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Bloomberg has a big feature about how the media is making people worry about crime in New York City:
Fear of Rampant Crime Is Derailing New York City’s Recovery
Violent incidents are up since the pandemic began — and New Yorkers are nervous. But widespread anxiety obscures the fact that crime is still at decades-long lows.
By Fola Akinnibi and Raeedah Wahid
July 29, 2022Perhaps nowhere has the perception of rampant crime overpowered the reality more than in New York City, where the murder rate has certainly increased in recent years but is nowhere near where it was in the 1980s and 1990s.
I mean the point is that increase in shootings, which is real (up 20-25%) is far outpaced by the increase in *coverage* which is up 200%
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) July 29, 2022
Similarly, as Chris Hayes would agree, why is inflation coverage up 90% when prices are up only 9%?
And why are the newspapers going on and on about the Russia-Ukraine War when combat deaths in Europe are down 98% since 1944?
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While crime is up, it’s so far mostly in the ghetto.
You're already seeing the seeping of the ghetto into shared spaces that are vital for a functioning urban center - most notably violence and degeneracy on public transit and at subway stations etc.
They s0und like the blacks Chris Rock mocked in 1996.
Fola Akinnibi and Raeedah Wahid assuring New Yorkers they’re stupid to be worried about crime. God bless America.
The whole point of “news” is to report on trends, real or imagined. For example, the legacy corporate media had a field day hyping a fake trend of white cops hunting blacks. Their coverage triggered a real de-policing trend, which triggered a real crime and murder trend. So now they decide that trends are irrelevant.
It would seem that people take a keen interest in “what are my chances of getting beaten and robbed today?” Worrying about whether you’re going to be beaten and robbed is a white supremacist value.
“Leaving so soon? We wouldn’t hear of it. Why, our little party is just beginning.”
The media keeps running with the “murders are not as bad during the most notorious crime wave in recent history” despite the fact that most people living in cities today are not old enough to remember those days, so their only benchmark is say the last 10-20 years, and things are definitely worse today.
But the fact that we keep hearing this sorry argument along with other BS slogans about how essential the media is or diversity improves everything it touches is a last ditch effort to resolve the cognitive dissonance of our betters from what they believe *ought* to be true and what everyone (including them) can see and experience.
During the high-crime 70s and 80s the media said fear of crime was "paranoia" and "racism." They treat it the same way today.
So, just like the jobs numbers are less a boom and more people recovering from the criminal and stupid lockdown, so too that 200% coverage uptick is coming back up from deluded years of self-destructive censorship. So it’s not 200%.
There’s a crucially good video where a guy recorded whatever The Big Story was every day, for a year, on post-its. Literally Donald Trump Bad, “, “, “, Earthquake, Donald Trump Bad, etc, for a year.
Here’s a bit of evidence in support of Sailer theory that there’s no vast elite conspiracy masterminded out of Davos etc.:
Given that dense urban living is the most carbon friendly mode of modern western life. Why would the “Elites” make living in cities so miserable? Why would they loose a pandemic that sends everyone to the country and to Home Depot to do renovation projects? Why would they make taking the subway an unpleasant life threatening experience? Why would they let homeless camp in the city centers? Why would they encourage the worst type of behavior from the black community while bankrolling DA’s who let criminals run amok?
If there was an elite master plan to make everyone live in big cities, they are sure doing a poor job of “nudging” folks to go along with the plan.
Exterminating the white race (The Edomites) will implement the Messianic Age. That's the plan, chief.
a) Rejection of current system by almost all the US electorate (although Blacks and Whites and Hispanics disagree on what the replacement should be).
b) Complete loss of economic function by US cities of pretty much all sizes.
c) Probable loss of Ukraine war due to effect of US imposed sanctions on Germany and to Russia's use of these sanctions.
d) Decline of US ability to field expeditionary forces and demonstrated failure of such forces when deployed (due largely to inept strategists in the political realm).
e) According to Edward Dutton, a decline in Western IQ that has made the general population too stupid to the complex system of representational democracy[1]. It seems that the comparatively easy living of an industrial society doesn't keep mutational load down [2], and that the need for intelligent engineers/technologists means that these groups are essentially sterilized until their education finishes. Consequently, low IQ groups (that start having children earlier) simply replace the more intelligent. Also, vast immigration from the rest of the world (mean IQ 82) doesn't help.
The whole system is going to fail, or at the least retreat to a concentration point for the intelligent people needed to keep it running. The elites know this, and are telling pretty stories, largely to themselves, so they can sleep a'nights. In US reality, Obama's Democratic party (dominated by its African/Black wing) is trying to introduce much simpler African politics to the US.
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1] IQ drop of about 10 points in English descended population since 1870. US Constitution dates to about a hundred years before that, 1770s.
2] Note that currently only about 20%-25% of High School graduates are accepted by a US DoD that took almost every member of that group during WW II, 1945. This even though the WW II group had been raised during the Depression, and had in quite a few cases not had an adequate diet.Replies: @Redneck farmer, @rebunga
So, yes, they want people to live in cities at the same time that they encourage anti-social behavior in certain people that makes cities undesirable. And they say they want to help the poor, which means low gas prices, and the environment, which means high gas prices. They want to eliminate fossil fuels right now, even though we are decades away from being able to do that. They want a secular society, but they also want lots of immigrants, most of whom come from more religious societies.
