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https://twitter.com/APStylebook/status/1618658301750689792
OK, everybody, you got the message: “the French” don’t exist anymore. Now there are just people with Frenchness.
Same with “whites.” They are now people with whiteness. So when the Diversity Inclusion Equity movement say “Abolish whiteness” they don’t mean abolish white people, just what makes them white, like their home equity.
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Ukrainian refugees in England.
That will be quite some turnaround for Brits like me who are old enough to remember the fall of communism. I wonder how many of the East Europeans currently living here will choose to remain given the demographic and economic trends?
theUK...Reporter: "Many people would be offended that you feel uncomfortable living around minorities."
Ukrainian woman: "I saw statistics on crime on government website."
People experiencing Frankity
If Paleo Retiree doesn't comment, we'll be disappointed. (Paleo Liberal is good, but it wouldn't be the same.)
This is a fresh example of matriarchal managerialism. It’s silly female fussiness in aid of the permanent cultural revolution.
Turn the universities into finishing schools for young ladies, staff those universities with crypto-Trotskyite saboteurs and this is what you get.
It's obvious from recent events that most young white women--young women in general--badly need "finishing school".
Among the topics in the curriculum:
-- don't get drunk
-- black men are not acceptable romantic partners (they properly belong to black women)
-- keep your legs crossed
-- put down your phone (and stop posting slutty pictures of yourself)Replies: @Kylie
I'll be borrowing this term. I'll be borrowing it so much that the people in my life will want to shoot me. Particularly the womens, whom I love and respect.
It's so clumsy, all it tends to do is annoy normies and actually keep them aware that they are continually being propagandized.
Much more sinister is the stuff journalists--and the AP stylebook--dictate around race and crime. By basically censoring racial information it actively keeps readers heads foggier and confused about the world, less aware of HBD patterns, and more susceptible to minoritarian lying.
Well, duh.
Epstein was a high-level asset for the Mossad, the CIA and who knows who else (MI6 probably, the Saudi’s maybe?)
He was so well paid because he was so valuable - he could blackmail many, many people.
Is he really dead?
I don’t know, but I wouldn’t bet on it - intelligence agencies want to reward their key assets, not kill them.
Epstein was not “expendable.”
Ok, now AP is trolling us all with what they can get away with.
Ed West suggests:
I prefer the more sensitive ‘people experiencing Frenchness’
Just noticed the past two months a lot of MSM articles are capitalizing White now. Besides being obviously racist, capitalizing Black people but not white people also just looks stupid.
Unless this is just a joke, the crazies are just toying with us. “Ha ha we have all the power!!! You cannot stop us from enforcing really stupid ideas on everyone.”
Although I am a diehard Francophile, lot of weird philosophical ideals started in France that are then blamed on Americans when our Universities pick up on them. Some segment of Frenchmen( no, not just ((((Frenchmen))), would be fine with this.
Louis XIV? Poirot? Foucault? All those perfume brand names?Replies: @Thea
Can I still use ‘cheese eating surrender monkey?’
So that’s what happened with the Ukraine.
Example: “Multiple horrendous assaults were perpetrated on the New York City subway last night by people with mental illness…”
Persons experiencing Frenchness.
Persons who identify as French.
Quiche-involved persons.
Speakers of a European dialect of the Haitian language.
https://i.ibb.co/nPJ8pPr/81c9b03ec9ef03b4f62a456661d8481e775d99a6-14.jpgReplies: @International Jew
What about your Tribe, hmm?
https://youtu.be/YnjpG4HjO30Replies: @Art Deco, @Bardon Kaldian, @HammerJack, @Glaivester
All humans are exactly the same, every attribute just a random circumstance of no intrinsic meaning. This is the liberal world order view of the human person. Basically an avatar out of the matrix where we are all only beings in the image of a genetic neutral concept of man. Existentialist over essentialist philosophy. But like if you were really forced to believe it. That all meaning is drained. We are just existing beings with nothing at our core essence.
It’s the stupidest thing to see enacted, ever more week by week. The most appropriate thing to do is laugh. It will pass. It’s too stupid to endure.
https://www.iol.co.za/business-report/energy/eskom-wants-to-get-rid-of-another-500-white-maintenance-staff-says-trade-union-solidarity-388f7589-0d9d-4376-97f9-bef90553d611
There are no plans to poison the techs --just lay them off. Outgoing CEO was another matter
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/08/south-africa-police-investigate-alleged-plot-poison-eskom-ceo-andre-de-ruyter
Both “White” and “Black” should have been capitalized a long time ago. Too bad it had to happen in such an ass-backwards way.
The worst thing we can encounter here is a mixture of stupidity, lack of knowledge, arrogance, ignorance, physicists and considering himself/herself/whatever exceptional and entitled to patronize others. The more stupid someone is, the more he thinks he has the right to be above everyone else.
The paradox is that a lot is written about the white race and its current problems, especially in the US but also in Europe (and South Africa).
But hardly anyone knows when and where the white race originated, where are the roots of its civilization, culture and language. Barely any European (or derivative) knows the origin of the name – Europe.
“The poor, the mentally ill, the French, the disabled…”
I guess in some ways we’re still in touch with our English heritage. 😉
Frogs?
Yet if you talk about abolishing Jewishness, the same people who want to “abolish whiteness” change their tune very quickly.
BTW, are today’s French folx considered “white?”
Having some experience with the Pantone system, and being somewhat aspergy, so much of our culture’s obsession with race and color drives me nuts.
That’s why I’m so keen on this end-stage-empire reparations thing. We can do this, team.
We can easily figure out who’s eligible for the loot… err, reparations based upon quantifiable metrics.
Give us a drop of blood, a wee bit of sequencing, some decent databases with geneological data, fewer than 1K lines of Python, and there’s your path to billions. Billions, I say.
We can make more money than most US politicians.
Nothing sexier on a woman than a French accent. Of course just the opposite for a man.
Cue: Tonight’ s The Night by Rod Stewart
Ooo, bay-bee, talk astro-physics to me!
OT:
Ukrainian refugees don’t know how to play our complicated social games yet:
Very Good.
OT, but somewhat related:
This is good news. We need to know how many real white people are in this country and how many “white people” are arabs and other non-europeans. Imagine trying to understand history or the world today while assuming that arabs and europeans are the same. That would be absurd. There is a massive bonus to this, of course. Increasing awareness that europeans and MENA people are not the same race also makes people more aware that jews are a MENA people from outside of europe. That awareness radically reduces the effectiveness of jewish crypsis strategies and other manipulations of europeans. Hard to claim you are a “fellow white” when you are legally an arab.
Vercingetorix wept.
The Fries.
Abolishing whiteness is one of the few unequivocally good and positive things that can be done for all peoples, in all places.
Just think of the paradise all would inhabit if it weren't for white people.Replies: @Supply and Demand
What optimism for the future!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjOBS8Nw7Wk&t=15s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t3-jNX5iQE&t=11s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nen_6Yrb4yQ&t=11s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTqNPjQvOC0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khcLJK41Z1o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGyrFUA1DIs&t=11sReplies: @Joe Stalin
https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/ajmM5dw_460s.jpg
With Haiti and Liberia leading the way.
UTOPIA IS COMING
GET OUT OF THE WAY WHITE MAN
slippery woke slope:
1st the pronouns,
then the nouns : “often dehumanizing “the” labels ”
‘Abolishing whiteness is one of the few unequivocally good and positive things that can be done for all peoples, in all places.’
Just think of the paradise all would inhabit if it weren’t for white people.
Adult-onset Frenchness can strike at any time:
Only missing a “Banzai!” at the end.
it’s that easy to get people marching off to their doom.
The French have Charles Martel, Pepin the Short, Charlemagne, Noah’s wife – Joan of Arc, Pascal, Descartes, Montesquieu, Layfayette, Alexis de Tocqueville, Charles de Gaulle, Pepe Le Pew, and Inspector Clouseau to their credit.
But against the same, they have also Pepin the Fat, Louis XVI, Rousseau, Voltaire, Robespierre, Napoleon, Dreyfus and Inspector Dreyfus, Zola, Comte, Sartre, Derrida, Lévi-Strauss, Foucault, Bernard-Henri Lévy, and Macron. All of whom we can condemn as miserable malefactors.
My initial response, without scrutinizing the superficial survey above, was that the positives are crushed by the negatives, and it is not even close. But then the French have their wonderful “joie de vivre,” which I do presume to gainsay.
I wish them well.
The stupid will not be silenced!
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1618429529382440961Replies: @Paul Jolliffe
“No answers and no accountability”
Well, duh.
Epstein was a high-level asset for the Mossad, the CIA and who knows who else (MI6 probably, the Saudi’s maybe?)
He was so well paid because he was so valuable – he could blackmail many, many people.
Is he really dead?
I don’t know, but I wouldn’t bet on it – intelligence agencies want to reward their key assets, not kill them.
Epstein was not “expendable.”
Yeah, they’re rubbing it in our faces now.
I prefer the more sensitive ‘people experiencing Frenchness’Replies: @Anon, @Inquiring Mind
Frankosity? Frenchicity? Francoisieneaux? Franzosigkeit? Frogginess?
French embassy responded:
Ninety years ago in Chicago, in the midst of the Great Depression, the White man looked back a century and celebrated what they had wrought for their civilization.
What optimism for the future!
What do you do with Belgians? Can you call them “French-Adjacent”?
--Mrs Hatred, LeicesterReplies: @Dmon
Vive
laFrance!I guess in some ways we're still in touch with our English heritage. ;)Replies: @Thea, @Bill Jones
I assumed an Anglophone Canadian wrote the tweet but this works, too.
Ashkenazi Jews’ ancestry is majority European. Sure, they’ve also got a lot of MENA ancestry, but so do Greeks and Southern Italians. What makes Jews different is their culture and the way they see themselves, but everyone’s already aware of that, so you’re out to lunch with whatever it is you’re hoping to get for yourself out of this.
Imagine trying to understand history or the world today while assuming that there is something binding together e.g. Swedes and Serbs but not Serbs and Lebanese Christians.
What even is Europeanness, other than just an address? It’s not a genetic category, or one based on physical appearance, and it’s not much of a cultural one either. There’s also no European identity other than the globalist, EU one. It means nothing. Religion used to mean something in binding different peoples together, though not nearly as much as some today would like to believe. “The West”… Well, we’ve all seen how it’s all turned out. Obviously, the US needed some kind of White identity for its different peoples to share and assimilate into, but no meaningful identity along those lines exists in Europe.
Either way, US racial categories shouldn’t be based on some kind of ultimate truth about whiteness or whatever, but on what’s best for the US. And I don’t really think this is a good move. People already know that whites are declining. In other Anglosphere countries, MENA people aren’t counted as white, and it hasn’t exactly made white people in those countries care about white decline any more than white Americans do.
This just makes it that much easier for yet another growing group to get all sorts of minority goodies and affirmative action, and that much less likely that those among them who are good candidates for it actually assimilate into whiteness (the ratio has changed a lot over the last couple of decades, but the US still gets a lot of Christian MENA migrants). Of course, assimilating into whiteness in today’s urban America is basically assimilating into anti-whiteness, so looking at it that way, I guess it’s no great loss? Theoretically, it does also pave the way for people of Italian, Greek, Spanish or Portuguese ancestry to attempt their own flight, basically undoing American whiteness as we know it, but I don’t really think they’d get too far.
Arabs and Jews are not White, not European, and easily recognizable even without the religious aspect. Are you blind? They are among the easiest people to recognize.
"Europe is the Faith, and the Faith is Europe" said Catholic Hilaire Belloc.
(Protestants made a mistake in joining a Judaizing heresy for temporary gain)Replies: @Anonymous, @PhysicistDave
People of Gallor.
If Paleo Retiree doesn’t comment, we’ll be disappointed. (Paleo Liberal is good, but it wouldn’t be the same.)
Jews are no more part of the white world then Arabs are.
LOL no Mista Supply we no go black like bn we keep moon flesh good foh-tune
If only this were a simply crime of theft. They mean white people.
If this isn't already obvious, consider: after seizing all their property, what use are the people?
To paraphrase Stalin: no people, no problem.
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Even if anyone sincerely believed that home equity were the end, isn't that enough?
The Left's Plan: "We're going to reduce you to rootless, rightless, helots in your own homeland! If you survive, that is..."
The Right's Plan: "Before implementing your full Plan, may we interest you in dialog to forestall any excesses?"Replies: @Dmon
Abolishing whiteness is one of the few unequivocally good and positive things that can be done for all peoples, in all places.
With Haiti and Liberia leading the way.
UTOPIA IS COMING
GET OUT OF THE WAY WHITE MAN
We recommend
That is so dehumanizing.
Better to say “people of we-consensus”.
“We recommend avoiding general and often dehumanizing “the” labels such as the poor, the mentally ill, the French, the disabled…”
Obviously copied from the BBC style guide
Obviously because it’s bad to say “the Jews”
OT: Hey, I thought Biden and Trump were just the same! It’s funny that the people who hate Russia and Putin don’t bother to hide the fact that they hate Trump voters and Trump. They want to exterminate both, but you’d think they hide it a bit. I guess they are feeling their power.
