germanic populations”
According to Who/Whom?
From Tolkien himself…
—Such arrangements could be devised according to the tastes or views of those who like allegory or topical reference. But I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.
I much prefer history, true or feigned, with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse ‘applicability’ with ‘allegory’; but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.
An author cannot of course remain wholly unaffected by his experience, but the ways in which a story-germ uses the soil of experience are extremely complex, and attempts to define the process are at best guesses from evidence that is inadequate and ambiguous.
…
As for what you say or hint of ‘local’ conditions: I knew of them. I don’t think they have much changed (even for the worse). I used to hear them discussed by my mother; and have ever since taken a special interest in that part of the world. The treatment of colour nearly always horrifies anyone going out from Britain & not only in South Africa. Unfort[unately] not many retain that generous sentiment for long.—
If it's the ubiquitous salt and pepper team hunting down the bad guys in an American city, it's not offensive--just routine Hollyweird schlock.
But if it's black popping up in 19th century English drama--worse as gentry and friends of gentry--then it is jarring--and offensive. Click.
If it's this every white woman--and now white men--routinely having a black spouse--like that's remotely typical instead of really bad decision making, then yeah, that's offensive--very offensive. Click.
If it's a white single mom, struggling to raise her mulatto children ... ok that's a believable story.Replies: @Harry Baldwin
My adult daughter is watching Neil Gaiman’s “Sandman” series on Netflix. I have been exposed to some of it while passing through the room. It seems half the characters are black, and romantic relationships are either interracial or LGBT. Gotta say, that Gaiman sure knows what sells these days!
I have seen no evidence of this and on the contrary, a "diverse" clientele in such places. Even in MAGA gun shops.
I have seen a gun shop bar customers of an adjacent head shop if they smelled like they'd been in there. Sign on the door...Replies: @Harry Baldwin, @Reg Cæsar
I’ve seen signs on the door at gun stores saying that the owner reserves the right to refuse service to anyone. I understand this to apply to obvious creeps, nuts, assholes, drunks, or people who are high. I don’t believe it is ever applied to respectable black people
https://www.rochesterfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/66/2021/04/Kyle-Rittenhouse-Kenosha-2.jpgReplies: @Charles Pewitt, @AnotherDad
Hero of civilization.
Democrats gin up yet another riot, let loose their shock troops. In one night, Rittenhouse single handedly shuts it down.
Imagine what a few thousand? tens of thounsands? a few million Rittenhouses could do?
That's the view from Steve's front lawn, by the way.Replies: @kaganovitch, @Pixo
That’s the view from Steve’s front lawn, by the way.
It’s a shame he spends all his time in the closet, though.
That's the view from Steve's front lawn, by the way.Replies: @kaganovitch, @Pixo
“ Steve’s front lawn”
Is not doing well. The high today in the southern San Fernando Valley is 100, and will be that hot for another 3 days.
I am getting ready for my 3rd shower today. It isn’t even a dry heat!
I couldn’t care less what color actors are but this woke stuff is a loser. This new LOTR series cost a billion dollars to make and it’s at 39% audience score on rotten tomatoes. From what I can tell the get woke go broke pattern is very real and very expensive. Top Gun won the weekend and is now number 5 all-time domestically.
I wonder if anyone would complain if wakanda was half white.
It's a shame he spends all his time in the closet, though.Replies: @Bardon Kaldian
I wrote him many times that it’s time to get out of closet, but he wouldn’t listen …..
I have seen no evidence of this and on the contrary, a "diverse" clientele in such places. Even in MAGA gun shops.
I have seen a gun shop bar customers of an adjacent head shop if they smelled like they'd been in there. Sign on the door...Replies: @Harry Baldwin, @Reg Cæsar
Gun shops have a blanket dispensation to turn down any sale they feel is suspicious, for any reason on God’s green earth, and they will face no legal trouble for doing so.
Dealer’s Choice: Gun Store Owners Can Deny Anyone They Want
Man denied gun sale claims racial discrimination
Experts explain when a business can deny a firearm sale
Black Americans flock to gun stores and clubs: ‘I needed to protect myself’
Dallas Morning News: They spoke Arabic while gun shopping in North Texas and ended up behind bars
Do you have any evidence of a gun dealer punished for turning away a black customer? Or is it another case of “No Irish Need Apply” notices which nobody seems able to locate?
The subject was "racial discrimination", not ability to decline to sell to certain customers.