The list goes on and on.
A conspiracy is defined as an agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act.
I don't see anything illegal in the Davos/WEF plans. Masterminded? Most certainly.Replies: @Steve Sailer
Given that dense urban living is the most carbon friendly mode of modern western life. Why would the "Elites" make living in cities so miserable? Why would they loose a pandemic that sends everyone to the country and to Home Depot to do renovation projects? Why would they make taking the subway an unpleasant life threatening experience? Why would they let homeless camp in the city centers? Why would they encourage the worst type of behavior from the black community while bankrolling DA's who let criminals run amok?
If there was an elite master plan to make everyone live in big cities, they are sure doing a poor job of "nudging" folks to go along with the plan.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @clifford brown, @Achmed E. Newman, @Anonymous, @Redneck farmer, @John Pepple, @Forbes, @Cool Daddy Jimbo
Michael Bloomberg is definitely a global elite with a huge fortune providing information and media for Wall Street. He was mayor of New York City for 12 years and was strikingly successful at reducing crime below the level just about anybody expected.
None of this is something I support or even believe in, but this is what the Elite are pursuing. I think the Chinese and Russians will resist this plan.
I'm guessing that to the very, very limited extent he gives the matter any thought, M.B. regards Western Globohomo as something desirable and sustainable, rather a the-worse-the-better steppingstone to something altogether different. Steve Sailer, Norman Podhoretz, Tom Wolfe, "Nicholas Stix," Takimag's David Cole, Unz's "Paul Kersey" and about a million other guys know/knew more than I about past and present clashes between NYC blacks, White Gentile Liberals, Wokesters, Hebrews of all kinds, cops, firemen, Limousine Leninists, etc., etc., - as well as the Teachers' Union's Albert Shanker (the last imagined in Woody Allen's Sleeper to have started WWIII by detonating a nuke)...
M.B.'s positions on immigration have been objectively genocidal and his gun control proposals seemed designed to unleash illegal-gun wielding (some, displaced-from-NYC blacks) criminals on disarmed law-abiding populations in Flyover Country, but he was still too "right wing" to win the Democrat nomination for Presidential candidate (he back-tracked on stop n' frisk, but a case can be made for making such a policy (something like pandemic lockdowns) intermittent - however wrenching that would likely be).
It's not unreasonable to suspect that deep, deep down on some subconscious level (here sponging off another Sailer thread), M.B. is not so much a St. Petersburg Florida/Russia or Antifa's Leningrad person as a St. Augustine, Florida fellow as in,
Oh Lord, give me a totalitarian, genocidal/auto-genocidal Communist Hell on Earth -
but not yet.
*The draconian policing was actually both a cause and an effect of an increasingly square and PC culture. A big reason arrests for stuff like loitering, turnstile jumping, graffiti etc. went up is because late Gen X and Millennials accepted that it wasn't the hedonistic 70's and 80's anymore. The "what's the deal, why are you so uptight" hostility to behavioral norms exhibited by young Boomers and early Gen X was truly dead by the late 90's.Replies: @Alec Leamas (working from home), @Anon
Yes and for the hundredth time, Rudolph Giuliani deserves the lion’s share of credit for that. Bloomberg took the ball and ran, this is true. He amplified and took as much credit as he could get. But Rudy was the indispensable initiator—and I’m not actually a fan of his.
He of course switched back to Dem to run for President. A lot like Mayor Adams come to think of it.
Is it “Crime is way down” or “REPORTED Crime is way down”? To what extent, if any, have people stopped reporting crimes because they consider that doing to is a waste of time?
Nicholas Stix wrote years ago about a black "journalist" declaring that black crime is caused by reporting on it. Another variant of this one is reporting crime causes "a fear of crime."
Given that dense urban living is the most carbon friendly mode of modern western life. Why would the "Elites" make living in cities so miserable? Why would they loose a pandemic that sends everyone to the country and to Home Depot to do renovation projects? Why would they make taking the subway an unpleasant life threatening experience? Why would they let homeless camp in the city centers? Why would they encourage the worst type of behavior from the black community while bankrolling DA's who let criminals run amok?
If there was an elite master plan to make everyone live in big cities, they are sure doing a poor job of "nudging" folks to go along with the plan.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @clifford brown, @Achmed E. Newman, @Anonymous, @Redneck farmer, @John Pepple, @Forbes, @Cool Daddy Jimbo
Because they hate us and want to genocide white people. That is the plan that is being implemented. The goal is destruction and revolution. See what happened to the Ukrainians under communism.
Exterminating the white race (The Edomites) will implement the Messianic Age. That’s the plan, chief.
Given that dense urban living is the most carbon friendly mode of modern western life. Why would the "Elites" make living in cities so miserable? Why would they loose a pandemic that sends everyone to the country and to Home Depot to do renovation projects? Why would they make taking the subway an unpleasant life threatening experience? Why would they let homeless camp in the city centers? Why would they encourage the worst type of behavior from the black community while bankrolling DA's who let criminals run amok?