But you’d think they’d feel the need to make it less obvious to conservatives that they hate their guts for the same reason they hate Russians.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-blasts-biden-over-tanks-164500843.html
You can, just be aware that the French government has made it clear it won’t tolerate the defacement or destruction of monuments to their national heroes. Which is more than you can say for us.
How about “vile degenerates”?
The autosomal DNA of Ashkenazi Jews is about 60% Southern European and 40% Middle Eastern. Mitochondrial DNA is exclusively Southern European.
The Nazis were obsessed with the idea that Jews could be "passing" as white and maybe get in the pants of the Frauleins or cheat you in a business deal because you didn't know that you were dealing with a Jew. So they took various measures to "out" the Jews. First of all, they tried to train children in Jew-spotting. "A Jew has a nose shaped like the number 6." This didn't really work all that well because as 80% European people, a lot of Jews are tough to spot on sight and not all have #6 shaped noses. So they tried additional measures like forcing all Jewish men to take the additional name "Israel" and women the name "Sara". And then to wear yellow arm bands with a Star of David. That way there could be no mistake.Replies: @Thea, @PhysicistDave
There’s a hint of caviar and vodka, troikas outrunning wolves, endless steppes about that advice.
I doubt it. I’d guess that almost all Ashkenazis would still click “White” over “MENA”.
Now if you included an “Ashkenazi” option, you may get different results. Of course, that will never happen.
People living with Frenchness.
Persons experiencing Frenchness.
GaulicX people.
It's the stupidest thing to see enacted, ever more week by week. The most appropriate thing to do is laugh. It will pass. It's too stupid to endure.Replies: @houston 1992
Eskom wants to try the non-whiteness experiment in South Africa: there may be a skills shortage, a flow of electrons shortage, but why not fire another 500 White maintenance techs?
https://www.iol.co.za/business-report/energy/eskom-wants-to-get-rid-of-another-500-white-maintenance-staff-says-trade-union-solidarity-388f7589-0d9d-4376-97f9-bef90553d611
There are no plans to poison the techs –just lay them off. Outgoing CEO was another matter
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/08/south-africa-police-investigate-alleged-plot-poison-eskom-ceo-andre-de-ruyter
Agree with your comment! Removing MENA people from the White category will also bring home to the White community that pays attention to such things how quickly Whites are becoming a mere plurality in the U.S. population as a whole.
OT – “Democracy Dies in Darkness” List of increasingly insane and Orwellian WaPo headlines:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1617939096298741762.html
My fervent wish is that Elon Musk snaps it up.
Can you imagine the DC Swampsters opening up that every day?
A Big Box Tesla ad up on the right hand side upper corner. Plus Elon's "Tweet of the Day" in big letters at the bottom of page 2.
There would soon be hordes of dirty, bug eyed unemployed Wokies and non binaries wallowing around the muddy banks of the tepid Potomac. A New Elonville, echoing the 1930s Hoovervilles, with vegan soup kitchens open at noon.
We can dream, can we not?
Institutional capture or entryism is really destructive. I can’t believe all the obscure nooks and crannies that are being taken over, like classics and grammar and style.
Professional organizations for medicine, law, mathematics, and so on are being infiltrated by the woke and the professionals who are competent have no interest in this kind of internecine infighting and keep their heads down, and next thing we know the “American Pediatrics Association” is advising doctors to lop the tits off of girls. These guys have figured out the small leverage points that if captured can allow them to control and represent whole giant groups of people who want nothing to do with their crap.
Nooks and crannies of obscurity, you hater!
It’s becoming more Orwellian by the day ……
The wording of this is quite odd, and it seems even a bit offensive for the French, on purpose. I mean it’s not possible they didn’t realize it. Also I don’t see what’s “dehumanizing” in saying “the French”.
And imagine if they said, “the mentally ill, the Jews, the disabled,” wouldn’t it be “anti-semitic”?
Btw, are you allowed to say “the Jews”, or is it “people of jewishness” or POJ now?
Indeed, it sounds like a Blackadder sketch. Then again, much of contemporary life sounds like a Blackadder sketch.Replies: @Kylie
The French might view being called The French as humanising.
Il y a les français, et il y a les autres.
People of vile degeneracy
Professional organizations for medicine, law, mathematics, and so on are being infiltrated by the woke and the professionals who are competent have no interest in this kind of internecine infighting and keep their heads down, and next thing we know the "American Pediatrics Association" is advising doctors to lop the tits off of girls. These guys have figured out the small leverage points that if captured can allow them to control and represent whole giant groups of people who want nothing to do with their crap.Replies: @kaganovitch, @Thea
I can’t believe all the obscure nooks and crannies that are being taken over, like classics and grammar and style.
Nooks and crannies of obscurity, you hater!
This begs the question, what is the purpose of census racial categories and do we need them at all? Brazil and France avoid them.
Professional organizations for medicine, law, mathematics, and so on are being infiltrated by the woke and the professionals who are competent have no interest in this kind of internecine infighting and keep their heads down, and next thing we know the "American Pediatrics Association" is advising doctors to lop the tits off of girls. These guys have figured out the small leverage points that if captured can allow them to control and represent whole giant groups of people who want nothing to do with their crap.Replies: @kaganovitch, @Thea
There seems to be no effective defense against. Terribly destructive and sad.
OT
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/richard-grenell-us-botschafter-schreibt-drohbriefe-an-deutsche-firmen-a-1247785.html
So it is not surprising that the US gov. is glad to see it destroyed. Note that Nuland does not say who destroyed it. You can be glad that something happened even when you had nothing to do with it happening.
Why are the Putinists shocked, shocked that Nuland said this? Was she supposed to shed tears for it instead? Express regret that part of Putin's money machine has been cut?Replies: @Dumbo
People of gayness just sounds too juvenile.
I just remembered that the official title of the King of France was changed to “King of the French” in order to be less absolutist and more of a constitutional monarchy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Style_of_the_French_sovereign#King_of_the_French
The July Monarchy lasted 18 years under that title.
This comes from a book about Helen Keller my eight year-old son read:
“Talking About Disabilities-
The description ‘deaf-blind person’ is an example of identity-first language. Many deaf or blind people choose to use identity-first language. They consider their disability an important part of their identity or who they are. Other people may use person-first language because they view the fact that they’re a person as more important than than their disability. ‘A person who is deaf and blind is an example of person-first language’.
Sorry OT, but this has gone on long enough and I have to ask, because I honestly don’t know.
Why on earth are the Ukrainians fighting so hard against Russia?
Think of it for a moment as a simple cost/benefit calculus.
If Ukraine loses and surrenders to Russia, then they lose a fraction of their country which they had lost already, and which they were actively shelling and killing for years before the “war” even started. If Russia wins, Ukraine stops getting its people killed and its country destroyed, and they get ruled over by a corrupt Slavic dictatorship. Wow, bet they never seen that before.
If Ukraine wins, then they get ruled over by a corrupt Jewish/US dictatorship, plus they get looted, plus they get immivaded by endless tidal waves of negroes, Muslims, and Asians, thank you EU. Who would knowingly die for such a thing?
One assumes that the purpose of joining NATO would be to avoid having one’s country trashed and turned into a parking lot by one’s enemies, but oops, too late, that already happened.
So… why the heck are they still fighting? I know why the Jews and the US (BIRM) are urging them to fight, because it benefits them, but how does it benefit Ukraine?
If there were a parallel situation to Ukraine/Russia with New Brunswick/U.S. (note: I'm deliberately omitting the "The" because we have rights too. We too have the right to arbitrarily change names and meanings) , it's hard to imagine New Brunswickans caring a whit about staying latched to Le Canada - especially their neighboring province with its "frenchness."
I suspect, Ukranians have been besieged with anti-Russian propaganda (i.e., Ukranians are the victims of asymmetrical warfare).
The Ukranians are damned if they do and damned if they don't. Logically it would make sense for them to pick the latter. At least then they won't be killed in battle and they can expect to be relatively safe from being "liberalized" by ghouls from U.S. federal bureaucracies.
But propaganda...Replies: @Bill Jones
For Maistre, as later for Barres, true knowledge–wisdom–lies in an understanding of, and communion with, la terre et les morts –the great unalterable movement created by the links between the dead and the living and the yet unborn and the land on which they live; and it is this, perhaps, or something akin to it, that, in their respective fashions, Burke and Taine, and their many imitators, have attempted to convey.
La terre et les morts– Americans don’t have this. And cannot comprehend it.
That means you are ready to fight for your motherland even if it means death, destruction & suffering in the next 500 years.
The July Monarchy lasted 18 years under that title.Replies: @Steve Sailer
The old dynastic system in which the Bourbons or Hapsburgs could wander around Europe being kings of different realms was incompatible with the rise of territorial nationalism.
“Why on earth are the Ukrainians fighting so hard against Russia?”
Because Russia invaded Ukraine?
Because there are blocking units behind them?
Or because of fervent patriotism for a ultra-corrupt multi-lingual multi-cultural mishmash of a state?Replies: @Mr Mox, @Jack D
The Ukrainians are fighting hard to protect the revenue streams flowing to Israeli organized crime, MIC gold card members, opportunistic politicians following the Biden-Pelosi model of enriching their grifter offspring, and the re-establishment of the NATO bioweapons labs throughout the ancient Slavic bloodlands. They are a very altruistic people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNpoO9yISDw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wPHkxC9WgIReplies: @John Johnson
The false premise is that the Ukrainians are fighting so hard. Ukrainians are individuals. In reality, the Ukrainian military and the Ukrainian government are continuing to sacrifice men and materiale, but the ones making the decisions are not dying on the front line, and as multiple examples show, the government is full of corruption and influenced by violent and ideologically-driven pressure groups (whose leaders are also not dying on the front line, I'll wager), not to mention the US blob.
It's impossible to know what Ukrainians as individuals would do because emigration of both men and eligible women has been banned under the general mobilization being imposed on the people and free expression has been curtailed under martial law measures. Perhaps a measure of the true state of Ukrainian dedication to dying were the protests by wives that occurred earlier in the war. One was in the western region around Lviv, where women were protesting having their men sent into the conflict (although I can't find an article about that now), and another was this protest of Mariupol garrison wives, who very sensibly wanted their men to be evacuated instead of dying pointlessly...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/06/wives-mariupol-soldiers-dispersed-police-kyiv-protest-ukraine-russia
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/27731331455445ee1106a70cbe47b9b7a73db608/0_173_4941_2966/master/4941.jpg
Notice how they wrote their protest signs in English. That's because they're beseeching people like you, Steve, to recognize their plight--the plight of common people caught in a geopolitical game being played by Foggy Bottom and Langley and Brussels--and exert political pressure. But you just want more and more graves for future wreaths to be laid on.
At Omaha Beach, the first off the boat demolition crews who suffered high casualties trying to clear the landing craft obstacles were all volunteers. In fact, in order to get on those teams, they had to go through the original version of navy SEAL hell week training, so every one was totally committed and prepared to suffer. Nothing like that can be said for the Ukrainians (or the Russians) dying in places like Mariupol or Bakhmut. In fact, due to information blackouts and propaganda regimes, for all you know, the dying Ukrainians may not be any more invested than the poor convicts being cynically sacrificed by the Wagner group.
Turn the universities into finishing schools for young ladies, staff those universities with crypto-Trotskyite saboteurs and this is what you get.Replies: @Gordo, @Eddie the swarthy rat cellar, @AnotherDad, @Corpse Tooth, @AnotherDad
Yep, that is pretty much what universities are.
Only the Southern persons of Belgian-ness.
Non-francophones are " flamands" or flemish
They put a He-She in the government. They rub it in all the time.
Because they couldn’t get to the border before it was closed?
Because there are blocking units behind them?
Or because of fervent patriotism for a ultra-corrupt multi-lingual multi-cultural mishmash of a state?
Beats me! Maybe fear?
My best guess is that most Ukrainians are fed up with the war, and would swap the Donbass region for some peace & quiet in the blink of an eye. We don't know, as every news outlet critical of Zelensky has been closed down for good - in the name of democracy, of course.
It seems to me the usual stalwart regime supporters has been absent in recent interviews with 'the man on the street' in Ukraine, but it's probably just me and my chronic cynicism.Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
Yeah, they’re not gonna stop at home equity.
If this isn’t already obvious, consider: after seizing all their property, what use are the people?
To paraphrase Stalin: no people, no problem.
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Even if anyone sincerely believed that home equity were the end, isn’t that enough?