I have never seen any signage at gun shops that read "No blacks" or "Whites only" or "No Mexicans" etc. Have you? Of course not...
I have seen photos (old) of those "No Irish Need Apply" from places like Boston, circa 1900. No reason to think they weren't real. Whether there are any remaining physical signs I can't say. Maybe in some museum. Irish, like Jews and Asians, some Eastern Europeans were commonly discriminated against in the 19th ceturny.
While a gun shop owner might personally not sell to certain races, if they said that was the specific reason for the non sale, of course they would be vulnerable to a legal action. Interstate commerce, etc. You would have to prove it legally.
In the gun shops I have visited, I have seen no evidence of any racial discrimination and in fact quite a few blacks or Asians, Hispanics appear to be customers.
Don't change the subject from outright racial discrimination to mere choosy about customers.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Reg Cæsar, @Graham
Lordy lord of them Rangz! Nelves and Dwaggers! (I feel sorry now, I even went for a two hour walk in the dark of night before I finally decided to post this).
At the wife’s insistnce I went to HerseyPark in PA last weekend. Overall, the sea of humanity was horrific – but the “whites” we some of the worst. Women with random ugly tattoos all over their body, etc. I noticed that since everyone has tattoos now, the people who used to get them to “rebel” have had to up their game – they get neck and face tattoos. I am actually rooting for America to collapse at this point.
Fats and tats--we are simply an ugly people now, and yeah it is now just blacks and browns. The white population is deeply embarrassing as well.
Obviously a whole bunch of this is simply cultural decline. As with sex, marriage, children, illegitimacy, divorce, the old Christian norms and social pressure simply made for a better behaving--and better looking--people. The trashy, impulse, stupid genes were there ... just better hidden, by civilized social norms, now knocked down.
We have to be honest and admit that our people aren't all that. Civilization is young, and civilized genes have not yet made a clean sweep.
After stopping the immivasion, we need to think about eugenic incentives and start turning this around. Indeed we need--our posterity deserves--better people.
I am under the impression that while the association with criminality wasn't quite as automatic in the US as in other places (soldiers/sailors in places with military presence, Holocaust survivors in places like New York), it still carried enough of a negative "underclass" stigma to limit them to the margins of society.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/09/end-infanticide/
Almost as if "muh constitution" never mattered at all and it was all just virtue-signaling.Replies: @J.Ross, @clifford brown, @epebble
If there is no federal law, then state law would govern abortion, but if a federal law was passed by Congress concerning abortion, then the federal law would usually supersede the state law. This is not very hard.
Whether abortion should be governed by a federal law or a state law is a policy issue. A states’ rightist like a Ron Paul could argue that the federal government lacks the authority regulate abortion, but this is not a broadly accepted position even on the conservative Supreme Court. The decision overturning Roe specifically acknowledged that Congress could restrict or expand abortion access through its lawmaking powers. The Democrats are currently running congressional campaigns on the very issue of liberalizing abortion rights on the national level.
iSteve’s “You can’t make this stuff up” department:
Nearly 1 In 4 Democratic Voters Believe Men Can Get Pregnant: Poll
The online survey, conducted by WPA Intelligence from August 22-25, found 22% of Democrats agreed with the statement, “Some men can get pregnant.” The percentage rose when only including women, and a whopping 36% of white, college-educated female Democrats concurred. “Overall, few Americans think men can get pregnant,” said WPAi Managing Director Conor Maguire. “But with 36% of a core Democratic constituency (college-educated white Democratic women) and one out of five Democrat voters believing this, one can see why Democratic leaders coddle the radical gender theory movement.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/nearly-1-in-4-democratic-voters-believe-men-can-get-pregnant-poll
From what I know, various American culture products met unpredictable fate in parts of Europe (I don't know about Asia, Middle East or Latin America).For instance, the 60s soap "Long, Hot Summer" was a smashing hit in ex-Yugoslavia & Roy Thinnes a superstar (his more important TV shows nobody cared about); Peter Falk & "Columbo" were super-success in Bulgaria and Romania (https://www.avclub.com/romania-asked-peter-falk-to-help-prevent-an-uprising-af-1847093587:
Romania asked Peter Falk to help prevent an uprising after the country ran out of Columbo episodes
The actor delivered a speech to the Romanian people to assure them that a new season was on the way); it was similar with Aaron Spelling's "Dynasty".As far as oldies go, I don't think that "Star Trek '' fired anyone's imagination in central & eastern Europe (TV series was simply dismissed as silly); "Dallas' ' (wicked J.R. Ewing) was a moderate success; while the 90s & early 2000s more ambitious shows (Homicide: Life on the Streets; The Sopranos; Breaking Bad) were very successful. I don't know about "Star Trek" in Spain or Sweden or Germany.Most vampire shows were watched only by teen girls.On the other hand, "The Phantom of the Opera" was/is very successful in the Anglosphere, while in the eastern Europe, it is a non-entity.Regarding more recent events- nobody I know is aware of Wakanda & not a single person watched that movie.So, it depends....Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @James J. O'Meara, @SunBakedSuburb, @R.G. Camara, @Peter Akuleyev, @Anonymous
There’s an apocryphal story (that I pray is true) that Shatner once landed in Croatia in the 1990s to find mobs waiting for him at the airport. Nothing he wasn’t utterly familiar with already…
…except that they were there because of “T.J. Hooker”.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=YpMwAJR6BeQ&feature=emb_titleReplies: @Reg Cæsar
OT, or maybe not. Glenn Greenwald re-appears on Twitter to warn about newly-aggressive corporate/state censorship.
