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From Comparative Sociology:
Rindermann, H. & Carl, N. (2018).
Human rights: Why countries differ.
Comparative Sociology, 17, 29-69.
Abstract:
Countries differ with respect to human rights. Using the cross-country CIRI data (Cingranelli & Richards), we tested two theories. The cognitive-moral enlightenment theory going back to Piaget and Socrates postulates that individuals and nations with higher levels of cognitive ability think and behave in a way more conducive to human rights. The culture-religion theory going back to Weber, Sombart and Voltaire postulates that different religious beliefs shape attitudes, and propel societies toward institutions that are more or less supportive of human rights. Cognitive ability had a positive impact on human rights but its effect varied depending on the country sample. More important was religion, both in cross-sectional and longitudinal models. Percentage of Christians had a positive impact (r = .62, total effect beta = .63), percentage of Muslims had a negative one (r = –.57, total effect beta = –.59). Political institutions are highly correlated with human rights, but religion is the decisive background factor.
But this study must be using old-fashioned definitions of human rights such as freedom of speech and freedom of religion, when everybody knows the only two human rights that matter these days are freedom of Muslims in Muslim countries to move to your country so they can enjoy more human rights and the Muslim newcomers’ right to feel comfortable in what used to be your country by imposing Muslim views of freedom (freedom to be Muslim).
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Link to study? Can’t find it via google.
Are homosexual rights an example of improved human rights or societal decedance? When examining human rights of Christian Nations does foreign colonies and occupations count?
Don’t tell Steven Pinker that who spends much of the last chapter of Enlightenment Now attacking Christianity
He’s trying to be trendy. I guess a chapter on the marvels of Islam might too obvious and contradict common sense.
This study confirms common sense.
Criticizing Christianity is so commonplace. I was hoping for some new ideas.
The USA literally has the worst human rights record in history thanks to Blonald Blumph!
I was looking at that CIRI dataset and said, What? The rights came from one (1) of the nine core instruments. Then I saw where they came from. Aha. From DoS country reports. DoS only looks at the lame little driblet of halfassed rights the US government lets you have (except when they take them away from you with bad-faith interpretation of the instruments, like when cops want to handcuff you and tase the crap out of you and then shoot you eight times.) Getting human-rights evals from DoS is like asking Michael Jackson to evaluate your daycare center.
The right way to do this is to code the OHCHR Useful Information, weighting Issues and Conclusions and Recommendations* by article, with binary variables for follow-ons (more urgent derogations,) and coding UPR recommendations** for deficient commitments, then then do a cluster analysis.
Course if any professor went and did that, he and his tenure would be shit through a goose and he'd wind up Adjunct Lecturer in Emptying Wastebaskets at National American University's flagship Mall of America campus.
* from http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Countries/Pages/HumanRightsintheWorld.aspx
** those are conveniently compiled here, https://www.upr-info.org/database/ though some of the cheekiest recommendations, like North Korea's, tend to get bowdlerized. For all the best zingers you need to go to treatybodywebcast.org
where would you most like to live (Wakanda off table)?
West is like parents who neglect their own kids to adopt more kids and then neglect the adopted kids to adopt yet more kids and then neglect them to adopt more kids..
A civilization addicted to the cult of newness and novelty. It has no attention span, no memory, no nothing but the thrill of getting more new stuff.
There is a famous lady who epitomises this. Hint, she has been diagnosed with BPD and works for the UNHCR.
To elucidate on her kids:
1. Adopted her first child, a boy, from Cambodia in order to stop her self-harm.
2. Adopted a girl from Ethiopia after visiting the country for the first time and deciding she wanted one.
3. Had a baby herself who supposedly decided that she was actually a boy at the age of 4. In exactly the same way that some crazy vegetarian lady's cat 'decided' that it was a vegetarian too. LGBT - check!
4. Got bored again, so ordered in a Vietnamese boy.
5. Had twins! I assume a purposeful product of IVF and quite a novelty for a woman used to collecting just one of each type.
To get there, we had to rebel against Christendom, which made certain we would both have deep guilt (meaning, we would feel we needed punishment) and search for new defining meaning in ideology, which necessarily would keep moving ever farther from any defense of the West that used to be Christendom.
When you think about about, sharia is all about forcing you to be free, as a devout Muslim following the edicts of the local Imam, who is probably illiterate. It makes perfect sense when you think about and just shut up.
In not so long, we’re going to loom like Ireland during the troubles. The locals will be in revolt against their foreign masters.
What about how easy it was for your land to be invaded, and the propensity of people to invade your land? It seems that if you were frequently on the verge of being invaded, you had to have a more authoritarian system ready to organize the whole with human rights taking a back seat.
Not that I would trust the German government...Replies: @Lars Porsena
Islands? Britain seems to work this way, but then why not Japan, Ceylon, Java, New Zealand or Madagascar?Replies: @istevefan, @Tyrion 2
Charged for a tweet highlighting the atrocities of Islamic State. Next up, prison time for frustrating the sexual urges of Muslim grooming gangs.
https://twitter.com/HarmlessYardDog/status/969367486482219008
Whoops. Hit the publish button without looking. Here’s what I meant to write.
When you think about it, sharia is all about forcing you to be free, as a devout Muslim following the edicts of the local Imam, who is probably illiterate. It makes perfect sense when you think about it and just shut up and accept it.
In not so long, we’re going to look like Ireland during the troubles. The locals will be in revolt against their foreign masters.
The Human Rights movement of the last hundred years is little more than another symptom of growing white ethnomasochism.
Part of our problem regarding human rights is that the Christian concept of the community has been debased.
I have become convinced that freedom of religion was, in its time, considered sufficient for ensuring communal freedom in the United States. To British settlers and early Americans, the church was the community. I don’t think anyone who knows American history can honestly argue against that point. However, in recent times this fact of American life, which was always taken for granted until only a few decades ago, has been largely eradicated.
Thus we are left only with individual rights, which are inconsequential to an organization with a monopoly on force, e.g. the ATF and FBI in 1993 during the Waco siege.
When Christians no longer have the right to form their own communities according to their own principles, they are rendered impotent and defenseless.
Freedom of religion is essential in that there is ultimately no rational basis for human rights or liberty. As was made clear in the founding documents of the United States, our rights are God-given, and not subject to repeal based on sophistry or the declamations of prophet killers or would-be deicides.
More then one religion CANNOT coexist in a single policy. One will always seize control of the machinery of state and rule over the others.
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Righteous sincerity asymptotically approaches parody.
Here is the full personal gender pronouns document produced by @ChemistryatYork to help train our research & teaching staff and supervisors. #LGBTPhysSci #LGBTSTEM
I’m willing to use the pronoun that matches the appearance of the person.
Why would someone make a huge effort to go from male to female (for example) yet still want to be called “he”?Replies: @TTSSYF, @eah, @stillCARealist
OT:
Google Sued by Ex-Recruiter Alleging Anti-White, Asian Bias
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-01/google-sued-by-ex-recruiter-over-alleged-anti-white-asian-bias
Maybe they don't mind being forced out by H-1Bs after a decade because they planned to quit and have babies anyway?Replies: @Rod1963, @rogue-one
How in tarnation was this accepted at a modern sociology journal? Is this some sort of rogue journal published by outcast sociologists?
O.K., I see that Rindermann is kind of rogue:
Christianity is the kind of religion white people would like. It didn’t create white people or the goodness we see in Western countries.
Islam is an appropriate religion for the type of mentality that exists in the Middle East and other places.
Get the direction of causality correct.
I don’t have stats but there have been cases like this.
I have read that in France, Muslim criminals force everyone in the prison to convert.
Only someone with a strong tribal ethnic group (Corsica was mentioned) could resist.
The article about the French prisons carefully avoid stats.
So the Netherlands, Denmark, and Poland score low on the human rights record, being remarkably easy to invade.
It wasn't easy at all to invade.Replies: @Coag
What do you do for human rights and liberty when religious belief organically declines in your society, without any central planning to bring this about? This has happened in many developed countries already, and some social scientists attribute the disappearance to better existential conditions, like universal health insurance. (BTW, has anyone looked into the effect of the Affordable Care Act, which the Republicans can’t seem to abolish, on the nation’s religiosity?)
The trend of indifference to religion even seems to have affected the popularity of cults. I can remember a lot of media coverage back in the 1970’s about the growth and visibility of cults, from Scientology to Hare Krishna to the Unification Church to Jim Jones’s People’s Temple. I suppose many of these cults still survive, but we don’t hear anywhere near as much about them these days, much less about newer ones.
Without freedom of religion, freedom of association, and freedom of speech, we have essentially no freedoms to speak of in real terms. Like Obama said, “Words, just words.”
There should be some Muslim-Homo Paradox of Human Rights.
On these indices, the license of Homos to stomp all over traditional religious expression leads to high scores of human rights and freedom, however some zenith of Homo hegemony is strongly correlated with mass immigration of Muslims, after which the Homo license is greatly diminished and then “poof[ter]” – there goes your human rights and freedom index.
That’s interesting. I swear that I saw something produced by the German government that suggested that Germans bowed to authority and that the reason was how historically unstable Germany was. Often invaded, before it was a unified country.
Not that I would trust the German government…
Sounds plausible on its face, but how do you quantify easy-to-invadiness?