The Left’s Plan: “We’re going to reduce you to rootless, rightless, helots in your own homeland! If you survive, that is…”
The Right’s Plan: “Before implementing your full Plan, may we interest you in dialog to forestall any excesses?”
https://news.yahoo.com/biden-rolls-out-renters-bill-of-rights-as-lawmakers-push-for-federal-rent-control-laws-133846254.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9wam1lZGlhLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAKMlD68q6WVQuLfhzJPy4ngGXVKEOxxN6Q6zzTR1oOhfypEQE3NaTtQOtr7yCJI6mH8PBqSVz8C_giEZP0GMP4VxIN4ab9dbcVpzmj0UIPHoGk3uXTbAWXIM6eMJfB11f9u2ERd5DxIDG6W7QNk2YTXgX63FKBwI08d_Zd0QNIPd
Biden rolls out 'Renters Bill of Rights' as lawmakers push for federal rent control laws
In the face of sky-high rents, President Joe Biden is rolling out a new set of principles the White House is calling a "Renters Bill of Rights" in an effort to improve rent affordability and protections for tenants.
The president is directing the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) to examine limits on rent increases for future investments and actions promoting renter protections. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) have been tapped to root out practices that unfairly prevent applicants and tenants from accessing or staying in housing.
Steve, you should look up Stefan Lallinger with the Century Foundation who is a third generation Ivy League graduate as a black man and who has all of the reasons why whites would give up the equity in their homes.
https://thenext100.org/entrepreneur/stefan-lallinger/
https://www.pta.org/the-center-for-family-engagement/podcast/notes-from-the-backpack/why-your-childs-school-isnt-more-diverse
When any black person starts talking about the almost non-existent all white public schools that need integration, one knows that the main goal is about race-based reparations.
It’s an interesting question because they should have negotiated something before this started. It’s not like these regions haven’t been deeply connected for centuries.
The US gave them false hope (and bribes).
However, they may have feelings we don’t have anymore. If 9/11 happened today, would you feel the same as back then? Would as many working class Americans volunteer to fight some war on behalf of “Americans” who call them racist the rest of the time? I highly doubt it.
Maybe the Ukrainians are naive.
I understand the argument about “the other”. Don’t agree, but understand.
Thing is, sometimes there actually are others.
I wonder what the author of this piece thinks about the Russians?
https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1618763049007198208Replies: @The Wild Geese Howard, @Jack D
The disgusting visage of the true power in the USSA.
The Ukrainian oligarchs are making billions from this war, and the money keeps flowing if they win. If the Russians win the billion and billions of dollars we send to Ukraine will stop.
But but but….where is Wakanda?
Wait…there is something here: “the college-educated” = “people with mental illnesses”.
That little nugget should not be overlooked ….
Good question.
If there were a parallel situation to Ukraine/Russia with New Brunswick/U.S. (note: I’m deliberately omitting the “The” because we have rights too. We too have the right to arbitrarily change names and meanings) , it’s hard to imagine New Brunswickans caring a whit about staying latched to Le Canada – especially their neighboring province with its “frenchness.”
I suspect, Ukranians have been besieged with anti-Russian propaganda (i.e., Ukranians are the victims of asymmetrical warfare).
The Ukranians are damned if they do and damned if they don’t. Logically it would make sense for them to pick the latter. At least then they won’t be killed in battle and they can expect to be relatively safe from being “liberalized” by ghouls from U.S. federal bureaucracies.
But propaganda…
Or we could call ‘em “the folks who saved our bacon when the War of Independence was all but lost in 1778”, or “the atheist philosphers who first described ‘the rights of man’ which inspired our revolution.”
Steve is obsessed with his home’s equity. Though I can’t blame him–for most California residents it’s effectively their retirement savings.
Steve needs to do what I did: Cash out of California and move to somewhere less expensive. Newsom’s talking about taxing people who leave California with a pile of cash. I wouldn’t wait…
The Southeast is nice. Summers are hot, but my solution was simple: Install a swimming pool.
Because there are blocking units behind them?
Or because of fervent patriotism for a ultra-corrupt multi-lingual multi-cultural mishmash of a state?Replies: @Mr Mox, @Jack D
Or because of fervent patriotism for a ultra-corrupt multi-lingual multi-cultural mishmash of a state?
Beats me! Maybe fear?
My best guess is that most Ukrainians are fed up with the war, and would swap the Donbass region for some peace & quiet in the blink of an eye. We don’t know, as every news outlet critical of Zelensky has been closed down for good – in the name of democracy, of course.
It seems to me the usual stalwart regime supporters has been absent in recent interviews with ‘the man on the street’ in Ukraine, but it’s probably just me and my chronic cynicism.
I think you forget that the people of the Donbass and Luhansk, and the Armed Forces personnel there, all of whom declared autonomy in 2014/5 are also Ukrainians, and 2014-22 were attacked by the Ukrainian state, with many civilian deaths.
The “Russian Invasion” is more like “Russian intervention” in a Ukrainian civil war. Unlike the US invasions/intervention in Syria/Kosovo/Libya. all of which were ostensibly for protection of the civil population, Russia has the excuse that the population in Luhansk/Donbass actually are ethnic Russians, literally their people.
The Western Ukrainians may be fighting hard, but for rulers who hate them, most of whom are in Washington. It wouldn’t be the first time people fought and died for nothing.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1229643/This-isnt-Britain-fought-say-unknown-warriors-WWII.html
That is most embarrassingly inaccurate on your part.Replies: @Charles Erwin Wilson
European is white phenotype plus Western civilization.
Isaiah Berlin, in his famous essay on Tolstoy, “The Hedgehog and the Fox”, writes on influential reactionary French author Joseph de Maistre : ….
For Maistre, as later for Barres, true knowledge–wisdom–lies in an understanding of, and communion with, la terre et les morts –the great unalterable movement created by the links between the dead and the living and the yet unborn and the land on which they live; and it is this, perhaps, or something akin to it, that, in their respective fashions, Burke and Taine, and their many imitators, have attempted to convey.
La terre et les morts– Americans don’t have this. And cannot comprehend it.
That means you are ready to fight for your motherland even if it means death, destruction & suffering in the next 500 years.
I guess in some ways we're still in touch with our English heritage. ;)Replies: @Thea, @Bill Jones
It reads as a congruent grouping to me.
how about “people who think they are French”?
The U.S. is not sending billion of dollars directly to the Ukraine. Most of what the Ukraine is getting is military supplies along with intelligence and military advice. Most of the money appropriated for the Ukraine is flowing to U.S. military defense contractors.
“Frogs” is always satisfactory. By what dismissive do the Krauts know them?
https://i.ibb.co/nPJ8pPr/81c9b03ec9ef03b4f62a456661d8481e775d99a6-14.jpgReplies: @International Jew
As you can see from my moniker, I don’t go in for euphemisms. In fact I’m (a bit) miffed when I hear people say “Jewish persons”, suggesting they think there’s something wrong with the word Jew. I feel like Oscar in “The Office” when the boss asks him about a polite way to say “Mexican”.
Maybe some thought: Hmmm, Yiddish is to Yid what Jewish is to Jew. So, let's try the first form....
Asking for a New York Congressman..........Replies: @International Jew
People of anal fissures.
That little nugget should not be overlooked ....Replies: @Almost Missouri
Yeah, skim-reading the tweet the first time, I’m like …
Meanwhile, People with Finns are dying out
https://sputniknews.com/20230126/finland-sees-150-year-record-low-fertility-surge-in-deaths-in-2022--1106726828.html
And that’s before they started to fuck with Russia.
https://youtu.be/YnjpG4HjO30Replies: @Art Deco, @Bardon Kaldian, @HammerJack, @Glaivester
Ed Koch once placed an article in the The New Republic complaining about the use of the term ‘Jewish’ in place of the term ‘Jew’, maintaining that the substitution of the former for the latter was a post-war phenomenon that Jews had adopted out of an unbecoming anxiety.
To "Jewish" a goy out of something sounds ridiculous.
This is off-topic, but I have a question for any chatpgt users. Have I just gotten used to its schtick, or does it say less interesting things than it used to? I don’t just mean it won’t tell racist jokes, but it gives very generic answers that are mostly restatements of what you put in. It says things like, “there are. many factors that influence x,” but it does not tell you what any of those factors are.
I’ve told people that it’s like having a D+ high school student at your beck and call. It seems dimmer than it used to.
Does anyone have an opinion?
Have you ever heard of the Holodomor? Do you think Ukrainian grandparents don’t tell their grandkids about that one time when the fucking Russians fucking starved them for a fucking year?
https://twitter.com/ForNovena/status/986747282442936320?s=20&t=HxrHY0HiFd2vj9j2xb56gw
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazar_Kaganovich
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlas_Chubar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Postyshev
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Kosior3) it wasn't as if Ukraine was the only place where famine occurred.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1930%E2%80%931933
” … the poor, the mentally ill, the French, the disabled, the college-educated. Instead, use …”
If you want to work at the Man, best you STFU and write like the Man tells you to in his style guide.
The fact Belgium is even a country is a 200-year joke. The Flemish are Dutch and should just hook up with the rest of the Netherlands, as they were in olden days. Same goes for the Walloons. End the charade.
Turn the universities into finishing schools for young ladies, staff those universities with crypto-Trotskyite saboteurs and this is what you get.Replies: @Gordo, @Eddie the swarthy rat cellar, @AnotherDad, @Corpse Tooth, @AnotherDad
Monopolies multiply exponentially thanks to Karen!!!
They are called ” wallons ” , the southern and francophone part
Non-francophones are ” flamands” or flemish
Turn the universities into finishing schools for young ladies, staff those universities with crypto-Trotskyite saboteurs and this is what you get.Replies: @Gordo, @Eddie the swarthy rat cellar, @AnotherDad, @Corpse Tooth, @AnotherDad
Agreed. But there’s nothing wrong with having finishing schools. It’s just that instead of “finishing” our universities “roughening” and “cruding” and “toxicing” schools.
It’s obvious from recent events that most young white women–young women in general–badly need “finishing school”.
Among the topics in the curriculum:
— don’t get drunk
— black men are not acceptable romantic partners (they properly belong to black women)
— keep your legs crossed
— put down your phone (and stop posting slutty pictures of yourself)
She was a good student, had supportive, loving family and friends and yet ended up on a dark road, fatally injured, with injuries "consistent with previous sexual assault anally" and a BAC of .319.
She and the people in her life were, by all accounts, good people. But they weren't careful. They lived in a bubble and when she came into contact with brutal reality, it killed her in a horrific way.
If only her parents had given her the guidance you outline here! I'm pretty jaded, having lived in a somewhat rough neighborhood and being a true crime fan. But I find her last hours to be heartbreaking, even more so because her assault and fatal accident were completely avoidable, if only she'd been giving the tools to deal with the real world.Replies: @Thea, @AnotherDad, @John Johnson, @YetAnotherAnon
Freud called this “the narcissism of small differences”. For example, to an outsider, Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland appear to be pretty much indistinguishable, but they hate each other much more than either group hates say Eskimos. The fact that Jews are 80% European makes people like ATBOTL hate them MORE, not less.
The Nazis were obsessed with the idea that Jews could be “passing” as white and maybe get in the pants of the Frauleins or cheat you in a business deal because you didn’t know that you were dealing with a Jew. So they took various measures to “out” the Jews. First of all, they tried to train children in Jew-spotting. “A Jew has a nose shaped like the number 6.” This didn’t really work all that well because as 80% European people, a lot of Jews are tough to spot on sight and not all have #6 shaped noses. So they tried additional measures like forcing all Jewish men to take the additional name “Israel” and women the name “Sara”. And then to wear yellow arm bands with a Star of David. That way there could be no mistake.
No, it's not fair: it is not right to blame all Jews for the actions of some Jews.
But it is also not right for (some) Jews to discriminate against non-Jews.
And everyone knows that does happen.
Whether it is Gypsies or overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia or Jews in the West, when one group ostentatiously sets itself apart from the larger society there is likely to be trouble. And if a lot of members of that outsider group openly proclaim their lack of commitment to the larger society, there is going to be trouble.
To put it bluntly, if one group of people in a society behave in a tribalist way, they are likely to evoke a tribalist response.
A well-known example is the famous statement by Norman Podhoretz:And you most emphatically behave this way yourself. I and other commenters here have often been critical of Islam and Christianity. You did not object.
But recently when I pointed out some objective but negative facts about Judaism... well, you made it clear that that is verboten.
In April, many Jewish families will celebrate Passover. And what Passover is about is that YHWH sent the Angel of Death to kill the first-born in all Egyptian families while leaving Jewish families alone.
That is a horrifying story. And to celebrate that horrifying story is evil.
Deeply and profoundly evil.
It is as if non-Jewish Americans had a holiday every year to celebrate the Holocaust because, after all, most Christian families were "passed over" by the Nazi angels of death.
But for me to merely point out this simple fact means that I will be labeled "anti-Semitic," even though I am also critical of Islam, Hinduism, Christianity, etc.
And heaven help anyone who applies the same standards of judgment to the state of Israel as to all other countries around the world!
Can you see why this leads, sadly, to antipathy towards Jews?Replies: @William Badwhite
What’s wrong with “Frenchmen”? Also, are we allowed to say “Chinamen” like we used to, instead of “THE Chinese”?