continues…
When do we get to see tranny Hobbits?
OT, but I suddenly feel much more optimistic about Liz Truss. Anyone who can draw vituperative comparisons to Enoch Powell in the New York Times from someone named Kojo Koram must have something going for her!
In her youth, she had a bee in her bonnet about the monarchy.
https://youtu.be/2qfg1AQnWIM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLOEwXHP8HIReplies: @Reg Cæsar, @Joe S.Walker, @The Wild Geese Howard
Whether abortion should be governed by a federal law or a state law is a policy issue. A states' rightist like a Ron Paul could argue that the federal government lacks the authority regulate abortion, but this is not a broadly accepted position even on the conservative Supreme Court. The decision overturning Roe specifically acknowledged that Congress could restrict or expand abortion access through its lawmaking powers. The Democrats are currently running congressional campaigns on the very issue of liberalizing abortion rights on the national level.Replies: @AnotherDad
You have a weird view of federalism and the US Constitution.
In fact, whether abortion is federal matter is precisely a Constitutional issue, not a “policy issue”.
And, of course, it is not. There’s basically nothing about abortion that has anything to do with the enumerated powers of the federal government. If abortion is within legislative domain of the United States Congress, then everything is. Federalism is moot.
It was the Supreme’s not just doing ridiculous judicial legislating, but also imposing a particular–and radical–“one sized fits all” abortion regime that suddenly in one swoop made abortion a contentious political issue.
Pass a law or two banning the gruesome stuff that is sickening to normies and protecting everyone's children from the slimy feminist abortion promoters--i.e. restore parental authority (pregnancy is not a disease).
But spend your cycles
-- stopping the immivasion insanity
-- attacking/dismantling minoritarianism and restoring republican majoritarianism
and
--work directly assiduously--both culturally and economically--to create
affordable family formation
for smart, healthy, productive young Americans, so they can easily form the families and have the children they want to have.
Focus on what is important. What leaves behind a nation/civilization that is fit for your children, your posterity to live in.
Plan B, owned by Brad Pitt at the time was considering such a movie. That book was based on a book about the Zebra killing by
the first and I hope only black affirmative police Chief of San Francisco. The book was OK just the basic facts of the case. As I remember, every detective and DA who worked on the case was White and middle aged. Got their jobs before affirmative action.
Many black cops, police clerks dispatchers District attorney clerks who gave investigative information to black Muslims who passed the information on to the killers
A better book is
BTW, if in the midst of this existential crisis for America, and the West–our civilization literally being bashed to bits and minoritarians baying that anyone who opposes them burning every last branch and twig of the civilization white gentiles built is a “Nazi!”–“conservatives” spend their energy making a fetish out of abortion … then just effing kiss America goodbye.
Pass a law or two banning the gruesome stuff that is sickening to normies and protecting everyone’s children from the slimy feminist abortion promoters–i.e. restore parental authority (pregnancy is not a disease).
But spend your cycles
— stopping the immivasion insanity
— attacking/dismantling minoritarianism and restoring republican majoritarianism
and
–work directly assiduously–both culturally and economically–to create
affordable family formation
for smart, healthy, productive young Americans, so they can easily form the families and have the children they want to have.