Islands? Britain seems to work this way, but then why not Japan, Ceylon, Java, New Zealand or Madagascar?
Thinking about it, it probably is highly specific to England and doesn't seem to explain other nations in other parts of the world.
As far as an example of an easy-to-invade place I suggest Russia. She has those great plains which fierce neighbors have used as a highway to invade, plunder and pillage several times. The most devastating land battle in history took place there. So it makes sense that the Russians had to develop a strong central authority, liberty and rights be damned, to ensure they could defend themselves.Replies: @Almost Missouri, @ConservaWhig
Google Sued by Ex-Recruiter Alleging Anti-White, Asian Bias
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-01/google-sued-by-ex-recruiter-over-alleged-anti-white-asian-biasReplies: @Reg Cæsar
I find it hard to believe women are stupid enough to apply to Google, or any other major Silicon Valley employer, given the crappy career arcs offered them.
Maybe they don’t mind being forced out by H-1Bs after a decade because they planned to quit and have babies anyway?
The sad thing is these people could make the same amount working for the state of CA or most cities and have better working conditions and benefits.Replies: @Doug, @Alden, @Reg Cæsar
2. Women & minorities are a protected class. They won't be fired for H1Bs. Rather, they would some sort of part-time gig at Google/Youtube. On the other hand, white guys (& perhaps asians too) are disposable.
3. This illustrates the core dilemma of our times. Young men, often white or asian, build valuable things like companies. However, once these companies are functioning well, politically savvy "victimhood" groups like women and minorities take over a major portion of the company and its money pushing out the the kinds of people who actually built the thing. I have no doubt that if things go bad, these political opportunists would bail rather than try & fix things.Replies: @Macumazahn, @Curtis Mouser I, @Reg Cæsar
Islam is an appropriate religion for the type of mentality that exists in the Middle East and other places.
Get the direction of causality correct.Replies: @Alec Leamas, @Frau Katze
In Islam is Qur’an sacred Writ:
You are free to believe all of it.
And are free to deny,
Choosing freely to die.
So you’re totally free to submit.
The Netherlands fought off the greatest power in the world for 80 years to win its independence. Later did the same with the French, the greatest power in Europe at the time.
It wasn’t easy at all to invade.
In not so long, we're going to loom like Ireland during the troubles. The locals will be in revolt against their foreign masters.Replies: @Louis Renault, @nebulafox, @36 ulster
There are plenty of educated Muslims, that includes many pietist, scripture obsessed minority whose view of ijima – consensus – is that they are right and they are willing to kill and die enforcing that view on others.
Maj. Hassan comes to mind here in the U.S. as a example of highly educated Muslim who became a soldier for allah.
We should never mistake that Islam's call to be a shaheed only applies to the mindless serf. It's in all their principal texts.
Canada must be freer than the US. Nirvana turned down the name Fecal Matter, but this Montreal fashion team uses it now:
https://www.vogue.com/article/fecal-matter-instagram-duo-to-follow
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Shooting armed carjacker is same as school shooting:
“I think that whether it is mass shootings or what we have here, the root cause is trying to make sure that people who shouldn’t have guns don’t have them in the first place,”
Alternate story title: “World’s Worst GTA player”
Still, a pretty fair treatment of the case, including a useful and accurate quote from the world of concealed carry ("While people who have concealed-carry permits are trained to deal with the consequences of taking a life, that’s never the intent, according to concealed-carry permit trainer and gun expert Dean Hazen of Urbana, Illinois.'")
Though it would have been helpful if they got the police on record to at least confirm that in fact the alleged carjacker's gun was found at the scene. I suppose if it wasn't, then the story would have been quite different given that the alleged perp was named Carlos.
OT: Hey! This is library!
Dear Yan Shen,
This is for you.
“And we can be heroes, just for one day…”
– David Bowie
Love Always,
Ben Kenobi
https://globalnews.ca/news/4057307/richmond-kick-librarian/
How do you disentangle being Christian from being white? Given that whiteness and Christian-ness are highly correlated with one another, I wonder if they looked at all the non-white but Christian countries separately.
Also, you wonder to what extent Christianity is a religion that is naturally suited to the European genetic personality type (esp Scandinavian). Meaning: universalist, cucky, humanitarian and given to pathological altruism and Stockholm syndrome.
Would Europeans have invented “Christianity” if it hadn’t arrived on their doorstep in 0AD?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sarah
I probably conflated support for human rights with liberty. Looking at it from an English/American perspective, I don’t think about human rights. I think of liberty. Maybe the two are related, maybe they are not.
If I recall, Adam Smith wrote a little about England needing a much smaller standing army than other European nations because it did not have to worry about another nation easily crossing its border like what you had on the continent. So he felt England had more liberty than other Europeans nations, Switzerland excepted.
Additionally, in the Federalist Papers I think there was a discussion about the benefits of the 13 colonies being one nation because if they were two or more separate nations, they might become more like continental Europe and require larger standing armies as competition among them for land and resources might develop. Likewise liberty would decrease under those conditions.
I think the English believed that there was a link to small standing armies and liberty, and the need for a small standing army was dependent upon how likely your nation was to be invaded.
Note, they had no problem with large navies since the sailors presumably would be at sea on ships and would not pose a threat to liberty like soldiers.
You are right that the Dutch and Danes seem to be high on the human rights scale. But I don’t think they have the same concept of liberty that we do.
I am not too familiar with the Poles. It seems like a nice place, but once again do they have the same conception of liberty that we do?
Solidarity with Lech Welesa really got rolling about '81, and was the first crack in the Iron Curtain. Took another 8 years for the whole thing to come crashing down....
The location of Poland was probably about the worst place to form a country. Crazy russians on one side, crazy krauts on the other, and crazy autrians to the south. Terrible neighborhood.
No natural barriers, just a bunch of rivers to cross. Drive around the upper midwest to get an idea of how easy it was to invade and how impossible to defend...
This seems kinda bogus unless you exclude the West and MENA, doesn’t it? You want a group of countries where your a priori expectations are the same, more or less.
For example, it’d be great they’d only looked at countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Lots of Muslims, lots of Christians, varying proportions, not totally obvious what the data will show.
Asia is not a good candidate because it’s dominated by sui generis giants like India, China and Japan.
Islands? Britain seems to work this way, but then why not Japan, Ceylon, Java, New Zealand or Madagascar?Replies: @istevefan, @Tyrion 2
Like I explained in another comment, I was basing that on the discussions of liberty that I had read from Adam Smith and others who equated the need for a smaller standing army to having more liberty.
Thinking about it, it probably is highly specific to England and doesn’t seem to explain other nations in other parts of the world.
As far as an example of an easy-to-invade place I suggest Russia. She has those great plains which fierce neighbors have used as a highway to invade, plunder and pillage several times. The most devastating land battle in history took place there. So it makes sense that the Russians had to develop a strong central authority, liberty and rights be damned, to ensure they could defend themselves.
Maybe they don't mind being forced out by H-1Bs after a decade because they planned to quit and have babies anyway?Replies: @Rod1963, @rogue-one
The average drone at Google only works there for little over a year before quitting. When you factor in the cost of living where Google is situated, you realize a six figure income gets you squat for a decent place to live and you’re forced to commute as well. That may explain why people don’t stay.
The sad thing is these people could make the same amount working for the state of CA or most cities and have better working conditions and benefits.
This isn't because Google's a terrible place to work. It's because having Google on your resume instantly increases your market value and allows you to move into a higher-paying more senior role at another firm. You'll find similar turnover rates at Goldman Sachs, brand-name hedge funds, or white-shoe BIGLAW firms.
Much like Goldman, a stint at Google is an excellent stepping stone to move into highest echelons of the industry. The average engineer who lands a Google job out of school ends up making $300k+ at age 30. And that's just not the Bay Area. A lot of them are living in Seattle, LA, Austin or some other mid-level cost of living location.
Even adjusting for cost of living, people with Google on their resume almost certainly have higher incomes than 99% of Americans. For all its fault Google is still a meal-ticket to the inner circle of the elite.
http://gawker.com/5644817/bell-california-americas-most-corrupt-town
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/09/21/california.bell.arrests/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Bell_scandal
http://www.latimes.com/local/bell/la-me-bell-scandal-a-times-investigation-20160211-storygallery.html
- David BowieLove Always,Ben Kenobihttps://globalnews.ca/news/4057307/richmond-kick-librarian/Replies: @anonymous
wwebd said: I have very few heroes.
Among those whose names are in the history books, maybe Admiral Halsey and General Truscott, maybe Vice President Agnew, definitely Admiral Spruance and Solanus Casey, maybe (although he was a little bit off) Antonin Scalia. Well, and James Woods and Mike Savage, although they are both undereducated, through no fault of their own.
That being said, “Hey, This is Library!” dude is one of my heroes.
If you disagree, f*** off, “This is Library!”
May God bless him forever.
You see, now that the heroic Chinese people have ethnically cleansed Richmond there is no longer need for any further change.
Madness? THIS IS RICHMOND!!Replies: @Twinkie
eah wrote:
This poor Muslim man was having a sexual emergency! How dare you pry him off your daughter like that. Shame on you, you Islamophobic Nazi!
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Fgyyf wrote:
He did? What did he say?