So -- somehow -- assigning a group a name that makes it difficult to refer to them in the singular is supposed to enhance their humanity.
人=man/person
中国人=ChinamanReplies: @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms
Ukrainian politicians knew since day one that they could not possibly win. Why don’t they negotiate? Because their Western handlers won’t let them. As long as they’re making money ( both Ukrainian and Western policians and other war profiteers) and Russia losing money, the plan is to drag this war as long as possible.
Although I am a diehard Francophile, lot of weird philosophical ideals started in France that are then blamed on Americans when our Universities pick up on them. Some segment of Frenchmen( no, not just ((((Frenchmen))), would be fine with this.Replies: @Anon
Who do you think is most responsible for the direct association of the French and homosexuality?
Louis XIV? Poirot? Foucault? All those perfume brand names?
Baisez une canard, salope!
That enough Frenchness for you?
Yes, if that was true there would be no point, but it’s a lie. Is this true of Hungary or Poland or Romania? BTW, is there no immivasion in Russia? Are there not 1.5 million Muslims living in Moscow?
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2015/7/22/despite-animosity-moscows-muslims-change-the-city
Everything that the Putinists accuse Ukraine of is true in Russia. They complain about Azov but Russia has plenty of its own Nazi skinheads. They complain about immivasion but Russia is chock full of Muslims.
The Ukrainians are fighting to maintain their national existence since Putin told them that they are not a “real” people and invaded their country. There were a lot of Ukrainian citizens who, up until Putin invaded their country, spoke only Russian and didn’t identify strongly with Ukraine, but now that Putin has tried to kill them they have changed their minds and have become Ukrainian patriots. There’s nothing like someone invading your country to wake up your patriotism.
Everything Putin has done has backfired. He also managed to get NATO enlarged and bring NATO troops to within 100 miles of St. Petersburg, thus undoing one of the great accomplishments of his predecessor Stalin.
Putin probably thinks of himself as another Stalin (although publicly he mentions only Peter the Great) and constantly blabs about Russia’s victory in the Great Patriotic War. He conveniently forgets that in that war, the Americans backed the Russian side and sent them an endless number of armaments, without which they could not have won, but this time he managed to get the Americans onto the side of his enemies.
America was initially reluctant to arm the Ukrainians and not nearly as generous as we were to Stalin, to whom we sent more than 11,000 planes, over 6,000 tanks and tank destroyers and 300,000 trucks and other military vehicles. However, each Russian atrocity made the Americans and Europeans less reluctant to do so and he has finally convinced the West to send tanks. Genius Putin, not Zelensky, gets the real credit for the Abrams and the Leopards.
And imagine if they said, "the mentally ill, the Jews, the disabled," wouldn't it be "anti-semitic"?
Btw, are you allowed to say "the Jews", or is it "people of jewishness" or POJ now?Replies: @kaganovitch
The wording of this is quite odd, and it seems even a bit offensive for the French, on purpose. I mean it’s not possible they didn’t realize it. Also I don’t see what’s “dehumanizing” in saying “the French”.
Indeed, it sounds like a Blackadder sketch. Then again, much of contemporary life sounds like a Blackadder sketch.
Definitely. But for me anyway, it's a lot funnier to watch it than it is to live it.
Who cares… seriously
Anyway the previous arrangement implied that whiteness was normality and Blackness wasn’t. I’m surprised the leftists didn’t notice this more quickly.
Looks like Persons of (the) Blathering Journalist Community are becoming even less readable.
As Wally might say, “There’s a hole with no bottom.”
Because there are blocking units behind them?
Or because of fervent patriotism for a ultra-corrupt multi-lingual multi-cultural mishmash of a state?Replies: @Mr Mox, @Jack D
It’s all projection – everything single thing you say is not really true about Ukraine, but IS true about Russia. Closed borders? – check. Blocking units? – check. Ultra-corrupt? And how! Multi-cultural mishmash? You betcha!
I prefer to call them Indigenous peoples of France, or, in their native dialect something like fwa’se.
If this isn't already obvious, consider: after seizing all their property, what use are the people?
To paraphrase Stalin: no people, no problem.
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Even if anyone sincerely believed that home equity were the end, isn't that enough?
The Left's Plan: "We're going to reduce you to rootless, rightless, helots in your own homeland! If you survive, that is..."
The Right's Plan: "Before implementing your full Plan, may we interest you in dialog to forestall any excesses?"Replies: @Dmon
And speaking about home equity and helots:
https://news.yahoo.com/biden-rolls-out-renters-bill-of-rights-as-lawmakers-push-for-federal-rent-control-laws-133846254.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9wam1lZGlhLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAKMlD68q6WVQuLfhzJPy4ngGXVKEOxxN6Q6zzTR1oOhfypEQE3NaTtQOtr7yCJI6mH8PBqSVz8C_giEZP0GMP4VxIN4ab9dbcVpzmj0UIPHoGk3uXTbAWXIM6eMJfB11f9u2ERd5DxIDG6W7QNk2YTXgX63FKBwI08d_Zd0QNIPd
Biden rolls out ‘Renters Bill of Rights’ as lawmakers push for federal rent control laws
In the face of sky-high rents, President Joe Biden is rolling out a new set of principles the White House is calling a “Renters Bill of Rights” in an effort to improve rent affordability and protections for tenants.
The president is directing the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) to examine limits on rent increases for future investments and actions promoting renter protections. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) have been tapped to root out practices that unfairly prevent applicants and tenants from accessing or staying in housing.
Wait, it gets better. AP deleted that tweet! Because including the French alongside the poor, the mentally, and the disabled was offensive to the French. So they reissued the policy with the French deleted. But hold on. How can anyone be offended by being on the same list as the poor, the disabled, and the mentally ill? Isn’t that offensive?
Nobody, however, found including the college-educated alongside the poor, the disabled, and the mentally ill. Hmmm.
https://twitter.com/apstylebook/status/1618658301750689792
It gets better. Here’s another policy.
Doesn’t this imply that the people formerly called white instead should be called noncolored?
Yes, getting rid of "the" labels is good. Russian and Chinese get by completely without definite article. Without any article. Plural and gender should go also. AP story from 2032 "Many human kill in train derailment according to President spokesperson. It say this not good."Replies: @Bardon Kaldian, @Anonymous, @Odyssey
And it's Elon Musk! For the win!
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1619066176113606656
I was in a social media discussion in which a commenter was shamed for saying “the Ukrainians.” I thought the shamer was confusing that with saying “the Ukraine ” but I guess this really is a new expression to show one’s political correctness.
I think the Ukies have a better awareness of who perpetrated the Holodomor than Westerners, most of whom were only permitted to hear of that event from 2022 onwards.
Its true about both as you know, also Russian speaking president called Vladimir – check, head of armed forces called Valery – check.
https://twitter.com/apstylebook/status/1618658301750689792https://twitter.com/AP/status/1618886923828748288It gets better. Here's another policy.https://twitter.com/APStylebook/status/1608482872213602309Doesn't this imply that the people formerly called white instead should be called noncolored?Replies: @Jack D, @New Dealer
This has endless possibilities. The healthy can be called the nonsick or people without illness. The straight can be the nongay or people without gayness. Normal people can be henceforth called nontransexuals. Etc.
Yes, getting rid of “the” labels is good. Russian and Chinese get by completely without definite article. Without any article. Plural and gender should go also. AP story from 2032 “Many human kill in train derailment according to President spokesperson. It say this not good.”
people with gaynesslessness
people with trannylessness
https://www.unz.com/isteve/dont-disillusion-the-subscribers/#comment-5781617
In Africa. Didn’t you see the movie?
Just think of the paradise all would inhabit if it weren't for white people.Replies: @Supply and Demand
Even in paradise, there was a serpent. We need to think bigger than paradise.
https://twitter.com/NxlAnglo/status/1618668429279649792?t=RHOd08gjmHgrLFgqZKySUg&s=19Replies: @al gore rhythms, @Chrisnonymous, @Peter Akuleyev
British entrepreneur James Dyson has said that on current trends Poland will have a higher standard of living than Britain within 10 years.
That will be quite some turnaround for Brits like me who are old enough to remember the fall of communism. I wonder how many of the East Europeans currently living here will choose to remain given the demographic and economic trends?
It wasn’t the Russians…
Indeed, it sounds like a Blackadder sketch. Then again, much of contemporary life sounds like a Blackadder sketch.Replies: @Kylie
“Then again, much of contemporary life sounds like a Blackadder sketch.”
Definitely. But for me anyway, it’s a lot funnier to watch it than it is to live it.
Koch is right.
To “Jewish” a goy out of something sounds ridiculous.
Turn the universities into finishing schools for young ladies, staff those universities with crypto-Trotskyite saboteurs and this is what you get.Replies: @Gordo, @Eddie the swarthy rat cellar, @AnotherDad, @Corpse Tooth, @AnotherDad
“matriarchal managerialism”
I’ll be borrowing this term. I’ll be borrowing it so much that the people in my life will want to shoot me. Particularly the womens, whom I love and respect.
“Because Russia invaded Ukraine?”
The Ukrainians are fighting hard to protect the revenue streams flowing to Israeli organized crime, MIC gold card members, opportunistic politicians following the Biden-Pelosi model of enriching their grifter offspring, and the re-establishment of the NATO bioweapons labs throughout the ancient Slavic bloodlands. They are a very altruistic people.
Now capitalizing “White?” Rather ironic, though the irony is of course lost on those who didn’t bother to teach basic accepted precepts of written English grammar, punctuation, and capitalization. Capitalizing “White” implies that it’s a race, an ethnicity or – God forbid! – a nationality. The capitalization transforms “white” into a proper noun or adjective.
https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1618763049007198208Replies: @The Wild Geese Howard, @Jack D
Sounds about right to me. The US was never in favor of Nord Stream 2. Even during the Trump Administration, the US opposed its construction and threatened participants with sanctions:
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/richard-grenell-us-botschafter-schreibt-drohbriefe-an-deutsche-firmen-a-1247785.html
So it is not surprising that the US gov. is glad to see it destroyed. Note that Nuland does not say who destroyed it. You can be glad that something happened even when you had nothing to do with it happening.
Why are the Putinists shocked, shocked that Nuland said this? Was she supposed to shed tears for it instead? Express regret that part of Putin’s money machine has been cut?
By the way, it's Nudelman, and she's a Jewish bitch. Say it.
Coming soon: woke physics where power is used in the political sense and not force x speed.
“A body living with the effects of inertia will tend to remain in an equitable situation unless oppressed by a hegemonic force.”
Russia: Damn Limeys Done It!
I was going to say something, but there’s a frog in my throat.
A chat has got my langue.
https://youtu.be/YnjpG4HjO30Replies: @Art Deco, @Bardon Kaldian, @HammerJack, @Glaivester
Perhaps it is a cultural-linguistic thing, because in English, nouns are frequently the same as adjectives: English, Irish, Russian, Ukrainian, ….
Maybe some thought: Hmmm, Yiddish is to Yid what Jewish is to Jew. So, let’s try the first form….
People experiencing the warmth of Cathedrals and Cars.
Not “slaves” but “enslaved people.” (See how that makes them feel better?)
So not “French people” but “enFrenched people.”
Yes, getting rid of "the" labels is good. Russian and Chinese get by completely without definite article. Without any article. Plural and gender should go also. AP story from 2032 "Many human kill in train derailment according to President spokesperson. It say this not good."Replies: @Bardon Kaldian, @Anonymous, @Odyssey
people with illnesslessness
people with gaynesslessness
people with trannylessness
To be honest- the English have not fully emo-recovered from the fact that from 1066 a bunch of French (not just Viking Normans, but also hangers-on from the whole France, Gascony, Brittany, Aquitaine, Auvergne, …) occupied them & had been banging English chicks for a few centuries.
That’s why the English boast about Crecy, Trafalgar, Waterloo (which was a German victory) … It is a defense mechanism against the fact their females all too willingly boinked the French for 3-4 centuries.
And the results were good:
There is a pretense that condemning “Whiteness” is not the same as condemning white people as white people, but rather it is a pernicious system of thought that is being condemned. But suppose I were to expound on the evils of “Tallness”, while insisting that I wasn’t saying there was anything intrinsically bad about tall people. Would anyone accept that for even a minute? Tall people intrinsically possess the characteristic of tallness, it isn’t something that can be removed from them, so if tallness is bad it follows logically that there is something intrinsically bad about tall people. If those who condemn whiteness did not want to look like they were motivated by race hate, they should have called their system of thought something other than “Whiteness”.
“Let’s not call them anything; let’s just ignore them.”
–Mrs Hatred, Leicester
It's obvious from recent events that most young white women--young women in general--badly need "finishing school".
Among the topics in the curriculum:
-- don't get drunk
-- black men are not acceptable romantic partners (they properly belong to black women)
-- keep your legs crossed
-- put down your phone (and stop posting slutty pictures of yourself)Replies: @Kylie
Another Dad, have you seen the news about the drunken 19 year old sorority girl in Louisiana who was raped, then hit by a car and killed?