If there was an elite master plan to make everyone live in big cities, they are sure doing a poor job of "nudging" folks to go along with the plan.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @clifford brown, @Achmed E. Newman, @Anonymous, @Redneck farmer, @John Pepple, @Forbes, @Cool Daddy Jimbo
You’re missing one important part here, Rebunga. These elites don’t actually think the Climate Crisis™ is something to worry about. The’ve been using the Climate Crisis™ to give governments even more Totalitarian powers, starting with control of energy use, but branching out to all aspects of life, all in the name of this crisis that that most of them aren’t actually stupid enough to believe.
That’s not to rebut Mr. Sailer’s theory you mention though. It’s just not in support of it. Personally, I lean toward the actions of many of our elites to screw up our society being from greed and stupidity, but there is a a big evil contingent too and lots of overlap. I also don’t think all of the evil is well organized, as in a conspiracy.
The elite have changed their game plan since Bloomberg. Now the goal is destruction of order and civilization. They are immanentizing the eschaton destroying ordered gentile societies to implement dysfunctional slave societies to be run out of Jerusalem. As we enter the Messianic Age, most humans will die off and those that remain will be slaves under the reconstructed Temple in Jerusalem.
None of this is something I support or even believe in, but this is what the Elite are pursuing. I think the Chinese and Russians will resist this plan.
Given that dense urban living is the most carbon friendly mode of modern western life. Why would the "Elites" make living in cities so miserable? Why would they loose a pandemic that sends everyone to the country and to Home Depot to do renovation projects? Why would they make taking the subway an unpleasant life threatening experience? Why would they let homeless camp in the city centers? Why would they encourage the worst type of behavior from the black community while bankrolling DA's who let criminals run amok?
If there was an elite master plan to make everyone live in big cities, they are sure doing a poor job of "nudging" folks to go along with the plan.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @clifford brown, @Achmed E. Newman, @Anonymous, @Redneck farmer, @John Pepple, @Forbes, @Cool Daddy Jimbo
The “elite master plan” is to somehow live through the end of their current system. Next major crisis is last quarter of this year, 2022:
a) Rejection of current system by almost all the US electorate (although Blacks and Whites and Hispanics disagree on what the replacement should be).
b) Complete loss of economic function by US cities of pretty much all sizes.
c) Probable loss of Ukraine war due to effect of US imposed sanctions on Germany and to Russia’s use of these sanctions.
d) Decline of US ability to field expeditionary forces and demonstrated failure of such forces when deployed (due largely to inept strategists in the political realm).
e) According to Edward Dutton, a decline in Western IQ that has made the general population too stupid to the complex system of representational democracy[1]. It seems that the comparatively easy living of an industrial society doesn’t keep mutational load down [2], and that the need for intelligent engineers/technologists means that these groups are essentially sterilized until their education finishes. Consequently, low IQ groups (that start having children earlier) simply replace the more intelligent. Also, vast immigration from the rest of the world (mean IQ 82) doesn’t help.
The whole system is going to fail, or at the least retreat to a concentration point for the intelligent people needed to keep it running. The elites know this, and are telling pretty stories, largely to themselves, so they can sleep a’nights. In US reality, Obama’s Democratic party (dominated by its African/Black wing) is trying to introduce much simpler African politics to the US.
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1] IQ drop of about 10 points in English descended population since 1870. US Constitution dates to about a hundred years before that, 1770s.
2] Note that currently only about 20%-25% of High School graduates are accepted by a US DoD that took almost every member of that group during WW II, 1945. This even though the WW II group had been raised during the Depression, and had in quite a few cases not had an adequate diet.
1. People would talk. How would one have a conspiracy that includes the loquacious but dim mayor of Baltimore, Chicago, NY etc?
2. Is the plan just to install an incompetent mayor who makes white people live in misery? No conspiracy needed, democracy does it for you.
3. I mostly see our elites blundering from one crisis to another, many predictable and of their own making (money printing -->inflation; BLM-->crime; anti-carbon -->fuel crisis; RBG worship -->Dobbs; corn syrup-->obesity/diabetes).
4. What I see is more attributable to the keys to a civilization being turned over to a polity that is alien to that civilization. Modern equality demands this but you end up with Lemurs crewing a clipper ship. And grifters/carpetbaggers filling in where there is a buck to be made.
5. I can't get my garbage bin picked up, even after paying a special monthly fee. You're telling me there is some secret decades long plan to make me eat bugs? To be executed by these same lemurs ? C'mon man!
6. I may one day own nothing, eat bugs, and live surrounded by squalling ethnics. But it won't be in the sort of utopian megacity they are contemplating. More like the Great Humungus.
Given that dense urban living is the most carbon friendly mode of modern western life. Why would the "Elites" make living in cities so miserable? Why would they loose a pandemic that sends everyone to the country and to Home Depot to do renovation projects? Why would they make taking the subway an unpleasant life threatening experience? Why would they let homeless camp in the city centers? Why would they encourage the worst type of behavior from the black community while bankrolling DA's who let criminals run amok?
