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From a Pioneer Works issue that tells you more than everything you could possibly want to know about the impact of Adderall on 21st Century writers:
Adderall House Style
How to know if a writer is on the stuff.
By Amber A’Lee Frost… PARANOIA
“But what if he did, though?”
Paranoia is a common side effect of prolonged stimulant use, and when you’ve convinced yourself that someone is out to get you, it makes sense to find, expose and attack them. You rationalize your hostility as reciprocation, self-preservation, and self-defense. Paranoia also manifests in textual analysis.
Freud said there was little difference between the philosopher and the schizophrenic; both see a conspiracy in the text. A writer may convince themselves of these conspiracies by misinterpreting what they believe to be hidden evidence. On the page, this can manifest as outright accusations (these podcasts are all in cahoots to soft-launch fascism with Peter Thiel funding), or “deep reads” (Joker is a dangerous call to arms designed to activate mass shooter incels). Sometimes the conspiracies aren’t even malevolent; Business Insider published “43 Talor Swift songs, interpreted from a queer perspective,” trawling her lyrics for encrypted confessions of her lesbianism, indecipherable to all but her most insightful fans. Paranoia also tends to self-flatter.
Adderall inspires baseless suspicions and intensifies the desire to decode the uncoded; you can always find sinister signs and patterns if you’re looking hard enough.
“Ha-ha,” I say, while pondering whether to get that third cup of coffee.
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Who knew they were on Adderall ?
Don’t do an image search with safesearch turned off.
Stephen King fans claim that his writing style varies according to the amount of cocaine he was using at the time of writing.
Hmmm . . . sounds like Adderall causes one to notice things to an extreme. It’s as if noticing too much can make you neurotic.
Getting their assignment in before the deadline and then cleaning their kitchen is usually a sure sign.
i had a rich kid from LA tell me (when he was 40, so not a kid anymore) that a prescribed Adderall dose is like 5% of what a modern meth dose is like. since he’s done them both. he would take 2 or 3 Adderall pills spread out over a day and could work with high intensity and focus for 16 hours, but then crash.
you don’t have to be on Adderall to get some of these effects though. just drink a few red bulls or the other energy drinks. which is what millions of blue collar workers as well as white collar office people are doing these days. it has somewhat replaced the effect of nicotine from cigarettes now that way less people smoke. another alternative is Zyn, which my brother is now addicted to.
people make fun of those old buzz cut, shirt and tie, stiff white guys from the 50s and 60s hammering away on the space program and aircraft and other engineering projects. well, they were jacked up on nicotine, caffeine, and sugar from smoking, drinking, and eating donuts all day. they cranked and cranked. that’s how we got to the moon and got lots of the civil engineering projects completed and military vehicle factory output levels that we had back then. taking away cigarettes and replacing it with mairjuana probably caused an actually measurable decline in productivity. getting rid of smoking is also, quite literally, one of the reasons people are so fat today. nicotine accelerates your metabolism, and you gain weight when you stop smoking. marijuana has the exact opposite effect.
cigarettes and coffee built America and kept it thin.
This is a person who took Bernie Sanders seriously. This is a person who scuttled into the Democrats’ roach motel for meliorists, DSA. We can’t rely on her to distinguish between paranoia, suspicion, skepticism, or rudimentary self-preservation.
“Just because someone’s out to get you doesn’t mean you’re not paranoid.” –Susan Ee
the real iSteve question – what happens to Hollywood people if they take both clandestine steroids AND Adderall.
what about another other Hollywood combination: Prozac and Ozempic. Prozempic? put it all in one pill.
transexuals can get a 3 for 1 version: Prozempic, now with Step Up Prep Up. available in pink pills of course. not available in Tecovirimat flavor. all Monkeypox treatments now sold out, no word on when supply will resume.
As a physician and the apparent recent “outbreak” of attention deficit syndromes that is afflicting the US population, this topic is fascinating to me. One of the many resulting consequences of this “outbreak” is the lack of adequate supply for many of the available psychoactive stimulants including Adderall. For acute misuse and the resulting behavioral manifestations, one might observe a spectrum of agitation, paranoia, and/or confusion. Dilated pupils, perspiration, and elevated heart rate/blood pressure are associated physiological factors observed in examining acute misuse.
As for authors, many have struggled with addiction as a component of their lifestyle. However specifically for stimulants, I believe that Ayn Rand had challenges with amphetamine use.
In recent popular culture, one can turn to the legacy media and read about SBF and his prescription of choice, Adderall. His erratic behavior and lack of a normal 24 hour wake/sleep lifestyle can be best explained by his prescription usage.
There’s two types of errors:
1. False positive: Seeing patterns/conspiracies that aren’t there. I.e., the “paranoid schizophrenic.”
2. False negative: Failing to see patterns (conspiracies) that are there.
Jews tend to be more of the paranoid schizoid Machiavellian types who, while constantly scheming against and backstabbing everybody else, wrongly assume that everybody else is also secretly scheming against them too. This is a manifestation of Jews being a low-trust alien caste of parasites who occasionally get shaken off (sometimes violently) by their hosts – but typically only after Jews have gone way too far for way too long.