She was a good student, had supportive, loving family and friends and yet ended up on a dark road, fatally injured, with injuries “consistent with previous sexual assault anally” and a BAC of .319.
She and the people in her life were, by all accounts, good people. But they weren’t careful. They lived in a bubble and when she came into contact with brutal reality, it killed her in a horrific way.
If only her parents had given her the guidance you outline here! I’m pretty jaded, having lived in a somewhat rough neighborhood and being a true crime fan. But I find her last hours to be heartbreaking, even more so because her assault and fatal accident were completely avoidable, if only she’d been giving the tools to deal with the real world.
It's sad to think of the babies she never had, the family she never had. Her utterly wasted life.
Even sadder to think that our society now works stridently against her interests and actively seeks to give girls like her terrible advice and encourage them toward risking their lives and throwing away their genetic and cultural legacy.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11684377/Third-man-charged-attacking-LSU-sorority-girl-Madi-Brooks-19-released-jail.htmlReplies: @Kylie
The weird thing about ‘the Chinese’ is that there isn’t a satisfactory singular. We can say ‘a Frenchman’ but ‘a Chinese’ is awkward.
So — somehow — assigning a group a name that makes it difficult to refer to them in the singular is supposed to enhance their humanity.
The Nazis were obsessed with the idea that Jews could be "passing" as white and maybe get in the pants of the Frauleins or cheat you in a business deal because you didn't know that you were dealing with a Jew. So they took various measures to "out" the Jews. First of all, they tried to train children in Jew-spotting. "A Jew has a nose shaped like the number 6." This didn't really work all that well because as 80% European people, a lot of Jews are tough to spot on sight and not all have #6 shaped noses. So they tried additional measures like forcing all Jewish men to take the additional name "Israel" and women the name "Sara". And then to wear yellow arm bands with a Star of David. That way there could be no mistake.Replies: @Thea, @PhysicistDave
The conflict in Ulster is based on centuries of living side by side a two different, competing groups. The Anglo-Scottish Protestants moved to Ulster without adopting local norms thus cementing group differences. Irish Catholics likewise refused to adopt to the new arrivals norms. It has nothing to do with how much they have in common.
If Eskimos moved to Belfast without adopting local norms, they would have conflicts with the locals.
Why do Jews have centuries of conflict with Germans and Russians? Because they actively stayed a separate group by not adopting to local norms. How can one even know they are Jewish if their ancestors did not choose to act as a distinct group?
She was a good student, had supportive, loving family and friends and yet ended up on a dark road, fatally injured, with injuries "consistent with previous sexual assault anally" and a BAC of .319.
She and the people in her life were, by all accounts, good people. But they weren't careful. They lived in a bubble and when she came into contact with brutal reality, it killed her in a horrific way.
If only her parents had given her the guidance you outline here! I'm pretty jaded, having lived in a somewhat rough neighborhood and being a true crime fan. But I find her last hours to be heartbreaking, even more so because her assault and fatal accident were completely avoidable, if only she'd been giving the tools to deal with the real world.Replies: @Thea, @AnotherDad, @John Johnson, @YetAnotherAnon
Heartbreaking story. The NAACP has come out to say the boys committed no crime as she “consented.” Outside of porn and prostitution no girl consents to gang-Anal sex with strangers in front of the guys’ buddies. Nevermind dumpling her in the dark pouring rain. They are not their brothers’ (or sisters’) keeper.
Feminism has a lot to answer for by giving young adults the impressions women and men have similar desires.
Yes and by telling young women they can dress and behave any way they want to without having to deal with the consequences.
Judging by their many pics on social media, she and her sorority sisters typically dressed up very provocatively. And the bar where she's said to have been a regular was very rowdy. And of course, young males who are not LSU students also frequented that bar for obvious reasons. And she allegedly used a fake ID to buy drinks. It was a perfect storm of bad choices and poor judgement.
The feminists say it's an issue of "rape culture" and has nothing to do with under-aged drinking. But that's b.s. It has to do with giving immature teens adult choices without adult responsibilities. The worst part is nothing good will come of this. All the wrong conclusions will be drawn. The narrative is too entrenched.Replies: @Thea
I prefer the formulation that puts the focus on the prejudice and bigotry of white-identifying and privileged flyover white people who think of themselves as “normal”. This phraseology highlights the burdens that minorities have had to carry:
“people formerly known as women”
“people formerly known as Negros”
“people formerly known as illegals”
“people formerly known as cripples”
“people formerly known as retards”
“people formerly known as queers”
…
She was a good student, had supportive, loving family and friends and yet ended up on a dark road, fatally injured, with injuries "consistent with previous sexual assault anally" and a BAC of .319.
She and the people in her life were, by all accounts, good people. But they weren't careful. They lived in a bubble and when she came into contact with brutal reality, it killed her in a horrific way.
If only her parents had given her the guidance you outline here! I'm pretty jaded, having lived in a somewhat rough neighborhood and being a true crime fan. But I find her last hours to be heartbreaking, even more so because her assault and fatal accident were completely avoidable, if only she'd been giving the tools to deal with the real world.Replies: @Thea, @AnotherDad, @John Johnson, @YetAnotherAnon
Agree. Yet another pretty girl who just–given the failure of society to give young women (and men) good advice–needed some clear consistent, anti-narrative real talk from mom and dad.
It’s sad to think of the babies she never had, the family she never had. Her utterly wasted life.
Even sadder to think that our society now works stridently against her interests and actively seeks to give girls like her terrible advice and encourage them toward risking their lives and throwing away their genetic and cultural legacy.
--Mrs Hatred, LeicesterReplies: @Dmon
Can’t remember where I read it (could’ve been Charles M. Fair’s The Jaws of Victory), but in August, 1914, a regiment of British regulars was marching off to embark for Belgium (the violation of whose neutrality was the casus belli for Britain’s entry into the war) when they passed in review before the Queen. As crowds cheered, one of the old Tommy lifers called out cheerfully to Her Majesty, “Don’t worry, Mum. We’ll stop them Belgiums for ya.”
If there were a parallel situation to Ukraine/Russia with New Brunswick/U.S. (note: I'm deliberately omitting the "The" because we have rights too. We too have the right to arbitrarily change names and meanings) , it's hard to imagine New Brunswickans caring a whit about staying latched to Le Canada - especially their neighboring province with its "frenchness."
I suspect, Ukranians have been besieged with anti-Russian propaganda (i.e., Ukranians are the victims of asymmetrical warfare).
The Ukranians are damned if they do and damned if they don't. Logically it would make sense for them to pick the latter. At least then they won't be killed in battle and they can expect to be relatively safe from being "liberalized" by ghouls from U.S. federal bureaucracies.
But propaganda...Replies: @Bill Jones
Sean Hannity knows how to deal with the uppity Ruskies on behalf of our new BFF Uke.
https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/sean-hannity-calls-joe-biden-threaten-russia-nuclear-war
Louis XIV? Poirot? Foucault? All those perfume brand names?Replies: @Thea
The Romans.
That's why the English boast about Crecy, Trafalgar, Waterloo (which was a German victory) ... It is a defense mechanism against the fact their females all too willingly boinked the French for 3-4 centuries.
And the results were good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A16QiCslAsReplies: @John Johnson
To be honest- the English have not fully emo-recovered from the fact that from 1066 a bunch of French (not just Viking Normans, but also hangers-on from the whole France, Gascony, Brittany, Aquitaine, Auvergne, …) occupied them & had been banging English chicks for a few centuries.
Yea but still mostly Normans and thank God for that. Imagine if we also had Island France.
That’s why the English boast about Crecy, Trafalgar, Waterloo (which was a German victory) … It is a defense mechanism against the fact their females all too willingly boinked the French for 3-4 centuries.
Cuck island started before that with the Anglo-Saxon invasion.
The could just grab Celtic women at random.
King Arthur is pretty much a fairy tale for Celtic adults. In reality they got their assess kicked by Krauts and the invaders took the prettiest women. They came as pagans and didn’t care about Christian sensibilities.
British men today are certainly confused. Their left tells them that there is no such thing as British identity because of the invasions. A British man is no different than a Pygmy. Their right is a total joke and grovels for the leftover class system.
She was a good student, had supportive, loving family and friends and yet ended up on a dark road, fatally injured, with injuries "consistent with previous sexual assault anally" and a BAC of .319.
She and the people in her life were, by all accounts, good people. But they weren't careful. They lived in a bubble and when she came into contact with brutal reality, it killed her in a horrific way.
If only her parents had given her the guidance you outline here! I'm pretty jaded, having lived in a somewhat rough neighborhood and being a true crime fan. But I find her last hours to be heartbreaking, even more so because her assault and fatal accident were completely avoidable, if only she'd been giving the tools to deal with the real world.Replies: @Thea, @AnotherDad, @John Johnson, @YetAnotherAnon
If only her parents had given her the guidance you outline here! I’m pretty jaded, having lived in a somewhat rough neighborhood and being a true crime fan. But I find her last hours to be heartbreaking, even more so because her assault and fatal accident were completely avoidable, if only she’d been giving the tools to deal with the real world.
The scary thing is how many Southerners are aware of race but raise their kids to delude themselves and follow Northern egalitarian ideals.
They know it is all based on lies but believe some image needs to be maintained to help their kids adapt to the liberal world.
It’s madness.
LA is a messed up state and no one should be walking around at 1 AM.
It’s a contentious question, but I understand that
1) it wasn’t Russians, but the Communists, led by a Georgian, who were in charge of the Soviet Union, and ran the campaign against the landowners – the minister in charge of collectivisation, thought to be the main driver of the famine, was a Belorussian Jew, Yacov Yakovlev (ne Epstein).
Soviet Communism was by no means a phenomenon only of ethnic Russians, who were in fact under-represented compared with their proportion of the population.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Yakovlev
2) the implementation of the collectivisation policy in Ukraine was the joint responsibility of an ethnic Russian and a Ukrainian Jew. Of the five named people accused by Ukraine of genocide in 2010, the other two were a Ukrainian, a Russian and a Pole
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyacheslav_Molotov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazar_Kaganovich
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlas_Chubar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Postyshev
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Kosior
3) it wasn’t as if Ukraine was the only place where famine occurred.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1930%E2%80%931933
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1617939096298741762.htmlReplies: @Muggles
Word has it that El Bezos is shopping WaPo around, or trying to unload it.
My fervent wish is that Elon Musk snaps it up.
Can you imagine the DC Swampsters opening up that every day?
A Big Box Tesla ad up on the right hand side upper corner. Plus Elon’s “Tweet of the Day” in big letters at the bottom of page 2.
There would soon be hordes of dirty, bug eyed unemployed Wokies and non binaries wallowing around the muddy banks of the tepid Potomac. A New Elonville, echoing the 1930s Hoovervilles, with vegan soup kitchens open at noon.
We can dream, can we not?
She was a good student, had supportive, loving family and friends and yet ended up on a dark road, fatally injured, with injuries "consistent with previous sexual assault anally" and a BAC of .319.
She and the people in her life were, by all accounts, good people. But they weren't careful. They lived in a bubble and when she came into contact with brutal reality, it killed her in a horrific way.
If only her parents had given her the guidance you outline here! I'm pretty jaded, having lived in a somewhat rough neighborhood and being a true crime fan. But I find her last hours to be heartbreaking, even more so because her assault and fatal accident were completely avoidable, if only she'd been giving the tools to deal with the real world.Replies: @Thea, @AnotherDad, @John Johnson, @YetAnotherAnon
The Paper of Record has the details – she got in their car of her own volition before they raped her and dumped her to die. The suspects have the names you might expect.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11684377/Third-man-charged-attacking-LSU-sorority-girl-Madi-Brooks-19-released-jail.html
Yes, according to the footage from the security cameras, she actually ran across the parking lot to catch up with the guys as they were going to their car.
Two of them assaulted her in the car, then since she was too drunk to give them her address, they let her out at the entrance to a subdivision, where she said she'd get an Uber home. She was standing in the street when a share ride car hit her.
Two of the adult suspects are black, the driver is white. I'm guessing the unnamed juvenile suspect is white, too.
“The scary thing is how many Southerners are aware of race but raise their kids to delude themselves and follow Northern egalitarian ideals.”
Totally agree. It’s what I call the “binary thinking” that liberals push on us that causes so much trouble. We’re supposed to believe there are lots of different genders, which is idiotic. But when it comes to their pet causes, we must embrace them fully in every aspect of our lives or else be accused of bigotry. We have only two options. Be good whites or be racists.
Thus you can’t feel neutral or even positive toward black people while acknowledging it’s safer to keep a certain distance from them. No, if you’re not willing to live next door to them, date them, etc. you hate them and you’re a bigot, a racist.
I will always cherish memories of the good times I had with my black friends in my old mixed-race neighborhood. I’m very aware that not all black people are dangerous. But enough of them are–to other blacks as well as to other races–that I would not willingly live in a mixed-race neighborhood again.