Focus on what is important. What leaves behind a nation/civilization that is fit for your children, your posterity to live in.
the first and I hope only black affirmative police Chief of San Francisco. The book was OK just the basic facts of the case. As I remember, every detective and DA who worked on the case was White and middle aged. Got their jobs before affirmative action.
Many black cops, police clerks dispatchers District attorney clerks who gave investigative information to black Muslims who passed the information on to the killers
A better book isReplies: @Alden
A better book is the one by Clark Howard. They will never make a movie of the killings because they don’t make movies in which in which black criminals kill innocent Whites.
As for the silly dogma about African diversity, if Subsaharan Africans don't have any Neanderthal genes doesn't that mean they lack diversity?Replies: @Hernan Pizzaro del Blanco, @The Cruncher
No, Africans win yet again, they’re up to 19% some unknown archaic species, like maybe homo habilis or homo erectus.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aax5097
But they never deny the existence of “black” people.
What sells to the networks, but not necessarily to the largest possible audience.
I wish I could feel optimistic. She seems intent on purging the cabinet of white men.
In her youth, she had a bee in her bonnet about the monarchy.
This fits Steven Goldberg's analysis. Government is not that important to Tories, thus a lady is given room to get ahead. Whereas the Left lives to rule. Their men fight for the top spot, leaving the ladies as roadkill.
Claiming to be “tired” is a recent pose by lazy, black supremacist females. It’s just something to say.
Communists haven’t believed in “utopia” for over 30 years. Being “intolerant of intolerance” is over 30 years old. The White communists who sought to get my grad school logic professor, Michael Levin, fired and Whitelisted, beginning in 1989, used to say that.
These people have no utopian hopes; they’re just evil, and have to be wiped out.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/09/end-infanticide/
Almost as if "muh constitution" never mattered at all and it was all just virtue-signaling.Replies: @J.Ross, @clifford brown, @epebble
At least a sizeable number of Pro-lifers sincerely hold the belief that fetus is a living human being. Hence, they have to do anything and everything possible to prevent “murder of the unborn”. In that light, fighting for the Right to Life of the unborn cannot be argued as not a federal issue.
In 50 years the rest homes will be filled with geezers with faded, distorted, sagging tattoos. It will probably be fodder for the young standup comics of that day, who themselves will have clear skin.
In “go woke, go broke” news:
George Miller, an incredible director, makes a pretty good movie (standing ovation at Cannes) and it’s bombing horribly. Why?
Guess it turns out people’s idea of a fun time at the movie theater isn’t an “epic romance” with a black guy and an old white woman (with the younger queen of sheba being a black woman). Who knew?
Trick question: everyone knows but nobody can say it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Thousand_Years_of_Longing
Note: I’m not telling George Miller what movies he wants to make. But if you’re on the business side….I guess it’s hard to explain why you throw that idea in the trash when his last movie was a blockbuster and this sounds like a pretty good story.
In her youth, she had a bee in her bonnet about the monarchy.
https://youtu.be/2qfg1AQnWIM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLOEwXHP8HIReplies: @Reg Cæsar, @Joe S.Walker, @The Wild Geese Howard
She’s the third lady PM, all Tories. Where’s Labour? In labour?
This fits Steven Goldberg’s analysis. Government is not that important to Tories, thus a lady is given room to get ahead. Whereas the Left lives to rule. Their men fight for the top spot, leaving the ladies as roadkill.
...except that they were there because of "T.J. Hooker".Replies: @Mark Grainger
Sure that the crowd wasn’t there for Shatner because of his Canadian grocery ads.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=YpMwAJR6BeQ&feature=emb_title
https://i.cbc.ca/1.5412965.1577985369!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/neilson-brand-chocolate-milk.jpg
I would argue under the commerce clause and the 14th Amendment, the juggernauts of federal power. Does a late term fetus have a right to due process under the 14th Amendment? I think both sides would make the commerce clause play and tie Medicaid funds to abortion regulations if they had the votes. It would be interesting if the conservative court struck down a federal late term abortion ban.
This is pretty much the only issue the MSM in Europe is talking about. Current consensus is that between alternative supplies and subsidies no one will be paying close to \$2K a month, although it will get expensive enough to drive street protests.