The black and Jewish activists forced the Berkeley chief of police to apologize for the cop hauling him off her and beating him up
The evilness of liberals knows no bounds.
Something tells me if all the Christians in the study converted to Islam, and all the Muslims in the study converted to Christianity, these correlations would persist in place, rather than switch to follow the new nominal religions.
Just sayin’, I think there’s a big chicken or egg question here (though I think there are obvious, relevant theological differences).
Criticizing Christianity is a very safe, cozy, boring, lazy, conformist endeavor. Attacking Judaism or Islam is dangerous, bold, edgy, and non-conformist.
So Pinker’s saying something about himself.
Somebody tell me if I’m right or wrong in my interpretation of the above statement.
My interpretation of the statement is this: IQ and human rights correlate, but the religion-human rights correlation is higher.
Is this correct?
Quite so. More than a few jihadis who went to Iraq and later Syria were educated men with college degrees from Europe.
Maj. Hassan comes to mind here in the U.S. as a example of highly educated Muslim who became a soldier for allah.
We should never mistake that Islam’s call to be a shaheed only applies to the mindless serf. It’s in all their principal texts.
The new religion of PC probably correlates even more negatively with human rights than Islam does.
What do you mean? The SJW/cathedral is a cult.
In this case the heroic Asian übermensch kicked the old lady baizuo for wanting to seed his nice homogenous community with poor people.
You see, now that the heroic Chinese people have ethnically cleansed Richmond there is no longer need for any further change.
Madness? THIS IS RICHMOND!!
Maybe they don't mind being forced out by H-1Bs after a decade because they planned to quit and have babies anyway?Replies: @Rod1963, @rogue-one
1. Google & Youtube have attained a monopoly status. You don’t need to work 12 hours a day anymore. Some of my friends at google have had periods of several months where they basically did nothing.
2. Women & minorities are a protected class. They won’t be fired for H1Bs. Rather, they would some sort of part-time gig at Google/Youtube. On the other hand, white guys (& perhaps asians too) are disposable.
3. This illustrates the core dilemma of our times. Young men, often white or asian, build valuable things like companies. However, once these companies are functioning well, politically savvy “victimhood” groups like women and minorities take over a major portion of the company and its money pushing out the the kinds of people who actually built the thing. I have no doubt that if things go bad, these political opportunists would bail rather than try & fix things.
http://lazyway.blogs.com/.a/6a00d8341dc0af53ef014e86d85a6b970d-pi
A friend who spent a year teaching in Japan says that nothing really gets done in the last third or so of those twelve-hour shifts. Staying late is just virtue-signalling, Japan-style.
Yep.
How many white Britons have been summarily slung into jail recently – some for periods of *years* – for writing offensive words about ‘minorities’ on Twitter?
What really gets on my wick is hearing the BBC regular pompous pontifications about ‘human rights abuses’ in China.
The sad thing is these people could make the same amount working for the state of CA or most cities and have better working conditions and benefits.Replies: @Doug, @Alden, @Reg Cæsar
> The average drone at Google only works there for little over a year before quitting.
This isn’t because Google’s a terrible place to work. It’s because having Google on your resume instantly increases your market value and allows you to move into a higher-paying more senior role at another firm. You’ll find similar turnover rates at Goldman Sachs, brand-name hedge funds, or white-shoe BIGLAW firms.
Much like Goldman, a stint at Google is an excellent stepping stone to move into highest echelons of the industry. The average engineer who lands a Google job out of school ends up making $300k+ at age 30. And that’s just not the Bay Area. A lot of them are living in Seattle, LA, Austin or some other mid-level cost of living location.
Even adjusting for cost of living, people with Google on their resume almost certainly have higher incomes than 99% of Americans. For all its fault Google is still a meal-ticket to the inner circle of the elite.
> the only two human rights that matter these days are freedom of Muslims in Muslim countries to move to your country
Even on this metric the studies finding still holds. Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar definitely ain’t taking any Syrian refugees.
In not so long, we're going to loom like Ireland during the troubles. The locals will be in revolt against their foreign masters.Replies: @Louis Renault, @nebulafox, @36 ulster
One of the interesting differences between Sunni and Shi’a Islam, from my limited understanding, is that the former is a lot more decentralized. Shi’a Islam, on the other hand, has a very organized, hierarchial structure of mullahs and imams who are the only ones authorized to give fatwas-and becoming one takes decades of training, not too dissimilar from how entering the hierarchy of the Catholic Church would have been many centuries ago.
The overwhelming majority of terrorists attacking the West are Sunnis. Granted, part of that is simply numerics, but even so, the very anti-Western sort of Qutbism seems to really be rooted in a specifically Sunni form of literalist, radical Islam-it is in Sunni Islam that a figure like, say, Zarqawi, can find prominence more easily. In Shi’a Islam, the formal strictures of the religion would operate against him. Shi’a terrorist attacks are invariably almost always carried out within the Middle East for sectarian purposes as opposed to attacking the West. Even when the Persians launch covert operations in the West, it is almost always to assassinate specific Middle Eastern figures that they don’t like for political reasons (say, the Saudi ambassador to the US or certain Kurdish guerrilla leaders) rather than to attack random European or American civilians out of a high-flung mix of jihad fervor and nihilism.
This isn’t to downplay the deep hostility that the mullahs (and the Basij Militia, Quds, et all) have toward to the West writ large and to the US and Israel in particular, but the idea that Iran is the major terrorist threat that we face, as opposed to the Wahabbists and the inroads they are making into European Muslim immigrant populations, is deeply misguided. Yet it still carries massive currency among the neocon-infested FOX crowd.
Shiites pick an Ayatollah to support. Almost all Islamic or quasi Islamic splinter groups splintered from Shiism.
With the Sunnis, the studying on interpretation closed centuries ago with the four schools. End of story.
Shiism could theoretically come up with new interpretations.
Theoretically.Replies: @Nico
You see, now that the heroic Chinese people have ethnically cleansed Richmond there is no longer need for any further change.
Madness? THIS IS RICHMOND!!Replies: @Twinkie
I’ve always criticized this Yan Shen character for over-using that library clip. But it’s just as stupid to hold up this video as an example of how East Asians behave in general.
The sad thing is these people could make the same amount working for the state of CA or most cities and have better working conditions and benefits.Replies: @Doug, @Alden, @Reg Cæsar
Do they quit or are they encouraged to quit or outright fired? It’s an old, old strategy. Hire peopl, promise raises and promotions if they excel and then get rid of them right before the promised raise.
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Fgyyf wrote:He did? What did he say?Replies: @Alden
In the early 1970s a Berkeley Ca cop drove past a park and heard a woman screaming. He found her and a black rapist on top of her. The rapist refused to get off her. So the cop hauled him off and smashed him around a bit.
The black and Jewish activists forced the Berkeley chief of police to apologize for the cop hauling him off her and beating him up
The evilness of liberals knows no bounds.
Islam is, quite simply, incompatible with modern society.
2. Women & minorities are a protected class. They won't be fired for H1Bs. Rather, they would some sort of part-time gig at Google/Youtube. On the other hand, white guys (& perhaps asians too) are disposable.
3. This illustrates the core dilemma of our times. Young men, often white or asian, build valuable things like companies. However, once these companies are functioning well, politically savvy "victimhood" groups like women and minorities take over a major portion of the company and its money pushing out the the kinds of people who actually built the thing. I have no doubt that if things go bad, these political opportunists would bail rather than try & fix things.Replies: @Macumazahn, @Curtis Mouser I, @Reg Cæsar
Your #3 is called “convergence”.
Also, you wonder to what extent Christianity is a religion that is naturally suited to the European genetic personality type (esp Scandinavian). Meaning: universalist, cucky, humanitarian and given to pathological altruism and Stockholm syndrome.
Would Europeans have invented "Christianity" if it hadn't arrived on their doorstep in 0AD?Replies: @Robert Hume, @Tyrion 2, @Louis Renault, @Travis
Good point. Think of the great art and music associated with Christianity in white countries. For example Michelangelo and Bach. Is there anything like that in nonwhite Christian countries?
Re Islam: the following may be of interest:
http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/172777/sec_id/172777
James Damore attacked by Feminists:
A civilization addicted to the cult of newness and novelty. It has no attention span, no memory, no nothing but the thrill of getting more new stuff.Replies: @Tyrion 2, @Jake
Absolutely.
There is a famous lady who epitomises this. Hint, she has been diagnosed with BPD and works for the UNHCR.
To elucidate on her kids:
1. Adopted her first child, a boy, from Cambodia in order to stop her self-harm.
2. Adopted a girl from Ethiopia after visiting the country for the first time and deciding she wanted one.
3. Had a baby herself who supposedly decided that she was actually a boy at the age of 4. In exactly the same way that some crazy vegetarian lady’s cat ‘decided’ that it was a vegetarian too. LGBT – check!
4. Got bored again, so ordered in a Vietnamese boy.
5. Had twins! I assume a purposeful product of IVF and quite a novelty for a woman used to collecting just one of each type.
Funny how their signs are all in English. Funny also how if you scroll through you can see they can’t even spell death.
Islands? Britain seems to work this way, but then why not Japan, Ceylon, Java, New Zealand or Madagascar?Replies: @istevefan, @Tyrion 2
The Netherlands developed many of the most important components of what we might call liberty while being either continually invaded or under occupation for centuries.