If there was an elite master plan to make everyone live in big cities, they are sure doing a poor job of "nudging" folks to go along with the plan.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @clifford brown, @Achmed E. Newman, @Anonymous, @Redneck farmer, @John Pepple, @Forbes, @Cool Daddy Jimbo
The “carbon friendliness” of dense urban living is exaggerated.
There’s an obvious way to reverse to the Great Replacement: the Argentina solution. Conscript as many males as possible from undesirable demographics into the infantry and launch an improbable and devastating land war.
I agree. I live in the core of what used to be known as one of the four “Alpha-class global cities” although I spend about half my weekends in the rural provinces. I have to say it’s astonishing how quickly people forget, when they can do all their shopping and work on foot, that food doesn’t really come from supermarkets.
I don't think some of them ever knew it to begin with.
https://i.imgur.com/XOEDojH.jpegReplies: @Nico
So true. It was Rudy’s success that got Bloomberg to become a Republican for the first time so he could run as the new Rudy.
He of course switched back to Dem to run for President. A lot like Mayor Adams come to think of it.
“Michel Bloomberg is definitely a global elite…”
I’m guessing that to the very, very limited extent he gives the matter any thought, M.B. regards Western Globohomo as something desirable and sustainable, rather a the-worse-the-better steppingstone to something altogether different. Steve Sailer, Norman Podhoretz, Tom Wolfe, “Nicholas Stix,” Takimag’s David Cole, Unz’s “Paul Kersey” and about a million other guys know/knew more than I about past and present clashes between NYC blacks, White Gentile Liberals, Wokesters, Hebrews of all kinds, cops, firemen, Limousine Leninists, etc., etc., – as well as the Teachers’ Union’s Albert Shanker (the last imagined in Woody Allen’s Sleeper to have started WWIII by detonating a nuke)…
M.B.’s positions on immigration have been objectively genocidal and his gun control proposals seemed designed to unleash illegal-gun wielding (some, displaced-from-NYC blacks) criminals on disarmed law-abiding populations in Flyover Country, but he was still too “right wing” to win the Democrat nomination for Presidential candidate (he back-tracked on stop n’ frisk, but a case can be made for making such a policy (something like pandemic lockdowns) intermittent – however wrenching that would likely be).
It’s not unreasonable to suspect that deep, deep down on some subconscious level (here sponging off another Sailer thread), M.B. is not so much a St. Petersburg Florida/Russia or Antifa’s Leningrad person as a St. Augustine, Florida fellow as in,
Oh Lord, give me a totalitarian, genocidal/auto-genocidal Communist Hell on Earth –
but not yet.
a) Rejection of current system by almost all the US electorate (although Blacks and Whites and Hispanics disagree on what the replacement should be).
b) Complete loss of economic function by US cities of pretty much all sizes.
c) Probable loss of Ukraine war due to effect of US imposed sanctions on Germany and to Russia's use of these sanctions.
d) Decline of US ability to field expeditionary forces and demonstrated failure of such forces when deployed (due largely to inept strategists in the political realm).
e) According to Edward Dutton, a decline in Western IQ that has made the general population too stupid to the complex system of representational democracy[1]. It seems that the comparatively easy living of an industrial society doesn't keep mutational load down [2], and that the need for intelligent engineers/technologists means that these groups are essentially sterilized until their education finishes. Consequently, low IQ groups (that start having children earlier) simply replace the more intelligent. Also, vast immigration from the rest of the world (mean IQ 82) doesn't help.
The whole system is going to fail, or at the least retreat to a concentration point for the intelligent people needed to keep it running. The elites know this, and are telling pretty stories, largely to themselves, so they can sleep a'nights. In US reality, Obama's Democratic party (dominated by its African/Black wing) is trying to introduce much simpler African politics to the US.
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1] IQ drop of about 10 points in English descended population since 1870. US Constitution dates to about a hundred years before that, 1770s.
2] Note that currently only about 20%-25% of High School graduates are accepted by a US DoD that took almost every member of that group during WW II, 1945. This even though the WW II group had been raised during the Depression, and had in quite a few cases not had an adequate diet.Replies: @Redneck farmer, @rebunga
The DoD is able to be more selective nowadays. Also, a lot of US troops didn’t exactly cover themselves in glory in WW2. Lots of ineffective units, and lots of individuals who got discharged or reassigned to units were they probably wouldn’t kill their own troops.
Nor is that all. Try donating blood; take a look at the questionnaire. The disqualifying conditions list alone hints at a serious medical problem in the American population. I've managed, by not doing really stupid and illegal things or traveling internationally much, to have my blood listed as a critical resource for those with suppressed immune systems -- apparently not many qualify for that.
WW II was not the glory march it has been depicted as, true enough. Roughly speaking, it took two US units to defeat one German unit. The USSR's units were worse than that, although I don't remember quite how much just now. US psychological PTSD-like casualties (1 to 1.5 million reported by different forces) were greater than its physical combat casualties, which was apparently not the case for German forces. Supposedly the Germans had a superior method of treating PTSD and, at least until the war's final stages, better unit cohesion.