You can be courteous to people you’d never choose to date or marry or have children with or live next to without embracing them as such. But liberals don’t allow a respectful distance between groups. And so you have cases like this.
Again, what phenotype or culture is there that binds together Swedes and Serbs or the Irish and the Greeks, but not Serbs or Greeks with Lebanese Christians or Armenians? There’s nothing there. There is no culture, no genetic profile, no phenotype, nothing whatsoever that includes all of Europe and then just stops at its borders.
White phenotype includes "normative whites" like Gina Lolobrigida, Jean Gabin, Melina Mercouri, Greta Garbo, Vittorio de Sica, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Pablo Picasso, Carlos Fuentes, Igor Stravinsky, Paul Singer, Fidel Castro, Antony Blinken, Hafez al Assad, Bibi Netanyahu, Julius Evola...and "ambiguous whites" like Anastas Mikoyan, Idries Shah, Charles Aznavour, Ehud Barak,...
Western civilization is composed of three elements:
1. Greco-Roman heritage
2. Christianity, various post-Christian sects & modernized Judaism
3. scientific- rational method from the 17th C on
There you are.
https://twitter.com/NxlAnglo/status/1618668429279649792?t=RHOd08gjmHgrLFgqZKySUg&s=19Replies: @al gore rhythms, @Chrisnonymous, @Peter Akuleyev
The Ukrainian woman is great, although she has a lot to learn about living in
theUK…Reporter: “Many people would be offended that you feel uncomfortable living around minorities.”
Ukrainian woman: “I saw statistics on crime on government website.”
No, but ” people with cheese-eating-surrender-simianness” is okay.
“The Western Ukrainians may be fighting hard, but for rulers who hate them, most of whom are in Washington“
That is most embarrassingly inaccurate on your part.
Turn the universities into finishing schools for young ladies, staff those universities with crypto-Trotskyite saboteurs and this is what you get.Replies: @Gordo, @Eddie the swarthy rat cellar, @AnotherDad, @Corpse Tooth, @AnotherDad
I’ll toss in that I don’t think this tedious verbalist hoop jumping is very damaging. Why say in two words what you can say in six?
It’s so clumsy, all it tends to do is annoy normies and actually keep them aware that they are continually being propagandized.
Much more sinister is the stuff journalists–and the AP stylebook–dictate around race and crime. By basically censoring racial information it actively keeps readers heads foggier and confused about the world, less aware of HBD patterns, and more susceptible to minoritarian lying.
Nah, it’s very easy really. Europe is (was) White Christians. Simple as that.
Arabs and Jews are not White, not European, and easily recognizable even without the religious aspect. Are you blind? They are among the easiest people to recognize.
“Europe is the Faith, and the Faith is Europe” said Catholic Hilaire Belloc.
(Protestants made a mistake in joining a Judaizing heresy for temporary gain)
As for "the Faith", a Swede (if a Christian one can even be fond at this point) is a heretic in all of Southern Europe. Not so for a Levantine Christian or Georgian.
Sure, "Europe" was once imprecise shorthand for something. Something that even then was a bunch of squabbling peoples, and aristocracies with little sympathy or concern even for places belonging to their own denomination. You'll find plenty of examples of that even looking into Europe's various wars against its greatest historical foe, Islam.
"European" is not a meaningful category, let alone an identity. Take it from a European.Replies: @Odyssey
And I am of Irish/English/German extraction, about as Western European as they come.
I also met a guy from Israel when I was at Stanford whose family had lived in Palestine long before European Jews went back to create a Jewish homeland. And he looked like a Mideasterner -- he looked as if he could have been Anwar Sadat's son.
Ashkenazi Jews are Europeans. And they look like it.Replies: @Anonymous
You may be a bolshevik but that was funny.
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/richard-grenell-us-botschafter-schreibt-drohbriefe-an-deutsche-firmen-a-1247785.html
So it is not surprising that the US gov. is glad to see it destroyed. Note that Nuland does not say who destroyed it. You can be glad that something happened even when you had nothing to do with it happening.
Why are the Putinists shocked, shocked that Nuland said this? Was she supposed to shed tears for it instead? Express regret that part of Putin's money machine has been cut?Replies: @Dumbo
Yes, destroyed by magic. Lol, what an imbecile.
By the way, it’s Nudelman, and she’s a Jewish bitch. Say it.
It is true, it’s not a lie, and there most definitely is a point, as you well know. Neither Hungary, Poland, or Romania has yet fallen under the dominion of the Evil Empire, but that’s most assuredly in the works. So that’s a completely false comparison —for now.
We’ve sent well over $100 billion to the Ukraine recently (as you also know) and were well on our way to $200 billion. All while our own nation crumbles.
Totally agree. It's what I call the "binary thinking" that liberals push on us that causes so much trouble. We're supposed to believe there are lots of different genders, which is idiotic. But when it comes to their pet causes, we must embrace them fully in every aspect of our lives or else be accused of bigotry. We have only two options. Be good whites or be racists.
Thus you can't feel neutral or even positive toward black people while acknowledging it's safer to keep a certain distance from them. No, if you're not willing to live next door to them, date them, etc. you hate them and you're a bigot, a racist.
I will always cherish memories of the good times I had with my black friends in my old mixed-race neighborhood. I'm very aware that not all black people are dangerous. But enough of them are--to other blacks as well as to other races--that I would not willingly live in a mixed-race neighborhood again.
You can be courteous to people you'd never choose to date or marry or have children with or live next to without embracing them as such. But liberals don't allow a respectful distance between groups. And so you have cases like this.Replies: @AnotherDad
Great point, Kylie.
About ten years ago I formed my thoughts onto this into “stupid leftist binarism”. (Which admittedly isn’t that great.)
Basically what you said. In the real organic world, there are infinite shades of gray. Things that are praiseworthy, even heroic. Down through solid bedrock civilized behavior. Down through things that normal. On down to things that are somewhat undesirable, but inevitable–discouraged but tolerated. On through things that are really undesirable and require strong social sanction … on down to things that you are willing to make illegal to discourage, on down to serious crimes.
But for minoritarians … there is no gray. If it isn’t outright criminal you’re a bigot/prude oppressor for not embracing it. Approved “diversity” must be celebrated. And you need to be sanctioned, disciplined and ideally–if they had their way–imprisoned.
I think for Brazil it’s definitely been a good approach. It was never going to be any kind of utopia and crime was always going to be an issue, but traditionally its approach to race kept anti-whiteness at quite a low level. Sadly, Brazil has been changing and emphasizing race more, leading of course to anti-whiteness increasing. Americanization ruins everything.
With France, it’s more difficult. Laws forbidding any kind of tracking of racial demographics in a traditionally white country experiencing mass immigration seem like an extremely bad thing just on a gut level. Of course, there are ways to get around it and get the numbers (like sickle cell testing) but I imagine it makes it more difficult to raise awareness. And, unlike in Latin America, any benefits of such an approach when it comes to diffusing racial tension could only ever be very limited, primarily because France’s immigrant population is largely Muslim and sees its hosts as a civilizational enemy to be despised and subjugated.
On the other hand, though, host populations don’t seem to be showing much of a reaction to being replaced in countries that do track racial demographics. If anything, as sad as it is, the native French seem to be voting about as right as a Western European population can be expected to. So, when it comes to what ultimately really matters, I’m not sure it makes much of a difference either way. No matter how we approach the process, we’re all obediently acquiescing to subjugation and replacement.
The Ukrainians would rather go with the West because they believe this will make them richer and freer. That’s what most people really care about. Putin had it in his power to convince them otherwise, by turning Russia into a healthy traditionalist society that would prove more attractive than the decadent West. He did seem to make some gestures in this direction, and I was rooting for him, but frankly he never seemed that serious about it. Instead of one man rule, Putin needed to build a social movement that could take root and grow even after he was gone, but he never got close to doing that, and I don’t think he even tried. I’m not at all surprised he ended up taking the corrupt power-mad autocrat route, because that’s always where he seemed to be headed.
Had Ukraine joined the EU, the cost of living would have gone up as it invariably does when a country joins the EU, nevermind the euro currency. Just look at Romania or Bulgaria: young people have left in droves because they cannot afford to live in their country due to low wages and a rising cost of living.
Yes. The idea that the French are cowardly or “surrender monkeys” is inaccurate. They lost most of a generation in (a victorious) WW1, then barely 20 years later – with an obsolete army and terrible officer corps – failed to repel the Wermacht that nobody else managed to repel either (until Hitler stupidly decided to open a second front).
For most of recorded history the French have been a formidable people, martially speaking. They get a pass for WW2 – it’s understandable that they weren’t up for losing another generation.
https://youtu.be/YnjpG4HjO30Replies: @Art Deco, @Bardon Kaldian, @HammerJack, @Glaivester
Steve held my post (which in all modesty I consider a minor masterpiece of wit and concision) for over 12 hours, yet you were able to pounce upon it the moment it displayed! (Around 4am your time..) Does this mean the Favored Ones here receive notifications? Nothing would surprise me, honestly.
Really. Aren’t you the guy who tried to rename himself after a hot dog? But Ron wouldn’t permit it? There may be limits to privilege around here after all.
As for my comments and the quick approval they get, I'd like to think it's their quality, but then he also approves Tiny Duck. So around here we can't know if Steve thinks of us as insightful, or as comic relief.
Yes, getting rid of "the" labels is good. Russian and Chinese get by completely without definite article. Without any article. Plural and gender should go also. AP story from 2032 "Many human kill in train derailment according to President spokesperson. It say this not good."Replies: @Bardon Kaldian, @Anonymous, @Odyssey
Pretty much already the case, with the media going on and on about how loathsome the cisgender are. Die cis scum!
That is most embarrassingly inaccurate on your part.Replies: @Charles Erwin Wilson
Everything you write is embarrassingly inaccurate.
Who says the Ukrainians are fighting hard? It would be more accurate to say that they are being herded into trenches, to either be shot by barrage battalions should they retreat or killed by artillery if they stay. The actual offensives are apparently by foreign mercenary forces, and take heavy casualties. WW I replayed.
中国=China
人=man/person
中国人=Chinaman
中国=China, "Middle Kingdom"
人=man/person
中国人=Chinaman or "Middle Kingdom people" or "PRC people"
漢人=Han Chinese people, used mostly only in PRC
華人=Chinese people, especially overseas Chinese
唐人*="Tang people", the name of overseas Cantonese for themselves. Chinatown is "唐人街" or "Tang people street"
中華民族=PRC Chinese people, incl. Uighurs, Tibetans, Mongols, etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_China
*唐 から Kara is also the archaic Japanese name for China (since Japan and Canton came into recorded history around the same period in 6 CE).
It's also used in general as a name for foreigners: karate 唐手 "Tang hand" is so because it was foreign (Okinawan)
The first Europeans the Japanese encountered-- Iberians, were pejoratively called 毛唐 ketō "hairy Tang" or "hairy Chinamen", since Chinese were equated to being foreigners to the Japanese.
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/毛唐Replies: @Liger
Typical of your commentary on the Ukraine war. The poster asks a question based on a false premise, and rather than clarifying, you simply use the opportunity to repeat propaganda.
The false premise is that the Ukrainians are fighting so hard. Ukrainians are individuals. In reality, the Ukrainian military and the Ukrainian government are continuing to sacrifice men and materiale, but the ones making the decisions are not dying on the front line, and as multiple examples show, the government is full of corruption and influenced by violent and ideologically-driven pressure groups (whose leaders are also not dying on the front line, I’ll wager), not to mention the US blob.
It’s impossible to know what Ukrainians as individuals would do because emigration of both men and eligible women has been banned under the general mobilization being imposed on the people and free expression has been curtailed under martial law measures. Perhaps a measure of the true state of Ukrainian dedication to dying were the protests by wives that occurred earlier in the war. One was in the western region around Lviv, where women were protesting having their men sent into the conflict (although I can’t find an article about that now), and another was this protest of Mariupol garrison wives, who very sensibly wanted their men to be evacuated instead of dying pointlessly…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/06/wives-mariupol-soldiers-dispersed-police-kyiv-protest-ukraine-russia
Notice how they wrote their protest signs in English. That’s because they’re beseeching people like you, Steve, to recognize their plight–the plight of common people caught in a geopolitical game being played by Foggy Bottom and Langley and Brussels–and exert political pressure. But you just want more and more graves for future wreaths to be laid on.
At Omaha Beach, the first off the boat demolition crews who suffered high casualties trying to clear the landing craft obstacles were all volunteers. In fact, in order to get on those teams, they had to go through the original version of navy SEAL hell week training, so every one was totally committed and prepared to suffer. Nothing like that can be said for the Ukrainians (or the Russians) dying in places like Mariupol or Bakhmut. In fact, due to information blackouts and propaganda regimes, for all you know, the dying Ukrainians may not be any more invested than the poor convicts being cynically sacrificed by the Wagner group.
For most of recorded history the French have been a formidable people, martially speaking. They get a pass for WW2 – it’s understandable that they weren’t up for losing another generation.