White Christians, on the other hand, being naive and naturally high-trust, tend to fail to see real conspiracies against themselves. Furthermore, even when the conspiracy is pointed out, they’re quick to object that “you shouldn’t attribute to malice what could potentially be attributed to ignorance or stupidity.” That may be good advice when the suspect has Down’s syndrome but it’s bad advice when dealing with Jews.
It’s admittedly difficult to see how Jews are making the “mistake” of flooding white countries with blacks and Muslims while simultaneously forging an exclusivist ethnostate for themselves in the Middle East. It’s difficult to see how Jews would be making the “mistake” of turning whites into hated minorities in their own lands as if the Jews “don’t know” what happens to hated minorities. The Jews have no experience with being a hated minority? They don’t know what happens to them? Who knows *better* than the Jews what happens to hated minorities?
It’s difficult to see how Jews are making the “mistake” of using Western blood and treasure to wipe out their regional enemies in the Middle East, securing their path for more lebensraum conquests and ethnic cleansing of their neighbors, and simultaneously deporting the Muslims that they’ve “cleansed” to Europe and America, whom they insist must take them in or else they’re “racists.” They just “mistakenly” fail fail to see the hypocrisy? It’s difficult to see how “invade the world, invite the world” is just an “honest mistake” of the Jewish media monopolist opinion-makers and deep state war-planners.
Christians bend over backwards to see the best in other peoples even when all of the evidence shows those people to be narcissistic psychopaths. This Christian traits is exploited by cynical invasive outgroups like Jews. It may well prove to be their downfall. This trait, however, is not entirely constitutional to them. To a large extent it’s a consequence of Jewish media control and conditioning. Should Christians wake up to this Jewish control and conditioning as the Germans in the Weimar Republic did, and eject the Jewish parasites from their positions in media and government then they have a chance for saving themselves and their nations.
“Invade the world, invite the world”-ism is an entirely Jewish project of using America to annihilate their regional adversaries in the Middle East and then import millions of the now displaced Muslims into the West in order to balkanize it and make it easier for diaspora Jewish oligarchs to rule over – so as to ensure that the white Christian peoples never unite and rise up against Jewish tyranny again and perpetrate another “Hall-of-causts.” But weirdly, Sailer, whose primary role it is to run interference for Jewish supremacy – being a Jewish supremacist himself (midwit misdiagnoses of his being a “white supremacist” notwithstanding) whose position it is that Jews are a “high IQ” master race, doesn’t blame this policy on its actual perpetrators and pushers. Instead he blames it on whites, like the Boston Brahmin, even though there’s zero evidence for this position and they have nothing to gain from this counterproductive policy and everything to lose, whereas the Jews have everything to gain and nothing to lose – and have indeed gained much at white Christians expense and continue to do so.
Steve, you’re one of our greatest coffee achievers.
I’m going to guess and say Amber has a lot of experience with drugs:
“Ha-ha,” I say, while pondering whether to get that third cup of coffee.
I say:
When the third cup of coffee is poured in the kitchen, don’t give the alligator any Booth’s 90 proof London dry gin, no matter how insistent the reptile is. Give the gin glugging gator Gilbey’s.
LOL. Freud. LOL.
Never had Adderall. Wish I had, but speaking as a narcissistic obsessive-compulsive, I can see already that comment #1 and comment #7 resemble ones I posted recently — and I love that.
Now I wish I could try Adderall.
BTW, simple booze explains my awful comments. It’s legal and cheap.
Exhibit A:
Too late. Physiognomy is real.
Fairly strange-looking…like many other people. Were you expecting a bombshell? I don’t think writers of either sex tend to be very good-looking.
Having looked up a picture of Amber A’Lee Frost. Well, she seems to advertise her BPD.
And per the typical clinical definition on Wikipedia.
The big change since 2014 has been a massive burst of influence from Tumblr types and their ideology. And it is basically a kind of liberation movement for BPD attempting to justify their psychology and non-objective warped perspective on… everything. This has been mediated by social media and them being the powerusers and having their own rebouts like Tumblr has allowed them to socialise others to their perspectives. Maybe when she accuses others of paranoia and delusions she is projecting.
If 95% of the people writing online for a living were forced to get offline jobs the state of public discourse would be better. Most of them are so useless though, it would be hard to find things for them do without making other parts of life worse. There is no easy solution here.
I googled “43 Talor Swift songs, interpreted from a queer perspective” and now every Youtube video is preceded by short activist-ad about ‘Lesbophobia’.
“A writer may convince themselves …”
That’s not paranoia, it’s multiple personality disorder.
I recall an addiction-specialist shrink said that most of his patients who were trying to get off Adderall were creative types. Assuming that’s true, then I would expect the effect upon a writer whose niche requires creativity to be driving him into a more template-style, dampening his creativity. This seems right; help me doc, I need to get my creativity back. I think Adderall will get that procrastinated college term paper done by morning, but the writing style will be quite mechanical. The side-benefit will be that the dorm room has never been cleaner.
Well, I think this is a good place to address Jewish obsessions that contaminate this site (by the way, that part was funny, I remember laughing when I first saw it).
I write as a layman who knows something about history & contemporary society; also, a person who is neither anti-Semite nor philo-Semite & as someone who tries to be as objective as an individual can be, trying to be as impersonal as a pathologist writing about corpses. Not being a religionist in a classical sense, I don’t care about Jewish nor anti-Jewish myths.