Also, you wonder to what extent Christianity is a religion that is naturally suited to the European genetic personality type (esp Scandinavian). Meaning: universalist, cucky, humanitarian and given to pathological altruism and Stockholm syndrome.
Would Europeans have invented "Christianity" if it hadn't arrived on their doorstep in 0AD?Replies: @Robert Hume, @Tyrion 2, @Louis Renault, @Travis
It is an interesting question: How genes and culture co-evolve. Nonetheless, this particular instance seems pretty easy to answer.
Scandi-heaven pre-Christianity – you get there by dying in battle, once there you battle all day and debauche yourself all night.
Scandi-heaven post-Christianity – you get there by doing good deeds or even just thinking good thoughts. Once there you sit on fluffy clouds and sing soft songs in harmony with angels for eternity.
Really? Maybe I won’t even read it. I bought the ebook by mistake instead just the free sample.
He’s trying to be trendy. I guess a chapter on the marvels of Islam might too obvious and contradict common sense.
This study confirms common sense.
Criticizing Christianity is so commonplace. I was hoping for some new ideas.
He has fallen in with the Spiked Online crowd. They are very pro-Enlightenment. They are also an important part of the anti-SJW fightback as they are neither nihilists nor third world or even third sex volkists.
Righteous sincerity asymptotically approaches parody.
Here is the full personal gender pronouns document produced by @ChemistryatYork to help train our research & teaching staff and supervisors. #LGBTPhysSci #LGBTSTEM
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXPAvWnXcAA8gjU.jpgReplies: @Frau Katze
Back in days of yore, say the 1960s, it was rare indeed that the gender of someone wasn’t obvious.
I’m willing to use the pronoun that matches the appearance of the person.
Why would someone make a huge effort to go from male to female (for example) yet still want to be called “he”?
Accommodating sexual aberrancy has been a rather slippery slope, wouldn't you say?
http://media.moddb.com/images/groups/1/3/2933/there_are_only_two_genders.jpgReplies: @L Woods, @Frau Katze
Islam is an appropriate religion for the type of mentality that exists in the Middle East and other places.
Get the direction of causality correct.Replies: @Alec Leamas, @Frau Katze
In the current setting of Islam in the West it seems to attract aggressive and/or criminal whites.
I don’t have stats but there have been cases like this.
I have read that in France, Muslim criminals force everyone in the prison to convert.
Only someone with a strong tribal ethnic group (Corsica was mentioned) could resist.
The article about the French prisons carefully avoid stats.
Who are you quoting? Sounds interesting.
It's in his book on Kitchener:
http://www.gkc.org.uk/gkc/books/25795-h/25795-h.htm
I have become convinced that freedom of religion was, in its time, considered sufficient for ensuring communal freedom in the United States. To British settlers and early Americans, the church was the community. I don't think anyone who knows American history can honestly argue against that point. However, in recent times this fact of American life, which was always taken for granted until only a few decades ago, has been largely eradicated.
Thus we are left only with individual rights, which are inconsequential to an organization with a monopoly on force, e.g. the ATF and FBI in 1993 during the Waco siege.
When Christians no longer have the right to form their own communities according to their own principles, they are rendered impotent and defenseless.
Freedom of religion is essential in that there is ultimately no rational basis for human rights or liberty. As was made clear in the founding documents of the United States, our rights are God-given, and not subject to repeal based on sophistry or the declamations of prophet killers or would-be deicides.Replies: @Samuel Skinner, @bomag
That didn’t work. Freedom of religion lead to the American Civil War. Slavery was sanctioned by the Old Testament until Northerners decided it wasn’t because of feelz and changed their religious beliefs and used that to justify not obeying the law. This is inevitable because people like feeling superior to others and like having excuses to hurt others.
More then one religion CANNOT coexist in a single policy. One will always seize control of the machinery of state and rule over the others.
All the ‘organic declines’ involve society taking a turn to the left. The obvious answer is leftism is toxic and slowly destroys societies and so needs to be combated and stopped.
The study is probably not as complimentary as Judeo Christians are thinking.
Are homosexual rights an example of improved human rights or societal decedance? When examining human rights of Christian Nations does foreign colonies and occupations count?
Just sayin', I think there's a big chicken or egg question here (though I think there are obvious, relevant theological differences).Criticizing Christianity is a very safe, cozy, boring, lazy, conformist endeavor. Attacking Judaism or Islam is dangerous, bold, edgy, and non-conformist.
So Pinker's saying something about himself.Replies: @Frau Katze
Criticizing Christianity is old old hat. Not an iota of edginess there.
Shiism isn’t as hierarchical as you think. There’s no single head like the Catholic Pope. No single Ayatollah is in charge.
Shiites pick an Ayatollah to support. Almost all Islamic or quasi Islamic splinter groups splintered from Shiism.
With the Sunnis, the studying on interpretation closed centuries ago with the four schools. End of story.
Shiism could theoretically come up with new interpretations.
Theoretically.
I’m willing to use the pronoun that matches the appearance of the person.
Why would someone make a huge effort to go from male to female (for example) yet still want to be called “he”?Replies: @TTSSYF, @eah, @stillCARealist
I’m sure they don’t, but just because he/she is deceiving himself/herself doesn’t mean the rest of us have to play along. I’ll avoid pronouns altogether with such individuals. Bruce Jenner can have breast implants, plastic surgery on his face, and wear as many different sequined evening gowns he wants, but he still has a schlong, and every cell in his body is screaming XY. Why should we have to pretend otherwise and admire this emperor’s new clothes? He’s just a man in a dress with a sexual fetish that includes no small measure of exhibitionism. Likewise for the vast majority of transsexuals who, in our sick society, can find doctors to indulge their pursuit of unicorns. In all but the rarest of cases, it is, in my opinion, medical malpractice and abuse of scarce medical resources, and when it involves underage children, outright child abuse.
Several years ago I worked at a hospital where we were not allowed to use cutting edge equipment or drugs because it cost too much. But we also did a lot of sex change operations paid for by insurance. Big picture, if insurance didn't cover things like sex changes maybe they could have spared a few more bucks for the routine appendectomies and other surgeries that we did, and we could actually have equipment that wasn't constantly broken. Or maybe they could reduce premiums a bit. Or cover more people. But nope! As a society we wanted sex changes.
You got that right. Some Bahais have observed this, too: http://bahaiforums.com/interfaith/2708-shiite-islam-catholic-christianity.html
Also, you wonder to what extent Christianity is a religion that is naturally suited to the European genetic personality type (esp Scandinavian). Meaning: universalist, cucky, humanitarian and given to pathological altruism and Stockholm syndrome.
Would Europeans have invented "Christianity" if it hadn't arrived on their doorstep in 0AD?Replies: @Robert Hume, @Tyrion 2, @Louis Renault, @Travis
Are you still waiting for Google and Alexa to tell you who Jesus Christ is? Perhaps Cardianal Sarah can explain it to you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sarah
WATCH: Chuck Schumer votes against a Trump judicial nominee because the nominee is white. The Democratic Party is anti-white.
‘Human rights’ NGOs are staffed with intellectual and moral frauds. It was a generation ago that Morton Kondracke published an article delineating the career of Aryeh Neier, then a top official with Human Rights Watch. Neier was a press agent for the Sandinistas and other Latin American reds. You knew by 2000 that Amnesty International was utterly corrupt if it hadn’t been evident to you earlier: they declared cop killer Wesley Cook (a.k.a ‘Mumia Abu Jamal’) a ‘prisoner of conscience’. Now examine the annual reports of Freedom House. That people like Ezra Levant, Mark Steyn, Geert Wilders, Brigitte Bardot, and the entire membership of Vlaams Blok have been dragged through Star Chambers has no effect on the scores these countries receive. ‘Freedom’ House approves of official policy in these countries.
1/. 'Amnesty International' is mainly funded by UK taxpayers, whose money is appropriated whether they agree with AI's many odious positions or not.
2/. The 'Chief Executive' of Amnesty International pays himself a ridiculously huge salary - paid from the money which fools voluntarily donate, in the understanding the money's going to 'help the cause' or else is forcefully taken from taxpayers.Replies: @Anonymous
Thinking about it, it probably is highly specific to England and doesn't seem to explain other nations in other parts of the world.
As far as an example of an easy-to-invade place I suggest Russia. She has those great plains which fierce neighbors have used as a highway to invade, plunder and pillage several times. The most devastating land battle in history took place there. So it makes sense that the Russians had to develop a strong central authority, liberty and rights be damned, to ensure they could defend themselves.Replies: @Almost Missouri, @ConservaWhig
Another geo-determinative view is that liberty and prosperity come from good interior navigation. I.e., the US has (had?) relatively easy prosperity and light central authority because the interior river/canal system made moving commodities and people relatively cheap and easy. The Mississippi is probably the world’s largest navigable interior waterway, which also happens to intersect some of the world’s most productive farmland. And it is now supplemented by rail and superhighways.
In Russia, by contrast, the rivers do not connect, and they flow not out into the global waterways but into the frozen arctic. The trans-Siberian rail and highway do run like threads along southern Russia, but they are just threads, with nothing like the carrying capacity of the US network. Under this view, Russia could only connect and develop securely under powerful central authority.