However, the physical condition of recruits then, and the physical recruits up to a decade ago in the countryside, was much better than it is now. It is almost as if we have a suppressed civil war waged against the children by whoever it is that runs government. I mean, their latest offensive is to castrate all the kids they can brainwash into agreeing to castration. How obvious can you get?Replies: @Rob McX
If NYC is still be safer than it was at its worst, that’s because the Giuliani reforms were so spectacularly successful. But lots of other cities have now broken their early-90s murder record. As for those that haven’t, in some cases it’s because the population has crashed (St Louis, Detroit, Baltimore), in others (SF, Oakland, Chicago) it’s because a lot of their blacks have moved out in the past few decades.
Crime began to decline everywhere starting around 1993. Something cultural and generational happened, as opposed to draconian policing being the main difference* I’m guessing that the cohort born from the late 1950’s thru the mid-70’s was spectacularly prone to crime and violence and their peak influence on the culture was the late 80’s and early 90’s when the crime rate soared. Neil Howe says that the crime rate fell much faster among teenagers in the Mid-90’s than it did among adults, suggesting that the issue was highly generational in nature. Meanwhile, late 70’s and 80’s born people grew entirely with “Just say No”, stranger danger/kids on milk cartons, Saturday morning cartoons about good vs evil, etc. People like myself were conditioned to be cautious and morally judgemental. Just as crime began to diminish in the later 90’s we starting hearing anti-bullying narratives and such, and schools adopted “zero-tolerance” policies regarding crime and violence. The main reason for was that kids by then wanted a more square culture, teens of the 70’s and 80’s on the other vehemently hated any adult suggesting that they be more disciplined.
*The draconian policing was actually both a cause and an effect of an increasingly square and PC culture. A big reason arrests for stuff like loitering, turnstile jumping, graffiti etc. went up is because late Gen X and Millennials accepted that it wasn’t the hedonistic 70’s and 80’s anymore. The “what’s the deal, why are you so uptight” hostility to behavioral norms exhibited by young Boomers and early Gen X was truly dead by the late 90’s.
Criminals are more likely to come from families that have more problems than the traditional, normal family.
So future criminals were aborted.
On a related note, the abortion data I provided corroborates the theory that Boomers are a selfish lot. Boomers were aborting (and divorcing) in the 70s and 80s.
And here lies the simple thing that debunks much of Ron’s Unz’s “myth of Hispanic Crime” fantasy.
Lies, damned lies and statistics.
It’s always fashionable to play with crime statistics. One trope was, “Why do we need to keep so many people in prison when crime is down?”
Nicholas Stix wrote years ago about a black “journalist” declaring that black crime is caused by reporting on it. Another variant of this one is reporting crime causes “a fear of crime.”
The rejections are due to physical conditions, obesity, criminal records. Granted that high school graduation was, until recently, a requirement that was not part of the WW II classification. Among high school graduates, physical or mental inability to even make it through basic training disqualifies almost 3/4 of the group.
Nor is that all. Try donating blood; take a look at the questionnaire. The disqualifying conditions list alone hints at a serious medical problem in the American population. I’ve managed, by not doing really stupid and illegal things or traveling internationally much, to have my blood listed as a critical resource for those with suppressed immune systems — apparently not many qualify for that.
WW II was not the glory march it has been depicted as, true enough. Roughly speaking, it took two US units to defeat one German unit. The USSR’s units were worse than that, although I don’t remember quite how much just now. US psychological PTSD-like casualties (1 to 1.5 million reported by different forces) were greater than its physical combat casualties, which was apparently not the case for German forces. Supposedly the Germans had a superior method of treating PTSD and, at least until the war’s final stages, better unit cohesion.
However, the physical condition of recruits then, and the physical recruits up to a decade ago in the countryside, was much better than it is now. It is almost as if we have a suppressed civil war waged against the children by whoever it is that runs government. I mean, their latest offensive is to castrate all the kids they can brainwash into agreeing to castration. How obvious can you get?
https://images-cdn.9gag.com/photo/amgZoPX_700b.jpg
Well, gosh, wasn’t the event we call WWII “mostly peaceful” anyway? Come on! 80+% of Germans, Poles, and Russians got through that kerfuffle just fine. America? Murder rates in some of today’s cities exceed combat death rates in that WWII thing. Ever seen those snaps of Americans in beach wear on Tinian? Much ado . . . . (I do sarcasm poorly, but, well, y’know . . .).
Fear of Rampant Crime is derailing New York city’s recovery.
a) Rejection of current system by almost all the US electorate (although Blacks and Whites and Hispanics disagree on what the replacement should be).
b) Complete loss of economic function by US cities of pretty much all sizes.
c) Probable loss of Ukraine war due to effect of US imposed sanctions on Germany and to Russia's use of these sanctions.
d) Decline of US ability to field expeditionary forces and demonstrated failure of such forces when deployed (due largely to inept strategists in the political realm).
e) According to Edward Dutton, a decline in Western IQ that has made the general population too stupid to the complex system of representational democracy[1]. It seems that the comparatively easy living of an industrial society doesn't keep mutational load down [2], and that the need for intelligent engineers/technologists means that these groups are essentially sterilized until their education finishes. Consequently, low IQ groups (that start having children earlier) simply replace the more intelligent. Also, vast immigration from the rest of the world (mean IQ 82) doesn't help.