For me, Jews are a historical ethnic cultural group centered about their unique religion which has survived secularization in the past 150-200 years as a separate entity & will remain a separate group in the foreseeable future. True, they now have their own nation-state after almost 2000 years, but the rest of them, living in Europe & Americas & the rest of Anglosphere will have retained their corpus separatum status. It is not good or bad, it just is.
Many people here are angered with their punching above the weight- especially in social, economic & political issues- but, I don’t care. I am certain that those who ascribe negative trends in the Western culture to their influence – moral relativism, white guilt, weakness in the face of demographic threat of colored races & alien religions, multiculturalism,…- are wrong, but this is not the point either. This was shown many times to be wrong, but anti-Jewish animus is so strong that no amount of rational arguments matters.
Jewish identitarians in the white world are afraid they will be swallowed by intermarriage & assimilation, but I think they are, statistically, wrong. This point of view, with different emotional emphasis, is similar to Einstein’s statement: Were it not for anti-Semitism, Jews would have dispersed like leaves in the wind.
I think that Einstein was wrong.
It is true that some ethnic Jews will lose their identity & their progeny will be assimilated; also, some “others” will be assimilated into Jewish group identity & as the net result, Jews outside of Israel, both religious, secular & atheist, will in a foreseeable future retain their collective individuality due to a combination of many elements.
Even when there is no anti-Judaism, Jews, as a group, will insist on their differentiation from others- in this case other whites, because with other races & civilizations the difference is natural.
And the question: who is a Jew? is not that difficult. A person who considers himself Jewish & whom others consider that to be, too (involving complex combination of quasi-race, religion, historical culture & primary ethnic loyalty). This will remain so everywhere throughout the world.
For me, this is a settled issue.
You have to give the writer credit. Black men punching women becomes an indictment of white men. That’s impressive.
King himself has spoke about waking up and finding 20-30 pages written that he didn’t remember writing. He claims he has no recollection of writing “Tommyknockers” because he was on so much blow and booze.
Adderall? The traditional writer’s indulgence was/is alcohol.
Needless to say, they caught the black guy who was doing this.
https://www.fox5ny.com/news/women-being-punched-in-nyc-suspect
Real, pure methamphetamine is regarded by those to whom it is prescribed as very good medicine. So why bother with Adderall when you can get high-quality meth manufactured in state-of-the-art Mexican labs for cheaper delivered directly to your home sans prescription?
After all, Adderall is just dextroamphetamine IIRC. Basically second-rate stuff.
Seriously, though, it’s kind of sad that people think they have to get cranked up just to keep up. For a significant fraction of people who try it meth will consume them.
Some truth to that.
Meth will do that too. Of course your teeth will turn black, fall out, skin gets bad, your former job disappears but the guys in the cell block seem more normal, the tattoos and such.
As a former heavy cigarette smoker, I can attest to the start-of-the-day coffee (bad stuff then) and at least two or three cigs. Would have killed me by now if I hadn’t stopped.
Of course Hitler & Co. nearly conquered Europe with the good crystal meth stuff. Works great until it doesn’t. Doesn’t improve judgment though. Frostbite is real, after all. Blitzkrieg required some chemical blitz to keep going for five days in a row.
One under-reported factoid about the Middle East conflict areas (Beirut, now Gaza, Iraq, Syria) is many affected inhabitants are either on cheap forms of meth (“fighters”) or tranqed out on cheap forms of Xanax or similar smooth-out-the-bumps meds.
High or low, it gets them through the day. Evidently nothing in the Quran about those so not much is said or done. Coffee also popular. Not sure about the Israelis.
Don’t know about the Russo-Uke conflict. I suspect that trench warfare isn’t done or survived being totally sober. Not an Eastern European cultural trait.
In the late 80s, 90s and perhaps into the 00s I recall cocaine being the “creative drug” of choice for writers and other proclaimed artists.
Film and video people, writers of various kinds, the NYC “hipster” elites all touted this.
While it seemed to have some stimulant effects, you also built up a tolerance and it was often more of a status symbol of having more money than brains or talent.
It could kill you and some began to mix it with meth as well. Bad for the heart.
Coke seems to have gone out of fashion though. Crack was a sign of ghetto trash. Always pretty expensive, the powered coke.
Like old fashioned “booze”, the buzz you got shouldn’t be confused with insightful genius.
It’s striking how many celebrated thinkers have been addicted to nicotine. Einstein’s pipe, Freud’s cigar, . . . Red Indians’ greatest contribution to civilization may be the tobacco habit.
A famous Belgian smoker: Georges Simenon
The caution about paranoia isn’t wrong. But as someone who used to rely routinely on shall-we-say off-the-books stimulants, and is now prescribed both methylphenidate (Adderall) and Modafinil, I can report anecdotally that as long as one hasn’t indulged enough to be quite crawling around on the ceiling with Gregor Samsa, the stuff actually, simply, and really really really does make many people sharper at what they do. Without making claims for my fiction — quality judgments are for readers, not authors — I can at least say that when I compare passages within one of the novels I’ve published so far, many of the best were done while I was most highly medicated, legally or otherwise. They may go off on tangents and need more pruning on the next draft — when you compose prose by nose, it shows — but the ideas and wording are as good as any I can grind out in in twice the time if I have nothing on board.