Britain had extensive canals and everywhere is close to the coast, so water navigation is natural and easy, hence it politically resembles America (leaving aside Anglo heritage). Ditto Netherlands and Denmark. Germany and Poland are sort of in between, Germany more US-like, Poland more Russia-like. Greece and Italy are US/Britain-like. Spain in between. Arabia, China, Africa, India, Mexico more Russia-like. Argentina, Uruguay more US-like. Etc.
Outliers: Japan looks like Britain but acted like Russia, but then the Japanese are always outliers (they also got remarkable prosperity out of relatively poor land). Brazil looks like it should be a US clone with the Amazon as their Mississippi, but Brazil’s productive land is really along the coast or in the south, so the north-lying Amazon is really more of a vast outback than a pre-made trading highway, hence Brazil is a little more Russia-like than it “should” be. Canada looks like Russia, but most of the population live along the St. Lawrence or Great Lakes (or Pacific), so maps deceive us. Australia looks like a hot Russia but was settled by Brits, sooo…
Cascades of locks were necessary - which required their own ponds to operate - and such bizarre devices as 'inclined planes' and 'Anderson Boat Lifts' were built.
Oddly enough, the Edinburgh-Glasgow Union Canal, upon which Burke and Hare laboured as 'paddies' is perhaps the world's finest 'contour canal' - in that the engineers with great difficulty and much earth and bridge work, managed to build a level waterway through some rather unforgiving country.
Like the Mississippi, the Volga has a vast number of tributaries and sub-tributaries. Indeed, Moscow stands on one, the River Moskva. There are numerous canals also, which connect the Volga and Don, Lake Ladoga and elsewhere. Thus it is possible to transfer freight by boat from Saint Petersburg to Rostov-on-Don or Astrakhan. Like Germany, Russia moves a lot of freight by river and canal. The season is shorter - 9 to 10 months maximum, but it is still very important.
The Siberian rivers flow to the Arctic Ocean. In the south, they are frozen much of the year. At their mouths, they are frozen MOST of the year. Not very useful for navigation. But only 10 million live in Siberia, largely towards the south. The vast majority of Russians still live in European Russia, so Siberia is unimportant, except for oil and mineral deposits.
The trans-Siberian rail and highway do NOT run like threads through southern Russia. They connect Moscow, Siberia and the Russian Far East. They connect the dynamo ( European Russia ) to its sources of raw materials.Replies: @Almost Missouri
As long as white men have institutional power anywhere the world will be have no real freedoms and human rights
Lebsnerd “sho be likin his Tinys skilz” Pizzipty
I have become convinced that freedom of religion was, in its time, considered sufficient for ensuring communal freedom in the United States. To British settlers and early Americans, the church was the community. I don't think anyone who knows American history can honestly argue against that point. However, in recent times this fact of American life, which was always taken for granted until only a few decades ago, has been largely eradicated.
Thus we are left only with individual rights, which are inconsequential to an organization with a monopoly on force, e.g. the ATF and FBI in 1993 during the Waco siege.
When Christians no longer have the right to form their own communities according to their own principles, they are rendered impotent and defenseless.
Freedom of religion is essential in that there is ultimately no rational basis for human rights or liberty. As was made clear in the founding documents of the United States, our rights are God-given, and not subject to repeal based on sophistry or the declamations of prophet killers or would-be deicides.Replies: @Samuel Skinner, @bomag
Seems that the right of conquest underlies human affairs; God-given seems to line up with whoever is strongest at the time.
A Jew who hates Christ? How novel!
Two facts which I just cannot stand:
1/. ‘Amnesty International’ is mainly funded by UK taxpayers, whose money is appropriated whether they agree with AI’s many odious positions or not.
2/. The ‘Chief Executive’ of Amnesty International pays himself a ridiculously huge salary – paid from the money which fools voluntarily donate, in the understanding the money’s going to ‘help the cause’ or else is forcefully taken from taxpayers.
Therefore it is compromised and cannot be trusted.
Unfortunately, before railroads came along, large tracts of Britain were, out of necessity, pretty canal-less – the interior of Britain is rather hilly, if never of a great elevation.
Cascades of locks were necessary – which required their own ponds to operate – and such bizarre devices as ‘inclined planes’ and ‘Anderson Boat Lifts’ were built.
Oddly enough, the Edinburgh-Glasgow Union Canal, upon which Burke and Hare laboured as ‘paddies’ is perhaps the world’s finest ‘contour canal’ – in that the engineers with great difficulty and much earth and bridge work, managed to build a level waterway through some rather unforgiving country.
Shooting armed carjacker is same as school shooting:
“I think that whether it is mass shootings or what we have here, the root cause is trying to make sure that people who shouldn’t have guns don’t have them in the first place,”Alternate story title: "World's Worst GTA player"Replies: @Mr. Anon, @Buffalo Joe, @EdwardM
Hey, that carjacker was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
That sentence was about as grammatically coherent as I would expect from an Milwaukee Alderman named “Cavalier Johnson”.
Japan’s interior is filled with mountain ranges; they are not like Britain.
Japanese come pretty close.
Not that I would trust the German government...Replies: @Lars Porsena
Before it was unified it was the Holy Roman Empire for a thousand years. Who invaded that? Napoleon was the only one since Charlemagne. Germany has endured more foreign occupation since unification than before.
OFF TOPIC
https://twitter.com/BenjySarlin/status/969280853539999746
What the hell is Trumpy saying? 25 percent is not enough. Make it 95 percent.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXNnmagW4AIn8zM.jpgReplies: @donut, @Pericles
That can’t happen here right ?
McDonalds Corp is not a government organization, but nobody calls it a Non-Governmental Organization, because no one would confuse the people flipping burgers with governments. NGOs are noteworthy as NGOs because they are doing GO stuff, organized by governments and oligarchs in pursuit of foreign policy goals. If you’re going to let NGO’s into your country you may as well let the CIA in. I’m glad the eastern European governments are catching on to this.
Chesterton.
It’s in his book on Kitchener:
http://www.gkc.org.uk/gkc/books/25795-h/25795-h.htm
http://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/news/its-disgusting-ugly-racial-tensions-flare-in-melbourne-over-macedonia/news-story/3f6c12384b9606a05649bb6fd527e211
And why is this an Australian problem?
If both communities are so nationalist, why are they in Australia than in their own nations to raise this silly ruckus?
And why do Greeks take pride in Macedonia and Alexander? He kicked Greek ass and conquered them.
http://www.news.com.au/world/europe/inside-moped-gangs-terrorising-london-streets-with-acid-and-knives/news-story/8cc7868f58c00ca4f1c4a518d8345730
Diversity, the gift that keeps on giving.
A civilization addicted to the cult of newness and novelty. It has no attention span, no memory, no nothing but the thrill of getting more new stuff.Replies: @Tyrion 2, @Jake
That’s a good way of putting it.
To get there, we had to rebel against Christendom, which made certain we would both have deep guilt (meaning, we would feel we needed punishment) and search for new defining meaning in ideology, which necessarily would keep moving ever farther from any defense of the West that used to be Christendom.
Steve, this doesn’t sound correct to me.
I believe the two human rights that are most important:
— Right of Muslims to move to the West and impose their Musliminess on native white people.
— Right of mentally ill boys to use the girls’ locker room and bathroom.
(And to the perceptive the common thread of modern leftism is apparent.)
Tiny Duck Farts, (and allow me to say it gives me great pleasure to address you by name, Tiny Duck Farts,)
I was looking at that CIRI dataset and said, What? The rights came from one (1) of the nine core instruments. Then I saw where they came from. Aha. From DoS country reports. DoS only looks at the lame little driblet of halfassed rights the US government lets you have (except when they take them away from you with bad-faith interpretation of the instruments, like when cops want to handcuff you and tase the crap out of you and then shoot you eight times.) Getting human-rights evals from DoS is like asking Michael Jackson to evaluate your daycare center.
The right way to do this is to code the OHCHR Useful Information, weighting Issues and Conclusions and Recommendations* by article, with binary variables for follow-ons (more urgent derogations,) and coding UPR recommendations** for deficient commitments, then then do a cluster analysis.
Course if any professor went and did that, he and his tenure would be shit through a goose and he’d wind up Adjunct Lecturer in Emptying Wastebaskets at National American University’s flagship Mall of America campus.
* from http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Countries/Pages/HumanRightsintheWorld.aspx
** those are conveniently compiled here, https://www.upr-info.org/database/ though some of the cheekiest recommendations, like North Korea’s, tend to get bowdlerized. For all the best zingers you need to go to treatybodywebcast.org
WSJ — YouTube recruiters were allegedly instructed to cancel interviews with applicants who weren’t female, black or Hispanic
I’m willing to use the pronoun that matches the appearance of the person.
Why would someone make a huge effort to go from male to female (for example) yet still want to be called “he”?Replies: @TTSSYF, @eah, @stillCARealist
I’m willing to use the pronoun that matches the appearance of the person.
Accommodating sexual aberrancy has been a rather slippery slope, wouldn’t you say?