I had a similar experience at the Sesame Street park in PA over 15 years ago. PA may be particularly bad, or maybe amusement parks are particularly attractive to lower class whites with children. In south Jersey at the beach this summer I noticed middle class white parents are not sporting tattoos at anywhere near the same rate.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=YpMwAJR6BeQ&feature=emb_titleReplies: @Reg Cæsar
We had Loblaws in upstate New York at the time, but weren’t graced with these spots. IIRC, they had that weird Ontarian practice of selling milk in gallon bags.
Since AnotherMom retired us to the beach, I’ve been sledgehammered in the eyes with the sorry state of America.
Fats and tats–we are simply an ugly people now, and yeah it is now just blacks and browns. The white population is deeply embarrassing as well.
Obviously a whole bunch of this is simply cultural decline. As with sex, marriage, children, illegitimacy, divorce, the old Christian norms and social pressure simply made for a better behaving–and better looking–people. The trashy, impulse, stupid genes were there … just better hidden, by civilized social norms, now knocked down.
We have to be honest and admit that our people aren’t all that. Civilization is young, and civilized genes have not yet made a clean sweep.
After stopping the immivasion, we need to think about eugenic incentives and start turning this around. Indeed we need–our posterity deserves–better people.
I do look forward to the time, when we’ll have openly “white” producers/writers/directors.
Guys who just say “Yeah, I’m white. I’m interested in white people’s lives. And I make white movies and TV shows.”
Hopefully, we’re not too far off.
Black and brown people are gonna miss us white people when we’re gone…
George Miller, an incredible director, makes a pretty good movie (standing ovation at Cannes) and it's bombing horribly. Why?
Guess it turns out people's idea of a fun time at the movie theater isn't an "epic romance" with a black guy and an old white woman (with the younger queen of sheba being a black woman). Who knew?
Trick question: everyone knows but nobody can say it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Thousand_Years_of_Longing
Note: I'm not telling George Miller what movies he wants to make. But if you're on the business side....I guess it's hard to explain why you throw that idea in the trash when his last movie was a blockbuster and this sounds like a pretty good story.Replies: @Whereismyhandle
Then again, his next movie is a Mad Max spinoff starring the girl from Queen’s Gambit and Chris Hemsworth. Maybe deals were made and promises kept.
These days, I take it as a sign of unusual maturity and depth in an American politician to openly talk about tradeoffs.
For what it is worth, tattooing has globally exploded in popularity among the young, so this isn’t limited to the US. That said, in countries that had a very strong “prison culture” (Russia, Vietnam, former Yugoslavia, Indonesia) in relatively recent times due to dictatorship, the only people with tattoos then were criminals. This means that older generations in those cultures still view them very negatively, even in a place like Indonesia where tattoos really are part of the indigenous culture.
I am under the impression that while the association with criminality wasn’t quite as automatic in the US as in other places (soldiers/sailors in places with military presence, Holocaust survivors in places like New York), it still carried enough of a negative “underclass” stigma to limit them to the margins of society.
Maybe Bill swallowed his lady friend’s drink by mistake.
In her youth, she had a bee in her bonnet about the monarchy.
https://youtu.be/2qfg1AQnWIM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLOEwXHP8HIReplies: @Reg Cæsar, @Joe S.Walker, @The Wild Geese Howard
The word “doofus” springs to mind.
That’s remindful of the quote of Robert F Kennedy:
Who in turn was quoting (tellingly) the Serpent in the Garden of Eden as portrayed in George Bernard Shaw’s 1921 play Back to Methuselah when whispering to Eve…
https://www.quora.com/What-does-the-quote-Some-men-see-things-as-they-are-and-say-why-I-dream-things-that-never-were-and-say-why-not-by-Robert-Francis-Kennedy-actually-mean
Then they often enough will suicide, either as an individual, or, enmasse, as at Jonestown.
I call it a murder-suicide-martyrdom complex.
Just remember, while Whites (the ones who even know about this stuff at all) tend to smile and roll their eyes at all the loony NOI rants about “grafted devils” and “Yacub” and all that, essentially every nigro in America not only knows about this stuff, but actually believes it. Last I looked the membership of the NOI is 50,000, if I remember right.
This is misleading. Pretty much every negro in America is a de facto member. If you got a few drinks in Condoleeza Rice or Clarence Thomas, they’d agree with the whole Yacub thing, or at least say it’s not impossible.