I’m starting to wonder if Adderall causes transsexualism.
Because that might be cut with fentanyl, and once is all it takes to die. Lot of people who died from that thought they were taking something else.
Indeed, Exhibit A of men on Adderall who delusionally believe they are being persecuted by (Jewish) women so they are compelled to lash out. Good friends of yours, huh.
Drugs behind this blog?
Crack came in because the feds cracked down on cocaine. Crack is concentrated cocaine. In the 1980s the feds cracked down on the cocaine pipeline through Miami. By the 1990s people who fiended for cocaine turned to crack, with deadly consequences. It wasn’t until the late 1990s and early 2000s that the cartels in Mexico were established enough to get cocaine back in the U.S. thanks to our porous border — and the result was that crack use diminished.
I’m not on Adderall but all of this hysteria surrounding the eclipse kind of got to me a little.
I recall listening to music and watching some flickering Christmas’s lights in a Chinese takeaway. It took me some time to work out that the flickering was random and nothing to do with the music whatsoever.
Wow. Weakest comment I’ve seen here in recent memory. And that’s saying something. Wow! Lol.
This is remarkably obtuse of the writer. No one actually thinks Taylor Swift is a lesbian — but she does have a gay following and she has been vocal about gay rights.
Which is why Taylor Swift and her team intentionally write songs that can be interpreted as girl’s heart breaks over boy AS WELL AS boy’s heart breaks over boy.
Once you hear it, you won’t be able to unhear it — and it ain’t a conspiracy. It’s Taylor’s extremely savvy marketing and business machine.
I’m filing this under “Yet Another Reason Modern Writing is Mostly Crap”.
Geddy Lee described cocaine use in his autobiography. Said that the mind of the user perceives genius thoughts moving at lightning speed, but it’s really brain lockdown and repetitive gibberish to the sober observer. Lee and his bandmates in Rush used the stuff a lot in the late 70s but seems were able to step away with no addictions or side effects.
Balzac wrote all those wonderful works about the whole Human Comedy of 19th century France, all walks of life, all points of view, more than 90 novels and novellasall told, by drinking 50 cups of coffee a day.
“Cocaine makes stupid people think that they’re smart.”
*****
The tedious logorrheas of both Jean-Paul Sartre and Ayn Rand were fueled by amphetamines. Once you know that you’ll quickly notice the similarities.
Add the Nazi blitzkriegs and speed adds up to a net loss for civilization.
My sister got a kidney stone from too much coffee. It could have been deadly, as they later found out her other one is tiny since birth. She switched to water, but I’ve noticed she’ll pour a big glass but not drink very much of it.
Oh yeah
True that. Also, this is a person with a stupid name.
I was going to post somewhere : “With the events in Gaza, indicating the Jewish master plan is entering its endgame (either WWIII and Jewish victory or Whites decide to seek a “final solution to the Jewish problem”), ripping off the mask for anyone but the most willfully blind (“See, see you stupid bastards, this is what we’ve been saying for 80 years!”), are Steve’s concerns rather…. petty?”
But as you say, he’s more sinister than that. He’s part of the plan. Choose your internet diet accordingly.
She looks like an AI meme created by White racist someone whining about fellow Rightwingers who think Asian chicks are cute. “Like this, ha ha?” No wonder she’s so angry.
I remember quite a few years back seeing Jon Stewart making a pun on adderall without even explaining it. I had never heard of the drug and had to look up what he meant. That’s when I realized that probably a large majority of his audience (and maybe he himself) was on it. And you know who those people are.
How do you make crack without cocaine? Is it that a small amount of cocaine goes a long way when you’re making it into crack?
I remember her mentioning on a podcast that some Russians she met in NYC asked if she was from Kazakhstan.
Crack is just freebase cocaine. I think its name comes from the chemical process called “cracking,” although most people seem to think it derives from the noise it makes while being vaporized. Crack can be close to 100% pure cocaine, whereas the powder form, usually cocaine hydrochloride, is about 80% pure at most.
Sort of. Crack is smoked rather than insufflated (snorted), so it hits the brain faster and harder, but wears off quickly. This is why it is so addictive.
Oh God, I remember two years ago when black people pushing Chinese grannies off the train platform was really about white supremacy and anti-Asian hate. I thought it was so stupid it would wind up redpilling people inadvertently. Maybe it did.
Meth in crystal form would be impractical to cut with fentanyl, because you’d have to somehow cut the meth before it solidified without leaving a trace of adulteration.
I found a baggy of what must have been imported meth on the sidewalk a few years ago and it was as clear as window glass. I was impressed. This is no trailer park crank the Mexicans are cooking. It would probably meet 1939 Wehrmacht standards.
She’s not that bad. Comb her hair, get rid of the tat and give her a tasteful makeover (no slutty lipstick) and she’d be cute for a Chinese girl if that’s what floats your boat.
Then again it did give us Motörhead…
Yep. Here is a 26 minute video by Douglas Murray on drug usage in NYC where he talks to the parents of a woman who died from her cocaine being laced with a lethal quantity of fentanyl.