Heiner Rindermann – together with his colleague Detlev Rost – was the most important scientific defender of Thilo Sarrazin (Germany Does Away With Itself), who had risked to not only understand, but also make broad use of “The Bell Curve” to criticize unregulated mass-immigration – not least of muslims.
– A real act of enlightenment – it was Immanuel Kant, who once asked people, to make courageous use of their understanding!
– Steven Pinker fails in that regard in his new book, unfortunately.
That’s what was behind the Romans’ rule against any army crossing to south of the Rubicon. Unfortunately, the Praetorian Guard was all it took to turn Rome into a miliitary dictatorship, by the time of the first emperors.
Also, you wonder to what extent Christianity is a religion that is naturally suited to the European genetic personality type (esp Scandinavian). Meaning: universalist, cucky, humanitarian and given to pathological altruism and Stockholm syndrome.
Would Europeans have invented "Christianity" if it hadn't arrived on their doorstep in 0AD?Replies: @Robert Hume, @Tyrion 2, @Louis Renault, @Travis
interesting question…hard to separate the history of white people from Christianity…The church also impacted the the genes of whites by banning cousin marriages to destroy the clans which effected white culture. If the church had allowed cousin marriages to continue and not eliminated the clans white people today may well have been less altruistic.
Richard Wagner Christian.
Thomas Hardy Christian.
European Christendom is more European than Christian. The pagan streams still run clear and cold as Christianity becomes dry and brittle.
Christianity is either a fighting faith or it croaks. Christianity has become a surrender cult. Surrender cults don't do well up against submission cults.
I am too lazy to read Huntington's book on geo-political cultural conflict. I am energetic plenty enough and clear-sighted enough to call for the mass deportation of foreigners. A rumour was on the internet that the French Deep State has contingency plans for the mass deportation of foreigners. Macron would do it to save the French ruling class.
Christianity used to produce Greg Luzinski-type guys with warrior wings who had no problem delivering retaliation to invading Muslims in Europe. Globalization, financialization and anti-White propaganda have done much to destroy European Christendom.Replies: @Travis
This “study” demonstrates more than anything else the inanity of modern sociology and the limited utility of least squares regression.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXNnmagW4AIn8zM.jpgReplies: @donut, @Pericles
I think I can follow the official reasoning here. Tweeting pictures of a crime means you’re anti-crime. And that means you have to go to prison.
And, is genetics the lurking variable?
I’d say the freedom to worship blacks and point out how brilliant they are is as important as the freedom to bring muslins to your country. Anything but straight White Men.
They keep foisting all this pro-Muslim propaganda on us in the media to where it’s really sickening. All these wonderful, happy hijab-wearers are just like you and me and are wonderful new Americans. This primitive backwardness is being extolled as just some fashion statement. Man, the lies just never end.
2. Women & minorities are a protected class. They won't be fired for H1Bs. Rather, they would some sort of part-time gig at Google/Youtube. On the other hand, white guys (& perhaps asians too) are disposable.
3. This illustrates the core dilemma of our times. Young men, often white or asian, build valuable things like companies. However, once these companies are functioning well, politically savvy "victimhood" groups like women and minorities take over a major portion of the company and its money pushing out the the kinds of people who actually built the thing. I have no doubt that if things go bad, these political opportunists would bail rather than try & fix things.Replies: @Macumazahn, @Curtis Mouser I, @Reg Cæsar
3 The sooner White beta males realize society is structured against them & give up, the better. Civilizational collapse would ensue, increasing our value.
I’m willing to use the pronoun that matches the appearance of the person.
Why would someone make a huge effort to go from male to female (for example) yet still want to be called “he”?Replies: @TTSSYF, @eah, @stillCARealist
Did you follow the link? It goes to some queer schmuck in Britain who wants to let everyone know how righteous he is. He wants nothing to do with YOUR religion, but you must respect HIS faith. And he will “gently correct” you if you say something insensitive. I doubt he even knows a “transgender” person, which, BTW, is almost undefinable in real life.
Think he went schlongless early to mid last yeast! Was very vocal about his happiness in being rid of “little Kaitlin”.
Thinking about it, it probably is highly specific to England and doesn't seem to explain other nations in other parts of the world.
As far as an example of an easy-to-invade place I suggest Russia. She has those great plains which fierce neighbors have used as a highway to invade, plunder and pillage several times. The most devastating land battle in history took place there. So it makes sense that the Russians had to develop a strong central authority, liberty and rights be damned, to ensure they could defend themselves.Replies: @Almost Missouri, @ConservaWhig
My Russian History professor presented your ideas about Russia as Richard Pipes’ hypothesis.
Thomas Sowell has pointed to Europe vs. Africa as an example of how different types and numbers of rivers can promote different levels of liberty/prosperity.
eah, so the Contrarian Principle that says “white face” is good, “black face” is racist.
Hub, a few years ago, a member of the Canadian Human Rights commission said that “Free Speech ” is an American concept, that doesn’t apply in Canada. The nation directly to our north has different laws concerning freedom of speech and they can be quite restrictive. I believe Mark Steyn was charged in Canada with hate speech against Muslims for saying something that is acceptable, under the law, in the USA.
The vast majority of European Russia drains southwards to the Caspian ( Volga ) or Black Sea ( Don ). I won’t even mention the Dnieper ( apologies to AK ).
Like the Mississippi, the Volga has a vast number of tributaries and sub-tributaries. Indeed, Moscow stands on one, the River Moskva. There are numerous canals also, which connect the Volga and Don, Lake Ladoga and elsewhere. Thus it is possible to transfer freight by boat from Saint Petersburg to Rostov-on-Don or Astrakhan. Like Germany, Russia moves a lot of freight by river and canal. The season is shorter – 9 to 10 months maximum, but it is still very important.
The Siberian rivers flow to the Arctic Ocean. In the south, they are frozen much of the year. At their mouths, they are frozen MOST of the year. Not very useful for navigation. But only 10 million live in Siberia, largely towards the south. The vast majority of Russians still live in European Russia, so Siberia is unimportant, except for oil and mineral deposits.
The trans-Siberian rail and highway do NOT run like threads through southern Russia. They connect Moscow, Siberia and the Russian Far East. They connect the dynamo ( European Russia ) to its sources of raw materials.
And agree that the Trans Siberian transportation carries nothing like the capacity of the US system.
Shiites pick an Ayatollah to support. Almost all Islamic or quasi Islamic splinter groups splintered from Shiism.
With the Sunnis, the studying on interpretation closed centuries ago with the four schools. End of story.
Shiism could theoretically come up with new interpretations.
Theoretically.Replies: @Nico
The governing council of Iran is still bats*** crazy, but if our hands weren’t tied in a particular paradigm of alliances in the region (don’t make me include round brackets) there is a lot of potential to play off the sentiments of the population, who by most accounts are tired of the same old and itching to emerge as a modern society in the world.
Shooting armed carjacker is same as school shooting:
“I think that whether it is mass shootings or what we have here, the root cause is trying to make sure that people who shouldn’t have guns don’t have them in the first place,”Alternate story title: "World's Worst GTA player"Replies: @Mr. Anon, @Buffalo Joe, @EdwardM
Hip, armed car jackings have become the go to crime for armed thugs in Chicago and Cleveland. Last week a student leaving St. Ignatius HS in Cleveland, a Jesuit prep school, was car jacked in the school’s fenced parking lot after lacrosse try outs. The car was then listed for sale on Craig’s List. Chicago has an epidemic of jackings. Nothing minor about being confronted by a armed hood who wants your vehicle. A few years ago, in Texas I believe, a thug shot and killed a car owner, in front of the man’s wife and 10 year old daughter, because the man’s car had stick shift and the thug couldn’t drive away.
Imagine being that desperate to avoid acknowledging racial differences.
Accommodating sexual aberrancy has been a rather slippery slope, wouldn't you say?
http://media.moddb.com/images/groups/1/3/2933/there_are_only_two_genders.jpgReplies: @L Woods, @Frau Katze
One mistake: the symbol in the far upper left should be in both categories.
I can’t think of a more succinct endorsement of the Prophet’s followers.
Van Morrison Christian.
Richard Wagner Christian.
Thomas Hardy Christian.
European Christendom is more European than Christian. The pagan streams still run clear and cold as Christianity becomes dry and brittle.
Christianity is either a fighting faith or it croaks. Christianity has become a surrender cult. Surrender cults don’t do well up against submission cults.
I am too lazy to read Huntington’s book on geo-political cultural conflict. I am energetic plenty enough and clear-sighted enough to call for the mass deportation of foreigners. A rumour was on the internet that the French Deep State has contingency plans for the mass deportation of foreigners. Macron would do it to save the French ruling class.
Christianity used to produce Greg Luzinski-type guys with warrior wings who had no problem delivering retaliation to invading Muslims in Europe. Globalization, financialization and anti-White propaganda have done much to destroy European Christendom.
They have every bit of the same conception of liberty as we do. Especially in the last 100 years, since the germans, russians, and austrians had to leave Poland after WW1. Poland disappeared in 1795, it was part of the surrounding empires. I was watching a TV program about Marie Curie and how she and her family resisted the occupying power; couldn’t speak Polish or know about Polish history. They did.
Solidarity with Lech Welesa really got rolling about ’81, and was the first crack in the Iron Curtain. Took another 8 years for the whole thing to come crashing down….