The whole system is going to fail, or at the least retreat to a concentration point for the intelligent people needed to keep it running. The elites know this, and are telling pretty stories, largely to themselves, so they can sleep a'nights. In US reality, Obama's Democratic party (dominated by its African/Black wing) is trying to introduce much simpler African politics to the US.
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1] IQ drop of about 10 points in English descended population since 1870. US Constitution dates to about a hundred years before that, 1770s.
2] Note that currently only about 20%-25% of High School graduates are accepted by a US DoD that took almost every member of that group during WW II, 1945. This even though the WW II group had been raised during the Depression, and had in quite a few cases not had an adequate diet.Replies: @Redneck farmer, @rebunga
I really can’t subscribe to some of the more fanciful conspiracies, and I will give you my reasons:
1. People would talk. How would one have a conspiracy that includes the loquacious but dim mayor of Baltimore, Chicago, NY etc?
2. Is the plan just to install an incompetent mayor who makes white people live in misery? No conspiracy needed, democracy does it for you.
3. I mostly see our elites blundering from one crisis to another, many predictable and of their own making (money printing –>inflation; BLM–>crime; anti-carbon –>fuel crisis; RBG worship –>Dobbs; corn syrup–>obesity/diabetes).
4. What I see is more attributable to the keys to a civilization being turned over to a polity that is alien to that civilization. Modern equality demands this but you end up with Lemurs crewing a clipper ship. And grifters/carpetbaggers filling in where there is a buck to be made.
5. I can’t get my garbage bin picked up, even after paying a special monthly fee. You’re telling me there is some secret decades long plan to make me eat bugs? To be executed by these same lemurs ? C’mon man!
6. I may one day own nothing, eat bugs, and live surrounded by squalling ethnics. But it won’t be in the sort of utopian megacity they are contemplating. More like the Great Humungus.
It’s a mystery to me why they stopped following the Bloomberg (Bratton) game plan. Clear progress was being made, resulting in the type of economic multiplier that cities are designed to produce. But clearly they implemented a policy change not just in NYC but in all major cities, to everyone’s dismay but the criminals.
I agree. I live in the core of what used to be known as one of the four “Alpha-class global cities” although I spend about half my weekends in the rural provinces. I have to say it’s astonishing how quickly people forget, when they can do all their shopping and work on foot, that food doesn’t really come from supermarkets.
I don’t think some of them ever knew it to begin with.
I recall Israel-firster Jerry Nadler saying the Citizen app should be shut down because it frightens people by alerting them to crime activity in their neighborhoods. How on brand for his ilk. Information which assists people is dangerous. And it’s not just anti-Israel sites anymore!
A reminder: Democrats need crime to be high to remain in office. If things got nice, their base would be forced out.
People who lived through the last urban crime wave circa 1960s-1990s know that the ghetto expands to meet the vacuum of recumbent law enforcement. Whites decamped in waves for the suburbs, civic life receded, urban-based mediating institutions withered on the vine, and we wound up with all manner of follow-on negative effects. This time, the plan of the powers that be is to disallow “white flight” so that there will be no safe, affordable places to run.
You’re already seeing the seeping of the ghetto into shared spaces that are vital for a functioning urban center – most notably violence and degeneracy on public transit and at subway stations etc.
*The draconian policing was actually both a cause and an effect of an increasingly square and PC culture. A big reason arrests for stuff like loitering, turnstile jumping, graffiti etc. went up is because late Gen X and Millennials accepted that it wasn't the hedonistic 70's and 80's anymore. The "what's the deal, why are you so uptight" hostility to behavioral norms exhibited by young Boomers and early Gen X was truly dead by the late 90's.Replies: @Alec Leamas (working from home), @Anon
This is typical left wing clever silliness. In 1994, the VCCLEA was signed into law, police funding was augmented and proactive policing measures were normalized throughout urban America. Criminal organizations were serially decapitated with “draconian” thirty year Federal prison sentences for their participants. The steady reduction in crime was the product of decades of dedicated work by law enforcement and prosecutors. Naturally, if being a drug kingpin slinging crack on the sidewalk has an average tenure of six months teens would be much less likely to choose it as a life’s path to easy riches.
It was not a “generational” mood change brought upon by Saturday morning cartoons. A very popular genre of music in the 1980s-1990s was Gangsta Rap which glorified drug dealing, pimping, and shoot outs with rival gangs and police. “Teens” were more law abiding in the 1990s because the worst of them got locked up, and a substantial proportion of the remainder were sequestered in heavily policed, diffuse leafy green suburbs where their parents fled and which required a car and thereby parental supervision and permission to go anywhere.
So what happened in 2012 in your view? Did a the first class of kids who resumed eating lead paint chips in the 1990s for no particular reason come on line as criminals? Did Saturday morning cartoons change to be darker and more sinister while no one noticed? Was Tinky Winky sending coded pro-crime massages to children?
These names inspire so much trust.
Not.
Given that dense urban living is the most carbon friendly mode of modern western life. Why would the "Elites" make living in cities so miserable? Why would they loose a pandemic that sends everyone to the country and to Home Depot to do renovation projects? Why would they make taking the subway an unpleasant life threatening experience? Why would they let homeless camp in the city centers? Why would they encourage the worst type of behavior from the black community while bankrolling DA's who let criminals run amok?