He also talks about fentanyl now being cut with Trank (the street name for a large animal tranquilizer) which causes lesions on the body.
No good options.
There were reports that the Russians would use meth addled prisoners as cannon fodder in Ukraine.
I’ve seen Eastern Europeans try to numb themselves to their particular breed of ennui. Their treatment seems dependent on where they’re from: country bumpkins drink, city slickers rely on heavier drugs.
Vanity Fair’s Gabriel Sherman is definitely on upper middle class uppers. Just look at his picture in the link…
“As I write in the piece, his freedom is at stake, really, the only thing that is guaranteed to keep Donald Trump out of jail is becoming the next president of the United States and appointing an attorney general who will get these charges thrown out…”
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/04/08/morning-joe-panelists-dismayed-by-trumps-terrifyingly-competent-campaign-1451008/
Bardon, with all due respect you roll on for several paragraphs describing the general situation, then giving your “nothing to see here” opinion–with zero evidence–and then intoning from your pulpit that “the matter is settled”.
This paragraph is both denialist–anti-noticiing–denialist and pompous:
The whole point is influential groups actually–wait for it–influence society and culture. Ones with outsized influence … more so. That is a “duh” level observation.
The cultural analyzer then seeks to pick that apart. What sort of influence did the various founding groups–Puritans, Quakers, Scots-Irish, Caviliers–have on America’s culture? The Irish? The Germans? the Blacks? This is all ho-hum?
We have some–IMHO wrong–commenters here who blame it all on the Puritan–to–Unitarian New England “idealist” troublemakers. Cue the recent Amherst thread. They were indeed a hugely influential group. One could plausibly argue we would not have had the Civil War without them. (Maybe yes, maybe no, but its not unreasonable.) But someone holding this view has to explain how America was highly functional back in its early years when they were extremely influential and still functional in 1960 when they still had significant influence … but has gone nuts in the last 60 years, when they completely lost their grip on elite institutions? Data.
Your theory is that despite Jews being extraordinary influential in the West’s leading power from the late 20th century–maybe 1/4 of the social science academics, 1/2 or more of the elite media, dominating the opinion pages and almost wholly controlling our popular media, Hollyweird–
… ahh, no biggie …. they did nothing interesting to move the culture? Nothing to inject their peculiar outgroup ideas and attitudes into the culture?
Their weird–minorities first!–ideology just happened to conquer America … and the broader Western world all on their own (during this time period the Jews rose to dominance in American culture and elite institutions). Coincidence!
Seriously we can argue all day about the complex interactions between
— the nature–open, high-trust, neighborly–of Western man
— the unique–weird–history of America
— the powerful trends of modernity (e.g. industrialization, urbanization, the relative decline of heavy male physical labor, mass media, improve life expectancy, the Pill, female careerism, social media …)
— capitalism, global business and finance
— various ethnic and racial groups interests and ideologies
— the interests of the super-state and state parties
But looking at Jewish influence in America and saying … “nothing to do with it”, isn’t just not noticing, it’s akin to gluing a paper bag over your head.
Heard a report that the initial Russian offensive partly fizzled because Ukranian liquor stores were so plentiful and well stocked.
Less Wrong meetings, where various substances are acknowledged. Some via prescription, others not so much.
Other subcultures like Sailer’s probably have some closet users of non-caffeine, non-nicotine products. Given the indicated age-skew, alcohol factors in more than with other sites.
One problem with “culture” is that a lot of the people who fancy themselves as “creative”–an “artist”, a “writer”–are weirdos, who tend to have really bad ideas about … everything, humans, society, culture, nation, civilization.
Modernity seems to have made that much worse, with many more unproductive weirdos, still able to find food, clothing, shelter and survive to bombard us with more nonsense.
I saw this happen when cannabis was legalized in Colorado. It was as if the entire state’s collective IQ dropped fifty points within a week.
Inattentive waitstaff / baristas with glossy eyeballs were always a sure sign that my order was going to be fucked up.
Under the (very strong) assumption that you are not lying, you are wrong.
Full text of the study and more available here.
Parent contributions to the development of political attitudes in adoptive and non-adoptive families
https://osf.io/pf97d/
BTW, that is a three year old study from the same group who wrote the “authoritarian paper” recently discussed here. This paper is cited in that one.
No mention of sex/gender of the children as a model component in the paper, which seems an odd thing to omit. Especially since the summary data shows they have that information. Also, they look separately at maternal and paternal transmission.
He also links a long piece of his which does not seem related, but has some interesting history. In particular of Germany.
The Cultural Power of Elite Immigrants
https://www.cremieux.xyz/p/the-cultural-power-of-high-skilled
Direct link to the article.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/scandal-rocks-bidens-labor-dept-lying-about-sharing-non-public-inflation-data-secret-group
It would be interesting to have a look at the finances of the economist who sent the email. I find it hard to believe something like that would go unrewarded. Just a matter of how much subtlety was involved.
Thanks. No photo or racial ID in the article, but the link to his Facebook page at the end makes things clear. Is that the new way of identifying race without doing so?