The location of Poland was probably about the worst place to form a country. Crazy russians on one side, crazy krauts on the other, and crazy autrians to the south. Terrible neighborhood.
No natural barriers, just a bunch of rivers to cross. Drive around the upper midwest to get an idea of how easy it was to invade and how impossible to defend…
Thomas Sowell blamed Scotch-Irish plantation overseers and Scotch-Irish cultural norms in general for Black violence and Black riotousness. I am a Euro-Mongrel with a Givens surname in my ancestry. Sowell can go straight to hell.
In not so long, we're going to loom like Ireland during the troubles. The locals will be in revolt against their foreign masters.Replies: @Louis Renault, @nebulafox, @36 ulster
To WHICH Irish troubles do you refer, Z? There seem to have been so damned many of them, from time immemorial.
Poland doesn't have resistances. Poland is resistance.
Definitely. No ray of hope there. They’re hardcore.
Accommodating sexual aberrancy has been a rather slippery slope, wouldn't you say?
http://media.moddb.com/images/groups/1/3/2933/there_are_only_two_genders.jpgReplies: @L Woods, @Frau Katze
What I meant was he or she. nothing else. Maybe “it”.
Liebe Frau Katze, you seem a bit unclear on the concept of a slippery slope -- go ahead, use "she" or "her" to talk about Bruce Jenner -- go ahead, I dare you -- "LOL".
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXBrHlEWkAI0M8z.jpgReplies: @YetAnotherAnon, @Frau Katze
While we’re on the subject of Muslims and Christians, Snowden NSA intercepts reveal that the NSA tried to recruit Arab-speakers from a jobs fair in Dearborn, but few passed vetting.
“NSA Trusts Few Arabic-Speaking Americans It Finds at Detroit Job Fair”
Although we should remember that all of us would probably fail vetting simply by virtue of being iSteve readers.
hi Tiny!
where would you most like to live (Wakanda off table)?
In the land of Fake News, we have Fake Education and Fake Grades.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-01/dc-high-school-graduation-rate-plummet-73-42-after-massive-fraud-revealed
We need Wakanda High that serves lunches rich in vibranium. That will make black students do their homework and all head to Harvard.
Were the Romans more or less charitable after their old gods were replaced by their new gods?
Is it the People or their Gods?
Right, but everyone lives close to the sea, so even when the interior is mountainous, it is also shallow and easily circumnavigated.
Ohs Tinys….you’n hab teh freedum to do’s all teh things I lak U to be doin wit dat purty whyte Mouf o urs!
Lebsnerd “sho be likin his Tinys skilz” Pizzipty
Irish! Irish! I rish I were a Chinaman so I wouldn’t have this damn Irish Curse!
It wasn't easy at all to invade.Replies: @Coag
Those days are long gone. The Islamification of the Netherlands is coming along quite well. The Dutch are really taking their 80 year war era motto to heart these days, “Better the Turk than the Pope”.
This sounds as likely as the strike by “men of the mind” that Ayn Rand envisions in Atlas Shrugged.
Right to ‘twerk’ at work.
The Twerking Class.
http://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/daycare-employees-caught-twerking-instead-of-working/523919651
“Who invaded that? Napoleon was the only one since Charlemagne.” Oh balls. Did the Thirty Years War never happen? Did Louis XIV never live?
It would probably more accurate to say that the American concept of “Free Speech ” relates only to government interference in speech.
isteve can’t handle anybody with a different kind of needlin than his, huh?
OFF TOPIC
Larry Kudlow, baby boomer doper and open borders free trade advocate, is upset that President Trump is going to protect US sovereignty by placing protective tariffs on nations that cheat the USA. Larry Kudlow also supports open borders mass immigration and amnesty for illegal alien invaders.
Kudlow appears on TV to attack the patriotic Trump tariffs:
Human rights is a social construct, a fragile one.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2162628-biggest-ever-family-tree-shows-when-cousins-stopped-having-sex/
Steve real interesting study on cousin marriages
Denouncing a man’s entire body of work because he said something negative about your own people?
Considering how imitative blacks are of whites, Thomas Sowell can’t be that far off. Black slaves and their descendants worship the white man’s Jesus even more than the white man does. When marriage used to be a societal norm, blacks in the US had a higher marriage rates than whites. Up until 1970 black women were more likely to marry than white women, 1960 for black men. However, whites started promoting fornication, feminism, and drug use, blacks copied them and suffered greatly for it — far more than whites. Today, mention to blacks their negative behaviors and the first thing out of their mouths will be, “Well, whites do it too”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_family_structure#/media/File:Nonmarital_Birth_Rates_in_the_United_States,_1940-2014.png(((whites)))) promoted them, but that's not really the issue here. Fornication, matriachal household organisation and high-risk, low-time preference behaviour (drug use) at high rates are how blacks behave apart from white influence in West Africa. It's not something that they need to copy from white people to do.True, American blacks do always blame white people for their problems.
Wakanda leads the way in cutting edge medicine .
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2018/03/02/Kenyan-hospital-staff-suspended-after-brain-surgery-on-wrong-patient/2991520010269/?utm_source=fp&utm_campaign=lh&utm_medium=7
Black illegitimacy rates were always more than double that of whites and they obviously always committed far more crime.
(((whites)))) promoted them, but that’s not really the issue here. Fornication, matriachal household organisation and high-risk, low-time preference behaviour (drug use) at high rates are how blacks behave apart from white influence in West Africa. It’s not something that they need to copy from white people to do.
True, American blacks do always blame white people for their problems.
Blacks must be white-supremacist. They hate living with other blacks in their own nations. They feel life will improve only by moving to white nations and living with whites.
But this is spun as ‘diversity is good for whites’ when the real logic is ‘whites are good for blacks.’
Non-whites all believe whites are good for them. White nations, white rule of law, white wealth, white enterprise, white institutions, etc. But they are too ashamed to admit they prefer whites over their own kind, and so, they invoke the ‘gift’ of Diversity to make it seem as though they are doing a favor to whites by offering Diversity when, in fact, they want whites to offer them free gibs.
In CITIZEN KANE, the tycoon grows emptier in soul and builds Xanudu, and he tries to fill his emptiness with more and more acquisitions from around the world. He’s no longer interested in things in themselves, only in the getting of more and more things.
And current elites see the US as their Xanudu. Keep bringing in more hordes to hoard.
dearime, Ok, thank you, I stand corrected.
One of the most disgusting things about all this is that the sex change operations are for the most part paid for by insurance; next time you pay your insurance premium remember that some of that will go towards choppin’ off the man bits.
Several years ago I worked at a hospital where we were not allowed to use cutting edge equipment or drugs because it cost too much. But we also did a lot of sex change operations paid for by insurance. Big picture, if insurance didn’t cover things like sex changes maybe they could have spared a few more bucks for the routine appendectomies and other surgeries that we did, and we could actually have equipment that wasn’t constantly broken. Or maybe they could reduce premiums a bit. Or cover more people. But nope! As a society we wanted sex changes.
White supremacy has always been linked to fidelity to the teachings of Christ and the enemies of Christ know it.
https://twitter.com/Millenniel_Matt/status/969288328955813894
This is the the reference for the Rindermann article. So far it has not shown up at the link where I usually get copies of journal articles:
http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/15691330-12341451
So that’s why we all hide behind pseudonyms.
print NSADoxx(SubjName)=>: Leo TrotskyI KNEW IT!Replies: @Joe Stalin
That's fine if you're avoiding death by SJW, but I doubt it'll stop NSA and I know it won't stop GCHQ.
ISPs in the UK are obliged by law to keep 6 months worth of internet history, and I assume that if I wanted a job there, that would be one of the first things they'd check - "what does this guy (or his household) look at?". I suppose you could make their job harder with a proxy service or TOR.
Quite often now UK court cases hear prosecution evidence of the defendant's Google searches for "how to poison someone" or "how to dispose of a body".
Here we see a 2018 trial in which evidence of a defendant's google use in April 2016 is prosecution evidence.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-43202173
"the court also heard the mother had googled the amount of salt it is safe for a toddler to eat the day before"
Replies: @Joe Stalin
2. Women & minorities are a protected class. They won't be fired for H1Bs. Rather, they would some sort of part-time gig at Google/Youtube. On the other hand, white guys (& perhaps asians too) are disposable.
3. This illustrates the core dilemma of our times. Young men, often white or asian, build valuable things like companies. However, once these companies are functioning well, politically savvy "victimhood" groups like women and minorities take over a major portion of the company and its money pushing out the the kinds of people who actually built the thing. I have no doubt that if things go bad, these political opportunists would bail rather than try & fix things.Replies: @Macumazahn, @Curtis Mouser I, @Reg Cæsar
Wally lives!
http://lazyway.blogs.com/.a/6a00d8341dc0af53ef014e86d85a6b970d-pi
A friend who spent a year teaching in Japan says that nothing really gets done in the last third or so of those twelve-hour shifts. Staying late is just virtue-signalling, Japan-style.
I missed a talk at a very traditional Catholic church tonight. The subject was “The Polish Resistance”. I’m still wondering to which resistance it refers– vs the CPSU, the NDSAP, the EU? There are so many to choose from.
Poland doesn’t have resistances. Poland is resistance.