They lost too many brave men under Napolean. His greed led to dysgenic losses.
There were too many battles where entire lines were mowed down. No chance of even going home crippled to procreate.
When the wars were over the French women were basically grabbing any man on the street. Well that would mean a lot of cowards and cheats that stayed home.
WW1 wiped out any remaining French legions with Viking blood.
I’ve been around some of the French and I was really unimpressed with the men. Good looking women but the men were vain and self-centered like the Canadian president. I could completely imagine them smoking and drinking wine instead of plotting against Nazi occupiers. Anecdotal obviously but is what it is and matches history. French partisan activity is mostly a Hollywood creation. And the Germans had plenty of consensual access to the women the entire time.
I prefer the more sensitive ‘people experiencing Frenchness’Replies: @Anon, @Inquiring Mind
Whatever happened to using “the” in front of “Scots-Irish”?
There is that Sabine Hossenfelder lady who does quite will be a lisp and a German accent.
Ooo, bay-bee, talk astro-physics to me!
What optimism for the future!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjOBS8Nw7Wk&t=15s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t3-jNX5iQE&t=11s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nen_6Yrb4yQ&t=11s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTqNPjQvOC0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khcLJK41Z1o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGyrFUA1DIs&t=11sReplies: @Joe Stalin
https://pluto.tv/en/on-demand/series/the-twilight-zone/season/2/episode/100-yards-over-the-rim-1961-2-23
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11684377/Third-man-charged-attacking-LSU-sorority-girl-Madi-Brooks-19-released-jail.htmlReplies: @Kylie
“The Paper of Record has the details – she got in their car of her own volition before they raped her and dumped her to die. The suspects have the names you might expect.”
Yes, according to the footage from the security cameras, she actually ran across the parking lot to catch up with the guys as they were going to their car.
Two of them assaulted her in the car, then since she was too drunk to give them her address, they let her out at the entrance to a subdivision, where she said she’d get an Uber home. She was standing in the street when a share ride car hit her.
Two of the adult suspects are black, the driver is white. I’m guessing the unnamed juvenile suspect is white, too.
人=man/person
中国人=ChinamanReplies: @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms
It’s more complicated I’m afraid–
中国=China, “Middle Kingdom”
人=man/person
中国人=Chinaman or “Middle Kingdom people” or “PRC people”
漢人=Han Chinese people, used mostly only in PRC
華人=Chinese people, especially overseas Chinese
唐人*=”Tang people”, the name of overseas Cantonese for themselves. Chinatown is “唐人街” or “Tang people street”
中華民族=PRC Chinese people, incl. Uighurs, Tibetans, Mongols, etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_China
*唐 から Kara is also the archaic Japanese name for China (since Japan and Canton came into recorded history around the same period in 6 CE).
It’s also used in general as a name for foreigners: karate 唐手 “Tang hand” is so because it was foreign (Okinawan)
The first Europeans the Japanese encountered– Iberians, were pejoratively called 毛唐 ketō “hairy Tang” or “hairy Chinamen”, since Chinese were equated to being foreigners to the Japanese.
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/毛唐
Anyhow, a former head of a U.S consulate in China once told me I shouldn't say "Middle Kingdom". I should say "Middle Country" instead. I really don't know what to make of that. The differences between the traditional (pre-PRC)and simplified (PRC) characters used to write the term guo2 (country/kingdom/nation whatever) raise questions concerning his interpretation. I can't type traditional 汉字on my phone, but you can probably guess what I'm talking about.
I think I shall stick to calling them "celestials".
Arabs and Jews are not White, not European, and easily recognizable even without the religious aspect. Are you blind? They are among the easiest people to recognize.
"Europe is the Faith, and the Faith is Europe" said Catholic Hilaire Belloc.
(Protestants made a mistake in joining a Judaizing heresy for temporary gain)Replies: @Anonymous, @PhysicistDave
I think it’s you who might want to visit Specsavers. A Swede would stick out more in most of Southern Europe than a Levantine Christian or a Georgian. Ashkenazi Jews and European Sephardic Jews are perfectly passable in all of Southern Europe. Hardly surprising, given that they’re mostly Southern European genetically.
As for “the Faith”, a Swede (if a Christian one can even be fond at this point) is a heretic in all of Southern Europe. Not so for a Levantine Christian or Georgian.
Sure, “Europe” was once imprecise shorthand for something. Something that even then was a bunch of squabbling peoples, and aristocracies with little sympathy or concern even for places belonging to their own denomination. You’ll find plenty of examples of that even looking into Europe’s various wars against its greatest historical foe, Islam.
“European” is not a meaningful category, let alone an identity. Take it from a European.
https://youtu.be/YnjpG4HjO30Replies: @Art Deco, @Bardon Kaldian, @HammerJack, @Glaivester
What if you aren’t a Jew, but are somewhat Jew-ish?
Asking for a New York Congressman……….
Yes, getting rid of "the" labels is good. Russian and Chinese get by completely without definite article. Without any article. Plural and gender should go also. AP story from 2032 "Many human kill in train derailment according to President spokesperson. It say this not good."Replies: @Bardon Kaldian, @Anonymous, @Odyssey
If you missed my reply (the thread is not on cover page anymore and it could be interested to other physicists as well) you can find it on:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/dont-disillusion-the-subscribers/#comment-5781617
“Feminism has a lot to answer for by giving young adults the impressions women and men have similar desires.”
Yes and by telling young women they can dress and behave any way they want to without having to deal with the consequences.
Judging by their many pics on social media, she and her sorority sisters typically dressed up very provocatively. And the bar where she’s said to have been a regular was very rowdy. And of course, young males who are not LSU students also frequented that bar for obvious reasons. And she allegedly used a fake ID to buy drinks. It was a perfect storm of bad choices and poor judgement.
The feminists say it’s an issue of “rape culture” and has nothing to do with under-aged drinking. But that’s b.s. It has to do with giving immature teens adult choices without adult responsibilities. The worst part is nothing good will come of this. All the wrong conclusions will be drawn. The narrative is too entrenched.
https://twitter.com/NxlAnglo/status/1618668429279649792?t=RHOd08gjmHgrLFgqZKySUg&s=19Replies: @al gore rhythms, @Chrisnonymous, @Peter Akuleyev
Yes, the UK is sadly becoming a lot like Russia, another country with a rapidly growing Muslim minority.
https://twitter.com/apstylebook/status/1618658301750689792https://twitter.com/AP/status/1618886923828748288It gets better. Here's another policy.https://twitter.com/APStylebook/status/1608482872213602309Doesn't this imply that the people formerly called white instead should be called noncolored?Replies: @Jack D, @New Dealer
On topic!
And it’s Elon Musk! For the win!
中国=China, "Middle Kingdom"
人=man/person
中国人=Chinaman or "Middle Kingdom people" or "PRC people"
漢人=Han Chinese people, used mostly only in PRC
華人=Chinese people, especially overseas Chinese
唐人*="Tang people", the name of overseas Cantonese for themselves. Chinatown is "唐人街" or "Tang people street"
中華民族=PRC Chinese people, incl. Uighurs, Tibetans, Mongols, etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_China
*唐 から Kara is also the archaic Japanese name for China (since Japan and Canton came into recorded history around the same period in 6 CE).
It's also used in general as a name for foreigners: karate 唐手 "Tang hand" is so because it was foreign (Okinawan)
The first Europeans the Japanese encountered-- Iberians, were pejoratively called 毛唐 ketō "hairy Tang" or "hairy Chinamen", since Chinese were equated to being foreigners to the Japanese.
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/毛唐Replies: @Liger
Iberians are HAIRY CHINAMEN!？That is sooo AWESOME! My day is made.
Anyhow, a former head of a U.S consulate in China once told me I shouldn’t say “Middle Kingdom”. I should say “Middle Country” instead. I really don’t know what to make of that. The differences between the traditional (pre-PRC)and simplified (PRC) characters used to write the term guo2 (country/kingdom/nation whatever) raise questions concerning his interpretation. I can’t type traditional 汉字on my phone, but you can probably guess what I’m talking about.
I think I shall stick to calling them “celestials”.
As for "the Faith", a Swede (if a Christian one can even be fond at this point) is a heretic in all of Southern Europe. Not so for a Levantine Christian or Georgian.
Sure, "Europe" was once imprecise shorthand for something. Something that even then was a bunch of squabbling peoples, and aristocracies with little sympathy or concern even for places belonging to their own denomination. You'll find plenty of examples of that even looking into Europe's various wars against its greatest historical foe, Islam.
"European" is not a meaningful category, let alone an identity. Take it from a European.Replies: @Odyssey
You really don’t know much. Neither Ashkenazi nor Sephardic Jews nor their cousins (future) Greeks were Europeans at all. Do you know who were indigenous European people? I1 DNA Nordics and I2 DNA Serbs! They originated in Vinca, the cradle of European civilization, culture and language, before moving to the North of Europe. ‘Europe’ was once imprecise shorthand for something? Do you the origin of the name Europe?
The Nazis were obsessed with the idea that Jews could be "passing" as white and maybe get in the pants of the Frauleins or cheat you in a business deal because you didn't know that you were dealing with a Jew. So they took various measures to "out" the Jews. First of all, they tried to train children in Jew-spotting. "A Jew has a nose shaped like the number 6." This didn't really work all that well because as 80% European people, a lot of Jews are tough to spot on sight and not all have #6 shaped noses. So they tried additional measures like forcing all Jewish men to take the additional name "Israel" and women the name "Sara". And then to wear yellow arm bands with a Star of David. That way there could be no mistake.Replies: @Thea, @PhysicistDave
Jack D wrote to Jim:
Jack, does it ever, ever occur to you that the fact that (many) Jews openly discriminate in favor of other Jews and against non-Jews is part of the reason for some people’s antipathy towards Jews?
No, it’s not fair: it is not right to blame all Jews for the actions of some Jews.
But it is also not right for (some) Jews to discriminate against non-Jews.
And everyone knows that does happen.
Whether it is Gypsies or overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia or Jews in the West, when one group ostentatiously sets itself apart from the larger society there is likely to be trouble. And if a lot of members of that outsider group openly proclaim their lack of commitment to the larger society, there is going to be trouble.
To put it bluntly, if one group of people in a society behave in a tribalist way, they are likely to evoke a tribalist response.
A well-known example is the famous statement by Norman Podhoretz:
And you most emphatically behave this way yourself. I and other commenters here have often been critical of Islam and Christianity. You did not object.
But recently when I pointed out some objective but negative facts about Judaism… well, you made it clear that that is verboten.
In April, many Jewish families will celebrate Passover. And what Passover is about is that YHWH sent the Angel of Death to kill the first-born in all Egyptian families while leaving Jewish families alone.
That is a horrifying story. And to celebrate that horrifying story is evil.
Deeply and profoundly evil.
It is as if non-Jewish Americans had a holiday every year to celebrate the Holocaust because, after all, most Christian families were “passed over” by the Nazi angels of death.
But for me to merely point out this simple fact means that I will be labeled “anti-Semitic,” even though I am also critical of Islam, Hinduism, Christianity, etc.
And heaven help anyone who applies the same standards of judgment to the state of Israel as to all other countries around the world!
Can you see why this leads, sadly, to antipathy towards Jews?
Arabs and Jews are not White, not European, and easily recognizable even without the religious aspect. Are you blind? They are among the easiest people to recognize.
"Europe is the Faith, and the Faith is Europe" said Catholic Hilaire Belloc.
(Protestants made a mistake in joining a Judaizing heresy for temporary gain)Replies: @Anonymous, @PhysicistDave
Dumbo wrote to Anonymous:
I had an Israeli friend in grad school at Stanford: he looked more like me than most of my cousins. Indeed, we looked more similar than I do to one of my brothers.
And I am of Irish/English/German extraction, about as Western European as they come.
I also met a guy from Israel when I was at Stanford whose family had lived in Palestine long before European Jews went back to create a Jewish homeland. And he looked like a Mideasterner — he looked as if he could have been Anwar Sadat’s son.
Ashkenazi Jews are Europeans. And they look like it.
There is both a phenotype & culture.
White phenotype includes “normative whites” like Gina Lolobrigida, Jean Gabin, Melina Mercouri, Greta Garbo, Vittorio de Sica, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Pablo Picasso, Carlos Fuentes, Igor Stravinsky, Paul Singer, Fidel Castro, Antony Blinken, Hafez al Assad, Bibi Netanyahu, Julius Evola…and “ambiguous whites” like Anastas Mikoyan, Idries Shah, Charles Aznavour, Ehud Barak,…
Western civilization is composed of three elements:
1. Greco-Roman heritage
2. Christianity, various post-Christian sects & modernized Judaism
3. scientific- rational method from the 17th C on
There you are.
Asking for a New York Congressman..........Replies: @International Jew
That guy is a lot of -ish’s: gay-ish, educated-ish, employed-ish…
Hammer, I don’t get the moderation policy around here. FWIW I like your comments.