The NY Post (also linked in that piece) is more direct and includes a photograph.
https://nypost.com/2024/03/27/us-news/skiboky-stora-arrested-for-sucker-punching-tiktokker/
As Colin Wright said:
Any idea if that photo has been edited? Anyone have a link to the video I assume it was extracted from?
This appears to be the source:
Apparently it was taken on the night that Biden gave his State of the Union address.
My gym reeks of dope because apparently the cool thing is for young people to hot box their car right before they go lift weights.
Did I hear that Curb Your Enthusiasm is ending the series in a grand finale that involves a courtroom trial?
Now wasn’t there this other comedy series that was capped with a courtroom proceeding, where all of the minor characters were brought back as witnesses to testify against the principal characters?
Wasn’t Larry David one of the writers who brought Seinfeld to a conclusion?
And wasn’t Larry David a writer who shared screen credits with Jerry Seinfeld?
LOL and THANKS. I’ve run out of “reaction buttons.”
(Isn’t that a hilarious name, “reaction buttons,” or whatever they are called? All have to do is post a reply to you, as I am doing, and I’m not even high!)
Thanks again.
I wrote about these issues many times ago & it would be a waste of time to repeat it.
I’ll just give links & a summary:
There is no causal connection between (negative) societal trends in Western societies & Jewish activism MacDonald wrote about. MacDonald was simply- wrong. In the US, as well as in other countries where Jewish presence is minimal, like Italy or Sweden, this is a natural devolution of these societies, with activist Jewish groups serving not as the cause, but not more than an annoying sign of the times. “Jews” did not create Hart-Cellar, the 60s counterculture nor minoritarianism; there is no Frankfurt school conspiracy; Weimar Germany was one of the pinnacles of human creativity; Jews were not “guilty” of Bolshevism nor of other misdeeds; they did not provoke WW1, WW2 nor other wars- even in the case of disastrous American interventionism, it is absurd to think that Rumsfeld and Cheney were puppets of some “Jews”.
Political Jews or Jewish activists did not cause:
* Bolshevism: https://www.unz.com/isteve/should-jews-scrap-dei/#comment-6328513
* supposedly “decadent” Weimar Germany: https://www.unz.com/isteve/daylight-savings-time-a-reform-optimized-and-therefore-at-risk-out-of-boredom/#comment-4997252
* some dark changes supposedly rooted in the Frankfurt school: https://www.unz.com/article/blame-liberal-pluralism-for-the-impending-ethnocide-of-europeans/#comment-6068224, https://www.unz.com/isteve/why-was-ahmaud-arbery-formerly-ahmaud-avery/#comment-3895083
* Hart-Cellar: https://www.unz.com/isteve/there-is-no-inner-party-bob-iger-version/#comment-3836946, https://www.unz.com/article/the-battle-lines-grow-clearer/?showcomments#comment-5044217
Simply- things just happen, whether some groups are for or against them: https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-monkeypox-chronicles-andrew-sullivan-challenges-me-to-quote-him-on-gay-marriage/#comment-5532798
On reflection, it could. Notice how Scott Adams went from happily supporting Israel in Gaza to saying ‘it’s gotten to be too much’? Rub people’s snouts in something firmly enough, and they’ll notice the smell.
Our rulers really are totally worthless. Russia is using the sanctions regime and Ukrainian emergency to revitalize its economy and make redundant supply chains; China actively makes its peoples’ lives better and is fixing its economy, which never had to worry about paying for never-ending neocon forever wars; and our leadership violates its own rules to get a little extra money under the table and maybe a job. Every critic of Russia should have to read the excellent recent piece by Ed West and notice in which country the Sacklers’ reign of terror was allowed to happen.
https://www.edwest.co.uk/p/dope-sick-america
Maybe “French theory” will someday be understood as a by-product of amphetamines.
Yes.
If only they lived up to their bullshit : “A people who shall dwell alone”.
When?
“One problem with “culture” is that a lot of the people who fancy themselves as “creative”–an “artist”, a “writer”–are weirdos, who tend to have really bad ideas about … everything, humans, society, culture, nation, civilization.”
Oh, I don’t know about that… I can’t say I blame you for feeling that way, because it often seems to look that way, but in service to actual knowing about reality, I’m not really sure you’re right.
Dunno about you, but I have actually spent most of my life around real “artists” and “writers” and they, or maybe we, don’t really think of it like this… in fact, we consider what you call “a lot of the people who fancy themselves as ‘creative’” to be sort of retards. In reality, it’s kind of a burden and a pain in the ass, not a privilege. You fail nineteen times for every one success, and brother, the failures hurt a lot more than the successes assuage. As Paul Foster said about Tom Paine, “you’re gonna have to fight for every inch of history you take up.” Trust me, I wouldn’t do it if I didn’t know somehow that I would die if I didn’t even try.
Those of us who are sincere are, trust me, not trying to make some sort of a prescription for society, that would be the fakers and the assholes. We’re just doing what we do because we need to do it, we’ll die if we don’t, hell I started doing it when I was five years old and I just knew, and we have a sneaking suspicion that other people will also die if we don’t do it, in fact I know that because I’ve been told so on many occasions. How many total strangers have ever come up to you on the street and kissed you and said, Thank you for that! I almost died, but then I saw what you did Sort of makes it worth the fuss.