If there was an elite master plan to make everyone live in big cities, they are sure doing a poor job of "nudging" folks to go along with the plan.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @clifford brown, @Achmed E. Newman, @Anonymous, @Redneck farmer, @John Pepple, @Forbes, @Cool Daddy Jimbo
The elites live in a bubble where not even the tiniest little hint of an objection against what they want is ever raised. Accordingly, they pursue various things willy-nilly and never notice that some of them clash with others or are just plain stupid.
So, yes, they want people to live in cities at the same time that they encourage anti-social behavior in certain people that makes cities undesirable. And they say they want to help the poor, which means low gas prices, and the environment, which means high gas prices. They want to eliminate fossil fuels right now, even though we are decades away from being able to do that. They want a secular society, but they also want lots of immigrants, most of whom come from more religious societies.
The list goes on and on.
Nor is that all. Try donating blood; take a look at the questionnaire. The disqualifying conditions list alone hints at a serious medical problem in the American population. I've managed, by not doing really stupid and illegal things or traveling internationally much, to have my blood listed as a critical resource for those with suppressed immune systems -- apparently not many qualify for that.
WW II was not the glory march it has been depicted as, true enough. Roughly speaking, it took two US units to defeat one German unit. The USSR's units were worse than that, although I don't remember quite how much just now. US psychological PTSD-like casualties (1 to 1.5 million reported by different forces) were greater than its physical combat casualties, which was apparently not the case for German forces. Supposedly the Germans had a superior method of treating PTSD and, at least until the war's final stages, better unit cohesion.
However, the physical condition of recruits then, and the physical recruits up to a decade ago in the countryside, was much better than it is now. It is almost as if we have a suppressed civil war waged against the children by whoever it is that runs government. I mean, their latest offensive is to castrate all the kids they can brainwash into agreeing to castration. How obvious can you get?Replies: @Rob McX
Seriously, who’d want to join the US military nowadays?
The crime decline began in 1993, not 1994, so a 1994 law can’t explain that. Early Millennial Youth culture of the late 90’s was pop punk and boy bands, not gangsta rap or grunge (which were a Gen X product of the nihilistic early 90’s).
Neil Howe says that child behavior improved a lot in the 90’s, and children aren’t concerned about being arrested. Gen X teen runaways and pregnancies were endemic in the 80’s, Gen X also had sex at an earlier age than other generations. Point being that the wildness of the 70’s and 80’s was a product of Boomers and X-ers deciding that that was the culture they desired regardless of attempts to tamp it down by authority. As I said in the above post, heavier handed police tactics was as much of an effect as a cause of Millennials being more staid than Boomers and X-ers. BTW, Millennials I would say were born from about 1981-1992 (when Reagan and Bush were in office). Gen Z would be more like 1993-2007.
BTW, I was 14 in 1999, early Millennials weren’t helicopter parented like Gen Z was (my workaholic Boomer parents weren’t around for long stretches of time). Me and my peers did all kinds of stuff on our own terms, and the general mood toward and among Millennials in the late 90’s was pretty upbeat (The General Social Survey shows that fear of crime and violence began to diminish in the late 90’s so people were more relaxed by that point). The intense paranoia and management of modern childhood of which you speak really intensified among Gen Z and their parents.
WRT organized crime and police handling of such, well, that basically has nothing to with school fights, bar fights, promiscuity etc. All of which were quite common in the late 70’s-early 90’s. The police essentially have no control on whether people want to have sex or not, and Millennials and especially Gen Z have sex at much lower rates than previous generations. To the point that Boomers and Gen X come across as depraved perverts to their kids and grandkids.
In summary, indicators of wildness (as in sex, violence, and crime) are still at a much lower level than they were in the 70’s-early 90’s. For which generational character must be taken into account.
You were lucky to have freedom at a young age. My boomer mother was extremely smothering and controlling. But let’s not open up that can of worms again.Replies: @Feryl
LOL! Is it any wonder that John Tierney and Nicholas Wade no longer have bylines at the NYT…
Given that dense urban living is the most carbon friendly mode of modern western life. Why would the "Elites" make living in cities so miserable? Why would they loose a pandemic that sends everyone to the country and to Home Depot to do renovation projects? Why would they make taking the subway an unpleasant life threatening experience? Why would they let homeless camp in the city centers? Why would they encourage the worst type of behavior from the black community while bankrolling DA's who let criminals run amok?
If there was an elite master plan to make everyone live in big cities, they are sure doing a poor job of "nudging" folks to go along with the plan.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @clifford brown, @Achmed E. Newman, @Anonymous, @Redneck farmer, @John Pepple, @Forbes, @Cool Daddy Jimbo
Straw man argument…
Well, the Davos/WEF plans, programs, initiatives, etc., are well publicized, well attended, widely written about–they find wide agreement and acceptance among the WEF conference attendees.
A conspiracy is defined as an agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act.
I don’t see anything illegal in the Davos/WEF plans. Masterminded? Most certainly.