The sad thing is these people could make the same amount working for the state of CA or most cities and have better working conditions and benefits.Replies: @Doug, @Alden, @Reg Cæsar
Cities like Bell?
http://gawker.com/5644817/bell-california-americas-most-corrupt-town
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/09/21/california.bell.arrests/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Bell_scandal
http://www.latimes.com/local/bell/la-me-bell-scandal-a-times-investigation-20160211-storygallery.html
That may be part of it. But monocausal explanations are generally suboptimal. Smart people are probably going to gravitate to the less obvious explanations regardless of political correctness, since even dumb people can figure out the obvious ones.
Yes, but why choose one belonging to a figure who, among other sins, was a good friend of Franklin Roosevelt?
SubjName=”Joe Stalin”
print NSADoxx(SubjName)
=>: Leo Trotsky
I KNEW IT!
One degree of seperation; not bad, huh?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRrVnGMyeQY
Thomas Sowell’s entire work on white-black differences is an attempt to avoid the obvious explanation. That’s not ‘smart’ it’s cowardly.
1/. 'Amnesty International' is mainly funded by UK taxpayers, whose money is appropriated whether they agree with AI's many odious positions or not.
2/. The 'Chief Executive' of Amnesty International pays himself a ridiculously huge salary - paid from the money which fools voluntarily donate, in the understanding the money's going to 'help the cause' or else is forcefully taken from taxpayers.Replies: @Anonymous
Amnesty International is substantially funded by the UK government.
Therefore it is compromised and cannot be trusted.
he or she. nothing else
Liebe Frau Katze, you seem a bit unclear on the concept of a slippery slope — go ahead, use “she” or “her” to talk about Bruce Jenner — go ahead, I dare you — “LOL”.
print NSADoxx(SubjName)=>: Leo TrotskyI KNEW IT!Replies: @Joe Stalin
My Chicago Alderman Leon Depres (Democrat) actually KNEW Leon Trotsky!
One degree of seperation; not bad, huh?
Richard Wagner Christian.
Thomas Hardy Christian.
European Christendom is more European than Christian. The pagan streams still run clear and cold as Christianity becomes dry and brittle.
Christianity is either a fighting faith or it croaks. Christianity has become a surrender cult. Surrender cults don't do well up against submission cults.
I am too lazy to read Huntington's book on geo-political cultural conflict. I am energetic plenty enough and clear-sighted enough to call for the mass deportation of foreigners. A rumour was on the internet that the French Deep State has contingency plans for the mass deportation of foreigners. Macron would do it to save the French ruling class.
Christianity used to produce Greg Luzinski-type guys with warrior wings who had no problem delivering retaliation to invading Muslims in Europe. Globalization, financialization and anti-White propaganda have done much to destroy European Christendom.Replies: @Travis
I tend to agree but I suspect the Church rules which prohibited marriage to third and fourth cousins changed the nature of Europeans. It certainly destroyed the power of the clans and changed our DNA.
How many degrees of separation do I have from FDR? One my siblings knew physicist Robert J. Moon, who signed the letter with Einstein to warn about possibility of the atomic bomb. Don’t know if he ever talked to FDR, but he did talk to Winston Churchill.
“So that’s why we all hide behind pseudonyms.”
That’s fine if you’re avoiding death by SJW, but I doubt it’ll stop NSA and I know it won’t stop GCHQ.
ISPs in the UK are obliged by law to keep 6 months worth of internet history, and I assume that if I wanted a job there, that would be one of the first things they’d check – “what does this guy (or his household) look at?“. I suppose you could make their job harder with a proxy service or TOR.
Quite often now UK court cases hear prosecution evidence of the defendant’s Google searches for “how to poison someone” or “how to dispose of a body”.
Here we see a 2018 trial in which evidence of a defendant’s google use in April 2016 is prosecution evidence.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-43202173
“the court also heard the mother had googled the amount of salt it is safe for a toddler to eat the day before”
Do people ever clamor for gun rights? Privacy? Freedom to insult other races, religions, ethnic groups?
Self-defense tools?
Normal things we take for granted in America?
Is America going to be "The Last Stand" for this stuff?
The Shias also have in common that their Moharram observances involve carrying replicas of the tombs of the martyrs around the town, while beating the breast or worse and chanting “Ya Hassan!”. Bit like carrying Our Lady’s statue round a Spanish town singing a ‘saeta’ to her at every stop.
Liebe Frau Katze, you seem a bit unclear on the concept of a slippery slope -- go ahead, use "she" or "her" to talk about Bruce Jenner -- go ahead, I dare you -- "LOL".
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXBrHlEWkAI0M8z.jpgReplies: @YetAnotherAnon, @Frau Katze
Mel at 62 seems to be ageing better than Bruce at 68.
Liebe Frau Katze, you seem a bit unclear on the concept of a slippery slope -- go ahead, use "she" or "her" to talk about Bruce Jenner -- go ahead, I dare you -- "LOL".
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXBrHlEWkAI0M8z.jpgReplies: @YetAnotherAnon, @Frau Katze
I see your point. Good grief!
That's fine if you're avoiding death by SJW, but I doubt it'll stop NSA and I know it won't stop GCHQ.
ISPs in the UK are obliged by law to keep 6 months worth of internet history, and I assume that if I wanted a job there, that would be one of the first things they'd check - "what does this guy (or his household) look at?". I suppose you could make their job harder with a proxy service or TOR.
Quite often now UK court cases hear prosecution evidence of the defendant's Google searches for "how to poison someone" or "how to dispose of a body".
Here we see a 2018 trial in which evidence of a defendant's google use in April 2016 is prosecution evidence.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-43202173
"the court also heard the mother had googled the amount of salt it is safe for a toddler to eat the day before"
Replies: @Joe Stalin
Do people in the UK consider themselves “free” in a free speech context?
Do people ever clamor for gun rights? Privacy? Freedom to insult other races, religions, ethnic groups?
Self-defense tools?
Normal things we take for granted in America?
Is America going to be “The Last Stand” for this stuff?
“Do people in the UK consider themselves “free” in a free speech context?”
Not any more. “It’s a free country” used to be a common expression, you don’t hear it now.
Gun rights have been eroded over the last century (no restrictions before WW1), pistols banned after a dodgy guy who the police had been warned about on many occasions shot a load of kids in Dunblane, Scotland some 25 years back. Police and establishment closed ranks on why he’d been given a license for four handguns, but were happy to ban all handguns. Now only the police and inner city gangsters have them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunblane_massacre#Criticism_of_the_authorities
“Freedom to insult other races, religions, ethnic groups?”
No, unless they’re white.
“Is America going to be “The Last Stand” for this stuff?”
I think so. Defend the Constitution.
Like the Mississippi, the Volga has a vast number of tributaries and sub-tributaries. Indeed, Moscow stands on one, the River Moskva. There are numerous canals also, which connect the Volga and Don, Lake Ladoga and elsewhere. Thus it is possible to transfer freight by boat from Saint Petersburg to Rostov-on-Don or Astrakhan. Like Germany, Russia moves a lot of freight by river and canal. The season is shorter - 9 to 10 months maximum, but it is still very important.
The Siberian rivers flow to the Arctic Ocean. In the south, they are frozen much of the year. At their mouths, they are frozen MOST of the year. Not very useful for navigation. But only 10 million live in Siberia, largely towards the south. The vast majority of Russians still live in European Russia, so Siberia is unimportant, except for oil and mineral deposits.
The trans-Siberian rail and highway do NOT run like threads through southern Russia. They connect Moscow, Siberia and the Russian Far East. They connect the dynamo ( European Russia ) to its sources of raw materials.Replies: @Almost Missouri
Yes the only river in Russia that flows under Russian sovereignty into the global ocean is the Don. Unfortunately for Russia, it flows into the Sea of Azov, which flows into the Black Sea, which connects via the Dardanelles to the Mediterranean. At each of these stages, trade, transport and naval sallies are subject to interdiction by the global maritime hegemon (Ottomans & Britain in the past, US in the present, China(?) in the future), especially at the Dardanelles, Gibraltar and Suez. The Ottomans and the British have closed the Dardanelles at will during past conflicts.
And agree that the Trans Siberian transportation carries nothing like the capacity of the US system.
Shooting armed carjacker is same as school shooting:
“I think that whether it is mass shootings or what we have here, the root cause is trying to make sure that people who shouldn’t have guns don’t have them in the first place,”Alternate story title: "World's Worst GTA player"Replies: @Mr. Anon, @Buffalo Joe, @EdwardM
Brilliant! So, since we know nothing about the perp (at least from the article; perhaps the esteemed Alderman knows something that we don’t), what he means by “people who shouldn’t have guns” who therefore “don’t have them in the first place” is people who will eventually use their guns in a crime. That used to be called a tautology, or perhaps just a non sequitur.
Still, a pretty fair treatment of the case, including a useful and accurate quote from the world of concealed carry (“While people who have concealed-carry permits are trained to deal with the consequences of taking a life, that’s never the intent, according to concealed-carry permit trainer and gun expert Dean Hazen of Urbana, Illinois.’”)
Though it would have been helpful if they got the police on record to at least confirm that in fact the alleged carjacker’s gun was found at the scene. I suppose if it wasn’t, then the story would have been quite different given that the alleged perp was named Carlos.