Funny you say that about coffee being one of the direct or indirect causes of kidney stones, I used to be a heavy coffee drinker and got them twice as well as a cousin and my father. We all were heavy coffee drinkers, while the black tea drinkers in the family, never got them.
Any time I’ve asked a doctor what causes them, I always get the non-committal answer, “we don’t really know what causes kidney stones.”
Tell your sister to switch to black tea with milk for her caffeine fix, she’ll probably never get kidney stones again. Another benefit to drinking black tea is that it prevents cavities in your teeth.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/05/010523072047.htm
https://www.medicaldaily.com/no-more-tooth-decay-6-surprising-foods-and-drinks-help-prevent-cavities-248070
Indeed.
I didn’t think that she was Asian, just a white with died black goth hair, botoxed lips and a generally drugged out expression on her face.
No opinion on the quality, except in theory you know what you’re getting with a prescription (that’s a bit iffy if it’s packaged in India, but I assume they’re not going to add a CNS depressant….).
The shortage prompted me to look it up, that problem is from the bloodyminded DEA, and the stuff itself is “mixed amphetamine salts.” The combination of four different salts per Wikipedia creates a mixture that’s 3:1 dextro- or “left” handed so you’re mostly right. But that doesn’t mean it’s “second-rate,” supposedly this has a different effect than a pure 50:50 racemic mixture, and what works for one person might not for another.
Methamphetamine, almost certainly racemic, is a different albeit closely related molecule. As a street drug, as @nebulafox notes “Just say no,” it is known to be ineptly cut with fentanyl or worse, as previously discussed on iSteve the standard practice of using a blender designed for liquids is stupid.
Even before we consider LD50 dosing, it’s a bad idea to add a CNS depressant, which work against the CNS stimulating effects of amphetamines. Or to use it to cut with other CNS depressants that hit different receptors. We also hear a new drug on the black market which isn’t countered by Narcan has joined the game.
Yeah, I’ve been reading that quote in quite a few places, and keep marveling at someone who’s so out of it he imagines a Federal AG can get state charges “thrown out.”
I thought dextro was “right” handed?
https://byjus.com/question-answer/what-do-the-dextro-and-levo-prefixes-mean-in-latin/
friends of yours tho
He didn’t though. Just this week he was touting, as if enamored, an argument that sought to justify the Jews’ killing of Gazan civilians.
He was high as a kite on amphetamines and ketamine and who knows what else.
Sherlock Holmes always had that pipe handy too, and reportedly other harder stuff
The crucial mistake virtually all conspiracy- theories minded people make is that they try to pin-point a clearly defined group (mostly religious, ethnic, racial,..) as the source of major socio-cultural changes, and frequently it’s Jews (sometimes masons or something similar).
And this is a major misfire, because no such group exists. There is no causal connection between any ethnicity/race/… & great upheavals in the West (and in the US) in past 3-4 decades, especially re immigration debates, influx of culturally & racially foreign and inimical masses, disintegration of family & denigration of national loyalties etc. To think that a group (or groups), which is relatively easy to identify, can be the source of such monumental upheavals bespeaks of historical illiteracy.
There was no ethnic nor ideological group of people behind such shattering revolutions & world-view changes like transition from Roman republic to Imperial Rome, Protestant Reformation, Crusades, formation of national monarchies, Enlightenment, collapse of “divine rights” of kings, imperialist expansion of European powers, national awakening in the 19th C, WW1 and WW2,… Not Jews, not masons, not Illuminati, not Rosicrucians, not some occult brotherhood residing in the Himalayas.
Simply, Western civilization has come to a dead end -as it was the continuity of the 18th C Enlightenment- and we are witnessing the processes of further decay, encapsulated in famous hypothetical question ascribed to Lenin: ” Perhaps the forces which propel us to greatness are the same that will, transformed by mutations of History, eventually lead to our collapse ?”
A man who, despite his shortcomings & delusions about the role of technology, various national cultures and their dominant currents, understood this better than most was Oswald Spengler. The Western civilizational matrix is old and tired. And this is the root of the Western decline. That what plagues the West & the US the most (race replacement, PC “liberal” ideological muzzle, hedonist emptiness & biological collapse manifested in infertility, pathological altruism, lunatic ideological fashions like n-th wave of feminism, media aggression promoting “diversity” & homosexualism- as different from homosexuality, self-hatred of European & Western culture….)-this is as present, although a bit modified, in Italy, Spain, Denmark, Norway, France, Germany, Switzerland,.. as in the US. And in these countries Jewish presence in the media & the overall life is negligible or non-existent.
Although ruling elites differ in these countries, they are a mixture of hereditary aristocracy, established bourgeois families & plutocratic oligarchs. These groups have, historically, served their countries. Now, they are morally & culturally bankrupt and serve outmoded gods whose future is annihilation- similar situation that had befallen pompous & deluded aristocrats in the 18th-19th C or imperialist jingoists in the 20th.
The failure of nerves that comes with the exhausted & geriatric social-cultural matrix is to blame, not some group conspiracy.