Given that dense urban living is the most carbon friendly mode of modern western life. Why would the "Elites" make living in cities so miserable? Why would they loose a pandemic that sends everyone to the country and to Home Depot to do renovation projects? Why would they make taking the subway an unpleasant life threatening experience? Why would they let homeless camp in the city centers? Why would they encourage the worst type of behavior from the black community while bankrolling DA's who let criminals run amok?
If there was an elite master plan to make everyone live in big cities, they are sure doing a poor job of "nudging" folks to go along with the plan.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @clifford brown, @Achmed E. Newman, @Anonymous, @Redneck farmer, @John Pepple, @Forbes, @Cool Daddy Jimbo
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I gotta say, that’s a brilliant point.
A conspiracy is defined as an agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act.
I don't see anything illegal in the Davos/WEF plans. Masterminded? Most certainly.Replies: @Steve Sailer
Davos is a spin-off of Bilderberg: Klaus Schwab’s big insight was to not go for maximum secrecy but for maximumb publicity.
But the fact that we keep hearing this sorry argument along with other BS slogans about how essential the media is or diversity improves everything it touches is a last ditch effort to resolve the cognitive dissonance of our betters from what they believe *ought* to be true and what everyone (including them) can see and experience.Replies: @David In TN
“The media keeps running with the ‘murders are not as bad during the most notorious crime wave in recent history’ despite the fact that most people living in cities today are not old enough to remember those days, so their benchmark is say the last 10-20 years, and things are definitely worse today.”
During the high-crime 70s and 80s the media said fear of crime was “paranoia” and “racism.” They treat it the same way today.
I’m about your age, but I’ve known quite a few Xers. They say that when they were in school everyone believed that the world would end in a nuclear war (millions of kids were traumatized by being forced to watch The Day After in 1983) or that Japan would conquer America or that AIDS would wipe out humanity. So it’s not surprising that they didn’t bother to behave responsibly – they didn’t consider the future consequences of their actions because they didn’t think there would be a future.
You were lucky to have freedom at a young age. My boomer mother was extremely smothering and controlling. But let’s not open up that can of worms again.
My peers' Boomer parents, I recall some being neurotic and almost puritanically controlling but for the most part, in the 90's and 2000's we got to do what we wanted by comparison to how pre-Boomers and post-Millennials came of age. But you had to know the schedule and attitude of each household and act accordingly.
The nihilism of 80's and early 90's youth culture is some degree overlooked because Gen X-ers refuse to narcissistically bleat about their youth, unlike Boomers. We know literally everything about the youth culture of the 60's and 70's because Boomers never shut up about those decades, ironically as actual creators of culture Boomers really hit their stride in the 80's however by that time it was Gen X predominantly consuming pop culture so Boomers diminish or just ignore the 80's and subsequent decades.
You were lucky to have freedom at a young age. My boomer mother was extremely smothering and controlling. But let’s not open up that can of worms again.Replies: @Feryl
I would also say that in defense of Gen X, most of them burned through their supply of wildness at a young age and as they aged since have had no mid-life crisis but rather have acted as anti-Boomers: disciplined, no-nonsense, stoic, and above all else guardians of youth as they have tried to be responsible instead of going down the Boomer route of making excuses about “careers” superceding parental availability.
My peers’ Boomer parents, I recall some being neurotic and almost puritanically controlling but for the most part, in the 90’s and 2000’s we got to do what we wanted by comparison to how pre-Boomers and post-Millennials came of age. But you had to know the schedule and attitude of each household and act accordingly.
The nihilism of 80’s and early 90’s youth culture is some degree overlooked because Gen X-ers refuse to narcissistically bleat about their youth, unlike Boomers. We know literally everything about the youth culture of the 60’s and 70’s because Boomers never shut up about those decades, ironically as actual creators of culture Boomers really hit their stride in the 80’s however by that time it was Gen X predominantly consuming pop culture so Boomers diminish or just ignore the 80’s and subsequent decades.
*The draconian policing was actually both a cause and an effect of an increasingly square and PC culture. A big reason arrests for stuff like loitering, turnstile jumping, graffiti etc. went up is because late Gen X and Millennials accepted that it wasn't the hedonistic 70's and 80's anymore. The "what's the deal, why are you so uptight" hostility to behavioral norms exhibited by young Boomers and early Gen X was truly dead by the late 90's.Replies: @Alec Leamas (working from home), @Anon
There’s also the theory that abortion reduced crime. Roe v Wade was decided in the early 1970s, 1973 I think. I saw a chart that the abortion rate increased in the 1970s and 1980s and declined in the 1990s and after.
Criminals are more likely to come from families that have more problems than the traditional, normal family.
So future criminals were aborted.
On a related note, the abortion data I provided corroborates the theory that Boomers are a selfish lot. Boomers were aborting (and divorcing) in the 70s and 80s.
I don't think some of them ever knew it to begin with.
https://i.imgur.com/XOEDojH.jpegReplies: @Nico
I do remember hearing an anecdote that teachers in the “hoods” of Paris’s inner suburbs asked P.J. schoolchildren to draw a fish and the kids drew yellow squares because the only fish they had ever seen was the breaded and fried filet Momma bought in the frozen aisle.