Once you realize that, things make a lot more sense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8MNH7JuR7I
I wonder if anyone would complain if wakanda was half white.Replies: @Brutusale
Yet Top Gun Maverick is cast as wokenly as the new LOTR. Maverick’s Magic Negro adjutant, the silent, all-knowing but not a dick like Jon Hamm black general, the United Colors of Benetton collection of pilots for Maverick to train. Because it’s today, and we’re all used to it now, the diversity is more organic, but given the reality of naval aviation, it flies in the face of reality as much as black hobbits.
Spoiler: was killing off Iceman a metaphor for the death of the white man at the top?
Yet in the end, it was three white guys. Like it always is.
A fetish too far!
There are other websites you can buy your gear from, too (eBay for one, though it has its own set of problems). Granted, perhaps the other sites are not as convenient as Amazon, but they do exist and a bit of research may repay itself.
Consumers have been treating Bezos as though he is the only game in town for years. Not surprisingly, he acts like it, too. And while I am trying to empathise with my fellow consumers, it isn't easy when just about anyone could have seen this coming from quite a long way away.
If you don't like what Bezos does (and many do not; I can't say I blame them), then wouldn't now be a good time to stop handing him your money? Otherwise, consumers can look forward to more of the exact same behaviour from him in the future.Replies: @Alec Leamas (working from home)
Consider a family with young school aged children. One of your children’s teachers hands you a school supplies list with a number of specific items in it. The teacher herself knows these things are all readily available on Amazon.com. To run out and attempt these things could take a full day with multiple kids in tow. Surfing the internet for non-Amazon sources and then paying additional shipping for shipping from each website is a non-starter for people (aside from differences in price). Amazon allows that mother to click a few times, spending maybe 10-12 minutes, and forget about it. People aren’t just going to give this up.
Far easier, instead, to thoughtlessly click away without acknowledging that giving all of your business to one entity is not the wisest move.Yes, I am familiar with this process. It is called "shopping," it was once quite common, and it was in no way treated as The End of the World.
Nonetheless, I take your point: convenience trumps all in 2022. My exasperation stems from the fact that Bezos' business model is based primarily taking advantage of human laziness and short-sightedness, yet people insist on playing right into it.
(Human nature being what it is, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised.)
I have no doubt all of these parents and teachers will be completely amazed when he gets around to doing to them what he has already done to the publishing world.
On the plus side, there are no longer any lingering doubts about whose interests the US Congress truly represents. It will be interesting to see whether Disney really has managed to burn its bridges with conservative politicians, or if this is simply more of the cheap talk that is politicians' stock in trade and they will roll over for Disney (again).Replies: @Anonymous
The opportunity for Disney to extend copyright ended years ago.
For years I planned on reading the Clark Howard book. First time I saw the title and author, I thought, “Wait. The consumer advocate guy wrote a book on the Zebra Killings?” Different Clark Howard, whom I’d like to know more about. Seems to have dropped off the face of the Earth.
Skip to 1:20 to get right to the meat of the problem in Amazon’s Rings of Power:
Dealer's Choice: Gun Store Owners Can Deny Anyone They WantMan denied gun sale claims racial discriminationExperts explain when a business can deny a firearm saleBlack Americans flock to gun stores and clubs: 'I needed to protect myself'Dallas Morning News: They spoke Arabic while gun shopping in North Texas and ended up behind barsDo you have any evidence of a gun dealer punished for turning away a black customer? Or is it another case of "No Irish Need Apply" notices which nobody seems able to locate?Replies: @Muggles
Nice try.
The subject was “racial discrimination”, not ability to decline to sell to certain customers.
I have never seen any signage at gun shops that read “No blacks” or “Whites only” or “No Mexicans” etc. Have you? Of course not…
I have seen photos (old) of those “No Irish Need Apply” from places like Boston, circa 1900. No reason to think they weren’t real. Whether there are any remaining physical signs I can’t say. Maybe in some museum. Irish, like Jews and Asians, some Eastern Europeans were commonly discriminated against in the 19th ceturny.
While a gun shop owner might personally not sell to certain races, if they said that was the specific reason for the non sale, of course they would be vulnerable to a legal action. Interstate commerce, etc. You would have to prove it legally.
In the gun shops I have visited, I have seen no evidence of any racial discrimination and in fact quite a few blacks or Asians, Hispanics appear to be customers.
Don’t change the subject from outright racial discrimination to mere choosy about customers.
That these deplorables get a dispensation from the holiest of holy writs speaks volumes.