As for my comments and the quick approval they get, I’d like to think it’s their quality, but then he also approves Tiny Duck. So around here we can’t know if Steve thinks of us as insightful, or as comic relief.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNpoO9yISDw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wPHkxC9WgIReplies: @John Johnson
Who says the Ukrainians are fighting hard? It would be more accurate to say that they are being herded into trenches, to either be shot by barrage battalions should they retreat or killed by artillery if they stay. The actual offensives are apparently by foreign mercenary forces, and take heavy casualties. WW I replayed.
You are arguing that the Ukrainians are not fighting hard and then you post WW1 videos?
There is no reason to believe that most of the offensives are by foreign mercenaries. That is ridiculous.
Here is some footage of a recent battle and not one from WW1:
If the Ukrainians were not fighting hard then the Russians would simply roll back into Kiev. There wouldn’t be enough foreign troops to stop them.
The Russians are using human wave attacks while the Ukrainians are using modern military tactics. It will only get worse for the Russians once the Bradleys and new shipment of howitzers arrive.
Yes and by telling young women they can dress and behave any way they want to without having to deal with the consequences.
Judging by their many pics on social media, she and her sorority sisters typically dressed up very provocatively. And the bar where she's said to have been a regular was very rowdy. And of course, young males who are not LSU students also frequented that bar for obvious reasons. And she allegedly used a fake ID to buy drinks. It was a perfect storm of bad choices and poor judgement.
The feminists say it's an issue of "rape culture" and has nothing to do with under-aged drinking. But that's b.s. It has to do with giving immature teens adult choices without adult responsibilities. The worst part is nothing good will come of this. All the wrong conclusions will be drawn. The narrative is too entrenched.Replies: @Thea
Yeah the feminists are already calling the LSU president’s common-sense precautions “victim victim shaming. They don’t want to do the smallest to actually stop girls getting raped.
The Idaho victims also posted provocative social media which attracted the killer.
Recently, that gymnastic Livy was complaining about the unpleasant attention he sexualized social media brought. But that is how she hit Famous and earn money.
They believe male sexual interest is theirs to control without understanding ho much energy it contains. They want to bottle lightening.
It is also cruel to deliberately tease men.
What are you talking about? Russia had a higher GDP than Ukraine and higher wages and retirement pensions before the war. Right now, Ukrainians don’t even have an economy.
Had Ukraine joined the EU, the cost of living would have gone up as it invariably does when a country joins the EU, nevermind the euro currency. Just look at Romania or Bulgaria: young people have left in droves because they cannot afford to live in their country due to low wages and a rising cost of living.
No, it's not fair: it is not right to blame all Jews for the actions of some Jews.
But it is also not right for (some) Jews to discriminate against non-Jews.
And everyone knows that does happen.
Whether it is Gypsies or overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia or Jews in the West, when one group ostentatiously sets itself apart from the larger society there is likely to be trouble. And if a lot of members of that outsider group openly proclaim their lack of commitment to the larger society, there is going to be trouble.
To put it bluntly, if one group of people in a society behave in a tribalist way, they are likely to evoke a tribalist response.
A well-known example is the famous statement by Norman Podhoretz:And you most emphatically behave this way yourself. I and other commenters here have often been critical of Islam and Christianity. You did not object.
But recently when I pointed out some objective but negative facts about Judaism... well, you made it clear that that is verboten.
In April, many Jewish families will celebrate Passover. And what Passover is about is that YHWH sent the Angel of Death to kill the first-born in all Egyptian families while leaving Jewish families alone.
That is a horrifying story. And to celebrate that horrifying story is evil.
Deeply and profoundly evil.
It is as if non-Jewish Americans had a holiday every year to celebrate the Holocaust because, after all, most Christian families were "passed over" by the Nazi angels of death.
But for me to merely point out this simple fact means that I will be labeled "anti-Semitic," even though I am also critical of Islam, Hinduism, Christianity, etc.
And heaven help anyone who applies the same standards of judgment to the state of Israel as to all other countries around the world!
Can you see why this leads, sadly, to antipathy towards Jews?Replies: @William Badwhite
Dave, consider the possibility (likelihood?) that Jack isn’t really a Jew, instead an anti-semitic troll, acting out every Jewish stereotype in an over-the-top way. The excessive wordiness, the total lack of self-reflection, the “if its good for me, then its moral” ethnic hostility, the brazen lying…its all an act. Nobody is that much of an asshole.
Anyone who ever took an American history class knew this was not true, and a lawyer especially would know it is not true.
So, there is indeed something fishy about our friend Jack D.
But I find it hard to believe that an anti-Semite would go to all this trouble.
I suspect Jack D is what he seems to be: a guy who is not nearly as bright as he thinks he is, who perhaps did manage to graduate from a fifth-rate law school, and who does not feel any loyalty at all to the United States of America.
In all the discussions here about race and ethnicity and immigration and so on, I think this is the main point we have all been missing.
As I have mentioned, I married into a Chinese immigrant family. Decent, productive, law-abiding citizens, but they do not feel any sense of stewardship for the American Republic.
In terms of Sailer's favorite scene from The Good Shepherd, yeah, they do act as if they are "just visiting":
https://youtu.be/kzWGPQ9Rs_Y
And that is how Jack D behaves: we argue about Ukraine and Jack argues that it would be good if Putin left Ukraine.
Perhaps. But why it is best for the United States of America to pour tens of billions into that shithole country and risk nuclear war?
That question does not really make sense to Jack: he may try to convince the rest of us that somehow American interest will be served by stopping Putin, but he is really just arguing a case for a conclusion he has already reached.
I am not claiming all Jews think this way. Two of the brightest Jews I have known personally were the physicist Richard Feynman and the economist Murray Rothbard. Neither made any bones about being of Jewish descent, but I never saw either of them behave in a Podhoretzina manner that indicated that their primary loyalty lay anywhere except to America.
But I have known other Jews who, like Podhoretz and Jack D, very clearly did not owe their first allegiance to America.
And that, I think, is really the main issue we should be thinking about in terms of immigration: I do not blame folks who want to come here to have a better material life for their families.
But in considering whether to let them in, we should be considering whether the people we let is will acquire a sense of stewardship for the American Republic.
Because those who don't will try, like Jack D, to involve this country in the quarrels of foreign nations that risk getting us all killed.Replies: @Coemgen
Beats me! Maybe fear?
My best guess is that most Ukrainians are fed up with the war, and would swap the Donbass region for some peace & quiet in the blink of an eye. We don't know, as every news outlet critical of Zelensky has been closed down for good - in the name of democracy, of course.
It seems to me the usual stalwart regime supporters has been absent in recent interviews with 'the man on the street' in Ukraine, but it's probably just me and my chronic cynicism.Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
The man on the street in Ukraine is running like hell to avoid the press-gangs.
My understanding is that Ukraine are calling up all male refugees of military age – which is bad news for the only such one I know, just 18 and from Kharkov, which is a pretty Russian city. Just wondering if the UK would summon the nerve/chutzpah to send him back against his will. I do hope not.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yfhu5GJq5BQReplies: @Inquiring Mind
Is this France’s answer to K-Pop kitsch?
*
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C3%A9-y%C3%A9
And I am of Irish/English/German extraction, about as Western European as they come.
I also met a guy from Israel when I was at Stanford whose family had lived in Palestine long before European Jews went back to create a Jewish homeland. And he looked like a Mideasterner -- he looked as if he could have been Anwar Sadat's son.
Ashkenazi Jews are Europeans. And they look like it.Replies: @Anonymous
They look like literal Caucasians – Georgians, Armenians, etc.
But I have known lots of Jews who could have passed as Germans or Italians or Slavs.
Ashkenazi Jews are really Europeans, both genetically and in appearance.
They are Europeans whose ancestors chose to isolate themselves from the broader society in which they lived.
But they are Europeans.
That’s ye-ye music*. I like alot of it but most it is like that. Jacques Dutronc is better.
*
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C3%A9-y%C3%A9
William Badwhite wrote to me:
Well, Jack D claims to be an American lawyer, but also claimed that the United States did not exist before the Constitution was written.
Anyone who ever took an American history class knew this was not true, and a lawyer especially would know it is not true.
So, there is indeed something fishy about our friend Jack D.
But I find it hard to believe that an anti-Semite would go to all this trouble.
I suspect Jack D is what he seems to be: a guy who is not nearly as bright as he thinks he is, who perhaps did manage to graduate from a fifth-rate law school, and who does not feel any loyalty at all to the United States of America.
In all the discussions here about race and ethnicity and immigration and so on, I think this is the main point we have all been missing.
As I have mentioned, I married into a Chinese immigrant family. Decent, productive, law-abiding citizens, but they do not feel any sense of stewardship for the American Republic.
In terms of Sailer’s favorite scene from The Good Shepherd, yeah, they do act as if they are “just visiting”:
And that is how Jack D behaves: we argue about Ukraine and Jack argues that it would be good if Putin left Ukraine.
Perhaps. But why it is best for the United States of America to pour tens of billions into that shithole country and risk nuclear war?
That question does not really make sense to Jack: he may try to convince the rest of us that somehow American interest will be served by stopping Putin, but he is really just arguing a case for a conclusion he has already reached.
I am not claiming all Jews think this way. Two of the brightest Jews I have known personally were the physicist Richard Feynman and the economist Murray Rothbard. Neither made any bones about being of Jewish descent, but I never saw either of them behave in a Podhoretzina manner that indicated that their primary loyalty lay anywhere except to America.
But I have known other Jews who, like Podhoretz and Jack D, very clearly did not owe their first allegiance to America.
And that, I think, is really the main issue we should be thinking about in terms of immigration: I do not blame folks who want to come here to have a better material life for their families.
But in considering whether to let them in, we should be considering whether the people we let is will acquire a sense of stewardship for the American Republic.
Because those who don’t will try, like Jack D, to involve this country in the quarrels of foreign nations that risk getting us all killed.
Anonymous[350] wrote to me:
Well… I do not know any Georgians and not that many Armenians. And of course the Jews I have known do not look like Icelanders.
But I have known lots of Jews who could have passed as Germans or Italians or Slavs.
Ashkenazi Jews are really Europeans, both genetically and in appearance.
They are Europeans whose ancestors chose to isolate themselves from the broader society in which they lived.
But they are Europeans.
Anyone who ever took an American history class knew this was not true, and a lawyer especially would know it is not true.
So, there is indeed something fishy about our friend Jack D.
But I find it hard to believe that an anti-Semite would go to all this trouble.
I suspect Jack D is what he seems to be: a guy who is not nearly as bright as he thinks he is, who perhaps did manage to graduate from a fifth-rate law school, and who does not feel any loyalty at all to the United States of America.
In all the discussions here about race and ethnicity and immigration and so on, I think this is the main point we have all been missing.
As I have mentioned, I married into a Chinese immigrant family. Decent, productive, law-abiding citizens, but they do not feel any sense of stewardship for the American Republic.
In terms of Sailer's favorite scene from The Good Shepherd, yeah, they do act as if they are "just visiting":
https://youtu.be/kzWGPQ9Rs_Y
And that is how Jack D behaves: we argue about Ukraine and Jack argues that it would be good if Putin left Ukraine.
Perhaps. But why it is best for the United States of America to pour tens of billions into that shithole country and risk nuclear war?
That question does not really make sense to Jack: he may try to convince the rest of us that somehow American interest will be served by stopping Putin, but he is really just arguing a case for a conclusion he has already reached.
I am not claiming all Jews think this way. Two of the brightest Jews I have known personally were the physicist Richard Feynman and the economist Murray Rothbard. Neither made any bones about being of Jewish descent, but I never saw either of them behave in a Podhoretzina manner that indicated that their primary loyalty lay anywhere except to America.
But I have known other Jews who, like Podhoretz and Jack D, very clearly did not owe their first allegiance to America.
And that, I think, is really the main issue we should be thinking about in terms of immigration: I do not blame folks who want to come here to have a better material life for their families.
But in considering whether to let them in, we should be considering whether the people we let is will acquire a sense of stewardship for the American Republic.
Because those who don't will try, like Jack D, to involve this country in the quarrels of foreign nations that risk getting us all killed.Replies: @Coemgen
Have and ChatGPT ever been seen in the same room together?
But against the same, they have also Pepin the Fat, Louis XVI, Rousseau, Voltaire, Robespierre, Napoleon, Dreyfus and Inspector Dreyfus, Zola, Comte, Sartre, Derrida, Lévi-Strauss, Foucault, Bernard-Henri Lévy, and Macron. All of whom we can condemn as miserable malefactors.
My initial response, without scrutinizing the superficial survey above, was that the positives are crushed by the negatives, and it is not even close. But then the French have their wonderful "joie de vivre," which I do presume to gainsay.
I wish them well.Replies: @Peter Lund
Louis VXI, Voltaire, Alfred Dreyfus, and Zola definitely do not belong in that list. Comte seems to have been more misguided than malevolent. Macron can’t do much given the electoral realities of France — and neither could anybody else in his position.