But, the societal-cultural matrix is exhausted, not the people. Our flaw is linear extrapolation of current events which leads to paralyzing pessimist fatalism. We should know from history this is a fatal mistake. Just compare Europe in 1930 (cars, planes, fascism, communism, cubism, quantum mechanics, relativity, psychoanalysis, radio, tanks, films, ..) and during 1900 (technologically, scientifically, ideologically and artistically more or less the same as 1880).
So, we should not give up hope, and some of us who are obsessed with Jews, should give up this tired old chestnut. If all of US Jewish ethno-nationalists were booted to Israel, life would be somewhat easier for Euro-Americans in some respects, but not essentially different. Blacks would remain blacks, PC muzzle would remain PC muzzle, dopeheads would remain dopeheads, Pentagon would remain Pentagon, …
I associate cocaine with the 1980s, but a memorably goofy Mission Impossible from back in ’72 has Peter Lupus donning a white lab coat to convince gullible bad guy William Shatner that he has invented a dirt-cheap way to make “synthetic cocaine”
We also get “sinister” from the Latin for left-handed or the left side. Clearly showing a linguistic prejudice against lefties. Sinister vs. dexter for righty
Yes, it’s really quite remarkable to the modern eye just how much Inspector Maigret smokes his pipe. And drinks.
Back in the 1960s, doctors were prescribing Dexedrine like candy for weight loss. How similar is Adderal?
I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express once, but sadly it did not impart any chemical knowledge.
Thanks. My guess is the picture is close to original but has been edited. Would like to have the original shot (guessing it is from a SotU video) to compare.
Answers a lot of questions as to why our society is slowing decaying.
Every time I visit my pharmacy I see that a new 6 foot high steel rack of shelving, to hold pills and prescriptions to be picked up, has been added to the pharmacy area.
Does this mean long-term Adderall users are not subject to psychosis the way long-term methamphetamine users are? Or merely that Adderall users are somehow better at ignoring the potential side effects of taking a stimulant over a period of years?
Sho’ nuff, dat white bitch linked to da Daily Stormer. She be crazy.
Oh well.
It’s morbidly interesting how perfectly intelligent, presumably decent people can justify to themselves supporting the worst atrocities committed by a First-World nation since the Nazis suppressed the Warsaw Uprising.
…as time goes by, Nazi Germany becomes more and more comprehensible — and that’s not a good thing.
y u so racis?
No, beotch, youse be all uppity with that pro white shite. Nothin new with ugly white ho’s like yourself, Karen.
Every small business in Vermont and New Hampshire will tell you that they can no longer get staff and the few they can hire underperform. No one seems to be attributing this to legalized weed. The same thing is happening in Ontario.
The St Louis Fed says the ratio of job openings to the labor force has never been higher.
Free money eliminates the need to work and weed eliminates the boredom.
The dose makes the poison. Is having a cup of coffee different than swallowing 20 No-Doz pills?
Dexedrine is dextroamphetamine, which @res corrected me on it being the “right” handed version of amphetamine.
Adderall per (pulls out the big guns) the Merck Manual as well as multiple Wikipedia articles is a 3:1 mixture of it and the “left” handed version levoamphetamine. So the effects are somewhat different and that’s why the latter is its own drug, but with a big dose of it being Dexedrine it’ll have many of the same effects I think we can assume.
You are a dull promoter of diarrhetic pablum. Humans choose up sides. Humans plan together. There have been no “great upheavals in the West (and in the US) in the past 3-4 decades.” Etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s#Personality
Been watching Tony Huge?
Interesting. I would’ve pegged Balzac as a teabagger.
It’s the ‘socialism of fools’ argument. This is the idea that rich Jews behave like assholes not because they’re Jewish but because they’re rich. The problem is rich people generally, not rich Jews specifically. People angry at the actions of rich people who happen to be Jewish need to direct their anger and activism against the rich in general – most of whom are gentiles not Jews.
I understand “therapeutic doses” are supposed to be non-addictive. However, I’ve noticed there are occasional gaps between what pharmaceutical firms and the medical profession claim to be the case and the way things resolve in actuality.
Humans have a tendency to want more of a good thing as time wears on. Is Adderall the exception insofar as people can reliably stay on it for years whilst maintaining the exact same dosage they began with? Or is this true only in a pharmaceutical sense and not in a practical one?
Frankly, I have a difficult time believing that people who use this stuff do not end up abusing it over the long-term. However, perhaps this is the case after all and the phrase “safe and effective” is not quite the glaring contradiction in terms it seems?
Wow. Wrong on all counts, six ways to shabbos.
See you at the next Flat-Earther meeting.
Here is a meta-study on stimulant tolerance. Unsurprisingly the results vary over a wide range.
Tolerance to Stimulant Medication for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Literature Review and Case Report
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9332474/
I think withdrawal issues make the problem even worse than you describe.
Andy Warhol did not abuse amphetamines, but he had iron self-discipline. Many people in his entourage came to bad ends.
They are also oblivious to how this “pop” industry works, a modern tin pan alley with reportedly about 10 men who write all the pop tunes for these female stars to perform. None of these female pop stars actually write their own stuff, these sex starved vixen personas are simply mouthing the words of their gay male songwriters exploits in the gay bars. Seems to be a wish list among the degenerate straight men in the pop industry, and all the gay men in the pop industry as well, to try to influence all the young women in America to behave…like gay men.
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