Why historians are fighting about “No Irish Need Apply” signs — and why it matters
Cheapskate employers turning down cheap Irish in the 19th century is like cheapskate employers turning down cheap Mexicans today:
https://www.azquotes.com/picture-quotes/quote-i-believe-that-the-extraordinary-should-be-pursued-but-extraordinary-claims-require-carl-sagan-53-3-0327.jpg
This is misleading. Pretty much every negro in America is a de facto member. If you got a few drinks in Condoleeza Rice or Clarence Thomas, they'd agree with the whole Yacub thing, or at least say it's not impossible.
Once you realize that, things make a lot more sense.Replies: @Truth
The subject was "racial discrimination", not ability to decline to sell to certain customers.
I have never seen any signage at gun shops that read "No blacks" or "Whites only" or "No Mexicans" etc. Have you? Of course not...
I have seen photos (old) of those "No Irish Need Apply" from places like Boston, circa 1900. No reason to think they weren't real. Whether there are any remaining physical signs I can't say. Maybe in some museum. Irish, like Jews and Asians, some Eastern Europeans were commonly discriminated against in the 19th ceturny.
While a gun shop owner might personally not sell to certain races, if they said that was the specific reason for the non sale, of course they would be vulnerable to a legal action. Interstate commerce, etc. You would have to prove it legally.
In the gun shops I have visited, I have seen no evidence of any racial discrimination and in fact quite a few blacks or Asians, Hispanics appear to be customers.
Don't change the subject from outright racial discrimination to mere choosy about customers.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Reg Cæsar, @Graham
Important qualification. At any rate, other, unrelated businesses are charged with discrimination all the time without being explicit, or even intentional, about it. This never happens to firearms dealers.
Might. Not would.I don’t see the “gun violence” and black groups coming after them anytime soon. Or the NRA.
Choosiness has “disparate impact”. Therefore it is actionable. Except for gun shops– which, of course, the elite authorities hate.
That these deplorables get a dispensation from the holiest of holy writs speaks volumes.
https://twitter.com/AJEnglish/status/1567076668329660416?s=20&t=rqJpaF5Ub1Uht2pJ0KViJQReplies: @The Wild Geese Howard
Looks like Africa wins again!
“Give us convenience or give us death!”
In any event, this is precisely the reason that we've traditionally limited the formation and propagation of monopolies - they make consumer choice illusory if not practically impossible.Replies: @The Wild Geese Howard
In her youth, she had a bee in her bonnet about the monarchy.
https://youtu.be/2qfg1AQnWIM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLOEwXHP8HIReplies: @Reg Cæsar, @Joe S.Walker, @The Wild Geese Howard
Lizzie was just angry because no one at Oxford would give her any attention.
The subject was "racial discrimination", not ability to decline to sell to certain customers.
I have never seen any signage at gun shops that read "No blacks" or "Whites only" or "No Mexicans" etc. Have you? Of course not...
I have seen photos (old) of those "No Irish Need Apply" from places like Boston, circa 1900. No reason to think they weren't real. Whether there are any remaining physical signs I can't say. Maybe in some museum. Irish, like Jews and Asians, some Eastern Europeans were commonly discriminated against in the 19th ceturny.
While a gun shop owner might personally not sell to certain races, if they said that was the specific reason for the non sale, of course they would be vulnerable to a legal action. Interstate commerce, etc. You would have to prove it legally.
In the gun shops I have visited, I have seen no evidence of any racial discrimination and in fact quite a few blacks or Asians, Hispanics appear to be customers.
Don't change the subject from outright racial discrimination to mere choosy about customers.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Reg Cæsar, @Graham
This is debatable. Perhaps you saw the one Ted Kennedy saw in the 1940s?
Why historians are fighting about “No Irish Need Apply” signs — and why it matters
Cheapskate employers turning down cheap Irish in the 19th century is like cheapskate employers turning down cheap Mexicans today:
They are not going to give it up until it is too late.
Far easier, instead, to thoughtlessly click away without acknowledging that giving all of your business to one entity is not the wisest move.
Yes, I am familiar with this process. It is called “shopping,” it was once quite common, and it was in no way treated as The End of the World.
Nonetheless, I take your point: convenience trumps all in 2022. My exasperation stems from the fact that Bezos’ business model is based primarily taking advantage of human laziness and short-sightedness, yet people insist on playing right into it.
(Human nature being what it is, I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised.)
I have no doubt all of these parents and teachers will be completely amazed when he gets around to doing to them what he has already done to the publishing world.
For the average person who’s never been in the navy I didn’t really know what was realistic. My understanding is that the military has been practicing affirmative action for a long time and it wouldn’t surprise me if that’s more or less realistic. Regardless, it didn’t have a woke message and there wasn’t any LGBTQetc. foolishness that I noticed. While they of course always crap on white guys via negative representation wherever possible I thought it was relatively mild compared to average.
Probably the last instance was that of Cayetano Ripoll, a schoolmaster executed in Valencia on July 26, 1826 for having taught his pupils deism – which rejects the entire Roman Catholic catechism, including the doctrine of transubstantiation.
The subject was "racial discrimination", not ability to decline to sell to certain customers.
I have never seen any signage at gun shops that read "No blacks" or "Whites only" or "No Mexicans" etc. Have you? Of course not...
I have seen photos (old) of those "No Irish Need Apply" from places like Boston, circa 1900. No reason to think they weren't real. Whether there are any remaining physical signs I can't say. Maybe in some museum. Irish, like Jews and Asians, some Eastern Europeans were commonly discriminated against in the 19th ceturny.
While a gun shop owner might personally not sell to certain races, if they said that was the specific reason for the non sale, of course they would be vulnerable to a legal action. Interstate commerce, etc. You would have to prove it legally.
In the gun shops I have visited, I have seen no evidence of any racial discrimination and in fact quite a few blacks or Asians, Hispanics appear to be customers.
Don't change the subject from outright racial discrimination to mere choosy about customers.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Reg Cæsar, @Graham
Can you post one of these old photos of a ‘No Irish need apply’ sign? I have long understood that they were mythical, but would welcome contrary evidence.
Also, there are now several Black and Asian actors in Hollywood and they need jobs and they want roles in prestigious films and series too.
I think the only solution is to expel all other races from European countries. Then racism and representation "according to the demographics" will no longer be a problem, and we will be able to make all-white films again.Replies: @Anonymous, @Truth
Photorealistic CGI is coming. Soon a kid alone in his bedroom will be able to produce movies that look as good as anything by the professionals. You won’t need billion dollar studios and million dollar actors anymore. This is going to hit Hollywood like a freight train.
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Also, there are now several Black and Asian actors in Hollywood and they need jobs and they want roles in prestigious films and series too.
I think the only solution is to expel all other races from European countries. Then racism and representation "according to the demographics" will no longer be a problem, and we will be able to make all-white films again.Replies: @Anonymous, @Truth
No, not very reasonable.
Excellent chance of that happening.
You’re making a very compelling argument to me. Note however that I am not a young mother with three children between the ages of three and eight.
In any event, this is precisely the reason that we’ve traditionally limited the formation and propagation of monopolies – they make consumer choice illusory if not practically impossible.
Another terrible effect of monopolies are the spiraling centralization of wealth and then power. We already see this occurring with Amazon. It also occurs when the corporate dollar stores pop up in rural areas and began extracting wealth from the locals.
Note to health food freaks who think white eggs are sinful. The real reason consumers always always preferred white eggs is because of the manure. Back in the good old days before evil 👿 evil 👿 factory farming eggs arrived at the market covered with small and not so small specks of manure. They had to be carefully washed before cracking. It’s much easier to see specks of manure on white eggs. So when people discovered that manure carries germs white eggs became more and more popular.Replies: @Anonymous
This dislike of white foods is interesting. Milk, mayo, white bread. All condemned as unhealthy and/or mocked as low class.
My understanding is that although Fard was born in the Pacific NW, he was from a family from that part of India that would eventually secede and become Pakistan. Said family, if memory serves, headed out to New Zealand, before coming to America.
Sorry, but this is material I read many years ago.
In any event, this is precisely the reason that we've traditionally limited the formation and propagation of monopolies - they make consumer choice illusory if not practically impossible.Replies: @The Wild Geese Howard
This is also very true. Time is the only resource that is impossible to recover.
Yes. One of the most annoying anti-choice examples I can think of are the regional monopolies held by Internet providers like Spectrum and Comcast.
Another terrible effect of monopolies are the spiraling centralization of wealth and then power. We already see this occurring with Amazon. It also occurs when the corporate dollar stores pop up in rural areas and began extracting wealth from the locals.
Speaking of no reality fantasy beliefs
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/almost-1-4-democrats-believe-men-can-get-pregnant-new-poll-finds
What sort of God condemned the sane with these people?